The South Staffordshire Examiner. — 1874-09-12 (Wednesbury, West Midlands, England)

INU AT THE FUNERAL—The burial of Mrs. Sadler, audio order to supply these two new houses with water who last week coner'tted enicide under the cinumstaneee he took e pipe which was formerly inside his brewhouse already reported, took place on Saturday, and was made and placed it outside. He was asked to sign an order the occasion of an extraordinary popular demonstration to have the.; houses supplied by met t, but he declined. of feeling, mainly directed meanest the hreband of the and wFen the alteration was pointed out to him by the deceased. Some hundreds of persons—men, women, turacock, defendant said be did not know that he was and children—gathered round his house, the White doing wrong—The defendant was fined 40s. and the Hart, Caldmore, most of them being dwellers in the coats, or in default two months imprisonmeat. neighbourhood, end excitedly eiscuseed the incidents of STEALING Arenas.—At the same Court, three boys, the married file of the hapless woman, the circumstance. named Alfred Clever, John Boyd, and John Hobert, of the suicide, and the conatt.t of the inquest, in no were brought up :n custody charged with the above friendly spirit towards any one of those concerned, ex- offence.—James Dark, St. Mary's Cottage, Harborne, cepting the deceased herself. As to the enquiry, it was stated that the previous afternoon six boys entered his declared to have been incomplete, or worse, and the jury garden, stole a number of apples, and damaged & celery to have failed in duty, inasmuch as they had not ixisisted bed. The three prisonevi were caught. They were upon an adjoummeict for the production of further evi- each fined de. 61, Is. the damage, and the costs. • dence. The coroner and the officers concerned iugettiug -up the evidence crime in for a good share of the eitnpes rations so freely dispensed, and the cries and threats of violence toe-aids the bereaved husband were of such a character that. acting upon advice, he judiciously refrained from following his wife's remains to their last restina place. Finding that he did not take his place with the other mourners, the crowd rathed off to the cemetery by a short cut, not a few evidently expecting to find that Mr. Sadler had proceeded thither alone, and by another route than that taken by the funeral cortege ; but on aecrrtaining that such was not the cam. many of the men left at once, mime openly and audibly regretting that, after all, there was to be " tio fun." The women remained ha crowde, and into eves., willing ear vindicated her character from reproach. The burial service was read by the Tier. W. Allen, vicar, who efterwerds addresised a few words of advice to the assembled throng. He referred to the account of the (Im:used's death as unmistakably showing the deceitfulness of sin, and the danger of people being led into great sins if they gave way in little things. V, there. fore, nay of them were given to drink, be begged them to abandon it at over. The reference to drink being vvitl.-ntly regarded as a reflection neon the deceased, it elicite•l a murmur of reinonetranee from many of the women, Two of the deceased's female relatives walked behind the hearse containing the coffin, and after them came a mouthing coach, containing her huebrind's father, and some of her own children. A wreath of dowers lay upon the coffin.