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EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF CRUELTY

... OXFOlD CIICUI''-G.LOUCESTERt, APRIL 8. Anne Wilkins, aged 24, who appeared with ain infant in her arms, was charged with ill-treating ?? Anne Keates, her servant. Henry Lines-I live near the prisoner's house. I know Mary Anne Keates. She has no mother, and her father is paralytic. She is eight years of age. Mary Anne Keates was a healthy child when she first went to live with the prisoner. She ...

BELFAST QUARTER SESSIONS

... BXONDAY, APRIL 22. The Crown business commenced at these Sessions yes- terday, before John Curry, Esq. Assistant Barrister, and the following Bench of Magistrates :-Major Rowan; Henderson Black, Wm. Clarke, C. M. Skinner, Fortescue Gregg, and John M Cance, Esqrs.-The following Gen- tlemen were sworn on the Grand Jury:- JoHN CuNNiNGCHAm, Esq. Foreman; Edwd. J. Smith, Chas. Thomson, John Hodgson ...

LONDON POLICE

... THE PLEASURES OF SCRnATCING.-On Monday, a de- cent looking man was charged before the Rev. Mr. Mat- thias, Lambeth-Street, with having wilfully extinguished one of the public gas-lamps on Sunday evening.-A wit- ness proved that she saw the prisoner put his back to the lamp-post and shake the light ?? defendant, in re- ply to the charge, said that the fact was, that he had put on a new flannel ...

LONDON POLICE

... A TnUE-HEAaTED SAILoR.-A weather-beaten old sailor, with a white bead, and skin which an eastern climate had marked in the most determined manner, was brought before the Lord Mayor, charged with having had a great deal too much grog on board on Monday night. A police- man stated, that the sailor caught hold of him by the arm as he passed along the street, and said, 1 I say, shipmate, give us ...

EPITOME OF NEW IRISH JURY BILL

... Every man between the ages of 20 aud 60 in comntiesI except is hereinafter is excepted, shall be liable to serve on Juries in Courts of Assize, Oyer and Ternminer, and Gaol Delivery, provided he shall have in his own nane, or in, trust for him, within the county, £10 a-year above re- prizes, (rent, charges, annuities, or oth-r deductions) in lands, tenements, or rents in tee simple, fee-tail, ...

LONDON POLICE

... LONDON PoLiCE. -SIXeON S~iGIw. At Bdow-st reetn h~ Mr. Burn shy, thle clerk, intimatedto r Ot fieneant, in all assault case, Thomas M'1K cita ofte ~triaortliiary Scotch boy who wa sidt with second sight, and also wvith the poeof~ objects in a room which hie could. not by in a direct Nvay. -Mr. Halls said he -sho itslI yooutg M'Kean. Mr. M'Ke~an called lh lk O~ ing lad about elevenl, forwvard ...

COUNTY OF KILDARE ASSIZES

... COUNTY OF KILPARE ASSIZES. TRIAL OF PRIEST DOYLE, OF NAAS. Before Chief Justice Doherty and a Special Jury.. Mr. Antisell opened the pleadings. This was an hidijt- ment at the suit of the Crown against the Rev. Gerald- Doyle, under the third sec. of 1, Willliam IV. The first count charged the traverser with writing and publishing a notice in the parish of Naas, exciting the people to combi- ...

BELFAST QUARTER SESSIONS

... TUrSDAY, APRIL 23. Janezs Mlllhattenl, for stealing a watch, the property of James Hunter, at Belfast, on 8th Feb. ; and on a second count for assaulting James Hunter.-Tbe prosecutor ad- mitted in his examination that he bad drunk four glasses of whiskey at the time that he charged the prisoner with steal- ing his watch ; and it appeared in evidence that he had previously accused another ...

COUNTY OF DOWN ASSIZES

... The trial of Hugh O'NVedl,; for the murder of George Berkeley, at Donoughmnore, in the neighbourhood of Newry, occupied the greater part of a day, and seemed to have ex- cited more than ordinary interest. The facts of this case have been recorded already in our columns. Berkeley was an Orangeman ; O'Neill is-a Roman Cathoitc. In coi- inenting upon the evidence, Bilron Smith observed, that the ...

PETIT SESSIONS, LISBURN—APRIL 29

... PETIT SESSIONS, LISBU RN-APRIL 2i Magistrates present, R. Williamson, H. Black, F. Megg, and E. Johnson, Esqrs. The Rev. S. Dunlop, Seceding Minister of Hill-hall, appeared, to prefer a complaint of assault against H. Hun- 'ter; at the same time Mr. Dunlop was summoned on a -similar complaint, at the suit of Mr. Hunter. Attorney for Hunter, Mr. Birnie of Lisburn. - The cases excited con- ...

LONDON POLICE

... CHARGE AGAINST AN M. P.-BOW-S'REET.-Lead beater, the officer, to whom a warrant was entrusted for the apprehension of Capt. S. A. Bayntun, the representative of the city of York, upon a charge of illegally pawning a looking-glass which had been lent to him, together with other things on hire, by Mr. Mullett, of the Strand, on Monday received a letter from the Hon. Member, appris. ing him of ...

LONDON POLICE—AN IRISH TERMAGANT

... LONDON POLICE-AN IRISH TERMA-GANT I Mary Wood, alittle Irishwooman of most violent temper, was charged with abusing Mr. Joseph R-obey. The prison- 'er has been repeatedly convicted of acts of violence. On one occasion she cut her mother's head open, and nearly killed her, for which she wassent-to prison for two months. Her husband, not able to bear the temper of his gentle creature, has gone ...