The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1873-05-24 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

CIIILD.—A man named Robinson, a labourer, has been returned for trial to the York assizes, for a brutal assault on a little girl enlv seven years of age, at Lingy Moor, near Moulton. It appears the child attended a- school near Richmond, and was in the habit of going by train from Scorton on Monday morning, returning home every Friday night. On the evening of the ! 2nd instant, she we tby train as usual, and arrived at Scorton Station between Richmond and Darlington a few minutes before seven o'clock. She 7.roceeced on her way homewards, and on arriving at the first turn in the road she was overtaken by the prisoner, who inquired where she was going. The child replied to Lingy Moor. Ile said he knew her father very well, and took her by the hand, and led her into the field adjoining, promising to show her a short way home. However, as soon as the brutal scoundrel was secure from observation, he violently ravished her. The prisoner left the child at the cross roads, and he went towards Middleton-ryas, and the poor child turned into a field to go home. The mother, as was her wont, walked over several fields to meether, but as her daughter did trt come at the usual time Mrs. Simpson proceeded further, and at last discovered her child in a pitiable plight, almost linable to walk, awl s-omit int. Her mother impthed the cause, when the child weepingly replica tli it " a namtllty non lv,d lamed her." The 'police were at once communicated with, and rho snow ev,ning the same evening the In isoner was apprehended by :'urelinteudeut G1e80:7 and la, spector Hawes.  rhe Mayor of Limerick has recei•sil • ;:irestening letter, written in abominable and disgraceful language, for his recent hospitable rce-liti n of the Viceregal party. .  At tir lidiiiburgh police court, on Monday, James Mu Iro, a detective officer it, the Edinburgh police, was fined 40s for wilfully brea.ing a wooden pulpit belonging to one John Smith. Edward allowes, aged six, was charged at Rory on Monday, with setting fire to a fir ny.r.l, wising fire to the amount of £2,000. Being to r y..iing to be held crimina ly liable, he was thsch On Tueeday, Mr. Thomas Claph to, prair ictor of the Leeds Royal Park, was fined £ll I r ipg betting at a knurandspell match i hi.... This is the fourth offence agair.st hid licemic At Todmorden, on Monday, a Mr. Rey worth recovered £6O as damages from Mr. Joseph Longdale, whose dog, a retriever, had bitten him in the thigh, inflicting a severe punctured wo Inquiries made into the circumstances of the death of Mr. John Neale, of thetford, in wl ore case the coroner's jury returned a verdict of accidental death, lead to the conclusion that he welt murdered en April 22nd between Marling and Thetford.  A deputation from the general committee of the British sugar refiners waited on Mr. Gladstone and Mr. Lowe yesterday, to urge that the conch sion of the Paris convention as to occasional analy.is should not be ratified, and that the French Go. vernment should be urged to adopt refining in bond.  At the Wigan police court, on Monday, a man namcd Lynch was brought up under a warrant, changed with being drunk and riotous on the 12th October, 1867. In the interval he had ,been in America, and returned to Wigan on Saturd ty night. He was discharged on paying costs. The Telegraph says the tenoning are the members chosen to comprise the select cornmitte appointed to inquire into the circumstances of the controvert,' between Mr. O'Keefe and the Board of National Education in Ireland :—Mr. Cardwell (chairm.n), Mr. Walpole, Mr. Gathorne Hardy, Mr. Whitbread, and the O'Conor Don.  On Monday night, a navvy, who was employed on the Dewsbury and Wakefield branch of the Great Northern Railway, was killed by a fall of earth Weil rock in the Earlsheaton tunna. When the earth gave way the poor man was half buried. but his comrades went to his assistance and dug him out. lie died in less than half an ha Ir.  Fire priseners of the Royal Artillery, belosigi,:g to the Ist division of the depot brigad:, who woe ae siting their trial for desertion, h.we etica:m 1 from the cell in which they e•ere c milled at the military prison, Sheerness, by removing th, b:ickwork of the cell, which contained eighteen ether prisoners at the time. TRPASCItY