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DARING ROBBERY AT A BANK

... IDARING ROBBERY AT A BANE. I £11,590. WORTH OF NOTES STOLE'N. | A moost daring and completely successful robbery 1 was committed in London yesterday afternoon from a clerk in the employ of the Bank of Scotland. So rapidly and skilfuly was the theft committed that n the police entertain scarcely any hope of the robbers being traced. About noon, two walk clerks in the emaploy of the Bank of ...

THE CARDIFF STRIKE

... I At the Cardiff Police Court yesterday, Mr. J. H. Jones, solicitor, applied for summonses on' behalf of a number of seamen against the Shipping Federation. Twenty-six men were, he. said,' engaged by an agent of the Shipping Federation at Shields at £4. 15s. per mrionth, and were to proceed to London. They Swere, however, with the whole of their effects, landed at Cardiff. The summonses were ...

THE CLERICAL LIBEL CASE

... THE CLERICAL IBEEL CASE. The libel case of Foot v. Elton was resumed before Mr. Justice Hawkins and a special jury yesterday. The plaintiff was the vicar of East Clevedon, Somersetzhire, and he sued Sir Edmund Elton, the lord of the manor, and one of the joint patrons of the living of East Cleve- don, to recover damages for an alleged libel. What was complained of was contained in a letter ...

ASTON POLICE COURT

... YESsnRDAY. -Before Messrs. Hill and Stringer and Dr. Gsirlths. A BAD So.x.-Walter Finch (16), tinworker, was charged with stealing from his father's residence, 65, Holland Road, Aston. on the 11th inst., two pairs of trousers and a gold Albert chain, of the value of ;£3. Ss. -Prosecutor gave his son a very bad character, and informed the Court that he had re ently spent some tine in an ...

BIRMINGHAM POLICE COURT

... BiR-mfft'HA lPOLICE COU'RT. .1r--?.t5-l--eiure ?ie~ssrs. Coimrnre (Stip.), Ryflaad, Bras.e, a-id insnr. AM ORPSAN AS!) FIL-eNDt1SS. -William Hen-y r3h if>port- court, Bissell Street, was charged nli L r articles of clothing from Claude q~l~nsi~ ?? Eitreet.-Prisoner wias em- -- ?? -rtert, az;c from time to time stole different mecpt~i e-sergeantt.lam-es traced themto various paieu;o-iP and ...

BIRMINGHAM COUNTY COURT

... BIRnMINGHAM COUNTY COURT. YrEsntDAT.-Behoove His Honour JTude Chalmerx. CLAIz FOB WoROoNGFUn DIsMIssAL-William Moli- ,teaux, stock-fitter, 40, Soho Street, Smethwick, brought an action against Robert Perks Yates (trading-as R. P. ' Yates and Co.), 72, Ryland Street, bedstead manufac- turer, to recover the sum of £.50.-£44. 14s. 2d. damages for wrongful dismissal, and B5. 6s. 1Od. for work done ...

BIRMINGHAM POLICE COURT

... BIRMITNGHAM POLICE COUPT. YESTERDAT.-Before Mfes-rs. Cblnwrs ?? Harris,E and aZl.ocs. D ?? ASSAULT wxnST Darsx.-Alice Graharn (37), married woman, 133, Lancaster Street, was charged t with assaulting Joseph Payton, 53, Bracebridge Street, c Astou.-Prosecutor and the woman were the worse for b drink, and he accused, who is of an excitable disposition, a was bordering upon madness in consequence ...

THE TRAGEDY AT LEEDS

... FURTHER DETAILS. The Leeds police were engaged vysxerday in investi- gating the circumstances attending the discovery of the body of a child, in a shockingly mutilated condition near the Central Police Station on Wednesday night The unfortunate child, who was the daughter of David Waterhouse, quarryman, Alma or Black Boll Yard, Town.Street, Horsfortb, near Leeds, was five years of. age, and is ...

SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST A POLICECONSTABLE

... SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST A POLICE- CONSTABLE. Before the Potteries Stipendiary (Nfr. H. C. Green- wood), at Burslem, yesterday, Joseph Heatherley, a member of the county constabulary recently stationed at NNorton-in-the-Morocsr and previously at Jiurslem, was charged with having criminally assaulted Henrietta Walley, a girl under the age of sixteen years, the daughter of a potter residing at ...

THE CHARGE OF MANSLAUGHTER AGAINST A BIRMINGHAM POLICEMAN

... THE CHARGE OF MANSLAUGTR AGAINST A BIRMINGHAM POLICE_. At the Birmingham Police Court, yesterday-brfo0e8 Mr. T. 31. Colmore-Thomas Watson (25), a policen stable, No. 101, attached to the A division, was place, irn the dock charged with the manslaughter of Wvilliam dj- Whittaker (16), of 9 Cotrt, Thorp Street. The toroner, jury returned a verdict of manslaughter against the accused, and upon ...

THE PATTINGHAM ROMANCE

... THE PATTINGEAM ROMANCE. AN ILLEGAL ARREST. WVhae%, wias known as the Pattingham romance was once mnore the subject of legal proceedings yesterday, when Ellen Smith, a single young woman, of Patting- ham, brought an action in the Wolverhampton County !Court, before his Honour Judge Griffith, to recover £50. damages from Sergeant Tack and Police-constable Tytherley, of the County Police force, ...

THE HANLEY TRAGEDY

... The police are spiring no efforts to cleat up the mysterious circumstances connected with the tragedy which was enacted in the Bucknall New Road, Hlaniey, on Sunday night. Yesterday LDetective-sergeant Williams ascertained that the revolver, which was one of the wea-pons used, was purchased on Saturday by the deceased man Roberts from the shop of Messrs. Smith Bros., ironmongers, Piccadilly. ...