The Potteries Examiner : — 1879-07-05 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

SHELTON RECTORY. loudly whether false figures were to be On Tuesday morning, at the Hanley Borough brought before the Council and suffered to pass Police Court, before Messrs. B. Boothroyd, J. without explanation. —These remarks Mr. Rein. Stephenson, and T. Pidduek, John 'Whittingham, mersley strongly resented, and seid he was not the young man who has been before the Court on in the habit of 'Tinging false figures before the several charges of burglary. was charged with Council, and informed Mr. Br:afore' that lie knew stealing a purse containing £1 ths. and a two. nothing about figures.—Daring the course of the franc piece from Shelton Rectory, the property of further discussion, Mr. Emery said there Wad the Rev. E. D. 13oothman, rector of Shelton.— evidently an organisation in FOllle parts of the Mr. Booth man, in his evidence, stated that the town, and amongst a certain class it was a hoot grandmother of the prisoner occupied the that they had threatened to murder the polies gardener's cottage in the rectory ground, and officers if they interfered with their driniken was a privileged person at the rectory, and had revels and orgies. Even women had been heard frequently taken charge of the house in the as they took up brick-bats, to declare that they absence of Mr. and Mrs. Boothman. During the would smash the heads of the d s (messing last two or three years the prisoner Ins lived the officers) if they e ime near them, and he (Br. with her. On the 30th December he hadoccasion to Emery) therefore thought there was a great go to Wolstauton, and in his bedroom before start necessity for the lighting of the lamps in SIMONE high° delta pursecontaining.6llBs.andatwo-frane , at dark as well as in winter.—Upon being put the piece. Next morning he missed this purse and its 1 resolution was =tied by a large majority, and contents. He had not seen it since that time till ' the minutes, of the committee in favour of the a few clays ago, when Inspector Vickers showed lighting of the streets during the present month it to him.—Seeplien Wilcox, potter, stated that were adopted. he worked with the prisoner, and about the 27th The minutes of the Joint Board with reference . of May he (witness) purchased a French coin to the Contagious Diseases Hospital were reed, ' from hitn for is. He asked the prisoner where in which the following resolutions formed the begot it from, and he said his grandmother, who chief feature: . That this Ileard purchase from had a collection of old coins, gave it to him. the Stoke Rural Sanitary Authority the piece of Witness handed the coin to Inspector Vickers land purchased by them for the purposes of a about a fortnight ago—The prisoner here said he Contagious Diseases Hospital, and that the Clerk sold witness a coin like the one produced, 'oat it be instructed to complete the purchase as earlyas was not the same, inasmuch as the one he sold possible.'—Mr. Alderman Boothroyd, in moving had abed ring, but the one produced appeared to the adoption of the report, by which the Corpora. be a good sounding one—At this point the Chief tion of Hanley join Stoke and Fenton in the Constable asked for a remand, which was granted. erection of the hospital, gave an outline of the —Prisoner was then charged with stealing a gold business done at the recent conference of locket and chain' from the Shelton Rectory, the the Joint Board, and referred to later' property of Mrs. Neville, a visitor at the rectory, that had been received from Mr. Heaton, the two being of the vaiue of Ose.—Mes. Neville, solicitor, respecting reference to the 10" wife of the Bishon of Duneadin, gave evidence, acres of land at Beamed, which pointed showing that in the latter end of October, she and out that the lend was laid out for working men's the Bishop were on a visit at the Shelton Rectory, dwellings, and that some portion of it had bete The day after they arrived the locket and chain kerbed and channeled at a cost of something produced were taken from her jewellery Caso. like ,£