The Dewsbury Chronicle, and West Riding Advertiser. — 1895-09-04 (Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, England)

WEST RIDING COURT,—Mow.  Before Mr. A. W. 9tanfield (presiding), Mr. It. Poppleton, Mr. M. Hall, and Mr. D. T. Woodman.  DRONE AND VIOLENT 'TOWARDS THE POLICE.— 'Joseph 'Brooke, miner. Horbury, was summoned on a charge of drunkenness. Police-constable Smith found him at 11.20 on the previous Friday night the worse for drink, and in a very quarrelsome mood at his mother's house in Cross Park Street. To pay 16s.—John Cooper, whose abode is not fixed, was charged with a like offence in the Market Place on Saturday night, NV hen Police-constable Moss found it expedient to find him a cell at the police-aation. Sergeant Ford corroborated. To pay 13s.—Walter Booth, mill hand, Horbury, was charged with drunkenness and with 4ssaulting Policel,constable Fletcher. The officer said that on Sunday morning at 12.20 (midnight) he was on duty in Cluntergate when he heard screams of "police" 200 yards -lower down. He went to the Place, and came across the prisoner drank, shouting and bawling, and wanting to fight. When spoken to Booth became very violent, and gave him (Fletcher) a blow 'with his fist on the chest. Finally he had to convey him to the police-station in a conveyance. Booth. who had, nothing to say in answer to the charges, was fined 10s. 6d. for drunkenness, and lOs 6d. for assenting the policeman.—Charles Vaughan, miner, Normanton, for being drunk and disorderly on Sunday afternoon at the Sovereign Vaults, from which licensed premises he was ejected (Police-constable lambert), was fined 10s. Dods AT L AROE —Herbert Sheldon (butcher. Bothwell), Amos Holt (miner, West Ardaley), and Hiram Harrison (boot dealer, Horbury) were charged with having allowed their dogs to run at large nnmuzzled, the officers proving the cases being Police-sergeant White, Police-con Stable Denney, and Police-sergeant Clarke.--Sheldon and Hartison were fined 10s. each, and Holt 17s. 6d.  FIIRTNEIR MSAIILT ON TAR Ponczifr-George Eastwood, miner, Normanton. was charged in custody 'with having lassaatted Pqlice-constable Lambert.—The officer named said that on Saturday night while taking a man into custody called Brian Riley, the prisoner came up and seized him by the throat, threw him down and kicked him. He was used in a mast, shameful manner, some of the crowd helping Eastwood in his rough conduct. He drew his staff when prisoner snatched it and lbroke the leather from it. The man Riley escaped in consequence of the interfemnce. —Police-constable Addey gave evidence in support of the charge, adding tha,b Eastwood incited Riley not, to be taken by the police.—Committed to the House of Correction for three months with haixl labour without the option of a fine, and ordered to pay 12s. costs or a further seven days' imprisonment. A Second Court was formed before Mr. R. Popplefon and Mr. T. Ffargreaves. THE RECORD OF Durincszormiss.—The following persons were convicted of drankenness:— William Rumniers, br,reklayer, East Ardsley (Constable Horner). was fined 10s. or seven days; John Hough. miner, ;:,Irigglestone (Constable Forsyth), againit whom wera twenty-seven convictions, 15s. or ten days; Thomas Kaney, miner, Norruanton (COnstable A4deyl), 11a, or seven days; Thomas Barras, miner, Bothwell (Sergeant Pe Arson and Inspector Smuin-of the 8.5.P.C.A.). 12s. DAMAOINII A Pt7BLIO Mour.—Aifred Lumb, banksman. Shariston. was charged with damag The residue of the estate of the late Mr. William, Proudfoot, of Craigieburn, Natal, amounting to £20,437, has been forwarded to the magistrates of Moffat for the benefit of the local working men. The condition of the French force in Madagascar is represented to be deplorable. ice mortality is very great, one regimenb of the line having almost disappeared, and there are as many as 5,000 men in hospital.  It is repOrted that the Itzlian Government has placed a large order for guns with the firm of Messrs. Armstrong, Mitchell, and Co. of Newcastle-on-Tyne. The order includes t4elve can. non of heavy tonnage, and fifty of lighter calibre. An explosion of a petroleum lamp in the church at Ribordon3 in the district of Ivrea, in 'ltaly, caused a fire whieh spread to a building for the accommodation of pilgrims. Eight persons were burned to death, and. four others were seriously injured. In the twelfth annual report to the Board of Trade on the administration of the Ba.nkrupLyy Acts, the Inspector-General in Bankruptcy says the number and amount of failures during 1894 show a progressive decrease, and confirm the generally prevailing impression that the condition of business is slowly improving. A young woman named Wright gave herself up to the Lincoln police on Wednesday and confessed that she had murdered her child by throwing it into the canal. The body had been found on Tuesday. The prisoner appeared to have become engaged to a young man, and resolved to et rid of the child, which was illegitimate, In order to conceal its existence from him.  Mr. H. B. Conway, who appeared last week at the Birmingham Grand Theatre as Ned Apnealey in Mr. "Sydney( Grundy'e play, "Sowing the Wind," attempted to commit suicide on Sunday morning at the Colonnade Hotel by swallowing an ounce of opium. It seems he was discharged on Wednesday, and during the day he complained that the newspapers bad criticised him rather severely. Mr. Conway was brought up at the Police Court on Monday, and after making an explanation as to his rash act was set at liberty. A dastardly outrage has been 'committed in Paris, the object of which appears to have been Baron Alphonse de Rothchild. A letter addressed to the Baron was opened in his absence by M. Jedkowitz, a confidential clerk. He had scarcelyinserted a penknife with that object when an explosion occurred, throwing him to the ground, and injuring one eye and the tips of the fingers of the right hand. The explosive appears to have been falininate of mereury, placed between two pieces cardboard. As ye* no =tin boo been signed fer the outrage. 

Article type: Incident