Castle Inn, Gosta Green

CORRESPONDENCE.

To the Editor of the Daily Gazette.

SIR – In seeing your paper of yesterday here, I notice in your police report a case “Alleged Conspiracy to Defraud,” in which you state Daniel Lowe [his brother-in-law], residing at the Castle Inn, Gosta Green. Permit me to correct this error, as he does not and never has resided there. I shall feel obliged by your correcting the same in your next impression.

I am, Sir, yours respectfully,

ROWLAND HODGES, JUN.

London, February 4th, 1869.

(Birmingham Daily Gazette, 5th February 1869)

Sentenced to transportation

Context Note: Warner was transported to Australia and, four years later, on 1848, he had a son called William Donald Warner. It’s possible that his wife [Hannah (Lowe) (Warner) Hodges] went out with him and was the child’s mother. By 1852 she was back in Birmingham and remarried to Rowland Hodges (1801-1880), a local licensed victualler.

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GENERAL MISCELLANY.

At the late Warwickshire Assizes, William Stanley Warner pleaded guilty of having robbed his employers, the Town and District Bank of Birmingham, of twelve £100 notes. Mr. Justice Coltman sentenced him to be transported for fourteen years, observing that the confidential nature of his service was an aggravation of his guilt.

(Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser, 27th August 1844)