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The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1869-12-04 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

BODY.  The event of the day (writes a Paris correspondent) is the discovery of the corpse of Traupmanula eighth , Kinck senior. It was found out in a manner waich savours of romarce. About a fortnight ago, you may remember that I wrote to you that Troupmann had confess-id, that he hail murdered the father as ' well as all the other members of the Kinck family-- he stated that he bad walked with him from Cc-may towards B &Allier (in Alsace), and that close to a wood he had proposed to take refreshment. He pulled • flask out of his pocket, and handed it ,to his companion, who took a pull at it and immediately fell down lifeless. The flask contained not kirsch, as the murdered 111941 probably supposed from the smell, but prrissio acid, the odour of which is nearly similar. He then buried him in a place which he indicated as well as he was able. The judicial authorities and the police disbelieved this confession, amid supposed that it was a mere contrivanoe on the part of Traupinann to prolong his life by putting off his ilia, but nevertheless a further search was ordered. An experienced detective was sent down, and for many clays he explored the district without finding a trace of the missing body. But on Wednesday, whilst he was making a last exploration in company v.ithsome gendarmes and country peepl--, a numl er of ravens were seen congregated on trees close by, pouncing 4if MIL every now and then, and their meal over, settling on a neighbouring tree. One of the canntry people exclaim., ri, "Lick at the ravens, there is sortie dead body there." Oa reaching the spot the carrion birds hew away, and they fouud a human body, parrs of which protruded from the irround. it was buried mar the sueace on alight sandy se3l the ravens had got at it somehow. It was fearfully astignred, but the clothes and linen bore the name marks as those of the victims discovered at Pantie—the stockings in particular were pre:iseilv similar, not being mac:line made, but knitted tar 'hand. Tice body can hardly bear removal, therefore the stomach and intestines have been taken away for the , purpose of chemical analysis. The clothes are deemed sufficient for the purpose of identification. It is stated that Traupuralin hints that he hail accomplice, hut, whether or not, there is no doubt but that within a very few weeks the fullest particulate of tide fearful crime will be revealed. There are people in Paris who believe that Tramanatin will get the bromfit of extenuating circumstances, and beta have actually been offired about it. French juries return such extraordinary verdicts that everything is possible; but the feeling against Traupmann runs RO high in Paris that I do not • believe any jury could be found in this city to exempt Mtn from the guillotine, however averae they might be in principle to the punishment of death.  The following particulars as to the finding of Kim k's hody, from G. Hermar,n-gratii," writing from Cernay, Nuv. 26th, appeared as a letter In The
The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1871-05-13 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

VIC STOURBRIDGE OBSERVER.  iihTihbihlegraitito another like this, and that I should be made • public exhibition of In such a manner? for If I was proved guilty of this dreadful charge I could not be made to endure more. I feel Imre that the telegraph was used, as they were all there waiting for me, and the policemen who came with me said that they never travel by that train, and they feel certain in reference to the telegraphic communication. If you will ask Mr. hook to write to the London newspaper.. as to call public attention to this most sash d stens man ageei e n t on the part olthdrorlway company's servants I shall feel greatly obliged, as I do not wish, If possible, :o endure such an Ordeal as that agatu. I have to thank the police, especially luspect,r Browning for their kindness tome, but, as yet, I am not disposed to extend those thaaks to Inspector Mulvaney or to Mr. Inspector Griffin. "We had • very good sermon yesterday morning, which seemed to be especially suitable to my own care. 'the text was the 95h chapter of Sc. Luke, verse 44, and the chaplain worked it out in a most excellent manner, and it certainly yieldsd me much comfort.  lii. all very well t say'h eep up your spirit 5,' but I can most candidly agure you that, It is the hardeA matter you can Imagine, and to one who, like niyeeli, is of moderately lively dlspositioe, It Is still harder, and It being snob a case of gross injustice In the bargain, It puts Inc out of temper. Will you give illy love to Mrs. F—, and tall her thst 1 should have liked to have seen her on Saturday, and, If I am remanded again (for I should not Ire surprised, Wier the unjust way they have already treated me), I hope she will come to see me at the station.  '' I have Jilt seen the doctor, and I am to have some which i believe will net me quite right; at least, I hope so I tied the 'lit feeling ' on fiattuday. but, Mull, GA, I did not have any fits.  "I hope that you did not have any crowd arc awl the place on Saturday night, although I expect you did. lam most cer.ainly astonished at the movie, as they do not kuow a single thing about my defence, anti believe all the tissue of Iles the prosecution have brought forward as (impel truth. Will you remember me roost kindly to all of these gentlemen wh ,m I had not the epportnnity of seeing prnonally on Squrd Iv, and also to all our relations ; and, with kindest love to mother, Tom, Emma, II wriett, Annie, and yourself, believe we, ever your affectionate son, EDMUND Wal.Tgß  Mr. Glaieher asks that the statement made in the report of the inquiry into the ',Ahem murder that be was at the Greenwich Literary Institution on the evening of the 25th ult. may be contradicted.
The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1871-02-04 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

SAD I`ROSPECT.  " Pauperism," says —Herr Wechenhusen, of the Cologne, will on Übe conclusion of peace prevail In one hal' of France and wilt eat up the other half. Already armed bands are roaming about which plunder the country houses ' and chateaux, and murder their own countrymen with the very arm! out Into their hands by the cluntry a.. Francs. Then's. Hundreds of thousamis have been tuff _ring ftr month.. they are enduring all privatiors for a time as a eacrl'lce imposed on then. by the ardsfortunes of the c mntry, but with the war their repignatlon will cease. Hundreds of thoutands of officials an starving with their WWI, I because too old to carry a imuket; in the occupied towns the inhabitants have long cra/oat work, and have not the means to procure the req itsde materials. Entire communities have emigrated, and will, perhaps, on their retort', find half their property burnt Who will restore all this, and who will be loss able to do so than a new ll,publican Government, which will send a multitude of spouters and followersinto the Provinces to make the confash n greater than It in already? I often hear it said, "What matters it tool how France will get on Its legs again?" This point of view is quite a wrong one 0,1 the contrary, it Is of great importance to ns how France will reconstitute Itself. Murder and conflagration on our rontiers, eepecially on the frontiers newly acquired, cannot he ind,fferent too., and an these will infallibly follow the war, .lerrnany Is In some degree bound for a time to keep up a kind of guardianship over this unfortunate country. This in of course a question for the peace negotiations."  SENSATION SEEKERS!  The piece ci Longwy attracted a great number of spectators from Luxemburg aL d Belgium, to spite of the (tang, r kn,orted by too bear an approach to the place which generally moiled to Me fire of the asmilacts in the proportion of three to two shots. Among these adventurous persons were a conple of tourists from Brussel. and Bruges_ They atarted to see the bombardment, but on reaching the skirts of the wood of Musson found they had chosen a warm comer, and retired hastily to the village here a bright idea dawned on their nand,. They made a bargain with four smugglers to carry a ladder for them Into the wood. No sooner said than done; a finely, grown oak was chosen, and the ladder placed uslost it. The two sensation-hunters ascended the ladder, and then c,inhied up to the re, y top of the tree. They had no sooner bottled themselves in their observatory than the smuggler., who bad already been paid for their pains, In  stated 0! Walther reward. This request being refused the smugglers took away the ladder, leaving the unhappy tourists very thoroughly up a tree, and swearing horribly that nothing should induce them ever again to reek such means of seeing a bombardment, the terms of which were for more obvious at such a height than had they been on the ground The ruthless siongglers left them to pursUe their observations for two hours.  Pt'
The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1871-05-20 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

TIN G S FROM AMERICAN PAPERS.  When a Connecticut girl is kissed, she says she i taking chloroform, and remains Insensible at long at the operation Lists  A young lady in New Orleana, whilst playing croquet one scorching afternoon, was sonstruck. It was a rich man's son. The marriage Is believed to tees happy one.  Refinement ha the United States has readied the pitch of designating a collie am • "casket " The use of the former word is considered rough and unpolished.  Hey. F. A. Noble, a Pitteburg clergyman, preached a two-hours sermon on "The Girls." lie seems to know entirely too much about his subject. A Yankee down South advertises a few choice rattlesnakes for sale, and appends a hint to such as do not wish to purchase that they must not handle the pods. . _ .  - It i 3 said that there are no eggs in San Domingo in consequence or their baoishing the white., and casting off thelr yokes  If Brigham Yung wore an additional weed on hie hat every time he lost a wife or a mother blew, it is estimated that he would have to have a hat twenty-seven loot high.  It is shame! ul the way game is slaughtered in the Prairie States. It is sail that ton. of birds of choice kinds are sbot and misread out of lemon, and, finding no market, are boiled down and fed to hogs.  A young man writes wanting to know what business he had better go Into that will enable him to occupy a high poettlon In society. Mt him try the roofing bustuess—ln that trade a smart man will soon get to the top 01 the ladder.  After some of the notices of deaths in American papers, it Is now the custom to put the words "No cigars." It means that the widows of the deceased do not intend to wear Weeds.  The following will was filed recently in the Surro• gate's otfloe at New York Unto my beloved wife, All my worthy goods I have In store I give to my beloved wife, and hers for evermore; I gtve all truly ; 1 no limit This is my will, she my executrix."  An Illinoie.man in under arreet for killing a friend in Texas. It Is alleged that nicer the ruurder he returned to Illinois and married his victim's aster, standing at the very moment of the ceremony in the boots he had taken from the murdered man's feet. .  • A Chicago nobleman saya—The statement that tight lacing saves the country 210,0),000 dollars annually in board alone is a deliberate fabrication. I know a girl who laces so tight, that my arm sill go round her twice and lap over clear to the elbow, and one wouldn't think to look as her that she could eat anything except soup, but she has got an appetite like a crosscut saw, and she mows a swath at • table like • selbraking reaper.
The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1870-04-30 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

DREADFUL MURDER OF A NOBLEMAN AT ST. PETERSBURG.  For many years the capital of Russia has not been the scene of a crime so horrinle as the one perpetrated at the end of last year in the Sparsky Pervulok (writes a correspondent of St Petersburg, under date April I2J. That case, which has been watched at St. Petersburgh and in the whole tif the Russian empire with an unexampled morbid anxiety, has just been judged by the criminal court of St Petersburgh, with the assistance of Jurymen. The new criminal procedure in Russia resembles very much the one used In France. On the very first day of the trial a compact crowd besieged the approaches of the court. Although no special ticket of admiselon had been distributed, all the available places in the court were occupied as 80011 as ei,ht o'clock in tile morning, anti an enormous crowd stationed outside to get a glimpse at the prisoners. Ihe trial was opened at halt-pant eleven ; the presiding Judge was 11. Chanachine. I ift) -one witnesses had been summoned ; hut six of them did not antis, their names ; three were absent from St. Petersheirgh, three were too ill to attend. The President exhorted the inrymen to dispel every preconc, ived idea, and to give their verdict merely on the evidence adduced at the trial. Then the Chief Clerk read the act of accosation, which I translate verbs, on : On the evening of the 19th of November, Iblil, the superanima! ed curia. councillor. Nichols. tie Zoln, went to the Nobility Club, which he left by ten o'clock. Since that time he was missed, in spite of the most active searches of the police. On the let of January of the pre=ent year an artisan 1 of It Petersburgh, Alexander Ivatiof, called at. the office of the detect;ve police, and declared that M. de Z din had been killed in his presence during the night of the 7th or the Bth of Nov. ether, in the house belonging to Tour, situated in the Spardtv Petevalok. and in the lodgings of Maxime Intuit a burgess of St. Petershurgh ; it was Maxims Ivanof , who had committed the crime with the assistance of persons living in his lodgings. M. de Z Mies corpse had been put in a trunk, and sent to Moscow by rail on the ath of November. A telegram from Moscow confirmed that at the station of the Nicola! Railway there was a trunk which hail not been claimed by anybody, and which had arrived on the Bth of November. That trunk having been opened, the corpse of a man was found in it. During the inquiries set atrout iirbm that crime, Alexander 'vaunt, an artisan 01 .01 Petersburah, the peasants Anthony Gratchef and John Fedorof, arid the woman Alexandra Ard6ief, a native of Cronstadt, acknowledged having taken part in M. de Z ,Im's murder, while Daria Twirl* e, the daughter of a soldier, avowed having concealed that crime. .  From the declaration of the above prisoners, it appears that In November, 169, all of them, together with Alexandra Eenienof, the daughter of a nowcommfaeloned officer, were
The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1887-01-29 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

TIREATENING TO MURDER LORD  ROTHSCHILD.  On Tuesday-, at the London Mansion House, before the Lord Mayor, Isaac Jacob Maneburger, 38, Clifton-street, Finsbury, described as a journalist, was brought up on a charge of sending letters to L3rd Rothschild, threatening .o murder him. Mr. George Lewis prcsecuted, and said from the nature of the proceedings it would seem that the accused was scarcely of sound mind. Some time ago the accused applied to Lord Rothschild for employment, and be was informed that his services were not required. He then addressed a great number of letters to the firm, containing language which was perfectly unjustifiable, of which, however, no notice was taken. He alio made demands on the firm. On the 11th of January he wrote a letter to Mr. Snell, the private secretary to Lord Rothschild, in which he uttered threats that unless hisclaim for .e 62,600 was met and sent to his house, it would be at Lord Rothschild's risk. Another letter was received by Lord Rlthschild, dated 18th January. This was the subject of the charge. In this letter the prisoner asked Lord Rothschild to go to the Continent with him, and there to fight a duel, which would end in the life or death of one of them. He also threatened to stick a knife into him, and made other threats in his letters, telling his lordship he would send him to hell. In iuiries had been made with regard to the prisoner, and no doubt he was scarcely accountable for his acts. For the prisoner's own interest and protection he had been brought to that Court. Lord Rothschild had but one feeling in the matter, and it was one of sympathy fcr the accused. His lordship loft the case entirely in the hands of the Coart, to be dealt with as the Lord Mayor might think best. Detective-Sergeant Outram gave evidence of the prisoner's arrest on Monday afternoon at 36, Clifton-street, Finsbury, where he occupied one room. Mr. Richard George Seel!, private secretary to Lord Rothschild, said he had fcr months received letters from the prisoner. He had seen the accused once or twice on the !natter. On the 11th of January he received the letter demanding £64,000 of Lord Rothchild. On the 19th January he received another letter, on the envelope of which was written, " To be handed to hie lordship immediately." By the Prisoner: I never offered you compensation on behalf of Lord Rtthschild. He never mentioned the word compensation, but he (prisoner) had mentioned it. Mr. George Lewis was examined. He had seen the prisoner, and had acted kindly ta him, trying to avoid these procexlings. He told bin that Lord Rothschild was most anxious to do what be could for him. The prisoner said be never intended to do Lord Rothschild any harm. The accused we s committed for trial for threatening to murder Lord Rothschild.  IT is the esperience of every true worker who has taken a summer vacation that the satisfaction of getting back to work once more is more substantial and lasting than the pleasure of a holiday, though less intense.  -
The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1868-03-07 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

HORRIBLE CRUELTY TO A CHILD.  Dr. Diiduelr, who has julit been elected coroner fur West Middlesex, bold his first inquest, at the Mitre Tavern, Fulham, on the body of a little gitl named Honora Sweeney, aged one year and ten months, who was alleged to have been murdered by burning. Margaret sweeney said that deceased was her child, and it was one year and ten months old. She knew Mrs. Manning, who lived in the next room to her. On Thursday afternoon she left the deceased in the cradle by the tire in her own room while she went out Into the yard to chop some wood for Mrs M cOning. While there she looked Into a room, and she saw Mrs. Manning seated In It, with the child in her lap. Shortly after she heard the deceased scream, but as • Mrs. Manning had been in the habit of beating her she took no notice. She heard Mrs. Manning then say to the child, ° Don't be crying, you little —; she is not your mother." Witness then went into the room, and while she was doing so Mrs. Manning put the deceased on the floor. She took her np, and while doing so the skin peeled off her person. Witness then said, •' You wicked woman, what have you done to my baby ' The accu.sed then tools up a chair tostrike witness, and said, "You --, I never touched your baby. The neighbours then rushed int.i the room and ejected her from it. Wadesi then took the child to the pollee-station, and the doctor dressed her burns. She then returned home with the child, and Mrs. Manning tried to get Into the room  to 101 l her with a chopper. The poliiw then took her  custody. F oboe-constable Turner stated that • hen the prisoner was charged with putting the I•hilt on the lire, she said sins knew nothing about it, and that it was lying on the dive when it received the iiijories. she thought that the bums Ina been caused in consequence of there being no fender to thd tire-place. The witness produced the clothing MOM by thi deceased at the time .f the occurrence. They did not slr,w any appearance of having been burned. The witness thou ,bll that the clothes had been held up while the naked body wet held over the fire. Mrs. Manning's hands were tot burnet In the least. In answer to a juror, the witness said that mita knew perfectly well what she was about. Mr Lee. Fit S., said that he was called to see the do. cesi,ed at the Fulham polim.etation. The upper part of tins thighs, buttocks, and abdomen were burned, the shin W.VI ale° burned, and the calf of one of her legs. The privatd parts of the child were burned away. lie dressed I los wounds and sent the child home She died from the effectS of her injuries on Friday night. The Coroner having slimmed up, the jury, after consulting for one minute, returned a verdict oe "Wilful murder against Mary Manning for destroying the life of the deceased child by tire."
The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1868-08-29 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

THE RAILWAY DISASTER.  The whee of ths f.r.&ad ICh,g,lant has just been it rLII, first by the brief repart, and then by 614 warrowiag net,ils of a railway disaster more koari OA ,1• `IV the circliaistances atever occurred. f •,i account of this , • ;niit every where • •• •vw shall vac:Lily urn now undergoing Tbe ••••a•-• •••r If tits  co anumt .•Ikl .V.l SiWilt content .5 by recording it 'i' that it is equally dittienit to rell-lu :rout illusion to it as it is to draw any mil conclusions from it, pendiag the full ~..quiry that is now being carried on. Lord Hamilton, a passenger in the unfortunate train, who was in as good a position to eu. tiruate the facts of the case as any one well could be, boldly says that "the accident happened from carelessness which involves the highest degree of culpability upon those concerned in it. This is just now the prevailing opinion, perhaps; but it will be well to await the independent inquiries that are now being, and will yet be instituted before hastily coining to any conclusion on the mutter. It is certain, howGat the proximate cause of the disaster was the escape of sonic wavons:which ran down an incline towards the mail train, and that the immediate cause was the firing of a large quantity of petroleum oil ; and it is naturally asked how it is that this explosive and damierously inflammable material is carried in such a Way that an accident of this kind should be possible. Another question that will also have to be rigidly inquired into is whether the doors of rail- • way carriages were locked on one side or on both sides ; and if any doors were thus fastened, thin preventing eseape, whether there is any ; necessity for such a proceeding. The collision in itself was nothing, in corn. perison to the consequences which ensued. There might have been a little fright, and a few bruises, but no life would have been lost. In the w ,rds of the driver of the mail train, "It was the petroleum that did it all." The des. trazzion was awful in its intensity and its rapid. ity. A tipon,l eurresp aideut says "lii a moment, as if by the Such of some foul demon, the blight of death fell upon ihe passengers, and they wore eunseless awl lifeless Indere the swift murdering petroleum lire came to burn their flesh off their bones arid to calelne their very bones into dust." M cny otuor catr4plies have to-en " t, Se, ielihn•Join  W al I,l:iteS  f  ta  .1.. A were the mone rests, or, hi tither words, whether the recurrence of Fitch a disaster cannot be for the fu‘nre rendered impossible. lint the community sill gain nothing by indulging a revengful feeling, founded on surmises or doubtful information. When the facts are fully known, decisive action in the interest of the public safety will be imperative.