Within the week just past, an event has taken place our social history which will mark off the future more definitely than ever from the past- The object for which have so frequently pleaded has been achieved. The last public … Read More
James Sarginson, twenty years of age, was yesterday put upon his trial at the Leeds Assizes for the wilful murder of John Cooper. The story of the tragedy has passed into history under the name of the Roche Abbey murder. … Read More
THE BANNERCROSS MURDER. Convicted of having in November, 1879 murdered Arthur Dyson, near Sheffield, Charles Peace, suffered the extreme penalty of the law eight o’clock on Tuesday morning. The execution took place at Armley Prison, where he has been … Read More
EXECUTION OF HENRY WAINWRIGHT On Tuesday morning the convict Henry Wainwright was executed within the precincts of the gaol of Newgate for the murder Harriet Lane. immense crowd of people had collected in the Old Bailey from an early hour, … Read More
Madame Patey, the celebrated contralto, died at Sheffield early this morning. The circumstances attending Madame Patey ‘s death are singularly pathetic She had reached the seventh week of farewell tour through the provinces, and her reception last might was … Read More
On Tuesday as a miner, named George Bird, 59/61 years of age, residing at 14 Duke Street, Mosbro’ was following his employment at the Holbrook Colliery, belonging to Messrs J and G Wells Ltd, a fall of rock took place, … Read More
TOPICS OF THE DAY. The City of London and Mr Chamberlain, it was exceedingly fitting that the heart of the great Empire should publicly recognise the vast services which have been rendered to that Empire by the Colonial Secretary. … Read More
DEATH OF THE QUEEN – Born May 24th, 1819; Died January 22nd, 1901, Reigned 63 Years, and 7 Months. She is dead. Queen Victoria, the great and the good, brightest example of womanly nobility and Queenly virtue, has passed … Read More
Dr. Green, Coroner, held an inquest Eckington yesterday into the death of John Holmes, care-taker of the Eckington Council School, who was found suspended from a rope in the boys’ room Saturday. His Father, Jermyn Holmes, an ex-policeman, said the … Read More
A shocking murder was committed on Saturday afternoon at Brackenfield Village, Derbyshire. Mr. Thomas Limb, the tenant of the Lindsay-lane Farm, went to a local fair and left the homestead in charge of his housekeeper, Miss Lizzie Boot, aged … Read More