The Warwickshire Herald. — 1899-07-20 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

DICK TU RP I N-ADVENTURE  - Considerable excitement was lately occasioned in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, by the news that the accountant and another clerk of the Lake View Consols Gold Mining Company had been stuck up by a masked man on the II •ultler road and robbed of a sum of money. It awears that two employes of the mine were returning, in a buggy from the bank Kalgoorlie with a month's wages, amounting to over £5,000. When about a mile and a half from lialgo.wlie, an I within half a tulle of Hannan 's Proprietary C atipativ, the in Isked• man emerged from behind a clump of bushes on the side of the mad and asked the oc-op tuts of the buggy to bail uu, at till. 4.11111. tittle shoot iuug the horse in the howl. Iti 1.1.A111111,41. to a demand they handed out a money-bag. Coin and silver aggregating £lOO was thrown out behind the vehicle, the robber covering the tnen vithu a rifle all the t. The box containing the balaiwe of the money—Ls.ooo=Was not , thmwit out. Being disturbed by people coming on ; the scene, the robber rushed to a tent close by, : where be bad a horse secreted, and hurriedly galloped away. The police were quickly communicated with. In a short while a body of troopers, accompanied by black trackers, scoured the country, but without result.  Thomas Kilkenny, thirty-six, groom, was found guilty of a charge of fraud at the Manchester Assizes, and sentenced to three years' penal servitude. The prison, r had pleaded an alibi, and auerted that he could prove it by witnesses from Birmingham. Witnesses were accordirgly called, but the judge concurred in the verdict, and ordered the prisoner to be tried before the magistrates on a charge of perjury. Whilst two brothers, named Joseph and Alfred Andrews, were hunting for a rat outside their house ' at Knowl llill, near Twyford, Alfred shot at what he thought was the rat but which proved to be the top part of his brother's head emerging from a small opening. Joseph's brain was shattered, and he died instantly. The Fost Office is trying an experiment in the London City streets with the view of assisting the work of the sorting offices and saving time. They have erected six double-sized pillar-boxes having slots for London and country letters distinct. The very much greater bulk of the new pillar.hoxes causes no little astonishment and amusement. If the experiment be successful the whole of the street pillar-boxes will be changed for the doubleidtect variety. Alfred F.:Mott, aged fifty.four, a carpenter residing at Salway-road, Stratford, was found by his daughter, aged twenty, hanging from a nail in his bedroom, with a rope tied tightly round his neck. The deceased had been conversing cheerfully with his daughter ten minutes previously. An inquest has been held on the body of William Friend, who committed suicide by jumping from a third-floor window of Whitechapel Infirmary. Deceased, an in-patient, was sitting up in the ward, aqd, before anyone could stop him, went to a window, threw it up, and junqwd out, dashing his brains out on the pavement below. A verdict of suicide whilst of unsound mind was returned. An order has been made by the Secretary of State, dated June 28th, 1899, extending the special excepa tion as to employment of women to an additional two hours' overtime in the case of women employed in washing bottles for use in the preserving of fruit.