Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1892-04-30 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

FRAUD CHARGES.  ! An old man, named William Williams, 1783 on ! Saturday charged, at the Southwark Police-conrt, ! with an ingenious kind of fraud. He went to a tradesman and ask d him to advance sin shillings on a Post Office order for ten guineas, stating that he could not get the order cashed until the neat day. The tradesman advanced the money, and afterwards discovered that it WV/ not a Post Office order he had been given, but merely a Poet Office Savings Bank notice of withdrawal form. It is believed that other frauds of a similar kind have been perpetrated. The accused was committed for trial.  Two men named Martin and Cox were on Saturday charged at the Bow-street Police-court with attempting to obtain money by means of the confidence trick. An American gentleman was accosted by Martin as he v . looking at the Law Courts, and they went and had a drink together. Con catse in and joined in the conversation. He said he had come into a large fortune under the will of his uncle, and he had to give £5OOO to the poor. He said he would give the American some of the money, but required him to produce £2OO to show his confidence. The parties met again in the evening, and the prisoners were then arrested. They were retnanded.  A SIMMS plot against the Sultan and the Bulgarian Government was on Sunday discovered at Rustehnk, and 15 arrests have been made.  . • Tun choir-master, according to a report published in London on Monday,. the Imperial Palace at Peterhof murdered his wife in a fit of delirium, end having mutilated the body, cast his three children into the ne'ghbottring river. A Pittance sloop foundered on Sunday in the River Claire, and the captain and 30 soldiers were drowned. A.T the Oswestry County Police-court on Saturday, Richard Bromley, 32, a rookte., of Porthywarn, awe Oswestry, was chnrged with murdering his son, William Henry Bromley, aged MO year and nine months, by meting his throat, and also with attenytmg to murder his two other children in the some way. Mr. W. H. Ellis appeared for the prisoner, who was evidently suffering from great mental depreasion and weakness. Dr. Griffiths stated that the prisoner, who had attempted to commit suicide by cutting his throst, was now in a tit state to be removed to the County Prison. He was remanded for a week. * Tim churchwardens of St. Michael's, Coventry, announce a scheme for the redemption of the vicar's rate. They propose making the voluntary rate, over the whole parish, o" threepence in the pound, and guaraniee the impost not to go on longer time five years. They believe the plan would be effective in removing the rate in three years, particularly if supplemented by sobscriptions. They, however, stipulate Dr. Mills must cease to be the vicar before the scheme is entered upon. The churchwardens have also posted notices for another rate, in addition to that being collected by the vicar. A mumvo of shipowners WItS held in Newcastle on Saturday to consider the Load Linn and Inspection of Provisions Bill now before Parliament. The meeting strongly protested that the bill would, in its present form, cause serious loss of tinte to shipowners. Tun Emperor of Austria on Sunday, in great state, unveiled the monument erected to Field-Marshal Radetzky et %%elms. A .11.1rAT disaster occurred on Sunday on the Chicago branch of the Grand Trunk Railwey, resulting in two persons being killed and many injured. Tim Commander-in-Chief has selected Colonel R. E. Allen. of the 2nd Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment, for the command of the new military camp which is to be formed at Chipping, near Lancaster, in May. The 2nd East Yorkshire. now at Mancheater, will shortly be moved into the camp, at which rifle ranges are being rapidly laid oat; and during the smuttier several militia regiments will be trained there.