The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-01-12 00:00:00

ROWLEY.

Local. Bonn.—The monthly meeting of the Board
was heid on Aionday, at Howley, Mr. W. Bassani)
( hairmau) presiding,—Mr. C. Cooper, who was
etected a member in the place of Mr. Barra-Haden
(deceased), subscribed the usual declaration aud took his
seut.—l'he Medical Officer repoitsd a death-rate of '259
per 1,000 per annum, the deaths including oue from
typhoid fever, one irom measles, and lime from
pneumonia.—Ou the motion of Mr. connop, seconded
uy ilr. Williams, a Eitia!tce Committee cf live members
was appointed.

'DUDLEY.
The Rev. S. J. Marriott has been appointed vicar oi
St. Andrew's, Netherton, in the Place of the Rev. J. J.
tansferred to Wordsley. The living is in the
gift of the vicar of Dudley. The new vicar is much
respected alike in lau,iley and getherton, he having
done good work in the borough and at Holly
THE WILFUL DAMAGE TO FLATE•GLAF,S WINDOWS.—
At the Police Court, on Monday, Arthur Evans
14 years of age, Dunn Street, was charged with
damagoig about fitty plate glass windows in the Market
Place and High Street. Starting at Mr. Fiadier's shop.
the defendant passed from shop to shop, and with
some sharp iastrument scotched nearly the whole
of the windows. Upon some of them be wrote
indecent words, and upon this charge was fined lOs and
costs.—For the wilful damage he was also fined 103 and
COBl5.
ALLEGED FRAUD BY A GORNAL WOOD TRADESMAN.—
At the Sedgley Police Court, on MonCy after' ooa,
before Messrs B Whitehouse and E. A. Homer,
William Sheen, coal merchant, Gornal Wood, was
charged wiah having unlawfully obtained coal from the
Dudley Colliery Company Limited, by means of a cer-
tain fit!se pretence, viz., Plat certain houses occupied by
him and another belonged to him, and were free from
any mortgage with intent to defraud the company.—
The Magistrates' Clerk said he had received a letter
from Messrs. Bourne and Owen, the solicitors for the
prosecution, stating that they had arranged with Mr.
Homer, defendant's solicitor, for the case to be ad-
journed.—Mr. John Hughes, mining surveyor, and Mr:
Thomas Shaw, colliery manager, complained that they
had been summoned by the prosecutors as witnesses to
attend that day, and strange to say, they had not
been informed that the case was to be adjourned.—The
Bench said they were sorry that the witnesses had been
`so treated, and the case was then aisljourned for fourteen
days.
THE FATALITY AT GREAT BRIDGE.—John Henry
Hateley (42), miner, was brought up before the Tipton
Bench of magistrates on Monday, charged with having
killed a hairdresser named William Henry Cull.—Mrs.
Warren reperee i her evidence given at the inquest,
showing that prisoner struck the deceased.—Dr.
Arthur Underhill stated that he had seen the dying
depositions of Cull, who had said that prisoner struck
him on the left side as well as on the jaw. His jaw
was broken, and the blow on the left side hurt him
badly. Witness was of opinion that in Cull's state
of health a blow like that on the left side would
accelerate death.—As Chief Superintendent Burton,
who took the !depositions, was in the South of
England, Inspector Harrison asked that the prisoner
might be remaudel—The Bench granted a remand for a.
week.