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CLEVER CAPTURE OF BURGLARS IN BIRMINGHAM

... £100. The prisoners had worked very hard indeed. They entered from the back and had to remove a considerable quantity of brickwork. Having gained a footing inside the premises they were brougbt face to face with an iron-protected door. They endeavoured ...

OFFICIAL TRIAL OF ARMSTRONG GUNS

... indentation in the brickwork, and penetrating the wall. This was followed b' the 80-pounder, with .a charge 'f 1Obs. of powder, and 'an elevation of 2 22 deg. The shot struok right above the centre line, and brought' down a quantity of brickwork. A round out ...

DARING SHOPBREAKING IN BIRMINGHAM

... the door. This was also abandoned after a time, and then the burglars went into the back yard and tunnelled tbrough tie brickwork under the sitting- room window. In these efforts they were successful, for they cut a hole at least two feet beneath the ...

BIRMINGHAM ASSIZES

... on land blngig to his wife. and on Jan.ary 25, 1889, he recived .ahee from the defendants to pul down the whole of the brickwork to the foundation. The plaintiff complained that on Feb- ruary 16, 1889, the buildings were pulled, down by the surveyor ...

EXPLOSIONS DUE TO THE FROST

... killed. The kitchen and its contents were wrecked by the force of the explosion. The stable-yard gate was scattered, and some brickwork columns were blown down. A disastrous boiler explosion occurred on Sunday afternoon, at 13, Sussex Gardens, iyde Park, at ...

THE BLACKHEATH MYSTERY

... granted. Ms. ScE F.sGsv-The PZI Moa1 Gatemef ?? the crave of Mr. Spurgeon, in Norwood Ceetery, over whichis now being reare a brickwork basis from which, when arrangements are completed, there will he erected a fitting memorial of the dis- tinguished preacher ...

THE ARLESEY RAILWAY, ACCIDENT

... on the side of the line. Ho could not say whether she was quite dead or not. -John Fowler, engineer, employed at Arlesey Brickworks, said he resided near the station. On December 28, about twenty- five minutes to four o'clock in the afternoon he was near ...

BIRMINGHAM POLICE COURT

... Square, went to the premises and wrenched ofi a sign-plate bearing complainant's name. Thb wrenching oil had damaged the brickwork and Mr. 13ardley had takien the sign-plate awray 1vi~th him, and stili had it in his sosaeasior.-Mr. Colmore granted a summons ...

THE FATAL ACCIDENT AT A ROMAN CATHOLIC CHAPEL

... aenplars to have &aused tire eclinpsee of tire struictre Was ate 3rrtilei,. Tile iroa cotlhirn whichi fell reste(r oni a brick-work fouindation. bhat between the bricks and the base oF the pillar there was a itloctk of wvood abouti three icirces ill thiickness ...

THE PELSALL BOILER EXPLOSION

... work: b ut it was not po.osibie ta makce an absolutely thtorough examination of such a boiler withoest the removal of the brickw.ork, and that he should not think necessary to tio in so sihoito a time, unoises ho saw something suspicioius.' Tue coirrosion ...

BIRMINGHAM COUNTY COURT—YESTERDAY

... filed. on behalf of Gcorge Gilbert, of Pakonham lRoad, Edg- baston, carrying on business as William Gilbert, of the Tividale Brickworks, Tipton, and Runner Hill, Cannock, fire-brick and blue-brick manufEcturer. Mr. R. N. Hall is the solicitor to the debtor ...