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THE ACCIDENT AT NEW CROSS COLLIERY

... AlvOUrNED INQUEST. The inquest on:the bodies of the five sufferers by this accident, who resided in Wedneafleld Heath and its neighbourhood, was reuwrned yesterday. Mr. Ward again appeared for the friends of the deceased. Mr. Bartlett watched the case for the two engine. men in custody, and Mr. Thurstana for Messrs. Whitehouse, who were also present. John Urquhart, the night watchman at the ...

LAW INTELLIGENCE

... COURT OF CHANCERY,- JANUARY 28. (Before the Lord Chancellor and the Lords Justice of Appeal.) THOMSON V. SHAKESPEAR. It will be recollected that the object of the suit was to establish a legacy of £2,500. and a rent-charge of £60. per annum, given by the will of the testator, John Shakespear, late Professor of Oriental Languages in Haileybury College, to be laid out by his trustees, with the ...

BIRMINGHAM POLICE COURT

... YESTERDAY. Eefore Messrs. T. C. Kysoacrsley and C. Shaw, and Sir Jo115 Rendii CHsAnoL OF ASAxULT.-W~iliasmn Ball, greengrocer, Aston R1ss. was charged with assaulting Harriet Feiton, 4 Court, ?? Street. The complainant stated that she was a widow, her bus. bond 'having been deadbhut ashort tiuss. On theprevious day he was, in company with another woman, passing along Stafiforit Street, when ...

BIRMINGHAM POLICE COURT

... YESTERDAY. Bcfore H. Smith, ?? Coz, aend Willium Jancs, Es'rs. AN EXPERlENCRD BU5RGLAR MIsCALCULATING MATTE5.-A robuot fellow, described as a sawyer, of St. Martin's Place, Five Ways, and giving the name of Joseph Siznekis, was charged with breaking and entering the workshop of Mr. Richard Price, of Latimer Street South. The burglar, who Sergeant Teggils said. had just come out of gaol for a ...

BIRMINGHAM BANKRUPTCY COURT

... YESTER AY. Baroltr MR; CosrMse8IoNeR SANDERS. THE BANKRUPTCY OF MESSRS. DAVIES AND SON, OF CROOKHAY. JUDGMENT ON THE CERTIFICATE. His Honour yesterday gave judgment in this matter, he having taken a short time to consider his decision. Mr. Allen (of the firm of Hodgson and Allen) attended on behalf of the assignees, and Mr. Knight for the baunrupts. His Honour ?? bankrupts In this case are ...

LAW INTELLIGENCE

... COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. -JAnuARy 31. ?? v. WILLIAMS. In this case Mr. Serjeant Pigott showed cause against A rule calling on the plaintiff to show cause why an award should not be set aside, on the ground of the misconduot of the arbitrator, who had called in an attorney to advise him contrary to an agreement that no lawyer should be called in, and who had made his award, without hearing the ...

BIRMINGHAM POLICE COURT

... SATURDAY. Before S. Rawslins and F. I. Welch, Burl. lOnnIsN AN EMPLOYER.-A respectable-looking youth, namel John Hawkins Rarvey, was brought up by Detective Sergeant Spokes, charged with stealing some shot bags and two boxes of caps, the property of his employers, Messrs. Walton and Evans, Newhall Street. Spokes stated that that morning ho was in a shop in Broad Street, when the prisoner came ...

DREADFUL MURDER BY A MEMBER OF THE LOUISIANA LEGISLATURE

... DREADFUL MURDER BY A MEMBER OF TIHE LOUISIANA LEGISLATURE. The Necw Orleans Delta relates a horrible story. Colonel Peck, a member of the State Legislatare, and a Mr. C. N. Harris, had had a quarrel about a year ago. They both accidentally happened to be staying at the St. CharlesHotel, New Orleans, on the 12th of January. Colonel Peck and a friend were pushing their way through a crowd after ...

BIRMINGHAM POLICE COURT

... YESTERDAY. Btfore Messrs. Luey anid Lane, VIOLEnT ASSAULT.-John Eltwood, axletree turner, Slaney Street, John Jennings, gun-barrel filer, Weaman Street, and NVil- liant Ring, axietree forger, Summer Lane, were charged with assaulting two brothers, John Kirk, joiner, Philip Street, and Eli Kirk, carter, Summer Lane. It appeared from the evidence of the complainants, who bore marks of having ...

FRIGHTFUL TRAGEDY IN COVENTRY

... MURDER OF A WIFE AND SUICIDE OF THE MURDERER. One of the most atrocious, cold-blooded, and deliberate crimes it has ever been our lot to record was committed in Coventry at an early hour on ?? morning. The murderer and suicide, Henry Fawson, was a butcher, carrying on business in Weston Street, a little thoroughfare leading from High Street, Hhifideld. The victim of his homicidal rage was his ...

BIRMINGHAM POLICE COURT

... YESTE RDAY. .Be~fo'r T1hovws Phlslipse, 1?. ?? Whs'o~ldc, and WF. Gouegh, Bsyri. A WANDERING LUNATIc.-A young man, giving the name of Pat-ick, Kelly, wae brought up by Police-cosntable Murphy, whol etated that on the preceding day defendant had been running up and down the railway and amongst the enginee, apparently un- conecious of danger, and as It was clear he wee of uneound mind he wee ...

THE COVENTRY TRAGEDY

... INQUESTS ON THE BODIES, YESTERDAY. The dreadful caso of murder and suicide at Coventry, aireadr reported in the Daily Post, was yesterday the subject of investigs. tion before A. Carter, Eeq., Coroner for the Northern Division a thc county, and a Jury of tradesmen. From the evidence it will be seen that the account we Iray already furniahed of this sad affair is substantially correct, butwe ...