The Warwickshire Herald. — 1895-07-25 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

ROBBING A DRAMATIC AUTHOR.  Tom Fenn, 18, and Ernest Marshall, 19, both residents of Hoxton, were charged, on remand, at North London Police-court, on Friday, with being concerned in stealing a gold chain and locket from the person of Mr. Albert Shore, dramatic author, of Upton-grove,Kiugslaud.—The prosecutor stated that he was walking along the street (with his watch and chain attached to his coat, because the heat caused him to leave off his waistcoat) when he was met by the two prisoners. Fenn snatched at his watch chain, which broke, and carried off a portion of it and a valuable locket. He chased them through Ardleigh-road, Ball's-pond, and a lad on a Great Northern Railway van jumped off and stopped Fenn. Marshall got away, but was subsequently arrested outside the police station at Dalston-lane.—Fenn now pleaded guilty, and added that he threw the chain and locket away when he was being chased by the prosecutor.—Mr. C. V. Young, who defended Marshall,denied that the lads were together, though the prosecutor was positive that they were.— Marshall, who had & good character, was discharged, and Fenn, who had already suffered six months for a similar offence, was sent to hard labour for thre• .uontha.  For nearly five years London statisticians have ravelled in the figures of the last census, classifying, reclassifying, and baring through them with the joy of mice in a great Cheshire cheese, but now their peculiar provender is getting exhausted, and they are looking forward to the quinquennial enumeration of the metropolis next year with hungry eyes. They are resolved, moreover, that this shall be no mere arithmetical snack, no paltry counting of heads, but a full square meal, covering tables upon tables of statistics—in short, a regular orthodox census. To this end, a deputation from the County Council will wait on the new President of the Local Government Board to urge him to take steps to confer the necessary powers, which are not at rnsent In existence.  Thomas H. Fulker, 24, carman, at the Duke of Edinburgh public-house, Wimbledon, was found with blood streaming down his chest and a carving knife in his right hand. Dr. Bates was called, and on his arrival he found life extinct. The deceased, it is said, attempted suicide on a former occasion by jumping from Putney Bridge.  _ln inquest was held by the Dover coroner on the body of a respectably dressed man which had been washed ashore near Shakspere's Cliff. The body had not been identified, but the underclothing was marked 'T. Webb." An open verdict was returned.  Eight brigands, who were tried by court mart,al and sentenced to death, were hanged at Kuba, in the Baku Government.. . .  Dr. King- Houchin held an inquiry at Poplar on the body of James Quinn, aged 81 years, a cooper, who was an inmate of the Poplar Workhouse. Quinn, while crossing East India-mad, was knocked down by a cart and so severely injured that he died before reaching Poplar Hospital. A verdict of accidental death was returned. A curious case is that of Charles J. A. Kemp, 69, jeweller, of Mare-atreet, Hackney, who died from an injury to the big toe. Whilst going upstairs to bed at his house in Queen's Down-road he fell and injured his toe. A bone lin. long was broken, inflammation spread up the leg to the thigh, and mortification ensued, ending in death. Dr. Wynn Westcott said he had never met with a similar case.  Whilst six emplos és of the anon Fish Company on Namekon Lake, situated on the Canadian borderline, were searching for nets which had been seized, a party of Canadian officials attacked them. 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