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The Blackpool Herald. — 1882-05-19 (Blackpool, Lancashire, England)

POOL. Fleets ood. t' : 'awn, .:ty he sent to know what trageajr, and aaid it sae plain to his mind that ttu Sunday morning, as people were on their way was going to be done, when his messenger said the there must be many sympathisers with the crime to various places of worship, they were surprised to Mayor declined to call a meeting. There was no in- round about, or the murderers would not have got tention on the part of those who got up the requisi- off. Mr Gladstone understood chopping down very ,re a "blue" poster on the walls announcing that tion to introduce politics into the propose'l town's well, but did not understand cementing together or t'ic Mayor had " declined " to convene a town's meeting, but when a town's meeting was not to be building up. The hewing down power was calcubeeting for the purpose of expressing sympathy held, then it was deciAed to call a public meeting later! only for mischief. The rev, gentleman eulowith the bevaved families of the victims of the at which politics could be introduced. gised Mr. Forster, and spoke of the thirteen c;abinet agree uith The CHAIRMAN The Mayor says, "I have ministers alio aid ii.,t, Min as uaving l'lcttnix l'aik tragedy. Of course all who know neither thepower nor the authority to take out of acted like thirteen ',Hots. He Concluded by reading an, thing ~f the Mayor's .straightforward and the public purse money for such a purpose" To a long extract from a newspaper concerning the e iCiiteiius character, felt sure at once taat the said say he had neither power nor authority was what previous night's P.irdamentary business. ;hoard was misleading, to say the least of it, and he (the speaker) could not understand. When 150 Mr. S. H. WAINWRIGHT, in seconding the resolut have been issued by someone who had little ratepayers signed a requisition, it WAS clearly within t.unas, remarked that the policy of the present 111119 the rlit of the M le, or to agree to a meeting or re- Government had been weak, cowardly, and elanreeerenci: for the ninth commandment. On Mon- fase i:. But he thought no one in the Council v,erous ; weak, because it hail pandered to the dia. afternoon, a placard appeared on the walls to the would li:fuse a few pounds to pay Lo. each a meet- loyal and seditious ; cowardly, because it had day failed to protect law and power in Ireland; and following effect, giving the correct version of what MS. Mr. Starkie wished to be allowed to ask a dangerous, because if the policy was carried out it 1,3 d taken place : question, but the chairman ruled that he was out would lead to the disintegration of the empire. He Borough of Blackpool. of order. He would not allow, he said, anyone to believed the bill that Mr. Gladstone had just introThe R cent Assassinations. speak out of order, or interrupt the meeting. deiced, if carried out, would put an end to all kinds l nioneli-is i.lacard stated on Saturday that I had ' Ained to call a Public Meeting. , Mr. Jogs
The Blackpool Herald. — 1882-01-20 (Blackpool, Lancashire, England)

FRED BURNABI.  The Rev. C. H WAINWRIGHT moved the first resolution as follows : ,  That this meeting, while recognising the duty of all good citizens to support the Government in their tardy endeavours to restore law and order in England, desires to express its emphatic condemnation of the policy which has resulted in such widespread anarchy and demoralisation, and Its hearty sympathy w'th the loyal Irishmen who have been the victims of such deplorable misrule. The Conservative party, he declared, were ready to help the Government when they took a proper course in Ireland. Ile declared that Mr. Gladstone and his party had taken unfair means to oust the late Government from power. The whole object of Mr. Gladstone at the time referred to was to  place himself once more in power, at the risk of the country's good. Mr. Gladstone promised to govern Ireland according to Irish ideas, bat had he done . _ _ . .  that, he asked; and then .the speaker went on to  -refresh the recollection of the audience on one or two points, alluding to what he termed the con &cation of the Irish Church by Mr. Gladstone in  1868, and the Land Act of 1870. Mr. Gladstone was good at hewing down, but not good at constructing. Mr. Gladstone hewed down ihe Irish Church, but in its place he did not fulfil his promise of bringing perm and contentment to Ireland.—(llear, hear.) There was now greater disorder than before. The verdict of the people of Ireland on the latent Land Bill was that it was so execrably bad that it could not be mended. When Lord Beaconsfield came into power the Irish nation knew he would do what he had promised, and nothing more nor less. (Hear, hear.) Ireland dared not run counter to the provisions of any measure Lord Beaconsfield passed, because they knew it would be carried out. M. Gladstone sadly miscalculated his power in endeavouring to do without the Peace Preservation Act, and ought to be condemned for not knowing better—(B ear, hear.) The Liberals had been in office two years, and there had scarcely been an attempt at government. The law was set at defiance. Murders and outrages, mutilations of cattle, we re common throughout the laud. There was neither protection for life nor property. He contended that the people of this country had a right to denounce the terrible misrule in Ireland. For the loyal inhabitants the Government did nothing, and less than nothing, although it had 50,000 soldiers under its control. Mr. Gladstone could not even protect himself, let alone the people of Ireland, for he had to be guarded by police at Hawarden. When the bill was sent in to the magistrates, the question arose who was to pay for the protection of Mr. Gladstone and the matter was shelved on the understanding that as Mr. Gladstone was going to London he could protect himself there. If Lord Beaconsfield had required protection, the country would cheerfully have voted him a regiment of volunt ,ers. If more had been wanted the whole army of volunteers would have rallied to his protec• tion—(Applause ) Mr. VIENER seconded the resolution in a brief speech.
The Blackpool Herald. — 1882-05-12 (Blackpool, Lancashire, England)

THE ASSASSINS.  --- The supposition that Lord Frederick Cavendish was not known and was not likely to be obnoxion.., is refuted by the fact that as the reception procession passed through Damestreet, near the Castle, a man stood at the carriage in which Lord F. Cavendish. Mr. Jenkinson, and the Hon. Mr. Spencer were seated, and asked whether Lord F. Cavendish was in the procession. He received no answer, and. moving on, repeated this question without eliciting a reply. He asked a third time, and then Lord F. Cavendish, raising his hat. said, '1 am Lord F. Cavendish." The man replied, " Thank you, that will do ;" and went away. A man similarly attired was afterwards observed in the park near the scene of the murder.  by contrast with the association of the place. The mirrors on the walls and the furniture which remained still in the room were suggestive of refinement. luxury, and social enjoyment, while the two mangled corpses, surrounded by a group of medical operators, with coats off, aprons on, and scalpels and saws in their hands red with the blood of the victims, presented a sight which even those familiar with the terrors of the battlefield could not look upon without emotion. The examination of Mr. Bnrke's body showed that he must have had a sharp struggle with his assailant. The palms of both hands and some of the fingers were cut across in several places, as if he had grasped a sharp cutting instrument—either a large knife or dagger—in the encounter. The blade must have been exceedingly sharp, the wounds being deep, and portions of the flesh in some places being removed. Mr. Burke had no fewer than eleven wounds. Ide had three wounds in the fingers of his left hand, a terrible wound in the throat nin. deep, which severed the jugular vein, a fearful wound at the back, drawn downwards, which pierced the breast, and is believed to have been the wound which killed him, and three wounds in front of his chest, besides other wounds. The body of Lord Frederick Cavendish was brought to the office within five minutes after that of Mr. Burke. In his case the evidence of a desperate struggle was even more manifest than in that of his companion. His left arm was fractured below the elbow and the wrist by a blow apparently inflicted with a heavy knife, for the sleeve and the flesh were cut as if by a sharp instrument. The weapon, whatever it was, must have been wielded by a powerful assailant. The fatal wounds in the case of Lord Frederick Cavendish was a deep stab over the apex of the right lung, evidently inflicted with the blade of a knife or dagger which penetrated the substance of the lung, inflicting mortal injuries. There was also a deep incised wound in the throat, which would in itself probably have been fatal, it being three inches in length and very deep. From this latter wound there had been considerable hemorrhage; the collar, shirt, and waistcoat, as well as portions of the trousers, being soaked with blood.  A
The Blackpool Herald. — 1882-04-07 (Blackpool, Lancashire, England)

POSTPONEMENT OF THE EXECUTION  OF LAMSON.  The Home Secretary has ordered the execution of George H. Lamson to be postponed until the 18th itst., at the request cf the United States Government, in order that the documents bearing on the alleged insanity of fhe convict may receive full consideration. At the same time the convict has been "distinctly warned " that the postponement in no way raises a presumption of a reprieve or commutation of the capital sentence. Commutation, in fact, in the shape of a mitigation of the punishment there cannot be. If Lamson is eventually declared to be responsible for his actions, there can be no doubt that he will be executd. If, on the other hand, proof or even strong suspicion, of his insanity should be established it will be the duty of the Home Secretary to order his removal to Broadmoor Asylum. In announcing the decision of the Home Office care is taken to state that it has been the practice when respites are granted for the purposes of further inquiry, either into matters of law or of fact, that where the inquiry " shows no ground for interference the sentence of the law takes its course." The latest instance was in 1868, when the execution of Barrett, the author of the dreadful explosion at Clerkenwell, was postponed for a fortnight. One of the most remarkable of the postponements occurred in 1857, when a soldier named Marsell was executed after seven months' respite. In _  1853 a young man /named Barbour, who had murdered a companion at Sheffield, received notice of the postponement of his execution—" for further inquiry"—when he was actually at the foot of the scaffold, but he was executed in the following week. . . .  The announcement of a respite for the convict Lamson was received with loud expressions of disapproval at a meeting at Peckham Rye on Sunday. The Chairman stated that the greatest perr-anal influence was being brought to bear in this case. He knew as a positive fact that the father of the convie had officiated at the first marriage of Lady Harcourt, the present wife of the Home Secretary, and perhaps they could realise what that portended. Furthermore, the usual electoral influence, which was all paramount in the United States, had been obtained to work upon the minds of the officia's there, and the result was we were threatened with the greatest miscarriage of justice of the present century. No such evidence of insanity has been adduced in the Lamson case as was brought forward for Lefroy ; yet the latter paid the penalty of his crime. It was the old saying confirmed, declared the speaker, of one law for the poor and another for the rich. Resolutions were then passed protesting against the respite of the perpetrator of such a coldblooded, revolting murder, and demanding that the press should be admitted to witness the execution in order that the public might know from impartial witnesses that the sentence had been duly carried out. Every hand was held up in favour of the resolution.
The Blackpool Herald. — 1877-02-09 (Blackpool, Lancashire, England)

BLACKPOOL HERALD.  IFEBRUARY 94, 1877.  WE are used to surprises from Turkey. They come on us in a moment, and astonish us for a time but the astonishment soon wears away with a remem brance of the put. But none was more unexpected than that of Tuesday, when it flashed along the cable that MIDRAT Pesus., whom we had come to look on as the regenerator of Turkey, was exiled in disgrace. The European mind was at once in a commotion as to what had dictated such a change, and what would be the result. Naturally enough the idea was at once seized on that the SULTAN or the people of Turkey would not brook his revolutionary changes; and the chances of peace seemed for ever vanished. But subsequent telegrams were of a more reassuring character, though the matter remains shrouded in a sort of mystery. His deposition is said to be either the result of the discovery of a conspiracy to murder the SULTAN, or that overtures having been made to the Turkish Government for a private arrangement in Turkey by which the war now threatened might be averted, he being opposed to the concessions was discarded in favour of a successor likely to be more amenable. But whatever the reason, as the new constitution is to be carried out in its entirety, there is no need of apprehension ; and sudden changes in the Grand Viziers of Turkey are of so common an occurrence that this will not be regarded as anything very singular. Still we cannot but commiserate with a man who has di. played so much intelligence, and having piloted the country so skilfully through a perilous crisis, aimed at its thorough reformation.  Tag tradesmen of Blackpool have fair cause for complaint in the fact that they should have to go to Poulton to transact any County Court business they may have, especially when they contrast the two towns, and look at the wretched accommodation provided. It is one of those things in which the people feel the effects of red-tapeism ; and the only thing that they can do is to "grin and bear it." There is always somebody high in office; some important official difficult of approach, who alone has the power of remedying such evils; and who of of course has so much to do that he cannot devote any time to such trifling concerns. Memorials may be got up and receive their hundreds or thousands of signatures, as the case may be; and they may be ' forwarded "to theproper quarters." In a short time stetter written by somebody and signed by somebody else, comes to say that it has been forwarded to yet another and that it would receive due attention. It is then consigned to the limbo specially devoted to such documents, carefully taped, sealed, and —forgotten. Such is the prescribed routine ; and this was studiously followed in this case, but the people of Blackpool, not willing that it should be o peacefully interred, wrote to somebody thro ugh
The Blackpool Herald. — 1877-03-30 (Blackpool, Lancashire, England)

BABY FARMING AND SUSPECTED MURDER.  A lady-like woman, named Sophia Martha Todd, aged about 35, was charged before the Livewool stipendiary magistrate on Monday, on suspicion of having caused the death of a child. The prisoner appeared to have carried on the baby-farming system on an extensive scale. About the middle of 1875 she lodged at the house of a Miss Jolliffe in Prospect-street, Liverpool, and one evening she was seen with an infant which she explained had been left with her by a Dr. and Mrs. George, who had gone to an evening party and intended to call for it on their return. Next day she was without the child, and she told Miss Jolliffe that the parents had taken it away. The prisoner afterwards took lodgings with a Mrs. Oldham, but went away again in a few days leaving behind her it box which remains in Mrs. Oldham's possession. Recently. this box was opened and at the bottom the body of a child was found tightly wrapped up in clothes and quite mummified. A medical examination showed that the child's heed had been crushed in. The police, after much difficulty, traced the prisoner to Old Trafford, near Manchester, where she was apprehended while riding along the road in a trap, accompanied by a Mr. Todd, the agent in advance for Fawcett's Circus, and whom she represented to be her husband. She made a long statement to the detective to the effect that she adopted the child for a premium of £lO, and that it died suddenly in her arms the night it came into her possession. Upon the prisoner was found a letter, signed "Beta," and offering to pay ,t3O premium for the adoption of a child. With respect to this letter the police had discovered that a little boy had been sent to the prisoner from Whitehaven, that she took him out with her one day, and that he had never afterwards been seen or heard of. It was also ascertained that five other children were sent to her at different times, and when questioned about them on her arrest, she said they had all died natural deaths. The career of the prisoner is a most extraordinary one. She is stated to be the daughter of a civil engineer named Wilson, belonging to the Isle of Wight, and her mother was an East Indian. She was four years governess in a Polish nobleman's family in Russia, and afterwards became governess to the children of Lord Ducie, at Windermere. Some years subsequently she taught music and languages at Lancaster, and in that town met a farmer named Jackson, whom she married, and brought to Liverpool They soon separated, and she then went as bookkeeper at the Victoria Hotel, and soon after this she appeared to have commenced the "farming" of children. Her mode of operaticin was to insert an advertisement in the newspapers in this form: "Wanted, by a respectable married couple, a baby to adopt; a premium expected," and on receiving a reply addressed to the newspaper office she would disclose her name and address. It was stated that the prisoner was thoroughly accomplished in the fine arts, and I could speak five languages. She was remanded for a week.
The Blackpool Herald. — 1889-07-05 (Blackpool, Lancashire, England)

AFTEIIWAIIDS.—However long we may be spared, many of us do come to what we had to come to—a day "so full of gladness and so full of pain" a day only second in importance to the day of birth—in a word, to our wedding day. If ever one is to pray, if over one is to feel grave and anxious, if ever one is to shrink from vain show and vain babble, surely it is just on the occasion of two human beings binding themselves to one another, for better and for worse, till death part them. The two people most concerned, especially the bridegroom, are on such a day willing enough to shrink from vain show and vain babble, but their friends and relatives insist on trotting them out and making them show their paces. Indeed for a man of shy and nervous temperament to be married without chloroform is a very painful operation. He may be a strong man, but he feels like Samson, when, for the sake of a woman whom he loved, he allowed his eyes to be put out, and heard the Philistines calling upon him to make sport for them. On such occasions the bride is generally collected and calm. She understands every detail of what is to be done as if she had been frequently married. Indeed, when lam in doubt about the superiority of woman to man, I am always reassured by comparing a bride and bridegroom at the wedding ceremony. There stands the bride as collected and calm as if she were going through an every-day occurrence, while the bridegroom is as nervous as if he were about to be sentenced for murder. He support her, indeed! Certainly, at the wedding core. monies and festivities she is, so to speak, twice the the man that he is. Suppose, now, the young people have gone through the ceremony, the breakfast, and all the rest of it, if not with great eclat, at least without making fools of themselves. Then hand-in-hand through Eden they take their solitary way. They begin the honeymoon—that month after marriage, when there ought to be nothing but tenderness and pleasure. But even the honeymoon may be spoiled if too much prolonged, or if the happy couple, instead of taking things easy and enjoying thembelves according to their own sweet wills, rush into the excitement of " sight-seeing" every ch arch.picturegallery, and waterfall in Europe. A bridegroom took his wife on a tour to Switzerland for the honeymoon, and when there, induced her to attempt with him the ascent of the highest peaks. The lady, who at home had never ascended a hill higher than a church, was ninch alarmed, and had to be carried by the guides with her eyes blindfolded, so as not to witness the horrors of the passage. The bridegroom walked close to her, expostulating respecting her fears. He spoke in "honeymoon whispers," but the rarefaction of the air was such that every word was audible. "You told me, Leonora, that you always felt happy, no matter where you were, so long as you were in my company. Then why are you not happy, now ? ' o'l-‘,s, Charles, I did," replied she, sobbing hysterically, "but I never meant above the snow line."— Woman's World.  A