... ?? CONFESSION OF THE CRIMhS. A woman Wms found early on Sunday morning on a piece of waste ground off the Harrow-road with her throat cut and her bead battered in. It was a milk-boy who first discovered the body. The boy ran into the Haerofwroad shouting Police ! aun I3 dr n a so terrified at the sighte oadnjuatseen that le ran home instead of returning to the Hoene of the murder. However, ...

... I In the Divorce division On FAturdgy .Mr. Alfred John Jenningis, clouriM0rgt. in the zrd battgaion of the Grenadier Guards. sought a divorce by reason of the adnltery of his wife with sone per. sons unknown. The petitioner deposed that he was married to the respondent on Jan. 2, 1-88, at the Registrar's office, Pad- dingtou . He made her acquaintance in 1885, when he was lance-corpoval, she ...

... TnE WHITEHALL COURT SCHEME. 0 Jabez Spenc-r Balfour vawq brought up on remand, on Thursday, at Bow-itreet, onl ci arese of fraud. .Mr. Cbarles 39atbews and Mr. H. Avory, in. struoted by Mr. (nOffe, appeared on be. balf ot ihe prooeoution; an I Mr. J. O Connor defended i~altiour. Mr. 00- fall hi d a watching brief for Mr. G. 1)ibley.-Tbh court was irowde, I d oti the benrsh were several ladies ...

... THE POLIC E COURTs I--- ?? GUILDHALL. ASSAULT ON A YOUNG WOMAN -Sid. SeY Moses, a clothier, of 36, Honideditch was charged on a summons with asscu ing Miss Nelly Bobbett, a dressmaker of 38, Hunter-street, IBruriswick-8quare- The complainant said she bad known the defendant for about six monthsn He proposed to marry her, and take her abroad. The engagement, however, had mince been broken off. ...

... LIFE IN & WEST-END FLAT. IADY FANY ROBINSON MNED. At Marylebone police.court, on Tues- day, Lady Fanny Robi7nson, who was accompanied by her husband, General Sir George Robinson, of 23, Princess- street, Cavendish-equare, was summoned by Mime. Moinnet, a modiste, of the same address, for wilfully damaging some oilcloth. The case attracted some fashionable visitors to the court. The youthful ...

... *.ISONED -Y SARDINES. A CITY MYSTERY. Mr. Baxter held an inquiry at the London hospital, on Friday, respecting the deth of Joseph Burton. The widow deposed that on the previous Friday, her husband bad some sardines for tea. About 10 o'clock he complained of pains in his inside, and was subsequently seized with acute diarrhoea and vomiting. He grew worse till he died in hospital. Witness's ...

... ACCUSED DISCHARGED. Arthur Fasnacht, 2A, comedian, of Clarence-terrace, Hagerston, surren- dered at the North London police-oourt on Tuesday, to his bail to answer the charge of causing the death of his wife, who was known in the music-hall profes- sion as Maggie Dudley.-Ilr. Wil. liamson prosecuted for the Treasury; and Mr. D. A. Romain defended.- Dr. M. Greenwood, of 243, Hackney- road, ...

... THE STRANGE SEQUEL TO I A DIVORCE CASE. Hlenty John Clarke, inquiry agent. 20, Oockgour'-treet, and Btlen Lyons were charged on remand at Bow-street police- courtl on Monday with conspiring to de- feat and prevent by subtle means and devices the due course of law and jus- tice, and to procure Gertrude Alexandra Barrett. The parties were alleved to have conspired to get the prosecutrix to ...

... I ATTEMPTED MURDER OF A Y-.: SWEETHEART. At the Hastings police-court on Satar- day, Thomas Foster, a baker, aged 27, was brought up, in custody, charged on remand with having attempted to murder hls sweetheart, Jane Smith, by cut- ting her throat with a razor on December 19.-The accused was arres. ted, under sonaational circumstances, at 7.30 on the morning following the night when the deed ...

... IFrder~ck Swinton, 31, warehonseman, l of 104, Wollington-terrabe, Haggerston- road, was oharged at the North London police-conrt on Monday with killing and slaying Ln cy Delfosse, a young woman with whom he ?? parties, it seemns, had lived at the house in ques- tion. On the previous Monday night they were hoardquarrelling. Soon after this there were two heavy thuds on the floor, and the ...

... A XAGISTBATE ON TRADE UNION METHOODS, William Harris, the secretary of tbe Canning-town branch of the Dockers' union, was summoned to West Ham police-court, on Wedneeday, for assault- ing Charles Jordan, a dock labourer; and Jordan was charged on a cross sum- mons for assaulting Harris, whose nose was strapped ?? said that on the morning of the 8th inst. he was out- side the gate at the ...

... The suit of Dounga-EHamilton v. Douglas-Hamilton was heard in the Divorce court on Saturdsy. In this the wife alleged the cruelty and adultery of her husband, Mr. Augustus Maitland Ronald Douglas-Hamilton, formetly a lieutenant in the Royal navy, who was stated to be related to the Dukes of Hamilton and Somerset. There was no defence. Mr. Grazebrook, who appeared for the petitioner, said ...