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The Cannock Chase Examiner. — 1874-06-13 (Cannock, Staffordshire, England)

EXTRAORDINARY DIVORCE CASE. doctor, in a fit of delirium tremens, stabbed his wife Ito death at Fort Beaufort. The doctor was tried, In the Divorce Court, last week, the ease of I found guilty of the crime during a "fit of tempo. Wilson r. Gotobed came on for hearing. This was 1221 insanity," and sentenced accordingly. The a husband's petition for a decree of nullity of brother's case lay hushed till he recently ill•used a marriage. The petitioner, a captain in the North. servant, who went to the magistrate immediately amptonshire Militia, was introduced to the to. afterwards, laid an information against him for the BP'ndent in 1857, when she was performing at a , murder, and caused his arrest. He was brought theatre at Northampton, under the name of, Kate ,up to Cape Town, and till the Saturday before his O'Moore. She afteawards represented to the peI trial, Which was to take place on the Tuesday, titioner that she was the widow of a Captain Cor: there appears to have been no direct evidence, don, who bad been killed in service, and that she His eldest daughter, now in her 16th year, urged had been obliged to go on the stage for a liveliby the gravity of the occasion, voluntarily went hood. On the 12th of January, 1858, Captain to the public prosecutor, and made an affidavit Wilson married her at St. Pancras Church, that she was present when her mother was and subsequently introduced her to his familY. deliberately shot by her father. She had made two In 1860 Captain Wilson was obliged to be contradictory affidavits previously. The reason she placed under restraint for about a twelvedid I so was, she sa)s, that when they were made month, his mind being affected, and the reopen. she was under her father's roof, and in fear of him, dent during his absence gave birth to a child. He ' I She was now married, having formed an alliance believed her assurance that he was the father of the while her father was in priSOnt and being freed child, but his family were doubtful, and inquiries from his control felt that she could not again for. were instituted which led to the charge being swear her conscience. A verdict of culpable homi- made on which this suit was founded, that at the aide, with a recommendation to mercy, was found, time of her marriage to the petitioner the re. On that he was sentenced to five years' imprison- spondent was the wife of a man named Gotobed. meat with hard labour. Three days afterwards the She had introduced the petitioner to a man whom daughter went to the office of the public prosecutor she represented to be her brother and he had some to ask for her witness's fees, .23 odd, which she reason to suspect that this man was Gotobed. In received. 1862 the petitioner prosecuted her for bigamy at ________ the Central Criminal Court, but she was acquitted. As soon as he had the means the petitioner instituted
The Cannock Chase Examiner. — 1874-11-07 (Cannock, Staffordshire, England)

THE VALUE OF BOOKS. As good almost kill a man as kill a book; who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image • but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of Gal as it were in the eye. Many a man lives burthen to the earth, but a good book is the precious life blood of a Rester spirit, embalmed and treasured np on purpose to a life beyond life. It is trite no ago can restore a life (whereof perhaps there is no grata loss), and revolutions of ages do not oft recover the loSs of a rejected truth, for the want of which whole nations fare the worse. We should be wary. therefore, what persecution we raise against the living labours of public men hove we spill that seasoned life of man preserved in books, since we see a kind of homicide may be cern. mitted,--sometimes a martyrdom; and if it extend to the whole impression, a kind of massacre, whereof the execution ends not in slaying an elemental life, but • strikes at that etherial and sift essence, the breath of . reason itself, slays ah immortality rather than a life.— Milton; Liberty if vraicensed print*.  b6flfreemained, and mpecially those who desire to tomes re gee. theili tory of the science (" dismal science " Clad* fare to Eat. calla), with its variations, to the ,present time 1. Irinedirsiet of *Waal Economy, Et. ih." i Malthus, L'S. 6d. . ' it was only '2. Essay on Pop son, by tbe Res. T. R., ~." 114.-, both second ha won litiet• 3, Erinciples of 1i ti Economy:and ' ASEaeik.Ricastio,lis. nd hand. t 4,1 :-'..Y 4°". ' 4. Elemenir of Politi .1 E:conomy,lby James nil, / tn7.PPen,'• 1 father of J. S. Mill, second hand. as. ___..... oridge Mid bridge, but that only applies afore , k. The Principles of Political Econo., by J. B. bridges were built, and don't come within the meaning McCullock, Alex. Murray's edition,24, 64 ~..with Jean's Lititotwatoti.„ w,:::41:g1; E.,,,a,titztotpirtoatticrik.m. ~ , . •q.„..,. , boY 7 re!, ve, • Metropolitana, 2s. 6d. ': . ' sir.) So says he to me, se,— " draw in yourit!iril. I _ 7.:11,,, pri,,,,v,.. ail isotiii„o. E.,,,, 1:,,. .mit ---anivie-1,:-., Cairnes Macmillan and go„. 160, 8. The Seieutdof wr4th te, wox4, ie an Arne& can work, plicbilii 151E' S. Eastiat's Zways 011,--Politica- g.+,o'°,l••  eGanilh's Enquiry into the various systems of cal Economy. Price 3s. The .latt two give tb6 h view. ,11/4Thl EgonoWy of Manufacturers, by Babbsip, second-hand, in. 6d. 12. Craig's History of British Commerce, Knight, 6 Joh, in 812e,-,25,6d. LI 1 I Li The last 414 ave an important bet"; th , jjeet, although, strictly speaking they ari 1441.. jPolitical Economy. , Numerous Essays hay6.,6o4ed froin time to tine, in our leading,Rsstievrs, .kg far the ablest and best in the Westos.at7 lost'it is not necessary to particularise iniiimuch as most of them had refsr ..rinde to oho Orttiher of the books already named, or to b... k. " Molex Houma.  T. . f. -LT Ase—" w yo. ''. trict 'ID. el r ,w I wee.• . .r. 'ly speeki.2 i .. • e, lc. —llll ' , rehens ,Le too, ' fere
The Cannock Chase Examiner. — 1874-06-27 (Cannock, Staffordshire, England)

RULE. as the poisoner of his father, whilst there were not number of waggons were thrown off the metals into each other. The engines were smashed, and a m "Founderembere and friends of the society. The ,'agold medal" for the promotion of geo.ple should be compleicd-the grierous inequali- At a large general meeting of the Home Rule to all appearances the alightest grounds for ma- and destroyed. The fireman of the goods tram., graphical science and discovery has been awarded ain the distribution of seats in the House of insmbers of Parliament, held a few days since, peeling Sr.h Six weeks ago he left his mother's awho was named ed Adams and belonged.to St riser, this year to Dr. Georg Schweinfurth. In his abmmons redressed-and the so-celled ' represen. it was resolved that Mr. Butt should place the fel- bOWie and took one for himself. On Friday even, was kited instantaneously. The driver of the sence Sir Bartle Frere handed the medal to the ion of the people' be made worthy of its name, lowing notice of motion on the motion paper for leg last, towards eleven o'clock, he suddenly ap. goods train, named Robb, wlio also belonged te German Ambassador, Count Munster. Sir Bartle at the education of the masses should be rescued the 30th of June i-" That this House resolve peered, armed with a newly.purchased dagger. Stranraer, was so severely Inbred that his re. Frere next handed the Victoria or Patron'a gold m the hands of rival sects, and placed upon a itself into a committee of the whole House to eon- knife, at the residence of his mother, got gently covery is not looked for. The ver of the ballast medal to Colonel Manx, who attended to receive it a ional basis. That the labourer should be pro- Bider th psesent Parliamentary relations between over the yard gate, put the dogs into their house, train was much hurt, and a surface man got his on behalf of Colonel Egerton Warburton, now in tedagainst the tyranny of class legislation. Great Bri end Ireland.' In committee of the and passed then through the kitchen, find of all leg broken. Other three surface men who were Australia. Sundry gold medals awarded. the were award. tain travelling in the ballast train also sustained t the land laws should be reformed so that the whole House to move i-" That it is expedient and into the sleeping room of his brother, whom he . . 8 and Sir Bartle Frere then delivered the annual is of the people in the' common inheritance of just to restore to the Irish nation the right and killed almost in a moment by a deep plunge of inlerma i address, and reviewed at considerable length the kind' may be defended against the monstrous power of managing all exclusively Irish affairs in the dagger into his throat. The murderer then 1 geographical events of the peat year, beginningby referring to the great results accomplished by Dr. tern which' has sacrificed the interests of the en Irish Parliament. Provision should be made tried to get into his mother's room, which was
The Cannock Chase Examiner. — 1877-07-06 (Cannock, Staffordshire, England)

VISIT TO THE PRISONER.  On Friday afterncon we paid a visit to the cells where the prisoner is confined. The iron gate leading to them was unlocked by the officer, and we entered the passage along the sides of which the cells are arranged. Through the open trap in each door peered the prisoners, and through one of these we looked into the cell of the self-accused murderer. He was pacing rapidly from end to end of his cell, with the large grey rug wrapped closely round his form, which was as erect and straight as though the prisoner was on parade. There was a marked appearance of unrest about him. Upon seeing us he came to the aperture in the door, and stooping down peered through with an enquiring look on his face, which appeared as if framed by the square opening through which he gazed. We had thus an opportunity of marking the features of the wretched man. His face had a sharp quick look upon it, and though the rather heavy military-looking moustache hid the month, yet the lips appeared to be compressed and to denote determination of character, as, indeed, did the whole countenance. There was a cold light about the keen eye that gave him a rather vindictive expression. There was no shrinking. no cowering in his aspect, but as one who was looking upon him muttered a pitying word, the countenance softened, and when the officer said, 'I suppose you'll be wanting your tea. Harry.' the miserabre man looked yearningly across the narrow passage. with a gaze that seemed to see beyond the atone walls. He said in a voice I deliberate and steady, though low, ' I want to die.' I The officer said, 'A kind word knocks him back.' We are convinced, whatever outward show of boldness there may be, that the man feels his awful position most acutely.  CONFESSION TO A FELLOW PEISONEN On Friday morning, a man named Garen, who was in custody for some trivial offence was placed in the cell as a precaution against the prisoner attempting anything desperate against himself. During the tirie Gavan was with him, he made a sort of confession to him of how the deed was done, and what led to it. From this statement, it seems that they were walking about for a considerable time, and that when they arrived at the rick-yard, he asked her to sit down. He says that she had told him during their walk that she should leave him, and that she should go with another fellow named Clerk.' Rogers' manner must have been bitter and threatening to her during these last hours they were together, as the prisoner says she said to him, as they were going along, You are going to do something wall me.' When he attempted to murder her with the razor an awful struggle took place, and Rogers told Gavan that she 'nearly bested' It was in this straggle that her finger would be The shipment of fresh beef to England from New cut through ; while the villian was aiming at her heretic York and Philadelphia in May last amounted to throat the wounds would be made inek ; and lbn on her head. He said She fought like a tiger' s aum. TrA Prsimprios.—
The Cannock Chase Examiner. — 1877-06-08 (Cannock, Staffordshire, England)

THE PENGE MYSTERY. THE MAGISTERIAL INQUIRY.  The four prisoners charged with the wilful murder of Mrs. Harriet Staunton were again brought up on Tuesday morning before the Bromley magistrates. The prisoners looked much nitre anxious than on any former occasion. _  The cross-examination of Dr. Lonerigge was pro. seeded with. He said his opinion was still the same, viz., that the deceased had been poisoned. Dr. John Bright, who assisted at the post mortem examination, said the appearence.of the tower part of the body and intestines led him to believe at the time that the deceased had first an irritant poison administered to her (be would not say for certain) by injection, and then afterwards that she had had some narcotic, such as opium, given to her ; but as Profeszior Rogers had not found any in the body, he was bound to believe that no poison had been administered.  Dr. Wilkinson, 'Of Sydenham, was the next witness. He said his opinion at the post•?nort fin was that the deceased's cause of death was first by starvation, either from the withholding of food wilfully or by voluntarily ref using food, or else from starvation caused by vomitlog; and that there were also symptem• of poisoning. In cross-examination, Dr. Wilkinson said that he had had in his experience two cases of voluntary starvation, In which the patients resolutely refused fond, and food could only be got into them by the stomach pump. Professor Rogers, the analyst, then recapitulated the evidence he formerly gave, stating that he found no poison in the deceased s stomach.  Dr. Oreasy, who, the Stauntone stated, had been called in to see the deceased, deposed that he had never been called to such a person. Two members of the county constabulary, called. said that on the 10th of May last they founds window open in Patrick Staunton's house, at which they got in and examined the house. They found the front bedroom barely furnished. On entering the bank bedroom they discovered the floor in a filthy coaditton. There was nothing in it hut an old door or sh.dter to serve for a bed, with • dirty old mattress on it, and dirty pillow. There was no washing or chamber utensil, or anything in the room besides, but an old box. On going on the 20th of May they found the floor of this room thoroughly scrubbed and fitted up with the ordinary chamber utensils. -When they searched the place downstairs they found one of the sitting-rooms occupied by Patrick Staunton as a studio. The other room was carpeted, and on lifting up the carpet they found a trap doer in the floor. When they lifted it up they came to some steps which led them into a cellar underneath, which had some iron grating opening at the side of the house, covered with a small area trap and surrounded with garden mould. _  The evidence of William Merchant, gamekeeper : Mr. Dubery, farmer; Mary Ann Weatleeley, and Mary Ann Langridge as to seeing deceased in a state of constraint, was repeated. Jahn Staple., who formerly ueed to call at Patrick Staunton's with fi.ii, deposed to seeing deceased in the kitchen looking etarved. The inquiry was adjourned.
The Stockton Examiner, and South Durham and North Yorkshire Herald. — 1879-02-01 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

PEACE.-FURTHER  DISCLOSURES.  Further extraordinary disclosures with regard to the convi,.t Peace continue to be made. His name is associated with endless robberies. At Melton Mowbray he is said to have committed a burglary at a nobleman's residence, and to have stolen therefrom nearly £4,000 worth of booty, chiefly jewellery. Another great jewel robbery, which the police failed to trace, he perpetrated at a railway station. On another occasion, in London, he got into a house and was disturbed by a footman. The latter at once disappeared, and so did Peace—through the window; but the footman had informed his master, who let loose a bull-dog at him. Peace pulled out a revolver and shot the dog, and then quietly walked away. He usually selected the evening, between six and eight, for his burglar:es. One night, at Portsmouth, he broke into a counting house, but failed to force the safe. In retaliation, he made his way to the house of the owner of the safe, and, entering the bedroom, he took from his trousers pocket a bunch of keys, on which he found the safe key. He returned to the counting-house, and, opening the safe, was disgusted ,to find only £5 and seine silver. In revenge he took all the papers home and examined them. One of these proved to be a will, and finding the property, as he thought, equPably divided. Peace broke into that counting-house again, reopened the safe, and restored the will. At Armison's, York House, Sheffield, a great robbery of sealskins and embroidery took place. Peace was the robber, and his booty amounted to £4OO. Ile carried it in broad daylight to Darnall in a sack, and afterwards hid it in a cornfield. Subsequently it was placed in a fence. At Manchester and Hull, Peace says he was three titnes within touching distance of the detectives who were after him, and on one occasion he watched the police officer who was tafficrintending the posting of the bills, offering a reward for hisappechension, and exchanged some remarks ith him on the subject of the murder, Peace was very clever as a carver in wood and ivory and iu monumental cardboard. lie bad a beautiful design in me roory of his own children, and he had finely designed memorials in course of ruction to the memory of Dr. Sale, late vicar ef Sheffield, to the Misses llarrison, two well-known ladies of great benevolence, and to Montgomery, the Christian poet. its imistcd on his children going to Sunday school, and in very way professed to be a model, father and , citizen. Ilewas not, however, a churchgoer himself, and • to a clergyman he summed up his religions creed , in these words I believe there's a ltod, and I believe there's a dewitt but I don't fear either." Peace's neighbours at Hell thought him a very quiet, respectable neon, and the annonneement of the marder came upon them as a great surprise.  Twenty-three parth,netl 'onlrenulst4 have arrived at ro.ris from Belli:MM.
The Stockton Examiner, and South Durham and North Yorkshire Herald. — 1879-02-22 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

SUPPOSED MURDER AT ARUNDEL.  What is believed to be a cam of brutal murder foi the purpoie of robbery was tir.,ught to light on Sun.  Jay morning at Arundel. A -man, named o,nai l Fletcher, was going to the brooks about eight o'clock, and when pawing through the lane near Arundul Bridge loafing to the boat house of the Duke of Nor- I . . . . . _  se.elua'ect rot, though.close.to the town, h.  discovered a dead body in the pathway lathed in blood. The body was that of a youth named Rowlov. a parcel collector, employed at the Norfolk Hotel. ! -It had sustained fearful injuries about the bead, whit( DESTRUCTION OF A MISSIONARY PARfI. in its vicinity were marks of a struggle, with blood stains about the road, and the marks of bloody Suitors Letters from Zanxibar up to the 9th ult., report the upon the side of the boat-house. The contents of irrival there of Mr. Keith Johnson and his cointhe pockets were strewed adeut, and although a few maim Mr. Thompson. The Abbe Debaize, sent out shillings and the watch of the deceased were found 33, the French Government, was, when last heart of. with him, a sovereign known to have been in his in the way from trnyanyembe to Ujiji. It is pc -session was missing. The body Was re:noved to reported that before reaching Ilnyanyemhe he came the Town Hall. The youth was last seen alive about into collision with some men of an Dayamivezi chief half-past eight on Saturday evening in the town milled Kungwe-ya-mawe, a relation and rival of the near the place of the tragedy, collecting money for present Cnyainbwezi Sultan of Unyanyembe, much parcels delivered. ;iven to highway robbery. It is near him that :3aeedbin-Salim, the ex-Zanzibar governor of Unyanyambe, has taken refuge. It is stated that the Abbe found with these men tusks of ivory which had been plundered from an Arab caravan, and were spying 3ut his position in order to bring down. a gang of robbers upon him. This ended, it is said, in the Abbe killing the men, and taking the ivory, also two women of their party, possibly slaves, to Unyanyembe. After this a party of the Church Missionary Society—apparently under Mr. Stokes—conic up, but having disiovered that the chief Myungu Was plundering, they took the road by ltuvu, and thernhy avoided him. Another Church Missionary party. seemingly under Mr. Penrose, fell into his hands. and wise attacked near a lake or pool of water, where the trees gave cover to the enemy. Mr. Penrose was killed, also sixty-two of his men, chiefly Unyamweai porters, but including ten 7.itosibarians. Mr. Penrose is said to have fought bravely, holding the robbers in cheek as long as his cartridges lasted, killing sixteen with his own hand before he fell. Everything WaS last; and a few days after the empty pack.ng cases lay on the ground, and sixty-teree dead bodies, it is stated, were counted, including that of a white man, supposed to Mr. Penrose. Whether the act of the Abbe Debaize, if this story be true, had anything to do with what happened is unknown