Weekly Mail

ATTEMPT TO RELEASE A PRINCESS Lieutenant iiattasi-ch Keglevich made an attempt to liberate Princess Louise of Saxe-Coburg from the lunatic asylum at Lindenhof, near Coswig, Saxony. where her Royal Highness is incarcerated, though, it is stat-fc-, she is perfectly sane. Keglevich arrived at Coswig with two friends, who had promised to lend their assis- tance to this daring enterprise. Circum- stances made it necessary for Keglevich to ask tho proprietor of the hotel wherein he I lodged to aid in the attempt, and it appears this individual betrayed the secret to the police. In »ny case, Kegievich'a intention became known to the authorities, who promptly took measures to prevent the success of the scheme. Finding premature dsoovery had spoiled the prospects of success, Keglevich and his friends returned to Austria. Precau- tions to prevent Prmoees Louise escaping have now been redoubled. Keglevich made a former unsuceessfal ftttemprt to rescue the Princess soon after bis liberation from prison in 1902, and has sworn to devote the whole of his life to securing her freedom. Keglevicll's bold venture wiH be all excellent- advertisement for his book, which is just published, wherein he gives a. history of the matrimonial troubles which drove the princess to desperation. The book contains amazing revelations in morals in princely palaces. The "Frankfurter Zeitong," in a recent article on the affair, denounces the princess's incarceration in a madhouse as a scandal and a disgrace to European civilisa- tion, and said that public indignation ought long ago to have made it impossible for the pnmceee to be treated with such barbarous eroetty. From time to time the hLwyer of her hasband, Prince Philip of Saxe-Coburg, pub- lishes statements that the Princess is really insane, but no one believes this, as all evi- dence-oonoinei*ely proves the contrary.

EXPRESS TRAIN MISSING. An extraordinary state of affairs prevails on the Pennsylvania Eailway owing to the abnormal floods. Near Alliance Oity the lines are under water for miles, and, the floods hairing carrieC away many telegraph poles, interrupting communications, no neWE oon be received regarding the trains, which ha.ve not arrived at their destinations in many cases. The Chicago I.imited.. express, which runs between New York and Chicago, is missing among others, and no tidings have been received as to its whereabouts. Much alarm is felt in many towns, and the disloca- tion of trade oa^ised by the lack of oommani- cation between important places ia enormous. One town in Ohio is threatened with inunda- tion, owing to the reservoir being filled to overflowing, causing such a strain that it is feared it may give wa.y. The inhabitants are taking to flight to escape possible destruction.

PIOVERS* EGGS. At this season of the year, "Country Life" argues that it is desirable that an energetic protest should be made against the stupid fashion of treating plovers' eggs as a luxury. In point of fact this is one of the silliest ideas imaginable. Not one in a thousand of those who eat these eggs can tell, except by the colour of the shell, whether they were laid by a seagull, a. curlew, a pheasant, or a part- ridge. Indeed, what are sold as plovers' eggs are in most cases those of other birds. The fashion deserves to be condemned, because the plover is one of those birds against which co one can urge any fault. One -of its princi- pal articles of diet is the wireworm, which works endless mischief to the farmer's crop.

POISONED AT A WEDDING. Two deaths from poisoning followed some wedding festivities at Selby, Yorkshire. The victims were Harry Hall and John Hodgson, one of the men being a brother of the bride. A bottle of litjuor had been hidden, and the two men. searching. iound a bottle and drank from it. Almost immediately they complained of a burning sensation in their throats, and the dreadful discovery was made that carbolic acid had been taken. Hall died within a. quarter of an hour, and Hodgaon succumbed at six o'clock next morning.

BRTKVIi PARTY'S MISHAP. A wedding party m.R with an alarming experience at Hueknall Torkard, near Nottingham. The bridal pair, with four attendants, started from the bride's home in a cab, but on tne way to church the Tehicle was overturned. The driver was thrown from his seat, and the cab fell upon him, severely injuring him about the head I and legs. The occupants of the cab were all •more or less brmsed and cut by broken glass, Jmt after resting for a while in a neighbour- ing house they walked oo to church, and the Qrtmaam teak jriaeflw

TWO GIBLS DROWNED. AN ASTON YOUTæS HEROIC CONDUCT. Two Birmingham girls Jiaiwe been drowned by tbs-capsizing-of a rowing- boat on the Avon. The accident was exceedingly parnfal, the girts being drowned before the eyes of hetp- | lees spectators on the banks. The girls, I Louisa and Alice Bridges. aged twenty and eighteen, left their home in Sparkbrook, Bir- mingham, on Monday for a day's outing. A young Aston mechanic, named Percy Britton, the fiance of Alice, accompanied them. They hired a boat near Binton Bridges, six miles from Stratford, and the girls sat in the stern-sheets while Britton rowed. There was a rough wind, and the water was very choppy," explained Britton later. After rowing for some time I observed that their dresses were wet, through. the water lapping oveer. Twice I suggested that we should torn back, but. they said it was nothing. Finally I found that the boat was gradually- filling and decided to make for the bank. When I tried to get there it was too late. I palled at the oazs until I was neatly eedmHted, bat the beat was alseady sinking, and before I knew it we were all three straggling in the water." The girl Alice immediately sank. The yeomg mas, in spite of his exhaustion, made a despferate spring towards them as the boat went over, and succeeded in catching Louisa, who dung tightly to him. Her clothes weighed them down, however, and Britton, in spite of a violent effort to reach the bank, sank with her. Even beneath the water I still hoped to gain the bank," he said. "I thought if we sank to-the-river bed I could drag myself and the girl to land along the bottom, but we did not touch the bottom. Then at the last moment I felt her suddenly relax her hold and slip away from me, and I had jnst sam- cient strength left to gam the surface and seize an crerfaanging branch." Captain WaJmeE, of WeMord, was passing over an adjacent bridge at the time of the accident and hurried to his assistance. The body of Looasa was brought to land ten minutes later, and a doctor summoned from Stratford by telegraph made va.in attempts to restore life. Same time elapsed before-the body of the younger girl was recovered.

ARRESTED ON HIS HONEYMOON. At Worshijhstreet Police-court, London, Arthur Albert Ray, 21. described as a manager, of Holloway, was charged (before Mr. Oluer) on a warrant with stealing a. cash- box containing JSZl odd, the property of Measra. Brown, silversmiths, of New Charies- streefc, Finsbtrry. Evidence wae given showing tha.t prisoner had been in the employ of the prosecutors for some time, and great confidence was placed in him, and be was in the habit of having trusted to has care the keys of the premises and of the safe. On Saturday, the 26th alt., there was in the safe a cash-box which contained .i321 Ta. 5d. when the members of the firm left. The following Monday morn- ing the prisoner failed to put in an appearance as usual, and when a messenger was sent to his residence it was ascertained that he had seme into the country for a fort- night. The prosecutors, on going to the safe, found that the casfh-box and its contents were missing. Information was given to the police and inQniries were made, and it was found that prisoner had got married, and with his wife, aged eighteen, had gone to Bournemonth. The prisoner was apprehended on a warrant, and OR being told the charge, said that he had been a fool, and could see it then. He had too big ideas. He was very sorry. He did not think that the cash-box contained so much money. Detective-sergeant Fox asked him what he had done webh the money, when he replied that they had spent it all in good living. AM the money had gone by Wednesday, and he had to pawn has wife's watch for them to RTe on. The prisoner, in answer to the charge, said hedidnot-knowwhatpoaaeesedhuntodo it—it was a mad act. It had shattered his career. He had- a fair wage and a good posi- tion. He did it to make a girl happier than she was. Mr. Cluer sentenced the prisoner to three months' imprisonment in the seoond division.

THE CONVICT AND THE JUSTICE. At Bow-street, London, on Wednesday, Sophia Annie Watson, now undergoing three years' penal servitude in Aylesbury Prison. was brought up on remand., charged with committing perjury in an action which she brought against Major- general H. Terrick Mtahugh, formerly chairman of the visiting justices at Lewes Gaol, for breach of promise of mar- riage. She claimed £ 10,000 damages, but was unsuccessful. Mrs. Jessie Nelson Weeks, of Mansion House, HurstpierptMnt, stated that on October 20 she ) journeyed in the same first-class carriage as the prisoner and General Fitxhugh from Has- eocka to Brighton. Throughout the entire journey witness did not hear the general speak to the prisoner. Had any offer of mar- riage beeu made she would have distinctly heard it. The case for the prosecution having closed, the prisoner addressed the magisfcratte, declar- ing that the whole of her affidavit concerning the general's promise of marriage to her was true in every detail. Ernest John Marcus Watson, sixteen, band boy of his Majesty's ship Boseawen, \said he was prisoner's son. Examined by prisoner, witness said he once went with his mother to the general's house in a carriage. The general was not .there, but they met him on returning. Accused showed witness a diamond ring, and said the general gave it to her. Prisoner once told him she was to be married to the general. Another remand was ordered, the Magistrate saying the prisoner should have every facility to summon witnesses.

STRANGLE DEATH OF A PROFESSOR An inquest on Edward Pattison Witten, demonstrator of zoology at the Edinburgh School of Medicine, was held at Sunderland; where he had died while spending a holiday at his home. On the 26th nIt., Mr. Witten and his sister both became ill. Dr. Gordon Beli, who was called in to attend, informed the jury that, in the entire absence of any indications as to the caupe of the severe abdominal pains from which Mr. Witten suffered, there was at first a disposition to think that he had accidentally swallowed some metallic poison, especially fbs his friends were inclined to attribute the pains to a coffee pot out at which he bad drunk coffee after having placed it on the fire. The post-mortem examination, however, showed that the cause of death wasgallgrene of the small intestine. It had arisen natu- rally, and might be the result of great exer- tion or of a hearty meal. A verdict of "Death from natural causes" was returned.

SPENT £ 1^0 IN THREE WEEKS. Robert Longhurst, 23. was charged at Green, wich with being unlawfully in possession of a set of billiard balls. A police-constable said he saw prisoner leave a pawnbroker's shop and put a parcel in his pocket. Witness stopped him, and found the parcel contained billiard balls, which prisoner said he bought about three weeks before at the Elephant and Castle. No owner had been found for the balls. Prisoner, sworn, said he was anything by trade." He had been a grocer, and had worked in a drug factory and at the docks. About three weeks ago he came into a legacy of £130, and bought the billiard balls, being flush of money. He had spent the whole of the JE130, going on the spree till it was gone. Mr. Baggallay discharged the man.

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ECHO OF THE CHAPMAN MURDERS Alfred Clarke, 32, a bookseller, of Chester- ford-road. Manor Park, was charged on re- mand, at Marlborough-street, London, with stealing, as bailie, 2 4Nousea. When arrested prisoner said: That has aJl been settled long ago; anyhow, there is nothing in it. I have been very unfortunate since I was liberated, after serving six months of the three years which Chapman, who was hung for the Borough murders, got me, although the man never saw me." Mr. Denman: Is there any truth in what the accused haa said about being in prison, and having been liberated;- Police-sergeant McEvoy: Yes, sir. Mr. Barrett (who appeared for the defence): He was released from prison because it was conclusively proved to the Home Secretary that he was convicted on the perjured evi. dence of Chapman, who was afterwards hanged for the Borough murders. Mr. Denman granted another cemaad, aad •band boO*

PlrrIFUL STORY OF A MOTHER WAUONG THE STREETS WITH A DEAD CHILD. At early mass in>«, Belfast-ehoxofc there-wJffi a young woman in the sparse eangxega&on, a mere girl, who carried in her anna, wrapped in a shawl, a little baby. She maat have shown,signs of a hard life, of a sorry lot. The night before she had walked the streets, atone with her baby, and for many days and nights before tfoat she and her child had been homeless and without food. None noticed her, for in Belfast the poor I they have always with them; but if in the congregation there had been one able to see the tragedy she bore with her, the poignant grief that oppressed the young mother, it must have become known there and then that the baby she carried with such tender care, such anxious gentleness, was dead. She sat out the mass with the corpse of her child in her arms. The girl-mother was Mary Gorman, a ser- vant maid who gave birth to a child and lost her situation. That was nearly Jour montha ago. For some weeks the aoonfcy charity of eaaoail Samariteuis kept her atine, and at her breast the destitute baby drew its feeWe life. On Sunday night two polioemen eaw her. She was trying to gain admission to a house, from which the owner repulsed her. She per- sisted desperately; she had the child, a.nd she must have a lodging, she told the police when they stopped to question her. She bad had nothing to eat for almost a day, she added, but she would not go to the- work- house. There wa4 that in the trouble of her voice, in her-desperate conrage- of a stricken woman tha.t lent her tale the force of truth. She. was miserable to see, a tragic figure, aad.oae of the constables was moved to offer her money that she might get food acod a bed. She heard has offer dully, bat broke down altogether when he had finished. "ril ten you the truth," she eaid sirapi^ The-child-the littledrild I have ia* my arm —is dead, and I don't know what- to do. I don't know what to do." They drew something ofber stoCT feonsber by degrees. The nigit before, trarfgrag the pavements hopelessly, she gawe the child the breast. It had been uneasy. Soon after she felt the little body stir in her arms^aiid ihea it stirred no more. Between terror ami dtcmib hope she carried it till dawn, and the light that came when the sun rose showed her the baby dead. They took her in all pity and gentleness to the police-station, and there she sat silent against the wall. She seemed to grasp nothing of affairs; her arms loosened and tightened about the tiny corpse, and..me dandled it lovingly, gazing wide-eyed before her the while. When the morgue van rumbled to the door they took it from her, but. she was not willing to let The young mother will go to the union tin an inquest has«pronounced upon the death of the child.

BETRAYED GIRL'S PITIFUL STORY. Dr. Wynn Wesfcoott, coroner, held art inquest at Bethnatl-green. London, touching the death of Rebecca Hannah Hall, aged foar months, the daughter of a. matchbox maker, of 18, Poster-street, Brady-street, E. Bather Hall, a single young woman, stated that she was now living with her-parents. She earned 2Jd. when she bad made a gross of matchboxes. She worked for a ftrmnamed Weller, but some of the boxes bore Bryant and May's name. Oat of this sum she had to support herself and baby. She had sum- moned the father of the child, a. gtassbtower, named George Clackworthy, and he was ordered to pay 3s. 6d. per week until the child was sixteen years old, but up till last Monday h? had given her nothing, and a warrant had: been issued for his arrest. The Coroner- It is a pity he oaranot be arrested, now we ha.ve got him. Witness (tearfully): Don't-take Mm, sir; it won't do any good now. The Coroner: I don't see why he should go scot free. and you have aU the trouble. The Coroner added that he thought a jni*. sionary was needed in his court sometimes, in order to protect young giiria against sudh blackguards as CIa>okworthy. A merciful Pro- vidence had relieved her of the child; and it was to be hoped she would hare no-more to do with such a ruffian. The coroner's officer saad that. from infor- mation lie had received, Clackworthy's con- duct had been disgusting and disgraceful. Since the girl had been back home Clack- worthy aiod his clique had been rownd to the house threatening what they would do. The Coroner: It is to be hoped that he will- fee prosecuted and imprisoned. Other evidence showed that the bafoy was fr*und dead in bed on Saturday morning, and Dr. Banoe6tated:that. death was due to suffo- cation. Clackworfhy, who wa«rpreseat im court, had nothing to say for himself. The jury returned a. verdict of Accidental death," and oensured CJacfewartfhy for "his inhuman conduct, and being a bladkgxraid generally," and expressed a. hope tha.t he might yet be ptmisbed. Clackworthy was detained, and the warrant officer sent for.

A JEALOUS WVER. At Oxtei Thomas Henry Bryant (24). a groom in the employ of the Hon. Pascoe C. Glyn, was charged with feloniously shoot- ing at Fanny Turner with a. revolver, at Godstone, on March 11, with intent to murder her. Prisoner had been keeping company with the girl for two years, and was annoyed that she had gone out with other young men. When taxed with this she admitted thaA it was true, but. promised to be faithful to him. A morrth later she wrote breaking off the engagement, and ia spite of repeated visits by him. she refused to resume the old rela- tions. In the evening she went to Godstone Church with a young man named Hartnspp, and during the service Bryant was carried out in a fit. Just before ten o'clock Hartnupp and Turner parted at the entrance gates to Strait on House, where the girl is employed as laundrymaid. She proceeded alone up the drive, and was startled by the priBonec, who stepped out from behind a tree, and, handing her some photographs, said, I have had enough of this." He then puned out a, revolver and shot at her. The shot nrissed her and she feU to the ground, 8oreamÍDg, Pd. soner ran a.way, and was afterwards arrested at his father's house, Tyler's-green, where, before the arrival of the police, he was pre- vented taking a table-knife to "do for him- self," as he expressed it. In a box at the mews were found two letters, one to the mother ajid the other the aunt of the girl, stating that by the time they received them Fanny and be would be no more; they were going to die together. A statement was put in by the prisoner, in which he said he only did this to frighten the girl; he loved her too much to wish to hurt her. Prisoner was committed for trial.

ALCOHOL AND IMAGINATION. An inquiry held at Lancaster oonoerned the death of a labourer named Sand bam. A week last Thursday, when he was proceeding to work, a piece of casting rolled on to hie foot. Complaining of pain, he went home, and the foot was bathed, but showed no signs of injury. He stopped at home and took no food, but had whisky supplied to him. On Thursday last a doctor was called in, but found that the man was so near death that he could do nothing for him. He examined the foot, but found no trace whatever of injury.— The coroner suggested that. Sandham's imagi- nation as to his injury had been stronger than his reason.—The jury returned a verdict to the effect that Sand ham had died from natural causes, accelerated by alcoholic excees.

RUINED THROUGH BILLIARDS. Although only eighteen years of age, Per- cival George Gillard. a clerk, of Chelsea, thought little of playing billiards at public- houses for stakes as high as 30s. a game. He lost heavily, and to pay his "debts of honour" he robbed his employers. These facts came out at the Maryiebone Police-court, London, wnen it was stated that among the letters demanding payment which he had received was one from a relieving officer.—The Magistrate, after reading this letter, said that the man ought to have known better than to lead the lad into playing billiards for money, and he should send the letter to his employers. —Gillard, who is the chief support of his mother, was ordered six weeks' imprisonment.

QUEER ENGAGEMENT RING. An amusing feature was introduced into a breach of promise case tried at Macroom Quarter Sessions, County Cork. The defen- dant, Timothy Creadon, said that the ring he was alleged to have given to the girl, Kate Corcoran, was really designed for putting through the noee of a pig, and was not an engagement ring at all. For the plaintiff it was contended that it cost 10e., and that Creadon, who is a middle-aged man, con- sidered the price excessive.—The jury awarded the plaintiff £3 damages.

EXECUTION AT BIRMINGHAM. At Birmingham on Tuesday Charles Samuel Dyer, an ex-soldier, described as a hawker, was executed for the murder of Martha Eliza Simpson. with whom he lived. The parties had been drinking freely, and it appeared DyeT, who was very fond of the woman, was angry at her having been in com- pany with another ma.n. He cut her throat, and she died almost immediately. The defence at the trial was that Dyer was soddened by drink. The execution, which was private, was carried out by William Billingtou, ia the jjp&gmxi&sl eomt g^aSSnaa.

GAOLBIRD'S BIG FORTUNE; £ 10r009 FOR A YOUNG LOAFER ON EASTER MONDAY. Young Henry Bagstec, better known to his intimates as "Spiv," by profession & efcxeet- aeller, but by iaclinatioii a loafer, oetebraies bis twenty-first tHTtbday on £ as$er Sunday, and on Bank Haftday came into a fortune of Lium. ErequeisberB of Victoria Railway Station in London know him well, and so do the polioe, for in tb& last four years he has been brought up no fewer then twenty times at. Westminster Police-court. He ia, to use his own words, Ha, born Iehmaelite." "I cannot do rigbt," he says, "though I try hard." Bagster is the son of a Brighton property- owner, and on the death of his mother became entitled to jE8,000 and considerable house property on attaining his majority. From his birth. however, he showed strong dislike for any kind of discipline or work, physical or mental. At the age of eleven he was senttoJSaTmg Grammar School, but he ran away and associated with vagabonds. All efforts to re-ciaiiu him failed, and for yeam- be has faaog round Victoria Station, carrying parcels, tooting lbTcsbe6 and even begging. His position satd prospects of wealth were HENRY BAGSTBR. I known to afl ihtMt fellow-loafers, and when he was aide to dra.w any money on account from the Brighton solicitors who had charge of his property there was no one so popular as "Spiv." Bagster made his first appearance at Westminster Police-court over four years I ago, when he was given two months' hard labour for an assault on an elderly railway porter. Last August he was up for the twen- tieth time, the police called it, .and in default of ftdime,sureti- for J650 he was sent to gaol for six months. Last Saturday he left Pen- tonvitle Prison, and returned to a, common lodging-boutse and bis life at Viotoria^Station, to await the coming of his fortune. Last week a reporter found young Bagster alcm to~ihis old haunts in Rochester-row. He is short and alert looking—a typieal cockney street boy. "Yes," said Bagster, "I toaeh the money for certain next week, and joBy pleased I shall be, for I'm sick of being poor. Fve not done much good up to now, but with this money rt wJU be different. It comes from my mother's will, and nobody -caji pre- vent me getting it. rve bad bits -on account since I first heard of my luck; 975 was the largest øam-I had that to make a. fresh start, but. somehow, I didn't spend it in tha.t way. rv& seen some-queer days. Onoe when I was selling pajjeiB in the street a well- dressed lady stopped me. and I found out she was my sister, who is maTT-ied to a man with £ 3i000 a. year. It's a. queer world. I thought Of spending some of my money on a tutor to coach me up in the things a man of means ought to know, and the rest 1-wajit tied up, so that I can get only a few pounds a week. That will be the only way-to saive it." ALL A MYTH. Other reports say that Henry Bagster, the newsboy who has been riding about London in cabs on the strength of an inheritance of £ 17,000, will probably cease to use hansoms very shortly. There is good reason to think that Bagsteeg wealth, all told, is-not-enough to lead him into eeodous ,excesses. The Brighton solicitor who has charge of Bagger's inheritance, knows nothing of the alleged thousands and the sobetasntiaa house property which the newsboy ckiimB to have succeeded to. He has all the documents in the matter, aDd thinks thai Bagster may get RW or so and some furniture, much used, I which might realise J520 or less. There ia no longer any fla-vour of romaaee about Bagster. It has been easy enough to dig his origin out of easily accessible records. There never was anything remarkable for him to inherit. After her husband's death his mother was employed in a. hotel, and left a little furniture in a. house in the town, which she held as a. yearly tenant, and let furnished to visitors. After his mother's death, in 1895, he was put to school at Ealing, but there were not enen f unde-enoagh to- keep him there.' He, therefore, left, and for a long time Brighton knew nothing of him. In 1899 a jndge of the Brighton Oounty Court ordered the payment of a few small debts oat of money dtte to him, and pro- vided him with an outftt to enter the Navy. He was discharged a few monthe later as un- fit. Bagster has a sister living. She is well- married, and very naturally desirea that her relationship to the young scapegrace shall not be obtruded on public notice. Thus the story of the thoueands in good yellow metal and -worthy houses and valuable land is whittled down to a. tale of sovereigns slowly eawed from the letting of furnished apartments and furniture which has stood the stress of a succession of irresponsible lodgers.

HER MISTRESS'S CLOTHES.' Frances Enphemia Lamb, nineteen, domes- tic servant, of Tottenham, was charged, at North London, with stealing jewellery and other articles, to the value of nearly JE50, the property of Mrs. Fanny Beachcroft. Prosecutrix, a widow, said the prisoner had been in her employ as a servant for nearly three months. She took the girl from a "home," the authorities of which said she had only been sent there for some minor offence. The girl behaved herself fairly well, and appeared to be honest. vtfatness went out, leaving the prisoner ion charge of the house, but on her return in the evening she found that the prisoner had dressed herself in a. full out-fit of Miss B-herofvs clothing- hataa well—and gone-oif. Shehad.alaotak-en a gold watch and chain, four bracelets, and three rings, which she told the police she had pawned at two separate establishments in the Eseex-road. Detective-sergeant New, who arrested the prisoner, said she did not deny the charge. She was still wearing the young lady's cloth- ing, and told where she had pawned the jewellery. In reply to the magistrate, prosecutrix said the jewellery was-not looked wp; and, though, she did not have a good character with the girl, she thought that in the three months she had tested her honesty. Mr. Fordbam remanded the lteuged.

IN FEMALE ATTIRE. George Walter, a. valet, and Chariesr Parker, 21, a. barman, were charged a.t Westminster, London, with being suspected persons loiter- ing at Marchmont-street, St. Pancras. Walter was further charge dwith being dressed in female attire. Polioe-eergeant Butler watched tlie two prisoners for some time, and as they were about to enter a hopse stopped them. Walter was wearing female attire, and the officer said, I have reason to believe you are a man." WaJter appeared very indignant, and exclaimed, I'm no man." The officer tilted the prisoner's felt hat, that was elaborately trimmed, and found that be was wear-ing a wig. He then arrested biln, and another officer took Parker into custody. Pointing to Parker Walter said, You can. t ta-ke him; he is nothing to do with me." At the station Parker had in his possaeskm a photograph of himself and Walter in male attire. Mr. Bros remanded them-

STRANGE TIEA TH OF A SURGEON. The death is recorded of Mr. Charles Truax, a well-known surgeon in New York, under most exceptional circumstances. He was suddenly stricken with heart failure whilst operating upon a patient. He hastily handed his lancet to his assistant, who went on with the operation. Mr. Truax was re- moved to an adjoining room, where he drag- nosed his own case and prescribed certain remedies. These, unfortunately, failed to re- lieve him, and he succumbed to the attack.

CURIOUS BURIAL MISTAKE. A singular mistake has occurred in connec- tion with the burial of James Pooley, an old resident at Whittlesey. Cambridgeshire. It appears that he purchased a space in the local cemetery for himself and his wife, but by mistake be was buried in his sister's grave. The widow objected, and.- an order having been obtained from the Home Secretary, the i body has been exhumed, and re-interred iu I taw. toDCS

REMARKABLE STORY YOUNG MAN'S ROMANTIC ACCES- SION TO WEALTH. A young man who came to Bristol shortly before Christmas has just inherited .a fortune under romantic circamstances. He was known under the naane of Hoove, and when he reached the city he was in such poor cireumsianoes that he was befriended by members of the Young Men's Christian Asso- ciation^ and a situation was obtained for him, which he held up to. a. week ago. Some time since he wrote to friends in London, who appear to have known that Mr. Moore was in reality Mr. Stephens, and that he was heir to a considerable fortune. By means of them friends a well-known firm of London solicitors were put into communication with Mr. Moore, who on Thursday last had an interview with them. He then discovered that his real name was Stephens, that he was a son of the late Rev. A. E. Stephens, of Cambridge, and that he was entitled to a fortune of £ 47,808, plus a rent roll of £ KWK)0 -a year. I interviewed iu Bristol on Ssctusday, Mr. Stephens, a gftnt)emanly-looking young fellow, corroborated the above facts. He said he was born at Cambridge, and attained his majority in March. As a. boy he-was eent to school at Baling, but both his parents died, and he had to "rough it" ever since. After the death of his mother and father he appeared to have been looked after for a time by an old servant of the family, but latterly he had been wandering about. Arrangements are practically completed for the estate-to be-handed over- to Mr. Stephens, who has already begun to participate in its benefits. With some of the first money he received. Mr. Stephens pocompenged friends in .Bristol who- had befriended him in the hour of need.

STORY OF A FDR BOA. iSMJfflT ARREST BY A LONDON DBTBCMWB. Among- the congregation at tho afternoon «ervioe in Westminster Abbey on Good Friday was Miss M. L. Morgan, of New York, who is a sister of Mrs. Carrier, wife of Mr. J. R. Carter, second secretary of the United States Embassy in London. Miss Morgan was wear- ing a very valuable fur boa, which at the commencement of the service she placed over the back of her seat. At the conclusion of the service the boa was missing. On the advice of the Abbey authorities the lady pro- ceeded to Cannon-row Police-station to give notice of her loss, and she was actually giving the officer on duty a description of her boa when Detective F. Dawson walked into the station with a man in custody and the miesing boa in his hand. The detective explained that he was on duty on the Abbey side of Westminster Bridge, when he observed a smartly-attired man walking briskly along. Glancing casually at the man the detective immediately became intensely interested in him, for dangling just below his overcoat were the two tails of a tar boa. The detective had not, of course, heard oftbe abbey incident, but the incongruity of a man wearing a lady's boa beneath his overcoat seemed to invite investigation. Detective Daw- son stopped the man and demanded an explanation. The man said he picked up the boa in the Abbey and waa then taking it to the Lost Property Of&ce. "But you are coming away from the Lost Property Office," retorted the detective, and I think you had better come along wiSi me," which, needless to say, the man with the boa.perforce-did.

A WOMAN'S DELUSIONS. SAID SHE WAS TO MARRY THE CHANCELLOR. Baroness Florence Mary Pabien- Ohereux, "to be a native of Trinidad, was" "brought up on remand at Westminster Police-court on Saturday charged with assaulting Miss Amanda Hartmann, daughter of the pro- prietor of the Harrington Hotel, South Ken- sington. It was stated at the previous hearing that the accused knocked down Mis? Hartmann because a water-colour painting of Mr. Austen Chamberlain, which had been detained, with other effects, owing to the non-payment of her bill, was not released to be exhibited at the Royal Academy.—Inspec- tor Brazier now stated that the water-colour had been taken to the Royal Academy, but was not accepted. The accused, who belonged to a respeeta,ble family, suffered from delusions, and some time ago said she was about to marry Mr. Austen Chamber lain, which was entirely imaiginathm. There was some doubt as to her right to the title of baroness, and she was known as Miss Babien. —Mr. Gsuve. who appeared for the accused* a family., presented a medical certificate *o the effect that she suttered from delusions. He thought the hotel and cab bills would be paid, as. defendant had a smaJl imooine from her late grandfather's estate. Her uacie would be coming from Trinidad shortly.—The Magis- tra,te said he would have accused examined by the dmsionai surgeon.

THE WYRLET OUTRAGES. ANOTHER SENTENCE OF PENAL SERVITUDE. At Staffordshire Quarter Sessions on Tues- day Thomas Farringdon, a miner, was indicted for having maliciously killed two sheep and a lamb at Great Wyrley on March 24. The evidence for the prosecution showed that on a search being made at the place of slaughter a button was found which corre- sponded with the buttons on the trousers which prisoner wore. The jury found the prisoner guilty, and he was sentenced to three years' penal servitude.

ALLEGED PROCURATION CASE. A wnartly-dreaaed woman, named Eliaa Vankyrke, appeared on remand at Bow- street. London, charged with procura- tion for immoral purposes. A Belgian girl of sixteen, formerly in the service of the Commissioner of Police at Brussels, was re- called by the Treasury to give evidence in support of the charge against the prisoner. The girl said that when she came to London first prisoner bought her a wig, which she wore hanging down her back. During the two months she was in London she received about LM a week from gentlemen. AU the money went to the prisoner, the girl having to hand her letters to Pierre, the prisoner's lover, to post, as she had nothing to buy stamps with. When it came to prisoner's ears that she was going to try to get away, prisoner kept the girl always in sight in the street. Pierre asked her if she would be his his wife, and he would send prisoner back to Belgium. The prisoner need all sorts of threats and promisee- to induce her to remain with her. One evening she ran out of the house. Pierre followed her, and the prisoner called out, "Take her, kill her." She managed, however, to reach a policeman, who brought her to Bowetreet. A further remand was-ordered, some papers being required from the Brussels police.

DRAMATIC SCENE AT A FIRE. An exciting fire, which had fatal results, broke out at 56, Derby-road, Croydon, the residence of Riehxtrd Early. The flames first attacked the staircase; and the inmates thus found their means of escape cut off.- Mr. Early managed with difficulty to get away from the house, but lie was severely burned. An old lady, named Mrs. Hamilton, was also rescued by being carried, down the burning staircase. Two young men, named Cummings and Canninston, employed at the Tfeeafcre Royal, Croydon, found escape impossible save by jumping from an upper window. This they did, and their leaps were witnessed by an excited crowd of onlookers. Eoth were badly hurt, and Cnmmings broke his arm. All four were taken to Croydon Col- lege Hospital, where their injuries were attended to. Shortly after admission Mrs. Hamilton died from shock.

POISONED BY ICE-CREAM. The three-year-old eon of a carman, named Marsh, living in Pattison-street, Stepney, was seized on Tuesday last with severe sickness, and it was ascertained that he had been eat- ing ice-cream bought from a barrow in the street. The child subsequently died, and at the inquest Dr. Lynch stated that death was due to ptomaine poisoning, set up by the ioo-cream.-The Coroner remarked that inquiries had been made, but the vendor of the ice-cream could not be traced.—The jury returned a verdict of "Death by mis- adventure."

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DROWNING ACCIDENTS. AVONMOOTH DOCKMASTER DROWNED. The-doekmaster at ievomnouth (Captain E. W. Harvey) was drowned on Monday morning off Ponisbea.d. He was a very popular-officer, and was attached to boating. He was spending his Bank Holiday in the enjoy- menxt erf a short Channel aaaJ, in company wifeii a friend, and had gone forward to do eomeChang to a rope, when a. gust of wind brought the saal across a:nd knocked him over- board. He swam for fifteen minutes with the tide, and then sank, and his companion was unable to do anything to save him.

HAVERFORDWEST MAN DROWNED. Mr. Price, the county coroner, held an inquest in the Bethesda School, Haverford- west, on the body of George Richards, aged 28, a trimnaii, of Perrot's-avenue, Haverford- west, whose body had been found in the Cam- rose Brook, between Crowbill and Pelcome.— James Richards, a bother, gardener at Ootts- more, said his brother stayed with him over Thursday nigfat. At 6..10 a.m. on Good Friday he left the house with his Sshmg-rod and bastjeet. and said he would fish in äaeCamrose Brook, and would be back at breakfast. He didroot return, but about ten a^K-he was seen fishing near OImIrose Bridge. He was not miased'untiMSaturday morning, when a search was instituted and deceased was found lying in three feet of water in a narrow brook, still with the basket on his back and the rod and lineL on the end of which there was a ash. undesneath him.—The foreman of the jury (Mr. James GriffithsV said to his knowledge. the deceased bad had fits —Dr. Williams said there were no marks of violence, And death bad resulted from drowning.—A verdict of "Pound drowned was returned.

BODY WASHED ASHORE AT WESTON The"body of an unknown, seaanan was washed ashoeeon Monday on ihe-ssuda at Uptwil, near WeetoiMSuper-BaFe. The body is that of a Tram 5ft. Snwamd about X>-ye8M» do age, d«k brown haar, and daxk beard tat short. Deceased was wearing two waotatooafca, one bttack-serge the other dark ^elwet, mneh worn. The body, which has not been in the water long, is now at the mortuary.

CARDIFF PILOT'S DEATH. At the Town-hall, Oardiff, on Saturday Mr. E. B. Reeoe (coroner) held an inquest on the body of William Owen, 4, Henry-street, the Cardiff pilot who had been missing from his home smoe March H, when he went away at 230 in the afternoon in good health and spirits. At seven p.m. on the date named he was eeen by Darvid Rees, quite sober, and walking in the direction of the Old Sea Lock. Police-constable Henry Hudson on the after- noon of April 1 found deceased's body float- ing in the Glamorganshire Canal near the Old Sea. Lock, and he took the remains to the Bute-street mortuary. Deceased had. in his pockets 8s. lid., a knife, and a pipe.—Dr. J. J. Buist (police surgeon) certified that there were no marks of injury, and that drowning was the cause of death.

SWAN-SEA MYSTERY SOLVED. A middle-aged man named William Bidder, residing at the Sandfields, Swacaea, was reported missing from home last November. He was a ahipeo painter, and a good deal of mystery surrounded hie disappearance. No one appears to have suspeefced. that he had fallen into the dock, but on Sunday morning, after the long lapse of five months, his body was discovered floating in the East Dock. Apparently, he had remained embedded at the bottom or-ibe dock since the time of his dieappearance.

DROWNED IN THE MERSEY. A young man named Lionel Hughes, of Liverpool, irae drowned in the Mersey on Monday morning. Be was returning to the shore with a friend in a punt from a yacht, when the craft was struck by a wave and turned turtle. Hughes wae drowned, but the other man was rescued by companions on the

SHIPPING DISASTERS. IjTHKELIJNG STORY: EIGHTEEN PERSONS DROWNED. Details haare reached Paris of the loss of the AmerMam schooner Herald of the Morning, carrying eight sailors and 36 pas- sengers. She was proceeding to Dakar with I a cargo of silk goods, and when in attempt- ing to negotiate the channel on the night of March 6 she struck on the Almadis Rocks, on which a lighthouse stands. The hull of the ship was torn open, and the schooner cap- sized. An imkeeterrbabie panic ensued. Seven Portuguese, meetly members of the crew, tbrew themselves iuto the water, and managed to reach the Almadis lighthouse after a severe and ps-afaneed struggle. The lighthouse keeper Jumped into hie smtiil boat, and succeeded in saying ten from the wreck. The captain of an infantry company at Qmekaur, on being apprised of the disaster, mustered his men and gallantly assisted in the work of rescue. Several of the passengers were stRI dinging to the htdl of the ill-fated schooner, and these the soldiers were instru- mental in sawing. Of the total number of 44 on board eighteen perished. The survivors were taken, from the lighthouse to Marseilles, where every attention was paid them.— Oentral News.

NORWEGIAN STEAMER WRECKED. The Danish-steatmer Ceres, which arrived ait Leith on Monday from Iceland, brought inrtelligeaace of the wreck of the steamer Kong Inge, of Christiania, off the Faroe Islands, a fortnight ago. The Kong Inge left Leith on March 5 with a few pasengers and a general cairgo for the Faroe Islands, and was on her return voyage when she went ashore at Bakke-f jord, becoming a total wreck. All j on board were raved. The steamer, which was one of nearly 700 tons burthen, was built at NeWcastle fourteen years ago.

NORTH GERMAN LLOYD STEAMER DISABLED. The British steamer Treglieson on Saturday towed into Coeunna the German steamer Pfalz, from Buenos Ayres for Southampton. The Pfalz put iuto Cornnna on Friday, and left again during the afternoon. About four I o'elock on Saturday morning her propeller shaft was tawhen by a ware. At daybreak the Treglisson cstme in sight and took her in tow, the master-of the Plats undertaking that the owners, the North-German UGyd Company, should pa.y JB400 for the service.—?ReuAer.

LINER IN STORM. The OImard liner Campania on arrival at Liverpool on Saturday reported very stormy weather during most of the passage from New York. The passengers spoke of some seas being 80 to 100 feet high, and when they broke over the liner she was washed from stem to stern, the after-deck being frequently inun- dated. For several days the passengers bad to remain below. Notwithstanding the weather, the Campania made the high average of 211rnots per hour.

A FORTUNATE ESCAPE. A Greenock correspondent telegraphs that the five men of the Greek vessel Polynmia Micbsriitsiano supposed to have been lost from a small boat-off the Wicklow coast were picked up by the battleship Royal Oak, and carried on to the Clyde, where the Greek ship arrived two hours afterwards. The captain and others of the crew were greatly surprised to find their shipmates already there. It is added that the warship reports having struck some obstruction in the water shortly after leaving Scilly.

A CLERGYMAN'S DELUSIONS. An inquest was held at Brighton on Tuesday on the body of the Rev. Ernest Murray Robin- son, vicar of Zion, Surrey, who cut his throat in the presence of his wife at a boarding- house in King'e-road. The medical evidence showed that the deceased had undergone a slight operation to the toe nail. He was hypochondriacal and suffered from delusions regarding his heart, saying that he was about to have a. serious illness. His doctor saw no suicidal tendencies. Mr. Robinson's mind was upset by his inability to get away from the delusions regarding his health. The verdict was "Suicide while of unsound mind." A later telegram states that there are strong grounds for the belief that Lee and his young wife had determined to commit stticide together, and that Lee at the last moment drew back.

DISAPPEARANCE OF A MINISTER. A Birkenhead telegram reports the myste- rious disappearance of the Rev. George Rapkin, minister of the Church of Christ in that town. A fortnight ago Mr. Rapkin went to Belgium for the purpose of making arrangements for a tour which he intended to oonduct this summer in connection with his congregation. On the Thursday following his departure his wife received a telegram from him flrom Antwerp Station stating that he fett very ill, but was going on to Cologne, and hoped to be home the following Sunday. Since then nothing has been beard of him, and since leaving Antwerp there is no trace of hiamowments.

PLAGUE IN THE TRANSVAAL. The following telegram relative to the plague in the Transvaai has been received from Lord Miluer:- The following was the position of tbe plague on Saturday:— Proved eases: Nine whites, two coloured, 51 Asiatic, thirteen natives-total 75. Suspected cases: Six whites, two coloured, six Asiatics, 36 natives—total 50. Proved deaths: Seven whites. 49 Asiatics, six jiatsnres—total, 62. Sa^ected

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