The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1879-10-18 00:00:00

SATTIMAY, OCTOWNIRIB INS

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:!T TNWING ',,e.-1, ‘7, .`"'T`T."--;, re T, I. Te .i" tI, guilty The case waa adjouraed for 7 days for
T.....a..., iaassa ~..... ai , ,i. .11, •,, ... A., 1 .... began abusing him, and called him a" Birmingham
TRADE. scituesees i 0 afeeisal. Prig." Complainant went to the police and come
• aituNNNlTS3.—J'ihn Thatcher was charged plamed about!, the defendant's conduct, and shortly
A:though ssarcely a year has elapsed shire the wii.h being drunk in the highway on the 11th inst. afterwards the defendant struck him on the nose
laes general strike in the nail trade dieci*tutie i 3 : Police-constable, Evans proved the case., awl said with such force as to knock him down. Mr•
again mania-as; amongst tee operatives, and another . that del'endant was lying in the road at Ambleeote, I Addison for the defence, called a girl who was
strike, by whiee upwards of 2)03i p -teem will be vary drunk. Defenciner, whe pleaded guru, was . waitress at the ptiblic-'iouse,who said that the corns
tarown on' of emeloyieent, hue isiser. resa;ved upon. ' fined 2s 6cl amid costs; in default 7 d'ays.—John . pieinaat was disorderly, and tried to provoke the
It is well-known that strakee la tire nail trads have , Mantle was charged with being drunk in the high- ; quarrel. Defendant was fined Is and costs.
o 1 lste years been of ps.,‘riodical occurrence. There i asa.y on the 11th inst. Police-constable Gibbons
has also been incessant agitation amongst small proved the case, and said the defendant was very I
sections of the operatives. The sirike which took eilruals and using bad language at Quarry Bank.
place in 1878 lasted thirteen or eouteeen weeks, and 1 Defendant Was fined 5s and ° costs: in default 14 ,
at its termination there was a revision of the price i days.. . .
lists, which has been known as the 1879 list. 1 n ..
...,AM.GING TREES..—Sarauel Cookson, fire-iron
Nailers expressed themselves satisfiel with this ; polisher, Isaac Hanley alias Jukes, and Thomas
list, and doubtless Would have worked contentedly I Hill, alias Tommy Blacking, of Ilimley Road,
at the price laid down had it not been for ties fact Dudley, were charged With damaging nut trees,
that some .',f the operatives undertook to work at the property of the Earl of Dudley, on the 21st ult.
a rate below the list price, a circumstance which has Mr. Holberton appeared to prosecute. John Bowen, '
led, it is stated, to an extensive departure from the gamekeeper, said he saw the defendants in the '
1879 list, Most of the large employers desire to middle of Hiruley Wood, and they were breaking
adhere to the list, and state that where the list down some nut trees. The damage done was esti-
prices is not paid, the circumstance is the result of a mated at 6d. Defendants, who pleaded guilty, were
want of determination on the part of the operatives fined 2s 6d each and costs; in default 7'days.
to demand payment. The strike will affect Hales- POACIIING.—IsatIe Norman and James Smith, of
owen, Sedgley, Bromsgrove, Old Hill, and Dudley. Walsall, were charged under the "Poaching Pre-
An open-air meeting of operatives was held on vention Act" with having in their possession anet
Wednesday, at Halesowen, Mr. James Williams and a brace and half of partridges. Police-sergeant
presided. He referred to the low rate. of wages for Boon said that on the 20th ult. he saw the defend-
which nailmakers are working, and seed the men are
now worse off than they were in the yeas 1843 and ants in the highway. He had the net off Norman,
,
1844, taking into consideration all classes .i .
they
work and the brace and half of partridges off Smi,h.
They wanted unity. If they had been united
Police-constable Clayton corroborated. Defendants
might have averted, to a great extent, the state of were fined 20s and costs; in default one month's
things which bad now brought them together. hard labour.
They were still disunited, and there would be no-
STEALING A PAINT CAN.—John Egan, of Church
thing done for their benefit until they were all
Street, Brierley Hill, was charged with stealing a
joined for the one object—(applause).
paint can, the property of Alfred Leonard. on the
Mr. John Price (Bewley) said they had met to 10th inst. - Alfred W. Leonard, son of prosecutor,
b from the operatives employed in the nail said that he saw the prisoner go up the yard on the aseertain
above date, and saw him come back again with the
trade at Halesowen, whaher or no they considered
paint can under his arm. He then went and told
hat the present was a seasonable time to strike and p
make a defence against the repeated reductions
his father. Prosecutor said that from information
received from last witness he followed the prisoner
which had taken place, amounting to over 40 per
cent. He found that some of the most respectable and asked him where he had had the can from
of the masters in the trade were not only ashamed, which was snder his arm. Prisoner said he had
had it for some time. Prosecutor then told prisoner
but grieved, to see the sufferieg
He
the people clop-
that he had taken the can out of his yard. and he
that it only wanted united action on th.,
seqtrent upon the low wages. e w_a‘s told,
of
so,
should call for the police. Prisoner then put the
part o the
.
' nformation b g t
o the [slice. The value of the can was whole of the opera of the trade to secure better round and walked away. He then gave
can on the
prices. They should act together and upon one i
I,s 3d,... I), olice-coestable Wooton said he arrested
principle. It was advisable that the operatives of
,• ' ChurchSt Street, and charged him with
every district should act in unison, believing that the the paeoact in
time has come when a general demand should be stealing a can, the property of. Mr. Leonard.
made for better wages. He did not believe in Prisoner replied that he did. not think he was doing
strikes; indeed he had always deprecated them; . any harm, and. , he thought it would do to boil some
but when he saw the unremunerative rate at which c 'free in. Prisoner who had nothing to say for
nailers were working he was of opinion that it was himself, was committed to the House of Correction
quite time they began to think and act for them- for 21 days with hard labour.
selves. The Nailmasters Association had been COAL STEALING.—Joseph Wilde (13), and Eliza-
broken up, owing to the unterebuying ef certain heti Jones (13), were charged with stealing coal,
maters its the trade. He had been informed by the property of the Earl of Dudley, on the 30th
souse of the largest buyers in the trate that all that ult. Joseph Gregg, watchman, said that the
was wanted to bring about a better rate of wages prisoners were taking coal from No. 52, Earl
was that the operatives should ask for it in a body. Dudley's pit. They had got about 521bs weight
There would however, have to be a cessation of A previous conviction being proved against Wilde,
work. Operatives would have to enter into a he was fined 5s and costs; in default 7 days, and
general arrangement by whi-h the strike might be the other prisoner was fined 2s 6cl and costs; in
managed, and they would have to communicate with default 7 days.—James Harvey was charged with a
the Bromsgrove aperatives. By this means all men similar offence on the 24th ult. Fined 5s and costs;
would be put upon a level, as it was desirable they in default 7 days.
should be. Resolutions would be passed endorsing DRuNSeNNESs.—It the Police Court, on Thurs -
what was done at Halesowen. All operatives said day, before W. F. F. Boughey, Esq., (Stipendiary
they were ready to strike if the Halesowen men magistrate), William Sherratt was charged with
were willing to do so. He did not wish to coerce being drunk and diserderly on the 1 ith inst. Super-
the men, but asked were they prepared voluntarily intendent ,Woollaston suid be saw the defendant in
t r [pass a resolution that they, demanded the in- Wal:acc Street,: Brierley Hill. He was very drunk
creased wages as he had suggested, unless tee and using bad language. The stipendiary said as
masters met together and made a revised list ? The Mr. Wootlaston did cot with to press the:case, he
January list would do very well for the operatives if should let him off with p eying costs—Charles Mann
all the masters would agree to it. was charged with being drunk and disorderly on the
On the motion ofan Operative, it was unanimously 10-h inst. Police-constable Wooton said the de'
resolved that, unless the masters met and in ide fen !ant was very drunk and using bad language in
some concession by agreeing to the list of 1879, a Fenton Street, Brierley Hill. The defendant was
strike should take place on Monday the 27th inst. ordered to pay costs,
Mr. Price said he thought the " jump " nail- Cole STEA.LING.—EmiIy Turbervill was charged
makers could make their own arrangement as to with stealing a quantity of coal, the property of the
whether they would act in concert with the regular Earl of Dudley, on the 16:h inst. A clerk named
wrought makers. He believed that so long as th : Simson in the employ of Mr. North, of Brierley Hill,
" jump " nailmakers held aloof from the other oper- said the girl was taking cinders with other girls.
atives and worked at such prices as they were having He ordered them away b.lt subsequently the defend-
their action would be detrimental to the interests of ant returned and he ordered her away a second time
the wrought nailmakers. but she refused to go. Ila tried to catch hold of her
The meeting dispersed with apparent detsrmin- but she struck at bias with a pick hammer. He
aVon to carry out the resolution. however, sicceeded in catching hol I of her, and
afterwards assistance came to his aid. Whilst he
was holding her the defendant bit both his hands.
He then left her in charge of Henry Allen and
fetched a 'policeman. Superintendent Woollaston
asked that the prisoner might be remanded to Bir-
mingham for a week. The prisoner was accordingly
remandel.—Caro'ine Green was charged with steal-
ing a quantity of coal tt e value of 3d, the property
of the Earl of Dudley, on the 18th ins'. Joseph
Hunt, horse driver, in the employ of the Earl of
Dudley, said he saw the prisoner take a bag of c)al
from the railway near the Robin Hood. He had
cautioned her several times before. Edwin Nock,
corn dealer, of the Delph, said he saw the woman
coming across his field with a bag of coal on her
head. Witness told prisoner th a she was on tres-
pass and asked her name but she refused to give it
and he sent for the palice. Police-constable Hollins
said he was fetched by '',,Mr. Not-k's man to the field
where prisoner was. Prisoner refused to give her
name and he took her into custody and charged her
with rstealing the coal. Prisoner ma le no reply.
She was sentenced to seven days' imprisonment with
hard labour.

SPORTING NOTES.
(By our ma, Tart Correspondent)
CAMBRIDGESHIRE NOTES.

The above event absorbs the attention of the chief
"pencillers" last week; and since Mr. Gretton struck
out Isonomy and Westbourne, a mote was made in
favor of Folmputh, who WAS nearly at the top of the
tree as a two year old, but subsequently declined
owing to the run upon his st4ble companion Har-
binger, who has bern a disapointing horse through
his career. Ragman holds his p mitiou as favorite
but Leoville and Exeter have slightly declined in the
list of quotations. Lartintton is fully handisapped
to his form with 14st 41d, but he is of an improving
sort. Neither of the two formidable stables—Pack
or Paylor have yet exposed their hands, and Wad-
low's are supported with a lukewarmness which is
n.,t very pronising. Dover's pair are now and
again backed, but if the market is a er'terion. Jessie
Agnes is the best. Otptain Matchell has not yet
made a move and several stables will not execute
their commissioners until the eleventh hour, as at
! the post there are facilities to back your repris fl
tative to-win 40,000. However, as there is likely
be a field of horses, probably numbering forty
runners, I shall take a quartette from whom the
winner may come, viz.—Lartington, Harbinger,
Fx-Aer, and Squ,!aker, and if I plump for one it shall
be

LARTINGTON
who waq always con9idered a 71b better horse than
the second in the Derby.

DIED.

SWINDELL.—On the 11th inst., Elizabeth Phillipg
wife of James Evers Swindell, of Oldswinford
Castle, Stourbridge, Worcestershire, and daughter
of the late Michael Grazebrook. Esq., of Auduam,
near Stourbridge.

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