The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-11-05 00:00:00

OLD HILL.

FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Monday an inquest was
held before Mr. E. Hooper (coroner), at the Pack
Horse Inn upon the body of Amos Tromans (3),
whose death resulted from scalds, caused by
falling into a pot of boiling water, on the 26tb ult.
—Hannah Tromaus, mother of the deceased, said
on the day mentioned she placed the pot of boiling
water near the fireplace. She turned away to the
table, when the deceased fell backwards into the
vessel.—The jury returned a verdict of "Accidental
death."

CAUTION TO RAILWAY PASSENGERS. At the
Police Court, on Wednesday, before Messrs. W.
Bassano, H. T. Hickman, H, A. Wiggan, and J. H.
Pearson, kdward Coley, labourer, of Haleswen,
was summoned for entering a train while it was in
motion, at Old Hill station, on the 26th of Septem-
ber.—Hr. Collett, stationmaster, stated that the
defendant came from Halesowen by the 8.5. p.m.
train, to go to Langley and waited at Old Hill
station for the 8.15 train from Stourbridge. He
saw all the doors closed and signalled the train. to
go. He turned round and saw the defendant falling
from the carriage as the train was on the move
and a policeman who was standing on the platform
caught hold of him and saved him from falling on
the metals.—Police-constable Roper also gave
evidence.—Defewiant was fined 2s 6d and coats,
with the alternative of 7 days' imprisonment.
CHARGE AGAINST A LICENSED VICTUALLER.
Thomas Burgess. landlord of the George Hotel,
Halesowen Road, Old Hill, was summoned for
being drunk on his licensed premises, on the 81st
ult.—Police-constable Rowlands stated that at 10 35
on the night in question he was on duty near the
defendant's house and heard a disturbance going on
inside. He went in and saw that the defendant
was very drunk and using bad language and he
also struck his wife. He (witness) visited the
house later on and the defendant was still using
bad language.—Defendaut, who pleaded guilty, was
fined lOs and costs.

EXTENSIVE ROBBERY. Martha Davies (23), a
single woman, of Tividale, was charged with steal-
ing a gold albert chain, a pair of gold ear-rings, a
pair of black cloth trousers, a sheet, a p'llow case;
3k yards of cloth, 21bs. weight of pork, and 11b. of
beef, altogether the value of £l2.—Ada Malpass,
wife of Charles Malpass, tin roller, living at Tivi-
dale said that she left home on Monday afternoon
last about 2.30. and locked the house up. She re-
turned at 11.30 at night and the door was still
locked. When she got inside the house she found
the drawers open and the things spread all about
the house. She missed the articles above mentioned
and suspected the prisoner of taking them. The
gold chain and the ear-rings were found under the
prisoner's bed and the other portion of the goods
pledged at Dudley. She had missed the key of the
house door five weeks previous to this.—Elizabeth
Millward, a little girl living at Dudley, said that
on Monday last the prisoner asked her to take same
things to pledge for her. She took the things but
the assistant at the pawn-shop declined to take
them from her because she was so young. The
assistant told her to go and fetoh the woman that
belonged to them and she went to prisoner, who
was standing outside by the window. The prisoner
then went and pledged them there.—Eliza Jones,
assistant to Mr. Edward Wood, Dudley, said that
the last witness brought some articles to pledge
about 6 o'clock on Monday night last, but she
refused to take them from her because she was so
young. The prisoner then brought them herself
and she advanced 10e upon them to her.—Emma
Wood, of Brockmoor, proved that the prisoner
brought the pieces of meat produced to her grand-
mother's at Brockmoor.—Police-constable Winfield
said that from information received he went to the ,
prisoner's house at three o'clock on the morning of
of the Ist lest and arrested the prisoner, She
then admitted taking the articles and told him
where he would find them. He went up stairs and
found the gold chain, ear-rings, and the key pro-
duced under the prisoner's bed. The other articles,
with the exception of the meat, he found pledged
at Dudley.—The prosecutor's wife was re-called and
said that the prisoner had taken a handkerchief
from her five weeeks ago and the key of her house.
Prisoner returned the handkerchief and she for-
gave her, but did not return the key.—The Bench
sentenced her to six months' hard labour.
DRUNKENKISS,—John Linton and Joseph Ward
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