SHERBORNE.
PETTY SESSIONS.
YESTERDAY (Thursday). – Before Colonel Goodden (chairman), General Waller, and Mr. G. Gordon.
A LACK OF GEOGRAPHICAL KNOWLEDGE. – Charles Abbott, dealer, Milborne Port, was summoned for removing, on the 28th Sept., thirty pigs from Somerset into Dorset, contrary to the regulations. – P.C. King saw the pigs in a pen at Yeovil Junction in the morning, and subsequently at Stoford Fair. Spoke to defendant and he said he had no knowledge that Yeovil Junction was in Dorset. – Mr. Trevor-Davies (magistrates’ clerk) said defendant had rendered himself liable to a penalty of £20 per pig, making a total of £600. (Laughter.) – Fined 2s 6d and costs 8s.
(Western Gazette, 1st November 1889)
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