... 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 ...

... GROSVENOR HOTEL AFFAIR& ALLEGATIONS AGAINST DIRECTORS. A libel action arising out of the Board of Trade investigation of the affairs of the Grosvenor and West- end Railway Terminus Hotel Company came before the Lord Chief Justice and a special jury in the Queen's Eench Division. The plaintiff, Mr. Edward James Newitt, is one of thle directors of the hotel, acid is also a director of the ...

... A DO32STIV TRAGJEDY. Dr. T. Jackson held an inquest at Croydon ou Wed- nesday concerning thedeath of Annie i3horthouses, aged thirty-eight years, the wife of Dr. Nerille ShortiLoise, formerly a well-known practitioner in Croydon, who is at present in custody on a charge of complicity in cer. trin illegal practices. Dr. Shorthouse wee at une time a inrusber of the Croydon Town Council. At the ...

... ILME A LLEi.{Ef) THEFTS AT| i LUN D Y. At the DWeoutiusdrtcrhessioniOiL Wve aosrkiY -before Mr. W. }f, litiv andl GoloDet' Lucas-James Biding, di~iver, (r!Y QAzir piadea r0to grailty to chaprg au Z 2slg betwvean the l1t Augnst-and 25th 'Sbptember, 1897, 14l71bs of cl-pper stnamll, piping. value- £16, f'rou the n recuied liop SlidadO,' at hitndy I sland .MMl [lawke (inistructPd byv MI r. ...

... I THIE -WAlaER MATRIMIONIAL SUIT. VERDICT FOR THE PETITIONERIt. In the Divorce Court, on Tuesday, Justice Barnes and a special jury resumed the hearing of the petition of Mrs. Editn Mlaxian Wnlker for a judicial separation fromn her husband, Mr. Andrew Barclay Walker, son of the late Sir Andrew Walker, of Warrington and Liverpool, oil the ground of his alleged cruelty. The respondent denied ...

... CURIOUS CASE AT ACCRINOGTON. I A ECP NiCOAL 15jIE CE TO A TECHNICAL 'CItARGE. The Acc'ingtos mtagistrates had before them on W ednesday a case * sn which James Frankland. qoarryrnan. Stanley5treet, Acorington, and Samuel Booth, overlooker Water-street, Acorington, were summoned at the instance of the Rossendale Hunt for killing a hare on a Sunday. On Sunday, the 19th, the defendants were on ...

... APPLICATION FROMd NEWCASTLE. At 13ow Street Minnie Grey was chargoe, before Mr Lu~sbinRtor, with obtaining money by fraud from the Aornrs' Benovolent Fund. The prisoner, who is a 'good- looking young wowan, carried in hcr arms a baby said to be three weeks old, and as she was very weak she was allowed to take a seat in the dock. Mir John H. Mote prosecuted on behalf of the ActDrs' Benevolent ...

... A North Wilts Herald reptrter has had the oppor. tunity of enquiring into and verifying a veritable escape from the jaws of death. Miss Id. A. Atcherley, who resides with her mother at 43, Albion-street, New Swindon, gave a full description of her escape. About the end of January last, said Miss Atcherley, I was taken ill. The symptoms were faiutness and swelling of the body, chiefly ...

... _, . _~ NOISY EVANGELISTS FINED. MORE ROWDY SCENES. PRAYING FOR WITNESSES. Raymond Hadley, of Church-street, Islington, was summoned at the North London Police Court on Tuesday for playing a noisy instrument to the annoy. ance of Eugene Driscoll, of St. Thomas's-road, IFinsbury Park. William Cook, of Gillespie-rond, and George Humphrey Knight, of Lennox-road, wero ea-h summoned for aiding and ...