... FORGING RAILWAY TICKETS. These assizes were resumed at Hereford yesterday, before Mr. Justice Mathew.-An old man named Matthew Goodden, of Gilwern, near Abergavenny, a lessee of tolls, was indicted for having forged a railway ticket, with which he travelled from. Abergavenny to Hereford on July 30, defrauding the Greatb Western and London alnd North-Western Railway Companies.- Thomnas Thirston ...

... The coroner's enquiry into the circumstances attending the death of Dr. W illiam Reeks Lyddon was resumed at Faversham on Wednesday. Since the last hearing of the case the interest in the proceedings has increased, and the Town Hall was crowded. Whilst Charles Lyddon, the step-brother of the deceased, was proceed- ing to the court he was loudly booted by a crowd which had assembled in the ...

... BIRMIINGHfAN COUNTY COURT. YES7ZRD~kY.-Bcfforc Hie ;fonour Jusd;C Chalmers. Tam LIABILITY OF5 CLLrB MaImaiBas.-Esizabeth Bailey Veitch, sports outfitter, Union Street, brought an action against J. Lathbury Ash, 39, Hall Road, Haudeworth, to recover £6. 12s. 6d. for goods sold and delivered. Since the commercement of the action the estate of the plaintiff has been assigned to Mr. James Rhodes, ...

... YrstsaRDt.-Defore Messrs. Caiaore (Stip.), JaObs, 7'uiamirks, and Middvismors. THErT OF Toote.-Richard WVainwright (38), packer, 106, Cromwell Street, was charged with stealing 35s. worth of tools from Edward Presson, toot manufacturer. Whittall Street.-Detective-sergeant Cooke followed prisoner into a broker's shop in John Bright Street on Saturday, and found him trying to dispose of some ...

... i STAFFORDSIRE WINTER ASSIZES. YESTERDAY.-BeffOrC Mr. Justisc Math-, THE DEEPFIELDS TRAGEDY. John Wise (35), steelfitter, Deepfields, was charged with the wilful murder of Mary Davis, the wife of James Davis, royalty master, Deepbelds, on the 26th of August. Mr. Morehouse and Mr. Kettle appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. Alfred Young defended the ?? opening the case, Mr. Morehouse related ...

... THE TREATKENT OF RETURNED CONVICTS. At the Croydon County Bench on Wednesday-before Sir Thomas Edridge and Mr. John Cooper-Henry Hu gett, an elderly man, was charged on remand with failing to notify his place of residence to the inspector on duty at the Mitcham Station, he being a person under sentence of seven years'police supervision. When the case was before the court on the previous day ...

... Judgmnent ws3 given by the Scotch Court of Sessions, on Wednesday, in a cempetition between the legatees in an action of multiplepoinding, at the instance of the trustees of the late Mrs. Craigie and Miss Faloonar, of Falconhall, near Edinburgh, the daughters of the lace Alexander Falconar, on the one hand, and Mrs. Irving Smith, Stourbridge, and others, the next of kin of 'Mr. Falconar, on ...

... THE 'WELLBORNE DIVORCE CASE. EV.IDEN CE OF THE CO-RESPONDENT. In the Divorce Division, yesterday, Mr. Jnstice Butt and a special jury had again before them the case of i Wellborne v. Wellborne and Evered. The petition was that of the husband, a solicitor, for a divorce by reason of the alleged misconduct of his wife with the co- respondent, a minor. Mr. Bayford, Q.C., and Mr. H. B. Deane ...

... THE LATE MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS AT KIDDERMIINSTER. ' At the Kidderminster Borough Police Court, yester- day-before the Mayor (Mr. W. C. Green), and Messrs. E. J. MIorton, J. J. Harvey, aud W. Coxon-three cases were on the list relating to the municipal elections on November 1. George Rollings, innkeeper, was sum- moned, at the instance of Charles Seymour Matthews, for having on the above date ...

... BIRMIINGHEAM POLICE COURT. YESTERDAr. - ?? Nun. Cotrc (Stip.), A. ChaaikrlatI, G. £. Lezydl, wainorigmhtr 0a77lIF. I~l~d/ccs.; RswAaNo.-Juhn Evemal, Guildford Street, and Alfred Edwards, Newsome Road. Aston, were charged with violently assaulting Joseph Ward. and sc alng, from him 14s.-T'heo prosecutor said that on 'Monday. evening he went into the Porchoster Arms and had four half-pints of ...

... DISTRICT _EWS. DUDLEY. SAVAGE ASSAULT Oy A pRAO -Ye y, a, the Police Court-before Alderman Bagott and Mr. Bateman-Thomnas Edwards (29), miner, Greet's Green, was sent to gaol for a month, with hard labour, for kicking Ellen McNeill, a young woman with whom he cohabited. CRnGE OP RECmEIvNG SToro Goons.-At the same court Thomas Lloyd, a youth, lately in the emplo of Mrs. Alleyne, mineral ...

... |TiH COUNTs COURT JUDGE AND MONcEY SOC rs-C.- At the County Court, yesterday-before Judge Griffiths -an action was brought in the names of James Freeth. James Law, and George Bettany, as trustees of the Victoria Loan and Investment Society, against Jeremiah Richards and others, to recover £5. las., the balance alleged to be due on a promisory note. Mr. J. S. Sharpe defended.-Mlr. James ...