The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1887-08-20 00:00:00

THE CASS CASE,
P.C. ENDACOTT PROSECUTED FOR
PERJURY.

Police-constable Endacott appeared to a summons
before Mr. Vaughan at Bow-street oil Tuesday,
charging him with committing wilful and corrupt
perjury in evidence given by him before Mr. Newton,
at the Marlborough-street Police-court, in a charge
preferred against Miss Cass.
Mr. J. P. Grain and Mr. F. Abrahams, instructed
by Mr. Bartrum, prosecuted; Mr. St. John Wontner
defended.
Mr. Grain, in opening the case, said he would ex-
pain the position he occupied with regard to this
prosecution. He had received a letter from Sir A.
K. Stevenson, the Director of Public Prosecutions,
offering to take up the prosecution against Endacott,
or if Miss Cass preferred it, the prosecution should
be left in the hands of her solicitor, the Government
paying the expenses. Miss Cass preferred that the
prosecution should be conducted by her solicitcr„
and therefore he (Mr. Grain) appeared in a double
capacity.
This was a matter of some importance, and had
created a groat discussion in Parliament and the public
prints; but that they had nothing to do with. It was
desired to conduct the inquiry on purely impartial
principles. The charge against the detendant was
that he, as a witness at Marlborough-street Police-
court, had sworn wilful and corrupt perjury in the
evidence he had given. He had stated that, at 9.30
on the 28th of June, Miss Cass and another girl
caught hold of a gentleman who got away, and he
averred that Miss Cass had caught hold of two other
gentlemen. One of them said—so he stated—in his
(defendant's) hearing, "It is very hard. This is the
second time I have been stopped." Defendant
further stated that be had seen Miss Cass there many
times during the past six weeks, and expressed a be-
lief that she was a prostitute. This was evidence given
on oath. No doubt Mr. Vaughan hew that notes in
cases of this kind were taken very sfiortly, and, with
regard to the alleged perjury, they could not travel
outside the notes, but those notes contained sub-
stantial evidence. Now it was thought necessary to
give a slight history as to what Miss Cass was. Her
father was engaged in some large iron works in
Stockton on-Tees. A band was formed by the
employers, and he became the leader. It was thought
desirable that Miss Cass should earn her own living
as a dressmaker; and wherever she had been employed
she served with satisfaction to her employers. Her
character was excellent. She was with a Mr. Tamp-
k'ns at Stockton-on-Tees; and he eventually moved to
Manor-park, London. Miss Cass removed to London
to better her position, and was offered a tempoi.`ary
home with Mr. Tompkins and his family. Mrs. Bow-
man, by whom she was afterwards employed, was a
person of the highest respectability. The learned
counsel then referred in detail to the facts of the
cage, pointing out that even after seeing Madame
Bowman the constable persisted in his statement.
He had also, indeed, persisted in it at the recent in-
quiry before the Police Commissioners, and, as he
understood, still persisted in it. He proposed in the
interests of justice to place before the Court the
whole of the evidence taken in the recent inquiry. He
should call a perfectly independent witness, who saw
the arrest, who would prove that Endacott's statement
that a gentleman complained of having been perse-
cuted was absolutely untrue. He (Mr. Grain) thought
that when Mr. Vaughan heard the evidence he would
have no alternative but to say that this matter must
go before another tribunal.
Miss Cass was examined, and again denied the
allegations made against her, Mra. Bowman and he
niece and an independent witness being also called in
corroboration.
Evidence was also given by Mr. Crowe, the magis-
trate's clerk at Marlborough-street, Superintendent
Draper, and Jane Scott, is niece of Mrs. Bowman.
Ihe vase was ultimately adjourned until Friday.

TnE sok servant was an Irishwoman and in the
course of the meal the hostess gave her 'directions as
to bringing up the pudding. At the given time
Bridget appeared, carrying the pudding on the dish
without removing the cloth in which it had been
boiled. Well, Bridget, said the lady, Why didn't
you take the pudding out of the cloth? Bridget
stazed, astonished at the question, and then ex-
claimed: Sure, ma'am, an' I wouldn't take a liberty:
JOHNNY was sick last summer, and had to stay in
the house while there was a circus in the town.
Naturally it did not sweeten his temper, and his
mother had to talk to him. My child, she said, you
must not complain because you are sick. It is very
wicked. You want to go to heaven, don't :Ton ?
Yes'ni, he growled, but not till after the circus. A
little boy can go to heaven any time, but a circus ain't
in town every day.

The hi!, promoted by the Crystal Palace Company
sanctioning a re-arrangement of its debenture debt in
order to facilitate its release from the hands of the
receiver came on Tuesday before the Unopposed Bill
Committee of the House of Commons, end, af er
formal proof, was ordered to be reported. This bill he
already passed the House of Lords.
His nuttiness the Thakore Sahib of Limdi, K.C1.1.E.,
who has just completed a short tour in Ireland and
Scotland, sailed on Wednesday from Queenstown for
the United States and Canada in the White Star Line
steamship Adriatic, accompanied by Mr. T. B. Bridg-
water.
A Renter's telegram from Wellington states that Sir
Julian van Haast, Director of the Canterbury Museum,
who lately visited England as the Commissioner in
charge of the New Zealand exhibi:s at the Colonial
and Indian Exhibition, has died suddenly of heart
disease.
Mr. Charles 'Whitehead, of Barming House, Maid-
stone has been appointed Agricultural Adviser to the
Lords of the Committee of Council on Agriculture.
Fresh- Alpine disasters are again reported. Four
fatal cases are announced from Ziirich. Altogether,
within the last four weeks, no fewer than 22 tourists
have met with serious accidents in the Alps, of whom
18 have been picked up dead.
The reoeipts on account of Revenue from the Ist of
April, 1887, when there was a balance of 1;5,950,107, to
August 15, 1887, were £29,074,639, against £9,082,292
in,the corresponding period of the preceding financial
year, which began with a balance of £5,625,944. The
net expenditure was £33,223,359, against £33,604,97
to the same date in the previous year. The Treasury
balances on August 13, 1887, amounted to 4,370,947,
and at the same date in 1886 to 4,401,045.
The "New York Herald" announces that a duel has
taken place near that city between two Frenchmen,
residents of New York. The seconds on both sides
were ex-officers of the Commune. The combatants,
who fought under assumed names in order to evade the
law, fired three shots, but neither was ,hurt. The
quarrel arose out of a dispute in regard to the
Boulanger-Ferry incident.
The Board of Trade have awarded a binocular glass
to Captain John Barr, of the yacht Thistle, of Glasgow,
in recognition of his humanity and kindness to the
survivors of the shipwrecked crew of the steamship
Harkaway, of London, which foundered off the Smalls
on May 20 last. '
John Edwards, who had spent more than 31 years
of his life in prison was convicted of a trivial theft at
the Middlesex Sessions on Tuesday, and sentenced to
a year's imprisonment.
Both the Maharajah Holkar of Indore and the
Thakoor Sahib of Gondul acknowledge the kind recaps
ti n accorded to them by the Queen and Secretary of
State for India daring their Jubilee visit to England,
but complain of the inferior officials.
Dr. Westoott, deputy coroner for Central Middlesex,
held an inquest on Tuesday touching the death of
George Veal°, young mac, confidential clerk to a
large business firm in York, who committed suicide in
a coffee house in St. Pancras. The evidence showed
that the deceased had been engaged to be married
the next day, and that he had some fear of entering
into matrimony. The verdict of the jury was that he
committed suicide while of unsound mind.
On Tuesday, the special committee, consisting of the
Metropolitan Board of Works, with Mr. Meadows
White, Q C., as legal assessor, resumed their inquiry
into the accusation against some of the offic'ale and
members of the Board that they had been guilty of
improper practices in connection with the sale of pro-
perty. Mr. Mark Judge made a statement, attacking
the principle on which the Board had sold the site of
the Pavilion Music hall, and insisted that a searching
public inquiry ought to be made. The committee
adjourned till October 5.

'Telegrams from New York report the safe arrival of
the yacht Thistle on Tuesday.
An English delegate to the Socialist Congress at
Mons has been expelled from Belgium, by orders of
the Department of Public Safety.
It is stated on good authority, says a Bombay tele-
gram, that the revenue received by the Indian Govern-
ment from the Burmese Ruby Mines is less than 1200
mines per mor.th.
It is reported from Ennis that an attempt has been
made to blow up a bridge on the West Clare Railway
that spans the Fergus at Lifford. Two dynamite cart-
rl,lges exploded, but the Permanent way was not
filjured.
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with compressed gas for experimental ballooning, which
is ta take place on Dungeness beach. The cylinders
reK;mble huge organ pipes, and each is said to contain
abont 15,000 feet of gas compressed. Besides these
eyli.)ders apparatus for experimental electric light
flashing is being brought down in the road oars from
Onatham by the Royal Engineers.
At Limerick on Monday evening a man, who has
been since identified as a labourer named Donoghue,
from Six Mile Bridge, county Olare, was observed
bauntering on Wellesley Bridge. He was smoking at
the time, and after laying the pipe on the bridge he
jumped suddenly on the battlement and sprang into
the river, some 30 feet underneath. Donoghue struggled
for a few minutes, but sank before a man who put out
in a boat to his assistance could reach him. The body
was recovered subsequently.
A curious phenomenon in the shape of a plague of
ants is reported from Nancy, France. The insects were
immense in size, some having wings, but the majority
wingless. They fell in such large numbers that the
inhabitants thought that they were having a repetition
of one of the plagues ef Egypt. The thick black flakes
kept pouring from the air from five until six o'clock
in the evening, and every district was soon covered
with what has been described, for want of a better
expression, as "living black hail."

Mrs. Dr. Ellis, an American lady, is physician to the
Queen of Corea. She has apartments in the royal palace
at Seoul, and receives a yearly salary of 18,000 dols.
She is obliged to visit the Queen daily, and remains in
call when her Majesty is indisposed.
SuPpicions having been aroused by the appearance of
one or two sheep in the flock sent into the Canterbury
lean stock market, a veterinary surgeon was summoned.
After a nicroseopic examination of one of the animals,
he declared it to be suffering from scab.
A telegram from Galitzin, Penns, says that on Mon.
day a Hungarian coke drawer went to work at the
mines of the Blair Iron and Coal Company. Later a
number of his countrymen sought him and murdered
him '' for being a traitor to the cause of the strike! ,
There are two more blast furnaces blowing in Scot-
land now than there were a week ago, one ordinary and
one hematite having been put in blast, and one ordinary
changed to hematite. There are now 84 blowing,
against 83 this time last year.
A curious charge of theft was heard at Hastings. Mr. -
E. Jorephi who was sketching, left his material for a
few minutes, in order to seek for a better view. Two
sketches and the sketch-book book were stolen by a
boy named Gallop, aged 12. He has been sentenced
to be birched.

The smack Bonny Lass, of London, has arrived at
shapinsav from Iceland in charge of the mate. He
reports that the captain was washed overboard. Ho
caught hold of the log-line, and, although the sea was
running high held on for some time. While being
hauled on board he lost his hold, sank, and was
drowned.

Wellingborough, which has long suffered from the
want of a cottage hospital, is rousing itself with a view
to the foundation of such an institution. The large
numbers of comparatively poor and ill-paid shoe-
operatives at Wellingborough have often to endure
grewt privations for want of skilled medical attendance,
in spite of the several medical clubs which have for
some time flourished there.
On Thursday morning of last week Theresa Rooney
and Frederick Lester were released from the Borough
Prison at Birmingham, after undergoing three months'
imprisonment for the alleged manslaughter of Colonel
Fendall. On Saturday they were both oharked with
drunkenness, and were ordered to leave the town.
At length the severe competition maintained between
the Fellers of Dean Forest and Welsh coals in the West
of England has had its effect. The Forest masters find
it impossible to go on any longer under the present
conditions, and on Saturday invited the men's rem.
sentatives to see the list of actual prices, with the
result that a reduction of 2-1 per cent. will take imam*
diate effect.