The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-06-13 00:00:00

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THE INTERMENTS AT OLDSWINFORD
CHURCHYARD.
The mcnthly 'peeing' of the StourLri !go and
Upper -wintolul Burial Board was held on S ttur-
day ; Mr. IL J3illiugbam pre,iding.
he Chairman asked what had been done in the
mater of 014swiutord Churchyard?
The Clerk said be bad communicated with the
Home Office, and they suggested th•tt enne ar-
rangement ,houltt be made, instead of drawing up
a new order, as the matter was a complicated
one.

Mr. C Evers said the Board had never had the
plan of the churchyard which had been promised.
Mr. C. King said he brought till matter bet'o
t:-e Easter Vestry meeting at Oldswieford, and th
feeling was agaiast having a plan made, for the
simple reason of the cost. Be minted out that tie
plan was p unlined, but Mr. Wilicock, the previous
churchwarden, did not consider there was a promise.
Tne incoming churchwardens promised the matter
slv,taid have their comiderati n, and he believed
there would be a plan forthcoming; but some of the
ratepayers wanted to know who was going to pay
for it,
M,, Edwards said as the churchyard was used by
Stourbridge anl Upper Swinford, he thought it
would be proper for the plan to be paid for by the
two places.
The Chairman said he did not apt:e with that
suggestion.
Mr. Elwards said he was told that they had been
disturbing the remains in the churchyard in digging
graves. He meant to go and catch them at the
game.
Mr, C. King said the churchwArdens would not
allow anything of that kind to be done. If any-
thing of tEe kiad took place in the chu,chyard it
would be stopped.
The Clerk read letters which were written by the
Rev. C. H. Craufurd, a former rector of Oldslvin-
ford in the year 1872, urging the importance of
making a cemetery. Ia one of th se he said that
the e -,urctlyard was so full that it would not be
available in a short time for the burial of a single
corpse. (Some exteusim of the chu:chyard was
subsequently made pending Cie provision of the
cemetery)
Mr. Edwards said that when Dr. Hoffman was
down it was distinctly stated that human remains
should not be disturbed in the churchyard, but they
were d:sturbed.
Mr. C. King said that old graves were no d atbt
opened so that relatives might bs buried near each
other.

Mr Edwards said if i-, could not be done, it c3nld
not; they must vo to the cemetAry. It was in-
tended that iatermen s should only take place
where there was a spec dt.d dt!pth of unoccupied
gromrl.
The discussion ended in a regolutien inA'ructing
the clerk to write to the churchwardens of Oldswin-
ford with regard to the promised plin of the cnurch-
yard
Mr. C. Evers said the beat thing to be done
would be to close the churchyard.
Mr. C. King said he did not think that would be
do 3 e in their life:ime.
Mr. Platt said that Dr. Hoffman remarked when
he wbs at Oldswinford that the soil was sui abh for
burial purposes.
Mr. King said had Mr. Craufurd been living, no
doubt the churchyard might have been closed before
this _ _

The Cha'rman )said the old rector could see the
impottance of it.
The subject t hen stood over till a further meeting

SU:PiCIOUS PO3SESSION OF DYNAMITE

ARE,E3TS IN THE TOWN,

Eiijah Wright, coatractott, the Clee Hills, Shrop-
shire, and Thomas Rhodes, locomotive fi-eman, of
the same place, were brought up at the Magistrates'
Clerk's Office, Siourbridge, on Monday afternoon
having been arrested on suspicion of being in un—
lawful pos7fess'on of a. box-of dynamite cartridges.
30.bs, in we'ght, and 100 detonators, on the 7th
i ,sr., at Stonrbridge. The prisonere arrived in the
town on Saturlay,pni drove to the Mitre Hotel,
where sunsequently Berne other men met them in
another trap. A. heavy package POI:e transferred
f,om the one to the other, and it was placed in some
stabling till Wright and Rhodes left again. They
announced they should not go sway till the Sunday,
but meantime circumstances which transpired re-
garding the package led to a police surveillance of
the place. On Sunday the two men were about
starting away in their trap, and had hai their bag-
eta4e piace,l in it, when Sergeants Oakey and Chare
.topped them an i sail they would be dt tamed till
Superintendent Wheeler came down. Mr. Wheeler
had the package referred to examined in their pre—
sence, and it sp.,ko fur itself as to tie contents when
it was t rk-n out of a laa.r in which it had been
placed. The box was labelled as containing No. 1
Dynamite cartridges, manufactured by Nobels Co.,
and Wright als I had possession :of 103 detonators.
He stated that he had purchased them froth the
Dual y agent of Nobels Co., and intended to use
them for blasting purposes in the Cleo Hills, Pend-
ing the inquiries into the statements made, Wright
and Rhodes were removed t the police station, and
remained und at arrest till Monday afternoon. They
were t ilren tefora Mr. A. Freer and were formally
charged with havinz, pessession of 301bs. of explo-
sive ammunTon, class 6, division 2, and 100 deton-
atcrs, class 6, division 3, contrary to the Order in
Council, No 12, under the Explosives Act, 1875.
They were further charged with haring explosive
tnwunili nin their posses-ion for conveyance,
packed contrary to the provisions under the Explo—
sives Act, 1875. Th-re was also a third charge
The Clerk said that Mr, Wh •eler told him this
dynamite was found ,t the Mitre, and the defend-
ants' statement was that ti,e d• Pamite was for
blasting purposes at the Dhu Quarries on the Clee
Hills. Mr. Wheeler had communicated with the
Superintendent of Po:L.:A .or the district, and he
telegraphed th it they were both well-known and
respectable men, and that their statements as to
address and occupation ware correct. Although
they had controvert, d the Explrisives Act in_three
particulars, if not four, Mr NV heeler did not think
they had aey ention. lie therefore askee
for them to be dischuged on their own eecognis-
:laces to appear on Friday to answer the charges
which were a meter of penalty.
Rhodes siid he had nothing to do with the matter
at all.

The Clerk said he would be liable to be remanded
in custody if he did not consent to appear on Fri-
day:

Rhodes thereupon consented to apptr.
Af:er some conversation defe.)danta wore dis 7
charged on their recogn'sances to appear yesterday.
They wete brought up yesterday, before Mcssrs.
T. D. rhoinas and A, Freer. Mr. E C Kettle
(instructed by Messrs. Witts awl Jobson, Dudley),
defended. Wright was firel £5, including costs,
and Rhod. s was discharged.

A LIVELY CuAßacTsn.—At the Poli7e Offic,, on
Saturday last, before Mr, T. D. Thomas, Frank
Evans, bricklayer. Church Street, was charged with
assaulting Sergeant Ch ire and P C Biggs, und w,ith
bAng drunk and disorderly in Church Street- on Fri-
day taw noon. The police were 041,A to defendant
an I found Mtn sitting oo a door step, pa• tly
stripped, and with tl.nod smears over his ta.ce. It
was staitd that he had been assaulting his noi .e
and that he attempted to strangle her. He had also
given her a most severe blow in the side, which
rend,redher nimble to stand. He had also been
fighting with his brother, the father of the girl.
Lt took four officers to get Win to the p -lice s:ation,
and but for toe fact of his having his shoes off hi 3
kicks at them would have been mono formidable
than they were. He kicked Sergeant Ch:tre, in the
faca and on the body, and also ki Bit's. De-
fendant vas remanded till yesterday. He asked
tor bail; but :sir. Ih3:nas i faced to greet i', enles3
it was to a mo au stantiat amount o.fendatit
was br tight up-at the P, lice Court, yesterday, and
was sentenced to two in nthe' hard lubr.ur.

Ac fox FOE DAMAGE '.-At the County Court on
Wednesia.y,' before Mr J. Amphlett (Deputy-
Judge), thc Joseph Dando, Pensnett, char-
termaster, v. Greenway and Hickman, of the Oak
Farm Coili,rv, Kingswinrord, coalma,trs., was
heard.—lt was an action in wiii, h plaitiff claimed
damages tor injuries sustained by him and his horse
and tra;) on the 6th of March las,, in cons(qu3n,:e
of a blowpipe atta-hed to tr,e hdler of the en
,inc
belonging to th 3 defendants, and negliEeltly us-d
by them oz their servants, and being so ewe ts,ly.
and negl:geutly used as to discharge wit l g-eat
furee into the face and ,11 over the holy of plto'ntlf
a large quantity of steam, filth, mind o:her refuse ai
be was driving past the said engine hou4e adjoining
the high w iy. Ii consecpience of this the ho: so
swerved up an embankment, and upset plaintiff into
the road. The plaintiff's c,illa,rbone was dislo. ated,
and he sustained other injuries. The horse was
a!so thrown down and injured, and the trap dam-
aged. For the depredation of his !wise and the
great pain and suffering occassioned to him, plain.
tiff claimed £5O damage'. Mr. Kettle (inttructed
by Mr. Higgs. of Brierley Hill) appeared for {a I,in-
tiff, and Mr. Waldrcn for the defendants ....412fora
the itearitiv; of the case the judge and the ad ocates
went to view the spot where the accicknt ccc irred.
—On their return the evidence Was gone int and
after klengthy hearing, the case n t closing until
between seven and eight o'clock, his Honour gave a
verdict for £_o, with coats on the hgher •eca •
DRUNKLNNES,-At the Police Court yes erday,
before Illessrs. T. D. Ti,oma, and A. Freer, Philiip
Pa:yeter was -charged with being druete and in-
capable on the 6-11 in t.- Fined is and cost.—John
ejATigscharge4 with Wigs druu4 azul plop.