... TEE TOOTING TRAGEDY. A number of letters have been discovered and handed to the police, which were writtm by the man Frtank Taylor, before the commission of the terrible tragedy on Thursday morning, and from these it appears that the wretched man had been contemplating the murder for some days. He speaks of his intention to murder his family, and the general tone of the letters indicates that ...

... TBE FATAL ACCIDENTS THROUGH' THE GALE. , Mr. Oliver Pemberton (city coroner) held an inquest at the Victoria Courts, yesterday, upon the body of Michael MoTighe (40), paper-cutter, who lived at 75, Bloomsbury Street, and who died in the General Hospital on Sunday afternoon, from injuries received by the fall of a chimney during Sunday's gale. The deceased left home on Sunday morning at ten ...

... BIRAIINGHAM ASSIZES. CROWN COURT.Pofc. ts Qr Trr Rit t caT Bexn ars.- c for. BP osfr. he I hanring of this action was resumed. Mr. Alfred Yonse- and] lMc. Kettle (instrScted by Mr. G. ?? 5. Plant, Jjudiey] appeared for the plainiff, and Mir. Hugo Young i.4 anrd rin syonds linstrcated by Mr. J. Hinds) repre- t b I sented the defendant. The case iwas partly beard on A Wednieday. It was an ...

... A MARRIED MAN SUED FOR. BREACH OF I ~~~PROMISE. Mr. Justice Hawkins and a special jury beard the action of Uhite v. Ferguson yesterday. 'Ibe plaintiff, Miss Alice Louisa White, residing with her widowed motherat Cnisawick, claimed damages for allezed breach of promise of marriage on the part of the defendant, Mr. Ernest Stuart Ferguson, an iron ranafacturer at Cardiff. The statement of claim ...

... BIRMINGHAMl ASSIZES. CROWN COURT. -Yzsxsnuat-Bcforc Baroa 'Polioc, ?? 1ER-JURY IN TEFi COUNTY COUiRT Robwrt Hughes (341, traveller, was again plm-ed in the dock S chiairged with having commnitred perjury inithu birning- barn Count Courc, on November 25, on the hearing ofi a! cause in whicih George Snook was plaintifs and accused' was the defendant. Mr. Gilmore prosecuted. and Lr. to AXlfredl ...

... SROPSEIRE _ASSIZES. YESTERDAY.-BefOrt Afr. Justice Grarthain. BRE cH o0 WVARRAt,. L-Ty.FPercy Myatt Moss, formerly an ironmongers assistant, at Newcastle-under-Lyme, and now oE Worn, sued Samnuel Butter, Weor, to recoxer damages for alleged misepresentation in the sale of a business. Mr. Darling, Q.C., and Mr. A. J. David 'sere for the plaintiff; and Mr. Spearman antd Mr. lowlatt for the ?? ...

... THE CAUSE LIST. The period allowed for enttering civil causes for ht9? at the ensuing iirinhugham Asiszes expired yesterday afternoon, when a number of additional actions were notified at the County Court o.fice. Altog-ether, bow- ev er, the list is lighter than usaal, and the crauses appear to be of a common place character. Tliere are 34 civil cases in all, 16 being setered for trial by jury ...

... THE TOOTING TRAkGEDY. I- INQUEST AND VERDICT. The inquest on the victims of the Tooting tragedy wvn held at the Yeitry Hall, Broadway, before Mr. A, B3raxton Hicks, the Mid-Surrcy coroner, on SsAtrday- The nanmes of the deceased wvere gnven as fulows:- Frank Taylor, thirty-nine years; Martha Taylor, thirty' live Y-ar (his w IfE':Sgie. isietne vlees: Ann,,I. *VlI tears: Florence. 1eellIn 'y ...

... i TERRIBLE .TRAGDY IN LO: TDOYN. :I ISEUVEN Mt3ERS AYD X flStCDE.: Tooting, a suburb of South London. -was'at an early hour jesterday mnorning the 'scene' of one yE' the most terrible trgedies that baa occurred witbhin the metro- poiran area'for many years. Indeed, 'lb has resulted in the death of a man named 7Frank Ta7lor, a plasterer, of 8, Fountain Road, Tooting, who was himself the ...

... DRUNK, BUT NOT rNCAPABLE. The Coroner for Birmingham (Mr. Oliver Pemberton) hold an inquest, yesterday, upon the body of iliza Ilufyroy (53), of 3 back of o, Cecil Street. Mr. J. Mlutlow appeared for Albert Ford, the cabman whose cab had knocked deceased down. Deceased, her husband stated, front out on Saturday night, about eleven o'clock, to get some boiled pork for supper. She bad had some ...

... In the Queen's 'Bench Division, yesterday-before Mr. Justice Cave and Mr. Justice Wright, sitting as a Divisional Court-the case of Irenq v. Van Tromp came on for hearing. Mr. Montagu Lush appeared for the appelant; Mr. E. D. Greene, Q.O., M.1J., represented .thereapondent.-Mr. Lush said this was an appeal by w say or a special case stated by the justices sitting at the P~etty ::essions at ...

... STAFFORDS=E ADJOU&NE QUARTER I SESSIONS. These sessions were concluded on Saturday, at Staf- ford- Lord Hatherton presiding in the Crown Court and ifr. EL T. Hinckes in the Nisi Prins Court. Bnrrno iN PBsLIc-HoUSEs: HEAVY PENALTIES.- Albert Williams (on bail), son of the landlady of the Denbigh Castle Inn, Stoks-on-Trent, was indicted for having, on certain days between August 12, 1894, and ...