The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-09-25 00:00:00

HAr,ESOWEN.

THE HASBURY BUILDING SOCIETY.

The annual meeting of the members of the
Hasbuty Freehold Building Society was held in the
Boys' School, oom, Halesuwen, on Monday night.
Mr. James Grove presided, and there was a
numerous attendance of shareholders. The
Auditol s' report and statement of accounts was
presented to the meeting, from whic‘i it appeared
that there had been paid into the soeiety in the
shape of contributions during the year £3,388 12s.
; a,dvauced on mortgage, £380; she-es paid up
during the year, £2,344 3. lid.; management
expenses, £99 18s 3d; balance at the bank, £744
15s 9d. The net profit for the year, after deduct-
ing management expense,, was Loo3 us., and in
adOition to this there is a balance of .243 4s 2d. from
the previous year's account, making in all £B5l
1,5 s 2d. —lt was unanimously agreed to pay a
dividend of Is in the pound upon the members'
shares.---The President,
.Mr. James Groves, the
Secretary, Mr. Jesse Snurh, and Mr. WUliatne
vice-president, were all re-elected. Mr. Robert
Moore was appointed truAtee in the roAn of his
father, deceased, and Mr A. G. Hayes was elected
solicitor to the society, to fill the vacancy cause.' by
tlle death of his father, the late Mr. William Hayes.

THE SEQUEL TO TIIE ROMANTIC
ELOPEMENT.

At the Police Court on Tuesday, before Messrs*
J. S. Gibbons and E. B. Phillips, Jotin Harris (24),
engineer, Roomfield Street, Halesowen, surrendered
to his bail to answer a charge of abducting Mary
Tildesley, a young woman, the daughter of Richard
Tildesley, greengrocer, and landlord of the Old
Lyttelton Arms, Halesowen.—The circumstances
attending the affair, which was reported at 'the
time as a romantic elopement, will doubtless be
remembered. Harris had been paying his atten-
tions to the young woman, and on the night of the
4th imt he visited her :other's house. The next
moining it was found that she was missing, and as
liarris wail found to be also won est, it WPA 9011.

eluded that the pair ha I elopPd toet or. A
warrant was then taken out againA Harris for ab-
duction, and subsequently upon the arrtv,l of the
parties tome he was attested by Police-sup. rin-
tendeut Kemp and bailed to appear on Tucsday It,
however, tr inspired that during their absence the
couple hal been martied.—Mr, Shakespeare now
addressing the Bench, said he appeared for the
prosecution, the charge being one of abduction.
He believed, however, the parties had been married
h.-tying gone away from home with that intention.
Under the circumstances, with the permission of
the Bench, he wished to withdraw the charge
Mr. Hayes, who appeared for the defence. said he
could only state that the defendant was a young
man of good character, and had acted in a perfectly
honourable manner throughout, and at the time he
went away had no idea that he was committing a
legal wrong. He and the young woman wera now
married, and be (Mr. Hayes) thought the way
suggested by Mr. Shakespeare was the proper way
of settling the matter Mr. Gibbnis : Very \Nell,
we agree to allow the charge to be withdrawn.
liar. is then left the court by a ptivate door, to
avoid the gaze of the crowd assembled about the
main entrance.

ASSAULTS.-At the same Court, Ann Fletcher,
was summoned for assaulting Susannah Swaine.
It appeared from the evidence that both parti-s
were tenants under one land!ord, and on the
31st ult a quarrel arose between them abut the
use of a certain road, and defendant struck com•
plainant. The Bench thought it was a very trivial
ease and dismissed it.

CROSS SUMMONSES. - Susannah Knowles, of
Peekingham Street, Halesawen, was charged with
assaulting Martha Smith, of the same place, on the
3rd inst. A crosi summons- was taken out by
Susannah Knowles against Martha Smith, for an
assault on her, on the same date. Mr. Hayes
appearel for Smith, and Mr. Shakespeare for
Knowles. Martha Smith was sworn and said that
her husband kept the Globe Inn, and on the 3rd
inst, she was at work on her own premises and she
saw the defendant who was on her own premises,
and who was using very bad language towar,is her.
The defendant had a pair of scissors in her hand
which she threw at her. Defendant then came up
to her and struck her several times, and also bit
her. She did not give her any provocation what-
ever. Mr. Bloxham, surgeon, said he examined
complainant on the 3rd inst and found several
bruises on her face, and a wound over the right eye.
—Sarah Knowles was then sworn and said she had
lived next door to last witness for 18 years. She
had to pass through her brewhouse to fetch water.
On the day in question her son was fetching water
and the last witness re used to let him go through
the brewhouse and told him that if he went again
she would throw the water over him. She
(witness) then went to Mts. Smith and asked her
what she meant, upon which she struck her twice,
before she (wi ness) struck her at all. They then
had a fight together. The last w:tness pulled a
quantity of hair off her head. Henry Thomas
Knowles, gave evidence to show that Martha
Sm:th struck Susannah Knowles first, and that
they bad a fight together. The Be lA, after some
consideration, dismissed the cases.

ILLTREATING A HORSE.—James Nock, fruiterer,
Halesowen, was charged with illtreating a horse on
the 15th inst. Police-constable Barley said he was
on duty in the Birmingham Road, in company
with Police-constable Taylor, when he saw the de-
fendant beating a horse with a whip in a most
brutal manner. He went up to the horse and saw
it was bleeding from the flanks. Police-constable
yayl o r corroborated this evidence. The Bench
inflicted a fine of is and costs, with the alternative
of 7 days' imprisonment.
FOWL STEALING.—John A.shfiEld, miner, Rowley.
and Edward Cole, miner, Coomb's - Wood, were
charged with stealing one tame fowl, the property
of Joseph Smith, farmer, if St. Kenelm's, Hunning-
ton, on the 26th ult Ashfield pleaded guilty and
Co'e not guilty. Prosecutor proved that he had
lost a fowl and the one produced .vas his property.
Samuel Smith, son of prosecutor, said that on the
day in question he was on his way home when he
met prisoners. Ashfield had got the fowl under
his arm. On being asked where they bad had it
from Ashfiold said they bad bought it. -Witaes-,,
having suspicion th.t it had been stolen, detained
prisoner till his brother came up. Cole got away,
hut Ashfleld was given la charge of the police.
Police-constable Bull said that Ashfleld on being
taken to the station said that Coe caught the fowl
in a snare (which was produced), and gave it to
him, Cole had atoconded since the 2Cth ult, and
was not apprehended until the 20th bast, by Police-
sergeant Raybould. Ashfield, who pleaded guilty,
and who ha'i been in pri.on for a. month, was now
sentenced to 7 &lye' imprisonment. Cole, who
absconded, was sentenced to two m9ntlis' imprison-
m eat.