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EXTRAORDINARY EXCESS OF DUTY BY A GAOL CHAPLAIN

... iE:XTR1ORDXNTAR EXCESS OF' D6 Y BY * A GAVOL CFLAIND. . A case is9exciting public attention at Manchester, arising out of a charge made against the Rev. P. J. O'Leary, chaplain of the new Borough Gaol, which possesses an interest beyond the neighbourhood. Court The', case befcre the Court of Borough Sessions on Monday moring was one in which Robert Burgess and Wfiiam Hewitt were charged with ...

ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, ETC

... ACCIDENTS, OFFENOkS, i-- - IOF l- TC At-Boy 'Smo&.-On FridaY the 27th, at' orfieldf, a vilage aboutrthree miles frodi Bristol; a lad, named William Brett, was'shot' by a companion. The statement wlhich.drst reached 'Bristol was. a very starling one, vii., that the unfortunate boy had been 'sh'oi'though the heart, and loft dead on the field. This accouit of the occurrence 'was a exaggerated one ...

ROMANTIC CASE OF SUICIDE

... ' The day before yesterday, the inhabitants of a house in the Faubourg St Germain, were alarmed by a strong smell of burning charcoal proceeding from a room occupied by a i. ie C-. The commissary of police having been sent for, sad the door broken open, when . de C- was found as, if engaged in writing. He was seated in an arm-chair; be- fore a table on which were books and papers; his head was ...

ATTEMPTED MURDER [ill] A POLICEMAN IN HOLBORN

... AlTTEMPTED MUIRDER Or tLPOLICEMM &N IN HOLBORl!I' On Tuesday morning, shortly afteT 9iem @clock, a desperate attempt to murder a policeman was 0fade' by a man; having the appearance of a foreigner, in Huhnolborn nearly oppo- siteWarwick-court. It appea'ti st1 POlice-constable A 33I (of the reserve force), was on' duty rear the 'pot indicated when he observed a man coming towards him; ...

POLICE INTELLIGENCE

... . POLICE-INTELIGENCE. *MAN3SIONt HOUSSE. IProsTuRE EXPOSED.-On Monday, -.two men, named, Brown and Goldsmith, were brought before the Lord Mayor,,l. upon the charge of having-attempted to impose upon a gentle. man by a. tale of fictitious distress. ,. The complainant said, the men walked into his. counting-houseand -Gldsmith, pointing to Brown, said the poor fellow was suffering from a severe ...

ATTEMPTED MURDER AND SUICIDE

... ATTEMPTED IURDER AND SUiCIDE. I; , A.;, . - ?? . . . II . .. 1 . Veiy tarlyon. Mondiy':hiorhig, abodt th stilo'colk, the inhabitants of Upper North-street, Brighton', and its neigh- bourhood, were alarmed by piercing cries of !'iufder and Police;' and in* a short itime the- polleedi -oere at th on the spot, and at 'his' request, Mr. Richardson, surgeon, promptly made *his appearance. His aid ...

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS

... DIIDDLESEX -SESSIONS.v WEDNESDAY. BY A CharA--Joseph Darley, 85, a cabman, ?? for robbing Mr. Charles Thomas Hill, a me- as indicted letoman, in Leadenhail-street, of a watch* and barlcal d euared that the prosecutor was at a supper'party Bhain. It Taevein St. Clement Danes, on Neys ''Years te the Santhat il the course of the entertainment a' quarrel tea en him and the landlord. He challedged ...

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT

... CENTRAL CRININAL COURT. The Jssuary Sessions of thiscour.t, opened ?? lest. TheRecorder, in his charge, made the following remarks On the case of the Sloanes rtspleting their treetiint to Jane Wilbred It was a charge against two persons, named Sloane, in a rather superior class of life, of having cruell trceae and admssaulted a young woman who wee in their ser- t rviceas a n domesticevant; ...

A WRETCH EXPOSED

... William Sharp, a respectable looking old man, surren- dered in discharge of his. reognOisaDces, at the Old Bailey,.on Tharsday, to answer an indictment charging him with having indecently assaulted a person named Henry Wheyman. The Prosecator, a young man about six and twenty years of age, said that the assault took place in Hyde Park, near the.A]- tert Gate, bat the manner in which he gave ...

BURGLARY

... BUURGLABY., - David Cook, 3a, sawyer, John Standen, 35, labourer, and Edwavrd Lee, 29; sawyer, were indicted on Thursday at the Old. Bailey, for a burglary in the dwelling-house of Maria - Getliffe, at Banumersmith, on the 25th of December last, and stealing aquantity of plate and jewellery, consisting of silver spoons, ladles, brooches, pins, together with some money. The prisoners, who are ...

YESTERDAY'S POLICE, LAW, ETC

... YESTERDAY'S 9OLICE, LAW, ETC. - ~GUILM ~LL. - : Eaeaa~zzansassz-WYi~ie Jeffi;,,.a respectahly-attired young man, was charged before S5i reftt taurie with em- bezzlelnent under the following cirdiiistances:-Mr. John Hunt stated that he was a button and trimming warehouse- maan at 4. Silver-street, City, and that the prisoner filled a confidential situation under him for $he last two years; it ...

POLICE INTELLIGENCE

... POLICE-INTELLIGENCE. -IMANSION HOUSE& ,BU SWINDLING.-In. consequence of the receipt of several letters from various parts of the country on the subject of the mock mercantile agency of a gang of London swindlers; the Lord Mayor caused inquiries to be made by the police acting in the various localities to which the correspondence. referred. The practice of the parties alluded to is to send to ...