The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-03-09 00:00:00

WORCESTERSHIRE

AGRICULTURAL

SOCIETY.

FRIDAY.

The grain trade ruled dull. Small supplies of
English wheat, but larger of foreign ; the con-
dition poor, and demand slow at about late rates.
Barley, beans, and fleas purchased very cau-
tiously, at prices tending downwards. Oats and
maize inactive, and prices weak. Flour quiet,
and in some instances easier to purchase.

The adjourned meeting of this society was
held at the Talbot Hotel, yesterday, Mr. H.
Dillingham in the chair. It was stated by th(
Secre.ary that the total amount of subscriptions
to the "present time was £664 9s.
A deputation from the Agricultural Society
bad been over and visited the spot where the
show is to be held, and had plans taken of the
place.
A Deputation from the Stonrbridge Commit-
tee will attend Worcester this day iSaturday).
It was decided that the total amount of local
prizes to be given away at the ensuing show is
t 232 10e.
The meeting was then adjourned.

BROWN'S BRONCHIAL TROCFISS, for the Ms of Coughs,
Cold, itoarseoess, Bronchitis, Aatloul. Catarrh, or an
.rritation or sorene,,a of the throat, ate now imported and
;old in this country at Is lid per box. pot up in the form
a lozenge." It is the most convenient, pleasant,
safe nail sore remedy for clearing and strengthening the
known in the world. The It. v Henry WArd Beecher
says: "I have often recommended them to friends win'
sere public speakers, and in nanny cases they have proved
extremely serviceable." The genuine have the words
I • Brown's Bronchial Troches" on the Government stamp
around each box. Bold by all medicine vendors.—Lon.
don Depot, 493 Oxford•street.

TtiE FITOrRIPAIPOF
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DRUNK AND DISORDLISLTo— AL the lk lie 0; tee _
Varna ; mao-vonseatiang°t:g for viola and PiLe,Mr. I.
on Tuesday, before Major Fletcher, Sarah Crane
and its Fisher; vocal duet—" Figaro," Miss and Mr.
an old offender, was charged by Superintendent F. A. Fisher ; song—" Bid me discourse," Miss Fisher;
Freeman with being drunk and disorderly in part song, "The Cuckoo."
High-street, on the previous day. From the
evidence it appears that the defendant has re-
peatedly been in gaol for similar offences, and is
a woman of violent temper. Defendant was
fined Is and coats; in default 14 days.
ASSAULT CASE.—At the Police Court, yester-
day, before Major Fletcher, Messrs. B. Little'
wood and J . B. Cochrane, Charlotte Walker was
charged with assaulting Sarah Walker, her cou-
sin, at Cradley, on the sth inst. Mr. Homer
appeared for complainant. From the evidence
it appeared that the parties had some words to-
gether, when defendant struck complainant with
a stick, and complainant returned the compli-
ment. The Bench considered that one was as
bad as the other, and dismissed the case.
TRESPAS ,IN( IN PURSUIT OF GAME.— Alfred
Tolley and Henry Wade were charged with
trespassing on land in pursuit of game, at Bag-
ley, on the 23rd ult. Mr. Perry appeared to
prosecute. Thomas Jones said he was keeper
for Mr Orazebrook, at Parkfield. On the above
date lie saw the', two defendants and two other
beating the fields over which Mr. Graze-
brook bad the shooting. Ho asked them for
their mines, and they would not give them. He
went for Brooks, the policeman, and Tolley said
his name was Charles Beavan, and he lived in
Pig-street, Steurbridgc, and the other defendant
said his n'true waa George Walker, and he also
came from Pie.-street, Stourbridge. They had
dogs with them. Police-constable Brooks,
Churchill, said as lie.was walking from the dir-
ection of Broom, he saw defendants and two
other men beating the fields in question. They
had dogs with them. Tolley gave his name as
Charles Beavan, of Pig-street, Stourbridge, and
Wade gave his name as Walker. They both
came from Kidderminster. Defendants were
fined 10s and costs ; in default one mouth.
WILFUL BANAGE.—JOIID Max was charged
with wilfully damaging a door at the Theatre
Royal, on the Ist inst. Mr.lWm. Bennett and
Wm. North proved the ease, and defendant was
fined Is, 6d damage, and costs, or seven days.
A BRUTAL HUSBAND. William Evans, of
Pensnett, was charged with assaulting Charlotte
Evans, his wife, on the Ist and Bth lusts. The
complainant, whose face was very much disco-
loured and swollen, said her husband left her for
eleven years, but three years ago he returned,
and since that time he had been continually
beating her. On the let inst he came home,
and instead of bringing her £.4, as usual, he
only brought her 18s She refused to take it,
and he struck her, blackened both her eyes,
knocked her down, and kicked her several times.
She was bruised 'on the arm and leg. On the
Bth he also struck her on the head and pulled
her hair. Defendant pleaded guilty, and was
sentenced to one month's hard labour.
WAGES CASE.—Emmanuel Sumuierfield was
summoned by J. Brettle for refusing to pay him
the sum of 14s lid wages alleged to be due to
him. Complainant said that his wages came to
2s. Defendant refused to pay him the am-
ount, and offered him Gs. After hearing the evi.
deuce, the Bench ordered defendant to pay the
14s 6d claimed, and coats; in default a distress
to issue.
TRANSFERS.—The following transfers took
place: The Nag's Head, New-street, from Rich-
ard Keysall to William Morrie ; the Plough and
Harrow, the Heath, from William Morris to
William Aldis.

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An accident, which has since terminated fatally,
occurred at the Cradley Railway Station, on Monday
evening to a man named John Weston, a gun-barrel filer,
residing at Quarry Bank. It appears that shortly before
eight o'clock, Richard Roach, booking clerk at the sta-
tion, was in his office, when he heard several persons call
out that a man was killed. On going to ascertain what
VMS the matter, he saw Weston lying on the up-line be-
tween the wheels of one of the carriages of the 7.46
train from Stoarbridge, which is due at Cradley about
eight o'clock. The engine and five carriages had passed
over Westen, who was lying on the rails. He was at once
extricated, and placed in the train and conveyed to Snow
Hill Station, Birmingham, and afterwards removed to the
General Hospital, where it was found that he was beyond
all surgical aid. His left thigh, from the knee joint to
the hip, was crashed; his right foot was smashed; his
heft arm was fractured in two or three places; and the
flesh torn in a shocking manner. He had also sustained
other injuries about the head. Whilst in the train Wes-
ton informed railway officials that he was standing on the
up platform, when some person pushed him on to the
metals in front of the train then entering the station.
The unfortunate mates wife was telegraphed for, and
the poor fellow lingered until two o'clock the following
morning, when death put an end to his sufferings.
The inquest was held on Thursdaj afternoon last, at
the Grand Turk, Ludgate Hill, Birmingham, by Dr. J.
flirt Davies, the Borough Coroner. The first witness
called wait
John Riley, a boiler maker, of Brierley Hill, who said
that deceased was his first cousin. About twelve o'clock
on Monday night he saw deceased at the General Hospi-
tal shockingly injured, but quite conscious. Ile asked
deceased how it happened, and he told him that he went
to Cradley Station, to see a friend named Mar tin off by
the train. As the train was coming in he shook hands
with Martin, and was turning to go away when a man ran
against him, knocking him down by the side of the en-
gine, and the train passed over him, and had given him
his death-wound.
Henry Jackson, stoker, living in Hill-street, Wolver-
hampton, said that on the 4th instant he was stoker to
the 6.55 train from Worcester to Birmirghare. About
eight o'clock the train was nearing the west end of the
platform of Cradley Railway Station when he saw two
men standing on the platform. One of them had his
back towards the rails, and the other opposite to him.
Just then he sawn man pass them in a hurry, and then
stop. He then heard several women scream, and the
train was "pulled up." The train was approaching the
station at the rate of six miles an hour. Witness jumped
off, and ran towards the spot. Deceased was found lying
between the platform and the wheels of the fifth car-
riage. After a delay of about twenty minutes' deceased
was placed tithe guard's van, and was conveyed to Snow
Hill Station, and from thence to the General Hospital.
Witness could not tell how it happened, but he saw the
deceased fall. In 1111511er to questions from a juror, the
witness said the width of the platform was about nine
feet at the spot where the accident happened. The de.
lay was caused by getting deceased from tinder the van.
Joseph Martin, boiler maker, of Greet's Green, West
Bromwich, said he and deceased were on the platform
talking together. Deceased was quite sober, and had
only had one pint of beer all the evening. Just as the
train was comiug into the station deceased left the train
to go home. Just then a man ran up against him,
knocking him off the platform under the second car-
riage.
The Coroner: Did you see how it happened?
Witness: Yes. I think the man that knocked the
deceased down was coming into the station to go by the
train.
The Coroner: Do you think he did it on purpose?
Witness: I can't say, but I don't think he did.
The Coroner: How can you account for such a very
fine young man as deceased being knocked off the plate
form?
Witness: Deceased was going tip the platform, and the
other man was coming down, it would be very easy for
him to be knocked off.
The Coroner: Was the mac a big man or &little man?
Witness: I can't say.
A Juror: Did the man make his escape?
Witness: Yes.
The Juror: Did anyone follow him and try to appre-
hend him?

Witness : No.
The Juror: No one appears to know, then, if be was a
big man, or a little man?
Witness : No.
The Juror. It is a most remarkable ease.
The Coroner: Don't make any observations, only ask
questions.
"The same Juror: How far was deceased from the edge
of the platform ?
Witness About six feet.
The Juror : Did the wan come through the gate?
Witness: Yes; and I think he was making his way to •
the booking office.
The Juror : And do yen say that the man who was the
cause of the accident made Inc escape?
Witness : Yes.
Mr. Bracey, house-surgeon of the General Hospital,
ited that at the time of admission deceased was suffer-
ing Iron. a compound coninitnuti d frscture of the left
thigh, left arm, and fore arm; hie left arm was nearly
steered from his body. Ills right foot was ft ro from the
I. Deceased died at a quail r past two the following
morning.
The Coroner said that di cea,eil bad stated that his in-
juries were caused by a inail running against him, nod
ateitiltr of the witnesses altrit:uted it to the man conning
down the platform is haste. They should have had toe
odin result, but it was not known who he wAi. It was
hot likely that out of a crowd of passengers one of them
would be known.
The Jury returned a iterd.ct of "Accidental death."