The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-06-12 00:00:00

Xacat aithPjistrict Bettis.

BOARD OF GUARDIANS.

The usual meeting of this Board was held at
the Board Root!), yesterday, Mr. Gran ger in
the chair. There were also present :—Messrs.
I. Rollinson, Haskew, H. Billingham, Guest,
Hall, J. Billinghain, Pearshall, Parkes, Higgs,
Rhodes, Forrest, Welton, Wood, Fiddian, Giles,
Summers, Homes, Penzer, Raybould. Plant,
and Hingley. Admitted into the house 12;
discharged 11 ; died 1 ; born 0; remaining 294;
corresponding week last year 316. Out-door re-
lief, Kingswinford district, £22 Os 5d ; Stour-
bridge district £l6 53 54d; Halesowen district,
£l5 8s 8d ; non-resident paupers, 11s. 8d;
total £54 Cs 21d, against £63 3s 64d.
MEDICAL OFFICER FOR KINGSWINFORD, No. 1
DISTRICT.—There was only one applicant for
this office, viz., Mr. Edwin Turner, of Audnam,
who was elected in the place of Mr. R. L. Freer,
resigned.

The Medical Officer 3 presented their reports.
In Mr. Turner's district (Staffordshire) a()
death rate was 20 in 1,000; in Mr. Dunn's
(Worcestershire) district, it was a little over 20
in 1,000; thus showing a redaction as compared
with the last reports.

PARICER v. KING.—We understand that this action,
in which Mr. Alfred Young was arbitrator, and which
was brought by Mr. Thomas Parker, of Stourbridge,
against Messrs. Joseph King and Co., of Netherend,
to recover damages for alleged breaches of a con-
tract to supply him with a large quantity of coal,
has been decided in favor of Messrs. King. Mr.
Parker has been ordered to pay the whole of the
costs attending the arbitration, and also those in-
curred in preparation for the trial at Gloucester
Assizes.

STOURITIZIDOE STOCK SALE.—Mr. H. King held
his usual fortnightly sale, on Tuesday last, N./Lich
was largely supplied with sheep and cattle ;
sheep and lambs being pennea. There were also 50
hat of cattle, 20 fat calve:3, and about 120 pigs.
There was a large attendance of buyers, but prices
ruled rather lower than at the preNions sale. The
highest figures realised were for fat bullocks, £34;
fat heifer, £2B lOs ; fat wethers, 6Ss; and fat calves,
_C-1 18s.

DRUNK AND REFUSING TO QUIT.—At the Police
Court, yesterday, before Messrs. C. Cochrane, J. B.
Cochrane, and F. Evers, Thonias Whit' and Calel.,
Robinson were charged with being (hunk and refuA.
iug to quit the Coach and Horses Inn, Cradley, on
the 4th lust. Police-constable Roe proved the case.
Fined 5s each, and costs.

HIGHWAY OFFENCE.—WiIIiam Hayes was chargod
with allowing four cows to stray on the highway, in
the parish of Kinver, on the 4th instant. Wiliam
Saval,o, Robins, farmer, proved the offence. Fined
5s and costs.

ASSAULTING THE POLICE. - Edward Moseley,
Samuel Whitehouse, John Yarn°ld, and James
Withy, were charged with assaulting Police-consta-.
ble Wallace, on the sth lust, whilst in the execution
of his duty. Mr. Sanders defended, and asked that
the cases might be taken separately, so as to enable
him to call the defendants as witnesses for each
other. In support of his application, he said that
he had a case which had been recently tried at West-
mini•ter, before 15 judges, which was decided in fav-
our of what he was applying for. Superintendent
Freeman said the offence was committed at the same
time. The Bench elected to hear the first witness,
before they decided.—Compla:nant said that about
eight o'clock at night he was at the Vine Inn, Clent.
A ;Awe nuniber of people were there. A. disturbance
to 4 otlve_m the fol!'• deLnilants and othert'.
The hridlord requested thAn to I,;ave several tins.
cfn.:ed to go, and the landlord ask;.d bin to
get tit in out. They still refused to go, and he took
hold of Moso:y, and pushed him out of tho gate. He
thAn pushed Yarnold. Whilst he was doing so,
Wilitelavuse and Withey itrucklaina behhad on ;the

'lll h 841'(.) C _

head several times. When out side they all four com-
menced to beat him, and he took his hand cuffs out
of his pocket to handcnft them. He then charged
a man named Davis to assisthim. As soon as Davis
came to his assistance, the man commenced to beat
Dtais. At that time he (witness) struck the men
T his handcuffs about the head and neck. He
had not time to pullout his staff. On cross-exami-
nation, witness said he struck the defendant with
the handcuffs about the neck, face, and body; but
not particularly hard.—At this stage, the Bench
decided to take the case of Moseley only. Jesse
Jarvis, son of the landlady, said that the defend-
ants were quarrelling amongst themselves, saying
they would run, fight, or jump any man in Clent.
He called the policeman toturn them off the pre-
mises, and they struck the officer, William Davis
gave corroborative evidence.—Joseph Griffin and
George Blenkarne gave evidence to support the
case.—Mr. Sanders addressed the Bench for Mose-
ley, and said the case had not proved to be a very
serious one, and thought a small fine would answer
the ends of justice. They had all been locked up
for two days, which was a punishment of itself,
they being respectable men. The Bench fined
Moseley 2s 6d and costs.—The other three defend-
ants were then charge& and Mr. Sanders said he
had recommended them to plead guilty, and would
take the evidence against them as given in the first
case by Wallace, and asked the Bench to be as
lenient as possible. The defendants were then
lined 2s 6d each, costs, and cautioned. ;

DICUNE AND DISORDERLY--WiSdell Cartwright
was charged with being drunk and disorderly, at
the Lye, on the sth inst. Police-constable Harri-
son proved the offence. Defendant alleged that he
was not drunk, and stated that when the officer
served him with the summons, he admitted that
he (defendant) was not drunk. Lucy Cartwright,
wife of the defendant, stated that when Harrison
served her husband with the summons, the latter
stated that he was not drunk, and the officer re-
plied, "I never said you were." This was denied
by Harrison. Defendant was fined 2s 6d and costs;
in default seven:days.
FALSE PRETENCES--Before Messrs. J. B. Coch-
rane and F. Evets, Richard Skidmore, a pudler was
charged with attempting to obtain money by false
pretences, on the sth inst. Major Lewis Attwood
said that he was manager at his father's works, at
the Hayes, and the prisoner was a puddler in his
employ. On the morning of the sth he was watching
at the works, and saw prisoner come into the yard
where the iron was kept. Prisoner picked up apiece
of anvil iron and took it to the forge, andput it among
thelron that was ready to be weighed. The piece
taken by prisoner had been previously weighed. He
was going to take another piece, when witness con-
fronted him, asked him what he was going to do with
it. He seemed confused, and said he had never done
so :before. He also said that another man named
Harris was in the habit of doing the same thing. If
prisoner had not been detected the two pieces of iron
would have been charged for second time. Harris
would:have received the money. Thomas Attwood
proved marking the iron on the 4th of June. The
two bars of iron produced were some of those marked
by him. If the iron had been weighed twice over
the prisoner and others would have benefitediby :it,
as he works by the ton. Police-sergeant Rea proved
apprehending the prisoner on the sth inst, and
charged him with stealing iron, the property of his
master. He said, "How can that be, when I never
took it off the ground." Previous to that Mr. Attwood
had charged him with stealing it. He said, "I am
very sorry; I have not taken any before." Prisoner
was committed to take his trial at the ensuing Wor-
cester Sessions.