If the visit to the Barnum and Bailey show in the afternoon yesterday was enormous, it was in the evening overpowering. Round the ticket offices in the afternoon the people swarmed, so that it was difficult even with the orderly … Read More
An important and fully representative meeting of Council of the Yorkshire Miners’ Association was held at the Miners’ Ball, Barnsley, on Saturday, when the ‘views of the miners of the county were made known’ in regard to the proposals put … Read More
William Cropper. the Derby professional cricketer, while playing in an association game of football at Grimsby on Saturday for Staveley against Grimsby was accidentally kicked in the stomach by Daniel Boyle one of the half backs and he was carried … Read More
VERDICT AND SENTENCE. At the Derbyshire Assises to-day. before Mr. Justice Bigham. George Edward Hobbs, 21, miner, was indicted for the wilful murder of John William Hobbs at Eckington on the 14th September, and further with shooting Albert Hobbs and … Read More
THE INQUEST. No further facts have come to light as to the circumstances under which Herbert Crookes butcher, of Cutthorpe and Clowne, came by his death on Wednesday night last. The police are actively investigating the matter, but up to … Read More
LETTER FROM THE CULPRIT. Joseph Laycock, who murdered his wife and four children at Sheffield, in July last, and was executed yesterday, was visited on Saturday by his mother, two relatives resident in Leeds, Mrs Fowler (his younger sister), and … Read More
Man fell Knowle Hill Quarry Dec 25th, 1885. ECKINGTON. Shocking Death. James Swanwick, collier, who lodged with Wm. Topley, of the Halfway Horses, Eckington, met with a shocking death on Christmas Eve. Between four and five o’clock he went … Read More
The Tichborne Trial – BNA © Henley Advertiser – Saturday 14 February 1874 End of the Tichborne Trial BNA © Edinburgh Evening News – Monday 02 March 1874 RELEASE OF THE TICHBORNE CLAIMANT … Read More
In an excited court at Liverpool Assizes yesterday verdicts were returned and sentence passed in the case of the two youth’s charged with the murder of Miss Catherine Christina Bradfield at her brother’s warehouse in Old Salt Street, Liverpool, on … Read More
Miss Edith Brookes, a well-known parachutist, was killed at Sheffield on Tuesday evening. Miss Brookes made an ascent from the Wednesday football ground at Owlerton, in the presence of thousands of people, who were horrified to see that, after she … Read More