The Cannock Chase Examiner. — 1875-04-17 (Cannock, Staffordshire, England)

DISMISSAL OF THE ACCUSED. was £sl2.ooo—about £64,200 more stood over to I four men, and he felt sorry that at the last meeting to the estimated expenditure of the Trade Council, at Willenhall, sarcastic remark's John Davis, 45 years of age, was brought up Pori' ;cf. Coming I had been thrown out. The work had been done ' yesterday, before Captain Goold, and the Rev. C. year there would be an increase. The 1 without a single farthing of recompense, and he was E. Dighton, at the Little Dian Police Court, estimate for the army would be £14,687,000 ; for the army purchase commission. £638000; for the navy, sorry that the Fitting Makers' Society, which ap- charged on the statement of his wife and sontia. £10.785.000 : for the civil service, £12,656,000: for the Peered to be the most agrieved, was not then repro- law, with the murder of a gamekeeper, of Meade Post Office, £3.936,000: for the collection of customs I seated so that they might be brought to book and near Shrewsbury, 25 years ago. Prisoner was and excise revenue, £2,694,000; for collection of I hear both sides of question—hear, hear)—end he placed in the dock with his wife, who, under a revenue for telegraph service, £876,000. making • did not think that it spoke well as to their having warrant, had been apprehended on a charge of an estimated total expenditure of £75.266,000 the interest of the association at heart as they were threatening to kill the first named prisoner. for the year. From what he had stated to • absent. Sergeant Tanner widreissed the justices, stated the committee there were Causes for prudence. 1 Mr. Keating said he should not like to see tine that on the Bth of February Mrs. Davis obtained They had not yet seen a revival of trade, and at 1 association wound up. t warrant against her husband for assaulting and any rate it would not be wise to treat the revenue as I though it would show any marked advance—(hear, After a few remarks by Mr. Hyk.in. g, and funds , di • to the best . * emission SS means of raising the tunds 'beating her, but upon appearing in court , she said the fault was hers, and she was hear). This being leap-year. and there being no holidays at Easter and Good Friday, they might still look to meet contingencies, ' i therefore released. On the sth of April 1 upon it as a favourable year—laughter). He had The Chairman said the money which the societies ' Davis had his wife apprehended under a gone through, very easefully, the estimates he inten- had invested had been an actual saving to them, warrant, he having alleged that his wife took a ded to submit to the House, and they might be lemon- Before the association started they had been collect- knife with which she threatened to cut his tea as being neither too cautious nor too sanguine. ing money for the men, and those collections had throat. Mrs. Davis stated to him that her has. He estimated the revenue of the Customs at £19,500,000 ; the Excise at £27,800.000 ; been given witfiout any consideration being expected. Now, they had given liberally to the support near Shrewsbur t f having killed a y on account o i the Stamps at £10,600.000 ; and the Land ' band had told her that he left his native village of the men connected with the Wednesbury tube gamekeeper in a poaching affray some years Tax and House Duty at 12,450,000. The next was the Income Tax, which had been growing very steadily, trade lock-out, and that was given upon the same ago. A son of Mrs. Davis, named Bennett. There had been a steady rise in the value of the penny principle, but became they were not receiving a 'likewise stated to him (the officer) that he had from £1.286,000 in 18e3 and 1864 to upwards of large dividend upon the money that they had ins-es- heard his father-in-law repeatedly say that why £1,900.000 in best year. He estimated that the Income trifin the association, there were some men who up- he left his native place was that he was poaching - Tax would yield this year, at 2d. in the pound, peered to be greatly dissatisfied, in a wood when a keeper came up to him and £3,900.000; the Post Office would yield £5.750,000, Mr. Robinson, one of the managing committee, attempted to arrest him, when he (Davis) at £4.100,000 That gave a total revenue of explained, at some length, the want of interest in knocked him down, be him with his min on