The Blandford and Wimbourne Telegram. — 1883-03-02 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

OOO. 3 A PRISONER named Madeley escaped from Strange* w . Gaol, MaaeLeeter, on WedneStLy. I,le ems awaiting ' trial at the Seesions, and was esueleyed with anothee man in repairing the chimney stack of the engineer's house. A ladder was reared against the side of the house, and a cet ladder, twelve feet in length, placed on the roof. Wheel the work was completed, the wardee directed Madeley to throw the cat ladder into the yard, but instead of doing that, hladoley dlopped the ladder over the reverse side of the house, slid down the roof and down a pipe at the side of the beilding, tattier: the ladder with him. He then ran past the scaffold, and reaching a wall which divides the wards, he staled it by means of the ladder, ran along it to the boundary well, than tied the ladder cord to one of the spikes, slid dowp the ladder, and dropping into the street, tetade efts THE representatives of the press who gathered in Dublin during the investigations at Kilmaitihaue have, it appears, been playing practical jokes on two or three of their number. In one case spurious threatening letters were sent to the :representative of a London-newspaper, and so terrified did he become at the fate which was said to await him as "the Saxon emissary" of a brutal race that he fled from the city and recrossed the Channel without delay. In another instance the repreaeutative ef a Scotch newspaper was made the victim. He was first of all sworn a member of a spurious secret eoc:ety, with a theatrical accompaniment of pistols and knives, and then ',chosen one of a select "inner circle" who were to " remove" an objectionable personage. When this point had been reached, the Scotch reporter also thought it discreet to take marching orders. LYNCH LAW is still in full fore:, -.Alt West. The Chimp I nterocein publishes intellieenee from Legging Camp, Michigan, according to which a lumberman at that place ha: ing decapitated one of his feietw-workets with an axe, the other bunbermen seized a, d hanged the murderer. Subsequently, however, a taieabourime party le'tick were friends of the tnurdsrer mad an attack upon the lumbermen who had lyeehad him .11,1 a general fight.eneaed, is which seven men w ore killed. VAGRANTS evidently do not appreciate the style in which they are treated under the new At. Frain various unions reports are received of coneiderable tallies:a-oft In the number of tramps making use of the night-wards, At Ilawarden, during the last 14 days, there have been only 11 casaals as compared with 77 in the correeponding week of last year. It would seem that wayfarere now Wedged their resources, in order to obtain a bed at le common i lodging-house n preference to spending the night M the workhouse and running the risk of beiug detamed the following day. Deem a light between two paupers at Brighton Workhouse on Saturday, one of them, named Alfred, Gillare, stabbed the other with a knife. A 'mein has been granted James Smith, who was ia prison at Ayr, under sentence of death for the Murder of a gamekeeper in November last. The prisoner le only 12 years of age. THE following is from the Standard: "An inquest wes heel at Plymouth lust night on the body of Mr. Hamilton Whiteford, solicitor, who this morning was dead wader a large ilex tree." From the evidence it appears dust the death of the utdok blunt° gentleman could not be volt easily explained. It would, indeed, he strange if it eellos nein tlapt. tlaa. irezdict was laud liettai Um WU.  I  )üb• it ;Ei of ter. .Pori saio  icago anp, )lace axe, erer. were iber• 1, in  I 0 la alcius Ift In g, At I all? week  wAi MiitOD Ida' I JO 04 Tag CO%  KIN:  MB,  ridges,  1