The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-12-04 00:00:00

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most convincing evidence, of the murder of Harriet Louisa
Lane laid to your charge, and no one, I think, that has-heard
this trial can entertain the slightest shadow of a doubt of
that. I can only deeply deplore that, standing, as yen have
said, upon the brink of eternity, you should have made, and
ichy you
inhuman,stashould have called God to witness, the rash assertion that has
just issued from your lips. There can be no doubt that
you took the life of the poor woman who had been in closest
and most intimate terms of familiarity and affection with
you, and who had been the mother of your two children.
stand,
d anein cowardly
wha which
act. :
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You inveigled her into that lone place ; the revolver with
which she was slain was not there before, 'lndiana have been
taken to the place; the grave was dug thered, or her ; and
her remains were those which you were removing when you
were arrested. No one can entertain a shadow'of doubt.that
do not wish to say anything to aggravate the position In
sense of of a the i murderous,losltion in cnwleh
L which you stand, or to dwell upon the enormity of your
offence, further than as by so doing I may arouse you to a
en
hopo of earthly mercy is cut off, and the only hope and
consolation you can have is that of a different future, where
truth cannot be mistaken, where no assertions of yours will
stand you in any stead, and where, if you seek for mercy, it
must be through a sincere repentance of the crime of which
you are adjudged guilty. I have only to warn you against any
delusive expectation of mercy. So long as the law exists,
which says that he who takes the life of a fellow-
creature with aforethought malice shall answer for t
with his own, this is a case to which it would be im.pos-
sible that mercy could be extended. Prepare, therefore,
for the execution of the law. I have now cniy ti pass upon
you the dread sentence of the law, which is that you be
taken hence to the place from whence you caniC and thence
to a legally appointed place of execution, where you will be
hanged by the neck until you be dead, and that your body
be afterwards buried within the precincts of the gaol in
which you were last confined. And may the Lordhave mercy
upon your soul
The anal prayer uttered by the Lord Chief "..ustice was
followed by a loud and fervent " Amen 1" which arose from
all parts of the court, as the prisoner was removed from
the dock, and walked with a firm step away.
The Lord Chief Justice then proceeded to piss sentence
upon the younger prisoner. He said :—Thomas George
Wainwright, the jury have, I think, properly acteiitted you
of the heavier crime of having entered into a scheme con-
ceived by your brother .with a view to the perpetration of
this murder. But having become aware of the crime which
he had committed, you allowed yourself to be induced by his
solicitations and persuasions to lend yourself to the conceal-
ment of the crime, and neither fraternal affection nor the re-
gard for and sympathy which one brother feels for another
can excuse in the eye of the law an offence which consists in
aiding a murderer to escape from the consequences of his
crime. When such an offence is established, although it
falls very far short indeed of the crime of murder, yet it is
one that must be punished with great seyerity, for by the
concealment of crimes of this kind they are enabled some-
times to be perpetrated with impunity, and the safety of
human life is thereby imperilled. There is, I think, good
reason to believe that you acted under the influence of your
brother's persuasion, and that if it had not been for him and
for his influence over you, you would not have lent yourself to
the concealment of this crime. I take that into serious con-
sideration, and believing you to have been his dupe, his
tool, and his victim, and that he has your crime to answer
for practically and morally, as well as his own, the sen-
tence upon you, taking into consideration his greater
age, his personal influence over you, and that
you have yielded, though weakly and wrongly, to
the promptings of fraternal affection, for which I
make due allowance, one brother standing in a
very different position to another than an ordinary
individual would do to any other person—l say taking all
this into consideration as mitigating the gravity of the
offence, considering that the punishment to be awarded is
not a slight one, I think I am exercising a merciful consider-
ation when I sentence you to penal servitude for seven years.
The younger prisoner was then removed from the dock,
and
The Lord Chief Justice, before quitting the bench, an-
nounced that, by virtue of the power conferred upon her
Majesty's judges in such cases, he had ordered a gratuity of
£.30 to be given to the witness Stokes, whose prompt and
highly praiseworthy action had led to the discovery of this
crime. This announcement was followed by some applause
in court, which was of course immediately suppressed.
The court then rcse. Great excitement existed out-
side, a very large crowd having assembled in the Old
Bailey to hear the verdict. As soon as it was known
that the jury had returned a verdict of guilty against
Henry Wainwright, the intelligence was received with
loud cheers, which were distinctly heard by the pri-
soners and all in court, even while Eentence of death
was still being pronounced.

ANIMAL FOOD.—From a recently-issued public
document it appears that during the present year there
have been large importations of foreign cattle. With
the exception of swine there has been an increase in
the present year. This year the declared value of
oxen, &c., was £3,325,025 ; cows, £867; calves,
£169.237; sheep and lambs, £1,904,80; and swine,
2134,310.
THE CELAN/MI, THNNEL.—The preliminary
soundings for the tunnel which is to unite France and
England are now being actively carried out near St.
Margaret's, and the engineers conducting the work
are entirely satisfied with the results obtained. Their
expectations as to the nature of the strata have been
realized. The two great difficulties they have to en-
counter are to establish ventilation, and to find means
to take out the chalk cut away and bring in the mate-
rials. It is intended to put down two pneumatic tubes
to meet the latter difficulty, and ventilation will be
secured by providing a current of air.
TURNPIKE TOLLS.—A Return made rdcently
by the Local Government Board shows that the turn-
pike tolls received in England and Wales in the year
1873 amounted to £585,209. A Parliamentary Return
quoted by the late Mr. G. R. Porter states that thirty
years before, in 1843, considerably more than double
that amount was levied in turnpike tolls, and that the
debts of turnpike trusts in 1843 amounted to
£8,772,000. The debts have since been so reduced as
to be returned at £2,202,000 in 1873.
ANOTHER IRONCLAD IN TROUBLE.—The Nor-
wegian ship Halden, Captain Jacobson, from Pen-
sacola, bound to London, with a cargo of timber, put
into Plymouth Sound on Sunday, having been in col-
at three a.m. on the same day, when off the Start,
with Her Majesty's ship Monarch. The Halden lost
her jibboom and bowsprit, and sustained other damage.
The Monarch, which also sustained some damage, put
in at Plymouth.
ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY. —A crowded
meeting of the Royal Geographical Society was held
in London on Monday evening to hear Lieutenant-
Colonel Grant, C.B. read a paper explanatory of Mr.
Stanley's accounts of the recent African discoveries,
especially those respecting the situation, extent, and
height above the sea of the great Lake Victoria
and success.
Nyanza, the reputed source of the Nile. After the
Stanleybeing
no
wi n
reading of the paper, Sir Samuel Baker bore the
strongest testimony to the energy and success of Mr.
,leawndaathfeedrefrowmerethneo
game was met with."
eshtisableisxhpedlorathtiaoinas.geoHNoedi looked upon it as
VtesicttimoroianyNtyoanAzira., :Instal% theyat,oite,nwiergthy its affluents, flowed
pinigto.sttilicekiAnglbe. rtThNeyaspnozrta. Captain Burton also bore
accidents,H.R.ll e—siWzedhen the Prince of
I;ut InNo veirilyplarug.
Wales was at Baroda, he "went out the whole day
This is not to be wondered at after all, for, when you
come to think of it, all pigs, wild and tame, are pork.
creatures. —Judy.
THE COST OF IRONCLADS. —The Alexandra,
12 gun, double-screw armour-Plated iron ship of 9,492
tons displacement, which was launched at Chatham in
April last, is reported to require a further sum of
£lOO,OOO to complete her (remarks the Globe). Already
there has been appropriated to this vessel nearly half a
millioe (2497,000), and in order that nothing more than
is absolutely necessary shall be expended, the Ad-
miralty has directed some officials of the Constructor's
department to proceed to Chatham to confer with the
authorities at the yard, and to examine particularly
Into the various items of proposed expenditure.
To A HOST OF CORRESPONDENTS.—YOU are all
wrong. The Khedive's act in selling to England
lais shares in the Canal is one of self-preservation—in
fact the reverse of Suez-cidal.—Puneh.
POULTRY FARMING IN THE SOLITE. —A cor-
respondent in the Live Stock Journal writes :—I have
often asked myself why some poultry farms on a
large scale are not established on the thousands
upon thousands of acres of heath peat land be-
tween Dorchester and Southampton now lying waste,
which, no doubt, would be obtainable very cheap.
The sandy soil is just the soil required to rear healthy
poultry, and the South• Western Railway rum through
it, so that there could be no better accommodation for
sending to market. Weymouth and Bournemouth,
two large watering places would ensure a large de-
mand for eggs and chickens, and carriage to London
would be but trifling. I have no doubt that enter-
prising individuals, with a small capital, would make a
good thing out of it. Some part of the land would
grow a good part of the corn required, in fact most of
it would, after having been run over by poultry for a
few gears.
OBSERVATION OF A WOMAN.—The foot is the
point of departure for the whole toilet. She who can
prettily dress her feet is very easy to costume elegantly,
but a-woman Who dreads to expose her feet can never
be well attired. The German, who has generally big
feet, is always badly dressed. The American has a
little foot, so she is elegant. The Russian is ravish-
ingly attired, for she has little feet. The Spaniard is
elegant, her foot is small, but she dresses it badly.
The Frenchwoman has a little foot, and her boot is
the height of perfection. •
BLANK FlRlNG.—Ancient Sportsman (whose
Sight is not what it used to be). "Pick 'em up, James,
pick 'em up! Why don't you pick 'em up? " Veteran
Keeper. "Cause there bean't any down, my Lord 1 "4.
Punch.

SHOCKING TRAGEDY IN INDIA.—The south of
India Observer reports that on the night of the 27th
October certain Todas, Budghers, Iroolas, and Curum.
, bers attacked a small Curumber village situated near
the Rookery Coffee Estate at Kell Kotagherry, which
' contained two men, three women, and one girl of about
twelve years of age, and after cruelly murdering both
the men, the girl, and two out of the three women,
Ipitched their bodies over a precipice at the back of the
'village. The surviving woman, who was beaten,
escape,
matter
on the morning of
'stabbed, thrown into the firet,oatnhdelsepftotf,orfoduenadd,ammpolset
miraculously made her
the 28th Octcber reported the to Mr. C. E. P.
Yernede, who on hasteng .
proofs of murder having been committed near the
FrancisH ewaosf
rAemusatrrkiaa,blies
for
readthe
un(re:
village, and also found four dead bodies sticking on the
" of his opinions, for his large
edge of a rock half way down the precipice.
principally to help Don Carlos,
n THE Ex-Dcricr or MODENA.—The Duke of
tn
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3.
Modena
u nrecikfheosi Ire ta'agh' which
shl'eedg iheoel yttahui r aekt
ouecarlsc used principally
to the throne of Great Britain,
as the eldest representative of the Stuarts. He dies
Childless and intestate, and his great fortune, amount-
ing to nearly £7,500,000, will, it is stated, be divided
into three shares, one going to the Comtesse de Cham-
bord, who is already rich, another to the mother of
Don Carlos, and a third to a niece of the Archduke.
It is not likely that his inheritance will bring the Comte
de Chambord nearer to the throne of France, but Don
Canoe's share may be an additional inducement to him
tb retire from a .hopaless contest.. The Archduke's
fortune was unusual among Princes though they have
lately caught the trick of accumulation; but if Mr.
W. Astor, whose death is telegraphed from New York,
is the millionaire of that name, we may witness next
week the distribution of a really first-class fortune. He
ought to have died one of the wealthiest individuals
iri the world.
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en so reduced as
ILL—The Nor-
son, from Pen-
o of timber, put
aving been in col-
when off the Start,
The Halden lost
ned other damage.
some damage, put
r. —A crowded
Society was held
hear Lieutenant-
ixplanatory of Mr.
frican discoveries,
aation, extent, and
eat Lake Victoria
as Nile. After the
el Baker bore the
and success of Mr.
looked upon it as
ile was fed from the
its affluents, flowed
a Burton also bore
7 and success.
n the Prince of
nt out the whole day
d, and there were no
game was met with."
ter all, for, when you
I and tame, are pork-
-The Alexandra,
ted iron ship of 9,492
anched at Chatham in
ire a further sum of
ks the Globe). Already
his vessel nearly half a
that nothing more than
ie expended, the Ad.
us of the Constructor's
lam to confer with the
a examine particularly
gad expenditure.
NDENTS.—You are all
in selling to England
of self-preservation—in
—Punch.
THE SOUTH. —A cor-
Tourna/ writes :—I have
,me poultry farms on a
uthed on the thousands
if heath peat land be-
ampton now lying waste,
obtainable very cheap.
I required to rear healthy
tern Railway run's through
better accommodation for
aouth and Bournemouth,
would ensure a large de-
s and carriage to London
have no doubt that enter.
gmall capital, would make a
me part of the land would
rn required, in fact most ol
run over by poultry for
ArOMAN.—The foot is the
whole toilet. She who car
ry easy to costume elegantly,
to expose her feet can nevet
rman, who has generally big
!seed. The American has s
;ant. The Russian is ravish
little feet. The Spaniard ii
all, but she dresses it badly
a little foot, and her boot i
'Ancient Sportsman (tchos
to be). "Pick 'em up, James
ft you pick 'em up?" Vetera;
bean% any down, ray Lord! "-
)Y IN INDIA.—The South (
that on the night of the 27t
Budghers, Iroolas, and Curun
Curumber village situated nes
tate at Kell Kotagherry, whic
ree women, and one girl of abot
tnd after cruelly murdering bot
rid two out of the three womer
wahtothe back
jug
.;e'ruertgrheaes
cwfiparr°peen:c:aanpanined e d
leften thefo r dmeoa, nadinmgoi,
irted the matter to Mr. C. E. I
„stening to the spot, found amp
iv-hag been committed near ti
d four dead bodies sticking on 0
ay down the precipice.
or MoDtdcl.—The Duke
Francis of Austria is dead (r
He was remarkable for the u
" of his opinions, for his larj
,ed principally to help Don °ark
aim to the throne of Great Britai
utative of the Stuarts. He di
‘te, and his great fortune amour
1,000, will, it is stated, be divid,
le going to the Comtesse de Cliai
ly rich, another to the mother
third to a niece of the Archduli
, his inheritance will bring the Con
er to the throne of France, but El,
be an additional inducement to hi
lopaless contest.. The Archduk,
al among Princes, though they ha
trick of accumulation; but if N
loath is telegraphed from New Yor
of that name, we may witness ne
ion of a really first-class fortune. I
,d one of the wealthiest individus