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Bridlington and Quay Gazette. — 1889-08-03 (Bridlington, Humberside, England)

LARCENY AT FILET.  Elizabeth Harwood, domestic servant, Scarborough, was charged with stealing a white pinafore the property of Annie Tapper on the 23rd inst.—The prosecutrix stated that she was a nurse now staying at Miss Shackle's, 23, the Crescent, Filey. Prisoner was a servant there. On Monday morning, 22nd lost, she took the clothes out for the wash, and put them into a bag. When returned the pinafore was missed and prisoner being suspected she was asked to open her box. She at first refused to do so. When she did open her box, she took the pinafore produced out. —Miss Shackles, the landlady of the house said that when the last witness informed her of the loss of the pinafore, her suspicion rested on the prisoner, as she had herself missed som. things lately. She therefore asked prisoner to let her look into her box and threatened to send for a policeman if she did not turn it out. The missing article was found there. Prisoner, who denied any knowledge of it, or of bating put it there, was ordered to pay a fine of ss. and the costs.  Sarah Brown (32), was charged with being drunk and disorderly at the Quay, on the 24th inst—P. C. Pottage dated that prisoner at the time was cook in a gentleman's family staying at the Quay. In consequence of her disorderly conduct he was sent for to remove her, and had to take her into custody.—Mr. HARE, of Hull, said that there was a further charge of assault against the prisoner in which he appeared to prosecute, and that therefore perhaps the bench would reserve their decision till they had heard that case—Prisoner was then charged with assaulting Emily Watson, a maid servant in the employ of Mr. Garbutt, of Hull, on the 24th inst.—Mr. HAM said that the parties were fellow-servants, and at present staying with the family at the Quay. It appeared that on the day in question Mr. Garbutt and his family went for a drive to Filey. During their absence the prisoner left the house for a while, and on her return asked the coachman's wife where the complainant was, and on hearing that she was upstairs doing her work she went £2 her and committed a most violent assault rition her. The girl ran down into the yard and got away from her. Prisoner then went to the cupboard and got five bottles of beer, which she drank. She afterwards went to bed.— Emily Watson deposed to the facts as stated by Mr Hare, and san that at the breakfast table in the morning prisoner told her that she would murder her before the day was out —Annie Webrter, wife of the coachman, stated that the prisoner attacked the complainant in a most violent manner.— Matthew Kirby, under-coachman, deposed to seeing prisoner double her fist in complainant's face and threaten to murder her.— Supt. Winpenny stated that prisoner was most violent in the cell, and both on the Wednesday night and also the following morning said she would be the death of the girl—Prisoner was sentenced to one months' imprisonment for the assault, and it days for being drunk and disorderly. ......
Bridlington and Quay Gazette. — 1899-12-29 (Bridlington, Humberside, England)

SIR WALTER SCOTT'S INACCURACIES. Scott, never particularly exact in matters et history, except on the side of picturesqueness, took a good many liberties with dates in his story uf "Kenilworth. For one thing, he keeps the poor, distressed, and tortured Amy Robsart alive sixteen or seventeen years after her ghastly murder ; and for another he keeps Queen Elisabeth in ignorance of Dudley's marriage, when, in point of fact, Her Majesty was well aware of it, encouraged Dudley's attentions nevertheless, and was by no means surprised to hear of her unhappy rival's death.  A great deal of light was thrown on the secret history of the Robsart tragedy by the Spanish iespatches published by Mr. Fronde, but, of eourse, Scatt was necessarily ignorant of the import of these documents, which charged the Queen with "visiting Dudley in his chambers day and night," and with having, on hearing of Amy". death, begged De Quadra to "say nothing about it." Mr. Andrew Lang declares that Scott "Shifted his dates and dragged Amy from her grave because he wanted to bring in the pageants at Kenilworth, which ended in a quarrel between Leicester and the Queen," thus reversing the old order of things by annihilating time and epees to "make Iwo lovers unhappy." So far as concerns the manner of his heroine's death, Scott got most of his facts from " Ashmole's Antiquities of Berkshire," which gave a fairly lucid and accurate account of the poor lady's death. Many attempts were made to poison her during her infprisonment in Cumnor Hall, but without avail, the affrighted, creature refusing all medicines offered for her Supposed relief; and ultimately, the patience 'iher persecutors being exhausted, they attempted*. istraugle her in betti, and then threw her down a pair of stairs, breaking her neck. The death was given out as an "accident," and though a coroner's inquest was held, the affair was hushed up and the deceased countess buried with great solemnity in St Mary's Church, Oxford, on Sunday, 22nd September, 1560. There is no doubt whatever that Leicester was the instigator of the crime, though Sir Richard Varney and the ruffianly Tony Forster were the chief instruments in its execution.  In his ;ntroduction to "Kenilworth," it may be remembered, Scott mentions that the same crime figures in an old play called 'The Yorkshire Tragedy," erroneously ascribed to Shakespeare, where a ruffian throws his wife downstairs with this allusion, obviously to the murder of the Countess of Leicester :- "The only way to charm a woman's tongue Is, break her neck—a politician did it." From beginning to end the story of Amy Robsart's life is touching and pathetic. The beautiful and radiant daughter of John Robsart, she was infatuated by the glamour of the stately courtier, wedded to Leicester while yet a girl— "no lark more blythe, no flower more gay " then neglected, deserted, and imprisoned in Cumnor Hall, and finally done to death for no crime save that she stood between her own husband and his marriage with the Queen. It is a sad, sad story.
Bridlington and Quay Gazette. — 1899-12-29 (Bridlington, Humberside, England)

CHRIST CHURCH.  There was a fairly good attendance at the service on Christmas morning. The decorations were simple yet effective, the pillars being wreathed with laurel and yew, while in the window sills of the north and south aisles was the text, "-Glory to God in the ' highest, on earth peace and good will towards MOB," in 'white letters on a scarlet ground. White chrysanthemums had been used to relieve the darker shades of green on de pulpit and font. The service was read by the curate (Rev. Shepheard Welwyn), I and the lessons by the Vicar (Rev. 8. W. Darwin Fox, MA.) The, anthem "Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem," was very effectively rendered by the choir, and the old carol, "Hark, the herald angels sing," which came before the sermon, was heartily taken up by the whole of the congregation. The Vicar preached an appropriate and able sermon, based on • passage taken from the 2nd chapter of St. Luke's Gospel —" On earth, peace." What did this song of the angels mean? It could not mean that at that moment there was peace on earth. Was it a prophecy of the time ,to come when there would be universal peace? The angels had come I from heaven where everything was calm, where there was no discord, where all hearts .were in sweet accord. No marvel that there should be ' in heaven; the marvel was the strange peace en of the song 'peace on earth." Peace had left the world since sin entered it. He asked them to observe the e3urse of the world's history from the time of the first murder onwards. Where was the household to be found without • jarring note? Where was perfect peace to be found? Was she in the high places of kings? Was she in the cottage Has in the.,church ? Or was peace only the angel', song—a fair vision from those celestial intelligences which was seen in the womb of the future? The preacher passed on to give the answer. The legacy of Jeans was peace. He had come to reign who was the Prince of Peace. First, there must be peace with God. God had said there was no peace for the wicked. They were told to make their peace with God. God had accepted Christ and if they accepted Him they would have peace. The preacher then elaborated the thought that the angels came with a flag of truce, and that when man obtained forveness through Jesus Christ he had peace, for in Him there was no condemnation. The offertory at the close of the service was for the poor. Miss Athinson, Mrs. Booker, Miss Easton, Mrs. Foord, decorated the reredos and altar rails ; Miss Foster and Miss E. Foster, the font; the Misses Hesselwood, the prayer desk; the Misses Lamb, Miss Sutcliffe, the pulpit; Miss West, the Misses Wight. wick. At the service on Christmas Day, an I on its Eve, Cruckshank's anthem "Now when Josue was born" was well rendered, the recitatives being very clearly given. There was no service in the Parish Church in the evening, but in the new schoolroom of  ST. HILDA'S There was a lantern lecture which was largely attended by the young people who sang carols and were entertained by a series of pictures, the subject of which was "Ben Hur" and Christ.
Bridlington and Quay Gazette. — 1897-03-05 (Bridlington, Humberside, England)

MUTINY AT CANNA.  TURXISH COLON EL MURDERED.  ATHISS, TUORday Night. An Identical Note was delivered to the Foreign Minister this evening by the repreeentatives of the six Great Powers. It demandts the withdrawal of the Greek troops and Fleet from Cretan territory and waters within six days, rder threat of coercive  The Note informs the Greek Government that the Powers are agreed upon two points. (1) They cannot allow the annexation of Crete to Greece in any form at present. (2) The are prepared to endow Crete with a complete scheme of autonomy. This, ibmay be remarked, is the old makeshift. The Powers furthermore express the hope that Greece will respect this decision. If the Greek troops and ships are not withdrawn in six days, the Powers will employ and exhaust every means of coercion in their power.  Catura, March 2, 5.20 p.m. A mutiny broke out here to-day among the Turkish gendarmery, which is mainly composed of Albanians and &winning. Yesterday they refused to do any further duty unless they received the fall arrears of their pay, which th. 7 have not received for fifteen months past. To-day, however, they broke out into open revolt, and discharged their rifles, threatening to put the town to fire and sword. Their barracks were blockaded by detaohment" of marines from the foreign squadrons, who fired volleys under the windows to overawe the mutineers. The gendarmes did not reply. Subsequently, however, the Italian marines fired at the mutineers with ball cartridge, and a number of MeII fell wounded. The gendarmery then surrendered, and after being disarmed were put is , irons.  Suleiman Bey, oolonel of the Turkish gendarmery, wax among the woanded, and ia in a dying condition. Several other Turkish officers were wounded.  The town is in a state of panic. 7 p.m. Suleinuin Bey, the colonel of the Turkish gentians. ery, succumbed to his wounds this afternoon. It applies that he was fired upon by his owa sten sad received a bullet through his body. The mutiny of the gendarmes came to a head at four o'clock this afternoon, but the disaffection first began to be openly displayed yesterday when the men refused to do duty until they were paid their arrears. It seems that they ascertained that their offioers had duly received their pay wkila they, the lien, bad had nothing. . . . .  _ From this morning, therefore, they kept a watch upon their colonel and lieutenant-colonel, and when these officers attempted to leave the barracks this afternoon, the mutineers fired upon them, and then barricaded themselves in their quarters. At the first news of the outbreak, the foreign matinee came hurrying up to the barracks, which were adjacent to the lionalr. or Governor's Palace, recently burned down. The Italian detachment was the first to fire, the German marines following suit. The British marines then levelled their guns, but before they could fire the mutineers displayed a white flag at one of the windows. The British and Austrian officers then parleyed with the gendarmee, who. as already announced, surrendered at ch.scretion.
Bridlington and Quay Gazette. — 1884-05-17 (Bridlington, Humberside, England)

FISERLAD---. VERDICT OF MANSLAUGHTER.  At the Leeds Assizes on Tuesday, before Mr. Justice Hawkins, the trial of Joseph Nicholin, skipper, and Thomas Hardiety, third hand of the fishing smack Stirling, of Hull, for the murder of Thomas Bowbottom, a lad 15 years old, while on the high seas was oontinned and concluded. Mr. Lawrence Gana and Mr. Stuart Wortley again appeared for the Treasury to prosecute; Mr. Kee. thaw defended Nicholin, and Mr. Kemp defended Hardisty. The evidence showed that the lad had been subjected to the most shocking and brutal treatment by the prisoners. The Counsel having addressed the Jury, His LORDSHIP, in summing up, observed that the prisoners were charged with basing inflicted injuries upon the boy Rowbottom under each circumstances as to amount to the crone of wilful murder. He urged that the jury should neither be biassed by sympathy for the poor lad nor prejudiced against the prisoners on account of what transpired. He advised that they should separate , the two eases as far as they could, and in their own minds' determine what verdict ought to be pronounced against the one and tire other. The prisotters were under an everlasting debt of gratitude to the counsel for the defence they hal made, as they had urged every point in favour of the two that could he advancid. If the jury could not have positive testi= ny of every evil intention existing in the mind of a man, they must form their judgment of his wozinms from his actions. The jury were entitled to draw the conclusion that • man intended the probable consequences of his act. The law as to grievous bodily harm was that it Finch harm were intended, and it reealted in death, the person who inflicted it would be guilty of wi:fal murder; end it w.u1.l be semi state of the law if it were otherwise. It was singular that nolwithstabling the cruelty said to have been practised on the boy, the skipper media no entry of the circumstance in his by-book. Net only had he the authority, but it was a duty imposed on him by the Legislature, to repress once conduct, and to make. record of its occurrence in the log-book. He did not say that a neglect to do either made him an acteessary to the crime of another, but it was a thing that they could not altogether lose sight of when they were eonaideriug whether he meant to encourage acts of cruelty. His Lordship then reviewed the evidence, and, in concluding, said that if the jury found that each of the prisoners by his violence contribut-d to bring about Rowbottom's death, and *het each in committing the cruel acts was actuated by a desire to doythe boy greivone bodily harm or to do him to death, then botn would be equally gailty of the crime of murder. —The jury retired to consider their verdict at hail. past five, and returned jut, court at a quarter-put nine. The Foreman, on being asked by the Clerk of Assizes if they had agreed en their verdict, replied, o Yes—Guilty "—but added—" of
Bridlington and Quay Gazette. — 1884-05-03 (Bridlington, Humberside, England)

ASSAULT ON A W3MAN.  Mark Taylor, labourer, Bridlington, was charged with assaulting and etriking Emily Dixon, on the 12th inst., at Bridlington. The complainant, who appeared in Court with her face mush disfigined, stated her case as follows :—l'm • married woman living in Jug's Lane, Bridlington, on Saturday night, the 12th last, me and his =issue (meaning thc defendant's wife) went up street and she got very drunk. It was all through his abusing on her sir, as she got drunk.—The Chairman: How do you know that ?—Complainant 'cause she Jelled me herself, sir. We went shopping, and of course we both went into a public-house. We went into the "Queen Hotel," and I paid for 3d. of brandy for his miseus, and I had come beer. We then went down the street to a shop and came up again, and then went to the " Pack Horse." She had 3d. of brandy and I'd 9d. of gin, but I didn't drink my gin, eir, I left it.—Rev. C. W. Hodson : Yon left it did you ?—Complainant: Yes sir.—Tbe Chairman: and where did you go after that ?—Complainant: We just called at the "Queen," sir.—Chairman And what did yan have to drink that time.—Com. plainant : I bad three glasses of beer, and she had three threepennyworths of brandy. She was drunk sir, but it was not with what she'd had with me sir. She had had some before. I asked a young man who was in the "Queen " if be would help me home with her. We took her home and when we got to Taylor's door he ran out of the house and struck at ins in the face and knocked me down and gave me two black eyes. He struck me several times when I was down, and I called out murder, and my mother came out and I told her to feta a policeman.—The Chairman: What stale were you in ?—Complainant: I was sober sir.--The Chairman: Your conduct has been simply disgraceful.—.l/nry Elliott, mother of the complainant, corroborated her daughter's statement as to the smolt. —The defendant denied baring struck the complainant at all. He said she went into his hones on the night in question. He requested her to go away, but she refused, and he then got hold of her by the shoulders and put her out, fell on the footpath which is paved with nobbles.— Hy. Pind,r said he lived down Digs Lane, and on the night in question he followed the two women down the lane. He could not tell that Mrs. Taylor was the worse for drink, but Dixon could not walk straight. (Laughter). She seemed drunk.— The Complainant said Pinder was the man 'who assisted her home with Mrs. Taylor. (Laughter.) Pinder denied this, statement and continuing said, Dixon would go into Taylor's bonne, and defendant got hold of her by the shoulder and pushed her out and she felj on the footpath.—The Chairman said it was a very disgraceful affair altogether. There had been some gross falsehoods told on one side or the other. They were of opinion that defendant did strike at Dixon, built was done under great provocation, and they ahould therefore only fine him Is. 6d. and the costs.
Bridlington and Quay Gazette. — 1884-11-15 (Bridlington, Humberside, England)

BISHOP ON UNITY IN THE  CHURCH.  The Bishop of London in his charge to the clergy given under the dome of St. Paul's, gave an outline of the history of the diocese during the past five years and alluded to the state of education in Church schools, and the influence of the Board schools thereupon. Results, he said, showed strongly that the religions teaching at their schools should be specific and not general—doctrine and not facts. It was a mistake to look upon the Board schools as hostile institutions, with which the clergy of a parish had nothing to do. They were a necessity of the time, and were very important to secure the well being of many whom the clergy could not reach. They should however, endeavour to obtain a voice in the appointment of the masters and mistresses of School Boards who would have great influence over the religous training of children. Alluding to the Public Worship Act the Bishop said so far as regarded its action in cases of ritual it was crippled, if not dead. He did not greatly regret this issue. It was the lesson of all history that religious beliefs, be they trim or false, and religious observances, whether reasonable or superstitious, were strengthened by opposition, and were clung to only the more fondly, if attempted to be removed by force. The cure was rather to be sought in the supply of defects, from which excesses were often the reaction. On the whole, he was of opinion that the recommen ations of the Royal Commission were wise, and that it was expedient in the interest of justice and of the peace of the Church that they should become law. But it was not in the perfection of law courts, or the justice of decisions, or the accuracy of definitions, that the ground of their hopes of growing unity and peace was to be found, but in their increasing appreciation of the enormous magnitude and difficulty of the work before them in this diocese, in the face of which, if they realised them adequately, their difference of ritual, of Church policy, and of their ways of approaching and exhibiting Divine truth shrank into every small propertions. In the face of such a world as theirs they could not afford to have dissension among themselves. They needed serried ranks in front of such a foe; and they might well be content to leave without rebuke ritual they could not use themselves, and modes of teaching and enforcing God's truth, which they did not deem the best, so long as they saw them telling effectually on sin and unbelief and winning souls into the Church's fold. What mattered it, if the war was waged successfully, that the weapons were not of exactly the same pattern or temper as their own?  At Norfolk and Suffolk Assizes, on Wednesday, at Norwich, before Mr. Justice Manisty, Edna Carter, (21), servant, was convicted of the murder of ber illegitimate child, aged two years, whose body was found in • pond. The jury added a recommendation to mercy. Sentence of death was passed.