The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-07-26 00:00:00

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TRE FATAL C I.IIRIAGE ACCIDENT.

An irqueS w,s he:.l at the Tallot Hotel, 0,,
:vtot dy, b f-re Mr. DeAter, coroner, tombing tiro
aea..l3. of William Perry (33). nailmaster, Pedmori.,
who was upset Gut of his carriage on the ltizh inst.
Mr. C. W. Collis appeared to watch the proceed-
ings n behalf of the decea4edts friends.
Annie Nolan, living at the Mitre Hotel, High
Street said that on the 16th inst. she was standing
b Pir.Broomhall's shop talking to a young man ana
at about 10 0',.1 ak at night. • She heard it
carriarle c,,ming up Enville Street very fast and she
looked down the street and I,aw it by Siundtrs's
When it got to the corne" cf the stre,:-
r••ossed the footpath and then passud into Hi. h
Street. When it got into the centre of HLh Sire t t
carriage ovtriurneci. The horse bolted End
wen up High Street leaving tht, two front wheel
of he carriage by the Old. Bank. • There were two
young girls and a gentlemen in the carriage
the gentleman was driving. Witness did not see
anyon.3 elsa in carriage. The inmates were thrown
out of the can iaga a ,tt the cuioos and rugs we
!oft on dk.cea d. Deceased was dragged a short
dist nee W tness picked up his head oil tie
kerbing and he was unoonscious. Deceased was
then taken to Dr. Birt's and afterwards brought to
the albtt Hotel.

liatn Baker, chemist, sail that he livel at
Sto ulzi.ige. At about 10 o'clock on the night of
th 16th he was 10 o: 12 yards tsona thr, place L'f the
accidi.nt. He heard the noise of a carriage coming
up Enville Street. The horse was galloping very
fast, ab,ut 12 miles an
.bor. When the c .rria.ge
,:ot High. Street it.sud.d.enly overturned. He.
id it 0 ry ny one, in th,- catri-Kil. Ho ran
to the spit fu ,n the grouri a;
head wtis Iyin4 on to iron grain g and close to
spot where the carria-e ovorz% rued. Deceas 'd was
unconscious and witness a3siz-e 1 iu gezti,ig him on
aretcher.

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'By ti.e forcman : The lady was just g. tting un
when he got to the spot. Deceased could not s.p2alt
and was unconscious.

William Poultney, Enville Stre?t, I thit nn
the 16th inst he was standing in Envil'e Street ah,ut
i2O yards from High trect. He saw the cathage
coming cwer Be .uty Bank containing- Mr. an,l ;ur.s
Perry and two young laaies. Tito horse was goio
about 5 wiles an hour. When the carriage Rot to
the bottom of the hill he heard someone squeal.
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here Lad shied and g .t on the one side &i the
ro:Al All at once he hear.: the hors;, start to
:1,.p as fast as it could. The squealing was from
su females as of aham. He supiJoied the sluJI.l-
- ,tarted the horse.
By a jury : It was not very dark.
1:y the foreman : When the horse pdssei him it
'seen ed to be going nuietiy..
By Mr. Collis : He supposed the horse bolted
through the screaming.

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juryman: He—did not who know screamed.
By Mr. Collis: He was quite Farit.,tiol that he
hotko was coming at a steady pace. There was
only one shop open. He coati not suy whether it
was the li;ht from the shop orTrom the screaming.
`thomas l'ai•ciley, brother-in-law to deceased.
livhi at the IlLige 'l'op,.Wollaston, said deceased
eft I i h ;us: at abut half-past nine o'clock on the
16th in-t. The horse wai :astened in the calriage,
bLtrif.:ecetl . d and himse.f iotked round at t,:e
faetenin;s bef .re they stact,-,1. It was a young
horse awl Tk as about 4or 5 ; ear. old. Deceased
had had the horse five or six weeks and had boot
used to dive it. Deceased was quite sober wben
he left hi-, house.

By a juryman : The horse had an acc:d .nt a shr..rt
time, starting at a railway ngine.
Dr. A. Ji..e.er, said he first SAW decease 1 on Wed-
nes2;l3• ni rl.-A the 16th inA at about half ot. twenty
pur t. n lying on a bed in number fourteen room of
tlr. 1140. He was bleec!ing rrofuicly from the
nose and was v:ry much excLed. He complained
of havng been very much hurt in the head. He
cried "Let me alone," and refused to be exlmined,
hut put out his ton2ue when aa:ed. He was tory
much bruised over ttp left temple ridge. There
we not much al.raAno. Tee eyelids were last
filiin4 with blood. Tile skin w:is off t?u.) nose, but
he could not ftal any facture of he skull. Thorn
was no other wound on t-,e head except the
ahr 'ion. On Fri,l:l lie examined Liu.' and only
fo •nd a b uis o the thigh. Decett.9d complaio.
ben hurt un,ler toe chest by the breast:
He v.an:ted blo.d which liad;cau down hisnose in.
to his st.instch. The ,first symptons for the first •20
or 30 hours were concussion: et the brain. The last
I 34 hours compression of tbe brain came onfrom_to.•

&hi:ion of blo-o I. The eyelids were a little swelled

on Friday. All along he suspected fracture cf the
skull I.lcr, is se.dom such an effmion of blood
with a fradu e. Thete was no ble,ding from the
ear. He di d totally noconwiehs and di,d like a
person in a dcep a?oplexy. Not long before he died
he was able to squerze their hands and also called
hit sister by her naihe.• The jury retained a ver-
dict of " Accidental Death."

ACCIDENT AT THE G ANN 1E Safi 30 L.—During
some gyma.-tic reeroatioti tat Monday afternoon at
the Grammar School, a boy named Mereaith fell
and broke hi 4 I.g. His injury receiver' immediate
att. ution anti h w:ts afterwards bent to his home
at li:ng,wit,ford. _ _ _

RIDI;ERMINATRR RACES. —lll addition to the list
already atvertno,l a new :ace hes been added to
the programme for this meeting onl he sth August.
This race is called the Licensed Victuallers a.,d
Tradesmens' Plate of 30 sovs , given by the licensed
victuallers and trade-men of Kidderminster, for
hunte- s, about two miles over eight flights of
hurdles; entrance 2 WV'S.
DILOITWICH STOCK SALE.—At the request of
many of Et° leading farmers and others
around Droitwieh, Messrs. Oates, Perrens, and
\Wooldridge held their fist stock sale at this place
011 Tuesday last and had a very surcs-sful sale,
He gock core prieed ..2 head of cattle, 230 sheep elle
lambs, 7 calves and 52 pigs. There was a very .k.rge
'lompany including buyers from liirruingham,Sm,th-
wieh, St,urbrilga, Cradley, Kidderminster, Brerria-
erove, Worcester and intermediate districts. Very
,ati-fac ory prii es were realised throughout. Far,
.0,,s made as iiLh as £26 17s 6d, sheep 63,.
CONSTITUTIONAL ASSOCIATION.—At the mee!in,
I Conservatives held at the Constitutional Kooml,
High Street, on Tuesday, the 15th just, the follow
HS intin, which was rroposrd and carried,
was forwarded to the .*.Tartres of Sali4nry "That
this n.feting expresses is entire confidence in the
House of Lords, and whilst approving of the exten-
,ion of the Franchise Bill, h e. they wid not pass
any Bill unaccompanied by the scheme of redistribu-
tion?' Tee folloa in. reply hag been received from
Lord Salisbury by Mr. George Burtoi:, secretary of
the Association.—"2o, Arlinuton Street S.W., .r y
17th, 1851.—Sir, I tom! to'thank you for your letter
of the 16th inst, (ncloSing, a ries( lotion passed by the
Stourbria,e Constituttenal Association. I an much
oblif.eed for the expression of confidence contained
ie the res,lut.on I hope the. the confidence will be
ju-tified on the pert of the House of Lords by a
refusal to p s ny Bill which is unaccompanPd by
a scheme of redistribution. Yours falthfuliy,
SALISBURY."—N4r Geo, Burton.
MESSIti, BRYANT AND MAY'S MATCTIR?. Ihe
blowing is copied from a lengthy article in last,
Saturday's Tall Mall Gazette, which appeared in that
j =nal under the ,-.eadiap; To grew, adverolsers
of the ay." We es.imate th,t 20,000 people are
lependen r, dir, c y and indit ectly, upon our matches
for th,ir daily brad. In the works here aro some
t 400 ten, women, and irl:4, the last in gretest
rorce, of course." Thus spoke Mr.
,Wiiberforce
Bryant, the heal of the firm of Bryant and May, to
tie of our rerresentatives, whom he Was kind
enough to escort throudt the great match factory at
Boa a few days ago. It was thought that some
account of the visit might be interesting., Its the
;rest match makers have tuned their firm into a
,omparty. was only a few weeks ago," said
-A r. Bryant, "that we determiner], owing to he
death of our brother, to mak.t the ch,knge. It went
Against the grain, but the strain and worry which
devolvrd upon my brother and myself were too
great." The founder of the business was the father
of my host, but his fonr sOfls, of whdai only (tv
are new active work-r 3, have r ed it from its
cradle until it has attained its rresset huh propor-
tions. "To work such a Lit-in-s-: profitably," said
Ar. Bryant, "the manoteeure must he conduced
on a large scale, every dep titm-nt re e need to a. com-
plete system. The rcHOU7C'S of the company ate
unique." We then fell in, and ttacd matches.
REPORT OF THIS DAY'S 61,11411 MARRET.—MeS.SrS
W. If. & H. Ls May. seed tacto.rs, 68, Borougii
High Street, London. &poet Far ettendar.c)
on the Seed Market this day. Few enquiries for
new trif Hum, and rope scSi. M.:startl seed no
alteration.-J'llv 23rd, 1831.
DRUNKRNN.SS.—At fiti Police Court, yesterday,
before Co Fa-weber. .1.; D. Thomas, A. Freer, and
F. Eve's. &qrs., giward Green wits hoe I 54 ant
Costs for being oe the 11th ii s- at the Lee
—J hit G :tinge • was charged with being drunk :Ind
W e riu-d 26 64 and costs.— Willi:Eß K9ldrie
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hied lOs and (08s for tieing drunk on the 19th
inst.—David Leratatu wee fitted 2s 6d and costs for
eine drunk on the'l9th in-t at the Lye.—Williarn
fasrfiben.idnes,
Pt.aeh wa+ on th evidence of P.C. Heath Sued 2s 51
d un costs
sts
w o
drunk on the 21:: inst.—Ackm
F::
'flu' cos s for beini drunk and
..v ,der'Y ..n the 19 h in,t at the Lye.—Alfred
A, twoo IT to i.:g (1,3,11 t ,i - Bth inst at the Lye
.771.-. fined 5s and toit,..—.lhom,,s e its fine i
58 an co s for heieg drtvie on the 19th inst.—
lee dDe .'y for being tin k on-to-e 19L11 wa fit ea
eos ate. costs. Ten peevilue c lore: io. e wen_
pore I by Sup-rintendet,t Wnttler.

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CAVTION To BICICLISTS.--Joseph Grits wa
charged with riding a bicycle with)ut a lamp on Ulu