The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-09-27 00:00:00

OLD HILL.

CHILD DROWNKD.—On Tuesday afternoon a little boy,
seven years of age. sou of Francis Bullock, was playing
on the canal bank by Old Hill Station, when he slipped
and fell into the water. A man named Pennell jumped
in, but his efforts to cave deceased were unsucceasful.
The body was not recovered for more than an hour.
ASSAULTING A WON•N.—At the Police Court, on Wed•
nesday, before Messrs. 11. Smith and N. Hingley, Thomas
Sharpen was charged with assaulting Decitua Hallmark,
at Tividale, on the 10th inst. Complainant said she wan
going across some fields In the direction of Great Bridge.
when she met the defendant, who refused to allow her to
pass. She attempted to do se, ',Len he struck her seve-
ral times on the face and body. Adeline Allen corrobo•
rated complainant Mr. Addison. who appeared fur the
di fence. e tiled two women named Sarah Turner and
Jane Sale, who said they were close by and did not see
defendant strike complainant; bathe was struggling with
her. Fined 14 and costs.

Asset:lms° MIR Pouce.—Williain Parker was charged
with ausulting Police.coostable Satchwell. at Tlvidale,
on the 9th inst. Complainant said he was called to the
&fondant, who was having a row with his wife, and on
his remonstrating with defendant he struck witness a
blow on the body, and kieken him on the leg. Defendant
WAS drunk. Defendant pleaded guilty. He was further
charged with being drank and disorderly at the same
time and place Fined Ills and costs for the assault, and
Is and costs for the drunkenness.
CAARGiII OF STEALING AND RECRIVING IRON. Ben-
jamin Toucans, a little boy, Wan charged with stealing
three iron links, the property of John Green, at Cradley
Heath, on the 201 h inst. Prosecutor said be was a chain
manufacturer at Old Hill. and prisoner was in his em-
ploy. On the above date he saw prisoner going out of
the yard with the three links produced. They were
worth Is. He went and caught the prisoner, and sent
for the police. Police-constable Grady said he received
prisoner into custody at prosecutor's works, on the after.
' naon of the 20th, and charged him with stealing the
iron. Prisoner did not make any reply. Prosecutor
said he did not wish to press the ease. Prisoner pleaded
guilty, and said he was very sorry he bad taken the iron.
He :was fined 2s 61.—Agnes Williams, a respectable-
. looking young girl, was charged with receiving three
! links of iron, and knowing Unlit to he stoleu. on or about
the 10th inst. Mr. Stokes defended. Benjamin Tree
111411 s, the prisoner in the above case. said he lived at
Rotating Green. Ho took the links produced to priso-
ner's father's shop, and sold them to prisoner for sd.
She did not ask him where he got them from. Police.
canstable Grady said on the above date' he went, in
company with la.t witness and Mr. eireen. to pri-oner'a
father's yard. Last witness pointed out the prisoner as
the person to whom he sold the iron. Nonsked prisener
where the iron was, and she said it was in one of the
sheds where the scrap iron was kept. It weighed 10Ths,
soil she gave Tromaus 5d for it. He went to the shed
and found the lit ks produced. Cross-exatnined All the
links are .latnaged.—Mr. Green a aid he accompanied last
witness to Williams's, and found the scrap induced. It
Was worth i per lb—Mr. Stekes contanded thot there
wail,, ease for him to answer. The girl htught the iron
and gore the lad the proper price fir it. The cue was
dismissed.
Coat. STEALING.—Jane Amos end Sarah Beard were
charged by Henry Ante, on behalf of !desar.. Mohberley
sail with stealing a qaautity of CAA on the Mu
hist Police.constahle Collins proved the core, and the
defendants were seut-nceil to be ituprissoed for one day.
TIMFATESMO. Jacob Gotthiemer charged AS•00
Ocrn with threatening him at Ohl Hit, on the 151.11
lost. The case was dismissed.

PIIIINKENNESN—SyIvanus Harris was fined Is an.l
costa for being (hunk end disorderly at Old Hill, lin the
14th inst. Police-constable Shorthouse proved the elute.
—lease Fisher was also fined Is and costs for a similar
offonce, at Tividele, on the 11th inst. Police-constable
Satchwell proved the case.
A "BANKRIt " IN TROUBLfi —John Hill was charged
with gambling on the highway by pleying at banking,"
with cards, en the Sib inst. Police-sergeant Baldwin,
stationed at Biackheath, said he saw five men sitting in
a ring on the ground. Ile went towards thaw, when three
of them ran away. Defendant picked up a pack of
cards, and put them in his pocket. Witness took them
off him. Defendant gave the name of Joseph Wright,
of Whitehouse gate. Witness had received • great
number of complaints against the "banker.," and be
had it from very good authority that defendant stopped
young men as they were coming from work on a Satur-
day night. sod induceil them to play, and sometimes he
got as much as .E 1 eta of them. Defendant was sen-
tenced to one mouth's imprisonment, with hard labour.
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- STEALING BACON.—WidDIGI Thomas was charged with
stealing 3lbs of bacon, the property of John Homer,
botcher, Cradley Heath, on the 16th inst. Eliza Homer,
wife of prosecutor, said she went jet, the shop about
four o'clock on the above date, and saw the prisoner put
a piece ef bacon under his jacket. He turned round,
and asked her ta give him a piece of fat bacon. She
sent for her husband, and information was given to the
police. The bacon was worth Is. Police-constable Col-
lier, stationed at Crailley Heath, said he received priso-
ner into custody on the 16th lust, and charged him with
stealing the bacon. Ho did not make any reply. In
answer to the charge, ptisoner pleadid guilty, and said
he hoped the Magistrates would be as lenient with him
as they possibly could. He had been all through the
late American war, and nad had two shots through his
body, and when he took a little to drink it made him so
stupefied that he did not know what he was doing. He
had already been in gaol seven days. The Bencti sen-
tenced prisoner to one month's hard labour.
ADJOURNED LICENSING MEETING —Joseph Siddaway,
landlord of the Old House at Home, Old Hill, and Wit.
ham Hingham. landlord of the Railway Tavern, Crad-
le! Heath, applied for • renewal of their licenses. Mr.
Stokes appeared for Siddaway. Mr. Superintendent
Mills stated that there hail been two convictions against
each of the defendants. The licenses were granted.

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