... ATTEMPTED WIFE MUIDER AT WREXHAM. I at North Wales A ssizes held at Ruthin. on Monday, kefore Mr. Justice Collins, Benjamin Poulton, 30, I sabourer, * as convicted of attempting to murder his att ites at Wrerham. The acnused looked the kitchon ?? door, and attacked his vvife with a hatchet, inflicting in frightful injuries. He aftrerwards out his own throat, heo And ither reattaaked his wife, ...

... PORTSEA BUILDINGm SOCIETY PROSECU- | TTONS.' I The Portsen Island Building Society prosecution o0 was resumed on Fridav mornino, before Mr. Justice h Hawkins and a special juiry. Mr. Williamn Grdner, one C of the auditors of the society, again entbered tbe box, and wP his examination bv Mr. Mvathews was continued. Ques- V tioned as to the September monthly statement contain- a, ing some of the ...

... The inquiry into the charge against Mr. Jobn Deasy, a M.P. for West Mafyo, for assaulting Ellen Lewis, a n servant girl in the employ of Mrs. Postlewhaite, 75, a Warwiok-street, where Mr. Deasylodged,wasconcluded b lifore Mr. De Rutzen, at the. Westminstei' Police. o court, yesterday. Mr. Dutton appeared to prose. e cuto, and Mr. Abrahams defended. Mr. Deasy's examination w as continued. He ...

... TMt ?? AMtEB After a lengthy, aitting ontiiha tgainst S smuel ( 'were, g st3ot nfg wilful murder ?or having Iciohed to death ?? er, Notizgham #Lli~ Wet, , yong Ofla with whom he had been familiar. The evidenc showed ~that the onfortunate woman, after driking fosm time with Owen in a puibllosadiin thoru~hfr~sc Notn NPuO~~t ajoinng ne of the O',tsie -e re inses company.' 8,ani it is alleged ?? ...

... I BREWSTER SESS10.NS. 'MANCHESTER. The Annual Licensing Sessions for the Manchester Division of the county -wre held on Tuesday at the Strangeways PDlice-court. Mr. J. H. P. Lorerscbe presided, and the other justices present were Captain Mile, Redhead, and Messrs. T. Lings, W. U. Cooke, J. 'Bowker, S. Garnett, E. S. Heywood, and B. Armitage (Sorrel Bank). nR. SUPERINS'rEYDENT BENT'S BRPonr. Mr ...

... MURDEPR tRIAL.I At the Central Criminal Ooatrt, on Friday evening, the trialof Amelia Anni4 Franeis aud Charles William Charlwood, ?? vith the murder of Ellen Matilda Franklin at rutney? ard Geotge Herbert Francis, for ornccpied ourtfise days. ju~ecry found thatMr. FracisandChaiwed ereguityof manslaughter and thatDr.Fraciswanguity f bingan accessory nfter thefac. M. ustce rauha ?? to five ...

... A WVILj (A'SE. In lie Probate Divkido, on 9aturday, Mr. Ju.Ti' C orell Barnes and a snecial jnry had before them tie: ease of Crookes anst Howard v, Lawn and TweedS. This was a suit to test the validtv of certain tesntamrn- tarv dispositions of the late Mr. J oseph Crookee whi was the proprietor of the Royal Union [nn i-s Plattirg, Mitanchester. and who died on the 2nd of Septenmber, 1892. ...

... EXTRA.OJDnpRS&Wai CH 6tRY CA~;. | A WOStiAS' t!,MpFIIJ Otv 0MA~t, AlrtsIflEI. AN ALLEG@a'ED IAulf SIfDEG~lOOM'. The ease of Clarke and othgrs v. Stanley and others. ?? before Mr. JutttleChittytin the Chancery Divile0j, it being an aetlnct to miminister the estate of Mr, W. 1I. S. Wilsner, deceased, and for a deolara n atbatin the evonts which bad happoned the brst. narmed plaintiff, Mrs, Emma, ...

... HESllHIRE ASSIZES. Those asizes were resumed at Chester Castle on Fri- sa{y moriiing, before Mr. Justice Helin Collins. A NOVEL BTRGTiAR ALAB1L. William Henry MI'Donald, 19, hatter, pleaded guilty to conmmitting burglary at Bramnall oa the 29th July Ist, with intent to steal the eoods of William Part. MUr. Yates addressed the court in mitigation of sen- tence, stating that the prisoner and the ...

... - - -_ _ MANCHESTER CITY POLICE COURT, WEDNESDAY. ?? BETTING FRAUDS hJ ANCOAT.. James Dean, a :oung man of the street corner type, was charged ith obtainingi money by means of false pretenoes. It was stated that a large number of people had been duped by the prisoner, but only a few (ases were 'aken. In the first oase tbe prosecutris, a mairried woman, named Mrn. Heath, living in Biack lilill ...

... I COMPANY PROU:OTING CASE.j AN EXTRAORDINARY STORY. An estraordinary cise of company-promoting came In before Mr. Justice Lawranee and a special jury, at the t Guildhall sittings of the Queen's Bencb Division on ., Wednesday. It was the aetion Wilding v. HaymaD and vY others, in whioh the plaintiff said he wis induced by the n- directors of the Canadian Pacific Colonisation Corpora. , tion to ...

... | SEOfS gALLE*ATION AGAJNST A RENT - COLLECTOR. I AL J~ J . . _ ! . At the City Police-court, on Tuesday, before Mr. R. A. Armitage and. other magistrates, a respectable young man, named Arthur Hodgson Charuley, living in Seedle6y View.road, Seeoley, Pendleton, surrendered to his bail on charges of embezzlement and of falsi. fying the books of his employer, Mrs. Ogden, an estate agent and ...