HOW LIEUTENANT FLOWER FELL

Sergeant Sidney Carter, son of Mr. Benjamin Carter, of Wickhamford, near Evesham, who has just returned invalided from South Africa, where he has been serving with the Warwickshire section of the Imperial Yeomanry, has furnished the press with a graphic account of how the late Lieutenant Fordham Flower met his death. “It was,” says Mr. Carter, “at Hammond’s Kraal that Lieutenant Flower received his fatal wound.

[A lengthy account of the action against the Boers follows.]

EVESHAM

A GRIM COINCIDENCE

A girl named Edith Emily Martin, 18 years of age, died suddenly in peculiarly sad circumstances. She was hop-picking at Wickhamford, and, hearing that there was a wedding at the Parish Church there, hurried with others to see it. It is stated that on reaching the church the girl exclaimed, “Now we shan’t be long,” and immediately fell to the ground and expired.

County Courts

EVESHAM. – FRIDAY

County Petty Session

EVESHAM. – Monday.

CHARGE OF STEALING A HOE. – Charles Gillett, labourer, of no fixed abode, was charged by John Pope, farmer, at Wickhamford, with stealing a hoe, value 2s. at Wickhamford on May 23^rd. Prosecutor stated that he managed a farm for his uncle, Mr. Joseph Pope, at Wickhamford. The hoe has belonged to him (prosecutor). Prisoner had worked for him, hoeing wheat. The hoe produced by P.C. Marks was his property, being marked J.P.

EVESHAM
COUNTY PETTY SESSIONS – MONDAY.
Before Messrs. I. Averill (chairman), R.F. Tomes,
and A.H. Martin

THE GATES WERE LEFT OPEN. – Benjamin Carter, farmer, Wickhamford, was charged with allowing four colts to stray on the highway on October 6. As it appeared that the gates on the defendant’s farm had been left open by someone who crossed it in the night (there being a right of road over it) the case was dismissed.

BANKRUPTCY EXAMINATIONS IN
WORCESTER.

A WICKHAMFORD FARMER.

EVESHAM
County Petty Sessions – MONDAY
Before Messrs. F.C. Holland (Chairman), R.F. Tomes,
J. Ashwin, and A.H. Martin.

SCHOOL CASE. – James Willoughby, labourer, Wickhamford, for not sending his son James regularly to school, was fined 5s. inclusive.

A FARMER AND HIS MILKMAN

Dishonesty Not Proven.

NEW INQUIRIES

BYRD. – If Walter Byrd, who was born at Muntz-street, Small Heath, Birmingham, son of Samuel Byrd, a native of Bretforton, Worcestershire, will communicate with George Pethard, Sandy’s Arms, Wickhamford, near Evesham, Worcestershire, he will hear something to his advantage.