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Middlesbrough & Stockton Gazette and General Advertiser. — 1874-01-15 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

BOLTON. FITE DIVES LOST. About ten minutes to three o'dook on Thursday afternoon, a terrible boiler exploaion, resulting ill shodking loss of life, and great destruction of property, occurred at the forge belonging to Mr Alderman Walmsley, in Bridgman-street, Bolton. The work of this vast establishment, employing thousands of men, was procelyling calmly and methodically, when a loud report, which shoek tbe whole neighbourhood, was heard, telling too plainly that one of the massive boilers had burst. After the booming reverberation had ceased, and the cloud of dust and steam had passed away, ' the wrtek that was discernable was most complete. Bodies of men and boys, who were a few minutes before working in the vicinity of the boiler, and others who were working no less than a hundred yards away, were tonna lying . amidst the ruins—some gasping in the throes of death, and others bleeding profusely, but not it ii hoped fatally injured. As an instance of the awfulness of the calamity, and the fearful force of the explosion, it may be etated that one poor fellow, James Barlow, seventeen or eighteen years of age, was walking in the yard a hundred yards from the boiler, when a huge boiler slab, which had been hurled into the air by the explosion, caught him in its deseent and struck him on the neck, completely severing his head from his body and hurling it no less than a hundred yards away over a high wall on to the London and North WesternRailway which adjoins the forge. Both arms and one leg of the same unfortunate lah were also torn off and were found some half dozen yards from the trunk. The features were so blackened as to be almost unrecognisable. Assistance was quickly obtained, and hundreds of willing vdtunteers were glad to give all the help possible to the sufferers. A long line of cabs and handsome was quickly called into requisition to convey the sufferers to the Infirmary, the dead bodies being taken to the bookkeepers' offices, on the premises where they lay, a harrowing spectacle enough, side by side. Another man, who was found to be suffering severely, was taken in la cab to the Infirmary, but he died cn the way thither, bringing up the number of killed tq, -five. The furnace boiler was known as a Staley patent, and had been at work o.uly since Tuesday last. It was connected with one of the huge steam hammers used in the woiks, and was five feet in diameter. It was built by Messrs Poßit, Lever-street, and was erected near the end of a shed, a 'large portion of which wall blown a tremendous distance, bricks and mortar, as well as a segment of the boiler being found a hundred and fifty yards away. A large crowd of persons assembled in Lever-street, Bridgman-street, and the adjoining outlets to the scene of the terrible catastrophe.  At Oldham on Friday, a verdict of wilful murder was returned by a cororet's jay in the case of Francis W3nne, aged 65 years, who-e death was caused by kicks inflicted by roam person at present unknown
Middlesbrough & Stockton Gazette and General Advertiser. — 1870-12-23 (Stockton-on-Tees, Durham, England)

QUARZELB.—Ann Burke summoned Mar. garet Plows for assaulting her on the 13th instant. Defendant denied the charge. Complainant said that on Tuesday last she went into a neighbour's kitchen, when defendant entered and called her an old w—. Complainant told a long tale of the leaven, and was called to order by the Bench. She then exhibited the marks of three blows upon the face. Miss Mary Davies, in whose howse the row took place, said that defendant did spit in complainant's face, and use abusive language to her. William Burke, husband of the complainant, said that defendant had him up in the County Court on Tuesday, and that the riot irbance originated in his requiring a day's' wages for attending the County Court. In answer to the charge, defendant said that all the witnesses took false oaths. He called John Davies, father of one of the previous witnesses. He deposed that defendant spat into William Burke's mouth; he knew nothing further, except that defendant broke one of his chairs. .. _ _  Another summons, in which Margaret Davis charge, the same defendant with assaulting her, was heard before the bench gave a decision. It appeared that the defendant lodges with the complain wt. On the morning in question, she came down itairs and knocked complainant off a ehair. She then went upstairs again, brought a knife down, and threatened to stab complainant and her dafighter. In answer to this charge, defendant said it was given out she had murdered the complainant. Pr Lailler was sent for, and Dr. Ye, key Caine,' but he found that she was drunk, and told her to go upstairs away from them. One cf the witnesses could drink as much as a fish. To pay 10s in each ease, including costs, and advised to leave her lodgings. Witsur, Iltiatoz.—David Reynolds was summoned by Bridget Doyley for wilful damage to the door of her house, on the 10th December instant. Mr Clemmett appeared for the proseoutioa. A note was handed in, calling ucoa oompltinant to quit the house on the 26th November. Complainant said that she was juvft sitting down to her breakfa t on the Bth December when two men entered. She did not know for what purpose. Her sister was the wife of defendant, and agreed for her to have it at is per week, or with the addition of a room upstairs for Is 6d per week. She denied ever receiving notice to quit the house. The bench thought this one of those family quarrels which should not come into court, and ordered defendant to pay the casts.  It is rumoured that a committee of inquiry into the loss of the " Captain" will be presided over by Lord Duff erin. At a meeting of the Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge, held on Friday, a resolution in favour of the abolition of Tests, was carried by a large maority. A boiler exploded on Friday afternoon, at Foxes Colliery, Hanley. The boiler was lifted from its bed about ten yards. One child was seriously scalded. No lives lost.
Middlesbrough & Stockton Gazette and General Advertiser. — 1872-01-04 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

MURDEROUS ASSAULT AT STOCKTON.  Samuel Davis was brought up in custody charged with inflicting grievous bodily harm upon John McCann, on the 24th December last. Superintendent Booth said: In this case, your worships, I apply for a remand of the prisoner for a week, in consequence of the dangerous state of the prosecutor. He is very ill, and the doctor says that he is not likely to recover, and therefore I apply for a remand.—Mr Draper said that he appeared for the prisoner. It was really a case of mistaken identity, which he had witnesses to prove, and lie asked that the prisoner might be admitted to bail. —Mr Jackson: Oh, no, no; read the • depositions. —Mr Robinson, the assistant clerk, then read the following The examination of John M'Cann, of Stockton, in the county of Durham, puddler, takea on oath before me, Richard Jackson, one of Her Majesty's justices of the peace • for the said borough, on this third day of January, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, at Stockton, in the presence and hearing of Samuel Davis, who is charged this day before me, for that, be (the said Samuel Davis), on the 24th day of December, in the year of our Lord, 1871, in the borough of Stockton aforesaid, unlawfully and maliciously did inflict upon the said John *Cann, grievous bodily harm. The said John M`Cann, on his oath, saith :—I am now confined to my bed suffering from injuries inflicted upon me. by the prisoner, Samuel Davis. I believe that my life is in danger. I fear that lam in a dying state. „On Sunday evening, the 24th December last, between half-past ten and eleven o'clock, I met the prisoner and two other men in the High-street, at the south end of the Shambles, The prisoner struck me a blow on my right eye with his fist, which knocked me down. Whilst I was down I got several blows upon my heed, nose, and forehead. , I get up, picked gp my cap, and ran across towards the Vane Arms, up the flags, and into Green Dragon yard. I stood up beside the public. house, thinking that the men who were pursuing ins would pass on. They all three came up anl said " Here's the b— here." They then commeuced to kick and beat me till I became insensible._ I sold,  • When they were kie'ting me, "For God's sake don't kill me." When I came to myself they were gone. I was a long time getting home. I got to bei as soon aq I got home, and I have been ill ever since from the effects of the injuries I then received lam quite certain that the prisoner Samuel Davis was one of the men who struck me. He was the first man that did so. I had known him before.—Cross-exanained by the prisoner: I did see you on the Sunday night, about half-past ten o'clock. You wereithe first man that struck me. I did not know the other men who were with you at the time. You and the other men followed me. You followed me into the Green Dragon Yard.—The Mayor: Are the other men in custody —Supt. Booth: We have not yet identified them.— The Mayor: This is a ease we cannot admit to bail. It is remanded for a week.  NORTH RIDING feIPiLANY
Middlesbrough & Stockton Gazette and General Advertiser. — 1872-08-01 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

PARIS TRAGEDY.  A shocking ease with tried on Friday, before the Court of Assizes of the Seine, viz.—the murder of a son who was in the Versailles Army during the Commune of Paris, by his parents. The names of the accused are Pierre Joseph Louis and Marie Enphrasie Hamard--both 51 years of Vge, and parents of (strange to say) 15 children. During the sanguinary times which followed on the departure of the troops to Versailles, both father and mother espoused the Communist cause, the father taking a most active part in the insurrection. The fat that their son was in the army outside the city greatly exasperated them, and both father and mother were frequently heard to menace him with vengeance, the mother invariably saying, when speaking of her son "I should not be at all sorry to kill a Versailles—a drinker of blood, like that !" The father was of a ferocious disposition, and, together with his wife, had spent the whole of their fortune in drinking, irregularity, and debauchery, and the fortune of the five surviving children were, to his intense disappointment, settled on themselves. The eldest son, Peter, the victim of the tragedy, knowing the antecedents of his father, and the part he took in the March insurrection, and all the events which followed, took a small lodging for himself, when he left the service a few months afterwards, in preference to returning under the parental roof. On the 13th of April of the present year he went to his mother's laundress to re-claim some linen which his sister had left there two months previously. The mother, on hearing this, went on the 14th to demand the linen, which the son offered to give up on the reimbursement of the sum he had paid for it—viz, 3fr. 75c. The whole day was occupied in sending messages to and fro concerning the linen, and at eight o'clock in the evening, the father, exasperated, and with his Wife, in a state of intoxication, went to his son's lodgings, and invited him to come down into the street, where he called him a "drinker of blood," made use of the vilest epithets, and challenged him to fight. The son replied that he would never fight his own father; on which his mother, excited by drink, seized him by the hair, and, while she held his head back, the father plunged a knife into his heart, killing him on the spot. The depositions of the witnesses, principally the children of the murderers, were conclusive as to the totally drunken and demoralised existence of the parents; as for the tragedy itself, both father and mother disclaimed any intention of taking their son's life, notwithstanding their reiterated menaces in presence of neighbours, and their own children, who were present when the crime was accomplished. The Jury, after ten minutes' consultation together, rendered a verdict of guilty, without any mention of extenuating circumstances; and both father and mother were condemned to transportation for life.
Middlesbrough & Stockton Gazette and General Advertiser. — 1872-09-26 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

ATTEMPT TO MURDER FOUR PERSONS. EXTRAORDINARY CASE.  At the Ulverston Police Court on Friday, an Irishman named James Martin, was charged with shooting, with intent to kill Thos. Milburn and Frank Smith, and also with stabbing a gamekeeper, named J. Newby and stealing his gun. On Tuesday evening, between six and seven G'clock, Newby, and a young man of the name of James Mann, were walking along the Road leading from Barrow to Furness Abbey, and when near Newham ' they observed the prisoner on a fence, in company with a female. The latter made some remark to Mann, and he stopped, Newby continuing to walk on. Almost immediately after the prisoner rushed at Mann, and seized him. He succeeded, however, in getting away, and the prisoner then drew a knife, and ran after him. He tried several times, after overtakLing Mann, to stab him, but he managed to ward of the blows with a stick. Newby returned to the assistance of his friend, when the prisoner made a dash at him and stabbed him in the left shoulder. Fortunately the thickness of Newby' s clothing prevented the knife inflictiug more than a slight flesh wound. The prisoner then swore he would have a double-barreled gun Newby was canying. and a most determined struggle took place between the two, time prisoner several times striking at Newby with the knife. The latter eventually became too exhausted to continue the struggle, and the prisoner possessed himself of the weapon. With the view of getting out of the prisoner's way, Newby threw himself over the hedge, and the man ran off into a field. About this time Milburn, in charge of a load of barley, arrived on the scene, and the prisoner deliberately fired at him. Fortunately the aim was ill directed, and only part of the charge lodged in Alilburn's right leg. Another carter, named Smith, passed shortly afterwards, and the prisoner discharged the other barrel of the gun at him, hitting him on the side of the face, and causing him to fall out of the cart on to the road, where he lay for some time in an unconscious state. When he recovered he found the prisoner standing over him and kicking him. He managed, after a time, to get away, and ran off in tho direction of Newbarna. Meeting two men on the way they returned to the spot, where they found the prissnor who seems to have become somewhat exhausted by this time. They secured him in the cart, aid conveyed him to the police station at Barrow. No cause, except that he was slightly intaxicatei, was assigned for the prisoner's outrageous conduct, and he was sentenced to six months' imprisonment.  A fire occurred at the old Seaham Station, Hendon. Sunderland, on Monday morning. It was extinguished without material damage being done. There are at this time four chemical laboratories in Japan where the science is taught, three of them being presided over by Germans, and the fourth by an American.
Middlesbrough & Stockton Gazette and General Advertiser. — 1872-12-19 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

SERIOUS CHARGE OF ATTEMPT TO MURDER.  John Herring and Frank Cawley, two Irishmen, were charged with cutting and wounding Patrick Murphy, on the 16th inst, with intent to commit murder. Murphy was so seriously injured he could not appear. Mr Butler, surgeon, deposed to seeing Murphy, who was deluged with blood, about one o'clock this morning. After washing the blood off, he found Murphy's head literally covered with punctured and incised wounds, and also found a triangtilar stab on his right hand, which had evidently been iufllcted with a bayonet. He considered Murphy to be in great danger.—Sergt. Thornthwaite said he apprehended the two prisoners, and took them to the hour+) where the injured man lay. On seeing the prisoners Herring and Cawley, he said, "They are the two boys who bate me." —The Bench remanded the case till Monday next ; and it being considered necessary, swing to Murphy's dangerous state, to take his deposition. The Chairman, Mr R. Jackson, accompanied by Mr Robinson, magistrates' clerk, proceeded to the house at Portraok, where the wounded man lay, the two prisoners also being present. Murphy presented a frightful appearance, go less than 18 or 20 wounds having been inflicted on his head, from which blood appeared to have recently figemd and dried on the scalp; and the wonnd on the hand was a most frightful one, the wespon having struck close to the ball of the thumb, and penetrating completely through. Murphy appeared perfectly sensible, and gave his, evidence in a very clear and intelligent manner. On being sworn, he said : My name is P. Murphy. I am a laboures, and work at the Malleable Iron Works. I remember being at work yesterday. I left work last night after which I was badly beaten about the head in Portract•street. I believe lam seriously wounded. I left my work about eleven o'clock in company with James Ward, who works at the same place. I was coming home. As I was coming past Portraak-street I got a blow on my head from behind, from some one, I ran to the second house from the corner, and found it shut, I got no further than that. I sat down upon the step, and put up my hands to save my head as well as I was able. There was a party of six or seven men. I identify the two prisoners, John Herring and Frank Cawley, as two of the party. They beat me about the head till I was insensible. Herting and Cawley have beat me before. I know them well. I recollect both prisoners kicking me with their feet before I became insensible. I was stabbed thrnugh the right hand. It i-i a triangular stab through the hand, as if caused by a bayonet.—By Cawley: I say you kicked me. You kicked me at No. 14, Portrack-street. There were several othess there.— Murphy, who seemed to be possessed of a remarkably , strong nerve, signed the deposition with great freedom, considering the frightful nature of the wound 1 in his hand.
Middlesbrough & Stockton Gazette and General Advertiser. — 1872-12-19 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

ATTEMPTED MURDER BY A LOVER.—John Rutherford, fitter, was brought up charged with inflicting grievous bodily harm upon Mary Ann Kennedy, a housemaid in the service of Mr George Craggs, Yarmlane, on the 14th instant. It appears that the prisoner has kept company with the girl for about ten months, and is of a jealous disposition. On Saturday night, at eight o'clock, when she came out for a walk, the prisoner accused her of being out during the week, without his knowledge, a charge which was denied by the girl, and seemingly believed by the prisoner, for they went away in company and returned at nine o'clock. At this hour they were seen s'anding against the avenue gates of Mr Craggs' house, and Mr Carter, jun., passed them. Some words again ensued between the pair, during which Rutherford was heard to say that if the girl would not have him she should not have anyone else, forthwith producing a knife and stabbing her at the back of the head. Mr Carter, hearing the screams for assistance, ran back again, when he found the gill upon her knees, and Rutherford ill-using her. He seemed to have some instrument in his hand, and striking at her. He believed it to be a knife, but the girl said that it was a pistol. Mr Carter at once closed with the prisoner, who pulled a clasp knife from his pocket, and made several attempts  1  at stabbing him, but Mr F. Sanderson, inn., and another came to the place, and imaisted to secure the prisoner, who was then disarmed. The girl ran away home, and was there attended by Dr Howson, who, in addition to a punctured wound at the back of her head, found that her thumb was nearly cut off, probably in the effirts to save her throat. Mr Draper, who appeared on account of the prisoner, said that he would, at the adjourned hearing, prednoe evidence to show that the prisoner was not in his right mind, and which he trusted would induce the bench to ask two medical men to examine the prisoner with a view of sending him to a lunatic asylum. He was remanded for eight days. _  Dai.sic iivs Coxssuusncia.—John Byan, for being drunk and riotous on the 14th inst., was fined 5s 6d and casts; for assaulting P.C. Hood upon the same mission, be was committed to prison one month. with bard labour, and an alternative of seven days additional in default of paying ss 6d costs for damaging the officer's coat.—ThomasJackson, for drunkenness on the 14th inst., was fined 5e and (Pmts.—Wm. &old; and John Love, charged with violent behaviour on the 14th inst., were fined We each and costs.— Dominic O'Neil, for attempting to rescue a prisoner, on the 14th inst., was fined 20s and costs.—George Clark anti William Thompson, drunk and riotous on the 15th inst., were each fined 108 and costs.—Peter Finnigan, drunk and riotous on the 15th inst., was fined 5s and costs.—William Burns, &rink and riotous on the 15th inst , was fined 5e and costs. Ass.tur-rmo A
Middlesbrough & Stockton Gazette and General Advertiser. — 1872-03-21 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

LECTURE ON 'TOTAL ABSTINENCE AT MIDDLESBROUGH. —On Monday night, T. It. Taylor, Esq., delivered a lecture in the Oddfellows' Hall, Middlesbrough, under the auspices of the Young Men's Temperance Society, on the scriptural argument for total abstinence. The chair was occupied by the Rev A. C. Smith, and there was a fair attendance. The lecturer commenced by alluding to the remarks of the Rev. V. H. Moyle, at the late licensed ..victuallers' dinner in Middlesbrongh, and quoting the rev. gentltsnan's remarks as they appeared in the Gazette, went on to say :—Could Mr Moyle, ere he entered that meeting, pray that prayer with which he was accustomed to open our temperance meetings :—" Prevent us, 0 Lord, in all our doings with Thy moot gracious /amour, and further us with Thy continual help, that iu all woks begun, continued, and ended in Thee, we may glorify Thy holy name, and finally by Thy mercy obtain everlasting life, through Jesus Christ onr Lord." You know he could net. And wily? The curse of God is in the truffle, and they are the puest ds of the publicans who tell them so. Sin heir annual meeting, three of their number !lay bcor removed by death, one of whom was murdered 4 tho effects of the .drink upon his customers, cauargtilliem to assault him; another, I am told, on his . Oathbed, said to some of his companions, "I am going to hell; if any of you have any message, I will take it" Some years ago, a mechanic told me he had bought a house, and was going to open a beerhouse. His little girl was one of the most regular of my Sunday school children—always neat and clean. I called upon him and his wife, and told them the consequences. I said, "If you have bought the house let it to some one else, and stick to your own trade. You are comfortably 3ff; you have your wife and children, and can enjoy them. What will be the effect if you take them there ?" Little did I think how soon my worst forebodings would be realised. The little girl soon left off attending school; his wife became fond of the drink she sold, and one morning, on his coming down stairs, he found her sitting in the bar dead. There are instances occurring in our very midst. Every Sunday our town is disgraced by the open sale of these drinks; and yet, in the lgth century, a clergyman is found foolhardy enough to patronise the trade, and, by his presence at their feast+, encourage them in their unholy traffic. Mr Taylor then maintained at great length that there was no Bible argument for strong drink, and instanced, as abstainers approvingly mentioned in the Bible, eamson, the Rechabites, Daniel, and John the Baptist. At the conclusion of the lecture, a teetotaller and Good Templar made his debut in public speaking, and read an elaborate reply to Mr Taylor's theory, with which he had evidently come primed to the meeting before hearing the lecture: Votes of thanks to the lecturer and clesirman cloiel the meeting.