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Preston, Lancashire, England

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ANNUAL GENERAL SESSION

... who took a more conspicuous pert i debate; but M., Baines was not a man anxious to put himself for- ward, but when he did speak, no man soke more plain, vigorous, strong sense. No man was more listened to, and no man was more respected. There was a time ...

BLACKBURN COUNTY COURT

... said he thought that that was like calling parol evidence to explain a written agreement, which, being in writing, ought to speak for ?? Mercer, the plaintiff, was called, and he bore out Mr. Torr's statement relative to the making and signing of the ? ...

DIABOLICAL OUTRAGE AT BISPHAM

... to be inchned to do some mischief. r To Jurors: I never heard the prisoners speak to the r deceased after they had commenced to throw sods. I left the risonerm without speaking to them. I did not follow the footpath when I first left them, bat I afterwards ...

INTERMEDIATE SESSIONS

... imperfection of humn nntribunals, because it it is not given to us to know with absolute certainty whether persons are or are not speaking. the truth. The oase whioh,:I have referred to was one in which there was direot contradiction of evidence, and where it ...

POLICE INTELLIGENCE

... three times on the face with his hand, pulled my nose, and hit me with a comb. I did otgimve hit anyp revocation, nor did I speak to him.- Defendant Did i slap your face thruee tims ?? - curx Yes. Defendantlf I slapped it ?? eutrix :You. told me to go out ...

ANNUAL GENERAL SESSION

... to the number of resignations in the police force lately; contended that the policemen were not as well paid, comparatively speak- ing, as ordinary workmen who were employed in other departments of the country; and argued that in conse- quence of the low ...

THE GREAT IRONMONGERY FOBBERY

... knowledge of the male prisoner's dishonesty, and all that (L she had done in the affair was simply goind to Mr. Walton hr and speaking to him about the sale. If h a a h at - slightest suspicion that the property watlncudte cc beli,,ve thait she would, under ...

TRIAL OF WHITWORTH GUNS AT SOUTHPORT

... naval and miIi- a tary, were besieged with enquiries on this point by every non-professional person who had the opportunity of speak- ing to them. They are a body of fine fellows; very cour- a teons and obliging; and they answered the hundreds of ,r questions ...

INTERMEDIATE SESSIONS

... such as to justify them in sending the prisoners for trial. All the cases were of a very ordinary description, generally speaking, being principally felonies. There was one case, however, which had excited considerable atten- tion in Preston, viz., a ...

POLICE INTELLIGENCE

... they were not really so large as others. I had taken out before. I said something to him, and he asked me f I intended to speak in that way tohimn. I said they were no bigger than others, and he made no more to do than up with his hand and hit Me on the ...

EXTRAORDINARY ASSAULT

... believe it was passion which induced him to make the observations he did. I did not think it was right to pro- voke him by speaking, and, therefore, I said nothing. Mr. Johnson knows himself that I was quite calm, and would not answer his ?? rev. gentleman ...

POLICE INTELLIGENCE

... morning. Both of them were in good health and there was no one dead in the house.-Prisoner: Will yon allow me to speak; I could not speak yesterday.- O[r. Dodd (to Palmer): Did she hog in the street?- Palmer: I watched her stop a gentleman yesterday morning ...