The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1883-04-07 00:00:00

BRIERLEY HILL.

DRUNKENNESS.—At tho Police Court on Monday,
before Messrs. H. 0. Firmstone, T. W. Webb
H. Walker and H. Smith, Charles Wootou, miner.
Brockmoor, was charged with being drunk on the
26th ult., at Brockmoor. P.C. Lafford proved
the case and defendant was fined 2s. 6d. and
ccsts.—Arthur Griffith, for being drunk was fined
2s. 6d. and costs. William Wooton, collier,
Brockmoor, for bong drunk at Brockmoor on the
27th ult. was fined 58, and costs. P.C. Lafford
proved the case.—Samuel Worton, also a collier,
of Brockmoor, was fined 2s. 6d. and costs.—Robert
Bullock, for being drunk at Common Side, was
fined Is, and costs. P.C. Wynn proved the case.—
James Cartwright, for being drunk in Brierley
Hill Market Place, on the 17th ult. was fined 2s. 6d.
and costs.—John Hampton and Thomas Baker,
both of Cradley Heath, for being drunk at Quarry
Ban, were fined ; thefo rimer 2s. -6d. and costs and
the latter ss. and costs. Mary Pargeter, a
married woman, for being drunk and disorderly
at Brockmoor, on the 26th ult. was fined 2s. 6d.
and costs,—William Manders, miner, Blewitt street,
Pensnett, were charged with being drunk at
High Oak, Pensnett, on the 26th ult. P.C. Ilicklin
proved the case and the defendant was fined ss.
and costs.

BAD LANGUAGE—Joseph Davies, John Street,
and William Cooper, Bank street, Brierley Hill,
were charged with using obscene language, on thg
17th ult. P.C. Wetton proved the case. The
B3nch fined the defendants ss. and costs each,
remarking that such kind of language was a dis-
g,ace to the community ard they were determined
to put it down.
APPOINTMENT OF OVERSEERS.—The following
were appointed overseers for the ensuing year :
Upper Arley, Henry James aad Thomas Price ;
Amblecote, William Corbett and Joseph Aston ;
Enville, William Webster and William Marrian,
jun. ; Kingswinford, "William Mills and James
Henry De t heridge. _ _

A ROMANCE AT QUARRY RANK.—John Fitz-
,•. 4g-bn>, ack -1••••••er.,1
on remand with having stolen the sum of £2l 103.
and a quantity of wearing apparel, belonging to
William
•Brookes, labourer, Quarry Bank.—Mr.
Higgs appeared to prosecute, and Mr. Waldrol
defended.—The case had been partially heard at
Stourbridge on the previous Friday. It appeared
from the evidence of the prosecutor that he was
marriqd on the 11th of December last, and on the
28th of the same month his wife, whose maiden
name was Myra Bates, left him. On the 7th of
February she rtturned to the house where her
husband was then lodging. On the day following
she again disappeared, and the same night
prosecutor discovered that his box in his bedroom
had been forced, and money to the amount named,
a pair of trousers, and two coats stolen from it.
The Bench committed the prisoner for trial t) the
Sessions, where he was brought up and discharged
CRUELTY.—Joseph Harper, haulier, Brettel lane,
was summoned for cruelty to two horses by allow-
ing them to be worked -whilst man unfit state; and
Daniel Garbett, in his employ, was summoned for
working the horses.—Police-superintendent Wool-
laston and P,diee-sergeant Salt proved: tthe
animals were worked whilst one of them had a
sore back and the other being in such a poor con-
dition that it fell clown whilst attached to a load of
slack. The horses were now both produced in the
Police Station yard for inspection by the magis-
trates, who, after seeing them, fined Harper 40s.
and costs, and Garbett 23. 6d. and casts. Harper
had been twice previously fined for a similar of-
fence.