The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-04-02 00:00:00

OLD HILL.

MASTER'S AND SERVANT'S CASE.—At the Police!
C ourt, on Wednesday, before Messrs. W. Bassano
B. Hingley, C. Holcroft, and H. Walker, Edward
Sid daway (junior), chainmaker, summoned Roland
Priest. hain manufacturer, to recover from him
the sum of 18s due to him for wages.—Mr. Wrigitt
appeared for tho defendant. —Complainant was
called and said that the defendant owed him ]Bs

for wages due to him for making a quantity of
chain.—For tl-.0 defence Mr. Wlight contended
that the chain mos perfectly worthies, and made a
counter claim fr 506 for damage of a quantity of
chaih and called eviden,e in support of that state-
ment.—The Bench dismissed the ca,,e.

AssAmT.—Roland Ptiest was tl•en charged with
assaulting Edward Si,idaway (senior), on the 9th
ult.—Complainant siid that on the day in question
he went to the defendant and asked him why he

had stopped his son's wages. Defendant replied
that the chain was bad. Complainant then asked
him for a few shilling-. of the money and he would
send his sin to repair the chain. Defendant
pushed him violently out of his house and he fell
down and illjur€d himself. He could not follow
his employment many minutes at a time.—Mr.
Wright for the defence said that the complainant
went down to defendant and made inquiries about
his son's wages. As defendant was busy he told
complainant to go and come again another time.
As complainant would not go out he pushed him
out of the house. He contended that there was no
intention of an assault whatever —The Bench after
he3ring a witness for the defence, dismissed the
isse.

REMOVING A PIG WITHOUT A LlCENSlC.—Tbointia
Page Hermons, of Waggon Street, Old Hill, was
summ..ned for removing a pig without Laving a
rsmoval Itcense. Defendant pleaded guilty and
-aid that he was not aware that a license was re-
quired. The Bench said they should not fine him
this time as they thought he did it under misippre-
hension. They hoped it would be a caution to him
and to others, and said that nobody could
remove any wiiina,l without license. The defendant
was therefore discharged.
DaurixEiciEss.—lsaac Westwood, brewer, was
fined 5s including costs for being drunk and dis•
o:clerly on the 15th ult.—Samuel Homer was also
fine:i 5s including costs for a 'similar offence on the
23rd ult.

ALLEGED THEFT or A Doo.--John Hadley. land-
lord of the Hawthorn Inn, Blackheath, was charged
with stealing a dog the pqoperty of Walter Cox,
Mr. Cooksey on behalf of the defendant pleaded
not guilty.—Pros,cutor said that on the 19th
February he lost his dog a " bull terrier." On the
18th March he heard of it being at the prisoner's
house and went there and made enquiries about
the dog. Mr Hadley was out, and the servant
took him and showed him the dog. The dog
followed him into the house and then from the
house to Old Hill. On the following day prisoner
went to his stable and took the dog away. On the
following Saturday he went to fetch the dog back
again, but prisoner would not let him have it and
still kept posse, si of the dog. Cross-examined :
The prisoner's w7fe told him that theze were some
expenses for keeping the dog and if he would pay
them he e,,nld have the dog —Charles Cockin .vas
called to prove that h; eaw the prisoner take the
dog nut of a stable in Mr. Coekin's yard.—The
Bench af!er hearing the statement of Mr. Cooksey
dismissed the case.
GAMING —lien! y Goodwim, Win. Adams, Wm.
Westwood, &lamuel Thompson, and Elijah Willimus,
all of Old Hill, were charged with gaming at dice
in the highway on Sunday aft-moon last.—Poqce-
constable Wickstead prayed that defendants were
playing at " dice " in the highway leading from
Mount Sweet Brook to Cox's Lane, Old Hill.
Adams, Westwood, and Thompson, against when'
were many previous convictions were tined I.os each
and costs, or 14 days Goodwin and Williame
were fined 2s 6d each and costs.
CURSING AND SWBARING.—SamueI Harris was
fined 5s and costs, for cursing and swearing in the
highway on the 14th ult.
VAGRANcY.—Jamea Foster, of no fixed abode,
was sentenced to one month's imprisonment for
sleeping at an engine house at the " Cobb " pits
Windmill End on the 30th ult. Police-constable
Styles found the defendant sleeping in the ash-hole.
NON-PATH/NT OF RATEs.—Several persons were
summoned for urn-pay ment of rate., and orders
were made for payment in seven and fourteen days
FAILURE.—On Wednesday, a petition in liquid-
ation was filed in the Dudley County Court, on
behalf of 'William Preece, grocer and beer
retailer, Halesowen-road, Old Hill, liabilities
estimated at £BOO, Mr. W. Shakespeare is the
debtor's solici or, and Mr. T. Cooksey (West
Bromwich), has been appointed receiver.
ARREST OF A PUBLICAN FOR EMBEZZLEMENT.—
On Thursday morning John Edward Corser, land-
lord of a public house at Old Hill, known as
Ceoksey's Hotel, was arrested by Police-inspector
Walters, of that place, on board the vessel "Garth
Castle,' whilst lying at Dartmouth, where it had
touched on its outward bound voyage. The charge
to be preferred against Cerser is that of embezzling
the funds of a Forester's club wt.ich meets at
Cooksey's Hotel, The, prisoner left home on
Sunday last, with his wife and several children,
and it was only on Wednesday that the police
recemed a telegram the contents of which enabled
the arrest to be made. The prisoner will be
brought before the magistrate in due course.