Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1892-08-06 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

NEWS IN A N UT5111.1,14.  AT HOME. A man named Shelley, who was badly trunt a fire in Iting-street, I,,,wisliam, on Saturday, succumbed to his injuries.  Frederick Selisy wzs committed for trial at Margate on Tuesday on a charg •of n'teringcoan felt coins. A quantity of base five-shilling isie,:ts, have been put into circulation in the di,triet. Mrs. Smith, the wife of a farm lthourer, near Leighton Buzzard, who gave birth to tia,, and a girl. has received the u-nial ',musty sf £3 from the Queen. One of the boys has sincA died. At Largan a one-legged man was committed for trial on a charge of causing the death of a Mulder, and a publican, named Archer. The prison-r sal took to cure Archer of ervsirlas in Isis leg by means of a charm, but mortification set in, and death ensued.  While two men employed by Messrs. Borry. electrical engineers, w,.re erectilig a new top to chimney at Wakefield, on Tuesday night, a portiom 4 f the brickwork give way, and one of the men, William Payne, fell from a laAght of nearly 60ft. He was found in a weaving shed quite dead. The Lady Godiva show at Coventry was revived. at Coventry on Tuesday, after a lapse of five years. Miss Alice Sinclair, from th.! Royal Aquarium, London, rode as Lady Godiva through miles of streets, and the procession, which included half a dozen bands of music and track- organisations, was of great length. The weather was cold and damp,, but the city was crowded with strangers. An inquest was held at Sandy on Tuesday, on tli. body of Alfred Young, who was found suspendel by a rope in a hovel, at Potton, on Saturday afternoon. The evidence shewed that the deceased had been missing for a fortnight, and had previously lost his wife. He was well known throughout the country as a farmer and market gardener. A verdict of suicide durirtg temporary insanity was returned.  The Kidderminster police are investigating an extraordinary affair. The body of an elderly lady named Hunt, who had lived upon the income from her property, was found in an advanced stage of decomposition in her bedroom. Only her niece lived with her, and she gives various accounts of her condition and acts. Marks of violence appear on the body, and a post-mortem examinatior. has been ordered.  1 Tullanspre correspondent says that on Tuesday afternoon Amy Margaret Mason, aged 13, daughter of a caretaker on the evicted farm of Mr. Bernard Ennis Cloucar, county Tipperary, was left in the house with a younger sister, aged six years. The latter states that Amy was playing with her father's rifle, which had been left in a corner, when the weapon went off. The charge lodged in the elder girl's stomach, dntli being instantaneous. An inquest was held at Araberley on Tuesday, touching the death of Charles Stanley Humphrey,. aged nine, who was accidentally killed on the railway on Bank Holkday. The deceased was attempting to cross the line immediately after the up train had left the station, and was caught in the forehead by the buffer of a special fast down train and instantly killed. Mr. Grover, the station-master, bad warned the crowd of persons near of the approach of the fast train. A verdict of accidentally killed was returned, with a rider to the effect that no one was to blame.  At Wednesbury on Tuesday two young men of respectable appearance, named Samuel Massey and Joseph Coley, both residing at Dudley Port, were charged with committing an assault of an aggravated nature upon a young lady named Mary Ann Haycock. The prisoners went to Tipton Wake, where they indulged in a series of larks, and when returning they overtook the prosecutrix, and threw her down an embankment and subjected her to gross indignities. The magistrate characterised their behaviour as being disgraceful, and sentenced them to four months' hard labcur each. He ordered them also to pay the costs. At the Birmingham Assizes Thomas Edwin Fear, an engine-driver in the employ of the Midland Railway Company; was indicted for the manslaughter of William Wetherbrey and Robert Sexton, who were killed in a collision between Midland and North-Western trains just outside that town on May 27th. The case for the prosecution was that the prisoner caused the collision by either not observing that the signals were against him or disregarding them. The defence was that the view of the signals was obscured by smoke from a large stack close by, and that there was no culpable negligence. The prisoner was acquitted.  A shocking fatality occurred at Hull early on Tuesday morning by which a police-constable was drowned. It seems that Police-constable Holbrook was on duty on the east aide of the Old Harbour, and in the dark slipped and fell into the water five or six yards astern of the tug Toby. The splash alarmed some men on a keel, and they put off in a boat but failed to reach the constable in time to save him. Grapnels were brought into requisition, and the body on being recovered was removed to the mortuary. Holbrook had been in the Hull force 15 years, and was the wearer of the merit stripe for distinguished service.