The Telegram. — 1895-12-31 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

THE BABY CLAIMANT CASE.  MRS. SALISBURY IN THE DOCK.  Some sensation was created in the Marylebone Police-court on Tuesday by the appearance of Mrs. May Salisbury, well known in connection with the baby claimant case, in the dock on a charge of being drunk rind disorderly at Queen's Road, Bayswater. Mrs. Salisbury was stylishly-dressed in a velvet costume, and described herself as a widow.—Palice-constable Brocksopp said that at half-past six the previous evening his attention was attracted to a large crowd assembled at the junction of Queen's Road and Westbourne Grove. Going there he found that the centre of attraction was the accused, who was seated in an omnibus and was defying the efforts of the conductor to eject her. She was intoxicated and very excited. He asked her several times to get out, but she refused, and ultimately he assisted the conductor to forcibly remove her from the vehicle. The 'bus was then driven away. She rushed after it, aud failing to overtake it she ran frantically about the road, and was in imminent danger of being run over by two vehicles when witness took her by the arm and forced her buck to the footway. She got into a passion, struck and then threw her arms around his neck. At this point he arrested her. Speaking in an indignant tone, the defendant exclaimed, " How dare you touch me: how dare you? I am Mrs. Salisbury, the baby claimant; how dare you touch toe?" Such was her behaviour that further assistance had to be summoned before the could be got to the police - station, and when there she behaved very violently.—Mrs. Salis• bury : I distinctly deny that I was intoxicated. When did I put my arms around your neck? Why I could not reach your neck. (Great laughter.) The officer (who is nothing under six feet high) : Just after I saved you from being run over.—Mrs. Salisbury : That is a falsehood—Mr. Plowdeu: You may think that, but you must not say it. (Laughter.) To the officer : Are you sure she was intoxicated ?—Mrs. Salisbury : I was not ; I cannot afford to drink.—The officer Her breath was I very bad.—As the accused persisted she was not drunk, Police-constable 251 le was called. He corroborated his comrade.—falis. Salisbury : It is a falsehood, that is all I can say. I had one glass of ale for dinner at half -past one, and I could not get intoxicated on tea. Mr. Plowden : I don't know. (Laughter.) Kindly explain your eunduct.—Mrs. Sslisbury : Certainly. The busman told me he was going to the Prince of Walxis (Harrow Road), and I paid the fare to that place. When we arrived at the Royal Oak he told me he was not going further. I demanded my money back, but lie would not give it ins, and I was excited and annoyed about it—Mr. Pliawden : Why alternateiy strike and embrace the constrble ? (Laughter.)—Mrs. Salisbury : I did not. In the first place, I could not reach him, he is too tall. (Laughter.)—Mr. Plowden : Was that the only difficulty ? (Great laughter.)—Mrs. Salisbury : No, certainly not.—Mr. Plowden : I don't think you have done much harm. You were excited, and perhaps with sonic reason. I think the ale was little stronger than you gave it credit for being. (Langliter.) I -should be sorry, how rver, to think you were in the full sense of the word intoxicated, and, therefore, you will be dischargeit—Mrs. Salisbury expressed her thanks, and left the court.  A Boy SHOT or His FaTHRE.—At the County Police Court, Newcastle, no Mooday, Capt Boyce, of the steamship alenavora, was ciiiiiged with having canard the death tit us son. Thomas, 17, ley shown* him with a revolver on Sunday afternoon. The prisoner was about to proceed to sea, and was showing a revoker to the deceased, when, he alleges, it exploded accidentally. Tile prisoner was discharged. EXECUTION OF THE MANSYIELD Henry Wright was executed at .N.W.riughAn , on Tues.lay morning, for the murder iif Mary Ehr iheth Reynolds, forty-eight, William H. Reynolds, sixteen, and Charles Reynolds, fifteen, her suns, and William Perk, three and a half years, her grandson, at Mansfield. Wright lodged with Mrs. Reynolds, who was a widow, and he expressed 1 a wish to marry Ivor. 7""ne woman, however, diicoaragad hie advances, and frequently requested him to leave her house. This so nicensed Wright that he murdered the psrsons named, cut hia own throat, and then gave himself up at the police-stations