The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1876-08-30 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

CASE. stagger when he had a good deal of drink on e FinnessAb'y Dep. .... 710 .... 1055 1 0 .... 310 .... 463 7 5 .... .... 830 .... 635 .... board. The prisoner, Mr. Corbett was in- Dalton . 5357 20 .... 1110! 5 .... .... .... 5 6 .... .... 5358 35 .... 640 .... structed to say, admitted having committed a Askam .... ~ .... 730 .... 1123 115 .... 320 .... 518 715 .... .... 845 .... 650 .... common assault on the constable, but he was , Kirkby so drunk at the time that he was uncertain in Foxfield Juection Arr. 5657 44 .... 1134 130 .... .... .... 532 729 .... 565 9 0 .... 715 .... what way. Mr. Rickards, after some consul- Coniston Lake Arr .... 915 .... 1215 155 .... 4 0 .... 6 5 810 .... .... 930 .... 750 .... tation with his brother magistrates, , fined the Coniston Lake Dep .... .... .... 104 C 1250 .... .... .... 450 7 0 .... .... 815 .... 6 25.... priconer £lO for a common assault, the alter- Foxfield Juliet. - .... 5 559 5 .... 720 .... native being three months' imprisonment. Millom(Holborn Hill) 657 57 .... 1150 140 .... .... .... 5477 40 .... 659 17 .... 732 ....  The Times has done rathor a venturesome thing (says the London correspondent of the Liverpool Mercury) in publishing a letter from Mr. lloyes Bell. Mr. Bell says, in language which there can be Tin mistaking, that Mr. Bravo was murdered, and that Mrs. Cox was the murderess. He attempts to disprove the theory of suicide, but not, I think, with success. Certainly, so far as I have been able to gather, that theory is the one usually adopted, and is the only one consistent with the evidence. There is one thing to be said for Mr. Bell—he has at least the courage of his opinions. He says plainly whom he means when he talks of murder, although he may be called upon to make good his statement in a court of law. The coroner's jury was under no such obligation, yet it brought in a verdict of murder without having the fairness to say which of the three possible criminals it meant to accuse. We have now to see what course Mrs. Cox will take in order to clear herself from the terrible charge which is so definitely made against her.  - At the London Mansion House, on Friday, Elizabeth Abbott and Mary Jane Causton, living at Shepherd's Bush, underwent a further examination on the charge of forging and uttering six bankers' cheqties, representing together £llO, with intent to cueat and defraud Messrs. Williams, Deacon and Co., bankers, :!irchin lane. The prisoners had both been in the service of a Mrs. Smith, living at Shepherd's Bush, but had left it. The ptisoner Abbott was detected in trying to pass a cheque for .£2O, bearing what appeared to be the signature of Mrs. Srhith, but which proved to be a forgery. This led to inquiry, which resulted in the discovery that the prisoners had cashed altogether six forged cheques, representing in all .£llO, and bearing the name of Mrs. Smith. Being pressed by the husband of one of the pri,oners to make a clean breast of the matter, the wife admittt d that they had had the money and spent it chiefly in clothing. Being told there were still four or five cheques missing from Mrs. Smith's cheque book, the prisoner Causton replied that she had burned those with one she had had that day, adding that si' had only cashed two. Mrs. Smith was called as a witness, and in reply to questions by Mr. Mullens, explained the manner in which site kept her cheque book, and the way in which it had been tampered with. This was the c tse for the prose3utlon. Th, prisoners nettle no defence. Sir Robert Carden committed them both for trial.