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Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1866-03-16 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

LOVERS. —An extraordinary case was heard before the Durham magistrates on Friday last. Henry Chapman, who lately kept the Crown Ten. in New-street, in that city, and previously of Hartlepool, but who said he was master mariner, at present residing at Scarborough, charged William Sincl sir, gardener, residing atgoulson'shuildines, Hallgarth-street, Durham, with an assault on him, oil the Saturday night previous. Miss Mary Ann Kellett, a prepossessing young lady, also preferre I a charge assault against the defendant. Mr .1. E. 31)J-shall appeared for the complainants, and Mr Brigual for the defendant. The court was crowded by a large audience, the details connected with 411 assault in a case of love possessing a great amount of interest. It appeared th t the defendant, Sinclair, a widower about forty years of age, had paid his addresses to the young lady for two years past, and considered himself tier accepted lover. As such he had possessed himself, or, as the defence had it, was presented by her with a latch key, by which he was enabled at all seasons to introduce himself into her nres.nce. Things went on thus fo some time, whet' Miss Kellett's father, a man of some property and occupyieg a respectable position, took ill and died, upon which seine thing substantial devolved upon the young lady. Her warmth of affection now began to coil, and she spee lily took on with a new lover in the shape of the captain. The defendant becoming jetb,us, and having reason to suppose that his rival had not only stelett away the heart of his betrothed, but had actually taken his bed and board beneath her roof, came to ascertain the truth of the reports he had heard by personal investigation. Ace irdingly, at two o'clock in the morning. the defendant armed himself with candle and matches, and stole up tu the sleeping and unconscious lovers. By some tne ins he nit tined :tceess to the lady's house, and unheard stole upstairs. Entering a bedroom he f .unil the gallant captain fast asl •ep, and so the prosecutor dealt him a murderous I.low on the head with some hlu t instrument. The c tptain, stunned, jumped out of bed, when a struggle took place, and he ultimately succeeded in making his escape. He went to the hack door of a well-known hostelry kept by Mr Seymour, who admitted him. He was without any clothing except his night shirt, and blood flowed copioutly down his face. Mr Seymour dressed hiet in a salt of clothing. cleaned his face, sod dressed his wounda. Defendaitt during this time had gone to Miss Kellett, who had taken refuge in a that k room, and upbraided her with her perfidy a-il unfeeling conduct. The lady, m she said, being in mortal fear of his violence, prayed for his forgiveness, and promised to heeotne his wife next week, if he desired it. She, however, m-xt morning with her new lover, the captain, went if to Sunderlaitil. Tile defence was that the case was merely one of common assault. The Bench said the defendant would be deed 2s MI, and each party would pay their own 3osts. The anuouncement was received with loud applause in court.
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1866-04-20 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

SPRING.  Stern Winter has fled, And now in his stead Sweet Spring, Nature's fondling, commences her reign ; The green leaves are shooting, The bir Is are saluting, Wlth notes of delight, her return to the plain.  The sun looking gay On his heavenly way, Careers in his glory and smiles on the world; Soft zephyrs are blowing, Young flow'reta are growing, Aud pleasure's bright standard is widely unfurled.  The snowdrops around Are adorning the ground, And modest appear in their simple array; In walks green and mazy The crocus, the daisy,  The violet, and primrose enliven our way.  II:d1! season so pleasing, Whose bounty releasing glad earth from the bondage of Winter's fell power, Invites U 3 to wander, In careless meander, To pas on the beauties of grove, mead, or flower.  Sweet Spring! could my lyre Fulfil my desire Of sounding a strain that is worthy of thee,  I ne'e, w.ntld be wanting In I. ftily chanting Thy praise, for the gladness thou bringest to me.  EXTRA° RDINA RY AND MYSTERIOUS TRAGEDY IN THE cify. A mysterious ieurder took place on Wednesday night week, in the heart rti the City of London. At present both the perpetrator of this shocking crime, and the motives which induced it, are unknown. The deceased was housekeeper, and lived on the premises of Messrs. Bevington, leather-sellers, Cannon-street West. The business of the day being over, and all the einp/oyes gone, no one was left on the premises but the deceased and another servant. The two women were sitting by the fire in an upper room when, a little before nine clock, the street bell rang. The deceased went down answer it, but did not return. At length—at a little .Iter ten—the other woman, Elizaneth Lewis, went !own, and found her deal at the bottom of the stairs, weltering in blood, which had fl iwed from seven incised .ounds (probably stabs) of great severity, upon the head. There are several collateral circumstances which id greatly to the mysterious char .cter of this fearful .rime. One of them is this fact, that the shoes of ieee.ised had been t iken off and were lying on a table io the halt.. As they bear no stains of blood this is ••opposed to have been done before the warder. Another is, tint when Lewis went down stairs, and saw ileceasel lying on the ground, site thought at first in a fit, and opened the door to procure assistance, she found a woman sitting on the door-step, and asked le-r aid, when, by the light from the open door, the murder was discovered ; but the strange woman disappeared and has not been heard of since.—A. few hours later a still more terri.de tragedy was enacted just on the other side of the river, in Kent-street, Southwark. A lighterman named li:doe, living in adultery with the wife of a seaman rained Giles, cut the throat of his paramour and afterwards his own. When the police entered the house the woman was dead; and it is stated that the man, although yet alive, cannot possibly recover. The demo at the bottom of this sanguinary event is said to he jealousy.
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1866-11-30 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

SEIZURE IN LIVERPOOL.  On Tuesday the Liverpool detective police seized a large box which had recently arrived per steamer from America. On examination the box was found to contain a complete Fenian officer's uniform and accoutrements, —viz., a fine green cloth tunic properly ornamented with braid about the body and cuffs, and with gold lace on the collar; a dress waistcoat of ,noire antique, with gold  harp buttons; a green silk velvet cap elaborately ornamented with gold lace, and having the Irish harp in gold at the front. The box also contained three revolvers, a dagger, patent leather belt and cartridge box, and copies of certain "official" regulations. The box is supposed to belong to one of the suspected Fenian agents just apprehended at Drogheda. The correspondent of the Irish Times, writing from Limerick on Friday evening, says :  - _ "This morning, at an early hour, considerable excitement was occasioned by the arrest during the night by the constabulary of a number of persons charged with Fenianism, and the seizure of over eight thousand bullets, together with several pikes and other missiles, in houses situate in Pennywell, adjacent to the city, on the Castleconnell-road. Six o'clock was about the period when the matter became known, as eves ything had been carried out in secrecy from twelve to four o'clock in the morning by Mr Hill, county inspector, and Mr Channer, sub-inspector, with the police under their command. It is supposed that the constabulary authorities acted upon private information communicated. In the house of one of the prisoners arrested, the bullets, which were newly cast, were found, and in the dwelling of another the pikes. As the arrest was made after all the suspected parties had retired to bed the circumstances caused very little or no annoyance or bustle in the neighbourhood, as each was conveyed at once to William-street police. station, and from thence sent on under committal to the county gaol, where they are now incarcerated. There was a rumour through the city on Friday that arrests were to be made, but where or under what circumstances were unknown. "Latterly the Fenians have become more emboldened, and now they turn out as usual at night, moving in large bodies, three or four deep, to the music of an accordion or the singing of some popular air, not, however, as of old, 'The green above the red.' The 'temperance' band nuisance has again revived, and this gives them a further opportunity of publicly parading their disloyalty. But Stephens's declaration that he was returning to Ireland, and that the war would burst before the end of this year, has made the conspirators more valiant. The majority of our tradesmen and shop assistants, and all of the lower labouring class, are firmly convinced that the present owners of property in the country will have fled from its shores or be murdered before the coming Christmas-day. As evidence of their belief it need only be mentioned that small depositors in tbs banks are drawing out gold, and that OD Wednesday
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1866-06-08 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

SHOCKING MURDER IN BIRMINGHAM.ONE BOY KILLED BY ANOTHER.  A most shocking occurrence took place a few days ago in Heneage-street, by which a boy only ten years of age was deprived of life by another boy, who is his junior by a year. The murdered boy is named John Davis. He w.ts a fine boy, ten years of age, and lived with his parents in No. 4 court, Henry-street, A-hted, and worked at Mr S,evens's, the Dartmouth-street Glassworks, II a murderer is a little Irish boy, named Thomas M`Gee, who lived with his parents in Howard's• place, Hill-street, and worked as an " edger " at the hinge manufactory of Iqr Gold, in Great Lister-street. He had only been in Mr Gold's employ during a few week's, but in that time hail acqurred the reputation of bi-ing a quiet, good-tempered lad. The dinner-hour for the emplbpes at both places of business was the same, and Heneage-street Bridge seems to have been a favourite rcsort of the lads in their leisure moments. The bridge is distant a few hundred yards from Mr Stevens's, and about double that distance from Mr Gold's place of business. To this accustomed spot a large number of ooys repaired at dinner-time, and commenced, boy like, all sorts of practical jokes the one with the other. M`Gee would seem to have been eating his dinner, in the carving of-which he used a small onebladed pocket-knife, with a white bone handle, when the unfortunate deceased gave him a slight tap, whereupon, in a moment of passion, he turned round, and struck his assailant a severe blow in the left breast with the hand in whidlt was the knife. Davis, on findina himself wounded, at once turned about and ran away in the direction of his workshop. As he passed along the street he was seen to be bleeding profusely, and staggering in his gait, but before anyone could reach hint, he managed to get within his master's gate, where he fell to the earth. He was promptly raised and taken in a cab to the General Hospital, but died on the way. On examining him, he was found to have been stabbed in the region of the heart. M'Gree, when he found what he bad done, at once tried to escape, and, getting upon the canal towing-path, made off in the direction of the bridge in Great Lister-street, near to where he worked. A man named Thomas Crampton, who lives in the Hop Pole-yard, Lawley-street, hearing the hue and cry, and seeing the lad running away, but not knowing what had been done, at once gave chase and speedily captured hint, when he asked to be thrown into the c dial. Crompton held the boy prisoner until the arrival of Police-constable Cluff (200), who took him into custody, and conveyed him to Lawley-street station. On being asked where was the knife, •M‘Gee coolly replied that it was in his pocket, and there it was found, closed and covered with blood. On being asked his reason, the lad maintained a dogged silence, and on being locked up in one of the cells betrayed no signs of either sorrow for his crime or fear of its consequences.
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1866-03-30 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

FEARFUL REVENGE. Intelligence has been received of an unheard-of crime, which has caused much consternation in the town of Neuberg, in Bavaria, notwithstanding the attempts made to preVent the circumstances becoming known in all their horror. A young man who had become heir to a small fortune by the death of his father was singled out by a laundress, who had determined to become possessed of the mouey. She had acquired such great power over the simple Louis that, perhaps frightened by her threats, he had promised to marry her as soon as he should have received the sums he had inherited. But the laundress learnt that Louis had already received a thousand thalers, which he had carried off and secured, no one knew where To her questions heat first hesitated, then denied the fact, and finished by becoming embarrassed. There was no longer any doubt that Louis had deceived her, and she therefore dogged his footsteps. Nearly every day Louis was an the habit of going to the village of Nandorff, a short distance from Neuberg, and it was reported that for nearly a twelvemonth he had been on very intimate terms with a young orphan who lived in a nearly-deserted hut on the borders of the road. New enquiries revealed to the jealous woman that there was an infant, and that m irriage would soon sanctify the connection that had been formed. There was no longer any doubt as to who had the thousand thalere, and as to who would HOW] receive the bulk of the legacy which she coveted. Her plan was soon ready. Under a disguise she penetrated into the cabin of the orphan as soon as she knew that. Louie had returned to the town. She even induced the girl to allow her to share her bed, under the plea that she was exhausted by the fatigues of the journey she had made. What passed during the night can only be surmised, but next morning some workmen were surprised at seeing no one moving in the house, although the door was half open. On looking in they saw a horrible sight_ A pig was devouring the body of a child evidently only a few days old, and cut in pieces. On the bed lay the body of the orphan, cruelly murdered. The police were summoned, and on their way they met the laundress, who informed them that Louie had dimepeered. The attention of the officers being aroused from some other observations made by her, she was arrested, and on jt search being made in the cellar of the house in which she resided, the body of the young man, cut into foto. quarters, was found in a large tub of lye. The woman showed no regret, and only lamented that she had failed to secure so large a fortune. Before being secured in prison she was observed to totter, and in a few minutes she expired in the arms of her captors, from poison. Investigations have made known that she was a native of Batavia, and had been brought to Europe when an infant, by a soldier in the Dutch service, having been abandoned by her parents.
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1871-03-25 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

PROPOSED OCCUPATION OF PARIS BY THE PRUSSIANS.  VERSAILLES, Wednesday. In to-day's sitting of the National Assembly, Jules Fa re communicated a despatzh from Bismarck, saying the telegraph line must be restored to Pantins within twenty-four hours, and that the Germans would open fire upon Paris if it again adopts proceedings in contradiction with the preliminaries of peace. In answer to this, Jules Favre had stated that the insurrectionary movement was merely a surprise, and the Government would repress it ; if it did not do so at once it was from a desire to avoid bloodshed. The Government would apply to the Mayors to repair the Telegraph wires. PARIS, Wednesday, 6.0 p.m. The insurgents have presented a Treasury Bond for a million francs, and obtained the money. It is said that they demanded a sum of 500,000 francs from Messrs Rothschild, but paymant was absolutely refused.  PARIS, Wednesday evening. A large number of unarmed men made a demonstration in favour of order, and called upon the sentries at the Place Vendome to retire, and allow themselves to be relieved by the National Guard of the district. The Guards refused, and when a member of the demonstration called upon the crowd it began to fall back, but not sufficiently quick to please the insurgents, three ranks of whom took aim and opened a full fire upon the people. For about five minutes a terrible scene was enacted, and the crowd fled in the greatest terror and disorder. There were several killed and wounded, the number of victims being estimated at at least 30.  The National Guards have been called to arms throughout the city, and fighting is apprehended this evening between them and the insurgents. The city is in a state of consternation.  LONDON, ThUrsday. Paris is in the wildest state of excitement. There are nearly 40 persons killed and wounded. The panic is general throughout the city. Heavy i fighting s reported near the Louvre and Petals Royal.  The Tegraph's Paris correspondent, writing yesterday afternoon, says the reaction in favour of order is so overwhelming that the insurgents will not dare to fight for their authority. The Paris Journal says Count Bismarck has informed M. Thiers that the Prussians will occupy Paris next Sunday if the Versailles Government are not then masters of the situation.  A grand review is announced at Versailles. It is generally believed the troops would not operate against the Paris National Guards. The .Daily News publishes intelligence of an alarming character. The murdered generals were buried yesterday, being thrown into a ditch at Montmartre cemetery. The National Guards became irritated, and fired on the crowd, killing twenty, and wounding many more. The Rue De La Pais is a pool of blood. It was reported last evening that shots had been fired on Prussians from the Belle Ville ramparts. This would furnish a good excuse to the Prussians to return.  The rebellion is said to be passing from bad to worse, no man's life or property being now safe.
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1871-07-08 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

BEARDING TUE LION IN HIS DEN.—The Methodist Camp Meeting at Salt Lake has commenced a mereile .s raid upon Brigham. Mr Boole, of New York, yesterday preached against polygamy while the Prophet and some of his family were present. —New York Herald.  BANKRUPTCY or LADY Doe.—A fiat in bankruptcy has been opened against Eliza Emily Lady Don, who for the past twelve months has been lessee of the Theatre Royal, Nottiugham. Her liabilities are etated to be considerable, and her assets small.— Orchestra.  PRUSSIAN Germ—The Prussian 4-pennder breechloading field gun has gone to Shoeburj ncss for experiment. We do not presume that it is intended to make any competitive trial between this and our field guns, as the service conditions under which the respective guns are used are totally different. The Prussian gun fires a projectile of about 91bs., with a charge of 11b. 20z. The corresponding gun in our service —9-pounder muzzleloading fires the 81(1118 weight of projtctila with a charge of 11b. 12oz. The nuzzle velocity with the Prussian gun is about 1,200 feet; with our gun it is about 1,400 feet. It is but natural, therefore, to exrect that, in any competition, our gun would beat the Prussian one in length of range, flatness of trajectory, and hard hitting, and we have little doubt that such will prove to be the case. We may learn much from the Germans in the matter of organisation of armies, and transportation and supply of war materiel in tLe- field, but we have little to learn item them as to the manufacture of warlike stores.— Globe.  MURLEROUS ATTACK AND ROBBERY BY MILITIAMEN IN DunnAm.—ALout midnight on Friday, a murderous attack was made in New Rivet, Durham, on a navvy named Thomas Carter, who was knocked down, beaten in a brutal manner, and robbed of 255., by three militiamen. It appears that a little after ten o'clock en Friday night Carter, who is a native of Cheshire, and who is at present employed in the repairs going on at Whitwell viaduct, and resides at Shincliffe, entered the Black Horse public-house in New Elvet, and was followed in by three men, whom he treated to drink, which he paid for by changing half a sovereign; and he also exhibited a quantity of silver in their presence in payment for drink. About eleven o'clock the three men brought him into the street, and they took him down Water Lane. Carter did not fancy the place, and turned back again, but on reaching New Elvet one of the men threw him down violently on the baok of his head. Another of the men them seized him by the hair and dashed his head about ou the pavement, while the third. man, who was a little lower down, thrust his hand into his pocket, took the contents out, and the three ran off down New Elvet at full speed. They were aprehended by Sergeant Lawson and P.C. Moor, and taken to the station, where one of them was identified by Carter, who had recovered consciousness during the morning, and he was afterwards conveyed to the workhouse. Very' little hopes are entertained of Carter's recovery.