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Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1883-06-09 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

THREE CHILDREN DROWNED BI  ...  THEM MOTHER.. Last Saturday a shocking tragedywas enacted at Bollington Cross, Macclesfield. Early in the day the wife of Philip Davenport, blacksmith, left her home with three children, two boys and a girl, aged respectively eight, six, and four years. For some time the neighbours have regarded her as queer. She said she was going into the village to buy meat, but went across the fields in the opposite direction, and was not again seen until her screams and gesticulations attracted the aktention of some men who were passing along the bank of the Manchester, Slietheld, and Lincoln Company's canal. Upon the men going up to her she pointed to the bodies of the three children floating en the water, which was only three or four feet deep. Strangely enough, none of the men ventured into the water, or it is just possible that the lives of the children might have been saved. One took charge of the mother, while the others ran to an adjoining farm-house for assistance. Eventually the children were got out, but life wee extinct. Mrs Davenport was taken to Macclesfield Police Station, and thence to the Union Workhouse Asylum.—The inquest on the bodies of the three children was held on his wife had been eccentric for some time, more especially within the past fortnight, but he had no idea that she contempls.ted destroying either herself or the children. When he left home on Saturday morning for his work, at half-past five, she was in her usual health, and bade him good morning quite cheerfully. After the occurrence ho found in a drawer a letter addressed to him, in which she said :—" It will be hard for you when you know what I have done, and all for nothing. You have been a good, hard-working husband to me, and a good father to your children. The reason I have taken your dear children is because I thought they would be better off than me to leave them in this world of trouble. .God bless you, and don't fret."— Two miners, named Fletcher and Hatton, said Mrs Davenport shouted to them some distance off. When they went to her she pointed to the eilltildren in the canal.—Asked why they did not jump in and try to rescue them, one man said be could not swim, and the other said he had to bold the woman, who tried to thrsw herself in. v--The Coroner observed that where the children were there was not more than four feet of water, but the witnesses replied that they did not hnow that. One said he would have gone in had he seen any life in the children, but they were dead. They ran for assistance, and eventually got the bodies ont.—On the way to the lock-up Mrs Davenport said the children were throwing stones, and fell into the canal.—The jury returned a verdict of wilful murder.  "BuerruParse.."—A new, quick, complete cure .3r all urinary affections (smarting, frequent or difcflult) and kidney diseases. 4s. At Druggists. London Agency, No. 1, King Edward's-street.— Anvr. _ . . .
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1888-10-06 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

THE MAN WHO FOUND THE BODY. :t was Lewis Themstritz, the steward of the fid at ove referred to, who found the body. rnstritz, who is s traveller in cheap jewellery, spent the day at Weston Hill Market, near Crystal Palace, in pursuance of his avocaand had driven home at . his .usnal hoar,  In Berners-street at one o'clock. On torn:  into -the gateway he had some difficulty with pony, the animal being apparently deternal to amid the right hand wall. For the rent Dienistritz did not think much of i occurrence, because he knew the  my was given. to shying, and be thought naps some used or refuse was in the ty. The pony, however, obstinately refused go etraight, so the driver pulled him up to ie what was in the way. Failing to discern Sythire in the darkness, Diamstrita poked about ith the handle of the whip, and immediately Is-overed that some large obstacle was in his Ith. To jump down and strike a match was the ork of a second, and then it became at once aptont that something serious had taken place. fithout waiting to see whether the woman whose Day he saw was drunk or dead, Dienastrita etered the clob by the aide door higher up the Inc., and informed those in the concert-room  stalra that something hsd happened in the rd. A member of the ebb named Kozebrodski, t familiarly known es leases. returned with ~mstrttz into the court, the former struck . . . . _ .  owl, while the latter lifted the body up. - It 1 wit once apparent that the woman was dead. lie body was still warm, and the clothes envelops it were wet from the recent rain, but the ! lit bad ceased to beat, and the stream of F, in the gutter, terminating in a hideous ' near the club door, showed but too bly whet had happened. Both men ran off bent delay to find • policeman, and at the e tune other members of the club, who had this time found their way into the court, went with the Caine object in different directions. e search was for some time fruitless. At last, serer, orter considerable delay, • constable si found is Commercial-road. With the aid of 19 yolicenion's whistle more constables were siet!y on the spot, and the gates at the entrance ithe court having been closed. and a guard set a all the exits of the club and the cottages, the ipenutendent of the district and the divisional xgeon were sent for. In a few rainntes Dr. 'tullips was at the scene of the murder, and a in: domination sufficed to show thot life had an extinct some minutes. Careful notes timg been taken of the position of the body, • was removed to the parish mortuary of St. ,eorge's-in-the-East, Csbleativet, to await iden.  THE WOMAN rDENTIFIED. leder on the victim was identified as Elizabeth e, who, it ereems, had been leading a gay life, bad resided latterly in Lower Dean-street. me identified by a sister living in Holborn. husband, who resides at Bath, has lived apart her for nearly frve years.
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1888-05-12 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

THE CYNIC.  There is no more contemptible chsrsater life than that of the cynic, who sees thing through smoke-coloured glasses, who studies human nature only for the of finding flaws in it. With distorted and with lips that wear an  ing sneer, he goes thnlngh the always tearing the rose to for the sake of revealing the worm the core, and carrying about an atmospl of gloom and disappointment. 'NW going into abdtract questions, it may he , mined that one of the principal objects life is happiness—happiness of the purest that can suggest itself to any individi , but the cynic, with the poison of half-implied condemnation 5.f everything , seems to offer itself as a mark for his a."  is ever on the alert to pollute the springs joy at the fountain-head. What are objects of the cynic's attacks? They be summed up in a sentence: the things of life. The cynic forgets that in !I great mosaic which the Divine artist ' creating even the airiest trifles are necer to the perfection of the whole. Even darker aspects of life have their uses, throw the bright aspects of life into sir relief. But the cynic does not think this, I finds food for grumbling and diseontent every phase of existence, lie wages tsf wart are against the trivialities of relaxation and recreation with him folly ; the inborn instinct of women to r themselves as attractive as possible he vanity; friendship, he contends, has interest at the bottom of it; and love, says, is only another form of selfishness fact, over everything that he has to do 7) there runs the slime of his depredation the trail of a loathsome reptile. He part , laxly delights in destroying illusions, but, fortunately for those who come in cool with him, it is generally forma that }wear replace them: he does not create, and not can atone for his depredation of beautiful because it is evanes,:ent. or good because it is sometimes more 01 neatralised by evil. Do such persons ev( reflect that they are social murderers people who wilt ally stifle the seuse of imp! went of life, not only in themselves, but others? They may one day be called , account for thus destroying in themselves faculty which they assuredly did not create: how much heavier will be the reckoning s' there is added the guilt—for it is nothing —of having cast the shadow of their ( Cynicism over others, and deprived them some portion of the sunshine of life wh they would otherwise have etkioyed. Let be true to Nature; let no leave cynicism. creation of a morbid and unhealthy esteem, alone; and let us strive to eni.cY 11 to the utmost of the capacity with which are endowed. So shall life be ennobled, only for ourselves, but for an ever widen circle of human beings who shall be brighter and happier thereby.—F. W. D.  TORUS'S PENNYROYAL AND STEEL FOB ravAlms quietly correct eR irberairi.‘i`es' relieve the tbairessing stioNts so prevr,ca, the sex. Beaml. 3411 111 9d. of all Cheap! Sent anyvilbes for 15 or 34 alasaps, by &he um"' T. 'roma. chimaist. Nolilastem.
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1888-01-21 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

COLD-BLOODED MURDER OF N MEN AND TWO WOMEN.  LYNCHING THE MURDERERS. A discovery was made the other day in T which startled even the inhabitants of that loss State. A man who was rawsing was trai to a half-way house kept near Oak City by family named Kelly, sod frequented by cattlew and others who had money and carried it' them. On the house being searched his body was found in a cellar. Other five ' were found in the cellar, and four more  that of a woman) in a stable. The Kelly which consisted of William, aged fifty-tive Bill, • sou, aged twenty; Kate, the old k. wife ; and Kit," the eighteen-year. daughter, had disappeared noise time fore. W hen information of the  trirecteedllyliesiarrary had pauseditwae thrreocc'uglbleettte:de driving a span of horse, and apparently plenty of money. Twenty citizens at once in pursuit. When at length they sighted party they mounted fresh horses and gave Ms Alter two hours' bard riding the horse riddeo Mrs Kelly stumbled and fell. Holding on. t pursuers were in half an hour near enough the sou and daughter to shoot. They etc when called; but the old man, who rode a horse, kept on. Upon the citizens coming with Bill and Kit the girl began to beg for mr saying she "never killed anybody.' Bill " shut up; it isn't any use. Kit, you've; to go with toe. lon know you had just e mu to do about it as I." Ropes were speedily p cured, and the two were bound. One of the pee climbed • tree and slipped two ropes over one; the outstretched branches, at the ends of wh' two running nooees had been made. The deters were then placed beneath them, ropes adjusted about their necks, and in moment the two bodies were har.giag in mid-, The ropes were tied to an adjoining sapling, the bodies left hanging, while the citizens on after the old man Kelly, who by this had disappeared from sight. His trail was ea foliowed. After three hours of terrific riding Party canna near enough to the old mau to 01 hen to halt. This he ref used to do, when a wog tired. Still be went on, when another was fired, and the old man stopped his he In an instant the band surrounded him and mounted. The leader told Jinn that he but a short time to live, and that any( he had to say would be heard. old man commenced talking in an all Mandible voice, and made • brief stater Preparations were at once made to hang In a few minutes his body was swinging in air. Ile was then let down and asked to er his crime. This he did. He and all the hers of his family were equally guilty. Ile they had killed and robbed nine men and women. He told where the money was hid that had been taken, and gave up what be had his person. He professed not to know where ' murdered persons came from, lie was si4 swung up and bit to bang. The accident to wife ended fatally, and inside her execution
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1866-01-05 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

JAMAICA MISSIONARY'S OIMNION.—A missionary in Jamaica, in a letter dated Nov. 3,i to a friend in Edins bur di, says The diabolical idea appears first to have catered into the mind of asorge W.n. Gordon, about three years ago, of murleriog or b mishing from the ml trid all the white men and respectable And influenti il brown men, mid putting it into the possession of the blacks. He was a 'nun who had a pretty gory' standing in society, and was member of the Assembly fur the pat ish of St. Thomas-in hs-E tat. now almost desolated. Us made a great professi m of religion, and was for a time a leading member in ale Watson's Church. He wus kind to minbaers, and I have tnore than once spent some time with him, an,l was pleased with the Christian way in which he conducted his family, generally presiding at worship 1/1/e part of each day. After he was elected member of Assemoly he became louil and constant advocate of all popular rights. Cl,, this account, and by his interminsble harangues, he disgusted many, and ratsed no a host of enentiea for hiin-elf in the assembly. It was generally thought he was h rilily treatcd, both by the governor and custos of his own parish, now murdered ; and ho g it into violent miii trrela with tile clergy and the leading men of the parish'. I have tin doubt that he was mightily puffed up by the notice that woo I. comm of him, and especially as being generally accounted the leader of the popular party. In all his am mli its t heal gn s, finding himself coitatantly th carted and contsmp'nously treats I by his opponents, the thmaglit of gettine rid of his enemies appears to h:tv., ttic,,n p of ilk mind. To ace enplish the infsrn d design, he seems to have imagined that the only way was by an outbreak of the peopie ; and this led to the insult and horrible thought of destroying all the preseat influential men in the island. It now appeara that fur the last three years he has been making preparations for this general massacre, and for the last throe wont his has been indefatigable in maturing it. . . Ily the adinicable skill anti promptitnile of the governor the power of the reb he was in three days annihilated, and in three weeks almost every vestige of rehAlion obliterated. I d ,übt not that, in addition to the widespread desolation it has oce taloned to the Rads!, in which it broke out, and to the misery of untold multitude, whose houses have been burned, and they themselves forced to hide in dens and thickets to preserve themselves front military execution, more than a thou And people having been either shot or hanged, and a great multitude sevsrely lashed. Such appears to be the end of this wicked revolt. Gordon some time ago joined the Baptista, and beeline a ,reaelier ant nig them ;lint I fear lid at es a wicked hypocrite, awl a savage at heart. He was hanged at the C adiere the alanzliter C,1191 pitied by all, and fraying a name to be execrated by all good men."
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1866-09-21 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

SERIOUS STABBING CA.SE.—At the Middles')rotull police court, on Monday last, before the mayor Mr G. Watson). Mr W. Fallows, Mr F. Atkinson, ane . .  Mr 3. Richardsou, an Irishman, named Thomas Leverin, a servant in the employ of Mr Featherstone, farmer, near Marton, Middlesbrough, was charged with attempting to murder Barnabas Rutter, of 18, Bottomley-street, Middlesbrough, on the previous Friday night. Mr Dobson was engaged for the defence, but only sufficient evidence was given to justify are nand till next Tuesday. As near as we can learn them, the facts of this ease are somewhat as follows :—The iujured man, Rutter, is a foreman at the Cleveland Nut and Bolt Works, and on Friday night he and another workman at the same works had to go to the house of the mrnag r, Mr Watteau, in Marton-road. On their way thither they called at the Borough Hotel, and then proceeded on their way. When ne ir the toll-gate they were passed by a man who was running along, and to whom they remarked, " Now, wire in, vou'll catch him." The man, however, took no notice of the remark, hut eontinued on. After going about a half mile further, Rutter and his companion overtook the man who had pas-red them running, and who was then talking to another young mail. The in in who had been running was the one who is now in custody. It would seem that on the two men, Rutter and Turner, going by the prisoner and his companion some words took place between them, but it is not clear which site was the first to begin the row. The prisoner, in the scuffle that ensued, took up a stone or brick, and in a short time afterwaids Rutter called out he was stabbed. The prisoner and his comrade then ran away, taking different directions. One of the men, Turner, c.illed out for the police, and police constable Ha, per, who was in the locality, hearing the shouts, went towards the spot. When he got nearly there he saw a man hurrying across afield. He pursued and captured him, and on being interrogated the fellow said he was running away from some other men who had been assaulting him. Harper, however, took him on the road and proceeded to the new toll-gate house with his prisoner, where he found that the man Turner had conveyed Rutter, who had receivad several stabs in the neck. rile °ulcer then learnt that it was not the young inan he had with him who had done the injury, but the Irishinau, and accordingly he allow, d the prisoner to go at liberty, as it was not shown that he was at all inculpated. On b.-ing told that the Irishman had set off towards Marton the effi.:fir started in that direction, but was amiable to come up with him. The officer went to the farm occupied by Mr Featherstone, opposite the Orldfellows' Arms public-house, and there ascertaine I that the man lie was in search of worked there. Harper made a search of the whole building, but could net find the man •' but he clearly ascertained the fellow had been there ouly very recently, and in one of the buildings he
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1890-05-24 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

MAY 24, 1890.  -fa which a "salons wifo, smiliag on her rit',l 11l tho time, presents her husband with a cup el poisoned coffee. All London wanted to Ple tL• piece played by those persona; who had just take% part in a real tragedy of like nature, e:a I whom would Biter* have to stand her trial kg ' attempted murder. Everybody wanted to ,ee t.h• I two women, to compare notes about then:, poi form an opinion as to the relationships whiek existed between them and Parizzi. Stalls wen bodied three months in advance, and the orued I at the pit doors began to gather at six o'clair the evening. The police magistrate was indignant, andfully the intended giving Paziavi a bit at his iniaj when Wednesday wick came round. TLe day came, but not the man. Parizzi had appa forgiven his would-be murderer, and settle ' family affairs in some fashion, for the thrte aunt on playing in "La Vengeresse" as usuaL The problem of the Hyde Park tragedy •a. maimed unsolved, • • • • •  About thri” years after these eventa, a certain countryman of Dr. O'Braily'a, named -Nugent, that gentleman in Oxford street. The two me* were oh i acquaintances, and after a little chat the, arranged to dine together that evening, &mai separated, __  -After dinner Nngent leaned over the table and said to his friend in a confidential tour, " Bow if it, Tim, that yobs got on so well Ic were very low water the last time I saw ye." "Well," said O'Brady, "you know Ito* in that actor Pariszi who got shot in the Park, and Lung a bulletin shout him on the front door. Pb brought a small crowd to my door-step -and eel came into notice. Then all the ladies, 'thew; filets hearts sent for me to pump me about Paritmly lady friends; and when I get into a house. Ntti gent, I generally stay there. Of course, Itold sad of them a different tale about Pariszi."  What was the real truth about she ease, Ma I see you know something—out with it, man!" "It's an old story now, -Nugent, and I don't's:tint telling you; for Parisai is doing well now, and oq if the whole thing were to get knov.n it wouldel! hurt him. Planed is a Kerry man—doril of se Italian about him. Ho married a nice littk woman—Georgy Godwin—and they simply starvee in company. It was awful; and I couldn't heal them, for I was nearly as poor as they were." "And the beautiful creature," put in Nugent. "You moan Miss kfainwaring ? She is Say'sthat is, Parissi's siater, and she is now Any wito.'l oh le "Well, we made up a plot to hoodwink the pub he, to get our names up. I provided the blot —sheep's, of coarse—and the pistoL I fired thq shot, bolted into the shrubs, and then came batik to play the part of good Samaritan and throw dem in the eyes of the police." "But what did you do it for ?" " To mystify the public, set them talking abot us, and get engagements for Kelly and his fainfii You see, the one necessary condition of sucotek aaowadays is to get yourself advertised. Th( 'Hyde Park Tragedy,' conaidesed as an advertisec meet, was a erplendid enooess." Whit e har
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1890-03-29 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

PAELLAXENT AND THE IRISH  LOCAL OPTION BILL.  TIT-BITS FROM "TRUTH."  One esr'l refnilt of Prince Bismarck's retirement will be a reconciliation between the Emperor William and the Duke of Cumberland, who will obtain the three millions of King George's private fortune which the Prussian Government seized in 1866. The llmperor of Russia, the King of Denmark, and the Prince of Wales have been untiring in their efforts to bring about s modus Mvends, but while Prines Bismarck was at the head of affairs the Duke remained obdurate. The situation is now changed, as the Duke of Cumberland has no Ipersonal grudge against the Emperor, who was a child of ax when Hanover was seized by Prnssia. The Duchess of Augustenbmg (Princess Adelaide of Hohenlobe-Langenburgl is in a precarious state of health. She has been mentally afflicted for some time past. and is understood to be residing at a moiaon de ;anti near Gratz. The Duchess is the mother of the German Empress. She has been a disappointed woman ever since the Queen and Prince Albert prevented her from marrying the Emperer Napoleon in 1852.  A matchless opportunity will shortly be offered to the snobs of India. The whole of the carriages and horses, "the pia1...67 of H.R.H. the Duke of Connaught, Commander-in-Chief, Bombay Army, proceeding home," are offered for sale, together with the handsome household furniture . . . "the ' most elegant collection of furniture imported into Indief," Lc.. &c. The most striking feature in the catalogue, which I have been priyileged to inspect, is 'the handsomest set of curtains in India— twelve . . . Cost price in London, 4,606 Rd. Nl' ill take 3,000 Rs." There is a surprising magnanimity about this last offer. I should have thought that in the eyes of the most likely class of purchasers the furniture of Royalty would gain rather than lose in value by use.  What a go-ahead paper the Times has become! On Fricia;,- last, under the heading "Recent Literatnre," I find a long and glowing critique on a work entitled "A Dictionary of Anonymous Literature.- the first volume of which was published in 1882 and the last in September, 1248. Such indecent. haste in the way of reviewing is, perhaps, unprecedented. It may interest the TIMMS to know that the Atkessaum devoted three columns to the " Dictionary" on October 13, 1888.  , The attempt of some of my contemporaries to show that Richard sad George Davies ought not to be hanged for murdering their father because he was a bad man is absurd. If Mr Matthews gives in to it he will recognise the new ethical prineiple that sons may kill their parents if the parents are not what they ought to be. The plea of youth, especially of the younger murderer, who is only sixteen, is more reasonable. The elder, who is eighteen, ought, I think, to be hanged; the younger, who may be considered to have been in. fluenced by the elder, might be mapited.  Prince BiLmarck may fairly say of himself what Lord Grey said in 1834 :—" I have descended, not from power."