Ross Gazette 19th March 1914 - Page 5
Ross Gazette 19th March 1914 - Page 5
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| Date | 19/03/1914 |
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| Type | Newspaper |
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| Language | English |
| Area | Ross Gazette |
| Collection Holder | Herefordshire Libraries |
| Date of Publication | 19th March 1914 |
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ding Materials : nade , Satin Peplum , oprimé . be Excelsior , Crêpe Salamis , nifique . Voile , Floral Crépon . Caprice , " Souris , " " Chataigne . " to Customers on request , together strations of styles and patterns of and Colour Displays of the New MAKING as early as convenient , and late Spring and early Summer . ( LIMITED ) , owersby Ross . LITY , FOR VALUE . 20 H.P. " FORD " CAR , with Five - Seated Body , Hood , Screen , and all Accessories . £ 135 ( Delivery from Stock ) . ALL , Ltd. , dy Builders , RAGE , ROSS . 8 H.P. HUMBERETTE , " Two - Seated Body , Hood , Screen , and all Acces- sories . Condition as new . £ 75 T ( Delivery from . Stock ) . FOOTBALL FIXTURES . OSS AND DISTRICT LEAGUE . 21. - Hoarwithy v . Kyrle . Upton Bishop v . Whitchurch . 28. - Much Marele v . Whitchurch . 4 - Whitchurch v . Much Marcle . 18. - Ross Kyrle v . Whitchurch . 25 - Rest of League v . Winners . ed on the ground of the first - named Club ) . aint By - ways Around Ross . COLLECTION OF BEAUTIFUL EPIA PRINT REAL - PHOTO POST CARDS OF QUAINT OLD WORLD CENES IN THE WYE VALLEY . Price 2d . each . Almshouses , Ross . peck Church . beydore . Cottage Madonna . way Church ( several ) . smont Church ( several ) . Old Sundial , Wilton Bridge . mfrith ( several ) . s from the River . nthony Abbey . drich . Castle . ne Bridge . Market Place , Ross . nond's Yat . h Century Torch Bearer , Rowleston Church , Pontrilas . ton Bridge , Ross . grimage to Father Kemble's Tomb , Welsh Newton . the Wye near Monmonth . abrook . per Redbrook .. Ish Newton Church . Cross . Hentland . ago ( several ) . " peek Church ( several ) . beydore ( several ) . reford ( several ) . odrich Castle ( several ) . mond's Yat ( several ) . tern Abbey ( several ) . nthony Abbey ( several ) . epstow Church . epstow Castle . tern Abbey . reford Old Guild House . eting of Severn and Wye . nes in Hereford . nes in Ross . nes in Leominster . Skyrrid . minster Ducking Stool . Screen , Llanano . Feathers Hotel , Ludlow . Grange , Leominster . Weobley . ttas . Weobley . mbridge . Ross Gazette . Ltd. , 44 , High - street , Ross . ed and Published for the Ross GAZETTE LIMITED , by GODFREY M. MORTON , at their Offices , High - street and Church- street , Ross , in the County of Hereford THURSDAY , MARCH 19 , 1914 . 1- SECOND SHEET . ADDRESSES . Telephone - 50 , Rous . ADDRESSES . THE ROSS GAZETTE - THURSDAY , HERBERT B. MEW , Telegrams- " Barrel , Ross , Immediate Cash Advances . BARREL BREWERY , BRILLIANT ALES THE LONDON AND PROVINCES DISCOUNT COMPANY , Ltd. , pre - eminently the leading establishment of its kind in the kingdom - lends large sums of money daily to all classes . 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Could this remedy have BO extraordinary a sale if it did not supply a real need , -if it was not of genuine worth , if it did not perform what is promised 7 A reliable preparation of the most efficacious and carefully selected ingredients of vegetable origin , these pills are of unequalled value for the relief and cure of those digestive irregularities which appear as bilious- ness , constipation , flatulence , failing appetite , dyspepsia , headache , and the depressed conditions of mind and body that accompany such disorders . When- ever you need a corrective medicine , as everyone does at times , you should take Beecham's Pills . Prepared only by Thomas Beecham , St. Helens , Lancashire . Sold everywhere in boxes , price 1/1 ( 56 pills ) & 2/9 ( 168 pills ) . The Ross Gazette , Ltd. , STATIONERS , BOOKSELLERS , PRINTERS , PUBLISHERS , ACCOUNT BOOK MAKERS , & C . HIGH STREET , ROSS . WANT SUCCESS ? THEN BUY RAPHAEL'S ALMANACK FOR 1914 Which brings 885 Successful Days into Every Year . If a Business Man in doubt and per- plexity as to the future , or when to Buy . Speculate , or deal with others , get RAPHAEL'S ALMANACK . It puts you on right track . If You are a Lover and Courtship is ALMANACK perplexing , RAPHAEL'S tells when to Court and Marry . If a Wife , Mother or Sweetheart it tells by your birth date what Fate has in store . If Crossed in Love , unemployed , sad or depressed , a perusal may show you a silver lining to your black cloud .. If Mill Girl , Milliner or Marchio- ness , your interest lies here , told by the Stars . The Mother can see Baby's Fate and Fortune in the Birthday Information for every day of the year . If You are a Farmer and crops fail , ROSS . NOURISHING The Ross Gazette . THURSDAY MAROH 19th , 1914 . BY OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT We do not hold ourselves responsible for all the STOUT . opinions expressed by the able writer of these notes . These Ales and Stouts give great satisfaction to those who enjoy a brilliant Beer , with delicate palate , and full of life . This is accounted for by the fine quality of the materials employed , the delicious flavour and aroma of selected Hops being very noticeable . 33 Pinta 33 33 33 " 1/4 Nutritious Stout - Half - pinta 1/9 Pinta 33 1/4 " Light Ale Recommended for family use Sparkling Bitter Ale P.A. Very High Class XX.8 . ( Double ) Nutritious Stout XX.B. ( Treble ) Nutritions Stont ( Recommended for Invalids ) . Casks of 4 , 9 , 18 , 86 , and 54 Gallons . Home - brewed GINGER BEER , GINGER in 1 , 2 , and 8 - gallon Oatmeal Stout , Half - pinta for Invalids Pints " STOUT , and LEMONADE , 1 / - per gallon , jars or 6 - gallon casks .. Bass's and Worthington's Ale and Guinness's Stout ( own Bottling ) supplied at moderate prices . ESTABLISHED 1790 TELEPHONE 39 . MARCH 19 , 1914 . Their PERSONAL GOSSIP . The Prince of Wales's Income . When the Prince of Wales reaches the age of twenty - one and comes into the full control of the income arising from property and An Unconventional Prince . SHOCKING CASE OF CRUELTY . BOY ALIVE WITH VERMIN . HIS GUARDIAN SENT TO HARD LABOUR . cause unnecessary NOTES FROM THE METROPOLIS . vested moneys that are now being adminis- tered in trust for him , his Royal Highness will be one of the richest Princes in the world , writes a London correspondent . With the exception , perhaps , of the heir to the Russian . A gruesome case of cruelty to a boy the lad , and a removal order was obtained , Throne , he will be richer than any other was related at Ross Police Court on Friday and the hoy was taker to the Workhouse . His Majesty the King has another full pro- direct heir to any Throne in Europe . The last , when the Magistrates present were Since the boy had been looked after , he ap- Prince's chief source of private income arises Capt . R. H. Verschoyle ( Chairman ) , Col. O. peared to have been made an entirely differ- gramme this week , and Queen Mary , too , will from the estate of the Duchy of Cornwall , R. Middleton , Mr. H. J. Marshall , Mr. Guy ent hoy of , during the short time he had heen have few idle moments if her Majesty is to which was settled on his Royal Highness at R. Trafford , and Mr. J. E. S. Hewett . in the house . The boy had undoubtedly per gall . 10d . Light Dinner Ale - Half - pints , per dos . 1/6 accomplish the whole of the tasks which she the accession of King George . An annual The prisoner was a man named Walter Han- been grossly neglected , which must have 1 / - " 8/6 so graciously continues to undertake . allowance of £ 50,000 from the State ( to be cocks , a rag ind bone gatherer , of no fixed caused him unnecessary suffering , while the 1/2 " increased to £ 70,000 when the Prince reached abode , but from the evidence it transpired condition he was allowed to get into was 1/6 Majesties were early astir on Monday to bid the age of twenty - one ) was also settled on the that he had been a frequent visitor to Ross most injurious to his health . Although he farewell to the Prince of Wales , who left Prince . In addition , the Prince will , when he 9/6 of late years . The charge was one of un- looked fleshy , he did not appear to be a boy Charing Cross by the morning boat - train en is of age , come in for a legacy left him by King lawfully neglecting a little boy , John Charles who had had proper food . L / 9 route for Norway , and by half - past ten King have a sum of money that cannot fall short of in such a manner to Edward . Altogether the Prince of Wales will Davies , of whom prisoner was the goodiary boy on March 6th , and his bodily condition Dr. A. J. Compbell said he examined this B / - George was on his way to the great Aero and around million when he reaches the age of suffering and injurious to the lad's health , was pale , and anæmic . His flesh was very Marine Show at Olympia , of which he had a legal manhood , and his full income will run the offence being committed on March 6th , flabby , and indicated that the food he had private view prior to the exhibition being to well over £ 200,000 per annum . The late and divers other dates . was not suitable for him , and probably not opened to the public . In the evening his King as Prince of Wales never had an income Majesty had a tremendous welcome at the income as Heir Apparent never exceeded that touched this figure , and King George's Mr. J. B. Evans , solicitor , Ross , appeared sufficient in quantity . The condition of his Regent's Park Barracks , where he watched £ 150,000 per annum . to prosecute on behalf of the Society for the body when he was stripped showed that he Prevention of Cruelty to Children . had been bitten by vermin , while his head the fisticuffs in connection with the House- When charged , defendant pleaded not infested with vermin . was in a filthy condition . His clothes were guilty . hold Brigade , while on Tuesday Princess He ( the doctor ) had Mary accompanied the King and Queen to Mr. Evans , in opening the case , said the seen more filthy bodies , but never more filthy Prince Waldemar of Denmark , Queen Alex defendant was charged under Section Twelve clothes , for under the arm pits and in the the Palladium matinée in aid of the Chelsea andra's only surviving brother , who has of the Children's Act , and for unlawfully fork of his trousers and elsewhere , there Hospital building fund . A visit to the Royal arrived in London on a visit to his sister , is neglecting this boy , of whom he had the were absolute " colonies " of vermin ; in fact , Society of Painters in Water Colours on Wed - known to have an utter distaste for formality custody . The facts of the case were that Han- quently the boy must have suffered in health . nesday , the opening of the new premises of the He travelled from Denmark , says a correspon- cocks was a rag and bone gatherer , and for He order the lad to be removed to the and a visit to the London Museum at Staf National Institute for the Blind on Thursday , dent , on an old steamer , in which he occupied the past four or five years he had been living an ordinary officer's bunk , and to preclude with the mother of the boy . The defendant the possibility of any special preparation for and the boy's mother did not appear to have ford House on Friday , go to complete the his reception in London , he declined to be a settled home , but wondered about from public engagements in a diary of activities met at the station , arriving quite unattended , one place to another , sometimes sleeping in which some even of the most energetic of us in a " taxi , " which he had chartered at the farm buildings and sometimes staying in the might not care to face every week . station for Marlborough House . Like his late common lodging - houses . This boy Davies brother , the King of Greece , he is very tall , always accompanied the defendant Hancocks Much satisfaction has been expressed , by and when visiting Marlborough House always and his mother for the purpose of carrying the bye , that there is to be no postponement occupies a room in which is a bed specially large bags of rags and bones , by which he made at Queen Alexandra's request secured the necessary fourpence for his lodge . The chief complaint against the defendant years ago to accommodate her brothers . was that this unfortunate little lad got into such a deplorable filthy condition , for on being examined he was found to be simply covered with vermin of the worst description . The clothing he was wearing was absolutely ragged and filthy . On two occasions , both this lad and his mother had been admitted to Ross Workhouse , and on both occasions the boy was found to be in this filthy condi- tion . 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Good Work , Prompt Attention , and Low Prices AT THE " GAZETTE " GAZETTE " OFFICE . post free få . from W. FOULSHAM and Co. , THE 6 , Pilgrim - street , London , E.C. R some of the opening of the London Museum to the public as a result of the recent suffragette outrage at the National Gallery . Police Major - General Fry . arrangements have been made which , it is be- Major - General W. Fry , C.V.O. , C.B. , who lieved , will adequately protect the priceless treasures included in the collection , and has been appointed Colonel of the West Stafford House will , therefore , be thrown Yorkshire Regiment , is a son of Mr. Thomas open to the public , as arranged , next Mon- Fry , Dublin , and was born in 1858. He day . The recent suffragette outrages have , joined the regiment , of which he now be- however , caused the utmost alarm among those comes Colonel , as 8 Second - Lieutenant who are responsible for the safety of public nearly thirty - six years ago . At the creation property . So much damage has been done to of the Territorial Force in 1908 he was St. John's Church , Westminster , and to Bir - given command of the East Lancashire Divi- mingham Cathedral that authorities of most sion , and was for a time Deputy - Director of the big churches here are hastening to take General of the Force at the War Office . what steps they can to deal with the risks to During the last two years he has commanded In the let London Division . General Fry served which these buildings are now exposed . some cases it is being sought to cover these in the Afghan War of 1879-80 , and all by means of insurance . There is no reluctance through the South African Campaign . being on the part of the insurance companies to several times mentioned in despatches for his accept the risks , but they : are demanding services , and receiving several medals . pretty high premiums to do so , and their atti- tude in the matter is likely to harden in A Cultured American . consequence of the latest occurrences . He came of a The late Mr. Townsend Martin was one of There is every indication that the Aero and the few very rich Americans who settle in Marine Exhibition which is this week attract England to prove that an American can be as correct an Englishman as any in Mayfair , ing very large crowds to Olympia will prove to be one of the most successful and impor- says a London correspondent . tant of its kind which has yet been held in this banking family that had had money for three country . With Great Britain now more defl - generations . and at one time he was a leader in nitely and purposefully than ever challenging to New York plutocracy . He knew what he the immoderate forms of entertaining natural the pre - eminence of France in the aviation in- was writing about when he wrote his scath- dustry , it is only natural.that public attention ing book upon American society , " The Pass- ing of the Idle Rich . " Quite English in His Ways . con- at Olympia is being particularly directed towards a comparison of aeroplanes of our own make and those of our friendly rivals across the Channel , who , fortunately , are re- presented by some of their very finest produc- The yellow Press of New York , it was said , tions . Even to the non - expert an intelligent drove him and his brother , the late Mr. Brad- inspection of the exhibits must make manifest ley Martin , out of America . " I don't want the fact that Great Britain has made enor- mous strides during the past year . The sound my pyjamas half life - size shown on the front construction and good workmanship which page of the Sunday papers , " he once distinguish British manufacture have never fessed . When he came to England he enter- been so strikingly shown as in the aircraft in- tained richly , but in the manner of the coun- dustry , and the slow but irresistible rise to try . He was heard to say : " I must do what I first place of the British machines is as re- can to prove that America can produce as high markable as it is satisfactory . Particularly is type of gentleinan as England - and it this noticeable in the seaplane section , where is quite a task in some localities , where it is the British machines , in design and efficiency , still believed that we all chew tobacco and certainly have no rivals . The interest evinced have cuspidore in our drawing - rooms . " And in the exhibition is by no means confined to he also said : " An American is an English those specially concerned in the technical side man with an opportunity , or perhaps I should of aerial progress . The show has a fascina- say , having regard to my own city , an Irish tion , indeed , for many who have never as man or a Jew with one . " With the possible much as been to Hendon or Brooklands . exception of John Hay no other American with an entry into fashionable society has been so welcome . Like most rich men he had many friends . he had never seen such a thing . Conse- Workhouse . " . Sergt . Titcombe said prisoner was arrested on March 6th , he being taken to the police station by P.C. Everett at 9 p.m. The boy complained to him that he had nowhere to go , and he took him to the lodging - house . Defendant had gone to hed , and Mrs. Davies took the boy in . He could not see the boy very well owing to the light , but he seemed very dejected . The boy was then called forward , and in reply to the Chairman . the lad said he had been walking about with this man gathering rags and bones . His mother was ill in the Inspector McKee , re - called , said he had for two hospital at Ledbury . He should like to be taken up and placed in a home . heen to Ledbury to see the woman , who told him that she had been " on the road " with the defendant . She was with him when she them , and had her removed to the Ledbury was taken ill . A gentleman came up to Union , and he gave this man a shilling to himself . The food was shared with the boy . get some lodgings and food for the boy and . left her some four or five years ago , and The woman also said that her husband had since then she had been cohabiting with the Mr. Evans said the boy's mother was at prisoner , who was not the father of this boy , present ill at Ledbury , and the defendant but he had been the guardian of him . In re- and this lad continued on the road together , ply to the Chairman , Inspector McKee said and both arrived at the Model Lodging- the boy could be dealt with under the Chil- house on the 27th February last . They dren's Act , or the Guardians could adopt stopped there together for four nights , and him . he ( Mr. Evans ) would call the caretaker of Defendant : This lad does not belong to that house , who would tell their Worships me . that although she used every endeavour to The Chairman : That is all the more reason get this lad reosonably clean , she found it why you should have looked after him . You sheets became regularly alive with vermin , months with hard labour . absolutely impossible to do so , while the bed will now have to go to prison consequently the caretaker had to request Mr. Evans asked if their Worships would ing - house the man and the boy went to Mrs. would in the ordinary course have to be paid Hancocks to leave . From the Model Lodg- make an order to remit the costs ,, which Tolley's Lodging - house in Over - Ross - street , by the prosecuting society . This course had and the boy had to get his food the best way been adopted in previous cases by their he could , the defendant not seeming to Worships . bother about him . On Friday , March 6th , The application was agreed . Inspector McKee , of the Society for the Pre- The prisoner was then removed in custody , vention of Cruelty to Children , saw this boy and the boy Davies taken back to Ross Work- at the house of Mrs. Jackson , in Over - Ross - house until other arrangements could be street , and it was there he found the boy in made for him . such a filthy condition , the vermin not only crawling all over his body , but they were swarming about his clothes , and this was i absolutely the worst case of filth that he and the doctor had ever seen . After examining the boy , the Inspector obtained a removal order under the Children's Act , and the boy was at once removed to Ross Workhouse , and the defendant was subsequently arrested by Sergt . Titeombe . From the evidence he would call before their Worships , he thought he would be able to satisfy them that the de- fendant was the person who had the custody of the child at the time in question , and that by gross neglect this boy had been caused unnecessory suffering , which also proved very injurious to his health . The boy , he might was removed to Ross Workhouse on March 6th . say , Mr. H. L. P. Battersea , Master at Ross The lightest Bread , Cakes , Pastry , & c . , are made by using BORWICK'S BAKING POWDER Stealing and Receiving at Ross . A WARNING TO OTHERS . Those who went to Shoreditch to witness the unveiling by Sir George Alexander of the Burbage Memorial in St. Leonard's Church were amply rewarded for their trouble , for the ceremony , reminiscent of the spacious days of Workhouse , deposed that he first became no At Ross Police Court on Friday last , Good Queen Bess , was an exceedingly inter- Mr. Frank Elliott , assistant secretary in quainted , with this boy on October 27th . before Capt . R. H. Verschoyle ( Chairman ) , esting one . A distinguished gathering of dra- the Home Office , has been appointed an matists and actors assembled to do honour to Assistant Commissioner of the memory of James Burbage and his two famous sons . It may be recalled that it was the elder Burbage , one of the most gifted actors of his day and generation , who in 1576 built in Shoreditch the first English play- house . His son Cuthbert it was who a little later built in Southwark the famous Globe playhouse . It was Cuthbert's brother Richa d , however , who was the great tragedian , and the first to play the parts of Richard III . and Hamlet . To the Burbages , to William Somers , Court jester to Henry VIIL ; to Tarl- ton , one of Queen Elizabeth's players ; to Gabriel Spencer , and to Sly and Cowley of the Globe Theatre , the mural tablet in St. , Leonard's Church is erected , and those of us who were privileged to be present at the un- veiling thereof came away with the feeling that we had been enriched by such a pause in the hurly - burly of the twentieth century for the purpose of reflecting upon the works of some of those who , in the sixteenth , had known the Great Bard himself . Since the Titanic disaster there has been a great deal of controversy on points of ship construction among the experts , and some very important debates are expected to mark the annual meetings of the Institute of Naval Architects which will be opened in London on April 1st . The detailed programme of subjects is awaited with keen interest by all those engaged in ship construction , whether of naval or mercantile vessels . The main outline of the discussions has already been settled . The first session will be devoted to questions relating to battleship construction , the subject being introduced by Mr. T. G. Owens , and it will not be surprising if some very drastic changes in this regard are fore- shadowed . The use of oil fuel for naval pur- poses , and the changes which it will involve , is another important subject , and a later session will be devoted to discussion of the design of steamships from the owners ' point of view , the stability of ships in damaged condition , and the safe and economic use of water ballast . The papera will for the most part , of course , be highly technical in character , but there is , perhaps , at present a wider popular interest in the subjects in- volved than there has ever been . the The gentle satirist is still among us . Those who have always regarded the London Gene ral Omnibus Company as a utilitarian affair of red omnibuses the utility being qualified by a wicked penchant for knocking people down " have been soulless cloda , incapable of imagination . A correspondent to Times a day or two ago does not accuse us in precisely those words , but he bids us watch the omnibuses dashing down the Bayswater road in eager competition to realise the poetry of speed . He bids us to feel the contrast be tween the eub'ine and the contemptible when we see " wretched creatures holding up sticks and umbrellas , actually designing to delay the chariots of the Spirit of Power ! " The sting of this precious little epistle , however , is in the tail thereof . " It is at least , " says the writer , a consolation to feel that these fre- quent base appeals do not avail to dim the bright and conquering spirit of the noble charioteers . " One fears , however , that the New Assistant Police Commissioner . 1912. Altogether the lad had been admitted and other Magistrates , a youth named George Metropolitan to the house on three different occasions , in- Barrett , of Ross , was charged with stealing Police , in place of Sir Alexander Bruce , who cluding the last . The mother of the boy was a silver watch , value £ 2 , the property of while is retiring . Mr. Elliott , who is a son of the admitted on October 26th , and the boy came Mr. Robert Summers , a grocer's porter , of in on the following day . On that occasion , Wilton , Ross , on February 26th ; late Sir Charles Elliott , of Wimbledon , was educated at Harrow and Trinity College , he was in a most filthy condition . The next Arthur Bishop , a labourer , of Ross , was Cambridge , and entered the Home Office by time the boy came into the Workhouse was charged with receiving the watch , knowing open competition in 1898. He is head of the on the 1st of March , 1913. While at Kerne it to have been stolen , on March 1st . Barrett pleaded guilty to stealing the department in the Home Office which deals Bridge , he ( witness ) met the defendant with with questions of Metropolitan Police ad- this lad . , He told the man that he had no watch , and Bishop acknowledged buying it , ministration and finance and London traffic , business with the boy , and bringing him up but not knowing it to have been stolen . Mr. Robert Summers deposed that he in such a filthy condition . The last time the He has been a Lieutenant in the Army lad came into the house , which was the pres worked for Messrs . Barnwell and Son , Motor Reserve of Officers since 1908 . To Command in South Africa . ent instance , was on March 6th . On his grocers , Ross , as out - porter ; and on February arrival the boy was found to be in a most 26th , he was out driving with a man named Lieutenant - General Sir James Wolfe - Mur filthy , dirty condition , and his clothes were Robert Dawson . He was always in the habit so bad that they had to be destroyed , as they of carrying a watch , and on this particular ray , K.C.B. , who only lately assumed the were also on previous visits Neither did occasion he had the watch in his possession . duties of General Officer Commanding - in- the boy appear to be well fed . Since he had It was at quarter to five at Svmond's Yat Chief Scottish Command , has been selected been in the Workhouse , the boy's condition where he last saw the watch . He was wear- to succeed Lieutenant - General Sir Reginald had wonderfully improved . ing it in his waistcoat pocket attached to a Hart in command of the troops in South Mrs. J. Barrett , wife of Mr. James Bar - chain . After leaving the Yat , he came back Africa , says the military correspondent of the rett , the caretaker at the Model Lodging- to the stables , and before attending to the Globe . Sir James Wolfe - Marray , who is just house , deposed that she had cause to remem - horses , he took off his waistcoat , and hung sixty - one , was in the Royal Artillery , has had ber the defendant Hancocks and this boy it un on some harness in the harness - room ; forty - two years ' service , and has the Ashanti , coming to the lodging - house . They came in the defendant also worked for Messrs . Barn- 1895 , d Boer , 1899-1900 , campaigns to his credit . first on Friday , February 27th , and they well and Son , and the boy came into the It was when he He has graduated at the Staff College , and stayed four nights - Friday , Saturday , Sun - stahles with another man . has had a distinguished career on the Staff at day , and Monday . The man said it was his got to the post office , and went to pull out home and abroad , including the appointments boy , and gave the name of Haddock . The his watch to see the time . that he first of A.A.G. and A.Q.M.G. in India , command- man paid the lodgings for the two of them . missed it . The chain was left in his waist- ing Lines of Communication in Natal during After they had stayed there a night or two , coat . The watch produced was the one he the South African War , the command of a It would be impossible for the she found the clothes were filthy dirty , while had lost . brigade in India , Quartermaster - General in the bed sheets were simply alive with vermin . watch to slip off the chain by accident , India , Master - General of the Ordnance and She then - told the defendant that she could as there was a strong swivel to which the Fourth Military Member of the Army Coun- not put up with it any longer , as she could watch was attached to the chain . He told eil , the command of a division in India , and never put the sheets on the bed a second the police about his loss the next morning , since December 9th the Command - in - Chief , time . and eventually Sergt . Titcombe brought the Didn't I tell you I could not watch to him , which he identified as his Scottish Command . Defendant : get this boy to come in ? property . He had not said anything to the Witness : The boy was running about the boy about the watch , which he valued at £ 2 . streets in the day time . Barrett said he had no questions to ask . A correspondent writes to the World re- In reply to the Clerk ( Mr. Morling ) , wit- but in reply to the Clerk said he was 14 calling a delightful atory a crossing - ness said the man was away all day , and she years of age last June . His father was in Court . The Lady- of sweeper in Mayfair and the late Lady did not see him until night . Defendant said the boy would get up in -P.S. Titcombe stated that on Friday , Mar. Georgians Fullerton , youngest sister of the Liberal statesman Lord Granville . The story the mornings and run away , and that he 6th , at 2 p.m. , he saw the defendant Barrett and cautioned him , when he told him that is that Lady Georgiana , a devout and simple could do nothing with him . Roman Catholic of the old school , always Davies , said she was in no way related to the from Mr. Barnwell's stables on February Mrs. Elizabeth Davies , wife of Joshua he suspected him of stealing a silver watch dressed with astonishing plainness , was on And the Crossing - Sweeper . " Was her way to service at Farm - street Chapel one boy , although she possessed the same name . 26th , the watch being the property of Mr. wet Sunday morning . Crossing Berkeley . She had known this boy since last summer . Robert Summers . The boy said at first that square , she encountered an Irish crossing . The defendant was with the boy . On one he did not know anything at all about it . aweeper she knew well , whose pitch or two occasions the lad came to play with but afterwards said , " I did not steal the at the corner of Hill - street . her children , and they used to go and gather watch . I picked it up from under some flowers in the wood . It was on the 4th of straw in the stables on the Saturday morn- the present month that the boy came to her ing , and on the following Sunday morning I He house last . She then gave him some food , sold it to Mr. Bishop for one shilling . " " Have you been to Mass this morning , at least she gave him food on two different ( witness ) saw Bishop the same afternoon , Pat ? " was the good old lady's first question . days . The boy was out in the road at the when he told him he had come for the watch Evasion was impossible , and the only excuse time , and he told her that he had had no that he had bought from the boy Barrett on was how was he to be leaving his crossing on breakfast , and that his father would not give the previous Sunday . Bishop said he had the first muddy Sunday of the season , with him any . The boy was certainly not very sold it again to Mr. Barnett the same even- harvest of coppers to be reaped from church - clean . ing on which he purchased it for 10s . Defendant said he had no questions to ask , said he thought it was quite all right , as goers ? Hand over your broom , " said Lady . Barrett had told him that he had bought it Georgiana , promptly and peremptorily ; " I as he did not know who the witness was . have heard Mass already this morning . Off Inspector G. McKee , of the Society for the from his father for 2s . .2d . On going to see you go to church I will sweep the crossing Prevention of Cruelty to Children , said that Barnett he recovered the watch , which he meanwhile and take the halfpence for you . " as a result of certain information he receiv- now produced . In reply to the Chairman ,. The lady was as good as her word ; the cross - ed , he went and saw this boy on Friday , witness said Bishop was a labourer , but did ing was duly swept , and Pat saved his con- March 6th . The lad was then at 44 , Over- not do much work of any kind . science and his coppers into the bargain . GAMES FOR THE WINTER EVENINGS . He Ross - street , a house occupied by Mrs. Jack- Mr. Barnett , a fish salesman , said he pur- son . satire is too pleasant . It will still leave many Midget Bagatelle , Tumblette , Midget Golf , he was swarming with these vermin . The in- ed to sell the watch in order to make the af us hailing our motor - ' bus in vain . On examining the boy , he found ver- chased the watch from Bishop for 10s .. De- min crawling on the back of his neck , and fendant told him it was his own , and that after opening his clothes he found that from he had been taking some of his wife's rent the top of his head to the bottom of his feet money , and had spent it , and that he want- Motor Tour , Aeroplane Race , King's Scont , side of his clothes was also white with the rent money good . On that he gave Bishop Philodex , Halma , Dominoes , Draughts . eggs of the vermin , and altogether his clothes the 10s . , and took possession of the watch . HIGH - CLASS NOTE PAPERS at lowest prices . Price , 1s . each . Midget Croquet , Tidley were filthy . The lad's boots were practically He afterwards handed the watch over to worn out and leaky , while the boy himself P.S. Titcombe . Largest and choicest stock in the district to Winks , Our Navy , Snap . Price , 6d . each . showed signs of gross neglect . He ( the In- Cross - examined by Bishop : He ( witness ) select from at the " Gazette " Office . - Advt . " Gazette " Office . - Advt . spector ) requested Dr. Campbell to examine did not fix his own price for the watch . |