The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1887-04-16 00:00:00

-

_ oUTRAGR

- -
clr. Henry Potter, a Lower Olapton builder, neglected
to send to the Windsor authorities the riecessary notice
and plans in connection with the erection of a villa at
Sunninghill. and in consequence has had to pay D
fino of Ell fis. 4d.

.Aeitement was caused throughout the
North -Finchley and Barnet districts upon its becoming
known that Detective-inspector Thomas Bannister,
with Detective-sergeants Hearn and Brown, S
had apprehended two men, one of whom had been
identified by Police-sergeant Barker, the injured con-
stable, as being one of the men who attempted to bur-
glariously break and enter Woodside Grange,Woodside
Park, North Finchley, and afterwards brutally assaulted
Barker by striking him several times with a jemmy
early on the morning of the 30th ult. On Monday
night Detective-inspector Bannister had his suspicions
directed towards a man named Jesse John Cox, who
had been residing in the neighbourhood of North
Finchley. It was found that this man had purchased
a hat and scarf on the 30th ult., and without any ap-
parent reason had suddenly left the neighbourhood
and had gone to Croydon to live. On learning this
Bannister and the two other detective officers named
went to Day's common lodging house Middle-row,
Croydon, and there they apprehended Cox and a
companion of his named Edit', on suspicion of
beirg concerned in the attempted burglary. Cox
denied at first that that was his name. The
officers took the two men to the Albany-street
Police-station, where they were detained for
the night. On Tuesday, about noon, both the pri-
soners were conveyed to the Royal Free Hospital,
Gray's-inn-road, where they were placed among other
n_en and taken to the bedside of Barker, who was
asked whether he could identify any of them. The
injured officer, after looking at them for two or three
minutes, pointed out Cox, and, in answer to questions,
stated that he was exactly like one of the men who
attacked him. He added that he should not like to
swear to him. Detective-Inspector Bannister then told
Cox that he would be charged with attempted bur-
glary, and the attempted murder of the officer. To
this he made no reply. The other man, Edis, they
at once discharged from custody. Cox was afterwards
conveyed by train to Barnet, where he was formally
charged by Inspector Nutt.
In the evening of Tuesday the prisoner was brought
up at the Barnet Police-station and was charged,
before Mr. S. H. Curtis, with being concerned with
another man not in custody, with attempting to
burglariously break and enter Woodside Grange,
North Finchley, in the occupation of Dr. James
Tune, about one a.m. on the 30th of last month, and
further with violently assaulting Police-Sergeant
James Barker, whilst in the execution of his duty, at
the same time and place, by striking him on the
head and back with a jemmy at North Finchley.
The prisoner, who is a strongly-built man, aged
23, was described as a bricklayer, of 53, Burton-
street, Burton crescent.

Considerable anxiety was felt at New York as to the
safety of the sailing steamer, the Eagle, it having been
supposed at one time that she had foundered with all
hands. She, however, reached St. John's on Saturday
all safe. _

Mrs. Ann Bosworth died at Worcester recently, aged
102. Her youngest surviving child of a family of 10
is 55 Tears old The old lady had passed her last 20
years in widowhood. Only a little deafness marred the
full use of her faculties.

Major E. A. Burke, of the New Orleans " Times-
Democrat," has just been given an estate in Honduras
that will make him one of the largest landed pro-
prietors in the worll. It is 180 miles long, and, as
nearly as can be determined, 100 miles wide. _ _

Mr. William O'Brien means to go to Canada—if the
necessities of the case demand it—to denounce Lord
Lansdowne. He despies the threat of arrest in Canada,
because, as he said on Sunday, he would probably be
arrested if he remained in Ireland.

The Marquis de Noe, elder brother of the celebrated
caricaturist who, under the non de plume of "Chain,"
amused and delighted the Parisians for so many years,
has just passed away at his chateau, in the department
of the Gers, at the ripe age of 81.
A carter was crossing a worked-out colliery field near
Wolverhampton, on Saturday, when he saw a small
hand protruding through the soil. He then found in
the ground the dead body of a child, with the head
lying separa' e from the trunk and one arm missing.
During the first quarter of the present year 1040
miles of line were built by 49 United States railways.
This was only exceeded in the year 1882, when the
5 ear's total was 11,568 miles. The railroad earnings
increased during the quarter 17 per cent.
Lar,t week Calcutta was visited by a party of
Japanese commercial men, charged by the merchants
of Hiogo to inquire into the working of the Indian
Chamber of Commerce and the possibility of increasing
the trade of India and Japan. They propose to pro-
ceed to Bombay and prosecute their inquiries there.
A suicide of a distressing character occurred on
Tuesday in Leeds. The three young children of Mrs.
Harriet Turner were seen crying bitterly outside the
houA e door. When interrogated, they said their mother
was hanging up deal. The poor woman was found
quite dead hanging from the ceiling, she having sus-
pended herself to a nail in a wooden beam by means of
a towel and piece of tape round her neck. The woman,
who was 30 years of age, was deserted by her husband
some three years ago, and had in part been supported
by her brother. She was in deep poverty.
By annexing the Saharan coast between Capes
Blanco and Bojador, and about 150 miles of the
interior, and by treaties recently made with the Sheiks
of Adarer, still further east, Spain, says the Madrid
correspoedent of the "Times," introduces a wedge
between the French in Senegal and the southern
frontier of Morocco, besides gaming an important flank
position upon the projected railway from Algeria to
Senegal, if this ever be made. By the treaty of 1814
France had returned to her all the Senegal coast which
by charters in 1681, 1685, and 1686 had been conceded
to the French Senegal Company, whose extreme
northern trading station was placed in the Bay of
Arguin, slightly to the south of Cape Blanco.
A Berlin telegram says that it is announced from St.
Petersburg that a very flattering Imperial Rescript will
accompany the Grand Cordon of the Order of St.
Vladimir, which the Czar will confer on M. de Giers on
the occasion of the Russian Easter. M. Katkoff has
not yet left St. Petersburg, and it is stated that no
reconciliation has been effected between him and M.
de Giers.

Detective-Inspector Bannister said that on Monday
evening, about eight o'clock, he went, in company with
Detective-Sergeants Hearn and Brown, to a common
lodging-house at Middle-r3w, Croydon, where he saw
the prisoner in the passage. He told him they were
police officers, and he believed that he was Jesse Cox.
The accused replied that he was not, but on witness
asserting that he knew he was he admitted the fact.
Witness then told him that he exactly answered the
description of one of the men they wanted, and h 3
was going to apprehend him for being concerned with
another in attempting to break into the residence of
Dr. Tune, at North Finchley, on th.e 30th
of last month, and with violently assaulting
Police-Sergeant James Barker, to which he
replied "All right." Witness afterwards took the
prisoner to the Albany Police-station, and at a quarter.
past 12 on Tuesday afternoon he took him along with
six other men of nearly similar appearance to the
bedside of police-sergeant Barker at the Royal Free
Hospital, Gray's Inn-road, and there Barker, pointing
to the prisoner, said, "That is like one man, but I
can't say that he is; I would not like to swear to
him, but that is my impression." Witness, on the
morning of the alleged offence, went and examined
Dr. Turle's premises, when he found the drawing-
room besmeared with paint, and several spent matches
lying about outside. Police-sergeant Barker was
still lying in the hospital, suffering from his injuries.
Witness proposed upon this evidence to ask that a
remand might be granted. He proposed on a
future occasion to show that the prisoner was a
relative of one of Dr. Tune's servants, and that the
crowbar found had been taken from a building near
by. It would also be shown that a hat and scarf
were round near to the spot where the struggle with
the officer took place, and that the accused later on
the same day bought a hat and scarf, having borrowed
the money to do so. It was also shown that on the
night previous to the outrage the prisoner left the
place where he had previously been sleeping, and had
not. returned. _

Four Envoys from the Mandi's successor at Khartoum
have boen received at Wady Haifa bearing letters to
the Queen, the Sultan, and the Khedive. They pro-
ceeded thence on Tuesday to Cairo.
'The Duke of Cambridge was entertained at luncheon
on Tuesday by the officers of the Royal Artillery at
Dover Castle, and subsequently rode over to Walmer,
returning in the evening to Dover.
On Tuesday afternoon, according to annual custom,
the scholars of Christ's Hospital paid a visit to the
Lord Mayor of London, when each of the Grecians re-
ceived a guniea, the junior Grecians half a guinea each,
the Monitors 2s. 6d. each, and the other boys each is.
The Lord Mayor and civic dignitaries then attended
the service with the boys in Christ Church, Newgate.
street, when the Bishop of Liverpool preached the
Spi tal sermon.

A statement of claim has, it is stated, just been
lodged at the Admiralty for transmission to the Trea-
sury. wherein certain subordinate clerks set forth in
detail the circumstances under which their increments
of pay were stopped some 16 years ago. They point
out that a subsequent Treasury Order restored the in-
crements, but that through a clerical error they were
not made aware of this, and have gone on receiving
their rate of pay without increase ever since. The
total sum now claimed is over £lO,OOO, and is divisible
between 30 clerks. _ _

The Rev. Talbot medley, who has been vicar of
Holy Trinity, Margate, since 1883, has accepted the
living of St. Barnabas, Holloway, offered him by the
trustees, in succession to the Rev. F. A. C. Lillingstone,
preferred to St. James's, Clapham.
At a conference of Boards of Guardians of county
Durham, held at Auckland on Tuesday, it was decided
to frame a memorial to both Houses of Parliament, to
the Prime Minister, the Home Secretary, and the
President of the Local Government Board, in favour
of establishing county boards on the one-vote system,
such boards to have tbe control of all county police.
lunatic asylums, reformatories, county bridges, dock
and canal legislation, licensing, and the initiating of
legislation on such subjects as local option.
The King of the Belgians on Tuesday paid a visit to
the People's Palace, Mile-end-road, East London, and
was condncted over the site and the Queen's Hall by
Sir E. H. Currie, the chairman. On his return through
Whitechapel King Leopold was shown over several of
the wards of the London Hospital. '
At a meeting of the Yarmouth Town Council on
Tuesday the Mayor stated that it was fully expected
that the Prince of Wales would visit Yarmouth on the
18th of May, and that there was also a great proba-
bility that the Princess of "Tales would accompany
him, upon the occasion of laying the foundation stone
of the new hospital. The Mayor added that the Prince
had, through Lord Suffield, expressed a wish that the
town should incur no particular expense. and that he
would be willing to receive an address from the Cor-
poration.
The fishing smack Sisters, of Kirkcaldy, was picked
up bottom upwaris at sea and towed into the Tyne on
Tuesday. It has been ascertained that she left Kirk-
caldy on the 13th ult, for the fishing-grounds of May
Island, and was out in the recent severe gale, in which
she is believed to have capsized, drowning her crew of
seven hands.

Thb prisoner declared that he was innocent of this
charge.
Mr. Curtis remanded him for a week.

The annual session of the Good Templar Grand
Lodge of England was resumed on Tuesday morning at
the Memorial Hall, Farringdon-street, London, under
the presidency of Brother Joseph Malins, Grand
Worthy Chief Templar. There was a goodly attend•
ance of both representatives and visitors. In the
evening a procession was formed, which marched to
St. Paul's Cathedral, where a special service was held,
the sermon being preached by Canon Barker, Rector
of Mary lebone.
An Odessa telegram announces that 480 Russian
racers, accused of complicity in the recent attempt
on the Tzar's life, have reached that port as prisoners
On their way to the convict colony of Saghalien.
Another Nihilist proclamation has been issued in
which it is declared that the Tzar will be executed
Within three months.

The " Times " Philadelphia correspondent reports
that an extensive conspiracy has been discovered among
the railway servants of the Panhandle railway, between
Pittsburz and Columbus, Cincinnati, for the systensatio
robbing of goods trains. Forty-six of the employes
were arrested. More than £40,000 worth of goods
are known to have been stolen.

---A-Vien—na—Wirrespondent saya that it is reported on
good authority that Turkey has expressed a willing.
nets to pin the Triple Alliance.
At Southwark Police•court on Tuesday, C. Baxter
and Elizabeth Potts were committed for trial on the
charge of murdering a young woman named Culling.
At the Thames Police-court on Tuesday, John
Driscoll was sentenced to a month's imprisonment for
a savage assault on William Page.
A y oung sturgeon, weighing 60 lb., was caught on
Monday in the Shannon, and gent on Tuesday by the
Limerick fishermen as a present to Mr. Gladstone. The
Mayor declined to take part in the presentation, owing
to the action of the fishermen some time ago in de—
manding payment for a sturgeon forwarded by them to
Mr. Parnell.

At a meeting of the Tydwald Court, held at Douglas,
Isle of Man, on Tuesday, the necessary votes for
harbour and education were approved, but a heated
debate ensued upon the Attorney-General's proposal
to vote five hundred pounds to the Imperial Institute.
It transpired that a private meeting of both branches
of the Leg'slature had been held, with the view to
ensuring a unanimous vote, in order to dispel the idea
that Manamen were not sufficiently loyal to vote the
money. Several members declared that
carried
dy
bhyada
given pledges to their constituents to oppose the
motion, which, however, was ultimately
large majority.
At Great Yarmouth Police•court on Tuesday, John
Cooper, sen., overseer of the parish, was sentenced in
his absence to three months' imprisonment, he having
failed to answer a summons issued by the public
auditor, to show cause why he had not paid the sum of
£1147 deficit in his account. •
At Sutton Coalfield Park on Monday night four
persons took a boat OD Windley Pool, and whilst
attempting to change seats it capsized, precipitating
its occupants into the water. A young woman named
Alice Barlow, of Lozells, Birmingham, was dro
Constable A. Pratt, of the Torquay police, was in-
strumental in saving the lives of two persons at mid-
night on Monday. He was attracted to the harbour by
cries for help, and learning that a man and a woman
were in the water he divested himself of his overcoat,
tunic, and boots, and sprang in to their assistance. He
eupported one on each arm for a quarter of an hour,
when a coastguard arrived with a boat, and helped to
bring them ashore. The man, a visitor from London,
named Cable, and his companion were removed to a
house close by, and with medical assistance recovered.
The woman was subsequently taken to the police.
station, and remanded on a charge of attempting to
commit suicide. It is stated that she had been in com-
pany of some young men, and was the worse for drink.
when she threw herself into the water, and Cable went
to rescue her, but not being able to swim, he, as well as
the woman narrowly escaped drowning.
A Rothesay correspondent telegraphs that on
Monday night the steamer Argyle left Rothesay
crowded with excursiobists who had been enjoying
the Glasgow Spring holiday. When about half a mile
from the pier one of the floats broke with a crash,
and the vessel was unable to proceed. A scene of
great confusion ensued, women screaming and wringing
their bands, and some fainting. One man jumped
from the paddle-box into the water, and swam to a
small boat. Another man made an attempt to jump
into a boat which had approached alongside, and cap,
sized it, th-owing himself and the occupants into the
water; but all were speedily rescued. A crowd of
boats arrived on the scene, and after an hour's delay
sufficient repairs were made to enable the steamer to
reach Wemyss Bay, where the passengers were disem-
barked.