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The Warwickshire Herald. — 1890-04-24 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

DIED GAME.  Part of the rebels now appeared on the ridge ahead. A few were mounted,but the greater number were on foot. Star Blanket, in full panoply of feathers and vermilion, came down to where the Major was standing. The parley began, but ti • Major noticed that the half-breeds and painted savages were creeping round behind the bushes on both flanks, and beginning to surround him. Ho at onoe gave the order to fire. Bullets now rained thick as hail. Puffs of smoke came from every point of the bluffs and from behind every snow. Mad hillock ; the fire was murderous. Star Blanket endeavoured to snatch away McKay'a rifle, and the latter emptied the contents of his revolver into him. Not a word was spoken, only the whistling " ping " of the bullets and the rattle of the musketry broke the stillness. Men lay down in the sloppy snow, ' and took steady aim at whatever was visible. Poor Gibson was shot dead as he was handing out ammunition for the gun. One of the horses attached to this was killed. This useless piece of artillery was loaded ready for action, and might have been of service at first, but Major Crozier was standing in the line of fire. The depth of snow and the fact that it was upon wheels rendered it utterly unserviceable. Before the Major got out of the way the rebels who were in front had disappeared out of danger. Ho turned round angrily and exclaimed, "Why don't you fire? I mu only one man." Captain Morton took his volunteers away to the right flank.where, from the house only seventy-five yards distant, a deadly fusillade was maintained. The ambuscade wee so complete that he did not know of its existence. His men were open to the concentrated volley of the Cr.... Disastrous as the skirmish was, it only lasted twenty minutes. The Indian war•whoop could now be heard ringing in fiendish triumph through the woods. Amid the pauses of the dropping fire the groans of the wounded and dying were piteous in their comrades' ears. The dingy snow was crimson in place, Dr. Millais instrument-case was struck by a bullet. Isa hen Arnold, of the police, fell, he said, "Tell the boys I died game." Corporal Gilchrist, of ours, who had his thigh broken, exclaimed, "Don't leave m• for thoae bleak devils to scalp." Constable Garrett was shot through the neck and died that night. Thus three of our men were killed and nine of the Prince Albert Voluntosin. Among the latter was Captain Morton. The number of wounded was 81/•—• startling percentage.—Trooper and Redskin. By John C. Dentin. ( London : Sampson Low and Co.)  "We all of us bare some affliotion or other." "Very true. What is the name of your particular dal°. Con ?" " A man intruded into on Irishman'. cabin the other day. "What do you went? " asked Pat. "Nothing," wash. visitoe's reply. " Then you'll And it in the jug where the whisky was." said Pat.
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1889-07-04 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

THE MUSIC HAIL TRAGEDY. CUREAH IN THE DOCK.  people - Mr.  "Have I done so? You are safe so far as lam concerned, unless his honour or happiness be involved. In that ease I should try to save him; ati it is, I know him, and if you are only true to him, he will forgive all else. Trust him with your seeret,whatever it is—he will protect you gladly, even at his own risk and harm."  " I will think of your words; and you will be true to your promit.e !"  _ "I am not in the habit of lying," answered Olive, proudly. "If you would only try to like me." "As I have told you, I cannot pretend what I do not feel; but I wish you no harm, and you need not fear my betraying what I had no right to know." "What will you say to Madame?" "That we have had our explanation, and there 58 an end of the matter." "Thank you; if you knew all, Olive, you would pity me and befriend me, indeed you would." "I do not seek your confidence, keep that for Alric Hareton, he loves you—trust him."  "I will, I do, and I swear to you that there nothing in my past life to separate us—nothing— if his love hold true."  At Lambeth Police-court on Monday, Nathaniel Currah, 53, was charged with the murder of George Thomas Gorin by stabbing him in the abdomen with a knife outside the Canterbury Music Hall. The prison.r was brought to the court in a cab, and appeared very peculiar in his manner. He was removed, pending coming before the court, to the room of the gaoler, under proper custody. Here he had some friends with him, and after sitting down seemed impatlent at being detained. He was asked by his friends if he would like a chop, or something to eat, and he made very strange replies. He frequently said, "What am I here for I don't want to be kept here." He was told that he would not be kept long, but this did not seem to satisfy him, and he kept on complaining of his detention.—lnspector Lowe said on the night ot the occurrence he went to St. Thomas's Hospital. He saw the prisoner, who sat up in bed, and said, "I know you." When asked his name and address the accused gave it as Nathaniel Currah, saying that he was the engineer at the Crayford Water Works. Witness whilst writing down the name and address cautioned the accused that what he said might be used against him, and he said "God prompted me to do it, but I shall meet my own flesh and blood in Heaven." He had since seen Currah at the hospital, and told him he would be charged with the murder, and at the same time cautioned him that whatever he said might be used against him. Currah replied, "All right." Witness then took him to the Kenningtonroad Police-station and charged him ; he only replied, "All right."—No further evidence was offered, and the prisoner was remanded.
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1889-07-11 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

VIOLENT FATHER.  At Greenwich, Dr. Percy Chatterton, 47. of Sydenham, has been charged, on remand, with assaulting his daughter Grace, aged 15. The prisoner is alleged to have struck the girl, and given her severe black eyes, because she went to the assistance of her stepmother, whom he was beating. She also stated that her father took up a knife and threatened to rip her up, saying that she had only five minutes wore to live, and that "Jack the Ripper" would be nothing to it. A second charge against the accused of assaulting his daughter Amy, aged 13, was now gone into.—The child said that her father told her to sweep up the fireplace. She did not understand what he said, and he took up a poker and beat her with it on the back, shoulders, and arum She got under the table, and he pulled her out by the hair and dashed her on the floor. She fell, and her father kicked her. She had not been impertinent or given any provocation.—Louisa Smith, stated that Amy Chatterton called at her house, and showed her 18 to 20 marks, about three inches long, on her back. The skin was not cut, but the arm was black-,and she thought the marks were too severe to have been caused by a cane. The girl begged her not to tell her lather else had oomplained,as be would, she said, beat her worse.—lnia Brabham, sister-inlaw id the accused, was called for the defence. She said Grace was idle and disobedient, and was defiant towards her stepmother. The prisoner had been a kind husband and father.—Percy Harry Chatterton, a child, said the prisoner was his father. He re. membered his fattier caning Amy for being disobedient to his stepmother and for stealing threepence. Witness had the cane himself when he was naughty. His father had acted very kindly towards witneis and towards his sisters.—Cross-examined, witnees ..aid he had been caned by his father about omy in the last three or four months, and his sisters about twice.—Sergeant Snelgrove said in 1879 Chatterton was committed at Bromley for assaulting his late wife, and was ordered to find sureties in £5O and himself in £5O to keep the peace.—The magistrate said he had no doubt the prisoner had used undue violence towards his children. He ordered him to find two sureties in £25 each to keep the peace for six months, or to go to orison for a month.—Prisoner said he could not find bail, and his children would starve. He had been in prison for 16 days already.  William Kerr, blacksmith, of Balaton, Cumber. land, has been tried at Carlisle Assizes for the wilful murder of a woman named Sebra Troughear, on ths highway near Dalston. The unfortunate woman was walking home alone in the evening when she was met by the prisoner, who knocked her down and outraged her, the cause of death being choking from vomiting produced by the prisoner's violence. The jury found Kerr guilty, and he was sentenced to desth.
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1889-05-23 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

BRIEN AND THE FENIANS. Mr. William O'Brien was next called and examined by Mr. Reid. He said he was member for North-East Cork, and knew the district al Mallow since 1868. That district was always very much disturbed. Witness was not a Fenian in the sense of having taken the oath, though he had sympathised deeply with the cause. About 16 or 17 years ago he endeavoured to reconcile the various differences which existed between the sections of the Fenians, and failed in that, and since then lie had had no connection aith the body. The Fenians never had even the slightest connection with agrarian out. He then detailed many instances in which as a journalist he had inquired illts the differences between landlords and tenants since 1868, which had resulted in krarian outrages and murders; and said he was sure that there was not the slightest connection between the Land League and crime. He remembered well in 1870 being presented to Mr. !sue Butt, who bad spent his whole day in !lefending a man charged with shooting his landIr'rd• That gentleman then said his day's work las an epitome of the unhappy history of Ireland. re had spent his day in trying to save a man 'rya the gallows, and lie was then addressing a lot Youtiß men who were trying to net tient to  Anal servitude. He said the 'object of his life was to give the Irish peasant some BETTER HOPE THAN THE BLUNDEREINS, and the young men of Ireland something better than penal servitude. In 1874 at the Kingston estate there had been a prolonged and angry struggle between the landlord and the tenants, and on one occasion the police and the driver of an escort were killed and the agent left dangerously wounded. In 1877 he went down to the estate to inquire into the matter, and he visited 300 tenants personally. He then entered minutely into the circumstances of the case, and said the impression that was left on his mind of the wretchedness and the industry of these poor people was one that had never left him. Before the Land League agitation there was dreadful trouble between Mr. Bridge, the landlord of the Kingston estate, and his tenants, but when the Laud League was I,,rnied the rents were voluntarily lowered, and lie had had no more trouble since. The whole of the disputes were no doubt caused by an attempt on the part of the landlords to take advantage of a couple of good years to raise the rents and to get the tenants to contract themselves out of the Land Act of MO. In 1879 witness went to the West of Ireland and found the condition of things appalling. The universal feeling was that the old famine times were coming back again, while the young men were desperate, as they stated they would not have a repetition of the old scenes. He felt quite sure that if the Land League had not sprung up to restrain the landlords, and to assist the people, there would have been a
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1889-08-22 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

THE FURRIERS' STRIKE.  Mark Hecht, 18, desoribing himself 1111 a tailor, af Spitalfields, was charged, at the Worship-street Police-court, on Tuesday, with assaulting Nathan Littlestone and a Police-constable in Commercial. street, Spitalfields.—Mr. Ogle, for the prosecution, explained that the premises of Mr. Koenigsberg, furrier, were " picketted" by men who tried to prevent persons going to work for Koenigsberg, on whose premises there was a strike. The man who now charged the prisoner with assault, had worked for Koenigsberg, and the other afternoon sought work there. Being observed togo in on Tuesday morning, he was attacked by the "pickets," among whom was the prisoner. The latter, said Mr. Ogle, had never worked for Koenigsberg, and therefore he was simply a paid agitator. —The prosecutor gave evidence that when he was about to enter the premises the prisoner said to him, "You shall not go to work there," and prosecutor replied, "I have got no food." The prisoner then said he would murder him if he went there, and, taking hold of him, hit him over the head with the umbrella produced. They bad a • vii, ,iv, and a constable came up at the moment of the assault and took the prisoner in charge. The prisoner cross-examined him as to the blow, which was denied; but a lad named Simon Josephs corroborated, and a police-constable said he saw it given with the umbrella. He, the constable, had been sent on special duty to the spot in consequence of the riots and disorderly conduct around the premises during the strike. He took the prisoner into custody at the moment of the assault, and then the prisoner kicked him about the legs, which were badly bruised, and would not walk. There was a mob of Jews around, some of whom jumped on the witness's back to get the prisoner away. —The prisoner addressed the magistrate and said he had committed no assault. He spoke to the prosecutor, who said that he received 40s. a week, and could not throw up his work. Prisoner said he thought it was a shame that he would not "scab "the shop.—Henry Newman, of Canonbury, who said he was an agent in the boot trade, than came forward for the defence. He said he was outside the premises that morning, and saw the prisoner speaking to Littlestone. Witness told the prisoner to have nothing to say to the man. They walked away together. Witness saw no blow given. He saw the prisoner in custody, but did not see him kick the policeman.—Mr. Saunders (the magistrate) remarked that it was worthless evidence, for the witness had seen nothing.—Mr. Ogle crossexamined the witness, who admitted that he was not in the fur trade, but he was chairman of the For Workers' Society.—Mr. Saunders said that it was one of the worst cases of the kind he had heard. The prisoner had assaulted a man to prevent him doing his work, and when he was properly in custody he abused and assaulted the constable. It was an offence that must be put down, and he sentenced the Drisouer to three months' hard labour.
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1889-11-14 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

THITRSDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1889  ?HI MURDER OF A TOURIST.  TRIAL AND CONVICTION OF LAURIE. In a crowded court at Edinburgh on Friday, before Lord Kinpburgh, Lord Justice Clack, John Watson Laurie, described as a joiner, of Glasgow, was placed on his trial on the charge of murdering Edwin Robert Rose, a tourist, of London, in the isle of Arran, in July. The Solicitor-General for Scotland prosecuted, and the prisoner, who was attired with r,eat care and *hewed little concern, wits defended by the Dean of Faculty. Evidence was given by the polio. and others as to the disappearance of Rose, the formation of the search parties, the quest among the hills, and the discovery of the body at the foot of a precipice in 4leo &own. The body was concealed in a cavity, behind a large boulder, and many stones had been heaped about to bide it from view. It was doubtful, indeed, whether the remains would have been found had not a 'shred of wearing apparel been left exposed. One officer stated that he buried a pair of Rose's boots on the beach, thinking that they would not be needed at tile trial. The Dean of Faculty, by his cross examination, *ought tAa indicate that the tourist's death was accidental—that Rose slipped over the cliff while wearing iron-heeled boots, and that he sustained the injuries in his fall. Dr. Gilmour, however, had no hesitation iii certifying that the fractures in the head—which was fearfully sina*hed —were not caused by a fall from the cliff, but by direct blows with some blunt instrument, probably a boulder. Other medical evidence was given chewing that it was impossible for the injuries on Rose's bead and body to have been caused by a fall. After Witbetrnee red been called to identify wearing apparel owned by Ross tut found in Laurie's lodgings the oourt adloutned On Situirday, further evidence having been given for the prosecution, three no eical gentlemen were called in support of the theory of the defence that the injuries on the head and shoulder of R.ofe were the result of an accidental fall. An Italian guide was put in the bolt to preys the unlikelihood of Rose and Laurie hating attempted to descend the mountain in the direethon of the boulder under which the body was found, 'mad evidence was given to thew that Laurie remained cheerful after the event. In the course of • speech lasting an hour, the Bolicitor - General for Scotland, appearing for the Crown, submitted that it was oily on the hypothesis tht.t Rose was murdered that Laurie', conaltich niter his disappearance could be explained. Mr. J. `lt. Balfour, on behalf of the prisoner, argued thilt the balance Of 'the medical testimony was gia- the side of Laurie's innocente, and that the prisoner's conduct throughout was compatible with that view. Kis lordship contilnded his summing up at 9.40. The jury, after • consultation lastieg 43 minutes, found a verdict of guilty. The sennence of death was then pronounced. After being sentenced Laurie was removed to Calton Pri*en. The prison-van was followed by a crowd booting and yelling.
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1889-02-21 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

ASTONISHING DISCLOSURES.  And now came a disclosure before which all previous evidence shrinks to insignificance. It bad best be given in the words used. Sir Charles Russell: Did Mr. Pigott tell you tbat be told Mr. Lewis he had forged the letters ?—Witsass : He told me nothing of the kind, but he said Mr. Lewis endeavoured to get him to do so. Retold Mr. Lewis he did not forge the letters?— Be did.  -7- -Tell us what he said.—He showed me a letter from Mr. Lewis accusing htm of having said he forged the Parnell letters. He said that was a lie, and upon that I caused him to make a statutory declaration to that effect. He also said he had received an offer of 111,000 to get into the witness-box and swear he was the author of the letters. That he was the forger of them ?—Yes, practically. Did he tell you he was in correspondence with Archbishop Walsh on the subject ?—No. Did Mr. Houston ever tell you that Pigott had demanded gs,ooo from him ?—No ; but I know it all the same.  When was that f—l think some time before he saw We.  What was it asked for ?--It was asked because he laid it was perfectly impossible for him to live in Dublin after giving his evidence here; that he must go away, and he wanted to make some provision for himself. I said I would make no monetary arrangements with him at all, but I told him he might be satisfied the Times would never see him ruined for simply going into the box, and stating what he knew to be true. That promise was made in writing. (then found he was being watched by Mr. Lewis's detectives. I also employed detectives and traced him into the company of Mr. Lewis and Mr. raga and Mr. Lebouchere at the house of  Inn latter. Ater tie maae tne statutory declaration, he sent a correction the next day with regard So Mr. Biggar and another's conneetion with the supreme council. A man writing under the name of Wilson wrote and offered to give me information. When I saw the letter I knew it came from a man named O'Brien and that he had come from Mr. Non to Mr. .f.abouchere, and that the whole thing was a " plant " on me. I had him watched, and found that he WWI sent by Mr. Labouchere to see Mr. Pigott in Dublin. He took the name of Sinclair. Mr. O'Brien admitted to me that he went under the name of Roberts in America, and it was a man named Roberta who imposed the false documents on Mr. Moser, whom I had sent there previously.  What were your instructions to the Mr. Thompson whom you sent to America ?—He was to go to Sheridan and get the letter identical in terms with that published on 15th May, 1882 (the letter referring Is Lord F. Cavendish's murder), which had been seen by other people. This ended Mr. Soames's truly dramatic and startling story. He also told Sir Charles Russell that the total amounts he had paid in respect So this matter were about as follows: Houston, £3,000; Kirby, a few hundreds; Moser, £1,400; and Thompson, £5OO.
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1889-06-20 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

CROSS-EXAMINED.  The judges came in pretty punctually, and Mr. Edward Harrington having again entered the witness-box, was cross-examined by Mr. Murphy. Asked whether it was true that the people of Kerry were frightened into compliance with the rules of the Land League by tear of the Moonlighters, he denied that this was the ease, but generally speaking the people were dreadfully frightened of the Moonlighters. He believed the Moonlighters must have been organise.' by some military or quasi-military man, as undoubtedly they had a good deal of discipline. Mr. Murphy then took the witness through a weary bit of Judge Lawson's charges and his own articles thereon in the Kerry Sentinel, and subsequently examined him upon a ease which the learned corned l described as a gross outrage on a little girl—the said "little girl" turn. lag out to be about .50 years of age. Mr. Harrington had written an article on the subject, in which he contrasted a sentence which a man got of live years for nmnslaughter,with that given in the case in question; the man who struck this woman, became there was some connection with a land dispute, getting seven years' penal servitude. The Judge, interposing in the cross-examination, said, with a grave air, that there was no matter which was the subject of more painful consideration to judges than that of meting out sentences, and the question was whether the witness now considered what he had written was proper in the circumstances of the case. Mr. Harrington replied that in the sainecircumstances he would write every line again. He did not remember the particulars of a letter printed from his Dublin correspondent, in which that person deplored the weakness of the Plicenix Park murderers in pleading guilty. He did, however, remember some paragraph on the subject, and he now said that he did not agree with the tone of the article, and should not have allowed inch an article to go in if he had known it. In 1885 there was a good deal of political activity in Ken, and witness took part in starting branches of the National League. Mr. Murphy next proceeded to read a large number of paragraphs which he said arpeared in the Kerry Sentinel, some of them calling on all tenants to join the Land League, as the list of defaulters would be shortly published. Mr. Harrington denied that he had ever supported such action: The President, interposing, asked the witness if any action f'at3 ever taken by the central body condemning such & Coarse. Mr. Harrington replied that a great many branches were dissolved in consequence of taking such action. Asked whether he could point to any resolution of the central body prior to 1887 condemning intimidation, he replied that at that time there was no central body in Kerry, but he could give many articles from his paper condemning the practice. Upon Mr. Murphy protesting at the diseutelve tone of the witness 'i3 replies, he answered warmly that he was more than a witness—he was one of the parties charged, and appeared as  A