The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1883-06-02 00:00:00

DALE::OWEN.

DRUNKENNESS.—A€ the Police Court on Tens
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day, before F. D. L. Smith and R. Howard, Esqs.,
Josepri Payne and James Payne were charged with
being drunk en ,he 13th ulr,. Fined is and costs ;
in defitut 7 days.— Alfred White was charged with
being (trunk on ih 15th ult. Fined is and costs ;
in default 7 (,lays —Thom s Hall was charged with
being drunk on the 12 11 ult. P.S. Raybould
proved the case. Fin d 6d and costs.—John
Bastertield was ehirged with being drunk on the
12th ult. Fined 61 and costs; in default 7 days.—
Charles Lewis was chared with being druak on the
15th ult. Fined is and costs ;in default 7 days.
—George Holloway was charged with being diunk
on the 12th of June last. P.C. Jones proved the
case. Fined Is and costs ; in default 7 days.—
David Hadley was charged with being d,unk on
the 12th ult. Fined' is •Idid costs ; in de:ault 7 days.
LARCENY.—Einin tnuel Parsons was c, arged by
Jacob Allen for feloni aisly stealing and caripag
away 53 tI, e property of the prose-
•eutar.—Mr. T. CoAsey pros catel.—lt appears
that some time ago the prose :atm- made a bet, with
the defendant tor 53 and staked the money with a
man named Andrews, on the 15th ult. He then
went to run a race, over which the bet was made,
but the police appeared and the ra!e was post-
poned. Defendant then left Allen and went to
Andrews and demanded the lOs , which he had re-
ceived. Prosecutor again met the defen 'ant on the
same evening when defendant stated that h." had
had the money of Andrews. The defendant then
said if he would give him 5s he would give a half-
sovereipi. The prosecutor gave hUn the 58 kit de-
fendant did not give him the half-sovereign and
said "I wish it was a sovereign instead of a half
one."—After hearing several witnessess for the
prosecution the Bench said they should inflie a
itie of 40s arid Os as compeosajon ;or in default
(,ne months' imprnm(-ht with hard labour.
OBSTRUCTION.—IIi •herd Wakefield was charged
with obstructing tile 1. ighway on the 12th ult
P.C. Jones proud she ei•e. Fined. 5s and costs;
in default 14 day. 4 —John Osborne wai charged
with obstructing the I i.hway on the 12th ult.
P.C. Hinde proved he case. Withdrawn on pay—
ment of costs.

CAUTI7N TO CATTLEOWNERS —Thomas Pgrtridge
was charged with allowing two horscs to stray
on the highway. P C Hinde proved the ease.
Fined Is and cost defaul 7 days.

_
Sc.ll-)01, BOAra) ECUTIONS.—Nitie persons
were summoned for not. sending their ' children to
school. Fines from Is to 2s 6d were inflicted.
_

RIDING WITHOUT RElNS.—Alfred _Higley was
charged with liding without reins on the 26th ult.
P.C. Stevens proved the case. limed is aud costs;
in default 7 days.

PERMITTING DRUNKENNESS.—Henry Field, land-
lord pf the Nelsen Inn, Spring Hill, was summoned
for permitting drunkenness on the 14h ult. P.C.
llinde was called and said tiat on the day in qu2g-
tion be was in company with P.C. Harr s when he
saw a boy named Lees -tarried out of the defend-
ant's huuso in an insensible condition.'" The lad
was then carried to the Police Station an I locke I
up for being drunk and incapable, and ho remained
unconscious for several hours. -The defendant sail
the boy had not been supplied with any intoxicat-
ing drinks in his house. He had bon smoking
very heavily.—Joseph 14,3e5. the boy in question,
was c tiled and said tlat he had no refre,hinent of
any kind in tLe house, but he Lad been smoking all
the day.—Tne Bench said it was a most disrepu, -
able for a respec[able man like the defendant to
allow boys to sit in his Ii use the whole of the day.
As it was not proved that the boy was in e usiblo
through drinking they should dismiss the csse, but
cautioned defendant.

ILLTREATING A PONT.—JO eph Coles was
charged with illtreating a pony on the 16th ult.
Fined 23 fid and costs; in default 7 days.
INDECENT ASSAULT.—Thorn as Albert Southall
(22), labourer, Joseph Wright (21) ruiner, and
William Cashmore (18) labourer, of Catveway
Green, Blackhta,th, were all charged with :n-
-decently assaulting Elizabeth Jon. s (19), I-lingtoo,
Haleso wen. Mr. Thomas Cooksey ddended.
Complainant was called and stated that on Sunday

13th ult. she was retnrning along the Stourbridge
Road wh.m she met the prisoners. Tae prismer
Wright at once seized her, and the other prisoners
came up, and the behaviour complain2d of took
place. She struggled, eventually got away, and
ran into the brewhouse belonging to Mrs. Brittain.
The prisoners followed her and lifted the door off
the hinges. This was about 9.15. Mrs. Brittain
came to her assaistance and the prisoners escaped.
—Cross-examined: She had not been into Wither's
public-house with the prisoners the same night,
neither did she see any girls she knew.—Mrs.
Brittain was called and stated that she heard a
scream and alsda knock at her door about 10.45.
She said tl hcr daughter "come down with me."
They wi nt down tcge her and opened the docr and
let the presecutrix in.—Ann Brittain was call( d
and eGrroborate 1 her mother's evi
Hidne was call d and skted that at abo it twelve
o'clock on the same night the pros2cutrix com-
plained to him ri having been inde ently assaulted.
He accompanied her to Church Lane, and there
met the prisoners 'Wright and Southall, whom the
complainant ident,fied as the men who assaulted
her. When charged both prisoners denied their
guilt. Be arrested Cashmore on the following
morning and in reply to the charge he said, " We
were all there, but I did not do anything of that."
—Mr. Cooksey addressed the Bench for the defence
and spoke strongly upon the evidence of the girl.
She said the assault took place about 9 15., but
the witnes-es said that it was about 10.45. He
further said he should call several witn, saes to
prove that the prosecutrix was with several girls
and was also drinking with the prisoners in
Wither's public-house.—Phcele Wak,field was then
called and said that ,he was with the prosecutrix
on the day in question. She went with h x and
a girl named Sarah Minet and the three prisoners
to Mrs Wither's public-house. They remained
there from 8 till 10 o'clock,—Sarah Millet was
.called and corroborated the last witnesses's state-
m-nt.—John Jones was called and said he saw the
prosecutrix on the night:of the 13th ult, about 10 45
She did not complain to him of being assaulted.
Just as she was going away three yourg men came
up and askel the way to Oldbury and she went
with them.—John Read was called and said he saw
the prosecutrix and the prisoners drinking together
in Wither's.—Alice Harris was called and said the
prosecutrix. and prisoners had three quarts of ale in
Mrs Wither's.—Prisoners were committed to the
ensuing Quarter Sessions, bail being allowed in one
surety of £25 and themselves in £5O. _ _

ASSAULT.—John Holloway was charged with as-
saulting. Sarah Tandy.—Complainant was called
and said she did not wish to press the case. Tho
case was therefore dismis,ed.

A CAUTION.—John Holloway was summoned for
allowing two donkeys to stray on the highway.
P.C. Jones proved the case. Fined is and costs.

HAGLEY.

STOCK SALE.—At their slle on Monday last,
Messrs. Oates, Perrens, and 'Wooldridge had a
large entry of sheep and pigs, but a short supply
of beef. Their sale comprised 23 head of cattle,
443 sheep and lambs, 240 pigs, and 9 calves. There
was a full company of buyers, and trade was very
brisk. The price of mutton remained firm, whilst
beef showed a slight advance in price. Fat cows
made as high as n 2 10s. 01.; bullocks £26 ss. Od. ;
sheep 86s. 6d. ; lambs 465. 6d. ; calves .24 15s. Od. ;
cows and calves £24 15s. Od. ; store pigs from
13s. 6d. to 353.

SATURDAY, Sumr 2, 1883.