The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-04-23 00:00:00

CHARGE AGAINST A BOY OF
THIRTEEN.

At the Richmond Petty Breslow', on Monday, a lane
boy named St rimy
M Herring, thirteen years of age, re-
siding at oi take, wail charged with entering the
dwelling-home of Mr. Lucas, Mort Lice. and stealing
theref, um a m hi watch, two gold chains (one of which
was valued at £ld), two gold earrings, five gohl finger
rings, one gold hr., el, one silver and agate ludgeht,
one tortoiaeehell and gold brooch, a pincushion, a ring
C tee, two mild pins, and other articlea of the value of
£32 15t. flit., the property of the said Allan Lnelie.
Mrs Lucas, said I last saw the Jewelry produced sate at
9 o'clock on Thursday night. I kept it in a drawer in my
bedroom. At dinner-time on Friday I was in nip bedroom
for ten minutes or a itiarter of an hour, but did not notice
that anything hail bee, disturbed then. At about half.past
in the afternoon of Friday, on going upstairs, I obrer, d
my bunch of keys and the watchkey pronuced ling on the
stair carpet on tho landing immediately under the trap
door leading to the roof of our In use I ptited them up,
and went to me bedroom, which I (mind in great dis-
order ; my drawer was open and I found my Jewelry
was mired= , Witness here deacribed the rations articles
and identified the Wald watch, two chains, bracelet, five
rings, pair of eartings, and other artlides produced, of
the value of £35 It 1.48 stated that they were onty a part
of the missing remedy ; the other portion consisie I
of two gal rings, three sits of gold earrings, two
gold scarf pine, and flee gold seal. ) as soon as I din.
covered the robbery I ran to a Will,loW and called in Mr.
Bkv nor, our landlord, who came in and discovered fat.
marks near the hatchway or trap door, which had
onel.nl, and the gold Mooch was p'eked up on the frame
ed the trap door I liuow the prisoner lives next Iloor with
his parents, but I have Lever tneouraged hint in re)
boas.. There is an empty house on the other stle of
Us, and I believe the entry was niade from the roof of that
house. Ott Saturday morning the prisoner's DI dher came
and told me Ste was sorry to say that it was her own little
boy who had committed the robbery, that he was nowhere to
be feu.), and that Ler husband had taken part of the pi,
perty which had born foetid In the empty house to the ponce-
elation, and *Nod a quarter if an hour afterwards the pri-
soner's mother MUM again and gave me the gold alhert,
staring that her daughter had found it un the chimney; sub-
sequently she brought ti She bracelet and one ring, which she
said she found in 'lir garden, ant atter that the watch was
brought to me by an elder brother of the prisoner.

Emily Herring said : I am the mother of the pri-
soner, and the wife od Brij imin Herring, architect and
snrveyor. of 15 Manor•vtlias. I first heard of the
robbery from dre, Lung herself at half past three on
Good Friday. My eldest sou went and fetched two
policemen. I found that my daughter's dressing-case
had been broken open and some money taken out, and I
then suspected that my son had committed the robbery
et Mr. Lucas's, he haying absconded from home. My
fright was at great that I did not take any notics of it
till my husband returned home at about six o'climk. I
missed my a di once before, and found him up on the
roof, lie was brought home by his brothers on Satur.
day evening.
Police-constable Courtney proved seeing the pri-
soner go into his father's house about five o'clock on
Saturday evening. Witness followed him in, took him
into custody, and told him the charge; when he said,
"If Mrs. Lucas will forgive me, I will show you where
I hid some of the things in St. Mary's grove." Wit-
ness took the prisoner there, and be then stated that
he put them in a cupboard in the empty house, where
they were found.
A remand was granted, it being thought that there
must be an accomplice concerned in the robbery.

When I survey the wondrous cross," was Burg on
every occasion, and as its constant repetition rendered
it familiar it was heartily joined in by the people,
among whom copies of the Christian Knowledge
Society's Hymnal were distributed. The other hymns
sung were such well.known ones as " Roe kof Ages"
aud." There is a fountain filled with blood."
_ _ .

The parish of Christ Church is perhaps the poorest
and most crowded in the East of London, and the
circuit made was through its poorest streets,—Devon.
shire, Star, Hungerfor.), Lower Chapman, and Charles
Streets (where a very Imo: market is held every Sun.
day morning, despite all the laws against Sunday
trading), ending with llean.street and Watney.street,
where the last address was delivered opposite the
church. Those present were then invited into church,
where the service was ended with the Litany.
Nothing c old xered the quietness and decorum
with which the services were received in the various
streets. Everywhere the addresses were lietened to
with marked attenth al, not only by the bystander., Vint
by many at the windows .4 the boners, and although
few, if any, j,.ined in all the seven services, yet many
followed frent their own street to the next, we the next
two rcreets, and probably n 4 less than 3110 adults,
besides children, liettned to the various addresses.