The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1879-08-16 00:00:00

SATURDAY, AUGUST 16, 1879. 1.1
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IfiIVERIAL PARLIAMENT. SENTENCED TO DEATH. flowing white robes the operation of
of burden, and read in Arabic wha'
were prayers for the success of the
Mei EOM OF Common sat qn Saturday, August 9, and __At the Central Criminal Court in London, John Around him stood a crowd of ml
ee!retral questions having been replied to, _Daley, aged 41, a frame maker, and Mary Rainbow, green and black robes and white
M. Burt asked the Secretary of State for War whether 29, unmarried, were indicted for the wilful murder of and a number of officers and Cou
ntnr efforts had been made to recover the bodies of the two the illegitimate child of the last-named prisoner. The blue uniforms, richly ornamente
litrttish troopers who lost their lives at the same time as tie() commenced on Friday in last week and terminated surmounted by the ordinary red
•n'in ce Louis Napoleon; and, if the bodies had been re- on Saturday. worn by all ranks of Ottoman
.c...riv_ere.d, how they had been disposed of ; whether any Mr. Poland and Mr. Montagu Williams prosecuted who belong to the ecclesiasti
Ms had been taken to ascertain if these unfortunatemen on behalf of the Treasury; Mr. Wildey Wright and preparations were completed,
"'a any parents or relatives dependent upon them to
mourn their loss; and, if so, whether rovlslon would be Tenniswood defended the male prisoner Dilley; Mr. camel was handed to the
Made for the support of such parentspor relatives; and Warner Sleigh and Mr. Lindsell appeared on behalf pasha on half-pay, who 1
Whether the Government would use their 'alliance to pro. of the prisoner Rainbow. the honourable and lucre'
cure a suitable site for the erection of a memorial near to The prisoners both pleaded "Not Guilty." ing the caravan. The cort
that which it is proposed to raise to the memory of Prince Mr. Poland, in giving an outline of the case, said chief doorway of the pale
Louts Napoleon,
Colonel Stanley said that the bodies of the troopers who that it seemed that the male prisoner lived at Shefford, direction of Tophaneh. A
.w..ere killed with Prince Lou'ai Napoleon were recovered at a village in Bedfordshire, and was a married man with waiting patiently for hour
a wife and family. He carried on business as a picture- open space near the gates
Tete same time as that of t'Lle Prince; and, as nothing was
said, to the contrary, he
presumed they were buried on the
frame maker, but was also the postman of the riages filled with the m'
tSpot.!Pot. That would be ;,tie meat likely course. These troopers village. The other prisoner, Rainbow, was a do- tives of Turkish aristo(
ifeloornged to the coPenial force, and consequently he had no mestic servant at Baldock, in Hertfordshire, a short course attended by asw
was balet ion as to their relatives ; but he believed a fund distance from Shefford. In the beginning of the fidelity in shiny black
g raised 'in the colony for the support of the families
of those who f) '1 in the war. This, however, was only a matter present year she was enceinte while in service, shiny blackness of his r
mpon which be had received private information and he was and the male prisoner was the father of the child, snow-white yashmaks
'not able to s'ate the fact with authority. As regarded the That being the case, the female prisoner could not remain light, exquisitely soft
'4?rovernmer 3 using their influence to procu.ze a suitable site in service to be confined. In February she wrote to factories of Broussa,
r_tor the erection of a memorial near to that which it was her cousin, a Mrs. Hall, residing in Chelsea, saying selves, some sitting r
fr °llP_°_! ee. to raise to the memory of Prince Louis Napoleon,. that she was leaving her situation and was coming gaze of habitual enT
,',„, 4,?, 'already been explained that it was not a matter in to London, and should come and see her. In March ing like light-heart
"'Lion the Government were able to interfere,
both prisoners took lodgings in the house of a Mrs. "Behind these
ee.Are eer the report of the last Committee of Ways and Means Stirling, in Stibbington-street, St. Pancras, London, ordinary Constar
:.,., been agreed to, the Appropriation Bill was brought in
1., A read a first time amid much cheering. in the name of "Mr. and Mrs. Hall," the name of the vendors of bread,
The Chancellor of the Exchequer, in moving the second cousin living at Chelsea, and passed as husband and shouting in dis
'reading of the Public Works Loans Bill, gave the House par- wits. The prisoner Rainbow continued living there merchandise, t
ticuhtra of the great increase in local loans during the last till the 22nd of April, when she was safely confined of beggars display
ten years, at the rate of six to seven millions a year, which a female child. The prisoner Dilley had meanwhile deformities, an
made some restriction necessary. Next be showed that the gone back to Shefford. The child was full grown and those who see 7
cilefference between the rate at which the Govern- healthy, and the prisoner seemed to be very fond of "The lum
rant
.e t borrowed the money and lent it out did not
I aye sufficient margin to cover the risk, and the it and treated it with great kindness down to the 10th have entirely
13,11 therefore proposed that the rate of interest of May, when the male prisoner, Dilley, came to the and landaus
i.caarged hereafter should vary from 31 to 4 per cent., accord- lodgings, and remained there all that night with the fresher days
Lug to the length of time for which toe loan was to run. It prisoner, till the evening of the following day, Sun- Many of tl
Was further propoeed that no public body should borrow day, when they both left the lodgings in a cab with raore than £100,e,00 in one year, but he would withdraw the transparer
the baby and some luggage, and were driven to the kid gloves
uC!SS relating to the repayment by annuities of loans for
snore than 20 years, and he would move a proviso to Clause Great Northern Railway Station at King's-cross. The mark of t
6, protectinr; loans in course of bond fide negotiation at the luggage was left there, and at eleven o'clock the same middle-c'
time ot the, passing of the Bill. night the two prisoners, without the child, went to a ning to
lar• Cb amberlain seconded by Mr. Rylands, moved the house close to the station in Gray's-inn-road and ap- apparel' raj el
„, en-oTA of the Bell, but after some debate the amendment plied for a room. They could not get one, and were cost=
-a° wihdrawn, and the Bill was then read a second time, sent to a house in Liverpool-street, where they re- yellow
eet3e,, ir eral other Bills were forwarded a stage, and the House mained during the rest of the night. They had only a awkw
-micr arned at twenty-five minutes past six o'clock. small bag with them in the shape of luggage. They marl
left on the Monday morning, and Dilley seemed to is, p
In the HoUSE or Loan% August 11, the Royal Assent was have gone back to his home, but the prisoner Rainbow heg.
Illven by Commission to several Bills. A number of Bills remained in London and called on her cousin Mrs. cul
'Which had come up from the Commons were read a first Hall at Chelsea; and then the bottom of her clothes th
' Lime- other Bills received a second reading' and five Bills
whih c had passed through the Commons were read a third were seen to be wet and dirty and she had the appear- er
time and passed. ance of having been walking about in the country. u
~. The Duke of Richmond and Gordon, replying to Lord That morning, about twenty minutes to eight, a man r
-ranle, said that the Irish Constabulary were desirous to co- named Stocks was engaged with others repairing a
oeerate with the local authorities in carrying out the pro. wall some distance from Finsbury-park Station, in the
visions of the Contagious (Diseases) Animals Acts. The Green-lanes, Hornsey, and found a paper parcel lying
Constabulary were bound by the Act itself to assist in carry- on the ground, away from the main read. He exa-
lag it out, mined it and found it contained the body of a dead
Their Lordships adjourned at twenty-five minutes past five child, and this it seemed there was no doubt was the
o'clock.
prisoners, The man Stocks went immediately fo
eln the *MUSE OF Commons, in answer to questions a police-constable, who examined it and four
trout the O'Donoghue and Mr. Callan, the Chancellor of wounds in the head, and it also smelt strongly
the Exchequer read out the names of the noblemen and
/tenth:men who have consented to serve on the Royal
laudanum;
d the medical evidence showed V
C.„ornentssion on Agriculture as follows :—The Duke of the child died from violence. Soon after, the fee
enlennaond and Gordon, the Duke of Buccleueh, Earl prisoner, when returning to her home, had to •
._:eencer, Lord Vernon, Mr. Goschen, M.P., Mr. Chaplin, at Hitchin Station for about an hour for a train.
aseee, ear. Redwell, M.P. Mr. J. Cowen ,l M.P., Colonel
Xingscote, M P., Mr. Ritchie, M.P., Mr M. Henry, M.P., following morning a bundle of child's clothes
Air. Jacob Wilson, Mr. R. Paterson, Mr. C. Howard, Sir W. found concealed in a hedge about 200 yards fro'
sitephenson, Professor Bonamy Price Mr. W. Stratton, and station. This was identified as part of the clot)
11. r. John Clay. He added that the Price,
is not yes baby was wearing. Inspector Dodd afterware
complete, and that the Government is stillin communication down to the prisoner Dilley's house at bheffe
With other persons, especially with a view to obtaining a re- he admitted that he was in London on the
Presentative of the Irish tenant farmers. May and left the prisoner Rainbow and the
Several other questions havirg been asked and replied to, King's-cross Station and returned home, hi
. On the order for reading the Appropriation Bill a second know what had become of her after t
since, Sir J. Goldsmid called attention to "the extraordinary
interference of the Government in the internal affairs of female prisoner was also arrested, but said
the charge. The case on the part of the'
.e-nicept." flaying reviewed the relations of this country with
',Ent during the last forty years, he contended that there was that the prisoners had gone by t'
ha... t been a complete reversal of our past policy—such as was Sunday night to the Finsbury-park Stria
'Lady to lead to serious international complications, committed the murder and deposited tin
Bir Charles Dike did not share the opinion of the hon. Place where it was subsequently found,
lattronet, but coznplained that the Government had by their William Stocks, a labourer, depose/
+action related the House and the country. 12th of May last he was engaged al
, After some observations from Mr. Lefevre, Sir G. Camp- Green-lanes, at Hornsey, when he
bell, andother hon. members, the Chancellor of the Rube- paper parcel lying about 45 yards fror
sister complained of the readiness with which hon, members
were disposed to credit any story they heard with regard to at a spot up to which there was a narr
thought it was a dead dog. He wf
NYptian affairs He denied that her Majesty's Ministers
'Dad been wanting in candour, and Justified their Policy and Paper was lying open and he saw in
faction. They had interfered only to prevent anarchy and of a little child, with some flannel
Ws, rule in Egypt, and so that English interests should not called his fellow workmen; they
oe overshadowed by the interests of any other country, body but placed a board in front e
the
a few words from Mr. W. M'Arthur and Mr. Courtney,
43e subject dropped after four-and a halt hours of debate, constable. They then saw some yel
its mouth and a little hole in tie
'and the Bill was read a second time,
brick, on which there •
The report of the Irish University Bill was next con- near a
aidered, and various amendments were moved by Mr. examination, he said it was an
Courtney and others. A proposal to increase the number of and there were a number of snit
Lnoeneletchteedmmoteimonbeorts olift
Mr. Fawcett
a wSenate i
twa toles w negatived tbh ye Herbert Boitaull, a policerni
104 to 32, and a motion to insert the provision that the body of the child on the privaf
Scholarships, &c. should be awarded in respect of either which he had to climb to ge
relative or absolute proficiency was defeated by 117 to 26. quite dead. There was some
provided that vided
Queen's University should not be extinguished until the mouth. There was a small 'V'
I'. new University is in a position to confer degrees; and at the head, and there was blood o
- Instance of Mr. Newdegate a clause was inserted requiring head lay. The body was pa
~,,the ties had some linen and flay
Chancellor or Vice• Chancellor to make an annual report.
The Bill was then read a third time and passed amid Dr. Bury, a physician
ranch cheering. had examined the body,
Tlae House went into Committee on the Public Works nourished child of about
Loans Bill, found several contused
head, one being nearly
opinion
In the HOUSE OF LORDS, August 12, the Lord Chancellor
liaid on the table a Bill for the amendment and consolidation His •
the stomach was milk w
on was tha'
of the laws relating to municipal corporations in England
and Wales. He explained that his object in so doing was to the brain. The sk
that the Bill might be considered during the recess. The another smaller wo
esill was reads first time. brick. On the brick
4, number of Bills were advanced a stage. The Govern- ing with those of th
ke raent proposed to negative committee on the Peer Law wcs occasioned by a
Amendment (No. 2) Bill, and thus to be able to have the Bill as a brick, and lal
on the orders for third reading on Wednesday. Lord Redes-
smaller wound miE
!tale opposed the negativing of committee on the ground that
'heir lordships had not had time to consider the Bill. Com- child. The lauthe
toittee on the Bill was negatived by 13 to 3, and their lord- to so young a chi
alliDa, at twenty-five minutes to six o'clock, adjourned, might have bee
,In the HOUSE OF COMMONS, the Banking and Joint Stock ex tmination thf
'-'wananles Bill after a stiort discussion passed through gorged with hie
1 committee. the stomach I
killie Parliamentary Elections and Corrupt Practices Bill, given. The 7
---,amended, was considered and read a third time. that was indi
• e National School Teachers (Ireland) Bill passed apart from
, —"ugh committee, and was read a third time and passed. laudanum; '
e_The APeropriation Bill passed through committee, and was occasio
everal other Bills were forwarded a stage. difficult tc
The H
o'clock ouse adjourned at twenty-five minutes past two before or
occasiona
occurred
THE LARGEST TREE IN THE WORLD. time the
a child
-
wound,
There is at present on exhibition in New York a section of Fur'
„,.an Immense tree which has been brought from California.
Ina New York Herald says : the p 7
"This wonderful specimen of nature's handiwork behalWar
Vas discovered in 1874, It was growing in a grove near Tule River, Oiler° county, California, about 75 ' .
esuF
ranee from Visalia. Its top had been broken off,
Probably at some remote period, and when die- la-
covered it was still 240 ft. high. The body of the h
ree where it was broken was 12ft. in diameter, and t
e!kl two limbs measuring respectively, Oft. and 10ft. in •
ularneter. The trunk measured below 111 ft. This
ancient monarch of the forest is called "Old Moses,"
talteer a mountain near which it stood. It is supposed
De 4,810 years old, and it is the largest tree that has
;IV been discovered. The section on exhibition is
icircumference, and 251 t. across. Ills capable
Cap
, it ra liolding 150 people in its interior. The interior, a
: now fitted up, is arranged like a drawing room.
I',_et has been laid down; there is a piano, sof
'
I"'lea, and chairs, with scenes from California hr
and people move about quite freely."
A RELIC OF OLD PARIS.
oic;a/ignani says :—One of the curious remainin
old Paris is the Cul-de-sac (blind alley) du
tita fa at least six centuries old and has hitherto
tetee deMolition which bee overtaken so many
the B,ting memorials whose removal was neces
Th. Improvements of the modern Frenc
satue,.alley in question opens out of the B
rie e uLNlerri, near the Rue du Tern'
apoUt f
Penn, forty metres long, and in its cer
p —"lre worthy of notice. The house
„°Bts the bases of which are fix
15,0tuad
Of tl, ' and which slope inwards t
tle..ne first storey, forming a sort of a'
,11"°- It is hardly possible to find
aerui.
at
t.c 'eons which have such unmistal
use tgaitr- The word cul-de-sac has
in
hoe_ Paris, and is replaced by the t
waver retain it here, for it is still '
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ca atone at the corner of the alley. ll
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du 13 d
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a Weird' These various names
u
...r heitocked poultry yard fror
t e
Strnhi. , great personages of
oni eller'. The kitchens of
hei„,reocived fowls, capons gees
,aeLe fattened in this cul-de-sac
leLlti Palace desired on one oc,
(174 oz brought from a far
One rtß:led, uneasy in his nes
and
_night to kill every hese
tnee'n'a himself slaughtered
6 tor Von hi ,_, . 8 misueeds, At
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