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A curious case of unwarrantable following about a young girl was brougb before tlie Old Bailey on Friday. Frederick George Helmore, an agent, aged thirty-one, was indicted for maliciously sendir to Miss Sarah Alice Grierson a letter threatening to murder her. For *;he prosecution it was stated that Miss Grierson was the daughter of Mr. J. Grierson, the general manager of the Great Western Kailway Company. She had always lived at home under the immediate care of her parents, and was now twenty-two or twenty-three years of age. In 1874 the Misses Grierson were attending a day school in the neighbourhood of their father’s house, and Helmore began addressing them as they went to school. They complained to their mother, who advised them to take no notice of it About that time letters began, to be_written by Helmore to Mr. Grierson’s house, addressed to Miss Grierso: t in very affectionate terms. These letters Miss Grierson handed to tier mother, and some presents which accompanied them were returned. Helmore would walk up and down in front of the house for hours, and he would follow the children when they left the house, brus ing past them in the street, and speaking as he did so. He also attended the same-church, and he cai-ried hisconduct to such an extent that he followed Miss Grierson when shewent to take the Communion, and endeavoured to kneel beside her. In that, however, he as frustrated by the church authorities. In 1877 the family went to Llandudno, and Helmore followed themthere. Mr, Grierson fouru that the law could not protect hisfrom the annoyance, he was advised that Miss Griersonshould be made a ward of Chancery This was done, and Chanceryproceedings were twice taker out against Helmore, who undertook not to have any communication whatever with Miss Grierson. That undertaking, however, not kept either time and, lie followed her to Folkestone, Paris, and Torquay.. rn consequence of a threat he had used towards Mr. Grierson he was brought before a police-court n July, 1880, and be nd over to keep the peace. In Ictober, 1881, he followed Miss Grierson in a cab, and said he would do for her. In August, 1882, Mi Grierson accompanied the other members of lier family to Dinard, in Brittany. got on hoard the: steamer the first person thev sawQa one occasion wl !e in Brittany ho produced aI1 'l's. * / '•'# * •' l\jfc'V .* * */ ' rf *' ? .hrotl ir knocked his arm dowa and*jieid Kim;upon said he vonld kill him, and that wonld throw doUnb face, The conduct contiu nea «nil /pu the 23rd of Ttn If Ion1884-rwhich he addressed her as, P80i er to Mias Grierson ?Dearest dat ng wife,” andhimself .‘‘ kind an faithful husband.” The letterit was a pity that their marriage did not ‘take' i5f B?ao nA AnalXoo/l r. wi J.jlV / •“ ' PAttC© SOOllseen wit]and vnclosed a newspaper v^uiug.uuuuuinng an account At tragedy m Pans, where a young woman had been n turderpHl i. lover m consequence of the victim’s family having ol echS t ie marriage.^ On Hie 10th of February, 1885, the prisoner wrote„,tnch coutamed a reference to marriage, and reminded MiJt of a conversation which he had wit i her mother at DinaS when it was alleged he made use of a threat towards the wo*«H stating that it she attempted to marry a one else, or v any one else, she would know what to expect. There „slightest foundation for the suggestion that Miss Grierson hadgiven him any encouragement.: On one occasion, in 1881 /i!prisoner was ordered to find .sureties to keep the peace but ftiili to do so, he went to prison for six months. Mr. Bealey, in addnw the jury for the defence, argued th it the letter contained no thro1 whatever to kill the prosecutrix, but, on tbe contrary the evidmT showed that It more had ntertained Sentiments of the nostaffo tionate regard for her. There war no doubt that Miss Grierson t no given him the least encouragement, hut counsel quoted H authority of Shakes are for saying that love was a species of m, j ness, under the influence of whi :h the defendant had acted i pressing h attentions upon the prosecutrix, causing un mbi fgood deal of annoyance to her. The jury found the prisoner fruiH The sentence pronounced was fifteen months’ hard laboursureties are required for Helmore’s keeping tlie peace wards thprosecutrix and all her Majesty’s subjects for twelve months.At the Central Criminal Court on Friday Robert Charles Iiotsor a clerk, aged only seventeen, was indicted for shooting with a lm/U pistol at Judith Allan. This oung girl, who is fourteen years o age, resides w.h her father and ster at Croydon. In the summe of last year Hotson saw her at church. He spoke to her in thi street tnd gave ler a letter, telling her to say nothing about it S took the letter home, read it, and tore it up. The substance of th! letter was that he loved her, and that unless she would com eat tlt; meet him be should go to the wilds of America. On the evening oJanuary 22 Miss Allan was out for a walk with her nurse, wheiHotson came up and spoke to her, and producing a revolver, point it at her face. Shortly afterwards he discharged the pistol threi times. The girl and her nurse were both very much alarmed am called out. The girl had some slight marks of the powder in lie face, but one bullet must have struck her, because there were liolei in her clothing, and her back was slightly bleeding, swollen, am bruised. However, no serious injury was done. Subsequently thlt; police fo nd some stonework chipped, as if by lead, and a piece ol bullet, shlt; wing that the revolver used must have been loaded witl ball. Mr. Knowles, on behalf of tbe prisoner, did not dispute that the accused had done a very reprehensible act, but argued that there was no proof that the pistol had been loaded with bullets Hotson had never made use of any threats, and there was no evidence to support the illegation that he had intended to do the prosecutrix any grievous bodily harm. The jury found the prisonei guilty of the minor charge of unlawfully wounding, but recoi mended him to mercy. The sentence pronounced was nine months’ imprisonment with hard labour, and the prisoner is to be required to find sureties for his good behaviour for a year.The trial of the two mpn, Cunningham and Burton, accused lt;f causing the recent dynamite explosions, lias, at their request., beeni 1 1 * V 1 M -a . t ■ - _ — . 1 /1CONVOCATION* OF THE PROVINCE OFCANTERBURY.UPPER HOUSE.*—Tuesday, April 28.The Upper House of Convocation met to-day by adjournnicn t the Bounty-office, Dean’s-yard. The Archbishop presided, and there were also present the Bishops of London, Winchester, Bath aud Wells, Chichester, Ely, Exeter, Gloucester and Bristol, HerefordLichfield, Lincoln, Llaudaff, Oxford, St. Amph, Southwell, and Truro.The Apparitor-General.Sir John A. Hanham, of the Inner Temple, took his place forth* first time as Apparitor-General of the Province of Canterbury, vicf Mr. Felix Knyvebt, who has retired after thirty-seven years of office, and who from 1848 to 1862^ was legal secretary to the late Archbishop Sumner.The Late Bishop of Lincoln.The Bishop of London*—It is in accordance with the usual practice of this House that I rise to move the resolution of which I have given notice and which stands in my name on the agenda, and my duty is to a very great degree lightened by the fact that what I have to do wa^ anticipated a very little while ago, when not the same resolution, but something of a similar character, was moved and agreed to the time of the late Bishop of Lincoln’s resignation. Since that time theBishop has passed away, and I think we should all feel that now lie has left us it is fitting that, although when he died, he was no longer in possession of any see in the Church, we should place on record our sense of the loss which the Church has sustained in his death. He was certainly no ordinary man. We should have heard a great deal more of him, I think, as a very considerable scholar, if his scholarship had not been as it were overshadowed by his very great merits of other kinds—if he had not accustomed us to think of him much more as a divine than as a scholar such as we ordinarily mean by that word. .In fact it was but two or three days ago that 1 was talking about him with Mr. Gladstone, who was remarking with pleasure on the confirmation of his early scholarship, by the recent discovery of the site of Dodona, which had been anticipated by ChristopherWordsworth when he was very young. He had written then a shortL _ ♦___ % i i • • •- — —----- J J ^4. V AlLiM. ft*-* VtUAA —treatise showing what bis opinion of the matter was, and herepublished this on the occasion of the discoveries of whichm m tmmm — —I am speaking. In fact, at that time any one might veri fairly have anticipated that he would have won a Europeaz reputation as a classical scholar, and that reputation he lias only lost—if we may say that in any sense he has lost it—it.has been in some degree dimmed by the lustre which has always attended hu work in altogether different though kindred directions. He n known to us more as one of our leading divines—as one who used al his knowledge in the service of Christ’s Church, and who was read) on all occasions to supply us with those valuable precedents which, in an old institution such as the Church, must always be of tne greatest use in determining the course that we ought to take underany circumstances whatever. He is known to the public gpnerallyand to us, perhaps, better as Theophilus Anglicanus than by any other title, and before bo was a Bishop he was already in possession of the hearts of many who bad profited by, reading his writings. After he became a Bishop more and more did all of us feel the greiit value not only of his learning^ but still more of tlie way in which he■l1* 4*1 A /l 1 Aa ill 1. * 1 I % % i * • I -____1. rused his learning. For he was ready at times to govern his diocese,ealing with religious questions iu suchand to set us an example of dealing iW*Yu w -----a way as to impress us at once with the; gentleness and firmnessof his character and the saintliness of his life. There is hardly any utterance of his which those who diiffered froxn him. most emphlly‘ eally: did not at the same time fe e 1 to l}e the jit | Q ranee of a sin g u I a y.v true and devout Christian. I suppose there arc* several of us 'vh?have great reason to look back ou kindnesses received from him. can my self speak of»uuvarying kind ness from the time when e wrote tp ime^ on ruv nomination to the Bishopric of Exeter, am yfJxGUj spoil afterwards, be was so good as to allow me to make use his examining chaplain as I was not able in the circumstances to get I the ush of my own. From that time I had inhch communicatiwith liim on various occasions, when liil conduct wpschai^terised, ;by the same wojiderful geiI ;think that his sweetness; of characteralways l ButWas ailvthili 11 kA a. Rf rrtn r! i of ODluiCn*
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Guardian
London, Middlesex, GB
Wed, Apr 29, 1885
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