The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-07-23 00:00:00

A collection was made at the conclusion of the
meeting, and a fair sum was realised.

BOARD OF GUARDIANS.

The weekly meeting of this Board was held
yesterday ; Mr. Oranger in the chair. There
were also present :—Messrs. Brooks, Wood,
Bird, Burr, lereday, Griffin, ouest Haeskew,
Paskins, Pardoe, Plant, Powell, Rhodes, and
Rollinsou. Admitted into the house during the
week, 19; born, 1; discharged, e 6; remaining,
406. Corresponding week last year, 428. Out-
door relief, lOugswinford district, £43 is 6d;
Stourbridge district, £2.5 is 11d; Halesowen
district, £23 is 7d; total, £92 4s 01d, against
£9O 15s Cal last year.

NEIGHBOURLY QUARRELS. - At the Police
Court, yesterday, before Major Fletcher and
Messrs. J. Holcroft, R. L Freer, and H. U.

Firmstone, Mary Ail Robins was charged by
Sarah Dovey with assaulting her on the 18th
inst. Complainant said on the above date she
was in her yard, and defendant went up to her
and began quarrellpig about a hook, and struck
her twice. Elizabeth Conuop corroborated the
complainant. Defendant said they were guar.
relling about a clothes line, and complainant cut
her hue, and dirtied her clothes. She gave the
complainant a push, and complainant pushed
her. There were no blows struck—Sarah Dovey

was then charged with damaging a clothes line,
the property of Mary Ann Robins, on the 18th
inst. Complainant said she saw defendant with
a knife in her hand, and directly afterwards she
saw the line was cut. Sarah Chapman proved
seeing defendant cut the line in pieces. The
Bench considered both parties were to blame,
and dismissed both cases.
DESERTING CHILDREN.—MatiIda Bristow was
charged with deserting her three children, and
allowing them to become chargeable to the com-
mon fund of the Stout-bridge Union, on the Ist
inst. James Barrett, Relieving-officer, said he
gave defendant an order to enter the House on
the Ist inst, and she left the place, and is co-
habiting with a man in Coventry-street, Stour-
bridge. Defendant said she would take her
children from the house and maintain them.
the Bench adjourned the case for 14 days, to
enable Mr. Barrett to find a paper containing
judgment in a similar case brought before the
Court of Queen's Bench.
THREATENINO TO MURDER—Margaret Aston
charged Ann Allport with threatening to be her
murderess. Complainant said defendant threat-
ened to murder her on the 14th just, and she
was afraid defendant would do her some bodily
harm. A woman named Rollinson corroborated
her. Defendant denied threatening complain-

ant, but was ordered to keep the pea-ce for-three
months in one surety of £5, and herself in one
of £lO.
DRUNK AND RIOTOUS.—Sarah Crane, an old
offender, was charged with being drunk and
riotous, on the 17th inst, at Stourbridge. Po-
lice-constable Box proved the case. Defendant
was fined los and costs.—John Knight was
charged with being drunk and riotous at the
Lye, on the 19th inst. Police-constable Walton
proved the case, and defendant, who pleaded
guilty, was fined Is and coats ; in default seven
days.
MASTERS AND SERVANTS.—JOIIII 1310M011, on
remand from Wordsley, was charged by Joseph
Coley with neglecting his work. After hearing
the evidence of defendant, who swore he was so
exhausted he could not work, the Bench die
missed the case.
ASSAULTING A WOMAN—John and Emma
Fernier, husband and wife, were charged with
assaulting Mercy Taylor, on the 21st instant
Complainant said on the above date she saw
John Farmer kick her son, and on her remon-
strating with him, both he and his wife set about
her amd used her brutally, the female defendant
striking hot on the forehead with a brush and
cutting it. Eliza Ann Wooldaidge corroborated
complainant. Defendants said they did not
touch complainant, hut the women were all fight-
ing. A witness corroborated defendants. The
Bench said they did not consider it safe to con-
vict, and dismissed the case.
AFFILIATION CASE. William Taylor was
chargtd with being the father of the illegitimate
child of Catharine Chance. Mr. Clulow de-
fended. The Bench did not think there was
sufficient evidence to convict, and dismissed the
summons.
BREACH OF THE PEACE.—TWO men, named
Jeremiah Timmins and Charles Mills, were
charged with committing a breach of the peace
by ffglitiug on the 19th inst, in Coventry-street.
Edwtrd Johns, grocer, proved the ease, and the
deferdants were both bound over to keep the
peace for six mouths, in one surety of X 5, and
thenr3elvss in £lO.