The Warwickshire Herald. — 1890-04-24 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

SOLIHULL) POLICE COURT.  SATuRDAY,—Before Meesra. (:,  Everi tt R . •  Ilameden, and J. H. Kimbell.  THE BIRCH. —Two boys--Thoma. Dossett end Henry Stone—were found guilty ol stealine a couple of chickens from the Hay Hall Farm, H Mills, on Thursday. They were seen to take the chickens from the fordrough during the forenoon, but when chased by a labourer they droppad the chickens in the bottom of a he-lge. The Bench ordered that esch of the boys ehould receive six strokes with the birch rod as punishment for their ollence.—Herbert Henry Andiarton and Frederick Eilkin, two boys of similar lig were also ordered to be birched for stealing a chicken from SparkLill.  HE TOOK No HEED OF THE AVARNINO. —Henry Palmer and Thomas Rolbison, both disreputablelooking men, with previous convictions against them, were chargad with stealing :kw,. of 6erap iron which some contractors to the Gas Department of the Birmingham Corporation had temporarily stored in a shed on Mr. Mansfield's farm in Stockfield-road. The Inca were seen on the Bth April, taking the iron away in a handcart, and when questioned by a policeman they said they had authority to take it. The officer did not believe their statement, and arrested Rollason on the spot, but tho other man got away. When subsequently Palmer was arrested in Birmingham he said he had been warned in the morning that Rollason would get him into trouble. Neither of the men made any defence, and they were sent to gaol for two months each. BIRMIScHAM ROUtihS IN TUE COCNTRY. —Four Birmingham roughs, William Edward Leyland, Joseph May, Alfred Payne, and Arthur Smith were out at Alliesley last Saturday week, and engaged in rowdyism which caused them to appear in the Police Court on Saturday, charged with breaking the windows in the houses of three residents of Billes'ey, and also with assaulting William Allen in Haunch-lane. According to what was stated by the prosecutors they were throwing stones in a reckless manner, some of which went through the neighbouring house windows, awl then, when chased, they stoned Allen and knocked him down, ! but they were subsequently captured by several of the residents. Laylaud, May and Payne all bkoned Smith for what had occurred.—Superintendent Yardley told the magistrates that the visits of the Birmingham roughs to the suburb= on Saturday and Sunday were generally characterisc.l by this sort of proceeding, and people in those parts were considerably alarmed thereby. All four lads were fined 10s. and costs for each of 1 the acts of breaking windows, with alternative's of a month's imprisonment enelt, and a eleh for assaulting Allen.  ; SUPPOSED SUICIDE UN THE RAILWAY. r On Sunday evening Mr. David Robertson Hunt, • a gontleman reeling with hismother,in Wheeley'sroad, Edgbaston, was knocked ilnwn and killed ' on the railway, near Solihull, by the London train, which leavea Birmingham at ten minutes past fie; !aol the general impression is that Mr. Hunt committed suicide. It appears that the deceased was knocked down about four hundred yards from Solihull Station, on the Knowle side, and the driver of the train on meeting the church train, ! which leaves Knowle at half-past five. signalled to ! the driver what had occurred. The d t iver according,ly stopped his train, and the guard and Mr. Larkhrm, the station-master at Snow Hill Station, ! who was n passenger, form 1 the deeeneed lying on the up-line. He was :diva at the time, but unconscious, and they placed him in the guard's van for the purpose of bringing him to the “eneral Hospital at Birmingham. On arriving at Solihull Station a telegram was despatched to Snow Hill for the services of a doctor, but before reaching Birmingham Mr. Hunt had died. Upon the body were found the deceased's watch, a small sum of money, and some business letters. The overcoat and walking-stick belonging to the deceased were found lying uninjured on the embankment. Mr. Hunt was a single man, and the son of the late Dr. Hunt, at one time honorary physician at the Oneen's Hospital. He was about thirty years of age, and had been employed .ts chief clerk at Mr. Holder's brewery about eight years. 

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