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EXTRAORDINARY ASSAULT AT CARDIFF

... At the Cardiff police-court, to day—before Mr T. W. Lewis (stipendiary) and Dr Paine—William Gilbert, a very respectable looking man, was charged with assaulting E iward Evans on the Hayes on the 23rd inst. The two men were unknown to each other until that afternoon. They met casually at the Oxford Hotel; and the prisoner asked prosecutor to stand him a drink. His request was refused, and this ...

Published: Wednesday 24 April 1889
Newspaper: South Wales Echo
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 158 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

ITHE QUEEN

... THE QUEEN. On Tuofd.iy afternoon the Queen, accompanied by the Princess Louise, aud attended by the Duchess of Roxburgh, Sir Henry Ponsonby, Sir Henry Ewart, and Dr Rid, left Windsor Castle, and proceeded by special tram over the Great Western Railway for Wolverton, en route for Sandringham, where her Majesty will remain on a visit to the Prince and Princess of Wales until Saturday. At King's ...

Published: Wednesday 24 April 1889
Newspaper: South Wales Echo
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 306 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

The Atherton .Tragedy.I ^

... The Atherton Tragedy. No arrest has yet been made iu connection with the supposed murder at Atherton, Lancashire. ...

Published: Tuesday 23 July 1889
Newspaper: South Wales Echo
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 17 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

I A -, LITTLE BILL I

... The Whitechapel Tragedies. A CORONER ON EAST END SLUMS. The inquest on Alice Mackenzie, who was mur- dered and mutilated in Castle Alley, WhitechapeJ, on the morning of the 17th July, was concluded by Mr W. E. Baxter at Whitechapel yesterday. Mr George Bagster Phillips, surgeon, recalled, gave a further description of the injuries to the body. No fresh evidence was produced, and the coroner, ...

Published: Thursday 15 August 1889
Newspaper: South Wales Echo
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 549 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

I A SCOTCH BREACH OF PROMISE :CASE

... A SCOTCH BREACH OF PROMISE CASE. XI,000 Damages. In the Court of Session, Edinburgh, there was settled an action for breach of promise'brought by Annie MacFarlane, Craigneuk, Dennistoun, Glasgow, against Alexander Hogg, an extensive sugar broker, in Glasgow. Mr.Hogg was stated to be very wealthy, being believed to be worth £ 100,000. He gave the plaintiff many valuable presents, and used to ...

Published: Wednesday 20 March 1889
Newspaper: South Wales Echo
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 165 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

=r;l_--The Bury Tragedy, I

... The Bury Tragedy, I VERDICT OF WILFUL This morniiE: tho inquest was resumed, And various polic9 coi'stables were called 1 Rive evidence as to the arrest. It was said the prisoner pointed out the key of the wardrobe among the keys taken from him at the police office without being directly asked.-Dr Mitchell, recalled, swore to the blood stains on the prisoner's trousers.—The prisoner then, ...

Published: Friday 04 October 1889
Newspaper: South Wales Echo
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 126 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

PUBLICAN'S TERRORS AT I NEWPORT

... John Jou03 and Edward Hamilton, typical hawkers, were charged with being disorderly in the Alma beerhouse, Commercial-street, and assaulting Phillip Yendell, the landlord. On Wednesday evening the prisorter3 and their com- panions created a disturbance in the bar, and when the landlord went to quell it Hamiltou caught him by the throat, and Jones, who was behiud, said, Give it to him now. The ...

Published: Friday 15 February 1889
Newspaper: South Wales Echo
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 168 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

FATAL FOOTBALL ACCIDENT

... Yesterday, at Leek, an inquest was held on the body of Arthur Kuowleson, of Ashton-under- Lyne, who broke his leg on January 26, while playing football against the Leek Wasps, and died on Tuesday of lockjaw, which followed the amputation cf the limb on Monday night. The jury returned a verdict of Accidental death, and expressed sympathy with Allen, who was the inuocetit cause of the accident ...

Published: Friday 15 February 1889
Newspaper: South Wales Echo
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 77 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

FOOTBALL

... To-morrow's Match at Swansea- Newport v. Swansea. The representatives of Newport journey to Swansea to-morrow to meet their olil rivals, the all whites. This will be the third meeting between the teams this season in the two former matches the honours were divided, Swansea scoring a victory on the first and Newport on the second occasion. Since the last match the Newport back contingent has ...

Published: Friday 15 February 1889
Newspaper: South Wales Echo
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 151 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

i THE GRAND THEATRE, CARDIFF. I

... THE GRAND THEATRE, CARDIFF. Benefit of the Lessee. On Friday evening Mr W. John, lessee of the Grand Theatre, Cardiff, took his first benefit, and was deservediy rewarded for the indomitable pluck he has displayed since embarking on what many people considered a fcrlorn hope by finding the house packed from top to bottom. In the dress circle were representatives of most of the leading ...

Published: Saturday 09 February 1889
Newspaper: South Wales Echo
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 470 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST A \ CAPTAIN AT PENARTH. \

... SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST A CAPTAIN AT PENARTH. ] Neglect to Enter up the Log-book, At tiis Penartb polme-court to-dz-,y-beiore !It James W-,tri-Herbert H. Brown, captain ot the [ SS. Munster, was charged with ha v. ing discharged a British sea?nau abroad j at Philadelphia without having taken him befora j the British Consul and with not having made an ( entry in the log book of the circumstance. ...

Published: Monday 25 February 1889
Newspaper: South Wales Echo
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 274 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

DISCOVERY OF HUMAN RE- I MAINS AT FISHGUARD. i

... DISCOVERY OF HUMAN RE- I MAINS AT FISHGUARD. On Saturday. whilst some workman were engaged digging for foundations to a stable budding on a spot at the top of the steep declivity overlooking the Slade Valley, some 600 yards from the east wall of the parisli churchyard, and when at a depth of 7 fee:, they unearthed what proved to be human bones, in such a state of decay as to crumble at the ...

Published: Monday 25 February 1889
Newspaper: South Wales Echo
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 196 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News