THE ATTEMPTED MURDER OF A WORCESTER DETECTIVE

... THE ATTEMPTED MURDER OF. A WORCESTER DETECTIVE. I 'Yesterday, at the Worcester Infirmary, Charles Young Ai was ?? Mr. C. Whiralkec, a magistrate of U: tbe P1ersbore, divitioni-with- ntuemptinig' to murder vP Iaspecror-detective Wallace, of the Worcester City til Police Force, byv shooting- him near Perehore. The I hearing - took plaic at the inifirmary, as Inspector ye. Wallce i notyet al to ...

BIRMINGHAM POLICE COURT

... BIRalIGRAM POLICE COURT. -YaSTxn ,AT. - Before lke3rs. ofaslmorc (Stli.), CooL;, re 2. Hcrri, ?? T. Manton, and Cdiburyr. -- R;DBBDJG HIS EiraoYre.-l~Harry Fairbrother (251, at :butcher's assistant, of 27, Summer Hill Street, wacs t, hsarged with stealing. a- 7aintity of meat, be- di longing to his enployer, ames Coa 'butcher, of at 95; - Great Barr Street on varant dates.-Prose- a curtir said ...

BELGIAN POISONING MYSTERY

... I I[RAisf c's SpeCid Service.] AxTwsar, January 29.-The Joniaux trial was resumed in the Assize Court here to-day, when onsiderable progress was made with the case for the defence. In the outset M. Hayoit, the examining magistrate, was recalled and cross-examined concerning the facts elicited with respect to various purchases of poison by the prisoner. Hie stated that the total uantity of ...

BIRMINGHAM POLICE COURT

... YESTXRDAY.-BcfCre jiMessrs. Colisore (Slip.), Hill, J. ?? Stas7ew, ansi H. COde Aertuinc. AYc UNGEATSFCL FnEFNCjcrAy.-.} ean Henri Leamer (20) clerk, Birchfield llcad, was charzed with having stolen a purse and £30. belonging to Enoch Reed, of 100, Skinner Row.-On CObristnas Day the prosecutor had a enmail dinner party, at which the prisoner was present. They bad made eadh other' acquaintance ...

WOLVERHAMPTON BOOKMAKERS FINED FOR POACHING

... WOLVEPIAMIPTON BOOKMAKERS FINED FzOR POACHING. At the County Petty Sessions. Bridgnortb, on Satur- day-before Major Colley and Mr. Pritchard Gordon- William Shakespeare, bookmaker, Wolverhamnpton, was charged with being in pursuit of game on lend in the occupation of Mr. W. C. Roebehlle, Bromley, on the lrth December; and Richard Shakespeare was charged with aiding and abetting in the offence, ...

THE TOOTING TRAGEDY

... TEE TOOTING TRAGEDY. A number of letters have been discovered and handed to the police, which were writtm by the man Frtank Taylor, before the commission of the terrible tragedy on Thursday morning, and from these it appears that the wretched man had been contemplating the murder for some days. He speaks of his intention to murder his family, and the general tone of the letters indicates that ...

BANKRUPTCY PROCEEDINGS

... - 'Iiathe Birmingham Court of Bankruptcy. yesterday; I Mi.` Registrar tarry made a re'uivnog order in the c martter of 'LuKe Boota and HenYNir AeNsU Bo)TeI triding as L and E. Booth, 93, Villa RBoad, Hanidsworth, 3 outotersaudfancy drapers. Mr. James Hargrrtae is ~olioitdr in the proceedings. libi Birminieh-am SCourt of Bankruptcy, yesterday, ?? R:egistrar Pairry made a receiving order in tlie ...

THE MUTINY AT WOODBURY HILL REFORMATORY

... THE MUTINY AT WOODBURY ElrL EEFORMATORY. Yesterday a special sessions of the Hundred House division magistrates was held at the Shire Hall. War, cester, to investigate the charges of mutiny sgair.nt r number of boys in the Woodbury Hill Reformratory The sessic; e was held at the Shire Haill for con.enisnce, instead of taking the bovs from the prison wbere they have been confined to the Hundred ...

THE SUICIDE OF MR. PEARCE

... An inquest was held at the Victoria Courts, yesterday, by the Coroner (Mr. Oliver Pemberton) touching the death of .John Pearce (52). 1, Dus hess Road, professor of music and singing, the chief incidents concerning whose melancholy end we. have already reported.-Mr. B. H. Sadler said he held a watching brief on behalf of the Arts Clut, of which M1r. Pearce was an old and respected ?? Sidney ...

THE FATAL ACCIDENTS THROUGH THE GALE

... TBE FATAL ACCIDENTS THROUGH' THE GALE. , Mr. Oliver Pemberton (city coroner) held an inquest at the Victoria Courts, yesterday, upon the body of Michael MoTighe (40), paper-cutter, who lived at 75, Bloomsbury Street, and who died in the General Hospital on Sunday afternoon, from injuries received by the fall of a chimney during Sunday's gale. The deceased left home on Sunday morning at ten ...

BIRMINGHAM ASSIZES

... BIRAIINGHAM ASSIZES. CROWN COURT.Pofc. ts Qr Trr Rit t caT Bexn ars.- c for. BP osfr. he I hanring of this action was resumed. Mr. Alfred Yonse- and] lMc. Kettle (instrScted by Mr. G. ?? 5. Plant, Jjudiey] appeared for the plainiff, and Mir. Hugo Young i.4 anrd rin syonds linstrcated by Mr. J. Hinds) repre- t b I sented the defendant. The case iwas partly beard on A Wednieday. It was an ...

THE SINGULAR DEATH AT WOLVERHAMPTON

... I THE SINGULAR DEATH AT WOLVEY- HANiMPTON. Mr a. C1. Mfartin (depaty coroner), at the Town Half, Wolverhampton, yesterday, resumed the enquiry into the cause of the death of Thomas Henry Dean, aged three months, the illegotimate child of Sarah Ann Dean, laur.dress, of Chester.-The child died on December 16, whlst in the rare of Markaet White, wife of Thomas W~hite, salt hawker, Lower Uorseley ...