Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1888-08-25 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

SHOCKING NEGLECT OF CHILDREN.  At the Clerkenwell police-court, on Saturday, Daniel Pratley, aged 35, of Middlesex-street, St. Pancras. cab-driver, was charged with neglecting to provide proper food and clothing for his six children under the age of 14 years; in consequence of which their health had been seriously injured. A relieving officer of St. Pancras stated that he went to the prisoner's house on the 10th of August. The prisoner was lying on the parlour flvor drunk. The children who were in the same room, were in a shocking condition. They were only half-clad and in a filthy state, being covered with vermin. The youngest child, aged 15 months, looked like a skeleton, and all the other children had a sickly and pallid look. The witness also examined another room in the house and found that even wAse than the first. The children were removed to the workhouse.—The magistrate said that he could not conceive a worse case of neglect. The condition of the children was shocking and must have been known to the prisoner, who would be imprisoned for four months with hard labour.  CAPTURE OF A DHOW AT SVAK The guard at Fort Handout) observed two dhows at anchor at Mersa Daniats, to the north of Suakim. Rundle Bey, with Lieutenant Gordon and the chief of police, at once proceeded in the Egyptian steamer Adjemi to the spot. One dhow on sighting the steamer got under sail, the other was captured and brought into Suakim. Some cottons, rice, &c., had been landed and removed, and a quantity of the cargo found on the beach was taken. A number of MEM with camels, with a large escort of mounted men from Osman Digma's camp, were receiving the dhows' cargoes. Several times they advanced to attack the Egyptians, and a detachment of black troops was landed, but ultimately the Arabs retires' without exchanging shots. The dhow was from Jeddah, sailing under French colours, and was the property of a Tunisian merchant. An inquiry will be held.  ONE OLD WOMAN MURDERS ANOTHER, The latest extraordinary crime reported from France is the murder of an old woman of 6.3 by another ancient female, who is said to be 78. The victim was a retired cook named Jeanne Torriou, who had made some money during her career in the kitchen. For some time past she lodged with the widow Grumet, near Belley. The two, however, did not get on well together, and the venerable ex-cook packed up her belongings, and was preparing to go into an Asylum for Aged Persons when Widow Grumet knocked her down by blow from a pestle and battered her brains out with s, shovel. Faint cries were heard issuing frcin the house by the neighbours' but they did not pay any attention to them. Shortly afterwards suspicions were aroused, as Grumet said she was going to town to get 50fs. from her lodger's savings-bank, and during her absence the villagers went into the house to see why .Jeanne could not go for her money herself, as was her invariable custom. They found her dead, and on further investigation it became clear that the widow had annexed the bank book, keys, and trinkets of her victim. Gruniet was arrested by the gendarmes, and, after some protestations of Innocence, admitted her guilt.