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The Warwickshire Herald. — 1885-08-01 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF A GIRL.  At York Aesizeabefore Mr. Justice Mathew, John James Taylor, alias Campbell, 34, labourer, has been tried for the wilful murder of Jane Ann llaldenby, at Hull. Ffaldenby, who was at the time of her death 15 years of age, had lived for 13 years previeudy to her death with a Mrs. We'bourn, who was her grandmother. The prisoner had lodged in the same house for nearly a year. He had apparently ehewn attention to the deceased gill, but nothing particular was noticed until early one morning the deceased girl was seen coaling out of the prisoner's bedroom. Mrs. Welbouru "scolded" both the prisoner and the girl about it. On the evenieg of the 7th May the prisoner was overheard making an appointment with the decoase.l girl. On the Bth of May Mrs. Welbourn, in consequence of u hat she had seen, declined to let her granddsughter go out. On the 9th of May a communication was made to the girl's father, who lived near. A little after midday on this day the d. ceased, ohi was described as I aving a cheerful disposition, and • who bad been wdi king about the house as usual, went out and was not seen again by her relativ.s. The prisoner aas in and out dining the day after the deceased ha.l left. He was asked where the girl was, and in roply sail he knew nothing about her, and had not se ii her since breakfast time. The prisoner felt the house about 8.30 .in. on the 9th of May, and proceeded in the direction of the Albert Dock. About 11.30 p.m. a woman's screams were heard near the dock, and a man was seen to be running away from the spot whence the nmeams proceeded. Late the same night the prisoner was seen running about the side of Albert Dock without any hat on. He looked troubled, and paid he was looking for his hat. At 4 o'clock the following ni..rii.mr the prisoner was again seen near the dock,still without his hat. He said he had slept in a shed all night. 'rho prisoner had taken a bed in another house for the night of the 9th of May, but it was probable that he did rot occupy it. The body of the girl was found in the dose on the 29th 4if May, and upon it Wll6 found a small empty b..ttle. The bottle had ode. tamed steel drops, and was given by a chennst to the deceased on the 9th of May. The suggestion was that they had been bought for the purpose of procuring abottion, as this prisoner had asked two women, called Mason and Rossiter, as to what he ould get for a woman for the imrpcse of procuring abortion, and they told him to procure some steel drops. The medical testinioney chewed that death had been caused by drownine, and that the de• ceased girl was pregnant. The prisener was not seen after the 9th of :May until the 19th of June, when he gave himself up to the police at Hull. Evidence was called to corrole rate this stet- ment.—Tee defence was that there was no evidence upon which a jury would be justifittl in finding a verdict 41 guilty, and that the probability was that the girl had commit'ed micide.—The jury eventually found a verdict of Not Guilty, and prisoner was discharged.
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1885-09-24 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

MURDEROUS STRUGGLE IN THE ALPS. Attacks upon tourists travelling alone in the Alpine districts of Switzerland, Italy, and the Tyrol, appear to have been on the increase of late. The objects of the assailants has almost invariably been robbery, but the murder of the lonely traveller has often been the result, the robbers employing sometimes the dagger arid sometimes firearms. The latest of these outrages is t,o'd in a letter, written to the Cologne Gazette, from ISlartigny, in Switzerland, by Herr Paul Letts, a Benin bookseller, who WU snaking a pedestrian tour in the neighbouring mountains. He says, "I was proceeding on foot from Vernayaz (Germ de Trient), when, about half way up the Col de Balan, I met a stranger coming down the mountain. We saluted each other and began a conversation. It was only afterwards I perceived that his object was to ascertain my position, and he succeeded in it so far that, through my own inadvertence, he learned that I had ascended the mountain alone. I had bade him good-bye in order to resume my journey, and he had replied in a sty ng Austrian dialect, when the next moment I was felled to the ground by a shot that struck me in the neck. The fellow then seized ins by the leg, and attempted to drag me to the edge of the deep and precipitous slope of the mountain side. But he did not succeed, as I was able to pull myself together. He then attacked me again, and, taking aim coolly, remarked, 'Oh, I have another for you. He then fired a second shot, and two more after that. All this passed very quickly, and I was only now able to pull out my own revolver. I aimed at him, when he at once ran away, quickly but cautiously. I tried to follow him, picking up on the way his umbrella and my own opera-glass, which had fallen out of its case. But atter a few steps I had, owing to the loss of blood, to lie down. I could not afford to fire haphazard, as I only had two cartridges in any revolver, which I thought it necessary to keep, in the event of a renewed attack. With my revolve; on my knee, I awaited what might happen. After a few minutes three gentlmen approached me, coming up the mountain. I found they were students from Lyons, and I told them ray story. They tried te assist me to go back, but I was unable to proceed, and begged tl.ein to procure other assistance, so that might be carried down. This was done, and abonf two hours after this attack I found myself in the Hotel des Alpes, Trient. The medical examination chewed that, in addition to the wound in the neck, where the ball had passed out again under the right ear, I had two other wounds,the second being between the right ear and the temple, and the third, in ;duct the bullet bad entered my body under the arm and appeared to have remained in the lung."
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1885-11-26 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

LITERARY AND OTHER NOTES. I MR PARNELL'S MANIFESTO. The December number of the Nineteenth Cen!ury ; The following manifesto to the Irish voters in will contain an article on "Solar Myths," by Profess.' ' Great Britain has been approved by Mr. Parnell, and Max Muller, and his reply Co Mr. Gladstone 's article I " Gotha Dawn of Religion and Worship." ordered to be circulated : Princess Louise and the Marquis of Lorne will be "To our countrymen in England and Scotland:— joint contributors to an early number of Good Won is "The Liberal party are making an appeal to the —their subject, "Our Railway to the Pacific." the confidence of the electors at the general election of Princess contributing the pictures and Lord Lorne the 1885, as at the general election of 1880, on false letterpress. pretences. In 1880 the Liberal party promised Mr. Swinburne line undertaken the article on peace, and it atterwarda made unjust war ; Webster for the "Encyclopedia Britannica." economy, and its budget reached the highest A collection of Mr. Ruskin's miscellaneous parra point yet attained; justice to aspiring nationalities, phlets, articles, and essays is now in the press, and and it mercilessly crushed the national movement will, it is expected, be ready tor publication early in of Egypt under Arabi Paelsa, and murdered thouDecember. The collection will be published in two sands of Arabia 'rightly struggling to be free.' To volumes, under the title "On the Old Road." Ireland, more than any other country, it bound Principal Fairbeirn will reply in the next number of itself by most solemn pledges, and these it most the Cwarrapoeiray /helm to Cardinal Newman and Dr. flagrantly violated. It denounced coercion, and it Barry. Dractised a system of coercion more brutal than that of any preview; administration, Liberal or Tory. A little volume of stories, chiefly adilressed to chil• Under this system juries were packed with a ehame- , dren, by the Bishop of Ripon (Dr. W. Boyd Car. penter), will be published by Messrs. Macmillan and leeme.' . n1:I .s rrecedented even in Liberal administra- , ta . . it-ns, and innocent men were hung or sent to the Co. in a few days. The book will bear the title living death i f penal servitude; 1,200 men were "Truth in Tale." imprisoned without trial ; ladies were convicted under Sir Henry Thompson (Pen Oliver) is said to b 3 an obsolete Act directed agai est the degraded of their busy over a new book—another medical romance, sex, and, for a period, every utterance of the popular The Haywaid Correspondence, edited by Mr. if. Press, and of the popular authority was as corn. E. Carlisle, will he issued by Mr. John Murray be- pletely suppressed as if Ireland was Poland, and the fora the year closes. Administration of Eng; ind a Russian autocracy. Professor E. B. Cowell and Mr. R. A. Neil The representatives of Liberalism in Ireland were are bringing together a collection of early Buddhist men like Mr. Forster and Earl Spencer, who have legends, edited from the N••palese Sanskrit
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1885-11-26 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

SINGULAR CHARGE OF MURDER. William Withey, 35, lamplighter, and Louisa Withey, 24, his wife, were on Monday charged at the Lambeth police-court, on suspicion of feloniously murdering a male child, aged a'..)out 12 months, on or about July, 1884, at a house in M'Dermott-road, Camberwell. It appears that in consequence of information given to the police by a man named Lehmann, Inspector Pearn went to the residence of the prisoners at South Norwood, and asked the man whether some time ago he lived in M'Dermott-road, and had a child to take care of whilst there. The prisoner, after some hesitation, replied "Yes." Asked what had become of the child, he replied, "It was sent into the country—Pt was to bud bury, I think." The female prisoner having been fetched, the inspector read the following statement by Lehmann: "On the 15th August last William Withey, a lamplighter, living at 36, Addison-road, South Norwood, told me he buried a child, aged two years, which he adopted from a low character, and his wife getting tired of it, killed it, and after he came home from lighting the lamps he buried it in a sack about three feet under the ground, in a room at No, 6, M'Dermutt-road, East Dulwich, in July. 1884." NVhilst this wee being read the male prisoner said, "What a lie! " He also took a sack from a coal cellar, and said that %Vas the only sack he had, and pointed out that it did not look as if it had been buried. The prisoners were removed to the station. According to the evidence of the inspector the male prisoner on the way asked the woman if she could not remember where the child was taken to. She said that she could not. At the station the man L-hmann was preaent,and when asked if he still adhered to his statement, he said he did. The female prisoner then said that the child was taken to London, and was given to a woman outside Waterloo Railway Station by appointment. When asked who took it, the male prisoner said, " I did, said gave it to the woman ;" then, turning to his wife, he observed, "It was Waterloo, wasn't it ?" and she replied, "You told me so." When the charge was read over, the woman said, at the same time pushing her husband with her hand, "It's all my bruit, not yours." He said, "Shut up."—The male prisoner here declared the inspector had sworn falsely, and said the inspector never cautioned him that what he said would he used in evidence.—The magistrate said it was a case that certainly required the fullest investigation in order to clear it up. He ordered a remand, and directed that the Public Prosecutor should be consulted upon the matter.  A man of the Cheshire RegimEnt has died at Umballa of hydrophobia. The Tichborne Claimant has been summoned before the County Bench at Southampton, by the South Stoneham Guardians, for the maintenanoe of his wife and her three children. The Claimant had been served with the summons in Scotland, and did not appear; but his solicitor applied for, and obtained, an adjournment for a month.
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1885-04-11 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

LYNCHING IN AMERICA.  A despatch, dated Omaha, March 12th, says: "Meagre reports reached here yesterday of the lynching in Clay county, Neb., of Elisa Taylor and her brother, Thomas Jobs. The lynching occurred on Sunday morning, just before daylight, at Spring Ranch, near Fairfield. Early in January Robert Roberts, a neighbouring homesteader, was shot and killed by Mrs. Taylor's sons, who are now in gaol. The woman and Jones were suspected of inducing the buys to commit the murder, and they were notified to leave the county, which notification they seemed to have ignored. As a result a crowd of probably 200 persons on Sunday morning surrounded the house of Jones, where there were seven persons—Mr. Jones, Mrs. Taylor pad her daughter, a bright looking girl of 5 years; ;elson Cely, John Foster, alias Texas Bill, and bother person named Clark, and a boy whose name A unknown. As soon as the mob reached the house key demanded that Mrs. Taylor and Tom Jones Should come out, but instead of complying with lie request the door of the house was barricaded, ond other raeans were taken to prevent a foroible entrance. Those inside were well provided with firearms, and why they were not used by them is a mystery. After parleying for some time, the men in the mob, who were determined to have them out, threatened to throw a bomb of dynamite into the window. At this juncture Tom Jones asked Texas Bill if he thought it would be safe to go out, and was answered that it would. Thereupon Tom Jones said that he would come out, and was told by the mob to crawl out of the window, as he would not be allowed to go out of the door, and he was also told to leave all firearms behind him and crawl out with his hands up. This he did, wad upon his appearance was immediately covered with revolvers and guns and was taken to one side and his hands tied with a piece of rope, which was procured from some mule harness belonging to Mrs. Taylor. Mrs. Taylor was then ordered to come out, and she too came out of the window the same way, and had her hands tied also. The men then took them into an open spot near the house, and leaving them under a guard, drew off a little way, and held a consultation, which ended in Mrs. Taylor and "'ern Jones being taken in one direction and the other four men who were in the house in another. Jones and Mrs. Taylor were hanged to a bridge. The bodies were left swinging there until 3 oklock Sunday afternoon. An inquest was held, and a verdict of death at the hands of parties unknown was rendered."  Mr. Sutherland, a cooper, of Stornoway, was melting some tar in s not in his house when the tar overflown() and set fire to the dwelling. Hastily grasping the pot Mr. Sutherland ran with it to the outside of the house, dreadfully burning his hands in doing so. On his return ha found that his little son, who was lting an invalid bad been burnt to desth-1
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1885-10-08 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

DOUBLE MURDER BY A MOTHER.  At the Lambeth police-court Mary Catherine Bicknell aged 28, has been charged with having murdered her two children—Mabel Eunice,aged three years and six months, and Constance,aged 11 months. Police-constable Smith said he was called to the house where prisoner, with her husband resided, and found in an upstairs room the dead bodies of the two children wrapped face to face in a blanket. Prisoner came up into the room where the children were lying and a doctor who had been sent for said in her presence that they had died from suffocation. The prisoner 1,10, "1 know what lam doing. I have done it all for the best. I intended to do it all for the best, as I believed they would go to Heaven, where they would be better off. I had them upstairs to have their bath. The devil must have taken possession of me. I took them out of the bath, and placsd them on the Led, and smothered them between two beds. I afterwards took them out, and put their heads in the bath to make sure that they were quite dead."—lnspector Fraser said that on arriving at the house he saw the prisoner in the front parlour, and after making some remarks to her she said, " Yes, after I bathed them I placed them between two pillows and then smothered them, and I afterwards put their heads in the bath, but they did not struggle."—Prisoner : No; that is quite right; they did not.—The witness continued to say that the prisoner' added that she afterwards put the children in a ulaiiket, and said, "I know what I have done. 1 ani nid. out of my mind." Detective-sergeant Vagg, of the NV division, who was in company with witness, handed him a piece of paper, which he found in the room. The paper was now produced, and in pencil was written the following: " Ralph so good, so true and faithful, faultless and good, no unmanly act has he ever done ; a loving husband and kind, a perfect father. Oh, Ralph, what depths of love and patience are in you; all friends are kind ; mother is helpful and indulgent, but Ralph the best of husbands, and all know it is so. Ralph is everything that can be, and so sympathetic, so patient." .The prisoner, upon hearing this read, turned to her husband, who was seated in court, and said, " Yes, that is Ralph. That is true." Witness continued to say that he took the prisoner to the station, and she was there charged. She spoke in a composed manner, but there was a vacant appearance about her eyes.—Dr. Alt gave it as his opinion that the children died, not from drowning in the bath, but from being cuff ocated in the bedding. From the appearance of the eldest child, he thought she must have struggled much. The prisoner said, " thought she would, and I suffocated her first." Ile knew nothing of the prisoner before this; but understood she had twice been in a lunatic asylum. She gave a very clear account of the inatter.—Prisoner : Yes. I was quite right, but thought I might go wrong. I know what I did.—At this point the case was remanded.
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1885-06-20 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

THE LOSS OF THE NISERO.  Mr. Rothery, the Wreck Commissioner, assisted by nautical assessors, has held an inquiry, which terminated on Thursday, at the Sessions House, Westminster, into the circumstances attending the loss by stranding of the steamship Nisero when on a voyage from Sourabaya to Port Said. Mr. Middleton and Mr. Mears appeared for the Board of Trade ; Mr. Aspinall for the owners ; Mr. Roche for the captain ; and Mr. Crump for the Indemnity Association, in which the vessel was insured. Mr. Middleton, in opening the case for the Board of Trade, observed that the Nisero left Sourabays on the 27th of October, 1883, and proceeded on her voyage with a crew of 28 hands and a cargo of sugar. She had on board a supply of 165 tons of ordinary bunker coal and 55 tons of Australian coal, alleged by the engineer to be inferior in quality to the English coal. The daily consumption was 15 tons; and it would be a question for the court whether there was a reawnably sufficient amount of coal to carry the vessel to Point d'Egale, a distance of about 2,480 miles. On the 7th of November the engineer made a report regarding the coal, and stated that he could guarantee only two days' coal. It was then determined to make for Purl° lira. On the 10th land was sighted and, despite the t iforf Fl of the crew, the ship drove ashore near the village ot Tangar.about 10 miles north of Tenoin. The crew were immediately seized by the natives ard made pris•liers. On the 11th some of the crew were allowed to go on board the Nisero, and it would be a question whether the , log-book might not have been recovered at that time. In about a month's time the Rajah of Teman perMated the master nod the second engine,v to leave; tor what purpool he could not say. oven of the crew subsequently died in captivity,and th • remainder after protracted negotiations, were relehsed and brought to England. where they arrived in October, 1884. The inquiry had been delayed until the present time, owing to inability to obtain persons whose evidence was necessary.—Evidence was then given in support of the opening statement of counsel.— The court found that the cause of the casualty was the failure of the captain to make allowance for the currents when he altered his course; and they also blamed the chief engineer for no having reported sooner than he did the insufficient quantity of cal. Considering, however, the sufferings of the officers, they did not think it necessary to deal with their certificates.  At the Hull police-court on Thursday, a young girl named Isabella Hewson, waa charged with the murder of her illegitimate child by hanging it. On :ler brother being called she became terribly exi-ted, shrieked out the name of her child, and went into several fits. She was so violent that two female At Birkenhead Thomas Hodson, assistant master warders and several officers had to bold her. The iat St. Paul's Schools, has been fined ss. for having hearing of the case had to be suspended. I Bogged a boy with a cane because he leaned against the wall whilst at drill.