MURDER AT BARNSLEY

... I The populous and thriving town of Barnsley, whick has already unfortunatey obtained an uflraviable note. riety for disgraceful outrages, has again become the scene of another diabolical tragedy. The victim of the present catastrophe is Thomas Husband, a collier's labourer, who has been employed at Ms. Smith's coal-plts at suito for a great number of years. He is a widower, about forty years ...

ALLEGED MURDER BY DROWNING IN THE RIVER OUSE

... ALLEnG;ED SUTRDilz : D:E 2:O8iiCXNG ZW THrE ELVE OUSE. (From the Yorkshire Gazeffe.) On Wednesday evening, at six o'clock- the city coroner,' Air, J. P. Wood, opened, an inquest at. the Jolly Sailor public-house, on the Kings Staith, on view of the body of the unfortunate deceased, when the following evidence was adduced, Mr. Mann, solicitor, being present to witch the case on behalf of the ...

BARBAROUS AND MYSTERIOUS MURDER

... SARSAO9uB AND KySTaRZOUS llvLD3R. On lionday 18YWa INg esumedian, nquest tke body of a ladg 8 found. dead In a ditcht near East AtO!Q On the 1pievic Tuesday. .Little was known a the firt meeting of st's corenters ajury, though the clroumestanees, wsranted the darkest EU3PIlO1O. Somif light, however, has now been thrawn upon the cane, and, tjhough, it stilU remains. wrapped in great obscurity, ...

THE BARBAROUS MURDER AT ACTON

... TIE I DPARBAitOVS 4W UIf R AT APTQN. Mv: Wakey on'~Xo~da,V v7e'te on ni' atte Goldsmiths' Arms, East Actohj tedh6lr d hurst, ajed ?? wa's fou.i d ,'rdeed m d a thoou'glsfre leadjinfrom'Eas~ Actp,u P0o4dirinpli:e, imisrr 9 cumatess ot alhboriilxiiaap roxcious charahfer' The body, which lay sn an ostthoue gfte oldemiths' Arms. presentse as appailnrg spaCe, b~in~ is chupl 4k,,'sona a ...

Published: Sunday 01 January 1854
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1169 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

POLICE INTELLIGENCE

... POLICE INTELLIGENCE, RUFFIANLY AssAuLT ON AN UcePROTEcrnD FIMALM. -On Tuesday, James Tracey, a commercial traveller, in the employ of Mr. Wild, of Houndsditch, was charged with a most unprovoked assault upon a lady: - Mrs% Wallis said she had been spending the previous evening with some friends in Stationers'.hall-court, and was re- turning home with her daughter at a late hour, when her boot ...

THE PROVINCES

... BEDFORDSEIRE.-THan RECENT BuRGoit Y AT LaIGffTOw BrzzRsD.-On Tuesday, the four prisoners, Marshall, Sanders, Parkcer, and Myers, were placed at the bar of the ?? first witness called was Edmund Terle, who deposed that on the night of the robbery he drove the prisoners Sanders and Marshall, and another man, from the railway station to nearly op- posite the house of Mr. Matthews.-Nathaniel Smith ...

AN EXECUTION IN FRANCE

... AN EXECUTION IN FANCE. The trial and condemination to death about a month ago of a man named Bony, by the court of assizes of the beine-et-Marue, for the murder of a banker and his wife at Provins, will aot be forgotten. The case, it wvill be remembered, was one of peculiar atrocity. Tile man murdered the banker as he sat at his office desk by strik ing him furiously on the head with a ...

MANCHESTER COUNTY COURT

... MANCHESTER COUJTY COURT. 7 i TUESDAY, Dfso. 27I. RICHARDSON v. BEAXIDSLEY.-The plaintiff is a pyrotechnic artist, and the defendant the proprietor of the PomonaGardens Corn- brook. Mr. Robert Richardson entered into an engagement with the defendant to superintend the getting-up of pyrotechnic displays in the gardens of the latter, and an agreement was drawn up stipulating salary, &c,, but an ...

Published: Sunday 01 January 1854
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1069 | Page: Page 10 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

SCOTLAND

... Muunmsous AssAULT 1AND SuicmDR.-The North British Mail relates the following dreadful crime:- On the night of Friday week, Elizabeth Paterson, a young woman who acted as a domestic servant at the farm of Highgate, near Beith, went out about seven o'clock. At ten she had not returned; and supposing her out with a sweetheart, the place where the keys of the different out- houses hung was ...

MURDER AT BARNSLEY

... 1MunEga AT 3ARNS8T.M. The Dmulono and thriving Ad of o- * ?? - -- ?? - uxnarnatey, Deas become the scene of another diabolical tragedy.. The vioimoef the -present catastropha is Thomas Husband, a olli~eea labourer, .wo WaOs employed at Mrs. Siniths ewgeplta. at Siliketon.D or a great number of years. Hew0eeas widower, aiout 40 years of age, and has left three chlidren-a boy and two girle. He ...

THE MURDER AT ACTON

... I _ THEMURDER AT ACTON. l On Monday, Mr. Wakley remmed the inquest on the body of the young lad found dead in a ditch near East Acton on Tuesday week. Little was known at the first meeting of the coroner's jury, though the circumstances warranted the darkest suspicions. Some light, however, has now been thrown upon the caEe, and, though it still remaies wrapped in great obscurity, there seems ...

SATURDAY'S POLICE NEWS

... I SATURDAY'S POLICNE EWS. HOW-STMEBT. EXTBNSSV ROBBERY By A SnopomAx.-Charles Moss, Hormerly in the employ of Messrs. Hewitts and Co., the extensive firm carrying on business aisdrapers, &e., in High olborn5 was brought before Mr. Henry, charged with the following extensive depredations. It appeared that until about six weeks past prisoner had been in Mfessrs. ife itte' service, and was always ...