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Denton Examiner, Audenshaw, Hooley Hill and Dukinfield Advertiser. — 1876-12-09 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

THE EXAMINER-SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1876.  CRIME IN FRANCE. (Prom the "Wm.") The Paris newepapers of the 29th ult, contain reports of no less than throe criminal came in which the accused wore respectively condemned to capital punishment. Sentence of death has become so rare m Franco that even a single instance in which it is pronounced is generally ebesidered worthy of special mention in the most prominent columns; and it is probably a very long time since within two or three days of one another three juries have successfully convicted for murder without extenuating circumstances. The verdicts in question are not to be explained by any increased severity on , the part of the jurors, but to that renewal of I I ferocity in the French lower classes which hoe been so marked within the past few yearn. The first criminal, who was a native of the Charente Infilirieure,-,was an ex-cabin boy, who, after a aeries isf outrages which even the French paper refuses to describe, ended by brutally mutilating and murdering • child 15 years of age. The second case reported from Normandy, is that of a young woman who I had poisoned her father. The ill-fated old man had , invited his daughter to spend a few days with him, and the woman, with the greatest deliberation, and ahnost without concealing her intention from the neighbours, utiliend the visit by mixing poisons with ' the food she net before him. The motive of this second , crime May be supposed to have been simple cupidity, and the same passion was the ultimate cause of the third and last case now reported. Avarice was the! one characteristic of Julien Dueaux, and it was developed to such an extent in him that he objected tot giving up a small p'ece of furniture belonging to his sister-in-law which he had been accustomed to treat as his own, but which the woman on her marriage wished to take away with her. Exasperated by the loss of this not very valuable piece of property, the man determined upon the triple crime which he afterwards carried into effect. After buying some petroleum and providing himself with a spade, he set upon the three women who occupied the same house with him, battered them euccessively on the head and then drank the petroleum, at the same time cutting his own veins in a bungling and ineffectual manner. The women all died after lingering several days; the man recovered, and has just been condemned to the guillotine. The picture of French peasant life thus disclosed is not, certainly, encouraging. It forms a sombre supplement and commentary upon the lately published judicial statistics. But the most noticeable feature in each of these fatal cases is the complettrrecklessfiess of the murderers. There in hardly any attempt at concealment or at denying the charge, and the whole interest of the trial centres, not in the question of guilt, but in the possibility or impossibility of palliating it.  Ma. THOMAS SCOTT, and ' through him THE Bonus"
Denton Examiner, Audenshaw, Hooley Hill and Dukinfield Advertiser. — 1876-09-23 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

SCOTCH HERRING FISHERY.—The herring fishing on the East Coast of Scotland may be said to have terminated on Saturday, and the Scotsman given an estimate of the results of the season. In the earlier weeks of the fishing the meows met with was greater than in any former year, but since then operations have been frequently interrupted by stormy weather. and the net catah for the season over all the stations has only been 342,000 crane, or an average per boat of about eighty-five crane. Last year 540,000 wens of herrings were captured on the Bast Coast, and this falling off represents a decrease in the earninge of the fishermen of .C 220,000. Some of the stations have fared mueh better than others adjoining them. The catch at Wick, for instance, has been much below the average, while at Helmedale more herrings have been landed than in any recent season, the Morayshire boats fishing off their own *neat are fairly well fished, while the Banffshire crews have seldom been less successful. At Fraserburgh the take hos only been 97 crane per boat, against 215 last year ; at Peterhead 104 crane, against. 170 ; and at Aberdeen 125, against 200 in 1875. The fish-curers will low little, if anything, through the deficient catch, the prices for fish having been unprecedently high. DETERMINED AT TEMPT TO MURDER A SWEETiIIART.—A determined attempt at murder was corn mitted on Saturday night, at Stockton Brook, near Buralem. The would-be assassin is John Perry, a horgetnan, about twenty years of age, and his victim, named Margaret Ash, a girl living as domestic servant with Mrs. Salt at Stockton Brook. Parry had been eourting thegirl for twelve or fifteen months,but finding something in his conduct of which she disapproved, she resolved to break off the acquaintance. On Friday afternoon he met her, and she then told him of this resolution. On Saturday night he went to her miatrese's house and, asked for her. Her mother happened to see him, and enquired the object of his visa, whereupon he said he was going to enlist an a soldier, and he wished to say good-bye to his sweetheart. The mother told him he could not see her, and, suspecting him, went for her eon-in-law iid another man. Parry waited about for a long time, and about ten o'clock saw her as she was returning to Mrs. Salt's from a shopping errand in the village. Creeping up behind her, and crouching under a wall, Parry fired a pistol loaded with small shot at her as she was opening the door. Fortunately, she stooped at the moment, and only two of the shots struck her, the rest being scattered and lodged in all parts of the door and frame. She exclaimed, as if she had suepected him, "Oh, Jack, you have shot me." He made no reply, but loitered about until some persons came out end secured him. He made no attempt to escape. On him was found a pistol with one barrel empty, and the ether loaded to the very muzzle with shot.
Denton Examiner, Audenshaw, Hooley Hill and Dukinfield Advertiser. — 1876-01-22 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

MURDER IN SUFFOLK.  A murder is discovered to have been committed at Belton, a Suffolk village, about four mile. from ' Great Yarmouth. A labourer named S satman and Itie Wife and two children have recently occupied the ' first of four cottages near the Belton Railway Station, ' and in No, 2 an old man named Ives and his wife lived. Between the back doors of the two houses is asked running about ten feet from the wall. Mr, Ire., Who was 73 years old, was washing, and was finishing her work by cleaning the healer on a table outside the back door. Her husband, who is nearly blind from the effects of sunstroke, and is 72 years of age, was sitting in the front room listening to the reading of a grandchild. It occurred to him shortly be. fore fonz o'clook that he had not heard his wife stirring about for some time, and be went to the beak door and eaid, "Hannah, are you there P" lAs he received no reply he put his hand down where he knew she had stood at work, and was astonished to find her lying on the ground. He directly sent to a neighbour for assistance, and his wife, when taken in'flaors, was found to be bleeding profusely from the head. Those who attended to the deceased had I an impression that the wound was caused by a fall. A. neighbour named Smith offered her some brandy, when she said faintly, as they understood, "Leave as alone," and died between sir and seven dab* in the evening. Although the woman lingered three hours after she was pioked up, no medical man was sent for. The local policeman on his beat passed the cottages between seven and eight o'clock, when he was told that poor old mei. Ives had died suddenly from the effects of a fall, and he at once entered the oottsgo and saw the body. He sent word to the coroner the following morning of the sudden death of the deceased, and an inquest war ordered to be held. In the interim, however, another light was thrown os what had been considered a death from a fall. While in bed on Wednesday night Mrs. Swatman told her husband she had killed old Mrs. Ives by striking her with a spade on the head. The husband, discrediting the assertion of his wife, said, "Did you do it ? " and the wife replied strongly in the affirmative. Alarmed at such a statement, Swatman kept strict surveillance over the woman, and the following morning, at daybreak, he sent for a neighbour, to whom he narrated the horrible tale. A message was sent to the nearest police. station, and the Deputy Chief Constable for Suffolk, having received information of the tragical event went to Belton, accompanied by Policc-inspeotor Jeff oriels, and ascertained sufficient particulars to warrant him in taking Mrs. Swatman into euatody. Messrs. Arnott and Batewell, surgeons. have era mined the body of the deceased, and they are of opinion that the wounds on the head are such as might have been inflicted with an ordinary sized spade.  Tau Bszeins
Denton Examiner, Audenshaw, Hooley Hill and Dukinfield Advertiser. — 1876-12-16 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

CHINESR NEWS.—The China papers brought by the mail are to the 26th of October. The official text of the Chefoo Convention then just published differed little from that previously before toe public. The Pekin Gazette of the 21st September contained a decree rejoicing in a great victory obtained in Kansuh over the Mahometan rebels, and thecapture of the cities of Urunistsi and Tih-hwa-chow. Steps were being taken to frame a memorial to the Ministers of the Treaty Powers, asking them to urge upon the Chinese Government the desirability of establishing an Imperial Chinese Mint. The Pekin Government had just issued another edict against the cultivation of the poppy-plant in China. The Pekin Gazette had confirmed the report of the recapture of Momein from the insurgent soldiery who took possession of it shortly after Mr. Grosvenor's party had passed. The Imperial hunt was for a time to be abandoned, owing to the impoverished state of the national exchequer. Two gunboats built in England for the Chinese Government—the Alpha and the Beta—had passed Hong Kong on their way to Tienstin when the mail left. Though of exceptionally small burden, they each carry a 26i-ton gun. SHOCKING SCENE IN A FRENCH ComtT.—A most revolting case of murder has been tried at the assizes of Ille-et-Vilaine. The culprits were a man named Penhouet and his daughter Jeanne, and the victim was the husband of the latter, a young man named Lorre. The father and daughter first of all tried to poison Lorre ; but failing in their attempt, Penhouet shot hint in a wood. Several shocking scenes took place in court during the trial. At one moment the prisoner Jeanne jumped up and apostrophised her father as follows: "You are the assassin! You know it! Have you not the heart to confess it, if merely for the sake of my three children? Oh, if I could get at you, I would strangle you!" To this Penhouet, who preserved a most hypocritical coolness throughout the trial, replied, " Oh, my daughter, my daughter !" and be feigned tears. "There is no daughter here" exclaimed the young woman: "You are the assassin, and God will judge you, monster and coward that you are!" The examination of the poor wife of Penhouet was most heartrending : she wept bitterly, and, addressing her vile husband, said, "Jean, thou art a wretch ! It was thou that killed him! Thou well deserveth death ! Thou hast dishonoured Jeanne, thou has made my life a martyrdom, thou art the author of all our shame and misery! Thou haat, reduced me and my children to mendicity I curse thee—l curse thee :" But the prisoner was untouched, and actually asked the'judge to allow him ' to kiss his wife! "Never, never !" exclaimed the woman; "thou art too vile a wretch and murderer." The evidence, on the whole, was unfit for publication, and in the end Penhouet was condemned to death and Jeanne to hard labour for life. On being conducted back to prison the two culprits indulged in the most awful language, and Jeanne asked as a favour to be allowed to see her her father executed !—Standard.  enFaged
Denton Examiner, Audenshaw, Hooley Hill and Dukinfield Advertiser. — 1875-11-20 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

CALENDAR FOR NOVEMBER, 1875.  WITII NOTES.  THE MOON 'S CHANGES. Moon rises Q. 6th 9.52 m„ L.Q.2oth, 0.37 m. Sunrise: and sets. F.l3th 9. 30 m.N.M. 27th, 11.447 and sets' Rises M All Saints' Day [begins T All Souls—Michaelmas Term R 6 55 10 51 W St. Winifrede [17,71 s 4 29111 53 R G 591 after. ThJaraes Montgomery, poet, b. F The Gunpowder Plot, 1605 s 426 121 S Princess Charlotte, d. 1817. R 7 1/ -1 50 s 4 22 2 8 24th Sunday after Trinity I John Milton, po3t, d. 1674 R 7 6 224 . S 4 19 2 37 T Prince of Wales b, 1841 W Martin Luther b. 1483 R 7 10 2 48 Th St. Martin—Martinmas s 4 161 3 0 F Richard Baxter b. 1615 r` 7 13! 3 13! 4 131 St. Auguste b. 351 • s 1 3 301 S 25th Sundity after ninity R 7 17 3 531 s 4 10 4 251 iM J. C. Lavater b. 1711 7 Tiberius, Rom. Em. b. 8.c.42 B 7 20 5 18i S 4 7 6 281 W St. Hugh h 7 24 7 50t1 Th Cardinal Pole d. 1558 ,11 Charles I. of England b. 1600 S 4 5 9 .191' R 7 27,10 42' ,S John Williams martyred,lB39 s 4 21morn. S 26th Sunday riper Trinity R 7 30! 0 4 M St. Ceoilia , 04 11)-, 321 i IT Thos. Tanis: music_ian d[.elnsBdss S 4 3 it 7 1W John Knox d. 157'' ,Th St.Catherine—Michael Term S 3 58 3 461 F William Cowper, poet b. 1731 R 3 7 37 5 1: s 56 6 14; iS Bishop Lowth b. 1710 a 7 40 7 28! 1S Advent Sunday S 3 55 8 41 1M Cardinal Wolsey d. 1530 it 7 43' 9 451 T St. Andrew's Day S 3 5340 41  Secs. after.  _ 10. Luther's most celebrated public appearance was d before the diet of Worms, April, 1521. Here he •P made an elaborate defence of his doctrines, concluding with these memorable words: "Let me then be refuted and convinced by the testimony of the Scrip... tures, or by the clearest arguments, otherwise I cannot and will not recant; for it is neither safe nor expe client to act against conscience, Rere I take my stand: I cah do no otherwise. So kelp my Go.l Amen."  11. St.6lartin is one of the best known of the French saints. He was Bishop of Tours, and died in 397. In . Christian art he is often represented as dividing his cloak with a beggar.  15. Johann Caspar Lavatori pastor of the principal church of St. Peter at Zurich, was distinguished by his unwearied zeal in behalf of practical Christianity. The work by which he is universally known, and which was once highly popular, is his Physiognomic Fragments,', published in 1775. 17. St. Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln, made his name famous in this country by his .rebuilding of Lincoln Cathedral, A.D. 1,200,  20, John Williams was a devoted missionary to the islands of the South Seas. He was attacked and murdered by the natives of Erromanga.  • W.
Denton Examiner, Audenshaw, Hooley Hill and Dukinfield Advertiser. — 1875-12-04 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

THE SUMMING UP.  The Lord Chief Justice took his seat on the bench at the Central Criminal Court, on Wednesday morning at a few minutes past ten o'clock. The court was crowded in every part, and all the upproaches were so thronged with people vainly seeking admission that it was a very difficult matter save for those who had business there to obtain admission. Th. prisoners were very little changed, from the appearance they presented at the commencement of the trial, except that both seemed more care worn and anxious. The Lord Chief Justice commenced his charge to the jury in a very low tone, which was all but inaudible except in the near neighbourhood of the bench and jury box, but as he proceeded his voice grew more distinct and clear, and his statement of the facts of the case was listened to with the deepest attention. All the facts regarding identity tended to identify the deceased with the missing woman, and it remained with the jury to consider whether the body was Harri,,lL, _ ine's. Even if the remains were not those of Harriet Lane, it was impossible to deny that they were buried by the prisoner Henry. On the night before the disappearance of the woman a quantity of chloride of lime was purchased by Rogers for the prisoner. It was very probable that this was used as a deodoriser. What was the inference to be drawn from the fact that Henry Wainwright was in the possession of a revolver and cartridges? There was a strong probability that the three shots were fired on the 11th the day on which Harriet Lane disappeared, and this coupled with the other circumstances led to one con— clusion, and only one. In drawing his remarks with regard to the prisoner Henry to a close, the learned Judge said that if it was Harriet Lane she died by the hands of an assassin. If the jury entertained any reasonable doubt, such as honest men could entertain, that Henry Wainwright was not the assassin, then they must give him the benefit of the doubt. If they were convinced that that woman died by the hands of Henry Waiuwright, then, sad and painful as it might. ()e, they must do their duty sternly and tho roughly Alluding to the case of Thomas Wainwright his Lordship said that there could be no doubt that the prisoner Thomas had lent himself toa scheme for turning aside inquiry. But had he done that as the pog.sessor of anyluilty knowledge? The jury must be Itisfied that in all those things in which he wa implicated by the conduct of his brother tha ,urder had been committed, and that be iutendeu to assist his brother in concealing the fact before they would find him guilty. If, on the other hand, they were satisfied that he was not a mare that murder ha,l been done they murt acquit him. e 4 Lordship concluded by complimenting the jury ou tae attention they had paid .to_the case throughout the trial.  Atti= • ••  A .
Denton Examiner, Audenshaw, Hooley Hill and Dukinfield Advertiser. — 1877-01-27 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

SEALS.—The Globe says: In a modest dwelling in Frederick-street, St. John's-wood, died a few days since an individual who for many years filled the office of Keeper of the Seals with dignity and efficiency. The history of England tells of other keepers filling more distinguished places in society, hut it is no exaggeration to state that the subject of this brief notice was to the full as popular as any of his predecessors. The Keeper of the Seals to whom we more particularly refer was the genial old Frenchman no well known in the Zoological Gardens, and the seals were not emblems of high office and authority, but the graceful creatures that occupy the pond in the Elysium of animal life in the Regent's-park. Everyboily in the habit of visiting the gardens was familiar with the cherry old Frenchman and the objects of his care. He had been in the navy, and had seen "foreign parts," and being particularly well up in the matter of seals and walruses, he was selected many years ago to look after the wants of such members of those families as might find their way to the gardens. He liked them, and they very soon reciprocated the sentiment. They invariably responded to his voice or his whistle, and he trained them to perform a number of tricks quite inconsistent with their nature and early habits. Strack down with a painful illness the old man keenly felt the loss of his companions. He used to exclaim, "I know I should be better if I could but see my children; I know they will die if I cannot see them." Tender hands nursed him, and he was dressed and put late a chair in order to be wheeled to the gardens and look for thelasttimeupon his "children,' but the exertion was too much for his strength and  convicted in December. 1875, at Nashua, of poisoning ais wife, was hanged at the State prison, Concord, on .he morning of January. sth. Major's wife died suddenly in 1874, and her death was at first attributed to natural causes, but subsequently suspicions were aroused which induced the authorities to cause the exhumation °lithe body,when strythnine was found in the stomach. A sister of Major's wife having died suddenly in 1869, her body was also exhumed, and traces of strychnine were found in the stomach; and circumstances seemed to warrant the presumption that Major having maintained criminal relations with his sister-in-law poisoned her to get rid of her. On the first trial of Major the jury faile4 to agree, but he was convicted of the murder of his wife on the second trial. Until within a few days ago he confidently anticipated a commutation of his sentence, and avowed his innocence throughout. Up to the very hour of his execution he was unmoved, and spent the lest night calmly in religious devotions. At tho scaffold he was urged to make a confession, but reiterated his declaration of innocence. Before the drop was sprung, his nerve deserted him, and he fell upon his knees utterly broken down. He died without a struggle.
Denton Examiner, Audenshaw, Hooley Hill and Dukinfield Advertiser. — 1877-03-31 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

STRANGE WOOING.  THE EXAMINER-SATURDAY, MARCH 31. 1877.  "By.the-by, what is your name, Agnes you cannot claim Staremberg now?" "No, I am Agnes Villeret." " Villeret—then you married a Frenchman?" " No, my husband is an Englishman," she answered. They questioned her in surprise, and then the truth came, all of it except her husband's name; she had ' promised him she would not mention that, and she kept her word. At the close of Agnes's story Mrs. Herbert paused in thought. "This breach with your father must be healed," she said ; "I will write to him myself." "Not now, dear Mrs. Herbert; not now. My husband is coming soon; I have had a letter from him. He speaks of having business arrangements to make respecting our future. Perhaps we are going to England; I don't know, but it is better to let things rest as they are until his return." "Yes, mother, let it rest." Arthur said, and so it was settled. "Now, will you come and look at baby? I have a  baby." Mrs. Herbert was all pleased surprise at the idea of a baby; she had never thought of such a thing. But ladies generally love babies, and to Mrs. Herbert, Agnes's was almost as if it had been her own daughter's, she had loved her so well when a child. But little Georgie was asleep, and must not be awakened, so his two new friends stood over his cot admiring him, until Agnes led the way from the room. followed by Arthur, while his mother lingered, talking to the nurse. "What is it about Ralph?" Agnes whispered when they were alone. "Is he dead ? " " Yes." Arthur answered. sadly. "He is dead." " Poor Ralph," she said, pityingly. "What did he die of ? " . .  "HO was murdered!" was her companion's answer, muttered bitterly between his teeth. Murdered ! Agnes shrank back, and shuddered. " Who murdered him 2" "Hush—hash! Don't speak of it—here is my mother," he said, as Mrs. Herbert's tall, slight figure glided into the room.  with dread, with fear, with horror; laying her bound! and powerless at the feet of the man whom of all , others she most loathed and shrank from. Poor Edith! Her mother's arms were round her, and her head rested on her shoulder; but, also! she could not , shelter her from the storm, or shield her from the impending cloud which she saw gathering darkly far away. There was only one hose to cling to, only one floating straw to grasp at. How strange human nature is in its thousand phases! How time or circumstances alter our thoughts or feelings. Eaith's false hope lay ira the loss of that which had once been her pride in the overthrow of her girlish beauty and grace, the ruin of her fresh young loveli. ness.  "Surely, mother, when he sees me he will leave me in peace," she said. "lie thinks of me as he saw me at Grace-park ; I was so different then to new, that he will not care to win a broken wreck such as I am."