The Potteries Examiner : — 1873-01-18 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

DAY. (Wore W. M. Meigh and W. Brownfield, Eoqs.l  SENDING a 800 Up A Fuca—John Thornhill, chimney sweep, New-street, Ilanley,was summoned under the 3rd and 4th Vict., chap. 85, for having knowingly permitted a boy to cobra line for the purpose of cleansing it. Mr. E. Tennant appeared for the complainant, an officir of the Society for the suppression of •• Climbing Boys ," and Mr. Richardson for the defeuce.—Mr. Tennant, in opening the ease, explained that at the Ivy House Colliery, Hanley, there were three horizontal boilers, which had fires immediately underneath them. For the purpose of ventilation and to create a draught, there are flues, which are called smoke fines, and which are very small, Di inches across, by 21 inches. The flues often require cleaning. and he would prove that on ! Sunday, the Ist December, the defendaut sent a boy for that : purpose up one of them.—Johu Scott, chimney.sweoper, Palt Mall, stated that on the day in question he saw the ! defendant and. youth named George Kelsall at the colliery. The latter went into the flue under the boiler. He had his j,acket off, a handkerchief over his month, and a scraper in his hand. He saw him about a yard and a half from the mouth of the flue, drawing out the dust. He was in the flue two hours to his knowledge. The defendant wag there, superintending the cleaning of the thm.—Other witnesson gave similar ovidence.—George Kelsall said he was 17 years ' of age, and was no apprentice to Mr. Thornhill. He was at the colliery on the Ist December, and was engaged in taking away the bars from the firehole. He positively denied going ! op the flue. In answer to Mr. Tennant, he also stated that he was in the eng.ine-honse two hours after he had done his I work. The engine was going, but the enginemau was not ! present during the two hears—Mr. Richardson said the ! prosecution was a malicious one on the part of the corn- ! plainaut, who was a rival chimney-sweeper. He contended I that the charge had not been established, and asked the ! beach to dismiss the CMe. He called several witness., who I denied the statements of Scott nod the other persons who ! gave evidence for the complaint.—The magistrates considered that the youth was not to la believed, and ailjourued the case for a week, for the attendance of the engineman, in order Intent the accuracy of the statement with regard to the engine. AN Airman, To CONVIT Sulcina—Mary Ann Jackson was charged with having attempted to commit suicide..—lt wan stated that the defendant, an elderly woman, lived with a persou named Mellor, at High.street, Bneslem, and, on Suuday afternoon, a boy, who lodges in the same house, found her in the pantry, with a cloth twisted tightly round her throat. She was lying on the floor, and was quite black in the face. The boy unfastened the cloth, and the defendant gradually recovered. It was stated that the woman was addicted to driuk, and, in fact, was drutilz at th,-, she committed the rash attempt at self-destruction. Esc:B.M Jeremiah Dutifield was charged with vagrancy. it was stated that the defendant had been found sleeping in the tunnel of the loop line, at Cobridge, by the side of a large fire. Messrs. Pickering, the coutrmtors, have lost a great deal of coal in this way, and their coustable, ou finding the defendant as described, took him Into castody. He WM sent to prison for 21 days.— Thomas Evans was charged with vagrancy at Tunstall. He was found sleeping on MCARrtil. Peahen brickworks, at Brownhills, on Sunday MOrilirig, and was taken into custody. Mn, was emit to prison for 21 days.—Thos. Clarke and Henry Bentley. who had been found sleeping ion shed at Mr. Watkins brickworks, Burslem, were sent to prison for se,in days eachas vagrants. ' 3  DISORDERLY Concurs—Edward Ford, potter, was charged with having been disorderly at Tunstall, and also with assaulting P.C. Potts. The officer stated that on Saturday night he heard the defendant making a great uoka in Smithstreet, Tunstall, and, as he refused to desist, took him into enstody. Defendant then became very violent, and struck him (witnrsol seveml times, one blow catching him in the fare. Defendant was fined 200. and oosts.—Peter Parry and Hugh Roberts were charged with being disorderly at Tunstall, and with wilfully damaging a door belonging to Noah Cartlidge, butcher. On Saturday night, a little before twelve o'clock, the defendants, with other young men, were causing a great disturbance near Mr. Cartlid,e's shop, and they wilfully burst open his shop door.--They were tined 10s., with 20. damage, and las, costs ouch. Pimisrrnito