... the landlord came. Immediately on his appearance they both looked at his watch-chain-the seal pas gone ! To make a long story short, the landlord was arrested, the seal was found in a dust-heap at the back of his house, the man was proved to have called ...

... very busy the week before the Jubilee week. d Either then or the week before he saw in the cellar t that-well, to make a short story of it-the gas was 5 being used without going through the miter, He r observed the piping which had baen referred to, but ...

... K SHOCKING ISTORtY. Charge Against Exeter Parents, A shocking story was told at the Exeter d police Court this morning. when WWaeter Matthews and Laura Serco mbe, living I together as man and wit e at 7, White's I Cottages, leavitree. were summoned before ...

... I THE STORY OF THE ROAD MURDER. The Edinburgh Daily Review has the following with reference to the motive which induced Constance Kent to murder her half-brother :-The house at Road-hill was too evidently entirely isolated from all around it. It was not ...

... STORY OF SICILIAN ORIM U. The m one; correspondent of the Staenda~rd writes:- Tho echoes of the Fadda trial had scarcely died away 'When this latest cause ceribme of the Italian tribunals cnme to fill n en's minds with horrot and coulternatioun.' Oa the ...

... found it Short half a gill; there were also two pint cups on the table Short. John Nieholls, beer-house keeper. Nagg'a Head Hill, for whom his wife also appeared,was charged, on a like information, with using an earthenware quart nearly a gill short of measure ...

... accused said that he had been to sea, but as he was now going to work ashore he would be able to attend the trainings. THE OLD STORY.j John Whiteley, an elderly man, of respectable appearance, was charged with begging in East street, Bedminster. The defendant ...

... Lee was allowed half a pound of bread extra for his breakfast, a privilege at that time accorded to very fo:wv prisoners. A short time ago, for his general (ood oludilmt, he was pronoted to the post of orderly at the penal or punishment cells, ivwhre ...

... Committee. A CURIIOUS CASR. William Short Was charged with stealing two bottles of ?? wine, the property of Mr. Herbert John Whlite, edcliff.hill and Guinea.street. James Lowe, baker, Cathay, said that on Wednesday Short came to him and inquired wbether ...

... arising from an endeavoue to conceal Its existence. Ther have of course all been declared to be impossible, but llb following story, which, although it bas Its painful aspect, Is as comical in Its incidents as Cho plays to which we refer, la a plain Otatemeat ...

... evidence showved that the child had died from pneumonia, resulting from scalds to the throat, V Zrdjct accordingly. A STORY OF A SHORT LIFE. At the Victoria tavern, St. Philip's marsh, on the body of Alfred Mortimer, the illegitimate infant of EmAly Dlortimer ...

... BRISTOL POLICE COURT. YESTERDAY. Magistrates ?? Charles Nash and WV. Spark. A SAD STORY. Annie Richards, a middle aged woman, was charged with stealing a jacket and umbrella, value 19s, the property of Sarah Longden; and with stealing an umbrella and ...