... Ae::: Hoavy Damages against Two Co-respondents -Au Impassioned Letter. IN the Divorce Division Sir Francis Jeune and a special jury had before them the petition of Mr. George Blake, auctioneer and estate agent, of Llanelly, for a divorce by reason of the alleged adultery of his wife, Mrs. Annie Lambert Blake, with Mr. George Wacddell, colliery proprietor, and Mr. Frederick Nelson Powell, ...

... IACKSHEPPARD: UP TO DATE. I X - STRANGE: SPEECH FROM THE DOCK. AT the Croydon Borough Quarter Sessions, before the Recorder (Mr. R. G. Glenn) and other magistrates, Joseph. Dealing, alias Jack Sheppard, thirty-two, described in the calndar'. as a. basket-maker, was indicted for feloniously bieaking and'enter- ing a tailor's shop in Station, Road, West Croydon; and stealing therefrom three ...

... A CONSTABLE'S DESPERATE STRUGGLE WITH:: A. BURGLAR AT DALSTON. A ]Jr3PrBTE strgugle between a notorious housebreaker anid etuinedi convict nd the polie tookplae at Daiston late on Mon- day night week1oi some months past the .police have .beea in' search of a man named John Hariison, Who is said to be leader of as gay of expert burglars, and who was wanted lor failing to make iis monthly re- ...

... n rOLICE, INTELLIGENC .- MARYLEBONE. GETTING READY FoR ST. PnTRIcri's DAY. -Johanna-- Marther, of Barne Street, Edg- ware Road, summoned Walter Gollop, the barman at the Golden Key, Bell Street, for assaulting her on February 19. Mr. Freke Palmei, solicitori was fortliedefence. The complainant, with a strong Irish accent, said she met with a friend and went into the public-house and had a ...

... ?? FUNNY NVITNsP:Ere;ES. AT the Shoreditch County Court, before his Honour Judge French, Q.C., considerable amusement was created during the hearing of the ?? Kemp v. Edston, wihichwas a claim for.f50 .b damages for the loss of a mare. Mr. Scott, -barrister, appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Harper was counsel for thedefendant. Plaintiff's case was that an excavation had been made at the ...

... JFOQTBALL IN THE STREETS. WHOLESALE M'NES. S£CENES IN COURT. AT Dorking the magistrates had before them the various charges arising out of the footballvplaying in the streets on Shrove Tiesday. Upwai'ds of forty., persons were proceeded against for 6ontraVehindg certain sections of the Highway Act either by play- ing football or for disorderly conduct. The court was crowded, great interest ...

... THE IL0STRJTIO FOLISMI lws SATURDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1897. SF4LLING SLAVES BY PUBLIC AUCTION. A WOMAN AND HER THREE DAUGHTERS SOLD IN THE STREET. [SUBJECT OF ILLUSTRATION.] A REUrTE despatch from Tangier, dated the 30th It., says that Safi at present enjoys the unenviable reputation of being the only town on the Moorish coast in which Europeans reside where the public sale 9! slaves takes place. ...

... 0 JAMES PANTON, a horsedealer, of 2, Earlsfield-villas, a Balham Park-road, Streatham, was charged on r Monday morning, at the Wandsworth Police-court, o with feloniously shooting ]Vr. James Harrow, chief r clerk at Wandsworth-common Railway-station, with a intent to murder him. Inspector Cuddy iuformed a the magistrate that the injured man wvas in St. 0 Thomas's Hospital and too severely ...

... BEDVOLCORI ABUSED. - . _ ., . . . _ - - AN extraordinary case engaged the attentionaof his honour Judge Emden, at Lambeth Counby oonrb, on Thursday. Mary Croker-Stewart, the wife of Major Edward% Oroker-Stewart, nov ,residing in Camber- *ell,' broughb au action'.against Hienry Benbiok. Coatbhupe, who described.himself ,as. a retired army captain, of 4iansdowvae.gerdens, S.W., to recover: £16 ...

... j'1 RHONDDA VALYEIT CHILD UDIE.| -MARGAUSI JENKINS; the wife (if a collie;, who IB accused ( of wilfully murdering her infant ehild at Treherbert r .was brought before the Pontypridd magistrates the other Afternoon. The prisoners' arrival from Cardif (Gaol was witnessed by hundredsof persons, who apparently deeply c ermpathised with her, the general belief being that she d eommitted the ...

... ALLEGED ATTEMPT TO POISON A HOUSEKEBEPER. 1X A YouSG girl named Emma Chambers, aged fifteen, Il- was charged, at the Marlborough-street Police-court, with unlawfully administering poison to Emma B FlHerzog, lady housekeeper to Mr. Dressel, a gentle- le man residing at 51, Edith-road, West Kensington, e for the purpose of endangering her life or causing her to death. The proseoutrix deposed ...

... TYOE lIuTFE Arlo CAgiEfE OF DEEMING the MURDERER SUMMARY OF PREVIOUS CHAPTERS. In vhbapter I. we are introduced to Mrs. Deeming, the mother of Fred nud his brothers and ?? Deeming'srage at the absence from school of the Soapegrace-A Father's prophecy disputed by a 8 3Iother's ?? truant is seen by his brother t Walter, who inform s Deeming, ?? is caught, D and the old man threatens and thrashes ...