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... At the Marlborough-street Police-court, on Tuesday, Ur James Drake Digby, the general manager of the 'National Skating Palace, Argyll-street, NV., appeared to an adjourned summons taken out under the 9th section of the Metropolitan Streets Act, charging him with aiding one Henry Savigan to commit a certain offence, namely, on Jan. 24th last, to unlawfully carry in Regent-street a certain board ...

Published: Saturday 22 February 1896
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 765 | Page: Page 9 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

SHOCKING TRAGEDY IN THE STRAND

... S A PUBLICAN MURDERS HIS WIFE AND ATTEMPTS SUICIDE. TEn Rising Sun, the tavern which stands betweeVnWyI0h' Street and Holywell Street, and faces, St; ClementDane's Church, was the scene on MaIqdsay morning of a terrible domestic' tragedy Mr. Ellison, who has been manager of the place only a-few months, shot his wife dead, made an attack on the barmaid, who in- terposed, and then vainly tried ...

BREACH OF PROMISE CASES

... - H- .. OF I . PIS . e A PIOUS CLERK'S AMUSING LETTERS. - MR. UNDER-S91FRIFF BT7RCHELIL, sitting with a jdry at the County of London Sheriff's Court, Red Lion Square, Holborn, heard the case of Cumberland v. Roberts. This was an action which had been remitted from the High Court, where judgment had been allowed to go by default, in which the plaintiff, Miss Emilie Cumberland, a young lady of ...

THE MUSWELL HILL MURDER

... THE DMUSWELL HILL MURDER. : I - - - -, ; FOWLER AGAIN ATTEMPTS SUICIDE. THE prisoner Fowler, whoj with Milson>, will 'be brought up next week at, the. Old Bailey, charged with. the murder and burglary at Msw sel 'Hill, has again attempted to tale his 'life in Ho1loway Gael: After the futile effort to effect this purpose by suffocation by means of hi'silkneckerchief, Fo w]er'was temporarily ...

MIDNIGHT AT PICCADILLY CIRCUS

... DEFYING THE POLICE, [SUBJECT Or ILLUSTRATION.] AT Marlborough Street Police Court, a tall, well-dressed man of military bearing, who gave the description of Philip Henry Bentham Salusbury, 41, of no occupation, and residing at Piccadilly Mansions, was charged with dis- orderly conduct, causing a crowd to assemble, and resisting the police. Police-constable 388 C said about one o'clock that ...

ASSAULTED BY TWO OLD SWEETHEARTS

... -4- AT Southwark Police Court, before Mr. Fen. wick, Mary Ann Franklin, twenty-four, pattern card mounter, of Wolseley Buildings, Ber- mondsey, and Harriet Masters, twenty, mantle- maker, of Great Dover Street, Borough, well 1 dressed, were charged with being concerned in v feloniously cutting and wounding a young man c named Edward Henry Johnson with intent to g do him grievous bodily harm on ...

THE PROFESSIONAL AMATEUR

... THE PROFESSIONAL AIvA TE UR. IMPORTANT REVELATIONS IN A COUNTY COURT. AT Bow CountV Court the Pneumatic Tyre (1 Company applied for an injunction against h James Groen, a well-known racing cyclist, to a restrain him frion riding on bicycles ited withl u any other than Dunlop tyres and rims. M1r. Hansell, who appeared for the plaintiffs, . said that, under an agreement dated December- ti ...

THE ROMANCE OF A HAUNTED HOUSE

... .A cruotH story of ghosts and no man's land was untfoldedbforO 'Judge. Daoeir at White-' * chapel Gantll Court, when a se-tcliff builder named John 'at~e. sued his son, amathematical instrument maker, for the 'recovery of the pes- session 'of a' ?? 80, Brook Street, FRatcliff. Mr. Morton Smith appeared forthe plaintiff; Mr. Disney for thb'defendant. The plaintiff's ?? was' that many years ago ...

BREACH OF PROMISE

... PREACH: OF PROMISE. 'A POETIC DEFENDANT. IN the Queen's Beach Division the case of Gunn v. Holoban came before Mr. Justice Cave and a common jury, Miss Alice Gutn, aged twenty-three years, the daughter of a boilermaker, residing at Cannon Street: Poplar, sued Mr. Patriek Ilolohan, the manager et a potted meat mnanufactory, residing at Sibley Grove, East Ham, to recover damlages for alleged ...

POLICE INTELLIGENCE

... VWI ?? Y. .fl , I, r ia 1J ^lnij'iacktoc 11a jo Thir `, before D,1iot. l, wr, ith J.:i 9t°' 5iC 05 ;aing b erks, on I ^lcoLl l~itye, ?? j ~ag g io n ?? 10t; lic, ,\S lo ooil accost iho , 3S:'i ?? ,, ?? ' .; rl ~ :> the Pro> load lion doI o ,.K->,,ksttr no ai-e o2 Kktcc r j,.ise seoliow0dthem, ar- ' , tt I SO1'~tt clle;~ inrisv a ry .Upe pO''1~.i5OO ~ e an COIZ her s~j,00o us bb ~J SLOS bnging ...

EXTRAORDINARY PROSECUTION

... UNFOUNDED ICHARGE AGAINST A LADY, CARAMARTHEN generally wears an air 'of some- thing'appeoaehiig lethargy during the 'daytime,: -and on other than election days excitekent amongst the townspeople is seldom witnessed. However this state of things was strangely altered when it leaked out that Mr. NV. R. Edwards, senior partner of thefirm of Edwards and Son, dirapers, Guildhall Square, had taken ...

MUSIC-HALL ARTIST AND AGENT

... TELENoR E.uVittPt[YinIR, married womani of 219, Essex Road, Islington, better known oz the music-hall stage as Miss Amy Lyster, wag the defendant in an action heard in the Clerken- well County Court, and brought by Henry Lewis Arnold and Walter Lumley, solicitors, acting as receivers of the late firm of Hugh Didcott and Co., theatrical agents, to recover £30 5s, commission on professional ...