The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-11-23 00:00:00

KIDDERMINSTER.

ACCIDENT.—Au accident of a serious nature occurred
to a young man named Walter Penny on Sunday morn
tog last. He was leaptng a stile at Sutton Hill, Sutton
Common, Kidderminster, when he slipped and broke
his leg. Assistance was procured, and he was taken to
the Infirmrry where his injuries were at once attended to
by the house surgeon, Mr. Chubbe.
THE BOARD OF GuatioisNs.—Mr, J. Kiteley presided
at the usual IJrtuightly meeting of the Guardians held
on Tuesday last. There had been expended in out-door
relief in the borough during the past foitnight £6O 43
7d; and in the foreign £55 17s. The number of paupers
iii the house is 271, as compared with 267 in the corres-
ponding period of last year. The Government Inspector
of Schools reported that he found the children in the
Workhouse to be fairly efficient, but he anticipated con-
siderable improvement from the appointment of a
master (previously a mistress had taught both boys and
girls), and the separation of the boys from the girls.
rhe sum of I:361 103 had been received from Govern-
ment, being the amount allowed towards the payment of
the salaries of the medical officer, the schoolmaster, and
mistress. The resignation of the nurse was announced.
A letter was read in respect to an inmate of the house
who has become entitled to an interest in ten houses
in Kidderminster on tho death of a relative. The
Guardians latest' making a claim for his maintenance in
the house.
onnuN PHATEI OF A CEILL.D..-+Dr. Lsiagtorci was
called to see a little girl four years of age, residing
with her: parents at French's, on Monday night la.t.
The child had been suddenly taken ill, lie prescribed
some medicine, and when he called to see the little girl
on Tuesday morninglshe was dead.
ATTEMPTED SUICIDE. A jobbing builder named
Anthony Wilson was found by his son in a house which
he was erecting in the Cemetery Road on Monday last
with his throat cut. Assistance was immediately pro-
cured, and the injured man was conveyed to the Rein-
deer Inn, where the wound was sewn up by Mr. Hill-
man, surgeon. He isj now doing as well as can be ex-
pected. It is said that pecuaiary losses led Wilson to
commit the act.
CLAIM F'''R PERiONAL INJURIES.—At the Kidderainster
County Court, on IVednesday last, before Mr. Rupert
Kettle, judge, the case of William Goodwin, carpenter
and joiner, of Kidderminster, e. Chides Wyer, publican,
of co.nsell, near Cookley, in which the plaintiff sought
to recover £5O for personal injuries was neard ; and the
judge gave a verdict for the full amount claimed, with
costs. Mr. Herbert, barrister, of Birmingham (instruc-
ted by Messrs. Roden and .Dawes) appeared for the
plaintiff, and Mr. M. Corbet (instructed by Messrs. Day,
Ivens, and Morton) for the defeudaat. Mn, Herbert, in
stating the case, said the question of damages would not
be disputed, as it was admitted that the plaintiff had
sustained such injuries which entitled him to that sum
and a good deal more, if that court could award a higher
sum. He understood that the defence to be raised was
that the defendant was not the offending party. The
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the Cross Roads, a man, who would prove to be the de-
fendant sprang upon him from near the wall, and ex-
claiming " Where's my bottle of brandy," struck him
violently on the face with an umbrella. The defendant
was not sober at the time, and the plaintiff having just
passed CM) young MU; and fearing that the defendant