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EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF ILLEGALLY PAWNING IN BIRMINGHAM

... | PARK IN THE DOSE. At the Birmingham Police Court, yesterday, before Mkessrs. G. Goodrick and H. Manton,Stephen John Franklin, alias Park, Blackfriars Road, London, was charged with illegally pledging a porcelain ornament, a tableoloth, and other articles, valued at £4., the property of JohnWilliam Farmer, Birmingham. Mr. Hemmant prosecuted. Pri- soner is a tall, slightly-built beardless ...

BIRMINGHAM POLICE COURT

... BIREINGHAM POLICE COURT. SAT1RDAY. 3 Befiwe theMa-yor(Mfr. (f. B. Lloyd), and Mesars. Jaffirey, WI 21. Avery, and W. HoUiday. B INCITING TO BosB AN HMm'oYEr.-Peter Doacker (26), tI York Terrace, Bellbarn Road, nail cutter, and William W WiFttingion (35), Mary Street, St. John's, shoo rivet maker, 0i were charged 'with inciting a youth named Joseph Neele A to steal from hbi employers, Messrs. ...

GLOUCESTERSHIRE ASSIZES

... GLOUOESTERSHRE. ASSIZES. YESTERDAY. NISI PRIUS COURT. ERFORE BARow PIGom. THE CLAIM FOR £2,000. BY AN OLD HILL T'lDBSMIAN. The case Hall v. the Great Western Railway Company wns resumed. Mr. Huddleston, Q.O., Mr. Griffits, and Mr. godson were for the plaintiff; and Mr. Powell, Q.0., and Mr, 'Harimgton for defendants, Only ten of the Jurymen at first appeared, another shortly arrived, and as ...

HORRIBLE DISCLOSURES AT WIGAN

... TEIEE PERSONS MURDERED. LFrom our C-csposi(7entL At the Borough Police Court, Wigan, yesterday, Ann Bumsu whose surrender into custody, on her own confes- sion of having mnrderea h6r Aspfather twelve months ago, we reported yesterday, was placed in the dock, and the Chief Constablel(Mr. Simm), in applying for It retand, made a statement in which were some frightful dis- closures of immorality ...

THE PERQUISITES OF GOVERNORS OF GAOLS

... THE PERQUISITES OF GOVERNOR OF GAOLS. The Glamorgaushire Quarter Sessions commenced, at Swansea, on Tuesday, and the County Magistrates were engaged for some time in the investigation of serious charges against the Governors of both the county prisons, viz., that of Cardiff and Swansea; the charges which were the subject of the investigation beirg considered as perquisites by the ...

LOCAL LAW CASES

... COURT OF CaEANOERtY.-YESTERDAY. Bcfvre Vicc-ClCncellor Bacon. EARL OF SHRBWVSBURY v. STAFPORtD AND UTTOXKETEt RAILWAY COMPANY. This case came before the Court, on a motion by the 8taf- ord and Uttoxeter Railway Company, to restrain the plaintiffs from taking any proceedings until a certata scheme for providing for the debts of the otmpany should have ?? before the Court. The Earl of Shrewsbury ...

BIRMINGHAM POLICE COURT

... YESrDAY. Before Mecsrs. P. C. S. Kynnersley (Stipendiary), fL Goodrick, S. Buckley, antd S. T/wa'rnton. AN EOCENTRIC CH.ARACrTa. - Thomas Buskel (63), labourer, Pickford Street, a decrepit old man, was charged vwith assaulting Police-constable Leach, while in the exonu- tiot of his duty. About four o'clock yesterday morning, as Leach was traversing his beat, down Piekford Stroat, his attention ...

REVOLTING CASE OF MURDER

... A revolting case of double murder ban ?? been tried before the Court of Aasizes of the Rhone, the lassassin being a young man of 25, named Barthelemy Bernard, the son of a rich landed proprletor In the nelghbourhood of the market town of Ampule, The parents of the victim and her Infant kept, iv appears, a smaU ?? at the en. trance of the town; and Bernard, attracted by tne good looks of the ...

BIRMINGHAM POLICE COURT

... YESTERDAY. Before Maessr. T. C. S. Kynneralei (Stipendiarp), C. Sturge, and H. R. Cookmey. ETRALING BuTrOrs -Josceph Allcock (52). pearl buttom rnsher, court, Summer Lane, and susan Poole (39), pearl button finiaher, 11~ Guildford Street, were charged wiith stealing a qanxtity of pea~rl buttons, value £2. lOs., fromu the shop 0o Mr tehary howells, peasrl button s ker. 46, Lower Hiockleg Street ...

THE BENNETT CASE

... i THE JUDGUMET. Saturday was fixed for the delivery of the judgment of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Counoll In the celebrated appeal case of Sheppard t. Bennett. At half-past ten o'clock the Council Chamber wah quite crammed with clergymen, lawyers, andlaymen interested in theresult of theselong-pendinlgproeedings. The members of the Committee present were the Lord Chancellor, the ...

AN AGED BIGAMIST

... At the Central Criminal Court, on Tuesday, Henry Seymour, 75, a vhite-haired old man, of gentlemanly appearance, described as being of no occupation, was indicted for feloniously ?? Anie iElizabethPugh. his vrife Alethen being ?? Jury having retarn N a verdict of guilty, Mr. Straight said he thought It r. to make a statement in reference to the prisoner. hts vwhole existence had been one long ...

THE CASE OF GEORGE DUNN, A BIRMINGHAM BANKRUPT

... ! TIIE C'-A $E OF GECRO'rOE DUNN, A Bll-B i WINGHAM1l BANKRUPT. I C1UAR'iE AG.INST TWO BRADFORD TRADES- WsEN. At the Leideeter Borough Assizc3, yestcrd-av (V.-odes- d y), befoie Mr. Juitice Miartin, George Duu ti(4), hard- ware dealer. Leicester and Birming-ham, waa chalrged with I ha1ving Oil the 1:th July a1ibt been adjudged a bankrupt, b.ingguil't;yf a misddermeaseour under sevcions 1, 2, 3 ...