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Grey River Argus, Volume X, Issue 842, 8 April 1871, Page 2

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[EUROPEAN MAIL.] . . ;r .._ A. melancholy affair took place at the Bowness Station of the Sofway Jnnctuw line lately. Captain T. Ward { of Bow* ness) and his brother, Mr Joseph Ward; were at the 'station seeing a friend off by the ten minutes to five train. The moment the train started, Captain Ward ' made a movement in front of the engine, which knocked him down and killed him on the spot. One. states that it was an accident ; the other, that the Uufortqnategen.tfemaßj| after shaking hands with an acquaintance, deliberately threw himself before ; the engine. The train was stopped imme> cliately, aud the body taken from beneath it. Captain Ward, who was engaged in the West India trade, leaves a wife and six children.

Two men, named Gibbs and Caseman, and one Eliza Stephenson, were r on January 16, charged at Clerkenwell Police Court with having abducted a girl named Taylor, sixteen years of age: The case for the prosecution is that the girl, who assisted her father, a milkmain', qarrying on business in the jHornsey road, ; tfSs in* duced first to rob her parents, and then to leave her home. She was absent from October 17 until January 12, when her father, received a letter stating "that she had been deprived of her olothes and turned into the street.. She, was discovered in a house in Burhtash lane, Leigh, Kent, where she. had been taken by two of the prisoners A remand was granted. ; The girl alluded to was born in New Zealand.

At the Clerkenwell Police Court on January 14, George Pearce wa3 charged with being found in the back garden of 250, Camden road; having house-breaking' implements in his ppds^istpn for the purpose of committing ' a felony. Daniel Bull, -292 V, said that at about, two o'clock in the morning he was on duty in the Camden road, when he heard cries .of "Help," "Murder," He immediately ran to the spot, and rang the bell. The coachman opened the door. T Charles K|rbyy coach,m4n to Mr Isaac Bridgvfay. said that it appeared from a atafemeiittot the prisoner thrt he^liottied /9Y|!!#l?

garden wall, but had no sooner dropped on the other side than the dog, which was in the garden, flew at his neck. He l. in pushing it off, but, on his T^attempting to escape, the dog seized him behind, and he was obliged to remain itntil the constable came. He believed that, had not some one come to his assistance, the dog would have killed him. The magistrate said this was a case he should lend for trial, but he previously remanded the prisoner for a week, that further inquiries might be made about him. The Calcutta Englishman of February 1. reports : — " Intelligence reached Calcutta on Saturday last of an attack by the tribes on tie north-eastern frontier on some tea factories in Cachar, at one of which Mr Winchester, of Bickrampore, was killed. The attacks have since been renewed. On one occasion the savages attacked the atockade at Monierkhall from 6 a.m. to 11 p.m., and were repulsed with a losa of 100 killed and wounded. Simultaneous attacks were made on villages in Hill Tipperah, Sylhet, and Munipore. It is not certain whether the attacking tribeß are Looshais, Poees, or Shindoos. Mr Edgar, the deputy commissioner of Cachar, was at the time of the attack in the Looshai country, entering into a treaty of peace with their chief Sookpilall. The latest news from him is to the 22nd, wlien he had heard of an attack by Poees and Shindnos on some Looshai villages." The Englishman of February 8 says:— "The latest news from the north-eastern frontier is that Looshais, after an attack on Monierkhall for some days, with a force of about 400 men, retreated into the jungles. The force in the stockade lost seven men in a Bortie, and the Looshais are estimated to have lost about 30 men, but they invariably carry off their dead, if possible. General Bourchier has assumed the command of the troops on the frontier, and the Commissioner of Dacca, with about 250 native infantry, has arrived at Sylhet. News from Mr Edgar was received up to the 26th January, when he was preparing to return towards Cachar, having heard of the burning of some Xooshai villages by other tribes. It is feared that the savages on their retreat from Monierkhall may interrupt him on his return Journey. Villages in Munipore and Hill Tipperah have also been attacked and looted."