The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1886-07-03 00:00:00

THE CIIARGE OF ASSAULT AGAINST A
POLICE OFFICER.

At the Court House on Wednesday. before
Captain Noel and Mr. R. L. Freer, the adjourned
case of alleged assault by P. C. Cooper on Willi .m
Dowler, on May 30th last, was called. on and d's.
posed of. Mr. G. S. Plant appeared to prosecute,
and Mr. Hemmingway, of Bewdley, defended.
Our readers will recollect that at the previ,m:
hearing in this case a number of respectable wit-
nesses were called who distinctly swore they saw
Cooper dPliberately strike Dowler on the head vrilh
hig handcuffs. At the hearing on Wednesd.:y
Meats. Joseph Redding, Frank Perry, J. F.
Hoigetts, and Edward Ritland were called on be.
bait' of_the prosecution.

Mr, Hemmingway, for the defence, called Dr. U.
lilmiriond Smith, P.C. Farley, Rober Webb, Wm.
hairaresser, Lye, William Crespre% grocer's
pc:t. r, William Hazlediue hairdresser, Brett el!
Nellie Surrell, and John Henry Bruckler, inn-
keper, Mill Lane, and intimated that he had 12 or
13 others to call.

Captain Noel, at ibis point, said the Bench would
retire to consider their decision. On returning into
0 :nrt the Chairman said they had taken great pnin;
an .l tried the case most carefully. They had gone
th:ough the merits of the case and found it was not
provl, and dismissed it with costs against the Pro.
s?.eu• ion.

T :P CFIARGE UNDER THE BANKRUPTCY
ACT.

t the Worcester Sessions on
_.Tuesday, before

i• i. W. Willis Bund, Harry
_Millward:(on ba.ll

w,ts indieted for stealing £l3B Us, money belonging'
o to estate of Millward and Ganner, Stourbriige,
who were adjudicated bankrupts on the 25th Jann-
ary list. Mr, It. H Amphlett and Mr, Fitzroy
proseented, and Mr. Cranstoun defended..
Thomas Arthur Smart, tho trustee in the bank-
ruptcy, stated that the prisoner did not discover to
him £l2B 19s, the strount of a cheque received
from Birmingham. Witness had several interviews
with the prisoner, and he said that after the cheque
had been sashed he and Ganner went to dinner,
eta the money Was then counted, and that after-
wazds he (prisoner) discovered he had lost the
po3ket-book containing the money. Cross-ex-
arniaed . The prisoner's father pleaded guilty at
the last Assizes at Worcester to concealing certain
property, and Was sentenced to a term of imprison-
ment.
Thomas Ganner said that on the 10th December
Ist be and prisoner's father went to Birmingham
and received from one firm £l2B 19a, and from
4eoTher £lO. Prisoner was in tt:e employ of whacks
and his partner, He had free access to the office,
end could inspect the books.
Thomas Ganner, uncle to the last witnesss, said
that the prisoner called upon him and said he had
bon sent by his mother to say that she had found
t',c Docket book and the money in the lining of I.is
fa!li-r's coat.
Other witnesses stated that the prisoner told them
book and the money had been found.
Evidence war given as to the cashing of various
£i3 notes. •
norence Daw4.,.s, living with her parents in Swan
St re,..q, Stourbridge, stated that the prisoner lived
n•-2.xt door to her, and in January or February last
h. t dd her he had been on the Cmtinent
or !ors. .
r. G. D. Inglis, expert in handwriting, Lou Inn,
soil he had insp 'cted some of the handwriting of
th: prisener with endorsements on the irAtm pro-
duesei..and the result was that he found b :111 were
writ ten by one person. The endorsements on the
not s were "H. Powell, High Stree, Oldbury,"
and' H. Powell."

Mr. Lett, manager of the City and County Bank
W.,rec,ster, corroborated.
rg:nint Stanton said there was no "H. Powell,
lfl:h Street, Odbnry."
'rhe learned counsel for the defence contended
thw there was no ev:dence of larceny,
'[lie Court, however, ruled that it was a case for
the jury,
P isoner received a very good character from
se v eril witnesses.