The Cotton Factory Times. — 1893-09-08 (Manchester, Greater Manchester, England)

MURDER MYSTERY SOLVED.  SINGULAR CONFESSION.  In August, IEI9I, Emily Adams, while drinking with a man named Lewis in a public-house at Limehouse, was fatally stabbed. Lewis also was wounded, and it was supposed that the woman's hnsband, actuated by jealousy, bad attacked the pair and =ado good his escape. When, however, it transpirzA that Adams was undergoing imprisonment at Cardiff, Lewis was suspected, arrested, and charged, but dismissed because of insufficient evidence, lie became an attendant in a lunatic asylum, and retained the situation until Wednesday , morning, when he walked into the Limehouse police station and dectared that he himself was the murderer of Mrs. Adams. After being duly cautioned, Lewis added that after committing the crime be stabbed himself. The prisoner was brought up on Wednesday afternoon at the Thames Police Court, I and remanded.  A child named Helen Spencer, two years and five months old, was di-owned on Tuesday at Prettywood, Heywood. Her mother was washing, and went to hang out some clothes to dry. She returned in about five minutes and found her danolter in a " dolly " tub, which was half full of dirty water. The child was quite dead, all efforts to restore animation being unavailing. A Cardiff telegram says: A singular incident oecurrid at Barry on Wednesday in connection with tt en of the new church of St. Paul's, erected at a cost of about £2,500. The site was given by Mrs. Jonner, Wenvoe Castle. On Wed. nesday her sister-in-law, Miss Jenner, handed the Bishop a written protest against appropriation of the site, alleging she had interest in the land under 'tic father's will, and, had neither been consulted  water  le con secra6  nor compensated. Thomas Wilkinson, weaver, Basenden, wee apprehended on Tuesday night ler being drunk and diserderley. it aitcrwards discovered that he boot corresponded with a footprint left twenty yards behind the Wesleyan School, Baxendeu, which en Tuesday night was broken into. A means Of entrance had evidently first been tried by takin4 the putty out of one of the windows, but this proving tedious the glees was smashed with great force. Drawers and desks were tided and school pence carried away. Fifteen shillings in all was taken, but a drawer containing a was left untouched. Wilkinson was brought before the Haslingdeu Bench on Wednesday ond remanded. An accident, which proved fatal, occurred at a late hour on Tuesday night on the Manchester. Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway at Hayfield Station. A goods guard named R. Higgs, who lived in Ardwick, Manchester, while standing on the step of an engine which was taking a train through the station, fell on to the metals and received serious injuries to the back. He was at once put in .5 special carriage and brought cat to Manchester at 11 o'clock, but before arrivin,, at the London-reel Station he expired. His body was conveyed to Cie mortuary attached to the Liverpool-street station.  The Hull Corporation Cholera Committee  ...... their meeting on Tuesday, decided that medic:A men should be requested to notify every case a diarrhcca in the towu. It was also decided to provide 35 extra beds at the cholera hospital. Cr. Mason reported that the man Renshaw had died oE the malady, and that the boy Cole was recovering. During the day several suspicious cases were reported. The most serious was that of a labourer, who was suddenly seized when at work in a builder's yard in Witharn. die was conveyed to the hospital in a state of collapse.  LETT= TO THE Enrron.  Tlill is have L the iday. have  Law Cases.  me he up on Court,  nd five 'retry-Ig, and turned Luel ter  neident nil with Paul's, ite was Wedled the Ltion of under insulted  Fcale I.  —lnApoccor  n, was Link and Plat hia twenty menden,  k means r y taking ii provat force. a penco a taken, touched. -61ingden  Ted at a lehester, Hayfield vim lived the step mgh the serious  put in a rester at lon-road al to the polica  Mee, at medical y case of  to protad. Dr. d died of covering.  wore relabourer, builder's , hospital  -..-: