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THE ASHTOWN OUTRAGE. MOTHER AND SON COMMITTED FOR TRIAL. The case in Minnie Walsh and her 8011 are mdicted for conspiring to obtain money by fatee Pretences from Lord Aehto^n and for conspmng to incite people to commit outrage by blowing up a bniirfi-rw, at Woodlavm County lalwa/ tWbf endangering the lives of Lord AshtowtTond others, cemo up at the opening of the Oitv and C-oui ty Commission in Dublin on ft nesday. Mr. Justice Madden referred the CM« to the grand jury, who found a true against mother and child on both counts.

CHAUFFEUR CHARGED WITH MANSLAUGHTER. Duncan Brown, a chauffeur, charged with the manslaughter cf Arthur Borer by knock- ing him lown with a motor-oar which accused was driving on January 11, was on Wednes- day at Croydoa Police-court committed for trial; bail bt—ig allowed. The evidence of Dr. Toogood, pathologist ¡ to the Loodoii County Council, was to the effect that the wounds on the eye of the deceased could not have been caused by any point on the cajr in question. His distinct op&tioo was that this car had not caused the injury.

KILLED HIS WIFE. TWELVE YEARS FOR COLCHESTER HORSE-KEEPER. At CheJmsfoird Assizes on Wednesday Charles Oarnham, a horseman, who was indicted for the murder of his wife f.t ¡ Leiden, near Colchester, was found guilty ff manslaughter, and sentenced tc twelve y-earg, penal servitude. SINCERE CONDOLENCE,

THE COUNT AND THE GOVERNESS. f—- ROMANCE OF A VALIANT ADVENTURER, Memories of the Napoleonic wars were I revived in the Court of Appeal on Tuesday. The case dealt with was ths*. of "u- and others v. Nuaent, the appeal 01 the defendant, Countess Anna Nugent. from a I judgment of Mr. Justice SwiEfeu ^ady being dismissed. The litigants were the four grandcMldren Fiedd-morahal Count m the Austrian Afiny during the Napoleonic wars in 1804. was stated Count Albert Nugent^ of the Sd-SSs £ ^d father of the liagaute, readered some service to his sister-1 m-la/W, Princess Montleart, in a lawsuit, the j proceeds of which she settled on his children. In 1888, it was Count Albert i met a young govea-nesjs in London, amd out of the Monitleart motuey xwirchased for ner j b> house at Hove and furnished it. After- wards this lady became the Countess Claudia Niooli. Niooli. SabeecfuenAly Ckrnnt Albert's cihaldrea dfis- covered that the property had been pur- chased with the M^ntleart money, and in 1894 they commenced an action against their father and Countess Nicoli for a declaration I that the honee and fismiture belonged to them. A compromiee was arxived at, tho house bedng mortgaged to pay off the lady. Oocrnt I Albert died in 1896, and last June the present dispute came before Mr. Justice Swinfen Eady, when the Countess Anna's brother and two sisters claimed a declaration thaA the I house belonged to all four in equal shares. The judge decided the case in favour of the plaintiffs against the Comntess Anna, and also held that, as receiver, the Countess Anna was not entitled to purchase the pro- perty for herself, and whether he was right in so holding was the only question raised on the present appeal. The appeal was dismissed, nth costs.

SCHOOLMISTRESS'S SUICIDE PAINFUL STORY FROM HEREFORD- SHIRE. "Suicide while of unsound, mind" was the verdict returned at an inquest qn Monday concerning the death of Christiana Braoo, aged 35, schoolmistress at Holme Lacy, near Hereford. The body was recovered on Sun- day from the River Wye. She disappeared on January 22, and was then seen going in the direction of the river. She had been depressed by her mother's death, her sister going to an asylum. and by working hard for an examination, of which she had not heard tihe result. PATHETIC SUICIDE OF A YOUNG LAUNDRESS. I At Breinton. near Hereford, on Monday the ooroner held an inquest on Clara Louisa Portman, aged nineteen, a laundress. She left a note saying:—" Louie Portman. This is what my life has ocwno to. Lord forgive my past sin. My life I cannot live. Grant I that my two letters may be poeted. and that will 'forget me. Lord, I have tried to live, but is mother grant that she may forgive me and all the ronge I have done to her. It I is hard to die, bnt harder still to live, for niy soul has perished for everlasting. Pray for me all that is left- Be kind a forget me. I am Portman. I>eoeased's mother said that she was worried about the payments for a bicycle w^ioh she had obtained on the hire system. —The jury returned a verdiot of "Suicide whilst of unsound njud."

STORY OF BLACK PIRACY. GERMAN SHIPSSU^^O UFDED AND LOOTED OFF GRAND BASSA- Tie orew «f the German steamer A^can Woermann has just arrived at Hamburg with a remarkable tale of block pirates on the West Coast of Africa- The ship struct:^ a reef on the night of January 9, off Bassa, and filled rapidly. The distress signals remained unanswered, and the crew were oompelled to leave the ship for the pinnace and other boats, but remained near the vessel. Scarcely had this been done w through the darkness, dozens of canoes with natives shot out, making for the wr • The blacks climbed the aides like oats, pu- laging everything possible. Captain Sohellhorn attempted to return with the crew but was forced to abandon the attack, the blacks assuming a threaten- the attack, the blacks assuming a threaten- ing attitude, being armed and in overpower- ing numbers. The shipwrecked crew -landed and waited for five days hoping for help, II and seeing the steamer plundered till she sank. They then set out for Monrovia. where they arrived completely exhausted. Thsy ware brought back to Hamburg by the twin steamer Lucie Woermann. It is stated that similar piracies are fre- quency happening on the coeet.

AN ARCHITECTS LAPSE. HORSHAM WIDOW'S SURPRISE ] ON AWAKENING. 3 < In the Divorce Court on Monday Mrs. Hilda < Maud Marshall was granted a divorce from 1 Mr. Arthur George Marshall, formerly an architect and surveyor, now a traveller for i a photographic publisher, because of the latter's cruelty and misconduct with Mrs. i Kate Callow, a widow, at Uorshrm. It will i be remembered that Mrs. Callow gave widenoe at a former hearing that she awoke i and fouud respondent in her ioon,$

GREAT BATTLE IN MOROCCO. 4 FRENCH TROOPS ATTACKED NEAR SETTAT. A report has been received at Tangier from Casa Blanca stating that 3,000 French troops near Settat have been attacked by a. consider- able army of Muley Hafid's followers, and that a battle lasting several hours ensued. The French losses were two officers and three men killed *and 57 wounded. Muley Hafid's army suffered much more severely. but the numbers killec. and wounded are not stated.—Central News. Messages from the Exchange Telegraph Company state that the French losses were 160, including four officers. The Ohooma tribe lost over 10,000 killed and wounded. THE DISASTER IN THE SNOW. AIN SEFKA (Algeria), Tuesday. News of the diisastar to a company of the let Regiment of the Foreign Legion is con- firmed. The company, which was commanded by Captain Caprellery, had left Ain Bel Kellib on February 1, in cloudy weather, though snow was not falling at the time- Towards three o'clock. however, a snowstorm oom- nienoed. The company had to disperse and seek what shelter it could. The captain, not wishing to go back. sought to rally his men, and ordered them to march towards Fort Hana. where a number struggled in in groups of twos MMi. threes. Two sergeants, two corporate,, and about 30 men. however. lost their livee.-Reater.

SHOCKING STORY FROM HAVERFORDWEST. f TIMOROUS NEIGHBOURS: BABY BURNS TO DEATH. Mr. Herbert Price held an Inquest at Pren- dergajst, Haverfordwest, on Tuesday on the body of a child aged one year and ten months who was burnt to death. -Mary Ann Laug-harne, the mother, eaia she went out to work, leaving a a ter in the house, aged nearly fifteen years, in charge of two chll £ f^22 named stated that a young woman, a.ge>d 22, name Lily Bevans. was called to see the child, which was then all in she thought. She said she was too frightened to do anything and the fields to another neigh Dour who, how- Ter^ also too frightened" go to the _„jC'fanoe of the poor little thing. ^fter the lapse of an 'hour another woman. "MVc Emilv Walker, went into the house. The S'd'fSdyVas then all charred, and «t £ U Mouldering, and she got some water to e:D?1^wSiims Sd the child was fearfully lXThedjury found that death resulted from burns accidentally received and added a rider censuring the parents for leaving the voung children in charge of a sister who was incompetent to look after them. It was stated that this was the third inanest in the Laugharne family, and the second case of a child being burnt to death.

FELL DOWN A PIT. FOUR BRICKLAYERS DROP 340 FEET TO DEATH. pour bricklayers were killed at OaJder Col- lieries at Altha.ni, near Accrington, on Satur- day morning by the overturning of a "hop- pit." in which they were being wound up a shaft which was in course of construction. The four men fell to the bottom of the shaft, a depth of 340ft.. and their bodies were terribly mutilated. A number of men who were waiting at the bottom of the shaft to asoemd had a narrow escape. The names of the dead are:- John Bushell. Burnley. Patrick Burns, Great Harwood. John Cragg, Burnley. I Herbert Todd. Blackburn. TWO MEN KILLED. Two men were killed and a third seriously Injured at Dudley Pit Northumberland, early on Saturday morning. Two brothers, named Masterson, were caught by a fall of roof, and one of them, William Masterson, was killed outright. The master shifter, John Crawford, attempted to rescue the men, when I a further fall occurred, and he was so seriously injured that he died shortly after- wards. The other brother was badly hurt.

GLUTTONS FOR WRITING. THIEVES MAKE A HAUL OF SEVEN HUNDRED FOUNTAIN PENS. Fountain 13em to the value of £ 1,000 have been taken JY burglars from the premises ,f Messrs. L. a.nd C. TTordtyutih at Golden- anc, London. triie thieves concealed themselves in an sinpty floor of an adjoining warehouse, amd luring the night forced an entry into the top floor of the firm's factory. In all 730 of the largest pens were stolen ■rom drawers. The majority were gold and ;>earl mounted, and were worth from 22s. 6d. ipwards. The pearl mounts were a new !e»ture in fountain pens. The burglars decamped by the same way in which they entered, and the police have is yet no clve-to tb-sr ideir"ty i

ILLUMINATED THE BENCH. NEW ROLE OF MR. JEM SMITH (EX-PUGILIST). Mr. Justice Darling had a useful addition made to his abundant store of knowledge during the hearing of a case in the King's Bench Division on Tuesday. It was an action in which the ex-pugilist Mr. Jem Smith, now retired from the strenuosities of the ring and enjoying the comparative cxtium oum dignitate of a commission agent, claimed damages from "Lloyd's Newspaper" for alleged libel. The defendants denied tihat the words com- plained of constituted a libel. One of those words was "outed." It "outed" his lord- ship's comprehension until, with the true chivalry and notorious open-handednese of the ring, Mr. Smith illuminated the darkness of the judicial understanding. It appea,red that Sergeant Gosse was retir- ing from the City police in April last, and "Lloyd's" published a notice of his sea-ncee in the course of whioh it was said that Gosse Has the enviable distinction of being"the only policeman who ever "outed" Jem Smith, as he did when he made himself objectionable at the Welsh Harp at Hen- don. WHAT IS OUTED "p Mr. Sherwood, for the plaintiff, raid that his client complained that the statement implied that be was a disorderly person, and that he had to be knocked down by a polioe- man. The statement was untrue. The plaintiff in his evidence denied that he was at the Welsh Harp at the time referred to—an entertainment and concert given by the City police. His Lordship: What is the meaning of being outed "? Witness: If yon give a man a punch in the face and make him senseless he is onted." (Laughter.) Sis Lordship: You say that this did not happen to you at all?" Witness: Yes. Mr. Gill. K.C., for the defendants, oalled James Criddle, a retired police-sergeant, who said he was present at the police sports and oonoert at the Welsh Harp, when a number of bookmakers were ejected for inteiruptiag a singer. Sergeant Goese put the plaintiff Smith out, the latter saying, Don^ you know who I am ?" Gosse said. I d9r and am not afraid of you. The witness was positive the man ejected was Smith. Other retired sergeants of the City police who were present corroborated as to the identity of the plaintiff, and in the result the jury stopped the case. and judgment was entered for the defendants, with costs.

RE-ENDOWS A BISHOPRIC 4 MUNIFICENT BEQUEST BY WIDOW OF LATE INCUMBENT The ]a.te Mrs. Anna Ghiimery Haadane, widow of the late Bishop of Argyll and the Isles, has left a fortune of over £ 38,000, out of which she sets apart £ 17,000 for the, additional endowment of her late husband's diocese. The present stipend of the Biahop of Argyll is only £ 559 per annum, without residence—the record for meagreness in the United Kingdom. The will of Mrs. Haldane, therefore, practically doubles the emolu. nvents of the see.

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MET AT A CONFETTI CARNIVAL. + WIFE FAINTS ON SEEING HER HUSBAND. At Blackpool on. Wedmesdtasy Mrs. Mary Ann Taylor claimed eleven guineas under an a-greernent, £5 for illegal reruention of letters, 5^-d £ 50 for defamation of character, from her husband, Fred Taylor, for whom Mr. Rye- Cr°ft appeared. Mi-. Gordon Ewart repre- sented Mrs. Taylor. ihe ease for the plaintiff was that Mr. cJylor, who was muoa older than his wife, finding himself nnable to live with her, *'?n?ed in September last, when they eepa- rated, to make her all allowance of S-71 a 'A"Iii so long a.s she lived a chaste life. fcoon after the separation it was alleged that de- fendant commenced to squabble about pay- ment of some insurance policies, which he (defendant) contended should be transferred to him. It was stated that he had had his wife's he-use, 25, Alexandra-road, watched. The payments ceased in November, and one night-, when Mrs. 'Taylor had been at a, car- rival at the Tower-gardens, defendant, it was alleged, went to her house and took away gome, of his WirFS PBJVATE CORRESPONDENCE and a photo of j, friend, Mr. Harry Shipley, whici) were in ii-er drawing-room. ome of the Tetters were produced by Mr. 3? y eoroft d uring the cross-examination of Mr3. Taylor. Those from Shipley were addressed "Dear Marie," and concluded "with fondest love." That in which Shipley acknowledged the receipt of Mrs. Taylor's photograph while she was staying with a friend, Miss Cross, at Whitchurch, stated: — I shall be delighted to see you back again on Monday. I received photo, and must T.ba.nk you very much for same. I am delighted with it—it is such a good one. Well, dear. you didn't say whether you got my letter on Friday morning-. I wrote by return of post after receiving yours. 1 have just got back from Liverpool, and feel rather tired. Don't forget, dear, to let me know what time you are coming back on Monday, so that I < aji meet you. I conclude with fondest love and best wishes.—Yours sincerely, RARRY. Cross-examined by Mr. Ryecroft, Mrs. Taylor said she went to the Tower ball-room on November 20 last and had eome whisky. Sha FAINTED ON SEEING HER HUSBANTX fche was taken by him and two ladies home in a cab. She went to bed. amd while there the letters and photo were taken. Did you wa.n1. the letters because they were compromising ?—No. Have yau destroyed any of Shipley's letters ?—.No. When did you meet Shipley?—In Sep- tember, after the separation order was signed. It was at one of the Winter Garden's confetti carnivals. you say yooir maid was with you tftero?— Tl <&s» Did she see Shipley brush the confetti off your dress?—No. Didn't you stay out all night on October 2? —No; I remember distinctly I never left the bouse. Did YO'1 write telling yotir maid you had lot- of champagne and a rare good timer- ]Jio, ■ Mr. Hycroft read extracts from a letter •j!?01 Cross at Whitchurch to Mrs. <oy_r' which occurred the passage, bt*n "y more long walks? Be ?fd b?1-n dear; he gets to know very tiling'. Answering Mr. Rycroft, witness admitted having bpca long walks by the sea with ftiiiplfiy, with whom she had tea at the Blue F>i], Poult-on. There were other persons ju-ese-it. further evidence, the hearing was adjourned.

gwwa———w FREEDOM OF NEATH. ■ — ■■■ '■■■■- TO BE PRESENTED TO MR. S. T. EVANS. The Neath Town Oouncil on Tuesday unanimously resolved to present the freedom of the borough to the Solicitor-General, Mr. S. T. Evans, who is a native of Skewen, near the borough. Councillor T. Griffiths asked what steps had been taken with reference to the Shops Early Closing Act. Alderman H. P. Charles suggested that the corporation should conduct a canvass of the tradespeople. It was useless, he pointed out, to convene a town's meeting, when probably only a few would attend. As a result it was agreed to conduct a can- vass of the shopkeepers before taking any further steps.

DIVORCE A FAILURE? UNION OF TWO HEARTS. Is divorce a failure?" is still discussed 1n Paris. The result of the popular vote of spectators after seeing M Paul Bourget's play 1;;> not yet known (eays the Daily Tele- Kraph"). Brit men and women are writing furiously to the press for and against free Jove, or strict marriage, or half measures. e champions of free love, on paper, seem to be mostly ladies. Several who sign them- Belves spiijisters are almost eloquent on the subject.. So respectable a bcdy as an aisso- Clation of lady shorthand writers and typists sonds a joint letter whkh calls a spade a ePade. "Without being feminists or suffra- gettes, we believe that our happiness will be ^taplete only when, freed from. conventions atid from tho stupid institution oalled mar- ^^e, we shall have instituted voluntary Unions of two hearts." The ladies beseech 118 "not to think that this is A MERE GROSS DESIRE at depraved natures," a thought which never t'6-ibly could have entered our heads. and Lay it down that "when unions are free ^ere will be much less debauchery." It to have escaped tbem that, as it is, is no law whatever against free love. Uid they go so far as to make fro- love "^tupnlsory ?—an extreme measure. A spinster who describes herself as a "sur- real dentist" considers that free love would °!f(lr at least one great advantage over mar- 1".Utg'G. "One could change one's mind when found that one had made a mistake. for the children, "a law could easaly be ■Passed to fit the case." Ine opponents of free love or of easy ^ivorce a.re all mem. One writes violently at free love is fit only for animals. So the chief thing that distinguishes man bea&ts is that he locks after his off- /Pting." Another merely wants to know, ^"■iTi marripgo has become a hire contract, yrh0 wiu be the lessee? will the man hire '&<> Woman, or the woman engage the man?" e Point is, undoubtedly, important. The TWO MOST SERIOUS LETTERS, **ch. in fact, contain a note of tragedy, from mon whose wives are incurable "UQatics, but. whom the law in France cannot jyf- on that ground. One says, "My legal ■j has been in *n asylum f°r fifteen years. tried to obtain a divorce on the 'Ound of incurable mental disease, but the ;iaw denies it me. Pending a change of the i liT6 frea]y wit}] a w0IILan whom I love r~and I venture to think myself just as priest a man as M. Paul Bourget." Another ,71^8 that he is 34, and that his wife, who <53, has been four years in an asylum for incurable insanity. The law oondemns him reonain in celibacy tits rest of his days. r-

PANTYFFYNON EXPLOSION. DEATH OF TWO OF THE VICTIMS. tihe men who were injured in the hav« at Pan tyffynon Colliery recently 1 iq bed to their injuries. They are on Roberts, of Hopkinetown. who died ftthn aftamooax, and Gwilyiu Gnf- wno died cm Wednesday na ght.

STRANGE DIVORCEj SUIT. CO-RESPONDENT NEPHEW OF PETITIONER. The President of the Divorce Oourt on Wednesday had before him the case in which a jeweller, Mr. Lawrence Lawrence, seeks a divorce from his wife. Mrs. Mabel Lawrence, by reason of her alleged misconduct with Mr. Bertie Goodman, a dentist, and Mr. Arthur Ansell. a bookmaker. PETITIONER'S STORY. Sir E. Carson, K.C., who appeared for the petitioner, said that the marriage took place on July 30, 1898. and there were three children. Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence lived together in Uxbridge-road. The co-respondent Goodman was a nephew of the petitioner, and in 1905 came to live at the hou&e. The petitioner &et him up in business, which Goodman carried on at High-etreet, Nottmg- hiU-ga.te. Mr. Ansell was a friend of Mr. Gooiznan, aoid had an cilice at his place, and was a. married man. ilr. and Mrs. Lawrence seemed to have liv-ad fairly happily together until 1906. The husband used to be awa,y all day at business, and his wife used to go to High- street frequently. He noticed a coolness towards him. At night he wanted to go to bed, but she preferred to stop up. On one occasion she dined with Goodman at a restaurant in Leicester-square, and after that petitioner determinded to get rid of him. Subsequently be found that Goodman and the respondent had spent the evening at the Shepherd's Bush Empire, and when they returned he refused to allow Goodman into the house. The following day he asked his wife, for the sake of the children, not to see Goodman, but she absolutely declined. When he spoke to his wife about what he had learned, and that she miist no longer remain in his house, she made no denial whatever, but assaulted him and knocked his hat off. She went to stay at High-Street, and had lived there continuously, gomg abcat to places of amusement, sometimes with Goodman and sometimes with Ansell. Petitioner was called in support. Referring to the interview he had with Goodman, witness said he called him a cur for abusing his hospitality. A Post Office official on Wednesday gave evidence about the handing in of two tele- grams alleged to have been sent by the two co-respondents on the day tibiat Mrs. La.w- rence left home. The telegram from Good.man Ba.id:- TTnder the bed locked in room will be public ptnoperty tomorrow. Derry it if you dare. That from Ansell ran:— If I hear further slander aeatnst me shall take rctdon. Continuing h,s e^dernce, Mir. Lawrence said that one day he wfcj in Hyde Park, and saw his wife driving in a trap with Goodman. BANG UP-TO-DATE. Mr. Middleton, who was examining the wit- new, handed up a post-card in the hand- writing of Mr. Ansell, addressed to Mrs. Lawrence. It had been found in the chil- dren's album. It ran:- Dear Auntie,—I am keeping very quiet and -very sober.—The liake No. Z. Another document, a printed one, was handed to the witness. He said that he had received it in aa envelope. It was headed, Bang up-to-date smart set form," and said: I say, Bertie, yon know we have been pals for years and years. Well. I want to tell you I had a really earnest conversation with the missus this morning after breakfast, and for ODee we unanimously agreed. We came to the oomclufifon it tros amte txme we got divorced So we played danHie to decide who Should be the delink quent. After I got home on a no trmnnerp garo me a most flattering message for J™, She wanted to know if you will be You. u will be pondent. like a d-. good fellow. Tha.nks awfully. I am leaving for Ger many this evening. In reply to a question the witness aaad that be did not know that Mr. Ansell had a la toll-key by which he could enter his (witness's) house in Uxbridge-road. Cross-examinod by Mr. Barnard, Mr. Law- rence denied that Mr. Goodman had kissed Mrs. Lawrence in hie presence, or that he (witness had played caTds in her bedroom, Mr. Barnard: Did Mr. Goodman give your wife jewellery—certain rings? Mr. Lawrence: She wore them, but they were not given to her. He pawned them. (Laughter.) WIFE AS NURSE. Mr. Lawrence denied that during his wife's illness Goodman was frequently in her room. He went in once or twice when the witness was there, and always knocked at the door before he came in. It was very likely, he said, that all three of them went down for a week-end to Folkestone together. He for three week-ends went to Folkestone to see his children, who were there, but indignantly denied that he left his wife and Goodman at the house in Uxbridge-road without ser- vants on those occasions. He did not remem- ber where he obtained the information as to the locked bedroom door on the Saturday afternoon somewhere between September and October, 1906. "During Goodman's iltoess did not yoar wife sleep in his room?" Mr. Lawrence waa asked. "I put a ocmoh and a settee in the room, and my wife nursed him through has illness. She did not sleep in the room." I put it to yon that she went to sleep in Goodman's room?—No. The specialist who attended him ordered a imtrse, and I wanted to. telephone for one, but my wife objected, and said she would throw the nunee out if one came. She said she would nurse him herself. The hearing was adjourned. --=

SCHOOLMASTER TURNS SWINDLER. -+ FRAUDS OF A BOGUS CAPTAIN OF DRAGOONS. At the Old Bailey on Wednesday Roderick Logan Ronnie pleaded guilty to forging and uttering a receipt for £ 1,000 and two bills of exchange; also to obtaining credit by false pretences. Prisoner had caused a paragraph to ai)pear in a provincial journal to the effect that he had been left a legfxry of £ 20,000. He then had cards printed bearing the name of Captain Ronnie, 7th Dragoon Guards, and used these for obtaining credit, As a fact, there was a Captain Rennie in the Army, and his return from India brought the prisoner's frauds to light. Mr. Muir said the prisoner had been a school- master in the provinces, and had left owing debts to tradesmen and others.-The Recorder sentenced prisoner to three years' penal servitude.

SHOT WIFE IN BED. DRUNKEN HUSBAND THEN FINISHED HIMSELF. At Stoke-on-Trent on Wednesday John Cordon, a fish dealer. shot hie wife while in bed, and thou turned the weapon upon him- self. The wife, who is a chronic sufferer tram rheumatism, is &till alive. Gordon was removed to the infirmary, where he died. It is stated that the man on his return home the previous night was the worse for drink.

MURDERED (?) HER BABY. At Westminster Police-court on Wednesday Alice Money, wife of a carman, was oom- mitted fotr trial charged with murdering her daughter, Norah Alice, aged three years. The case w described ae very sad, the prisoner and her husband being very respect-1 able. The woman complained of pains in i the bead. and on January 28 told a medgh- j bour she had cast the child's throat. Her own throat was slightly cut.

THE COUNTESS OF YARMOUTH. + GRANTED NULLITY OF HER MARRIAGE. In the Divoroe Division on Wednesday the President (Sir Gorell Barnes) had before him the petition of the Countess of Yarmouth, otherwise Thaw, for the nullity of marriage against her husband, the Earl of Yarmouth. The case was heard in oa.mera &nd waa practically undefended, lasting octy half an hoax. A decree of nullity of marriac» was granted. Mr. Rufufi Isaacs, K.C., Mr. Baamard, K.O„ and Mx. J. Harvey Murphy appeared for the petitioner, and Mr. R. Newton Crane repre- sented the earl. The countess, fashionably attired in black, attended, but the earl was not present.

TWO MISSING SHIPS. ALL HOPE OF THEIR SAFETY ABANDONED. I At Lloyd's on Wednesday two large vessels were officially written off as missing, all hope of their safety having been abandoned. One of these, the Dundee steamer Neptune, owned by iiecsrs. D. J. Nicoll, of that port, t-tailed from, Garston for Par (Cornwall) on the first da,y of th3 present year. She was sighted off Liverpool the some day, but though she should have arrived at her destination at the latest on January 4, no further news has been heard of the vessel or her crew, which numbered twelve hands. The owners eon.dder it probable that the steamer foundered in the severe gaies at the commencement of January. She was insured at Lloyd's for £ 7,500, exclusive of cargo. The other vessel which has disappeared is the four-masted ship Arthur Sewall-one of the largest sailing vessels in Lloyd's Register. She set sail from Philadelphia, on March 3C last on the long voyage round to Seattle and Vancouver. She was sighted off the American coast four days later, and reported all welL Since then no news has come to hand. I Her owners, Messrs. A. Sewall and Co., can give no explanation of her mysterious dis- appearance. THE LOSS OF THE CUTHBERT. Lloyd's state that with refarenoe to the British steamer Cathfoert, from Antwerp for New York. reported to have been burnt at sea, a cable message from Boston -a says "Captain Lewis reports White, Brophy, Karlsen, Andrien, Yermehlen, Defreitar, wteig, Muller, Manton, Herebont, Voorlbrook Vanprrynhrock, Kronsfeldt are lost." The remainder were saved, including six stowaways and Jackson, the gateman. Cap. s^^lv Wr,?14 Joubfert' eailOT. who were severely burnt, are progreeeing favourably.

-= EX-SPEAKER'S GRANDCHILD KIDNAPPED. MR. GULLY BELIEFi £ D TO HAVE STOLEN HIS OWN DAUGHTER. ,p The little ten-year-old granddaughter -of Viscount Selby, the ex-Speaker, is being sought by inquiry agents both in London and on the Continent. A ward in Chancery, Miss Leslie Gully, a flaxen-haired child with large Expressive grey eyes, is alleged to have been carried off by her father, the Hon. James Glllly. contrary to the order of the court wiiich gave Mrs. Gully the onstody of the uttle girl, it ifi believed that Mr. Gully and daughter are now on the Continent, and 1T?€B a"re being prosecuted in Paris, bro incident was on Monday Mr ft V? kk10 n°tice of a judge in chambers. ^fterrJi. saw kis daughter on Saturday at 3" Hucl £ in^llam"^ate> discount with a. Soon afterwards he appeared ØIlterï a. ohild and a tall dark woman, and, s a. t-i-mb. the three drove away. ISSUED POR THE ARREST OP trace has FATHEB" Stilly uotr w. ^en found of the Hon. James Leslie Gully, ^^yeiair-old daughter, Miss It is believe staying in a • n,(>weyer, that Mr. Gully is By aa order iri+i, near the coast, is committed to • ^ancery Division he restore the child ^on and commanded to With him is m? h<Jr mother. and the commitmSL frothy Evelyn Grey, against her as well ortier been made The parties interests • are pretty wall eati^^i11 ^k^^ing Mr. Gully Grey, with the ahilTi 4utha't aad boat train from Water.? by the 9.20 p-m. It connected with two?? °n Saturday. Cherbourg, and the for Havre and the three have retired t til'eory 18 tilafc house in French co-imtry sains secluded Mr Gully's friends exp^j. Grey, tiring of the monotonVTTf e 831(1 Mis8 will move later to Paris. sudh a life, If they are found there, it ?„ • that the French police would ^PTobable legal proceedings essential to tlw of Mr. Justice WfiJ-rington's mitment of

LADY COTTENHAM'S DOUBLE ROSE ROBINSON GETS OFF WITH A WARNING, s At Marylebone on Friday Sose Bobineon, the young woman who is alleged to have appro priated the names of Lady Boee Nevill and Lady (Tottenham, again appeared before the magistrat,e on ohorges of oibt-aining flowers to the value of £1 17s. from a firm of West End florists, and forging and uttering two letters purporting to be signed by Imdy Cottenham, with intent to defraud. The second charge having been withdrawn. Mr. Plowden said that, in View of the fact that it was the firm of florists who had been deirauded and not Lady Cottenham, and that accused had been in custody 21 days if she would give her assurance that she would cease annoying Lady Cottenham in future by taking her name in this unjustifiable way he would adopt a lenient course. The accused gave that assurance, and was °,nVn her recognisance tocoiw up if called upon. up if called upon.

WOMAN BURNT TO DEATH. TRAGIC DISCOVERT BY RAD- CLIFFE HUSBAND AND SON. -M £ jv,i.1 £ iam Hollows, a card-room jobber, ot iiadcliffe and his son, found their house in flames when they returned home on Saturday night, and the dead body of Mrs. Hollows, sen., was subsequently found in the hoise. shockingly burnt.

A FOHEST TRAGEDY. FIVE MEN, SEVEN WOMEN, AND FIVE CHILDREN MimDEBJED. ♦ Advices from Khabarovsk state that 130 verets from tlnot plaoe the headman of the town, with his family and relations. malring in all five men, seven women, and ftve chil- dren, have been murdered in a dense forest. The assassins secured ILSM in gold and valuables.—Beuter.

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"T YEARNS TO MARRY A GRANDMOTHER^ ELDERLY GENTLEMAN SUES FOR BREACH: In the King's Bench on Wednesday Mr. Walter Lazarus Pbillips brought an action for a breach of promise of marriage against. Mrs. Florrie Goodman, a widow lady of property. Counsel said the plaintiff was a widower, aged 60, of Kilburn, and the defendart had ohildren and grandchildren. She resided at Maida Vale. Both parties were of the Hebrew race. The lady appeared to have made up her mind she would like to ma.rry again, and she confided her wish to a gentlemam friend. named Marks, who happened to be a friend also of plaintiff. Mr. Marks introduced Mr. Phillips to the defendant, and she said to the former. "He'll do." Afterwards Mrs. Goodman made inquiries as to the plaintiff's position, and when told he had children she said she would make him comfortable and settle her house upon him and JE.500 a year for life. Arrangements were made for the wedding, but there was great opposition to the marriage by the lady's friends and relatives, and at almost t.he lost moment, when the presents had been exchanged and all arrangements made, defendant broke off the engagement, and, continued counsel, added insult to injury by offering the plaintiff a cheque for jB25 as a solatium. MARRYING FOR "LOVE." Counsel for the defendant said the lady never absolutely refused to marry plaintiff, and that it was Phillips who refused to wait till the lady's health was restored. Plain- tiff, in crops-examination, denied this, and said the defendant refused to marry him. Asked if the engagement was the matter of money or love. the witness replied that it was love. In reply to further questions, the plaintiff said he instructed his solicitors to claim £5.000 da-ina-gea in this action. Herm,a,n Marks, who introduced t—e parties to each other, said the lady told him her requirements, saying she did not care whether the man was rich or poor so long as he was respectable a.nd religions. Counsel, in opening the defendant's case, said the action was a ridiculous one, and if the jury gave plaintiff any damages at all the smallest coin of the realm—a broaize farthing—was sufficient. Mrs. Goodman, who was aittended by a nurse and walked feebly, then went into tie witness-box. She had eight grandchildren Witness denied ever promising to settle £500 a year on the plaintiff. She denied telling Marks that she wished to get married. What took plaoe was this: Marks said, "You are looking so nice, I wonder you don't get married again!" This w-i5 about a year after her husband's death. She replied to Marks thaa ahe should not mind if she could get a nice, respectable. honourable man. Witness denied refusing to marry plaintiff. Counsel having addressed the court, and Mr. Justice Darling summed up. the jury returned a. verdict for Mr. Phillips with .£5Q damages. It appeared, however, that the defendant paid 100 guineas into court in satisfaction of the claim, and, therefore, judgment was entered for Mrs. Goodman with oosts from the time of the payment into court, Mr. Phillips to have the general oostB of the action before payment into court.

MINE CATASTROPHE. 4 ONE KILLED; MANY BADLY INJURED. The Fife Coal Company's Mary Pit. Lodhore, in the central district of Fife, was at midnight on Sunday the scene of disaster, following an explosion of firedamp. Four successive reports were heard from mid-bottom, and three men were thrown down the shaft, which is the deepest in Scot- land. One nian was killed outright, another died while being removed to the hospital, and eix others were so terribly injured that iittlo hope is entertained of their recovery. All ara in the hospital.

A CREW'S SUFFERINGS. SIX DAYS WITHOUT WATER TO DRINK. Kerns has reached Plymoattx to the effect that Captain Spurr and the crew of the British schooner Araaa have been rescued at sea by the barque Osberga, aztd have reached Savannah. They were token off their waterlogged and submerged craft by Captain TTa^v]^ &5 miles off the West Indies. The shipwrecked men had been without water to drink, and had only raw potatoes and salt park to eat. from the 12th. to the 18th of January. They had to stand almost up to their arm- pits in water most of the time, &n.d could not rest or sleep. They attempted to signal to several vessels, but could not make tale-m, selves seen or heard. They saw several chances of rescue go when the sails of other ships disappeared over the horizon. Finally the Osberga arrived on the scene, and as the Arnoa was a menace to naviga- tion the wreak wae set on fire ae ooon aa the crew had been removed.

ECHO OF POISON TRIAL. DOCTOR'S SUCCESSFUL SUITS FOB LIBEL. Dr. Morris J. Williams, of Jord&zt-placa, Wolham Green, in the King's Bench OlD Tues- day sued the "Doily OIwoDicle" for damages for libel. The remarks ooonplained ot were in connec- tion with the exhumation of the body of Mrs. Blume, of Falbam. daring the trial of Richard Brinkley for the murder of Mr. and Mre. Beck at Croydon. The defendants, who had previously apolo- gised, paid iEZ5 into court, and the plaintiff agreed to accept that sum and acloo ooeta this ooorse being agreed to. Dr. Williams brought an action nyafnat the Star" for a statement also connected with the exhumation of Mrs. Blunxe's body. In this case the defendants apologised, and consented to judgment for the plaintiff for £5(X).

BAG OF SOVEREIGNS GONE. THEFT OF £1,000 IN GOLD FROM LONDON BANK. Cloe BEWABD.—Stoten from a London buk a bar containing one thousand pounds in sovereigiLs between the boors of 4 p.m., December SI, lSXft mod 9.SQ on January 1, 1906. The above reward will be given to anyone who will give infor- mation that may lead to the discovery and convic- tion of the thief.—Address Box 68, c/o LeathwaU. and Simmons, 5, Birchin-lane, E.C. This announcement appeared in the adYer- tfeemenit columns of Saturday's Laodiom popere. It refers to a roihbery from a bank in the City which has been occupying the atteo. tion of the City police for ftist one month. and, although the inquiries have resulted in suspicions being aroused, nothing deftnite has been diaoovered of the miasinc montj