The Atherstone Times. — 1879-01-25 (Atherstone, Warwickshire, England)

JANUARY 25, 1879.  The tthoere meat at the tohool•room every secoud Sunday evening ttrousbout the year, from six to keven o'clock, for the purpot.e of enrolling members, I and transact ng the business of the ecciety, where copies of the rules may be had. Children are admitted into this society from two years and upwards  annoying him, and calling him vile names. and cm the 9th inst., shortly before eleven o'clock, he broke the window by the side of the complainant's back door, made use of very bad language towards ' c•mplainant, and said he would murder him when he got the chance. Defendant was frequently threatening him, and he was afraid he would do him some bodily harm.—Defendant said there was nothing right in what complainant had said : he was the party who was in danger of his lif... It was complainant who had done all the swearing. He) had oever done anything to him except chaffing him a little trough the window—The coin 1 plainant swore he was in bodily fear, and the llench ordered the defendant to enter int.) his own recog nisances in £l.O and find one surety in i:5, to keep the peace for three months.  will not be allowed for that day ; the secretary must make out a visiting 1114, and take it to the o,munittee•man whose turn it is to visit the sick member or members, together with the book for signature of the committee, on the same day, or forfeit 6d., and the senior steward shall pay the money due on Saturday, b4ora five o'clock in the evening, or forfeit Is., the certificate ha be renewed and sent to  the steward every Saturday evening, or the payment be diecontinued. Any member wishing to declare off the funds shall give notice to the Secretary."— Mr. Twist asked whether the feet could be established as to whether the certificate had been supplied.—ln answer to Mr. Wilke, the complainant said be had supplied a certificate every week until his brother was suspended from benefit. —The complainant was examined and crossrxemined at considerable length. He said he was not aware that hie brother was in arrears, and wl en he saw the figures he took them to be is. 11d. Iu further fxamitiation he stated that he had caused a medical certificate to be sent to the Lodge regularly until the pay was stopped. On several occasions he had taken the certificate to the Secretary's house, but it was in coneermence of arrangements with the Secretary himaelf that the certificates were taken to him —The Bench retnerked that according to the rule 8. the Secretary ha) no right to reeeive, the certificates without the knowledge of the steward.— After constderable discussion, Mr. Htincox, the secretary to the Lodge, was put into the witness box. Fie said th-re was no arrangement between the complainant and himself that he was to r ,ceive the certificates instead of the steward. No certificate had been soot on the '2lst December, nor between that date rata the 28th.—In answer to the Bench, witness said that the certificates which were brentzht to him ought to have gone to the steward. He had acted on behalf of the steward when he was busy or out of town. Witness received the certificates from the complainant with the full knowledge that he was acting illegally.—The Bench said it was their opinion that there had been great laxity on the part of the society, and the be-t thing to do would be to try to effect a private arrangement, without the Bench being called upon to decide at all. —Th anggestion was tier& d to and after a sh rt absence the parties returned into Court, and announced that they had come to an arrangement, by which each per y was to ray his own attorney. the costs of the Court were to be divided, and the sick pay to go on attain from that time.—The case was therefore dismissed.