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... was known as the Olendale train robbery. Mrs. a witness for the State, testified that on the night before the robbery occurred she saw the prisoner, and heard him talking to her husband about the proposed robbery. Upon her crossexamination the following ...

Published: Saturday 25 September 1886
Newspaper: Leeds Times
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1673 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

An Impudent Thief.—At the Worship street (London) Police-court, on Thursday, a man named Clark was charged with ..

... searched the pockets of all the victims, in order, as he expressed it, not to be robbed. Ax Old Story Re-told by Mr. Dickens.—Mr. Charles Dickens presided at the annual diuner of the Railway Benevolent Society, on Wednesday night, and in proposing the toast ...

Published: Wednesday 08 May 1867
Newspaper: Leeds Times
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1835 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

LONDON WOOL SALES

... for 14 days. Violent Assault, —Robert Powell placed the bar answer a charge of acaault preferred a person named Charles Willsher, Dickens Street, New Wortley. It seemed that the complainant was near the Wellington station Monday night, when the prisoner ...

DISTRICT NEWS

... Grossmith, Esq., of London, delivered two lectares in the Theatre of the Mechanics’ lustitute, Leedsroad, “on the writings of Charles Dickens.” Suasuine Winpows,—Yesterday, ia the Court of the borough magistrates, before Henry Brows, Esq., Mayor, and F. Smith ...

Published: Saturday 13 March 1858
Newspaper: Leeds Evening Express
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1376 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

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... ten plagues Egypt Jewish landlords, wilh the-r rotten Friends. ' ...

Published: Wednesday 25 May 1898
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1290 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

LOCAL AND GENERAL

... House of Commons, in his sermon at the Savoy Chapel, on Sunday, spoke of the death of Mr. Charles Dickens, and said that, strange as it might sound, Mr. Dickens had by his writings done essential service to the Christian Church. There swas a punity and ...

Published: Tuesday 14 June 1870
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4052 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

THE REWARDS OF LITERATURE

... £2t,800;o The V icar of Bellhianpton, flaph the Heir, The Enstace Diamonds, and The Prime Minister, each £2,500. Dickens, at his death, left £80,000, a considerable slice; of wvhich caie from hooks. The stipulated paynient for his first great ...

Published: Thursday 29 December 1887
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2026 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

WEEKLY LONDON LETTER

... also wrote an exhaustive study of Charles Whitehead, the novelist and post, and the friend of Dickens, who was originally asked to write “The Pickwick Papers,” and who, unable to do the work himself, recommended Dickens, then comparatively unknown, as & ...

Published: Saturday 26 October 1895
Newspaper: Leeds Times
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2262 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

POLITICS AND SOCIETY

... that case was Mr. Dickens, a son of Charles Dickens. Mr. Dickens startled the Court by calling Mr. Pickwick, whereupon it obviously occurred to the learned Judge to say that Pickwick was a very appro- priate witness to be called by Dickens. ...

Published: Monday 05 March 1888
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3015 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

ERA YE BY AT A FIRE IN BRISTOL

... Falstaff the robbery at Gadshill, passing on to the scene at Agincourt, in which Henry appears as the Warrior King, and concluding with his love-making with Catherine. The second part of the programme included the Boots at the Holly Tree Inn (Dickens), which ...

LOCAL AND GENERAL

... HoIsson, h Tarnton, 3: E. Scott, bi Robinson, 2; B. H IWend, b Dickens, 56; S. France. c Darnte,, b Ivy. 34; H. Horner, ran oert, 36; lion. (L. Lascellies, rcn out, 1; AV. Wright, c. Ifalton I Dickens, 2; A. Faewkes, feg before wicket, 20; Denison, c Robinson ...

Published: Tuesday 22 July 1862
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2056 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

LOCAL AND OTHER NEWS

... good novel, proceeded to consider the leading characteristics of works of Charles Dickens, and what be conceived to be tbeir merits and demerits, justifying his selection of Dickens instead any other novelist, becausemore than half amillion copiesof bis ...

Published: Saturday 07 April 1860
Newspaper: Leeds Intelligencer
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4461 | Page: 5 | Tags: none