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The Northern News. — 1898-06-11 (Carlisle, Cumbria, England)

GENERAL NEWS.  Pte. Emprees of Ramis oompleted her 26th year on Monday. Tile Duke and Duchess of York are expected in St. Petersburg in August. During the pass week there were 68 oases of plague at Hong Kong and 63 deaths. The second son of the King of Siam will shortly be entered at one of the great military schools in Russia. The Earl of Crewe has been elected president of the Cheshire Milk Producers' Association, a body which has been formed, on co-operative lines, to promote the internee of Cheshire dairy farmers. At Freshford, near Kilkenny, Mr. William O'Neill, an auctioneer, residing at Kilkenny, was shot dead. He called at the house of a policeman named Carmichael to collect a debt, and it is alleged that Carmichael drew a revolver and shot Mr. O'Neill, who died instantly. Alfred Bullock, (son of John Bullock, draper, of Macclesfield, has died in Macclesfield Infirmary from a bicycle accident. When riding dcwn a hill near Macclesfield with his feet on the foot-rests, he lost control of his machine and dashed into the kerbstone. He was thrown on his head, sad his skull was fractured. At a meeting of the Burnley Justices, Mr. T. Meller, solicitor, Burnley, was appointed borough magistrates' clerk, at a salary of £4OO a year. Mr. Metier was a partner with the late clerk a: a has for some time acted as his deputy. The salary of Mr. Nowell, who had held the appointment about 25 rears, was £5OO. Juo. Morley was interview at Arbroath, on Saturday, by the Press Association's representative, who ventured to inquire whether there was anytruth in the report that he had joined the Konian Catholic community. Mr. Morley With some emphasis: "It is a pure unadulterated fable without a shadow of foundation." Two Spalding young men named Cox and Emery,' whilst bicycling in the Fens on Sunday, knocked down a man named Markelley, who has died from the injuries. They were riding from March o Spalding on a tandem. The cyclists fetched a doctor, and before leaving the village gave their names and addresses. A sparrow's nest containing six eggs has been found in a truck of coal which was unloaded at Boston in Lincolnshire. The ingenuity of the sparrow in evil doing surpasses human wit Would it have occurred to any other bird thus to secure a trip to the seaside for its unborn family without previously paying any fares? Mr. Hugh Clements writes :—The weather for the month of June will be much better than that of May in almost every respect. It will be more seasonable. About half the amount of rain will fall on about half the number of days. The temperature will be considerably higher, and there will be comparatively few cool days. An inquest was held at the London Hospital, on Augusta Caroline Truett, aged 53, a publican's wife, who was stabbed in the parlour of the Railway Tavern, 3, Colts-st., Limehouse, by her brotherin-law, Charles Truett, on the 23rd of May last. A verdict of "Wilful murder" was returned against Charles Truett, who appeared to have delusions. A testimonial, consisting of a cheque for £l.
The Northern News. — 1898-09-24 (Carlisle, Cumbria, England)

FLUID."  1.1  LORD 07 THE MANOR CHARGED WITH ATI'EMPTED MURDER. At • special sitting on Monday of the Harwidh magistrate*, Dr. E. J. Hevene, Lord of the Manor et Eset, Donyiand, was brought up in custody charged with &aim ktato murder his little daughter, Agn.eHenrietta DOS HAVII/14, aged twelve years, by &enrols her at nine o'oloek on Sunday evening on the quay at Harwich. Evidence was given by a batiokm•ker named Bristow, iremdmg at Woolpit, Suffolk, to the effect thM he saw the accused on the steps of the pier, aiid heard him say, "Now you will have to go, and I will come after." The little girl screamed and struggled with the amused, and Bristow called bin • coward. Amused then ran up the steps and knocked Brietow down, and then made a second attempt to drown the child, but P.C. PaPe came up and took him into custody. Dr. Havens declined to oroes-examine witness, but said that Bristow was suffering from an hallucination. The Magistrates, however, remanded him, and refused to swept bail. Dr. Havens only arrived at Harwich on Saturday night. His wife, at Leaden Petty Sesalone, recently obtained a separation order from him. It is stated that the accused was at one time a stirgeon in the Royal Navy. At Harwich. on Tuesday, Dr. Edward J. Havens, Lord of the Manor of FAA Donyland, Colchester, was charged on remand with attempting to murder his twelve-year-old daughter, Agnes, on Sunday evening, by drowning her. The accused was defended by Mr. W. Jones, solicitor, Colchester. As the accused entered the crowded court he bowed to the magistrates. Supt. Ackers asked that the es se might he adjourned for a week, as the evidence for the prosecution was incomplete. Mr. Jones said he concurred with Mr. Ackers' application, as he dkl not receive any instructions until Monday aft., noon. It was a most serious charge against his cheat, but he hoped at the next sitting of the Bench to make a suggestion to the magistrates that would meet the justice of the case. No man was more fond of his daughter than was Dr. Havens, and he (Mr. Jones) had seen instances of the affection existing between them. He asked the Bench to grant bail. He was prepared to go to any amount, and to undertake that his client should go to any hotel named and remain in charge of someone deputed by their Worships. His client felt his position very much. He was well known in EISSOI, and had never seen the inside of a prison before. The Bench said that they were sorry, but they did not feel that they would be acting wisely in granting hail in face of the evidence and the seriousness of the charge. Mr. Jones said he was sorry, but he quite saw the position in which their Worships stood. Without going into the facts he might !state that at the time the attempt was alleged to have been made there was a steam launch full of sailors at the bottom of the steps of Harwich Pier, and not one hair of the child was wetted. Remanded in custody.
The Northern News. — 1898-07-23 (Carlisle, Cumbria, England)

SHEPHERD HANGED FOR WIFE 3117RDF12.  At Chelmsford, on Tuesday, Wm. Wilkes, a shepherd, was executed for the murder of his wife at Canewdon, Essex. The couple quarrelled about some tobacco, and Wilkes knocked the woman down twioe, and kicked her three or four times, afterwards dragging her body into the house. The condemned man made a will after his sentence leaving what property he possessed to his two sons, aged 21 and 12 respectively, who gave evidence against him at the trial. During his incarceration Wilkes stated he attacked his wife during a fit of temper in which he scarcely knew what he warn doing. The condemned man displayed great indifference as to his fate up to Saturday last, when he took farewell of his fat-her and brothers, sinoe when he had occasionally burst into tears. On Monday he completely broke down. being scarcely able to eat hie food. He also appeared greatly depressed. Since the trial he has greatly enjoyed an oricasiional pipe of tobacco, the subject of the fatal quarrel with his wife always having been a great solace to him. On Monday night he slept well, and rose at six o'clock aext morning and partook of a hearty breakfast, He spent a considerable time with the chaplain. At six rninuter to eight the H;gh Sheriff, accompanied by the executioner, Billington, and other officials, entered the condemned Wilkes when asked if he had anything to say made no reply, but took a drink of brandy. He seemed to be in a dazed condit'on. The mournful precession to the dicaffold was headed by the chaplain reading the Burial Service recently approved by the Prison Commiaiioners. On arrival at the fatal spot Billing. ton without loss of time placed the rope round prisoner's neck and pinioned him. Wilkes, looking round with an inquiring glance at the Chief Warder asked, "Will it hurt me very much?" but was leassured by the monosyllabic answer "No." Almost immediately the executioner, having drawn a thin gauze cap over the culprit's head, the lever was touched and the drop fell, death being absolutely instantsous. Wilkes weighed 12 stone, and was given a drop of Tft. 2ina.  An inquest was held on Saturday evening at Poole on the body of a fish hawker named Ruffell, who lost h:s life by foolhardiness on the previous night. After the public-houses closed the deceased challenged another men to swim across the harbour. Thl challenge was ac-."epted. and both men entered the water. The deceased, however, soon showed signs of exhaustion, and was teemed in ein unconscious condition. The jury exonerated the other parties...  At Southwark, London, on Monday, Wm. Gould, ooetermonger, of the Borough, wee remanded charged with the manslaughter of Alice Lofthouse, a married woman. Early on Sunday morning, prisoner wept to the Police station and made a statement to the effect that Lotthouse, who was intoxicated, quarrelled smith him. He shoved her and she Lell over a table. The police, however, have in their possession an iron bar and state the charge will probably be altered to one of wilful murder.
The Northern News. — 1898-10-15 (Carlisle, Cumbria, England)

RENEWAL OF LICENCE OF THE FISH INN, WETTIERAL. TO TKO IDITOR. Sm.—When the objection to the renewal of the lioenoe of the above Inn was heard at the Courts on Saturday last, Supt. Graham, P.C.Huck and P.C. Monnsey entered the box and tendered their evidence in support of the renewal of the licence. In reply to my questions. Mr Graham raid that he had not been subpcenaed but had been requested by Sir John Dunne, if questions were asked of him and P.C. Huck oonoerning the good oonduct of the tenant of the Fish Inn, they were to answer them. On sociount of this he would also put P.C. Mounwey into the box though Sir John Dunne had not mentioned Mounsey's name to him. Mr Broughton, who appeared for the tenant. stated that at the request of Sir John Dunue he would call Supt. Graham and P.C. Huck to shew that there had been no disorder in Wetheral connected with the Fish Inn. So far as my experience goes this is the first time that Sir John Dunne or any member of the police force has tendered evidence in support of a licence. The universal practice is that the polioe, if they appear at all, are on the side of Law and Order, and opposed to the renea al of licenoes or the granting of new ones. One cannot tell what Sir John Dunne's object was, we can only gather that he was determined to do what he could to secure the renewal of the licence of the "Fish Inn," and went out of his way to do it. The evidence which he tendered was negative evidence only, it did not traverse the evidence, which was given against the renewal of the licence, and I would put it to you, sir, and to the public generally, that it Sir John Dunne had called Supt. Graham, P.C. Huck, and P.C. Mounsey to prove that a murder had been committed in Wetheral, which they had seen oommitted, and I on behalf of the man accused of the murder had produoed ten witnesses who were in Wetheral on the day, but who had not seen the murder committed, would be not in perfect oonildenoe have stated to the Bench that the negative evidence which I called, seeing that it did not contradict the positive evidence which he had called, ought not to have any weight with the Bench, or influence them in any degree in arriving at their decision. The evidence as tendered by the police is entirely opposed to the evidence of the witnesses I called last Saturday and to the general knowledge of the Wetheral people and of all those who have attended the Wetheral picnics for the last few years, and is also in direct contradiction to Mr Horrock's statement on the 16th July last which is as follows:—" We cannot see in this core, from the number of oases of drunkenness and disorder that have occurred in Wetheral during the past few months, that the granting of this licence would conduce to the order and quiet of the village." Mr Horrooks further added that three or four men had certainly been brought to this Court for drunken and disorderly conduct at Wetheral.
The Northern News. — 1898-09-17 (Carlisle, Cumbria, England)

UMPORTUNAILTIC " ILESCUZ.  Frederick Prudham wits summoned for being di.orderly on the Bth inst. on Caldew Bridge.—P.C. Carruthers proved the case. —Prudhain said he was crossing the bridge when he saw another man cross the street. and go up to two ladies u if to strike them. He went up, and he and the man had a light. That was how it came about.—The Bench, under the circumstances, dismissed the use  TRUZ TO HIS 111•111 Z John Bulger was charged with being drunk and disorderly in Rickergate, and also with assaulting P.C. Lynn whilst on duty on the 10th inst.—P.C. Lynn said he saw prisoner in Rickergate making a disturbance. He took him into custody. but in Scotch Street prisoner said "I'll finish up my career by being tried for murder," and began kicking furiously. P C Gibson, of the Station Police, came up and helped to get prisoner to the Police Station.—P.C. Gibson said he was on the 'bus in Scotch Street, when he saw Lynn struggling with the prisoner. He got off and helped to lock plooner up,—The Idsvoa said the Bench thought it s bad case. They were thankful to Constable Gibson for the assistance be had given, and Bulger would be sent to gaol for a month with hard labour.  QUA RZZLOODIZ SZIORBOUILL  Dinah Dugdale and Isabella Foster were intmmooed for assaulting Maria Louisa MacDonald on the 6th inst. Mr Stordy prosecuted, and Mr Broughton defended.—Mrs MacDonald said on the 6th inst. the defendan se went into their shop and charged her with putting out scandal about Mrs Dugdale. She denied it, but next day she was in the washhonse when Mrs Dugdale came in, got hold of her and pulled her about. She pulled her out of the washhouse, and on to her knees. She had been very much upset rims. Cross-examined by Mr Broughton: She did not strike at all, and had not spread the scandal about.—Margaret Hill said on the day in question she was in the washhouse when Mrs Dugdale came in and took hold of Mrs MacDonald, who pushed her against the mangle. Mrs Dugdale then got hold of Mrs MacDonald by the hair and pulled her out inio the yard and called out "Mother." when Mrs Foster came out and also got hold of Mrs MacDonald.—Mr Baouoirrow said this trouble had arisen out of a -scandal. which he was sure could be proved to have been circulated by Mrs MacDonald. The assault was a general scrimmage, and Mrs Dugdale was getting the worst of it. and called out for her mother, who came and helped to separate the two parties. There was a cross-summons. —Dinah Dugdale went into the box and said she and her mother went into Mrs Mac Donald's about the scandal The next day, the 6th. she went into the washbouse when Mrs MacDonald struck her. When they got out into the yard Mrs MacDonald threw a shoe at her, and it struck her in the face. There was no truth in the scandal.—lsabella Foster said when she went into the yard Mrs MacDonald was standing with a shoe in her band She got hold of Mrs MacDonald. but she afterwards threw the shoe at her daughter —The MAYOR said the Bench Thought it was just a general scrimmage between the women, and they dismissed both cases.  Sr. STEP tillllloB Mlssiox
The Northern News. — 1896-07-04 (Carlisle, Cumbria, England)

CONFLICTING ACCOUNTS.  Exhaustive inquiries were on Monday made, says the London "Daily Courier," as to the truth of the allegations concerning the circumstances under which Milsom, the Muswell Hill murderer, was executed at Newgate three weeks ago, and referred to on our second page. Despite the reserve which is everywhere maintained by the prison staff, there is reason to believe that what actually occurred was this: Fowler and Seaman had both been thoroughly pinioned, and Wilkinson, of Bolton, the assistant executioner, had just begun to bind the lower limbs of Milsom, when Billington suddenly pulled the lever, and all three murderers disappeared from view in the fatal pit. Wilkinson at once dashed down into the pit and secured the legs of the unfortunate man, whose body was swaying in the death struggle. Milsom's death must have been a painful one, for, in spite of all Wilkinson's efforts, the struggle for life lasted over several minutes. Death eventually was the result of strangulation pure and simple, and net of dislocation of the neck.  The tramway from Lytham to Blackpool is now near completion, and it is expected the care will commence running at once between Blackpool and St. Anne's, and to Lytham in the course of a few weeks. The cost of laying the line was £lB,OOO, the Blackpool Corporation constructing the lines in the borough and leasing them to the Lytham Company. Some of the cars have already arrived, and their construction is very neat. The motive power is gas, a small engine being fixed under each ear. A supply of gas is carried on board, and is at present being taken from the Blackpool mains. The Traction Syndicate of London, who hold the patent rights, will provide 25 cars at a cost of £7OO per completed car. They also agree to work the line for seven years for the sum of 40. per car mile run, with a minimum of about 163,000 car miles per year. The extent of the double journey is 14 miles. The route is a very picturesque one. An Odessa correspondent telegraphs: Kalmachelidse, the unfrocked priest who recently murdered the Archimandrite Nicholas at Tiflis, declared before the examining magistrate that he committed the crime in revenge for his victim having refused him pecuniary assistance. The evidence adduced, however, showed that for other reasons Kalmachelidse had long cherished a bitter enmity against the Archimandrite. When known under his former lay name of Joseph Smirnoff—then a parish vicar—the deceased had instituted an investigation into the conduct of halmachelidse, who was proved to have been the secret chief of a band of brigands and blackmailers which he himself had organised. He had solemnised many illegal marriages, and otherwise profaned the sacraments and was also leading an immoral and scandalous life. Hence he was expelled from the priesthood by the prelate, who has fallen a victim to his hate. The Archmandrite was stabbed in the side and in the abdomen, and died within the hour. Kalmachelidse will, in all probability, be hanged.
The Northern News. — 1896-09-19 (Carlisle, Cumbria, England)

OUR NOTE BOOK.  • There are signs at last that the The Armenian patience of the British people Horror, has been exhausted, and that the bloodstained tyrant who has snapped his fingers at the Great Powers of Europe, and flouted the remonstrances of their ambassadors, will not much longer be permitted to indulge in the wanton slaughter of his Christian subjects. His cup of iniquity was filled to the brim and running over long ago, but he has traded on the mutual jealousies and mutual distrust of the Great Powers till he has been led to believe that his immunity from punishment was to continue indefinitely. Had he but been content with the slaughter and spoliation of the Armenians in their own land, and desisted for a time from further outrage, his guilt might have been condoned, if it could not have been pardoned, and he might have been trusted a few years longer to wield the authority he has so fearfully abused. But he could not, and regarded in a certain light, it is as well that he could not. For if such a breathing time could be allowed, it is morally certain that no lasting benefit could have accrued, either to the Sultan, or the unhappy Christians under his sway. There could only have been a period of rest, such as that of the opium smoker, with a like terrible awakening such as we have had But by conniving, nay, organising, the murder of Armenians in his own capital, before the very eyes of the representatives of the Great Powers, and deliberately refusing the execute justice on murderers caught red-handed, he has sealed his own doom. The Powers and Britain especially cannot overlook it, unless they wish to sound a deeper depth of humiliation and disgrace than any they have yet touched. But as we have said the public conscience is at last aroused. Newspapers of all shades of opinion are uniting. The churches are speaking out, meetings are being called in all the large and important centres. Lord Salisbury is receiving ample assurance that if he moves an united country will suppoit him in any earnest and definite endeavour to stop these horrible artrocities. But there must be no slackening. It is earnestly to be hoped that Mr Gladstone may be able to attend the meeting at Liverpool, as he has partly undertaken to do. Everyone hopes that he may yet be spared many years, but if it should be his last appearance on a public platform, it will be a most fitting close to a glorious career, that his voice was raised on behalf of liberty for the downtrodden people of the East In his early years he was prominently identified with the cause of Greece, the first to win their freedom from the hated Moslem rule, it would be well if he could aid and see its complete downfall. Meantime, we hope that Carlisle will not be behinl other towns in raising its voice at this conjuncture.
The Northern News. — 1896-05-30 (Carlisle, Cumbria, England)

THE MYSTERIOUS MURDER IN PARIS.  MAN AND WOMAN ARRESTED.  A Paris telegram says :—A mysterious crime, which resembles in some respects the murder cf the Bailiff Gouffe, has been discovered. Two days ago two persons, it man and a woman, alighted from a train from Paris at Courville, near Cherbourg. They had with them a trunk, which they deposited in the cloakroom, and left the station. On Friday morning the attention of the officials was drawn to the objectionable odour issuing from the trunk, and they accordingly procured keys and opened the box. A horrible sight met their view. In the trunk was the nude body of a young man doubled up, with the head between the legs. The man was about 25 years of age, and tall, with brown hair and a slight dark moustache. The railway officials at once communicated with the police. In the aft ernoon the two per,ons who had left the trunk came to claim it. They were immediately arrested. In reply to questions they stated that they were a married couple named Castel, the man being 35 years of age and the woman 30. They declared iliat they had been commissioned by a man named Bernard to take the dead body by railway in a trunk to save the expense of sending it in a coffin in the usual way. They added that they lived in the Rue des Petits Carreaux in Paris. The man and woman were detained in custody pending inquiries. The Paris police were communicated with, and immediately commenced their researches. They found that the name of Castel was not known in the Rue des Carreaux. It is believed that the dead man's identity will soon be established. The murderer of young Delachaif, the stamp collector, whose dead body was found in a portmanteau at Cherbourg, has confessed his crime, but denies that he acted with premeditation. His name is Ato)ert. He is thirty years of age, and was horn at Bordeaux, where his mother and brother carry on a wine business. Aubert was fairly well known in the Bohemian society of the Latin Quarter, where he was accustomed to engage in various kinds of shady transactions, selling bad wine, acting as a go-between, and so forth. There is no doubt that he enticed young Delachaif to his lodging in the Avenue de Versailles for the purpose of robbing him of his stamp collection, which was worth about 10,000 francs. The complicity of Aubert's mistress has not been proved, and appears doubtful. As the murder was perpetrated in Paris it is there that the trial will take place.  At the Old Bailey, on Saturday, James Thomas was indicted before Mr. Juitice Hawkins and a jury for murdering his brother, Henry Thomas. at Clerkenwell. t_,ounsel for the prosecution intimated that the grand jury had thrown out the bill against prisoner, and he was, therefore, only charged upon the Coroner's inquisition. The. Judge having explained the circumstances, the jury returned a verdict of not guilty, and prisorler_was discharged.