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EXTRAORDINARY MURDER BY A BOY

... and a fall over them meant certain death. The two lads, with another named Groom, went out for the purpose of picking blackberries. Wise must have at- tacked Salter as soon as Groom turned his back. On looking round Groom missed Salter, and found that ...

AN EPIDEMIC OF MURDER

... obtained leave, and went' for a- walk palng the -cliffs. When on the cliff he walked in front of the other boys and picked blackberries. Wheu ame distance off he heard the ether boys conversing aboutthe Shambles lightship. They had not been quarrelling. He ...

THE POLICE COURTS

... pioked about three pirrts of blackberries, ir gi t saw roe Iiaut ind threo other men approruciirl unIl. r *e Defenidanit saint to Iriru, I VIrlrt are you doirrg here r ?? t It H replied that he was pickinrg a few blackberries, arui 47 h if lie lYIIS doigr ...

THE SOLDIER'S LAST LETTER

... labourer, of Trinity-road, Finabhley, deposedI Ir. that being out of work, he went out to esee if he could ih ,go get~ some* blackberries to sell,, so as to get some food for an- his 'children..- He had picked about three pints of black- ha he berries. In Bishop's ...

POLICE INTELLIGENCE

... The defendant thereupon directed one of his mento take away the blackberries, and as he ap- proacbed the defendant fired his gun, sendibar the handkerchief containing the blackberries three yards away. He could not tell whether the gun hi.d more than ...

A POPULAR DELUSION

... wife of a shepherd at Riogstead. It was alleged that the assault took place in a field. The woman, it was stated, was blackberrying with ber son, aged four aid a half, when the prisoner appeared and offered 2q. to the boy to go away. He then offerred ...

THE CLARE MARKET GANG

... tola state of destitution. 'He bore the appear. ante of a tramp, and was endeavourhng to raise a few coppers.by selling blackberries and watercress. W~t+ aIG AN'TIES SA.TIJFAOCTIX! Sufferieme from Gravel, Lumbago, Piles, Paine in the Bsck, Drops, Wind ...

STRANGE MURDER AT WINDSOR

... lived ten minutes. Mary Sanfear, a widow, residing at Dedworth-green. stated that on the pre. vious Thursday she went blackberrying with her mother in Mr. Vidler's field, and in the ditch by the side of the hedge she discovered a bundle of clothes. Her ...

THE ILLUSTRATED POLICE NEWS

... worth Green, stated that on Thursday afternoon, between four and five o'clock, she and her mother and some relations were blackberrying in the fields, when she saw a black heap in a ditch. On examina- tion they found that it consisted of two petticoats, a ...

AN EXPENSIVE TOOTH

... his life. The young fellow drove two ladies, named Keeping, in a wfagonnette to Tuckton, where they -got - out to pick blackberries. While waiting for them Steggells drove the horse and vehicle to the River Stour, in order to give the animal a drink. ...

GREAT BLACKMAIL CASE

... mninlaed. His next step was to breah into a clergymain's house and dires himself in clerical clothes. He was arrested picking blackberries, a policeman noticing he was wearing prison cocks. lie received a sentence of sight vears when ie was captured. Detect ...

THIRTY-FOUR YEARS OF IMPRISONMENT

... donled clerical clothes, lie walked boldly from the house. A few days later-a police-constable saw a clergyman feeding on blackberries, and noticing that hie was eating ravenously be- caine suspicious. The clergyman did not appear in the least nonplussed ...