The Dewsbury Chronicle, and West Riding Advertiser. — 1894-01-06 (Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, England)

THEATRIO AL  /DOUSED OF FRAUD.  ! George Ganley (29), described as a th• atneai agent and teacher, was placed in the dock at We twinster on Tuesday, on rethana °barged with obtaining money by fraud anti false pretenoes from young women uesirous ot getting on the *stage. Mr Si:hs said that documents found in prisoner's possession would show that he had perpetrateil a Lumber of frauds.  Hazel Coleman, on whose information the prisoner was arrested, deposed that elle was formerly employed in the baliet at the Casino Theatre, .New York. She d scribed her negotiations with prisoner, who promised to get her an eugageinw t in The Piper ot Hamelin at £2 lus. a week. He gave her a part co learn. Ca o pbeil, secretary of the Adelulu Thea re, deposed that prisoner had been employed as a "super" during the run of The Woman's Bevenye. In that w y he had mane himself acquainted with the dialogue. The part be gave to Miss Hazel Coienian really formed a portion of the oialogue of one of the low comeny characters in The Woman's .Rerenge. Tile management had no idea he was carrying on business as an agent or tutor.  Howard Cooper, supernumerary paymaster at the Adelphi, earn the supers, of wuoin the prisoner was one, were en aged at a nightly satiny. lie commt.ised at the usual salary of is. 6d. a night. (Laugh Cr.) Mr R. WesLacott, secretary to the mainger of the Comedy Theatre, stati-d hat in The Piper of !lament", now being played there, thole was no part anything like that which the prisoner gave out to Miss Cui man. Mr Sims an (bat he shoul have to call young ladies from Cuesuire and Newcastle on the next oco.sion. erisuner was further remanded.  The Indian wheat crop is officially stated to be very favinirable  The Inuian National Congress held its final .itting at Lahore on Saturday. Influenza is very severe in the Crimea among- all classes of the population. _ _  . . In every item except income•tax and the post and tehgrranh servici!s the revenue returns for the nine rnonths show a decline.  President Carnot has remitted the remaindor of the sentence passed upon Duoret in connection with the Norton forgeries. Further particulars ale to hand regarding the revolt in the Cameroons, from wine!' it appears that s tue Engllan factories were among those attacked  Ths boy Billett, who killed a schoolfellow named Puple at Woodsford, near Dorchester, by Ptr king him under the ear with a hammer, was committed for trial.  The execution of Elizabeth Knorr or Thwaites, who was e,onvioted on December Ist of the murder of childreo in Melbourne, has been fixed for January 15th. • _ _ _  During 1894 five general officers in the army and twenty-three colonels will have to retire, end twenty-nine staff appointments at home and twenty-five in India will become vacant. Prosecuted at the instance of the London County Council for permitting public dancing assemblies on his premises without the necessary license, Mr F. Piaggio, Winsley Street, Oxford Street, pleaded that his was simply an academy for instruction; but the magistrate imposed a fine of £5 and costs. •  An inquest was held on Saturday afternoon at Sunderland on Mr. William Haywood, a Sheffield commercial traveller, who was found/in a dying conditinn in a train and expired in a cab when being tak.,n to his sister's hues. The Ijliry found that death was due to acute pneumonia. A verdict of manslaughter was returned on Monday at Liverpool by a coroner's jury against Win. Harden and Patrick Kelly, who fatally asftulted a woman named Elizabeth Ruches, Deceased interfered to prevent the accused abysms' her son, when they kn.,cked her down and kicked' her, and she was stabbed with a table knife in du. face and arm.  As the 5-15 mail train from King's Cross wan approaching the mail hag standard beside the line at Hitchin. on TuencLiy. the pouch contaming the mail bag struck a disc lamp, and the bagiwere thrown out. They fell beneath the wheels of tpe train, and were greatly damaged, many letters beTng almost wholly destroyed. The pouch, i• seems, was pot out ton soon.  A verdict of "not guilty" has been given by the jury at Angonlemi• in the case of the sixteen Frenchmen and one Italian charged with the murder of their tiAiow-workmen in the riots a Aigues-Alortes. Tnis result of the trial has raise() 4trennotis protests not only in Italy but on the p r of the majority i.f the French papers. Such aye diet, it is declarer]. is calculated to damage France in the eye, .1 al. Europe.