The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-05-15 00:00:00

BBIERLEY fIILL.

DRUNKENNESS —At the Police Court, on MondHy
before Colonel Fletcher and- Mr. T. W. Webb,
Albert Horton, (19) was fined 2s 6d and costs flr
being drunk and disorderly in the highway on tt e
2nd in.—Gsorge Ketley, sawyer, of Quarry Bank
was charged with he'ng diuk and disorderly in the
highway, on the 2nd, inst. Police-constable 113 m m
proved that def, ndant was very drunk and using
bad language near the Robin Hood Inn, Quar y
Bank. Defendant pleaded not guilty. A fine f 108
and coets w o imposed ; in default of payment 14
day-.—Samuel Smith, saddler, of Darlington Street,
Wolverhampton, was fined 5s and costs for being
drunk am! disorderly in the highway on the 3rd
inst.—John Blun+, boatman, of Kinver, was fined
2s 6d and costs for a similar office on the Bth
inst _ _ _

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CHARGB AGAINST A BOATAIAN.—IOhII Edwards, a
hoat4an, was charged with obstructing the pssaze
of the Staffordt-hbe and Worcestershire Canal, by
placing a b et in the canal and refusing to ro.move
it when requested to do so. From the evidence
of a man named RichardiTurner, a lock keeper, it
was proved that the defendant took his boat-life a
o an
lock Wom. ou7ne furl ltt it remain there an-hour-
and-a-half, s causing ohs., ructi on. 1 t efem a at
was fined 10s and costs '; in default one month.
COAL STEALING.—JOgeph 'Wilde, (13) of Pensnett
wan charged with stealing a
quantity of coal, the
property of the Earl of D.,.clley, on the 30th ult.
A watchman, named Pearce, proved the case.
RrieQuer, who has been four times previously cou.

vlcted for similar offences, was ordered to be sent to
gaol for one month, and to the reformatory for fur
years.—Elizabe,h Perry (17), of Bank Street, Brier-
ley Hill, was charged with stealing coal, the
proper yof the Earl of Dudley; on the 27th ult. A
witness was caled who proved that prisoner was
taking coal from No. 30, Wallows Colliery. Prisoner
was fined bs and costs; in default 7 daNs.—Eliz.l.-
both Perry was a \rain charged together with Jasper
Hill (13), of Dudley Street, Brierley Hill, with
stealing coal on the sth inst. Perry was again
filed 5s including costs in this case, and Hill was
fined 2s 6d, _ _

STEALING TIMBER.—Job Nieldin (23), puddler,
of Chapel Hill, Brierley Hill, was charged with
stealing a quantity ot timber, the property of
William Narrowmore, on the 2nd inst. Prosecut,r
Who is a boat builder, of Moor Lane, said that on .
the Ist inst., the prisoner was met carrying the
timber away and was ordered to take it back. He
did so, but on the 2nd inst, he, witness, went to the
yard and found that it had been taken away. There
was about. 30 feet. He gave information to the
police and witness in company with Police-
constable Eden went to the house of prisoner and
there found the timber produced, converted into a
duck pen. When the pen was pulled down prisoner
said he would pay him for it rathsr than go to
Brierie : Hill. P.C. Eden said on &du-lay morning
I om ieforimitiou received, he went .11 company
with prosecutor to the prisoner's house and there
found th • flintier produced, which prosecutor iden-
tified as his property. He arrested prisoner at
Mess's. Brown and Freer's ironworks. He charged
him with stealing the timber, but prisoner made no
reply. Prisoner abeged that the timber had been
ferudeg round his garden and was not the property
' of prosecutor, but could not bring any evidence to
show it. He was fined 40s including costs.

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CHARGE OF THEFT AGAINST CTIRLS.—At the
Police Court, on Thursday, bebre Mr. Haden
C.irser, Deputy Stipendiary, Elizabeth Hobson (17),
and Alice Maud Mary Hobson (14), kwo sisters who
live with their parents at Brettell Lane, were brought
up ia custody charged with stealing two tins of
potted salmon and ne tin of p .tted meat, from the
,hop of Emma Wiliuns, shopkeep.,r, High Street,
Bdeiley iiill.—After the prisoners had been in pro-
secutor's shop the tins as above were missed. Pri-
soners were followed, and the missing tits were
found in their possession. The Deputy-Stipendiary
remanded the prisoners for a week in order that
further inquides might be made about them.—Mr.
Waldron defended.
A VIOLENT SON. —John TurberfiAd, a rough-look-
ing youth, hailing from Brockmoor, w.is charged
with assaulting his mother, Ma,da Turberfield.—lt
appeared from co.nplainaut's statement that on
Saturday night last f:efendant returned home, and
when offered his tea by his mother threw it in her
face, struck tier on the arm, and also struck her on
he hand with a :poker, afterwards smashing the
household goods. The assault appeared to have been
quite unprovoked, and as defendant had recorded
against him a long string of previous -Convictions
for assault, the Deputy Stipendiary now sentenced
him to six months' imprisonment with hard labour.