... e - d VERDICT OF WILFUL MURDER. d Yesterday morning, Mr Coroner Settle opened Ig an inquest at the Police Court upon the body of iI Georgiana Clark Pattison, whose death under e. peculiar circumstances we recorded yesterday. e. The first witness called was Annie Sqphia Trotter, who said: I am a widow, e- and reside at No. 1, Hardwiek-terrace, Stockton. ig I knew the deceased well. Her name was ...

... I Cn)nm rCnTTP ?? . - as CROWN COURT, -THUcSDAv.-(Before Baron be BRAMWELL.) MXNSLAUG~HTER NEAR YORM. x~ .er chant ad Thomas Brabany (17) was arraigned for the quick Wilful marder of Thomas Gandley, at Horuby, in iEvr, ead the North Riding. Mr Simpson and Mr Skidmnore Ch1ant posecuted; Mr Vernon Blackburn (instructed by (Elane of Mril Alfred Watson, solicitor, of York) appeared for the defence ...

... CHARTER GUILTY OF MANSLAUGHTER. TWENTY YEARS' PENAL SERVITUDE. HARDWICK ACQUITTED. CROWN COURT, WnEDNESDAY.-(Before Lord Chief. Justice BOVILL.) Judging from the attendance in Court, the pub- lic interest in the ease had in no degree dimi- nished. The direction pursued in the cross-exa- mination of several of the witnesses on the previous day bad a tendency to whet the appetite for additional ...

... MASTE.L'-k AND WORKMEN'S DIS- | PUTE AT STOCKTON. At the Count.y Police Court, Stockton, on Satur- day, bebfore Mr.Mf. Fowler and Mr. T. Hatchinson, -Henry Bath, William Perry, Hugh Thomas, John Thomas, Thoemae, Owen, and William Wil- liama, fleanacemen at the Richmond Ironworks, appeared on summons, charged with having com. mitted a breach of contract. Comnpensation1 was claimed by the ...

... MR. PLIUSOLL'g UOVEUENT'l MR. PLIMSOLL IN COURT. it The most important of the actions for libel mi againit Mr. Plimsoll is fixed for to-morrow. The affidoits have been filed. It is said that Mr. Plimsoll is prepared to defend before a jury the perfect accuracy of the statements alleged to be libellous. The scene in court is expected to be more sensational than anything which has been cre ...

... EXTRAORDINARY BANKRUPTCY PRO- CEEDINGS. At the London Bankruptcy Court, yowterdpy, Mr. Lucas applied to Mr. Registrar Hezlitt to, order the release of a debtor who is in custody under a debtor's summons, under the following circumstances:- The debtor is a Datch butter merchant, named William Hnyff, residing in America. A creditor, named G. B. Hume, of St. Nicholas-street, Ndw- castle-upon-Tyne ...

... |A VOLUNTEER ROBBED AT WEST I HARTLEPOOL. STRANGE CONDUCT OF A POLICEMAN. Yesterday, at the West Hartlepool Police Court, a loose character, named Elizabeth Robinson, who had been convicted of various offences several times previously, was charged by James Finty, laboarer, residing in Conyers-street, with stealing the sum of 5s. fromn his pocket late on Saturday night, the 6th inst.-Finty, who ...

... I THE STRIKE OF BOYS IN A SHIP- I YARD AT STOCKTON. Yesterday, at the Stockton Borough Police Court, three boys-Win. Campbell, 16 years of age, George Christison, aged 15, and John Walker, aged 15-were summoned under the Masters and Servants Act for unlawfully absenting themselves from their employment. The case arose out of the recent strike of boys at Messrs. Pearse and Lockwood's shipyard ...

... THE ALLEGED ROBBERY OF £E4 ,- AT SPEmN?yMooT, Perciarl Bell was yesterday brought u p in cui-s tody at the Auckland Police Court on a charge of stealing £47 in mnonley, a silver lever watch, gold! guardl, and a p-arsO, fronl the person of Isaac Barnes, or, otherwise, being entrusted ?? the £ sameo and converting them to his own us, at Spennyncoer, elt the 7th ?? I-ybron pro!e- t cuted, nud Mr ...

... Baron Hawkins resumed the trial of prisoners L yesterday. Dfi LT . - BESTIALITY. William Dibon ?? mason, was inldicted for an Lunnatural offence upon a cow at Whickhaim on ,2n.1 July. Tlhe prisoner was seen by Police-cou- .stable Hallida to outer a cosshed and commit the ofierce alleged ngainst him. The policeman, .however, admitted havingr watched the proceeding- .for about five nnin-ates. ...

... A i SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST A |WHITBY JET MERCHANT. II I ; C l - L . . I .t I II l±J-JS YLJAJ. IJ.U~tVJ.lIIN .L ?? I At- Scarborosigh Quarter Sessions, which are lena -now being held before- Mr A. W. Simapson, the SO tborough recorder, Henry Larrande, a French dui Igentleman, and an ineportei> of Spanish jet and hg foreign goods, was indicted with ctealin,- £1 6rie' Recc _half sovereign, a ...

... ~ SE1IOUS CHARGIE AGAINST IRON- WORKS OFFICIALS AT STOOLTON. -- ?? V -WLtUkj £1L4 kUIUU IVJN. At Stockton County Police Court, on Saturday William1 Smith, clerk, and Robert Fleter, jun. timekeeper at the Norton Ironworks, were charged under a warrant with obtainiung money by alse entries in the books from their employers, the Norton Iron Company, Limited. Mr F. T. Steavaensou, of Darlilton, ...