Bridport, Beaminster, and Lyme Regis Telegram and Dorset, Somerset, and Devon Advertiser. — 1881-04-08 (Bridport, Dorset, England)

JUSTICE HAWKINS. in the Central Criminal Court on Thursday, Bent for Charlotte Pickens, the youne woman who acted so courag,euusly in attempting to secure Williams, the perpetrator of the Kensington outrage, and ordered her to receive a reward of £lO. THE will of Mr. William Ellis, late of Lea'casterterrace, Regent's Park, has bee e proved under E. 160,000 ; of Mr. William Hudson, late of Kirmington Vale, Lincolnshire, under £90,000 ; of the Rev. Lord John Thynne, of Haynes Park, Beds, Sub-Dean of Westminster, under £60,000; of Mr. Henry Constable (the jockey) under .0,000. A GIRL named Agnes Tetylor, who has been a domestic servant in Manchester, committed suicide on Friday morning in a terrible manner. She left her situation a day or two ago, and has since been in a very depressed state of mind. On Friday she walked upon the railway .near Lonsdale, and, laying herself on the rai:s More an advancing train, was cut to pieces and killed inAautaneously. - -- • •  MR. JASPAR Tuuv, editor of the Reser:ma/on Herabi, and Land League organisor for the county, was arrestA in Boyle on Thursday under a warrant charging him wiLli "Boycotting" and intimidation. A YOUNG man, nineteen years of age, named Richard Gardner Fare, went into a wood with two other youths, for the purpose of cutting a stick. In the wood he saw a hen's egg lying on the ground, and observing a hole in it proceeded to suck it. He went heme, and in less than four hours succumbed from spasms and convulsions. The egg is supposed to have contained poison, and to have been placed in the wood for the purpose of destroying birds. By order of the Government, Lancaster Castle was on Monday taken possession of by the military authorities, as the new military prison for the North of England. The Southern portion of the priaon buildings will he used for military prisoners, and the northern portion--.the old part of the prison—for civil prisoners. A CONVICT warder named James Reeks was sentenced at Portsmouth on Thursday to three months' imprisonment for trafficking with a convict in October lust, the convict being now on tieket-ofleave. The warder conveyed letters to and from the convict and his mother in London, and for a consideration of Ii:19 offered to back up a petition to the Home Secretary praying for the release 3f the convict. THOUGH Mr. Bradlaugh announces that the words of the parliamentary oath Lave no binding force upon his 3onscience, he is yet willing to make use of them, provided they are insisted on as the condition of his taking his  seat. AT the Central Crimiiial Court on Friday, John Clutton, Toeeph Smith, 17, and Frederick Freeman, 23. were each ientenced to five years' penal servitude the two first lamed with twenty strokes with the eat, for garotting end robb'ng Mr Higginbottom. surgeon, of Nottingaam, at King's Cross. IT is announced in the Gazette that the Queen's birthlay will ba generally kept on Tuesday, May 24th next; out, in order to avoid interference with the business of Parliament on that day, it will be celebrated in London done on Saturday, May 28th. HER MAJESTY has been pleased to appoint Geuerel Sir W. Fenwick Williams, Bart., G. 0.13., to the vacant office ef Constable of the Tower.