The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-04-26 00:00:00

OLD ['ILL.

AGGRAVATED ASSAULT —At the P licci'Court, on
Wedne,4lay, before 0, Hokroft and H. Z. Wiggin,
Esqs, Simeon Cooper was charged with committing
an aggravated assault on Sarah Sivite:., on the 14'b
inst. clo:nplainant said she did not recollect the
assault as the first blow knonked her insensible.
She wish.3;l for the case to be withdrawn as he had
promised to pay all expenses. Complainant's face
presented a sad sight, and appears to have been
knocked about very badly. Defendant was fined
4 Is and coats; in default one month.
DRUNKENNESS.—IsabeIIa Williams was charged
with being drunk on the 22nd inst, at Brierley Hill.
P.C. Booth said he found the defendant lying in
Bank Street very drunk. Defendant was fifled is
and costs; in default 7 days. Joseph Poole was
chared with bei .g drunk on the 16:11 inst, and was
fined OA and costs, or 14 days.—John Hampton was
fined 106 and costs for being drunk on the I.sth.inst,
in High Street, Cradley Heath. Samuel Burgess
' was charged wi,h being drunk on the 16th inst
P.C. Tytherleigh proved the case and defendant
was flu,-d 56 and cos's. . .

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DRUNK AND DISORDERLY. - Benjamin Willetts
was charged with being drunk and disorderly on
the 14 h inst. Fined is and costs.—John Warwick
William Clark, atries Gould, James Saint, Fred-
erick Tout, and G •orga More were all fined is and
co-ts for be.ng drunk and disorderly. Sylvanus
•Harris and Th .mas Bryant were fined 5-, and costs
for being (trunk anti dis)rd:rly on the 16th inst.—
Samuel Crumpton was fined is and cots for being
drunk on the licensed promis,.s of Benjamin Price,
known as the Hind of Piotridencs? Inn, on toe 14th
inst. P.S. White and Inspector Walters provcd
the case. .

AS3AITLTS.—GeorzA Undgetts and John Hodgetts
wale charged with ass 'tilting Ellen Weston, on the
20. h inst. tlr. Coaksoy api ear it for compleinailt,
end Mr. WEedron defended After nearing the
complainant, who gave her evidence in a pecaliar
manner, Mr. Holcroft sail it was useless taking up
the time of the Bench and dismiee I t! case.—
Fanny Lester was charged win assenting Ben
janiin York on the 17th inst. Compla'na,pt said
she bit him once on the chest and twice on the
back with a mop. Fined 61 and costs.
INCITING To STEAL AND FELONIOUSLY RECEIVING.
—Maria Hendley was charged with inciting Jos -.ph
Steward to steal hree bottlei of porter, on the 3rd
inst, the property of George Dexter, an 1 with fe-
loniously eeceiving the same, well knowing them to
be stolen. Joseph Steward said he stole s nne
porter from a cart by Mr. Hackett's pubec house
aid took it to the defendant. She said "You young
b—, you darcei't go and f tch 3 more." H, then
went and fetched 3 more with a bey named Gould
ad took them to her,--George Dexter said he had
his cert by Hackett's on the day in quest:, n, and
he missed three bottles of porter, valued at is 2d
Defendant was flied 10s and costs; or in default 14
days, •
Tp OF A PAIR OF BOOT 3. ^ Simeon Darby
svis charged with stealing a pair of bootp, on the
17th just, the property of Jam ,s Billingham, Mr.
Cooksey defended e William Go ede seid that on
the day in question he was at 0 d Hill. He saw
the prisoner on the night. He saw him standing
looking at the shoes at the sle p of the prosecute?.
EL: saw prisoner unhang a pair of boots and put
teem under his jacket and walk off
.with them.
Witness followed and sew him go into a barber's
shop and wrap them in a handkerchief. He then
went aid informed Mr, Bidingham. James Bil-
lineleen, boot and shoe manufacturer, Old Hill,
said he had some boots hanging at his shop window
on Saturday night last and from information re-
ceived he went after prisoner. He saw him come
out of the barber's sh p and he took the boots from
Tney were worth 6s 6d. P.C. WickstFad
s tid ho arrested the prisoi.e and charged him with
stealing a pair of boots. Prisoner said "I know
I've done wrong".—Thomas Halle manager of part
of the New British Ironworks, gave prisoner an ex-
cellent character, and also that he held a very
tru tworthy position. Fined 20s and costs.
To Deovens —Leman Forrest, drover, was fined
53 and costs for removing 7 sheep wi hin the circle
ef the infected area. P.S
_Hand proved the case.

To WORKMEN.—Henry Oliver was summoned by
Joseph Parkes to recovar the sum of 1 for damages
sustained by the defendant's neglect of work. De-
fendanr, was ordered to pay, with costs.
CARD PLAYERS CAUGHT. George Billiugham,
Thomas Baker, Benjamin Parkes, Richard Brooks,
Henry Perry, John Male, and Noah Davis were all
charged with playing at a certain game of chance
with cards, to wit, "banking." P.C. Duun proved
the case and said he saw the whole of the defend.
ants playing at banking. They were all fine,' 2s 6d
and coats; in default 7 days.
Ceurios.—J osepl Hat ris was charged with leav-
ing- his horse and cart on the highway fora long and
uareasonable time, on the 19th init. P.S. White
proved watching- the horse and cart from 10 past 2
till half-past two, and there was no one with it.
Fined 5s and costs. _ _

PROPANE LANGUAGE. —Sarah Brooks was charged
with cursing and swearing on the 15th inst. P.C.
Wic.kstead proved the case and skid his attention
was di awn to the defendant, who had got her head
out of the window, using the wurst language he
ever heard. Fined 2s &a and costs; in default 14
days.

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lIALI]:3OWEN RAILWAY COMPANY.
The ortitruiry half-yea ly meeting of the companf
was held in Toicerthouso Buildings, Lndoii, orl

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Wednesday, Mr. A. F. Godson, Chairman of the
Board of Dire,Ao-s, projdiri,g
Tho rdrc-5Cy eirnlated amongst the
nhare..old rs, liir token as read.
Trio Chairl-naa ntovel that the report and st.:te-
merit of aecoun.s to D.2ceruber 31, 1883, be received

and adopted. He hi, he said, to express the regret of the dir,ctors that they were not able to
submit a better report, but they considered it right
to state the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but
the truth, so that the shareholders might be ex,ictiv
informed in regard to the circumstances of their
Eno. Knowing the line and the country throthrli
which it passed as well as any.man living, he could

on!y expre,s his surprise that the receipt-; from the
goods tiaific should have been so little. He ex-
plain.d it by the fact that there was an influence
working against the company which ought to ba

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working in-their favour. To imagine that if the
Great -Western Railway Company had wished to
put traffic on this line they would only have put
upon it X49-worth in four months (as was stated
in the report) was an utter absurdity. The returns
showed that the Great Weste.rn Company did every-
thing they could to keep traffic off the line. On
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the side from which the- creeds traffic must come, if
it came at all. the Great goods
were omnipotent.
The other side, the Midland Railway Company's
side, could never yeild them much goods traffic,
owing to the natural
_lie of the minerals. The

Hal i-owen Railway Company were at present en-
tirely at the mercy of the Great Western Railway

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Company; but for-tunately there was a tribunal to I
which the former could appeal, and which would
compel the Great Western, if they would not send '
goods by the Halesowen Railway, to make an allow- ;
ance to them for the goods which ought Ito go by
their lines and which were now sent a long way
round in order to deprive them of what they were .
entitled to • The Great Western Company's out of
pocket costs in the lstigation before the Railway t
Commissioners and in the High Cold, which they I
had agreed to pay in Order to get the Act of 1833 --
pasAed and the line opened, were not t • have ex-
ceeded £2OO. The Gre :t Western now demanded •
fz'om them, and declared they would take
nothing less. He thought this a scandaous and
disgraceful charge, which the Boar.' had declined
to pay. With respect to the Northfield Junction,
the Board had always been and wore still of opinion
that the works there were unnecessary. Tee Mid-
land Company were also of opinion that it would
simply be money thrown away to construct these
works, but still the Great Western had a right to
do so. The Midland had sugg•-sted that they had
better come to some compromise in the matter.
They discussed tbe matter and agreed to undertake
them, but owing to the fact that the estimate of
£1.200 put down for them had been found to be in-
sufficient, and that they were not able to met the
probable cost between £2,500 and £3,ooo—the
works remained in abeyance. The Great Western
said that these works would enable them to do more
for the Halesowen line. He supposed that if the
Great Western put an extra shilling or two on the
line, they would consider that doing more for it.
The shareholders would remember that the Midland
had put the line in order so as to enable it to be
opened last September for traffic, and they had to
deduct from the traffic receipts the amoant this had
cost them. The line had deteriorated somewhat
bet Ween the time the contractors finished it and the
time when the di,pute with the Great Western WES
settl,d. The exact amount of the cost had not yet
been communicated to them, but he must say the
Midland had always done all in their power to assfst
the Halesowen R.ilway. While the Great Western
had been starving the Halesowen line the Midlaod
had been doing what was just and reasonable to-
wards ir,. Some time must of course be allowed for
traffic to take a new direction. lie had personally
spoken to two or three firms in the district who
might send goods over the line. The answer was
that all their contracts were mad) for a year or six
months, and until these were at an end it was im-
possible for them, however willing they might be,
to send goods over:the Halesowen Railway. He
intended spending another day or two in seeing
what could be done to induce traders to make use
of this, the shortest route for their goods. There
was no doubt that the usmmer months weal I bring
the line a large increase of passenger traffic by ex-
cursions from Birmingham, as the country was -
beautiful and much frequented in summer. He had
never expected much passenger traffic for the line,
hut what they had got was in excess of his hopes.
It was, however, on goods traffic they must depend,
for this was the natural conduit of goods from the
coal and iron districts down to Redcdtch and other
places where coals were wanted and the iron wag
used.

Mt. Taylor sc?co..ded the adoption of the report.
Mr. liimber (a shareholder) recommended the
Board to Try and stir up traders in the district to
complain to tbe Railway Commissioners of the con-
duct of the Great West,mi.
Other shareholders asked if some Great WestPrn
influm,ice could not be exercised on their behalf.
'lle Chairman said that he feared not, *eeing
that Lord Lytteltou, on whom the Hales3wen
Company had most claims, had not only doe noth-
ing in their favour but had opposed their interests.
The motion was agreed to.
The retiring director, Mr. G. Cavendish Taylor,
was re elected, and Mr. Elliot was appointod
auditor,
This closed the prcceedings.