The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-01-22 00:00:00

OLD HILL.

WAuts CAse,—At Vie
,Police Court on Wednes-
day, before Messrs. W. Bassano, B. Hingley and H.
Walker, Daniel Hackett, chainmaker, cl ,imed 7s
for work dou, for Messrs. ThomKs PargAer Jones,
and Co., chain manufacturers. C unpLinant s lid
that on the 24th ult. he ha] that money coming to
him for wages, and slefendants kept the money b
cause he owed to them some iron that he had dad
out some years ago. The Bench were opinion that
as Vie complainant owed to
.them some iron, they
could not interefere and dismissed the case.

COAL ET tALING.-Eliz Coley (9), was charged
with stealing a quantity of coal the property of the
Earl of Dudley on the Gtn inA. Jane Coley, tit()
mother of the girl, was charged with receiving the
sums knowing it to be stolen: Police-constable
Martin said that abo it 5-30 on the 6th hist be was!
on duty near 2t, Earl Duley's Pits, and saw the
girl go to a stock of coal which was on the bank
and put some in her apron. She took ab )ut 121bs.
He (witness), followed the girl and she took it to
her mother. who was at work in a chainshop. Wit-
rif ss asked the mother if she knew it hal been
stolen and she replied that she sent the girl to pick
some cal and hoped there was nothing wrong.
Additional-constable Taylor said he had seen the
girl there many times befirw. and she said she was
obliged to go because her mother sent her. He
only wished to press the case against the woman.
The charge against the girl was distni.sed, but the
mother was ordered to be locked up for 12 hours.

INQUEST.—An inquest w.is held on Wedn. sday,
at the Gate Hangs Well Inn, before E Hooper,
Eq., District Coroner, on the body o! John 'Tierney,
aged 35, engine tender, of Halesowen Road, Old
Rill James 'Tierney, father of the da,.easel, -aid
that it was his son's dead body that the coroner
had seen at his honse. lie went t ) work on :ha
Sunday morning at the Rowle Hall Colliery, anl
about 4 o'clock in the afternoon
'the
brought home
dead. Ira Dinley, engineer at the Rowley Hall
Colliery said he was at work drawing watJr on
Sundey. Aboat half-past three o'clock Ti.rney
walked from the engine house towards the pits and
stood against a lain with two or three other men
,with his hands behind !.im. The engine wa ,at
work drawing water. It was the regular rule to
keep on thawing water unless he had orders th.it
somebody was going down. He was in the engine-
house. As the edge was going down he (decaaed)
ran and met it, and when it was one. fo ,t inside
the pit he attempted to get on and the middle ring
caughtihim on the baeklof the neck and knocked him
down. As soon as hs (witness) saw him he reversed
the engine, and the cage turned him ba,:k on to the
hink. Ile was quite dead when he got to him, and
the police were immediately sent for. The de
ceased did not give him any signA whatever that
he was going down. He had never known him g,)
down betore till he I.ad given him a signal. Jobn
Chatham, watchman, and James Hollinsoli (a man
who worked with deceased) also gave similar evid-
ence. The ju.y returned a verdict of •‘Accidental
death.!?