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Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1881-02-19 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

CAPTAIN  SLLIOT. The following if fr.om a private letter dated Heil.  f, 1881 : "I just drop you a few lines further re the glaring murder of Captain Elliot. of the 94th, some particulars of which I wrote you last mail rather in a hurry. Captain Ellio% it appears, woe the only unwounded officer of the Donkerpoost disaster. He PM taken prisoner and sent to Heidelberg, when he was cent in a cart with Captain Lambert (who had pre'lonely been taken prisoner near Pretoria) with an armed itscort of six Boers with orders to see them over the border to this State. They arrived at the Vaal River, which is the boundary line between this and the Transvaal. The river PM too high to cross, and the officers wanted to wait, as it was dark, and a stormy night; but the Boers pressed them to go in. When in the stream the cart struck against a boulder, when the escort fired a volley at them, killing Captain Elliot, who fell into the river with a groan. Lambert at once plunged in, and was carried some distance by the current, but managed to get to this side bank, being fired on by the Boers as the lightning flashed; bathe escaped on foot, almost naked, and, after wandering about for some forty miles all night, reached a store kept by Mr. Groom, eighteen miles from this, who brought him into town next day just in time to catch the Natal post cart, by which he left, and you will, no doubt, have seen the news of his arrival and report. The Boers are reported to have got the cart and horses out of the river. Since we heard of this brutal murder we shopkeepers have been sounding the Boers as to the body, and yesterday we were fortunate enough to hear of its having been washed up, and buried by some people on the banks of the river, this side. We at once reported the matter to our magistrate, who immediately left with the doctor, and has just returned. I have just been over to Dr. Vowel!, and be tells me they had the body exhumed, and there is no doubt that it is the body of the murdered man, although the face wee much decomposed. The people who buried him found on his body £3O in bank-notes, a gold peneil-case, watch and chain, and a Victoria Cross of Private Fitzpatrick, who, we suppose, was one of the killed at Donkerpoost. A coffin is being made, and the body will be brought to Mr. Groom a place and decently interred. Much praise is due to this gentleman and to our magistrate in working out this most unfortunate affair. My belief is that it was a plot of the Boers to put this only officer—a witness of the disaster—out of the way. These are the true particulars, which I hasten to acquaint you with, as this will probably be the first reliable account that will reach your shores. A
Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1881-04-16 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

RUSSIA.  TRIAL OF THE REGICIDES. The Special Council of the Senate for the trial of Risskoff and the others opened its sittings on the morning of the 7th at eleven o'clock in the Circuit Court of the Litejaaja Prospekt, where the later political trials have all been held. The 2lmcs St. Petersburg correspondent thus describes the appearance of the prisoners: Ike prisoners were then brought in between gendarmes, and placed in the dock in the following order: . . •  of medium height., fair compresion, large hair: less face, deep-set eyes under a heavy brow, protruding lips, long fair hair brushed back over his nook; Miehadolf, tall, strongly-built, and fair, with incipient beard and moustmhe, and long hair ruffled over a large forehead, his expression quite that of a Russian peasant, and decidedly the calmest of all the prisoners; the Jewess, Remy Helfmann,the smallest stature of all, dark frizzled hair, plaited behind, rather a repulsive and troubled look, with an occasional smile when conversing with her fellow prisoners; Libalchick, the Revolutionary chemist, tall and thin, with sharply-cut features, wild expression of eyes, small dark beard and moustache, and long lank hair of the same colour falling from a retreating forehead; the notorious lady, Sone Perowskaja, of small, delicate, though good figure, small pale features, and fair hair tidily arranged in chignon • and lastly, the agent of the Revolutionary Executive dommittee, a tall, thin, fierce. , looking man, with regular features, an abundance of dark hair thrown back from a prominent forehead, beard and moustache, a rather disturbed but determined physiognomy. The promedings began by reading the act of accusation' a copy of which was in the hands of each of the accused, and the clerk bad not got far when Jelaboff rose and objected to disclosures of the late Goldenburg being introduced as evidence, at the same time asking the Court to produce evidence of Goldenburg's death in prison. The Court retired for half -an - hour to consider this request, and returned with a decision in the negative.  -. ------ ~. The reading of the act of accusation was tlrri continued and lasted till two o'clock, after which followed the answer of each prisoner in turn to the charges  cited in the act, guilty or not guilty. The evidence adds little to what was already known.  TI;;;;;;;;;-co—nrealed and explained their 'share is the execution of the plot, and, as a consevenee, many of the witnesses have been dispens,d with. Sheliaboff, who conducted his own defence, expressed his die. appointment at finding the metnsers of the Senatet and not men of his own class constituted the Court to try him. On the second day of the trial the experts explained the composition and manufacture of the bombs; but they were corrected by the prisoner Libalchioh, who a .wed the process more accurately. A police officer described his apprehension of the woman Peroffskaja, by leaping into her drosehky as she was driving along one of the principal thoroughfares several days after the murder. SENTENCE OF DEATH PASSED UPON ALL
Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1881-09-03 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

OUTRAGE AND MURDER NEAR CHESTERFIELD. At the County Police.court, Chesterfield, Alfred Gough was charged with outraging and wilfully murdering Eleanor Windle, aged 6 years, the daughter of William Windle, of Brimington, near Chesterfield, and foreman over the fettlera of StaveleY Old Works. Harriet Johnson, living in Johnsonlane, Bennington, deposed to seeing the prisoner there on Saturday morning with a little girl, whom she believed to be the deemed. In a few minutes they woe gone. Henry Brown, toll-gate keeper at Bennington, said that while working on the turnpike road between Beimington and Chesterfield on Saturday morning he saw the prisoner pass along the road in the direction of Bennington with his hand-cart. In the evening the prisoner called at the toll-house and asked for some ginger beer. While he was in the house the father of the deceased came there and asked the prisoner where be had left her that morning. . The prisoner said a child that morning had followed him as far as the cottages near the cemetery, which is . adjacent to Johnson-lane. He did not see her , afterwards. Brown a're stated that on Sun?ay 'peening be found the body of the deceased with a , piece of bagging round the neck in a plantation abutting on the road leading from Staveley to Barrow-bill. The prisoner was seen to go down this road by a ' witness named Throwley, and the wheel-marks of a I hand-cart were plainly discernible in the side of the I hedge of the plantation and within a few yards of 1 where the body was found. The prisoner, Who said he saw a child, but knew nothing more about the affair, was remanded. Attempts were made to lynch the prisoner during his removal to and from the police station to the magistrate's room. The inquest was opened in the afternoon at the Bad Lion Inn, Brimington, a village two miles from Chesterfield, before Hr. C. G. Busby, coroner, William Windt°, the father of the deceased, identified the body as that of his daughter Eleanor, reed six years, whom he last saw alive on Friday night. He &scribed the circumstances under which the search for his child was instituted, and stated that her dead body was brought to his house about three otelock on Sunday , afternoon. Dr. W. A. Walker mid that he had made ' a post-mortem examination of the body. The witness, after describing the various injuries which the doceased had received, said he was of opinion that death was caused by asphyxia, occasioned by straneu lotion with a cord or ligature of some kind. The inquiry was then adjourrech The coroner's inquest on the body of the little girl Eleanor Windt., who was outraged and murdered near Chesterfield a few days ago, has been concluded. A number of witnesses gave evidence, circumstantially pointing to the guilt of the pedlar, Alfred Gough, who is in custody charged with the offence, and the jury returned a verdict of " Wilful murder" against Gough, who was committed for trial at the next Derbyshire Ae&see. - A
Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1881-06-18 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

EXAMINATION OF THE PRISONERS. The two men, James M'Kevitt and William Robert Barton, alias la'Grath, the latter, it is stated, being his real name, were brought up at the Liverpool Police court charged with "damaging a building by means of an explosive substance, with intent to I murder," and also with "placing an explosive substance near a building, with intent to destroy and damage." The court was crowded. Mr. W. W. Marks, prosecuting solicitor, appeared to conduct the case against the prisoners, who were undefended. Mr. Marks said them were the men in charge for attempting to blow up the Town Hall. The facts had already I appeared in the preen, and he now proposed to call sufficient evidence to justify a remand. Police-constable 1 712 (G. A. Resole) was then called, and stated that , about ten minutes past four o'clock on the previous morning he was passing the corner of Exchange-street West and Water-street, and noticed the two prisoners standing in front of the side door of the Town Hall. , He saw what appeared to be a sailor's bag on the top step near the door, and M'Kevitt stoop down as if to lift it. He noticed smoke issuing from it, and he then rushed at the men, who ran away. They ran across the Exchange, and he followed, blowing his whistle. He followed them into Edmund-street, when Constable 553 (Peter Casey) took up the chase, and witness lost sight of them. He was quite sure that the ' prisoners were the two men he raw at the Town Hall. It was broad daylight at the time. Police.constable 553 (Casey) said that he saw the prisoners running along pursued by the previous witness. He followed them, and saw them turn up a small coal-yard in Single Peg-lane. He captured M'Kevitt underneath a lorrey. When he took him he pulled a revolver from his belt, and threw it over a wall, and withese afterwards went over and got it. It was a ten-chambered revolver, and nine chambers were loaded. Witness handed the prisoner over to another officer, and then went on some coal flats in the canal, and found the other prisoner concealed in an empty fiat. He presented 11'llevitt's revolver at him, and asked if he had anything like that about him. lit'Grath replied "Yes; you can take it out of my pocket," and witness took it from him. It was a six-chambered revolver, loaded, and at full cock. Witness afterwards charged them jointly with "damaging a building with an explosive euhstancewith intent o murder," and with " placing an explosive substance near a building with intent to destroy or damage." In answer to the charge both prisoners said it was "not with intent to murder," and afterwards IPlCevitt said, "Too had sufficient proof to know that I had no intent to murder." In answer to the Bench M'Grath said he did not wish to say anything. M'Revitt said that the officer had made a mistake in stating that he was there. He came walking up from the corner, but did not eet fire to that fuse. The prisoners were then remanded for a week.
Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1881-08-06 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

FIRE-EATING FENIAN PRESS IN NEW I YORK. The use of dynamite for the purposes of assassination and destrootion Ime been elearly preached for mote time on the other side of the Atlantic, and funds have neen collected for the purpose. A few extracts will prove that there has been no illusion on this subject. Judge Brennan, in a recent speech, said : Dynamite for England. One hundred nice can do the work. The men are ready. Science has revolutionised the world. Dynamite is a science. All immures justifiable in dealing with perfidious Eartiand. The Sunday Dona:rat (New York), echoing this statement, wrote: The wee for Irish Independence is begun. The work is nosy and the victory sure. It needs no great erode+ or big mines. It requires only a tilde dyneel s heroically applied where it will do the most good in ht gland. Now is the time to strike. Not long ego the same fiery journal published what is called a '' Dynamite Prize Poem," of which the following was one of the characteristic stanzas: time me the sword and dynamite, Or worse, if man or Heaven can give The lightning in its thundering flight. I would direct her foe to rive. Yes, in my heart such hatred dwells ["or Engiand and the Saxon race, I'd grasp the fire of thousand hells, A•4l hurl it blazing in their face. Mr. O'Donovan Buena, one time the elect of Tipperary, who owes it to the clemency of the Crown that he is not now undergoing lifelong penal servitude, has systematically preached the gospel of dynamite to the Irish Americans, and be has boasted that the Doterel wee destroyed by its use. This central figure et the American organisation . hae been charged by the New York press with the avowal of these diabolical schemes as a means for getting a livelihood. It was certainly found in America that while roped...hie Irishmen refused to have anything to do with schemer of violence, nothing suoeeeded so well with the extreme Feniani as the projection of plots of outrage and murder. The advanced organs of this parte have never ceased to glorify dynamite as their one hope. The &waft Democrat wrote We predict that there is not a crowned head in Europe but must yield to this improved science before ten years go round. We are charmed with its prospective benefit to mankind. It defies armies; it defies &pits ; it defies spies. It is the invincible arm of Freidom in the hands of individuals to slay the villain who would dare to trample on their God-given righte. . . Dynamite will tree Ireland. This discovery at Liverpool has been made at a time when the number of Americans who have crossed the Atlantic for a tour in Europe, and who must re.stoss it on their return home, is greater than was ever known before. If the opinions which eitizens of the Milted State., express here be anything like an echo of those that will find utterance on the other side, there can scarcely be a doubt that this latest Fenian peace will produce a revulsion of feeling such as no preceding crime of the organisation has pro:oked.
Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1889-01-05 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

BARRETT BEFORE THE -MAGISTRATES. William Barrett was brought before the borough magistrates at the Bradford Town Hall, on suspicion of the wilful murder of John Gill. The magistrates on the bench were Mr. A. Briggs, Mr. James Burnley, and Mr. John Cass. None but the officials of the Court and the parties directly interested were present. The prisoner did not seem in any way affected by his position, but paid been attention to all that transpired. Both the father and mother of the lad, who were called as witnesses, were very much affected. Thomas Gill, cabman, said: I have seen the dead body of my son at the mortuary. Ile was eight years of age. I know the prisoner, and have seen my son in hie company. Prisoner: He has been with me many a time, has he not?" Witness Yes. And since Thursday I :have been to inquire about him many a time a day? Yes. Mary Ann (fill said Deceas d was my son, and would have been eight years of age next February. I last saw him alive at 20 minutes to seven o'clock last Thursday morning. Ile was with the prisoner. The prisoner was leading Ids home and cart down the street. I saw him stop, and my boy got into the cart. I have never seen my boy since. Some further questions were put by the prisoner to the wittras, and evidence having been given respecting the discovery of the body, and in support of the chief cmstable's statements concerning the garden and the bread-knife, a remand was granted. Prisoner was told that if he desired to consult with his friends the police would assist him to do so. There is a strong feeling in the neighbourhood of Thorncliffe.road that the prisoner Barrett 18 guiltless of any attempt to injure the boy. Those who know him best give loin an excellent character for steadiness and sobriety, and declare that be is the last man in the world to commit murder. Mrs. Barrett, wife of the accused, on being questioned as to the bread-knife stated that the police came to the house and asked to be allowed to examine her cutlery. She showed the detectives where the table knives were kept, and they selected the most formidable one they could find and took it away. She affirms that the breadknife was cleaned regularly with the ether cutlery at the end of the week. A report which gained currency that another murder had taken place at hildwiek probably arose out of the fact that Ilarrett'aemplo3 or, Mr. Wolfeaden, owns a farm in that village. Evidence having been given at the police•court to show that Barrett was much latter than usual in reaching home after going his rounds on the Friday night, Mr. Wolfenden has made a statement to the effect that Barrett was engaged much latter than usual that evening printing butter for next day's market. . . . .  13arr'et.t's clothes having been fetched from his houie, an examination of them was made, with the result that bkodstains were discovered on one of his shirts. It is understood, however, that the prisoner was able to give a satisfactory explanation of this
Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1889-01-05 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

THE CAPTIVE ZULUS.  An account of the journey to Etshowe of Dinizulu, the young chief of the tisutu house, is given in a recent issue of the Natal Merettry. It says that he was escorted from Bond's Drift by Commandant Mansell and Sub-Inspector Marshall and six men of the Zululand Mounted Police. Dinizulu was conveyed to Verulam by train, and thence to the borders of Natal by cart, in charge of Inspector Dorehill, of the Natal Mounted Police, and two mounted men of the same corps, who rode on either side of the post cart. The warrants were handed over and receipts signed for the prisoner while crossing the river in the punt. The young chief, who was accompanied by an old induna, is now safely ensconced in a bell tent in close proximity to the new jail, and no one is allowed to see him unless by special permit from the Resident Magistrate. The tent is strongly guarded at night by the constables and native police, who have quarters close by. Dinizulu is within earshot of—but not allowed to communicate with—his coadjutors, or, rather, advisers, l'ndabuko, Tshingana, and Somkeli, who also temporarily occupy tents, like the Israelites of old, in the immediate vicinity. Such is the irony of fate.  With ilia exception of Undabuko, the prisoners all present a very subdued and calm appearance, and can have no idea of the enormity of their crimes. The former, who is uncle to the young chief, and who is looked upon as the prime instigator of the recent disturbances, has a proud and haughty appearance, and looks as if he would like to be left alone to deal with the White people, and those who are considered his enemies. Dinisulu has been arrested under three warrants. The first is for "public violence," in signed by Mr. N. 11. Addison, and dated Ndwande, August 17. :The second is dated November 17, for murder and public violence, and signed at Marit,burg by his Excellency Sir Arthur Havelock ; and the third was issued by Mr. C. R. Saunders, for public violence, and dated Etshowe, November 17. After all, Dinirulu has carried out his programme to the letter. He, in the first place, refused to have anything to do with the Zululand officials, but would only surrender to the Governor of Natal, as being the proper representative of the Queen. Diniaulu, who has a very boyish appearance, says he enjoyed his rido in the train iron, Lsdysmith, but did not care for travelling in the post cart.  Toe largest single steiTuTilv;r cut in the United Steen is a granite shaft weighing 70 tons, which has been placed over the grave of the late John Wentworth, of Chicago. Lcxcaxsr 61.ossr I:ism—To obtain this avoid poisonous hair restorers, and use Itows.sTsn's Macs.= s tit 00., known for 100 3 ears as the best preserver and beautifp.r of the hair; also in a golden colour for fair hair. Sizes, 33. 6d., 75., 10s. 6d. Sold everywhere. ' '  A
Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1889-07-27 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

BRIEN'S ACTION AGAINST THE PREMIER. CORD SALISIII3IIV WINS.  Mr. W. O'Brien• action against Lord Salisbury for libel and slander, said to have been uttered in a speech at Watford, came up for hearing at the Manchester Assi,es on the 19th inst. At the close of the plaittes case, the Solicitor-General addressed the Court for the defence, and the proceedings were adjourned. Mr. Justice Stephen and a special jury resumed the hearing of the action brought by Mr. William O'Brien, Ml'., against Lord Sadsbury, on the 20th inst. The Solicitor-General proceeded to call his witnesses. Captain Owen Randall Slacke, Divisional Commissioner in the South-Eastern Division of Ireland, and formerly for 13 years resident magistrate at Carrick-on-Suir, Said that during the years 'OS to '7B Tipperary was in a remarkably peaceful condition. The term landgrabbing, he said, came into existence after '79, when it was necessary to greatly increase th) police force. During the last 10 years landgrab. bees had been exposed to punishment and outrage, and to danger when they had not been actually outraged. The cause of this state of things had beenthe agitation against landgrabbers at all meetings. In answer to Mr. Gully witness said that between '69 and '7O there were some murders and shootings in Tipperary, but the country wee generally peaceful. He did not know that one of the 279 persons boycotted in Tipperary in 1887 was murdered, but he should say there was scarcely one who was boycotted who had not extra police protection. Without looking at his returns he could not say that no one was fired at. A number of witnesses (among them Mrs. Norah Hunt, formerly Fitzmaurice), then gave evidence concerning different murders. Eventually, as the witnesses were not cross examined, the Solicitor. General said he would not call the 16 or 17 others he still bad on his brief. He then spoke on the evidence adduced on behalf of the defendant. It had, he argued, been clearly proved that the final issue of the boycotting system which Mr. O'Brien had advocated was to lead to outrage and violence, and even to murder. Mr. Gully, for the plaintiff, said that Mr. O'Brien and his friends regretted more than anyone else could do that crime had prevailed to so large an extent in Ireland, inasmuch as it seriously damaged I their cause. His lordship then summed up the case. He laid, referring to Mr. O'Brien, that there were reasons why they should, as far as possible, do justice to a man who was placed by circumstanced in a posi, tics not welcome to the English people in general, and why also they should do full justice to him when he demanded redress for what ho considered • wrong done to him by • very eminent man. The jury took only only about five minutes to decide upon their verdict, which they gave in favour of the defendant, Mr. Gully asked for a stay of execution for oats until be could make an application to the Supreme Court on the ground of misdirection of the jury, no precise issue having been submitted to them to which they could answer "Yea" or No." The usual Interval was allowed.