The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-03-23 00:00:00

DUDLEY.

11,,A7.1n —On Monday evening the fortnightly
.n0..-ting of the above Board was held at the offices ; Dr.
Cosens presiding, —The Chairman moved " That the
head teachtrs of the schools be request,d to inculcate
jothits of I,mperance and sobriety. and that when new
reJiiing hooks are reqeired for the ?Roand schools it will
be desirable to recommend the parehase of coch books
as may brixg inch instruction prominently forward in
connection with the school lessons."—Mr. Billing
srconded the resilution.—Nr. I:B•,field supported it,
aid, after a very brief discussion, the resolution we
carr;od unanimously.—Dr. eosens also moved a resolu•
ticw, which was calculated to test the work of the
Bchool Board schools during the past seven years. He
thought it unfair that those who knew nothing of the
wnrking of the Board should grumble at the precept for
the year. The Board was compelled to carry out the
provisions of an arbitrary Act, and even with the large
and numerous schools they had e:ect-d, the Dudley
,ellool Board expenditure bore favourable comparison
with the surrounding towns, Tipton and Walsall in par-
Tanfield seconded the resolution, which
was carried.

ALLEGBD PAMIR PAISTENOZg.—On Monday, at the
Police Court, before \hums. Cochrane and James Fisher
and Al lei man Russell, Thomas Morris (26), labourer,
Low 1 own, Holly Hall, was charged with obtaining four
pints of ale from Mary Ann Smith, a beerhouse
keeper, of the same neighbourhood.—The prisoner went
to the w tia-sri and had a quart of old ale, in the name
of his father, for a horse that Was ill. He afterwards
came tc the house and drank four pints of ale, stating as
he ordered each rnlisure that his father would pay.—
The prosecutrix sw ire that, she would not have drawn
it for the prisoner without the representation that his
father would pay. —Mr Stok-q, who defended, said there
was no case to answer. The prisoner thought his
fathar would pay for some refreshment, inasmuch as
ho was attending to the horse. To bring the ch=rge
i.ome to the prisoner it must be shown that he
.had a
guilty keowl-d4a that his father would not pay.—The
Magistrates, by the advice of their Clerk, declined to
hold this view, and Police-constable Hayes was ex-
amined. He said the father refused to pay for the ale,
h,tvi,ag in the previous week settled an ale soora,
enanunting to 265, obtained falsely in his name.—When
the elder Morris was pat in the box he said he told his
son to have sirne ale, and not how much.—The ease
was then dismissed

FALB& Pairraticgs.—Richard Hicklin Freeston (29),
de‘cribed as an artist, 16, Flood Street, was charged
with obtaining by false pretences a copying press, stand,
and varions articles of stationery, from Widmore Hyatt,
Newhall Street,-11r. Stokes prosecuted. —The prisoner
went to the prosecutor, and after stating that he had
been emp!oyed by Messrs. Chance, of Spon Lane, glass
man .fasturers, malage a wire mill at Bradley, he
obto.i?ed rile goods in the :mane of the firm.—Mr. J B.
Penn, pureh43,,r to Messrs. Chance Brothers, showed
that the firm hal not employed the prisoner, neither
had he (witn.ss) ordered any goods from Mr. Hyatt.—
F"lice-non,table Staines apbrehended the prisoner. who
,•ail he aid riot Order the articles with in'r.rit to defraud.
Aitueas went to the Bradley Wire Wrlcs. and found
them closed. In a safe there he fund the property.
When to:malty 'barged on Mosby, prironer raid the