The Warwickshire Herald. — 1887-02-10 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

ACCIDENTS AND CRIME.  SIMON HoLT, a tradesman, hanged himself in a police cell at Bolton, on Saturday morning, where he had been detained on a charge of assaulting a girl. _ _  - AT the Notts Assizes, John Lamb, forty-eight, a shoem ,ker, was charged with attempting to murder his sister-in-law, Ellen Lamb, on the 21st November, in Nottingham. The prisoner presented a loaded piste! at the prosecutrix's face, missed fire, and was seized by a constable who was close by. Prisoner alleged that the prosecutrix had been on terms of improper familiarity with him, but this she denied. He was found guilty, and sentenced to fifteen years penal servitude.  MESSAGES were received on Saturday morning by the Governor of Durham Gaol. and by the High Sheriff's representative, respiting John McCann, who was awaiting execution for stabbing John Dixon at Houghton-le-Spring on New Year's Eve, McCann, who has never ceased to assert his innocencc, was, shortly after receiving the news, visited by friends, who congratulated him. Two prisoners who had each served fifteen months' imprisonment were about to be discharged from Wakefield Prison on Saturday morning, when , one of them, William Beevors, of Mexbro, alleged that the other, Benjamin Emmett, of Laisterdyke, had stolen a silk handkerchief from him. Beevors was taken before a magistrate, and committed for trial on a charge of robbing a prisoner in prison. CATHERINE MILLER, forty-five, who, together with her daughter, was murderously attacked and mutilated by her husband, a discharged lunatic, at Ballingry, near Dunfermline, has succumbed to her injuries. The man himself is not expected to recover from his self-inflicted injuries, FOUR youths were arrested in Liverpool on Saturday, charged with stabbing. They wrecked a confectioner's shop, and when interfered with, stabbed three men and a lad so seriously that they had to be taken to the hospital, where they remained, one of them being in a critical condition. It was stated that the gang were a terror to the neighbourhood, and where members of what is known as the " High Rip Gang." They had previously robbed an outfitter's, part of the spoil being found on one prisoner. A DEPLORABLE accident happened at Whitkirk, near Leeds, on Sunday night. Three boys were amusing themselves upon a plank which floated on the surface of a reservoir, when the plank overturned, and two of the boys, named Henry Townsend and Henry Stephenson, were drowned. ON Sunday night, a man came up to the hall door of Mrs. Curran, of Terenure, fired a shot from a revolver and then ran away. It is believed that Mrs. Curran's house was mistaken for that of Judge Curran, who lives in the locality, and who was prominently connected with the Phcenix Park prosecutions.  THE Lanarkshire and Stirlingshire police have to-day patrolled the colliery districts on horseback. A boy who was mistaken for a picket was followed, and, it is alleged, was knocked down by one of the constabulary horses, which trampled on his throat, and killed him. A report from Airdrie stated that a collision took place between the police and the miners, and that several arrests took place. AN extraordinary double collision occurred early on Monday morning at Summerseat and Ramsbottom, in the Rossendale Valley. An engine without anyone in charge started, owing to some unexplained cause, out of the siding, and came into collision with anotler engine, causing that also to start away. The driver and stoker, being unable to stop it, jumped off the second engine, which ran to Ramsbottom, and dashed into a coal train, severely shaking its fireman.