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The Warwickshire Herald. — 1889-10-24 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

THE ATHERTON MURDER.  John Edward Lorn, a young man, who said he lived at Blackburn, has been charged at Manchester with the wilful murder of Walter Davies, salesman, in the employ of Mr. Lowe, pawnbroker, of Atherton. On July 23 Davies was found dead in the cellar of the shop, and a quantity of jewellery was mined. Some of the missing jewellery WSW pawned shortly afterwards.—Detective Caminada now said that he and two other detectives apprehended the prisoner at Wigan, and, besides charging him with the murder, charged him with stealing and also receiving stolen goods. He brought the prisoner to Manchester, where he had been identified by a pawnbroker with whom he pledged some of the stolen jewellery. When charged with the murder and theft, the prisoner said, I know nothing about it." Afterwards he said he was working for Thomas Bolden, who travels with a switchback railway, at the time of the murder. Since the prisoner had been locked up he had been seen by two persons who could identify hum. Witness asked that the prisoner might be discharged and handed over to the county police. This was at once done.  THE ZALINSKI GUN AT sra. ;; The report of the Government Board appointed to witness the recent trials of the Zalinski Dynamite Guns on the cruiser Vesuvius has, says the New ' York correspondent of the Daily .frevf, been made ' public. It is not favourable to the use of the guns on shipboard. The Board says that while the gun possesses great capacity for destruction within a limited range, its usefulness is impaired to a large extent by the intricate mechanism necessary to work it. The gun cannot he shifted on board ship and pointed forward and aft as highpowered guns can. No attempt was made to secure accuracy, as the trial was only for rapidity and caps' city to maintain iwjaidity Of fitin It was only sought to carry shells well above a mile. 'Each trine this was done. The Board is of opinion that some assurance should be given that the loss of air pressure, representing as it does the energy put into the projectile, can be controlled within smaller limits. The Board having given the gun every possible test, and while admitting its efficiency for harbour and coast defences, is of opinion that until further developed the gun can never be utilised for effective service on board a vessel of war. It is probable that the Secretary of the Navy will accept the Vesuvius, and place her on the naval list, Though she has now passed through all her trials, there are a great many naval officers who are very sceptical as to her practical value, and there are but few who would care to be aboard her when shells loaded with dynamite are fired from her guns. The general opinion is that she ought to be given a thorough test with loaded shells at target practice before more vessels of her type are constructed.
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1889-04-18 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

NATURE OF THE " TIMES' " ALLEGATIONS. Sir Charles Russell, rising to his feet immedigels- the judges entered, at once plunged into the collusion of his summary. The Times charged the faders of the Land League that theydeliberately based their movement on a scheme of assassination and outrage. The charge had from the first been not a charge of constructive or moral guilt, but a deliberate charge that the leaders of the Land League deliberately used outrage and murder as a means by which their political endswere to e attained. It was not a charge of making speeches at times and under circumstances of excitement, but it was a charge that the authentic utterances of the leaders of the Home Rule party were meant to be, and were, a direct incitement toontrage and murder. Well, he bad gone into the questiim of the letters fully already, and he felt that lie was now somehow flogging a dead horse. But he would ask them to take away the letters, and, if their lordships were sitting in a criminal court,which of them, he asked—in a ease where penal consequences would be the result of A verdict of guilty—would think it was a case tit even for the consideration of a jury? The learned counsel then dealt with the charges one bc one, and contended that there were only two sitecific and definite charges. The forged letters formed one such charge, and the charge that Mr. Parnell by an opportune remittance enabled Byrne to escape from justice to France formed such another. The first charge had been exploded, and with regard to the second, he would give the Court the facts from reliable written records. The English branch of the League, of which Byrne was secretary, frequently received monetary assistance from the Irish branch. The stay began in December, 1881, when Byrne, the secretary, was away ill ; and at a meeting of the executive it was stated that Byrne had applied to Mr. Parnell for a cheque for £lOO to assist the funds, which were in very low water. No answer was received, and Byrne again wrote to Mr. Parnell for a sufficient sum of money to meet the pressing requirements of the branch,consisting of rent and other matters,pending their re-organisation on the lines of the Irish Land League. Mr. Parnell wrote to the Irish League, stating the circumstances, and a few days later, at the meeting of the Irish League in Dublin, a resolution was passed that the application for a grant of £lO4l, nude by Mr. Parnell on behalf of the Land and Labour League of Great Britain (which was the name of the organisation of which Byrne was the secretary), be acceded to, and the cheque was sent. A letter from Byrne was then received, in which he acknowledged the receipt of the money, and enclosed a balance - sheet of the society, which 'hewed how the money had been disposed of. What (lid these facts disclose? A plain, straightforward, innocent transaction, which was free from any imputation of guilty connivance at the escape of a guilty criminal.
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1889-10-31 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

THE CRONIN TRIAL.  Among the witnesses called on Friday were Nicholas Wallaborne, a wine merchant; a friend of Dr. Cronin—J. Conklin—in whose family he had lived 10 years before his death ; John Scanlan, his friend in the Clan-na-Gael ; Frank Scanlan, John's brother; and David Ahern. The identification by Dr. Cronin's tailor was very perfect and positive. It embraced the height, size, and general appearance of the dead man, the shape of his beard, the conformation of his face, particularly his forehead, the shape and size of his teeth, the shape of a once broken finger, and the heavy growth of hair on the doctor's wrists. The next matter taken up was the finding of the body in the catch-basin. Two sewer-cleaners who discovered the body and notified the police of the fact, and the policemen who were sent and assisted in removing the body, were sworn as to this point and described their proceedings.—Mr. Forrest, for the defence, cross-examined these witnesses closely and searchingly, compelling them to minutely describe everything connected with the removal of the body.—Dr. Lewis, dentist, identified the body, and described Dr. Cronin's peculiarities—the number of missing teeth and the form of the jaw. He also identified a plate with false teeth attached as one he made for Dr. Cronin. A cast of the mouth, which he had made, fitted that of the corpse.  On Saturday Dinan, a stableman, related how Coughlin, the detective, had engaged a horse and trap, whioh a stranger had called for on the night of the murder, and stated that this was the white horse and buggy which took Dr. Cronin to the cottage. The stranger objected to the white horse, but Dinan refused to procure another. The stranger also wanted to have side curtains to the vehicle, but his request was not granted, and he then drove off in the direction of Dr. Cronin's house. On the next day Coughlin told him to say nothing about his having engaged the horse and buggy, be cause he and Dr. Cronin were not friends, and the latter might get him into trouble. The witness gave a description of the stranger, whom, however, he had not seen since.  Among the witnesses called on Monday was Moreland, a stableman employed by Dinan, the jebmaster from whom the vehicle was hired on the night of the murder to convey Dr. Cronin to Carson's cottage, who corroborated the evidence given by his employer as to the circumstances of the transacLion. He further stated that the horse and trap were out a little over two hours,and he noticed that thehorse appeared to have been driven fast, while the buggy was covered with sand and mud. —Mrs. Conklin, in whose house Dr. Cronin lived, related how the deceased was called away on the night of the murder to attend a supposed injured man, and stated that the doctor and the man who called for him drove away in a buggy drawn by a white horse. She gave a description of the stranger, which closely resembled that already given by witnesses of the an who hired the team from Dinan.
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1886-08-19 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

MUSIC AND DRAMA.  A Run uf Luck is the result of the rechristening of Alesse4. Harris and Pettitt's sporting drama. By the by, I have not seen it noted anywhere that the collaborators were at the Goodwood meeting study. iu clret•ts. Mr. Harris has released Mr. Charles NVarner from his engagement to play in the piece. AmttNat the onlookers at the rehearsals of A Run Lurk, at Drury Lane, is a starched and dapper little man, with clothes of horsey cut. He is the jockey of the piece—a real live Newmarket jockey— and, after the mere actors have finished, he brings on his thoroughbreds, which are as genuine as himself. The realism of this part of the show is perfect.  MISS KATE SANTLEY will shortly commence a provincial tour with a new comic opera. TIIE welcome report comes from Aix-les-Bains, that, thanks to the recuperating effects of the waters, Mr. Toole is rapidly recovering from the depressing effects of his late severe attack of gi  UNACTED British dramatists, whose name is legion, are resolving themselves into a " Playwrights' rroduction Society' for the presentation of their own plays, "with a minimum amount of trouble and expense to themselves." These gentry. I fear, will have to hire, not only a theatre in which to present their plays, but an audience to sit them out, from which it is. to bc hoped the press critics will be mercifully eliminated.  MADAME TIISSAIID AND SONS have discovered a portrait by the late Sir J. Lawrence, of Renwick Williams the murderer, whose skeleton, with a stake in it, was recently discovered in the excavations near Cannon Cross-street. The exhibit is interesting, as one can hardly imagine the fact that the Academician should have painted the portrait of the monster who stabbed so many women to death to be other than accidental.  ON its forthcoming provincial tour the St. James's Company will appear in a selection of the popular pieces in its repertory, including two, Attteitulte Rigand and The We's Sacrifice, which are new to the country. The winter season at the St. James's will open with The Wife's Sacrifice.  MISS FANNY LEsmic commenced another tour with Jaek in the Box on Monday. Pretty Miss Lilian Gillmore will not play the heroine on this occasion, as she is engaged for the title-We in Sophia, on tour.  AMONG other provincial tours that will shortly commence is Mr. Bernard Beere's with Jim the Penman, at Sheffield, on the 30th inst., supported by Mr. Herbert Standing and Mr. Charles Brookfield. The prospects of the tour look very promising. MR. MARSHALL WILDER, the clever little American humourist, after a most successful season in London, will leave England for America on Sept. Ist, by the " City of Rome," returning here next May. Since the beginning of May he has given about 70 entertainments at various public and private assemblies, and has become quite a fashion. He has appeared six times before the Princeof Wales, who always enjoys true humour.
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1886-09-02 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

CELIA FALK.. NEE This woman also was a wife and mother. She had a husband who was anxious and willing to make their life tolerable, if not luxuriously comfortable. In this how much was she better off than thousands of women who never by one single word, thought, or act disgrace their sex or maternity! A brutal husband, bringing nothing but curses and blows to the den he calls home, may in the end drive the wife and mother to that f which we can pardon even the rantic despair in ferocity of the wrlf. This woman was blessed with such a husband that many others would have been proud of, for he recognised and performed the duties he owed to wife and children. But he is one, of the many good husbands who owe the greater part of their misfortunes to intemperance. While he toiled long weary hours, his wife went to the public-house, and "washed humanity out of her wretched body with copious draughts of beer and gin-." In her etts, imprisonment had no reforming effect. All it did was to afford a blissful respite for husband and children from the , torturing presence of their life's bitterest curse. But the child at last became so ill that, during a lucid moment, its mother took it to a medical' man. He told her it was being-starved, and told her to take it home and attend to it properly. , Instead of doing this, however—the passion for drink was sostrong that she wouldeVen jeopardise her child's life to get it—she went straight from the surgery to a public-house, and remained there long enough to get drunk. Shortly after she arrived home a neighbour entered, and what a sight presented itself to her vision! There on the floor lay the forms of two persons—the mother in a drunken slumber, with the child stretched naked on the cold bricks beside her. Need it be said that the child very soon afterwards died? Of course it did, and the mother came before the magistrates on the charge of accelerating its death by neglect, and was sent. to prison for three months. If there yet remains one spark of womanhood in CELIA FALENEIeB breast that three months will be spent on the _rack of conscience which will stretch her out far more cruelly than ever a fervent. heretic was stretched on a rack of bigotry. She will have time to get thoroughly sober, and she will also have time tO realise why she is confined, if realise it she can. Such are two pictures of domestic life in the very heart of what is called Christian England." Christian, forsooth! It has been repeated with , almost sickening frequency, that temperance ad i , vocates are too intemperate in their speech when holding forth on the miseries produced by drink. But no language could be too strong to speak in condemnation of a traffic that produces such scenes of misery as in these eases. Such misery as that baffles description. The murderess, who proceeds deliberately to execute her cruellest purposes does not shock us more that that of POOLEY and
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1886-04-15 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

MONUMENT. ",is known world made England's mandate excellent. smile. Society of England, held at Hanover-square, last Ard, said the genius, "because I really "You are a tenpence an hour writer, are you week—the Prince of Wales presiding—Mr. Wells ,IT was not lifeless bronze that woke our cheers 'ear tones all hostile nations found Pr was a lofty chamber, and the finely-carved oak ~ lam came," ceiling which the designer with quaint cunning had can't stand it any longer. This Budget you are pre- not ?" said the pompous Chancellor. chairman of the Special Experiments Committee, e theyco f r ohma had considered r Lord H arris andsom some icro Edwardmmun i - ' An influence round that dried the people's tears. For each one knew the spirit of the dead the helm, :inpire spoke and kept its word. "I am, sir. The regular clerks leave at 4 p.m. ; itStood deathless in our midst, and surely shed paring is most ridiculous—it won't bear analysis." -oice, yet honoured this sad hour covered with grotesque elves, that seemed for ever peeping from behind luscious bunches of grapes, "But it will have to," groaned the Chancellor. cationsrePried onthatobta 't the zenith of thy power. looked down upon a tall, fat, frowning man, who" Do you know a person called the Genius of Birkbeck, and, having heard a statement on the Still from the grave, his ' with t is now midnight." lotlwmokaeyatnheecfhuotar, eerehhaendsasntkhattohroesldt, s voice, wi trumpet tone, `he helm, we triumphed high stalked to and fro the apartment with moody ' " It won't be understood." Finance ? ' growth and curing of tobacco from the secretary, were unable to recommend any expense being in- Rang in our ears, as when in every breast, Mourned from the humblest cabin to the throne. '1 can't help that," sighed Sir William ; "in- "Yes, sir." 'fir, till new-fangled creeds, grunts. 'umny's skilled lie st slur on fairest deeds; 'ribution came, - -- - -Through rocks and quicksands steer, like his, ' nation's shame. the State I au years have borne FACSIMILE OF DISRAELI'S MANUSCRIPT, FROM THE REVOLUTIONARY EPICK, Maintain the ancient glory of the realm Loved of its friends, and of its foes,the hate ; I sowed must reap; That England, 118 of old, may long be great, '-wide scorn, KINDLY SUPPLIED TO US BY RALPH DISRAELI, EsQ. And hers a glory nought can everwhelm I ' murder sleep, 'land, sand. e Ay, crown him !—lay your wreaths before his feet, Bright in the glory that has touched his br0w,..... Glory no clouds can ever darken now! , mud, In the wild tumult of the crowded street, of war; Standing serene beneath th' historic pile od, That saw his triumphs, where a magic spell Held every ear on which his accents fell In thrall, his graven semblance seems to smile. IX Greatest he stands among his great compeers. 'Tis well! though England, to prolong his name Needed no bronze to give to future years ' A record of the hero and his fame: A story, luminous as writ in flame, By love, that memory still more endears. )
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1886-06-17 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

THE ULSTER ARMY AND HOME RULE.  ANTI-SEPARATIST " writes as follows from Tipperary :—As many people in England may doubt the existence of the so-called Ulster army, perhaps you will think the following facts worth inserting in your journal. I am not acquainted with the northern counties, as I reside on the borders of the King's County, which county is credited in your Army List" with a quota of 460 men; but if the scheme is true as regards this latter county it is far more likely to be true in the case of the north. Some ten days ago I chanced to meet a small Protestant farmer in this neighbourhood; the conversation turned on Home Rule, &c., and in the course of it he informed me he had given in his name "to go to the north if required," adding that he hoped it might not be necessary, but he was quite ready if called on; he also said he believed there were about two hundred men in this district who had volunteered in a similar way. I may state that this man is not an Orangeman. Since this I have met several men, including some Liberals, who also informed me they had given in their names. There is an Orange " lodge ' in the neighbourhood, and from inquiries I have made I have ascertained beyond doubt that some two hundred men in this district have thus volunteered in case they are called upon, so that I have not the least doubt but that the King's County contingent amounts to, if it does not largely exceed, the quota of 460 men. So much for facts. Now as to the justification for such conduct. I see some Englishmen call it preparing for rebellion. All I can say is that if these gentlemen had lived in Ireland during the last six years they would probably have formed different opinions. Why, sir, these much abused "Loyalists" are the men who, all through these times, have by standing shoulder to shoulder, kept boycotting and every other tyranny from their midst, and now, sooner than tamely submit to be governed by those whom they have looked upon up to this as associated with rebellion, murder, dynamite, and every other curse to which their country has lately been subject, they are prepared as a last resource to take up arms: there is no brag or bluster about them : they have confidence in themselves and in their brethren in the north, and they feel sure that, if only left to themselves, they are well able to hold their own against the whole l'arnellite contingent. I venture to think it would be as unreasonable to ask Englishmen to submit to the rule of the leaders of the late London riots as to ask loyal Irishmen to submit to men, who, whatever their present professions, have hitherto never concealed their hatred at England and their disloyalty to her Queen. I have already trespassed too much on your Space, and will merely add that I am not an Orangeman but a Liberal in politics, but in the present crisis the sympathies of all loyal Irishmen are with the Orange party. I also believe it to be an undoubted fact that the lower you go in the social scale among the Protestant population the more intense is this feeling against Home Rule.