Widnes Examiner. — 1883-06-02 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

THE END OF TUE EXTRAORDINARY KIDNAPPING CASE. will be recollected that a short time back, and during _the excitement occasioned by the dynamite explosion ill rarliament-street, London, a clerk employed in the telegraph department of the Post Office, named Walter Guy, ,whe had been absent from duty without leave, made an extraordinary statement for the purpose of accounting for his absence, to the effect that he had been forcibly se!zed and 'carried away by several men who were supposed to be conhected with the Fenian organisation. He further stated that these men had endeavoured to extract information from him with regard to the machinery and works used at !tie Post Office for the purpose of carrying out the electric I?l.egraph system, with the object, it was suggested, that • ts machinery should be destroyed, and thus cause an ?.!iormous amount of mischief and confusion. The Post ;tince authorities did not appear to place much reliance on 'lac statement, which Guy subsequently volunteered to supIt3ort by making an affidavit that all which he had stated was true. He was not permitted to do this, but, in order that 4.;i7er'Y opportunity should be afforded to Guy to make out truth of what he had stated, by the direction of Mr. i;a_rfcett, the Postmaater-General, an officer attached to the Office was directed to accompany him to various Zg• ees where it was said that certain things in connection cult the alleged " kidnapping " had taken place. The reWas so unsatisfactory that the authorities of the Post cl refused to give any effect to the statement made by 1`129'. he was allowed to resign his appointment, and he is no unirr connected with the Post OX.ce.—Dispatch. to h " necessary, during hot weather t) avoid beverages likely aurmeat or stimulate the system Cecoa, depiived of the superau4noiti, and guaranteed ab.olutely pure, is a mr,s`, soothing, n Cedbar ,g, and refreshing beverage Be sure that you get Y 8 Cocoa Essence when you ask for it, as imitations are 14.,• 1' Pushed by shopkeepers for the sake of extra profit. '4411 by Special appointment to the Queen.—Advt.  Two youths, aged respectively 19 and 17, were drowned on Monday es ening at Walthamstow while bathing. The English and Scotch navvies at present employed on the works at the Baton new reservoir banded together on Monday against their Irish fellow-workmen, and compelled them to quit the place. As a consequence, no Irishmen are now employed at the reservoir. A smith named Henry Cully, at Nottingham, on Tuesday, fired several shots from a revolver at a girl named Winfield, and wounded her severely. He afterwards tried to commit suicide but failed. The motive for the crime was furnished by Winfield's refusal to resume a fcrmer intimacy with her assailant. The annual meeting of the London and Counties Liberal Union was held on Tuesday, Sir John Lubbock presiding. Resolutions were adopted urging the introduction, as soon as possible, of a new Reform Bill, and requesting the committee to present an address to Mr. Bright at the approaching Birmingham celebration. The leading members of the Conservative party held a consultative meeting at the Carlton Club on Tuesday, Sir Stafford Northcote presiding. It is stated that the Govern. ' ment proposals in reference to business arrangements in the House and their leading measures were discussed, and a line of policy in regard thereto was adopted. The Judges are weary of the Belt v. Lames case. On Tuesday when the reading of the summing up of Mr. Baron Hnddlestone had been resumed for some time, the Lord Chief Justice interposed to put a stop to what threatened to become a" public scandal." The reading of the learned Baron's oration was discontinued,and counsel were requested to address themselves to the grounds on which a new trial was requ,strd. A strange story of crofters' grievances was laid before the Highland Commissioners at Lochboisdale, in the South Uist, on Monday. An old man named Mackay told how in 1850 or 1851 the people were compelled to emigrate, being hunted down for tke purpose by "authorised officers," and caught and snipped "just like animals going to matket." One man, he said, who had a child dead in the house, was seized and tied and kicked on board despite the remonstrances of an aged priest. What would have occurred in Connaught or Monster in like circumstances ?