Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1893-09-09 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

THIEF CHASED BY A LADY.  ,On Friday, at North London Police-court, before Mr. Rose, a respectably-dressed young man, who refused his name and address, was charged with being concerned, with other men not in custody, in stealing a sovereign. Mrs. Emily Oliver, a w dow, residing at 77, Calabria-road, Highbury, a id that on Thursday afternoon the prison. r and two other men came to the house to see some rooms s e had to let. When inside they went upstairs to the bedroom of Mrs. Ada Wyner, and when that lady started to see what they were about all three jumped down the stairs and can off. Mrs. Wyner said the men had taken a sovereign from her dressing-table, and Mrs. Oliver went (without a tonnet,and only wearing slippers) in pursuit. The men ran to the left, and Mrs. Oliver to the right, so as to meet them. She lost sight of two of the men. She saw the prisoner go into a barber's shop at St. Paul's-road, and followed him in and accused him. He, however, would not come out, and she waited for him. When at last he came out she seized him, saying, "You wicked man! You have robbed me; and shall not go! " The prisoner struck her so heavy a blow on the left arm that she thought he had broken her arm. Just then a policeman in plain clothes came by and chased the prisoner, who was again running away. Mrs. Oliver added that the prisoner said, "The money won't be found upon me," before anything had been said to him about stolen money.—Aithur Thacker, Police-constable 342, of the N division, said he was passing the barber's shop just as the lady was struggling with the prisoner. tie (witness) was not on duty, but he chased the prisoner, caught him, and detained him after a struggle until Constable Gunn came to his assistance. At this point Detective-sergeant Drew asked for a remand to enable him, if possible, to connect the prisoner with ether similar robberies, and also to get the ether two men connected with the present charge. —The prisoner was remanded.  Mr. Borne Jones is engaged in painting a portrait of Mr. Gladstone's youngest grand-daughter, Mll4 Dorothy Drew.  Mr, Spencer Balfour's Oxfordshire retreat, Burcot House, has been sold. On the magnificent tennis. court Mr Balfour is said to have expended £2,0 )0. There has just been born at Bainsford, Falkirk, a boy whose mother is 17, his grandmother 34, Ills great-grandmother 54, and his great-great-grand mother 83, and all are alive and well.  Henry Nicholls, a retired pawnbroker, was committed for trial at Leeds on Saturday, charged •.v't attempting to murder a young woman named Mar Ann Nuttrase,with whom he had lived, by stabbing her in several places, and knocking her head aga'ns a wall.  Information reached Dover on Saturday afternoon to the effect that the mail packet Marie Henriette, which left the Admiralty Pier for Ostend at noon with 280 passengers aboard, was on the Goorlwi ns disabled. Assistance was sent to her, and she was brought off, reaching her destination at 7 o'clock. A Boston (Lincolnshire) correspondent of the Leeds Mercury sends particulars of what he characterises as a unique natural phenomenon in the shape of a tree which, without having been grafted, bore plums last year ani apples this. The leaves of tbe tree partake of the nature of the leaves of both of these kinds of fruit trees. A remarkable fatality occurred at Firkenhead on Sunday evening. A lad, named James Diamond. aged 11 years, was sitting on the roof of a building by the side of the railway, when he slipped, and fell upon the metals. A passenger train was ap preaching, and before the lad could be pulled off the rails he was run over and killed.