The Hull Magistrates held three lads to bail on Monday,
for sht6 in the Methodist chapel and smoking cigars during the service of previous evening. In order the better to enjoy themselves, the Lowe youths had not forgotten a bottle of grog and a glass.
The sentences of Ann Byron and Dinah Jones, who were condemned to death for child.murder at the late Chester Assizes, have been eon, muted to five years' imprisonment, with hard labour, at the Milbank Penitentiary, three months in each year in solitary confinement, and then to be transported for the remainder of their lives.
Thomas Halliwell, an engine-tender, was killed on the 19th insulin by the bursting of the boiler of a steam-engine, at the works of Mr' W. G. 'faylor, Halliwell, Lancashire. The engine.house was blow; to pieces. A Coroner's Jury found a verdict of" Accidental death,* and attributed the explosion to "over-firing, in consequence of tla steam being low."
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