The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-01-27 00:00:00

BRIERLEY HILL.

A Rambo:rosy PAUPER.—/lit the Police Court on I
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day morning. William Keightley, Superintendent of
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Labour at the Workhouse, proved the case, and defend-
ant was committed for 21 days' hard labour.
DRUNKENNESS.--eismes Tanner was fined 10. and costs
for being drank and disorderly at Brierley Hill, on the
13th inst. Police-constable Mayland proved the case.—
Benjamin Willetts was fined 2s 6d and costs, or seven
days, for a similar offence at High-street, Brierley Hill,
on the 21st inst. Police-sergeants Breton and Passel
proved the ease.—Alfred Reed, puddler, Henry Turley,
puddler, and John Thomas Shutt, bricklayer, were
charged with being drunk and riotous at Amblecote, on
the 14th inst. Police-constable Freeman and Parish-
constable Heileman proved the case, and Heed and Turley
were fined 2s 64 and costs. The other defendant (Shutt) '
having been previously convicted, was kited Sts and costs,
or seven days.—Thomas Swaith, wagoner, was charged
with being drunk and riotous at High-street, Brierley
Hill, on Sunday morning last. Police-constable Mayland
proved the case, and defendant, who had been locked up
since Sunday morning, was fined Is and costs, or seven
days—Thomas Walters was ordered to pay costa for
being drunk at Quarry Bank, on the 16th inst.—William
Hadley was fined be and costs for a similar offence at
Quarry Bank, on the 16th inst. Police-constable OM.
lithe proved the cases.
WAGES Case—David Hill, bricklayer, was suinmoned
by Henry Millward, his master, for that he, being appren-
ticed to him, did absent himself from work, and com-
plainant had sustained damage to the amount of £l. Mr.
Addison appeared for complainant. Complainant said
defendant was apprenticed to him as a bricklayer, and On
the 23rd of December he left his work without giving
any notice, and had not been to work since. He paid
him 12s per week, and received 18s from his master, and
had to pay a man 304 per week to work in defendant's
place. The case was withdrawn on defendant paying the
costs, and promising to go back to work.
STEALING CoAL.--William Underhill, a respectable•
looking young man, was charged with stealing a quantity
of coal, the property of Meters (leers sod Co., at the
Delph, on the 20th. Silas Bayliss, boatman, in the em-
ploy of prosecutors, said he was going through the Nine
Locks, at the Delph, when prisoner got on the boat and
rode up the Locks. He got on at the Level. Did not
sell or give him any coal, and he had no right to take
any. He steered the boat for some time. Cross-exam-
ined : I did not ask you to help me and I would give you
some coal. Did not give you three lumps of coal.—
Joseph Stauworth. boat boy, proved seeing prisoner take
one lamp of coal off the boat. Police-constable Breton
proved apprehending prisoner, and ssw him take two
lumps of coal away, and gave them to a woman. He
had the coal weighed, and it was 75th., value 64. He
charged prisoner with stealing the coal, and he said he
had bought it. Prisoner pleaded not guilty, and said
Bayliss gave him the coal for steering the boat. Com-
mitted for 21 days' hard labour.
Excise PROSECUTION.—HARD CASE. —At the Petty
Sessions held on Thursday, before I. Spooner, Esq ,
Stipendiary, Levi Willetts, of Quarry Bank, was sum-
moned for having a horse in his possession, on the 2nd
September, 1871, not having paid a license. John Evans,
excise-officer, said that he met the defendant in Quarry
Bank, on the above date with a horse and cart. Asked
him for his license. Defendant said he had not one. He
served the defendant with a declaration. Defendant took
out a license on the 26th September. Cross-examined :
I did meet a man with the defendant named Weaver, in
August. Defendant said it was his horse. I asked hiui
the question. Mr. Homfray, for the defence, said that
in 1570, defendant was in possession of a horse, but he
sold it, having no further use for it. On August 2nd,
1871, defendant agreed to buy a horse, and at the time
the exciseman saw defendant with • horse, he had not
bought it, but did so in a few days after. He met the
exciseman again, who gave the defendant • paper. The
defendant could not read or write, but went to a man
named Paskins, who read and filled it up. Defendant
took it to Mr. Bawling, the:receiver, at Brierley Hill, who
said it was not properly tided up. Defendant was then
served with mother paper, which was else improperly
filled. Defendant tendered the money, but it was rot
fused, and the 21 days had expired, allowed by Act of :
Parliament. Defendant had no intention of not taking
out • license, or of defrauding the revenue. Mr
Spooner remarked that di* duty was simple. Defendant
had not taken out the license within the time prescribed
by Act of Parliament, and he must fine him; but he
would tine him the lowest penalty he could. Mr. Horn.
fray remarked that it was a very hard case for his client.
Defendant was fined £5.
A BatiTAL Sow.— William Henry Hammond was
charged by Elizabeth Partridge, his mother, with als
iaulting her on the 10th just. Complainant said tbe de-
fendant struck her a blow on the head, and picked up a
poker to strike her, but she rso away. Defendant Was
ordered to find two sureties in £2O each to keep the peace
for 12 months. Defendant was committed for 3 mouths
in default.
ASSAULT ON A BLIND WonAW.—RuSatina Garfield was
charged with assaulting Dinah Smith, on the 13th inst.
From the evidence of complaisant, who is an old woman.
it appears they lived as neighbour.. There was a diepute
:A.nt denied striking complainant
about the pump water, when the defendant struck her
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NED.—On Saturday, Mr. W. H.
Phillips opened an inquest on the bodies of David Free -
man )31. seed James Freemen (5). brothers. The chil-
dren sere It-ft is the care of Caroline Stafford. their
gr.bdinother, at ore o'clock on Friday, and they left the
house to play-, and as they did 110 t return ibquilies Were
wade as to their whereabouts. Mrs Freeman. their
mother, discoveri d them in an adjoining pool about live
o'clock. She raised an ahem. ano the children Were got
OUt by Joseph brookes, hut life was extinct. The implest
w. adjourned Unill Wedneeday, when it Was again re•
sawed, and from the evidence adduced it appeared that
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