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The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1867-09-07 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

TERRIBLE "LYNCHING" SCENE.  Some months sips, says a Chicago paper, Monza Tibbets, of this place, was arrested in Maine, on the charge of murdering Thomas Page, a brother of Tibbete being reps Teed to have made a confession charging him with the crime. At the trial this brother refused to testify, the court sustained him in the refusal. and the prisoner WM acquitted by the jury. Much indignation was manifested at the verdict, Tibbets being generally believed guilty; and a few slays since a meeting was held in the neighbourhoisl where the Tibbets' reside, in which it was resolved that if they slid not both leave the country in five days they would be lynched. Tile two men refused to go, and the excitement became intense. On Friday a large meeting was held south of the Illinois River, and some 200 citizens resolved to hang Monza. Tibbets ; in the meantime, the ekeriff had committed him to gaol in the place. Saturday morning, hundreds of the citizens of the county came in, threatening to carry out their designs, and remained upon tbe streets all slay. At three o'clock they held a meeting, and resolved to break into the gaol and get Tibbets. They inanesliately repaired to the gaol, I snke open the iron door with crowbar., and took Tibbets across the river bridge to hang him. The Mayor, S. B. Thomas, Judge Keating, Judge Grant. Major Welsher, the late mayor, K B. Hann, and many other citizens, did what could be done by them to prevent it, but were overpowered, and carried away by the mob bodily. The crowd took Tibbete in a waggon across the river bridge, put a rope around his neck, fastened it to a tree, and gave him an opportunity to speak. He said  My horse, rere poisoned by Thomas Page. Had I deeired to kill him, I should have done it then I did not kill him. I can prove I teas not near there that day. I know nothing about it. My wife knew nothing about ic, and I am innocent.  Someone from the crowd asked him if his brother Joseph did not kill Page. He answer( •` Since then Joe has told me that he meant to kill l'age, and (lid so." He was asked why he did not testify no on the trial. He answered, " Because he was my brother." They tied his hands behind him ; he knelt down and prayed shout three minutes. When be rose up they asked him what he wanted done with his body, lie replied, "Give it to my wife." He then said, "Gentlemen, I die with a dear conscience; I am innocent." Someone then called to the crowd, "Are you satisfied to hang him ?" The crowd shouted, "No !" but those in the waggon drove suddenly away, and left him dancing in the air. Efforts were made to cut him down, but all such were in vain. The mob kept all away until he was dead. Great excitement prevailed. Some of the most influential men in the southern part of the country are the leaden; in it.
The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1867-12-07 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

COUSHIB. Farewell, from your affectionate brother, MICHAEL O'BRIEN, sites WM. GouLn. In a second edition of the same journal appears the "Dying Declarations of the Manchester Victims." The 'mailman, in giving these "declarations," rays: " it has been stated in the English papers that the three victims at Manchester left written declarations in the hands of their confessors. These did not think prudent to give them publication, just as they persuaded them from speaking on the scaffold. We, however, see no reason why these documents, copies of which we • have been forwarded, should be withheld f rom the public, more especially as they are worthy of the occasion, and contain grave admonition to courts of justice." "The declarations" follow in the subjoined order:—  L Declaration of William Philip Allen. I wish to say a few words relative to the charge for which am to die. In a few hours more I will be going before my (bal. I state in the presence if that great Got that lam not the man who shot Sergeant Brett. It that man's wife Is alive, never let her think that lam the person who deprived her ,if her husband ; and if his family is alive, let them never think I am the man who deprived them of their father. I confess I have committed other sins against my God, and I hope he will accept of my death as a homage and adoration which I owe Ilia Divine Majesty; and in atonement briny past trangressions against him. There is not much use in dwelling on this subject much longer ; for by this time lam sure it is plain that lam not the man that took away the life of Sergeant Brett. I state this to put juries on their guard for the future, and to have them inquire into the characters of witnesses before they take away the lives of Innocent men. But, then, I ought not to complain. Was not our Saviour sold for money? and his life sworn away by false witnesses? With the help of the great God I am only dying to a world of sorrow to rise to a world of Joy. Before the judgment seat of God there will be no false witnesses tolerated, every one must render all account for himself. I forgive all the enemies I ever may have had in this world May God forgive them forgive them, sweet Jesus, forgive them. I also ask pardon of all whom I have injured In any way. In reference to the attack on the van, I confess T nobly aided in the rescue of the gallant Colonel Kelly and Captain Denny. It Is well known to the whole world what my poor country has to suffer, and how her tons are exiles the world over ; then tell me where is the Irishman who could look on unmoved and see his countrymen taken prisoners and treated like murderers and robbers in British dungeons. May the Lord have mercy on our souls and deliver Ireland from her sufferings ! God save Ireland!
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1876-12-16 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

FOREIGN. Wheat (63 lbs. to the bushel) Oregon 57 to 59 Dantzic, Konisgberg, and California 56 to 58 Oats—Russian, Sweeden, and Danish 2B to 31 Indian Corn (per 480 lbr ) 2B to 29 LIVERPOOL CATTLE, Dec. 11.—There were 3,831 beasts against 3,217, and 8,116 sheep agemst 6,006 last week, thus showing a considerable increase as regards the latter. There was no foreign stock on offer. The attendance of buyers from the country was numerous, and prices were in buyers' favour. There were some prime Irish oxen on offer, fed up for the Christmas sho*. Prices :—Best beasts, 7d to 81d; secondary, 54d to 61d; sheep, 8141 to 10y1.  MIDDLESBROUGH CATTLE, Dcc. 13.—At the market to-day best beef realised from 8s 6d to lOs 6d per stone; secondary qualities, 7a to 8s 6cl per stone; sheep, Sid to lid per lb ; pork, 9d to 10c1 per lb. The show of beasts was good, and of fair quality; sheep was in fair demand, and the show a good one. Pigs were a moderate show. Numbers in the market :—Beasts, 105; sheep, 255; pigs, 15.  WAKEFIELD CATTLE, Dec. 3.—The Christmas show of fat stock was held here to-day, when about 2000 good useful beasts were exhibited. Trade ruled brisk at from 9s to lie per stone of 14 lbs. Upwards of 4,200 sheep penned, small sheep sold readily at 10d per lb., and other sorts made from 8d to 9d. MIDDLESBROUGH PROVISION, Dec. 13. At this market fresh country butter sold at from Is lid per lb.; country eggs 5 for Is.  STOCKTON WHOLESALE POTATOE AND FRUIT, Dec. 13.—Round potatoes, English, £0 Os per ton; potatoes, foreign, £4 5s to £0 Os per ton. Walnuts, 3s per stone. Onions, new, Be Od to 9s 6d per bag of nine stones. Lemons (selected), 10d per dozen; Black Grapes, Os per case; Almeria do., 140 to 31s per dozen. Duchess pears, 7s 6d per basket. Apples, lOs Od to 13s per cwt.; do., 41s to Os per cask; Ribston Pippins, 3s 6d per stone; New:ewn Pippins, 25s per barrel ; Baldwin Pippins, Os Od per barrel. English filbrets, Os per lb; foreign do., Os per stone. Cranberries, 4s 6d per keg. Chesnuts, 21s per bag of 15 stones. Black Spanish nuts, 4s 3d per stone. New figs, 3d to 6d per lb. Oranges, St. Michael, 13s to 14s Od per box; Palermo do., 10s Od per box. Liquorice root, 4s 6d per bundle. Carrots, £3 Os per ton.  Dr. Campbell, President of Aberdeen University, died at Aberdeen on Tuesday morning. A Lloyds' telegram states that the two missing boats of the screw-e3amer Woodham have safely arrived, one at Lisbon, and the other at St. Ives, with the captain and. the remainder of the ships company.  ANOTHER MURDER IN IREL Stringer, a private of the 87th Royal Fusiliers, has been murdered near the Cavalry Barracks, Galway. His body is believed to have been thrown into the Canal, but it has not yet been found.
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1876-03-11 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

AMERICAN "BURIAL QUESTION. "—The New York papers state that Catskill is in a fever of excitement over the body of Joseph Waltz, executed Nifty 1, 1874, for the murder of Harmon Robber, an Albany scissors grimkr. At the time of the execution the body was buried on the Waltz farm, the scene of the murder. Wishing to dispose of the farm, old Mr Waltz has disinterred the body, and attempted to have it buried in the Catholic Cemetery at Jefferson, in the town of Catskill, but several of the members of the church and congregation of Bt. Patrick's Church in that place entered their protest against the burial of a murderer in consecrated ground, and threatened if the body was buried there to dig it up and throw it on the road-side. Father O'Driscoll insists the body shall be interred in consecrated ground, while a number of his parishioners insist it shall not. The pastor has written the bishop for instructions, but nothing definite has been concluded upon, and the people are becoming more and more excited.  CORK CORN March B.—White wheat, Os Od to Os Od; red do.. Os Od to 04 Od; currency, Os Od; barley, Os Od to Oa Od ; currency, Os Od ; black oats, 7s Gel to 8s 01 ; currency, Os 01 ; white do., Os Od to Os Od. LONDON CORN, March B.—Nothing doing in English wheat, an prices merely nominal ; old foreign wheat firmly held; new American wheat se.ling at low prices, quality being poor. Flour very dull, and prices tend in buyer's favour. Maize without change. Barley steady dem ind, at late values. Beans and peas steady. British wheat, - - 360 „ barley, • - 2,360 oats, . . „ maize. - „ floor - Foreign wheat,: - 7,410 barley . 320 oats, - - 8,090 „ maize, - floux, . 3,140 sacks. 710 barrels. LIVE RFOOL CORN, March 7.—The market opens with a moderate demand for wheat and flour, at about previous prices. Indian corn without material change.  NEWCASTLE CORN, March 7.—Steadier tone in the wheat trade, but the demand is only of a retail character, and for fine qualities at Saturday's prices. Malting barley remains neglected ; grinding unaltered. Oats firm, but inactive. Maize in moderate request, at Saturday's prices., Flour dull. S TOCKTON CORN, March B.—There was only a emit supply of wheat at market, with average attendance of Mayers, and met a fair demand at last week's rates. Barley and oats unchanged. Beans and peas in good demand, at full prices. The Stockton averages for the week ending March 6th show wheat to have been 44s 41 per imperial qr. BRITISH : WHEAT, !per quarter of 631bs to the bushel  . . Eurham and Yorkshire Red 40 to 46 ditto White .46 to 52 South Country, Red 44 to 46 difto White 4B to 52 MALTING BARLEY, per Imperial qr Grinding do 27 to 59 FEED OATS Potato 421bs. per bushel .... - 2 B 2B to 32 Bzalcs
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1879-05-31 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

DEATH OF A CENTSNARIAN.-An old woman ments is stated to be entirely to obtain the P ssure. He entirely approved the step which the Government had taken, and maintained to employ a number of men to break them A large were admitted, and information was refused. per day or shift. crowd assembled outside the prison, diagrams the mint Jane Harris el, who far the past ten us which is paid, including the enlistment in accordance with the scale of the Union.that it entirely justified the action of the and punctually at eight o'clock the black rise and fall of mu. td been an inmate of the Kingston-on- shilling, and, as many men are out of work, • ' they adopt this plan.-At the same Court Workhouse, has just died at the age Opposition, employment of some men on the proposed The execution of Thomas Johnson for the several other districts, it. ere Deeefteed up to within a short time another indication of the bad times Was improvement of Blind-lane, a road leading murder of Eliza Mary Patten, an " unfortn- the exception of Durham a her death retained full possession of al. • her presentee by forty-two persons being In the House of Lords on Tuesday even- from Pinchingthorpe Railway Station to • a Earl Caclo an in reply to the Earl of nate," at Toxteth Park, on the 25th March share, in which wages show.. *uses. She was an inveterate snuff taker. summoned. for non-payment of rates. The ins, .g ,Stockton and Guisborough highway, but it last, took place on Wednesday •point, the he al Sh morning at e wages i sever o c Her husband, William Harrison, is still iii majority had been settled out of Court, an S' 3 Carnarvon said that Sir Henryen n wer and was agreed to postpone the consideration L ' neither recalled no Kirkdale Gaol at eight o'clock. Efforts had fallen in varying degrees from , the house but he is a comparative jnvenile. in the case of the remainder orders were Colonel anyoTn were would r. of thia subject to the next meeting. ,th • superseded. They wo retain their pre been made for a commutation of the sentence, the district of South Wales . being only 83. This case is believed to be made. but beyond formal acknowledgment of the cent. in the district of Northumbe, trustworthy, and in the record of the old Tee Emanuel a. left Stettin for Bristol on. sent positions as Lieutenant-Governor of es woman's death in the ne ion books her age is the 27th inst. f the T teal Natal and Administrator o e ransv , but Sir G. Wolseley, by his commission, petition by the Home Office no communicr.- is stated with regard to the third pm tion had been received. The convict has beeu the parties differed as to the compi set down as that stated above. She died became Governor of these two colonies. simply from senile decay. Todd's Quinine Wine for Indigestion, Platteeney, Natal and the Transvaal would remain dis- that he had any intention -of murdering the districts; but it appears from the Bacot, A
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1879-05-17 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

THE EUSTON-SQUARE  MYSTERY.  After reading the account of the Eustonsquare mystery at Bideford, Devon, on Tuesday, the parents of a young woman named Hannah Dobb, not Dodd, as stated, came to 1 the conclusion from the description given that the murdered woman was their daughter. The parents of Hannah Dobb reside at Bideford, where they keep the Blacksmiths' Arms pub lic-honce. Their daughter, who Wa3 about 30 years of age, resided at Euston-square, London, last summer. She went MI a visit to Bideford with two children, and then stated she Wa3 married to a Mr Bastendo if, of 1. Emton-square, but the child en, she said, were not hers. In November last a man, who gave the name of Bastendorff, came to Bideford, and stayed ceveral dhys, and passed as the husband of Hannah Dobb. A photographic likeness of this man is in the possession of Mrs Dobb. Hannah Dobb did not return to London in company with her supposed husband, but having missed her ticket was sent back by the railway company without any extra charge; and after her supposed return to Euston-square a te'egram was sent back by Bastendorff saying she had arrived safe. From that day to this no tidings whatever have been received frod: Hannah Dobb by her parents. Although repeated letters have been sent to No. 4, Euston-square they have invariably returned through the Dead Letter Office. While at horse at Bideford she stated that on her return to London she was going abroad to Germany with Dr. _Bastendorff, a brother of her hits.  band, and her parents naturally supposed she had gone abroad. They received a letter some little time after she had returned to London from a person in Euston-square, asking what they should do with some boxes belonging to Hannah D. bb, who had gone away. Hannah Dobb was a fine-built woman, with fair complexicn ; light air, worn in curls ; had lost a fitent tooth, and had another decayed; and answered hi most particulars the description of the murdered woman. Supt. L'hipman, of I the Bideford Borough Police, has gleaned the ' above facts and forwarded them to Scotlandyard, with a photographic likeness of the man who passed as Bastendorff at 13i3eford. The only point of uncertainty in the matter is whether the Hannah Dobb said to be undergoing imprisonment is the same woman as Hannah Dobb at Bideford. One thing seems to be clear, that the man who accompanied the woman to Bideford was not her husband. .  The Central News is informed that Hannah Dobbs is now alive and undergoing sentence in prison for felony, but the police expect to gain some link from her Which will lead to the identification of the body. It is also stated that some complication has arisen in the Easton-square case by its becoming known that there were two girls residing at 4, Euston-square, who were known to be kept women. They were in the house before Bastendorff came, I ut whether they remained afterwards is not known. They disappeared about the same time.
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1879-07-12 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

NEW YORK MURDER.  The city of New York has for ten days past been greatly excited about a mysterious murder, which thoroughly baffled all police investigation, and which was not explained until June 23rd, vilien a Boston newspaper reporter was the means of capturing the murderer. Mrs Jane L. De Forrest Hull, well-known lad), residing at 14, West FortySecond-street, New York, and the wife of D. Alonzo Hull, was found murdered in her bed on the morning of Jane 11. She had seen suffocated by a pillow or clothing pressed upon her mouth, and was bound • hand and foot by strips of sheeting to the bed. A trunk alongside the bed had been rifled of its contents, and valuable rings torn from her fingers. There was no clue to the murderer, but many were suspected, even the lady's husband, who slept in another part of the house, The crime and the failure of the police to find the murderer strongly agitated New York. The newspapers every day published pages on the subject, giving theory after theory which were worked out with no result, and there was quite it hue and cry raised about the inefficiency of the police, when chance led to the detection of the murderer in a man not before suspectea. It appears that last week a new() in Boston dii.posed of a set of cameo jewellery to a pawnbroker. This was subsequently identified as past of Mrs Hull's jewelry, and the negro's description being posted at police head-quarters, Mr W. B. Balch, a newspaper reporter, while walking along Shawmutavenue, thought he saw the man walking in front of him. He went up and, accosting the negro. asked a direction. The negro replied that he could not give it, as he was a stranger there from New York. This con• firmed the impression, and following the negro until he entered a negro church, the reporter informed the police, who arrested him. He submitted without resistance, and Mrs Hull's watch being found in his possession, he at once confessed the crime. He said he entered the house through a window about 10 p.m., taking a candle with him. Ascending the stairs he heard some one snoring in a bed room. Mrs Hall asked, " Who is it ?" He replied, "The doctor." She put her hand up and touched his face, whereupon he threw her hand back and laid his hand heavily upon her mouth. She struggled, when begot hold of a Cologne bottle and dashed it over her face, after which he got on the bed and made a gag of the bed clothes. By this time she was exhausted, and he tied her to the 13c1 in the manner in which she was found. He then relighted the candle, and holding it close to her face to ascertai- her condition the Cologne ignited, singeing her eyebrows, and burning her face —injuries which, at the time, added to the mystery of the murder. He then robbed the trunk and took her rings; and, leaving the house, soon afterwards went to Boston.
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1879-07-26 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

LIEUTENANT CAREY.  The Daily News of last Saturday says: —The fact that Lieutenant Carey has been sent home, together with the proceedings ol the court-ma Alai by which he was tried, admits of no other interpretation than that which our Special Correspondent places on it. The presumption, he observes, is that Carey has been found guilty, and that Lord Chelmsford declines to exercise his powers in a matter in which he has a deep personal interest. The impression prevails that Carey has been sentenced to be shot on the ground of cowardice and misbehaviour in the presence of the enemy, and that Lord Chelmsford has not dared to execute the sentence, but has sent it and its victim home to England, to be dealt with as may seem good to the authorities. These authorities are said already to be in possession of the sentence. In the mystery which is preserved about courts of inquiry and courts-martial it is impossible to be positive on this subject. But the impression which we have mentioned prevags very generally, and is credited in quarters not likely to be easy misled. Our Correspondent in previous despatches expressed his conviction that the design existed of making a scapegoat of Lieutenant Carey in order t:.) screen the faults of others, and that the charges on which he was tried had been framed with consummate ingenuity for this purpose. It will be for the English people to see that Lieutenant Carey is not made a scapegoat. There is no ground for thinking, whatever may be the sentence of the court-martial, that the life of the unfortunate offioer will be sacrifioed. But this is not enough. Care must be taken that his honour and his rrofessional career are not needlessly sacrificed. It may be, as our correspondent suggests, that at a critical moment his nerve failed him. But an officer of the experience which the Duke of Cambridge possesses cannot but know that a man's nerve may fail him in war without justly subjecting him to the imputation of cowardice. Even this is but a conjecture. If the accusation made against Lieutenant Carey, or implied in his conviction without being formally made,is simply that he did not sacrifice his life to that of the Prince Louis Napoleon —that he did not do more for him than for any other of his comrades—that he did not show a personal devotion which might have been chivalrous, but which certainly could not be demanded from him—his condemnation is iniquitous. If the evidence, when it is tally known,justifies the finding of the court-martial there will be no more to be said. But it will be for Carey's countrymen to see that he is not, for perhaps at most a venial and momentary error, ruined to save the reputation of others.  Taxes.—Advertisements frequently appear in the English papers recommending the advantages of Texas as a field for agriculture. Adjutant-General Steele, of Texas, reports another, not usually mentioned—viz., that there are between 4,000 and 5,000 fugitives from that State, of whom 851 are murderers.  THZ EXETER IaUBDER.—