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Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1871-02-18 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE OF ASSAULT. A WIFE BEATER IN COURT.  At the Stockton Borough Police Court, on Thursday, James Gorman, a talkative little fellow. summoned Gabriel Staples, a butcher, for assaulting him on the 12th February. Complainant tendered evidence as follows :—On Saturday night, about twelve o'clock, me and my wife was having a few words. A bit after twelve, Gabriel Staples smashed in the door, and just as I was getting up from the press bed, he knocked me down again into it. He had no business in the house. He said my wife was shouting "murder." but she wasn't. We all live in William-street. He is no friend of mine. I don't " fracate" with him at all. He strnck me in the face and knocked me down. When I was getting up again he took me by the throat. My wife's aunt is his wife.—By defendant: I did not see you break the door in, but I felt you knock me down. I have no witness .but my wife. I used her badly that night. I hope she will say so.— Harriet Gornian, wife of prosecutor, appeared in the witness-box with a child in her arms, and appeared to be in a delicate state of health. She said : I saw Staples knock my husdand down in bed and shake him.—For defence, a Mrs Sotheran was called, who said: On Sunday.night, about 12 o'clock, Mrs Gorman came to me with her child in her arms. I said to her, "You should not bring the child out in the snow such a night as this." I went with her home, and heard her husband say he would take her life before morning. Mrs Gorman is my (laughter. The complainant had her up in a corner. Gabriel Staples went and took hold of him, and laid him upon the bed. Gorman kicked me. Defendant would not have been there had it not been for me. I went to his house, and told him that my daughter was afraid to go home, and he said that he would go with me to see her righted. I pushed the door open. I did not like to stand outside and hear niy daughter abused by the complainant. My daughter was screaming very heavy.—Complainant (exitedly) : Gentlemen, she will swear my life away.—A witness named Matthews, who lodges with defendant, confirmed the testimony of the last witness. When they entered the house, Staples just took hold of Gorman by the neck, laid him on the bed, and said, " Jea3, have you senses !" On Sunday night, Gorman sent for Staples, and [went with him again. He said that it Staples-would give him 48 there would be no more about it. Staples asked "What for?" Complainant replied, for striking me.—Complainant admitted making the demand, but it was to pay for the door, and not to compromise the assault.—Defendant : It is very hard to stand by and see a woman ill-used.— The Bench decided to dismiss the case, and ordered complainant to pay Ss Grl costs.
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1890-07-26 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

THE TRIAL.  IMr Hamilton and Mr Grainger, instructed by Mr Malcolm, Stockton, prosecuted on bethan of the Treasury, and Mr !Clash', Q.C., land Mr Scott-Fox, instructed by Mr Thomas, of Stockton, defended. Prisoner, on being Iplaced in the dock and ebareA =omen' tardy looked round and then plead-Jr- Guilty." I He spoke in a clear, steady voice, but looked just I about the same as he did when at the Police Court, I It seemed to be scarcely expected that his case would he taken so soon in the day, and Mr Milvain was not at this time in the Court. The Judge, addressing prisoner, said: Listen to me, Terry. Do you understand you are charged with the wilful, deliberate, and intentional murder of this girl? and you know the consequences which the law attaches to that. You know Ithat sentence of death must follow. With that know, ledge do you still plead guilty? Mr Scott-Pox (internosime mentioned that Mr Milsain had not yet arrived, and asked to be I allowed to communicate with the prisoner. Mr ' Milvain however canto in, and, learning i that the prisoner had pleaded guilty, I said he did not know what course be could take, except to ask his lordship to hear the testimony which had been proTided by the provention as the condition of the Iman's mind when he committed the act. The Judge: I have read the depositions with great care, and there is nothing on the depositions to suggest that he was insane. Mr Milvaia said Um enquiry had been medal since the prisoner was comm:tted. It was I thought desirable to make enquiries regarding ' the condition of the prisoner's mind, and Dr. I Smith, of Sedgefield Asylum, was sent to interview hint. Dr. Smith reported to the solicitor ' I who instructed for the prosecution the impression 'he forned—the strong conviction he fcrmed— , regarding the prisoner's mental condition at that time. The Judge: When did he see him ? Mr Milvain : Immediately after his committal, my lord. In consequence of that report Mr Thomas, the prosecuting solicitor, communicated with the Treasury. and the Treasury sent the same doctor to see the prisoner again, and to make further enquiries. Dr. Smith amplified his enquiries. anti made all sorts of enquiries, which eor, robossted the impression he had formed from the I personal interview with the prisener. On that report being made to the Home Ofilce they took still further steps. The judge: Then do you desire to raise the issue of insanity? I Mr Milvain Most certainly, my lord, must cer; tangy. That is the point—as to whether he was or was not sane at the time he committed the odence. Mr Hamilton : I ma j: say the Treasury thought it most desirable, as it was their duty, that your lordship and the jury should have et ery possible evidence as to the state of the prisoner's mind. I At the Judge's suggestion Mr Milvain then spoke I to the prisoner, and intimated that he withdrew .. • . , .  the plea of "Guilty." The jury were thereupon sworn, and Mr Hamilton opened
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1890-03-01 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

MURDER OF 76 CHILDREN.  roller details are published shout the dreadful child reorders committed at Warsaw by the midwife Skublinaki, and some other women, who have already been arrested. Skublinski resided in an attic, and the other inmates of the house, who all belong to the workin,,sclasses, knew that she secretly received young illegitimate children "to nurse," as she said. In reality she, with several other women, carried on a regular triads in murdering infants. The attentioa of the intim had already been drawn to this woman, and an unexpected examination of the house revealed several cradles with two or three babies in each. As she feared that her appearance in court would bring her disgraceful trado to light, she resolved to destroy all traces of the crimes. Daring the night of the 17th she set fire to her lodging, after, having first murdered the children committed to her charge. Then this inhuman woman went and stood in the yard of the house among the excited crowd and quietly waited to see what would happen. As the house was only built of wood, she evidently hoped it would be completely deiroyed. But one of the inmates of the house suddenly remembered the woman in the garret and her charges, and called out to the firemen to save the children. Then Skuhlinski was for the first time seen standing in the yard, and when she was asked if the children were already saved, she answered that they were no longer with her. In .the meanwhile the firemen had RO far succeeded in subduing the fire that one of them penetrated into Skublinski's lodging, and, not knowing what she had said, immediately begmi to search for the children. Ile I soon found one lit,le corpse, and then two more. They were taken down to the yard, and a doctor Iwho happened to be present declared that the children were not choked by smoke, but that a crime had been perpetrated. Then the police ! came forward and four more corpses were d'sIcovered, on one of which were distinct traces of the • skull having been battered in. Consequently Skubhnski and the other women were arrested. All the little corpses were taken to the hospital, and it was proved that they had died a violent death. Their ages could not be decided on, although none of them appeared to be older than six weeks. Coffins for ten to fifteen children were made by a carpenter. Skublinaki is over 30 years of age; she is a handsome woman, but has a hard, cold expression in her eyes. In her youth she was in service, and afterwards became a midwife, bat mostly attended the poorer classes. Seventy-six cases of infanticide have been traced to Skublinski. Her son carried out the corpses in a basket. She and her sister have given cynical replies to the questions of the Procurator. She used to eat, drink, and sleep in the room in which the corpses of the murdered innocents were rotting away in a stove.
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1890-03-22 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

TANNER:AT DARLINGTON.  St. Patrick's Day was celebrated at-p;:lington on Monday with mach ecliit, a large number assembling in the Mechanics' Hall to listen to I the concert and the political speeches which constunted the programme. Mr J. H. Bell presided, and the following contributed to the concert : Miss Brewia, Miss Sweeney, Miss Castello, Miss Bertha Bell, Miss Heslop, Mr F. Burgin, Mr Rickaby, Mr Tate, Mr James, Mr Heslop's glee party, and Mr T. James's string band.—The Chairman and the Rev. H. M. Kennedy, Vicar of Plumpton having spoken, Dr. Tanner addressed the meeting, and created quite a sensation by one incident that he narrated. He said that six years ago he was not mixing himself up in politics one way or the other. His dear father, who was a medical man, and . some friends of his who were landlords asked him to go down and see if the people were fit to be evicted. He was sent down I to the estate of Capt. Sarafield, who was. then a great personal friend of his i.andhe was told there was a girl Shen who was shamming sickness. It I was a pouring wet day, and the cabin was a I poor, miserable affair. The place was surrounded, as usual, with policemen, armed with rifles. He found a poor girl lying on a miserable bed. She did nothing but moan in reply to his questions, and he discovered she was deaf and dumb. Examining her with the stethoscope, , he found she was in the third stage of pneumonia, that she was recovering from inflammation of the lungs, but was very ill indeed. He told the subagent what her condition was, and he said, "Then I you won't certify that she is out of danger ?" He replied, "Certainly not." "Then," said the sub-agent, "you had better get out, and I will get I somebody ehie who will." (" Shame !") He did I get ont--(cheers)—and they did get somebody else —(" Shame !'')—and the girl was taken out of the cabin and put on her wretched bed on to a dung heap in the yard. (Renewed cries of "Shame !") The rtin was still descending. Her parents re- I fused to let her go to the Union; and in three days' time she was dead. (Sensation, and indignant cries of Shame:" and "Murder !") That was only one instance of the horrors perpetrated in Ireland; and if they went over to that country they could learn many similar cases. Was that a right state of affairs to exist in a Christian country? (" No, no.") The fact was, it was human life, human suffering, agony, and misery on one side, and pounds, shillings, and pence, and the landlord faction on the other. (Applause.) He alluded to the Ponsonby and Smith-Barry negotiations, and concluded with a powerful appeal to the English constituencies at the next general election to see that justice was done to Ireland and her people, and that a system was abolished once and for all which wits maintained at the point of the bayonet in order that the rich man should get more than was his due.— Mr T. Fry,. M.P., and other speakers-followed.
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1890-03-22 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

PRINCIPLES. " Shure, amen can't always have a good appetite, One man reads a history and can tell you all its mother." " No, whin he is in love. Shure yer father was events, and there stops. Another combines these events, brings them under one view, and learns the the Fame way, I'm timid, whin he was thinkin' great causes which are at work on this or another about askin' me." nation and what are its great tendencies, whether " Bat it is not love, it's my appetite." "Go an tell that to the nearest lamp-post, Ye to freedom or despotism to one or another form of " civilisation. So one Man talks continually about ...._—,..___ can't throw dust in my eyes. the particular actions of this or another neighbour; A remarkable scene occurred at a meeting in He saw it Was no use keeping up the converse- I whilst another looks beyond the acts to the inward Baston, near Bourn, during the Stamford election Lion; with a laugh he left the house to resume his work. i principle from which they spring, and gathers from week. Mr Swift McNeill, M.P., had delivered an That letter haunted his mind during the whole 1 them larger views of human nature. In a word, earnest address on the Irish question dX , an r of the afternoon. When he was alone, and had • one man sees all things apart and in fragments, Whatteff, the largest farmer in the district, rose few moments to spare, he took out the envelope, whilst another strives to discover the harmony, and said he wished to put a question to Mr and for the first time noticed that it was marked connection, unity of all. One of the great evils of McNeill, "What about the murder of Lord " urgent "on the left hand corner. He took from I society is that men, occupied perpetually with Leitrim, the first Irish martyr under the Its cover the dainty and scented sheet of note petty details, want general truths, want broad and League, • grey-headed old man, dragged paper and read the contents once more. Then he fixed principles. Hence many, not wicked, are un- from his carriage and foully murdered ?" Mr atudie'd the caligraphy. Who was it from? He stable, habitually inconsistent, as if they were over- McNeill stated mildly that it was not an grown children rather than men. To build up that agrarian murder. Mr Whattoff further pressed knew. It was from Bibby. He had seen her strength of mind which apprehends and cleaves to him, and Mr McNeill sprang on the platform to tell writing when making out the bills for the customers at the Goose and Goslings. She loved him. Oh ! great universal truths is the highest intellectual the truth, but before he could speak, an army ulture —Cste_eNtec. what joy! Yes, he would meet her, and tell her leit'e ' pensioner rose in the body of the meeting, and said, how her feelirws were richly reciprocated. amidst profound silence, " I know the reason why Work over,larney made a poor tea. The fact Hor.zowair's OucrthEd-r
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1890-04-05 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

THE PLOT AGAINST THE CZAR'S  LIFE.  HIS MAJESTY TAKEN SUDDENLY ILL. The Emperor has been suddenly taken ill. The person deputed to kill the Czar, of whom I telegraphed yesterday, says the Doily Telegraph's special correspondent at St. Petersburg, was a naval officer of aristocratic family, who had returned from four years' obligatory service at sea, about twelve months ago. He went into society occasionally, and conducted himself so as to disarm suspicion; indeed, so slender was the prima facie evident* of the troth of his confession that the authorities at first looked upon it as the ravings of a man of dithrdered intellect. No papers compromising any of his comrades have been discovered. though there are unmistakeable traces I of voluminous documents having been destroyed shortly before his death. The matter is being hushed up, and no obituary notice of a marine officer has appeared in any of the news-papers as yet. The correspondent adds that he was present when a student deputation interviewed a university professor asking him to say something in support of their cause. He declined to write any address to the students, on the ground that it would do him and them immense harm and no one any good. He reasoned with them, and entreated them to be prudent. They replied, however, that the advice kid come too late. They had gone too far to turn hack, and now they would continue the agitation until something came of it, good or bad. They had sent delegates to other universities which would doubtless make common cause with them. In connection with the question of " flogging " the students had a document containing the refusal of the censure some five months ago to allow M. Staainlevitch, the editor of the Messenger of Europe, to publish a report of the flogging of three prisoners in the city of Nischni Novgorod. The worst feature of their case was the circumstance that M. Damned, the Governor of Nischni Novgorod, before subjecting the men to this treatment, had telegraphed to the Czar asking for the Imperial sanction for this flagrant violation of the law, and that is Majesty unhesitatingly accorded it. I am told that the university probably will be closed. It is untrue that Madame Tchithrikova has been released, nor is there much hope of her being soon set at liberty. Arrests are being made every day in the two capitals, but many of those who are hn, prim:iced are perfectly innocent of complicity with . political crime.  . The execution of William Chadwick for the Atherton murder is fixed for April 150. The Se:by and Mid-Yorkshire 'Union Bail(Church Fenton to Wistow) Abandonment Bill came before Mr Campeon, the examiner, on Monday, and the standing Orders were found to have been duly complied with. FtErnmarrsr or nrE Ltt-mrtroot Door grim/E.—The strike of the Liverpool dock labourers came to an end on Monday. Mr Michael Davitt acted as mediator, and the shipowners suggested terms which were submitted to the men and agreed to. Work was resumed to-day.
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1890-02-01 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

TERRIBLE ROADSIDE MURDER.  Mr Rd. Davies, the owner of an extensive tailor's and draper's establishment, and also of considerable property in Crewe, was murdered in a shocking manner on the highway between Crewe and a village known as The Hough, some three miles distant, on Sunday morning. Mr Davies, who lived out of Crewe, was driving to his home to spend the week-end with his wife and nine children. Together with his son, aged about 16 years, he set off on Saturday night about eleven o'clock in the pony trap. Mr Davies was driving. The pony is a very old one, and they did not make fast progress along the roads. The night also was extremely dark. Mr Davies and his son appeared to have driven the greater part of the way home without incident, but just before entering the village of Hough, and while they were going along a very lonely place in the road, it is said by his eon, two men jumped out from the hedge, one on either side. The night was so dark that their figures could not be seen. They laid hold of the pony's head and stoppcd it. The boy in the conveyance tried to urge the animal forward by means , of a stick, but being unsuccessful he got down. No sooner had he done this than one of the men at the pony's head rushed back to the old man in the vehicle, struck him &terrible blow on the head, and dragged him out into the road. The boy seeing the attack upon his father endeavoured to make his escape, but the second ruffian, who was at the pony's head, left it, and commenced to chase the boy round the trap. The boy dodged him, and the fellow pursued Lim about four hundred yards up the road, but finding he could not overtake him turned back to his companion, who was wrestling with Mr Davies. The boy passed several houses, and ran on to his home, where he got an elder brother and several villagers to go back with him. They found Mr Davies lying dead at the side of the road, his heed being battered out of all recognition. From the state of the road it was evident there had been a terrible struggle for life. For several yards there were pools of blood ; while great quantities of blood on the grass on both sides of the road led to the belief that Mr Davies had endeavoured to escape from his assailants by attempting to creep through gaps in the hedge. In addition to having his head battered in, the murdered , gentleman had his right thumb cut off arid two ' fingenPon the same hand broken. His body was found several yards from the spot where the first attack was made, while the pony was discovered grazing along the side of the road about fifty yards nearer the:village. It isa somewhat singular circiunstance, however, that about three years ago, the murdered gentleman and his son—not the sou who accompanied him home on Saturday night—were returning along the same road, and they were attacked as nearly as possible on the same_ spot. They, however, managed to beat off their assailants.
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1890-11-08 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

ATTEMPTED MURDER OF A WIFE.  A HUSBAND'S MANIACAL FRENZY.  A sad case of attempted murder occurred at Bradford on Wednesday morning, when Win. Whitley, manufacturer, of Chellow Dean, attempted to kill his wife by beating her with his fists. Shehad , been confined only six weeks, and, the child having I suffered from illness, Whitley appears to have I become low and despondent in spirits. Nothing ; , serious, however, was expected, and the first inti- I mation of anything wrong oceutred shortly af te r nine I o'clock on Wednesday moraine, when the nurse, I Miss Grattan, and servant *heard screams of I , " Murder " and sounds of violent struggling I , proceeding from the bed-room which Mr t and Mrs Whitley occupied. They at once 1 ! went to the room' but found the door secured i from the inside. Assistance was obtained, and , attempts to force open the door proved ineffectual. The police were then sent for, but in the 1 !meantime Mr Whitley opened the door, and rushed I out clad only in his night attire, and with his! ! hands and the sleeves of his night-dress covered I ! with blood. He was in a wild and excited state, I , and asked for his children, remarking, "I have ! killed her, and I will kill them too." He was I secured, and Mrs Whitley, who received all possible ! attention, was found to have been tho victim of 1 ! terrible treatment. Her husband had apparently : / knelt upon her chest and pounded her face with ' his fists in a dreadfully savage fashion, her features 1 being reduced to a perfectly unrecognisable mass. 1 , She retained consciousness, and repeatedly ex- ! ! pressed the hope that the police would not take her ;husband, as he had always been loving and kind to I her. Whitley was taken to the Town Hall, and / when subsequently spoken to by one of his friends the Mated, " It's the visitation of God; it's been the curse of my life." No further explanation of 1 what appears to have been a sudden outburst of ; homicidal mania was forthcoming. The medical I examination of the prisoner led to the belief that / he was under delusions and irresponsible for his , actions, and it has been deemed necessary to plate ' him under restraint. Mrs Whitley, whose depositions were taken on Wednesday night, is still in a precarious condition, her face, ; arras, and the upper portion of her body 1 , being one mass of bruises. Her assailant / appears to have attempted liierally to tear her I face to pieces, and the nature of the attack can only be described as the outcome of a madman's frenzy. Whitley's father is a partner in the firm of Messrs Monies and Whitley, wool comhers and manufactureni, of Manchester - road and Fairweather Green. Whitley had been married five years, and had three children, and he appears to have lived on terms of affection with his wife.