... OLD: BAILEY TRIALS. BIGAXT COMPLICATION& - George Escourt CressoeU, a public-house mana- get, who pleaded Guilty last sessions to biga1y, was- placed in the dock for sentence.-Mr. E. J.. Drake, for the do- fondant, reminded the court that this was the case in which the accuseds wite left him shortly after their marriage in 1886, maed went away with two other men. Six or seven years later ...

... TOE STOKES WILL SUIT. In the Probate division, on Tuesday, Sir Francis Jeune bad before him the case of Stokes v. Stokes (by Guardian) -Stokes and others' cited. The plain- tiff, Mr. Mean Brooke Stokes, was one of the executors appointed under the last will 6f ChariesHenry Stokes, late of East Central Africa, a trader, deceased, who died on Jan. 15. 1895. The will bore date Sept. 18, 1894. ...

... YESTERDAY'S LAW AND P OLICE. - RECEIVING ORDERS. Yesterday, at the London Court of gankruptcy, petitions were heard be. fore Ir. Registrar Hope. In the matter of E. R. Savigny a receiving order was made under a petition presented against tbe debtor, trading as the MorEe BIauufacturing company and the London and South-eastern bank, and described as a watch manufacturer and banker, lately ...

... |}fw '~EAR $RISTOI# A marlret gardener -named Xames Biokett6, of Wick, 'a hamlet five Riles from Bristol, Was murdered on Monday eveaning on the highroad, near his home. :hehad given.a.young .man a lift in hi. cart, and people at a distance saw the men apparently quarrelling. The body was subsequently fou qd in a ditch writ four stabbing wounds in the region of the heart. The assailant eacaped ...

... FRESH GOLD FIND AT- t .I kEIONDIKE. Mr. Bracombe shley, ofgan Fran- ciaco, who in now in England, is the latest corner from the new.Klondike gold isetrict, having left Dawson City on Nov. 12 by the old. Canadian police trail and the Hudson Bay company's trail, whiohhe describesasthe only possible way of escape at the present juncture fronm the laid of gold and atarvation. He paid a visit 'to ...

... SUICIDE OF A BARONET AT A I , ~ LONDON HOTEL. It only transpired on Friday that Sir Charles Arthur Fairlie - Cuninghame, Bart, had committed suicide at the Hotel Vietoria.' Northumberland-avenue, as Donrae Snnday,Dec. 26. It appears ~he shot hiself through the head in his room vbile sitting in front of a- looking- glass. In announing the tragedy the Daily aflts tated that aen inquest had been ...

... WIFEIWBIX-B A ,T IPTS KU-U- TYL - o A shocking trageda oecurred on Fri- dayat:5, nvillei-oadSouthsea; at the house' ?? Siith,- a naval pen- sioner, working a labdure in. Ports- mouth docliard About two o'clock in the afternoon Sith, a-strongly-built man, entered the Cetralpolice-statiQn at the town -hall and inquired for the in- spe-etor. He wasat once seen by Inspector -Palmer, to whom he ...

... TiHE BLACK BEETLE CASE. STRANGE DEATH OF THE DEFENDANT Mir. Lummoore Drew held an inquest, on Friday, at Fulham, respecting the dealh o£ Miss Josephine Chilcott, aged 34l, who lived at 16, Edith-villas, West 1]Censington.-M3ss Chiicott was found dead in bed at her, residenoe on Tues- day. It. will be remembered that she stood remanded from the West London police-court on a charge of sending ...

... ALLEGED BLACKMAIL, ?? I I HOW CONVICTS COMMUNICATE. At Westminster police-court, on Tues- &U, before Mr. Marsham, the further hemring of ibe charge of conspiracy with eo~ns-ots undergoing sentences for rob- bery, coupled with blackmailing, was p roeeded with against Robert Clihures alias ilarri, Cellists, Robe rtsos, Stephen. sem, and Ccnres, a well-dressed young men, woo was described as of ...

... LIBERTY 0F THE SUBJECT. Intfhe Queen's Beinch division, yeiter. day, Mr. justice Hawkins heard the case of H arward against the Guardians of the Hackney Union and Frost on further consideration. It was an action of some importance, relating to the liberty of the subject on the one hand, and the duties and powers of parish officials on the other. Some years ago the plaintiff was -a dentist at ...

... AN OFFICER TO RESIGN. Having disposed at their last meeting of the reports connected with the chang- lug of children at the North-Western hospital, the managers of the Metropoli- tan Asylum district had, yesterday morning, to consider a report from! their General Purposes committee with r~ersfece to the death of Martha ! Wiekens, an inmate of the Darenth asylum, which took place on Nov. 30 ...

... T THE OUTRAGE BY & MASKED MAN. Mr. Justice Grantham? was, on W edne. dav, occupied at the Norfolk aseizes, with with the base of Thomas Joseph Alfred , Creoss, a coal mrch nt. 22 years of agp, wvhb Was charged with feloeoeasly shoot- ing at Sarah Dyball, with intent to Hll and murder her, at Weetwick. on De..2' aud also, with fetoriotslywo;-unding. Annie Droryatthe same time and place, with ...