The Sun.
London, England, 1865-08-24 00:00:00

The Batley Tragedy.

On Tuesday the funeral of Sarah and Hannah
Brooke, of Batley, the women murdered on Satur-
day night last by Eli Sykes, of Batley Carr, took
place at Batley churchyard in the presence of many
thousands of tearful spectators. The trains calling
at Batley in the early part of the afternoon were all
loaded with passengers anxious to see the mournful
spectacle, and persons from Leeds, Bradford,
Wakefield, Halifax, and Heckmondwike were no-
ticed standing in the line of route taken by the
funeral procession. From Dewsbury and Birstal
the people flocked in hundreds, and it is estimated
that there were at least 20,000 spectators. The
coffins were borne by female acquaintances of the
deceased, elderly women carrying that containing
the remains of Sarah Brooke, and young girls from
the mill where the deceased Hannah had been em-
ployed bearing her body. Prior to the mournful
ceremony taking place, the corpses were laid out in
the room where the murder was committed, and
viewed by many.

The adornment of the bodies presented a most
beautiful appearance. The faces of the deceased
were bare, and their heads were covered with skull-
caps. Their countenances were placid and exhibited
a more natural appearance than at any time since
they became the victims of their murderer's ven-
geance. The grave in which the bodies of the de-
ceased were placed is situated near to the entrance
gates to the churchyard, on the branch path-road,
and is about 30 yards from the gates at the south-
east side of the church. The funeral cortege entered
the churchyard at the eastern gate. The church was
crowded with people, many of them being attired in
their working clothes. The churchyard and its ap-
proaches were crowded with people anxious to catch
a glimpse of the mournful procession. James Henry
Ashton, the deceased Hannah Brooke's lover, was
present amongst the mourners. The burial service
was read by the Rev. C. H. Gibson, M.A. Police
were in attendance to preserve order in the avenues
leading to the church. The crowd, which had exhi-
bited the utmost decorum throughout, as soon as
the ceremony was over quietly dispersed.
The surgeons who made the post mortem exami-
nation were Mr. Wm. Bayldon and Mr. Keighley,
both of Batley. They found that Sarah, or Sally
Brooke, though somewhat advanced in years, had
been a hale and healthy woman, and one gifted
with a good constitution. The situation of the
wounds were as stated by us in our second
edition ; and the mortal blow of which we spoke
was, as the surgeons found, indeed a terrible one.
The bayonet which the murderer used, we are as-
sured on undoubted authority, penetrated the heart
of Mrs. Brooke to the depth of three inches. The
surgeons found there had been nine stab wounds
inflicted on the body of the deceased.
When the medical gentlemen came to examine the
body of Hannah Brooke, they found (as we have
stated previously) seven wounds. The bayonet had
pierced her heart to the depth of 11 inches. She was
also stabbed through both lungs.
The prisoner maintains his former, coolness, and
still does not appear to realise the magnitude of the
crime of which he stands accused. During the day
the Rev. Wm. Appleyard, incumbent of Batley Carr,
visited him. He sleeps soundly, and eats his meals
quite well.—Leeds Mercury.

MURDER OF MR. CLUTTERBUCK.--The Irish
Court of Criminal Appeal sat on Wednesday for the pur-
pose of giving judgment in the several cases which had
been reserved for their decision. In the first case on the
list, that of the " Queen v. King," in which the prisoner
had been convicted of the murder of Mr. Clutterbuck, the
Court, with the exception of Judge Hayes, sustained the
conviction.

N EMS EAP ETC
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The Turkishaath and Ti_
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We re-extract the following article tom
Newcastle Daily Journal, because of the extraor-
dinary importance of the subject to which it refers :
It would be of very little appositeness to the question of
the disease that is at present destroying the cattle of this
country to enter, as some of our contemporaries are doing,
into a descriptive catalogue of the diseases to which cattle
are subject. Cattle undoubtedly partake of the curse en-
tailed upon all the world by the original transgression.
The "ills that flesh is heir to" are not confined to huma-
nity; but the whole animate creation are subject to a nu-
merous train of ills. Cows, the description of animals to
which the attention of the people of this country is at pre-
sent particularly directed, in respect to the disease that has
befallen it, are subject to blood disorders, to fever, to func-
tional disturbance of the skin, and of other secreting or-
gans ; to organic cutaneous diseases which are apt to be-
come chronic ; to rheumatic affections ; and to a large
number of inflammatory disorders. But, what is of more
consequence at present than an enumeration of the nume-
rous train of ills to which cow flesh is subject, is some
suggestion for the removal of the special disease which
has broken out with such virulence that it is threatening
to seriously reduce the number of cattle in this country,
and by that means to diminish, to an injurious extent, the
food of the people.
The suggestion that we have to make is that heat be tried, both as a means of prevention and of cure.
The suggestion of heat as a therapeutic agent in cattle
disease has already been made, though not in reference
to the particular -disease that has now broken out. It
was made some time ago, however, and by a gentleman
whose name has been greatly before the public in connec-
tion with the present disorder. We allude to Pro-
fessor Gamgee, who, in his well-known work bn Dairy
Stock, has the following remarks on this subject of
heat as applicable, by means of what is called the
Turkish bath, to the cure of disease in cattle :—" In
the long category of diseases," says Professor Gamges,
"we shall find one and all pertain to the kind
likely to be much benefited by heat. But it is to ward off
disease, and to preserve health, that among dairy-stock,
particularly in large towns, the bath might prove of great
service." Again, says tile Professor, "As a therapeutic
agent, the hot-air chamber holds an intermediate position
between evacuants and stimulants. It is undoubtedly a
general tonic, because it fits important organs for the free
and healthy exercise of their functions, and thus operates
beneficially on the blood, and on nutrition, and hence in-
vigorates the body. That it is evacuants no one can doubt
that has witnessed the kind and quantity of cutaneous se-
cretions, -whether in man or animals. Viewing the subject
as a veterinary, I unhesitating say that we have in heat
the most effective diaphoretic, the most active depurant,
and the most efficient means of producing healthy reaction
that we have yet had at our disposal. It is a great addition
to our therapeutic means. We needed a satisfactory
means of acting on the skin of lower animals in febrile
and other diseases, and here we have it." Not to multiply
evidence, it is yet worth 'while to quote the opinion of
another writer on veterinary surgery, if only for the purpose
of showing that the opinion of Professor Gamgee is not
the only one in the profession favourable to theemployment
of heat as a curative agent, and as a preventive of disease.
The writer to whom we now refer, in speaking of heat
applied in the same form as by Professor Gamgee, namely,
by the so-called Turkish bath; remarks :—" The Turkish
bath, not only as a medicinal agent, but also as a preven-
tive of disease, deserves consideration ; and ono cannot
help thinking that the hot-air chamber is almost as neces-
sary an adjunct to the extensive stock-keeper as to the
veterinary surgeon, and for the simple reason that in it we
have an agent which exerts more powerful influence than
any derivative, ox-purge, or blister, with lowering vital
power, for it carries off, or at any rate diminishes, the
amount of any virus that may circulate in the blood, and
by this means cleanses the system, and renders it better
able to throw cff disease, and to resist the attacks of it."
These are the opinions of men, both of whom are emi-
nent in their profession ; and the reader will have gathered
from them that not only aro these distinguished veterinary
surgeons favourably impressed with the belief that heat
as a therapeutic agent can be applied with benefit to the
lower animals, but that the belief has been put into prac-
tice. The application of heat has, in fact, been tried, and
tried successfully, among others by Lord Kinnaird, who,
although he may be best known in the neighbourhood of
Coaly Tyno for his connection with the Government in-
spection of mines, is yet well known as a large agricultu-
rist and cattle breeder. His lordship's experiments with
heat in cases of cattle distemper are conclusive. Ho has
had a so-called bath erected at Millhill ; and its curative
properties have been demonstrated in the most marked
manner, in such cases as those of calves suffering from
scour, &c. But still more decisive is the effect it has had
upon stots affected with pleuro-pneumonia. Out of three
patients which were on the spot at the time the bath was
"visited by a reporter two had every appearance of pro-
gressing towards perfect health. They ate well, walked
about with seeming comfort and ease, the cough had lost
its nasty metallic sound, the discharge from the nose was
stopped, the animals were no more hide-bound, and their
coats had no longer the staring aspect of disease. The third
patient, which was a larger animal than the other two, was
not yet so far recovered, but was a great deal better. This
is not by any means the whole of the experience to the
same effect. The gentleman, indeed, who has introduced
the Turkish bath to this country, we mean Mr. Urquhart,
has himself found that dysentery among dairy stock yields
readily to heat. Loss of milk is one of the symptoms of
dysentery; and on the fourth day after the beginning of
the attack, Mr. Urquhart has frequently had cows back to
their full milk ; while heat in the skin, and loss of appe-
tite are got over the day they appear. It must be under-
stood, however, that the heat required to produce a favour-
able impression in cases of pleuro-pneumonia must be very
great, up to 200 or 212 degrees, boiling point, in fact. At
a less temperature, the curative effect was not visible. In
other diseases, less dangerous, but, if neglected, hardly less
fatal, the hot air bath has been found a perfect cure.

Now, to apply these facts and this reasoning to the case
of the present disease in cattle. It will have been observed
that the symptoms of diseaso already cured by heat are the
same as some that are found in the prevalent disease. in
pleuro-pneumonia there aro loss of milk, dysentery,
diarrhoea, loss of appetite, cough, inactive skin ; in the cur-
rent disease these symptoms are found along, of course,
with others. The principal difference in the symptoms of
plouro-pneumonia and the prevalent diseases seems, so far
as is yet known, to be that, while in both cases the ani-
mals are hide-bound, in the former the skin is hot, and in
the other cold. This difference, however, would seem to
furnish an additional reason not only for experiment with
host in the case of animals seized with the now disease,
but also for expecting a satisfactory result.

TELEGRAPHIC GOSSIP.—" Heart's Content," the
place to which such constant reference is made in Mr.
Russell's account of the Atlantic Telegraph onterpri se, is said
by the New York Times to be a dirty little hamlet in New-
foundland, noted principally for its huge musquitoes, un-
trustworthy people, and beautiful bay.
TIIE YOUNG LADY AND THE OsTßicm—The
Bengal Hurkara says :—Among the domestic oc-
currences in the aviary of Barrackpore-park, at the be-
ginning of the year, was the deposit of an egg by the only
female ostrich in the collection. The mother taking
no steps to bring her offspring to maturity the task was
undertaken by a young lady of some nine or ten
years of age, the daughter of the late superintendent
of the park, who was then just deceased. Being well in-
formed of the conditions of incubation peculiar to ostrich
life, she filled an open box with the finest sand, in which
she placed the egg, exposing the whole to the heat of the
sun, and making in fact as near an approach to a Sahara as
could be accomplished by artificial means. When the sun
was not shining she removed her charge into the house,
where a hen performed the part of a mother, and the ar-
rangement was in due time attended with perfect success
When the hen saw her enormous offspring she fled in
affright, and was lost in infinite space. Tho young biped
now attached himself to the little lady, following her about
everywhere, refusing to be fed by any other hand, and de-
nying even the barest civility to the rest of the human
kind. His affection met with a ready response, and the
pair were the happiest playmates possible, until a new su-
perintendent was appointed to the park, who claimed the
bird on the absurd ground that it was the property of Go-
vernment. Master ostrich was accordingly removed to the
aviary, and his young friend became so inconsolable at the
loss as to be taken seriously ill. No treatment seemed to
alleviate her sufferings until a military surgeon at the sta-
tion happened to call at the house one day, and learned
the story of the poor child's sorrow and sickness. His in-
telligence, superior to mere professional instinct, at once
suggested the remedy. He immediately brought the case
to the notice of the Governor-General, and the. result. was
how the bird hopped in
an order for the restoration of the ostrich. to its original
;and how its occupant went
guardian. The narrator gives a graphic account of the
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to have a good run with its old playmate.

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£3,574,893 ; the amount already voted, £4,500,000 ; the
amount for the present year, £650,000 ; and the further
amount to complete the works is stated at £1,845,000.
And, according to the act, her Majesty's most dutiful and
loyal subjects, the Commons of the United Kingdom,
" cheerfully granted" the further sum of £650,000 for the
present year. The site for the central arsenal, in the
words of the act to be " created," is estimated at £150,000.
The fortifications are to be executed under the directions
of the Secretary of State for War, and the accounts are to
be laid before Parliament.

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