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Widnes Examiner. — 1901-08-02 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

FRANCIS.  Mary j EVIDENCE OF MISS ane Francis, a waitress at Mrs Speakman's, Knutsord, said that about a quarter to seven she took a walk in the lane. At a gate near some haystacks she !Isar a man whom she identified as the prisoner, but w_ hem she did not know at the time. Lower down the road three horsemen passed her. Two of them stopped, Ibud one dismounting, took hold of her by the waist. Be fad Ike bridle over his arm, and she told him she was fr„!ffhtened of horses. He then gave the horse to his t'l,ehd Yarwood, and he kissed her rather roughly and sled to take liberties with tier She resisted in evert, 71,4,,79 and screamed twice as bard as she could. Rowe ;t4sti let her go, and the two men rode off. During the egle witness heard some shots fired. While walka"g hack to Knutaford, she came to a curve in the road, .rscl when she had passed the curve she saw a man lying .41 the hedge, with another leaning over him and doing rtaf thing with his hand over laird. The man who was g'Tng over had on an overcoat, which she took to be grey in colour, and which was •so long that it most tripped him as he went along. iYhen you got round the curve what did be do -P—He "t and went away. I don't know whether he saw roe or not. Was he walking:or running?—Running as hard as life Would take him. „ Proceeding, witness said that while she was hesita c`lq what to do, two men, named Toft and Daniels, ikiwe IV. and it was round, that the man lying on the ground was John Botild, and that he was dead. ,b_W the man who ran away the same as the man you ii Ws, clseeen before ?—I can't swear. What was the impression on your mind at the time ?: do believe it was the same mail in a sense. Cross-examined by Mr Ellis Griffith, she said that she told the coroner that the man had a dark coat, and the other a grey or dark grey coat. She had also said that she eould not say that either the two men or the two coats were alike. Questioned in regard to the assault upon her, she said that Rowe's behaviour lasted about ten minutes. When she screamed the man let her go. You did not scream for ten onion:ea P—No. I had not the strength to scream for ten minutes; but I had Providence given to me when I was in the arms of quite 4, stranger. The police had been to see her many times, she had not spoken about the case to anyone elseolnee the murder she had been staying at Welshpool. Hugh Daniels, gardener. of King-street. Koutsford, !Atated that between 6.30 and seven o'clock on the evenin question he was walking along Mere ileath-lane t\.??.wards Koutsford with a man named George Toft. , „ hen near the Squirrel Wood they heard two pistol •eota and a scream. Further on they saw Miss Francis, Ihd found the dead body of John Bould. Witness went t's the police. ~,
Widnes Examiner. — 1889-11-02 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

SAL-Add. T. Niivaa . With a Mew to iniprove dem sa d . ; n't„,.._. °L.. ;Lt. ... -,:- ~,,..., I.'„,II:7.,:;„ ,',1,,7„ !-..i.. of nblral rnionnc. by planting temptations to the isibee. The attorney-lien:nal mid the prosecution I p,,Aged j.„„, o tra,,,,mor ,if Dn. slightest tee. lie haid t. 1.. sig. ,dM fir i i mane. No sooner had they 1 Ammo,. Mumma or Cutcoarx.-A woman named *-- e g-..‘g I ..,,,ks• them ~,onvetabka •if the building minted he • P"......• ••''' .3" e:".".." wa- ••":"Yf--- 7t•j0„,,,,. I no. vita tddr....i.ns enongstthe people a Ittii, tam. would he satisfied if the rev. gentlemen entered into I dime m (him they mom. th.. bEek sood „jorithat ec,. ' Fartntb ay. lies for some weeks tarn lodging in a home atetnatter very., tion, cot simeatioa. Mutt tis a• , sobjert and they iv si told sin. that they Mr, otici t,..., a f • , were Inu tek. 'marketable, the .tilia.,ol Attendance Committe. , Applanse.) CM the one hand they were peratodino th.. nrognimnees . come los fior judgment when called ' mould WAS eolll,Nited ris. and VII twice. On the second .in kligh-larni, Kilburn, was on Wminesday aniseed t•s.r ;noosing bs do vse, simjev to mkt, lits stet.. loon in- . tom day in the week no tl emseves, renedacy.• iii.ebbt rt,a,itier wild it n the.: Want. and brkeg the 'nab • „. :„." o 'r 1 jorople notto use strong drink, and on the other hone upon. liallogher w. put back for trial aa the nest side the dep.'s-, ! tun. if ....d.e,te, am! arer tl,ey had :hemeneres and their tinkbo.ll,llUt they.. - ....a. JO A , , I oiassion the ...tal burst the :wind with a lotid explo- the atbanpted murder se' her two children-one four tef befsare theta...el link. Day can CAMP ba the Town " . ~." .* "toy were ti.rowina open the .ber. snd tempting them . wit.. rosin", the Attorney-gene. stating that.. did gon ond .o,..shea ou oenned jt, ...tribe n.,.,nn,,,.. &an, . years ‘4,1 and the other seven inoinliS-WllO Were fODMI turned it out tdi. Winner it would .: 0050 (IP clouds! ...ne publican tete Ins h.euse .men they foutd tient-4,RA Pami and h.ed horn. Meieingu hen.. Illear, heer.) xs. use. Tiny Wen. MICMISiStent. A. Christians they not intend to pr weed further with the tharge against I t . kesrbeit halson open I lot it' flying upwards, qr.:ok tht man on tl. pleform of i la a slate •4 aactaihhi•avin".• car" with . Iged" . 1.133 and be no 1... re .51,1 t Ise 10.14 ia 0,0 (leak-tend. It ~ oe rico. were theo.,..„ett to. jcommen-VlMMasost c"....- '• g ...,., .__ s were saying •.ne thing. and as citisens they were saying 1 lain at tias pre,oe asaizm. Father Meratlden tattered t the mane, and ..., man nainiol Jsilia u*Sein, of Tunsta. ; tied tightlY round ita ..ek• wait hoond toms. down, and he wa.s n. it was noming s '• ' 11. o. (Rear. hear j ile felt: tire that w...fse. t MAME, I'M°, cras. , ,'.....'..'2'`-;:,-,r, rillOtlier. Tha United Kingdom Alliance, came kreard jinn. recognisance,. co. up for judgment, and bemine , st., Resnick, fell or hums. into tip seething liquid 20 ' " PREVENTION . th...
Widnes Examiner. — 1911-10-07 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

SHTLOCK, THE JEW. stood out clearly as a man whose heart and soul clung money and the acqui.ing of it. lie would bear insults, remain friendless and lose his daughter no long as he might. It had been claimed. that Sbylock'a revenge was based upon his religi n, but that WJe estrontly doubtful, as his mind dwelled more upon his ducats than on his belief. Like all bid man Shylock was a liar and a hypocrite. It can in the terrible scene with 'rubel that Shylock alsv.lutely reveal. d b ms-if, for tiers he showed that be sat without 1 de for his d ughter, that his ducats were to him hit Clod, that he was destitnte of pity, and that Ms revet go was that of a disappointed and m.oldene I beast. 0„ ly for a brief mon.ent did he let us are that the spark ol love had ever dimly illumintd his soul and th tt. was his reference to his dead wile Leah. tt hen S •yfrck tottered out of the Court dep ited of everythi g. Ids wealth, bin child anti hi, religion it w a an it., ful punishment, but he only got shot he dt a-rveti. He (the lecturer) confessed that he was quite u-adle t. discover in the character of the Vvnedan moneylender, a single redeeming trait, a-1 wl en It e audience was moved to tears on his behalf he considered it as a great c nupliment to the a t r, hut a misconception of what Sitakesrare dam ded 84,1, ric should leave the court as biterly hated by the audience, as he was by the nth, r characters In the  plea. (liner,bra'.) Referring to CLALIDIUs the murderer of II toilet's father, and the naurpar of that rightly be'onAei to Hamlet, the croon, end the title of king, Dr. lan said that he mesa bad roan in every particular. Ile mass sensualist and drunkard and it WM diffienit to underetand why the people sere satisfied to have him 83 their Islet, he predecor.sor having been so different to him in every respect and the rightful successor to the throne (Hamlet) being so popular. Ile w.s a smooth-tongued •illian end referred to the king he had lately sent to his doom as "our dear brother" and he was ever anxious to ingratiate himself with Hamlet, whom be bad every reason to be afraid of. Cladius was a nerveless, cowardly villian and he trembled lest his sin should find him Ott'. Had he possessed the courage of either Richard M. Macbeth or logo he wou'd not have dallied bog, but wonild have fould cute% and effec.ive means to rid himself of Hamlet whose very existence woes perpetual source of fear and danger to him. The happiness which he looked f trwtrd to enjoying after he had murdered Lis brother (Hamlet's father) married his widow, and mounted the throne, was but momentary and try as he would he could not drown his conscience in the wine bowl, nor obtain the much desired salve for it by prnyer. Had Claudius not made a confident of Laertes, had he kept his own c Anna, it is most likely that his object wou'd have been attained end that he would have continued King of Denmark. In including
The Wolverhampton and Midland Counties Advertiser. — 1876-08-05 (Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England)

THE BLACKBURN MURDER. SENTENC E OF D E ATIL  William Fish, indicted fee the murder of Emily Holland, at Mashburn, On the 28th March, was tried last week, before Mr. Juetims Lindley, at the Liverpool Assime. Mr. Higgins, Q.C., who, with Mr. Pepe, sad Mr. Addiseoj promeuted, ia add/easing lb. Jury, asked them in Mendes from their minds all that Shay bad heard &bent 1b....., as it was impossihis foe them DOS to have heard about it. He detailed the drownstances of them.., which are already well known, and stated that the prisoner made• oonfeeden whieh,ll true, left no doubt of his guilt, and he proposed to peeve the truth ef the Matement bp independent avidruce, In' eluding the mother and father of the demised, several polioe-eitlosre, and some ameidatanive of the prisoner, on eszions pilots oonnected with the discoveries made, tending to prove that, independent of his mutessien, Fish waa the culprit. The father and mother were examilied, ad said they identined from varicose masks the portions of the body which had been found as the body of their deceased child; and it was also shows that ea the evening when the pareel of remains was found at °online Farm, Fish was noticed coming from that direction. Other eirenmetenees were that his shop was closed earlier than usual on the evening of the 2ith, and that &bright light was observed through the chinks of the shatters coming from the fireplace. Evidence wee also adduced as to the employment of the bloodhound Marian, and the discovery of some of the remah,s of the murdered child upon the pronisesof the prisoner. Pieces of cloth and olothing which were attached to the various portions of the remains were ideotified by relsllama of the deotased. Medical eeiclesoe was given to show that various members which had been discovered all belonged to eite body, and that ever the body were a number of shirt hairs of different colours and quality, such as mixlit be found in a btrber's shop. - -Dr. Maitland said he had examined the prisoner and saw nothing to indicate insanity. It was • fact, however, that at times outbursts of mania iniondonally took plum without any warning, but some traces of such outbreak always remained afterwards. He thought the prisoner knew what he was doing at the time of the murder. Mr. Higgins summed up the evidenoe for the defence, and Mr. Blair addressed the court fcr the prisoner, contending that the very atrocity of the crime preyed th.t the prisoner was not in his right mind. He also dwelt upon several cireumstances, which be argued were not the acts of a sane man. The Judge summed up, and said it wts not hecanse a man was poisoned of the devil and did something hideously wicked that it was to be assumed that be was irresponsible. The jury, without leaving the box, found the orilioner guilty of murder, and he was sentenced to death. The soudemned man manifested little emotion, and was at once removed.
The Midland Examiner and Wolverhampton Times. — 1877-11-10 (Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England)

STAFFORDSHIRE WINTER ASSIZE.  me trial of prisoners for the Winter Assize, County No. was commenced at Stafford, on Monde,. morning, before Mr. Justice Manisty. His Lordship, in addressing the Grand Jury, said the Winter Aasize for the county had been con. stituted, as they would no doubt know, by an Order in Council uniting the two counties of Staffordshire and Shropshire, thus originatiug one Winter Assize for the A,size County designated No. S. The duty of the jury would, therefore, include eases sent from Shropshire ; and it also fell upon the -High Sheriff of Staffordshire to summon the Grand Jury' and perform all the other duties a his office. ThebusiWWI brouzht from Shropshire, however, would not make much increase in the labour of the Assize, as there were only five cases. He was not aware when the next Winter Assize would be held, but that ' there would be another one was certain. It was arranged that in future there should be four gaol deliveries throughout the year, occurring quarterly, so that the prisoners might not be detained in custody more than three months. He was sorry he could not congratulate them upon the character of the ekendar, either as regarded its lightness or quality, g it contained some extremely bad cases. It contained the names of twenty-five pri. were. Very few of them were educated. Indeed, there appeared to be only two who seemed to have had any education at all. That was a state of things whiah would probably occupy their mind, as well as that of the Government and the Parliament, in considering whether that condition of affairs could not be avoided. He hoped that in the future time his successors would have much lighter duties devolving upon them than was the case now. If edumtion were conducted upon sound religious principles there could be no doubt that the results of crime would to a very .weat extent be got rid of. In reference to the charge of murder, his lordship said the jury would have no difficulty in finding a true bill. There was one case in which a man, named Griffiths, was charged with intent to murder at Bilston, in which there was strong evidence of insanity. But they would know that was a ground to be afterwards considered by a jury in open court. All they had to see was whether or not an attempt {VHS made to take life. The case in which Thomas Hyden was indicted for shooting a policeman with intent to murder would require their careful consideration. There was a large number of OM •S on the calender which shocked one to Iwo. He referred to the cases of unnatural offences and abuse of children, and drew attentionto the fact that three out of the five cases sent from Shropshire belonged to the former of the two classes of crimes just mentioned. He suggested that in those cases where the Grand Jury thought there would be any doubt of conviction they should be kept out of open court. Having spoken in complimentary terms of the advantages of grand juries, his lordship dismissed them to their duties.
The Cannock Chase Examiner. — 1876-09-29 (Cannock, Staffordshire, England)

JUROR'S RECOHHENDATION.—“ Have you read anypedestrian was hurrying along past the place where the young man sat. He came with a pert, light thing about this case In eth papers 1-asked &lawyer of step, and whistled as he ran. Instinct told Warren 1,1, juror,t n not word. exciting criminal 'e in New Yotk. " "Not a word, d anthe papers Lawrence who it was, It was Charles Dorset going r. t irt n° have been full of it." "No, sir, I don't read the home to the parsonage. nor anytiaingelse, furl can't read at all." The His saw the slender form. a mere black shadow in papers, the greyer darkness; and remembering how he jMT was sworm had seen Rose's head upon its shoulder, he grew A Danbury man, noted for his closs-fisted propendmad with fury. He lifted the rifle to his shoulder, ties, was showing an old coin to a neighbour, when the and took aim and fired, latter asked, "Where did you get It t" "I dug it out At that moment a flash of lightning such ab tie of my garden," was the reply. "It is a pity you didn't had never seen before, illuminated the sky. The find it in the cemetery," said the neighbour. "Why I figure on the road had turned, clasped its hand to so?" asked the coin owner. "Because you could have its heart, and fallen on its face, and Warren Law- saved the hole to be buried in:" was the somewhat unrence had been flung forward upon the ground in- expected reply. seuaible. The rain poured down with a fury im- Old Roger was visiting a friend who had a remarkpossible to describe, ably fine little girl, about three years old, famous, for It broug- t Warren Lawrence to his senses, and smart sayings. As usual she was shown off before our enabled him, after awhile, to stagger home. But, i esteemed friend. "What is papa ?" said the "parent, at dawn, some termer, early on the road, found I In order to draw out the precocious child. "Papa's a Charles Dorset lying dead, shot through the back blockhead," said the juvenile. "I declare," said old of the head in a most horrible manner. Rose', "I never in my life saw so young a child with 1 He had not an enemy upon earth as far as was so mature a judgment."—American paper. known. No one guessed that he had been a suitor of Rose Unwin, or that she had favoured him. She was languishing upon a sofa, watching him , Suspicion could not rest upon Warren Lawrence affectionately as he slipped briskly about the raom, -1 —Ron any one putting things in order. Finally she said, in slow, 1 ose to whom Charles Dorset was dear bore sweet tone of voice, "George, darling, I don't think ! their grief as best they could. you will ever be a great man." "Why i so, love?" , His bethrothed suffered in silence. Only one he asked, wheeling a chair round on one of its legs, ' man knew her grief—the man who had caused it. and gracefully stroking it with the duster, "Because 1 Weeks passed—months glided by. The sod grew great ,Foen always have such lazy good-for-nothing I green above the murdered man's grave, and his giro°. murderer was wooing the woman who had loved I A Swear
The Cannock Chase Examiner. — 1876-07-21 (Cannock, Staffordshire, England)

THE BRUTAL OUTRAGE AT PCITOBELLO.  At the Wolverhampton police conrumn Wednesday. Edward Humphries (21), and Georg Crannige (22), were again brought up in custody, charged with unlawfully cutting and wounding David Joiner, at Portobello, on the night of Whit Monday last. The case was adjourned for the purpcse of gettiop the evidence of a man named Smith, who woo with the proaecutor, but who has not yet beemfoand. Mr. Clark prosecuted, and,Mr. Barrow appeared for Craunige, while Mr. R. Willeock defendeb Humphriel. The prosecutor repeated the evidence which he hat given before.—Mr. Pitt, surgeon, of Willenlual was them called, and said that he examined the prosecutor on the night of the assault, and farmed that he had a deep wound on the right side of the head, which had been caused by some blunt inetrum :at, a wound upon the forehead, end neat across the beidge of the nose. The cartilage of the right ear had also been mit through, and he had a.eut under the chin which opened into the mouth. His lower jaw was fractured and three of his teeth knocked in. There were no marks on hie body. In crosaexamieation he said the cuts on tbu. side of the head might have 'oecal caused by a series of falls, but in his opinion thoy were not so caused.— William Partridge, commission agent, of Willenhall, said he was passing through Portobello, on the day named, when he saw Crannige and another man struggling together on theground. The men got up, and the strange man ran away. Crannige then ran up to witnoes, and asked for his billyeock. The-prosecutor was then walking towards Wolverhampton. He saw Crannige run up to the proseentor, arid strike his a blow on the right ear, whioh knotiked him down. Crannige then kicked Joiner very badly, and witness could hear his jaw crack. There were some women present, one of whom said " Grit) it him, skierge." Witness time went and picked, Joiner up, and he appeared to Ire recovering from insensibility. Htunphries then cane up and knocked Joiner down, kicking him, if anything, worse than thu ether prisoner. Witness then wer it to Portobello for alpelicemaii.—Leonard Phidlipa said he was in company with Partridge (the last witness) on the night. in question, and saw Crannige knaelr . Joiner down. Ile went to him and said "You I,ORO murdered the man," Witness generally corroborated the evidence of the last wits—lsaac Enamor,: said he was walking from Msath Town to Wolrerhampton, whr,n he saw Joiner , on the floor anl the last two witnesses had hold of o the prisoner Crannice. He saw both the prisoners • kick Joiner. The prisoner Htimplaries then struck + witness. Afar en idence had berm given by Mary Walters and PoEce-constable Be,iley the prisoners were committed for Wel. The prisoners reserved „ their defer e.  Mr. Spooner said he would take bail for Humphries to the exteut di two studies in £5O each and himself in .£lOO. but he refused to take bail for Cranuige, remarkiag that it WM one of the most brutal outrages he had aver 'Ward of.  Hallora
The Cannock Chase Examiner. — 1876-09-01 (Cannock, Staffordshire, England)

SEA MASSACRES.  Although it is many years since the imaggigi4 humour of Syduey Smith ran riot over a grotaelle enumeration of the festive dishes at a South Sag ha. gnat— succulent baby in the centre of the table, vitt sold missionary on the sideboard--cannibaliem otig survives, a flourishing institution. The latest genre from the South Seas brings the fact into horribly prominent relief. The antipathy to white men whir' the atrocious doings of the clove-bunters for Peruvian labour markets have excited to the highest pitch has again broken out, and led to the murder of two ships' crew., one of which was eaten. A statooner named the Dancing Wave called, it is stated, at an island in the Solomon group for labourers. The captain and sailors were suddenly set upon by s number of lathe., ! and all murdered but one. The vessel was flea plundered and abandoned, and afterwards brought to Sydney. The Solomon Islands lie doe put of New Guinea, and a little to the north-west of kite Cruz, where the lamented Commodore Goodenough met his death, and it is probable that the MAVIS In both cases arose from the same cause, Tie. diOtiVe hatred of all civilised vessels and awn stimulated by the exploits of the Anuerioan and English kidnapper*, whose outrage. suited a. much horrer when revealed here a year or two ace The other tragedy appears to have been Lirther south, in the Loyalty group, and the victims belonged tao other "labour vessel," called the May Queea with ran ashore on an island named Telma The crew fired on the natives, who returned the attach, how and ate them, and burned the vessel. This mad piece of news was brought over to the Fiji heath by a missionary—Mr. Inglis—in the mielou yes. eel Dayspring, and communicated h him to Captain Lind, owner of a trading easel, who, in his turn, kid it to Consul Lapsed, at Noumea. Let us hope that the story got bigger in the telling, and that what reached the Consul's ears au an exaggeration of a much simpler incident. TA there is nothing improbable in it, and It hae to be noted that the sufferers in lwah cases wen crews of vessels that went to pick up labouren Thus do the detestable dolugs of the in. hunters, who a few years ago catered for the supply of the Chincha Islands, recoil on the beads of the entire race of etched Euro ' peens or Americans, and breed a long sad pitiless vendetta. Bishop Patteson wee the tot and most illustrious, as well as innocent, victim, ad Commodore Goodenough was another. The usual way of retaliating for these massacres is to sent. °miser which tires broadsides into defenceless vlllata burns them, shoots a few women, children, and el men, and indulges in other Bashi-Blued modes et warfare. It would be more to the pa' pose to putt peremptory stop to the hunt for labourers. Cannot the Australians and South Americans get a supply by , the legitimate mode of voluntary immigration?— London Telegraph.