The Dewsbury Chronicle, and West Riding Advertiser. — 1873-05-31 (Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, England)

FROM "FUN."  The Latest Noose—Calcraft has retired. A Tour de Force—A policeman's rounds. Rabbit poachers are said not to be particular to a hare. A race is sometimes won by a head, but the legs generally land all the money. THE WINNING POST.—Not the halfpenny post-card, surely. Oh, no, goodness forbid! Some of those who take too much to drink on the Downs, take it as a matter of course. Surely few people will pass through Epsom without halting on Wednesday. Every one believe in Epsom's halts. Back as many horses as you like, hut you had better not back them through shop-windows —it comes expensive. " I shall be all right." says Bodeer, "If I lay on the field." "If he gets tight, as usual," says Podger, "he probably will." There is a good deal of steady talk in Mr. Wilkie Collins's play at the Olympic. Some people say it might as well be called the New Mag. Farmer: Be you going to the Darby this year, znr ? Parson : No, I never go. Farmer: Lo-or. you do'ant say so! Well, me and the misses be going, and we could make room for yer in our little trap, if yer would like to come wi' us. THE KIIIVA EXPEDITION'.—OtIr correspondent telegraphs us a striking instance of the difference in the domestic habits of the East and West. Here, the Queen, and every woman in England is wont to keep hot water in a can; there, the Czar and all his courtiers delight in keeping the Khan in hot water.  The strike of stonemasons at the Old Parish Church, Oswestry, has terminated, the men having received is. advance, instead of 2s. asked for. FATALMITS IN LONDON.—We learn from the Registrar-General's return that the 1,213 deaths in London last week included four from smallpox, 20 from measles, six from scarlet fever, five from diptheria, 77 from whooping-cough, 22 from different forms of fever, and 12 from diarrheea. To different forms of violence 51 deaths were referred ; 38 were the result of negligence or accident, including 18 from fractures and contusions, three from burns and scalds, four from drowning: two from poison, and 10, including eight of infants under one year of age, from suffocation. . Ten cases of suicide were registered. The wife of a cabman died in the St. Mary's Hospital from glanders ; and the "leath of a labourer in white-lead works was referred to "chronic lead poisoning ; apoplexy? Four of the deaths from fractures and conte sions, resulting from negligence or accident, were caused by horses or vehicles in the streets. From this class of accident 73 cases of injury and maiming came under the notice of the police, within the London registration area, during the seven days ending 25th instant; of these, 66 occurred in the metropolitan, and seven in the city polioe districts. In the large public institutions 227 deaths were recorded, or 19 per cent of the total deaths; of these, 115 occurred in the workhouses, and 100 in hospitals. EXTRAORDINARY ESCAPE 01' A WOMAN FROM A LDS DETECTIVE.—On Monday information was received at the Borough Police Station, Bradford, that a woman named Ellen Kennedy was " wanted " at Lee as eledwsonaapperheialielnedeedf Fluid stealing, and during the day in Bradford by Police-constable Schofield. Intelligence. of the arrest was sent to Leeds, and on Tuesday morning a detective-officer came over to conduct the prisoner to Leeds. They were about to proceed by the Midland train leaving about half-past ten o'clock, and on arriving at the station the woman requested to be allowed to go to the third-class ladies' waiting-room. The officer stationed himself outside the waiting-room, but as his prisoner did not appear in a reasonable time he went to the closet, and discovered to his dismay that "the bird had flown." The top sash of the closet window was thrown down, and it was evident that the woman had got out of the window, which looked into that part of the station where excursionists are usually booked. She would have to drop about six or seven feet to the ground. The woman was seen by a man making her way along Canal-road in the direction of Bolton-road, but he, not knowing that she was an escaped prisoner. allowed her to go her way. We understand that the police have been searching for the woman since, but hitherto have been imsuccesafal La their efforts.---Bradford Observer. 

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