The Kington Times - October 1917
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Kington Times 6th October 1917 - Page 6
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| Date | 06/10/1917 |
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| Type | Newspaper |
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| Language | English |
| Area | Kington Times |
| Collection Holder | Herefordshire Libraries |
| Date of Publication | 6th October 1917 |
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4 LEOMINSTER COUNTY COURT . DISPUTE OVER AN UNSIGNED CHEQUE . YARPOLE FARMER SUED FOR RENT . CASE SETTLED OUT OF COURT . At Leominster County Court on Monday . be fore his Honour Judge A. A. Tobin , K.C. Isaiah Brunt , Church House , Yarpole , farmer , was sued by the executors of the late Fred- THE KINGTON TIMES . OCTOBER 6 , 1917 . 1916 , the tenant at Black Hall farm was changed . She did not remember Mr. Brunt coming to the house at Hereford in September . This closed the plaintiffs ' case . DEFENDANT'S EVIDENCE . man named Oakley . The end of it was that judgment was given for £ 9 , each party to pay their own costs , and Judge Harris Lea said that a judgment summons should be taken in the Court of the defendant at Newport . He felt that the defendant had rather hard lines Isaiah Brunt , Church House , Yarpole , stated and charged him a nominal fee of £ 4 and £ 2 5s . payments out of pocket . This was in that he had purchased the farm from the ex- ecutors of Mr. Pembridge , under whose family 1912. The account had been in several times LEOMINSTER COUNTY POLICE COURT . Friday , before Mr. T. D. Burlton ( in the chair ) , Alderman H. F. Russell , Mr. T. Neild , Major Chambers , Colonel T. W. Davidson . JURY LISTS . he was tenant for 20 years . Mr. Pembridge since . The defendant in the action paid 15. the division presented the Jury lists , which came to Leominster every May and November and he credited Mr. Lewis with this . He The Overseers for the various parishes in were all in order and duly signed . Excuse several parishes and approved . erick Pembridge for £ 61 balance of rent due to receive the rents at a rent audit dinner . subsequently paid him £ 3 and that was all he lists in respect of rates were also presented for in May , 1916 . He ( defendant ) had carried out the repairs for the last eight or nine years and it was an Mr. A. H. Wadsworth ( Hereford ) was for the plaintiff and Mr. T. A. Matthews ( Here - arrangement at each audit as to what allow- ance his landlord would make for repairs ford ) defended . full amount . He remembered paying the rent Deceased used to give him a receipt for the due on February 2nd , 1916 , at the audit on May 12th at the Talbot Hotel . The income tax had increased rather alarmingly and when he produced the receipts Mr. Pembridge said at first he would not allow it . He had vari- ous other bills with him which he wanted allowed , but when he saw deceased was an- noxed about the income tax he paid them him- self to oblige deceased . He hoped to get al- lowed them out of the next rent . He gave for £ 82 12s . , and he ( defendant ) handed him a him the income tax receipt and got a receipt cheque for £ 61 12s . He also handed deceased four bills . He did not know what they were . but they were for repairs . Deceased kept two of them and gave him the others back . He could not say whether the cheque was not signed . If it was not it was a mistake . Some time afterwards he saw the deceased in Leo minster . He wanted to see him about the change of tenancy at Black Hall Farm . Mr. Clee was the outgoing tenant . He had been approached by some , one with a view to Mr. Nicholls being accepted as tenant . After talk- ing to Mr. Pembridge they went to the bar of Mr. Clee and Mr. They had a drink Mr. Wadsworth said the plaintiffs in the case were Mrs. Sarah Riley , 78 , Chandos Street , Hereford , and Mr. F. E. James , soli- citor , Hereford , executors under the will of the late Mr. F. Pembridge , of 78 , Chandos Street , Hereford . Mr. Pembridge died on March 14th , 1917 , and his will was proved on September 11th , 1917. Deceased was the owner of considerable farm property , amongst the farms being Church House , Yarpole , near Len minster , which was let to the defendant , Mr. Isaiah Brunt , at a rent of £ 165 4s . per year . It was the custom of the late Mr. F. Pem- bridge to hold rent audits . The rents were payable on February 2nd and August 2nd and he held audits in May and November . May 12th , 1916 , Mr. Pembridge held his Feb- ruary , 1916 , rent audit . The defendant gave him a cheque for £ 61 in settlement of £ 82 12s 6d . , defendant having paid the property tax , £ 21 12s . 6d . That cheque of the defendant's was never cashed by the deceased , his instruc- tions being that it was not signed at the time it was handed over . Apparently this was not noticed either by the defendant or the deceased and the receipt was handed over . They ad- mitted the receipt was given and he believed that it was admitted by the defendant that the cheque was never cashed . Mr. Matthews : That is so . On Mr. Wadsworth said that Mrs. Riley was deceased's daughter and she saw the unsigned cheque after the May audit . In consequence . of instructions arrangements were made to sell the real estate belonging to the deceased and the Black Swan Hotel . Nicholls were also there . at the bar , and while they were there the conversation turned on the subject of money . had not been cashed . He had no idea at that time that his cheque When had ever paid . Defendant said he met Mr. Levick in Corn Square and told him about a bit of money he wished to recover and said he would not mind it on . going to £ 2 . Mr. Levick said he would take The man was ordered to pay 78. a month . Mr. Levick never let him know any- thing for three years and now , he sent him a bill for £ 6 5s . Judgment for plaintiff with costs . FARMER'S CLAIM AGAINST WORK PEOPLE . Rees George Jackson , Court Farm , Kimbol- ton , sued Thomas Salter for 12s . He stated that this represented wages paid in advance . He gave 2s . 6d . to Mrs. Salter and 12s . to the husband . Salter paid him off 1s . on July 7th . The money was paid on condition that they came and worked at haymaking . They came and worked two days , for which they were paid s . , 2s . 6d . for the woman and 4s . for the man . Mrs. Salter denied that the money was ow- ing . The money paid in June was for work they had done . His Honour ( to plaintiff ) : Why did you ad vance them moeny ? -Because they were hard up . Mrs. Salter denied this . The case was dismissed , the Judge remark ing that plaintiff had not made his case clear RAID HERO OF 15 . KILLED AT THE DOOR AFTER HELPING OTHERS . Inquests on several victims of last week's raids were held in London on Saturday . A pathetic story of a boy's death was told in one court . James Frederick Sharpe , aged 15 , called his mother on Monday night , say- " Mum , come down . They're here . " He went upstairs , helped dress the children , and carried them to a cellar across the road . One of the youngsters was crying and he went to buy them some sweets . On his re- turn he said " Grandfather has put out the light . Stop here , mum , I won't be long . I'll there was a terrific exposion , and the boy was Three minutes later go and see how he is . " killed at the door of his home .. Deceased said he was very short of money and would like him to spare him some . He replied that he had £ 40 in his pocket and that he could have it if he was short . Mr. Pembridge then said he had his cheque still uncashed and said he would destroy it . the £ 40 in treasury notes . He asked him if He ( defendant ) then handed him he would allow him a little in regard to thatching off the rent . ing Deceased said he would allow the difference , about £ 21 . " My word is my bond . " Knowing deceased as he said he would destroy the cheque he said he did he had no reason to think that he would not destroy it . This occurred on Tuesday at the fortnightly stock sale . He be- lieved it was June 20th ; it was near Bramp ton Brian Fair . There was nothing unusual in his having £ 40 in notes in his pocket . He sometimes paid the auctioneers in cash . He ary rent until recently . He received the usual never heard anything more about the Febru- notice of the rent audit in November , 1916 . On that occasion he saw Mr. John Pembridge . He paid him the rent and he handed him a receipt . Nothing was said about the Febru- ary rent not having been paid . a " His grandfather is an invalid , " added the mother . " He can only walk from his chair to the bed with a stick , and I knew my boy would not leave him after he had seen all the down , but the grandfather was got out by children into safety . " Their house was blown means of a fire escape and is suffering only from shock . FULL TRANSFER . John James Walby applied for the full transfer to himself of the license of the Crozen Inn , Bodenham . Granted , sum- FARMERS SUMMONED . William H. B. Cave , Monkland , was moned for failing to deliver to the Recruiting Office a statement of men employed by him in accordance with Regulation 41A . Defendant said he did not know he had to send any information . He had a list posted . up on the door and the policeman signed it . P.C. Preece stated that on September 4th he called at the farm and asked defendant if he had sent a copy of his register to the re- cruiting officer . He said he was quite ignor- ant of such a law . He had the register posted up . The Bench deferred their decision until hear- ing a similar summons against John Bazley , farmer , of Stoke Prior , who was also charged with failing to post up a statement of the men employed by him . " P.C. James said that when he was making inquiries defendant said he did not under- stand that he had to notify the Recruiting Officer . He also asked him if he had the register posted up . He said he thought it was up , but upon going to see , it was not posted up . It had previously been posted up . Defendant said he wrote to Major Macdonald about his man . He produced a letter from Major Macdonald . He did not think he re- quired to send any further notice . The Magistrates ' Clerk said the letter pro- duced referred to some man in defendant's employ who had been discharged . Defenant said he did not think many far- They got one mers knew anything about it . He would like to Order on top of another . ask where this regulation had been pub- lished . The Clerk : It is in the Order . Defendant said he asked twenty farmers and not one of them knew anything about it . It should have been published in the Leu- minster News " . and in the Post Offices . The Clerk said it had appeared in the Press . The Chairman said the Order would be properly known now . If defendants would proper promise to post up and send the notices in future the cases would be dismissed . Defendant : Yes , we understand it now . NO DOG LICENSE . 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F. 15 Mr. James went over the farms with the auc- tioneer , Mr. Frank Russell , of Leominster , on May 21st , 1917. When Mr. James visited de fendant's farm he raised the question of the cheque which had been given the previous May and he pointed out that the cheque was not signed . Defendant said he had paid his rent and had all his paid cheques from the bank . When pressed upon this he referred to some previous cheque in which an amount was altered . Mr. James then asked him for his bank pass book and said he would show him which cheque he meant . Defendant went for his pass book and Mr. James turned up the date and showed him that there was no record of a payment to Mr. Pembridge between November , 1915 , and November , 1916. Defen- dant repeated that he had all his paid cheques . Mr. Russell then asked him to find it and to show him it at Leominster on the following day . On May 22nd defendant produced a cheque in Leominster Market . To the best of Mr. Russell's recollection the cheque was three or four years old and he told defendant that was not the cheque and that it was a cheque for May , 1916 , he wanted to see . Mr. Wadsworth then read the correspondence which subsequently took place . On May 23rd Messrs . Gwynne James wrote asking the de- fendant for a new cheque , and stated that they were informed by Mrs. Riley that she saw the unsigned cheque and often requested Mr. John Pembridge and subsequently he saw ham , fifty - three , an Admiralty clerk , received her father to send it back , and get it signed . On May 25th defendant wrote : " I am unable at his house on May 21st . Mr. James , Mr. Russell and Mr. Pembridge his injuries while running across to a He did not tell Station for shelter during the raid on Septem- to reply to your request . " On July 9th the them the story he afterwards told his solici- ber 4 . He was struck by a piece of bomb . summons was served and on July 17th Messrs . tor , but he produced his bank pass book . which had fallen 130 yards from him , and died Moore and Son , writing on It was stated behalf of defen- The interview was not a pleasant one . They three weeks later in hospital . idant , pointed out that they had receipts for produced an agreement which he said was void that on the night in question " Take cover " the rent in question . On July 25th Messrs . and told him he had to leave at six months ' warning was given , but there was no gunfire Gwynne James and Son wrote giving the ex- notice . There was also a question of the quan- until after four bombs had dropped . The planation as to the unsigned cheque upon tity of arable land which should be ploughed coroner remarked that preliminary which the deceased had intended to see Mr excellent warning , as it gave people Brunt , but never did so . On July 27th up . He had in his mind a cheque connected was an Messrs . Moore and Son wrote giving defen with the previous interview with Mr. John ten minutes or a quarter of an hour to take summoned for keeping a carriage without a replied stating that they declined to be drawn ing and he did not go off their land on Sun- Pembridge . dant's explanation of the matter . They stated that on May 12th Mr. Pembridge was very angry about the amount paid in respect of income tax and refused to allow Mr. Brunt various other amounts spent on the farm for thatching , building materials , etc. In the fol- lowing July Mr. Brunt met Mr. Pembridge at the Black Swan , principally about Black Hall farm , and learned that the cheque given in the previous May had not been cashed . The bills above referred to were gone into by Mr. Pembridge and allowed . Mr. Brunt paid the sum of about £ 40 in cash , settling the Febru- ary rent . Mr. Pembridge stated that the un- signed cheque should be destroyed , adding that his word was bond . Mr. Wadsworth said that plaintiffs ' case was this . They were trustees . Everything up to now had led them to have the gravest suspi- cion that this rent was not paid . Instructions were first of all given by Mrs. Riley , the daughter , and at the visit to the farm on May 21st , 1917 , it was proved that Mrs. Riley's sus- picion that there had been no payment was ap- parently accurate . He pointed out that al- His Honour remarked that the receipt was The police said that was the only death in in the handwriting of deceased , so that he must warning to take shelter ; the streets were ab- the neighbourhood , people having obeyed the have filled in a blank receipt . ber , 1916 , he saw deceased at his house in Continuing , defendant said that in Septem - solutely clear . The coroner and jury paid a warm tribute to the conduct of the heroic boy . Hereford with regard to the tenancy of Mr. Nicholle . rent was outstanding . No suggestion was made that any In April last he met In reply to his Honour defendant said he did not remember the amounts of the bills he handed to Mr. Pembridge . The bills were from Mr. Norgrove , Alexander and Duncan , William Farmer and Tom Phillips . would run to about £ 10 . RUNNING FOR THE TUBE . In another case , the victim , George Bra- cover . Tube gunfire An elderly woman , in fear of the raids , left Cable - street ,, St. George's - in - the - East , to stay with her daughter in another street . Ar riving there she collapsed and died - from ex- They citement , the jury found . There was also a A German courier , Christian Zimmer , 77 , quantity of straw supplied off the farm for taken ill in Shaftesbury - avenue , died in Char- 12s . He ing Cross Hospital . The air raids alarmed thatching about 22 thraves at thought he would allow £ 15 to £ 20 in addi- him . At his lodgings £ 100 in cash was found stormy winter and the roofing had got very They had had a Mr. E. J. Dando prosecuted on behalf of the County Council . P.C. Preece stated that on August 15th , about 11 a.m. , he saw a lurcher dog on defen- dant's premises . He went to defendant and asked him if he had a license for the dog . He said " No , not for that one yonder . 1 will get it out to - day . " Defendant went to the Post Office and took out a license . He had had the dog for a month . Defendant produced a license endorsed 10.55 a.m. , August 15th . He had the dog on the 14th off some travellers . P.C. Preece said he had seen the dog sev- eral times before . Fined 7s . 6d . was further NO CARRIAGE LICENSE . Frederick Charles Reynolds license on August 29th . Defendant : I have not got a carriage ; have a trap . P.C. Preece said that on August 29th at 8.10 a.m. he saw defendant going to the sta- tion with his trade cart . He picked up a person at the station and took him round all day in his trap and then came back to Kings- land . Defendant admitted he had no license . He often used the cart . horses if the Surveyor would remove the off , getting on to Mr. Webb's ground . He He spoke Richard Edmunds gave evidence to the effect . that the fields in question were his property . Defendant had no right to shoot on his land . Defendant said he had no questions to ask ... He was not on Mr. Edwards's ground at all on Sunday morning . < earth . On June 14th Morris stated that he overtook them and asked defendant if he had . had told Walters , his tenant , to attend to the a license to carry a gun . He said " No. " . matter . On July 2nd the Clerk to the Coun- He had a gun and six cartridges . cil wrote to Mr. Morris . Defendant replied to the other young man and he said he did that he had been to Cullis Lodge , Orleton , and not belong to the neighbourhood and knew had viewed the obstruction , adding that as nothing about it . the Surveyor had previously given away valu- able timber connected with the estate he de- clined to hold himself liable for anything . The Clerk replied denying these allegations and on July 11th Morris wrote saying that as the timber was for a considerable time on the Council's property before the Cullis Lodge Giving evidence for defendant , Mrs. Eliza- property came to him , surely the Surveyor beth Webb , Ryelands , Brimfield , said defen- must know who removed the tree . The Clerk dant had been helping her husband that morn- into any matters which did not concern the day morning . She could see him from time I Council or its officials . Later the Clerk again to time . The land referred to by the con- wrote giving him a further seven days ' notice . stable was half a mile away . The Council had been most patient and con- Reginald Charles Prosser said he was a tele- siderate , but the tree stump was still there . phone operator and lived at Abergavenny . He The Council were now bound to come to the was with the defendant on Sunday morning , Bench in order to protect the public ... September 23rd . He did not know whose prop- William Oliver Davis , Surveyor to the Leo - erty he was on . He went for a walk with de- minster Rural District Council , stated that he fendant who had a gun and cartridges . He first gave Mr. Morrs notice on June 9th . The asked defendant whose ground they were on road was in a fairly deep cutting and when and he said " Mr. Webb's ground . " When the tree was blown down it fell right across . they got to a hill the policeman asked him for his license . The stump was proppad up and the tree cut They first went through a long away . On June 5th the stump fell into the orchard and then got into a field of fern . road and ditch taking with it about two tons They did not go into any cornfield or clover of earth . He had lights placed there for sev- field . eral nights . The obstruction was causing dam- Mrs. Webb recalled said she heard a shot . age to the road by turning the water out of Defendant was sent by Mr. Webb to shoot a the ditch . horse which had got into a pool . This was Cross - examined by Mr. Levick : The tree was about 11.30 to 11.45 . blown down in the big storm on Boxing Day , 1915. Proctor propped it up and cut the tree His ( the Surveyor's ) men might have helped him . The District Council did not do it . The stump was not properly secured . He All the five women of the Mr. Pembridge said that his word was his house gathered in the sick woman's room He believed it was in dispute . He did not bond . He did not think of stopping the the first floor to help her if necessary . The P.C. George Powell stated that at 2 p.m. complain to Proctor about the stump . It came The Magistrates Clerk asked witness if he cheque as he could trust him . He received on August 29th he went to Brook Farm , and down because it was not properly propped . accused defendant of trespassing on Mr. Ed- £ 50 in notes three weeks before on a promis- explosion threw the front door up the stair- saw defendant . He asked him how many case and damaged every The stump obstructed five or six feet of the room facing the dogs he had . wards's land in search of game . Witness said He said " Two , and a young road . The road might be from 10 to 14 feet he did . He also cautioned him about going sory note . was untouched . He did not intend to tell Mr. James he had street , but the sick room one . " He asked him if he had a license for wide . He did not know what became of the on Mr. Low's ground on a previous occasion . Having helped their sick friend into an the young one . He said he had only got ex- timber . His men did not remove it to his He said he was sorry , but others did it as tion to the income tax . bad . He did Cross - examined by Mr. Wadsworth : but he was willing to oblige him . not think Mr. Pembridge was short of cash , Mr. Wadsworth remarked that Mr. Pem- bridge was certainly not short of cash at that date , as he had £ 400 in the bank . it was after he paid him that he said the In reply to further questions defendant said cheque had not been cashed . He ( defendant ) said he thought he ought to be allowed a little out of the May rent and Mr. Pembridge said No bills were that would do in settlement . A MOTHER'S GUARD . narrow FIVE BRAVE WOMEN . One of three bombs dropped damaged the fronts of two two - storey houses in a street facing a big warehouse . But every sheltering in a neighbouring church , and not person in these usually crowded houses a soul was injured . was On the opposite side of the street a woman , whose husband is at sea , was in bed . A baby through fright . Defendant said he generally used his broth- er's vehicles , but the mare knocked up the step and he slipped her into his trade cart . Fined 10s . a Arthur Phillips , Olden Farm , Leysters , was summoned for using , a carriage without license on August 25th . He pleaded guilty . 25th at 9 p.m. he saw defendant driving a trap P.C. George Powell stated that on August with passengers in it . He had no license . Mr. Dando said that no license , had since been taken out . Fined 10s . off . P.C. Powell : He never mentioned the horse . He said he was sorry . In reply to Major Chambers witness saud he had been stationed at the Leysters four months . Defendant was half an hour and ten been going on for a long time . though the matter was most carefully explained produced and he did not ask for , a receipt . had been born earlier in the day , still - born summoned for keeping a dog without a license did not know who was the owner at the time . minutes . on defendant's land . This game had He did not keep any accounts . on William Rhys Powell , Brook Farm , was on August 29th . He pleaded not guilty . Pembridge was a very bad business man , keep- paid in cash ; it was another cheque he thought ambulance these brave women walked quietly emption for the two . The young one , he said , knowledge . to the defendant by Mr. James and Mr. Rus- sell he said nothing about a payment in cash . He did not say anything about it to Mr. Russell the next day and in his reply to the first letter he made no reference to payment in He might perhaps explain that Mr. cash . ing no books . Frank R. James , solicitor , Hereford , stated that he was one of the executors of the late Mr. Pembridge . Mrs. Riley gave him cer- tain information in regard to the cheque and on May 21st when he visited the properties in company with Mr. John Pembridge and Mr. F. they were alluding to . It was a bit of public house work and he did not want to tell them . Russell , that the cheque which His Honour asked why he did not tell Mr. was destroyed by Mr. Pembridge . Witness I do not know . was wanted Mr. Wadsworth : Why did you not tell your Russell he explained to defendant the fact solicitor on July 17th that you had paid in struck the back of a house divided into flats . tended taking the dog to the last auction sale an order . that the cheque had not been signed in May , 1916. Defendant spoke about a previous cheque that had been wrongly made out . Wit- ness explained that that was not the cheque he was alluding to . He asked defendant for his pass book and showed him that cheques cash ? I told him I was in Court for rent and he smiled and did not believe it . In re examination defendant said after his long association with the family he did not hesitate to lend him £ 40 . He was anxious to oblige him because he was approaching him He had a receipt to Pembridge in November , 1915 , and Novem- about Black Hall Farm . ber , 1916 , were both debited to him , but that for the rent and there was no question of there was no cheque for May , 1916. He ap- stopping the cheque . The Court adjourned for lunch at this for lunc peared to understand what was wanted and point . lead them to believe that he had paid by cheque . Cross - examined Matthews witness business man . by Mr. At the resumption of the case Charles Edward Clee , Court House , Bircher , was called . He stated that he was formerly ten- to . Fair . Mr to the police station and stayed there . He prepared the stump for re- well . In another house a consumptive man was was not of age . It was about 8 months old , moval , but Morris had never shown the slight- Prosser , recalled , said he heard the police- was born about Christmas time . He told him he lying and he was also removed uninjured . should report him for not having an exemption est inclination to remove it . man ask defendant if he had been on Edwin Davies , an employee of the Rural Edwards's ground and he said " Yes , at one In a third four men were playing cards when or a license . He said " If you will let me the door flew in , and he walls cracked . District Council , said the obstruction was still time , but not that day . " He saw defendant Less than a quarter of a mile away a bomb shoot it , it will save any bother . " When they in the road the previous night . shoot the horse . Mr. Webb sent him to do were walking down the road he said he in- Upon this evidence Mr. Easton asked for it . Here again all the people had decided to spend and selling it . The Bench retired to consider their deci- . Mr. Levick said he asked the Bench not to sion . The Chairman announced that there was the night elsewhere , but the adjoining houses Defendant said he told the constable the dog impose a penalty or make an order , but to a good deal of doubt in the case , which would people . Windows and doors were was born after Christmas . were full It was not six adjourn the case . Mr. Morris was not the be dismissed . He remarked that one Magis- months old . damaged and rooms became masses of tumbled " Red Cross am- He could call Arthur Phillips , owner of the property at the time the treo trate disagreed with the decision . of Olden , to prove it . furniture and broken glass . came down and he was under the impression No witness was forthcoming , however , and that he was not liable although he was wrong . bulances , " said a man who was in a wrecked came in swarms , but they couldn't defendant was fined 7s . 6d . find so much as a bruise among the lot of us . " The point was that when Mr. Davis wrote fo Samuel Goodwin , One man who had a share of the house was Marlbrook , farmer , was him , he wrote back and asked him if he would summoned for using a gun without a license . assist by getting the soil out of the stump . poking in the heap of brick and plaster . Defendant said they used to remind He Suddenly thrust his hand into him Mr. Davis replied that he would do so . hole and when he forgot to take a license out . He for thought Mr. Davis ought to do what he withdrew a little bundle of notes and some had promised to . silver . A dusty purse followed . He counted got all about it . P.C. Roberts stated that he saw defendant it carefully and stowed it away in his pocket . " The club - money , " he said . " I collected it in a field of corn with a double barrelled gun . remove the stump within 14 days and to pay urday night . A third child , aged 6 , daughter He fired both barrels at a rabbit . house , " said the late Mr. Pembridge was a very bad ant of Black Hall Farm under the late Mr. F. He had a very bad memory , Pembridge for seven years . On June 20th , particularly about 12 months before his death . 1916 , he was at the Black Swan , when he saw Defendant had been tenant of Church House Mr. Brunt hand over to Mr. Pembridge some for many years and had now bought the farm . notes out of his pocket book . He did not What he had said about the deceased's unbusi- know how many or what the business related nesslike habits might also be said about the defendant's . So far as the tenancy was con- cerned he was a stranger to Mr. Brunt , as Mr. Pembridge had collected his own rents . The unsigned cheque had not been found . Mr. Francis Henry Russell corroborated the evidence in regard to the interview at Church House on May 21st , 1917. As they had a good Mr. Pembridge in the Black Swan on June left the church . deal to do that day he suggested that defen 20th . He saw Mr. Brunt hand over a quan- dant should bring in the cheque and show tity of treasury notes to Mr. Pembridge . He on the new rector , blessed him with the ap- Canterbury blessed the people . The prayers were punctuated by the booming of the guns . At the close of the ceremony the congregation remained in the church and a service was held on Saturday . That's out of my waistcoat . " In one of the districts of London a brave man fell victim to his desire to find his boys who were at a picture theatre . " When the guns started , said his son - in - law , " Tom said , He fixed the data by Brampton Brian I must get the boys , ' and left the house . He was struck at once by a fragment of shell and died in a few hours at the hospital . " In cross - examination witness said he also re- membered the date because they settled about The induction of the Rev. G. Herbert Aitken took place at a London church during the air the farm that day . William Nicholls , tenant of Black Hall raid . The ceremony was approaching its close No one Farm , stated that he saw Mr. Brunt and when sounds of gunfire were heard . The Bishop of Southwark , laying his hand . The Bench made an order for defendant to Witness the costs of the application , £ 1 . asked him if he had a license for the gun and he said he thought so . ADJOURNED . At the house defen- Thomas James , Elm Cottage , Bircher , was dant said he could not look for it that day . Witness called the next day and asked him summoned by Jane Griffiths , Vernon Cottage , if he had had time to find the license . He Bircher , for assault , and Euphemia James was again said he had not had time to look for it . Defendant said he foun he had not taken a license out when he came to look it up . He had taken it out since . Fined 10s . CANAL TRAGEDY . The bodies of Florence Rose Bell , 31 , of Topsham , and her two children , aged 10 and 2 , were recovered from Exeter Canal on Sat- of Sapper Richard Bell , brother of Florence s Bell , was recovered by two Army pay clerks from the water , and was revived by artificial respiration . Florence Bell was unmarried , and lived with her aged mother and her two child- ren , and also took care of her brother's child while he was in the Army . summoner for assaulting Mary Jane Mumby . Defendants did not appear . Last Thursday Sapper Bell , who is a wid- ants , said that Mrs. Griffiths lived at Vernon day taking his child to his new home . Flo Mr. H. Easton , who appeared for complain- ower , married again , and intended on Satur- Cottage and also her daughter , Mrs. Mary ence Bell left home with the three children at Jane Mumby The James lived next door at 7 o'clock on Saturday morning and walked to Elm Cottage . It was a family dispute , Mrs. Exeter , where she stayed all day , returning Griffiths and James being brother and sister . towards Topsham along the canal bank at Samuel Morris , of Grit Hill , Tenbury , was erty which belonged to the family 17 years light walk , saw a child floating near the bank , Mrs. Griffiths bought by auction the prop - night . The Army pay clerks , taking a moon- summoned for obstructing the highway ago . Over 11 years ago a fence was put to , CULLIS LODGE DISPUTE A FALLEN TREE STUMP . at him in Leominster Market the next day . De noticed it because he was waiting to speak to pointed words , and then the Archbishop of Cullis Croft , Orleton , by failing to remove a separate the boundary between the brother's and rescued her , afterwards finding the cloth- fendant brought in a cheque , but it was sev- Mr. Pembridge about the farm , eral years old . In cross - examination Mr. Russell said his TOBACCONISTS WARNED . FINAL NOTICE TO EXHIBIT PRICE LISTS . This concluded the case for the defendant . His Honour pointed out that the plaintiffs ' firm had done business with Mr. Brunt for difficulty was that the cheque was not in ex- many years and had found him straightfor - istence and therefore was either lost or des- Mrs. Frances Sarah Riley said she was the troyed . If it was destroyed it fitted in with the defendant's case . Defendant's difficulty , wife of Joseph Riley , 78 , Chandos Street , was that he did not set up his defence on Hereford , now on military service . During May 21st or May 22nd to Mr. James and Mr. the last years of her father's life she knew a Russell and never alluded to it in his letter or good deal about his business affairs . He al to his solicitor on July 17th . He knew the By the Tobacco Restriction Order of August ways paid his cheques for rent into the bank temperament of these men , they suspected next morning . She used to go through the everybody and never told the facts . If there 13 , it is laid down that " every person who cheques with him was anyone to thank for the action it was the sells tobacco by retail shall exhibit and keep cheques after the May audit on May 13th , 1916. defendant , and as he was at present informed shop , bar , store , or place where he sells to- exhibited in a conspicuous position in the She noticed that one of the cheques was not he would be inclined to deprive defendant of signed and her father said something which his costs even if he gave judgment for him . bacco , a copy of the Schedule or list in force led her to believe whose cheque it was . He His Honour then asked if any good could be for the time being whereby the maximum price at which tobacco may be sold by retail put the cheque in his pocket and said he done by the parties meeting . is fixed . An innkeeper shall , in addition , ex- would get it signed . In order to get cash for The solicitors on each side agreed and re- hibit such Schedule or list in the entrance hall tired for consultation . of his inn . " His Honour subsequently announced that the final warning The Board of Trade issues a She went through the his own use her father used to make out a cheque and take it to the bank . That was that the only method he had of checking his fin- solicitors to the parties informed him ancial transactions . She had never known her they had been able to settle the matter and that failure to exhibit the Schedule or list is to be a summary offence under the Defence of the father have more than £ 10 in his pocket . She they asked him to allow the case only saw the unsigned cheque once afterwards It had been in her father's waistcoat pocket struck out , and it would be struck out accor- Realm Regulations . and was getting soiled . father about it . Cross - examined by dingly . She questioned her Mr. Wadsworth and Mr. Matthews expressed Mr. Matthews : My their thanks to the Judge for the course ne father got about a lot and generally had had suggested , money with him . I do not know what ar- rangements he had with his tenants in regard to repairs . I did not know he gave a re ceipt for the full amount although he might not have received it . Amongst his friends his word could be relied upon . SOLICITOR'S ACTION FOR COSTS . George Lewis , Stockton Cross Inn , was sued by William Parry Levick , solicitor , HANDCUFFED MAN'S ESCAPE . ing of the woman and the other children . Mr. H. Easton appeared for the prosecutors , ment on the part of the brother , but rather The police recovered the bodies . tree stump which had fallen into the road . the Leominster Rural District Council ; and Mr. W. P. Levick defended . and sister's property , which was an encroach- than have any bother she assented to it . Mr. Easton said the prosecution was taken Recently the defendant James wanted to make under Section 72 of the Highway Act , and was Griffiths's garden away again . Mrs. Griffiths a further encroachment and take part of Mrs. for obstructing the highway . The facts were consulted him about it . that in the great storm nearly two years ago sumption and summons . Mrs. James from bronchitis . The Magistrates ' Clerk interposed to say a tree fell across the road at the property that two medical certificates in respect of the known as Cullis Lodge , Orleton , then in the defendants had been sent to Alderman Russell occupation of Mr. Proctor and now the prop - apparently because he signed the erty of Mr. Morris . The tree was cut away James was stated to be suffering from con- leaving the stump on the bank . In June this year the stump fell into the road . The Sur- They were at Newport , Mon. veyor had been very patient with Mr. Morris Mr. Easton said they were well enough to and had asked him over and over again to remove it . come over recently . He pointed out that an At one time it was so dangerous adjournment would not be fair to the com- that he put lights there . amount of correspondence had passed . In one plainant , who had brought her witnesses . The Chairman said the cases would be ad- letter Mr. Morris promised to remove the journed to October 9th and the question of stump if the Surveyor would remove the earth . In another letter he accused the Surveyor of costs would be decided then . Before Mr. Burlton , Mr. Neild and Major Chambers . A considerable removing the tree ; this allegation was repudi- ated . On June 19th he gave him formal notice to remove the tree . Notice was later given by the Leominster Rural District Council through their Clerk . Morris , however , would CONFLICT OF EVIDENCE . GAME TRESPASS CHARGE DISMISSED . VICARAGE BURGLARY . TALE OF BROKEN SILVER FROM FRANCE . a Thomas James Ridsdale , twenty - six , private of the King's Royal Rifles , was те manded at Westminster Police Court on Mon- day on a charge of burglary at St. George's Vicarage , Battersea Park - road , London , on September 16th , and a theft of a silver Communion set , a gold ring . and 3s . 5d .. total value £ 30 , the property of the Rev. C C. Davis , the vicar . Ridsdale was on remand on a charge of be- ing concerned in stealing from 51a , the Oval , a mare , the property of James Ockley , horse dealer , on September 23. While in custody he admitted to the police that he had been an absentee from Epsom Military Hospital for two months . He also confessed to break- Henry Powell , Brimfield , was summoned for ing into the vicarage , and added " You can not do anything and he ( Mr. Easton ) was in- trespassing on the land of Richard Edmunds hang me if you like . I have been wounded structed at the beginning of August to issue a on September 23rd in search of game or conies . twice , and I swear I will never do another's summons . He had the summons issued for He pleaded not guilty . day's soldiering . " 28th of September to give defendant P.C. George Powell stated that on Sunday Mr. Rupert Clark , jeweller , 67 , Bedford - hill . ample time to move the tree . He had not morning , September 23rd , at 11 a.m. , he had Balham , said Ridsdale called at his shop with done so and they were bound to come to the occasion to go on to the Nunupton Estate . three or four pieces of broken silver . Notic Court for an order under the Highway Act He heard the report of a gun and went in the ing on one piece the Georgian hall - mark be to get the tree removed . direction from which it came . At 11.20 he saw asked Ridsdale how he came by the silver , and . Mr. Easton then read the correspondence defendant in company with another young man he replied " It was over from smuggled which had taken place , commencing with the working a hedgerow by the side of a corn- France " . He declined to buy the silver .. request of the Surveyor that he should remove field . He watched them about 20 minutes the stump which had fallen into the road . and then they came out of the cornfield and Morris replied that he was not aware that he worked along a hedge in the clover field . Printed and published for the Proprietor by was liable for the removal of the tree , but When he had been watching them for three A. T. SOUTHALL , at his offices , 27 , Drapers offered to pay the tenant for the use of his quarters of an hour they saw him and made A. man with a motor - bicycle was arrested the after a struggle at Bagshot on Friday night on suspicion stealing the machine from Alder- Leomin- shot . While a constable looked after the bicycle a ster , for £ 2 10s . , balance of costs . Plaintiff said that all his clerks had left the sergeant handcuffed the prisoner , but he then He was in the office and were in the Army and he asked de- knocked the sergeant down and jumped over habit of trusting people and they would trust fendant to let him know if he had got a re- the parapet of a bridge into two feet of water . him . She believed he came to Leominster for ceipt , but he would not make any reply . The constable chased him under the bridge , the November audit , 1916. His brother , John In reply to his Honour defendant said he over a wall , and some hedges , but he got The receipt for had not got a receipt . in the darkness . Pembridge , was with him . November , 1916 , was in her father's handwrit- Plaintiff said he appeared for the defendant ing . She did not know that in September , in an action in the County Court against a away The man was still missing on Sunday night . He is about 30 , of slim build , and clean shaven . Lane , Leominster . T VOL . XI . NO SALES BY AUC By Messrs . EDWARDS , R BALDWIN . LEOMINSTER HORSE R NEXT S HEAVY and LIGHT H Leominster , o Friday , November £ 46 IN PRIZ Entries Close Wednesday Entry Forms on application . Vendors are advised to make to their County Agricultural R mmittee for Permission to Sell . Auctioneers ' Offices : Leomin and Tenbury . LEOMINSTER STOCK TUESDAY , OCTOBER 23 Cattle and Sheep , 10.30 IL - 30 ; Store Cattle and Pi Entries kindly solicited . FAT EDWARDS , RUSSELL Leominster , Hereford and Ten WESTERN LYE , AYME Four miles from Kingsland DWARDS , RUSSELL & B Efavoured with instructions i Davies , to Sell by Auction , on SATURDAY , OCTOBER 13 Well - Bred HEREFOR 32 195 Hardy Black - Faced SH and a promising CART FILLY I Sale at 2 o'clock pro Auctioneers ' Offices : Leomins and Tenbury . " LYNHALES , " KING Two and a - half - Miles from K Titley Station . IMPORTANT SALE OF HO FURNITURE . NDWARDS , RUSSELL & BAL E received instructions from Robinson to Sell by Auction , on MONDAY , TUESDAY and W OCTOBER 15th , 16th and 171 the Valuable Modern and Antiqu FURNITURE , Pictures , China , other Effects . Fully described in Catalogues , the AUCTIONEERS . On view Saturday previous Sale each Day at 11 o'cl Auctioneers ' Offices : Leominste and Tenbury . " THE BROOK NARM , " LYO One mile from Titley Station an from Kington and Pembri DWARDS , RUSSELL & BA Ewed with instructions f C. Nott ( who is giving up farmi by Auction , on THURSDAY , OCTOBER 18th 82 Capital PEDIGREE I and other CATTLE . 111 KERRY HILL SHEEP . SOW and S PIGS , 7 fashionably b MARES and GELDINGS , Herd B Luncheon by ticket at 12 a.1 I o'clock prompt . Auctioneers ' Offices : Leominste and Tenbury . WICKTON COURT FARM , STOR Four miles from Leominster , 1 Ford Bridge Station and 1 miles f Bridge Station . DWARDS , RUSSELL & BALD received ' instructions from M S. Vaughan , who is giving up th Sell by Auction , on MONDAY , OCTOBER 29th , 106 his excellent Herd of Well - Bred HEREFORD 185 Healthy SHROPSHIRE S 17 WAGON MARES , COLTS 268 ACRES of Valuable G WINTER KEEP , in 10 Lots . Luncheon 1/6 , returnable to pur 11 o'clock . Sale at 12 o'clock prompt Auctioneers ' Offices : Leominster and Tenbury . CROFT GATE , STOKE PRI Two miles from Leominste & BALD EDWARDS , RUSSEL instruction for Sale by Auction , from Mrs. E ( who is leaving the neighbourhood THURSDAY , NOVEMBER 1st Live and Dead Farming Stock , Effects , 21 Acres of Grass Keep , e portion of the Household Furniture Utensils , 3 Dairy Cattle , 3 Weane Black Pony ( 4 years old ) , Bacon Pig , Car , 3 Ladies ' Cycles , etc. Sale at 12.30 prompt .. Auctioneers ' Offices : Leominster , and Tenbury . By JOHN THORNTON & IMPORTANT SALE OF PURE - BRE SHORTHORNS , AT HOLME HEREFORD . JOHAuction , on [ OHN THORNTON & Co. will FRIDAY , OCTOBER 19th , 19 ( 1.15 p.m. ) at The Bower , adjoinin Lacy Station , and 5 miles from Heref PURE - BRED DAIRY SHOR 90 PURE - Blass herd bel Mr. F. H. S. Perkins ( of Hadno Monmouth ) , and Messrs . M. & P. Both herds are very similarly bred female side . Sires of the best qu breeding have always been used . contains a large number of heavy handsome cows , and a very choic heifers of the best of breeding and Catalogues may be had of JOHN AND Co. , 7 , Princess Street , Hanove London , W.1 . |