The Dewsbury Chronicle, and West Riding Advertiser. — 1882-12-16 (Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, England)

OOO. The Lord Mayor, Lady Mayoress, and Sheriffs attended in state. The Prince and Princess arrived at three o'clock and were received in due honour, Dr. Abbott, head-master, conducted their Royal Highnesses over the building. In replying to an address the Prince of Wales expressed the hope that the school, which had prospered so well for 30 or 40 years, would continue ever to do so. Many of its pupils had taken I high degrees at the universities. The ceremony concluded amid cheers. Extraordinary precautions were taken to ensure the safety of Mr. Justice Barry. who opened the Cork Assizes on Friday. He left Dublin on Thursday night i by the ordinary train ; but detectives travelled, n the next carriage to him, and at every station a police force was drawn up on the platform. On arriving at Cork he WAS escorted to his lodgings by a troop of Scots Greys with drawn swords, and near his lodgings a temporary police-hut has been erected. The entrances to the court when the judge was sitting were guarded by detectives. Ho insisted that everyone should stand up during the reading of the Queen's Commission, and threatened with imprisonment any person who refined. At Birmingham, on Tuesday, Ernest Lotz, a German, pleaded guilty to stealing 871 h. of Swedish human hair, value £4OO, from his employer, Mr. Schletter, merchant , Navigation-street, Birmingham. At the request ot the prosecution, the ciao was dealt with surnmariiy, the magistrates impesing a sentence ofsie months' inipeisenment. Since his iecerceration, prisoner has given information. tending to criminate different hairdressers in the town, one of whom. Henry White, Stafford-street, was on Tuesday arrested and remanded. White, as alleged. received nearly £2OO worth of the choicest speeieeeee of women's hair from Lotz for £l5 on credit." Other looks were disposed of at as low a price as horse hair.  EXECUTION AT WANDSWORTH, SHOCKING SCENIfe Charles Taylor, 39, carpenter, was executed at nits on Tuesday morning in Wandsworth Prison, for the murder of his wife at Old Kent-road, Landon, last August-. Since his conviction the prisoner, who at the time of the murder had aleo attempted suicide, expresso,: penitence for the crime. He walked v.ithout assistance to the scaffold, but looked very pale and ill. Marwood allowed a drop of over eight feet. The long '-op given had the effect of opening the woand in the r: self-inflicted by the criminal directly after ace and the censegeence was that tee the ene ' pearly torn.. from the hedy. There were very head ree.„ ore.ems ereitreg outride the gaol when the black flag vac holed, the,urn noli:eres affixed t the gate. The necaOrY o'e lecinete , was held an the prison in the aftern RiVa' oere ll the deputy-coroner. by lqz• ecillel e Dr. Winter, the prison teeeon pesed to the death e, of the criminal, and in anever to ciniMion9 17 jurymen, Raid the wound in the throat, hie heale& with the exception of a fistulas opening in the windpipe- The soar was tender. The eesult of the long drop In nearly severing the head from the body was na more than he expected. Death was the result of fractare of the vertebrea and rupture of the nasals of the peek, which had caused the haemorrhage seen by the jury oir viewing the body. The jury returned the usual verdict.