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RIGGER'S TERRIBLE DEATH AT BARRY DOCK. Whilst at work on board the steamship Iroquois at No. 2 Dock, Barry, shortly before lnidnight on Tuesday a rigger, named Sharpe, living at Barry Island, was caught by the steam winch, and so terribly muti- lated that he died immediately. He leaves a widow and family. At the inquest held on Wednesday it. was stated that the body was out to pieces, and the head rolled off on deck several feet away. Ernest West admitted that the work at 1Vhich the deceased and himself were engaged Was too much for two, and he went to call Kssistanoe, but when he returned he found the deceased coiled round the winch drum and shockingly mangled 'The chief officer of the ship (Frank Downes) gave evidence that the deceased had deliberately disobeyed his orders in not ,call- ing for assistance when he found the work Was too heavy for him The witness con- ducted himself in the box In an unusual manner, and was requested by the coroner to stand up and show respect to the court. A verdict of Accidental death" was returned. YOUTH'S TERRIBLE DEATH. A verdict of Accidental death" was re- turned by a Whitchurch jury on Thursday in respect üf the death of a youth named David John. Llewellyn, who was employed at the Melingriffithin Tiniworke. Llewellyn, it was stated, usually helped in attending to the machinery when not in ttotion. Alexander Da,vidson, heariin.g an agonising scream, saw the lad drawn into yiie machinery, his ooat having been caught In the cogs. Death was instantaneous. 1-n reply to Mr. Bullock, who represented the company, Davidson explained that there was a rail guarding the machinery, which ke tsought, was adequately protected. The foreman of the rolls, Thomas Boyer, Baid there were 5 or 60 boys working at the Trolls. If a guard had been placed near the cogs whic.h caught the lad the accident would not have happened. Mr. W. R. Davies, manager, stated that had there been a guard round the oogs- which, he thought. would be altogether im- practicable—the accident would not have bafppened. A guard from the roll to the floor would be no protection, and would prabably ¡,nterfere with the wrking arrangementsu. The jury, in returning their verdict, eug- gestld that the management should have Printed notices placed around that particul- ar portion of the machine to warn in- ? traders. CARDIFF RIGGER'S FATAL FALL., Mr W Tj To rath (coroner) held an inquest or. on the body of Tarrance Friday rigger in the employ of Hille' ra-cey (33V -neering Company (Limited) who ^as accidentally killed on the 19th inst. Whilst at work According to a fellow-workman, deceased vas leader of his and he was supenn tendir?: •• ~auoTi> when ft: iron bar he- was lUg bilpred., with the result that deceased It-11 backwards down the hold of the ship, a sjfc* Itetanoe of about 20ft ^SfeA&atii was een fractured. The cause J^oto"aCO°«»ssio„ of the bral». in We manager, said they lost tip 6ev °aing for medical aid. They n^- doctors before they could get "Prd' turned. let of "Accidental death" was re. VIS MAN FALLS 90FT. at IT J. Rhys held am inquest on Friday LYdian r 011 the oody of Edgar Charles at PI,; ag.ed 22, recently married, who lived f.'(ru. Cation-terrace. Deceased was a oon- 1 em!PIoy«'d by Messrs. Finch and Co., of1 v,r w' and was engaged on the erection On } stoves at the Dowlais Steelworks. stove tD^day be fell from the top of the di-od ground, a distance of 90ft., and terrihi80?11 a'fterwa-rd8. having sustained ible injuries. TeturneddiCt °* "Aocid,eIltal death" was KILLED IN MACHINERY AT SWAN- SEA. mquest held at Swansea Hospital oil 22 TOu 011 the body of John Stallard, aged o-t' +,° with a tragic death in machinery c;»* ■K'tng's Dock works, Swansea, the a„, er commented on the deceased's unwise ,vir,m cross-ing over the shaft to shut a thfl t !fSIuad of ?oillg round, but remarked clotl« lf ma<Mnery ^n fenced the entailed deceafied would n<>t have been retUr^di0t "Accide(n^ death" -was T>EATH FROM SCALDS: USEFUL HINTS BY OOBO'NER. fiaif; ,J<meS: «^rOD«-. held am inqueet on urday at Oefn touching the death of the CILY a Lmale ohild of (^orge and Aun Thomas. <xf No. 2, Maesycelyn tjttag€6 oefn who died on Thursday ae a a^UlL0f ^alds" {h.e father applied butter if, ^eTL flo^r to the injuries. The Coroner eaid it was a great mistake to apply butter to scalds or bums. Lard without salt would be a very soothing thing, flour would be all right, but the best domestic remedy for scalds or burns, which should always be within reach of persons with children, wae what was called carrow Dil, made of lime water and olive or linseed oil. The jury returned a verdict of Accidental death." PUMPMAN KILLED AT TROEDY- RHIW. Mr. R J. Rhys held an inquest at Troedy- rhinv on Tuesday on William Williams, 54, Punip-man at the Saron Level, who was d«i!T by a fall of roof on Saturday. The went down a dip to see how the ponipg Were controlling the water, and was l(Wnif1?; Wh?" a pieoe of roof- weighing iU?wt., fell on ham and killed him. Verdict: "Accidental death."

TRAGIC INCIDENTS. —4 ENGINE-DRIVER FALLS DEAD AT LLANELLY. lr^r' Martin R. Richards conducted an 3,1 L,la-n'clly «n Tuesday respecting the d i' °- George Collier, Ralph-street, who fell 6n whilst following his employment as an 0n^P<driwr at the Burry Tin-plate Works thTt previoud day.—Dr. Harry Roberts said deceased was suffering from heart rerd^' which wafi the cause of death.—A iCt accordingly was returned. u AT THE TEA-TABLE. on Fiw \L' Yorath held an inquest at CSurdilF Craht° on tl10 body of John Augustus livj ree' a French correspondent, aged 59, Dpi5 at Fitzhainon-embankment. eon said his faljher had 00m- ehortnl Palpitation of the heart and hiis breath. Qn Sunday he was in table t l health, but on sitting down to the r>,e ^a. died suddenly. f J?r. Ross s!-ated that death was due to heart ^turned a verdict aocordingly Wae 1THLD^ST AT HAVERFORDWEST. HaverfotS^6^ ^Mr' held an inquest at (42) rtortt J°n Monday on Joseph Eeilly Wate'BroetvP^Vn J ketch Florrie. The yessPl ing s down the river on the morn- wassent'ns?611 Bhe groiLnd€d, the man {K«ttttl^0re Wlth a r<>Pe- The boat drifted ing to deceased, while attempt,- river ni5f aboaTd thfe boat, fell into tlte Florrie drotwned. The skipper of the that had otller skippers in court said to >,i„ v«e 'been a post to fasten the The, j ? would have been spared. a ddd that a post at this spot to safe navigation.

FROM GAOL TO HER FRIENDS. + "LIIY THE LADY" LEAVES CARDIFF, Lily the Lady," the supposititious heiress to X17,000, turned her back on Cardiff Prison on Wednesday morning. She was sentenced on January 27 to a calendar month's imprisonment for being drunk and disorderly, and that term expired on Wednesday. Since the pretty little fairy tale of that snug little fortune was first published, the girl has won attention which a suffra- gette might envy, and when there has been nothing else to talk about the nick-name of Lily the Lady" has cropped up, end young men's fancies have turned not to thoughts of love, but to possession of the £17,000. » To find out the origin of the euphonious sobriquet of "Lily the Lady" one would have to make inquiries in the places where she eked out an existence before she got into her last trouble. There can be no other explanation than that she is a lady by birth, breed- ing', and education. She was brought up as a child on her father's estate, in one of the South Wales counties, and after the sale of the estate she was taken by her father to the West of England. Her mother had died some time previously, and but for this misfortune f Lily the Lady" might have continued moving in respect- able society. With the same breath it may be said that every effort has been made by her father on more than one occasion to rescue her from her wretchedness, but all to no purpose, and any suggestion of harshness on his part is, therefore, unjustifiable. Another e^.rnost attempt is now being made to reclaim her, and arrangements had been made by her friends that she should be taken away from Cardiff Prison before the dawn of Wednesday, and placed in a train which left Cardiff about six o'clock. She was committed to the charge of an elderly lady who is not unaccustomed to rescue work, and at the present moment she is a patient in a hospital in a West of England town. Her treatment there was necessary because of the wounds and bruises from which she suffered, all being evi dence of rough and brutal ill-usage while leading her recent life. outside the prison officials no one witnessed her departure, and those people- who had con- gregated outside the grim, grey walls of the gaol in the expectation of seeing her released at the same time as the other prisoners—eight o'clock—were disappointed. "Lily" had not only gone at that hour, but had reached her destination. Her early exit was the result of an arrangement, made one day last week by her friends and the prison authorities, and was deemed advisable partly on account of a possible organised attempt by her old associates to lure her back to her old haunts. As events proved, no such attempt was made, the few people assembled outside the gaol having come there merely out of curiosity. PATHETIC INCIDENT. There were only three persons who passed out through the prison gates at eight o'clock, and one of these wae a young man, whose liberation was anxiotisly awaited by his parents and two sisters. Immediately he found himself out in the open world once again he gave a whoop of joy, and his mother, with the tears streaming down her cheeks, rushed forward and caressed her erring yon affectionately. So glad was the youth to be fre-e acrain that he could not find his speech tor some momenta, hut when the words did come to his lips hU first request was for a cigarette, which he promptly lighted, and evidently enjoyed more than he had ever enjoyed a smoke before. There was no one waiting for the two others. They would probably be delighted to have the same opportunities of reformation as Lily the Lady, who. has been given every possible chance for the past six years. She is 29 years of age, and she made her first acquaintance with Cardiff about six years ago. Something led to her leaving her home, and for a timll she lived at Bristol. Then she drifted to Cardiff, and misconduct caused her to fall into the hands of the police. She was brought before the Cardiff magistrates, who, upon finding that she was a young lady of gentle birth, com- municated with her family's friends. among -whom is one of the best-known public men in the city, who has had considerable busi- ness transactions with her father. He very kindly intervened on the girl's behalf, and the magistrates dismissed the case, on the understanding that she would be properly cared for. TURNED OVER A NEW LEAF. The gentleman referred to commissioned his housekeeper to take "Lily" with her to one of the biggest drapery establishments in Car- diff, and there she was clothed at an expense of about RA. For about three weeks she lived quietly and respectably in a cottage in one of the suburbs of Cardiff, and her friends were beginning to feel satisfied that she had turned over a new leaf when, to their surprise and sorrow, she suddenly dis- appeared one day, and the next news heard of her was that she was a denizen of one of the city's slums. Periodically she called upon her benefactor with requests for money, and on one occa- sion she was found to be in such a delicate state of health that medical assistance had to be sought. Having recovered from her illness she drifted baok to slumdom again, and her* friends had almost given her up as a lost soul, when the news of her conviction last month was published in the newspapers. Then they determined to make one more effort to save her from her degradation. That is the true, authentic story of "Lily the Lady's" life. There is no truth in the statement that she is heiress to a fortune of £ 17,000. She is the only child of her father, who is d man of considerable means. He is prepared to make ample provision for his daughter if she reforms and settles down. "It's never too late to mend,' and there is no knowing but "Lily the Lady" may yet, by her conduct and use- fulness in life, justify her heritage to her father's fortune. Immediately she is fit to leave hospital she will be placed in charge of friends, who will give her every attention and show her every indulgence. The Cardiff gentleman to whom reference has been made, accompanied by her father's sülcitor" visited the Car- diff Prison last Friday, and had an interview with "Lily," who was greatly distressed and seemingly penitent. She promised faith- fully to live a new life. Those who know her best speak of her as a sensitive, tender-hearted woman, who is very susceptible to kindness.

SUICIDE DECREASING. MEN MORE PRONE TO IT THAN WOMEN, An interesting return relating to coroners' inquests in 1906 has just been issued by the Home Office in connection with the annual vclume of Criminal Statistics. Cases of suicide show a decrease of 81. or 2 per cent., as compared with the previous year The continuous increase in suicides appears to ha.ve received a slight check, the figures for the five years 1902 to 1906 being respectively 3,239, 3,480, 3,327, 3,515, and 3.434. The number of suicides of male persons was 2,647, or 25.42 per 100,000 of the male popu- lation aged sixteen years and upward according to the census of 1901. The corre- sponding figures for females were 787, or 7.04 per 100,000.

FRENCH TREASON TRIAL. IMPRISONMENT IN A FORTRESS FOR LIFE. The trial of Sub-lieutenent Ullmo, who was charged with the attempted betrayal of naval secrets to Germany, concluded at Toulon on Saturday. The prisoner appeared utterly broken down, and trembled visibly as he listened to the Government Commissioner's reply to his counsel, Ma-itre Aubin. The Court found him guilty, a.nd sentenced him to imprisonment in a fortress for life after undergoing degra- dation Uilmo collapsed on hearing the &entenoe. Central News.

ARREST OF MISS SHERRIFF'S LONDON FRIEND. At Bournemouth Police-court on Monday John Francis M'Guire, of 23, Denbigh-street, I/O 11 don., a picture dealer, was charged with the wilful murder of Emma Sherriff, at Bournemouth, between, the 18th and 20th of February. Police-sergeant West, of Bournemouth, stated that, following upon investigations, he went to London on Friday evening, and fou'nd that the accused wae detained at Gerald-road Police-station. Witness did not s the accused that night, bat, accompanied by Detective-sergeant Goldsmith, of the Metroptolitan Police, he went to 23, Denbigh- street, and there visited a room on the top floor occupied by accused. A search was made there, and several letters and two evening papers, folded as produced, were found on the mantelpiece. There were also a large number of letters in a writing-desk and a hamper, while a leather pocket-case contained five pawn duplicates and two pawn contracts. Witness also found in a chest of drawers 36 more pawntickets and nine pawn contracts. There was also a brown bag con- taining wearing apparel. itness took posses- si on of the goods amd locked the room. Next sion of the goods amd looked the room. Next morning witness saw the accused at Gerald- road Police-station. He answered to the name of Frank M'Guire. Witness informed him of the finding of Miss Sfhetrnff's body, and told him that, according to medical examination, she had been, murdered- Witness also told M Guire that it had come to his knowledge that fee (M'Guire) was an intimate friend of the deceased, and was in Bournemouth on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday of last week. He cautioned M'Guire, and told him he should charge him on suspicion, with feloniously and wilfully killing Emm-a faherriff. Accused made no reply: Witness, continuing, said that before leav- ing London Police-sergeant Smith handed him sixteen letters and four telegrams, which, he said, were found upon the prisoner, together with a pawn duplicate and pawn contract. Accused said to witnem, "I telegraphed from Bournemouth last Thursday to my. landlady asking if a. lady had called to see me, and paid for a reply at Bournemouth." Witness hamded M'Guire, alias Powell and Hayman, over to Superintendent Hack Replying to Mr. Granville Alabaster, bar- riMer. who represented the accused, witness said he obtained the address of the accused through his mother. Upon the application of Superintendent Back accused wa.s remanded until March 4.

ANOTHER BOURNEMOUTH MYSTERY. L'NACCCIUJNTABLE DISAPPEARANCE OF A YOUNG LADY. Another young lady has been reported «. missmg at Boscombe. Bournemouth. A Mies V> likes, who had been staying at th« rs^ cent for some time, disappeared on FridS last, and although the police have made diligent inquiries nothing has since been ascertained as to her whereabouts. She had recently been receiving medical attention but there was nothing in her condition to suggest loss of memory.

STRANGE DIVORCE SEQUEL. MOTHER CANNOT BE CHARGED FOR KIDNAPPING HER CHILD. In the Ii.aig'e Bench on Tuesday a Divisional wurt grafted a rule nisi calling upon cer- tain magistrates in Northumberland to show cause why they should not hear and deter- application to withdraw a warrant which had been issued against the Hon. Mrs. Florence Mary Chetwynd, charging her with having conspired to kidnap her child, Emily Mary, and abduct her from the custody of "'r' Mr Ley Jar-d. of Saggers ton Castle, in whose custody she had been placed after Mrs Chetwynd obtained a decree of divorce against her husband. Mrs. Ohetwynd was now in Paris, counsel saad, and could not return to this ooantry without being arrested unless the warrant was withdrawn. Under the Offences Against the Person Act, 1861, a mother could not be chairged with suoh an offence.

DEFAULTING SOLICITOR. ALLEGED CONFESSION OF A BRISTOL LAWYER. At Bristol °n Tuesday George Price Lilley solicitor, of Bristol and Weston-super-Mare, was remanded until Tuesday next on a charge of converting to his own use sums of jE50 and Lloo entrusted to him by clients ior a pool in Union Pacific Common shares. It was stated that accused made a confession to the prosecutors, William Simmons and John Wittiam Long, bakers in Bristol suburbs, that he had last aU the money by gambling on the Stock Exohange. he had not a penny in the world, had never bought the shares for which the money was advanced, but used the money for other pur- poses, and had expected arrest every advanced, but used the money for other pur- poses, and had expected arrest every moment.

BROTHER'S BROKEN HEART DEATHS OF TWO YOUNG MEN AT BOLTON. Two brothers have died under sad cir- cumstances at Bolton. One of them, a young man named James Bradshaw, who was employed at the Great Lever Collieries, Bol- ton, and had just gained his under-ma.na,ger iii certificate, fell down a pit-shaft on Satur- day and was drowned. His brother, Sydney Bradshaw, aged nineteen, was so overcome by the occurrence that he died on Tuesday morning from a broken heart.

FAMILIES IN FRANCE. NEARLY TWO MILLION WITHOUT CHILDREN. The Paris Gaulois publishes interesting statistics, which will shortly be presented by the Ministry of Works, in reference to French families. The number of households wk-h or without children is stated to be 11,315,000. Of this total 1,804,710 families have no chil- dren, 2,966,171 have one child, 2,661,978 have two children, 1,643,425 have three. 987,392 have four, and 566,768 have five. It may be added that 79 families possess sixteen, 34 seventeen, and 45 eighteen or more children.—Central News.

DRAINPIPE AS CANNON. SHOCKJNG ACCIDENT AT ST. CLEARS. The festivities connected with the wedding of Dr. Phillips, St. Clears, were greatly marred on Tuesday during the booming of 1, cannon. Thomas W,alters (38), of Penparke, was manipulating an Improvised "exploder," having charged' a drainpipe with rock powder, when it went off unexpectedly and he was blown some distance. At the Car- marthenshire Infirmary it was found that he had sustained a compound fracture of the left leg-

"BLACK HAND" CRIME. The body of an1 Italian named Salvatore Maohmne was found in New York with the limbs and tongue missing. There were indications that the murder was com- mitted by members of the "Bleck Hand," and the police theory is that the victim was suspected as an informer against the "Black I Hand," and was murdered while sitting in a local barber's chair.

AN INGENIOUS CONNECTING-ROD. (NOT A MISSING LINK.)

MONEYLENDERAND CLIENT. « EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF ALLEGED FRAUD. At MairLborougb-street Police-court on Tuesday Oadwallader Edwards, aged 45, described as having no occupation or fixed address, was charged on reinaad (before Mr. Denanaii) with having personated Mr. J. F. Lorfc Phillips, with intent to fraudulently obtain z6750 from Mark Wolfe, of 11, Cork- street, Piccadilly; with forging the name of 3Lr. lort Phillips to a promissory note for and forging and uttering a cheque 5flrk w ,?nd obtaining that emu ^^|J*^eand partner, trading as J. Kmg aJtUh\ previoue hearing only evidence of Detective-inspector Bowen and Detective-sergeant jjuggan was given. When told the charge that would be preferred ag-ainst him the prisoner said, Yes, I don't dispute it. lfw handed a £ 0 note to the officers, and yi an audits he gave eight more 95 notes and a clo note were found. They related to the case. Mr. H. H. Curtis-Bennett, who appeared for the prosecutor, explained that Mr. Wolfe was a moneylender, and towards the end of January he received a letter from Pem- brokæhire f signed J. F. Lo-rt Phillips," stating that a loan of £1,000 was required, that it was for that gentleman, and that he was high sheriff of Pembrokeshire, a justice of the peace, and a landed gentleman. The prisoner oalled at the office, and Mr. Wolfe asked him why he wanted money, to which the prisoner replied that he was about to start for San Remo, and was temporarily short of money. His income was, he said, L15,000 a year, and his wife had an income of double that sum. He added that he hunted two packs of hounds, and owned practically the whole of Haverfordwest. It was then arranged that he should be advamoed JE750 upon his sign-ing a promissory note for £ 1,000, which was to be paid in two instalments. That promissory note was signed by the prisoner in the name of J. F. Lort Phillips, and he was given a cheque for £750, which he oasibed- Before he was given the cheque he was asked if he had anything upon him to identify him, and he said, "No," but he would send on a small cheque drawn upon has Welsh bamk. Two days later, as the cheque did not arrive from Pembrokeshire, Mr. Wolfe wrote to Mr. Lort Phillips, that letter finding the real Mr. Lort Phillips. An answer came back asking what it meant. Then the matter was placed in the bands of the police, resulting in the arrest of Edwards. There was a second case in which the prisoner similarly tried to obtain a loan of £ 1,000 from a Mr. Levine, of Old Band- street, trading in the name of Leslie. That happened the same day prior to the visit to Mr. Wolfe, and his income was then £ 12,000 a year, Mr. Levine drew a cheque for £ 1,000, but crossed it, and marked it Not negotiable." It was presented through an Osteoid bank, but the money was not paid. The prisoner had made an effort to induce Mr. Levine, to make the cheque an open one, but failed. Mr. John Frederick Lort Phillips, of La-w- renny, Begelly. Pembrokeshire, said he had known the prisoner for over twenty years, but had not seen him for about fifteen or sixteen years. He married a half-sister of the witness, but she divoToed him. He (witness) knew nothing of the loan with the prosecutor until he received a letter and telegram from J. King. The signature shown him in court was a forgery of his. Mr. Louis Nathan Levine, financier, Old Bond-street, grading as R. Leslie, also gave evidence of the prisoner, in the name of "Mr. Lprt Phillips," attempting to obtain from him £ 1,000.. He was very commanding in tone to the witness, and appeared annoyed when he thought the witness said something suggesting mistrust in him. He said he once had an advance of X20,000 from the late Mr. Sam Lewis. During the whole of the proceedings the prisoner asked no questions, and in reply to I the magistrate said he would reserve his defence. The accused was committed for trial.

I _u BY THE SIDE OF THE ALTAR ROMAN CATHOLIC PRIEST SHOT DEAD. —- A sensational crime is reported from Denver (Colorado), w'here an Italian, named Guamacchio shot dead a well-known Roman Catholic priest named Henrichs. The motive for the murder at present remains a mystery Guarnacchio, who is a notorious Anarchist with an unsavoury reputation, was receiv- ing sacramient at the hands of a priest in the Church of St. Eliza/beth, when he suddenly drew a six-chambered revolver and fired two or three shots point blank at Henrichs. who fell by the side of the altar and expired in a few minutes. The murderer was immediately arrekted.-OentTal News.

CIGARS FOR THE KING. ONE THOUSAND AT TWELVE SHILLINGS EACH. The Tribune" states that King Edward has placed an order with a leading firm of cigar merchants in New York for a thou- sand gold-lettered, silk-wrapped cigars, cost- ing 12s. eo.ch.-Oentral News.

ARMY CAPTAIN'S SUICIDE. An inquest was held on Saturday at Lichfield on Oaptain Gerald Russell Sowray, let Shropshire Light Infantry, who shot liimsfflt at Whittington Barracks, Lichfield, on Thursday. A verdict of Suicide during temporary insanity was returned.

MR. LLOYD GEORGE HAS SETTLED IT. • The engineering dispute is virtually settled. An announcement of the arrangement which is regarded as a practical settlement of the engineering trades difficulty was made by Mr. Lloyd George late on Monday after- noon. A press representative interviewed Mr. Barnes at the He-use of Commons in the evening, and learned from the hon. number that, as the outcome of the afternoon's meeting, he has since been in further com- munication with Mr. Lloyd George upon various questions, chiefly with reference to points of interpretation in connection with the proposed teirms of settlement. It is hoped that no insuperable difficulty will arise upon these points, and in the event of the replies from Mr. Lloyd George being satisfactory it is within a few days the second ballot of iihe m«sn now on strike will be taken. The Board of Trade has not decided to intervene in the shipwrights' dispute, but is watching events in connection with it, and in the meantime Mr. Lloyd George on Mon- day received a deputation on the subject from \the shipwrights and joiners, which was introduced by Mr. Wilkie. M.P. The interview was private.

CARPENTERS AND JOINERS e A Glasgow telegram says the rival car- penters and joiners Trades Unions are about to join hands: The Amalgamated Society has branches all over the Kingdom and in the United States, whereas the Associated j Society has branches only in Great Britain. n!

HUSBAND'S DRAMATIC RETURN. ———1 mi. "STonY TO MAKE LONDON AND AMERICA RING." The dramatic story of a Sabbath morn struggle for life was .continued at Brentford Police-court on Tuesday, when Solomon Brun (44), a tailor's machinist, of Whitechapel, was charged on reipand with cutting and wound- Ilng Rachel Brim, his wife. by stabbing her with intent to murder her, and also with shooting at her with 'a revolver with intent to murder her, at Whitton, near Hounslow. There was, a further charge against Brim of shooting Charles Edward Morton. On February 9, the evidence showed, Mr. Morton received a visit from the aooused, whose wife acted as his housekeeper. Brim is alleged to have produced a dagger and a revolver, and a terrible struggle took place, Mr. Morton being shot in the arm and Mrs. Brim wounded in seven different places. Mi's. Brim, fashionably .dressed, was allowed to be seated while she gave her evidence. Her husband, she told the court, left her between fifteen and sixteen years ago and went to America. She did not see him until February 9 last, when he called at the house where 4he was employed. As she was coming down the stairs the prisonor rushed up and fired point-blank at her. The bullet just missed her, and in the ensuing struggle prisoner drew a dagger and witness was wounded. He again rushed at her with the dagger, and said, I have come on purpose to kill you, for I do not care for my own life, and I don t see why you should live." Witness added that after the struggle prisoner attended to her wounds, and they left the house together Prisoner said lie dared not take her to a hospital, but her wounds could be attended to at a sister's house. Prisoner: Did you not g<^ with me of your own free will?—I don't know. All was black- new and darkness before me, and I hardly knew what was happening. When prisoner was questioning his wife about some wrooig he alleged ,she had done him many years ago the Magistrate stopped him and ordered the witness to leave the box. Prisoner, after other evidence, was sent for trial to the Old Bailey.. He informed the magistrate that he would tell a story that would make the United States of America and London ring.

RECTOR'S PROFIT ON GRAVES HE MUST PAY HIGHER, RATEIS ON CEMETERY LAND. The Appeal Court on Tuesday upheld an appeal of the overseers of All Saints, New- ton Heath, against the judgment of the recorder of Manchester, who had ruled that some land which the rector had tairpe for the purpose of a burial ground was still ratable as agricultural land. The overseers had increased the assess- ment on the ground that the rector made a profit on the sale of graves, and would, therefore, be assessable in the same way as a cemetery company. I

CUT UP ON THE LINE. UNKNOWN TRESPASSER FEAR- FULLY MANGLED. The driver of a train arriving at Chatham on Tuesday reported that after passing N ew Brompton he saw a man trespassing on the line and behaving strangely. An inves- tigation was at once made, and the* body of an unknown man was found lying in a pool of blood, with fearful wounds in the head and legs, and the feet had been completely j severed, evidently by a passing engine.

WOMEN FIGHT THE POLICE. « REVOLVER SHOTS IN ST. PETERSBURG. Thirty-five Terrorists were arrested in various parte of St. Petersburg, many in the open streets. Some showed fight, firing revolvers and wounding their captors. A few carried bombs. Documents showed that the police have laid hands on a gang which intended to perpetrate a series of outrages on highly- placed personages. Most of the arrests were made between one and two o'clock in the afternoon. The first shooting occurred in the Vassily Ostroff quarter, where a young man, finding himself followed by two detectives, fired at them with a Browning revolver, and wounded one in the cheek and the other in the arm. He was, nevertheless, overpowered and arrested. About the same time in the fashionable thoroughfare Mbrtskaia the dfteotrtes- pinioned two men, one of whom carried a Browning revolver, with reserve cartridges, and the otner a powerful bomb. The latter was identified as an Italian, named Colorao, whom the police have long been watching. In Sadovaia-street a seventeen-year-old girl was arrested and taken to the police-station, She went there quietly, but on arriving in the courtyard, when the police let her hands free for a moment, she drew a revolver and fired, wounding a policemam in the head. She then fled, but was overtaken and captured. Another woman, elegantly dressed, who was shadowed by detectives to Michael- square, where the French Theatre is situated, began firing her revolver. Seeing that escape was hopeless, however, she tried to turn the weapon against herself, but the detectives knocked it out of her hand, four other persona who were walking in the square fled. One was arrested. A bomb was found on the woman when she was searched. There were many other arrests, conducted under scarcely less exciting conditions. In a number of cases weapons and revolutionary correspondence and documents were seized in the lodgings occupied by the Terrorists. Among the houses searched was that of M. Deshkoff, a millionaire merchcnt and owner of fifty Volga steamers. Some of those arrested had only recently arrived in the city from Moscow, Finland, and other parts. I It is stated that those arrested are con- nected with the Terrorist, organisation un- earthed at Viborg some days ago-Reuter.

BOGUS PARSON. PAID FOR A SERVICE THAT WAS NOT GENUINE, Wm Tyler, 42, of Holland-road, Kensington, was farther remanded at the West London Police-court on Tuesday charged with obtaining a cheque by false pretences from the Rev. A. J. Pitkin, of Aldebourn, Wilts.— Mr. Arthur Gill, who prosecuted, said accused had made various efforts to secure ordination at the hands of the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of London. which were unsuccessful. In July Mr. Pitkin advertised for a locum ten ens, and it was alleged that accused answered this, giving the name of a missionary home for a holiday. Hfe preached a sermon, receiving a cheque for hie fee and expenses, which formed the subject of the charge.

HUNGRY SOAP KINGS. WANT £ 50,000 MORE FROM PAPERS THAT LIBELLED THEM. An action was brought before Lord Guthrie in the Oourt of Session, Edi mburgi), o n Tuesday by Messrs. Lever Bros., Port Sunlight, against the Daily Record," Glasgow, for £ 50,000 damages. in respect of alleged libels qcntamea in articles appearing in that paper regarding soap manufacturers' working arrangements. arrangements. Defendants pleaded that plaintiffs brought a successful aoftion against the Associated Newspapers Company, who are practically the same proprietors, in respect to the articles complained of. The case was sent for trial. =-=

HALF MURDERED A TYPIST PENAL SERVITUDE FOR PAIR OF MISCREANTS. At the Glasgow High Court on Tuesday Robert Bernek and Robert Mailer were charged with stealing a large sum of money from an offico in Glasgow, and with assault- ing and stabbing Miss Jessie Broa.dfoot, a typist, who was found lmoonscious. in the office seven hours after the outrage, and lav unconscious for eight days. Her skull was fractured, and she had seven wounds on the Cihest and three on the back. After a trial lasting nine hours both prisoners were found guilty. Bearick was sentenced to twelve years' penal servitude and Mailer to ten years.

FOOTBALLER CHARGED WITH MANSLAUGHTER. A coroner's jury at Leeds on Tuesday which inquired into the death of William James Ruehton, a foreman lithographer, of Beeston Hill, found a verdiot of manslaughter against Henry Preston, a Bramley footballer. Preston gave evidence, and admitted striking deceased 00 the chest, but said it wae due to the latter's threatening attitude. Preston was committed for trial on the coroner's warrant.

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t K.C.'S COME TO BLOWS. ¥ SCENE AT THE ROYAL COURTS. SIR S. T. EVANS ACTS AS PEACEMAKER. An extraordinary scene was witnessed cm Wednesday afternoon at the Law Courts, London, during the hearing of the applica- tion made by the Great Northern amd Great Central Railway Vompauies in reference to the proposed joint working arrangement, two K.C.'s coming to Mows over some dis- pute with, regard to precedence. It occurred in the Lord Chief Justice's court just before the resumption of the proceedings after lunch.. Mr. Roskili, K.C., had taken his seat on the K.C.'s bench when Mr. Vesey Knql, K.C., another counsel engaged in the case, appeared about to pass Mr. Roskili to gain a position nearer the centre of the court. The latter," apparently, objected to this, and some high words followed between the two learne4 counsel. The word "cuT" was iJlainly heard, and then the angry X.C. 's resorted to fisticuffs. By this time, however, those present in the court had recovered from the astonish- ment which the unwonted spectacle had pro- f daced, and the bellicose silks," who had j now come to clutches, were separated by Sir Robert Finlay, K.C., the ex-Att-o-rney-Gcneral, and Sir Samuel Evans, the Solicitor-General. By the time Mr. Justice Lawrence and the other Railway and Canal Commissioners had returned to oourt quietude had been restored. When the proceedings were resumed a learned brother sat between Mr. Roskili and Mr. Vesey Knox as a precaution against any renewal of the fracas. Another report speaks of a stand-up fight," and says that the two learned counsel were aiming and parrying blows. The struggle after a few moments became a I wrestle, and there were loud and angry exclamations from both combatants.

A QUEEN'S ESCAPE. I CARRIAGE COLLIDES WIIT-H- TRAM CAR. A Royal carriage which was being driven by Prince Henry of the Netherlands at The Hague on Wednesday collided with an elec- tric tram proceeding at full speed. A terrible shock ensued, and three of the carriage wheels were torn off. Fortunately, the Queen, who was in the carriage, and the Prince were uninjured. Shortly after the accident her Majesty pro- ceeded on foot to the Palace, and then to the residence of the Dowager-Queen, in order to allay the la.tter's anxiety.—Renter. A later message says that Prince Henry was thrown on to his knees, but held on to the reins, while the Queen, who had retained her seat in spite of the fact that the vehicle was tilted sharply over on to one side, sprang out and seized the bridles of the plunging horses. It was mar- vellous that the carriage was not crushed to pieces. The accident naturally caused intense excitement in the city.—Renter.

A NOVEL LAWSUIT. SCOTTISH CLERIC PROCEEDS AGAINST HIS WIFE. A case which, so far as is known, is un. preoedemted in the annals of the Scottish courts came before Lord Guthrie in the Court of Session on Wednesday. The Rev. Herbert Heriot Hill, an Episco. palian clergyman, of Dundee, asked for an interdict against his wife, Mary Augusta. Victoria Stephenson, or Heriot Hill. Complainant stated that he and his wife are living apart under an English deed of separation. His wife, he said, had evidently made up her mind to make his life miserable in Scotland, and had followed him wherever he went, spreading unfounded and slanderous stories about him, with the result that he had been compelled to leave three or four places and give up situations. In the last letter received from his wife it looked, he said, as if she were on the point of circu- lating these charges in Dundee, and he was in coming to court largely actuated by the advice of his ecclesiastical superiors. He wished his wife interdicted fromi--ip--iiesAing these slanders in Dundee. Lord Guthrie said there was no authority for giving a judgment against people saying things. He, nevertheless, granted an order for service of the petition and for answers within six days. The case is evoking considerable interest in legal circles.

THROUGH A TELESCOPE. DEVONSHIRE GIRL SEES HER FATHER DROWNED. A sad drowning fatality occurred on Wednesday in Start Bay, Thomas Stone, an aged fisherman, of Beesands, near Dart- mouth, being drowned within the sight of his daughter, who was anxiously watching his movements from the shore through a telescope which had been lent her by a friend. Stone's boat was ca-ught by a squall and sank almost immediately. The other fishermen were too far away to render •assistance. The body has not yet been recovered.

CIVIL WAR IN IRELAND. ROADS BARRICADED AND BRIDGES BLOWN UP. ITL the course of an attempted eviction on the Marsham, Pey.ton, and West Estates Coumly Leitrim, a baton charge was ordered' One peasant had bis face badly emiashfd three policemen were seriously wounded, and another policeman is suffering from a blow with a stone, and lies in a precarious con- dition. The tenants owe three years' rent. All the public roads are barricaded, and almost all the bridges blown up.

A RHONDDA COLLIER'S DIVORCE. ( In the Divorce Oourt on Wednesday, before Mr. Jnstice Bargrave Deane, a case was heard in which John Stephens, a oollier, who had been employed at Penygraig CoUiery, sued for a divorce from Ehzabeth Stephens on the ground of her misconduct. The suit was undefended. The marriage took place at Pontypridd in 1896. The wife had made a. confession of misconduct, and a decree nisi was granted.