... ILME A LLEi.{Ef) THEFTS AT| i LUN D Y. At the DWeoutiusdrtcrhessioniOiL Wve aosrkiY -before Mr. W. }f, litiv andl GoloDet' Lucas-James Biding, di~iver, (r!Y QAzir piadea r0to grailty to chaprg au Z 2slg betwvean the l1t Augnst-and 25th 'Sbptember, 1897, 14l71bs of cl-pper stnamll, piping. value- £16, f'rou the n recuied liop SlidadO,' at hitndy I sland .MMl [lawke (inistructPd byv MI r. ...

... SERIOUS CHARGES AGAINST THE LANDLORD. At the Ereter Police Court this morning- before Ur R R M Daw, Mr T Liascotb. M1r A Bowden, and Mr J W Petherick-William Evaans, of 6, Silver-place, Blactkboy-reai, was summoned for being drunk on the licensed premises knovw as the Snn Inn, Sur-street, on Wednesday last,to which, ho pleaded guilty, and was fined 5s inclusive. Roger Squire, vendor, of ...

... BREACHI OF PROMIS1E. tS BE STILL, 8AD HEA.RT. . s' In tho Queen's i3nch Division on Wednesdly - before Mr. AlustiePlilloy- Miss Kate Sinclair aseied Mr John lHacklett, a veterinary seurgeon, l(o reeover damages for breach of promise of r marriage. The defendlant origrinally denied tiho proumie, bht the main defence was that irhe promiso was of a conditional nature with redwild to an event ...

... , . Tf. , il i' , -, i~ , I 1 ; e .0f, If I ~~TESTON -M:URDEgElt. I I . ?? .: I' EXECUTION THIS MORNING. R -A GHASTLY STORY. . William Betts was executed at MaidNtono kthis morning for the .murder of hisaged father midt Teston, a little village near Maidstoue. The man he murdered was a shoemaker by, 9.tirade, and vwas nearly eighty years' of age. . Prisdner and anothe'r son resided with the ! ...

... 'Yhe general Qarter -Sessions of the Peace for thie County of Devon was };ield at the Castle of Exeter an Tuesday, before his H our Judge Edge, wole, v was accompanied 0 J It Bench by the following justices s - Lord Coleridge, Colonel Ivalcott, Colonel Lake, Makjor Gardener, Major Dunning, the bev NV D Pitian, Dr Ash. Alessrs Airatson F D Fulford, IHiggs, It Moraboad, Inshrt-Tei-ry, C A HI A ...

... IOUSBEMAID'S ROMANTIC SUIC DE. HER LOVER HAD CEASED TO SAY t HIS PRAYERS. An inquest wae held on Tuesday night on H the body of Johanna Johnson, aL handsome t young housemaid, who lived at The Elmse (3ndle, near Nortl.amptoll. Sihe was engaged h to Arthur Gonld, an insutrance agent, of StLin- I ford. Gould ?uad written to his sweetheart t telling her that he had ceased to pray to God. This ? ...

... I BREACII OF PROMISE SEQUELI NORTH DEVON LOCAL PREACHEU'S BANKRUPTCY. John Henry Sleeman, late farmer at Halwill t} a bttnkrupt, was on Trnesday at Barsstaple ,j, further examined by Mr. A. F. Seldon, repre. senting Miss Densham, who obtained a Tl verdict by consent of £300 for oreach of C promise at a recent Asseiz. At the previous gr examination debtor a initted he lra c oompro- gr mised ...

... VOLL-BLO !DED CRALE. IlJRDER OF A PRIEST: DEATH SENTENCE. A sensational murder casevas concluded on Satur' ay at Tours Assizes, when a man named Lehma'n and his hnistress, named Peltie, were charged with murdering a priest anct his servant, It appeared that on October 9th last year an old priest and cure, named Fleurat, eighty-two years of age, and his servant, were found deae in the Vicarage. ...

... SINGULAR DIVORCE SUIT'. I In the Divorce Division on Tuesday, before Sir Francis Jeune, Mr. George Blake, auctioneer, Llanelly, sued for a divorce from his wife, Mrs. Annie Lamberb Blake, because of her alleced adaltery with Ur. George Waddell, colliery proprietor, and M r. Frederick Nelson Powell, solicitor, brother-in-law of the petitioner.-Mr. Blake was married on Sep- tember I5th, 1885, ...

... EXMOUTI T1'HEFT' CGASE. A SCENE IN COURT. At Exinouch Pub>if IIrL, On Wediles.lay-- before Mr. A. A. Carter (in tihe chair) and t Gcneral ?? Oaborne (who l,3s t boeti in the Mauid lloepitril For a frrtnight, A arvi who had to be provided with a sen, in O court) was brougtlht ire) on reiv'anrd charged with, on the 12:h May, ultoinrnrt bry fitee pretettees a pair of shoes the property of hi r. ...

... TORQUAY FATALITY-. SAD DEATEH OFA TRADESMAN1'S WIFES . Mr. Coroner S. Hacker held an inquest in I' the upton Parish Room om Wednesday o01H Mrs. Martha Mary Rowell, 58. the wife of Mr. G. A. Rowell, draper, of 98, Union-street, who died suddenly in Union.street on Mon. day. Mr. J. Jones was elected foreman of the jury. Sidney George Rowell identified the deceased as his mother. She had been ...

... SO UTHMOLTON AFFILT.ATEON CAS W. ArPEATA AU THE DEVON QUARTiR 'e'c SESSIONS. ?? o At the Quarter Sessions at Exeter ol Wed- were nesday, the case of Hugh Vaughan Thomas v ecl eo Sarah Ann Bowen was heard.-blr J A tfaiwke to pr for the appellant and Mr Pridham. Wippeli for r, b the ?? was an appeal upon a thif t decision of the Sonthmol ton Justices, rvhurr)y I , hr the appellant was ordered ...