The Warwickshire Herald. — 1896-03-19 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

ECCLESFIE LD.  John Hogan, 24, collier, was indicted for bovine feloniously wounded Florence Cooke, with ittmt to murder her, at F.oclesfield, on Februar; 10th, There was a second count, charging the prisonet with infhcting actual bodily harm turn Elizabeth! ,Cogke.—Prirotier,,was a lodger in the house of the e• cutrix's parents, and had. been on friendly terms with the girl. On February 10th, about E o'clock in the evening, a man named May took the girl and her mother to a tnblic-house, and treated them to some drink. When the prisoner found May in the house, he appeared to become jealoua of him. When the parties returned home about a quarter-past 11 o'clock, the urisoner went into the house very much the worse for drink. After being in tire house for some time, he picked up a r late and 4 threw it at the girl's mother, but it missed I Pr, and broke against the wall. He then went to a drawer, where there was a razor, which he took out and opened. Prisoner then rushed at the girl, and pushed her against the act-pot. The girl struggled and managed to mit away from the prisrner. The mother pushed him away, and the father, hearing screams, came downstairs and secured the prisoner. The prisoner had put out the gas, and when it came to be re-lighted it woe found that the girl's throat was slightly cut over the carotid art ere, and that the mother's bands were cut in several places, but none of the wounds were of a serious character.—Mr. Wilson informed the jury that it was only by a lucky accident that the prisoner was not standing his trial on a charge of wilful murder. Fortunately for the girl, and for prisoner, the wound on the throat was only of a sur erficial character—Mr. Law, for the defence, contended that the prisoner had only taken out the razor to frighten the girl._ Prisoner was found guilty of unlawfully wounding, and sentenced to six mouths' hard labour.  Sensational miles are becoming the fashion, and Mr. A. C. Nesbitt, the Oxford University B.C. captain, is, according to the a etc, the latest to take a slice off the esisting times Chewing a slight decline of 1 in 288 ou side Oxford, and with a strong gale b;owine, he succeeded in covering the mile in the wondeiful time of lmin. 25 3-ssec. Mr. Nesbitt rode a plain-chained machine, geared to 84, and indulged in the trial merely as an experiment to discover the relative merits of the Simpson lever and the ordinary chain. Michael (the world's champion) is a certain rider at the Agricultural Hall, Islingten, cycl ny, tournament, which opened on Wednesday for a fortnight, and will during the tournament, with the assistance of racemakers, ride various time trials against the watt h, and attewpt to make several new records. A squad of the 26th Middlesex Cycle Corps will also give a miniature military tournament on cycles, consoiting of tilting at the ring, tent pegging, and obstacle races, and other Heinen( interes . :Matches, we may add, have been arrarged between the two one-legged champions, Messrs. Jones and Jessop, over various distances from one to six milts. MR. RHODES AND JAMESON'S The adjourned meeting of the London centre of theRAID. National Cyclets' Union has just been held. The report and balance-sheet showed that, notwithstand- The Saturday Reties contains a letter from Cape ing the heavy work of the year, there was a balance Town purporting to give the fir,t iwimation from of £2B in hand. Mica Vance bro. ght forward a Mr. C:ecil Rhodes of Jameson's raid. From this, it propositicn to the effect that the N.C.U. should appears that Sir Graham Bower was just going to extend its rules in such a way as to legislate for bed when he heard a horse gallop up to his door. lady cyclists, but it was lost. Mr.