The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-01-17 00:00:00

THE STOURBRIDGE OBSERVER.

BLIIERLEY HILL.

DRUNKENNEB.—At the Police Court on Mond isr,
before F. Evers and H. 0. Firaistour!, 11.3q-ss., Free- '
man Cooper was charged with being drunk and
dseesderly on the 10th just, in Bell Street, Brie ley '
P.S. Salt said he heard a great clurb ince
in the street and on going there he s ter the do -
feedant mho was drunk and wanted to figU. isse
fondant was fined 2s ed and costs.—Samitel SSeld
itig was fined 5s and coats for being drunk and dia-
ordelly, on the 3rd inst. P.C. Lord prose d the
e„se._Edwerd Hill was ehai gel with beine drunk,
en the New Itossi, Quarry is, on the 3rd inst.
Defendeet was lined 3s and c,sts, in default 14
Uses P.O Hinan p.ovsd the csse
Tuaesses.—Wilittin Sprout was charged with
, using threats towards his wife, Elizabeth Spruce.—
Waldron, who appeared for the conwetinant,
ss id he was placed in a peculiar situation, as out-side
the Court he was for the defendant and i side he
was for the complainant. He now asked the Bench
for an adjournment of the case till next M melee,
fer the defendant to get an advocate ; he should
also ask tbe Bench to bind eefendant over, to ensure
his appearance. Tile Bench granted the aloure-
ment and bounl defendant over in his own re-
cegnisinces of £5O.
Te ssereas There were six appli ation, for
transfers, but in consequenee of the c trtsstlie who
served the notices beittg ill, three of them had te be
adjourned, but the other three were granted.
THE 27TH CONVICTION —At the Police Court,
on Thursday, before N C. A. Nevins, Esqr, ,
(Deputy Stipendiary) Joseph Silvers, butcher, of
Woodside, Dudley, was fined 21s 6d, including
costs, for being drunk while in charge of a horse
and cart after 11 o'clock on Wednesday night. It
was stated that the defendant was very violent to-
wards Nike. constable Connolly, who art ested him.
The police record showed 25 previous convictions
against him.
CHARGE or BIIROLART.—Joseph Wood, no fixed
residence, was charged with breaking into the
engine house at the brielswoelis of Messrs. Stimson
and Cross, Brockmoor, on Sunday night, and steal-
ing a large quantity of tools, articles of weating
apparel, and a bag. the property of William Mason,
William Bate, and Messrs. Samson and Cross One
end of the table in front of the dock was covered
with the various articles which had been recovered,
and the prisoner, who treated the matter as a huge
joke, caused some amusement in court by his fre-
quent remarks in reference to the use to which they
might be put —The evidence went to show that on
Saturday night the premises were safely locked up,
and that the articles above mentioned left in-ide.
Ott the following morning, when Mason, the en-
gineer, went to work he found the doors broken
open, and the tool boxes ransacked. A cap and
jacket were also missing. Information was given
to the police, and prisoner was arrested on Tuesday
on a charge of drunkenness. When seen in the
c.ll by Police-constable Stephenson he was found
to by wearing the cap reported as stolen.
robbery was then traced t him, and it was found
that he had sold a number of the tools to a labourer
; named Thatcher, of Chapel-street, to whom he re-
pres nted them as being his own. The remainder
of the tools and the jacket were found buried in
' the ashes at the works. When charged by Police•
c netable Lafford with the theft ot the tools, pri-
saner said it was lucky for him that he did not turn
' up at the. time, and Superinsendent ‘Vooilaston
' said that the threats were so strong that prisoner
might have been charged with threatening to
murder.—He was committed to the Sessions for
trial.