The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-06-27 00:00:00

THE MURDER OF A TRAVELLING

SALESMAN.

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On Thursday m last week the examination of George
Harris, charged with the wilful murder of Barnard
Zusman, at Stirchley, on the 15th of November, was
resumed at Wellington, and lasted till a late hour.
Evidence for the prosecution was given showing that
the prisoner had at several dates since the murde been
seen in possession of gold watches and chains. It will
be remembered that at the first examination witnesses
were called to show that the prisoner and deceased
were seen in company proceeding in the direction of
Stirchley at eleven o'clock on the morning of the
murder, and that prisoner was seen returning alone
about one o'clock, the theory of the prosecution
being that the murder was committed between the
hours named.
Mr. Hartley, foreman of the Horsehay Ironworks,
now stated that he saw and spoke to the deceased
at the works at half-past two o'clock on the 15th of
November.
James Breeze, a waggoner employed at the works,
deposed to seeing him about three o'clock.
Mrs. Summers, wife of a currier living at Hawley,
stated that shortly alter three o'clock a person, whom
she believes to have been the deceased, called upon her,
and offered to sell her a gold watch and chain.
A woman working at Stirchley Rectory, within a
few hundred yards of the place where the body was
found, swore that about six o'clock on the evening of
the 15th of November she heard the report of a gun
coining from the direction of the scene of the murder,
and in this testimony she was supported by a waggoner
and his wife living in the locality, and by Mr. and
Miss I.ongmore, of Stirchley-grange Farm, whose
residence is within 400 yards of the field where the
body was found.
At this stage of the inquiry, the examination,
which nail lasted eight hours, was ail iiurned.
A large crowd assembled at W ellington railway
station to see the prisoner as he was conveyed to
Shrewsbury, and another crowd was waiting his arrival
at the latter station, but the authorities delayed his
removal till a later hour, when the crowd had some-
what diminished.

On Tuesday, the examination of George Harries
was resumed. The local interest in the trial appears
to increase as it proceeds, the approaches to the Town-
hull being surrounded by a dense crowd, who, disap-
pointed of gaining admittance to the court, thronged
the doors all day, as aitingthe result of the examination.
Of the witnesses called, Mr. Palmer, watchmaker, Madelcy,
proved that in July, torn, he had sold the prisoner a gold
chain ants small Geneva watch.
William IN iwell, who had been In the employ of the pri-
miner's father for twelve yems, stated that he had often
bell the prisoner with different watch-chains, and that he
was in the habit of frequently exchanging his chain,
William Newton, assistant to a pawnbroker in Shrews-
bury, proved that in the ;th of September in last year the
prisoner pawned a gold lever watch, and that on the 12th
of May hot the prisoner's wife pawned a gold Geneva
watch and a silver watch, which were new produced and
identified.
Harriet Moses, the prisoner's sister.in-law, 31re. Page, a
lodger, in the house, Elizabeth Lane, the servant, and a
young man who was sisiting at the house of the prisoner on
the lath of November, swore that on the evening of that
day the prisoner was having a party at his 110 We, awl that
he remained in the house from three o'clock till eleven,
when he went to lied.
The female witnesses also spoke to the prisoner having
been in possession of various chains, aloi Mrs. Page swore
that in oetober last, when she was hvhig in the house
of the liaison.% she saw in a drawer four watches, two
gold watches, and two silver ones, the history of which
was satisfactorily traced by the defence, and thc
watches themselves produced in court. Three of these
scotches were in the drawer when the poltce searched the
house of the prisoner hi December last, and they clearly
formed no part of the stock carried by Zeman at the huh'
of the murder.
silas Pod, who was in the company of the prisoner
and the witness Watkins on the day the inquest was
held, added to, the evidence given by Watkins, Pi the
effect that the prisoner had then said, I'll lose my heart
ladore I split," that the prisoner had made the rent:irk hi
consequence of seeing onie of the police, who, he said, was
always inuckering after him • " and what he said W3A, "If
I knew who bad ltine it, I would lose," tko.
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This closed the evidence for the defence, and Mr.
Peele rose to reply, but his right to do so was denied
by Mr. Young, and after a brief controversy the Bench
decided that the Act of Parliament gave the prose-
cuting counsel no right to address the Court at that
stage.
The Magistrates then withdrew, and remained in
consultation for nearly three-quarters of an hour, and
on their return to court the Chairmar stated that they
were of opinion that the evidence was of a character
which should be submitted for the consideration of a
jury. The prisoner was then finally committedto take
his trial at Shrewsbury Assizes.

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INF,

AND F 1 ;lila

The American squadron arrived at Ostend on
Sunday. The King and Queen of the Belgians visited the
squadron on Monday morning.
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The American Senate has passed a resolution
requesting the President to intercede with the Quell of
England for the release of Father ...tPNlation, the Fenian
prisoner In Canada.
The New York papers publish a report that Santa
Anna was .organising an expedition at Brownsville to invade
Mexico. Senor Romero had arrived at Washington on a
special mission.
It is stated that the proposal which has been made
to raise a battalion of 1,200 men 11l the United States for the
Pontifical army has been al randoned, as the American Roman
Catholic bishops have been informed by the Washington
Government that such enrolment would ins contrary to I w.
The Libirte affirms that a marriage between the
eldest daughter of the King of Sweden. and the heir Pre-
sumptive of the throne of Denmark. which has been re-
PestedlY spoken of, is at last definitely arranged. It adds
twit tile young, Prh.cess has a fortune of 25,0(n),011t) rix-
dollars, that is 431,400,000. Tile sum seems an enormous one
for a poor country like Sweeten.
It was stated at the Paddington Board of Guardians
that 130 gallons of medicine, including thirty gallons of
quinine mixture, had lie,n dispensed ill the workhouse in
two months. It was remarked that tine inmates wme never
satisfied unless they were taking medicine.
It is stated in a telegram from Alexandria that the
"Queen of the Comoro Islands," so she is now described,
whose arrival at Alexandria was reported a day ~r tw., since,
is going to Paris to make a complaint to the Emperor against
a Freaca captain.
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A gentleman who has visited Altnn, in Hampshire,
within the last few days, states that he was there attu..ked
by, and captured, several genuine nmsquitos. lie could not
be mistaken as to their identity. havilig hied for some dine
in the South of France, where lie became but too familiar
with them.

A singular charge of libel was made under Lord
Campbells Act, at the Westminster police-court, in London,
on Tuesday. A tobacconist, who it appt ars is also a I witin,
mall, lost a large stun ci money on the Derby by laying
against Blue nown, and was unable to most his
Upon this one of his creditors prepared a large placard,
accusing him of being "a It etcher," and had it carried
backwards and forwards in front of hi: place of iJUSiIICNS,
wills occasional explanation 4 to the passers by of the tran,
action. Tile case, which excited much interest among the
betting fraternity, was partly heard, and was adjourned.

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A fire of considerable magnitude has taken place on
the North Riding moors. Sparks from the locomotive
running alone the Rosedale Wretch hue of the I orb ad
Cleveland Railway are said to have reinitiated the fire, which
raged for several dayB, :10 evastated ati act oh country
about to enty-four snuare luiles in extent. Many valuable
sheep farms have lien destroyed, and the stock itjured. Tie
further progress of the names was stopped by the rain that
fell on Monday.
A decision of the French Minister for War, given
on tile 15th of May, fixes the uniform of the Garde Nail. chair
Mobile. The tunic, whether for officers or men, in the
infantry and the artillery of the (bares, is to be dark blue,
faced in the former force with madder gar:mice , and iu the
latter with scarlet. The trousers will be iron grey, with
madder-coloured stripes down the tides. The kept Is to I,e
of the same colour as the coat, with a band and ornaments
of the same colour as the facings. The ornaments of the
officer's head-dress and uniform are to be of gold lace.

Mrs, Melhuish, a schoolmistress, of Exeter, has been
charged with cutting off the hair of one of her pupils. The
pupil, a boy, had a tine curly head when he went to the de-
fendant's school in the morning ; in the eveninz, when he
returned home, his curls bad been cut off. ills mother weht
to the school, and defendant explained that she had cut on
his h lir from kindness, as she thought the child looked
better without the curls than with them. The mother was
of a different Opinion; it was a great " piece of impudence,"
she said. The defence was that the boy s head was dirty,
and therefore the defendant was justified in what she did.
The Mayor told Mrs. Nielhuish that hi cutting off the child's
hair she had done an illegal act ; but as there did not appear
to be any malicious purpose, the line would be only lid and
costs,

In London, on Saturday morning, William Sadler
aged twelve years, slipped from a timber-ran near Southwark-
bridge, and was drowned. This makes the third child of the
same family that has lost its life in the same way !
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French advice,' say that the heat of the weather has
caused some damage to the crops. In Normandy the cattle
are suffering severely from snot 41 water, In Algeria,
;lore it never rains but it pours, is eentimores of rain fell
in ten hours—i.e., about one toot. Th:s appears incredible,

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Upwards of 30,000 aerea f land have recently been
taken up by actual gettlere, Lu one LLietriet only, In
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Minnesota, lu the Inited States.

The 19th of June was the anniversary Om runnier
of Maximilian. Some of the Pads p pers made the mournful
event a topic for comment, but their remarks were vetl

'weak.
Some parts of Illinois, saws the New York Herald,
have recently been refreshed tiith shoo ere of WWI fishes.

During the past week 26 wrecks were reported,
making for the pr sent year a total of 1,037.
An American editor remark that he is glad to
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receive 'marriage n;t1;;;I: but requcgts that they "be sent
soon after the ceremony, and before the divorce is applied for
lie has had several notices spoilt in this say.
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During the past year the Irish in America have
remitted no less than £54 ,8F34 to their friends at home, of
which nearly one-half was in the form of prepaid passage
orders.
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The Br.tish ifedieal Joomnal Rays the only, caical
Lirrancemeut ahicli the War °tee deemed necegsary for LIII
reViC, fast aatutelay, when neArly thirt) t...ongend volunteers
were present, was 4tie anibultulee
very latest fashionable colour in Paris is a
delicate shade of salmon, verging towards pink. .

"The Dove, on the part of the lathes of En:land,
hanks the Poet Owl for the he ,itifnl lines inserted in the
Ist number ot the Outt, commencing ' Tempera mutan-
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u7.'"Advertiseinent in The

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The velocipede mania is spreading in Paris, and has
acct.,' the Prince huperial, who goon out racing atilt hi'.

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friend, young ennm•an, at Fontamebleau.

The Times holds that nobody can question the pro-
priety if the resolution of the Jockey Club to make
default in bets" equivalent in its consequences to default
In 'taloa."
A French journal states that Miss RIAD. Glarkenik
an English lady, has successfully accomplished the ascent of
the Grand Cervin %Valeta . Our contemporafl. goes lill to
say that this daring " Miss" strangled with her Own hands,
a couple of years ago, a wolf "tall, la foret de Burch/we
Angleterre ; " and that she is now abut to travel iu
Central Africa for the purpose of shooting panthers,
stimulated by the stirring narrative of Sir Samuel Baser.
: The proprietors of the largest collieries in South
qaffordshire have resolved on reducing the wages of their
men at a rate which will amount to 4s. a week. A strike

against the mist:nos Is anticipated.
An ex-Governor of Ohio, noted as an advocate of
total ahstinenee, tame had his sympathies aroused by an un-
fortunated inebriate who had buril three wives. "The
Lord has indeed deeply afflicted you," said the Governor
The mourner, sobbing, replied, " V-yes, he has," and pawing
a moment and wiping his nose, continued, "but I don't
think the Lord got much ahead of me, for as fast as he took
one I took another."
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Another outrage was committed at Tralee on Satur-
day night. A young man knocked at the door of a farm-
house and asked for a night's lodging. An old dairy woman
who had care of it having admitted hist, he demanded
money, and, not receiving any, let in three companions, who
assaulted the caretaker, inflicting three severe cuts on her

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head, and then went away.
The Serapis, Indian troop steamship, Captain Sorniy,
arrived at tipithead on Monday evening front Alexandria,
last front Plymouth, with the 4th Regiment and the two
batteries of Royal Artillery on Ward, front the army In
Abyssinia.
M. Rochefort, in La Lanterne, notes the Anglomania
which bow pervades Paris. He says the rage for every-
thing English is carried to such a pitvb that " the that duty
H Frenchwoman is to be born in England of Scotch

Pignts. Bernal Osborne has addressed the electors of
Nottingham. Ile says :—" Viscount Amberley having pub-
lished an address, in which he announces his inteution of
not again coming forward as a candidate fir your suffrages,
I take the opportunity of notifying my determination to
solicit a renewal of your confideoce and support at the
ensuing election. I shall do so in the holm that my fidelity
to Liberal principles will enable me to ask a continuance of
the trust you tormerly reposed in me."
The Duke of Edinburgh is said to have summed up
Iris visit to the Australian colonies thus In Adelaide
they robbed me, in Melbourne they mobbed me, in Sydney
they shot me, hut in Queensland they took me to Jondavon."
The last in its misery and blank want of interest was worse
than tile others.
The following fulvertisement appeared in The Times
the other day :—" —fie not too weary, beloved wife. Hope
and wait on earth for my sake. In two years my own poor
child will be able to come back for ever.
An ox was attacked a few days back with
hydrophobia at Ostabut-Asine (Basses-Pyrenees , and spread
alarm throughout the neighliourlimid. The lint symptoms
were observed while the animal was in a field, but it 11,1`, got
Into a shed, the doors of which were stoutly barricaded. It
broke everything inside, but was at length shot dead through
a window. The owner of the beast doe,: not know whether
it had been bitten by a mad dog, or whether the disease was
spoiA taneons.
meeting of the inhabitants of Liverpool, "in
favour of the continued connection of the United Church of
England and Ireland with the State," was held on Saturday
afternoon. The meeting was very crowded, and Ur.
Borstal', M.P., Mr. Turner, M.P., and Mr. Graves, M.P.,
with the other prominent members of the party were, on
appearing upon the platform, received with voiciterous
cheers. Resolutions favourahle to the object for which the
meeting was called were adopted.
The youthful Queen Olga of Greece, as is known, is
in an interesting situation, and the Athens journals state
that the Hellenic Government is about to send a superior
°nicer to We.dern Europe to order, for the christening 14
the expected heir, a baptismal tont of niassive silver, at a cost
of ai.10,0001., to he defrayed by subscriptions entered into by
the various communes of the kingdom. The Mayor of Attienis
has already set the example by inscribing the council of that
capital for 20,000 f.
Probably the last new mensber of the present Par.
Minima was returned on Tuesday, when Mr. iltygate was
elected as the see.nd burgess for Stamford. The loin gentle-
man, In ac..nowledgiog the lirmour which the t.,vrii had con-
ferred upon him, promised his support to the present
government.
A letter from Basle states that the body of the
popular poet Cuenin, of Irentruy, known as the Swi.s
Beranger, has just been found hi the river Arr, at the poiet
where that stream receives the waters of the Saline, near
Aarlicrg.
The place of observation selected by France in the
Peninmla of Melacca to ..laserve the solar eclipse 011 the isth
14 August has been explored aul prepared with care. The
King of Siam has signified his intention of being present at
the labours of the c.dinnission. Independently od this expe-
dition, the Academy of Sciences has nominated an astronomer
for the game purpose to go to Masulipatuin to act in concert
with others sent from England.
At the ensuing national rifle meeting on Wimbledon-
COMIIIOII there will this year lie no fewer than eight regi-
men, al camps. exclusive of the general camp provided yearly
by the National Rifle Association. Consequently the ground
W hich will be covered this year with canvas will be consider-
ably in excess of that et former years.
The Viscountess of Forth is dead. It will be
remembered that she was divorced from her firs husband,
was married to Mr. Bernie, son of the senior member for
East Rent, and committed adultery w ith Captain 151akeley.
The last-mentioned event gave rise, a week or two ago, to
one of the most important trials that ever took place M the
Divorce Court,

The Rev. Charles Dodson. M.A., Archdeacon of
Richmond, Canon of Ripon Cathedral, and Rector of
croft, near Darlington, died on Sunday evening rather
suddenly. Tine Archdeacon had been oat within a day or
taw, but was seised with a severe attack of diarrinea, m Melt
carried him off in a few hours. The deceased was a nigh
Churchman, and has delivered sortie remarkable charges at
tiC visitation, lie will Inc known to some in consequence
of a controversy on the Eucharist, which occurred between
hint and lie. Goode, the Dean of Ripon, three or four years
since.

"It is untendisi to supersede the office of the lamp-
lighter by is clockwork attached to the taps of our street
lamps, which small tuns then full 4ni at stated tones every
night and shut them nearly off every monling, the gas hieing
kept must:truly lon Hills Miring the tiny, with a small blue
Name, duly prevented against extinction by tlie wind."
One, a Week.
At M met-nester a beerseller has 1-neen fined in various
aini Inning to a:l3, for supplying, lieer to men 1011 i
womm who were already hi a state of drunkenness. The
several tillea were modified in amount, according to the
different stages of intoxication, more or less advanced, the
coot: mers hail reached at the time the additional liquor was
served out to them.
An unexpected difficulty has caused the bull fights
announced as about to take place at Havre to Inc postponed.
The bulls, selected for their ferocity in the plains of the
Guadalquivir, have been treated no kindly by the railway
servants during their journey across Spain and France, that
they are rime perfectly tame and will not fight ; and so the
at Havre ore to have a regatta ina,teaa if g
silt-
light next Sunday. We think that our own railways might
take a lesson in the eonveyauce of cattle from France and
Spain.
l'he j.anrnals announce the death at Paris of the
Ibaquis d'Orvarilt, whose name has lately been prominently
before the world, in consequence of the attempt on his wife's
life by her brother.
There seems to be no want of rain this year on the
other side id the Atlantic. The 11141VieeS from New York say
that rod of nineteen consecutive days seventeen had been un-
interruptedly wet.
We learn, with sincere gratitude, that Mr. Disraeli
has responded to the appeal made to him on lielmlf of the
orphan children of John arid Anne Leech, and has caused
the pension granted to their late mother to be continued
to them. This act of kindness anti consideration on the
part of the Premier will assumedly be appreciated by all
who cherish John Leech's memory, and deplore his early
death.
The Canadian authorities are still taking precan-
tio.lary measures against the apprehended Fenian invasion,
A strong guard has 'teen stationed on the Victoria bridge at
%bilinear it is reported that the Federal Government has
seized some Fellhalk arms at St. Alban's.
The Prussian Government has authorised the Krupp
establishment at ESSell to execute a comiderame order for
cannons of cast steel on account of the Russian military
administration, Russia being about to tranTorm the whole
of her artillery on the Prussian model. NI. Krupp has gone
to St. Petersburg in connection with this business.
" Missing from her friends since Friday, the 19th
lost., when site was last seen 111- tile email at the Crystal
Palace during the celebration of the Handel Festival, fa
ye..., lady, eighteen years of age; tall, dark hair mid eyes,
awl pale complexion ; wore a white muslin areas trirmined
with phik Static Antoinette liens to correspond, and white
bonnet with pink flowers—lnformation to Mr. Pollaky,
Private Inquiry office, 13, Paddington-green, Loncion."—
Advertisement in London Tows.
The 16;th anniversary of the Society for the Propa- ,
gation if the Gospel in Foreign Parts was celebrated in I
London on Inieellay by a grand choral service at St. Jail's
Cathedral. Three archbishops, eight bishops, three deans,
and a great number of clergy were present, and the Lord '
Mayor cini ( ',potation attended in state Tine sermon was
preached by Dr. Harold Browne, bishop of Ely.
" About a fortnight since, in nest of nnghtinstales was
tahelloll the common, together with the old MINN. std.,-
/newly the ben suns Menlo], mil the male bird has rv. r
since d..sete'd his energies to rearing one of the p•ulig
brood.”—So..t.lflllVol. Ohsnmvre.
A letter from Amnale, Algeria, in the AlMar,
relates that a lion, a few days ago, carried off a young Arah anti
of five yours. Three native children were 0404 near a
Kaltyle mill, inhabited by their parents, not far fr..m liouira,
when a lion ..tr Holly appeared. All took to flight ; but the
youngest stumbled and fell, and was caught up in the j.,ws of
the voracious animal. One of the others on reaching home
died of fright.
A man was tried at the Middlesex Sessions, on Tues-
day for the theft of some flannel, to which Inc pleaded minty
Ile had been twice convicted hefora'; and the Assistaut
Judge, in sentencing him, reminded him of this, and warned
him that If lie again appeared before the court be would
probably have penal servitude for teven years, "Oh, yde
may as perU glee it me at onee. I shall come again,' replied
the prisoner, with great naivete. "Do you mean that '
asked the Assistant Judge. '' Vet, I do.. "Their the sen-
tence upon you Is that you be kept in penal servitude or
seven years. And he Sean tokens may.
In London, on Tuesday, the order of Sir Richard
Mayne on dogs took effect, and a difference in the number of
wandering dogs in the streets is said to have been perceptible.
Acei-rling to the present law it is not now necessary to prove
that a dog is in a mbid state in order to warrmt its destruc-
tion : hut a inagidrate is empowered, on complaint that a
dog has bitten, or attempted to bite, any person, and if it
I IlpFeAles te the magistrate that it ought to be destroyed, to
order its destruction by a police-constable.