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The Shropshire Examiner and all round the Wrekin advertiser. — 1874-05-16 (Wenlock, Shropshire, England)

DAMAGES AU A ,NS.7' A RAILWAY C PANT....• On Saturday, an action was tried before the Chief Baron and a special jury in the Court of Exchequer, Dublin, at the suit of Felix Robinsena of Eandalstoen, against the Belfast and Norther= Counties Railway Company. . Tie damages were laid at £5OO. The action was for injuries inflicted on plaintiff's wife by means of one of the company's trains running againgt a cart in which she was sitting while passing over a level crossing between Toome Bridge and Randalstown. The jury gave a verdict against the company for £250. %‘' ATE R6POVT IN 'lO5 CD AN N EL.—X.r. Charles Steuart, F.R.A.S., writes from Alton :—" A water. sp was seen last week by the passengers on b,a-d the steamship Havre, whi e eroesing frow the Channel Islands to Southampton. When about 25 mi 1e..: north by east of Alderney a hoary dark cloud advanced from north by west in the direction of the ship. Rin fell heavily from the ninibus oa the under side of the cloud, and just ab .ve the nimbus, which I estimated to be about a mile in height, the waterspout, in the form of an inverted e.ine, suddenly formed and increased from the base downwards, to the extent of about one fourth of the distance of the base from the se& If my estimate were ight, the height of the cone must have been from 400 to 500 saids. and the diameter of its ba.e nearly 160 yards. At the distance of 100 yards from the ship, and immediately under the cone the rain fell very heavily over a space of about 30 yards, ruffling and darkening the surface of the water. As the ship's course was nearly in an opposite direction to that of the cloud, the phenemen. n was not visible for more than three and a half minutes." A LINCOLNSIIIRIC DIVORCE Co.—Sir James Hanuen, on Saturday, tried the suit of Wass r. Wass. It was a wifes petition for a judicial separation, on the ground of her husband's cruelty. The parties were married at Holy Trinity Church, Hull, in 1848. The respondent was an extensive farmer at Worlaby Hall Farm, in Lincolnshire, ad the pettioner was the daughter of a neighbouring farmer. According to the evidence of Mrs. Wass, her husband treated her with kindness and affection until 1572, in which year he became addicted to habits of intemperance, and after that he treated her badly, frequently using threats and bad language. On the day of the final separation, the witness and her husband were at tea, when a conversation arose about her brother's marriage. It was very trivial-_merely as to the day on which it was to take place. The respondent jumped np, seized hold of a whip, and struck her three times, inflicting serious injuries. A servant who had lived with the parties spoke to the respondent striking his wife, and Dr. They said that he attended her for the injuries she reLeived. His lordship granted a decree of judicial separation. MURDEROUS Ail'
The Shropshire Examiner and all round the Wrekin advertiser. — 1874-06-13 (Wenlock, Shropshire, England)

FRAUD.  village, which is charmingly situated in o,e of the I At the Old Bailey on Monday, before the Recorder, most lovely of the lovely vales of Yorkshire, lived Henry Osborne O'llagan and Jas Saunders Muir, the family of the Bat kors. It consisted of five in- ahaa Dr. Muir, were indicted, he former with obdividuals—father, mother, and three sons, All the taming certain bilis of exchange of the value of members of the family, with perhaps the exception ' £28,000 from Mr. John Wright, of Osmaston of the mother, bore the character of being ex- I Manor, near Derby, and the latter with receiving treuxely penurious in their habits and morose and a portion of the same knowing them to have been quarrelsome in their dispositions. The father fol. obtained by fraud. lowed the occupatbet of a jobbing farm labourer, Mr. Murphy, Q.C., said that after due considerabut was without, regular employment, and earned tion, the c unsel for the prosecution had come to only scanty wages. out of these he had contrived the determination not to offer any evidence in supto save a considerable B,lm for one so poorly situ- port of the indictment. The charge against ated ; and the family appear to have actually de- U'llagan was that he influced the prosecutor to priced themselves of some of the necessaries of life ; part with the securities in question under false in order to add to the little hard. The mother, how-' pretences. No doubt the case presented before ever, seems to have been an exception to the rale. I the maeist, ate justified its being sent for trial, but It does not appear that she was a spendthrift, but the defendants could not be asked to give their every petty expenditure was regarded with jealous account of the transaction. Since then a bill had by both father and sons, and this gave rise to con- been filed in Chancery, and it seemed from the stant bickerings, and not seldom to violence. So affidavits not only of the defendants but of third frequent had these disturbances become that the persons that moneys othr than those which it was neighbours were quite prepared for something I supposed by the prosecution were only due had to worse. Only about a fortnight ago the mother and Ibe paid before the collieries could be acquired. her eldest son had quarrelled, and he had laid her Ile counsel for the prosecution had therefore come head open with the buckle of a strap which he to the conclusion that the present indictments used for a garter; and some time previously her could not be sustained, and it was therefore not youngest son had injured her with a stone, which i proposed to oiler any evidence with regard to them. be had thrown at her. The eldest son, John I The Recorder said as there was no evidence to be William, the perpetrator of the murder, had served offered, the only thing the jury could do was to part of an apprenticeship to a butcher, but he return a verdict of not guilty. Verdict accordingly. h 4,1 the reputation of being lazy, mopish, and addicted to thee vice of reading very Dually novels, and sensational travellers' stories of _
The Shropshire Examiner and all round the Wrekin advertiser. — 1874-09-12 (Wenlock, Shropshire, England)

POETRY.  THE GAME LAWS  BY A CHURCH CLERGYMAX.—(CANON KniosLEY.) The merry brown hares came leaping Over the crest of the hill, Where the clover and corn lay sleeping Under the moonlight still. Leap:ng late and early, Till under their bite and their tread The swedes, and the wheat, and the barley, .Lay cankered, and trampled, and dead. A poacher's widow sat sighing On the side of the white chalk bank, Where under the gloomy firwoods One spot in the ley throve rank. She watched a long tuft of clover, Where rabbit or hare never ran; For its black sour haulm covered over The blood a a murdered man. She thought of the dark plantation, And the hares and her husband's blood, And the voice of her indignation  Rose up to the throne of God. "I am long past wailing and whining— I have wept too much in my life; I've had twenty years of pining As an English labourer's wife. A labourer in Christian England, Where they cant of a Saviour's name, And waste men's lives like the vermin's  For a few more brace of game. There's blood on your new foreign shrubs, squire; There's blood on your pointers' feet; There's blood on the game you sell, squire; And there's blood on the game you eat! You have sold the labouring man, squire, Body and soul to shame, To pay for your seat in the House, &pair°, And to pay for the feed of your game You made him a poacher yourself, squire, When you'd give neither work nor meat; And your barley fed hares robb'd the garden At our starving children's feet; When packed in ore reeking chamber, Man, maid, mother, and little ones lay ; While the rain pattered in on the rottiug bride-bed . . .  And the wall; let in the day; When we lay in the burning fever On the mud of the cola el Ly floor, Till you parted 113 ail for three mouths, squire, At the cursed workhouse door. Can your lady patch hearts that are breaking With hauutuls of coal and rice, Or by dealing out flannel and sheeting A little below cost-price? You may tire of the jail and the workhouse, And take to allotments and schools, But you've run up a debt that will never Be repaid us by penny-club rules. In the season of sham: I sadness, In the dark and den., lay, When scrofula, gout. Are eating your race :it. When to kennels and liven :trlets You have cast your dangl • bread, And, worn out with liquor harlots, 'Your heir at your feet lit, dead ; When your youngest, the unailly..mouthed rector, Lets your ROW rot asleep to the grave, You will find in your God the protector Of the freeman you fancied your slave." She looked at the tuft of clover, And wept till her heart grew light; And at last, when her passion was over, Went wandering into the night. But the merry brown hares came leaping, Over the uplands still, 'Where the clover and corn lay sleeping On the side of the white chalk hill.
The Shropshire Examiner and all round the Wrekin advertiser. — 1874-09-12 (Wenlock, Shropshire, England)

INTOLERANCE TO LABOURERS' UNIONS IN LINCOLNSHIRE.  We extract the following " leader " from the Deily News :—A correspondent has sent us a programme of the fourth annual exhibition of the Elsham and Worlaby (Lincolnshire) Cottagers' Horticultural Society, which has among its subscribers and supporters Mr. H. Chaplain, M.P., Mr. R. Wynn, M.P., and many other gentlemen of influence. The society, we learn from its programme, is established " for the purpose of encouraging useful and neat cultivation of cottage gardens." We cannot say that we admire some of the rules announced for the management of the show, which takes place, it appears, next Friday. A notice rather conspicuously printed announces that "no person in the Agricultural Labourers' Union, on and after the lot of June, 1874, will be allowed to compete at this show." It probably did not occur to any of the persons concerned in the management of this remarkably exclusive exhibition that a little of this sort of thing is just needed to make every .independent agricultnral labourer in a district feel inclined to go, rightly or wrongly, the uttermost length that any union will carry him. Another rule sets forth that "any persons obtaining entrance without payment, or in any way misbehaving themselves, will be ducked in the pond." This intimation is printed in italics to make it the more emphatic. The sort of coarse horse-play which such an announcement as this is calculated to stimulate is likely to elevate very much the character of the show and its frequenters and the neighbourhood generally. The Elsham and Worlaby Society, which is established for the encouragement of neat gardening, is not much concerned apparently about the encouragement of decent manners. It is not the Agricultural Labourers' Union, at all events, which endeavours to introduce among these Lincolnshire cottagers the performances which we all admire so much when the roughs of a low race-course get them up for the punishment of "welchers." We do not know which rule of the society is calculated to do more for the improvement of ,the neighbourhood—that which puts the Agricultural Labourers' Union under a ban, or that which invites the select and admitted crowd to duck objectionable persons in the pond.  An Armenian youth named Sark', has been murdered in the open streets of Calcutta by a Bengalee Baboo, a clerk in the Foreign Office, who stabbed his victim in the throat with an eraser. The deed was the result of a quarrel.  UNWHOLESOYE FooD.—A general crusade has just been made by the officers of the Sheffield Corporation ag,ainst certain tradesmen who have been dealing in had food. Mr. John Brinnen, butcher, of Fowkr-stiet, was fined £BO for exposing for sale eighty pieces of bad meat, some of which was thoroughly putrid; and laac Plant, provision dealer, of Meadow-street, was fined £55 for exposing for sale eight hams totally unfit for human food. A fruit dealer, named William Cooper, living in Old-street, was also hued .E. 5 and costs for selling bad pears.
The Shropshire Examiner and all round the Wrekin advertiser. — 1874-08-08 (Wenlock, Shropshire, England)

ALLEGED CRUELTY TO A DYING PAUPER.  The circumstances in connection with a serious charge of crate: treatment to an aged pauper, named John Heritage, who was suffering from pneumonia, in the St. Luke's Infirmary, was investigated last week. Mr. Daniels, the master. ; said that on the evening of the 15th ult, he was going his usual rounds, when he heard a cry of " Police ! help l" coml.?". from No. 15 Ward On entering the ward he saw Heritage tied down to the bed by means of a sheet across his chest and a couple of handkerchiefs round his feet, both of which were fastened to the side of the bedstead. The man said, "For G d's sake, sir, take these off." He at once released him from his position, and had some poultices placed upon his cheat, in accordance with the doctor's orders. On speaking to the nurse, she said that Heritage was noisy and troublesome, whereupon he told her she had no business to treat the man in that manner. The next morning the man died. The doctor said it was not neceasitry to hold an inquest, and aocordingly no inquiry was beid. Mr. Yarr w, the ho ,se-surgeon. said there could be no doubt that if the man was tied down as described his death was accelerated. suffering as he was from pneumonia. If he had known at first all the facts as he now knew them be should have requested an inquest. Edith Barnes, a pauper helper, stated that Heritage continually got in and out of bed, and she tied him down out of kindne-s. She told nurse Martin, but she did not release him. Mr. Yarrow, after some further evidence, thought that Mr. Daniels did mention about an inquest. The board then proceeded to the ward, and task the evidence of those whooccupiedbeds near to the deceased. James Glandy described the deceased as being very troublesome at times. Once he tried to get at the window, but fell. When he got out again the nurse tied a -band across his chest, and afterwards fastened his feet. Nurse Martin knew nothing of the matter, and Barnes only did what she thought would be for the protection of the man. She was a very kind person to them all. . . . .  After hearing the evidence of some of the paupers, Mr. Turner moved to the elect that in the opinion of the court nothing was done but what the case required. Mr. Standring seconded the motion. Yr. Hopkins protested, observing that the poor man was iu the last stage of pneumonia, and they put a bandage across his chest to hinder his breathing for the space of four hours. Be would never be a party to so foully murdering a man. No lunatic would have been treated in such awayat an asylum. Mr. i'attreile was of similar opinion. The motion was then carri• d, only two dissentient bands being held up against it.
The Shropshire Examiner and all round the Wrekin advertiser. — 1874-08-15 (Wenlock, Shropshire, England)

SUPPOSED MURDER IN ASHTON. to accept the invitation, but the defendant pressed A murder is supposed to have been perpetrated her, and she at length consented to go to his on Monday morning in a shop beside the George house, and he was represented to have at once snd Dragon Inn, Ashton. The murderer. John made an offer of marriage to the plaintiff, which Igo, a man between 50 and 60 years of age, is a she accepted. He then introduced her to the native of Tuam, in Ireland, and together with a minister of the chapel as his intended wife, as well lodger named Campbell Lynn, lived at the above- as to many members of the congregation, and he mentioned place, and although the murderer has had his name painted upon her pew. A day was been addicted to drinSing somewhat heavily he has fixed for the marriage, and it was arranged that seldom given the police any trouble. However, at the marriage of the nephew d the defendant the beginning of last week he got on the spree, shoul i also take place on the same day. The wedand was at a later period joined by his wife, who ding was to have taken place in June, but shortly became the worse of the two, continuing the before the plaintiff sailed upon the defendant, and &AL During the week they were also joined by bawd her that the Lord had revealed to hitn that she the ledger Lynn, and on Sunday all were might not be his wife, and he felt bound to drunk together, and quarrelled repeatedly comply with his command. For the defendant it during the day. About one o'clock on Monday was suggested that the plaintiff was constantly morning the neighbours were awakened by Igo running after him, and forcing herself upon him, who was knocking at the door ot a man named and she was represented to have said that Burke, whom he apparently wished to arouse. He the Lord had revealed to her that the dethen went to Mr. K• rshaw, landlord of the SheFts fondant was a fit and proper person to be her humherds' Inn, and asked that gentleman for a few band, and she was determined to have him. This matches. Directly afterwards he heard Igo wail- evidence caused a great deal Of laughter in the lag and crying out, "Oh. my pet ! Poor Peggy, court, which was increased when it transpired that she is cold." Tons able Boots was on duty near the defendant appeared to have stated in the first the spot, and, bearing the commonon, went into instance that it was the will of the Lord that he the house, and found the woman cold, and quite should become the husband of the plaintiff, but dead. On the bed, which was stained with blood, that the Lord had further revealed to him that it lay &shoemaker's hammer, a most effectual weapon was not agreeable to his will that the marriage for so horrible apt rime, and this circumstance at should take place, and on this account he broke it once pointed to violent death. Igo was therefore off. The jury gave a verdict for the plaintiff, taken into custody, and Campbell Lynn, the lodger, damages, .£2O. • tendered himself as a witness, though what he has got to to say is as yet only known to himself. Dr. FO f )D
The Shropshire Examiner and all round the Wrekin advertiser. — 1877-06-22 (Wenlock, Shropshire, England)

THE ALLEGED WIFE MURDER IN THE  AUSTRIAN TYROL.  BOTZFN, ArSTRIAN TYROL, June 18'.—The trial of 'Henri de Tourville, on the charge of having min, dered his Wife, Madeline de Tourville, in Englishwoman, by throwing her down a precipice in the Stelvio Pass, on the 18t11 June, 1876, commenced in the Court-house of this town to-day. Count Melchiori was the presiding judge. The Court was crowded. Twenty witnesses, including Miss Scott, from London, and six experts, have been summoned by the public prosecutor to give evidence. The president ordered the reading of a number of documents in connection with the case. The defence has demanded the calling of further witnesses, particularly John Turner and Sarah Cliappinson, from London. After the jury had been duly sworn, Herr Markbrecker, the prisoner's counsel, objected to the printed form of indictment against his client being communicated to the jurymen, contrary to the principle of oral proceedings followed in the Austrian Criminal Courts. The President allowed the objection. Herr Markbrecker then demanded that Frank and Eliza Thompson should not be represented by counsel at the trial, inasmuch as they had suffered no legal wrong, and in the event of a conviction would claim 'deceased's property. The Public Prosecutor objected to this, and the Court decided in their favour.  A further diminution in the extent of the small. pox epidemic in London was reported at the meeting of the Metropolitan Asylums Board on Saturday. The workmen engaged in the nail trade in Bristol have received a fortnight's notice of a reduction of 3d. per thousand on all kinds of horse nails.  The Archbishop of Dublin has admitted Mr. Maurice Hewaon, a deaf and dumb gentleman, to the office of catechist for the deaf and dumb in Dublin.  T. B. Price, recently a provision dealer, who is charged with fatally shooting a young woman in Crown street, Liverpool, surrendered to the police on Saturday night.  At a mass meeting of colliers, at Wigan, on Mon. (lay, it was resolved to continue on strike unless the present lock-out be referred to arbitration. Mr. Btirt, M.P., supports this motion. • Nearly 10,00) of the Metropolitan volunteers were under arms on Saturday undergoing their annual official inspections or taking part in the brigade field days ordered by the Government.  The Dublin Mitilsaya the Attorney-General has appointed Mr. C. H. Tandy, Q.C., Crown Pro.. cutor for the County.of Tipperary, in the room of Mr. O'Hara, who has resigned; and Mr. Ryland to be crown Prosecutor for Wexford.  The financial year of the Mersey Dock Board terminates on the 30th of this month, and the Lirerponl Courier believes that the revenue for the year, considerably exceeding a million sterling, will 'reach the largest figure ever attained in the history of the estate. There was a general parade on Sunday morninp of the Metropolitan Corps of Commissionaires. After the inspection by Lord Mark Kerr the men were marched into Westminster Hall and briefly addressed by his lordship and by Captain Walter. The number on parade was 530. Sr.
The Shropshire Examiner and all round the Wrekin advertiser. — 1877-07-06 (Wenlock, Shropshire, England)

CONFESSION TO A FELLOW PRISONER. On Friday morning.r, a man named Gavan, who was in custody for some trivial offence was placed in the cell as a precaution against the prisoner attempting anything desperate against himself. During the time Gavan was with him, he made a sort of confession to him of how the deed was done, and what led to it. From this statement, it seems that they were walking; about for a considerable time, and that when they arrived at the rick-yard, he asked her to sit down. He says that she had told him during their walk that she should leave him, and that she should go with another fellow named Clerk.' Rogers' manner must have been bitter and threatening to her during these last hours they were together, as the prisoner says she said to him, as they were going along, 'Yon are going to do something with me.' When he attempted ' to murder her with the razor an awful struggle took place, and Rogers told Gavan that she 'nearly bested him.' It was in this struggle that her finger would be cut through; while the vilfian was aiming at her throat the wounds would be made in her cheek and on her head. He said She fought like a tiger,' and took the razor from him. When the poor woman was exhausted with her fearful efforts to save herself, he knocked her down with a stake and she fell senseless at his feet, 'and then,' said the perpetrator of the horrible deed. to Gavan, 'I done it proper.' This callous expression will account for the head of the unfortunate woman being nearly severed from her body. He also said if she had thrown the razor away when she took it from him, he should not have gone for it. Gavan said to him that it was a good thing he i  did not hurt the child; when the prisoner replied, 'I was not going to hurt that.' We understand that Gavan will be called to give evidence in the case.  Between ten and eleven o'clock in the forenoon, Mr. J. C. Broom, borough surveyor pro tent, visited the scene of the murder, at the request of the police authorities, for the purpose of preparing the plan which will be required at the inquest and trial. He was accompanied by Chief-superintendent Lavery and Inspector Corden, and they were met on the ground by Inspector Hall, of the Tettenhall division of the constabulary, who had proceeded thither to ascertain within what parish the crime had been perpetrated. 1 Mr. Broom, on examining the plan of the borough, I discovered that although a part of the meadow, known as the Big Salt Moor, was in the borough, the spot in question was in the parish of Bushbury, the borough boundary fence being only two or three yards away. Under these circumstances Police-constable Smith (37), who had been in charge of the field, gave place to Police•constable Wood, of the county force. _  Mr. J. H. Love, police surgeon, examined the body of the deceased about half-past six o'clock, and his evidence as to the wounds she received will be given at the inquest.