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THE GREAT FORGERIES ON THE RUSSIAN BANK

... THlE GREAT FORIGERIES ON THE RtUSSIAN I BANK. The three Polish Jews, Chlosmn Reiclhberg, Abrtham Rosenberg, and Kauffmann Weber, who are charged with conspiring to defraud the Imperial Bank of Rtussia by means of an extensively organised conspiracy to fabricate forged rouble notes of all denominations circulating in the Russian emlpire, were on Friday brought before the Lord Mayor, at the ...

CRIME IN IRELAND

... Thle following items have some bearing on the state of crime in Ireland:- FIRING SHOTS INTO A DWEMLLING HoUSE.-During the night of Wednesday last two shots were fired into a dwelling-house at Emil, in the King's County, which is in the occopation of hMr. Timothy Crawley. The contents took effect on the walls, but the inmates happily escaped. This house had been previously the residence of Mrs. ...

BIRMINGHAM POLICE COURT

... PIRMDTGHAM POLICE COURT. YESTERDAY. BCfore CIessrs. T. Cox acdl C. S. Cope, A SUSPsCcxx-A man named Alfred Baker, a peall worker, living in the Vauxhall Boad, was charged with having about 50Dls. of lead in his possession, for which he could not satisfactorily account. Police-constable Michael Kelly stated that yesterday (Thursday) morning, about three o'clock, he saw the prisoner coming up ...

BIRMINGHAM POLICE COURT

... YESTERDAY. Before Sir John ratclbf,; eMssrs. T. C. S. Kynncrsley, S. Btickley, and Westley Richard-S. TreE FATAL IFIGT IN DARTMOUTH STREET.-The two men, named Thomaess Brown, a pearl button cutter, living in Little Barr Street, and Jolhn Whitacre, a lhbourer, residing in Witton Street, who were remanded on a charge of having caused the death of Joseph Sinipson, a tin bulnisher, who resided in ...

THE SHOCKING MURDER AT OLDBURY

... T}HE SiOzic1NG URDER AT OLDBURY INQUEST YESTERDAY. Yesterday the inquest on the body of Sophia Ockold, who was found murdered in her bed room on Saturday last, was resumecd at the Talbot Hotel, Oldbury, before Balph Docker, Esq., and a respectable jury. The affair appeared to excite considerable interest in the neighbour- beod, crow ds of persons gathering in front of the hotel. The husband of ...

DISTRICT NEWS

... 3TTOURBRIDGE. Fonnuesy BoY AN Ofl. TowNsr1AN'S SoN,-At the Poliee Court yesterday, before J. Amery and B. Little- wood, Esqrs,, Thomas Simpson was placed in the dock charged with having forged a promissory note for the pay- ment of £25. The prisoner is the son of a former coach proprietor in the town, and at one period of his career became possessed of a considerable sum of money by mar-. ...

BIRMINGHAM POLICE COURT

... BI1VMINGIiAMTPOLICE COURT. YESTERDAY. Before Sir Jotin aei (f, Mesrs. P. 0. S. Kynnersley, and WeUley Rihawrds. STEALING AND RECHeviNO.-A yoath named George Horteon, a brass tap founder, residing in the Victoria Road, Aston, was brought up, charged with having stolen a nuber of brass taps from the premises of big naster, Mr. Smith, of Weraman Pow, and a man named Johae Wfifamo, I, braes tap ...

BIRMINGHAM BANKRUPTCY COURT

... BIRfMINGHAM BANKRUPTCY COURT. YESTERDAY. BEFOnR MR. RM u RRn WuvILSON. iti re T. Malls, TValsall, iron ?? was a meeting for last examination and dischargo, but as the bankrupt did not appear he was outlawed. e rc C. T. clover, .Tarborne ande DiminqTeamcs, draper.- Meeting for last examination and diseharge. The balanee shect ahowed: ?? owing to creditors unsecured, £000. 7s. lOd.; creditors to ...

THE MURDEROUS ASSAULT ON A WOMAN AT SEDGLEY

... TRE MURDERQ'US ASS CTUR J .A WOMAN AT SEDQIDGE COMMITTAL OP THIM PFBCfONE;RF Yesterday, at the Scagley Police Court, before the Rev. W. Lewis, and tb, .RScv. J. Y. Booker, John Painter was charged with ilnlawfully wounding Rebecca Southall on the previous Saturday, at Sedgley, under circumstances already narrated in our columns, Mr. Stokeri, of Dudley, appeared for the prisoner. The poor woman ...

BIRMINGHAM BANKRUPTCY COURT

... BLRMINGHAM BANKRUPTCY COURT. FRIDAY. BrEFORE F.M . REnIGSTRAX WATBRuiuILD, itn re J. Freajrds, Wolverhacstpto'e, fis ?? examination nnd discharge. The balance sheet howed:-Debti, owing to creditors unsecured, £878. 10 d-. lod; to secured reditos, £250.: liability on acnommodation bills, £56. is. Ilis assets in good debts were £0. is. lid.,; property in the hands of creditors, £126; deofcleuoyY ...

MURDER AT NEWARTHILL, LANARKSHIRE

... From the circumstances detailed in the following narra' tive, there can be little doubt that a most brutal murder has been committed in the middle ward of the county this week. Early on the morning of Tcesday last, while some men were proceeding to their work, they found the dead body of a female lying in the parish road, called Biggar. ford Boad, near Newarthill ; and, from the external ap. ...

POISONED BUNS

... EXTRAOPRDINARY CASE. Dr. F. W. Griffin, of the Bristol School of Chemistry, supplies to the Times the following account of a case of poisoning which has lately occurred in Bristol:- On Thursday, the 15th inst., various persons became seriously ill after eating Bath buns purchased of a confec- tioner at Redland. Among the sufferers were six youths, pupils at a leading sohool at Clifton. ...