The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1886-03-13 00:00:00

KIDDERMINSTER.

leen Occuaaencic.—Mies Matilda Moon, a female
teleerape clerk at the Post Office, Kidderminster,
died suddenly on Tuesday afterneou. She was
walking along Coventry Street about three o'clock,
when she ran ieto a grocer's shop belonging to Mr.
Cotching. The manager, noticing that she looked
very ill, end that blood was oozing from her mouth,
held uo her head. The volume of blood, however,
increesed rapidly, and Dr. Waddell was sent for,
but. sae expired before he eould arrive. It appears
thee. Dr. Waddell has been atteuding her fur con-
eumprieu for the past ten months. She was 24
years o! age.
Crtuacit Sciroois beritOVEMZNT.—A soiree was
held in te Town Hall and Corn Y 'change, at
Ki ide:minster, on Monday night, in aid of a fund
10, iinprovieg Sr. George's Sctrools. These are the
oldrstocetablished day schools in the town, ani
her: dune good educational work there. They,
Lo-ver. do not come up to the modern require-
ineute reructarellv, and Government have exercised
pre& ere te conipal an alteratiou. Under these eir-
euelerroices, the managers have resolved to make
the alterations and additions required. It is esti-
mative that the cost Of these will be alout £7OO.
flowerier this £3OO have already been subscribed or
pree,i4e. 1. The soriee on Monday night was very
eueee)sful, both the Town Hall and Corn Exchange
being c:owded. After tea an entertainment was
given, in which Mrs. M. Corbet, Mrs. Purdey, Miss
eio )d vie, Mr. G. W. Grosvenor, and other ladies
qui getatlemen, as well as the school-children, took
part.
A Seeirous CNA aGlit.—A woman, named Taylor,
was arrested at Kidderminster on Monday night
111•0'.1 a ei:arge of having, by the use of instruments,
proeurel a miscaerisge of a girl named Alice Eliza-
beth Lightbund. The fedi, which led to prisoner's
arr reit eiefne out at an inquest held by Mr. U. Con.
be', Dpitty Coroner, on the same evening. Briefly,
they are as fellow :—Lightbund, who is nineteen
years of age and a singly woman, is a domestic ear.
yaut. Sometime before Christmas she found her-
self to ha enceinte, and upon the advice of a woman
named Underwood, who told her that she had
lcuoirn many girl,' in trouble like herself who had
been pa right, she went to the house of the woman
Taylor, in Mill street. The latter told her that
her terms were a guinea, and Lighthund went and
took her the money on the following Sunday even-
ing. Tle:s Was on the 14th of February. She went
again on the next night, and Taylor, it is alleged,
p-rferured an operation which resulted in the mix-
carriage of a male child. A police officer went to
the how,e, and be sent for a medical man, Mr. Mc-
qu en. The child, which had lived for about four-
ten hours, was then dead. It had never been
drresed. Mr. Mcqueen stated that the death of
the child wa,s due to immaturity of birth and con-
vuleions. 'The Coroner pointed out to the jury
Unit they had only to deal with the cause of death
and that their inquiry was limited to the time from
which t- e child was born till its death. There
wa. an utter abeence of any evidence to show that
in that time anything had been done to cause the
intant's death. If any other proceedings were ne-
eeseary, the pelice would r obably take them. The
jury returned a verlct to the effect that (!yeased
duel front immaturity ef birth, brought on by abor-
tion. Inspector Griffithe then apprehended thw
woman Taylor upon the eharee eboye stated.