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EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF SYSTEMATIC SWINDLING

... 0T m CASE OF SYSTBMATIo O&OF sends@._ ?? Poris eaourt on Tueaday, Henry Bed- fd Uderut a further examination upcn diver. charge. 13tdeid ;rst ebxantion, preoner was charged with 10 eods frem tradesmen under the pretenos that ob1t Mrgquis of Ormonde; but subsequently these eth er, fbr the tine abandoned, Mr. Buy Hutchin- Iag Wo Iee on the second ,occasion retained for the ,, abtio being ...

THE MURDER BY A LUNATIC MOTHER

... THE MURDER BY A LUNATIC MfOTHR. On Tuesday afternoon, Mfr. John :Humiphreyf opened an inquiry at the PewterPlatter, Nortoni-fol- gate, respecting the death of James Oeodliffe, aged six months, who died from mortal injuries, inflicted by his mother, alunatic,nowincustodyin thehouseof detention, Clerkenwell. The early particulars will be found under'the Police head. Thomas Goodliffe, a ...

PRIVATE BLACK LISTS

... PRIVATE BLACK LISTS.'. A trial which places in a striking light the* opera- tion of the ?? Black Lists, has taken place in the consolidated NYisi Prium Court, 'Dublin, before ilc. Justice Keogh. It was an action ona bill hi exchange for 271. is., thes plaintiff, ri. Wellingtol Pepper,l being a barrister, practisingin the'reslder's court and the defendast, Mr. John Sproule a trsdei' in ...

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT

... OLD COURT. (Before the Common Serjeant.) Bmcikle Collrs, 2S, a Frenchman, pleaded guilty to thse t indictments charging him with stealing property from hotels, the property generally being of a very valuable descriptions Mr. H. Palmer prosecuted, and Mr. Poland appeared for the prisoner. it appeared from the statements made by the counsel for the pseeuntion and the officer, that the prisoner ...

THE DOUBLE MURDER IN SOUTHWARK

... Soon after Mr. Combe had taken ris scat on the teuch, at the Southwark police-court on Monday, mr. Thomas Lidlettcr, a short, stout man, aged sixty, who for many years has carried on the business sf a cabinetmaker and licensed victuallers' fitter, eaas brought before him, charged with the wilful maurder of Martha Lidbetter, hisowife, aged fifty-nine, slso with cutting and wounding Daniel ...

THE ST. GILES'S MURDER

... THE ST. GILES'S MURDER, $UPPOSEDWSUIChE OF THE MUXRDEruR, On Monday night, a man named Reilly noticed ;a dark object foating past the St. Katherine's loch- pier. He procured a hitcher and got bft the bony of a man with the hands tied togetherin front. The body was conveyed to the deadhouse ofSt. Potolph, Aldgate, where an examination was made, the result being a conviction in the minds of some ...

THE ATTEMPTED MURDER AND SUICIDE AT WOOLWICH

... TRE ATTEMPTED MURDER AND SUICIDE AT WOOLWIGIL On Monday evening, at oix o'clock, Mr. Ca J. Carttir, coroner for West Kent, reeumed an inquiry at the Britannia Tavern, Henry-street, Woolwlc'i, into the air- oumstances attending the death cf Mr. George Richard Roberts, e manter baker, residing wt King-street in that town, who cornmi; ted enicide shortly sfter an. oncauation had been made ?? him ...

A WEST-END TAILOR'S BILL

... poots v. LEwIS.-This was an action brought in the court of Exchequer by Mr. Poole, tailor, in SaviLle-row, to recover 301. 9s. 6d. from Al. C. WV. oewis, a barrister, for goods sold and delivered. - The case having been opened by Mr. Hawkins, the Sbopta5l proved the delivery of the articles, and ad- Mnitted on cross-examination that the usual terms which were printed on the invoices were ...

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS

... The May sessions commenced on Monday at Clerkenwell-green. The calendar contained the names of eighty-nine prisoners committed for trial, sixty-eight being indicted for felony, and twenty-one for misdemeanour. INCENDIAEs. nM ,WilliaM Watkins and George Spiers, who pleaded guilty last session to an indict- ment charging them with attempting to set fire to a haysick, the property of Mr. George ...

THE POLICE COURTS

... CLERKEN WELL. A respectably-attired young man applied to the sitting I magistracte for advice under the following circumstances. 'the applicant stated that be was a depositor io the post. i office savings bank and wishing to ply an account at the I latest on Wednesday morning last. he on Siturdav procured awithilriwal notice and posted itin the usual way. On Aled- I iesday, by the irst post, ...

EXTRAORDINARY AND ROMANTIC CASE

... EXTI'AORDINARY AND ROMANTIC CASE. A very extraordinary case came under considera- oion on V redsieaday, consequent upon the death of a child it Bromnaton. It appears that some tiniesince 3 certiii person, who calls himself Dr. S. Rowbos- hama, and l ho lectures chiefly in the country upon medical subjects, more especially as to the applicai- tion of phosphorus in certain diseases, became ac- ...

THE RIBCHESTER MURDER

... THE MIBOHESTER MURDER. LAST M1OMENTS OF THE CUJLRITS. The chaplain stated to the reporters that from the firat the culprits (both of whom were execited at Liverpool on the 25th April, as reported by telegraph in our. last) had both been very attentive and fervent in prayer, and he considered them to be in a truly penitent frame of mind. He did not, however, ad- minister the , sacrament' to ...