... * WILTS ASSIZEU This Assize commenced at- Devizes yesterday before Ur Justice Day, His lordship arrived from Bristol on the previous evening and was met at the railway station' by the High Shariff (Cal. Turnor), the Sheriff's ha'oplain (the ReyV Canon Estcourt, rector of Newnton), and the Under Sheriff (Ur H. Bcvir).. The commissilon was oponed at the Assize Court yesterday by Mr James 'tead, ...

... , I 'YESTERDAY. i Before Messrs F. Tagart, IV. Sommerville, IV. Smith, and C. E. L. Jennings, re A PROflMISING YOUTHI. Alexander Britton, 16, a youth, was charged with 0' stealing a live fowl, of the value of 2s [id, the pro- j perty of Frederick Charles Sadler, of Warmley in colliery. Mr Seymour Williams prosecuted. Sadlt-C Is stated that he kept 24 fowls at the colliery, hnd the )k one ...

... Bristol Police CourL YESTERDAY. Before Mr A. N. FrIce and Major Rumsey. A wtISIq~f. : Gilbert Morrisi 16, Henry.Spragg, 10, Walter Jones, 16KBertie Ruesell,15, and 'W6terXHdgeon, 19, were charged*with being dlsordbrly and with assaulting a numnber:of youngwornmeni. The defendants were seen shortly after sik on Sunday evening coming from thw direction of the Royal' rlirmary, and when in Colston ...

... - iADYSMITH JUSTICE. GRAVE. STORY FROM BESTER'S FARM. R ECENT events in South Africa, the glamour of JLI War, and the distance tempt us to forget that our countrymen in the colonies, who, happily, are not always fighting, have much the same troubles as we at home, Englishmen are Englishmen the world over: tellers of the truth and haters of injastice beyond Bome other nations that might be ...

... I Charges of Obtaining Jewellery For several hours Messrs W. J. Davis and Arthur Lee wereengaged at the Bristol police court ydsterday in the Further hearing of a case in which the prosocu- tois were J. W. Benson, Limited, of 62 and 64, laudgate lhiIl, London. The accused were Charles Hall, 35, Edward Nagle Welsh, 35, and the wives of the men, Stella Hall and Mary Walsh; and they were charged ...

... AMERICAN WOMEN AND TIHE LAW. ve Protty women, it is said, are rarely convicted. Mty ras experielco leads uic to believe, writes J. 1. M1Intyre, Assistant Distiict atiorncy, that in New York State it is to aIlost impossiblo toi onvicta roman of CriUc, particu- Ito larlyifsilhe be pretty. Mlaudlin sentiment intervenes to vo, prevent the jury froim bringing in a just verdict on the nd teslinony ...

... BRISTOL ASSIZE4 Crown Court, YESTERDAY. Before Mr Justice Phillimore, - ALTERATION 0 orSENTENCE. -Edgar Etherald Smart, 14, errand boy, who had been sentenced to twoa years in a reformatory for forgery, was called up again, and the Judge stated that as he found the law required that the sentence should be one of three years it would be altered accordingly. A DANGEROUS WOMAN. Plorence Price, 21 ...

... Brstol Police Court, YESTERDAY. Before Mr U. Wills and Mr J. Pemabery. A GIRL SENT TO PRISON. Florence Gregory, 17, talloress, was cbarged On remand with stealing a ring, value LI, belonging to William James Sleigh, jeweller, of Stapleton road. It was stated at the first hearing that on November 22nd the accused visited the prosecutor's shop and, it was alleged, that whilst looking at a tray ...

... Bristol riL,?j !icc colarto SATUIR\VY. Before Messrs P. N. Tribe and W. A. Latham. I 'rlTE RAT-TRAP' IN USE. Henry Twose, 44, was charged with violently assaulting his 8(fS, kJrnebt Twose, on the previous evening. Complainant, whose head was thickly bandaged, said that his father had been drinking lately, and there had been bothers at hoiUti. it resulted onthe previous evening in ...

... jnqjpq-ts ° H. is toL YESTE1RD&Y. Before the C ity Coroner, Mr IL 0. Doggett. BLOOD P'OISONIN'. At the Bristol Lunatic Asylum, Stapleton, on the body of Charles 1loltham, a labourer, aged 30 years. It was stated that the deceased was brought to the institution from Hlortield Prison on March 16th in a ntate of manis. There was an abscess over the right shoulder, and others on his fingers. There ...

... - YESTERDAY. e Before 31essrs G. H. Pope (in the chair), W. 1). Straegc, G. Fussell, and K. Robinson. a- lSTORY OF A GOLD ;\,VATi. lacob Wright, an elderly man, was charged with 3i stealing a gold watch, value £3, the property of \Villiamr Miles. The prosecutor said he was an IC agricultura] labourEr, living at Filton Hill armn. On the 31st March he was working at Mr Hunt's barton, at Filton. ...

... At the Central Criminal Court, London, yesterday, Donald Stewart, aged 51, who described himself as a captain, who was convicted at the November Session t of obtaining money by false pretences on two worth- less cheques, after previous convictions for misde- 3 meanour, was brought up for sentence. MrE. J. I Lampard prosecuted, Mr Bowen Rowlands, Q.O., r and Mr Edmondson appeared for the ...