The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-10-29 00:00:00

SA'JUIUI)AY, C(1011ER 29, 1870,

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Smith, whom she alleged he was the 1.. -a. Mr. Stoker
defended. Defendant was ordered k pay In gd pe
week.

NICOLECT OF WORK.-EllOCh Dann was charged by
William Morgan on behalf of Wood Br i then, Cradley,
for absenting himself from work, and calmed fl. Mr.
Ebsworth defended, Morgan said he 'ffall manager for
complainanta. Defendant was in their employ as a chain.
maker, at the Stour Works. Cradley Heath. The terms
were is 3d per cwt., and to give or take 1.4 den notice,
sad the compininanta to find iron, ooal, and Viola De-
fendant lett his work without giving any notice. He
ought to have been at work on the 19th of October. The
The damage done amounted to £l. Defendant told wit-
ness on the 11th he would not go to work again at the
price. Mr. Ebsworth, in defence, produced an order of
dismissal from complainants. The Bench dismissed the
case.—Charles Powell and Elijah Tipton were charged
with a similar offence. The cases were dismissed.

A CACTION.—William Woodhall and John Totney
were summoned for leaving &carriage on the Stourbridge
Exteleion Railway while the same was in motion. Wit-
nesses were called to prove that as the train wad stop-
ping at Old Hill Station the defendant* jumped out of
the carriage onto their backs. The Bench fined them
111. and coats.

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ABI,IAOLT CASES.—William Croft and William
wood were fined Gd. and boats, or 14 days, for assaulting
Caroline Hampton, at Cradley Heath.—George Nock
WAS fined 6d. and costs, for assaulting Joseph Bolton at
Blackheath.

DAMAGING A FllNCE.—Benjmnin Garrett and Benja-
min Sideway were each fined ls. and costs, in default LI
days, for damaging a fence belonging to Thomas
Loyd.
STEALING COAL.—John Price and James Lewis, Saw-
yer., were charged with stealing a quantity of coal, the
property of Messrs. Dawes, of the Black Heath Colliery.
The Bench did not think the evidence conclusive, and
dismissed the case.
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A SERIOrS Case—Joseph Horton, a nailer, residing
at Bromley, was charged with cutting and wounding •
woman named Sarah Rose. Proseeutrix deposed that on
Monday last, about eleven o'c:ock, she went to the Swan
Inn, Rowley, for a pint of beer. She left soon after,
and was proceeding down the street when the prisoner
went up to her, and after some angry words stabbed her
in the throat. It was• knife or someth:ng sharp that
struck her. The blood spurted out, and he then knocked
her down, and she became insensible. When she re-
covered consciousness, the prisoner was upon her striking
her, and she shouted " Murder," and some one went and
pulled him off her. She stated that she bad kept pri-
soner's company, and he was jealously minded." Wm.
Hodgetts said he saw complainant on the ground, with
prisoner lying upon her beating her. He pulled him off,
but he broke from witness's hold and attacked her a
second time, when another man went up and asaisted.
Prisoner was given into custody, and complainant taken
to a surgeon's. Mr. D. Vl'. Phillips, surgeon, deposed
that he new complainant, and upon examination found
she had a punctured wound, more than an inch in length
and half an inch in depth, in the neck. The woman was
greatly exhausted from loss of blood. It was a danger-
ous wound, and indeed " it was almost a miracle that she
was there to-day to tell her tale." The wound was in-
flicted in a dangerous position, and if it had been an
eighth of an inch deeper, the carodit artery would have
been cut. P.C. Shim proved apprehending the prisoner.
Upon being charged in the usual manner, prisoner said,
I did strike her, and I shan't say I didn't; but I had
nothing in my hand as I know of." He was committed
to take his trial at the next Sessions.