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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1892-12-22, Page 2THE BI 3 BANK STEAL &Wing Tostiroony GNI% Witness Gregory, HE DETAILS THE PLOT by Crown iHis Wry is that Fentawatiner Was the Thiter—Nerved up by 'Mauer —01rers to "Divvy e—Was the HeY 001,11, eated lealteld for 'mean Cansamen D( 0, -- A culmination of 'the detective work going on for the past twomonths in connection with the Standard Break robbery was readied at 5 o'clock yes- terday afternoon, when Ankle Pennefather, ex -ledger keeper of the bank, and who was 3(11ot:waged et the time of the robbery for the ostensible reason of his having con. treated marriage without the knowledge and consent of the bank authorities, was arrested on a warrant based on information laid by Proeito31a1 Detective McKee, of Windsor, to whose hands the calm was +entrusted shortly after Detective John Murray had given ib up. McKee said to a 'reporter CIO he was acting on a good ohm, and had all the evidence he "wanted to make out a etrongcase. i The charge as formally laid s that Pennefather on the 5th day of October 'feloniously Itole $7,800, the property of the Standard Bank of Canada in Chatham. The accused is a son of the ex -collector of customs here, and one of the most popular young men in town. He is a noted athlete, well educated, handsome and intellectual, and only 29 years old. His wife was Miss Baby, stepdaughter of Mr. Gus Berard, and the young couple have one child. When arrested Pennefather showed no little trepidation. He asked what the -charge was, and when the constable told him and referred him to the detective, who stood by, as the complainant, he quietly accompanied the officer to the sta- tion and went Mtn the oell without e word of objection. - To a reporter who was per- mitted tag tille to him he said: "Von may say I haven't the slightest fear of the wasult. If they can convict me I'll ask tio'fi mercy, and it's not fifteen years they may give me, but a whole life sentence." After recovering from the shook of the (arrest the prisoner grew itheerful, sent for his lawyer, Mr. D. M. Christie, and to him gave all the directions he felt necessary to conduct his case. Though bail was refused and the prisoner had to remain in the wells, he was brought blankets and other furnishings in order to render his quarters as comfortable as possible. He ate heartily of a well-prepared supper, smoked his pipe, joked with the occupant of an adjoining "cell who had wakened from a snooze, and was making a row over the situation, and generally tried to have a good time. This zaorning he also felt in good spirits, and to his father, wife and visiting friends spoke eheerily, assuring themhe would come out all right. A search 'warrant was executed to -day, and the house of the prisoner thoroughly gone through in quest of the missing money, but nothing was discovered to indicate the presence of the stolen cash, either in the house or about the premises. The accused will be formally arraigned to- morrow, and the case if possible be tried at 'the quartereeesions which open on Tuesday. It is understood the defence will proceed to prove an alibi, by satisfactorily accounting for the whereabouts of the prisoner on the night of the robbery. The Standard steal lis one of the most mysterious in the annals a bank robberies. The cash box of Teller Brown was found rifled of its gold and cur- rency on the morning of October 5th, and no one was able to account for the occur- rence. Young Brown believer( he put away lila cash the night before all right. Yet the box was found inside his cage with only the silver left be it. The safe was locked as usual, and there was absolathly nothing to point to the guit of any of the clerks, all of whom however, were closely examined by the whom, and Government Detective Murray shortly afterwards. The oath was apparently abandoned after a couple of weeks spent in working on it. Its resump- tion by Detective McKee was very quietly 'brought about, and the arrest which has Just been made has been a startling sur- prise to the community. Mr. Douglas was present for the Crown, and Mr. Christie for the prisoner, Angus Pennefather. At 10.40 the prisoner walked in, looking pale but bright and cheerful. He nodded to several friends. On Pennefather's name .being called, the Polies Magistrate pro- ceeded to read the information. When he had proceeded as far as "on the 10bh day of October" the young man interrupted the court with, "On the 5th day of October." The Magistrate said, "Never mind that," and proceeded to the end, and then, after giving the usual caution, asked the plea. "Nob guilty," said the prisoner. He was next asked if he preferred being tried before the Police Magistrate or with a jury. "With a jury," replied Pennefather. Then he spoke again to the Magistrate, pointing mit that the information was incor- 'root in epeoifying the 10th instead of the 5bla day of October. • Well, that is what is down here." Mr. Douglas—A mistake has been made, Your Worship. The P. M.—Indeed; and it is in your own handwriting, too. "Ib should be amended so as to read the 'fifth," observed the Crowe, Attorney. "I've noted it," said the Magistrate. Then the Police Magistrate stated it was the intention, if possible, to proceed with the case so as to bring it before the coming sessions. After consulting with Mr. Douglas and Mr. Christie an adjournment was granted till tomorrow morning at 9 o'clock. An alleged acoomplice, William Ritchie, who has for a long time been an intimate friend of the young banker, was arrested to -day at the instance of Detective McKee. Ritchie is stage carpenter at the Grand Opera, House, unmarried and of respectable family. The Crown consented to bail, which was furnished by his father, and the prisoner was set at liberty to appear for trial to-morrotv at the hour set for hearing the Pennefather case, 9 o'clools. Detective McKee tp.day characterized bhe expression of belief on the part of the prisoner's coun- nel that the Crown was playing e bluff game with Pennefather as very foolish. He said 'bluff was no part of his method in a criminal prosecution. Our evidence is ee strong," h4i declared, "thee if Pennefather offered to enake a confession I would nob receive it." -A local paper publiehes a weil-ktown police offiner'e statement to the effect that he had evidence to esta,blieli a ertee of eonapiracy len the pare of a termer Citizen against Pennefather. The StateMent creates a greet sensation, and adds to the interest miter. ing in the myittatieus affair. When court, opened the room was peeked with a solid wad of humanity, who by an occasional ebullition of feeling broughtelown ttpen itself a etern eriegieterial rebuke. At ' the little table in tont of the botch rat Mr, Walter Berwiek, of Beth dee Chaleurs fame who has been retained to (melee County Crown Attorney Douglas' with the prosecu- tion ; Mr. Douglas ; Mr. D. M. Christie, counsel for the defence, and Detective nit Kee. BEVINNIMI or TUE 2X0QT, Gregory's frankneee appears to be,due as touch to Ins desire to free ltimeeli Ulm. the euspicion of wroeg-doing AS to aid in the administretion of Justice. He now live() in Windsor, but was until a very recentt time employed in his father's hotel, the Idlewild, in Chatham, and, anoording to his own ad. mission, was while here the proprietor of a gambling room. His story is that he first met Pennefather severs or eight mouths be- fore the robbery of the Standard Bank, About three months before that occur- rence Pennefather come to him mad asked him if he kn ew anything about making keys. Gregory replied that he had noth- ing to make keys out of, but after- wards gave him, an old broken knife used in the hotel bar, and also sup- plied him with a vise and mime OM Which he had borrowed. Pennefather kept the tools three or four days, returned them and then borrowed them again, and two days later he showed Gregory a big key that he had made out of the old knife. He told Gregory that he had a great scheme on and that he would put Gregory "on to it." He mid, than he had the combination of the vault, and that the key would open the big iron door of the vault. " What was his great ethane to be ? asked Lawyer Berwick, "He was going to touch the bank," re. plied Gregory. "Tell us inEnglish now," said Magistrate Houston, LAYXNG THE WHIM He told me he was going to try and rob the bank and he wanted me to go in with him." Gregory explained the arrange- ment of the bank's strong box. First there was a vault with a three number com- bination look, the first two of which Penne- father professed to have. Inside was a big iron door which locked with a key, and beyond that was a safe with a combination look. This wee divided into two convert - meats, the top one of which Brown used for his cash, and for the look of which he carried the key. How did Gregory., a bar- tender, know all this? Pennefather had taken kim into the bank between 7 and 8 o'olook one night) and showed him every- thing. Pennefather was enabled to do this by having in his possession the vault key, which was given him while he was proving hieledgerpriortobalanceday. This was be- forehemadethe vault key out of the knife. While Brown was away on vacation in August Pennefather took his place, also his keys, and he told Gregory that he has used the key of the cash compartment in the safe as a pattern for a second key which would fit the look. Brown was supposed to look the compartment, while Acommtant Gordon attended. to the combination of the safe. WATCHING on A CHANCE. Pennefather told Gregory that he was jusb watching his chance, and claimed that by moving around inside the vault while Brown was putting his cash box away he could, with a half -minute opportunity, throw the box under the shelves and go back and get it after the bank had closed. He was waiting, how- ever, until he possessed himself of the secret of the third number of the triple combination of the vault. The day of the robbery Pennefather came to the Idlewild Hotel and in a back room told Gregory that he had the thing all right and wanted him to go over to the bank with him and help to do the "job." He said he had the tin box out in the office then. "Ho was pretty drunk and I did not want to have anything to do with him," Gregory went on. "Ho kept telling me that I didn't have the nerve to go over there. He kept on talking and wanted me to follow him. Finally I said I would. I followed him, but I did not see him go into the bank. I went down as far as Maloolmson's grocery store, and then came back and stood in the doorway at Gordon's dry goods store, next to the Standard Bank. A COAT FELL oF Pennefather came out of the bank and I followed him over to the Idlewild Hotel, where I met him in the bar -room, and we both went into a back room and I looked the door after me. He had his overcoat and inside pockets full of one dollar., bills tied up in pink cord. I suppose there would be one or two thoueand one dollar bills, and he put them on the table and told me to take them. I told him that he was drunk, that he would be Imre to get caught ancl that he had better take the bills batik and put them where he got them. He put the money back in his pocket and said, "If you are not satisfied come over with me and get your half." At this point the inter- view was interrupted by the entrance of a man through the back door, which Gregory thought was locked. WHAT MADE HIM SIGH. Two weeks afterwards Gregory saw Pen- nefather, who was then sick in bed. .Ele told Gregory that he had taken a quart of raft soap to make him sick, because he hadn't nerve to go to the bank after the robbery, that he had only got $7,000 and had been oonapelled to pay $3,000 out for doctors' bills to keep them quiet. He told Gregory that he had paid money to Dr. Holxnee and Dr. Fleming, but Gregory did not take any stock in the story, as Dr. Holmes had more money than he knew what to do with, and, furthermore, he said that he had $4,000 or $5,000 under his pillow at the time. Detective Murray was up at his house. Then again he told Gregory that he had buried the money in the river under the Rankin House dock. When Pennefather was well again he wont down to the Idlewild Hotel and told Gregory that now he had $7,000 be could give $1,000 to "lick" him. "1 asked," continued Greg- ory, "where did you gee the $7,0001" He said, "1 stole it from the Standard Bank and no one can oeinvicb me." OFFERS TO "raver." He was drank at this time. Two days later Gregory said Pennefather came back and "apologized and cried and fooled around." He said that he had heard that Gregory was against him and that he was al ways soared of him. Together they went • to Gregory's private residence, where they had a conversation which, according to previous arrangement, Gregory's wife over- heard, and which related to the robbery. A few days after that they were walking together when Pennefather offered Gregory $200. "1 told him," said Gregory, that I was not holding myself so cheap as than and that I was not watching out for hush money j eat then," GREGORY ottoseniXeseinnen. Mr. Christie oross-examined witnerrs at some length, and got even More details than the examination in chief produced. Gregory positively denied that he had ever made the Inatome:lb to any one that for $10 or $20 he would swear the crime Mr anybody, In rehearsing the eeette that was enacted in the back room of the hotel where Penn - father is said to have produced back bills, Gregory Reid thet Pennefather tried to put the bale of Milan denomination upon him me ari to retein the bite ef h ghee denomination for hitneelf. go you Wanted a bigger pull ?" suggested Mr. Christie. "1 would not be tbe last men ou earth to take a big pull," amid Gregory with oharnaing °ander. Trn TELLER'S STOAV. Teller Brown in his evideme said that on the day of the robbery he was in at hurry to go to the fear. About 3 p. no he nicked up his cash box and carried it be the vault), and Its he passed on the wins Manager Rogers remarked to him that he was through early, but he was in such a hurry he had not time to reply, and he carried the box into the vault, and he believed he looked it in the apartment in the safe eel spare for lie recep- tion. He left the outer door of the sate open. Brown went to the fair and returned about 6 o'olook, and while oomingout of the back of the Merobantsa will& adjoins the Standard, he met Pennefather walking to weeds the bridge. They made a couple of calls together, and parted to meet again by accident at 7,45 p. m. at the Bank of Com - mores building. At 8 o'clock they (separ- ated. When Brown arrived at the Standard Bank next morning Pennefather and the teenager were there. Pennefather and Brown were amusing themselves by writing resole other's mimes on a slip of paper, when suddenly Pennefather asked, What is your box doing out there ?" It was on the outer counter, opposite the inner parcel, and close to the front door. Together they went around, and found the box to contain only a bag of silver and coppers. Brown immediately told the manager. There was in the box when Brown Mt it about 87,590, while in the morning it contained $190 in silver and $10 in coppers. WAS TEN HEY FILED? When Pennefather returned Brown the key to the compartment in the safe after the teller's vacation it was noticed that it looked bright, as if it had been filat, the Brown mentioned the fact to Lamo benne junior. On Oetober 4th, the day dour the robbery, Brown found the safe seen locked when he went to deposit his °bad This was the first time that the door lie been . !shut during the daytime since entered the bank. Pennefather admitted that it was he who slant it, but he said that he had done it accidentally by striking a wooden box containing papers against it. Brown and Accountant Gordon tried the force of the box on the door, with the moult that it was found neoessary to lay the box down in order to shut the door, so great was the physical force required. Pennefather had told Brown and the cus- tomers of the bank prior to the robbery that he expected to "get the ran" for getting married without advising the head office. To Mr. Christie the witness said that Mrs. Smith, who sweeps up the bank in the morning, told him that when she arrived at the bank at Ga. in. on October 611, the box was on the counter full of money, SO full that it was too heavy for her to lift. HELD FOR TRIAL. Upon this evidence Pennefather was held for trial despite an eloquent appeal on his behalf by Mr. Christie. Chief Young took charge of the acoused. It is possible that the case will come before the Court of General Sessions now sitting here, but it may go over until the next assize oourt, William Ritehie, who was arrested on sus- picion of having something to do with the robbery, has been released by the police, who have no reason for holding him. He has been bound over, however, to give evi- dence at the higher court when Pennefather comes up for trial. cruel A DOUBLE HUBDEIB. Butchery of a Countess and Her Had by the Latter' s Lover. A Rome cable says : The Countess Piseonti and her maid Marie Previati were murdered in the Countess' villa at Ferrara on Friday. The deed was done with peculiar blood- thirstiness. The Countees was strangled and stabbed eighteen times in the stomach, breast and shoulders. One breast was cub aimed off, and when found her body was almost bloodless, as besides stabbing her body the murderer had out the veins in her wrists. The maid was nearly hacked to pieces. The stabs all over her breast and stomach were hardly'an inoh apart. Her neck had been cut all around and there was a gaping wound in her throat. Both women had been assaulted before or after death. Each lay in a large pool of blood, and every- thing near the bodies was epattered with blood. The murders were committed evidently emly on Friday evening, but were not dim covered until the next morning. Suspicion fell upon a German named Sohuraann, who W5.8 an overseer in a tannery in the city. He had been intimate with the Countess' maid, and from her was known to have learned the ways of the house and the Countess' habits. He was not at work on Saturday morning, and signs of a hasty de- parture were found in his sleeping room. A deecriptiou and request for his arrest were telegraphed to all Italian cities, with the result that last evening he was caught in a saloon of this city. When arrested he struggled hard to escape, and tried to throw a purse out the window. This purse bore the Countess' crest in silver, and in it the detectives found her card and several hundred francs in notes. At the police station Schumann at first denied his guilt. After he had been looked up an hour he called the turnkey and confused both murders FATAL STABBING AFFRAY., A Rabbit Hunter wins a Farmer Who Ordered Him off His MUM. A Melita, Man., despatoh says that a serious stabbing affray took place at about twelve miles from town this morning. It resulted from a quarrel between two farrnere'Henry Vaughan and Arthur Randall. Vaughan was shooting rabbits on Randall's fan, about 10 o'clock, when -he was accosted by Randall and ordered off the place. This led to an exchange of hot words, during which Vaughan drew a jack- knive and eenously wounded Randall and fatally wounded the latter's brother George, who had joined the party after the quarrel had commenced. George Randall was atabbed in several places, and died after walking homeward about thirty 'paces. Arthur Randall Bee in a precatioue condi. tion. Vaughan afterwards gave himself up to Constable Dodds, It is said he did the ()tabbing in self-defence, as both brothers were upon him. A local wheelman says he wants 'men - !male tires on his arms, legs, head, ribs and speetehlee. He evidently believea it isn't hard riding so much as hard falling that is to be avoided. =Trivvet—Why don't you marry Miss Kittish, if you are so much in love with her? would, were it not for an unfortunate impediment in her speeoh. •Trivvet—What sort of an impediment?— Dicer—She is unable to say Yes." In many of the Italian Univeteitiee, once the most celebrated in Phitotte, the student are so few that then( are only four pupils to every professor. Ali tbinge tome to /hose who hustle while they Wait. QUEEN, COURT AND GOSSIP, Her Majesty Queen Victoria Shows Signs of Waldng Up, Death Oi al Noted Dereiiist—itendenre Fawn %enable isoreeress—haronete Mee at !tieing confounded 'With einialits—The Dune and leis Letters--Oueer itereaks in British Names. LONDON, December. The recent disquieting rumors afloat cementing the health of Queen Viotorie hey° been proved utterly groundless. Her Majesty in the enjoyment of per- fect health and, in spite of (er seventy -tour years, ae active as many a woman of halt ner t ears. 'Ilia activity the Queen attributes to the regularity of her habits. She rises early and goes to bed early, which she avers is the golden secret for vanquish- ing old Father Time. Regarding the early rising, a certain noble lord greatly amused Her Majesty once by telling her of having meb some ladiee named Dudley (Jarlton, at Menttnore, and speak- iug of a house (Sir B. Haywood's) where the ladies always got up by candle -light. Mrs, Dudley Carlton exolaamed, "What a delightful house ! How I should like to know those ladies." She thought, of comae, it was candle- light in the afternoon. This story amused the Queen immensely, but when it reached the ears of Mrs. Dudley Carlton, this lady was greatly annoyed. Her Majesty Queen Victoria hae always Peen an admirer of Scottish song and Scot- tish vocalista, and her blot patronage of provincial talent has been accorded to two native ladles who have been singing Gaelic( songs at her castle of Balmoral. Thie has delighted the heart of Professor Blackie—hinseelf a song -writer of no mean order and a poseible Laureate were the wreath to fall on the brows of a "brew laddie north of the Tweed—and a worm) selecteon might be made. The Professor has been telling a Glasgow audience that he wishes all the nobility would follow Her Majesty's example, but he ought to be wise enough to know if they did the flood of song would be a worse in- fliction than the bagpipes. This sanguine Soot has also been giving his sovereign a piece of patriotio advice, He rejoices to think that Queen Victoria knows she is a Scottish Queen, and that she would do better still by not only going to Balmoral to hear Scotch songs, but also to Edinburgh to alt in a Scotch Parliament there—a, consummation he devoutly hopes to see before long. RuSTY, FUSTY, MUSTY, FROWSY COURT. Living under a virtuous and eomewhat reoluee sovereign, who long ago renounced the fitting pomps and vanities of her regal position, the British people seem to have lost sight of court splendor altogether. Quite rustic (simplicity now marks the christenings weddings and buryings in their Royal 'family ; and were it not tor the German Emperor's yearly visits to England and the fact thab Queen Victoria's best things have to be brought out in his honor, an outsider frona the planet Mars might almost fancy they had put their revered monarch on half -peer, and that she could afford no more grand doings. It is somewhat hard on them, considering that the Queen's income is the same now as in the beginning of her long and happy reign, namely, $1,900,000 per annum. i An ndication, however, of the gradual emerging of England's Queen from the doleful dumps is the fact that the Carl Rosa Opera Company has given a perform- ance of Donizetti's "Daughter of the Regi- ment " at Balmoral. There was a time, many years ago, when Queen Victoria was exceedingly fond of operas, theatres and the frivolities of exist- ence generally. That the Queen is going back to thew happy days is hardly to be expeoted, but that it is about time she gave some encouragement to musicand thedmina has been the opinion of the British people for some years paste HIGH HMIS 07Y FORTY YEARS AGO. Apropos of dramatic performances at the royal palaces, it was in 1853 that some tableaux vivants, a form of amusement of whioh the Queen was then very fond, were given at Windsor Castle. On this occasion the Queen's guests and the household at Windsor sat for some time in a dark room, withh a red curtain at one end of it ; at length the curtain rose upon a brilliantly lighted stage and revealed Princess Alice, since dead, but then aged 10, drawled to represent Spring, and she recited some verses from Thomson's " Sea- sons." The scene changed and the curtain rose again upon the Princess Royal, aged 13, in a costume designed to signify summer. Prince Arthur, as a harvester, (Aged 3, re- clined upon some sheaves of corn as if weary with his toil and his eldest sister also ro. cited verses. In the next scene, tho Duke of Edin- burgh, then Prince Alfred, and aged 9 years, appeared as Autumn, and was costumed in a tiger's skin and a crown of vine leaves. Next came the Prince of Wales aged 12, as Winter, wearing a white beard and a cloak covered with artificial Melee. His sister, Louise, aged 5, was smothered in winter clothing and furs, and sat watching the fire. Finally all the characters were grouped and behind and above them all was seen Princess Helena, 7 yearn Old, veiled to her feet, a long cross in her hand, and she pro- nounced a blooming on her renal father and mother in the name of the "Seasons." entree( ninon Amin root, The Only son of the Duke of Edinburgh, who is just 18 years of age, has been ap- pointed by the German Emperor to the lieutenancy in the first regiment of Prue - elan Foot Guards stationed at Berlin, which regiment he is to join on April let next. Prince Alfred will have to swear allegiance to the German Sovereign. How can he then be a British subject ? The young Prince's tutor, Major Von Bulow, will very soon Germanize him and teach him how to live on German five, Tho Dm:these:4ot Edinburgh, as Grand Duehees`Marie''of Russia, wanted her son to join the 2,151,000 men in her brother's Russian army, but the Prince's grand- mother, the Queen of England, would not consent to such an arrangement at any price. April the let Deems to be is very eingular day to select fertile promotion of the young Prince to his new regiment. The Heiser is too fond of upholding the dignity and importance of Princes in gen- oral to be capable of pla ying practical joke at their expense, or it might be iniegused that he had aeleeted thief date in order to jeer at the tiseleseneee of honorary princely officers in general ; how s.lao to Suggest that if the piing Prince inherits his father's trait e of Character the appointment will be little better than an Aptil foolery, for he will never be at his post. Solder's, if over, has the ratepayer, whose name IsTDeathm aethere4 in Such ileaxY herveeb of the strawberry leaver( within Po ehort a SpaPe of time as he bas lately done. Throe Dukes—Menehester, Sutherland, Itoxburglie—within aevensweeke 1 Strangely enough, two oat of the three are succeeded by moon( of nearly the flame age' the young Duke of Manchester is 15, andthe new Grace of Roxburglie 16 years old. itlhearities of five and aix years should do good to both otates. AmsTocRATIC ulTolcs.. LrIST HANDS IN MS c A rather remarkable Englishman hoe just died at Davao Platz, in Switzerland, whore ha had gone for the benefit of his health, vfa, Mr. Harry Vane Milbank, son of the the well-known Baronet, $ir Fred- erick Milbank. The money he got through with in hia time raust have been at least what would have oonatituted two handsome fortunes, and he,began the art of extravagance when quite a youngster in the Life Guards, He was at one time engaged to be married to the notorious Mabel Gray, but, luckily, that mad step was prevented in time. His affairs with the best-known money -lenders of London and elsewhere have, during the past twenty years, furnished much food for chroniques eccendaleuesnbut the Jews always liked Harry Milbank for if he made them wait he always paid them in full in the long run. As e modern duellieb Harry Milbank vie facile princ,ers, and it was in this particular branch of manlysoienoe that he particularly distinguished himself. In one of his many duels, where he had, according to all the accepted rules, been challenged by and had killed the man whose domestic honor it is impossible to deny he had violated, he, a couple of years later, was quietly sitting in a cafe, in Paris,when a stranger, to whom he bad been pointed out, came deliberately up to him, asked him if he were not M. Milbank, and, coram publico, slapped his gloves across his face. After suoh an affront there could be but one issue. The insulter was the lady's brother, who the following morning shared the fate of her husband, for Milbank was s dead shot. HE COOLLY HILLS HIS MN. Illuetrative of his pluck is another instance where in an encounter he had re- ceived his opponent's first fire full in the Meet, he contrived to raise himself on his elbow, and calmly aiming at his man, sent him to kingdom come. And yet with all his deadly power with the duelling pistol and the gun—for on the moors with his father his bags were phe nomenal—none could call Harry Milbank a fire-eater or a bully. He belonged to a fine old stock. The blood of his seventeenth century ancestor, Sir Harry Vane—from whom, bythe way, he received his surname i —flowed n his veins, and the manlyinde- pendence even to so commanding a spirit as Cromwell breathed in his descendant, Harry Vane Milbank, whose lose will be indeed deplored in the circle of intimates he has gathered about him in hie latter days. LONDON'S SORCERESS. It may be interesting to those who medi- tate visiting this side to know that right in the very heart of the fashionable quarter of London there exists a HighPriestess of that fickle goddess fortune. This person is daily ooneulted by members of some of England's oldestand noblest familiesa For the paltry sum of $1, she—for it is a female, cela va sane dire—will unravel Fate's darkest mysteries and lift the veil from the portentous future. She settles that interesting, and to many vital, point whether he " or " she " will be dark or fair ; whether the inevitable stook "jour- ney " will have to be undertaken; she holds out alluring hopes of a probebablo—mme- times certain—fortune ; and generally throws in 5, death in order to sbrike the golden mean. By the aid of the white of an egg and a simple glass of water she probes the secrets which the Awful Three strive to guard so closely. Indeed, so successful has this Sibyl been in her mystic art that her office hours, which aro 10 to 4, are fully occu- pied in consultations with her many clients. BARONETs ON THE wARFATH. Apropos of the snobism whioh is rampant at the preeent day, it is proposed that 'acme fresh style shall beintroduced in order to enable persons to distinguish at once whether a, new acquaintance is a knight or •sabaronet. It is felt by a great number of illustrious baronets to be a very great hardship that there is a considerable chance of a mietake beitg made between a man who has been knighted because he is a anceeasful musician now and another whose ancestors were baroneted for succesefully toadying to some one oe other of the Stuarts. Again, it is manifestly not right that a baronet, whose grandfather bought his baroneiloy by expending money in resisting the demands of the community at large, should he confused with a modern knight whose ',knighthood was purchased by the expenditure of money on a water work or some dinner plebeian institution at a time when he happened to be mayor of a large town. Tho importance of preventing such mis- takes,which strike at the root of the British Rocial sietern, is simply immense. It is therefore propelled by the "Association of Baronets O for the future they will only answer totthe style adopted by thedetective toward s# Leicester Dedlook. Introduc- tion d' are to be made to "Sir Leicester Dedlook, dBaronet," in full. Announce - month aro to be made as "Sir Leicester Dedlook, ; Baronet." Whenever the sur- name " padlock " is mentioned, the word "Baronet " is to follow. It is further pro- posed that the word " Knight " is to be used as freely with regard to "the other people." ,As this, however, depends partly on the i'ither people's consent, it is not insisted oa, only advised. ( NORFOLK /GOES FADDY ON BLOTTING FADS. The Dedre of Norfolk is a connoisseur in blottibg pada. He accumulator( them almost as 11 he were studyieg the question soltntifieally. He is always interested in the eubjeoa,, moreover, and will converse on it with mdch enjoyment. Another of his peculiarities is that he never opens a letter or a percale Their) is a room in Norfolk House ormiamed nearly full of things which he has ordettl, which have been pent and remained uoi °tithed, Some day, when this room is clered out, vatuable picturee will be fouled lying cheek and jowl with curiosi- ties in the Way of blotting pad. smenmenene Ann eoetonn Tens/risme s One of thetniest puzzling conundrums to the beeighte 1 (stranger who visite British shores in thepronunoiation of aoroe of the proper name of both plaoes and individuala. Foe exampl, Glenne Castle is correctly spoken of as ', ' °lawn" Scotland possess a eposialty ofImola soda shibboleths as, for example, Melfzies pronounced me if written 'Etilynjee" ; l' Butanes, as if written i " Riven" ; ji Charteris, as if " Charters " ; Bethune, an x : " Becton " ; Clanrauald, as if written " Clanroland" ; Duohereie, as if "Dultard" ; lolgulionn, "Cohoert" ; blajori. barke, as " Marehhanke" ; and Her, as "Kar." La the titlto of Blyth, spin, the " th " is dropped, in Wart eociety ; while the Motsone m ust be unieersali spoken of as 45 MUnson024 teeny,* is "Beevor," ' Mums is "Wooten." Si Francis Knollvs, the Prione of Walee Private teforeiary, is known le) his intimate* me "Enewleo,' and the equally' pOpOlar equerry Du Flat zrx epoleen of aa " Du mah,,,;: while g4rwhitt is Tireitb. And so the • lieb is oarried on. Goddard Knocked Mabor Out by Brute Force in 'Throe Rounds, N THREE short. rounds Joe God. dard, the Austria. lien pugilist, de. featedPeteralther, the Irish champion,, ab Coney Island last night. Con. adoring the boom that fighting has gob lately the betting was very light, largely on amount of the fact that neither rnao had been thoroughly tried before. Godclarcl'e reputation rested on hie moos in defeating a dozen local men, in seeming a draw with Peter &sateen in eight round e and in whipping Joe Cheynaki twice in four rounds each time. Maher's standing was made in stopping two poor • fighters in oue night at Maduion laquere Garden. He afterwards meb Bob Fitzsiin. mons in New Orleans and showed himself to be a thorough "quittor," as the fighters say. The impression got abroad that there was a job. Hence the want of a feeling of security among the betters. The feeling. prevailed that Billy Madden wanted to make ' Goddard a obampion, and, knowing then he could not do so without re. victory of some kind, had picked out Maher, a Man who was supposed to have no hearts to be the first victim of a heavy man, who- le known to have bulldog courage and who can hit a hard blow. It was 9.40 when the - men (same on. Their weights were given out ofaciaaly as: Maher, 175; Goddard, 187. Maher probably weighed ,150 and Goddard 195. First round—It was lightning work from, the very start. The men, went hammer and tongs, slash and crash, with Maher a. soienced man and Goddard only e bulldog. .All for the head. A few body blows were struck, the two or three being given by Goddard. Maher went down to his knees once, but got up and tried again, but it was no good. Goddard landed on him with hie right and left missing many times, but. getting there often enough. Second round—Maher got in a couple of- beantrien ou Goddard's face, staggering the Australian eaoh time, and Goddard looked a bit groggy after a couple of rights on the. oheek, but he smashed the Irishman on the• ribs three times before he let go. Maher then got in a aocker on Goddard's breast, and Goddard fell back to the ropes. Maher ran after him, but swung his right wildly. Instead of touching the man on the jaw he went way beyond his ear. Goddard dashed/ at Maher, and gave him a fierce blow on the - brawn Maher fell back under it's effect, and the bell sounded before Goddard could. land again. It had been a tremendous, round. Both MU had worked apparenbly for a knock -out blow—Goddard in his unclean, heavy and strong style, Maher in form that showed little of the neatness that, he had displayed before, and was known for in New Year for weeks after his arrival. from Ireland. Third round—Both came up looking dazed from the furious fighting of the previous round, and neither showed the Mast science, but ra,ined blow after blow on. each other as fast and hard as possible. Goddard went at Maher like a wild beast, and fairly beat hie man down by brute strength. The Irish lad stood up gamely under the shower of blows, bub at last watt laid low by a straight right on the jaw, and fell farm downward on the floor. The ex. oitement was intense, the crowd being fairly crazed with exoitenient. Theround lasted just fifty seconds. The contest was short and brutal. Goddard wee favorite at all stages of the betting and his victory was of course,. popular. AMONG THE TUGS. Before We Buffalo Athletic) Club last, night, Tommy Dixon, of Toronto, defeated Walter Campbell, of Bethlehem, Pa., in three rounds. It took 49 rounds to settle the 20 -round conteet for the lightweight championship of' the State of New York, between Tommy Creed, of New York, and Mike Haugh, of' Brooklyn. The latter beat his man in thm 49bh round. Jun Corbett, the champion pugilist, wren arrested in Boston in an action brought by Joseph .A. Lannon, the Beaton pugilist, to recover $5,000 for an alleged breach of con- tract to spar at Lennon's exhibition in that, city. , George Dawson, the young Australia* met "Doc " O'Coenell, of Boston, at this California Athletic Club last night. Ther weighed in at 8 p. m., just under 140). pounds, The fight was for a puree of $3,000ene the loser taking $250. Dawson won in the,' o 20th round. see Eddie Shaw, of New York, and Jack: Casey, of Williamsburg, fought to a finisha yesterday with skin. tight &vele Casey" succumbed after 16 bloody rounds. , Hall and Fitzsimmons will meet in New - Orleans in March. In an interview after. landing in New York yesterday, Hall de - eared that Mitchell would surely fight., Corbett. Disappearance or the Sardine. "Where, oh, where is the little sardine,. where'oh, where is he gone?" This slights roodifioation of a once popular ditty themc. to express the feeling of the Scottish fisher- men, for the sardine, which is simply the young of the pilchard, and was certainly at. one time quite a common fish on the east, coact of Sootiend, is not now a regular in- habitant of tlae Soottiah seas. In responee to inquiry the fiehery offieere of 14 of the 117 east °mot distriots say that pilchards are never landed in their clistriots„ either gh a etc:4 epeofmc n may be got oeoa- nionolly in the Moray Firth, off the Firth of Forth, or in the Firth of Clyde. Lie late au tbe begineing of the present century they were as alnindsnt at Some places as the her- ring, and this gave rise to complaints by the herring -curers when quantitiOs of the pilchard were delivered to them mixed with the hs rrin g. reeRibly the pilchard is gettiug ware elsou het e, for large quantities of other fia ale prepared on tbe continent and in Amer tea as sarclinee and ok l !melt, and thief f eppecially to with the aprat add you herring. These faets have ledf,,to the stiggae that Soofoli fishermen stiCuld turn their/ tention to the curing ura tinning of; latter nth, which areno anundent ou / boasts, —Lowder Doily News, Palestine re about One-fourth the State of INIew •Vork.