... evidence showved that the child had died from pneumonia, resulting from scalds to the throat, V Zrdjct accordingly. A STORY OF A SHORT LIFE. At the Victoria tavern, St. Philip's marsh, on the body of Alfred Mortimer, the illegitimate infant of EmAly Dlortimer ...

... o police in deciding upon this course. are said to have 38 been actuated first by the absonce of anything to l- verify the story of murder, and secondly the dis- Ie covery of fresh evidence tending to confirm' sus- pieions that the crime was the acti of ...

... or crowded. > Complainant is a prepossessint woman, and ?? dreseed ina fashionable plaid nlster and fur th boa, She wore a short veil during the proceedings, le 'and was evidently rather nervous when in the witness ry box. MrFleming,barrister, who was ...

... Other letters contained similar directions one lling defendant that it the child tore her clothe' she was to make her to short of food to payfor tbem. Witness said the officer wasineltigated to visit her in Bristol by a spiteful neighbour. Perhaps it ...

... defendants the gratification of summoning him. f As a matter of fact, the constable was beaten about v, most severely, end the story of the witnesses they r had heard was all a myth. He contended that the I evidence of P.C. Lock, wbo had been in the force ...

... police. The magistrates committed the prisoner E three weeks on each offence, or six weeks' imprieeC mee in tall, IL A. STRANGE STORY, L Joseph Weatherly, a watchman, was charged wit *ers, stealing a quantity of rum from a puncheon lying ct 197, the Welsh Back ...

... ; again very vioient, striking and kicking at the con. stables one: of whom bad to use his truncheon. Detective-Inspector Short said that the prisoner had a served five years for highway robbery, and since then bei be bad nd six months' imprisonment for ...

... police, and were net all owed to. obtain honest' einpldnent. Thatifts very far front the capehejo ; on the contrary, Inspector Short did his utmost to induce Mr Alao toeploy the prisoner, telling him that he belfeved the prisoner was repen- tent ad contrite ...

... with the smoking room, bat no 5 date could be fixed, so that there would be no oppor- c trnt fexplaining this extraordinary story. The 2 cabdriver said o he saW the arm oa Mr Wertheimer rou3 d Lady Dnlo in, the carriager but this never a happened ates ...

... relativeo tohsefdemsdant, and fiditif he did not get-a situatipis Iv him a- gneral characte. as secured satisfd withthat, but In short time it came to th@ ears' of Tr'albot that certain lnhdders had- been spread about relative to-lits conduat with, two of hii ...

... wanted her husband, as tbey- bad it in for hlm-, Askcd why ber hsand was at dal suspeoted, the old lady said that various stories were oig about the, 'silhge, one of whioh was that her husband had been heaid to wear that he would shoat the kesper. It was ...

... the prisoner repeated the story she had recep told to the workhouse por!'er, Forei Detective.Sergeant Robinson stated that after the start prisoner w~as taken into oustouly he made inquiries, seque whaich showed that her story couldnot betrue. Shehad told ...