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The Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1865-06-24 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

HAROLD.  Next to the officer is a sbabliy-looking boy, whose seat is by the right Jamb rf the raol door. of all bays Just old enough to feel their oats, this boy is the most commonplace. His parents would be likely to have nu sanguine hopes of his reaching the I'vesidency ; tor his head indicates latent dementia, and a slice or two from it would recommend him, without examination, to the school for the feehla-minded. Better dressed and washed aml shaved he might make a tolerable adornment to a hotel door, or even reach the dignity of a bar keeper, or an usher at a theatre. But that this fellow sheuld occupy a leaf in history and be confounded with a tragedy entering into the literature of tile world, reverses manifest destiny, and leaves neither phrenology nor physiognomy a place to stand upon. Come up Gall, spurrneim, and Lavater and remark his sallow face, attenuated by base excesses. Do you know any forehead so broad which means so little? Th.i oyster could teach this man philosophy ! Ms chin Is sharp, his eyes are blank blue, his short lack hair curls over his ears, and his beurd is of a prickly black, with n moustache Mlle!, does not help his general contemptibleness A dirty grayish shirt as ithout a linen collar is S,CII between the lapels of the greasy and dusty cloth coat, filming at the shoulders ; and under his worn brown trousers the manacle of Iron makes an ugly garter to his carpet slipper This is David Harold, who shared the will night rile of Booth, and barely escaped that outlaw's death hi the burning barn.  - he stoops to the rail of the doek now and than to chat with his attorney, and a sort of blank anxiety which he wears as his head turns here and there shifts to a frolicking smile. n woman of unusual attractions enters the court, and Harold is much more interested in her than in his acquittal. Great Omar's dust, which stepped a knot hole, has in this play-boy an Inverse parallel. Ile was at best hustler to a murderer, and failed in that. His thief concern at present Is to hove emneboily to talk to, and he thinks, upon the while, that if an assassination Is productive of so little fun, he will have nothing to do with another one. . .  ...... o, That Harold has ;lipped into history gives us as much surprise as that he has ytt to suffer death gives us almost contempt for the scaffold. But if the scaffold must wait for only wise men to get upon it, it must rot. Your wise man dots no murder in the first pLace, said, U so, in the second, he tiodgp the penalty. lii this world, Harold, idiotcy is oftener punished than rat. That Booth should have used Harold Is very naturally accounted for. Actors live only to be admired ; vanity rises to is climax in them. Booth preferred this sparrow to sing peons rather than live by an eagle and be screamed at now and thou.
The Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1865-05-20 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

WAE11•11. She complained of hie conduct, when he struck her on the face and body. Cross-exatniued : I have not been in the habit of pawning his goods, nor in the habit of hoing home drunk. I have burn living lately with my brother at Crielley. My husband did ii ow me 10, per week for a tioae, but he bribe up my home, and went to live with another girl that he has been oil with since the summons was taken out. Fur the defence Mr. Addison said he waa hard working man. Ile admitted the a-swift, but it was done in the excitement of the moment. through complainant getting druuk and pawning his clothes. The learned inagiotrate said he should remove him for one week to Stafford, so that Mr. Mills may make moptiries au to to his character, and if it was not satisfactorily li,, should surely punish him. Ass %ELT Case.—At the Petty Sessions on Thnraday, Challes 1111 l re was charged by Mary Aim Bennett, with ussaulting her, on the 29th nit. Mr. Burbury she. fended. Front the evidenoe it apueors that she was returning from Pensnett Market, between 11 and 12 o'clock at night. Defendant came up to her, and wanted t , take improper liberties with her. She refused Ilia overtuzei and went on her way home. When near High Oak, defendant came to her again, and said if she would not allow him to do what he wanted be world kill her. He tlwn struck her on the eye, which blacked it, mid several times on the bo.ly. She shouted "murder," and some persons came to her assistance. Police•comitable Storer stated that he was on duty when he met the last witness, who had been to the station to comphin of defendant's conduct. She had a black eye, and said that defendant hail struck her. He saw her on the following Monday and her rye was black then. For the defence Mr. Our. bury contended that defendant was not the right man, and called several witnesses to prove that complainant said that she hail been insulted by two big men, but there %vete such glaring discrepancies in their evidence, that the learned magistrate said that he did not believe one word they had said, and considered the CABO proved. He ordered defendant to 'my a tine of £2 and costs ; in default 21 days' hard labour. BEATING • Buy.—At the Petty Sessions on Thursday, Edward Clark ,sae charged by Thomas Williams, a little by, with having assaulted him on the 801 inst. Lavinia Clark said that defendant was beating his own little boy, whim the complainant went to see what was the matter, when he turned round and commenced to beat Williams with a stick he had in his hand. The mother of the lioy and a police °Meer proved that there were large whales on his back, and on both his arms. Defendant pleaded guilty. Fined XI, and costs £l. lls &I; in default 21 days' hard labour.  1-711ARUK Or STEALreti A
The Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1864-12-17 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

REPORTED DISCOVERY OF A MURDER COMMITTED TWENTT.SEVEN YEARS AGO —A special despatch from StrAtford (Canada) to the Hamillun Times says :  There Is great excitement here at present, In consequ.•nce Ore confession maoe by an ostler, rtlativ ,to awarder which WAS committed at a tavern near this place twenty-reven years ago. fie stir es that at i.e time sp .fled he was in the employment of the landlord and his sift, and this, one night a pedlar came there, but dleappeared shortly e'er, leavii.g his horde and effects. wh.ch were sold. The pedlar had been niurdered in the tavern, and his holy was con. ves eil to. well, and there thrown in. Since that time things have changed—the tavern has been burned, and on its situ, covering the well, la a large brick store; the landlord is deal, and the widow has tined married, and occupies a respectable position in suct.ty. The setvant girl, too—who witnessed the ward, r, and C inflict the secret to the ostler—is dead, a, it to radild not e oncost the knowledge oi the deed longer, as it prepid nJon his mind awl almost crazed his brain. lis makes a solemn effidavit to these facts; thus people it., n .t know what to believe. The affair is mysterious in the eztreme, though ninny old Inhabitants distinctly remember the disappearance of the Pedlar, lite matter will of course undergo further investige, thin.  TEE ELEVENTH CoMMLNDNENT.—" A new commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another.'—Yoh. xiii. 34. One Saturday evening a be. gar appaared at tht parsonage rif John Rutherford, in the quiet village of Anworth, Sc gland, and arked for a lodging. The minister's good wife, with Christian hospitality, bade him welcome, and invited him to a warm place headde the kitchen fire, while she, accord. ing to her Sunday evening custom, catechised her eervants. °berrying the beggar to be very attentive, the lady thought she would put a quextion to him also. S. the asked—" My friend, can you tell me how many commandments there are?"—" Eleven!" replied the stranger unhesitatingly. "level' !" exclaimed Mrs. Rutherford, chocked at his ignorance. S.) she gave him bin supper, and dismissed him to ha attic lied. On inquiring for the beggar in the morning, Mrs. Ruthford wan toli by a servant that be went away quite early. Shortly after a man arrived, who wan introduced at breakfast by Mr. Rutherford as the mini-ter aho wart to preach at Anworth that day. Mre. Rutherford bad forgotten the &cum. stances of the beggar r 4 the night before ; no, what WU her surprise, on attending church, to hear the preacher give out for hie text the worda—'• A new command. bent I give unto you, that ye love one another ;" and to open his elle:course by remarking—" mia may le called the &wrath commaudment" The beggar of Saturday night ware the preacher of Sunday. and the preacher of Sand ay Wan no less a man than Arclibishon Usher. whoa° hietorical, rel Line. and chronological works hale made him so celebrated.
The Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1864-11-26 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

LUCKY ESCAPE.—When du guerillas wade an attack on the train on the Lexington Ihilroad, on Tuesday (says a Missouri Paper.) the Bon. Montgomery Blair, who was a pasitenser, took a child from its mother's arms, stepped from the cars with the bright cherub pressed to his bosom, claimed to be the father of the rosy-checked darlinc, was very tender and ticlicitous in regard to its welfare, and played his part so well that the guerillas palued him by—the exmember of the Cabinet thus escaping capture. His lasting gratitude is due to that mother and child, and he should present the little darling with a bran-new pink dress—if nothing more.  THE EASTERN Fisagnirs.— The catches of herrings off the eastern coast of late have been on a very large scale. In two dayslast week 1,800 lasts or 23,760 000 fish were landed at Great Yarmouth. Prices hive ranged from 41. to 141. per last, averaging about 0/. per last. Lowestoft report also slates that the boats connected with that port have been prosecuting the herring voyage suoceesfully. Thus, on flay day last week 220 bate of fish were landed at I oweetoft. Details such as these give us a glimpse of the tnomems food resources of the great deep. A BRIGAND'S FALSE FRIEND - Among the many brigand stories whioh have been reported of hits, yam', the following is perhaps one of the most sangiusary. Near Aoerra, about seven miles from Naples, on the road to Rome, it appears, resided a notorious character, with his wife. They were concealed by a Eti-vd it, a sabterrarwas clismber or vault, and might bog have escaped detection hut for the price of 2,000 ducats which had been placed upon the fellow's hea I. This was too much for friendship! kW stoteotor •  few days since announced to him that he might safely appear, as the police were not near, but immediately on raisitig his bead above ground he was felled by an axe, wounded in several places with a knife, and left for dead in ditch near at hand. The friend then descended into the vault and despatched the wife ; but the brigand, though mortally wounded, was not dead and had strength enough to crawl to the station of the National Guard, where he deposed that his protector had long been his aocomplioe, receiving two thirds of the profits, and that be had murdered his °sin wife, who was buried not far distant. The man then fell dead, the friend and protector was arrested, and, instead of getting the reward, will possibly be condemned to irons for life, unless the Judge Instructors are tampered with, as it in said they sometimes are ; and this man may get off mildly, as many other atrocious villains have done during the last two or three years. VERY FRANK !—A young lady was told by a married lady that she had better precipitate herself off the Niagara Falls into the ho-in beneath than marry. The young lady replied, "I would, if I thought I could find a husband at the bottom.
The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1879-07-26 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

SATURDAY, JULY 26, 1879.  national mausoleum, another link in the invisible chain of hospitality and charity which stretches across the widest gulf of race and party and creed, would be added if over against the memorial of the Bourbon Prince of the House of Orleans were erected a memorial of the chief of the rival dynasty, who, like him had been received on our shores and died surrounded by more than like respect. There is no association in Westminster Abbey which attracts greater interest than the analagous correspondence between the tombs of Elizabeth and Mary; and if to these we add the circumstance that not far off is the grave, now, alas! rifled and undistinguished, of the ruler whom history has always compared more or less with the first Emperor of the Napoleon dynasty, it was thought that the circle of historical combinations would at least be not unsuitable,  "It had been objected that the space of the Abbey for the memorials of eminent Englishmen being so limited, no permission should be given to the commemoration of any persons not falling under that designation. No one cad feel more strongly the duty of rigidly protecting this space than he, whoever he may be, who is its appointed guardian. But the chapel in which the monument of the Prince Imperial was to be erected is altogether apart from those portions of the building that are appropriated to such interments or commemorations; and it must farther be added that there is another stream of interest in the Abbey altogether disconnected from the recollections of great men. The tombs of Princes are not merely the monuments of the members of Royal families, but they are landmarks of English and European history in a sense which has not belonged to the tombs of private individuals, however eminent. There is no comparison between the individual claims of Mary Queen of Sots and Sir Isaac Newton, or between the two Princes murdered in the Tower and those of Pitt and Fox; yet it is not too much to say that the public interest attaching to the former exceeds the interest attaching to the latter; and it was thought that such an extraordinary combination of historical associations as is presented by the death of the young Prince was not unworthy to be thus distinguished. "One word more. I have not :the honour of acquaintance with any member of the Imperial Family in France or in England. No one rejoiced more than I did in the fall of the empire at Sedan. Even should the present Government of France fail to establish itself in that country, it is to the hope of a Constitutional Monarchy that I should look, under the guidance of those Orleans Princes whom, if I may be permitted to say so, I regard with so sincere and grateful a respect. But I should have been ashamed of myself if I had allowed these predilections to interfere with the natural response to what I believed, and still believe, to have been the genuine expression of national concern in an event of singularly tragic interest, in which the spontaneous sentiments, not of England only, but of Europe combined."
The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1869-05-22 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

IIITINY AND MURDER ON THE HIGH SEAS.  The following aceortut is takee from the Nob York Tribune of IthX6t— in December, 1867, the bark Java, commanded by Captain Charles Kerrooton, left Massachusetts on a whallug voyage to tlie South Polar Sea. At Cape Vent Islands the captain added nine Portuguese sailors to his cr4w' and sailed for the Indian Ocean. The men SOW under arrest may that in visiting another ship one of the Portuguese was accidentally drowned, which o:,spleased the captain no greatly that he placed anot;or of the crew, whom he chose to hold reaponfor the death of the lost mailor, in irons fg fortv-eight hours. This conduct, and the cap,'s tilleged refusal to furnish good provisions, and the abusive conduct of the third mate, provoked the rest of the crew so much that they reeolved to revenged. A number of them armed themselves with bludgeons and firewood blocks, caught the third awe as he came from the quarter., and beat hail so unmercifully on the head that be died in a few hours. Bates, the first mate, attempted tic protect his brother dicer, but was so severely injured that his recovery is doubtful. The chief actors in this dreadful tragedy, Ifithinson, Canning, Harrison, Parker, Sefton, and 13ruice, then desetted the ship in a whaling boat al rowed direct for Thome, taking with item ; cocall anionnt of food. After beipg at es ei day; their provisions pave out, and tt ey had to work for the three followintsr? d ifs without food. Arriving at Tiouore, "fhic.t. nelonis to the Dutch and Fortnguese,thex.wel.m ;pitiable plight. Some hospitable Patch f.r_orthe discovered them bing on shore, gave them '„emporary relief, purchased their boat for 120 !Apra,. and dempatched them to Deli, the chief city of the island. On their arrival there they stated they were shipwrecked mariners but a Portuguese revenue offer, doubting their veracity, persuaded them to go to Java in a strainer. Having landed at Java they WWI arrested by order of the American consul, and placed in prison in Soro, a town in the bay of Java. Here they remained for five months, and they assert that Bruice died from ill-treatment and expiwure in damp .cells. From Soto they were transmitted to Ntavus, and put on board the Russian bark New Orleans. for conveyance to New York, on the 28th igiA November. The bark put in at Padang, in the wand of Sumatra, where the men were imprisoned firs month while the vessel was taking in cargo. The ;Top Or/tens arrived at this port yesterday, having the tuen on board in gisid health. They were sent to the Ludlow-street prison pending their trial for the murder of the first and third mates. The men have received excellent characters from their own captain, se well as front the cmptain or officer of the bark New °Ham. They are all young, and, while admitting that "two of their crowd" killed their mates, refuse to divulge the names of the murderers. They complain of the harsh treatment they received on board their vessel and while in gaol, mid seem eager to have their cane disposed of.
The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1869-10-09 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

THE STOMBRIDGE OBSERVER.  ten girls at a time are placed under a matron, with additional privileges and more liberty. If the girl's conduct here is satisfactory she is put out ti service on license, kind watchfulm se being still kept over her, The Government requires an annual report of each girl for three years after her discharge." It was encouraging to find that out of seventy girls discharged in the four years ending 180 only one had been again in prison, and sixty were maintaining themselves in respectability. Some were married. "Public opinion is chaogiug, and were it formerly was extremely difficult to place our girls out at service, there has now been for some years a greater demand for them as servants than we could supply. Again, the nature of juvenile crime is changed; at the beginning of the re. forniatory work we frequently had girls who had been four, live, or even eight times in prison, and thus became hanienrd with punishment. It is now, however, rare to have a girl sent on even second conviction."  reports, those sketches of war as it in reality is, did they not excite the public conscience against that system of murdering us mane, and contribute more efficiently to make war unpopular than all the special pleading of philanthropists and all the speeches delivered at Peace Congresses? But more especially valuable is the press in the divulging of crime. The intervention of the press, by calling the attention of a population to a fact, and informing it day by day and hour by hour of the slightest circumstance of a crime the repression of which is matter of public interest, transforms itself into an auxiliary of justice. At the same time, it stimulates the zeal of all functionaries and agents commissioned to protect the persons and the property of the public, and makes it for them a point of honour to capture the criminal, and, in case of their failure, it calls the attention of the public to the inefficiency of the judicial machinery and the necessity of improving it.  _ importance of united effort to improve their position. While able and willing friends assisted in the movement the Bishop conducted an immense correspondence. using all the influence of his character and position, and pressing the claims lie had at heart with unwearied zesl and marked success. By the joint action of this iciety. under his guidance, and lay benevoience' and of the Ecclesiastical Commission (meeting grants from the Common Fund, or settling " local claims"). 46 incumbencies were raised from stipends ranging from £4O to £l5O per annum to stipends ranging from EtiSt to £230 per annum ' • 40 parsonages were built, 18 churches were erected, and 28 churches rebuilt, restored and enlarged—no slight work to be successfully lerfornted wfthin nine years. Dr. Walatigrave was a strong supporter of the Church, and was equally opposed to the views of the ultra' Ritualistic and ultra-Rationalistic parties. The see yields an income of £4,500 a year.
The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1869-05-01 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

FATAL ACCIDENT AND INQUEST.—On Wanescomfort. M taufectures there are none, and the day last a fatal accident occurred to a man coal mines lieve been closed beesueo of inseca- named Isaiah Brooks (48), employed by Mr. rity." This was penned twenty-three yeers age, Stafford at time New Farm Colliery, residing at and it is sad to think that much of it remake Statuber Mill. under the following eircumstane true to this day. Tuis is too p Li, fail y preyed eit appears that in the morning between by the narrative of the assassination, a few days five and six o'clock deceased went to the pit ago, of a landlord tuel magistrate in the sa-c L bank to work, and being seized with giddiness, county which, when Mr. Foster wrote, had a bad fell headlong down the shaft, a dietance of about pre-eminence for agrarian murders. Mr. W. J. thirty yards. A man named Chance, who was Bradshaw, of Coppawhite, near the town of Tip- at work down the pit, hearing a noise, turned perary, was found murdered under horrible cur- round, and saw deceased lying with his head cumstances. It ia said that he was not enly buried in the slack, and his face mangled in a shot, but his skull was beaten in and his throat frightful manner. He obtained assistance, and cut. A rep meter who chronieleg the appetite,/ I, got the deceesed to the bank, and then took him deed says: "He was an inoffensive man, and at honme. Mr. Bnyley, surgeon, was sent for, and though obliged recently to bring ejectmente .011 arriviug found the deceased in an insensible against some of his tenants, he subsequently state, and dying. On making an examination, withdrew them, and in one instance forgave two found a frightful wound five or six inches long years' rent. The deem-teed owned a large tract and three inches deep over the right eye, and ex. of land. This is the eighth murder in Tippe- tending to the end of the nose, which was slit : rary since August last for which not a single up. His right ammo was broken, and his right I person has been apprehended." ancle dislocated. Mr. Bayley remained with him Now we do not desire to offer any comments about an hour, when he gradually sank, and withon them particular csse, sincerely hoping that all out regaining consciousness, expired. An inthe facts connected with it may ere lone be on- quest was held on the body at the Rose and ravelled. But we cannot forget that as far as is Crown, Stamber Mill, before R. Docker, Esq., known at present, this murder is a type of a Coroner; and after hearing the above facts, the class; it is to be feared that it is an agrarian jury returned a verdict that deceased ,cauae to I murder, like too many other murders in Tippe- his death by falling down a pit. nary. But the fact mentioned, that this is the