The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-05-13 00:00:00

BRIERLEY HILL.

BRUTAL Assauvr.—At the Petty Sessions held OR
l'hursday, butore 1. Spooner, Esq., Stipendiary, Thomas
Morris was charged with assaulting Hannah Middleton,
on the 9th inst. Complainant, whose eye was much
bruised, said she was not married, but had lived with (lie
defendant for some time. On the night of the above
date defendant struck her twice. Police-constable Bre.
ton said about one o'clock be was on duty is Brettell
Lane. Heard screams, and found the complainant insen-
sible. Mr. Spooner, in addressing defendant, said : In
69 you were committed for three mouths for an assimit
upon this woman; saW you were (tied for being drunk;
in September '7O for assaulting the police fined nod
ordered ti find sureties; and now you come again in '7l
for assaulting thin woman, and 1 shall sentence you to
sin months' hard labour, and order you to find two sure-
ties in £2O each to keep the peace for 12 months.
SELLING ALE DURING PROHIBITRD HOURS. Jane
Richards, landlady of the Robin Hood, Merry Hill, was
charged by Superintendent Mills with selling ale during
ptohibited hours, on the 7th inst. Superintendent Mills
mid he visited defendant's house at a quarter to twelve
o'clock. Went into the pleasure grounds adjoining the
house, and saw between three and four hundred persons
there drinking. Saw a number of persons take liquor..
Then went round the gardens, and saw a man named
Williams, who attends to them, with a barrel of porter
in a corner, drawing from it. Saw a ba.ket brought
from the house containing bottles of porter. Saw a
number of persons supplied. The waiter did not ask any
questions as to whether they were travellers or not. He
iwitness) then went round the gardens to speak to the
man about selling ale. The man mid the sale should be
stopped, and it was stopped. The defence was that many
persons came in May, on • Sunday, to the Salt Vells
Baths, and that she did not know but that the persons
were travellers. Mr. Spooner : You appear to avoid the
law in a wholesale way, and it must be stopped. There
is no reason why you should sell ale in the month of
May more than at any other time. Defendant was then
tined La and coats; and the license endorsed.

Snocuiwo CavAxxv ro A Hoase.—Jonathan Stodard
(17), war charged by Superintendent Mills with cruelly
illtreating and torturing a horse, on the 15th ultimo, by
striking it with it piece of iron. Mr. W. Waldron de-
fended Mark tiny said he worked in the pit for Mr
Timmins, and war within five yards of the defendant
Saw him hit the horse on the above date with an iron ro.l
six times across the face. Blood eame from the horse
James Careless, horse fettle', said he found the florae
could not eat. Examined it, and found the horse's
tongue nearly oft. The third day the horse's tongue fell
nut of its mouth. The horse cannot eat, and is wasting
away, and they will be compelled to have it shot. Rich-
ard Jarvis, master of the pit, said hie attention was called
Su the horse on the 15th ult. Examined it, and found
two or three cute across the tongue. Examined it the
following Mbnday, and the horse's mouth was bad. Ile
looked at the tongue, and part
.of it came Mr Mr.
Waldron addressed the Bench for the defence, and said
the only evidence against defendant was that given by
Liu), and he thought from the way in which that boy ha.d
given it there must be • doubt, and asked the Bench to
give his client the benefit of the doubt. Defendant war
remanded to Stafford for • week for the attendance of
another witness. the Bench remarking that it was a hor-
rid care of cruelty.

A REFRACTORY. l'AUPE4.—Jamal Davis, a big rough.
looking man, was charged by William Keightley with
destroying the clothes of the Guardians, on the night of
the 10th inst. The case was proved, and the defendant
sentenced to 21 days hard labour.
TWENTY BY • DOME6TIC SERVANT.—MITy Lamb (17),
was charged with stealing two sovereigns, the property of
her master, Mark Watson. Prosecutor said he kept a
beerhome at Brockmoor, and the prisoner was servant to
him. He had missed money on several occasions—one
sovereign on the 26th of April—and in consequence
marked twelve sovereigns, put them into a chest of
drawers up stairs. and locked them up, on the 10th inst.
That was at ten o'clock in the morning. Went up staira
in the afternoon to see if the money was all right. The
drawer was locked. lie unlocked it, counted the money.
and missed one sovereign. He then charged her with
stealing two sovereigns. Prisoner denied that she had
token any. Be then sent for the police, and gave her in
charge. Police-constable Gotterill proved that lie was
sent for, and charged her with the offence. She denied
it, but shortly afterwards produced a sovereign marked.
which was identified by the prosecutor as hie property.
lie took her into custody. Prosecutor mid he did not
wish to press the case, because her parents were respect-
able. In answer to the Bench, Superintendent Mills said
prisoner had once beekconvicted for coal stealing. Mr.
Spooner, in giving juiiquiest,siiid bad it not bees for the

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