Alston Herald, and East Cumberland Advertiser. — 1880-10-09 (Alston, Cumbria, England)

THE MUTINY AT A REFORMATORY.  At Carlisle Petty Sessions on Saturday, William Henry Sutcliffe, William Waite, Arthur Brown, Henry Fisher, John W. Jennings, Jas. Freeman, John Hack'house, and Henry Davis, inmates of the reformatory near that city, were charged on remand with conspiring to assault the governor (Mr Crowther), with intent to do him grievious bodily harm.—Mr G. Crowther, the governor, stated that on Monday evening, the 20th September, the boys (who are about forty in number) retired to bed between seven and eight o'clock. There was a door connecting his bedroom with the boys' bedroom, and it had a trapdoor in it to look through. He usually went several times in an evening to see all was right. On the evening of the assault he noticed several of the bigger boys standing together, but that was not uncommon. He told them to go to Pbed, and he would come and read to them. On returning from his roam he found the gas turned out, and on asking the reason no one answered, but something like a clog passed his head. He asked the boys what was the meaning of this, and immediately received a blow which stunned him. He was, however' aroused by hearing one of the boys say he would murder him. He thought it was Sutcliffe. He thought his life was in danger, as they were striking him with sticks. When he got up they ran away into his house, and he followed and shut the door. He saw a lot of boys go out of the yard door, and asked them to return, but in vain.—Several of the boys gave evidence as to the circumstances under which the mutiny arose. Herbert Burt, 15 years of tage, an inmate of the Reformatory, said that on Sunday, the 19th, he was in the cookhouse about seven or eight o'clock in the morning, and there were there several other boys, all the prisoners and some others. Sutcliffie and Brown said they were going to set on the Governor on Monday night." They were talking about a boy named Clyde who had absconded and been recaptured, and they decided to attack the Governor when Clyde was brought back.—On the prisoners being charged, Brown replied, "We were dissatisfied with the way he flogged the boys. He flogged me without a cause, and forfeited my money, 22a 6d." Sutcliffe said, "He came into me one night at twelve o'clock with three birches to use for me." The other prisoners made no reply.—The prisoners were all committed for trial. ,  An eld man named John Hind, who had obtained ticket and went into the Workhouse at Darlington on Saturday, left for some reason and went to a lodginghouse on Saturday night. He complained of not being well, and went to bed at nine o'clock. At 12 o'clock he was found dead lobed.  Every one who writes innoh will admit that very much, not only of speed but fluency, depends on the pen, How irritating is a scratchy pen, how annoying a pen that digs tiny holes in the paper, how exasperating the pen that has to he dipped into the ink-bottle twice in the sourse of every line I There are, in fact, more varieties of the disagreeable pen than I hare space to enu.herate or than I can even remember at this moment with a delightful gilt J pen running smoothly along under my fingere. Past annoyances are forgotten In the luxury of handling a well•behaved and willingminded pen. It is one of a number of samples sent me from the manufactory of JOHN Biammartsm. They are sold by all stationers. As I like a broad nib I naturally picked oat immediately my good little X and am no pleased ssith it that I am going to send for • large supply. All the samples I have tried are excellent in their variols ways, some with fine points, others turned up, and, again, others with medium nibe. In fact there art pens to suit all tastes. JOHN HEATH send• sample box for . trisa, 13 etamps,—StifVfhwinah Dosustic Nooks,