Denton Examiner, Audenshaw, Hooley Hill and Dukinfield Advertiser. — 1876-06-03 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

CHARGE OF MPTINT AND ATTEMPTED MCRDER. —At Waterford rolice-court, Thomas Senior, seaman en board the schooner Otway, of Whitehaven, was committed for trial on charges of mutiny and attempted murder. It appeared from the evidence that the Otway was bound from Waterford to Bristol, in ballast. The mate, Brown, and the prisoner, Senior, deserted the vessel, but returned to her next day. They demanded the payment of wages alleged to be due to them. Captain Jones refused, and thereupon Senior seized him, and a terrible struggle ensued, the crew looting on and not interfering in any way. Captain Jones fled for safety to the cabin. and Settler followed  with a heavy mai-line spike. The captain called for the crew to render assistance, and dosed with Senior. Then for nearly twenty minutes there was a hand-to-hand struggle, during which both men fell on the cabin floor. The captain, howerer, got away, and, finding his crew would not assist hits, he fled up the rigging. Senior pursued him with the marline-spike. The captain ran down the opposite side of the rigging, and Senior then threw the marline-spike at him. It missed, the spike sticking several inches in the mast. Both men reached the deck, and Senior threw an iron bar at the captain, who managed to elude it. The police then arrived, and took Senior into custody, but refused to arrest the mate or any others of the crew, alleging that they had not seen them do anything. The Court severely reprimanded the police for not arresting the whole of the crew on the representation of the captain. •  A Cuorritit OF lionnons.—ln January, 1873, a double murder was committed at Angervillers on the persons of a gamekeeper and his wife. In theSePt. of the $1,411,0 year a domestic servant was almost mortally wounded at the rectory of Vaugrigneu z. and a farmer of the name of Banal, aged 71, was literally chopped to pieces with a hatchet is his own garden. In Nov., 18/3, one M. Duval, a gentleman of indepterident means, was assassinated, at Forgeslesßains, in a similar I way, after which his house was ransacked; and on December 24 two old maiden ladies, Mdllee. Denise atul Anastasia Boujon, were murdered at the village of CUtaigniers. This ratries of crimes took place within a radius of a few miles of Limours, and was evidently perpetrated by the same person or persons. A man of the name of Maillard wan arrested, together 1 with several accomplices, known as the Chevalier gang, come tine ago, and these are now awaiting their trial it the prison of Mazes. Meillerel, who is in a dying state, has made a partial confession to the effect that he and his companions were the authors of thetl Limours murders, for which a number of innocent persons have been arrested. The rural postman was found strangled in a wood near Lintours, and I paper was found on the hod teading to sitew that he had committed suicide in order to escape the vengeance ttf four people erhom he denounced as the Limours assassins. On enquiry this denunciation was ascertained to be groundless, and Maillard in his confession admits having strangled the unlucky' postman and placed the paper where it was found.  • REMAIhKAI3LE