Lancaster Standard and County Advertiser. — 1894-10-26 (Lancaster, Lancashire, England)

CRIMES AND ACCIDENTS. For having attempted to shoot a barmaid at Greenwich, James Farrell was at the Old Bailey on Wednesday sentenced to five years' penal servitude. A lady. named Isabella Griffiths. and her daughter were tined £5, at Kingston-on-Thames, on Wednesday, for threatening to shoot a aheriff a officer with revolvers. A mackerel boat, deeply laden, was capsized whilst making for Ramsgate, on Tuesday, in a heavy sea. A boatman, named Little, rescuedthe , crown! six before the boat sank. At Croydon. on Monday, a young man named Harrison, a clerk in the employ of a firm of coal merchants, cut his throat with a razor. and was removed to hospital in a dying condition. News reached Peterhead on. Wednesday that a vessel named the Helene, believed to boa Swedish schooner, laden with gunpowder. blew up the previous day oft Carr Lightship, and the whole of the crew were lout. At Colchester on Wednesday a man named Bradbrook committed suicide by hanging. He was to have been married next week, and it is alleged that some implesantnese bad occurred in connection with this prospective event. Fire broke out on Tuesday in the hold of Meseta. lemport and Bolt's steamer, Buffon. lying in the Liverpool Dock, and woe not subdued until almoet the whole of the cargo, which consisted of cotton and oilcake, was ruined. Charles Graves, who at Guernsey on Monday last cat his wife's throat. has died from the effects of a blow with a broom which an official dealt hiin in self defence, no he was escaping, knife in hand. The wife is progressing favourably. A Brighton insurance agent, named James Archer. aged 50, was last evening found shot dead through tee head at his office, 2, Duke-street. Brighton. A six-chambered revolver was found near the body, two of the barrels having been dmcharged. Mrs. Kelly, wife of an engine driver, died at , Widnes on Sunday under sad circumstances. She I had been suffering from toothache, and went to ' the cupboard to get something to ease the pain. She drank from a bottle which contained oxalic acid, and although medical aid was summoned also succumbed as stated. George Shaw, a boatman, was remanded at Handley, on Monde's', charged with attempting to murder his wife. It was alleged that be kicked the woman, attempted to hang her, aud subsequently- threw her into the canal, from where she iwas rescued in an exhausted state. She was too ill to attend the police.court. Bail was refuted. IGeorge Richard Hough. 20. postman, wei charged at the Central Criminal Court, on Monde, with stealing three mail bags containing register,d letters. Prisoner pleaded guilty, his DODDS i urging that he was engaged to be married, sal -acted on monseutary impiese in order to furnish a home. 'HO Was sentenced to thr..a years"penal servitude. • While a number of soldiers were at Rio de Jeneiro clearing a subterranean mitgaeine in which the insurgents durilig the late ineurrection had stored a quantity of powder, ehelle, acd dynamite, a soldier dropped one of the aliens. which caused the explosion of ten dynamite cartrele,es, with the reitult that sixty person, were killed on the spot. Johu Kruger, a citizen of the United States, who had unsuccessfully endeavoured to find employment in this country, was charged at the Liverpool Police Court on Tuesday with attempting to commit suicide by cutting his throat with a razor. A gentleman iu court now offered to have the accused sent back to America, and on this undertaking be was discharged. White • ferryboat was crossing from Windsor, Ontario, to Detroit, a well-dressed gentleman passenger solved a young man and flung him into the river, after which he took his eight year-old daughter in his arms and jumped mu himself. The young men subsequently gave his name as Charles Elliott, of klauchester. England, who was rescued, but the other two were drowned. A man named Kelly was, at Stradbally, on Saturday, drinking with a person named Walsh. They quarrelled, and parted. Subsequently Kelly was found at Walsh's house. His neck was broken, hot he lived four hours. Before dying he stated that Martin Walsh had killed him by pushing him out of his east, but he forgave him. Walsh was charged with the murder, and remanded. Damage estimated at £7,000 was caused at Birkenhead on Saturday by an outbreak of fire in tb9 fornitmra astakUhment of Mr. Delany, I Conivayritotsit, Within lialt on hoar -alter te discovery the roof collepeed, the debris falling on several of the firemen, three of whom were injured, but not seriously. Fire-euperintendent Monk also unstained somewhat warious injuries 'through a ladder OD which he wesstanding having broken. , A shockiug tragedy is rellobleff from" tarne, • Comity Antrim. Two men, named Maitwoll and M'Keown, were drinking in a house in • low i quarter a that town on Saturday night with a woman named Barr. A quarrel ensued, and the men left the house. Barr, however, followed them, and during a renewal of the altercation, the woman, it ia alleged, drew a knife and stabbed Maxwell in the forehead, the latter dying on Monday morning from his injuries. Barr has been arrested.  •1