The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-04-29 00:00:00

BRIKELLEY HILL.

CHARGE OP ASSAULT AGAINST • SURGEON. At the
Petty Sessions held on Thursday, before I. Spooner,
Esq , Stipendiary, Edward Sainthill Pearse. burgeon,
caine up on a warrant, charged with assaulting dames
Clark. on the 12th instant. Mr. Wall appeared to prose.
ante, and Mr. Waldron defended.—James Clark deposed:
lam • mill furriaceman working at Round Oak. On the
12th instant went to the defendant'. surgery, at seven
o'clock in the evening. Saw the defendant, and told
him something was the matter with my back. He felt
my pulse, and looked at my tongue. Defendant said
there was nothing the matter with use. and that I only
wanted a week's play and a week's pay. I said to the
defendant that he had made a remark no one else ever
did. I told him Le was the first that said so. Defend-
ant said there was nothing the matter with me, and that
I was an impostor, and had been so scores of times. I
left to go out of the surgery, and in doing so said he
(defendant) was a confounded liar. Defendant then
kicked me on the side, awl said it was for calling him •
liar. 1 told him I did not. He said I did, and
that there was a police-officer lathe room who heard it.

was much hurt, and could not lie down on that able for
tour nights, and still feel the effects. Cross-examined ;
Defendant did order me out when 1 called him a liar. I
went out; defendant did not put me out.—Mr. Spooner :
• A lie and a blow, and a half-penny damage all the
world over," and the defendant was ordered to pay the
costs.

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PERMITTING DRONKENNESs.—WiIIism Evans, landlord,
of the Sun Inn, Brockmoor, was charged by Superinten.
dent Mills with permitte.g deunkennesn in his house on
the 22nd ult. Police-countable Breton said be visited
the defendant's housa between nine and ten o'clock. It
was vary disorderly. Visited it again at ten minutes to
twelve, and found two men in the tep.room quite drunk.
+jailed the attention of defendant to them. Defendant
said the men bad nothing to drink in his house. Police.
constable Goodfellow gave corroborative evidence as to
finding two men in the house drunk. The learned Sti.
pendiary said defendant must learn to condnct his house
, properly. He tined him this time .£5 and costs, the nevi
would be £lO, an the third
! ASSAULT CASE.—John Green was charged by Sameel
Lewis with assaulting him on the 19th Mee. Complain-
ant said he worked for Mr. Pears., surgeon, on tbe abuse
date he eas going to Brockmoor. He had a fowl, which
defendant tried to take from him. Defendant did not
strike him. Ordered to pay 2s 62, the coet of the man,
Mons. .

SEIZIAIS OP DISEASED FIBEL—Mr. Holberton applied
to the Stipendiary to destroy two mackerel. whiele had
been seized by the Inspector, as unfit for human food.
Mr. Josiah Beckley, Inspector, said that his attention
had been called to some diseased fish on a stall kept by
Townes Latkham. He seized two. There were about a
dozen more. Mr. Spooner : Why did you not seize the
whole. Mr. Beckley said he thought the two would be
sufficient to produce before the Bench. Mr. Aelimead,
surgeon, proved that the fish were much decomposed,
and unfit for human food. The Bench ordered them te
be destroyed, and the man to be summonsed.