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Weekly News. — 1892-03-31 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

THE ANARCHISTS ON THE OONTINENT.  The trial of the Italian Anarchists for their share in the May Day disturbances last year was closed on Thursday in Rome. The reading of the sentences by the President occupied 20 minutes, the first article of the indictment being modified so as to Omit the charge against the accused of belonging to an association of malefactors, though the charge of associating for illegal objects and defending criminal acts was retained. Cipriani and Palle were sentenced to 32 months' imprisonment, a fine of 1,500 lire and three years' police supervision; Bardi and Ettore to 27 months' imprisonment, a fine of 1,500 lire, and two years' police surveillance; Cortonesi to 15 months' imprisonment and a fine of 500 lire; Koerner to 12 months' imprisonment and a fine of 500 lire; Cucuccioni, Spadoni, and Moscardi to 15 months' imprisonment and a fine of 500 lire; Grochette to 18 months' imprisonment and a fine of 1,000 lire; Anguili to 20 months • imprison. ment; Calcagno to 16 months' imprisonment and a fine of 500 lire; Brandini, Calassi, Magri, Melinelli, and Guiseppe to 23 months' imprisonment, a fine of 500 lire, and two years' police surveillance; and Cesari to 11 months' imprisonment, a fine of 250 lire, and two years' police surveillance. Ten others were sentenced to 15 months' imprisonment and fines of 500 lire; nine to 18 months' imprisonment; and the remainder to terms varying from 16 to 10 months, with the exception of two prisoners, who received 20 days and 75 days respectively. Ten of the prison?rs were acquitted.  Three Anarchists were arrested in Paris on Thum day on the almost incredible charge of conspiring to poison ly wlrlesale the members of one of the principal Paris clubs. One of them is alleged to have repeatedly applied for employment as waiter at the club, and c:.ber correspondence found on him shews that his ol j•:ct was to poison the viands or drinks. The Municipal Laboratory is analysing some powders found in his p ssession. In the series of arrests of Anarchists which have earned for M. Lose, the Prefect of Police, the congratulations of the Minister of the Interior. the most culpable of all these enemies of society has, nevertheless, succeeded in evading pursuit. This is a man named Ravachol, known to his comrades as Leon Leger. He was the occupant of the house visited by the police and JescribA as a bomb factory. All the leading officials from Paris to the frontiers are now on the alert to apprrbend this man, whose physical characteristics are known in minute detail,and who is already the object of a warrant for assassination and robbery committed in June, 1891. Ravachol was born at St. Chamond, Loire. His father was a Prussian, and he took up the trade of a dyer. He was one of the St. Etienne band of Anarchists. He escaped after his arrest for the murder and robbery already alluded to, and all attempts to find him have hitherto failed. He is accused of a number of sther crimes, and is regarded as very dangerous.
Weekly News. — 1892-10-20 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

ARREST OF AN ALLEGED ANARCHIST. At Bow-street Police-court, on Friday, Jean Pierre Francois was brought before Sir John Bridge for extradition, charged with having assisted the Frenchman Ravachol (since executed) in blowing up the Café Very, Boulevard M tgenta, Paris.— Inspector Melville, of the Metropolitan police said: On Thursday I was in North-street, Poplar, accomranied by Sergeants M'lntyre and Walsh and Detective Hester. I saw the prisoner walking down the street, and from description and previous inquiries I identified him. I went into the roadway to meet him, and he turned round and ran away. I and the other officers seized him. I said to him in French, "Francois, I am a police inspector, and I arrest you." He struggled very vioh ntly to get away. In fact, it took the efforts of the four of us to keep him quiet. Prisoner said in French, "It is lucky for you I was not in my own house ; otherwise I should have cold myself as dearly as possible." We took him to l'oplar Policestation. He was violent all the way. At the station I told him he would be charged with being concerned in a murder in Paris, the result of the , explosion at the Café Very. He said, "It is false. I have proof in my house—in my waistcoat pocket. I have 11 witnesses in the case." I read the warrant to him, and explained that he was wanted for b-ing an accomplice before the act. Prisoner replied, "That is awkward. It is true I shall mount the scaffold. singing as Ravachol did." I afterwards went to Hind - street, where prisoner had been living in the name of Johnson. I found his wife in the washhouse. We went upstairs int') the front room. As we entered Mrs. Johnson rushed to the mantelshelf and sezied a five-chambered revolver. All the chambers were loaded. I had to take the weapon from her by force, and found a cartridge on the mantelpiece, and in a cupboard a case containing cartridges, and among the other things found were a pair of blue spectacles, appan ntly for disguiie,and a dagger. I found several documents in the waistcoat at prisoner's house. One of them was a copy of the paper L'Eclair. Asked if he had any legal adviser, r.risoner replie I: I have no lawyer; I shall be my own lawyer; I am quite capable of speaking out. I want to ask some 1111 stions,and make a statement. Am I arrested for robbery ?—Sir John Bridge: No.—Prisoner went on •:o state that the knife or dagger produced was what he cut his food with, and in the course of a long, rambling statement he asked why lie was arrested.—lnspector M,lville: For being an accomplice of Ravachol.— Prisoner : I have Owen witneses to prove that I was dining that night at a wine-shop. I had done nothing, and wish the case sett led as soon as possible.—Sir John Bridge said the paters had not yet arrived from France, and remanded the accused.
Weekly News. — 1892-08-04 (Blandford, Dorset, 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 feaifully 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 hes hand, and striking her with it accidentally killed her. A most painful feature of the case was that the most conclusive testimony against Boheim was that of his own child, who—out of a feeling of humanity—was not put into the witness•box, but whose depositions before the Juge d'lnstruction were taken as evidence. The boy related how his father and the deceased had a struggle, and how Boheim held the old woman by the neck while he struck her several blows with a knife. When the tussle ceased the woman had still strength enough left to seize the poker, but Boheim took it from her and struck her with it. She sank to a 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 Boheim was sentenced to penal servitude for life.  The Rock announces that the Rev. Joseph Sidney Hill is the Bishop-deaignate 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 sof 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 Waiapu. He served as a missionary at Lagos from 1876 to 1878, was stationed at Wairoa, New Zealand, from 1878 to 1883, acted as prison chaplain at Auckland from 1883 to 1890, and for the last two years has been engaged at home on the staff of the Church Parochial Mission under the Rev. W. H. M. H. Aitken. ^But you know, pa," said the farmer's daughter, when ho spoke to her about the addresses of a neighbour's son, that ma wants me to marry a man of culture." "So do I, my dear, so do I; and there is no better culture in the country than agriculture." Curra.n's friend was bragging of his attachment to the system, and said, "With trial by jury I have lived, and, by the blessing of Go& with trial by jury I will die!" "Oh," said Curran in much amazement, "then you've made up your mind to be banged, Dick ?"  He has studied aLI hie Lifetime in a very patient .....
Weekly News. — 1892-08-18 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

THE RELLGIOUS WAR IN UGANDA.  A fresh Parliammtary paper on Central Africa that has just been issued contains a letter from Mr. Roscoe, of the Church Missionary Society, stationed at Mengo. Writing on March 14th, he says: "The direct cause of the war was the murder of a Protestant in one of the main streets of Mengo on Januar/ 21st. After three days trying to get the murderer the Company prepared to fight. The woman Catholics, however, were not daunted, hot killed another man on Sunday, January 24. CePtain Luggard then saw they meant to fight, though he still tried to avoid it. We were summoned from our mission at noon of that dam. The French priests refused to leave their "boma," and sent an insolent reply to Captain Lugard, when he sent for them. About an hour after we arrived in the fort the battle began, and lasted until 4.30 or 5 p.m., when the Roman Catholics fled. There was some hard fighting on both sides. The French mission was crowded with soldiers, who made a determined stand, but I were routed after an hour or so; the whole of the 14f1hIsion Church and houses, except a store and one building which were of brick with mud roofs, were fired. The priests were uninjured, but one West African doctor was killed fighting. It was a wonderful sight to see the whole country in a blaze, with the Roman Catholic houses which were fired by the Protestants—for three days and nights these were going. The King and his party fled to the lake and crossed in canoes to an island named Bulungugi. The greater part of the army fled south by the lake towards Buddu." The most novel piece of intelligence, however, is that contained in a despatch from Mr. Portal to Lord Salisbury, which states that"Mwanga, having sscaped with difficulty from the Roman Catholics at Buddu, has gone back to his capital and resumed the Royal power, and that he has hoisted the British flag and declared himself to be Protestant. It appears that Captain Lugard has consented to a division of territory by which the armed French Catholics shall stay in Buddu, while in Uganda all religions shall be free. It is reported that the French Bishop is urging the Roman Catholics to go on with the war, but the position of the Protestants hi Uganda is now absolutely secure."  Professor (lecturing on galvanism): " What would ho tile effeet,Mr. Broken, if you should hold a quantity of gold in one hand and of silver in the oti,er ?" Broken: " I should experiences decided shock."  Why is a hotel-keeper making a fire at the gableend of his house like a man drinking gin ? Because he's warming his in-n-side!  A cordial invitation.—Servant: "A gentleman at the door says he doesn't like to annoy you,but here is a little bill." Mr. Murray Hill: "Oh,tell him I'm not ann:)yed at his calling. On the contrary,l would be very much pleased to have him call again."
Weekly News. — 1892-08-18 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

SETTING A HUSBAND ON I IRE.  A sensational case of husband murder has just been heard at the Paris Assizes. Madame Schlegel —a rather good-looking woman of 30—was charged with having thrown spirits of wine on her husband and then set fire to the inflammable matter. The man expired in fearful agony but was conscious to the last, and kept repeating that it was his wife who had caused his horrible sufferings. The affair, writes a Daily Telegraph correspondent, happew don March 17th last. Schlegel was an artisan living in the Avenue de Paris, near Saint Denis, and is said to have been a quiet, steady, hardworking fellow. His wife had the reputation of being a shrew,and had frequently made her husband wince by the acrimonious vigour of her tongue. Every evening there were bickerings between the pair, and, according to the indictment, on the night of March 17th Schlegel, after an exceptionally hard day's toil, was in no mood for the scoldings of his wife. She, however, continued nagging, and he made but monosyllabic replies to her recriminations. When he.had got into bed he said, however, to the woman," That. will dl! Let us have no more of it !" whereupon she thine the inflammable liquid on him. His back ate] shirt were saturated with it, and before he couhl nv ve his amiable partner ignited the stuff horn a small kitchen lamp which she used. There was immediately a vast sli..et of :lame, and Schlegel rushed wildly to the door, which was closed. He succeeded in removing the bolt, and ran to the landing shrieking for help. Some neighbours arrived, and seeing his piteous condition, enveloped him in wet sheets. He had, however, been grievously burned, and was carried to St. Denis Hospital, where he died on the following day. While her husband was being et( nded to by the neighbours Madame Schlegel was calmly cleaning the drops of spirit of wine from her floor, and it was while eneaged in so doing that her arrest was effected by the gendarmes. She maintained that her husband was diunk and had upset the bottle of stuff while ja.aegering to bed. An inquiry was then set on &Mt in the neiehbourhood, and it was ascertained that the hustand was a meek man, who bore with his wife's reproaches like a lamb, but that he was occasionally prone to drown his domestic trouble in absinthe and petit bleu. It was also said that Madame Schlegel had already tried to roast her husband alive while he slept, but he woke before she had time to carry her baleful project through. A neighbour also declared that before the husband was burned, Madame Schlegel had said that she intended to "make a bonfire " or "to let off fireworks "on her own account. These I assertions were all used against her by the prose. cution. On the conclusion of the case the jury brought in a verdict of "guilty with extenuating circumstances." She was then condemned to penal ! servitude for life.
Weekly News. — 1892-04-07 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

CAPTURED TOWN.  The town of Asmar, which, according to a telegram from Bombay, has been captured by the troops of the Ameer Abdul Rahman, is not, as stated, in Kafiristan, but on the borders of that country, its chief being not a Kafir, but a Mohammedan. Asmar, the capital of a small independent State of that name, is said to consist of a square fort, with a village of about 200 houses built of mud and stone. It is situated 65 miles north-east of Jelalabad, about half-way between Jelalabad and Chitral. Shah Talimasp Khan, the late chief of Asmar, was present at a durbar held by Lord Dufferin at Peshawur in November, 1887, and recived a khilat, or dress of honour. Being dissatisfied, however, with the amount of attention he received, he shortly afterwards visited Jelalabad, where he was so warmly welcomed by the Ameer's officials that he thenceforward looked to Cabul rather than to India for help against his enemies. His murder a year or so later led to a series of revolutions in Asmar, and it seemed likely not long ago that a neighbouring chief, Umra Khan of Jandol, would bring the State under subjection. It was partly to prevent this, partly to support the son of Tahmasp Khan,and partly, perhaps, to secure a point d' apput for an attack on Kafiristan, that the Ameer Abdul Rahman in December last sent a force under his general, Gholam Haidar, to Asmar, which place, it appears, has now been captured. Whether General Gholam Haider w ill next turn his attention to the Kafir tribes on the west, or whether he will be attacked himself by Umra Khan of Jandol, remains to be seen. Ameer Abdul Rahman has for a long time past cherished a design of subduing Kafiristan. He resents the existence of an independent non-Mohammedan country in the heart of Afghanistan, more especially, perhaps, because he is aware that the Indian Govermnent is interested in the Kafirs.  The Standard understands that the Unionists intend,to contest the whole of the seats now held by the Nationalists in Ireland. In most of the cases it is recognised that the Unionists cannot win, but it has been determined to test whether there has been any growth in Unionist strength since 1885 and 1886.  Early on Friday morning in the suburbs of London the weather was exceptionally fine, but nearer and in the City there was a thick smoky fog, which would not have disgraced a typical November day. Although as the morning advanced the atmosphere became somewhat lighter, the Ist of April darkness continued more or less throughout the greater portion of the day.  Arthur Reilly, a property man, was at west London fined 10s. for assaulting a beer retailer Prisoner had been playing dominoes in the house, and Mr. Curtis Bennett said it was quite clear that the landlord allowed gambling, and the police ought to take notice of this.  Some heartless person has robbed the temporary premises of the Iloaton Market Christian Institute. A large number of poor children and mothers have thus been deprived of some badly -needed clothing, for which they had been subscribing their pence for many weeks past.  DR.
Weekly News. — 1892-02-25 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

TRAIN RO SENSATIONAL DETAILS.  lERY.  A New York correspondent sends the following additional particulars of the sensationaltrain robbery on Saturday night: A gentlemanly man entered the ca s at the New York Central Station, having secured a ticket for Syracuse. After the train started, he made his way to the express car, where, without warning, he shot the messenger in charge of the valuables on the train. Altogether he fired three shots, and his victim was riddled with bullets. An alarm was immediately given. The conductors signalled to the engine-driver and the train was stopped at the Lyons Railway Depot. The robber instantly jumped from the car on to ti.e permanent way. The officials at the station and many of the passengers in the train advanced towards him, but with his revolver pointed towards them and with threatening menace he kept the crowd back. Further help was called for, and seeing that to stay in his position would mean Only certain capture, the desperado ran quickly across the track, and sprang upon a freight engine, the driver and fireman of which were interestedly watching the development of events. It only needed a threatening gesture with the deadly weapon to induce both these men to spring hastily to the ground. In a moment the thief had handled the levers, shewing a thorough acquaintance with the engine, and away he dashed along the track toward Syracuse. By this time the officials had recovered from their momentary scare, and two or three of the most intrepid uncoupled the engine attached to the passenger train, and started off in pursuit on a parallel track, with a bigger engine and better stoking. They gradually overhauled the runaway, who, seeing the immediate danger which threatened him, turned off the steam while his pursuers were still 100 yards from him. Then, reversing his engine, he allowed his pursuers to fly by at top speed. The disconcerted railway men fired as they ran past, but the speed was too great for a good aim, and no harm was done. ,The robber then ran back at his best speed, but the pursuing engine again followed and once more overhauled him. The thief pursued the same tactics, and with a similar result though he exchanged shots with his pursuers on this occasion. Then he ran onward again, but this time instead of waiting until his pursuers were able to reverse their engine and overtake him he slackened speed on reaching a thick wall. Here he jumped off and made his escape. The daring outrage, and the murder of the express man, had, however, created an intense amount of indignation. A sheriff's posse was speedily gathered, and the whole district scoured by hundreds of men. On Sunday afternoon the desperado was found in hiding and, seeing the force by which he was surrounded, yielded. The man proved to be one of the most daring train robbers in America, who had perpetrated many similar outrages. His name is Perry, and at Utica last summer he was engaged in s similar robbery, but on that occasion he succeeded in making good his escape.
Weekly News. — 1892-06-02 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

TRAGIC AFFAIR AT STROOD.  Frederick Marrs, shoemaker, was brought before tho magistrats at Rochester, on Saturday, charged with wounding his wife at Strood, with intent to murder her. The poor woman, who is lying in a very critical zondition,was visited on Friday night  by the magistrates, who took her depositions, in the presence of the prisoner. The room in which the assault was committed was in a terrible condition. The furniture was smashed to pieces and the floor was saturated with blood. Mrs. Mars stated that she w.-as aroused from sleep at 3 o'clock on Friday morning by her husband striking her over the head with a shoemaker's hammer. She jumped out of bed and struggled to take the hammer away from him, but he seized her by the throat, and in his frenzy tore the flesh away, I iyir.g bare the windpipe. She could not get away from Marrs, who struck blow after blow w:th the hammer, hitting her on the head and face. Finally he dragged her to the stiirease and attempted to throw her down. She managed .to tear herself away, and escaped into a neighbouring house. It was then found that her features were battered out of recognition. The nose was laid open from the forehead to the tip, the right cheek bone was broken, the right ear was torn in half, apparently with the hook of the hammer, both eyes were blackened and closed, and one rib was fractured.  The iron screw steamer Harley. of London, from Looe to Neath, in ballast, struck on the Runnel &min early on Friday morning during a fog, and sink in 15 minutes. Captain Coles and her crew of 1) hands have arrived at Penzance.  Two men named Roberts and Pratt were emptying a sewage intercepting pit at Newport Pagnell,on Frilay morning,when Roberts fell in. Pratt, in trying to extricate him, was overcome by foul gas, and when taken out was quite dead. Roberts, who was afterwards got out by some men who were working near, is now lying dangerously ill.  The Lord Provost of Glasgow received the follow. jig note on Friday morning: "I am to signify to you that the Queen commands the execution of the senteoce of death passed on Archibald Robertson, presently in Glasgow Prison, be respited until further signification of her Majesty's pleasure.— Lorittes." The Lord Provost communicated the good news to the prisoner, who received it with apparent apathy. Robertson cut the throat of is female cousin.  The story is told of a lemons lawyer, who, one day, after having a slight discussion with the judge, deliberately turned his back upon that personage and started to walk off. "Are you trying to shew contempt for the court?" asked the judge sternly. "No, sir," was the reply; "I am trying to conceal it."  At an American grammar-school the fourthgrade pupils were not long since reading the story of an important battle during the rebellion. The text read, "Both sides fought with dogged perti• nacity." When this point was reached; a boy in one of the back seats raised his hand and calmly iaauired "Whit kinri nf weanons are those?"