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EATH TAILOR'S TRAGIC DEATH. Mr. Howel Cuthbertson held an inquiry t •Neath on Wednesday touching the death of James John, age d61, of 18, Jolly-court, l-teath. a tailor, who died suddenly that horning. John Flynn, son-in-law, said deceased was forking on Tuesday. On Wednesday he galled hie son at four o'clock, and then went ^ack to bed. Witness afterwards saw him Just before five o'clock, when he was bleed- lrJg from the mouth. He was in a fit. He claimed. "Oh, what is the matter?" and then. expired. Dr. Davies said that the cause of deaLj2 the rupture of a lung blood-vessel. verdict accordingly.

NATALITY ON THE BRECON AND MERTHYR RAILWAY NEAR DOWLAIS. lir. R. J. Rhys held an inquiry at Dowlais y1 Tuesday concerning the death of David John Harris, aged 37, a married collier, 73, Edward-street, Caeracca, Dowlais, who *as fatally injured on the Brecon and Mer- ^yr Railway at Pant, near Dowlais. The Coroner said that the deceased was a respaaper on the line, and had no business 10 be tke near the place. A verdict of "Accidental death" was ^turned. A verdict of "Accidental death" was tu.rued.

ONTARDULAlS MAN DIES FROM ALCOHOLIC POISONING. G,L,,orge Thomas Walters, aged 21, lately residing at Coedbach, Pontardnlais, met with his death under peculiar circumstances On Monday. It appeals that he had been fiext door to his house with a man named Joseph Joseph- They had a bottle of whisky, and were drinking it neat. It soon had u. effect on. the young man, and he was carried htwhe unconscious about five o'clock. Soon after Dr. -ihthcz was railed in and grave up all Loop. TH- iron died at 6.30. Thc, (lector ÕII.rys. thai iVaitjers died.fxom.alcoh.alio pcisac. a. "&'Vot suffocation.

LIFE LOST FOR A CAP AT BARRY. Mr. Archibald Daniel held an inquest at Barry on Saturday touching the death of George M'Kenzie, 24, who was drowned a Weak ago in the No. 1 Dock. When returning ashore from a ship a companion's hat fell into the water, and deceased slid down a Fope to get it, but disappeared beneath the surface. "Drowned through misadventure" \V:at> the verdict of the jury.

I YEAR'S TOLL ON THE RAILWAY. 4 1,117 PERSONS KILLED; 8,811 INJURED. In his general report to the Board of Trade on the accidents which occurred n the working of the railways of the United Kingdom during the year 1907 Mr. G. R. Askwith states that 1,117 persons were killed and 8,811 injured by accidents due to the running of trains or the movement of rail- way vehicles. These figures show a decrease of 52 in the number killed and an increase of 1,599 in the number injured compared with the previous year. o Eighteen passengers were killed in train accidents, this number, although a high one, being below the average for the previous ten years. Eleven of these fatalities occurred in the disaster at Shrewsbury. The numbers of railway servants killed and injured in train accidents were 13 and 236 respectively, the number killed being the same as in the previous year, whilst the number injured shows an increase of 96. In the class of accidents caused by the movement of trains and railway vehicl?s, exclusive of tr!rfh accidents, 102 passengers were killed and 2,132 injured, a decrease of six in the number killed, and an increase of 183 in the number injured, compared wita 1906. The casualties to passengers in this class are much more numerous than those caused by train accidents, but they differ from the latter in the respect that they mostly arise from the carelessness of the passengers themselves. Of servants of railway companies and con- tractors 441 were killed and 5,577 were injured in accidents due to the movement of trains and railway vehicles, an increase of ?6 in the number killed and 1,352 in the number injured. The large increase in the number of non-fatal accidents in this class is, no doubt, largely due to the operation of the order of the Board of Trade of December, 1906, which requires non-fatal accidents to railway servants to be reported whenever they are such as to cause the person injured to be absent from his ordinary work for a. whole day at any time In the previous order the criterion was absence preventing five hours' work on any one of three days following the accident. During the year 50 persons were killed and 30 injured while passing over level crossings. In 1906 the number killed in this manner was 76. The trespassers killed num- bered 447, this number including suicides, and 133 injured, a decrease of 8 in the number killed and an increase of 27 in the number injured. The total length of railways in the United Kingdom at the end of 1907 was 23,101 miles. The total track mileage (single lines) was 39,008 without sidings and 53,156 with sidings.

FISHING BOAT SUNK. x ▼ CLUNG TO THE WRECKAGE; SIX MEN DROWNED. A seine boat and a boat attached, heavily laden with mackerel, were swamped on Mon- day night at the entrance to Valentine Har- bour, County Kerry. The crew of the seine boat, feeling her sinking-, threw themselves into the boat which wa.3 ÎollowiDs, and which .also sank. riix m?n, all belonging to the district, li'" v^ere T&fad&itfa' another vee-sel. The two boats belonged to the village of Port M&gee, and the seioe boat had twelve men in her, whilst the follower had seven. They had netted a shoal of mackerel in calm water inside the harbour, but they were carried by a strong ebb tide running to the harbour mouth, where there was a heavy sea. The seine boat shipped some seae and sank, and the crew in getting into the smaller boat capsized her. The nineteen men were thus thrown into the water. They struggled for their lives, but were terribly handicapped by being olad in oilskins and heavy clothing. The night was dark, and half-an-hour elapsed before another seine boat, belonging to Michael Oahill, in returning to the har- bour, came upon the men clinging to the wreckage of the two boats. At great personal risk, Cahill rescued thir- teen men, the other six having disappeared just at the spot where eight fishermen lost their lives early last year. Three of the men when rescued were unconscious, and bad to be medically treated. Several boats are now out looking for the bodies. The names of the lost are:- Patrick Kelly, married, John O'SuIlivan, married, John Devaaie, sen., John Devane, join., John O'Shea, single, a.nd John Casey, single.

PUNT POLE BROKE. 4 I YOUNG LADY AND GENTLE- MAN DROWNED. A verdict of "Accidentally drowned" was returned at Staines on Wednesday at the inquest on Charles Raymond Alec Siegle (21) and Miss Stella Saward (nineteen), the vic- tims of the punting faitality at Staines on Sunday night. A brother of Siegle stated that deceased was accustomed to punting, and, as far as he knew, could swim. Witnesses of the occurrence stated that there was no collision, but that the punt pole cracked and deceased fell in the water. The broken pole was produced in court. Mr. James Paine, who was in a boat near the scene of the accident, sa,id he saw the lady and gentleman punting. Soon after he heard a cry and saw Siegle over-balance him- self, striking the lady at the same time. It was dark, but witnessras quite oertain that there was no collision.

CHAUFFEUR SENT TO PRISON. At the Central Criminal Court on Monday, before Mr. Justice Pickford, Claude Howard Reuben. Levy (31), chauffeur, living at Barry- road, East Dulwich, surrendered to his bail to answer an indictment charging him with the manslaughter of William Burr (34), who died from injuries sustained through, being knocked down by a motor-car driven by the defendant in Bishopsgate-street, London, on June 27. Levy was tried at the previous sessions, but the jury were unable to agree. He was now found guilty, and sentenced to four months' imprisonment in the second division. Mr. Muir, for the Treasury, said the prisoner had been repeatedly convicted cf offences against the Motor-car 'Act at Andover, Worcester, and other places. It was really dangerous for a man like him to have a licence to ffcrive at All.

WRECK NOT SEEN AT DAYLIGHT. + A CHANNEL COASTGUARD'S ADMISSION. The loss of the Miss Hunt from Youghal. the steamship Huddersfield from Cardiff, the French schooner Madeleine from Swansea, and last week the Gloucester and late Swan- sea 81-ton vessel Phyllis Gray in Bideford Bay, all within a comparatively recent period, and without any of them being seen by the look-outs before coming ashore, has given rise to a great deal of dissatisfaction among the seafaring community, and it also found expression on Saturday in a strong condemnation by a coroner's jury of the system of watching on the North Devon coast. The inquiry was the adjourned inquest on George Wyberg (47), of Swansea, mate of the ill-fated Phyllis Gray, discovered bottom up on Saunton Sands on Wednesday morning last. The coastguard was not legally repre- sented. William Wyberg, of Swansea, who identified the body-the only one yet washed ashore— as that of his father, said he believed the crew numbered four. John Crick, a seafaring man, of Braunton. said he thought he saw a light close in to the strand-too close for a vessel to be in safety. From the Down End look-out the light ought to have shown very clearly. Dr. W. Harper was still of opinion that death was due to drowning, and not to the blow on the head. There was tar on both hands, some of which looked rather recent. COASTGUARD EVIDENCE. Joseph D. Kingwell, coastguard, of Croyde, said he was on duty at Down End look-out from six p.m. on Tuesday to 12.20 a.m. on Wednesday, a.nd saw nothing exceptional. He saw no such light as that referred to by a previous witness. The chief boatman visited him at 9.30 on that night. Joseph Clisiswle, the coastguard who relieved the previous witness at 12.20 a.m., said it was daylight at about 5.30. when he examined the coast and saw nothing. Can you account for not. seeing the vessel discovered at 6.30?-If she was there she was submerged, sir. "RED-TAPE OVER-RULED DISCRETION." James Holmes, the third coastguard, who had the watch from 6.20 on Wednesday morn- ing, said that when he got to the look-out he looked along the coast towards Saunton and saw the wreckage, and then observed some- thing like a ship bottom up, which he reported to his chief officer at 6.50. He was instructed to take his gloss and go further a,long, and, seeing the boy who found tho body riding down, he waited to meet him on his return to Mr. Lee's house. The boy gave him the name of the ship, and said there was a body there. Witness went back to the look-out and reported the matter to his chief officer, and then proceeded to the scene of the wreck, which he reached about 8.25. The Coroner: Do you not think it would have been advisable to have gone and seen if there was life in the body? Would that not have been the best thing to have done? —I could. sir; but my orders are to go back and report to my superior officer. The Coroner: Red-tape over-ruled discre- tion is that so?-No answer. Oan you account for Clissole not seeing the wreck when he came off duty?-I cannot say. Summmg-iip, the Coroner said there was no doubt that Holmes carried out his instruc- tions. and that ho was bound down by red- tape to go back and inform someone elee, JxiiS" somebody felse, who would j»rol>ably sead eomobody else, a.nd then, perhaps, Holmes would get instruc- tions to go down and see if there was life in the body. He could not under- stand, if Holmes at once saw the wreck, why Clissole did not see it at daylight. It was a most unfortunate state of affairs. He thought it was really time some move- ment was made in the matter, and that strong representations should be made to the proper quarters wiat their coasts were not properly watched. (Hear, hear.) The ooa st guards had their set duties, which seemed to be to protect the shores from smuggling, but he thought they could be better employed. He was not blaming the men, who had to carry out their duties, but the system. He did not know how many lives would have to be lost before the authorities would take some steps to pro- vide proper protection for coasting vessels and all vessels going up and down the waters adjoining their dangerous shore. JURY'S VERDICT AND RIDER. The jury found a verdict of Accidental death," adding the following rider:— A system of guarding the coast of Bide- ford Bay which permits two vessels to come ashore unobserved and become wrecks within a week, following, as it does, on other similar painful occurrences in the near past, stands condemned as inefficient and highly unsatisfactory. This coroner's jury urges the authority to take prompt measures to remove the standing danger to the lives of the mariners, and directs that this rider be forwarded to the Board of Trade, the Admiralty, and the Ooon. mittee of Lloyd's. < The Coroner said he quite agreed with the rider, and would take what steps he could to get it acted upon.

UNEMPLOYED THREATEN A RIVAL. The Glasgow unemployed held a demon- stration on Sunday afternoon in Glasgow Green. Mr. Cuninghame Graham urged a crowd of 3,000 to sweep aside Liberals ani Conservatives, and place them on the scrap- head. Until the people took the reine of government in their own hands there would be no end to recurring periods of unemploy- ment. A man who endeavoured to hold a counter- demonstration was saved from being thrown into the Clyde by the arrival of a special body of police.

OMNIBUS OVERTURNED. FIVE PASSENGERS SERIOUSLY INJURED. A horse omnibus from Walham Green was proceeding over Stanley Bridge, Chelsea, on Sunday afternoon when the vehicle collided forcibly with a beam used in connection with repairs which the bridge is undergoing. The omnibus, which was crowded on the top, was overturned, and the passengers were pre- cipitated into the roadway; five of them sus- taining injuries which necessitated their removal to St. George's Hospital. Two of these after treatment were allowed to proceed home, but the following were detained:—George West, aged 56, concussion of the brain; Frederick Johnson, abdominal in juried; and Arthur Leeks, aged 45, concus- sion of the brain. A lady passenger had her collar-bone broken.

THE SCANDAL OF THE BRISTOL CHANNEL. HOW LONG IS IT TO LAST? »

"COULD GROW HER A NEW EYE." MAGNETIC HEALER AND THE PARLOURMAID, At the Central Criminal Court on Tuesday (before Mr. Commissioner Lumley Smith, K.C.) Tom Wallia Rogers (40), described as a. magnetic healer, of Gray's Inn-road, pleadoo I not guilty to an. indictment of stealing £ 14 15s., the moneys of Emma Ling, a domes- tic servant, staying 111 Greek-street, Soho. Mr. smith, for the prooecutiou. said the false pretence was that the prisoner pro- fessed to be able to cause a new eye to grow in the socket where Miss Ling's right eye had been removed. The prisoner called him- self a phrenologist and a magnetic healer. The prosecutrix w.a.s a parlourmaid at Sid- cup, at which time she was wearing a glass I eye, one of her natural eyes having been removed at St. Bartholomew's Hospital. "GlWWN HKART, LUNGS AND LIVER." The prosecutrix, who now lives in the Clap- ham-road, said she accompanied a friend, who wished to have her "palm read," to the prisoner s ptai>e. He noticed her glass eye, and utfd- fcer thaf Lft o111d"1frttw1!1M" natural eye. She was doubtful, and asked him for the name and address of a person for whom he performed a similar operation. He could not do so, but he said he had grown a new heart, lungs, and liver, and he could grow a new eye on the same principles. Copies of letters were then put in, those from the prisoner bearing, amongst other the letters M. V. L. M. S." "Healing Phrenoi°giSt," "Graduate of the Institute of TrJS»Cianfi and Surgeons in New York, U.S.A. £ c He wrote:— Dear Madam,-In reply to your letter re treatment of eye, the following are my replies to your questiome.- 'I'he cost of daily treatment will be 2()s. per week. You will not be able to wear the glass eye from the start, but will use your eyes in the ordinary duties of life, except for reading or sewing, or such close work. You will see with the new eye in six or eight weeks from the start in good con- ditions. It will match the other eye perfectly, and will be sound for life without treatment. It will not affect the other eye except by dis- turbing the magnetic conditions tempo- rarily. To re-assnrc her, he mentioned the fact that on the previous Sunday he had broken a lady's spine into seventeen pieces, and had re-mended the same without causing any pain, except a thuanp to break the ligament. LA Y OJf A TABLE TO BE THUMPED. Describing her first visit to the prisoner, the prosecutrix said she had to get on a table and lay her face downwards, when he covered her over with two or three green cloths. He thumped her across shoulders, back, and head. She was advised not to tell anybody or to look at the new eye herself, or to let any- body else look at it. She was also told that body else look at it. She was also told that if she dared to discontinue the prisoner's treatment, she would lose the sight of the other eye. Altogether she paid him £ 14 15s. The Prisoner: I did not express the opinion that a new eye could be grown by my new ,method-new radial magnetic process?—You told me you could grow me a new eye. Did I tell you that I had never accom- plished such a thing, amd that as far as I knew such a thing had never been aooom- pished?—Yes. The Prisoner: Did you daily expect to have sight after the first three weeks?—Yes. At the last did you send me a telegram saying you could not attend because you were indispc«ed?—Yes. Did you feel rigid or cataleptic?—After your treatment I did. I Then you admit that the treatment had that much effect upon you?—Well, the blows you gave me would have that effect. (Laughter.) "NOT IMPOSSIBLE TO GROW A NEW LEG." Dr. N. B. Harman, ophthalmic assistant at the Middlesex Hospital, said he examined the prosecutrix on August 14, and found a small stump of the original eye. Mr. B. A. Smith: Did you see a trace oi any eye growing?—None whatever. Is it possible for anybody to cause a new eye to grow in the place of one which has been removed?—Quite impossible. The Judge: Have you ever known a man with a wooden leg growing a new one? (Laughter.) The Prisoner: That is not impossible, my lord. I would have you know it would be an expensive and prolonged operation, and would take years, but it is not impossible, I ajn convinced of that. The Deputy-medical Officer of Brixton Prison said in his opinion Rogers was pretending to medical powers that he did not possess. He had told witness that he could raise the dead, put new hearts into the bodies of human beings, and break bones and mend them again. » The prisoner was found guilty, but the prison doctor expressed his opinion that the man was not of a sound mind, and the judge accordingly sentenced the prisoner to nine months in the second division, where he will be kept under special medical observation.

OVERDOSE OF A NEW DRUG STRANGE DEATH OF SHIPOWNER'S WIDOW. At an inquest held on Monday on Mrs. Isabella Hall, of Branksome Park, Poole, widow of Mr. James Hall, shipowner, of Tynemouth, it was stated that the deceased had been suffering from cleepleesness and other complications, and the doctor prescribed medicine in half an ounce doses for injection. A chemist omitted to put the directions on the bottle, and the whole eight ounoes were administered. Deceased fell into a profound sleep, and never awakened. The medical evidence showed that death was due to coma, and that the medicine was a new drug, the effects of which were not known. The jury returned a verdict in accordance with the medical evidence.

ANOTHER STAGE ROMANCE. 4 MISS MARIE STUDHOLME MARRIED. The certificate of the wedding on September 4 of Marie Studholme, the news of which (as reported in our later editions yesterday) only leajked out on Friday, records the marriage of Harold James Borrett, 27, bachelor, of independent means, living at 10, Devonshire-place, eon of General Herbert Charles Borrett, to Caroline Marie Porteouu, formerly Lupton, spinster, 31. divorced wife of Gilbert James Porteus, residing at 38. Finchley-road, daughter of Joseph Lupton, deceased, of independent means. The witnesses who signed the register were Mr. John H. Leslie and Mr. Eustace H. Bur- naby. The bridegroom, Harold Giles Bomett, is a tall, well set-up man with a frank, open countenance. He is reported to be wealthy. He is one of five sons of Major-general Herbert C. Borrett, C.B., of Lancaster Lodge, Bath-road. Reading. Miss Studholme met her husband under t'tJIma.ntlè' ci-rcrumstAdicee. Mr. Borrett iii an miaa/bear euobor, and he bad an ambition to appear on the professional stage. He secured a comparatively minor part in "My Darling," the musical play in which Miss Studholme MISS MARIE STUDHOLME. was touring at the time in the title-role. This led to the acquaintance, which hae ripened into love and matrimony. A Folkestone correspondent telegraphs that Miss Studholme and her husband have been staying at the principal hotel there. Miss Studholme gave strict instructions to her friends at Folkestone to keep the news of her marriage secret. Each day she a.nd her husband go driving about the country ipt. a yellow motor-car. The news of the marriage was soon known on Friday throughout Folkestone, and all available seats at the theatre for My Mimoea Maid" were applied for over and over again.

THE SONG OF THE PEERS (IN THE YEARS TO COME.) "Dagonet" has a note and a song in the "Referee" on the actresses who have become peeresses. He says:—"It is untrue that when engaging chorus ladies in the place of those f who have left him to become peeresses Mr. Seymour Hicks insists that they shall sign an undertaking not to marry noblemen within the nest twelve months." Then he sings: — O this is tho song of the House of Peers, It is suns with a lilting air And goaa with a swing, and a swing that cbeers The hearts of the nobles there. 0 we walk the floor with an airy tread, And we've quaint little taking tricks, For all of our mothers, when they were wed, Were engaged to Spymiur Hicks- Were engaged to Seymour Hicks- For all of our mothers, when they were wed, Were engaged to Seymour Hicks." When the great Lord Chancellor takes his seat, Like the bubble of bright champagne, The Peers keap time to their leader's beat As they join in this gay refrain: 0 none of us speak, but we sing instead. As the laws of tho land we fix. I For all of our mothers, when they were wed, Were engaged to Seymour Hick,s- Were engaged to Seymour Hicks- For all of our mothers, when they were wed, Were engaged to Seymour Hicks."

A CHAPEL GUTTED. E30,000 DAMAGE DONE BY A FIRE. A destructive fire, involving about £ 30,000 damage, occurred at Dunstable on Monday morning, the large Wesleyan chapel and the day schools, situated in the centre of the town, in a thickly-populated neighbourhood, being completely destroyed. The chapel contained a fine organ presented by Mr. Carnegie. and costing over £ 600. This now lies in ashes. The chapel wae a fine structure, with a.coom.modation for 2,000 worshippers.

STRUGGLE WITH A FATHER. ♦ WIFE WOUNDED WITH A RAZOR. A story of how two boys struggled with their father was told at Chertsey on Mon- day, when William Mansfield, a carpenter, living at Stepgate, was charged with the attempted murder of his wife. His eon, aged thirteen, said that on Satur- day night when he was in bed his father, who was kneeling on the floor, suddenly jumped up and told him to go out of the room. He werut downstairs, and cccn after he heard his mother screaming "Murder!" He rushed back to the room, and saw his father with a razor in his hand bending over is mother in bed. "I pulled father away," continued the wit- ness, "and called my brother and a lady lodger. I then went out and got a police- i man." Police-constable Green-away said he found ] the prisoner struggling with the elder son and the woman lodger. Mrs. Mansfield was s^'Crinf" from wo'aatk on the ffieek jind »§dsu, &nd was removed lo the local infirmary. Ernest Mansfield, the elder son, said he was aroused by his brother, and heard his mother shouting, "Murder!" On going to the room he met his father, who threatened him. The I witness struck him in the face with his fist, and held him until help arrived. I Mias Daisy Wright, an actress, who was spending the week-end at the house, heard the noise, and rushed down in her night- dress. She pulled the prisoner on to the ground, and held him there, despite his struggles, until the police arrived. Mrs. Mansfield now lies in Oherteey Infirmary in a serious condition. The case wae adjourned for a week.

LOSS OF THE GLADIATOR. DIVERS RECOVER SAILORS' BODIES. Whilst Divers Leverett and Soobell. of Ports- mouth Dockyard, were beloiV on Tuesday re- pairing the rent in the Gladiator's side, they found the remains of two more of the blue- jackets who lost their lives in the disaster last April. Little remained of the bodies, but the clothing showed that tihey were those of John. Page, chief stoker, second class, of Waits'-lane, Teddim/gtom, and George Ounran, stoker, Royal Naval Reserve, Trinity-street, Wexford.

DRIVEN OUT TO SEA. 4 LONDON BALLOONISTS' ADVENTURE. PICKED UP BY PILOT STEAMER. Messrs. Barrington Tennett and E. Short ascended at Battersea in a balloon on Thursday night, and were driven out to sea by a strong wind. A Router's -telegram from Rotterdam says that both gentlemen were rescued by the pilot steamer Hoek Van Holland in the Nortl Sea. It was ten o'clock in the morning whei the balloon with its two passengers was firei sighted about fifteen miles to the north oL the northern breakwater at the Hook o- Holland. The balloon was ooming down at the time, and was in danger of faJling into the water. A salvage stea.mer and the piict vessel set out immediately, and the latter took the balloon on board with its two passengers. The gentlemen stated that they had intended to cross the North Sea to Belgium, but when at a height of 4,500ft. they were caught in a snowstorm, and driven towards the Dutch ooast. They were both suffering slightly from the effects of their trying experience, but received every attention at the Hook of Holland.—Renter.

RACE IN THE AIR AND THE SEQUEL. AIRSHIP ALIGHTS ON A ROOF. As Major Parse val's new balloon was manoeuvring over Halensee on its way to Doeberitz at half-past nine on Wednesday morning it was struck by a squall. The ga.s bag doubled up, and the balloon fell on to the roof of a villa in the Traber- ners-trasse. The other military balloon made am unsuc- cessful attempt, ovfring to the high wind, to land at Potsdam at ten o'oiock, and returned to Berlin. Major von. Parseval, interviewed after the accident, declared he by no means regarded it as evidence against the non-rigid system. "We had to try," he said, "whether our balbon could be driven at a very high speed, and we came to grief because it was not built with sufficient strength. It was better that we should have made this discovery now than that the military authorities should have made it after the purchase." The Emperor and Empress, with a large suite, journeyed to Bornsited-t to meet the airship, but they waitM. in vain for its appearance. The Grope airship left the Egel in the morn- ing nearly an hour before the Parseval, but the latter, according to Captain von Kehler, had almost caught up to its rival, and was soaring over Grunewald when the disaster occurred. The aeronauts had to exercise great care in the landing, so as not to smash in the roof of the villa. They were able to descend in such a way that the car rested on the ground beside the house, while the gas-bag was supported by the roof and on an adjacent fir tree. The Gross airship returned to Berlin and landed safely in the Tegal at 1.30 p.m. When the Parseval airship met with I the accident it was travelling at the rate of about 900 yards a minute. Just as the balloon was passing over Grunewald Station one of the planes used to steady it collapsed, and the broken framework tore a large hole in the bag, allowing gas to escape. The crew, which was composed of Major von Parseval, Captain von Kehler, and the engi- neer. escaped uninjured. The airship was removed from its position on the villa by men of the Army Ballooning Corps.—Reuter.

STABBED WITH A HATPIN. WIFE AND A DEAD HUSBAND'S SECRET. A striking instance of a husband's devo- tion was revealed a.t the Marylebone Police, court,. London, when Mrs. Elsie Cooper, a young widow, living at Conduit-residences. Paddington. was aocused of the man- slaughter of her husband. Although, it is alleged, Mra Cooper stabbed her husband fatally with a hatpin, the man, in order to shield his wife. con- cealed the fact for three months, and died without revealing his secret. Cooper was admitted to the Paddington Infirmary, but no mention was made of the pin. and its presence was not suspected until the post-mortem examination w:io made. At the inquest held last week the widow said a hatpin entered her husband's thigh while he was getting into bed three months ago, and broke as he was pulling it out. lie did not consult a doctor, she asserted, and only became ill some days before his death. A medical man stated that he found a piece of a hatpin in the man's lung. This had set up inflammation and caused death In his opinion the fragment mast have worked its way through the man's body and lodged in the lung. After hearing this evidence the jury re- turned a verdict of "Accidental Death," but statements made by relatives caused the- police to arrest Mrs. Cooper. When arrested she began to cry, and said: I did stab him on May 17. It was my husband's dying wish that I should say it was the baby that did it. "I did it under great provocation," she continued. "It was on a Sunday night. I went out for a walk with my sister-in-law. My husband was standing at the corner of the street when I got baj^k. "He accused me of being unfaithful, but I went upstairs and did not reply to him. When he came indoor- "0 repeated the statement, and this made me lose my, temper. "I rushed at him with my hatpin in my hand. Without thinking what I was doing I stuck it into his side, and it broke off. "We were both sorry then for what had happened, and made friends. Arthur said he would tell people he had done it acci- dentally." The magistrate granted a remand.

LADY'S SINGULAR DEATH. With reference to a paragraph regarding the inquest on Mrs. Isabella Hall at Poolo, we are informed that the verdict found was thait Mrs. Hall died from heart failure and other compli cations, but whether accelerated by am. overdoee of the drug given there war no evidence.

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SHOCKING FARM TRAGEDY IN WEST WALES.-See Page 7.

R. *vrAL FALL DOWNSTAIRS. Hopkins, a rivetter, of Newcastle jni Bridgend, died on Wednesday from t.8 received in falling downstairs. P 13 wife states that ho came home about k, (Vei1 o'oiock on Saturday night and went to (l■ About two a.m. she heard a noise, and ent to see what was the matter. She found her husband lying at the bottom of the stairs unconscious. Dr. Low was sent for, and found the man suffering from slight concussion of the brain and a wound about two inches long nt tw back of the head. The doctor was unable A-> Bay whether he had fractured his spine but he was suffering from concussion of the e'mne death resulting as stated.

AIR. STANTON AND MR. PARRISH. A MINERS- LEADER ISSUES A CHALLENGE. To the Editor 0If the "Weekly Mail." Sir.On my return from the Trades Union Y^ngress at Nottingham my attention was yr&wn. to a letter which appeared ^in your of last week signed by Mr. Walter J. ■^arrish. :1r. Parrish in hM letter in your paper has flitted to mention the very important fact that immediately after the receipt of the Communication referred to in his letter I challenging him to publish anything 'hat he might desire, and this I now repeat. •As stated in my letter, I shall welcome any Mr. Parrish in this direction, as the ^Ponsibility of the publication will then upon those who publish, and I shall then ^ow how to act.—I am, &c., C. B. STANTON.

"PATENT FININGS." I ? nEAVY FINES FOR FRAUDS ON THE REVENUE. An important case was heard art the ^ntral Criminal Court on Tuesday, when J^ee men—Edward Ives, William Ives, and ,rlry Stevens—pleaded guilty to charges of ^spirin.? to defraud the Inland Revenue ^fee 1903. The two Ives had manufactured a oertadn mpound called patent finings" for the jution of beer. This they had sold to ^Qierous publicans in the Metropolis, ,?Vens acting as traveller. ^rhe two Ives were each fined £ 100, and eJ*Ve,ns Is., he having already been fined £ 40, been in custody some time.

FATHER'S ATTACK ON HIS CHILD. H^t Sheffield on Wednesday twelve out of "•yT^en jurymen returned a verdict of Jar* 1 murder" against William Joseph Wn a §'ard,ener' vvho on the 7th inst., att ln a frecxied condition through drink, ^n(f°lj€d his son with a spade chiiri0ut his throat with a penknife. The tfcj subsequently died. The mother said ''ho tad been very strange for H0 time, idolised the child. As there was a the jury wanted to return rdict of manslaughter.

ARREST OF UNEMPLOYED. m«n were arrested in Albert-square, ^ttT tor, on Wednesday afternoon for Woy2jPting to hold a meeting of unem- Th "informed the magistrate before whom Ib. Were taken tha.t their circumstances ^Uade them desperate. 6 man was sent to prison for seven days, another for four days. About two hun- 1(-a, Unemploy,-d afterwards marched to fop, nester Workhouse, but .later on dis- uietq. ir.

MOTOR-CARS COLLIDE. LORD CURZON BADLY CUT ON THE HEAD. Lord Ourzon of Kedleston met with a serious accident while travelling in his motor-oar from London to Basingstoke on Sunday evening. His lordship's car, which was closed, was nearing Sunningdale Station, a little before eight o'clock, when there was a collision with a large open motor-car, proceeding in the opposite direc- tion. Lord Ourzon was badly cut about the head. He was taken by &ome passers-by to a local chemist's, where he was seen by a doctor, who stitched the principal wound. Later in the evening Lord Cnrzon was con- veyed By train to Basingstoke, thence to Haekwood Park. The two oars were severely damaged, and blocked the road for a considerable time. Lord Curzon was making satisfactory pro- gress on Monday The driver of his lordship's car was not hurt. It is stated by the occupants of Lord Ourzon's oar that the other motor-oar swerved from its course, and crashed with terrific force into his lordship's car.

LEADERS ARRESTED AND FINED. Stewart Gray, the leader of the" hunger marchers"; James M'Cutoheon, whom Gray described as his roadmaster; and Wallace Collins were arrested on Thursday evening in connection with the march through the city of London of an infinitesimal band of these men, and on Friday appeared at the Guild- hall before the Lord Mayor. Gray was fined 1s.. or one day's imprison- ment, for technically resisting the police; M'Cutoheon was fined 56., or three days. for abusive language; and Collins 5s. and 7s. 6d. costs, or three days, for being drunk and disorderly. All three prisoners denied the charges, and Gray made a number of small speeches, being frequently pulled up by the Lord Mayor. He described himself as an advisor to the Manchester Corporation on the ques- tion of the unemployed, and claimed to be a public official, saying that he was a per- sonal friend of Lord George Hamilton. He added that "hunger marchers" who had been going round the country had lost many of their adherents since they came to I London.

SERVANT SHOT DEAD BY A CHILD. A terrible tragedy took place on Monday at the residence of Mr. A Hunt, of Erding- i ton, Birmingham. A child found a revolver in a draw upstairs, and pointing it to one of the servants, named Fanny Hill, pulled the trigger, with the result that the girl was shot dead, the bullet entering her eye. Hill was shortly to be married, and the banns were published for the first time on Sunday.

"I AM A KNOCK-OUT." A CHAUFFEUR'S SUICIDE IN PRISON. A verdict of Felo de se" was returned at an inquest held at Kensington on Isaac Quinn, also known as James Anderson, chauffeur, aged 31. who hanged himself in a cell in Wharton-street Police-station. He had been arrested at Glasgow on a oharge of larceny. He escaped from the police officer, and came to London, where he was re-arrested. A domestic servant named Isabelle Patrick, who knew Quinn in Glasgow, said she followed him to London with the view of matrimony, and then found that he had a wife in Edinburgh. After he had been taken to Wharton-street, she received a note from him asking her to get some medicine—the medicine" wa.s poison, she explained, when pressed by the coroner. Remarkable messages were written by Quinn on the walls of his cells, and on mar- gins of newspapers. In one he said he wished he had his life to live again, and asked God's forgiveness. It was a pity, another message said, that he was married when he met the girl Patrick, because she was the only girl he had ever loved. He expressed the wish to be buried in Edinburgh by his wife. On the wall of the cell was written: I am a knock- j out. I was up to every kind of mischief, but there was no harm in me."

MURDER AND FELO DE SE MARRIED WOMAN SHOT BY A YOUTH. An inquest was held on Monday on Nellie Winters (28) and Lawronce Berry (17), who were found shot dead in the street at Leeds about midnight on Friday. The woman's husband said he kept up a casual acquaint- ance with Berry, who had visited his house. Another witness said that Berry last week borrowed a revolver, with cartridges, and that he appeared despondent. The medical evidence showed that the injuries could not have been self-inflicted in the case of the woman, and a verdict was returned of Wilful murder," and of Felo de se" against Berry.

SYRIAN IMPOSTERS, IMPRISONMENT FOR FALSE PRE- TENCES. o At Stafford on Tuesday two Syrians, named Elmmanuel and Niviya, described as a priest and deacon respectively, were charged with collecting charitable contributions by false pretences. It was alleged the accused ob- tained money from local clergymen by pro- ducing letters purporting to be written by the Archbishop of Kurdistan and stating they were collecting funds for churches and schools in that diocese. The Rev. F. F. Heazel, secretary to the Arch- bishop s Syrian mission, said the* prisoners were in Holy Orders. Previous to ooming to England thev had toured Canada, :1.n.-1 Tra- land. The prisoners' mission was a bogus one. They lived by imposing upon charitable people in Europe and America. The Bench sentenced the accused to two months' imprisonment each, and recom- mended their deportation.

BOYS AND A GIRL. AGREED TO TAKE POISON TOGETHER. At Leeds on Wednesday, in the case of two boys of fifteen and sixteen respectively, who had agreed to die together, it was shown at the inquest on William Ottrick, sixteen, who died in the infirmary, that they had attended spiritualist meetings, and there met a young girl. A letter to her, signed "Robert and George," was read, in which they stated that they would have to pass into a brighter land. The jury found that Ottrick died from cyanide of potassium, Self- administered. The second boy stands remanded for attempting suicide.