The Kenilworth Advertiser. — 1876-12-09 (Kenilworth, Warwickshire, England)

SENTENCES OF DEATH.  Silas Barlow (26), a platelayer, in the employ of the London and South-Western ttailway Company, was indicted before Mr. Justice Denman, at the Central Criminal Court, on Monday, for the wilful murder of Ellen Smith, alias Ellen Sloper, by the administration to her of strychnine, on Sunday, the 10th of September. Another indictment charged the prisoner with the murder of the illegitimate child of the woman. Barlow was found guilty, and sentenced to death.  At the Lincoln Assizes, on Monday, William Drant, blacksmith, of Homingley, near Horticastle, was found guilty of the murder of Thomas Gall, wheelwright, in the same village,:on the 14th October last, and sentenced to death. The trial of William and John Hebron for the murder of Police-constable Cock, of the Manchester county constabulary, by shooting him whilst on his beat at Whalley Range, during the night of the 2nd August, was resumed at the Manchester Assizes, before Mr. Justice Lindley, on Tuesday. The defence of the prisoners was in effect an alibi. Witnesses with whom they worked were called to show that they were both at work during the whole of the Ist August, and that neither of them could possibly have made the inquiry at a gunsmith's about cartridges alleged against them. Evidence was given that they were quiet, peaceable men, of good character, to disprove the alleged use of threats on their part against the deceased. The case occupied the whole of the day, and the jury, after being absent two and a half hours, returned into court shortly before eight o'clock with a verdict of guilty against William, and of acquittal in regard to John, and they recommended wan..m mercy on account of his youth; he being only 18 years of age. Sentence of death was passed upon him.  At the same Assizes, on Thursday, James Dalgleish was sentenced to be hanged, for the murder of Sarah Ann Wright, at Penrith, on the 25th September.  At the same Assizes, on Wednesday, William Flanagan, aliets Robinson, was indicted for the wilful murder of Margaret Dockerty. The prisoner was a betting man, and lived with deceased as his wife. They lodged in Clarendon-street, Manchester, and on the night of the 9th of September they retired to bed together. Next morning after prisoner had left the house, the deceased was found dead in bed, with her throat cut, her head being nearly severed from her body. The prisoner was appre. hended during the day for drunkenness, and detained on the more serious charge, and whilst in gaol be cut his throat with the rim torn from a pan which was in his cell, inflicting such severe injuries that his life was almost despared of. Some years ago he nearly murdered his own wife, and at that time attempted suicide by cutting his throat, and was confined in the infirmary for six weeks in COllllO- The defence of the prisoner was a plea of insanity, but the jury found him guilty, and he was sentenced to death.  THE Danish Commercial Fleet consisted on the let of January this year of 3,076 vessels of all sizes, with a tonnage of 245,100 registered tons. During the last ten years the number of sailing-ships has in creased only about 7 per cent., while the steamers have increased on less than 157 per cent., showing the extraordinary development of this small country, the entire population of which amounts to only about 2,000,000.