The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-06-11 00:00:00

CKADLEY HEATH.

CONYZNIDAVLi Pesci Ice—On Monday the members
,f &dual Hut Church it omen's Death Club. held then
mutat meeting at the schools. Before the tritium...lion
A business they inarclicu two and two to the Church,
where a capital sermon was preached to them by the Bee
C. Si. Dunn, ft A., Who urged upon them the necessity
.if caring for the soul as 1.1,11 as the body. The sermon
A. listened to with go-at attention, audit its conclusion
Way returned to Lila seb.•ol., where they ail partook of
Lea. it., club 111 in a very edit:tent State.
PARADII Or builusr hellUuL CIIILDRAN.—OIIe of the
messiusteat and most interesting sigma ever witnessed it
this place was to be area us luesusy, when near 3,0011
, hiluren marched through the principal streets. Tb,
stfair was organised by ice committee of the Sunday
School Union, whose formation we noticed some months
ago, and %Hanle effects up to the present have been most
aeneficial. Through the care and attention of the anti..
fatigable secretary, Mr. Oeorge Yardley, all the arrange.
inente were carried out perfectly. The children of the
following schools took part in the procession
Asp; New Connexiosi, tradley Heath Primitive, Four
Nays Baptist, Old Hul New Count:ton, Cradley Baynes.,
Cradley Primitive, Colley Odle New Connexion, Cradley
Forge New Counesion, and Quarry Bank Primitive.
Large banners Boated gaily in the beetle, mid many of
toe children wore rosettes. There were, besides, large
waggons gaily decorated with evergreens. in which were
seated the youngest of the children, who were hardly
1 capable of walking. The entire body of children anti
teachers met on the Becher Ground, Five Ways, and
after singing several suitable hytous, they separated, and
departed to their individual schu.ds, adhere the childreu
! were regaled with a plentiful supply of cake and tea
/he Cradley Baptist presented their children with a ban ,
each, and marred their treet till some future time. The
..ff tir will, doubtless, be remembered by the children as
ong ea they live, sad will tend td promote that harmony
:Mil love which 541,,111.15.t am,,,g the teaCh.,S add chtl- !
Iron of talc 00 cloy I;, hating the (crate
üii
tie same day a good dein of deceit will be prevented, for
some children manage to get four or live ulnae in one
year, by attending the venom schools ia sucesasioa.

Accuarter —On Monday a boy named Pearson was
riding at Reddal Hill, on • cart loaded with timber.
when the horse took fright, and the boy was thrown off.
One of the %heels passed over his arm. and broke it in
two or three placer. He is progressing favourably.
CHABOE OF STISALINO A PAIR OF BOOTS. At the
Petty Session., at Old Hill, on Wednesday, before F.
W. G. Barra and N. Hingley. &qrs., Joseph Bennett, a
waggoner, was charged with stealing • pair of boots, on
the 2nd aid, the property of Isaac Griffiths, of Cradley
Heath. Mr. Barbary defended the prisoner.—Sarah Ann
Tremens deposed: I lived as shopkeeper to the pressen.
tor. The prisoner came to the shop on the 2nd instant.
a little after seven o'clock, and bronght a cask of stoat
for Mr. Griffith.. I said " All right, &lag it through "
I writ to get • candle for him, and as I was turning from
the fire, I saw the prisoner pick up the pair of boots off
the stand, and put them into the bib part of his apron.
I let him go down the cellar, but did not go down with
him. I then sent for my mother and told her of it. and
a police-officer was sent for; but they could not find one
Prisoner came up and asked me to sign the book. I
said to him, My man, you have a pair of boots that do
not belong to you," Prisoner said, "I have not." I
told him he had, and that if he did not tarn them out I
would have him taken to. A good number of persons
were standing at the window, and he asked me the
meaning of it. when I told him I had sent for a police-
man. Prisoner then turned and went down the cellar. I
told him it was no one hiding them in the cellar, as I
should find them. I then went down the cellar, with my
mother. Prisoner still denied stealing the boots; when
after a time prisoner said lie would tell me all shoot it..
I said, "'then out with the truth, and I will stand no
more of it." Prisoner then turned up his apron, and
pulled the boots from the front of his trousers. The
boots produced are the same, and are worth 44 4d.
Cross•exmained : Prisoner did say he had knocked them
down, but I saw him with his left band on the barrel,
and take the boots with his right. Prisoner said he
would not have had it happen for £5O, and afterwards
offered me any amount of money, and begged me not to
have him taken to that night for the sake of his wife and
child.—At this stage Mr. Griffin woe asked if he wished
to press the case. Prosecutor said he did not. Mr.
Burbury appealed to the Bench to allow the case to be
withdrawn. The prosecutor did not wish to press the
case, and the prisoner had hitherto borne • very good
character. He had a wife and family, and be hoped
this would be • lesson to him to be more careful in the
future. The case was then withdrawn, the prisoner pay-
ing costs.