... J1 I A GIRL'S TALE OF HER AGE. d AT the Tottenham Police Court, William i- Bennett, twenty-two, a clerk, of Connaught ie Terrace, Aldershot, was charged, on re- d mand, with abducting Harriet Rose Great- wood, under the age of eighteen yeari. The evidence of the girl, who sald she was fifteen years of 'age, showed that she made the acquaintance -of the prisoner whilst em- e ployed at Barrett's ...

... BBREACH. OF PROMISE CASES. A DECEITFUL DRAPER. InI the London Sheriff's CouIt au action for breach of prouie eeon for ths assess- zoent of 'damas. . The parties were- 'Miss Anne Pretty, a young lady residing at Clance, Norfolk (plaiatift) -asd Mr. Vaten- tine Gibby, a draper, of 40, Goilh's Lane, Swansea (defendant). Counsel, in opeginig the case for the plaiu- tiff, said the parties first ...

... FE A StUGGLE WITH BhJEL1AnS AT A TOMNHAX . :.-PARK. * - -9-- A V39ISrATI affray with alleged burglars -tosk placeat Tottenham on Truesday night wek. I The scene of the encounter wa Hauge b Farms, St. Ann's Road, which is occupied by Mr. 'Richard Booth, a farmer, and hi* fmfily..f.The farmhouse is an old-fashioned building with. a thatched roof, standing .quite apart from .any other buildings. ...

... AT Westminster' Police Court, . Thomas Wareing, thirty-seven; B.A., tutor, of Park Road, Regent's Park, surrendered to . bail before Mr. Hopkins to answei, a charge of stealing, a sapphire and diamond bracelet, value £85, from Mrs. Caroline. Elizabeth Broadbent, of 2, Wilton Street; '.Grosvenor Place. Mr. Travers Humphreys -was- counsel for the prosecution, and Mr. Metcalf defended. The ...

... -THE 'WANDSWORTTH- T-RAGEDY. COBONEWS VERDICT. A:1u W sndpsworth, Mr. Draxton Hicks held an inquiry into the circumistances- attending the deaths of 'A'lbert Walteri Clhalfant, aged twenty-five;,- his wife,d Mry shat; and their child.Eva, aged'eleven monihs, of Bas singham Road, Earisfield, who died under pecuiarly dis g circumstace, which have be descrbed in oor cbluins, on ,Satirday' 'week.- ...

... - A REMARKABLE BOY. AT the South-Western Court,. a boy named Charles Stevens, ageu ten; the son ?? a platelayer, living at Wandstorth Road, wes oh~ajged, on remand, with being beyond the control of his parents. Great amusement was caused in court last week by the appearance of the boy, whose diminutive 'stature almost concealad him from the view1f the magistrate, and by the stolid manner in ...

... [SUBJSECT OF ILLUSTRATION.) A WOMAN's dead body was discovered last Monday week in Leeds, at a house in Belgrave Street, a Jewish-locality, most of the residences in which are occupied as lodgings for members of the theatrical and music-hall professions. On the previous Fri- day afternoon a man, who gave the name of Fred Dawson, and is malso known in the professional world as Mondra, and his ...

... TRAGEDY IN BRUTON. A WOMAN STABBED TO DEATH WITH A PAIR OF SCISSORS. [S7UBJECT OF IMUSTR-A1oN.] E:n~ on Saturday morning Mary Kate Waknell, a woman forty-two years of age, living at 44, Water Lane, Ilrixtoii, was murdered under very mysterioun circum- stances. The deceased was separated from her hus- band, and for nine months had, with her son-a youth sixteen years of age-occupied two rooms in ...

... SOCIETY BREAcJI OF PROMISE CASE. AN EARL'S HEIR'S HEARTLESS CONDUCT.& BUT HE HAS TO PAY £4,000 DAMAGES. 'AT the Middlesex Sheriff's Court, held at. the Town Hall, Brentford, before Mr. Under Sheriff Ruston and a jury, the action of Mavro v. Craven, for breach of promise of marriage, came on for the assess- ment of damages. The plaintiff was Mrs Alice Caroline Mavro, widow, daughter of a ...

... I THE DESPERATE STRUGGLE WITH I v . BURGLARS AT TOTTENHAM. I ,,I -4-- AT the Tottenham Police Court, Philip Wood, labourer, of 28, Durham l. oad, Finsbury Park, who apeared in the dock with his head enveloped in sur- gioal bandages, was charged with breaking and entering the dwelling-house of Richard Reuben Booth, farmer, of Hanger Farm. St.: Ann's Road, Tottenham, on Tuesday, 'Feb- ruary 13, ...

... , ?? 1 I f i ARE THE BOARD SCHlOOLS BRI_\.GNGCI OUT MANY LiKE HER t AT BloomErburv CrOnunty Court, hefore Judge Bacon, Alice Wilkinson, a domestic ser- vait r claimed a month's money from, uar I late mistress in lieu of notiee IPlaintiff said that she went to the house because she was told there were only.,two in the family. When she got there' she found there were eight. That was too mudh ...

... ' GREENWICH. FriLED FOR KC ING A DIsoRDaRLY HousR. -William Matthews, twenty-eight, and his wife, Josephine Matthews, twenty-eight, coffee-house keepers, of 332, Naw Cross Road, were charged by the Deptiford Borough Council with keeping a disorderly house at that address. Mr. T. W. Mar- chant prosecute&, and Mr. Seard defended. Police-sergeant Littlejohn, 5R, and Police- constable Morgan ...