Weekly News. — 1891-12-10 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

ALLEGED EXTENSIVE FRAUDS.  At Highgate Police-court, on Monday, Anna Margerite Flugel, alias Reese, a fashionably dressed woman, described as a dressmaker, was charged on a warrant with being concerned with another in obtaining by means of false pretences a quantity of goods from Peter Robinson's, and from Wallis and Co., of Holborn-circus. Mr. C. 0. Humphries, fos the prosecutors, said the prisoner called upon Messrs. Wallis and ordered a quantity of goods of the value of £l7 odd, as she said, for the wife of a Mr. Mischick. The goods were to be sent home tc 28, Glosslyn-road, Crouch-end. She gave Mr. Miss chick's card, bearing what purported to be his City address. The goods were sent to the address at Crouch-end, and a cheque was given, drawn by Jules E. Mischick. It was passed through the bank and returned dishonoured. The porter who delivered the goods for Messrs. Wallis deposed to receiving a cheque for them for £l7. He would not have left the goods unless he had been paid. He was afterwards informed that the cheque had been dig. honoured.--Detective-sergeant Brockwell proved arresting the prisoner.—The charge of obtaining goods by fraud from Peter Robinson's was next gone into. Mr. Humphreys said in this case the prisoner, after she had given her order at Wallis's, went to Peter Robinson's and saw an assistant, to whom (speaking in German) she said she was sent by a gentleman to purchase a costume and other things which he wanted to present to his wife. Goods tc the amount of £4l 108. Bd. were ordered, and prisoner, when she was told the amount, remarked, "He can well afford to make her a present of them, as she brings him £25,000." The subsequent steps were much the same as in the other case. The prisoner received them at Crouch-end, and gave a ch, que for them, which was dishonoured. Later the same day the whole of the things were pawned at Dalstcn.—The pric,ner was remanded.  A passenger Lf..111 has been stopped and plun.pred near the station of Stanicsna, in Galicia, by a band of masked men. The robbers entered the mail car and carried off a large number of registk;red letters. Two postal officials were wounded by revolver bullets while resisting. The thieves afterwards decamped with their booty, and as yet have not been traced.  The mother of Baron Dellard, Chief of Department in the Ministry nf War in Paris, was found dead on Friday evening with her throat cut, and her maid was lying in the same room in a serious condition, suffering from a severe gash in the throat. Madame Dellard was 70 years of age, and but little doubt is entertained that she was the viaiin of a brutal murder.  An Imperial Ukase was published on Monday In St. Petersburg, ordering the institution of a lottery, the proceeds of which are to be applied for the relief of the sufferers in the famine-stricken districts. One million two hundred thousand tickets will be issued, at the price of five roubles each, realising a total of 6,000,000 roubles. Ann Izaby, aged 101 years, died at Strood, near Rochester, on Monday morning. She was born in the village of Stoke on the Bth of July, 1790, and had lived in the neighbourhood of Rochester all her life. She was first married at the age of 17, and then, after several years of widowhood, contracted a second marriage at the age of 77,