Weekly Mail

A BEAUTIFUL WIDOW CHARGED WITH POISONING HER HUSBAND. The sensational French Maybrick case commenced at the Rhone Assizes on Wednes- day, when Alice Massot, a beautiful Marseilles widow of 28, and Edward Hubac, the son of a local stipendiary, were indicted for the murder of Captain Massot last autumn twelvemonths. The husband was poisoned. No sooner was he dead and buried, than Hubac came to live in the widow's house. This seemed to be too much for Marseilles neighbours, who promptly began to talk. That was the opportunity for the servant- girl Lucie, and she not only chatted about the goings-on of her mistress and her friend, but took four letters she had discovered to the police. An exhumation followed, and after a pro- tracted inquiry the widow and her lover were arrested. BLAZING INDISCRETION. The prosecution bases its allegations principally on the nature of the letters which were written by Hubac to Alice Massot while Captain Maesot was dying. As instances of blazing indiscretion they have never been surpassed. Here is a sentence from one, written by Hubac to Mme. Massot while she was administering to the needs of her sick hus- band: Alas, no letter from you. My supreme consolation in these atrocious hours is, therefore, denied me. Three days later: In what precise condition is George (Captain Maesot) just now? That is the one question I put myself, and to which I await a favourable reply. To-day I am buoyed up by an extraordi- nary hope. I think everything is progress- ing as we wish. A little bother still, and then we cam contemplate the future with composure. All that is necessary is that you should be free, and then, after a brief widowhood, you Sohall be mine, and the denouement of the drama we are playing, accomplished. POETIC RAPTURE. He bursts into poetic rapture: After all the storms our little bark has encountered, we deserve a safe harbour. Our dream will be realised until time brings us to our last embrace, when the soft south wind, will bear our souls to the stare, there to dwell for ever more. On October 20 the third letter is dated. The writer exclaims: Is the situation going to endure for ever? I am beginning to be sceptical as to a. final result. Whatever happens, however, I have faith in you. Don't be frightened by a non- absorption of the prepared food. You must continue, or you will have no happy consummation at all. Courage, I love you. TWO DAYS BEFORE DEATH. The fourth letter was written the next day, 48 hours before the husband's death. The writer promises Mrs. Massot a new prepara- tion. He disappears from Marseilles till he hears of the decease. Mme. Massot throws all the blame on the lover, and Hubac declares the woman egged him on to coax her husband to submit to her "nursing."

WELSH PIERROT'S ROMANCE MARRIES A WEALTHY LADY: TRAGIC SEQUEL. A story romantic in origin and tragic in its climax comes from Bradford. Living in the New Leeds district of that town is' a modern troubadour who in the summer of 1903 was one of a troupe of pierrota "busking" at a seaside resort in North Wales. During his stay there he made the acquaintance of a. well-to-do lady, the daughter of a clergy- man. The lady appears to have been enamoured of the young man. The pair frequently cor- responded after leaving the holiday resort, and one day, during an engagement in Manchester, he received a note from the lady to say she was on her way to that city, end they would be married with all possible speed. In spite of threats from her own people she insisted on marrying the man of her choice. The girl's father at length gave a reluctant consent, and the marriage took place at a village church in Wales. The couple subsequently settled down to a life in humble circumstances in Bradford, where only a day or two ago there was a tragic end to their romance. Three months out of the six of her married life the lady spent in hospital, and underwent three >perations. The last proved fatal, and last areek the young bride passed away in the Bradford Royal Infirmary.

WORRIED BY A PROPOSAL. A distressing story was related at West- minister Police-court, London, when Char- lotte Adams, 24, who appeared to be ill, was brought before Mr. Horace Smith on a charge af attempting suicide at Lambeth Bridge. Defendant was seen to climb the parapet, oat when a constable appeared she buret out prying and gave rather incoherent answers to his questions. She said that she had been oat of work. Mr. John Foster, Lambeth, deposed that from the fact that defendant was a friend of his wife's mother he had given her shelter for the past month or so. The young woman had been quite lately very much worried and perturbed over an offer of marriage from a well-to-do widower between 60 and 70, who wanted to make her his fifth wife. The old man had been to the registry office and given the notices to be married iiy lioence, but the defendant could not make up ¡ her mind to the marriage, and the worry had really unhinged her mind. Accused was remanded.

LOVE OP ART. JB60,000 REFUSED FOR A PICTURE. An instance of remarkable patriotism on the part of a. Madrid lady has just come to light. The Duchess Yillahermosa is the possessor of a picture painted by the famous Velasquez —a portrait of Don Diego Arellano, a per- sonage of the Court of Philip IV. She lately received an offer from a very rich American of £00,000 for this picture, but she declined the tempting offer- In the reply which she sent to the American millionaire, the duchess said: "I love art end despise money, and in order to prevent others after my death doing what I now refuse to do, I intend to bequeath the picture to the Prado Musenm in Madrid."

SIX YEAlt OLD VIOLINIST. The remarkable tale of a child musician was told at Clerkenwell Police-court, Lon- don, when Frederick William Karsten, of High-road, Wood-green, was summoned for causing Edith Karsten, aged six, to be in Holborn Town-hall for the purpose of playing » violin. On November 3 Mr. Karsten wrote to the Commissioner of Police giving notice that he aitended to apply for a lioence for the child to anpear at a concert at the Holborn Town- hall. Inspector Collins explained to him that a licence could not be granted to any child under ten. Mr. Karsten said, "I think I shall chance ft." The child, who was billed as "The Marvel. lous Child Violinist," played, as a matter of fact, two violin solos, occupying the stage for thirteen minutes. Karsten said he was under the impression that the child could appear in public so long am there was no cruelty. To play the violin was "a perfect joy" to his little girl. Mr. Bros said that Karsten had committed an offence in spite of receiving a warning from the police, and would be fined 40B. and 22B. ooste.

CORK MURDER MYSTERY. An inquest was held at Cork on Wednesday on William Regan, an American naval | pensioner, who wa/3 found drowned in River Lee after he had been missing several days. The medical evidence was to the effect that the deceased bad three shocking wounds on the head, inflicted by some blunt instru- ment. The doctor's theory was that Regan was first murdered, and his body thrown into the river. The jury returned a verdict of Wilful murder." A constabulary pensioner is in custody on suspicion.

A TRAIL OF BLOOD. BURGLAR'S FEARFUL PLIGHT AFTER AN ENCOUNTER. In the early hours of the morning a desperate encounter waged between a Burton- on-Trent jeweller and a burglar. Mr. Frederick Auber, who sleeps over his father's shop, in Station-street, was aroused by the gleam of a light and sounds below. Jumping out of bed and seizing a clasp knife he crept down to the kitchen. In the corner crouched a man. The two men immediately closed, the burglar being armed with a miner's pick. "As we were grappling," said Mr. Auber to a correspondent, "I called upon him to sur- render. lie replied with two stinging blows, so the struggle for supremacy continued. "Backwards and forwards we swayed for several minutes, and both of U8 fell on to a table containing the crockery used for supper. It went over with a crash. I fell to the ground, and the man slipped from my grasp, instantly darting into the scullery and slip- ping out at the window, by which he had come. "I jumped up, unlocked the door, and dashed in pursuit. I came up to him on Worthington's Brewery wall, but he slipped over the other side, and as I was only in my nightshirt I had to give up the chase." Both Mr. Auber and the burglar were covered with blood, the former having used the knife freely. The retreating intruder left & heavy trail of gore, and by this he was tracked by the police over fields and to the canal-side six miles away. Here he was found huddled under a bridge covered with blood and thoroughly exhausted. He was conveyed in a cart to Burton, where the police identified him as a. man named Baylies, who had recently served three years' penal servitude for a similar attempt to rob a jeweller's shop in the town four years ago. Then he escaped over the roof-tops and fell through a skylight a.nd was dreadfully out. Prisoner was remanded till Friday.

LAUGHING GAS FATAL. DEATH IN A DENTISTS CHAIR. An inquest was held at Kingston by Dr. M. H. Taylor, coroner, into the death of Ida Marian Dibdin, aged eighteen, which occurred under distressing circumstances. The father of the girl stated that on the previous Thursday she went with her mother to a dentist's. Being an invalid, the family doctor accompanied her and personally administered the anaesthetic. His daughter had had "laughing gas" before, and took it all right. Mr. Harry Ide, a registered dentist, of Kingston, told the coroner that he advised that only one tooth should be drawn then, remarking tha.t he would stop the other two, Which toad given some trouble. Miss Dibdin had had gas before, and did not seem to be avetr&e to taking it on this occasion. The doctor administered gas, and it acted quickly, but deceased so soon came round again that witness had scarcely had time to extract the troublesome tooth. He was putting down his forceps when he noticed that the patient was convulsed. Witness and the doctor present resorted to artificial respiration, and every- thing .posible was done for the young lady, but, unfortunately, without avail. The Coroner: It was a very unusual thing to happen? Witness: Yes; I don't expect to have a similar experience during the rest of my life. The Coroner: I trust you never will. Dr. Owen, of Kingston, deposed that he attended the deceased at the dentist's sur- gery, and administered seized with convulsions. Witness had tihe chair in which she was seated lowered, and for one hour and a half he did everything possible to restore her, amongst other thing'3 adminstering a hypodermical injection of strychnine. Death resulted from heart failure. The Coroner: I understand the percentage of deaths under such circumstances is one in 250,000. This, unfortunately, is the one. This gas is the safest anaesthetic known. Dr. Owen: Yes, it is quite the safest that can be given. Addressing the jury, the Coroner said he could not tell how many times he had per- sonally seen "laughing gas" administered. He had seen it given to people suffering with heart decease and everything else, and and he had never noticed the least danger. The jury returned a verdict of death by misadventure, and expressed the opinion that neither the doctor nor the dentist was to blame in the matter. The father of the deceased remarked that he was perfectly satisfied that every care had been exercised. The girl's mother, who was present at the time, had also expressed her- self satisfied that every precaution was taken by the doctor and the dentist.

WHOLE FAMILY MURDERED A terrible and revolting crime is reported from Niedersteina, in Saxony. It appears to have taken place on Saturday night. The victims were Herr Freudenburg, his wife, three children (two of them being grown up), and two grandchildren, the youngest a boy of fourteen. The murderers entered the house undiscovered, and murdered the entire family. Afterwards they set the house on fire. The building was almost completely1 destroyed. Some of the corpses were calcined when discovered. Sufficient remained, however, to convince the police of the terrible nature of the crime. A near relative of Herr Freudenberg has been arrested on suspicion. There had been some ill feeling in the family.—Central New 3.

MURDERED HER MISTRESS. At the Old Bailey on Wednesday May Hold- away, 60, charwoman, was indicted for the wilful murder of her mistress, Tabitha Lawson, 87, by cutting her throat at Plum- stead—The prosecuting counsel stated that the accused had been in the deceased's employ for 41 years, and the circumstances pointed to the conclusion that at the time the act was committed Holdaway was of un- sound mind. The accused was greatly devoted to her mistress, who had been Ded- ridden for many years, and she acted ¡os- nurse. Deceased suffered from a most pain- ful illness, and this fact affected the accused's mind.—Medical evidence was given that the prisoner was insane at the time she com-j mitted the act. and, the jury adopting this view, she wa.3 ordered to be detained during. his Majesty's pleasure.—Holdaway, who was in a very weak condition, had to be assisted from the dock.

SIX YEARS OF TORTURE. During six years Herbert Mott, as secretary to the Argentine Meat Preserving Company, misappropriated large sums of money with- out being detected. Recently the company voluntarily went into liquidation, and his frauds were discovered. Mott confessed that since 1397 he had stolen nearly £20,COQ to meet gambling losses on the Stock Exchange. "So far," he Gaid, "mv punishment has been six years of indescribable torture." His position enabled him to falsify the book>, while, as open cheques for between £50,O:)() and £60,000 passed through his hands during the year, he had only to sign these to obtain the money. At the Old Bailey, London, Mott was ordered eighteen months' hard labour. It was stated that in private life the prisoner had been extremely generous, and had also acted as deputy-organist at a North London Church.

A FEMALE BURGLAR. Maud Lyman, a well-dressed young woman, wio charged at Bromley with committing a burglary at a house in Beckenham. When Gwendolen Hamblen, a servant at 4, Beckenham-road, came downstairs on the morning of the 1st inst. she found the doors unfastened and the rooms in a state of great disorder. Property was strewn about the floors, and there was some missing. Information was given to the police, but no arrest was made at the time. A few nights afterwards, however, a police-constable found the accused in the conservatory at the same house. She had her boots off, and was fast asleep. On being arrested and searched pawntickets relating to some of the stolen property were found in her pocket.—Accused, who admitted the offence and said she was sorry, was committed for trial.

—^ SIXTEEN YEARS' EXPERIENCE IN mJRING THE DEAF. The &teady growth in popular favour of the 1 method of treating deafness by outward applications behind the ears can only be attributed to the enormous number of cases cured since it was first brought to the notice of the medical profession in 1883. The last number of the "Review of Ear, Nose, and Throat Diseases" gives an interesting descrip- tion of this method of treatment, and gives the details of a large number of cured cases taken from the records of the Medical Staff of the Dean Drug Company (Limited), whose speciality is the treatment of Deafness. Those who are interested can obtain full particulars about the treatment and a free copy of "The Review" by writing to the Secretary, The 1 Dean Drug Company (Limited), 10, Marble; Arch, London, W. (mentioning the Cardiff "Weekly Mail"). The Secretary will also send a Form of Questions, which will enable patients to present a full description of any kind of ear disease, and receive free the opinion of the Medical Staff. w444

PENTRE MURDERER: ERIC LANGE WRITKS TO THE WIDOW. Mrs. Emlyn Jones, widow of the victim of the Pentre murder, for which Eric Lorenz (or Lange) is lying under sentence of death, has received the following letter from the con. demned man: — Cardiff Gaol, December 8, 1904. Mrs. Jones,—I hope you will not be angry that I have written to you this letter, but I should not pass away before I try beg your forgiveness. That I have took the life of John Emlyn Jones God can only forgive me, but that I have robbed you and your child of husband and father you and your child can forgive me. There- fore, I ask and beg try aud forgive me the great wrong I have done you and your poor child, and when he grows up tell him the man who robbed him of his father was deeply sorry for it. and would gladly suffer over and over death if he could bring back his poor father's life, and let he, too, try to forgive me, and not to curse me, as I have well deserved. I don't begrudge to pay the penalty for my crime, I and pay it gladly to satisfy the law in revenging your husband's death, and yon will have the satisfaction that I don't pav the price for my crime unwillingly, but willingly and gladly. Believe me, I am sorry out of the depths of my heart for it. Try and forget how brutal I have been, and don't curse me. I don't ask to bn I forgiven now. I know how hard it is, but in time you may try and forgive me. I am at peace with God, and I should like to be at peace with them that I have wronged most aa well. Again asking you, Don't curse, but for give. I conclude may the Lord bless you and your poor child for the great harm aaid wrong I have done you. E. LANGE.

MRS. EMLYN JONES DECLINES TO REPLY. "No, I am not writing to Lange now," said Mrs. Emlyn Jones, when asked by our Ponty- pridd representative on Tuesday if she was going to reply to the letter of Lange, the mur- derer of her husband, in which he pleaded for forgiveness.

PITIFUL STATE OF THE CONVICT'S WIFE. Mrs. B ram well Booth, speaking on Monday at the Cardiff Y.M.C.A. Rooms, made a sympathetic reference to the position of Mrs. Lange. It was a. great privilege (she said) to be able to help her in her great sorrow. This poor woman had no friends in the world. As far as they could find, she had no relatives except two sisters, who were both in poor circumstances. They were in domestic ser- vice, and Mrs. Lange's home had been the only home they knew. Now she was with the Salvation Army, with her three little chil- dren—two little boys of five and three and a little baby of eighteen months. She had just been saying to her (Mrs. Booth) that, apart from her Salvation Army friend3 just lately made, she did not know a single friend in the world. They intended to do all they could for her in the future—they did not know quite in what way, but they should not lose sight of her. She had been brought up a Roman Catholic, but had acknowledged to them that she had no real religion. She said very touohingly the other day to one of the officers, "I have left religion quite out of my life." She (Mrs. Booth) hoped that this great sorrow would prove a blessing to her. She was learning to pray and to bring her burden and trouble to God. She hoped she might yet be made a useful woman. DEPRESSED CONDITION OF LANGE. Eric Lange was very depressed and down- hearted when his wife saw him in Cardiff Gaol on Monday afternoon. He told her how sick at heart he was, but said it was not so much on his own account as upon hers and the children's. Mrs. Lange told our repre- sentative that her husband had expressed a wish to embrace her and their three-year- old boy, whom she has with her, but the prison authorities are scarcely likely to I allow this. Up to the present the inter- views have all taken place in the regulation manner, viz., husband and wife have been separated by the usual barriers of iron bars. Mrs. Lange does not now think that she will remain in Cardiff until the day of the execu- tion, as she fears that she would break down completely. She will stay in Cardiff until the Home Secretary's reply to the petition for a. reprieve has been received, and then, if it is unfavourable, she has made up her mind to leave for Middlesbrough on the Monday night preceding the execution.

ZULU'S LITTLE TRICK. DEFRAUDS A COMPANY DIRECTOR. Backi Benzu, 24, a. nsetive of Zululand, was oharged at the Guildhall, London, with obtaining £2 lOs. by faJse pretences. Mr. Isidore Henry Hirschler, a director of Rhodesia (Limited), stated that the man first came to him on November 29, saying that. he had been in the employ of one of the company's managers. Witness thought ho knew his face. Prisoner declared that he had recently arrived at Plymouth from South Africa, and had brought with him some wild animal skins. There was nothing unusual in this tale, as some of the tribe were excellent huntsmen. The prisoner said he was afraid he was being cheated at Ply. mouth, as he could not get much for the skins, and he was destitute. As the weather was very sharp at the time, witness gave him 10s. t# get some clothes out of pawn. Several times after that he called, asserting that he wanted to get back to South Africa, i and, witness gave him some further assistance, including £1 to pay his fare to Plymouth, and promised to communicate with a City firm of furriers on hie behalf. Prisoner com- plained that he had only been offered JE10 for 360 skins. Eventually the whole story turned out to be an invention. Alderman Guthrie: Are you still prepared to send him back to South Africa? Mr. Hirachler: I can't ask any shipper to give him a berth without telling them of this matter. I know what these Zulu boys are, too, when they commence this kind of thing. They're up to every trick you can imagine. Alderman Guthrie: Well, I don't think it is at all profitable to England, his stopping here. Do you want to go back? Prisoner (a picture of black penitence): Yes, sah, velly much. Alderman Guthrie: We'll remaaid you, then, to see what can be done.

A STREET PANTOMIME. Pall Mall (writes a. correspondemt) is not exactly the spot where you expect pantomime effects. But I saw one there the other day whioh ought to be adopted at the Hippodrome. A ta.11 man came along leading a small yellow horse, of most docile appearance. He stopped, looked a.t the animal doubtfully, and then mounted with great difficulty, sprawling over the horse's back. Instantly that little yellow beast was a changed quadruped. His eye said as plainly as possible: "Think he can ride, does he? I'll show him!" So thesteOO pranoed sideways in the middle of the road. A hoot- ing motor-oar pulled up within an inch of the yellow tail. Having stopped thetraffie on one side, Rosinante crossed over and obstructed the other. Finally the tall man dismounted with a dejected air and led his horwe once more, followed by a peal of laughter from the cab-rank. Oould he have been a circus clown rehearsing?

POISON IN HAIR. Death from anthrax poisoning WM the verdict returned regarding Henry William Allen, aged eighteen, an ironmonger's porter, late of Shandy-street, Mile End. Allen slept with a younger brother, who was employed at a horse-hair and fibre: dressers, but the latter had not been ill. The proprietor of the establishment said he; had had four cases of anthrax. His wife caught it in a most peculiar manner, a hair being blown into some clothing which she had hung out to dry. The Coroner said that Allen's brother, who! worked amongst the hair, must have brought home a minute germ in some way, and pro-1 bably it got deposited in the bedclothes. —

1 MURDERED GAMEKEEPER, Az Norton Malton on Tuesday Thos. Dobson and the two Hovingtons, charged with the murder of the gamekeeper Atkinson at Sher- burn on the 25th ult., were again brought before the magistrates. It was stated that the wounded keeper Gamble would not be able to give evidence for three or four weeks, but Morris might next week. The accused were remanded until next Tuesday.

A PAHIS MISER. For many years an old and miserable man named Eugene Lamideaux lived in a Paris garret. He lived in the poorest way, and slept as nights upon a bed of rags. As he had not been seen to come out of his room for some days, the door was forced open, and Lemideaox was found surrounded by his raga, and breathing faintly as if he were on the point of death. He was taken to the hospital, while the police began making an inventory of the things in his garret. One of them found a hoard of gold, and continuing his search he discovered a number of bank coupons worth 70,000 francs. Lamideaux was inscribed at the Bureau of Charity, and when he was asked to explain his hidden hoard, he told the police that he did not want to change either the gold or the papers. As he had no sons he preferred to die of hunger rather than break into his treasure. For three days the old miser had eaten nothing, and but for the intervention of the polioe he would have died a beggarly death in the midst of wealth.

BUIDE IN CAPTIVITY. TRIUMPHANT GROOM CARRIES HER OFF. A marriage romance, with an eighteenth century flavour about it, is engaging the gossips of Salford, near Me'lton Mowbray. The bride's parents, says a correspondent, locked her in a room in their house on her appointed wedding day. But "Love laughs at locksmiths," amd so the bridegroom, all undaunted, came to demand his bride. His claim being refused, he sought the assistant of a local clergyman, who persuaded the parents to unlock the door and set their captive daughter free. The triumphant bridegroom then carried her off, and sympathising neighbours provided an outfit, with the result that the pair were married in the church before the largest con- gregation ever seen at a wedding service in the village.

A LIFEBOAT HERO. Henry Freeman, coxswain of the Whitby lifeboat for about twenty years, has just died at Whitby after a brief illnees. The deceased was known throughout England for heroic deeds, his most conspicuous display of gal- lantry being in February, 1861. A fearful storm suddenly sprang up during the night, and at daybreak the coast was strewn with seven wrecks. The lifeboat waa launched I five times, and five times it returned from vessels in distress. The sixth ship was driven behind the piers, but the exhausted men again pulled out. Before they had gone fifty yards a wave capsized the boat, and' of the thirteen members of the crew only Freeman was saved.

A STRANGE LIFE. A verdict of "Death from exposure" was returned at an inquest at East Homdoc on George Bennett, 63, labourer. Renne.tt had had no home for years, and used to sleep in the open. Some years ago he was frost-bitten through exposure, and two of his toes had to be ampu- tated. Last January he was found nearly i dead from cold, and was removed to Romford Union, but he returned to his open-air habits, and on Friday his dead body was found lying beside a haystack at Ohilderditch.

THE MOSS' EMPIRES MR. OSWALD STOLL TAKES CONTROL. I (Limited) was held in London on Wednesday, at which a letter was read from Mr. H. E. Moss, who since the formation of the com- pany, five years ago, has acted as its chair- man and one of its managing directors. Mr. Moss stated that he had been medically advised to spend at least a portion of each winter in a milder climate, and that, accord- ingly, he desired, while retaining his seat at the board and his position as chairman, I to give up the position of managing director, continuing to take an active interest in the affairs of the company. Under the circumstances, the directors have accepted this intimation wfth regret, and have at the same time, with Mr. Moss's approval, unanimously resolved to appoint Mr. Oswald Stoll, heretofore Mr. Moss's col- league as managing director, to be sole managing director. In this capacity Mr. j Stoll will have the assistance of Mr. Frank Allen as assistant director and chief of the staff, which is being organised on a system of district and departmental management to meet the requirements of the additional pro- perties of the company in course of erection. This new appointment will not in any way interfere with Mr. Stoll's connection with his own undertakings, for he will retain the managing directorship of the Coliseum, the Hackney and Shepherd's Bush Empires, the Leicester Palace Empire, and the Manchester Empire. The nominal capital of the whole of the undertakings reaches the high total of £1,982,550, but the market value, by reason of the public confidence, based on uniform success and high dividends in the past, is much greater, being no less than £ 2,315,594. In all cases the ordinary shares are at a heavy premium, being no lees than X3 17s. 6d. on the £5 share in the case of the Hackney and Shepherd's Bush Company. The following statement shows the nominal and present market values of the various companies' secllri ties-the debentures are taken at par:— MOSS' EMPIRES (LIMITED). Nominal capital (including debenture stock) Bl.460,000. Nominal Market Value. Value. £ £ Ordinary capital ( £ 5 shares) issued.. 556,820 786,508 Preference do. do. do. 470,715 441,2S6 Debenture stock (4 per cent.) issued.. 329,015 329,015 Total 1,356,550 1,556,619 The ordinary shares stand at 7 1-16 and the preference shares at 4 11-16 per £ 5 share. LEICESTER PALACE THEATRE (LIMITED). £ £ Ordinary capital ( £ 5 shares) 34,000 43,775 Debentures 20,000 20,000 Total 54,000 63,775 The ordinary shares stand at 6 7-16. HACKNEY AND SHEPHERD'S BUSH EMPIRE PALACES (LIMITED). £ jE Ordinary capital ( £ 5 shares) 50,000 88,750 Preference do. Co 45,000 49,500 Debentures 26,000 26,000 Total 121,000 164,250 The ordinary shares stand at 8¡ and the preference at 5i. LONDON COLISEUM (LIMITED). £ £ Ordinary capital (L5 shares) 196,000 257,250 Debentures 115,000 115,000 Ttotal 311,000 372,250 The ordinary shares stand at 6 9-16. MANCHESTER HIPPODROME AND ABDWICK. EMPIRE (LIMITED). £ £ Ordinary capital (L5 shares) 90,000 108,500 Derbentures 50,000 50,000 Total 140,000 158,500 SUMMARY. £ £ Moss' Empires (Limited) 1,355,550 1,556.819 Leicester Palace Theatre (Limited) 54,000 63,775 Hackney and Shepherd's Bush Empire Palaces (Limited) 121,000 164,250 London Coliseum (Limited) 311,000 372,250 Manchester Hippodrome and Ardwick Empire (Limited) 140,000 158,500 TntAl 1.982.550 2,315,594 KNOWLEDGE OF THE PUBLIC. This is marvellous progress from a modest beginning. Mr. Stoll's stepfather—Mr. John George atoll-was the proprietor of a small mnsio-hall in Liverpool. The stepfather died, and the son, while still a boy, assisted his widowed motHer in the management of the music-hall. As he grew be began looking for new worlds to conquer. He visited many towns with view to selecting a suitable field for his enterprise. Cardiff appeared to him to offer the opportunity for which he sought, although at that time the town was supplied with a flourishing mnsic-hall in a central position. Mr. Stoll, however, with that rare insight which all through his life has saved him from making blunders, decided that the chances were favourable, and he took what was then known as Leviuo'e-hall, in Queen-street. This was the first of the long series of Empires associated with Mr. Stoll's name, and, although at the etart competition was keen and the omens far from hopeful, the young entrepreneur stuvk to his post. and before long secured the success ho so well deserved. The novelty he introduced was that of giving two perfor- mances every night—one from seven to nine for those who do not like to stay out late, and one from nine to eleven for those who are unable to got &way in time for the early performance. It was an innovation that evoked much scoffing at the time and the prophecies of failure were general. But Mr. Stoll understands the public; his instinct never errs. It is, indeed, more than instinct, for Mr. Stoll has good reasons to give for all his actions.

FOURTEEN MEN LOSE THEIR LIVES. A Blyth (Northumberland) correspondent telegraphs:—A boating disaster involving the drowning of seven fishermen occurred at Newbiggin-by-the-Sea,, on the Northumberland coast, just before daybreak on Friday morn- ing. There is a dangerous ridge of rocka there, and a vessel named the Anglia, of Grimstad, Norway, bound from Hamburg to Sunderland, finding herself in difficulties, sig- nalled for assistance. Eight fishermen launched an ordinary ooble, of the class in which they pursued their calling, and pro- ceeded towards the vessel. Before reach- ing her, however, a. heavy sea struck the coble and swamped her, and her crew were thrown into the water. As it was dark at the time those on shore were unaware of the fishermen's peril, but when the lifeboat went out she came across the upturned boat and rescued one of the fishermen-John Armstrong—in an insensible condition. The remaining seven men were drowned. Like the sole survivor, five of the victims were named Armstrong, and were all related. Those drowned were:- James Armstrong, 53, single. George Armstrong, 60, his brother. James Armstrong, 29, married, a nephew of the two first-named. John Armstrong, 48, married, related to the above. Edward Armstrong, 31, also related. John Dent, 60, married. John Brown, 41, married. Five bodies had been reoovered by two o'clock on Friday afternoon, the two then missing being those of Brown and Edward Armstrong. It appears that the fishermen were proceed- ing to the Anglia, to offer their services as salvage men when the disaster occurred, and that when the heaJVY sea. capsized their craft she was close under the stern of the steamer. The Anglia, is lying on the rocks south of Newbiggin Bay, known as the Needle'e Eye. Rocket communication was established with the vessel, but the crew were in no immediate danger, and preferred to remain on their ship. The Anglia is likely to become a to tal wreck.

OPuME. The steamer Innisfallen, belonging to the Cork Steamship Company, lauded at Liver- pool on Friday night the crew of the steam trawler Young Walker, of Fleetwood, which sprang aleak and foundered off Great Orme fl Head. The four men, who all belonged to Hoylake, had been pumping throughout the night, and were so greatly exhausted that they had to be hauled on board the Innis- fallen by lines. The rescue occupied an hour. and was attended by great difficulty, a pell feet hurricane raging at the time. The trawler belonged to Captain Joseph Little who purchased it only two days previously- STRAN SHIP TOWED oFF

NEAR BARRY. As the steamer Candleshoe, of GrimsbY, was coming up Channel on Friday for Barry she ran ashore at Friar's Point, Whitmore Bay. It appears that the Candleshoe was proceeding up Channel against a strong south-easterly gale. Off Barry Island the vessel stopped for a pilot, and, becoming unmanageable, drifted to shore, her port bow coming in contact with the rocks on the eastern side of Friar's Point. There the Candleshoe remained till the Cardiff tug' boats Lady Morgan, Actor, and BriwIl assisted her off a.bout 8.55. She was towed into Barry for repairs. The steamer is of ,3,779 tons gross register, and belongs to Messrs. Bennett and Co. She was bound from Hamburg to Barry. CORN FISHING BOAT SWAMPED:

VESSEL WRECKED OFF LIVEII- POOL. The steamer Alloa, from Barcelona fot Liverpool, with fruit, went ashore in th*. Mersey Channel during the fog on Saturday* and was abandoned by the crew, who wer* taken off by lifeboats. The heavy sea 0" Sunday dismantled the vessel. She was 01 1,000 tons register.

SWANSEA CAPTAIN KILLED. News has been received at Swansea of tW death of Ca-ptain William Madel, of th* steamship Atbara, of Glasgow, whose wifo, and three children reside at 7, WoodiandiP terrace, Swansea. It appears that when ofl the Scilly Isles on Monday evening a heavy sea washed the captain from the bridge* and he was crushed to death between two water tanks which were floating ab on the deck.

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TEMPTATION TOO STRONG. MAN SERVANT AND THE CHEQUE. For four years Harry Rose, 40, an indoor servant, had been in the employ of Mrs. Mary Frances Thorne, a widow, residing at Great Cumberland-place, W. One day last week the housekeeper sent bim to a shop in the Edgware-road to change a cheque for £28 14s. 8d. He did eo, but failed to return, and nothing more was heard of him until Saturday morning, when, in consequence of information that had been given to the police, Detective PuDen went to his lodgings and arrested him in bed. He was very sorry, he said, when told the charge, and could not make out why it happened. The fact was he had been drink- ing a lot, and got into bad company at West- minster and went to sleep. When he awoke he found he was £4 or £5 short. That being 180, he was afraid to return. He then pro- duced JS19 of the money, and 22s. more was found upon him. The prisoner pleaded "Guilty," and, Mrs. Thorne having appealed in his behalf and given him a good character, the magistrate ordered a remand.

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A DOUBLE EXECUTION. AN OLD WOMAN'S BRUTAL MURDER EXPIATED. At Pentonville on Tuesday Conrad Dono- van (34), sailor, and Charles Wade (22), labourer, half-brothers, were executed for the murder of Emily Farmer (65), newsagent, who lived alone in a small shop at Commer- cial-road, Stepney. Deceased was gagged and her hands tied behind her, and when discovered was face downwards on her bed, death having been due to suffocation. The place had been ransacked. Miss Farmer's jewellery was recently found tunder the bedroom flooring. The condemned men passed rather a rest- less night. They rose at six o'clock in the morning, and breakfast was supplied shortly after seven, but this they left almost un- touched. Wade appeared to be quite indifferent to his fate, but Donovan seemed very penitent. The latter told the ohaplain just before leaving his cell that murder was never intended. Both men walked to the scaffold without assistance, and death was instantaneous. Billington, assisted by Pierpoint, was the executioner. The Press Association has received the fol- lowing from Mr. Frederick Kynaston Metcalfe, under-sheriff for the County of London:- I beg to inform you that the two convicts, Wade and Donovan, were executed this morning in his Majesty's prison, Penton- ville, death in each case being instan- taneous. Wade made no statement, but Donovan said, "No murder was intended." This statement was made to the chaplain. I think it right that you should have this statement.

PATHETIC LETTERS. A letter from Wade to his brother is as follows:— My dear brother,—I want you to attend to this letter as soon as ypu get it. I want you to get if you can the handwriting of ——— and that man that said tha.t to Edith. It is most important that I should have them, for there has been a letter sent here that will prove my innocence if only I can find the one that wrote. It states that the crime I am sentenced to death for was done by them who sent it, for it says we," which means more than one. The letter has gone to the Home Office, which I hope they will find the men that done the crime now, for they have owned to the crime. But they say that they did not mean to kill the woman. But, Harry, try and get the handwriting of the people I have asked you to. Send it to the Home Office, for I have my suspicions, which I hope will prove to the world that I am innocent. I will tell you I all I remember when I see you. Till then good-bye. God send you help to find the people.—I remain, your loving brother, Charley. Excuse the writing. I am a bit shaken, for it has given me a turn. Donovan wrote as follows to his mother: — My dear Mother,—Just a few lines-, hoping you are in good health and good spirits. I am in as good as can be expected. I would like a letter from you all. I don't think I shall be able to say good-bye when you visit me. I don't think I could stand the strain. You can guess my feelings. Not fear, mother. But my love for you all you can easily describe my feelings, can't you? I was muoh upset when I had to say good- bye to Willie yesterday. I could not find words. But you all know my thoughts as well as my feelings. I told you I had a book ssnt me. Well, I have through the chaplain got permission to give the book to I you. I want you to keep it as a keepsake from your loving son Joe. I hope you are I all in good health and good spirits at home. Give my love to Alice, Flo, Edie, Con, Harry, and all the children. Remember me to aJl inquiring friends. You know I have not got anything to say much. I am getting on pretty well myself, so with fond love to all. Fondest love to you, I remain your ever-loving eon, JOE. God Bless you all.

SUPPOSED CONFESSION: PATHETIC INCIDENT. The statement has been made that while upon the scaffold Donovan (who, together with his half-brother Wade, was executed for the murder of Miss Farmer at Stepney) said to the chaplain, "Murder was not meant," thus confessing his share in the crime for which he had to pay his life. At the inquest held on the bodies of the two men both the deputy-governor and the medical superintendent when questioned on this point stated that neither of the men con- fessed. Donovan, a. quarter of an hoar before he died, left the following message, extraor- dinary in i.ta emphasis, for his half-brother, Harry Wade. Just a few lines to you for the last time thanking you kindly for what you have done for me, in this most unfair and most unfortunate case of your two poor brothers. I can only ask you in this my last message to see that my name is not trampled upon. I want you to see that no papers say I made a confession of the crime we were moot unjustly and scandalously charged with. The police will no doubt put something into the papers that we did do 90 to try to make the public believe that they were right in arresting us. But Harry I give you my word as a brother and a man there will be no confession made, so rou will be justified in contradicting any statement of that kind if .any scoundrel puts it in the papers. Finally, I Conrad Donovan have made no statement or confession. This is the truth, Again I say I have not or will not, or have I given any verbal statement to any person on God's earth which entitles any person official or otherwise to say I made a con- fession. Now my dear brother I wish you every success in life, hoping you will keep an eye on our poor old mother through this ter- rible trial. God help her and bless her. Now my dear brother don't let a chance slip by to justify our innocence for now I may say good-bye and God bless you all.—From your ever-loving brother, JOE. Wade also left a final message, in the course of which he said, "I am all right. I have nothing to confess and can meet my I death like a man." Early on Tuesday morning Mrs. Wado received from a local lady Church worker two beautiful sprays of white lilies and other white flowers. The lady is Mrs. Richardson, a locaJ doctor's wife, well known in Stepney. Shortly after six o'clock, while it was yet dark. Harry Wade, who had sat up with his sister, Mrs. Boulton. until four o'clock, went to his mother's room. A dim light was burning. Silently he pushed open the door. and the sight that met his eyes was enough to stir the heart of a stone. The bed had been made with scrupulous care, every article having evidently come fresh from the laundry the night before. Side by side, just below the pillow, lay two clean white shirts, one marked "Joe," the other "Charlie"; on these were lain the sprays sent by Mrs. Richardson. The broken-hearted mother had made this I her shrine, and, on her knees by the bedside, she prayed for hours for the repose of the souls of her two unfortunate boys.

DOG AS OUT-PATIENT. Among the patients treated at the general hospital, Birmingham, on Saturday, was a pup, which had been brought to the hospital suffering from a broken leg. The injured limb was put into splints, after which the animal limped out of the hospital on his three remaining legs. This was not all, however, for the dog's name, address, and age were duly entered in the out-patient book, where it is now re- corded that Bogey M'Guire, aged seven months, of 32, George-street, was treated at the hospital. Moreover, Bogey was given the usual pink ticket entitling him to further treatment until sufficiently recovered.

A POISON MYSTERY. The Marseilles police authorities have in their hands a case similar in some respects to the MasJk>t case, whioh has already been before the public for a year, and is to be tried on Wednesday next. In the new case the victim was a wealthy old man who recently bequeathed all his pro. perty to his mistress, a divorced woman. Not long after he had made the will he died in great agony. An anonymous letter brought the police to make inquiries, and it was found that the accused woman was in possession of several bottles of mercurial poison. The corpse of the old man was exhumed, and an autopsy will ba made.

NE WEST' RELIGION' AMERICAN MYSTICS' GOSPEL EXPOUNDED. The newest religion is "Faithism." On Sunday, in spite of the wretched weather, a band of Faithites met for "Unfoldment" at No. 4, Station-parade, Balham, London. The teachings of the New Cyole and the Tenets of Faithism" were discoursed on by one of the chiefs of Jehovih's Kingdom "—- a gentleman by the name of Martin. ft seems that this new religion is a. sort of spiritualism with an American acoont. 1 Mr. Martin explained that, while the spiritualists dealt equally in evil and good spirits, the Faithists refused to do business with the wicked ghosts at all. The Faithists, too, have a new bible all of their own. Its title is "Oahspe; a New Bible on the words of Jehovah a.nd his Angel Embassadors." Its full title is amazingly impressive. It is:— A Sacred History of the Dominions of the Higher and Lower Heavens on the Earth for the past Twenty-four thousand years, being from the Submersion of the Conti- nent of Pan, in the Pacific Ocean, com- monly called the Flood, or Deluge, to the Kosmon Era. Also a Brief History of the Preceding 55,000 years, together with a synopsis of the cosmogony of the universe; the creation of planets; the creation of man; the unseen worlds; the labour and glory of gods and goddesses in the Etherean Heavens; with all the new commandments of Jehovih to Man of the Present Day. Out of this wonderful Book a pale young man pead a lot of wordy nonsense, which neither he nor anybody else in the room could understand. And no wonder, for this book was written by a spirit medium whilst in a trance in the United States of America. The medium (still in trance) also painted the portraits of Moses and other Biblical cha- racters which adorn the book. They are fearful and wonderful examples of the Spectre as portrait painter. In the course of the evening Mr. Martin sneezed, shivered, and went into a trance. His body (as he .explained it) emptied itself and took in spirits. Through his mouth those spirits spoke—with different voices, perhaps, but all in the same original grammar which Mr. Ma-rtin adopts in his waking hours. Somebody kindly turned the light down; and them in a funereal glood Mr. Martin spoke of the wonders of The Jehovih. The I Am. The Bolin. The Ormazed. The All Person, All of which could be found, he said, in the celestial wisdom of Oahspe. When he came to Astral bodies, and all that sort of thing, Mr. Martin—still heavily charged with Spirits—was more interesting. In his second spasm, a friend in the audience hastened to him with a giase of water. Then his face shone in tnansformity, and he babbled in girlish tones of how he was looking across a vast vteta of angel meadows. Spasm No. 3 found him with a gruff voice and more reve- lations. Then he seized upon a gentleman in the audience and 6aid, with great (spiritual) excitement: You're a Buddhift, brother! You are a great student of the Asiatic languages. You have soared into the realms of esoteric Thought. All the worshippers got up to gaze with, awe upon the Buddhist brother, who nervously asked Mr. Martin to explain what esoteric Thought was. "I am a mystic," replied Mr. Martin; "aaid can only explain that phrase in mystic lan- guage, which would only be comprehensible to you and to me. The others here would not understand." He got out of it quite nicely. Of course, he switched off from the "Buddhist" at once, had another spasm, and fixed his flash- ing eye upon a shop assistant, and told him he was a marvellous subject for spirit com- munications. The assistant's face glowed. "'Ow long would it take me to see sperrits?" he asked, eagerly. You've got to go into the Third Heaven, and if you sit behind closed curtains, the spirits will come to you." When sir?" "In six months, brother!" One lady was muoh astonished to hear that she had an angel ambassador always on her track—clad in white robes and wearing a five-pointed star of light on her forehead. Another was told that she had a continual spirit attendant, dressed in clergyman's clothes—with a. surplice over them. "A Cardinal of Rome?" queried Mr. Mar- tin, blandly oblivious of the fact that a. Cardinal of Rome does not always dress like a Church of England parson. Yes! that's him, sir!" murmured the proud dame, gating round with pride. She knew that it isn't everyone in BaJha.m who is on (spiritual) epeaking terms with a Cardinal, and she swelled accordingly. This sort of nonsense went on for hours, with the simple Balhamites open-mouthed with awe at every fresh spasm from Chief Martin. The narrator of these facts turned to the gentleman who had been accused of Buddhism. Are you really a. Buddhist?" said he. No," was the simple Nonconformist reply. "I'm a Baptist!"

A CLEVEH DODGE. At Aocrington on Wednesday Herbert Wal- ton was remanded on a charge of attempting to obtain money by false pretences from Mrs. Moberley, of Birmingham. She had adver- tised her husband as missing, and received a telegram from Accrington, "Coming home; been ill; wire fare." She did as requested, and then consulted a detective and stopped payment. Prisoner called at the Church Post-office three times, and was finally appre- hended.

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MR. STOLL'S CAREER. HOW HE BECAME MONARCH OF THE VARIETY WORLD. Mr. Stoll tells the story of hit early struggles with characteristic terseness. At first," he says, the Cardiff undertaking was very unsuccessful, as little as 25s. being taken as a result of two performances in one evening. People did not eeem to care for two performances nightly, and, in fact, seemed to take no notice of the place. It was for this reason that I devised the mam- moth posters with the name 'Empire' to force it upon the people's attention, and eventually, in about seven months, the weekly results began to be on the right side. Finding it difficult to get artistes to come to Wales for one week only, and not being willing to give the usual two weeks in one town, such as was then the practice, but a practice which I disbelieved in as much as the 'Western Mail' would disbelieve in publishing the same contents for two days running, I took places in Swansea. and Newport to form a sort of three weeks tour in South Wales. This I found quite satisfied the artistes, and enabled me to make the programmes attractive enough to still further increase the business. j.« Having established his position in Cardiff, he raised new Empires in Swansea and New- port. Even these extensions did not find i sufficient scope for his energy, and he once more crossed the Welsh border and began new activities in English towns, and in London itself. Empires were established by him in several of the leading English towns, until Lis position as a public entertainer had developed into one of great importance, comparable to that of Messrs. Moss and Thornton, who had in the same steady way built up a vast enterprise in the eame line of business. Both concerns thrived and increased, Mr. Moss operating from Edinburgh and Mr. Stoll from Cardiff. Eventually there was an amalgama- tion of the Stoll Empires with those owned by Messrs. Moss and Thornton. Such has been the wonderfully successful career of Mr. Stoll. It is barely fifteen years since he started in Cardiff, yet it would be wrong to describe the rapid rise as meteoric There is nothing "flashy" about Mr. Stoll's enterprise. Never in a hurry—indeed, some- what deliberate in manner-he moves slowly. but as he is always moving he has gone far. Immediately one position is secured (and he never lets go until it is secured) he looks round for other possibilities, and gives those in their turn the same attention, the same safe and sure attention that has ruled his business methods from the start to the present. Thus, the progress has been steady, if rapid, and the well-regulated nature of the growth of a colossal business has enabled him to keep his grip on every branch of it. To-day he pays as close attention to the Car- diff Empire as he does to the Coliseum which is about to take London and the country by stornr.

REHEARSING A ROBBERY. Outside the padlocked warehouse door of the premises of Messrs. Stockall in Clerken- well-road, London, two detectives and Colonel Stoekall's chief clerk were stationed. The detectives examined the door, placed their ears against it, and listened intently. Inside was Colonel Stockall in the plaoe where his assailants, after the jewellery rob- bery, ti^d him up. By his side was a detec- tive. The colonel ahouted "Help!" "Come quick!" at the top of hie voice, just as he did during the forty hours that he spent there with the cords cutting into his wrists and legs. The police who tried the door two weeks ago did not hear his cries. So on Saturday the detectives, though listening intently, wero unable to hear the colonel's loudest screams, and the point has now been set at rest as to why r.o one went to his rescue. On Saturday the Metropolitan and City Police issued notices of a. reward of X500 offered in connection with the burglary.

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DISASTERS AT SEA. ALL HANDS LOST: BODIES I WASHED ASHORE. I The loss of the steamer Nar and her crew off Kingston, in Moray Firth, Scotland, is reported. The Nar was a steamer of 281 tons, and was owned by Messrs. G. Webster and Co., of Glasgow. She was on a voyage from Sunderland to Burghead with coal. The coastguard at Kingston observed a vessel's lights about one o'clock on Tuesday morning during a furious north-east gale. A flare light was also seen, and the rocket apparatus brigade were at once summoned, and turned out smartly in the darkness and the storm, No answer, however, came from the vessel to the lights sent up from the shore, and fears that a disaster had occurred were strengthened when, about three o'clock, portions of wreckage, including a ship's life- boat, were washed ashore. From these it was ascertained that the vessel was the Nar. Part of the vessel could be seen half a mile from the shore at low tide, and it is supposed, from the position of the wreck, that the' crew had anchored the vessel in deep water, and that she capsized, all her crew beiny, apparently, drewflfed. Three bodies were washed ashore during the day, and the beach for a couple of miles was strewn with wreckage washed up by the heavy sea. The official report of the wreck received by the owners states that ten lives have been lost, but a published list of the crew givet only nine names. They are as follow:- Lewis Hughes, master, Amlwch, Anglesey. William Jones, Amlwch. Samuel Pritchard, lamp trimmer, Amlwch Hugh Mackenzie, A.B., Burghead. Alex. Dawson, A.B. William Pringle, chief engineer, Glasgow. George Bertley, second engineer, Sunder- land. Two firemen, names not positively ascer- tained, but believed to be Jamea Davidson and James Murray. Another report eays: —Hatches came ashore at three o'clock, and these were followed by the vessel's lifeboat and wreckage. The body of one of the crew was washed up about eight o'clock, and another shortly afterwards, both to the west of the mouth of the River Spey. They were men apparently 30 to 34 years of age, and wore lifebelts. One man was an engineer and the other a sea.man wearing clogs. Part of the vessel was seen this (Tues- day) morning at low tide about half a. mile from shore.

BOAT SWAMPED: SEVEN MEN DROWNED. A Donegal correspondent tolecrapbs: -While a. flshing-boat with a crew of seven waif returning with herrings from the eoather" shore bf ^one^al Say to their hotme in Infat on Friday morning she was ewattnped in rising sea, and all the crew were drowned. TRAWLER LOST OFF THE GREAT

TWO LIVES LOST. Through the swamping of a fishing boat off Port Isaac, on the Cornish coast, two liveØ were lost. The herring fleet left for the fish* ing grounds in fairly good weather, but had not been out long before a heavy ground sea came on. As the boats were returning late in the evening, the Annie, which had a.11 extraordinary catch of herrings aboard. was swamped by a heavy sea. Two of the are* of three were drowned, namely, George Couch, aged 28, and Samuel Williams, aged 36, both single. The third man, John Russell Couch, was saved by clinging to a. spar until picked up by another boat.

BRITISH STEAMER SUNK: SEVEN LIVES LOST. The British India Steam Navigation Com* pany's steamship Secundra, on leaving Galle Harbour, Ceylon, struck a rock, and sanf within two minutes. Chief-officer Henderson* Third-engineer M'Clean, and five men wero drowned. The vessel carried a cargo Of citronella oil for New York, besides a qu*w tity of rice.-Reuter.

BRITISH GUNBOAT SUNK IN TBJI MEDWAY. The coast-defence gunboat Slaney was Id, collision on Saturday in the Medway witlt the screw collier Swan, which knocked hole in her starboard side. The vessel bep.Ø to fill, and was beached.