The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-10-07 00:00:00

BROMSGROVE.

FOWL STEALING.—At the Petty Sessions, on Wednes-
day, before Captain Bourne and Messrs. Ryland and
Smallwood, Thomas Hawker and Charles William
Tandy, two respectable young men, were committed for
three months' hard labour for stealing twelve fowls
from Upton Warren Rectory, on the • night of the 29th
ult.
ASSAULT WITH INTENT.—At the same sessions,
Frederick Grazier, a young married man of respectable
appearance, was committed to the sessions on A charge
of committing an assault with intent upon a young
woman named Hannah Maria Booker, on the night of
the 14th ult.
CoRIOUs QUESTIoN PNDER TPE PUBLIC HEALTH ACT,
.At the Petty Sessions, George Harris, butcher, High-
gate Lane, Birmingham, was charged with having in his
possession at the parish of Bromsgrove, on the 19th of
tleptenaber, eleven hind quarter's of beef and a eoves

head, the same being intended for the food of man, and
being unfit to be used for the food of man.—Mr.
Maunder, Birmingham, appeared for the defence, and
took exception to the summons, that it did not state as
it should do, according to clauses 116 and 117 of the
Public Health Act, 1875, that the meat had been taken
before a magistrate and been condemned by him, and as
this had not been done, no statutable offence had been
committed Mr. Maunder argued the poirt, and cited
cases which had been heard at Moor Street Police
Court, and in which he had appeared.—Mr. Scott, the
magistrates' clerk, at first advised the Bench that the
condemnation of the meat was not necessary only with a
view to its destruction, but the words "is condemned"
were found to be in the clause of the last Act with refer-
ence to the meat concerning which the proceedings
against the possessor were to be taken, and this was held
to be fatal to the summons, which was therefore dis-
missed,-defendant being told by tie magistrates that he
had bad a very narrow es;:ape, and if brought up on
any such charge and convicted he would be heavily
punished._ •

LOCAL Boarin.--Tbe monthly meeting of this Board
was -liehl -at the - Town Halt nu Wednesday evening;
Mr. Jefferies in the chair.—lt was agreed that it was
inexpedient to enforce the resolution passed at the last
meeting to levy a charge of is on the emptying of ash-
pits and cesspools, and the Chairman gave notice that at
the next meeting he would move that the resolution be
rescinded.—The Clerk (Mr. Sanders) spoke of the
danger to passengers at the station from the want of a
bridge to cross the line, and of other accommodation
required, and also of the indifference of the eompany to
the representations made by that Board on the subject.
Hi had spoken to Mr. Smallwood and Mr. Everitt, and
t ley were willing to form part of a deputation to the
Midland Railway directors on te subjeot. The Chair-
man, and Messrs. William Brooke, Walter Brooke,
Prosser, and Barrows, with Mr. Sanders, were appointed
a deputition from the Board, and it was left to Mr.
Sanders to get some representatives of the tradesmen of
the town and of the ticket-holders on the line to join in
the deputation.