Weekly Mail

MURDER OF MISSIONARIES. CHINESE GOVERNMENT GIVE SATISFACTION. A Pektng message to the" Times says that China. has yielded fully to the demands of the British Minister that the six officials respon- sible for the murder of two British mis- sionaries at Chee-chau in Hu-Nan shall be severely punished. An Imperial decree which has been issued condemns the military official who closed his yamen against the escaping missionary to summary decapitation, and the other military official to decapitation after imprisonment. The prefect of the city is sen- tenced to five years' banishment, and is for ever forbidden to hold office. The other officials are condemned to various terms of banish- ment. China undertakes to pay compensation and to erect a memorial at the scene of the murder. The edict is correctly worded, and is regarded as satisfactory. Some British warships were recently despatched up the River Yang-tsze to Han- Kau in connection with this difficulty.

DEPARTURE OF DE WET. General De Wet. who was accompanied by Mr. Weasels, reached Southampton shortly before three o'clock on Saturday, and imme- diately proceeded on board the Castle liner Saxon, which lay berthed at the Ocean Quay. The famous Boer general passed on board unnoticed, and immediately went below to his cabin. where he remained until the vessel cast her moorings. Before sailing General De Wet said he had enjoyed his visit to Eng- land, but had nothing to say on the subject of his Continental tour. He did not know when he should return to England. That would depend upon circumstances. Asked if De Wet would meet Mr. Chamberlain in South Africa, Mr. Wessels said General De Wet could not say anything about the future. ARRIVAL OF MB. SCHALK BURGHER. Mr. Schalk Burger, who was Acting-Presi- dent in the Transvaal after Mr. Kruger's departure, arrived at Southampton on Satur- day from the Cape in the Union Castle liner Norman and proceeded to London.

THEATRICAL LIBEL ACTION In the King's Bench on Monday Mr. Thos. Christopher NGuire, an actor, play-writer, and theatrical manager, brought an action for alleged libel against the Plymouth "Morn- ing News." Plaintiff complained of a criticism in which his play, "The Major," was described aa "a three-act musical absurdity, containing nothing but nonsense of a not very humorous character," and as "sorry stuff." The actors and actresses were also said to be "on a level with the play." In cross-examination by Mr. Duke. K.C., plaintiff said he did not claim the play as a "classic." It was a knock-about play. Some people thought it had a plot, and others thought that it had not. He admitted there was not much of a. plot. Witness was taken in detail through the play, and Mr. Duke con- tended on behalf of defendants that the criti- cism was a fair one. The jury awarded plaintiff £100.

SUPPOSED IMPOSTOR'S METHODS. An Englishman calling himself Captain John Pearson. of the British Army, was charged at a local police-court in New York with obtaining money by false pre- tences from Mr. Samuel Butler, secretary of the Automobile Club of America. There are said to be several similar charges against the accused, whom the magistrate remanded for further evidence- Pearson recently called at the Automobile Club and presented a. letter of introduction which purported to be signed by Mr. Johnson. secretary of the Automobile Club of Great Britain, with whom he claimed relationship. On the strength of this intro- duction he was given a visitor's card, and speedily made himself at home. He also intro- duced himself at the New York Yacht Club, presenting a letter apparently from the secre- tary of the Royal Ulster Yacht Club. He eventually commenced borrowing money on the plea that his remittances had not arrived, but, suspicions being aroused, an inquiry was cabled to Mr. Johnson, and the reply received that Pearson was utterly unknown to him. The arrest of the Accused immediately fol- lowed.

A STRANGE DEATH. Evidence of a remarkable character was given at an inquest in Pentonville Prison on Domenico Rossi, aged 27, formerly of Barwell-road, Brixton. who was admitted to the prison on September 26, and died last Mon- day. Dr. William Charles Syme, assistant medical officer, said the prisoner complained of illness on October 24. The post-mortem examination showed that the brain was studded with bladder worms, or the larvaB or eggs of the tape-worm. They had eaten holes in the skull, and had been there for years until they got to a vital part. There were 50 eggs in all parts of the brain. One had set up inflammation of the brain. The Coroner (Dr. Danford Thomas): How did they get there? The Doctor: It is a mystery. It is the most singular case I have heard of. The jury returned a verdict of "Death from natural causes."

LINOTYPE LITIGATION. A legal battle for the possession of the European market for the sale of type-setting machines has been commenced at Montreal between the National Typogrr.ph Company of England and the allied American Company on the one side and the Canadian-American Lino- type Corporation on the other. The Superior Court has dismissed the first action brought by the English and American Companies, in which they sought to restrain the Canadian company from offering linotype machines for sale in England, Belgium, and Switzerland, the chief ground for the court's decision being that the plaintiffs' patents in those countries are void or voidable on account of non-manu- facture.-Reuter.

CLERGYMAN BURNED TO DEATH. A sad burning fatality is reported from Kilmeen Rectory, near Dunmanway. County Cork. The Rev. W. Bell, but recently appointed to the parish, was inspecting cattle in the farmyard a little before ten o'clock, carrying a lantern in his hand. He was seen in the neighbourhood of the hay barn, in which upwards of twenty tons of hay were stored. Soon after the hay was seen on fire. People in the immediate district offered every assist- ance. but the rev. gentleman was not seen. At five o'clock on Sunday morning, when the fire was got under, his unrecognisable remains were found. He leaves a widow and children.

A letter just to hand from Bermuda says that the writer is a torpedo man. and his duties were taken up with guarding the Boer prisoners, of which there were several thousands there. Every night he kept a watch. bwrning a sea/rchlight all round the islands. For the first two or three months he used to feel anyhow the next day. but one of his drams recommended Vi-Oocoa. For a time he osed it. acd after a week or so found that the fatigued feeling had entirely dis- appeared, and he now says that it is Vi-Oocoa that sustained him and his mates through the cold nights of last winter. Mr. T. J. Brown. ILM.S. "Medina. Bermuda, West fpdkm. -mbo lit— «Ms tafetac. nsfrtly sddsi llgM kv.im

DRESSED AS A BOY. GIRL MAKES A VOYAGE AS MESS- ROOM STEWARD. At Bristol Police-court on Monday Ellen MeEwen, 15, who appeared dressed as a boy, was charged with wandering about without visible means of subsistence. Police-constable Townsend said that at 11.45 that morning he was at Prince's-atreet, and overheard some men remark that a woman dressed as a man was to he paid off at the Board of Trade' offices. Witness went there, and saw some men standing outside the offices, the defendant among them. He made inquiries at the Board of Trade offices, but they knew nothing about any girl, so he spoke to the defendant, who appeared to look something like a girl. She burst into tears, and admitted she was a girl. Inspector Johnson said the defendant had a discharge book upon her. and had been three voyages as mess-room steward. The constable added that he found the girl had been on two ships, and was paid off with Zi 5s. 4d. from the steamship Gem. from Alexandria, now lying at the harbour wharf. Witness took her to the station. The magistrates' clerk (Mr. T. H. Gore) said they could hardly charge her with having no means of subsistence. If she had gone as a. stewardess it would have been all right. In reply to questions, the defendant. who wore her hair short, and spoke in a some- what deep voice, with a Scotch accent, said she had no friends in Bristol, but she had some at Wishart. in Scotland. The reason why she left her elder sister there was because she was rather bard to her. The bench said her rela- tives would be wired to. and she would be taken care of at the station until Wednesday. FURTHER DETAILS: A STAY IN PENARTH. It appears that McEwan had been living with a married sister at Wishaw, near Glasgow. While there she sometimes worked as a boy, but the reason for this is not clear. That the girl is of a romantic tempe- rament is shown by the reason for her taking the step she did. A book came into her hands containing the story of a girl who, un- happy at home. ran away to sea dressed as a boy. Esther McEwan thought this plan so attractive that she resolved upon a similar escapade. In September of 1901 she ran away to Dundee, and there went as cabin boy on board a coasting steamer called the Discovery. She remained upon this vessel only a fort- night, however, landing at Newport. She gave her name as Allan Gordon. From this town she shipped in a boat bound for Val- paraiso. and. having completed the voyage, she was discharged at Cardiff, receiving X,2 17s. 4d. At Penarth she soon obtained an- other berth, this time on board the steamer Gem, where she acted as mess-room steward. No one suspected that she was a girl until Alexandria, the vessel's destination, was reached, and here each member of the crew was medically examined, with the result that McEwan was compelled to admit her sex. The captain of the Gem, therefore, brought her back as a cabin passenger, but she appears to have continued to wear boy's clothes during the return voyage. She is a quick-witted child of fair education, and from remarks which she has let drop it is clear that the rough manners of the sailors on the ships in which she sailed were very repugnant to her. She did not like the sea at all, and had she only known the way in which she would have to rough it she would never have run away. The two discharge notes which are in her posses- sion, relating to her voyages to Alexandria and Valparaiso, are made out in the name of Allan Gordon. Inquiries in Penarth show that a Penarth boy, named James Astor, living at 11. Dock-road, was standing near the dock office on the 17th of September, when he fell into conversation with, as he assumed, a boy of his own age. The supposed youth told him he was a messroom steward out of a. berth, and, having been turned away from his lodgings, had been out two nights. Astor at once sym- pathised with her. and, taking her to his father's house, begged Mr. Astor, senior, to give the stranger a night's lodging. Mr. Astor questioned the girl, who said that her name was Allan Gordon, of Nochee, Dundee. Gordon stayed at Mr. Astor's house until the 20th of September, on which day she signed on as messroom steward on the steamship named, which was bound for Alex- andria. Before the ship left the docks "Gordon" received an advance note for JE1. which she handed to Mr. Astor to get her what she required for the voyage. Mr. Attor complied, and the following articles were obtainedShirt, 2s.; socks, 7d.; coat, & bed. Is. 6d.; blanket. le. 6d.; trousers. is. 6d.; soap, 3d.; cap, Is. 3d.; cigarettes, Is. 7d.; bag. Is.; and pillow, 6d. Mrs. Astor was so im- pressed with the stranger's conduct that she concluded the lad was too refined for the position of messroom steward. To Mrs. Astor's mind Gordon was a most intelligent and sensible youth." She also noticed that his hands appeared very small and white, and hia" feet seemed to her too small for a youth of his age.

CLERGYMAN'S STRANGE CONDUCT. The Rev. Geo. Martin, an unbeneficed clergy- man, formerly of Truro, was committed for trial in London on Saturday charged with hav- ing in his possession a pound of gunpowder on the occasion of the King's visit to the City with intent to commit a felony. The accused, who has an objection to stands being placed in front of churches, threatened to destroy the Coronation et&nd at St. Saviour's Church, 1- THE KEY. GEORGE MARTIN. I Southwark, in June last, but was then libe- rated in his own recognisances. He now made a long speech in court. stating his reasons for objecting to the stands. He spoke with a rich voice and much em- phasis, and greatly touched his hearers. The Magistrate said a number of letters had been received speaking of the accused in the highest terms, and these would be handed to the judge. The accused, who was refused bail, and was removed in custody, bowed respect- fully to the magistrate as he left the court.

SCENE IN A RAILWAY CARRIAGE. At the Southwark Police-court, Richard Davis, aged 35, described as an engineer, of Suffold-street. Rotherhithe. was charged (before Mr. Paul Taylor) with assaulting Mr. James Wells Turner, in a carriage on the East London Railway; and further with assaulting Police-constable 217M. Mr. Hodges prose- cuted-—Mr. Turner said that about nine o'clock on Saturday he was travelling on this railway, and prisoner, who was the worse for drink, entered the carriage at New Cross. The prisoner wanted to borrow a match to light a cigarette, and he remarked that the ladies present might object, as it was not a smoking compartment. The prisoner, after offering the ladies some fruit, which was declined, commenced to abuse him. Are you a prophet?" asked the prisoner. "Are you the Messiah? Don't look so serious, but get up. and if yon are a man fight men." The prisoner thereupon struck him in the face several times, causing his nose to bleed. The ladies were terrified, and called upon him to protect them. He suc- ceeded in throwing the prisoner on to the seat, and as soon as the train arrived at Deptford Road Station, and even before it had stopped. the ladies, seriously alarmed, jumped out of the carriage and told the guard what had taken place. The prisoner continued to struggle violently, and four men were required to get him out of the train.— Mr. Paul Taylor sentenced him to two months for the assault upon Mr. Turner, and six months for the assault upon the constable, the terms to be consecutive.

CAPE NATIVES' WAR CUSTOM. Mr. Graham, Cape Attorney-General, has inquired into the allegations made by Mr. Malan some days ago as to the mutilation of the bodies of Boers killed in a fight in the Maclear district, and has received from Mr. Stanford, Secretary to the Native Affairs Department, a report stating that the num- her of natives concerned in the fight was 300, and not 4,000, as alleged by Bezindenhout. The report adds that out of six dead Boers the bodies of four were slightly incised, in accord- ance with the war custom of the natives, who desired to let out the soul. These incisions were not called mutilations by the medical men.—Renter.

GIRL ACCIDENTALLY SHOT DEAD At Long Button on Sunday a girl named Baxter IU shot dead through Moitetal d»lih a yoBth. vm «anr~ d»lih a yoBth. vm «anr~ lTg, m nhiHTTT nt-flriry *—r*-tt;tfrfhn,tw%,

TREATMENT OF LUNATICS. ALLEGATIONS AGAINST A WORK- HOUSE NURSE. Some startling evidence was forthcoming at the inquiry with reference to the death of Mrs. Emma Amelia Bailey, a lunatic inmate of the Newington Workhouse, the suggestion being that deceased had been grossly ill-treated. Mrs. Bailey, who was 72 years of age, was th1 widow of a furniture dealer in a good way of business. Five weeks ago she was admitted to the workhouse, suffering from melancholia, and later she was found to have a number of bruises about her body. Annie Da".e. a daughter of deceased, said she visited her mother several times at the work- house, and on one occasion one of the nurses came to her and said, "It is a sad case about your nnther, isn't it? I hope you do not think I am guilty of knocking your mother about. I know who did. but I shall not say." Witness had noticed a. bruise and scratches on her mother's face, and, on asking deceased about it. she replied: "Oh, my God. yon don't know all, and I must not tell you." Amy Molyneux said that about two weeks after deceased's admission to the workhouse she saw she was severely bruised, and she informed the medical officer of the workhouse. Dr. John Frederick Williams, the medical officer. said that as a result of the report made by Superintendent Molyneux. an inquiry was held by the guardians, and Emily A. Thomas (female attendant upon lunatics), Olive L. Reed (ward nurse), and Mary Fitz- gerald (nurse) were dismissed. The guardians were unable to discover how the bruises were caused, and the nurses were dismissed mainly for not having reported the bruises. Death was due to exhaustion following heart failure, and acute dementia. The Rev. J. W. Horsley, vicar of Walworth, and chairman of the Newington Workhouse Visiting Committee, said that the guardians interrogated the nurses, but were unable to find out how the bruises were caused. Mary Ann Boardman. an inmate, said on one occasion she saw Mary Fitzgerald lift both her fists, and bring them down heavily upon the deceased's stomach, whilst the latter was lying in bed. She had also seen a nurse kneel upon the stomach of a patient. Mary Fitzgerald, the nurse in question, denied what had been said by Boardman. The jury returned a verdict in accordance with the medical evidence, adding that there was no evidence to show how deceased came by the bruises.

BRITAIN AND GERMANY SOME RESULTS OF THE PRO-BOER AGITATION. A Berlin correspondent says that Count Wolff Metternich, the German Ambassador in Lon- don, has told Sir F. Lascelles, the British ambassador, that the state of English opinion towards Germany caused him uneasiness, and he expressed regret that the British Foreign Office apparently felt as coldly towards the German Government as the public did. inasmuch aa it absolutely would not lift a finger to co-operate with German diplomacy in any part of the world. The German ambassa- dor concluded by saying that anything Ger- many suggested was treated with indifference, and German policy was looked upon with dis- trust. Sir F. Lascelles, in reply, said that if such had been Count Wolff Metternich's experi- ence, he. too, regretted it, but what, be asked, could English Ministers think when one of them had been treated in the way Mr. Cham- berlain had been? The Emperor when in England two years ago discussed with Mr. Chamberlain the desirability of a frank under- standing between the United States, Great Britain, and Germany, and of common action abroad where the interests of all or one of the three Powers were concerned. This idea was approved by Mr. Chamberlain, and his speech in favour of co-operation between Great Britain. Germany, and America followed. Count Von Buelow repudiated the whole thing, and made Mr. Chamberlain look in some degree ridiculous. Count Wolff Metternich's representations to the Emperor regarding English hostility to Germany are supposed to have contributed to inducing the Emperor to pay his visit to England.-Reuter.

LOSS OF GOOD LOOKS. WOMAN'S SINGULAR CAUSE FOR SUICIDE. An inquest was opened on Monday at St Heliers on the body of Miss Edith Elizabeth Simonton, aged 35, who was found shot in a bedroom with a revolver belonging to another lodger. A note, supposed to be written by the deceased, said:—"In the room where I nave had sleepless nights, through my loss of health, and now, greatest of misery, my nair, I end a life which has become unbearable. What a. sight I am when I see myself in the glass—old and worn-looking!" The evidence showed that deceased had brooded over the loss of her good looks.—The inquest was adjourned.

COLLAPSE OF A BARRACKS. FEARED LOSS OF OVER FIFTY LIVES. A barracks in course of erection at Czens- tochan, in Russian Poland, collapeed on Saturday, burying now fewer than 130 work- men beneath the ruins. Up to the present fifteen dead bodies and about forty seriously injured men have been removed from beneath the wreckage, while 38 men are still missing, and have, it is feared, perished.—Central News.

DEATH OF THE BEARDED LADY. The "bearded lady," who was known in practically every civilised country in the world, has just died at Brooklyn at the age of 37. She was born in Smith County, Vir- ginia, and at the time of her birth her face,' neck) and shoulders were covered with a. thick coating of hair. Barnum paid the mother of the child £30 a week to exhibit with him. When a little girl the "Infant Esau." as she was at first named, was stolen by an itinerant phrenologist, and a law action was necessary before she could be recovered by her mother. At fifteen years of age the "bearded lady," whose name was Annie Jones, joined Bjirnum's show on her own account. A year later she married an attendant, but later divorced him. During her professional career she appeared before the Czar, the German Emperor, the King and Queen of Italy, and many other Royalties. In 1895 she married again, and at the time of her death was Mrs. William Donovan. She made a great deal of money, receiving as much as jElOO a week. Artists were always extremely anxioua for her to sit to them. Her health broke down in Italy early last summer, and she returned to her mother's home in Brooklyn, and died there of consumption on October 22.

A FIGHT WITH BRIGANDS. A Rome telegram of Saturday morning says that news reached there of a des- perate fight with brigands in the neighbour- hood of Novara. A small party of Carabinieri succeeded in surprising in a small inn outside the town the notorious brigand chiefs, Piandi and Demichilis. The latter at once showed fight, firing their revolvers upon the troops as they closed round them. One of the soldiers was hit in the first discharge, though his wound was not severe. His comrades instantly opened fire in return, the brigand Fiandi being killed -outright, and his com- panion very severely wounded.

BLIND GIRL POISONED. At Mistley Police-court on Monday Con- stance Pamela Duffleld, a young domestic ser- vant, was charged with administering carbolic acid to Amelia Mary Cowen. the blind daughter of Mr. Peter Cowen. farmer, at Aries-1 ford, near Colchester, on October 25. Prisoner, who had been recently taken into service from Tendring Workhouse, had quarrelled with Miss Cowen, and early on the morning of the 25th the blind woman rushed into her parents' bedroom crying she had been poisoned. Emetics were promptly adminis- tered, thereby saving Miss Cowen's life. Later prisoner admitted her guilt.—Prisoner was sentenced to three years in a. reformatory.

DYNAMITE OUTRAGE. A Chicago message reports a terrible use of dynamite as the means of personal revenge. The cottage of a man named Oordeck was blown up while he and his family were sleep- ing. Cordeck himself was fatally injured, and his infant daughter met a like fate. Mrs. Cordeck escaped with her life, all did the six other children, though all were badly hurt. Charles Smith, formerly a. lodger in the Oor- deck household. has been arrested in connec- tion with the tragedy.

DAMAGES AGAINST AN EDITOR. The action for libel brought by a Waltham- stow district councillor against the editor of the "Walthamstow Reporter" was concluded on Monday. The defendant in his address to the jury declared the object of the proceed- ings was to keep him off the council. The jury found for plaintiff, with £ 750 damages.

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I POISON BY POST. SENSATIONAL NEW YORK CASE NEARING THE END. The climax of interest in the trial of Rolard. B. Molineux for the murder of Mrs. Adams (says a New York telegram) was reached when the prisoner went into the witness-box. He had not been allowed to speak in his own defence at the first trial, which resulted in his conviction. Of course, he showed the pallor due to his lengthy detention in gaol, which baa lasted nearly four years, but he stood the Qrdeal well. His mind was perfectly clear on every point, and during his cross-examination, which lasted nearly seven hours on one day, and in the course of which Mr. Osborne, the lawyer who secured the prisoner's conviction on his first trial, subjected him to a raking fire of Ques- tions, Molineux never made a damaging admission, and never evaded any interroga- tion in a way to indicate that he had any- thing to hide. He was the first witness called by the defence. He told the story of his life, related his troubles at the Knickerbocker Athletic Club and his quarrels with Mr. Harry S. Cornish, the man to whom was sent through the post the poison that killed Mrs. Adams, and denied flatly all knowledge of the pre- paration or the despatch of the poison. He contradicted every charge of the prosecution tending to connect him with the death of Mrs. Adams, and asserted that he never had written the so-called Cornish letter, which the prosecution insists showed his violent hatred of Cornish, and which experts have declared was in the same handwriting as that of the address on the poison package. In fact, the accused's bearing under examina*- tion is thought to have made a very favour- able impression on the jury, and the general impression is that he will be acquitted. The verdict is expected by the end of this week. A report was printed on Sunday morning to the effect that the lawyers for the defence are prepared to produce an independent witness. whose testimony will prove clearly that the package containing the poison was posted, not by Molineux. but by another man, the publication of whose name would cause a sensation.

A SOLDIER'S REWARD. Albert Edward Huddlestone, of The Grove, South Lambeth-road, formerly a corporal in the 2nd Volunteer Battalion of the Royal Fusi- liers, was summoned, at Westminster, by Ser- geant-major Harris, on behalf of the com- ma-nding officer of the regiment, who sought an order for iC2 198., claimed to be due from defendant under the rules of the battalion. The defendant, who wore the South African and Volunteer long service decorations, left his Volunteer battalion in order to join the Yeomanry; he went to South Africa, and on his return to England failed to complete the period of service for which he had engaged in the Fusiliers. In consequence the command- ing officer claimed the capitation grant thus lost. Mr. Sheil: But the man has been out to South Africa. Sergeant-major Harris: Yes. air, but he has joined another Yeomanry corps since he came back, and the commanding officer cannot allow him off any more than anyone else. Mr. Sheil (to defendant): What is the medal you are wearing? Defendant: The Volunteer long service medal, sir. I have been in the Volunteers for 25 years, and this is what it has come tc. Mr. Sheil (to the sergeant-major): I think you had better make representations to the regimental authorities, and I don't think this summons ought to be insisted upon, I am not blaming you, but this is hardly the sort of man you ought to go against. I will ad- journ the summons sine die.

UNDERWRITERS' LIABILITY In the King's Bench on Monday Mr. Justice Kennedy gave judgment in the case of Jackson v. Mumford, which raised the question of the liability of the underwriters in regard to the terrible accident which took place in 1899 to the torpedo-boat destroyer Bullfinch when on her trials off Portsmouth, by which eight men were killed and many injured. His Lordship held that the fracture of the connecting rod was caused not by any inherent defect in the steel of which it was composed, but because the design of rod was not sufficiently strong to bear the vibratory strain put upon it. The policy contained the words, "Trials as a rule insured against." He held that the breaking of the rod when on trial was a misfortune covered by the word "Trial" in the policy, and, therefore, he gave judgment for plaintiff for £3,692 6s. 2d. with eosts. | I

THE LAW AS TO SLOT METERS. ] In the King's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice, London, the case of < Edmundson v. the Longton Corporation came i before the Lord Chief Justice and Justices Wills and Channell, sitting M a Divisional Court, and raised the question whether when money had been stolen from a slot gas meter the consumer was liable to be called upon to pay for the gas consumed over again. The « gas company, it appeared, established a. ( system of automatic slot meters, which were placed in the houses of consumers free of charge by the servants of the corporation, the meters remaining the property of the cor- < poration. The servants of the corporation kept the keys, and opened the slot boxes ] periodically to take out the money, and on one occasion the box in the appellant's house was 1 found to be empty, although there ought to ] have been 19s. in it. The appellant was t ordered to pay by the justices on the grotmd I that he was responsible for the contents of j the box. It was now contended on behalf of ] the appellant that he could not be held to be < responsible unless negligence were proved against him. It appeared that the money had j been stolen from the box.-Th. Lord Chief 1 Justice, in delivering the judgment of the 1 court, said he was of opinion that the con- 1 tract in these Cltllm entitled a. consumer, on I placing the required coin in the slot, to a supply of gas. It was in the nature of a 1 ready-money transaction, and the consumer 1 could not be called upon to pay for the gas twice over.—The appeal was accordingly 1 allowed with costs.

EXCITING BULL-FIGHT. Some editing incidents oconrred in the I Marseilles bull-ring on Sunday. After a most j thrilling performance by Spanish matadors, during which Guerrito. the famous matador. 1 narrowly escaped death, the horns of a bull C ripping his breeches and grazing hie skin. a 1 fight followed between amateurs and a bull 1 with padded horns, which proved exceptionally ferocious, bowling over several amateurs. 1 While a. young Mareeillais was attempting to j fix a dart in the neck of the bulf the animal j caught him on his horns, and, amid the I shrieks of the crowd, flung him several yards « in the air. The bull caught him and flung ( him again, and as the helpless man fell ( heavily to the ground charged him repeatedly before being driven off. The man was taken to the hospital terribly injured.

WIFE PETITIONS FOR DIVORCE. I In the Divorce Division on Monday Mrs. Osga- I mark Adelaide Hamilton was granted a decree f nisi on account of the desertion and miscon- i duct of her husband. Cbas. Edward Archibald Watkins Hamilton-—Counsel stated that the f marriage took place in 1897 at St. Peter's. t Eaton-square. The parties lived together at ] Iotherwell, near Midhurst. and last year came f to London, when respondent left petitioner. Respondent had failed to obey a decree of restitution of conjugal rights.—Evidence was given regarding respondent's alleged miscon- duct at Chingford.

THE AMERICA CUP. 1 The new defender for the America Cup ] will be longer over all than either the Con- f stitution or the Columbia, and will probably 1 have less freeboard than the Constitution. f It is not thought that she will carry more 1 sail than the Constitution, but, on the con- < trary, it will not be surprising if she carries less, and thus possibly gain time allowance from the challenger. Careful estimates place the alim needed for the new boat at £ 45,000. A member of the New York Yacht Club says that steel frames and Tobin bronze plates I will be used. ]

■!■■■ = ] STORY OF THE CZAR. For some time a certain Mr. Philipp, a hyp- notiser and spiritualist, has been playing a great part at the Rulsian Court. Nothing is done without his advice, whether of a political or private nature. It is said this modern Cag- liostro understands how to conjure up the spirit of Alexander III., and has gained a ] mastery overthe very susceptible nature of the Czar. There is much speculation as to what length this adventurer's influence may lead the Czar. 1

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VILJOEN AND SPION KOP. COMMANDANT VOLUNTEERS FOR SOMALILAND. Commandant Viljoen visited Leeds on Mon- day for the purpose of giving a, lecture. In the course of an interview with a press corre- spondent he said that the Bosrs were pre- pared loyally to carry out the terms of the settlement. "It has been said in this country," remarked the reporter, "that your forces were in full retreat when General Buller ordered the retirement from Spion Kop. Is that so?" Yes, that is so. We had no Long Tom —that is to say, we were for the time being outranged by your guns." Had we stuck to our position conld you have maintained yours? Certainly not." Now, commandant, about Colenso. where the British arms suffered a severe reverse. Will yo. tell me briefly the position?" On the bank of the Tugela we were en- trenched, and the British force advanced towards us in masses until they reached within 800 yards. Instructions had been given that every man on our side must reserve his fire until the signal was given, and we simply shot them down as so many sheep. My narrative of what happened later will be told in the proper place. I should like to add that I personally have offered my services as a new and loyal citizen of the British Empire for service in Somaliland."

CHARGES OF FORGERY. THREE LONDON YOUTHS' ESCA- PADE IN CORNWALL. Detect i ve- i n spec to r Sagar and Detective Dixon, of the City of London Police, left Penzance on Monday with three youths belonging to Peckham, one of whom is charged with forging cheques for £ 53 and £ 70 on the with forging cheques for JE53 and £70 on the Joint Stock Bank, while the two others are accused of uttering them. It is stated that the three travelled to Penzance from London on Wednesday and drove to a oonntry inn at St. Buryan, which they made their head- quarters for excursions in the district. On Monday a local constable, who had been, informed that the youths were wanted, was walking with a friend near Penzance, when he saw them in company with two girls, and after a smart struggle the three were arrested. Each had a. loaded revolver in his possession with about 200 cartridges, and nearly £90 was found on the three.

A PARISIAN RUFFIAN. The murder of an officer's widow reported from Bourg^la-Reine, Paris, turns out to be the work of a mysterious satyr, who, for the last few months, has infested the neighbourhood, and made it unsafe for women to he out of doors after dark. The monster, who is as mysterious a criminal as was Jack the Ripper, has made no fewer than seven attacks on defenceless women since June last. His vic- tims are respectable women, and h's methods are invariably the same. He rushes up to his victim, and clutches her at the throat, pushing a chloroformed handkerchief under her nose. 'He then robs and maltreats his victim. On June 7 laat he attacked a Mme. Labillois, a. maiden lady, sixty years of age, who was returning home at dusk. As she drew near her house in a lonely part of the road the unfortunate lady was seized, half. strangled, chloroformed, and used in a most odious manner. She was found in the street some hours later, and described her assail- ant as a. small, thick-set man, with dark fea- tures and strangely brilliant eyes. He was dressed as a. workman. At the end of June Bourg-la-Reine was startled by a second out- rage under precisely similar circumstances. The lady superior of a local orphanage, seventy-three years of age, and enjoying great local esteem, was found lying insen- sible in the street outside the orphanage. She, too, had been dealt with in a similar manner. In July two sisters of charity were attacked. One was knocked down and nearly killed, but the other screamed loudly and attacked the misoreant with her umbrella, and he made off. In another caee the local schoolmistress —a Mile. Ancot—was thrown to the ground and forced to swallow a narcotic, and robbed and maltreated. Another case was that of a girl, fourteen years of age, who was carried off under her mother's eyes. Happily, the screams of the mother prevented the scoun- drel from accomplishing his purpose. In every case the description of the assailant is the same. and as in the case of Mme. Mercier. the widow of a French officer, the victims were discovered on their backs with their bodices j torn open and minus their boots and stockings. These crimes, it has been noticed, were always committed on a Thursday, which is the ..icit- ing day at the neighbouring prison of Fresnss. It is believed that Mme. MercWr's death was not caused by strangulation, but by sud- den failure of the heart's action produced by fear.

BAD BACKS. Mrs. Jane W. Barker, of Love Head, Rose- dale, West Pickering, Yorkshire, says, writing on March 3rd, 1902, My husband suffered very much with his back for many years. It wae so bad he could scarcely walk about. He was also very much troubled with retching in the morning." Mr. Barker began to take Dodd's Kidney Pills, and we give the result also in Mrs. Barker's words, They completely cured my husband. He can now stand upright, and place his head and heels against the wall, a thing >e has not done for many years. He is seventy-five years of age. The doctors had failed where your wonderful remedy com- pletely oured, and he had never had a return of the complaint." Here are two statements. People who suffer from lame backs are making the same state- ments every day. Dodd's Kidney Pilla cure the most obstinate cases. They never fail to make a sore back easy, a lame back well and strong. Dodd's Kidney Pills are 2s. 9d. per box, six boxes 13s. 9d.; of all Chemists, or poat free on receipt of price from The Dodds Medicine Co., 23, Farringdon-avenue. London, E.C. Remem- ber the name, D-o-d-d-e. w81

REEF DISCOVERIES IN ORANGIA. Mr. Rathbone, the well-known mining engineer, publishes an article in the Bloom- fontein Post," in which he deals at consider- able length with the investigations regarding the prolongation of the main reef into the Orange River Colony. He says that he found rock formations precisely similar to those on the Rand. Samples show that certain sections when milled yield a profit of at least 10s. a ton. The water power of the Vaal River can in places drive the machinery. There are fully 30 miles of outcrops on the Du Preez and Main Reef scries in the Orange River Colony, and, probably, another 30 miles a.re covered with a coal formation—Press Asso- ciation Foreign Special.

CULPABLE HOMICIDE. At Edinburgh on Monday Andrew WOoll. a plasterer, wae brought up (before Lord Justice Clerk Macdonald and a jury) charged with murdering his wife Janet, last August. Accused, an elderly man, pleaded not guilty.—The evidence showed that M'Coll while under the influence of drink knocked his wife down. and while she was on the ground trampled on her face and kicked fier. She succumbed to the terrible injuries shortly after.—The jury returned a verdict of Culpable homicide." and M'Coll was sentenced to twenty years' penal servitude.

A BETTING APPEAL. A Divisional Court of the King's Bench on Monday upheld the Staffordshire justices, who fined a bookmaker, named Truman, £100 for using the Railway Inn. Cradley Heath, for the purpose of betting. The landlord was also fined a similar amount. It was contended that Truman's conviction was wrong, on the ground that he was neither the owner nor the occupier of the house, but only a member of the general public.

DEVASTATING FIRE. An appalling fire broke out at the town of St. Pierre, Miquelon, on Sunday. The main portion of the place has been devastated. Fortunately, there was no loss of life, but the damage, it is feared, will reach £100,000. Hundreds of people are in a deplorable con- dition, having lost everything.—Central News.

SUICIDE BEFORE A WIFE. Mr. Joseph Hepworth, of Lee Green, near Dewsbury, committed suicide on Monday under shooking circumstances. His wife, who is a helpless cripple, had gently reproached him for not coming home earlier, as he had promised, and he at once got a. razor, lay down at her feet. and severed the jugular vein. dying instantly.

ALLEGED CHILD MURDER. At the South Western Police-court. London. on Monday Ada. Kirk, 25, laundress, of Austin- road, Battersea Park-road, was remanded, charged with fatally cutting her child's throat. Accused protests her innocence, and states tha.t the murder was committed in her absence.

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LONDON MURDER CHARGE. SUPPOSED POISONING OF MAUDE MARSH. At Southwark Police-court, London, on Tues- day, George Chapman was again brought up charged with poisoning Maud Marsh, his paramour. The police at once applied for a further remand for a week, and the pri- soner's solicitor, in acquiescing, said he hoped that on the next oceaftion some sort of evi- dence would be taken.-Prisoner was remanded accordingly. ACCUSED MAN AND HIS TWO WIVES. Inquiries go to show that the mystery of Maude Marsh's death is deepening, and little progress can. apparently, be made until Dr. Stephenson's examination has been concluded. I DBTPCTIVB-IHSPBCTOR GODLBY. The rooms used by George Chapman at the Crown have been sealed up, but the rest of the house is open. The public-house is now in charge of a manager put in by the brewers, and, needlfess to say, business is brisk. The final autopsy of the body was com- menced on Thursday by Dr. Stephenson, of Guy's Hospital, and expert to the Home Office. The remains were lying in the mor- tuary in Colliers'-rents, Long-lane, Ber* mondeey. and thither the expert, accompanied by an assistant, proceeded, just before dusk on Thursday evening, attended by the mortuary keeper, a couple of detective offioers of the Southwark police, and a cabman in charge of a, four-wheeler. The body was lying in a. polished elm coffin, and the features of the woman have altered little in their expres- sion. Dr- Stephenson closely watched tbe operations of his skilled assistant. The examination was of a remarkably careful and detailed nature, and extended to the removal of the spinal column, which was subsequently re-placed. The various organs were handled with the greatest care, and placed in different vessels, which were duly labelled and sealed. When this task had been accomplished, all the vessels were placed in one large box, which was in its turn corded and sealed, and then, under the still vigilant eye of the famous expert, the box was placed in the four-wheeled cab, and was driven off to Guy's Hospital. The examination of the viscera will possibly extend over a period of three days. Chapman is a sallow-faced, gloomy-look- ing individual, and has had a roving and varied career. He is a South American. The earliest record of him-so far as is known at present-begins with his life on the sea, where he filled various roles, mainly as a, ship's steward, and sometimes as ship's barber. In his voyages he visited Aus- tralia, Ca.pe Town. and other places, and eventually came to England about nine years ago. He was not well-educated, but he had a knack of falling on his feet wherever chance put him, and it was his boast that he was able to torn his hand to anything. On his arrival in this country, about four years ago, he set up in business as a. hairdresser, at Hastings. With him to this business came the lady he introduced as his wife. known now as "the first Mrs. Chapman." She was short and plump, and wore her fair hair as short as a man's. With her was a little boy known as "Willie." He was her son, but Mr. Chapman was not his father. Mrs. Chap- man's story was tha* this child was the off- spring of her first husbajad, who, she told several acquaintances, was a doctor. In these days lady barbers had not been hsard of—at any rate, on the 8(lutb oowt. Mi*. Ohalpmpm was the pioneer. Brsssed in a. emart apron; and with stosves rolled up over her plump arms, she set to and acted as lady latherer-and the customers began to come in a good deal more nume- rously. She even tried her hand at shaving, but never took it up seriously. Then another scheme was tried. "The first Mrs. Chapman" was a lady of some edu- cation and not a little talent; she could play very fairly on the piano. So Chapman hired one. and put it in the front of the shop, where all could see-avd hear. Upon the advent of customers Mrs. Chapman would first lather them energetically, wipe her hands, ?<nd then sit down at the piano and play popular airs while her husband worked the razor. These "musical shaves" became quite a feature of the neighbourhood, and the result was that the once quiet hairdressing saloon did very decent business, following it up by a useful addition of income by umbrella repairing. The Chapmans stayed six months at this shop. One morning the barber sold the business, and the next day he and Mrø: Chapman and the boy had vanished. It is stated that he came to London and took a public-house off City-road. Towards Christmas, 1897, Mrs. Chapman took ill and died, and was buried at Manor Park Cemetery. Some time later Chapman appeared again in George-street, Hastings, with a lady, who had not been seen there before. He called upon one of the tradesmen in the street-on a Saturday night-and said, "Good evening, Mr. let me introduce you to Mrs. Chapman." Whereupon the trades- man's wife said, "And what has become of your wife who lived here?" "Ah," he replied, sadly, "I have lost her." The first Mrs. Chap- man was supposed to have died in London. Willie is said to have been sent to a home. According to neighbours, the second Mrs. Chapman was "one of the nicest ladies who ever breathed." She was very kind to the poor, genial to the customers at the public- house, and generally looked up to in the neigh- bourhood as "a most superior lady." At Christmas-time she gave away toothsome little cakes and sweetmeate. made by her own hand. to the people who came into the public bar. She was an expert cyclist, and when the Monument was closed after midnight she was often seen, in a smart cycling dress, "exer- cising" up and down the road. She fell ill, somewhat suddenly, in February, 1901. and Dr. Stocker, of New Kent-road, was a constant attendant at her bedside. The clergy attached to All Hallows'. Pepper-Street (close by), nnd two of the sisters were also called in, and did all they could, for which Chapman expressed himself truly grateful. Mrs. Chapman died on the 13th of the mojith, and at the particu- lar wish of her parents her body was taken to Cheshire, and buried in the churchyard at Lymm. After this the establishment at the Monu- ment saw a good many changes in barmaids. including one young French lady, who was not there long. Eventually, in response to an advertisement, Maude Marsh appeared on the scene, about August of last year. She was a. pretty Croydon girl come to seek her fortunes in London, just as two of her slatere-now prosperously and happily married-had done before her. Shortly after her arrival a fire broke out at the Monu- ment, and a little later, the lease having fallen in. Chapman moved to the Crown in Borough High-street, taking Maude Marsh with him. Here they wer egenerally understood to be man and wife, and Maude wore a wedding ring, she herself having stated, it is said, that they were married in a Roman Catholic church. The Crown was a. popular house, and "Mrs. Chapman" was very much liked. A representative of the press called at Long- fellow-road. Croydon. the home of the parents of Maude Marsh. and saw a. married sister of deceased.; The married sister lives at Dulwich. She says she always thought Chapman and the girl Maude were very fond of each other. Maude used frequently to come over to see her father and mother. The mother is at present very ill through the shock of her daughter's death. Chapman and the girl were both cyclists, and often rode over to Croydon on their bicycles. The father had been to see Maude at the Crown, and also he saw the girl while she was in the hospital. Her family were, in fact. allowed to visit her there each day, because she was so very ill. Her mother was with her from the Monday. October 20. until the Wednesday. October 22, when she died. The girl was conscious that she was dying, and on the eve of her death she sang the whole of the hymn "Abide with me, fast falls the eventide." When Mr. Marsh saw his daughter after she had returned to the Crown from the hospital he went home to Croydon and said he was sure she was dying. Accord- ing to the sister. Maude believed right to the end that she was Chapman's lawful wife, and spoke of "a church in Bishopscate Within" as the scene of the ceremony. For some little time a younger sister stayed with Maude at the Monument, TJnion-street, and her evidence may throw much light on the relations between the parties.

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A SENSATIONAL ARREST. STRUGGLE IN A FLEET-STREET POST-OFFICE. Detective Di^hy, of the City of London Police, has succeeded in arresting John Joseph Lynch, of Liverpool, wanted at the instance of the Mersey Docks and HarboU^ Board for the alleged embezzlement of Lynch had been in the habit of having spondence from Liverpool sent to the street Post-office, in the name of Harding, it was here, by means of a nicely-baited traP^ he was caught. Detective Digby accosted hi! man in the Post-office, and grappled with Wø. The prisoner made a bold dash for liberty* but was immediately seized by a cominilBiW?* aire. pinned against the counter, and .nth the detective's help secured and taken to the Bridewell Police-station. Lynch had shaved his moustache, although he was wearing tb* same clothes in which he absconded. He been living at 18, Maryland Park, MarylaO4 Point. E., since his arrival in London fraIn his home at 20. Ivanhoe-road, Liverpool. Th* cause of his arrest is a strange one (says tbØ "Liverpool Daily post "). Someone at Livel"< pool gave information to the police that hi* pet name for his sweetheart was ''ftr'* Cotta," and the police inserted in the daiv papers an advertisement to the effect thai Terra Cotta" wished to hear from Boy." The bait took. He wired to Uvef pool, and the Liverpool police wired bachr making an appointment for Saturday at Fleet^street Post-office, with the result thØ hs was arrested as stated. Lynch }J.¡s.d narrow escape of arrest earlier in the vreeth- for the police saw him, bat, in a chase throoffhi the Temple he eluded them. PRISONER BEFORE THE MAGISTRATES. At Liverpool on Tuesday John Lynch, the Mersey Dock Board ed* ploye, who waa arrested in London on a charge of defrauding the board of a large sum by means of bogus wage* sheets, was remanded. When the warrant read to him he said, "That is right; I' nothing more to say." Lynch was timekeeper in the engineer's department, and the frand" it is said, were systematically conducted b1. him and two other men also in oustody.

THE STATE OF IRELAND JUDGE MORRIS AND THE UNITED IRISH LEAGUE. At Sligo Quarter Sessions Judge Morril* in delivering judgment in a caae which a horse belonging to a boTr cotted man had been maliciously injor«o»j said the case illustrated very plainly wet operations of the League for a considerable time in Ireland. About two years ago be adjudicated on a crime of setting tracts of country in County Sligo on fire. The.e crimes might all directly or indirectly be' traced to the working of the United lri.bi League. He did not mean to say that th* League instigated such crime, or that to openly agitated its commission. That was act its policy, but what it did was this-and he hoped the attention of the authorities would be directed to it—the United Irish Leapt established a system of terrorism in the country. It brooded over society, and when it established its system it was human nature that crimes should follow, whether it was the crime of boycotting, assassination, burning, or mutilating dumb animals—it was all tht same thing. There would always be found people to carry out the dictates of a society that practised terrorism. It was prostitution of the word to say the country was It was mockery. The country was not crimes less, and there was no man but knew that the Government, after long delay, were carry* ing out the law and punishing these offences. His lordship allowed £6 to the owner of tW horae which had been mutilated.

DOUKHOBORSONTHEMARC8 TERRIBLE SUFFERINGS IN A SNOWSTORM. A severe snowstorm overtook the DoukJ)obo*fl pear Foxwarren on Monday night, and coni- pelled them to pass the night in a grove of alder bushes, where they had a bitter expe* rience. They were exposed to the full blast of the tempest, their only covering being theft' cotton olothes. Many are barefooted, and are: in a terriLly emaciated condition. Some ar* suffering from pneumonia, and their generai state is pitiable in the extreme, but the leader* still declare that they will push on to Winnie peg, as they expect to meet Jesus. The °nlJ food they get is wild berries, raw wheat, any rough food the people give them.—Renter"

CHILDREN ABANDONED 1M At the Guildhall, London, on Tuesday Mf* Eleanor Susannah Gale, 36, who describe herself as proprietress of a pursing and cal home at Brondesbury-road, was with unlawfully abandoning a male child undef the age of two years, whereby its health jnighfc be permanently injnred. The child ",at found under the seat of a first-class carri»ff* of a train which arrived at Broad-street trot* Willosden on the night of the thirtieth alt- Evidence was given that the child had beea. in the home that it had been farmed out lot nine shillings per week, and that Miss Gale had sent for the child again on October 30th the day it was discovered under the carriage seat ostensibly for the purpose oi taking the child to see it's grandfather Somerset. On the case being adjourned, and bail being applied for. Detective Bareham informed the magistrate that this was the sixth child that had been found on this P* tieular service of trains recently. Bail at £500 was allowed. The accused wu fashion* abiy attired.

YOUTHS CHARGED WITH FORGERY. At the Mansion House, London, on Tuesday James Albert Chapman, eighteen, Sydney Charles Avery, fourteen, and William Soution, fourteen, were charged with forging and uttering on October 28 a cheque for £70, and on October 29 a cheque for £53. drawn on the London and Joint Stock Bank—Detective- inspector Sagar, of Old Jewry, said he received the warrant for the arrest of Chap- man on Saturday, and on Monday morning he saw the lads at Penzance. where they were detained by the county police. After he had read the warrant to Chapman, witness said to the other two lads, A quantity of money haJJ been found on you. How do you account for the possession of it?" A very remarked, The money we have upon us is part of the proceeds of the cheques. I took the cheques to the blink to get them cashed." Chapman added. I filled them in. We divided the money between us." Witness received from the chief- constable £53 found on Chapman. JE22 found oil Avery, and £29 which Soution had in hie possession. He received also three revolvers and a quantity of cartridges, and a new Glad- stone bag containing new clothing.—Th» prisoners were remanded.

COMMON INFORMER CLAIM. In the King's Bench Division on Tuesday Mr. J. W. Nutt, a solicitor. of Camberwell New-road, London, sought to recover £50 from the Sol Syndi- cate (the Sun" newspaper) for publish- ing an advertisement in the Sun" on the 19th of October. 1901. offering a reward for the recovery of a watch and chain, which had been lost, and stating that "No questions will be asked."—Counsel stated that this was a legal offence, for which a fine of £50 was recoverable from the advertiser, the printer, and publisher by common informer.—The defence was that plaintiff had already recovered judgment against the printer amd publisher, Mr. W. O. Hall, who was unable to pay the money.—A verdict was given for the defendants, and judgment was entered accord- ingly.

MR. W. REDMOND, M.P. Mr. William Redmond. M.P., was arrested at Kingstown on Tuesday morning on the arrival of the Holyhead mail boat., and was taken to Kilmainham Gaol. Some time ago he was ordered to find bail for his good behaviour, consequent upon a speech delivered in the county. He declined, and now undergoes si* months' imprisonment. Mr. William Redmond was sentenced to hi. term of imprisonment at Tralee in Septem- ber last. He was, aa an alternative, given three weeks to find sureties for good behavionr. He declined to do this, and baa. therefore, been arrested.

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