The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-09-17 00:00:00

BRIEItLEV HILL.

DRUNK AND DISORDERLY.—At the Police Court
on Moil:lay, be,i, re Mcsrs. F. Evers and G. K.
Harrison. 6ttneon C irbett, miner, was, on the evi-
dence of Police-constable fined 7s 61 and
costs for being drunk and disorderly in Lower
Chureh Street, l'e.isnett. Defekdant was advised
by the Bench to reform,—Benjamin Pearce, miuer,
was charged w‘th being drunk and disorderly on the
4th inst., at •Wallheath. Police-constable Banton
proved the case. A. witness was called for the de-
fence ‘vho said that defendant was not peifeetly
drunk, but this witness and another proved that
defendant had been fighting. Defendant was fined
58 and costs,—Maria Newton was fined 2s 6d and
costs for being drunk on the sth inst. Police-con-
stable Hollins proved the offenee.--Edward Hill.
residing in Moor Street, Quarry Bank, was charged
with being drunk and disorderly on the sth inst.
Police-constable Himan proved the case and de-
fendant was fined 2s 61 and costs, with the alterna-
tiv. of 7 days' imprisonment. —James Parker, glass
maker, was charged with being drunk and d!sorderly
on the 3rd inst. Police-sergeant Salt stated that
the defendant was drunk and making use of bad
language at Brettell Lane. He was fined 2s 6d
and costs.
Coen STEALERS.—Emma Cooper. Susannah Lang-
ford, Esther Terry, Mary Milliuchip, Caroline
Cooper, and Catherine Anderson, all of Common
Side, Pensnett, were summoned for stealtau coal the
property of the Earl of Dudley, on the Ist inst.
Additional-constable Taylor said that about eight
o'clock on the morning in questkn he saw the de-
fendants taking coal from NO. 25 pit, Wallows
Colliery.—Cooper and Langford each called a wit-
ness who said that they were not there.—These
two cases were adjourned for a week, but the other
defendants were each fined 59.

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CRUELTY TO A HOBSE.—ISkIae Mullett, contractor,
of Springfield Lane, Rowley, was summoned for
illtreating a horse by causing it to be worked while
in an unfit state. Inspector Browa said that on
the 2nd inst he was on duty on the canal towing
path at the Nine Locks, Dolph, where he saw a
horse, belonging to the defendant, attached to a
heavily laden boat. He examined the harse and
found two wounds on his shoulders, which were
discharging matter. One wound was aiin. long
and the other was about the size of half-a-crown •
Defendant was fined 5s and costs.
Stier LIFTING.—William Parr (11), of the Delph
was charged with stealing a packet of cocoa, the
ptopurty of Eli Sanders, shopkeeper, also of the
Del jib, on the fith inst.—llannah Maria Sanders,
wife of prosecutor, said they had frequently missed
things out of the shop and she had suspicions that
it was the defendant, as he had been in the habit
of coming to ask the price of things and did not
buy anything. On the day in question she was
looking through a window into the shop and saw
the defendant on the counter. She went into the
shop to the defendant and found a packet of cocoa
(value 2d) under his jacket. She sent fur the police
—Police-constable Cheeseman stated that he went
to the prosecutor's house and took the defendant
into custody. When he got outside the house the
ly)y broke away from him, got through a hole in a
wall, and ran Up the canal. He followed the boy
up the canal and to his home. The boy fastened
the doors so that he could not get into the house
for some considerable time, He subsequently got
into the house and found the boy in a cupboard
upstairs, with a packet of epeoa in his possession.—
Defendant was ordered to have six strokes with tbs
birch rod,

DISGRACEFUL CONDUCT AT KlNVER.—Benjamin
Aerill, John Garbet, John Hill, William Hill,
and Joseph Garbet, five men residing at Oldswin•
ford, were summoned for being drunk and
disorderly in High Street, filmier, on the 11th inst.
It was stated that about 2.30. in the afternoon of
Sunday last, the defendants were in High Street.
Kinver, in. a drunken state. As the children were
proceeding to the Sunday School they were met
by the defendants who used bad language towards
them and also knocke 1 them down. In consequence
of the children being knocked down the parents
followed the men and tried to apprehend them, but
the men began to stone them, and seriously hurt
two men.—lt was stated that Wm. Hill was not so
drunk as the rest, and tried to get his companions
away.—One of the defendants said they were
driven out by a crowd of people, who were throw-
ing stones at them, and they threw in self-defence
—The Bench characterised it as a disgraceful affair
and fined each of them, with the exception of Wm.
Hill, 10i and costs, with the alternative of 21 days'
imprisonment.
UNLAWFUL WOUNDlNG.—Benjamin Cotterill and
John Garbet, two of the former defendants, were
charged with unlawfully wounding John Pursell
and John Roberts, both of Kinver.—ln consequence
of Roberts not being able to attend, owing to the
serious injuries he had received, the case was ad-
journed for 21 days.
AssAuLT.—Thomas Garfield, miner, of Potter
Street, Brierley Hill, was charged with assaulting
his father Charles Garfield, on the 10th inst.—Com-
plainant said that the defendant and his wife were
fighting and he went to separate them and was
struck by defendant.—Superintendent Woollaston
said that when the complainant applied for a sum•
mons he said that defendant struck him with a
knife, and was covered with blood.—Police-con-
stable Luff said that when he went to the house
the floor was covered with blood "like a slaughter-
house," and he found a pocket knife on the floor.—
Complainant now denied that he was struck with a
knife,—Defendant was further charged with
assaulting Police-constable Cheeseman whilst in the
execution of his duty.—The officer deposed that he
went to arrest the defendant on the former charge
and whilst handeuffing him defendant bit and
kicked him.—Two convictions for assaults in this
year were proved against the defendant and he
was now sentenced to one month's imprisonment.
For the first offence he was bound over to keep the
peace for six months.