The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-05-21 00:00:00

B EtIER LEY lIILL.

DauNKENNEss.—At the Polive Cevitt on Monday,
bef-re Messrs. F. Evers and G. King klarrison,
Wil ru 17,-,t,e3. John Gr rdan, and Joseph Southall,
all of Quarry Bank. were finA 2s 6d each and
costs, far being drunk and disorderly in the bi,gh-
way on the 10th inst. Folice-conWable Hyman
proved the case.
OFFLNCE AGAINST TIIE WILD BIRDS' PROTECTION
ACM—James Breeze, miner, of Colmanie Hill, was

summoned for using bhcl-lime to take wild hi'els
on the 11th inst. Police-eonstable Mcklin prov.el
the caw. This being the first offence he wa
ordered to psy costs.
Exeosnsa Hen FISH FOR SALE.—Wil!li,ll.l Pearson,
fislenenger, Brewery Street, Wordsley. was sum-
moned by Mr. Beckley, the surveyor and inspector
to the Brierley Hill Local Board, f•T feviog exposed
for sale a quantity of thh, the same being uufi; fdr
human food.—Mr. Beckley stated that on the 176
just, he visited the Marth.t Phi e, Brierhy Hill and
went to the defendant's stall and found a quantity
of fish, consisting of nine plaice, one haddock, and
ssven pieces of cod fish. He seized the fish and
submitted them to the inspection of Dr. Ashmewi
the medical officer, and afterwards to a magistrate.
The fish were condemned and destroyed.—Dr. Ash
mead said that they were stale, stinking, sodden,
and unfit for human food, it would probably have
brought on dieease to have eaten them.—Defendant's
plea was that he was a new beeinnsr in the trade
and did not know that the fise were bad —He was
fine e 10s. and costs, or 14 day's imprisonment.
. COAL STEALING.—George Terry ef Pensnett, was
charged with stealing a quantity of coal the pro-
perty of the Earl of Dudley on the 23rd of March.
A further charge was bought against the prisoner
of stealing cal on the same date, also the property
of the Earl of Dudley.—Joseph Gregg, watchman,
in the einplos of his lordship, said that at about 6
o'clock on the day in question he saw the prisoner
' taking coal from the private railway of Lord Dudley
at Pensnett.—Samusl Robinson, watchman, in the
employ of his lordship, said that about 8 o'clock
on the 23rd of March he saw toe prisoner taking
I coat' from off the bank at the Old Park Colliery.—
On the first charge he was fined 55. in default seven
days ; for the second offence he was fined 10s. or
fourteen days ; the imprisonment to be conseculive.
THE CHARGE OF STEALING MONEY DoWN A PIT
AT Wseeniesen.— William Smart (18), winsr,
The, Straits, G-orual, was charged on, remand with
tSe theft of ,20 2s. 6d. the money of his employer
Fordhain Dander; a chartermaster, of Wall Heaths.-
Mr; Siolberton presecuted and Mr. Waldron de-
fended. --- Prosesutor that, he was a ehartei mist: r
at No 8 pit, Himiev,Chdliery.and on .Saturday the
7th inst. he placed the sum of. R,35 in siever in a
locked box down the pit. The bier was situated
about twelve yards from the shaft in a recess at the
side of the gate rosclings The box stood on the
top of the ig candle box." He returned to tee epet
about half-an-hour afterwards and found that
X2O 2s. 6d.. of the money was missing. Frem what
(pt osecutor) heard the prisoner was afterwards
arrested at home by Police-con stable Benton. He
was searched but nothing was found upon him.
In. cross-examination the prosecutor admitted that
all the 'non in the pit knew that he kept the
.money
•in the .recess mentioned; and occa4olially they sat
.on the candle box, upon which the money was
placed —Samuel Southall, horse driver, stated that
. he saw the prisoner' Sitting en'
.the candle box on the
mornisg in question.—Other.Witns-es were called
'out their evidence failsci to implietee. the prisoner
with thetheft any more than thee he was eeen near
the' box upon which others were edso accustomed
to it and upon which it w.es stets that, one of the
*workmen was also sitting that more te°.--.-The Bench
theugA there *as not s leeel evflenee to
send the prisoner fa- trial, and disheearged