The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-07-24 00:00:00

DU DLEY.

DARING RoBBEET.—Early on Wednesday morning, Mr
Burton, Chief superiutendent of Police, received in-
formation that the booking office at the Great Weetern
lia,lway Studxi, Dudley, had been broken into, and that
£43 had been taken from the safe. Up ,n examination,
Mr. Burton found the ioeks of the calico and the safe
nail been picked by the thief or thieves, and thus the
robbery had been effected.
Locae Faieuita.—On Wedueslay a petition was ma
in the Dudley :ouirty Court against Samuel Lambert
Stanford and Alfred Hand, of lirvidale, Rowley Regis,
mautitecturers, trading as the Brittania Tube Company.
The liabilities are £1,400; assets not kno vi . Mr. Jackson
ol Wt Brun vich, is the solicitor to the debtors.
iN fIiItPLKADE It.— Vernon v. Cr, /v.—At the Stafford
hire Assizes, on Weduesday last, bebre Mr. Justice
U.ove, this ease was heard—Sir. Alotteraw, Q C.. and
• Losunquet were for the plaintiff, and Mr. J. 0. orif-
iits for the Jefaueiant:—The plaintiff is a metal dealer at
sinetawick, and the defendant a coal metchaut at Dud.
ey, end a appealed from Mr. MeLeram's opening state-
ment that tile plaintiff took an interest in one Fatah, an
iron manufacturer at Smethwick, treding as the Smeth-
wick iron Company. Thinking he had been aforethue
-ppress, d. the plaintiff determined to assist him in car-
rying on his business, promising to &Nance him any
lath, money he m:ght need, but never dreaming that the
amount wuu,d become what it did. Nash agreed to give
a bid of sale at any time he might be called upon to du
so. The platutiff advanced the defentlanS in the first in.
stance £4OO, or rather trusted bun with put iron to that
amount. 'this was in the early pirt ot 1874. About
June in that year Mr. Vernon caned upon Mr. Nash in
pursuance of his promise to execute a bill of sale for his
debt, which hail now b_cuute larg,r. A bill of sale was
accordingly prepared, but not executed, Nash's solicitor
advising him not to sign it until it had undergone some
alteration 111 his favour. Mr. Vernon was not very well
pleased, but desiring to be lenient, and to assist Nash, as
Well as for his own sake, wont on in the expectation that
trams would revive, that better days were in store, and
that ultimately the money would come back to him. And
so he allowed matters to go on till December, when, hi
consequence of Nash not going on so well—a Mr.
James, of Manchester, haying obtained a judg-
ment against him for £2OO or £3oo—Mr. Vernon called
upon him t.) moot° thei bill of sale, whieh wee done,
and Mr. Vernon, in the end, on the 18th of February,
seized. Subsequently there came an execution into the
works, at the instance of Nathaniel and John Crew, the
execution creditors, who were the defendants in this
action. This was on Good Friday, the 26th of . March,
up to which time from the 18th of February, Mr. Vernet):
.had held possession. Shortly after this the landlady
put in a distress, end thus three parties became seizb.i
of their goods,, The sheriff made an application to a
judge in London to be allowed to interplead, and . he
withdrew, Mr. Vernon consenting, and did pay the exe-
cution ander protest. Shortly afterwards the goods
were sold realising from £250 to £260, and the money
was paid over; to the sheriff as' a holder of the same.
Meanwhile, Mr. Vernon paid the laedlady £l6O, an'd
also:paid under protest £32 the claim of the execution
creditors, and after paying expenses there was still an
amount, though a small one, in the hands of the sheriff
The plantiff was examined in proof of the opening of his
learned counsel, and, after evidence of the seizure had
been. tendered, Mr. Griffiths said he had, practically, no
defence, and the jury, under his lordship's direction,
f mud a verdict for the plaintiff.
FALSE PRETENCEs.—At the Worcester Assizes, on
Saturday last, before Mr. Matthews, Q.C., Hannah Insull
(38), labourer, was indicted for obtaining by false pre-
tences.quantities of bran and beans from Lucy Hicks at
Dudley, on the 18th and 21st of June. Mr. Streeten
prosecuted.—The ,prisoner went to the shop of a Mr.
William Empson, at Dudley, and representing that the
bran and the beaus were for a Mr. Kendrick, was supplied
with them by Miss Hicks, an assistant in the shop.—Pri-
soner was found guilty, and sentenced to four months'
hart labour.