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CASUALTIES AND OFFENCES.

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A young man named Alex Ah Lee was arrested by Detective-Sergeant Nixon on   Monday, on warrant, charging him with con-    

spiring to defraud Ah Hin. The alleged     conspiracy is in connection with the recent frauds on a number of Chinese, who were     induced to pay the sum of £12 10s. to secure       the withdrawal of certain bogus summonses   which had been issued against them for hold-     ing lotteries, the object of the persons who     prepared and served the spurious documents being to extort money. Ah Lee has frequently     acted as interpreter in the police courts.  

Mr. Cornelius Muir, of Burwood-road,   Hawthorn, boot manufacturer, has reported       to the police that his establishment was broken into on Saturday night, and a con-   siderable quantity of boots and shoes stolen.  

A man sleeps on the premises, and he left   after locking the place up, and did not re-     turn till 2.30 a.m., when he found that the panel of the back door had been broken, and an entrance effected.    

John Henry Blackett, a chemist, was on Monday brought to Melbourne from Ballarat by Detective Charles on a writ of habeas to   answer a charge of obtaining £3 8s. 6d. from Jas. G Cerutty, of Robertson and Moffat's drapery establishment, by false pretences.   Blackett is at present undergoing a sentence       of 12 months imprisonment for false pre-

tences.

Jas. Charles, 20 years of age, a porter at the Balaclava railway station, was admitted           to the Melbourne Hospital on Monday suffer-     ing from a severe contusion of the hip and other injuries. He tried to cross the line   just as the train to Brighton was coming into the station, but was struck by the engine, and had a very narrow escape from death.

A murderous assault was committed near   Dandenong on Monday morning by a wood   cutter named Emel Doepell, who quarrelled     with another man named Frank Johnson.   He made a blow at the injured man's head   with an axe, but Johnson avoided it, and re- ceived it with full force on his shoulder. Dr. Perceval was immediately sent for by the police, who found the wound extended from the neck to the spine, and is very dangerous.

The injured man was conveyed to the Alfred       Hospital. When Doepell struct the blow he     said he had been directed to do so by Pro-     vidence. He was a "salvationist."

A man named Chas. Hall, who was em-   ployed at the Federal Coffee Palace, which is   in course of erection, fell from a height of 24ft. on to some joists on Tuesday, and sustained a fracture of the right leg, and   other injuries. He was taken to the Mel-     bourne Hospital and admitted.

A lad named Arthur Smethurst, 16 years of age, met with a serious accident yesterday.

He fell from the roof of a building in Little   Bourke-street to the ground, and sustained a   fracture of both thighs. He was taken to the Melbourne Hospital and admitted. He     is a resident of Lennox-street, Richmond.        

A man named Edmund Edwards has re-           ported to the police that he was robbed in   the yard of the Great Britain Hotel on the      

11th inst. of 27 sovs. He had taken the money out of the bank intending to take a     passage to America, and was drinking in the     hotel in question with three men. They fol-

lowed him into the yard, and two of them         held him whilst the third took the money

from his pocket.      

John Heyre, residing off Nott-street, Port   Melbourne, has reported to the police that his wife Hester has been missing from her   home since Saturday last. The woman has     been drinking heavily lately, and her husband                 thinks she may have committed suicide. She         is about 67 years old, 5ft. 7in. in height,   medium build, and her hair is partially grey.         She wore a dark print dress, black straw hat,

and buttoned boots.

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