Bridlington and Quay Gazette. — 1883-01-06 (Bridlington, Humberside, England)

THE ATTEMPT ON JUSTICE LAWSON. Patrick Delaney was on Tuesday, the 2nd inst., placed upon his trial in Dublin on the charge of attempting the life of Mr. Justice Lawson. On being called upon to plead ho said he was not guilty. Witneeses were examined to prove that the prisoner was observed to be following the judge. and that he was arrested after he had crooned the street to meet his lordship. At that time the primmer was in the act of drawing a loaded rend ver I his breast. After hearing the evidenae, Mr. Justice O'Brien held that it did not sustain the indictment, and the Crown entered a nolle prosequi. Next morning Delaney was put on his trial for conspiracy to murder. Evidence similar to that given no the previous day VMS called. The revolver, which had never been used, was identified by a L4si.. don tradesman who sold it along with another to a stranger. The defence was that there wee no evidence of any conspiracy. Mr. Justice O'Brien, in charging the jury, pointed out that it woe sufficient to prove there was an understanding between the accused and some other persons to commit the crime, and its immediate surroundings might, lathe absence of all other evidence, furnish the jury with the elemonte of a sound and sufficient judgment on the quention as to whether it was in pursuance of a plot. It was an extraordinary thing that a VOID in the prisoner's peedtion in life should ill• 110 Cecil an expensive weapon in his possession.— After a brief deliberation the jug, found the prisonerguilty.—lle was eentenced to 10 years' penal servitude, and wan refused permission to speak.  The sentence of death passed on the soldier Alfred /I..eris, for the murder of Corporal Edgar at Woolwieh, has been commuted to penal servitude for life. At Enniskillen a man named Francis Fitch has been sent to hard labour for a month, for twice cur- iug the Queen while following a hand. Toe King of Bavaria bas raised the celebrated painter Herr Franz Defregger, to noble rank, bestowing on him the Bavarian Order of the Crown. A man has committed suicide owing to oppression practised upon him by some polioe officers in the Kbandeish district of the Bombay Presidency in order to induce him to confess to complicity in a murder that had been committed. _ _  A petition for liquidation has been filed In the London Court of Bankruptcy by William Robinson Smith, of Glanyrafon Skett7, near Swansea, colliery proptietor, and also carrying on the business of • solicitor in Great James's-street, Bedford-row, Te.ndon. and at Swansea in partnership with Mr. Wyndham Lawrence, under the firm of Smith and Lawrence. The liabilities were returned at about AO,OOO, the value of the assets not yet being ascertained. A receiver has hewn appointed, and an injunction granted restraining an action. According to figures just published, of the total poriulatlon of France, 37,400,000, 18,650,000 are males and 18,750,000 females ; 1,000,000 are foreigners; 18.200,000 belong to the agricultural populatim, 0,300,000 to the manufacturing classes, 3,800,000 to the commercial classes, 1,600,000 to the liberal professions. There are 2,150,000 living exclusively on their independent fortune., or pensions. The number of married men is 7,520,000 and of married wioni n 7,503,000. There are 1,025,000 widowers and 1,964,000 widows, and 10,110,000 piingle males and 9,2n0,000 single females. - •• • •  , A lad of 10, named Frederick Treen, has died at the Cottage Hospital, Warminster, from the effecta nf a shot wound received on Wednesday last at Mere Down Farm. From the lad's statement a short time before he died it appeared that he went into his wft,ter's stable, when another boy pointed a gun at him and deliberately shot him in the right arm and side, frightfully wounding him. Two men named James Jordan and William O'Brien, have been arrested st BMWs on suspicion of beitig concerned in the disappearance of another man named O'Brien. While proceeding from Eng. land a week ago O'Brien was missed in Dublin, and has not since been heard of. The men arrested were with him on leaving England, and they state that the missing man parted from them in Dublin in company with come soldiers. The death has taken place at Ventnor. of Mr. P. H. Howard, of Corby. Cumberland. The deceased represented Carlisle in Parliament for 22 years, and wa. a member of the House when the Reform Bill of 18;32 was passed. He was 81 years of age. Timothy MacDermott, an es•suspect, of Ballymote, has been committed for trial at Sligo on • charge of having used seditious language at a meeting at Ballymote, called for the purpose of establishing a branch of the Irish National League. It mall alleged that in his speech he eaid that innocent blood .111 ^,l on the scaffold by partisan and drunken judges. accused :untended that he was justified in using language, not only because of the action taken by Gladstone in the House of Commons, but of Francis Hynee's dying declaration. , will belief  The the 1 MT. \ becanae  Morley