Charles S. Bell Charles S. Bell Charles Steele Bell (October 8, 1880 – May 6, 1965) was a lawyer from Cincinnati, Ohio who served as a prosecutor and judge. He was Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio 1942–1947. Charles S. Bell was born October 8, 1880 in Carthage, Ohio to Samuel and Mary Alice Logan Bell. When his father died, Bell dropped out of school at age sixteen to support his family. He was a railway clerk, and studied law at the night school of the YMCA School of Law (Cincinnati). He graduated in 1908, and was admitted to the Ohio
HMS Trompeuse (1799) HMS Trompeuse (1799) HMS "Trompeuse" was the French privateer "Mercure", captured in 1799. She foundered in the English Channel in 1800. British records on "Mercure" are ambiguous. French records are more informative. Two seminal British references declare that captured "Mercure" in May 1797. However, there is no letter in the "London Gazette" for "Melampus" capturing a "Mercure" in 1797, which by itself is not unusual, but two other sources, one of them a letter in the "London Gazette" by the captain of "Melampus", puts his capture of a "Mercure" in February 1799 (see below). Winfield has "Mercure" being named "Trompeuse"