The Kenilworth Advertiser. — 1880-07-10 (Kenilworth, Warwickshire, England)

COLESHILL.—Pa trick Crequein, an Irish labourer, was brought up in custody, charged by Sergt. Walker with being drunk and disorderly in High-street, Coleshill, on July 4th, Coleshill Wake Sunday.—P.S. Millership said he was on duty in Coleshill about five o'clock on Sunday afternoon last, near the town pump. Prisoner and several other Irishmen were there, using bad language, and he heard defendant say what he would do to the Birmingham fellows. He asked him to go home quietly, but he refused, and about six he went to the "Green Man" yard and made a disturbance among the cab-drivers there. They called for the police, and he went and found him in a fighting attitude, and took him to the Police Station and locked him up in consequence of his riotous conduct. He was taken before Major Dilke on Monday and remanded till these Sessions.—Prisoner pleaded piteously that he was "savagely bateu by they Brummagem chaps and kicked aboot the' ead," and be was only trying to defend himself. He had walked a good way and had little to eat, but too much to drink apparently. He was before this Court about six years ago, but only for "looking on " at his mates who were quarrelling. The constable said there were about a dozen Irishmen together making a great noise on Sunday, and the Bench said the publicans of the town were to blame in giving these men Bo much to drink. They instructed Supt. Yardley to caution the landlord of the" Green Man" Inn on this matter.—Gequein was told he was liable to a penalty of 405., or to be imprisoned. His offence was aggravated by going to the " Green Man" tap to quarrel with those there, instead of taking the constable's advice and getting off home; but hoping it would serve as a warning, he would be fined 2s. 6d. only, and 13s. 6d. costa (165.), which was raised among his fellow countrymen, and he was discharged.  Three men were killled and several injured by an explosion which occurrrd on Wednesday at the Cam n Goch Colliery, near Swansea. The Rev. Joseph Wood, the chairman of the Leicester School Board, was presented on Tuesday afternoon, at an "at home," given by the Mayor, with an illuminated address, a purse and £550, and other gifts, in recognition of the great services he kad rendared to the cause of education in Leicester during the six years he had been chairman of the School Board. The Mayor of Leicester visited Coalville un Thursday in order to endeavour to bring the strike to a close, but without immediate success. It is thought, however, that the men cannot hold out much longer, and they will within the next few days be compelled to accept the reduction of 5 per cent. Meanwhile the district is quiet. At an adjourned inquest upon the body of Sarah Roper (24), single woman, Livery-street, Birmingham, on Wednesday, the jury returned a verdict to the effect that deceased died from blood poisoning in consequence of the use of an instrument for procuring abortion, the operation having been performed by an unqualified practitioner named Haywood. The Coroner said this was a verdict of "Wilful murder," and Haywood was then committed for trial at Warwick. On Monday the third of a series of trade exhibitions was opened at the Agricultural Hall, which is occupied with machinery and materials used by printers, motive-power engines, and collections of artistic and other productions of the printer's art. The Lord Mayor of Dublin is among the exhibitors. At the Old Bailey on Wednesday, John Key. blacksmith, was tried for murdering his wife by striking her with a fiat-iron, at Bethnal Green. The jury found prisoner guilty, but strongly recommended him to mercy. Mr. Justice Hawkins passed aentence of death, promising to forward the recommendation to the proper quarter.