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The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1909-01-20 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

ISL.'S& "Come, now. he .: war •ps paint ... **to tb est, o ey tart now. and your 7 elk I.kst Yon joust forgive me if' ft .--4, .1474:.eatary, elle replied. 7 , W . he Va—The Leopard.ess's I ....i peerance of bimeon. ,ritliaies—!•`....._ rapid tones Gretchen MadePegan her sty he or. "My father's ciabill. totted those of - Count Saloski. 11:- --.lnitt or tb uf hter WI" indeed his only t ailWi .. e first time at a c0n,.... * or of this Pyrenees. My Is w•rwesesithy, but having descended fi, ' stock, were ACM considered i . le' ng nobility- worthy of r. h teriteetul mighty society. My father ' at extractiOn, and being op- 1 id to autocratic rtile, he was. cones- 1 **l.7 aOrshipped by the meujiks, while , Iris detested by his dependents , old man was tyrannical, and the atess severely austere. Repression and 1 ktibut was Seloski's ides of ruling the ' mate in his service, and his treatment ad ttiel ttit,:he blaze that was running sogh the untry. !...._llcla *as entirely different from her -Parents. 'her heart was of 'invert gof d. She was tender and sympaLib and the 'poor people idolised her. la wee universal unrest amongst the ightened classes. and the Cossack but-1% quelled revolt after revolt by murderMen, women, and children with equal mrtiality. With startling rapidity the ontent spread and at last reached our ated home. But our inotkiiks were loyal. r had been treated properly, and this ad Count Saloski from being knouted his own people. In the midst of the reagainst the iron sway of a few autoti, Felicia and I left France, our eduion finished. For safety we and the *l's migrated to Moscow, and it was that city that Felicia met Prince Sera Kolakowski. Their exalted ideals of i being cast in the same mould, small sder that they fell in love with each sr., Prince kolakowski bad travelled over Europe, and while in England had erne a convert to the idea of a governat in. which the people should have a us. This, of course, was rank heresy, i the more he preached the more be was shed at. Scoffing and threats were of avail; a conspiracy grew up against a, and practically his doom was sealed. t through the storm the Prince reined stedfast to the cause that he esHied. The cabal raised against him beto take • definite shape when he was i chosen favourite of the Czar. In the i Prince Kalakowski and Felicia Salo. were wed." ihe paused, her next words were disctly marked,, and Simeon was unusually an .a  -7"tii;:tlie morning of the ceremony the Prince clasped that diamond necklace about his Irides neck, telling her that the ornament had been the gift of Peter the Great and was held by his family as an heirloom, always in the keeping of the head of the house. Felicia promised him that titris would guard it carefully, and know her as I do, that nothing would induceher to freak her word, I am pussled as to hoer the necklace Caine into your Po.seemion P" "So far as I am Concerned I only know that it was stolen from Trafford House," answered Simeon. "Please go on 'with the story."
The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1902-11-26 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

MONDAY'S PROCEEDINGS.  When the hearing was resumed on Monday, Detective-inspector Parker, of Birkenhead, Was recalled, and identified the Ile produced se the one shown to him at Woodsida Perry on the night in question. Be charged Mo. Keever on Monday with the wilful murder of John Kansa, and he replied, "I will say nothing." Dr. Hawke' *toted that be examined part of the lungs of the deceased for baoteria,aod he came to the conclusion that the pneumonia wee septic pneumonia, and not of the ordinary type. Mr. William Davies, reporter of tbs 'Liverpool Mercury. said he headed the file (E-duced) to Chief Detective-inspector Mr. F. F.. Smith announced that that ooneluded the case for the prosecution, and on being charged McKeever pleaded not guilty. Patrick Michael Elwin, • private in the Ring's Liverpool Regiment, who wee the first witness called for the defence, said that on the night in question he saw McKeever with the stick produced in his hand. Prisoner lad not a file or any piece of metal in his hand. McKeever did not throw anything at Mr. Kermit. By Mr. Smith: Be did not have any conversation with witness Crewes maid& the coroner's court with regard to the evidence be was to give. Peroy John McKeever, of Merpeth-buildings, Birkenheod, corroborated the last witness as to seeing a stiok in the prisoner's hand. Similar evidence was given by Owen Donnelly, Charles Boyd, Edward Murphy, and John Lamy having also given simiier tartiroony, Mr. Stewart said he understood all these witnesses had given evidence before the coroner, and that they had been bound over to give evidence at the assizes.. Mr. Lynskey: That it no. Mr. Stewart: Then why in the world are they being celled over again? Mr. Iqnskey: In order to get their deposi- , dons. Mr. Stewart But there is no oceneiest. Ton have got their %widen°, in biack end White, as taken before the coroner, and you used nothing more. There is no advantage wantever in hawing their evidence taken over again. Mr. Lynskey It ensbke me to get the depositions hers without going to the coro. aer's court. Mr. Stewart :But is there to be no 00110i(1ration for time and public conwenienco, owly for the mks at a few pence? Mr. I.3rnskey: It is not the matter of a few penes, air; they wont .210 for them. Mr. Stewart. I have nothing to do with it if it is £5OO. Mr. Lynekeyi But prisoner has, sir. He cannot afford it, and we want the depositions. Mr. Stewart: The evidence is there; it is already in black and white, and you are giving the clerks of the wort unnecessary trouble. Mr. Lynekey: I haws given my reason. Mr. Stewart: But it is not a good reason. Mr. Lynakey: If you hold it is not to the advantage of the prisoner that we ithould have the depositions here, I don't want to occupy your time further. Mr. Smith then said that he had ilia heard that the Treasury Bad given instructions for a copy of the depositions to be supplied to prisoner's counsel. Mr. Lynekey. Then that settles it. McKeever was then committed to the satires for trial.
The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1907-12-07 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

OVERCOATS.  The following are the Exchequer returns from April let to November 30th—Receipts, 1907 £86,705,460, 1906 -g86,g67,337; expenditure, 1907 £90,018,659, 1906 £.91,123,504; balancee, 1907 £3,519,990, 1906 12,532,400. • • • •  The Registrar-General reports that the annual rate of mortality in 76 great towns of England and Wales last week averaged 16.5. The rate in London was 16, Liverpool 19, Birkenhead 10, Bootle 27, Bolton 14, Manchester 18, Salford 17, Oldham 21, Burnley 17, Blackburn 22, and Preston 18.  • • • •  It has been decided that the next International Peace Conference shal' be held in London, and it will probably take place in the month of July. It is expected that the assembly will be of a very representative character, and it will have a good deal to say with regard to the comparative failure Of the Hague Congress. The different ' 1. it i.sh peace societies, who have invited the conference to London, will take care that its members receive a hearty welcome. The Inter-Parliamentary Peace Conference, which is a different body, is to be held this year at Berlin.  • • a •  At a meeting of the Council of the Univereity of Liverpool on Tuesday, Mr. E. T. Campagnac, M.A., was appointed to the Chair of Education, vacant by the retirement of Profeeeor Woodward.  The funeral of 3iies Lloyd George at Criccieth on Tueeday was attended with the utmost simplicity, in accordance with the wishes of the bereaxed  S • •  Lord Loreburn, the Lord Chancellor, was on Tuesday married to Mi.' o Violet HicksBeach, daughter of Mr. W. F. Hicks-Beach.  President Roosevelt on Tuesday, in his Message to the United States Congress, maintained that the practice of hoarding money instead of keeping it in sound banks was the immediate occasion of the money stringency. He advocates national control of inter-State commerce as the only means of dealing with railroads, and supervisory power over trusts. The necessity for greater elasticity in the currency is emphasised, Socialism is condemned, workmen's compensation, eight hours day, and compulsory arbitration in labour disputes advocated. _  • • • •  Martial law has been proclaimed in Zululand, where the situation has assumed a more serious aspect owing to the restlessnese of the Natal natives.  S • • •  The King and Queen of Spain left London on Tuesday on the commencement of their return journey. His Majesty has conferred the First Order of Queen Isabella of Spain upon the Duke of Westminster, and other decorations upon members of his Grace's household.  • • • •  The " Natal Advertiser" cot rest( ndi nt at Eshowe states that -sham lid has 0peatedly offered to ho Pieter uaritaturg whenever he may be ievii•ed to du so. At present he is ill with swollsn kge, and a conveyance will be hocesssry to Vike him to the town. He Oleg is that he hits never refused to answer the char.ms hrs uOit against him.  • • •  At Gateshead on Wednesday Joseph Noble, blacksmith, charged with the murder at Windy Nook on November let of John Paterson, was committed for trial. The deceased was shot dead by an armed burglar.
The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1889-11-30 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

STRANGE VAOAII26B OP A WONAN.—A woman residinn in St. Andrew's-street, Liverpool, named Elizabeth Rainfortb, was charged with being drunk in Doreen-street 6190 with wilfully breaking six panes of plass in a window, the property of Its. Barber, 15, Duncan-street—P.C. 6 (Sparrow) et.ted that at eight o'clock on Thursday evening he was on duty in Mtrket-street, when a lad named F,,rries informed him that the woman bad broken some windows in Duncan-street. They went kpwn towards the Ferry and fonnd her. She thonght she bad smashed the windows of Mr. R. B. Menre's office. Mr. Barber's place w.ta next door. (Prisoner bete became very excited, and threatened she world break Mr. Moore" windows. He put bee in Rainhill, and when she came out banded her some money. She wee done out of her money. Prisoner then burst out lanzbing, and pointinv to 'Mr. R. B. Moore, said she went to get laudanum for him , on Thursday night, but they would not give it to lier. But she would get something for him.)—Mr. Moore said his son had seen prisoner's sister, hot she could not come to conrt that morning. Re had an ides what the threats concerned.—Prisoner eh/toted that she bad ont no sister except one in Stsiiley-rosd.— She was then remanded till to day. .ka she was being forcibly removed from the dock she screamed, " Get out, you dirty old murderer. Give us the sentence and have done with it you thing." Prisoner's screams when removed from the dock were beard for some time, and it was stet.] that she bed smashed several' panes of glass in her cell window.  THE CHRIsTMAS BooK F Iso. Of all the Xmas animals which have appeared this season: not one has excited the same amnnnt of attention or has reached the same sale se Dead!" by the hand of May Ostlere. When this little initial work from the author's pen fret made its appearance few readers would have imagined that the sale would have reached its hnndredth thousand before it had been in existence three weeks, and it hi safe to say that this little work has crested • perfect forme. It, of coarse, goes witliont saying that all this interest and admiration is created by the wonderful character of the central incident around which the romantic portion of the story is written. It is not every day that the amazing fact of a life having been saved by photography is " en evidence," mid it says mach for the attractiveness of " Dead!" that Miss Ostlere shonld have made POOll good use of her opportunities. The bookstalls are no sooner supplied than every copy is snapped ep. The authoress is to be congratulated on her distinct success.  17Vefro„;  SUPPORT LOCAL Trade I—Why NO to Li' Cabinet Furniture, Carpets, Lino Teems, or ... Home Furnishing? They can be purchased from b. B. DELANY, Birkenhead, as reasonably Co at any home in the kiugdom. All work guaranteed; farm tare removed; estimatee free.  Printed and Pnbllshpd eVelty WZDRIVIDAY And 'A' ID fry h' Prnriratnni hy Pa.:nitiacrx
The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1908-03-04 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

WOMB.III'6 100M.'  Tvii;i•—;a6 TF7  Thornton took a crumpled piece of paper from hi tt pocket and threw it aoroea the table.  fifty-pound note, you Bee; number Et 1,01.4." Lord Aloes:bap repeated the number as though not "predating its significance. "Dant you remember." Thornton said, "that is the number of one of the notes wllioh your father drew from Coatis on the morning of his murder; and whicth Neilison deoaniped wall?" 'Lord .licestou clutched the note in his fingers and sat back in his chair. For a moment or two Um room seemed to be swimming round him and there was a low buzzing In his ears. Then he felt a cool hand upon his forehead and some brandy streaming ...own his throat. With a great ilium lie pulled himself together and sat  ail right, thanks," he said weakly. "I'll sit quiot for a minute or two." There was a short silence. Then Lord Alceston got up. "Thornton." he said, "I asked you to help me in this, and you've done so like a brick. I'm immensely obliged., ' "Don't mention it," Thornton answered. "I'm glad we're been so fortunate. We've made a good start, at any rate." "And the start must be the finish," Lord Alneston said slowly. "Thornton, want to drop this altogether. I want what we have found out to remain a profound secret, buried between us two."  Thornton was a man whom it was not May to surprise, but he started and looked at his friend incredulously. "Do you mean this?" "I do." "You mean to ray that now the clue is in your hands you want to throw it up?" "I do mean that. I have the strongest reasons." "What are they?" "I cannot tell you, Thornton. You must take my word."• "You may be mistaken." "That is impossible." "I'm not at all sure that we shouldn't be liable to be indicted for conspiracy." "I will take the risk of that." Thornton thought for a • moment, and then ahrugged his shoulders. "Very good; you are the most interested, of course, and shall have your way. But T tell you frankly that I don't like it. Good-night." He left somewhat abruptly, for he wiis annoyed; and he was one of those men who never take the trouble to hide their annoyance. But Lord Alceston knew that he would annoyance., his word and let him go without protest. On the following morning the paper's contained a somewhat strange announcement. The reward of one thousand pounds for the discovery nf Philin Neillson was withdrawn without any explanation. The inference was obvious. The authorities no longer believed in his guilt, and though fientispd Yard had not been compromised by the offering of the reward, the search for the missing man became weak and halfhearted. The one nossible clue was swept away. end the murderers of the Earl of Alceston and of the unknown woman in the Bast End were still at large. The papers tad plenty tp piy About it, and Beetlend Tail very little. The Chief Inspector, lecnettywr, pis -worried slam* out of his Pletses. litoolllins Stephen Thorattel was of all men the most perplexed.
The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1908-02-26 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

AIR. RUSSELL AND THE CHILD.  At s meeting of the Worker.' Educational -tesomiation, held in the Higher Elementary School*, Conway-otreet, on WednftsdaY 'Weida& Councillor R. J. Russell delivered an interes.ting lecture on "The Child in .the Home.'  Mrs. A. C. Wilson, who occupied the chair, said he thought it was fitting that a -woman should occupy the chair at that meeting, as the subject of children was one on which they needed to get all possible knowledge. Mr. Rue.sell's lecture was a carefully. planned one, and he dealt with his embjeot in a thorough manner. Commencing with the disputed question as to whether pre.natal conditions affected human life, the lecturer went on to speak of the home, which, be said, we never coMplete without the child. The two watchwords which should govern those who bad charge of children were Clateilitiso and SiWrity. Senn ititil wilr• y pr g it . nature of a baby to cry Laughter). on to deal with the questina of food, Mr. Russell , said that children were creatures of habit, and if trained to take their food regularly would not eta for food in between meals. With regard to cows milk, the food of , many young children, surely the time bad I now come when they should insist that all milk, and indeed all other kinds of food should be supplied free from germs, and atoolutely ptue. There could be no doubt that an enormous number of children were murdered every Year in this oonntrY through impure milk. The child might indeed exclaim, "Unnumbered foes await around to hurry. mortals home." Concerning cleanliness, let them impress upon the child the necessity of fitness in all things.. Let them show him that dirty hands and clean food were not well mated. and he would have. learet,a valuable lesson which would have an infitience on his coining life. Teach the child carefulness, and few things would make more for his future happiness. Passing on to the medical inapeotion of sehools, the speaker said they must not irhagine for one moment that, that inspection would supplant parental supervision. The true parent did not want to be sup-4, pleoliti. When the attitude of school and, home clashed, the prevailing influence wa! likely to belong to the home. But wha they wanted wee cooperation between th I home and the teacher. With referente tel the question of home reading, Mr. Russell said that last year 46,000 books were issued to children from the free libraries, and 5,000 applied for tickets. It was sorely the, dirty of the parent to guide his child in that search for knowledge. In pursuing this branch of his subject Mr. RaMMU urged parents to place classics within reach of their 'children, and thus train their tastes for all time. Then there was the question of moral attitude. This again was rather a question for the home than I for the school. In conclusion, Mr. Russell quetei R. L. Stevenson's words, "Be geed, and make happy." In striving to make the child heavy they would be doing more than they dreamt of. The. lecture was followed by an animated discossion, and the meeting closed with the usual votes of thinks.
The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1906-01-10 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

FALLS.  Before Messrs. T. L. Dodds and A. E. Orion at the Borough Police Court yesterday, F. C. Martin, licensee of the Britannia Inn ,Old Cheetar-roed, lraB oharged with having sold intoxicating liquor to a drunken man named James Welk on Bening night.  Mr. Pawnley prosecuted. and Mr. Rigby Swift (instructed by Messrs. Thompson, Hughes, and Mathison) defended. In the course of his opening statement Mr. Aminley said that Sergeant Connan 'and P.C. Moore were visiting publio-honses on Boxing night, and in the mum of their round they visited defendant's hones. Thai, arrived there at .1.0.35 p.m., and on going into the bar, entering by one of the three doors leading from (lid Chester-road, they found that there were a large number of Pen*, some sitting down and some standing up. The only person behind the bar was the barman. Sitting under the window 'pre two men, one of whom was drunk. The sergeant drew the barman's attention to the man, and ultimately Ur, licensee was called. Mr. Martin denied that the mini had been served there., (ii the counter were a number of glasses, some containing liquor and some empty. The barman while the officers were there toot Bit glasses and two beer bottles of the counter and placed them underneath. As the barman did not tell the man to leave the premises the Sergeant ordered him out, and he went. The officers then left, but returned in consequence of what was told them by a man named Siddons. Toe licensee was called out of the house, and the Sergeant said to him that Siddons had told him that he (Siddons) and Wells hal been served with beer. Mr. Martin re• plied "Yee, but that was earlier on.Siddons said that was so, but they went home sad washed, and then oame back and had another drink each. Mr. Rigby Swift said that he would not objeot to his friend putting that in his speech, but unless be was calling the man Siddons they could not place the slighting value on the statement, and it was not ay.deuce. For instance, if a constable went up to a men who was charged with ',lards: and 4,id that Jones saw him oommit the murder, that would not be evidence. 'J. course, if. the man was silent the juz,r could come to their own conclusions as to his silence, but in this case Mr. Marlin had said that the man had been servalear4: on, but not since. Foarnley then placed the Sergeant and .C. Moore in the box. _  -Swift iZii—it—i;as hardly necessary for him to say that there was no ease for him to answer. Thew worships had already heard his objestion. Mr. Dodds aeked Mr. Swift if he was going to call Sindons, and. on receiving • negative answer said the Bench would cal/. him.  Siddona, who Baid he resided at ilk Kingman-street, admitted that he yea, in um Britannia-Inn on Boxing night Hs. know and saw him coma in. Wawa.: want in at 10 o'clock and had two ilea VM, of bear. At about 10.30 p.m. Wails cam in, and he had hardly got in whim the polio* came in. and saw him. Walla area not sorved. _ _  Arit  1