The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-12-14 00:00:00

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Dzatirrotid A CHILD.—At the Police COUR on
Monday, before Colonel Fletcher, Messrs. F.
,Evers,
and Iteelsi. Freer, ,Silas HOmer:eVita charged with
desertiegehis child, and allowing it to become
chargeable to the common fund of the Stourbridge
Union. Mr. J. Barrett, registrar, proved the de,
sertion in April last, and said the child was charge
able to. the common fund of the Union since that
tiiiik4iiid at the rate of is 8(1 per day. Defendant
said he hael-ne work to do, and was forced to leave
his child in the Union. The trade was that bad
that he could not keep himself, let alone the child.
Mr. Mills, relieving officer, said the child was stil
chargeable to the common fund of the Union.
Defendant was committed to two months hard
labour.
A LIVELY Yount —Timothy Callagan, a youth,
was charged with being drunk and disorderly in
Market Street, on the Bth inst., and further charged
with assaulting police constable Hollingsworth on
the same date. Hollingsworth said he saw the
defendant at the back of the market place on Sun-
day night. He was drunk and wanted to fight
someone. When witness took him into custody he
Et uck him a violent blow on the face. Poliee-con-
stable Morgan corroborated. Superintendent
Wheeler said defendant was a perfect nuisance,
both to the public and the police, and they had
had a great deal of trouble with him. For the
drunkenness defendant was fined b's and costs, or
14 days, and for the assault on the police defen-
dant was committed for one months' hard labour.
ALLEGED ROBBERY IN A HOUSE.—Mary Ann
Bryant, of the George Walk, was charged with
stealing from the person of William Green the sum
of 4s 7d on the 7th December. Police-sergeant
Jones said he ordered the prosecutor to be present
at the Police Court at two o'clock, but he had re t
yet appeared. The case was put back for the at-
tendance of prosecutor. After waiting some time
the prosecutor not appearing, prisoner was re-
manded until Friday.
SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST AWIFE.—Emma Evans
was charged with unlawfully wounding Edwin
Evans on the 6th inst. Prosecutor who appeared
in the witness box with a badly lacerated face, said
he did •not wi4i to press the charge against defen-
dant as she had always been a good wife to him.
He lived in Bowling Green Lane, and h:s wife and
a lodger named Pardoe were quarreling. After
the quarrel he went with Pardoe to the Nag's Head
te have ' something to drink. Defendant followed
them and had refreshment with them. Pardoo said
something respecting his wife that he did not ap•
prove of, and when they got home he accused her
reteee, e of it, when she threw some crockery ware at him
- #4.e c.:stattrui4vg elyserter. and badley injured his face. He had to have his
- face sewn up. He did not wish to press the case
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- -----""1-- ----- ---""'"-- against defendant as she had always been a good'
to - SATURDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1878. wife to him, and he lad 'a large 'family to look
after. She had had something to drink or she
AGRICULTURAL EXHIBITIONS.
*de oe trs would not have done it. Police-sergeant Jones
apprehended defendant, who said she intended to
Years may come, and years may go, but the do it, and she did not care if she got six months.
I.lrMer lives for ever. Nations experience wars, Defendant said complainant struck her twice before
—tee anti hear of•rumours of wars, but the business of she did anything to him. Colonel Fletcher said
:Tr:lh° agriculturist must still go on, for the people it was a rather serious case, and one in which
'have to be fed, whether in time of war or peace. punishment must be inflicted, and they should,
The historiaus in all ages have borne testimony therefore, commit defendant for one month, with
to the importance of the farmer's work, and from hard labour.
the days of the earth's earliest history the ALLEGED ROBBERY BY A SOLDUR. —Lazarus.
chronicles of sacred story tell of two famous Fisher, a private in the 36th Regiment was brought
rothere, one of whom was a keeper of sheep, up on remand on a charge of stealing a watch Vie
seeale
ateamand the other was a tiller of the soil. Indeed property of Samuel Collins, at the Lye,on the 20th
lou aefrraM the very nature of it, the occupation of the ult. Mr. W. Waldron appeared on behalf of ,
.ene ise •
„q IN ti cultti ri s t must be the oldest of all. to which prisoner. Prosecutor , said on the morning of the
,
20th ult., he was at the Three Crowns public.'
eta/ a Men have devoted themselves, and that to which house with prisoner and four others. Theyhad 281
the greatest amount of antiquity clings. t was
..; rett t tiit li I
quarts of ale and some bread and cheese. He had
,s
.neeecessity that the land should be cultivated his watch with him when they went in. Prisoner
-mine ao;ituries before the building of great cities, the asked witness to let him have the watch to get
':.'"eall'eseUtieding of powerful empires, the construction drink on it, and he let him have it. The
arm hierlAastely, bridges, or the raising of mighty watch produced was the same he handed to prisoner.
wersetedeses The spectator who is awestruck at the John Taylor, landlord of the Three Crowns Inn,'.
coldWaT size of the Egyptian Pyramids, and said about eleven o'clock on the 20th ult., prisoner .
-'l-Isiti4eaVenrs to carry his mind back three thou- went to his house and showed him the watch pro
Itue
- .d years,when their foundation were laidenight duced i
. Witness asked him if it was his own, and
be'9
-alba.. ~
leaseeewell spare a thought for the humble surface of he said t had been given to him. Witness took
wijw.aflhe ground upon which he. stands. The earth thA Wai C‘i for drink supplied to the party, about 2.6
. Prosecutor and prisoner were together
t6.l_d_ed- hemincrease before the existence of those and witness was to give the watch up either to
alerveestructures ,which cast their vast shadows over prisoner or Collins. Witness told Collins that he
the laud to-day, and lone anterior to the time
should not let the party have anything more to
*hen Pharaoh hardened his heart against the drink, and they went away. Later in the day
children of Israel, and he would not let them go. prisoner went for the watch,-and upon witness ask.
at 'will continue to do so, never tiring and always mg him for 15s 6d for the drink &c. supplied, pri.
-,eieete,nnresting —after the Pyramids have crumbled souer paid the money and took the watch away-
•str... into dust, and until the prediction of Holy Writ Cross-examined: Collins was present and heard
Th. ,
-ii. shall be fulfilled, that the blue vault of Heaven Fisher say that the watch was to be given up either
WS.W seihall disappear_like a scroll, and there shall be to himself or to prisoner. Prosecutor did not con-
new
no more sea. tradict prisoner when he said it was his own watch.
"lel e' At this time of the year the farmer comes to Prosecutor pressed witness to let them have a half-
; 2_,,ellthe front in a very substantial and conspicuous gallon more ale on the watch after they had had
• --e es: e ,
eiestee.way.' Christmas is coming, and he wishes to the 25 quarts. Witness refused and they asked
him to give them some money on it and he handed
es' :prove to U 3 that white politicians have been , •
_Lee e canvassing the policy of the - Government
- - busily tor
to a man. . . named Forrest who was with prosecu-
r and prisoner. William Morgan, landlord of
and tbe course of the Opposition, he has been °
e." 44- ,i,Preparleig for the season- which is pre-emiaently the Pear Tree Inn, the Hayes, said on the 20th
s
November prisoner went to his house about nine
,Ite one of geod cheer and blazing fires. Even if o'clock with a man named Henry Taylor. Prisoner
.4 "the nain.strei boy to the war has gone," the was asking the company to buy a watch which
Zil . I farmer 11 content to remain at home and pursue was at Taylors, Three Crowns. He said they had
el .be ;his avocation. Just now he is in full force. The had 15; 6.1 worth of drink on the watch, and if
b's ----:e•Birnairegh-iim Slieweevhich has brought:together anyone would make it up a sovereign they could
- - the het so2k of the midland.: counties, •is sue- have it. I man named Tenaant asked witness to
ceeded closely by the Smithfield Club Exhibition lend him some money and he gave him 16s 6d:
•e' in London,' A famous institution is the Smith- Prisoner said he had the watch from Collins and
or ,
~ ,e 4 „field Club. It had its origin in a gathering held left the house with Collins and Tennant. They
eighty years ago, and . although the exhibition came beak in about three-quarters of an hour and
no longer takes place at Smithfield, the cattle- brought the watch. Witness said it was worth the
insvieernarket which was so long held hard by St. money, and prisoner said he should want a shilling
'llertholottieve's Hospital sad gives its name to or twomore. Witness gaviahim some money, and the
money advanced was 22. s 6(1. On the following
the club that incitides amongst its members some
Pardoe
prosecutor, prisoner, and a man named
" of the most distinguished agricelturists in the
- morning
to his house. Prisoner said witness
civilized world. The eminently practical nature had a bargain the previous evening, and witness
of the farmer's Mind is illustrated by the date at
said he did not think he had, and that he had
which the firo, exhibition was held. It was in beVer have the watch back again. Prosecutor
-aerie: Deceruber, 1798, a time of trouble in many ways.
sell: We w - then said that prisoner had no business to sell the
may, •-re at war with France, when Bonaparte watch as it was his property. Prisoner then said
was just developing thuse schemes of conquest to him "You gave me the watch, and now you
a.e.ze. welea aft rwards made him the scourge of want to make a bother about it." Prosecutor said
Europe. Four
bee: i months before, Lord Nelson had he did not think prisoner would have sold it
won his great navel vietory of the Nile. There although he gave it to him. They had a quart i f
aO3 t-, was a rebellion in Ireland, which required stern ale together and prisoner paid for it. When
measures to repress it. - Silently making thte prisoner asked witness to advance him more money
way through the land were secret organizations on the watch, prosecutor was close by and did not
conspiracy, and object to it. Police-constable Paynter saki he took
:1411w '' for tlie spread of sedition, privy
.29amE
.48.1 I rebellion. Pitt " the pilot who weathered the defendant into custody, and read the warrant over
4" ei; storm," was the leader of the Rouse of Commons to him. He said "I did not steal the watch, Samuel
reT .. and w:is thundc, ~
„ale f n.th his denunciations' Collins gave it me to get some drink with:" This
ag iinst Fox and the Whigs.
What dii this 'e• bein the case for the prosecution Colonel Fletcher
1 a
that time?
-4'Y
'3". . I - t the farmers, of
*A, , sign' y o eTheir said they had made up their minds to dismiss the
' business was to make the ear,'" brit.% forth
ease as they were of opinion that no jury Would
aouudantly if it was possible to . ,
do so and convict upon such evidence.
to FATAL ACCIDENT TO A RAILWAY SERVANT.—
" .t •`" the best cattle from the meterials which _
r.. 130 John Wall a railway fireman, in the employ of
bad at hand. Why should the farmer allow tl '
le G feat Western Railway, and belonging to
himself to be absorbed in political consideratioes 2 i Stourbridge, died in Worcester Infirmary on Taeg-
saL
u IX m-
a.::4.S:4•lnetter of fact he did not. He a kpolied hi k night from the effects of an accident he
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-- re-
serf -to the improvement of that wlual lid ex- ceived •,. fi. • ew days ago. Wall was lat the back of
kez , - , ~_ ,_ ' the tender attending
' istea•for thousands of yeurs, and set to ‘VJIte ''. doing, to something which required
profit by the experience of those who had gone ~ when he slipped, and in trying to save him-
self pulled a large pi. f
ji ' IN fore him and by ,the traditions of past cc his wee o coal over. It fell,upon
4) i • • his head, fracturing •
4- ;.t, . thrics.; And so the Smithfield Club was founded
the Infirmary at Wore , t h
g his skull. He was removed to
ioetititi -of dtinie stie convulsion and of foreign he ei ;c1 on Tuesday night..
es er, w ere, as above stated
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