The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-12-21 00:00:00

blind man lives, where there is no outlet. I got over the
spikes there, and nearly fell, in that field, behind the
Board school, you will find the bag with the gold and
notes," Witness searched the field with some officers,
but could not find anything. Prisoner said, 'lf you will
take me I'll take you to the spot where it is." Witness
took him to a field. He pointed to a bush in the field,
and said, " That's where I put it." It was not there
On the 12th. on hearing of the death of Meredith, he
charged him with wilful murder. On the day following
prisoner sent for him again. He acid, " Now, I will
really tell you where the notes and gold are hid." He
put prisoner in a car. s3cured to Police•constahle Harvey.
They went to Ccmmon Side. He took them to a field
beyond the Trent Pool, and by the side of a ditch he
stooped down and put his hand in a hole and produced a
canvass bag marked Hill and Smith. It contained notes.
gold, and silver to the amount of £205 5s 9d. On the
way to the station prisoner said to him, " You have
made a mistake iu calling it a slug; it was not a slug that
was in the pistol. They were bullets in it." He said,
"I flattened them between two bricks to melee them fit
tighter. I meant to have the money, but I didn't mean
to murder." _ _ .

By Mr. Harper: When he produced the bag prisoner
smiled and said, " This is a very good place to hide it.
No one could have found it, could they ? ' He also said,
" It's a nice lot of money for you to have." Prisoner
was in very excellent spirits on the return jitirney.
There was some very peculiar conversation on the way.
He was talking about different things, and telling anec-
dotes. One was about a doctor, an.l was not very decent.
He could not describe it in open Court.
Mr. Guilder, resident surgeon at the Guest Hospital,
described the injuries of Mr. Meredith. He added that
a post mortem examination was made. He found an
abscess in the brain of deceased. It contained three
pieces of lead or " slugs." There were also three small
pieces of bone in the brain The cause of de.th was the
abscess in the brain. The " slugs" had entered through
the wound, which was a gnu-shot wound Death re-
sulted from shooting. All the other parts of the body
were absolutely healthy.
The prisoneriwas than formally charged, and said he
wished to say nothing.
Mr. Harper then referred to the sermon recently
preached in the town, and said he wished to have no
repetition of it. He did not impute any motive to the
gentleman who preached the sermon, believing he had
the best intentions, but the man was not to be tried by
a coagregation, but by a jury, and it was to deter others
he spoke.
The Mayor trusted that Whiston had not been pre-
judiced.
The prisoner was then fully committed to the Assizes

THE INQUEST.
Mr. R. G. Watts, Deputy-Coroner, held the adjourned
inquest at the Town Hall, on Wednesday night. The
jury returned the following verdict :--** We find that
Alfred Meredith died from a pistol-shot wound, and we
consider Enoch Whiston guilty of wilfull murder."
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BURIAL OF MR. ALFRED MEREDITH