Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1884-04-26 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

ALLEGED MURDEROUS ASSAULT. Sydney Crackett, 28,and Wm. Hayton, 31, were lately charged at the Southwark Police-court, London, with wounding Was. Kogan by striking him on the head with • chair and kicking him in a savage manner at 17, David-street, New, Kent-read. The prosecutor said he wan a blacksmith, and on the previous evening was sitting in his room ashen MI of a !sudden the prisoner Crackett, who was his wife'e brother, and Hayton burst into the room. The latter struck him several times and kicked him, and while he was defending himself Crackett mired up a heavy chair and struck him a trernendoue blow on the head, nearly stunning him and smothering him in blood. They then ran away, and he war conveyed to Guy's Hospital, where his wounds were I dressed. Information wan given to the police, and the prisoners were apprehended. In cross-examination by Mr Passmore, for Crackett, wits-se mid there had bees a wedding in the family, and his wife's father came from Paris on purpose. They had a qinirrel about family affairs, and he ordered bins out of the house. Ellen Regan, wife of the prooecutor, mid the father came to her house, and Irbil. she wan preventing him foam entering the prisoner coshed pa 4 her and ran upstairs. She then heard blows and screams of Murder !" and on going upstairs she found her husband lying down bleeding from wounds ou the head. While she was lifting him up the prisoners .caved from the house. She did not witnene the assault. Henry Walter Pigeon, house nurgeon, Guy's Hospital, said the prosecutor was brooght in conered with blood. He attended to him, and found a severe wound on the left side of the forehead an inch and a half long, and down to the hone It might have been mused by a blow from a chair or some heavy blunt instrument. In answer to Mr. Saunders, he mid that he did not think any danger was apprehended unless erysipelas set in. The wound was gohig on well. Both prisoners denied the chsrgm, and were committed for trial.  SUICIDE OF A LONDON TRADESMANMe. Henry Mehling, the proprietor of the Universal Notion and American Novelty Stara:, in Fleet-street, King William.atreet, and at .1 , Newingtonebutteelondon, has committed suicide at the latter address by. shooting himself with a revolver. Two Germin gentlemen residing in the home heard the report of the pistol, and on going to Mr. Mehlinga bedroom found the dam fastened. Eventually it was forced open, when the deceased was (Recovered undressed on the bed c ith a (metal bullet wound in the region of the heart Feeble bin, lay the revolver, with one of the chambers empty. Dr. Otway, of Kmnington-pirk-road, was summoned, but life wail extinct before his arrival. tile stated thateho deceased, who was only 26 years of age, ha( been under medical treatment for some time from nervous affection  Novi, STATION, on the Highland Railway, has been burned to the ground. All the bcoks and papers were destroyed. . .  A nan'IIiPLOSION lately occurred at No. GO, Bernerostreet, Oxford-street, Loudon, The room in which the accident took place is ha the occupation of Metars.Charig and Co., fine art pahliCters,and is the first door immedi tely over a ahop. tenanted by a Mr. Howmane, decorator. One of the employes of Mears. Charig, on entering the Oho, lit.. match for some parpone, and immediately there waa loud explosion, two windows being blown across th” street to the pathway on the other side. The framework of omen! the windows took fire, but it watt estinguished Uefore the arrival at the fire engine from hingatreet. The young man wan lamed, but only slightly. Arlon:urn batch of "oornerraen" have been brought up at the police.court, Liverpool, and fined in various amounts no to 20a and costs The necessity for action of this kind has been demonatrated anew by the prosecution of Job. Lloyd, a well-known '' comerman; for 0,500 g. attack upon Catherine Gorman. As Miss Gorman was going along the street Lloyd stopped her, and asked for money, and on the young woman replying that she had none, be said, 'You will have to mug um pretty well before yoo part with me." He then knocked her down., dragged her by the hair up an entry, and kicked her several time, breaking her arm in two places. She became partly unconscious, and he threw her down some steps into a cellar, and telt her them. She was afterwards discovered by two women' and taken to the hospital. Before being assaulted she had Is. I id. in her pos.-ion, but when found the money ve. gone. The stipendiary remanded the prisoner for seem days, and told him that at the end of that thne he would be coin' matted to the anima for trial.  MARIA of Ido'J children attending the elementary schools in the town of Newbury recently assembled in the Townhal, on the invitation of the Mayor (Mr. Robert Johnstone), to witness the per. formanee of the pantomimo of 0 Robinson Crusoe," given gratuitously by Miss Maggie Morton's company. The Mayor gave a practical address to the children, who on quitting the hall were presented with new coins, fresh from the Mint, by the Mayoress and her daughters. The cluldren lustily cheered the Mayor and his family, and also Mies Morton auditor talented consinuly.  VI:UNA and