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The Warwickshire Herald. — 1892-03-03 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

MURDERER ATTACKING HIS JUDGE. The hearing of a trial for murder at Nagpur has been brought to an abrupt conclusion by an extraordinary outbreak on the part of the prisoner. The WC was being tried by Mr. F. yenning, the Coinmissioner for the District, and in the course of the evidence the hatchet with which the crime had been committed was laid on the table in front of the Bench. The prisoner, watching his opportunity, suddenly jumped from the dock and seized the hatchet, armed with which he rushed upon Mr. Yenning, and before the warders could intervene struck the Commissioner on the head, inflicting a severe scalp wound. He then raised the hatchet to deal a second blow, but was seized by Colonel Thomas, the Deputy Commissioner, and alter a brief struggle was disarmed and handcuffed.  idoney-order business by telegraph has been op to the present only done at head and branch poet-offices; but the Postmaster-General announces that the system of telegraph money-orders is now in operation at all poet-offices in the United Kingdom where telegraph and money-order business is transacted. The commission payable varies from 4d. to Is., according to the amount of the money-order required; but in addition to this the sender has to pay the cost of the official telegram and its repetition—the minimum charge being Dd. Ten pounds is the maximum amount which ay be sent by single telegraph money-order. suumn. tray, a coy Wed Al years, was remanded It the Lambeth Police-court on Saturday on the charge of having been found wandering without means of subsistence. It was stated that the boy, though be had kind parents, had a mania for stealing and otherwise misconducting himself. Recently he sold his coat and cap, and after an absence of a week he returned home, broke a window in his parents' house with a brick, stole some food, and concealed himself in the dustbin. His last escapade was to order fruit, biscuits, and other article* from tradesmen in his father's name.  ACTION AGAINST  In the Court of Queen's Bench, on Tuesday, before Mr. Justice Denman and a special jury, tL case of Wilson v. Pain and Sons, which had been before the court on Monday, wan decided. The plaintiff,_ Captain Wilson, was an officer in the Board of Trade, and the defendants were the well-known firework manufacturers. On the 6th of December, 1689,the plaintiff went to Mitcham-common to inspect and report upon a rocket which had been manufactured by the defendants for use as signals on board ship, and as to which the approval of the Board of Trade was desired. Whilst engaged in this work a rocket expl lied, and destroyed one of the plaintiff's eyes and otherwise wounded him. He now sued for cornpensation for these injuries, and the principal question in dispute seemed to be as to who was to blame for what had happened.—Sir Henry James (for the defendants) ccnsented to a verdict for the plaintiff for £l,ooo.—Mr. Justice Denman thought that the parties had been very well advised, and that there was a satisfactory termination of the case.—Judgment was accordingly given for the plaintiff for £l,OOO and costa.
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1892-08-04 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

CONVICTED BY A SON'S EVIDENCE. A singular trial for murder—that of an old woman named Chipot, who kept a clandestine wineshop at Ivry—has come to a close. The defendant, who, the Daily Telegraph Paris correspondent says, was addicted to drunken habits, was a regular customer named Boheim, who also supplied the establishment with some of the liquors sold there. Boheim, accompanied by his little boy of nine, went into the place shortly after dusk, and next morning the body of Madame Chipot was found in the shop with the head fearfully mutilated by means of a poker. The prisoner's own version of the affair was that after a quarrel with the deceased about the quality of the liquors supplied she seized the poker, and that he wrenched it from het hand, and striking her with it accidentally killed her. A most painful feature of the case was that the most conclusive testimony against Boliehn was that of his own child, who—out of a feeling of humanity—was not put into the witness-box, hut whose depositions before tho Juge d'lnstruction were taken as evidence. The boy related how his father and the deceased had a struggle, and how Boheint held the old woman by the neck while he struck her several blows with a knife. When tin tussle ceased the woman bad still strength enough left to seize the poker, but liolienn took it front het and struck her with it. She sank to chair and let her head fall on the table, which was covered with blood. This evidence was so conclusive as to leave no doubt in the minds of the jury. They, however, found that the crime was not premeditated, and Boliehn was sentenced to penal servitude foi life.  The Rock announces that the Rev. Joseph Sidney Hill is the Bishop-designate of the Niger in succession to the late Bishop Crowther. Mr. Hill was trained at the Church Missionary College. Islington, of which the present vicar rof Islington, the Rev. W. H. Barlow, was then the principal. He was ordained deacon by the Bishop of London in 1876, and priest in 1881 by the Bishop of IVaiapu. He served as a missionary at Lagos from 187 n to 187, was stationed at Vi'airoi, New Zealand, irons 1879 io 1893, acted as prison chaplain at Auckland from 1883 to 1890, and for the last two years has been cmmged at home on the staff of the Church l'arcchial Mission under the Rev. W. IL M. 11. Aitken.  iseve u prieuu3 were injuren at uenoa ny a cont. lion between a train from Pisa and a goods train.  A violent thunderstorm broke over-Sanvie, near Havre, on Friday evening. A child of eight wall struck by lightning, and killed. It is said that the necessary money for placing an electric rearch-light at the top of Mount Washington has been subscribed. The light is to be the highest and strongest search-light in the world, and will, it is expected, be visible from Maine, Massachusetts,New Ilauipshire,Vermont, New York, and Canada
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1892-06-02 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

HOW THE SOUP-KITCHEN FIRE WAS KEPT BURNING.  An instance of strange zonduct on the part of some of the Durham miners is reported to have occurr, recently at one of the collieries. It seems that, in order to keep the soup-kitchen fires going, more coal was wanted. A deputation waited upon the manager and requested a supply from the stock that they were using for firing the boilers. He said lie could not accede to their request, as he and other officials bad to go down the pit and themselves hew the coal needed to keep the boilers going. Hos, ever, rather than the soup-kitchen should he closed for want of coal, the men had full permission to go down the pit and get as much coal as they wanted, free of cost. Not one of the men, however, would go. The curate (a well-known football-player) stepped forward and asked the managet if he would grant him permission to go down and hew the coal needed. The manager at once answered in the affirmative, and added, "And I will go with you." Without hesitation the reverend gentleman doffed his clerical attire and, alonu with the manager, descended the mine, and in les, than an hour two tubs of coal were sent to Lank and the soup kitchen fires were kept burning.  Ta-ra-ra-Bootn-de-ay is dead—dead RR a doornail —and not all the king's horses, nor all the king's men, will put it on its legs again. Not the song: that goes on as merrily as ever, notwithstanding the tale told by the thermometer of 135 degrees of sunshine; but the fiery untamed steed of that name, which formed one of the attractions of the Wild West. The animal was one of the best buck-junipers, and while going though its performance m. Monday afternoon, jumped and pirouetted to such an extent that it kicked itself heels over head and fell heavily with its rider. The cowboy saved himself by admirable agility, but Ta-ra-ra-Boom-de-ay broke neck and -kicked no more. A fatal accident °occurred on board the CunarCi liner Etruria, on the second day of her deoarture from New York. A seaman fell from aloft to the deck and was killed.  A telegram from Srinagar. Cashmere, stateecthat the epidemic of cholera continues to rage there with unabated severity. Nine hundred and ninety deaths hare occurred in four days out of 1,731 cases. Jainei Smith, a negro,was lynched by an excited mob at Huntingdon, Wt Virginia, on Sunday. He murdered a boy named Charles Serpella, aged 12, Lad afterwards stole the few trifles from the lad's pockets.  - -Mersrs. Macmillan and Co., in continuation of their Golden Treasury Series, have issued a volume of essays of Joseph Addison, edited by Dr. John Richard Green. The same firin have also published a collection of sermons by Canon Farrar, bearing the title "Saintly Workers."  Part 9of Green's "Short History of the English People," which has just been published by Macmillan, deals with the period of the three Edwards. The frontispiece is a well executed coloured plate, representing the coronation of a king, from an early 14th century MS. in Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. romm.
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1887-02-17 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

ACCIDENTS AND CRIME.  AT Leeds Assizes, Allen Beresford, engineman at the Houghton Main Colliery, Barnsley, was charged with the manslaughter of the 10 colliers employed in the pit who lost their lives in December, owing to the breakage of the cage rope while descending to their work, in consequence, it was alleged, of the prisoner's negligence. The jury acquitted the prisoner. THE execution of Richard Insole, for the murder of his wife at Glimsby, will take place on Monday, the 21st inst.  Ex-ALDERMAN O'NEILL, who was convicted of bribery in connection with the New York Broadway Railway case, has been sentenced to four and a half years' imprisonment and a fine of 2,000 dole. He now joins the other convicted aldermen at Sing-sing. ON Saturday morning a communication was received from the Home Secretary stating that, after careful consideration, he is unable to discover any reason for advising her Majesty to interfere with the due course of law in the case of Thomas Bloxham, now under sentence of death for wife murder at Leicester.  AT Leeds Assizes, on Saturday, James William Hallam, a Sheffield manufacturer, was sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment for having conspired to obtain various sums of money under false pretences from Fanny Vernon. a woman living at Ecclestield. The judge, in pasi-ing sentence, said he passed a heavier punishment than he would if the prisoner ' had been a man in humbler life, as such persons should be made an example of. A CONFECTIONER, named Charles Burrows, was charged at Manchester, on Saturday, with Obtaining £lOO and a silver watch from a woman named Elizabeth Nelson. Nelson was a housemaid, and made the acquaintance of the prisoner at Blackpool. Finding that she had £l2O in the bank, he induced her to draw it out and give it to him, with a view of taking a beerbouse and getting married. Instead of doing this, however, be went to race meetings, and , finally deserted her, leaving her penniless, Ile was ' remanded without bail. A SHOCKING accident occurred on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway on Saturday. A youth, named Foxton, was travelling between Huddersfield and Sheffield, and when in Denbydale Tunnel he opened the carriage door, and, overbalancing himself, fell out on the metals. It is stated that another train passed over him, as when he was picked up and taken to the Huddersfield Infirmary one leg had been torn off and the other fractured. One arm was a 1.4.) injured, and he died during tne night from the shock, _ .  _ WILLIAM PAY lON, cashier in the employ of Messrs. Goodwin & Co., millers, Kidderminster, was on Monday, sentenced to four months' imprisonment for embezzling in° belonging to his employers, Payton had been in the employ of the firm over twenty years, and his wages were 255. per week with a house, his wife having to keep the office' clean. _ .  _ GEORGE WHITEHEAD, a Liverpool " Highnipper," who WR9 last week .found guilty of stabbing Edward Sebborn on Aintree racecourse hist November, was on Monday sentenced at the local assizes to live years' penal servitude.
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1887-03-31 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

OLLENDORFIA.  At a Draper's.  It is Spring.—lt is not Spring. Is it Winter I—Blowed if I know.  What will you wear for this Spring. I—A thin overskirt, a cotton jacket, a cambric dress, light kid boots, and a parasol. Then you will be frozen to death. .  At.a Meeting of Shareholders.  I see a Chairman, a Board of Directors, and the Secretary, where is he I—fie is sitting behind a big book, and will presently read out of it the balancesheet.  Is it reading that he of it does now I—Yes, but some of it the mumbling call.  These are the ishareholders and the reporter.— What of it eems absent ?—Tue dividend.  At a Theatre.  A tragedy, a drama, a comlc opera, a farce, a comedy.  Arid the piece 'which they play is?—A comedycligarna.  The place where we are 7—The back of the pit. And the stage, merblex, is there not then a stage —( i')tai gement, and when the fashions in ladies' hats has changed you shall of it then see.  Oul side a Shop. This then is a shop.—Yes, it is empty; let us go in and buy:  Who is.this which is lying on the floor 7—lt is the shopkeeper what has been murdered  ut die murderers, where then they ?—They are probably drinking of the beer in a public-house. And the police ?—The what? The police.—We haven't any.  At a Horse Race. The stand, the judge, the waiter, the jockeys. And the tire .cltul men which yell and shout eon. tinuousf—Pa rblea, these are of them book-makers. Tne authors ?-IVoil pas preeige Melt, , they are pencillers. Ab I they are then artists, they draw I—Alexis oui, they draw everything out of one. .Jicfoi, but it is curious.  At a Jubilee Meeting. The petition, the hat, the Imperial Institute, the Mayor, the Corporation. What is the big box I—lt is for the subscriptions. And are they inside I—No, the box is empty. Humph I  A VAST majority of the householders of Glasgow have cecided in favour of controlling their own liquor traffic. The temperance party supposes that it nas scored a point. But, knowing what is felt about whiskey in Glasgow generally, we rather ' fancy not. On the contrary, we should be inclined : to think that the Glasgow folk merely seek the control of their own drink, lest by some mischance they should happen to lose it. For instance, Parliament, for its own better government, might suddenly decree that whiskey should be abolished. As the Easter Reviews will take place in April, theta can be no doubt about the March past. M.P.'s wh t accuse earnest legislators of having the refrains of comic songs on their lips, may, ere many weeks have passed, find time to ejaculate within the walls of a prison, "0, what a surprise I " "THE first legislature in the world A drunken lot. I say I ' was the exclamation of Mrs. Mifkins. " Tne idea of yelling out 'Order! order I' all the night through I And the poor waiters, how they must have suffered I"  ON E cii y in the South of France is, presumably, the b4ne of auctioneers, who cannot be expected to regard favourably any procedure that tends to slar-seilles.  (From Judy.)
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1887-11-03 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

WILLIAN E. BROCKWAY, the most skilled forger in the United States, and just released from Sing Sing, says he learned his art at Yale College. He went there to perfect his knowledge of electrochemistry as applied to electrotyping. THE French Post Office recommends the disuse of sealing-wax on ordinary letters for countries over the sea. It often happens that the wax is melted by the heat under the tropics, or by the fumigations to which mail bags are subjected. A MAN and a woman living together in Wightman-street, Canning Town, London, were in bed, when by some means not yet ascertained the bedding caught fire, and both were terribly burned. They were admitted to the London Hospital, and both died during Sunday. PRINCESS LOUISE OF WALES has now been attacked by measles at Fredensborg. Dr. Petersen, the Danish physician, who is in attendance on the English Princesses, states that the attack is of a mild character and causes no anxiety. The other patients are progressing favourably. IN the week ending Oct. 29th there were 250 bills of sale registered in England and Wales, an increase of 24 over those of the corresponding period last year ; the failures gazetted number 86, showing a decrease of 10.—Compiled from Stubbs' Weekly Gazette. AT a London Police-court Mary Relif, a French governess, was sentenced to six months' hard labour for stealing £5 us. 6d, belonging to the Hon. Roaina Callaghan, with whom, representing that she was a countess, she had lately lived as a friend.  A SADDLER named Joseph Walker has been sentenced to death at Oxford Assizes for the wilful murder of his wife at Chipping Norton on September 16. The parties had frequently quarrelled, both drank heavily, and on the night in question Walker cut the woman's throat.  RUSSIA is preparing to raise her import duties, especially on medicines, Sowers, and plants. The duty on toys, too (alas ! for the poor children !) is to be raised from forty-five to fifty-five gold copeks per pound. This increase is said to be intended to injure the export trade of Germany and Italy to Russia. IT appears that the beer question is causing trouble in Cape Colony. At Port Elisabeth some "Christian natives" mean to have "hop beer" or none, and by way of emphasising the movement have actually started a "Hop Beer Church" rather than submit to the censure of their ministers on the subject on Sundays. THE paper bottle has at last reached our shores from America' and a limited liability company, with a capital of £120,000, has been formed to acquire the English patents for their manufacture by a process which is the property of a Chicago firm. It is stated that in America these bottles, in many cases, command a higher price then those of glass or stone. WITH reference to the alleged whisky-drinking and intemperance at:the Highland Festival recently held at Balmoral, a statement is published from Sir Henry Ponsonby to the effect that he was present at the gathering while the Queen was on the ground, and that during that time he did not see a drunken person.
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1887-11-03 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

DARING OUTRAGE IN LONDON. - -ROBBERY OF BONDS VALUED AT £'9,04)0.  A robbery a most daring character was perpetrated the other afternoon in Threadneedle.street, Loudon, bonds to the value of several thousand pounds being stolen under the meet remarkable circumstances. A young clerk in the employ of Messrs. Wilson and Sons, who carry on an extensive business as stockbrokers at 69, Cornhill, hau been commissioned by his employers to convey to Messrs. George Cawstou and Co., stockbrokers of Hatton-court, Threadneedle-street, a quantity of bonds and shares, valued at over £9,000, which were enclosed in a small black hand-bag. ‘Vith this object he left Messrs. Wilson's preinists in Cornhill shortly after noon, and proceeded by way of the Bank of England into Threadneedle-street and Hatton•court, which is only a few minutes distant from his employers' office, noticing nothing unusual in the manner or movements of any of the pedestrians with which the thoroughfares were crowded. Having reached Hattonisourt he was about to make for Messrs. Cawston's offiees when he was attacked by a man of respectable appearance. Before he could raise a cry of alarm the man clutched the wrist of the hand which held the bag with his left hand, and made a out at his fingers and then at his throat with some sharp instrument, supposed to be a knife. Naturally the boy being seized with fright, and the fear of being murdered, released his hold of the bag, and for a few seconds became paralysed as it were. This was evioently in accordance with the anticipations of the thief, who immediately seized the bag and made off into Threadneedle-street and was soon lost amongst the crowds of commercial men who are usually traversing the street at that hour. The frightened lad, who is only about 17 years of age, was unable to raise an alarm, but upon realisiog his position and loss and having satisfied himself that he was in no way seriously injured, made all haste to Messrs. Wilson's office to inform his employers of the robbery. No time was lost in acquainting the police authorities of the occurrence, and they in turn immediately sent out a number of detectives to investigate the case. The lad was minutely examined by these officers as to the description of the thief, which inquiries he satisfied to the best of his ability ; but so speedily was the robbery effected, and so frightened was the lad that only a meagre description could be obtained. Considering the determined manner in which the thief attacked him his injuries are remarkably slight, only a few scratches being visible on his chin and knuckles. The description of the bonds and shares—which include Uruguay 5 per Cent. Bonds, and Ohio and Mississippi shares—has been given to the detectives of the City Criminal Investigation department, who have been entrusted with the difficult task of discovering the whereabouts of the thief and the stolen securities.  A reward of £2OO is offered for information leading to the conviction of the thief and the recovery of the property.