The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-09-26 00:00:00

ROWLEY.

On Tuesday afternoon Mr. T. Maddy held a court
thP Ward Arms Inn, Rowley, for the purpose of
,evisinit the lists of voters in the polling districts of
Blackheath. Rowley It•gis, and Tividale, within tne
Nlingswin ford division of S. affordsh ire. The
Liberals were represented by Mr. J. Adams (Wol-
verhampton), lcssrs. B Hadley, S. Cave, and J.
Dallow ; and the Conservatives by Mr. E. J. Fernie
(Stafford) ; Moz,srs. W. 'Whitehouse and .J Williams
being present on behalf of the Overseers. For th e
ltowley Regis district there were 25 new cbints for
the owners' list and five for the occupiers' list.
Uhirty-four names were entered of persons who had
received medical relief. There were 15 objections
to owners claims and 14 to occupiers, In lteddAll
:Jill polling district 67 owners claimed to be put on
the register, and there were 16 objections to the
s ime list.'

SERIOUS C lIARGIE AGAINS r A DUDLEY
SOLICITOR.

On Monday at the Dudley Pulica Couit, before
Messrs. Tilley and Mauby (magistrates), Mr.
aichatd Nicklin Uafl, solicitor, late of Wolverhamp-
ton Street, Dudley, was charged with having, by
means of false pretences, obtained a £2O cheque
from Charles Partridge, tailor and dr3per, Stone
Street. Mr. Je3ou Herbert (instrucled by Mr
Shorthouse Bowen) was for the prosecution, and
Alfred Whitehouse (Mess.s T. m., 3., and A.
‘Nri-,itehouse) defended.
In opening. Mr. Herbert said the partics hao
been connected by bustn-ss, and on the 9th Feb—
ruary Hall cAILd on Partridge and asked him to
gi7c him a cheque for £l2 for a friend. Prose-
eutor made out the cheqae and crossed i, to which
it,ll obj.:cted, and then Partridg3 tax d the defend.
nt with de;iring to pay the cheque to a money
lend-r. This Hall denied, but afterwards admitted
[Ater in the day de'endant called and said he
,v,.nted a cheque for £2O for Mr. Jolson, who had
o:,tinitie,l to let him have the money on Mr. Ta--
ridge's cl epic. This was made out and vost
fated Ftbruary 28th, Mr. Hall remarking that Mr,
Sob;ion would hold the cheque for nay length of
time. On the 2nd March prosecutor 'vas called on
ro pay the £2O, for it had been paid into the t a.,3k
a Mr. Goodman, who was a money ltn&r.
Pros ctVor taxed defendant with a fraud in obtain-
ing the cheque, and defendant said it was so, add-
"l should not be surprised if you shot me."
lhos,?cwor W 8 called, and corepletely bore out
his counsel's statement, and added that he owed
£lOO incurred on account of :he defendant, who
ha I filed his petition.
Prosecutor was cross-examinA as to the. bi 1 an I
,beque tranaetior,. • He stid his dealings with Hall
had betn frtqu, nt, but denied that 11,1 had been
living on fictitious paper. He had had dealings
with money lenders on Hall's account, and h
might have signed cheques "Clarke" and "Mow-
bray" when made out in those names. He had had
an article from Mr. Hall's house after March 2nd,
and £5 lOs from Mr. Hall's brother.

Mr E. Percy Jobs'on, solicitor, was called, but he
not remernb,n• any transaction of the kind oc-
curring. Hall had owed Lim money since the time
hey were articled together, and had frequ,ntly
come to Lim with cheques to raise money. Money
was nct lent that way. lie rememberid. lend*
Hall more; about the btgitining of Februrary, but
did not remember. Wring about Partridge's
oheque,

SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 26, 185

Aft ,r a short co:.sultation the magistrates dis-
raiss-d the case, remtv•liiiig tat a conviction could
not Mlow the evidence.

SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST A NETHERTON

BREWER.

At the Dudley Police Court on Wednesday.
Ric ard Roliinscn, brewer, of Netherton, was charged
with tunkino• an untrue entry ie his brewing book
on the 23rd of July last.
. _ _ _ _ _

Nlr. Davies, supervisor of Inland Revenue, pro-
secnted, and Mr. Ward defended.

The case for the prosecution was that the defend
ant ent,red to i_re 6 qua: tors 6 bushels of malt, and ,
the malt when gauged was found to be 9 quarters,
3 bushels, 6 gallons, In the opinion of the Inland
Revenue officer at least 8 bushels of malt must have
been used. The worts of the brewing were collected
and amounted to 1,889 gallons. The amount to 1.).
obtained from the sugar was 701 gallons, leaving
1,188 gallons for the malt. This was an excess of
224 gallons on the gross legal presumptive charge
on the amount of the material used,
Mr, Aston proved the case, and Mr. Ward, for
the defence, pleaded that the accused was a ruined
man in the Bankruptcy Court, and unable to pay
any fine which might be inlcted upon him.
The Bench remarked that the defendant had been
p: oviously convicted, and Mr. Davies added that 'ne
would not be warned

ItoHinson was then fined £5O without costs.
_ _ . . _ _

Mr. Davis asked for security for the payment of
the money, and the Bench then ordered that the
dist:ess warrant 1L the case should not be levied for
two mouths, so as to enable the defendant to pay,
but he must flad sureties for h:s appearance in that
time. Should he fail to pay and find the sureties
no woul I have to go to gaol for two months.