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Denton & Haughton Weekly News, and Audenshaw, Hooley Hill, and Dukinfield Advertiser. — 1874-08-14 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

THE INQUEST.  The inquest on the body of Margaret Igo, as having occurred under very suspicious circuinstanc ki at old-street, Ashton-under-Lyii.:, was opened on 1 ues.lay before Mr. F. Price. coroner for Lancashire, at the Town Hall, Asht u•under-Lybe. The husband, John Igo, is in custody on a charge of wiltul murder, and was present during the inquest. • Police-constable Boote, of the Ashton force was the first witness examined. He sail; I was on duty in Old-street ea the night of Sunday last, and passed the house of the deoeased about half-past twelve, and heard a noise as of persons quarrelling. I could not distinguish whether the voi,:es were male or female. The house was in darkness. A. little after One o'clock I was passing through Market Avenue, and on reaching Old-street, I saw a light in the deceased's house. The door was a little open. I pushed it open a lit+ le wider, and I said to the prisoner, "Igo, what, not gone to bed yet.?" There was another man there He did not reply. He was standing in the middle of the room. The other man was named Lynn, who was a lodger, and they were talking loudly, but I did not hear what was said. I stepped into the house and saw deceased lying on the floor. I closed the do3r inside, and went up to the deceased and felt her arm, which was cold. I Pu+. my hand on her bosom and found her body a little warm. I had first felt the wrist, and found no pulsation. I said to Igo,- "Your wife is dead, Jotn," and seeing his hands covered with blood, I said, "You have killed her." He replied, "Oh, what have I done; oh my poor Peggy," twice over. 1 told him he wood have to go with tne on a charge of murdering his wife. He then commenced crying, but made no other statement. He kept crying on the way to the station, "Oh my poor Peggy." I left him at the Town Hall, and went back o the house, which I had previously locked up, with police v:rgeant Chalmers, and on searching found a hammer near the right knee of the deceased, on the floor. The first time I went in I found her clothes disarranged, the right knee being uncovered I,:it on my entering Lynn pulled her clothes down, (l he hammer—a shoemaker's hammer —was produced, and has spots of blood upon it.) There was no blood near where the hammer was found, but there was nt ar the head. After I found the hammer, I went upstairs and found the bottom sheet of the bed with \ blood stains upon it, and the window curtain (produc ed), which was near the bed, was similarly stained, as vvell as the bolster. The deceased when found was bleeding from the right eye, the nose. and from a wound at the back of the head. There was a little blood inside the fin ers of the right hand. There was Hood on the floor, near to the head, and also on her clothing about the shoulder. I then returned to the Town hall, and charged Igo with unlawfully causing tie death of ' B wife, by striking her on the head with a hammer. e replied: " It's .a lie; whoever says Cut, je, uo (tie. lam uot up figlitWg man. No, uoi
Denton & Haughton Weekly News, and Audenshaw, Hooley Hill, and Dukinfield Advertiser. — 1874-08-14 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

LAST FRIEND GONE. ,'T •,. Next morning all was excitement at the hall. The riderless animal of Sir John having mpAe his aPP.armice near the stades, many were the conjectures that were rife as to what accident had befallen his rider. In the course of an hour, the form of Mr. Crawford Was seen approaching the ball, his horse galloping at a fearful rate ; and Walter who was about starting in search of his missing friend, awaiting with anxiety the arrival of the lawyer. " What is the matter? Where is Sir John ?" ivere )}4,e questions put to him on every side. .1* Those Cursed highwaymen 1" he gasped. "They attacked As. Sir John was ahead, and he would make fight with them, as I feared. Instead of throwing his Parse to the dogs, he drew his pistols and fired at the foremost robber; but another of the rascals shot him in the back. And as EOM 118 I saw him fall, I put Spurs to my horse and returned as quickly as possible. The villains called on me to stop, andione of them discharged his piece at me, but providentially did not touch me." "Great heavens 1" exclainted Walter,' "Did you stand idly by without endeavouring to assist my poor - friend 1" "  "What could I do? There were four of them, and lam unfamiliar with weapons my business is to defend the laws, not to break them." _  "You cowardly fellow! Do you call it breaking the law to defend a friend's life against assassiLs—a man too, whose protection you had placed youself, to leave him to die like a dog? May you, too, die where none are by to •Ruecour or to gave, and may you cry in vain for a drop of Water till death comes to your aid ! Alas! my last friend gone—murdered ! This is too cruel— too hard to bear."  "Are you sure. that Sir John was killed ?" inquired Dr. Lorne, who, with oth by tbe noise to the er guests, had been attracted spot.  Indeed, I cannot say for certain. I saw him fall from his horse, and they appeared to be rifling his body AB I looked back. I stood not upon the order of my going, I assure you, and I doubt not but this hot headad youth would have done the same," replied Mr. Crawford, with a 21ance of hate towards Walter.  The death of the old veteran was duly veri-ded. th neighbours having gone in search and found the 0c334. -5 The wound was, as stated by Crawford. in the back, the ball having penetrated his lungs. His watch, purse, and other valuables, with the exception of the morning* ring bequeathed him by his lately deceased friend, and which he had put on the ,night he started on his fatal errand, were missing. Walter remained at the hall until after the burial of Sir John; the funeral took place, a few days after, from his residence, near by. During Walter's short stay Gilbert seemed ill at ease, and remained most of the time in the library with Mr Crawford, engaged in business concerning his newly acquired property. The latter person and Walter sedulously avoided each other, and, when meeting by accident, no.recognition took place between them. When the tiead.oh• 46piai at Ws suuklarad, Maul were tour, Walter; de
Denton & Haughton Weekly News, and Audenshaw, Hooley Hill, and Dukinfield Advertiser. — 1874-07-17 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

THE MURDER BY KICKING AT OLDHAM.  At the Oldham Police Court, on Monday, John Snape and Watts Jackson were charged with the wilful murder of James Harrop, on the 2nd inst., at the Boundary Inn, Shaw-road. It appeared that on the day in question a quarrel had arisen in the Inn between the prisoners and another man named the "Old Soldier," when the deces.sed interfered, they both set upon him, and inflicted injuries upon him by kicking which resulted in his death. Robert Duckworth spoke to the deceased being knocked down, and while he was lying down Snape kicked him in the side. The deceased got up and ran out, with h's hands upon his stomach. Samuel Erskine, joiner, said that at noon ne went into the taproom of the Boundary Inn to have his dinner. He saw prisoners and the deceased. Deceased was sitting on the other side of the table, and when the prisoner Jackson was assaulting a man named " The Soldier," he said to him, "Don't you feel ashamed of yourself, striking an old man 1" Snape took up the remark and said, "Thee shut up, fat head; I have it for thee before." Snape went round the table and struck deceased with his fist. in the face. They got hold of one another, and Jackson assisted Snape to got the deceased down. When the latter was put down his head was on the form, and whilst in that position he was kicked by Snape. A man called the " Navvy " also struck I him, but he did not kick him.  John Clarke stated that•Snape laid hold of Jackson by the coat collar and struck him in the face, saying that he had an old grievance against hiui. Harrop got on the floor, and while there Suape struck him six or seven times with ,his fist, and kicked the deceased three or four times. He (witness) did not see where he kicked him. The people stood quietly round and saw him kicked. Harrop did not call out for assistance. Joseph Cooke, quarryman, stated that the deceased came to him about three o'clock in the afternoon of the assuult. He had blood on his jacket, a black eye, and face swelled. He complained that he had. been badly kicked. Witness and the deceased remained together until about nine o'clock in the evening, when he went home.  Cross-examined: We went into the Sun Inn aud had a quart of ale between us. One .or two men came in and drank with us.  Auu Butterworth, with whom the deceasedilived, stated that the deceased came home about eleven. His jacket was daubed all over with blood. He got his supper, and then went to bed the same as usual. He did not get up after that. He kept complaining of a pain iu his head and side, and had two black eyes, and his cheeks were swollen very badly. The evidence of Dr. Fawsitt having been given, to the fact that death had resulted from peritonitis, caused by violence. The Bench retired, and after a consultation of a few minutes, committed both the prisoners on the charge of "Wilful murder."
Denton Examiner, Audenshaw, Hooley Hill and Dukinfield Advertiser. — 1876-11-04 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

THE GENTLEMAN  JOURNEYMAN HATTER,  BY JOHN OODEN, HLTTIR,. AUDSHN4W.  A.PrgEt X. (colwriguno.) • 'Johnny. Johnsy,' ae sounded out' on the still night air the shrill voice'of one of the children's mother. Johnny maid he must go, hls oerripanione said they would go too, so enticing Close together. afraid of Casey's ghost, and was there something more to cause the frightened glances round, and the shuddering haste with which they moved away, woe there a guilty spirit near that bad thrown its dark shadow SCIOSB their path They saw it not, hut were strangely relieved from something when safely at home. It's time those children Were in bed,' said little . Joe, its a bad thing to let children rewk up at ; night. Very bad, said Grewk, no telling what it may lead to : Train up a child, etcetra, etcetra, theau knows what it is :—lttit it'w a sad thing that this young fellow should lose hie life, isn't it. lie were never much good, but he's pail for all now. 1  ...,.. -, wonder who murdered him. There'll be a rewsrl out I expect, and if we could only secure it vr should be right for a good long spree at any rat. I wonder who did it.  Henry Mason, Henry Mason, mused his companion. I should= wonder if he did it. but he hardly would come to that, though he did seem as be owfully provoked certainly. . Who arto thinking about? Fred French, he once threatened! Henry Mason. at the Turn-house in Frime, and he looked as if he meant what he said. Well, I think lie would hardly come to that my• sel, but it looks .911apiCi005. He gave his pals sl p at Liverpool af.er they had been to the Isle of Man, and he's been heard of .009 as a cabman in Liver • pool, and a cabman did this job; by gum it's him Joey and nobody else; it's him t— lihat'a that ? I am sure I heard something, said Little Joe, but it seas happen only the wind. Was there something, was it possible that the subject of these remarks had been listening to them and was now aimlessly rushing out into the darkness again? The two chums suspected it not, but were soon sound asleep. The morning following these transactions at the clamp fires found the two tramps early astir, they bad some miles to travel yet, before a Turn-house would be reached where something would be due to them from the trade, and were anxious to get it done Rough and ready, they turned off the coal bed as soon as both were fairly awake, stumbled over some old bricks, answered all right to the fireman's caution to beware the clay pit, and no were soon on the pathway near the pit. But here Little Joe panned, a dark object attracted his attention, he pointed it out to his companion in the dim twilight, remarking that it looked very mnoli like a silk hat. The body belonging to the hat was soon out of the May pit, and iu the morning twilight the two friends recognised it as that of a former companion of theirs, he who had been so long hopelessly in the toils, and was now hopelessly out of them.
Denton Examiner, Audenshaw, Hooley Hill and Dukinfield Advertiser. — 1876-07-29 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

LIMONADIER ON LONDON STREETS.  Any one who happened to walk along Fleet-street, says the Globe, the other morning, might have seen a fine example of the difficulty of importing foreign institutions into this country. An adventurous individual was to be observed patrolling the street in the full-dress costume of a French limonadier. The garb is not unknown even to English children who are at all addicted to infantile literature, and once seen it is not to be forgotten easily. It was most faithfully represented in real life, to the extreme and undieguised astonishment of the London populace. I There was the orthodox high white apron, giving a general air of coolness to the wearer, the correct padding of crimson velveteen, the proper shaped cups and glasses hanging to the most unimpeachable of brass hooks. Finally, the tall pagodalike monument of tin reared its minarets in glittering splendour far above the back of the limonadier, and a shining pair of metal taps extended themselves most eloquently towards the thirsty public. But the public was far too deeply engaged in wondering at the apparition to have any time left for obeying its instincts. It collected in crowds around the audacious Gaul who had dared to bring into London so unknovm a machine. If the innocent tin can upon his back had contained a solution of antimony or arsenic they could not have looked upon it with more profound suspicion. It was a hardy urchin who, balancing in his mind the low price demanded, the high position of the thermometer, and the sentiment of curiosity, against the risks of poison, stepped forward from the gaping crowd and partook of the mild beverage which satisfies the gamin of Paris. The example once set was of course contagious, and the litoonadier succeeded in establishing himself as a useful as well as an ornamental addition to the scene. Whether the form of example will end there or not may perhaps be doubtful. But it is very certain that a good many of our itinerant vendors of other things besides lemonade might advantageously take a lesson from the picturesque dress and equipments of the limonadier.  THE DOG MonGAN.—Mr. Justice Lindley and a special jury were engaged nearly a whole day at Manchester in trying an action to determine the ownership of the don Morgan, who became celebrated by the discovery of the miming remains of the victim of the Blackburn murder. The plaintiff, a beerseller at Preston, named B.dlev, was in possemion of the animal at the time, and he alleged he had bought it. The defendant, Mr. Parkinson, an oi merehant, at Preston, took the dog by force from Mr. Bailey, and arranged to exhibit it. to the public. He stated the animal was his, and he had never parted with it. The jury gave a verdict for the defendant. - •  THE DEATH Is ANNOUNCED of the Rev. Charles Flesketh, for over forty years rector of North trieols. The living is in the gift of the liesketh family. The late rector, according to the new Domesday Book, had a rent roll of over £20,000 per annum.
Denton Examiner, Audenshaw, Hooley Hill and Dukinfield Advertiser. — 1876-11-25 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

ORIENTAL MAGICUNS.  In a letter published in the Times from Captain Burton, on the subject of Oriental Magicians, that gentleman quoted Mr. Lanes account of "the Cairo magician and the mirror of ink in the boy's hand" as a striking evidence of the "presence of. force or a power evidently intelligent and palpab'y material? Dr. T. N. Brushtleld, in the Times, points out that in "Knight's Weekly Volumes" there is a full description of the exposure. Another correspondent says: "Captain Burton alludes to the Cairo magician and ! the mirror of ink in the boy's hand, and he mentions that the same process is everywhere utilised in India. It is so in some parts, no doubt; out of the value of the process for the discovery of the truth the following anecdote may enable your rmders to judge. When I was a magistrate over a very large district a case came before use in which a native had been charged before one of my European deputies with murder, on the allegation of one of these jugglers; it thus became my duty to put him officially to the test. Accordingly, after he had assured me that he could call up the spirit of my dead father, I asked him to do so, when, after the usual preliminaries, the boy said he saw before him a tall fair man, with a large lightcoloured beard, and wearing a scarlet uniform. This would have been is very good description if I had taken after my father as to height, appearance, and profession, so probably the magician guessed I had; but, as it happened, my father was a short dark man, wor, merely the remnant of a whisker, as was customary ' in the navy in his day, and being of that service, of course wore a blue uniform, not a scarlet, when in uniform at all. So much for that attempt. I then asked him if he could call a living staler of inMe, and in site time I was informed by the magician that the boy saw her, a tall, fair, handsome woman, wearing a pair of gold brocade trousers, with beautifully worked chemisette, a pair of immense pearls in her nose ring, and an equally fine ruby, and on her toes rings set with diamonds; in short, the whole costume of a native lady of the highest reels. As I happened to havens sister living, the fact of the whole being a simple piece of imposture was obvious, even if she would have been likely to dress in such awe, Rs described; but this I found, on questioning the magician and the boy, had evidently arisen from the fact of neither of them ever having seen n European lady, the country having but very recently come under British rule.  THE appearance of the mosquito in this country may he regarded as the immediate effect of a gnatmospheric change. WRITE for n Sample Packet of Horninzan's Pure Tea, IO HERRMAN & Co., London, who to show its superior quality will send Sample post free to all applicants.
Denton Examiner, Audenshaw, Hooley Hill and Dukinfield Advertiser. — 1876-10-21 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

THE TRANS VAAL ASSASSINATIONS.  A correspondent of the Slawlard and Mail says: "Captain von Schlickmann's volunteers are all Europeans or Colonial men, who will have to prevent the rebels from picking and sowing, and by these means the President hopes to starve Socoemsni into submission within sin months."  , The Cape Times publishes from the Mercury an incident of how Schlickinann was carrying out these proposed measures. On August 25 a party ,of Schlickmann's force went out from Steel Poort to scour the surrounding mountains, twenty-three men with a cannon went on one side, and twentylive men on horseback went on another. The men with the cannon destroyed a large number of huts belonging to various Kaffirs residing among the kloofs and hollows of the mountains, but they came upon no Kaffirs. The party of horsemen on their way to a kraal or a Kaffir village suet some women who had been out to gather food. The first one, a young woman, was wounded by one of the band, who afterwards alleged that he did not know it was a woman. She was then shot through the head as she lay on the ground by another of the party. Both men were Englishmen. Several more women were killed in the kraal. They were questioned as to where the cattle of the kraal were, and were promised that their lives should be spared on condition that they told. They gave the information, but the cattle were not overtaken. The two women were then taken back with the volunteers to Steel Poort, and a council of war seas held as to what should be done with them. It was decided, or at least pretended to be so, that they should be net at liberty. They were then sent out under escort of two Kaffir. belonging to Schlickmann's force. When they arrived at the river one of the chiefs of the volunteers is said to have told the Kaffirs, "Now you are to kill these women, and to know that they are dead I must hear the shots." The women were accordingly followed. One of them put , her hands together, and besought the Kaffirs, whose , intentions she appears to have divined, not to shoot her. She had an infant on her back. The man fired his gun, the ball took effect in the child's head, and passed through the woman's shoulder. The other woman was shot by the other Kaffir through the back. The Kaffirs then stabbed their victims, and returned and showed the blood upon their assegais. There was a great outcry among the more decent men of the volunteers, but no steps were taken to prevent such atrocities. The leader of the volunteers is alleged lobe more anxious to kill the women than the men, because, he says, they pick and sow, and thus are the chief instruments in prolonging the war. The details of these murders have not only been received at Kimberley, but have also been brought into Leydenburg by several persons from Steel Poort. A Steel Poort Kaffir says: "The women begged hard for their lives. They offered to show where there was a lot of grain hidden." The Kaffir murderers themselves have also not hesitated to toll the horrible tale.