LEO Antosiewicz, 46, had been recaptured in Worcester on Saturday after escaping from Barnsley Hall Mental Hospital, in Bromsgrove, the previous day. He had been spotted by a hospital worker who recognised him. Antosiewicz had been sent to Bromsgrove from Broadmoor, where he had been since 1943. He had been committed there after he shot Lionel Taylor, the landlord of the Golden Cross Hotel, in Bromsgrove, in the stomach while burgling the premises.

BROMSGROVE Rovers wound up their first season in the Birmingham League, during which they achieved a number of "firsts." They had played a record 46 league matches, attained 54 points and scored 125 goals. Fourteen of their 24 away games had been won. And they had played their first game under floodlights in front of 3,300 fans. The Messenger said only time would tell if the "craze" for night matches, for which the players wore special fluorescent shirts, would catch on.

A HORSE owned by Mr J Hill of Hollyoaks Farm, Tardebigge, suffered a serious injury when an Alsation dog ran on to the course at Upton-on-Severn during the Ladies' race at the Worcestershire point-to-point, causing it to throw its jockey and spike itself on a piece of wood. It was uncertain if it would survive. The second division of the Lady Dudley Cup was won by Rashwood resident J R Hugh Sumner's Flint Jack, ridden by Jack Fowler, from Hanbury.

MORE secrets of the Roman occupation of Droitwich, or Salinae as they knew it, had recently come to light as a result of the Ministry of Works dig in the Vines area. There was evidence that a six feet deep ditch surmounted by a wall had at one time protected the town. However, the remains of the most important buildings, the Forum and Basilica, were thought to be now buried beneath a new factory.