The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-09-19 00:00:00

BRIERLEY HILL.

MEETING OF THE LOCAL BOARD OF Rnai TIT A
special meeting of this 13oard was held on Monday after-
noon; Mr. Cook in the chair. The report of the Light-
niug Committee was placed before the Board, together
with a number of statistics as to the price of gas to pub-
lic lamps in other towns of the neighbourhood, and an
offer from the Brierley Hill Goa Company to light the
streets upon certain conditions. The consideration of
the report was adjourned sine dic.—The next business
was the consideration of the monetary position of the
Board, deferred from the previous week. It was decided
that the consideration of the question of a loan should
be deferred, inasmuch as the Board had no information
as to what the Local Board office in London would con-
sider permanent improvements.—A new rate of Odin the
• pound was then made, and the Board separated.
CHARON no LAOCENY.—At the Petty Sessions, on
Thursday last, before I. Spooner, Esq., Charles Green
and Charles Hill was charged with stealing a sovereign,
the property of Charles Holds. Complainant said he
lived at Round Oak, and kept the New lun. On the sth
September the two prisoners, another man, and a female,
called for two bottles of ginger-beer and a glass of ale.
A man now in prison threw down a half-sovereign to pay
for it. I gave him in change thi 61d. The man after said
to me he did not want the change, but offered to change
me a sovereign. I thanked him, and the man gave me
Os and a half-sovereign, and I gave him a sovereign.
The men at once drank the ginger beer and ale and left,
saying they had to get a post-office order, and picked up
my half-sovereign, and left. On Sunday last the prisoner
Hill called at my house and said he was sorry I had lost
the half-sovereign, and if he had been in work would
have paid me again. Mr. Addison cross-examined at
some length to show that the two prissoners were not in
the house, and that the case had been brought before the
Dudley Magistrates and dismissed, but the witness denied
it. Catherine Holds. wife of complainant, corroborated
his evidence. Green was sentenced to six months' im-
prisonment, and Hill committed to the Sessions. There
Iwas a second charge charge against them, and they were
committed to take their trial on the second charge.
RESULTS OF STONE Tunowtsii.—Willialu Yates (1:1),
WRS charged by Ann Elizabeth Fleetwood with assaulting
her on the 10th Mat. Complainant, a little girl, acid she
was at Merry Hill toll-bar. Defendant picked up a atone,
and threw it, and cut her head open. Did not give the
boy any provocation. Fined 10s and costs; in default
14 days.
STEALING TURNIPS.—David Brearley and David Ral-
ston were charged with stealing with a quantity of swedes,
turnips, on the fird of September, the property of
Joseph Webb. Prosecutor said lie lived at hingswinford,
and wane Gilmer. He saw the two defendants pick up
turnips out of the field. He at once apprehended them
both. Had lost a great many turnips. The case was not
pressed, and this ihi lug their first offence, and they were
dismissed on payment of the costs, Is 6d each.