The Potteries Examiner : — 1873-05-24 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

WAREHOUSEMEN'S AND CLERKS' PROVIDENT ASSOCIATION.  On Wednesday evening, the general business of this society being concluded, there was a matter again brought forward which has been before the committee some weeks, viz., the defalcation of one of the mess. bers, who had received a quantity of tickets to sell for the concert which took place in Hanley on the 2dlh of February last, and had failed to account for the same. It had been resolved on two previous occasions to expose the whole affair in the Potteries Examiner, if a settlement was not mad a on or before the above night. In reply to several applications of the coins mittee, both written and verbal, they hold two letters acknowledging the debt, but refusing to pay unless the amount of subscriptions which he has paid into the society be deducted, less his share of the expenses. There needs no comment on the meanness of this proposal. But the committee, still unwilling to expose the man resolved to give him one other chance before proceeding to publish the whole circumstances and his name. We may also state, on the authority of the committee, that, much to their regret, the progrere cf the society has been much retarded by the defalcatiou of this one member. We hope, for the sake of the society, and also for the honour of the defaulter, that the matter will be settled without further exposure.  Duckinfield, near Manchester, has been the scene of a terrible tragedy, a blacksmith, named Etchells, having murdered Ins wife, cruelly injured one of his children, and afterwards hanged himself on the branch of a tree.  ..„. A verdict has been returned by the eoroner's jury sitting to inquire into the cause of the railway aceident near Shrewsbury. They say there is deuce to prove that the concussion ensued on the breaks ing of an axle, but not how or when the fracture ors currel. Exeter Hall was crowded on Tuesday night by a wee' I ing. under the presidency of Mr. Dalway, oeltsi to I gether for the purpose of celebrating the eighteenth anniversary of the United Kingdom Band of Hope Union. A Salford policeman, who has been in the force fcr eighteen years, stands committed for trial on a charge of burglary. Several robberies having been reported on his heat, he was watched, and Wlxs detected in the act of stealing hosiery ftom a shop window, after having removed a shutter. Two youths of the promising age of sixteen have been committed for trial at Leeds for attacking a woman with a hedge-stake, betting her into a condition of insensibility and robbing her of a satchel in which she carried her money. Both these juvenile footpads had come out of a reformatory. , Mr. Geo. Smith, who is making most valuable and interesting excavations in Assyria, has now found the site of the King's Library, at Nineveb. He boa been rewarded in his search by many important discoveries chief of them being that of is broken tablot containing, the very portion of the text which was missing frcm the narrative of the Deluge. An accident that might have been a good deal worse than it was occurred on Monday to a Midland Railway train, which, soon af leaving Sutton-bridge, got somehow on the Spalding line, and finished by leaving the metals altogether. A few persons were shaken rather severely : but there was no greater injury than that sustained by the permanent way, which was ploughed up for several yards, and by a front carriage, which was shattered.  •