... i A MISERABLE HOME AT OLDBRY. Yesterday afternoon Mr. ES. Docker (coroner) resumed an adjourned inquest, at Oldbury, relative to the death. of an infant named Hannah Spooner, aged six months, the daughter of Samuel Spooner, Halesowen Street. Mr. Bulller appeared on behalf of the Society for the Preven- tion of Cruelty to Children, and the police were repre- sented by Superintendent ?? mother ...

... ITEHE ACTION AGAINST DR. BARNARDO. In Tthe Court of Appeal, yesterday. the Master of the Rolls and Lord Justice Lopes had again before them the appeal of Dr. Barnardo from the order of the Lord Chief Justice and Lord Justice Bowen directing a writ of ha-ens corpus to issue against him to bring up the body of Harry (ossage a minor, now alleged to be in Canada in the family of a private ...

... ACCIDENT TO A WORKHEEN'S TRAIN. . FORTY-SEVEN MINfERS INJURED. An alarming railway collision occurred early yesterday morning on the Doe Lea branch of the Midland Railway, near Glapwell Colliery, Derbyshire. Every morning, between five and six o'clock, it is usual for a train to leave Chesterfield, New Whittington, Dronfield, and other adjacent stations for various pits, and at the customary ...

... THRE BRIDGNORTH D.OWNTIG CASE. At the Bridgnorth Police Court, yesterday, John Fainter (26), colier, of Chelmarsh, was charged, on remand, with causing the death of Jane ?? (50), who was found drowned in the Severn on Saturday morning. Mr. Prior, of Stourport, appeared for the accused.- Police-constable Higgins spoke to seeing the prisoner and the woman in Listley Street late on the night of ...

... There was a busy day at the General Hospital yeeter- day, when a number of serious cases were dealt with. The first patient admitted was Mrs. Batts (60), who lives at the back of No. 5, Hadley Street, Key Hill. The woman was engaged in a wash-house in the yard in which she lives, when the roof fell in. One of the falling pieces of timber struck her on the head and rendered her unconscious. ...

... THE WEST ENYD SCANDAIS. _ - .r A T s AZ D A no - THE CHARGE OF CONSPIRACY. At Bow Street Police Court, London, on Saturday, Messrs. Newton, Taylerson, and De Galla, were further eyamined on the charge of conspiring to defeat the ends of justice in connection with charges preferred for offenoes committed at 19, Cleveland Street Mr. Horace Avory prosecuted. Mr. C. F. Gill defended Newton; Mr. St ...

... -ILIBET ON MR. HERBERT GLADSTONE, t ?? HEAVY DAMAGES. At the Sheriff's Court for the county of London, e yesterday, before Mr. Under-Sheriff Burchell and a a suecial jury, the case of Mir. Herbert Gladstone, of d liarden, Cheshire, against Colonel George Bruce n MaLeson, of 27, West Cromwell Road, came on forhear- b lug. The action, which was one of libel, had been remitted from the Queen's ...

... SERIOUS STRE DISThRBMNE AT LADYWOOD. CONFIOCT WITH THE POLICE. A sharp encounter between a number of police-con- stables and a gang of tubemakers on strike occurred vesterday afternoon outside the mainufactory of M~essrs. Xusy and Vivian, Celer Street, ayod During the row missiles were freely hurledat the police, several of whom had narrowv escapes of being seriously injured, w hilst many of ...

... THE ALLEGED SWLNDLING AT ,p I . BALSALL E04TIT Frank Gibson Jameson, alias Thomas William Jamnts, back of Z1, Ingleby Street, Birminghaim, engineer, was brought up yesterday at the Baalsail Heath Police Court -before Messrs. W. Marwell, J. Baldwin, and T. Gil- bert-charged with obtaining £1. by false pretences from William Henry Parton, brick manufacturer, King's Heath, on the 14th inst.-Mr. ...

... COVENTRY: AttEoOED FIBING AT TRAirs WIT CATAPULTS.-At I the CitY Police Court, on Saturday, Percy Adams, Horace King, and Henry Edwards, the sons of persons in good positions, were summoned for discharging stones from a catapult at a railway train. -Mr. Wilksa appeared for the defendants, who pleaded not guilty. -oice-constable Vale, of the county constabulary, a stated that on the 30th ...

... INQUESTS IX BIRMIGRAM. Mr. Hawkes (coroner) held an inquest at Moor Street, esterday touchinL the death of Estber Oseman (75), a0, hard treet. The deceased, who had suffered from pains at the chest for a long time past, went to live at the above address in Richard Street a fortnight ago. The house, which had been void for more than a couple of months, was, according to the statements of the ...

... Yesterday the Longton justices had before them a number of cases in which parents were charged with offences under the' Act for the Protection of and the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.-In the first case, Luke McGarry, collier, was charged with neglecting his son in such a manner as to be likely to cause the lad unnecessary suffering or injury to his health. It was stated that the ...