The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-09-20 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Mr. Gladstone's salary iB fixed at .£7,500, in ac-
cordance with the precedent In the cane of 81r Robert Peel.

A large flax mill, leased by Mee. J. and G. Paton,
was destroyed by nee at Montrose on Saturday, the damage
being estimated as 436,000.

The consumption of foreign potatoes is remarkable.
In the Mit eight months of 1571 the declared Caine ern
£125 521 In 1572, £364,470, and In the last eight mouths as
much as £1,838,723.

An address of sympathy from the Catholic prieets
In many of the States of America hu been sent to the
Catholic wieste of the German Empire, to encourage them In
their struggle with the Government.

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It ia estimated that the cotton crop in the United
State. will be 4,000,006, bales, and the wheat crop 250 000,000
bushels.

It is proposed to have a second training ship in the
Thames for boys, the Chwhester being ahead, so Mil that
no more can for the present be received.
The Amazon, a Swedish schooner was wrecked on
the Goodwin bands on blonds; night. Tke crew were saved
by the Rsmagste lifeboat.

The Archbiehop of Canterbury has appointed Wed-
nesday, tie Sad of Docember, all • day of interseeelon in the
Church of F.agland on behalf of missions, and has Invited
blonoonformW Oliristlans to loin in observing the day.
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It ia stated that the Liberal party in Chester have
thic,ded to •1 k Mr. Gladvtone to become a candidate her that
city at the text general election, In conjunction With Mr.
Norman Grosvenor, the present Liberal member.
The Leeds cloth•dressers, after being on etrike for
an advance of wages for eight weeks, agreed on Monday to
resume work, and to leave the matter In dispute in the hands
of the mayor.

The Bordeaux journals state that the manufactory
of dynamite at St Medard-onJulle hag, just been completely
destroyed by an explosion. the third that has taken place
since the hum •a,lon of the establishment. One workman
named Poulol vu killed on the spot, and four persons were
more or leas injured ; of these last, it. Dordeux, engineer,
has since died, and • workman has suffered amputation of •
leg. blot • trace of the workshops remain.

King Victor Emmanuel left Turin early on Tuesday
morning for Vienna. Ella Majeaty, who was accdnpanleal by
• large suite, was loudly chaired on taking his departure.
from the station. Several houses In Rome were decorated
with flags in honour of his Majesty's Journey.
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The total receipts into the Excheriner from the let
April last to the ISth September were £32 08t,393, agshost
sal,boS,7 1 In the corresponding period of lest year. The
expenditure has been £38.303,710. The balances lithe Bank
of England and Bank of Ireland on Saturday laat amounted
to £4,935,223.

Mr. Knatchbull.Hugiesen laid the lotmdation stone
of a working men's hall 1111 Ashford on Saturday. In the.
course of Ms address he made NOM• pointed observations on
the efforts that are occasionally, made by in rn persons to
force temporanoe on other people, to which he strongly ob-
jected. Re preferred to trust, not to harsh leatrictiour, but
to the provision of better means of employment and aoloy.
meet.

On Saturday afternoon, as a train was approaching
Blrchirgton Station on the Lundon, Chatham, and Dover
line, the euglue came in contact with several cattle, which
had strayed on the line, tilting two Alderney cows and in.
luring several others. The engine was thrown oft the line,
and several of the passengers wore much shaken. The traffic
was delayed about an hour.

A dispute as to time and wagee between the muter
and operative MMODS has been satisfactorily settled at Bath.
This is the first occasion upon which members of the United
Kingdom Society of Masons have agreed to submit their
claims to arbitration. The request of the men waa to kayo
work two hours earlier, Mr., st half-put twelve on Saturdays,
and have a halfpenny per hoar advance. after considering
the arguments, the arbirasor—D. F. D. Collard, Esq., the
district county oourt judge—granted the demand.
The "Claimant" visited Spennymoor, in South
, Durham, on Saturday, and onnteoded In a pigeon shooting
match for £2OO with Mr Gardner, the proprietor of &sport-
ing ground at that place. The match was whammed by about
4,000 persona. Mr. Gardner won easily. The Claimant being
dissatisfied, another match for 810 • side was arranged, and
was won by him after a tie.
At Saturday's witting of the Old Catholic Congress
a resolution was passed appointing a sub•cominUtee to devise
means for effecting a union of all Christian confesalens. It
was also resolved to establish a fund for theological Cadent'
and clergymen. During the sitting the Dean of Chester ex-
pressed in a long speech his sympathy with Bishop B.einkenv.
The assembly separated after having given cheers for the
President.

Froln official statistics just printed it appears that in
1872 there were 900,771 plaints entered atul 554 cases sent
trom the finpsalor Court The decrease of platuts Tem 17,783
oompared with the previous yam. From the establishment
of the County Courts in 1847 to the list of December bat, the
total number of pintail; *Mated was 18,200,811, for an aggre-
gate amount of £48,794,746. The amount for which judgment
was obtained Miring the same period was £24,732 034.
The old castle of Inverlochy, whither the Queen has
been vialttus, has quite • fabulous antiquity, but the archi-
nature of it shows it belongs to the times et Edward the
Pint. The castle, however, which Lier Majesty is to occupy
I. a modern building, erected, for the most part, by the
present Lord AbLogee and his tatbee. The piaos is rich in
lentoriced Iteentnalollll, for then, hi 1046, the Marquis of
Montrose defeated Aryls In • mat bolds, 11 Mid which
Sir Walter Scott vividly portrays In one of Ids denim. Tie
Logend of Montrose.

A telegram from Rome of Setardey's date reports a
Street improvement in the health ol the Pope.
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At Shreveport, in Lot:deism', twenty dentin from
yellow fever are taking place dilly.
Forged French stamps are the fated Belgian
novelty.
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Grave accounts come from iParis regarding the
cholera During the week ending on the 12th inst. there
were 107 deaths. An outbreak 01 cholera is also reported
from Lisbon.

Colonel Hyde has made a collection of Indian coine,
and caused a complete set of 411001 to be prepared in gold
for presentation to the Queen..

A veteran offi-er obeervea, " I never place reliance
on a Luau oho la telling what he would have done hal to
Wen tLer e. I havo uoti,ed that somehow thla kind ot people
never do geli thine."

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A Paris correspondent says that the Paris papers
ais fail of aniehlo., most of thew no doubt owlng to the de.
pressing effect of the weather.
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Nut a tingle person wae charted at the Mention
House on Saturday with any (Armee , and in acturdance with
erratum, the L did Mayor, au sitting magistrate. received
pair of white gloves,
The Liverpool Posi ea ye that the adeowson of the
Rectory of Liverpool has been sold for £14,000. It is be-
lieved to have been purchased by the new High Church
society, which him been formed for the purpose of presenting
clergy of pronounced " Catholic" views to the livings of Im-
portant parishes.
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A correapondent of The Times says that the Penn.
cylvarrian ironmasten, as may naturally be supposed, are in
ercellent spirits at the successful competition they are
making in various peril of the world with those of England.
Mr. Henry Richard, MP., has received a number
of letters from eminent personages in Italy expressing
sympathy with his crusade in favour of International ar-
bitration.
As the Empress of Austria I suffering somewhat
from an affection of the lungs, she will perhaps not leave
lachl to come to Vienna during the cleft of the King of
taly.
Efforts are being made in Liverpool to bring home
300 emigrants from Brazil and in the event of not securing
the CO-operatlop of the Brazilian emigration officials, the
Yuglialli Foreign °film la to be appealed to.
Inspector Brennan, who belonged to the Metro-
politan Police Force for many years, and was well known •
a detective of penotis who manufactured or sold base coin
has Nat died. He Left the police some time ago.
The Paris papers announce the death of a girl of int.
manse size, for some time exhibited in • booth on the Boule-
vard Voltaire. She was only it years of age, and weighed
An attack of apoplexy carried her off in an Instant.

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Three virtuous Chicago roughs attacked an old man
whom they found Belling on Sunday, and, after knocking
him down and Jumping upon him, asked Isba it his Bible
didn't teach hirn better than to tab on Sunday.
Archbishop Manning has not yet fully reoovered
from his recent Indisposition. He will lay the foundation-
stone of the serninery of pastoral theology, near Belford, on
the 22nd bit., and oonsecrate the Blallop of Omaropolls on
the 29th hut.

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We are gravely informed that several Mormon
alders have arrived in Paris, on their way to Maim and
Lorraine. with the view to progsgste In those provinces the
Mormon Islth, and to carry if their adepts to dell Lake.

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A morganatic daughter of the late Duke of Bruns-
wick, the Countees de Cory, hu catered suit in the Swiss
Courts to secure her right to a hell share of the property of
harlots father. The reigning Duke of Brunswick supporta
her claim.

On Monday morning a passenger train from Lee-
maliagow to Glasgow, on the Caledonian line, ran Into a
mineral train. Several of the passenger' were severely
shaken, and one in not expected to survive.

Mr. Alfred Walton, of the London Man.' Society,
has been selected by the working men and trade Societies of
the pottery towns forming the borough of Stokaupon-Trent
to be the working men's candidate Mine next general election.

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There were great Roods on Sunday on the north-
east coast of Scotland. Many of Wie railway bridges near
Forfar wore Injured, and the Caledonian 'railway traffic wee
mach interrupted.

"The only new oirenmetance about the Duke of
Brunswick is • pampll:tirving that he IA not dead at aIL
it lithe fate of Odin ed men to be proved to be living
ater being embalm and petrified. There Cr, people In
Mom who seriously believe Napoleon 111. is 3W' alive and
doing well, and will be heard of some floe morning at Stras-
bourg or Boulogne-Ear-mar "—Court Jaunts..

There is some Wee of removing Newgate Prison
from the Old Bailey to the suburbs, which would to decidedly
the most fitting place for such an establishment The value
of the ground upon which this grins structure steads Is some-
thing enormous, for It Is In full view of the Holborn Viaduct,
and the whale neighbourhood is rising into importance.

A letter from Moscow states that the committee of a
charitable society of that clty have resolved, to hooour of
the betrothal of the thand Duchess Marie ekimandrovne
with the Duke of Edinburgh, to erect at their own expense
a building to furnish lodging' for the poor all low rate, and
to give it the name of "Prince Alfred of England's Rome for
the Poor.

" It is nunoured that a rare piece of good fortune
has befallen a general practitioner in the north of London at
the hands of • grateful patient. Toe patient, lately deceased,
Is mid to have left hie medical man the principal part of his
property, to the value of F. 20 rOO. We have reason to believe
the tumour not unfounded."—Cmert Journal.
The large number of desertions among the troope
qtartered at Chatham, and from the army generally, is
engaging the •erious attention of the military authorities,
and a committee of officers hm been ordered to assemble at
the War-odlce to consider and report upon the 'abject.

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A French paper supposes that • whale may be only
an antediluvian 'prat, but Woks It fortunate that men are
deprived of Mu faculty of utillmitod growth. "At the pre-
sent price of bread," It Says, "It would be, to ray the least,
generally Inoonvenlent."

Four men and three lade were killed at Stonehouse,
Devon, on Monday. The deceived were excavating at the
ace,n, of the late diontrous fire, when a wall about E. 03. high,
if. Oft. long, and 18in thick, toppled over and buried them.
Seven were killed , the eighth, though severely injurea, is
expected to recover.

The returns of diseased animals in Kent for last
week contain, for the tint time during the last two years, no
mention ol the foot and mouth disease. There are at present
I n the county 97 cases of sheep scab and four of Dieu°.
pneumonia
On Saturday morning, about ten o'clock, a respect.
ably dressed man committed suicide at the Battersea station
of the South London Extension of the South Coast Railway.
it appears that as a train was coming in he was seen to Jump
o.ff.th_e p.ltifvuorim£obe,f:Le thoef
''49e.'".lfl'ehiliod*hyp."nOetrd oaZarttshtman.
Inquest.

;The Budder rays :—" We have built in England and
Wales, In the way of dwelling houses alone, upwards of one
thousand millions worth of property, roughly speaking, since
the year 1801 , and within the ten years only between 161 anti
1871 we have built dwelling-houses to the v.due of more than
£220,000,00J sterling."
By a Parliamentary return of all railway accidents
reputed to the 11,ard of Trade in the United Kingdom in
187211 appears that the total number of killed was 1,145, and
3,038 were h.jure 1. These numbers include railway servantr,
persons killed in passing over level crossings, trespassers, and
suicides. The total number of passengers killed was 127 and
1,452 were injured.

Smith, the American poet laureate, haa received the
highly unremuneratt VA appointment of poet to the melodeons
and accordion/. Ills last pretty Idea Is the following motto
for 'oranges, as he has 11110 been appointed poet to a New
York confectioner:—" A man ought to cam himself In the
world as an orange- tree would If It could walk up and down
In the garden—swinging perfume from every little orange It
holds up to the air."

On -Monday, Mr. John Moore, aged sixty-eight
years, • gentleman residing at Blackheath, with his wife and
brother-in-law, was at the it Pancras terminus of the Mid-
land Rill way, intending to travel into Cheshire. Ills wife
had got into the carriage and deceased was about to step In
when be tell back on to the platform dead. He had for
tome years been suffering from heart disease, and medical
examination allowed he died from syncope.
A newspaper correspondent in New York refers to
the tact that iron Is now teing exported from America to
lingland, and that the Importation from thls country to the
United States hu been entirely suspended for the last three
months. He is of opinion, however, that • rise in the price
of American iron may soon be expected, and then this new
export trade will probably ware Meanwhile iron ship-
building in America has recommenoed within the last two
years, and the bualnewseems likely to be permanently re-
established.
A violent thunderstorm passed over Manchester on
Sunday afternoon. The lightning flashes were very vivid,
and about half-past two, when the storm was at He height,
the lightning struck some of U. wires connected with a
building at Knott Mill used as a deret for post-oface tele.
graph stores, and among others what is known as the earth
wire. By this means the electric current was conveyed In
some manner to. gupipo, which was melted. the VW being
at once Ignited. The flames spread to the building, but some
policemen fortunately extinguished them before any great
damage wu done
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Additional details of the great Nova Scotia storm
are being constantly received, confirming the reports of
enormous hues, especially among the shipping, and showing
that there has been also a considerable 'loss of Life. 'co
storm for many years has caused so many wrecks, and the
devastation of this one throughout Nova Scotia, Cape
Breton, and Prince Edward's Island may be described as
universal. No accurate estimate of the loas of life can be
given, but fully 50 death' are already reported.

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Mr. Henry Dunant, oriignator of the Diplomatic
Geneva Convention, delivered if lecture on Monday afternoon
at Brighton In support of an international convention for
Improving the treatment of prisoners of war. He acknow-
ledged the good work done in England during the late
Franco German struggle, but demanded more systematic
action. Without an international law to fir uniformly the
fate of prisoners of war, all would be left to the arbitrary
will of men, and we should have deplorable scenes of inhu-
manity occurring under our own eyes eta time when every
nation was boasting of its civilisation.
In connection with the meeting of the Association
for the Advancement of Science, at Lyens, the story is told
of • well-known Geneva professor, that, on the occasion of
one of the expeditions of the Association Into the corm try,
they were thrown upon the resources of • Necondrate cap
for refreshmeet. The professor demanded of the garcvn Ii
they had any chicory. "Yes," and a supply was brt ught.
"Have you any more " "Ceitsinly," and some more made
Its appearance. "Ii this all I" " Yes, monsieur. that is
all our supply.' "Now, will you make us some coffee?"

The West Coati Mail of Valparho gives more details
shoot the earthquake of the 7th of July, which was felt all
along the booth coast of Peru. At l'etorca, the parish church,
gaol, barracks, market, and principal ochoot for boys, all
had their walls rent and otherwise damaged, leaving them In
& ruinous state. 2io Urea were lost, though many had legs
and arms fractured. Shocks were felt at lllapel and subter-
raneous noise, heard daily. At Serena the severity of the
shocks canned great alarm, there being aho aubterraueoua
1101118 L in Qulllota many buildlngs are ruined ;at Ligna the
damage IS estimated at about 10,000 doh . and that at
Lienachast 137,000.
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The North Staffordshire ironworkers, at a meeting
held on Monday afternoon, inatrUcted their de agate, at the
approaching national conference of theirslase, to support a
proposal for an lucre's@ of wages. Slundieneoualy Irt th this
announcement, there are two others bearing on the same
subject, one being that 100 tons of American Du iron, war-
ranted equM to Staffordshire, were sold on Monday to •
Liverpool MID at at... price than the quotation for English
Iron; and the ether that the ironmasten and coalowners of
Mouth Wale. have formed an association for mutual protec-
Um against the descend" of the row and their union.
A little smack, the Hero, left Douglas on Saturday
afternoon, bound for liwyport. When about ten miles oil,
Ii came on a gale from KAI., and a portion of the mLis were
blown away. The captain then returned to Douglas, and got
bivk about eleven o'eloek at night. The opening between
Qben Victoria Pier and the old red pier befog mistaken for
the harbour, the veered got ashore, and immediately began
to go to pleas. Tee Rocket Brigade fired a line to the
smear, but It want over the meat and, In endeavouring to
tea; h it, two of the men were drowned, and a third man wrie
washed off the wreck and met with • similar fate. The teen.
wan witnessed by thonsands of persons congregated ors Um
pier. Estraordinary deed. of bravery were don" it, the
Douglas boatmen, who rescued five men from the bringing
vesseL

Advices from Madrid date that the devemment has
etrength of the army when necessary. The severest (Ilia-
resolved to adopt a very vigor°. Policy, and to Increase the
• hto be maintained, and all Manama of the service are
to be reorganised. It is aald that the Government has
24,000 men of the reserve In Madrid ready for Immediate
duty. Meanwhile private advice@ have been reoeteed to too
eapttal that the Republicans, 11000 etrott,g and with 14 gam
have attacked near Telma. 14,000 Cantata tiring 9 guns. The
Carnets are said to have been routed with great loss. In
Baroelona a demonstration has been made by large crowds
Mumbling In the streeta and shouting "Long live the
Clanton I" "Down with the lawyers I" No 001111i0k bow.
Am, wllb Ike aolkorfts took Ono:

Since the Netnews' el. ti n of 1968 the Bonsereethil
ha,,, wdn toen.ty . 6 and log Wren.
The declare.' value of the petroleum impacted
; he w.a lie ; hal year only duda,
The total area of British India is officially eteethe
60,919 square miles.
"Gracious me!' exclaimed an Aberdeen lady a.
witness hog, "how should I know anything &bold 41144
I don't know anything about?"
The importation of eggs increues. k the last*
mouths the doctored value wee T 1,797,153, against di,
of the preceding year.
" Seventeen killed and over seventy wounded " th
latest report on the railway accident at tho
over the Douro. Only 16 penous escaped Uninjured, .".•
It is shown by theludicial statistics, loot
that last year the number of c Henan against the d
was 9,671 , thee, were 10,173 In the preceding yes,
I The I; rand Duchess of Baden, at present in Ens
lan-I, Is actively engaged in studying our ',stem of heiggii
maeunreunent, with a view to improve the adminkgraties
charitable institutions in Germany.

The importation and consumption of foreign
still on the increase. In the eight months ended ths esb
the value was £418,979, against £199,700 In the pin,
year.
The belle who originated the Grecian beadle
at congress Halt Saratoga Remorse is Piloted eatt
cheerful countenance. Abe say; Mould% she Med eir mit
she never arrived at a satisfactory beau
A cruiosity in shorthand writing is shows at th
Vienna Ethibltion of am fichsvider, professor el ow
graphy at Vienna It consists of the whole Iliad of left
swiss. lain mall I space as to be enclosed In a nem*
American winerab oltgolimese and brokers sell hi.
quantitim of petroleum to champagne makers. rho eloF
is said to be sweetened with glycerine, m sugar rises
answer, aerated bya soda-water machine, mad sold seniii
room coomuspilos. It produces terrible headache.

Persona who have ieoeived from the Shah thedhah
polished decoration of the Order of the Lion lad tha
be interested, if not planed, to learn tbst ha usboons
corderred the sense honour upon a ronjarer who omit
him at Constantinople.

Through the breaking of an axle a oollidon ksk
place between two goods trains near Bury oi
night. An enginedriver and two guards weeatilga
Great damage was done so the tolling sleek and eirdaerb
delay was oocasioned by the blocking of the Has.
An observant rummer traveller in Scotland segg:...
Scottlah lead.. still ran about the streets, Ind d
capital, shoeless NA rectingleu. The Odd ring is as
some girls In travelling wear bonnets and no show, ess
girls shoes and no head-drer, marten shoes sad ee
leg.: but I saw to-dey by the Poet-office a girl with raw
able shoe., bertha, and high heels, and no stockings w
"People sometimes ask, unthinkingly, what is di
good of Murry t As an answer to flu Inquiry, wee,.
just quote one rule cireamstanoe which oocorred Is irei
Lodge the other evening. The Board of Bonevolettos new
mended for votes of money—not one less than £5O, eel is
highest 1.250, the hat to the widow of a brother r—gaut
Journal.

A Rome Rule demonstration wax held at Trigs. et
!Sunday. A procession marched through the town willltaat
and banners with mottoes, such r God save Irskaat,*
Home Rule," di., and carrying green bougha At lb.__
lag resolutions in favour of Rome Hale, and wisely am
demising the language meg by The tr'Dowoightie Wiliam
to Mr. john Mar were adopted. The rain tell heavily thi
whole day, and marred toA great extent the memo 0 tM
demonstration.

Discouraged at the non-gnomes of their efforts to
obtain an increase of pay, the London Auxiliary Palma net
on Saturday night, and resolved to inoceporate tiweeselees
with the United Kingdom General Poet Office and 1.
Service Benefit bociety. It was stated that elihough j,
auriliarles perform similar duties to the remise
and are frequently at work from seven In the morefog"2
eleven at night, their pay Is only its, per week, mid thal
they are often worse on than dock labourers.
" Solid satisfaction may be derived from the saisain
Hon of the Builder that during the century we have tat
England a thousand millions' worth of houses. Theis In Ws
umsidersisly improved the real estate in the ham d m
'eligible' bland, es auctioneers might call to
queathed to um by the eighteenth century. Th,en
would be, no doubt, still greater between the Englind d Ms
fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and the country es sh
now, enriched with hotline In big and little groups, or lyhil
detached, either amid 'tail isnoeshal nem, or 'earth
little look of leaves.' "—Daily Telegraph.
The Permissive Bill party at Bath have adapted,
I resolution erprunng regret that none of the fourteen mai
dates now seeking to represent that city are willing to 0
I the people the protection provided by the Faimbet,.
and pledging their friends not to vote for any of time as
Waters at She next election. An amendment, sappeisi by
Mr. Handel Coesham, "Thai the question of electoral sehea
be deferred until every effort has been made to mad*
the wheat course to panne," was defeated by a Imp
majority.
Late on Saturday night a murder vas committed et
Dulhigton. by an ironworker named Charles Dawn*, the
victim being a young woman who had lived with hhn as hig
wife. He attacked her In the house with • coal rake on tha
head and body. He then, as his victim screamed,
her neck on the floor with one ef his heavy hoots, whilefl
the other he kicked her. He jumps)] on her abdomen, en
finally seized a large earthern pen sod dashed it upon ken
heed, killing her on the spot. The whole of the sheds me
witnessed by a man who was deterred from interfering by.
loaded revolver which Dawson held. Dawson deenspsi,
and the police guarded the different read, from the is,.,
and smirched several of his haunts. At three o'clock ul
morning • dog recognised to be Dawson's was followed *
Sergeant Cuthbert, who broke epen a door where the mind
was scratching to obtain admlaeloo, and captured Dams,
who was slitting on • chair, and although armed with
leaded revolver, offered no resistanoe.