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Widnes Examiner. — 1887-07-02 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

SHOCKING TRAGEDY AT. BARNSLEY. —At a late of great ignorance in not having recognised a practice shouted "Make way for the Lord Mayon" The door was which prevailed among sixty millions of English-speak- opened from the inside, but when it was seen that the hour on Saturday night a tragic affair occurred at • ing people in the United States.—Dr. Commas sup- narnsley, a young man named John Taylor being Lord Mayor was not present, it was immediately closed murdered by 'William Teale, a : clerk employed at ported the clause, winch, on being put, was negatived again. The suggestion that the meeting should adjourn the New Oaks Colliery and residing at Ardsley. It seems without a division, to the Court of Queen's Bench was afterwards agreed to. that Teale had been at a cricket match at A rdsley between Mr. M. HEALY moved another clause providing that in At the meeting which was subsequently' held in the . case of any order or decree made by the High Court in Court of Queens Bench, under the presidency of the Ardsley and Brierley White Rose. After the match he came to Barnsley, and visited several public-houses. any criminal cause or matter under the provisions of the County Sheriff, a loyal address was adopted on the About eleven o'clock Teals and a man who is known as bill, an appeal should lie to the Irish Court of Appeal. motion of Captain Monk, seconded by Sir Winfield —The Somerron-Gtornitar, for IRELAND said the clause Verner, and the chairman and the mover and seconder "Pop" were proceeding along the road towards home. As they passed a number of lads, one of them called out would render the third and fourth sections of the bill of the resolution were deputed to present the address to . "Pop." Teale resented what he evidently took to be an absurd. Prince Albert Victor. r. W. C. Harixr (Tyrone) and Dr. Comunes supported insult to his friend and ran after the lads,•one .of On Wednesday the Royal Princes received deputations whom he caught. and struck. , All the lads then ran the clause, and on. a division' it Was negatived by 140 , desirous of Presenting loyal addresses. The address 'away towa eds eas r ei b o Dyke, and told Taylor and against 74. I from the Royal Dublin Society made reference to ,some other men what had occurred. Taylor went up to Mr. Caexce moved the adjournment of the debate, to the • society's efforts to promote Irish industries through Teale, took hold of him by the arms, and remonstrated which Mr. W. H. Smith at first refused; but after a short the medium of' the Royal Jubilee Exhibition at , with him respecting his conduct to the lad. Teale struck discussion gave his assent, and the debate was accordingly adjourned. Old Trafford ; and in his reply Prince Albert Vic- at Ta 1 "th If hand, hitting him on the right side of y oven is tor said that when next be visited Ireland, which might ' the neck and causing blood to flow. Taylor called out,
Widnes Examiner. — 1887-09-03 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

THE CORK POISONING CASE.--A SECOND EXHUMATION.  Dr. Cross was again brought up on Monday at Cork, charged with the murder of his wife by poisoning her at Shandy Hall. Additional interest was taken in the proceedings owing to the circumstance that the body of Mrs. Cross had, since the last adjournment, been taken for the second time out of the grave, and portions of the remains taken away by the doctors for analysis. There had been some rumours afloat as to the prisoner being in 9 prostrate condition, but he appeared as formerly, looking very well, and taking a keen interest in the proceedings. Miss Cross, his sister, again sat by his side. The court and precincts were crowded. The depositions of Miss Jefferson, a Protestant Sister of Mercy, were first'resd over. This lady was on a visit to the deceased lady at Shandy Hall up,to the day of her death. She now added to her evidence that she saw the body laid out. It was merely laid straight, hut witness did , not express surprise, thinking it might be the local custom not to do any more than this.—Dr. Pearson was then further examined. He deposed that he had made further examinations of the organs of the body of deceased since his former evidence. He had found a minute quantity of strychnine, but not in a poisonous quantity. On the 23rd of last month he again examined the cofAn, which he opened at the grave. From the result of the examination , which followed this second exhumation he still adhered to ; his evidence that Mrs. Cross waS poisoned by arsenic, and that she did not die from a natural cause. He identified eel, tain packages of strychnine and arsenic found in Shandy Hall, which were handed to him for analysis.—Mr. Pool, manager of the North-Western Hotel, North Wall, Dublin, was examined, and deposed that Dr. Cross and the lady in tAe photograph produced (Mrs. Cross, then Miss Skinner) came to the hotel at the end of March last. They came again on three subsequent occasions, including the 21st of April. Mary Smith, chambermaid at the North-Western Hotel, deposed to seeing Dr. Cross and the lady shown in the photograph come to the hotel in March. They slept in room No. 3, which was a single-bedded room. They also came on the 21st April, and on the 21st and 24th June. On each occasion they passed as man and wife.—A labourer in the employ of Dr. Cross and the postmaster at Coachford were examined to prove that letters had been sent by Dr. Cross to Miss Skinner after she left Shandy Hall. The postmaster stated that setters came directed "to be left Lill called for," with initials which he could not make out on the corners of them. Dr. Cross came flr them and got them.—This concluded the evidence. The depositions were then read over to the accused, and on being ellarged and -•nutioned by the magistrate, he said': "I am jest as innocent of that murder or of that accusation as you are, or any man in this room." A formal application to admit the prisoner to baikwas refused..
Widnes Examiner. — 1914-12-26 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

THE RUSSIAN CHARACTER.  Mr. J. B. Storey said there were (.7i.);;tinental people who claimed that the present war was a gigantic struggle between Slav and Teuton. They in England were of a different opinion; but there was no denying the fact that the murder, by Slays, of an anti-Slav ruler, was its indirect cause. What of this great Slav race, of which Russia was the head, and whose members were found scattered all over South-Eastern Europe? Russia-in-Europe alone had as many Slays as there were inhabitants, of the whole of the German states; and belonging, as they did, to the Aryan branch of the human family, they were of the same stock as the inhabitants of the British Isles.  He took the Russians to be the typical Slays. In appearance they did not suffer by comparison with any other people in Europe, and were remarkable for their power of enduring extrema heat and cold. They were all brothers, and, as a matter of fact, the, English were liked in Russia—for they could fraternise, having many things in common; but they must not concern themselves with Russian polities. The poorest and humblest Russian could rise to the highest State position, and all were apt and ready students. They were reverential—affected by the vast extent and seeming mystery.of their snowclad Steppes, their enormous forests, stretching for scores of miles, the ti'age of infinitude overhanging the vast plains—and all this foond expression in their music. In no branch of art could they imitate. In drama they were realists, and, as time went on, one was likely to hear more of Russian drama. The literary output of Russia was very great. An outstanding feature of the Russian character was its capacity for self-sacrifice for an ideal. In this respect the Russian, .perhaps, went to greater lengths even than the Anglo-Saxon. The revolutionaries had shown that,, and also the Russian Government by the recent suppression of the sale of vodka. At thb same time the Russians had a tendency to take life easily—though this peculiarity was not inherent in their character, being rather the result of their system. Profits were divided amongst the community as a whole, and thus there was no incentive for individual effort—Russia's handicap ! Russia was a country that furnished many surprises for the traveller. One had only to go a few miles from a Russian town, into the country, to find that one had dropped from the twentieth to the sevefiteenth or eighteenth century. Life in a Russian village or hamlet was, in these days, 'not unlike what it had been in this country two hundred years ago, so far as Modern conveniences were concerned. This, , however, did not trouble the villagers. Whatever their mission in the 'world, the serious, kindly and manly Russians would never be 'cursed with the spirit of militarism, for this was diametrically opposed to the temperament of the Slavonic race. Their recent awakening was due to oppression in the Balkans, indirectly by the Prussians and directly by the Turks. The future welfare of the wald depended upon the mutual esteem and friendship of the AngloSaxon and Slavonic' races. (Applause.)
Widnes Examiner. — 1895-05-18 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

PRO ARIS ET FOCIS.  THE ARMENIAN ATROCITIES.  Sir,—"Aßeader" seems to have taken umbrage at my previous remarks upon the above, hut he effers no arguments to prove that they were wrong. A silly question and a little lauding of the pastor of W 5 cliffe are sorry methods of dealing with a profoundly interesting subject. Your correspondent tells us that the 'sermon in question was delivered " before a living and admiring congregation." Of course it was. I never imagined that Mr. Yonge would preach to dead men ; and the matter and tone of his discourse were admirably suited to the palate of his hearers. Rut has" A Reader " forgotten the Scripture which says " What is highly esteemed among men is abominatlon in the sight of God." For my own part, 1 seldom see or hear of a crowd gathering round some popular preacher without being reminded of the Lord's solemn warning to his disciples," Woe unto you when all men speak well of you, for so did their fathers to the false prophets." Fersezution, and not popularity, ever was,and ever will be, the lot of,the preachers of the Christianity of Christ. If Mr. Yonge and his people were believers in Islamism I should, of course, expect their faith to be leavened with the sanguinary spirit of the Koran. As they are not Mohammedans, however, but pose somewhat prominently as followers of the meek and lowly rrinee of Peace I was surely entitled to regard their sermon and memorial as rather antagonistic tb the tender, loving and forgiving life and teaching of the Master whom ;hey profess to serve. A careful and I trust, honest reading of the New Testament led me long ago to the conclusion that war, under any circumstances whatever,was simply human savagery inspired and fanned by the powers of darkness ; and a gross violation of the letter and spirit of the gospel of peace and goodwill to men. If this view is correct,hew saddening and discouraging it is,Mr. Editor, to find men sitting in our churches and chapels, under *hat they are pleased to call a Christian Ministry,who are not ashamed to avow their adhesion to the policy of the sword in settling disputes! But when a statesman declarea war against some distant nation, ChriAtian or pagan, and the drum beats to arms,how coward ly,how contemptible is the conduct of the apologists of fiehting ! Instead of rushing to the front of the battle,as one would naturally suppose they would do, tn prove their devotion to their principles by rifle and bayonet ; battalions of wretched men, drawn from the lower ranks of poverty and hired for a few coppers a day, are sent out to do the murdering ; while they remain at home and enjoy the nelvspaper reports of the carnage as it goes on from time to time / Sir, if I could bring myself to believe that the Christianity of Christ lent its sanction in any way to the horrible atrocities of the battle fle!d. I should cease to regard it as a Divine institution. and look upon it an mereiy a human religion destined to pass away in its tirts.—Yours truly,
Widnes Examiner. — 1895-07-06 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

HAYDOCK.  A FTAYDOCR WOUNDING CASE.--At the Warrington Occasional Court, on Monday, before Mr. James Tinsley, Patrick Bigoina was charged with having on the 22nd June, at Havdnek, unlawfully and maliciously inflicted upon Frank Jackson certain grievous bodily harm. Frank Jackson, signalman, and employed by Messrs. Richard Evans and Co., Haydeck, and residing at Church-road. ilavdock. said that at about six p.m. on Sstupiay..Tune 22nd, he went for a walk, in company with Robert Jones, from Haydnck to Ashton. They returned together at about nine o'clock in the evening. They came along the footpath acrom the fields, through the Otd Boston yard. The prisoner and another man name on and passed them going in the same direction. The Prisoner asked "What have you got to say about me, Frank ?" Complainant di el not reply, but went on, and when he had got to the far side of the colliery yard the prisoner came up to him and hit him on the right side of the jaw. it was a very.hard blow, and it knocked him to the ground. Prisoner knelt on his back and hit him again with his fist on the face and head, ”ri afterwards kicked him several times about the head. He becaine unconscious, and when he recovered be put hi a hand on the ton of his head and found a hole from which blood was flowing. He got up and hurried away as quickly as he could. Meeting P.C. Blackburn he made a statement to him, and he took him home,bathed his head, nut a bandage on, and took him to Dr. Hayward's surgery, where he saw Dr. Hayward and Dr. Rnsliter, Dr. Hayward'a assistant. The two doctors dressed his wounds. The next morning he went into the Haviock Cottage Hospital. He had come from that institution that morning, was going hack again, and was under the care of Dr. Rossiter. Robert Jones gave corroborative evidence. Dr. Rossiter gave evineneeas to the wounds he found on Jackson's head. P.C. Blackburn said when he arrested prisoner he replied, "I thumped him, butt did not kick him." The prisoner, who now said " lAo not wish to say anything, and I have no witnesses to call," was committed to the Liverpool Quarter Sessions for trial. He was not admitted to bail.  What annears to have been a most brutal murder o a child took place at VValthamstow on Saturday niebtf Florrie Ttobah, the six•year-nld claurzhter of a driver,wa, sent out for some beer. She did not return, and a subs sequent search for her proved unavailing. On Sunday. her body was found concealed at a considerable distance from the public-house to which the child had been sent. A medical examination showed that a dreadful crime had been committed.  In 1691 the cold vr—aa so pevere in Eastern Eurrip that packs of starving wolveg entered Vienna and attacked men and women in the streetq. All the eanal4 a Venice were frozen. and t,he principal month of the Nile was locked with floating ice for a week.
Widnes Examiner. — 1895-02-09 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

THE ALLEGED SERIOUS ASSAULT. THE INJT2RED MAN IMPROVING. BAIL ALLOWED. There was a large number of people at the Borough Police Court on Monday morning when William Broadhurst, a young man, and labourer at Messrs. Bylan da Brothers wireworks, and residing at 22, General-street, VVarritagton, was charged before the Mayor (Mr. James Fairclough), Messrs. Heyward, Monks, and i rierpoint, with doing grievous bodily harm to Edward Allen, twenty-four years if age, a 1 labourer at the same works, and residing at 5, Derbystreet, off Hopwood-stroet. Inspector Spinks said Deteetive-sergeant Mormon and himself had learned from inquiries that some disturbance, the nature if which they were unable to get at,occurred a little betore Isix o'clock on Saturday night in Crossley-street. The I defendant and the injured man, who was then uaconscious, went down Crosaley-street, and at the junction of Brick-street and Crossley-street at a beerhouse there, kept by ansan named Russell, they were seen leaning on a window-sill. A man came up at the time and heard angry words passing between them. It is alleged that presently the defendant was seen to bump Allen's head against the window, throw him down, his head striking the parapet, and when he was down, kick him on the mouth (Prisoner : " It is false "). Broadhurst ran away when the cry of " Murder" was raised. Witness visited several houses, and about two o'clock on Sunday morning visited defendant's* house and asked if his name was Broadhurst, and tisld him that it was alleged he was concerned in a disturtanee In Crossley-street on Saturday night, and that if he knew anything about it he had better tell him. Broadhurst then replied, "I know nothing about it, I have not seen Allen since Friday. Additional information was received, and witness returned later and took Broadhurst into custody. Broadhurst said," I wish you had come at tea o'elock. I wish I had told you all about it when you were here. I hit him because he was choking me." On the way to the police station he said he would like to see the injured man, but witness told him that he had not regained camsciousness, and that the doctor would not allow anyone to see him. The affair occurred about six on Saturday night, and Allen had regained consciousness three or four times, but only for two or three minutes at a time. Witness having asked if he should tell the court the extent of the injuries, Mr. White (magistrates' clerk) said the length of the remand should depend on the extent of these injuries. The Mayor asked if the doctor said there was any hope of Allen's recovery. Witness replied " None whatever (sensation in court.) His skull is fractured." A. remand for forty-eight hours was granted. Prisoner : Can Ibe allowed bail—The Chairman : No the case is too serious ; the man might die in the meantime.—Mr. F. Monks Then it would be a case of manslaughter. Prisoner was then conducted below.
Widnes Examiner. — 1899-09-22 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

DRUNKENNES9.—Thoma3 Sweeney, 3, New-street. Northwinh, and William Ilawitt, 11, D itton-street, Warringtou, were fined 5s for belnz drunk aril disorderly.  DISGRACEFUL CONDUCT OF MEN AT SANKEY BIUDGES Albert Clarke, labourer, 10, Brown-street, WAS charged with being drunk ant disorderly in Liverpool-road on the 19th September. —He pleaded not guilty.— P.O.Carter said that at 11-15 p.m. on the date in question he was in Liverpoo'-road when he heard screams and shouts of "murder." Seeing a large crowd of people collected he went to see what was the cause of the disturbance, and saw defendant with his brother. He was very drunk and pulled his coat off and wanted to fight A man complained to him that his wife hat been assaulted by the men. S canes of this kind oeaurrei every Saturday night.—William Drink water, who resides at Dale-street, said that on Saturday night he was going home on the 'bus. Defendant WAS on the 'bus and hit his (witnesse's) wife. When tbey were getting off the 'bus prisoner said ha would "shift the lot of them." He was very drunk s.nd used filthy language.—Jane Drinkwater, Thomas Partington. and Blizt Drinkwater corroborated. —Defen tent said there was a bother going on at the end of Barnard street, and he WAS watching, when tte constable came un and took his name and address. —The Chairman : Became you were doing nothing . Defendant Yes sir--George Savago said that defendant did nothing but sing on the top of the 'bus. He was watching a " row "at the top of Bernard-street when P.C. Carter took his name and address.—Asked by Superintendent Monaghan if the defendant was drunk, witness said he was neither drunk nor eoher.—Superintendent Monaghan : What was he then ? —We was half and half. Were you half-ant-half ? Yes sir.—The Chairmen : Just in the condition to do mischief ; not helplessly drunk bet crazily drunk.—Defendant was fined ha the costs which amounted to 15s.—Thomas Carter, brother of the first defendant, was subsequently charged with making use of obscene language at the same time and place.—P.C. Carter said that defendant Came up and said that if his br ether was locked up he would make them all kiss the zround before the night was out. He repeated it several times and witness reported him. Corroborative evidence having been given, defendant WAS ordered to pay the costs of the case (15s 65). The Chairman said that men like defendant seemed to us: ingenuity in inventing the vilest and most abominable phrases that c.euld be put into the Briglish language. He hoped men would take warning, as the police had instr.wistis to bring anyone up who used each language. VEHICLES WITHOUT MOH Ps. —For having no lights attached to their vehicles on the 9th ins" Thomas Burns. 9, Dutton-street, an m d Daniel Rosbotha, 14. King-street, were each fined 2a 63.-1 n the case of the former it was stated by P.C. tiibbs that the cart %hie!' defelaelant was driving, in turning round knoeked a gas lamp down.—Defendant staked he had paid the damage done which amounted to El 19s. sd.
Widnes Examiner. — 1884-03-29 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

LONG RESPITH.—A telegram from Wilmingham, Delaware, in a New York paper, says :—" The Governor hm reepited Louis F. List until the second Friday of Merck,. 1940. The culprit was to have been banged next Frid ry for the murder of George B. Taylor. in Septa nber, 1883. It was generally conceded that his offence was no mo a than one of murder in the second degree, and as the Governor had no power to commute the sentence, he has granted the respite of over 50 years, this amounting in fact to imprisonment for life." .  , The Vienna police have just detected, in time to prevent them, two fresh plots to murder. In one instance a woman, the wife of a locksmith, offered a bribe to a female friend if she "'mild assist her in poisoning her husband. She was be. trayed t.y her friend and immediately taken into custody. The other case was that of a would.be matricide— t man who, with an accomplice, hal pl tuned the murder of his own mother, an old woman of seventy-three, with whom he had always lived on good terms, in order to rob her of her small property. The police got wind of the scheme, happily, in time to frustrate its execution. Tun DYNAMITE PARTY IN Amenrce.—The New Fork Herald is reported to be alone among the Press of that city in demanding that if the existing laws are not etrong enough to put down the dynamite party "the Legislature should come to the rescue of public decency." The Herald offers very cold comfort to the Fenians and their sympathisers who are reported to be gathering on the frontiers of the Dominion with a view to invade Manitoba "at a fitting moment." It seems that a meeting was recently held in Fargo, Dakota territory, at which reports were received from a number of " leagues " as to the feasibility of invading Manitoba. Stores of arms, it was said, had been collected, and the Fenians were merely waiting for the reports of the delegates who had been sent into Manitoba. Moral and material aid would also be forthcoming from the cities in the Eastern States, " when there should be a call from over the line." The Herald has the following °beer. rations on the proepects of the "party of action :"—" It is to be hoped that the blizzard-cursed inhabitants of Mani. teb t will not have a Fenian invasion added to their climatic woes, but if the malignant refuse of the Irish people must overflow somewhere, there is no other conve• nient locality in which they could be more easily and effectively got rid of. The farmers of Manitoba have worked hard for whatever they own, so they are quite com— petent to transform into corpses any gang of marauders, with no matter what political pretext, that maydescend upon them on robbery and murder intent. Should the ruffians who are said to be gathering in Dakota succeed in crossing the border they may not at first experience armed resistance, but all the same they will die miserably, for ramsloops are scarce in Manitoba and corner loafers freeze to death."