Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1888-02-04 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

DOPPAPES I.TEE WORIcIIOI.2Sg, •  . . The Chichester Board of.Gusediana• :has hail ki decide the question whether dominoes is w game of chance. The master reported that the childreti_in•the workhouse had had a treat given them at the Bishop's Palate, which they had enjoyed verythech. Therewas a Chrietroae-tree, and among the toys distributed were some detninoe. which the boys lironght •to the workhouse. The Local Government &wed prohibited games of chance being played•M work•houses, and he thought dominoes was agents of • chance. Several members of the Board expressed surprise at hearing the master's definition of the game : upon which the master stated that he knew a Loral Government inspector had made a complaint at another workhouse on finding that the game of dominoes was allowed. A member wanted to know if the Local Government Board would define cricket NS a game .of ehance,becsuse a good player was often got out with the first ball. —Mr. Rees, the vice-ehairmas,w bowie' tie was teaching his children to•play the game, which he thought one of skill rather Limn chance, moved that dominoes be permitted .in the children's room, and the Board. unantmourdy passed the resolution,which will exonerate the muter from blame if the Local Government inspector complains.  DROWNING A CHILD IN A WASH T UB A murder committed by a poor woman named Hogg, while suffering from mr.loincliolia following upon her con finement, has been inquired into by Mr. Braxton Hicks, the coroner at Wandsworth. Recently the baby was drowned in a tub of water by, as wassupposed,accidentally falling from the mother's lap while the latter was in a St. At the inquest which followed the mother seemed dazed, but she appeared to get much bettor, and the other morning when her husband left her she seemed quite well. When he came home to dinner he found his wife sitting by the fire. She said she was glad he had come home, as she and Nellie (a child two years and a half old) were ill, adding that she could not make the little one speak. She was kissing the child, which was wrapped up in a woollen shawl. The husband looked at the child, and seeing that it was pale, he was afraid something was wrong, and ran for a dr ttor who found the child dead. When asked wh at she had been doing to the child, the mother replied that shs, had given it a bath in the lab. in ths "Itaissa. The doctor told the jury at this almond inquest that in his opinion the lmd been held down in the wash-tub; and accepting his view the jury returned a verdict of wilful murder against the mother.  ECCENrRIC OR INSANE? At the Marlborough-street slice-court on Monday, Kurt Degener, who deseri himself as the inventor of lecomotion, was charged on remand with being. a lunatic wandering in the neighbourhood of Kensington Palace. The prisoner was approaching Kensington Palace. When asked his businese he expressed surprise that the constable did not know him, and handed him 'at the same time an envelope addressed to "His Majesty Kurt Degener, Emperor of China and King of England." He persisted in so describing himself to a police-sergeant who same up at the time, and subsequently reiterated his statement in court. He had a loaded revolver and 95 cartridges upon him and gave some trouble on the way to he station. Mr. Townsend, divisional surgeon, expressed the opinion that the prisoner was insane, but General Raines and other gentlemen stated that hitherto they had no reason to suppose that such was the case, although he was somewhat eccentric in hislechaviour. He was highly connected, an ex-lieutenant in the German army, and wadi deeply interested in some scientific invention. Captain von Roeder, of the German Consulate, informed the magistrate that he was ready to take charge of Mr. Degener and send him safely home to Germany. Mr. Newton consented to the proposal, and the accused was discharged from custody.