Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1882-07-22 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

SUICIDE OF A CLERGYMAN—The Rey. Abraham Smith, M.A., for many years principal of the Collegiate School, Huddersfield, and curate in charge of St. Thomas's, Bradley, has recently committed suicide by drowning himself in a canal lock near that town. He was 55 years of age, a widower, and had been de. pressed and troubled with sleeplessnem of late. He was a prominent Freemason, and greatly respected by all classes in the district. _  _ A. DETERMINED ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE bag beets made at Hythe by a man named Stephen Cloke, living near the Town Hall. Cloke, who is a fishmonger, procured some lotion for external use, and drank the whole of the same. His condition becoming serious, Mr. A. R. Davis was called in, who operated upon the man with the stomach-pump, and was successful in bringing off the poison. Cloke remains under the charge of the police. It appears that he has lately quarrelled with his wife, who procured a eummons against him, and the cuss was to have been heard, but Cloke not having recovered sufficiently it was adjourned.  AN INTERPLEADER ACTION has been recently tried by Mr. Martineau, judge of Brighton County Court, in which his Honour expressed himself very strongly upon the proceedings. The debtor was Alfred Dear, son of the proprietor of the Brighton Club, and the furniture seised by the execution creditor was claimed under a bill of sale for £lOOO, given by the father to Mr. Hollington, who is his son-in-law. The execution I creditor relied upon an affidavit which the son had made not long since, claiming as his property the goods now seized, and which were at the some time taken in execution for the father's debt. The judge said he could come to no other conclusion upon the evidence before him then that the goods were the property of the father, and not of the son, as a fraud to defeat a former execution would not make the goods the property of the present debtor. A verdict woo therefore given for the claimant. TN THE LORD MAYOR'S COURT, London, before the Recorder and a special jury, the decision was given in a compensation claim at the instance of Fardell e. thee Metropolitan District Railway Company, who require the claimant's premises in the Minories for the completion of the Inner Circle scheme. The claimant is a well-known carrier in the City, where he has four receiving houses for goods and parcels, and it was con. tended that the one in the Minories, which the railway COrripally had compulsory powers to acquire, woo One Of the most important and lucrative. On the other hand, it was argued for the company that the claimant could have no difficulty in finding other and equally suitable premises in the vicinity, and that only moderate compensation would suffice. No fixed claim was made, and , the jury, after a short deliberation, awarded the sum of 11140.  THE COUNTY MAGISTRATES at Canterbury have been engaged in the investigation of a charge of embezzlement preferred by the South-Eastern Railway Company against Thomas Alfred Wardell, for some yeses harbour master at Whitstable. It appears that owing to delay on the part of the prisoner in rendering accounts to the company relative to charges against the owners of cer ain ships lying in Whitstable Harbour, inquirim were male, the result being that receipts in the handwriting of Wardell were produced by several of the merchants from whom money was supposed to be due in respect of the amounts charged. The accused was immediately suspended from hie duties and placed under arrest. The nrieowar was semanded.