The Potteries Examiner : — 1879-11-08 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

MURDEROUS ASSAULT BY A BOY.  A serious stabbing affair occurred a few days ago, at the Riggleswade (Beds) Workhouse. Two boys, name Hills and Rowley, both agedl3 years, quarrelled, and Hills wanted to fight. They had a scuffle in the yard, when Hills took up a piece of icon grating which covered a sink and threw it at Rowley. The iron struck the latter in the eyes, the wound tiredtag profusely. Rowley then went into the schoolroom, followed by Hills, who took an old table-knife out of his pocket and rushed at Rowley with it. The latter held up his hand to protect himself, when he received a severe blow from the knife, which inflicted a great gash on his hand. The boy Rowley fainted twice and a doctor had to be immmliately sent forts dress the wound. The blow win; aimed at Rowley's neck, and had it not been for MB hand fatal stab might have been the result. The primmer was brought up on Wednesday afternoon before , %,lonel Lindsell awl Mr. C. S. Undid', sitting SIS the local magistrates, when he did not attempt to deny the eharge. He was committed for trial at the nest Quarter sessions.  The Birmingham police have jurt arrested George Kitching, the notorious burglar, who was shot by a gentleman in London when in the not of committing a burglary, in September, 1878, and who, upon being arrested and taken to the hospital, managed tc escape by the aid of his confederates. The accused, who is" wanted" for many burglaries in different parts of the counter, was traced to 11; ningham, and followed by an officer of the London force. The - - • Birmingham detectives, assisted by the London The following extract from a private letter datol officer, arrested the prisoner, togetherwith two other Aguilas, Spain, October 20, hoe been sent for publi- burglars, at a haunt of thieves in Cross Stieet. cation :—" You will h rre seen in the nee spapers Kitching has been taken to Lon lon, and the other accounts of the awful storm that has visited U. prisoners have been remanded. Kitching is stil Whole farms have been swept away, not only the suffering from the gun-shot wound on the breast. hones% and stacks, but the trees, crops, and even the earth down to the bare rocks underneath. About 20,000 fig trees alone in this district have been uptooted and carried away, and the crops in the lowlands covered over with, in come cases, three feet of stones, brought down by the swollen streams. At the farm of a friend of mine there is literally nothing lel t— vines, almonds, fig and pine trees, water-tanks and garden, which had taken 20 years to get into order andperfeetion, all gone, and even the ground is all washedaway. The news from Murcia and Laces is fearful. The plain of the former, which was full of gardens of °maga and lemon trees, groves of olives, with other fruit-trees of every description, is under water for a distance of 20 miles, and when this subsides the mud end debris will cover everything and all the garden C1.01.t be spoilt. About 1,000 housearound Murcia alone are calculated to have been either knocked down or enrried clean away. Over 200 dead bodies have been already found, and the work is only just commenced. In Lorca 32, Sierra Almagreni 30, Puerto Lumbreras 10, Alcantaralla have been found, but the number of missing le something beyond belief. At Lorca the water vanes down the river like a wall. 'rho Debut ha are inure than half gone, and what was 3 few day s ago a series of well. cultivated farms and market gardens, with pretty country hollAt'S and Hower gardens, is now an immense mud plain—l.:me is no other word for it. One little baby came footing down in the middle of the stream, safely borne along in its cradle, the poor little thing quietly playing with its toes. With great care and caution, a rope was thrown over it And it was safely brought to the aide, and the babe was saved. No parents have been found to own it. Shona none be found to claim it, a nobleman haa expressed his desire to adopt it. At Murcia • nian was brought out through tin; roof of is house ; h.. had been throe hour* with the wet r up to his elena, hOldiU6' aloft kci two ehildren, one in each hand. llis wife had been swept away before his eyes, with no chance of sue dig her. 13ut reports of individual Cases would fill re