The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1878-09-14 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

MEETING OF COLLIER3.—A. meeting Of miners was heal irs tue se:mot liotin, Mour Lam, Brierley Hill, on the 6th iust. Mr. Cordei was in the chair. Alter some discussion, a reso.ution wai passed to the effect that a better orgaaisatiou amo,,g the men was necessary, because tu,t, was the only safe and legitimate insaus by which the condition of the colliers could be improved.— Mr. Crething and Mr. Watts (agents) having addressed the meeting, the question of joining an association Was deferred. ..suitious CHARGE OF UYLAWNULLY WOUNDING .kt the Pollee Court, on Monday, before Messrs. H. Hall and H. Smith, William Underhill, of No. 11, Tackeroo, Moor Lane, Brierley Hill, was charged that he did unlawfully and maliciously wound one Christiana Underhill and did inflict upon her certain grievous bodily harm with a certain weapon called a knife contrary to the statute in such ease made and provided.—Christi Ana Uuderhill said she was the wife of the prisoner and lived at No. 11, Tackeroo, Moor Lane, Efrierley Hill. On Friday mornibg, the 6th September, prosecutrix and prisoner were coming up Moor Lane. When near Mr. Drinkwater Cole's house prisoner said •• VI here are we ? " Prisoner WAS blind. He caught aold of pro,eoutrix round the neck and threw her on he ground. she saw a knife in his hand. He tried to stick it in her. He pcarred her face. Ho held the blade down hill towards her face. Prosecutrix tried to get the knite from him and in dOilig so her hand was cut. The knife produced was the one prisoner used. She called out " Murder." Someone came to her assistance.— William Male, coal dealer, Wordsley, said on Friday last the 6th of September he was coming up Moor Lane. When near Mr. Cole's house he heard a woman crying Murder." Witness saw the prosecutria down on the ground and the prisoner on her. Witness said " Are you going to kill the woman? " He got up. She ran to witness arid sail " Where am I to go, what am I to ?" There was blood upon her hand and face. Wituess did not see a knife —Joseph Male son of the last witness, Baia on Friday last the 6th of September lie was with his father in Moor Lane. Witness saw Christiana Underhill and the prisoner on the ground. 'J'he prisoner was uppermost. He had a knife in his hand. It was open.—John Perry, coachman to Mr. Cole, said on the 6th of September witness heard " Murder " shouted in Moor Lane near Mr. Cole's house. Witness saW Christiana Underhill and prisoner. The woman's face and hand were bleeding. She said in the hearing of the prisoner " My husband has been trying to cat my throat in the road." In coming up the road prisoner said • be the death of yon."--Police-constable Hollins, Aationed at Brierley dill, said from information received he apprehended prisoner on the 6th September, Witness charged him with attempting to murder his wife in Moor Lane with a knife. Prisoner said " Very well, I hope I have not hurt her, I love her too well to hurt her." Prisoner's hands were covered with blood. Triers was a cut on prosecutrix's face from the neck across the cheek. The right hand was cut between the thumb and finger —Police-sergeant Smith, stationed at !frierley Hill, said on th, 6th of September he searched the ground near Mr. col' 's house for a knife. Witness aoticed where a struggle had taken place in the road. WARM SOW QC bmilo praclund viitlzia a yar,d ol the