The Tamworth Examiner and Working Men's Journal. — 1875-03-27 (Tamworth, Staffordshire, England)

REVERSAL OF A CONVICTION FOR AN ALLEGED OUTRAGE ON A WOMAN ,NANT REMANDED ON A ' PERJURY.  except by the cab. Relying on the woman's evidence, I have done the grossest injustice to myself and the el2fendahts. It is most painful to me to think I am nlaced in this position. I don't know any ihing that has pained me so much since I have been on the Bench. As far as you Woodwards are concerned, there is not the sli;4litest evidence on which you can be eoLvicted. You are discharged, and the money will be restored to the wife. lam extremely sorry, and deeply regmt that I was misled, until this new evidence came out. I think I have been intentionally misled. I don't know what you are, whether the assaulted or the assaulters.—The elicit defendant gitVo an oni]thatic denial to the impeachment—The Stipendiary then orderad Mrs. Langley into custody, saying that he should take until Wednesday next to consider whether . . . .  he slideld order iief to be lirdieted for perjury. Bail, however. would be accepted.—This was not offered, and the 1,01111111 was rOOO Wed to the cells.  NEws,  in the (overnment manufao',,,y •.. ;,11 . .  Axon{ LooK-OuT.---The proprietors of the Brlta, • -rk,, MialleAborengh, have long. eitortann,,l • - to the men's practice of •• bleeding ; . Two weeks ago notice was given :1I•• • ,Lopded entirely if the practi,,, • ,-, s • '• The men were, however, stabhon, a.E.I .•,,, ),,equeliee is that yesterday some 1.200 inpn ilie, and the Britannia Works standing.  FrAleriek ii cllg mnrilerer, ha, l-wen remove: to Hors Gaol. The I,risollel has now coral,letel.. 'Tod from the eife,!ts of the whieh t ii weil, hut remains in it state of the ntino.st II holy and depression.  - . Shortly aft, twelve o'clock yesterday ActingInspcctor John Cooke, of the liyision of detective police at Dublin, committed suicide by hanging himself. 11, came on dnty at the usual titue yesterday. Hr went into the hack yard and, though not returning for some considerabt, time. no notice was taken of the circumstance. One of the police off duty happehing to go into the lavatory, was  - . horrified on ,meing Cooke hanging by the net:k: front one of the crosBbeams. Life wm, quite extinct. The l'Ameli Government are makimr great, purchases of horses in the south of Russia.  On the night of the 27th an earthqtathe did emisitlerable mischief at Rimini ami the surrounding. towns.  At the Liverpool Police Court, on Monday, Mr. Cl eke Apinall disr,,ed of I dr, charges of drunkenness, a, compared widi 167 a ,ock. ago. Sir lieorge Burrows, M.D.. F.R.S.. Physicion in Ordinary to the Queen. was on Monday ',elected presid,nt of the Royal College of Phy-dcians of London.  --i'll-e—federated cotton-spinners of North and East Lancashire, having proposed terms which the men refuse, a strike or lock-out on a large scale is anticipated. The auniva,try festival of the Highland Society of London was celebrated on Monday night, at the Freemason, Tavern, under the presidency- of Mr. J. W. Malcolm, NP._  A gentleman, named Thomas Claringbould residing at River, rear Dover, shot himself, on Monday morning. through the heart with a revolver in his own house. He is well known is the district as a criqke ter. The lessee of the Lyceum Theatre, Mr. H. L. Bateman, died rather suddenly on Monday night, at his house, Rutland Lodge. Rutland Gate. Mr. Bateman caught cold a day or two ago, and congostion of the lungs ensued. A new religious sect. whose mode of worship iS similar to that of the Wesleyans. has been established at New Seaham Colliery, Morton, Ryhope, Hetton-le-Hole, New Herrington. Houghton-le-Spring,  and other parts' of the county of Durham. A sergeant of the Royal Marines, named Penman, has committed suicide at his quarters, in Milton Barraks, Chatham. by discharging the contents of his rifle through his skull. Disappointment at not being promoted to be colour-sergeant is believed to have been the cause of his killing. himself. On Saturday evening, a woman named Helm, residing in Ashton Old Road, Manchester, was burnt to death. She was seen in a state of intoxication, and on going home she lay down on a sofa and went to sleep. A candle was burning on a table beside her, and it is supposed that her clothes caught fire from it.  At the Cambridge Assizes, on Monday, William Samuel Hagger, clerk in the Cambridge Post Office, pleaded guilty to stealing two letters containing money. He begged for mercy on account of his wife and child but Mr. Justice Grove said he could not give the plea consideration, as that would be placing married men at a premium in eases of robbery. He sentenced the prisoner to five years' penal servitude. A man named Eastop, with a variety of olio,s, was examined at the Highgate Police Court, on Monday, • on charges of obtaining sums of money as far back as 1872. by false pretences. The plan he adopted was to obtain possession of pawnbrokers' tickets, fill them up, and then dispose of them to dopes, who, when they went to redeem their supposed purchases, found I themselves in danger of being handed over to the police. The prisoner was remanded for his antecedents to he inquired into. Extensive new works are now in progress at Limo Street Railway Station, Liverpool. They involve the opening nu of the present tunnel for a quarter of a mile, the doubling of the track for that distance, and the additions to the station itself are folly equal to the whole area of the present accommodation. When these works are completed—two or three y oars will be required for the purpose—Lime Street Station will, it is said. be one of the large,t. ai,d most complete railway tirmini in the world.  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