The Warwickshire Herald. — 1895-01-24 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

TEA DEALER'S SWINDLE.  Albert Edward Lycett, carrying on businnu as a tea dealer in Hanley, was at the Wail police-court on Monday convicted of keeping a lottery. Ar inspector of police proved that he bought a quarter of a pound of tea from the defendant, for widet. he paid Bd. He received the tea in • wrapper which said that Lycett and Co. gave £lO to every customer. The stipendiary, in sentencing the defendant to pay a fine of £25 and el 13e. costs, said that the way in which the business had been done was that it was advertised that any customer who came to the shop would receive a bond of the value of £lo,and that that bond would be redeemed when 120,000 boxes of 100 lb. of tea each had been sold. Suppose that Mr. Lycett had 1,000 customers per day, and that continued through the whole year, at would take 150 years to sell all the tea. Suppose all the tea were sold, Mr. Lycett would become indebted for an amount equal to about half the National Debt, It was impossible for anyone who had heard the evidence to Bay that the thing was anything else than a swindle. Legitinuite trade zo-,cl not he more quickly ruined than by such '.ada as this. He must convict the defendant as a rogue and vagabond. Be was liable to throe months' imprisonment, with hard labour, but he would not have to go to prison on this occasion.  At Carmarthen Assizes Hannah Watson, single, of Whitby, Yorkshire, was indicted for Use murder of tier illegitimate child, born at Llanelly. Prisoner was seized with a lit when before the quarter sessions in November, and her case aroused considerable sympathy. She was acquitted. A curious and alarming accident occurred oa Friday night on the Glasgow and Stranraer line of the Glasgow and South Western Railway. A bullock got on the line near Dunragit, and was killed by a train. A carriage wheel taught one of the limbs of the animal, and the vehicle was thrown off the rails. Great excitement prevailed among the passengers, but although several were severely shaken, no one was injured!. The line was blocked for some hours.  ratiperor ot Austria has appointed 24 life embers of the Upper House of the Reichsrath.  nor Otal, the Spanish Consul-General at Cairo, cowmitted suicide on Friday by cutting his throat. lhe proposed treaty between Japan and the United States has been returned to the Committee upon Foreign Relations. The Emperor William has given to the Alexandria Library a valuable collection of books on Egyptian subjects. Chicago clergymen have formed a club to instruct prospective missionaries in foreign languages by roans of the phonograph. _ _  ••ibi you isebeve in the force of habit ?" asked one girl. "Emphatically," replied the otker. 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Four trucks were completely destroyed and a bridge seriously damaged.  A box filled up with some explosive was Immo m front of the Falco Palace, Milan, and soon after I ring taken to the police station it exploded. No one was hurt.  It has at last been decided by the Reichotag Building Committee that the inscription "To the (ierinan Empire" shall be placed on the facade of the new Imperial Parliament House. "'  It is understood that the Spanish Chamber will ,itiont the bill authorising the erection of a teletroph wire between Cadiz and the French frontier, to the objet-, of facilitating teleVraPh colaramnica.., with Senegal and South America. Two youths named Albert Coley and Josiah f'oley were remanded at Halesowen on a cl:,e of committing an impudent robbery at the F.,rg.• Inn. A policeman concealed himself in at outhouse and pounced upon the lads as they bad loaded themselvei with various szticles they had pickad up.  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