100 YEARS AGO: ON Wednesday morning, Mr EA Burgess of Lowesmoor, a Worcester city councillor, sustained a nasty injury which necessitated his removal to the infirmary where he now lies with a broken leg.

He went to a void house in Lansdowne Crescent with a view to preparing an estimate for some paper-hanging and other work, but the doors were locked so he tried to effect an entrance through a cellar grating.

However, the depth of the cellar was considerably more than he anticipated and he fell heavily to the floor, breaking a leg below the knee.

PC Brotherton was called to help lift Mr Burgess out and he was conveyed to the infirmary in a cab.

● Sarah Andrews, aged 30, a single woman of Lock Street, Worcester, was charged at the City Police Court with stealing two pairs of socks, value 1s.1½d, from outside Mr AE Allen’s shop at 5 Mealcheapen Street.

The chief constable, Mr Byrne said the defendant had been sent down for 14 days in May for stealing boots. It was a pitiful case, the woman being besotted with drink.

Several tradesmen had caught her in small thefts but had allowed her to go. She was sent to prison for a month.

150 YEARS AGO: ELISA Hay, a gaudily dressed nymph of the pave, was charged at Worcester Police Court with being drunk and disorderly in Broad Street.

Superintendent Chipp stated that Broad Street was in a state of uproar on Saturday night due to a group of disorderlies, including the defendant who was heavily in liquor and refused to move on. She was sent to prison for seven days.

● On Friday night, PC Hunting was on duty in Angel Street when he found a gentleman lying in the road insensibly drunk. The officer conveyed him to the police station and soon ascertained he was a resident of Malvern.

He had come to this city to place some money in a bank, but arriving too late to do so, he partook rather too freely of the glass and became in the state in which he was found.

On being searched, the sum of £173 in gold, bank notes and cheques was found upon him which, fortunately for him, was preserved by the officer taking him into custody. The following morning the money was returned to him and he was sent home, having received a pretty good warning for the future.

200 YEARS AGO: Yestterday afternoon at about three o’clock, as Mr Fluke of High Street, Worcester was walking through the Nunnery Wood, two men rushed out and seized him, demanding his watch and money which they took from him with his keys. Shortly afterwards, however, Mr Fluke took an opportunity to escape from them. They pursued him but he out ran them and gave the alarm at Nunnery Farm. The villains were pursued and one of them was found in the wood and taken into custody to await trial.

● On Monday, as the servant of Mrs Guy of Hampton, near Evesham, was driving her out in a gig, the horse took fright and plunged so violently that Mrs Guy was thrown out of the gig, by which she was so much hurt that she died in a very short time after. The gig was broken to pieces.

250 YEARS AGO: On Monday evening, Mr Walker, a farmer of Cotheridge, was returning home from Worcester when he was stopped by two footpads who seized his horse’s bridle, presented a pistol and demanded his money. He told them he had not above two or three shillings, though in truth he also had on him a crown piece which, in the dark, he managed to quickly conceal in a coat pocket. He then reached into his breeches pocket and pulled out a small amount of silver which he handed to his attackers.

However, the villains were not satisfied and demanded his watch, but he assured them he never had one. They then released him and made off.

● Last Saturday night, a young fellow, a butcher of Droitwich, meeting with some unfavourable declarations from his sweetheart, while he was in company with her at a public house in that town, stabbed himself so effectively that he died a few minutes later.

● We were misinformed in respect of the death of John Amphlett of Ombersley, that gentleman, as we have had the pleasure to hear since our last publication, being alive and in good health.