The Forest of Dean Examiner : — 1877-07-13 (Blakeney, Gloucestershire, England)

HILD.STARVING CASE AT HEDNESioan.— Waterloo to Whitechurch, has attempted to commit Wm . Ferris. on bail, was indicted for the mansuicide by firing a pistol at the side of his head near to slaughter of John Ferris, his son, on the 13th April the temple. The shot caused coneiderable alarm to the passengers, and, ou the train being stopped, it was last, at Hednesford. Mr. Boughey appeared for the found that the unfortunate man eras in an insensible prosecuhon, and Mr. Underhill defended—Sl condition. He was conveyed to his home, and liee Ann Gibbs said she lived in Uxbridge-street, H. iu a precarious condition. nesford, next door to the prisoner. Since the death of the prisoner's wife she had several times been in In °peeing the Monaghan Anisites, the Chief Justioe p honer's house. On one occasion shewent in thelionse, said he might congratulate the grand jury on the elatel7out six weeks after the mother died, when the of the county, as, although there were on the calendar cahild was in a very filth state. Its head was lull of some cases is which persons had lost their livee, there - . yre vermin. On its feet we two sore wass barn, . s—one was not one of an aggraman or party character. The meet important charge is that against a man named and the other an open wound. She milled in Mrs. wean, ~ aba is ~„,ea of baying naa.ae„.l his wifo by Clewe, a neighbour, and they got some oilcloth and stopping her mouth with earth. A true bill has been bound its foot up. She was also in the house the found against him. Monday before the child died, when the child was in An extraordinary crime is reported from Orella, In an the same filthy state and sitting on the floor. She child again O it n the WednesdaY' and it lad Savoy. A yonog m named Deymonat has been found saw the in his cottage suspended from a beSSI, head downwards, the same clothes on then as .had on the with his hands attached behind him, and a heavy weight M°."s'. The prisoner's wife died of eon. tied to them. He had been twenty-four hours in that sumption. There had been a woman named position, and although alive when discovered and taken Ann Clewery in the back premises doing a little down, he expired eliortly afterwards. Tito perpetrators work for the prisoner. She knew that William of this act have not yet been traced, and the motive Ferris, a boy 15 years old, was left in charge of the romaies a mystery. child—Mrs. Dunning said she had been in the hone several times both before and after the death of the A daring escape from prieon has juet been made by • child's mother. The child died about eight weeks French woman, named Pith-line Comm twenty-seven years. She was confined in the house of deteution at after its mother. She had seen plenty Oi food, ante Bailleul (Nord), on a charge of smuggling. A few nights an most, bread, and butter, and lard, and nheese, in back she tied her chests together, and having secured prisoner's house, and she had also seen milk taken them to the bars, managed to descend from the first from the milkman regularly. On the 13th she asked Boor, a height of twelve metres. Before her flight RS/ him how the baby was, and he said it was no better, discovered she had probably gained the Bolsi= She then asked him if he would let her see it. He frontier. said" Yoe," and conducted her upstairs. She found it on a perfectly clean bed. She lifted it up to lookat it, and found it was dead. She then asked him if she should wash it, and be said he would be very glad if she would. She accordingly Washed it, and toned its head was very dirty and full of vermin. The child was two years and five months 4.—Mr. Blakemore, surgeon, said he had made a poet wtortem examination of the body, and found no organic diseases; and the death he attributed to long privation on these grounds —the absence of fat about the heart, the kindeys. aiid the lungs, also emaciation of all parts of the body.— The jury acquitted the prisoner.  A young man named Walter Flutchinge has been committed for trial by the Kent magistrates under the following circumstances. A few days ago the prisoner left two hursee mid a wagon on the railway between Grove Ferry and Minster, while he went to alive 80010 cattle through s gateway. In the meantime. the Loudon express to Itaresgate came up, and although the driver blew hie whistle and tired to pull up he failed to do so, the horses being killed and the wagon smashed. Fortunately no damage was done to the train. There is atilt 110 solution of what is appropriately called "The Merionethehire mystery." AB far back as the 4th of Jime a single woman named Sarah Hughes, thirty-eix years of age, who lived at a village called Coedbach, some five mild Dolgelly, left the latter place at nine o'clock in the evening, apparently with the intention of returning home. She was seen sum afterwards a abort dietaries from C.o town, but Las never been seen since, and her fate is .Incipled iii tht Seeped mystery, although the dietrict 143 Orion thcaonghly searched by large bands of men Signor Mahn (the Theatre . received from the German Emperor a preaent of a splendid diamond ring, us. eoovenir of his limy in Berlin, adorn. panied.by a letter from Privy Councillor Bork, stating that the emperor Lad always followed with great interest his imperSOuatioue, that the actor had also sue. ceeded in gaining the unqualified approval of the Crown Prince and Trifled., and that they had selected the accompanying ring as a mark of their eatiefantiOn and a souvenir of his stay in Berlin. : Some singular experiments have been tried nifli the Thorneycroft torpedo-boat. A. bullet-hole was made in one of the torpedo boats in order an see under what ! conditions flotation is still retained. A Martini-Henry waif fired deliberately through the aide, about a foot tinder water in the nLolialiOle. When the boat was at anchor the water entered in sari:limit quantity to fill a bucket iu twenty-five seconds. When she was driven  THE WOLVERHAMPTON MURDER The Grand Jury found a true bill against Henry Rogers for the wilful murder of his wife at WeNen. hampton, and the trial was fixed for Friday.