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The Cannock Chase Examiner. — 1874-06-20 (Cannock, Staffordshire, England)

MACDONALD, M.P., ON THE LABOUR COMMISSION.  Mr. Macdonald. M.P. for Stafford, addressed a meeting of the miners of Stirling and Linlithgow. I held at Falkirk, on Monday. Motions expressing I approval of the advice Mr. Macdonald had given in the course of the dispute with the mining trade. I and of his conduct in acoepting a seat in the I Labour Commission were adopted. Mr. Macdonidd said that for some time past he had undergone a considerable amount of obloquy, but the time would come when men, in their better experience, would see clearly.that the advise he gave would, if it bad been acted upon, have been for the welfare of the entire class. He expressed sympathy with the struggle on which the Kilsyth men are engaged, their employers having desired them to work nine instead of eight hours a., day. Regarding the Labour Commission which is now sitting, he said he felt satisfied that it would unearth and bring to light certain things that woad nstonish the dullest in the community. From what he had heard in regard to the manner in which the great unpaid perform 'heir duties in questions affecting the labiuir laws, and particularly the law of master and servant, be believed that when the Coministron presented its reI port it would have done a wOrk that would lead to the destruction of She unpaid magistracy, and the appointment of persons qualified by their experience, their independent and impartial action and position, to deciffe questions between capital and labour.  SHOCKING lvirE 11117RDE It AT ST. I V'ES. A master mariner, residing at Bowling Greets terrace, St. hen, has murdered his wife. It appears that at about a quarter to six on Friday week the residents at Bowling Green terrace were aroused by Captain Andrew's children, who rushed out of the house in their night dresse, and stated that their father had just murchred their mother. The. neighbours at once entered the house, and on their going Into a back bedroom a shocking sight presented itself. Mrs. Andrew lay extended on a chest with her skull broken in, and all but dead, and the bedclothes were covered with blood. Capt. Andrew' who made no attempt to escape, was at once secured. On investigation It was found that be had perpetrated the deed with a large wooden fid, a tool used by sailmakers, with a heavy, thick end. The youngest son, a boy aged nine years, who occupied the front bedroom with his father, states that he saw his father hiding this fid in the chimney of their bedroom the night before. The child also observed the murderer leave the room in the morning, but as the little fellow was very sleepy it made no impression on his mind. Andrew must then have crept into his wife's bedroom, which was also occupied by the two daughters, and committed the fatal act. It is supposed that he attacked his wife whilst she was sleeping, tad that he struck her seven! blows over the forehead. Deceased lingered about an hour, but never recovered consciousness. Andrew, who is in custody, has acted strangely for some time past, and is supposed to be insane.
The Cannock Chase Examiner. — 1874-09-12 (Cannock, Staffordshire, England)

INTOLERANCE TO LABOURERS' UNIONS IN  LINCOLNSHIRE.  We extract the following "leader" from the Deity News i—A correspondent has sent us a programme of the fourth annual exhibition of the Elshani and Worlaby (Lincolnshire) Cottagers' Horticultural Society, which has among its subscribers and supporters Mr. H. Chaplain, M.P., Mr. R. Wynn, M.P., and many other gentlemen of influence. The society, we learn from its programme, is established "for the purpose of encouragmg useful and neat cultivation of cottage gar. dens." We cannot say that we admire some of the rules announced for the management of the show, which takes place, it appears, next Friday. A notice rather conspicuously printed announces that "no person in the Agricultural Labourers' Union, on and after the Ist of June, 1874, will be allowed to compete at this show." It probably did not occur to any of the persona concerned in the management of this remarkably exclusive exhibition that a little of this sort of thing is julit needed to make every. independent agricultural labourer in a district feel inclined to go, rightly or wrongly, the uttermost length that any union will carry him. Another rule sets forth that "any persons obtaining entrance without payment, or in any way misbehaving themselves, will be ducked in tlie pond." This intimation is printed in italics to make it the more emphatic. The sort of coarse horse-play which such an announcement as this is calculated to stimulate . is likely to elevate very much the character of the show and its frequenters and the neighbourhood generally. The Rlsham and Worlaby Society, which is established for the encouragement of neat gardening, is not much concerned apparently about the encouragement of decent manners. It is not the Agricultural Laboure.rs' Union, at all events, which endeavours to introduie among these Lincolnshire cottagers the performance \ . .„ .  - _ which we all admire so much when the roughs of a low race-course get them up for the punishment of "welchers." We do not knew which rule of the societ is calcuMted to do more for the improvement of the neighbourhood—that which puts the Agricultural Labourers' Union under a ban. or that which invites the select and admitted crowd to duck objectionable persons in the pond.  An Armenian youth named Sarkies has been murdered in the open streets of Calcutta by a Bengalee Baboo, a clerk in the Foreign Office' who stabbed his victim in the throat with an eraser. The deed was the result of a quarrel. UNWHOLE ,OME Foon.—A general crusade has just been made by the officers of the Sheffield Corporation against certain tradesmen who have been dealing in bad food. Mr. John Brinnen, butcher, of Fowler-street, was fined £BO for exposing for sale eighty pieces of bad meat, some of which was thoroughly putrid ; and Isaac Plant, provision dealer, of Meadow-street, was fined £55 for exposing for sale eight hams totally unfit for human food. A fruit dealer, named William Cooper, living in Old-street, was also fined 9.5 and costs for selling bad pears.
The Cannock Chase Examiner. — 1874-09-12 (Cannock, Staffordshire, England)

POETRY.  THE GAME LAWS.  BY A CHURCH CLERGYMAN.—(CANON KINGSLEY.) The merry brown hares came leaping Over the crest of the hill, Where the clover and corn lay sleeping Under the moonlight still. Leaping late and early, Till under their bite and their tread The svredes, and the wheat, and the barley, Lay clinkered, and trampled, and dead. A poacher's widow sat sighing On the side of the white chalk bank, 'Mare under the gloomy firwoods One spot in the ley throve rank. She watched a long tuft of clover, Where rabbit or hare never ran; For its black sour haulm covered over The blood of a murdered man. , She thought of the dark plantation, And the hares and her husband's blood, And the voice of her indignatioh Rose up to the throne of God. "I am long past wailing and whining— I have wept too much in my isle; I've had twenty years of pining As an English labourer's wife. A labourer in Christian England, Where they cant of a Saviour's name, And waste men's lives like the vermin's For *few more brace Of game. There's blood on your new foreign shrubs, squire; There's blood on your pointers' feet; There's blood on the game you sell, squire; And there's blood on the game you eat! You have sold the labouring man, squire, Body and. soul to shame, To pay for your seat in the House, squire, And to pay for the feed. of your game You made him a poacher yourself, squire, When you'd give neither work nor meat; And your barley fed hares robb'd the garden At our starving children's feet ; When packed in ore reeking chamber, Man, maid, mother, and little ones lay; While the rain pattered in on the rotting bride-bed And the walls let in the day; When we lay in the burning fever On the mud of the cold clay floor, Till you parted us all for three months, squire, At the cursed workhouse door. Can your lady patch hearts that are breaking With hanofnle of coal and rice, Or by dealing out flannel and sheeting A little below cost-price? You may tire of the jail and the workhouse, And take to allotments and. schools, But you've run up a debt that will never • Be repaid us by penny-club rules. In the season of shame 11 badness, In the dark and dry. by, When scrofula, gout, a.'AgeSS, KIE eating your race When to kennels and hymn arlete • You have coat your daugi• •s' bread, And, worn out witrliquor bud harlots, Your heir at your feet lies dead; When your youngest, the meally-mouthed rector, Leta your soul rot asleep to the grave, Yon will find in your God the protector Of the freeman you fancied your slave." She looked at the tuft of clover, • And wept till her heart grew light; And at last, when her passion was over, Went wandering into the night. But the merry brown hares came leaping, Over the uplands still, Where the clover and corn lay sleeping On the side of the white chalk hill.
The Cannock Chase Examiner. — 1874-12-12 (Cannock, Staffordshire, England)

THE HANLEY MURDER. Henry Ron (31), labourer, was charged with the wilful murder of George Chatterton, on the 28th November, 1874, at Hanley. Mr. Young and Me. J. R. Rose were for Vie prosecution, and by direction of the learned Judge, Mr. Motteram, assisted by Mr. Plowden defended the prisoner. Mr. Young, having opened the ease, called Thomas Chatterton, who was coined by Mr. J. R. Rose, and said the deceased man was his son; be was twenty-five years of ode, and a collier. On the 28th No•ember they were together at Plaut's beerhouse. At that time his son's master and some of the workmen were there, and Roe afterwards came into the room. Elijah Johnson and Thomas Hazells were also present. There had been a bother about fighting, and money was put down by witness's son and Hazells, an a hot; but they ultimately took the money back, and they went to the Three Tuns, an adjacent public. Deceased and Roe went Together, and witness and others followed. Roe picked up a quarrel with someone, and took off his coat to fight, when the landlord came in and ordered them out. Deceased said they had a drop of ale left, and when they had drunk it they went oat; that was Rue and deceased, and wit. nese being afraid of something happening followed them. They went into Meigh-street, and Roe went and "fixed" himself under a wall, sitting as aolliers do at work. Deceased was walking backwards and for. wards, saying to Roe, "Come, dunno' sit there all night; let's go." They were not drunk. Witness went to fetch Elijah Johnson, whom he had left at the Three Tuns, running all the way there and back. Johnson was in liquor' and followed witness into Meigh. street. From the time he left until he got back into Meigh-street not more than five minutes had elapsed, but Roe and witness's son had disappeared. Johnson had in the meantime gone back, and witness ran up Meigh-street to Burton-place, and there he saw seinething lying by the roadside. There was a man lifting the body of his son, and he looked in his face, and seeing who it was, said, "It serves thee right, thee should ha stopued with me." Rutter, the man who was holding up his son, told witness he wanted his head knocking off, and they had a quarrel about it. When witness went to his son again he saw that he was covered with blood, and dead. He saw nothing more of Roe. When he went to fetch Johnson, no one was about but Roe and his son, except a ruau who went into &louse while be was there.  _ Several witnesses were called on behalf of the prose. cution ; and the Judge, addressing Mr. Young, said it had not been shewn there was a* motive. There was no weapon, no quarrel ; would it be safe to convict? Mr. Young concurred with his Lordship's opinion, and the jury were directed to acquit the prisoner. A verdict of "Not guilty " was then resorded.  , , II ,
The Cannock Chase Examiner. — 1877-02-16 (Cannock, Staffordshire, England)

SINGULAR CURRENCE IN A CHURCHYARD.— Yesterday morning a landelip took place at Old St. George's churchyard, Staleybridge. The churchyard *rands on bigh ground above the river Tame, and is protected by • thick wall. One corner gave way, and about ffir yaree of wall fell, carrying with it three or four yards width of ground, and exposing some six or seven COttinfl The coffins were collected and taken to the mortuary.  - Or TWO I':CAIIBOROUGH SMACKS AND ALL OA BoAßD.—There were twenty Scarborough smacks out in the recent gale, and all have returned (some cousidershly damaged) except two—the Follies, below:ins to Mr. G. Lovett, and the Victor, owned by Mr. Sellers. These are now given up for lost. The former was worth £BOO, and insured for £450: the latter was valued at £6 0, and ineured for £3BO. The crew of the Potties consisted of Isaac Vestry, master, who leaves a wife and child; Wm. Trufman (wife and child): a man named Scarborotigh f John Fell, deckman (married): and J. Wake. caok. The crew of the Victor were—Wm. Bennett, master (leaving a wife and two children:: Thomas Stonehouse (married), Henry Barker (merrier] and two young Stonehousea, one 20 and the other 15 years of age. 1/EsPEDA,E PDA,HIN, AFFRAY NEAR ILKLEY —At the Otley Police.court, lest week, Thomas Joey, keeper, in the euthlt y of Mr. Middleton, of Middleton Lodge, charged two well-known characters, named Francis Holmes and Edgar Nun, with night poaching, and • second count charged the same persons with a violent assault upon Jcey, and two watchers, named Marshall and Tennant. The prisoners were brought up on remand, Harrison being under the doctor's care at the lest cow t. On the night of Thursday, the Ist Inst.. Joey met Merthall and Tennant on Ilkley Bridge, at about ten o'clock. They went in the direction of ureen's Farm, upon the Middleton estate. When 1. one of the pastures, two dogs came towards them i:, pursuit of • hare or a rabbit. Harrison saw • man running towards an adjacent hedge. and Joey at one' made for the spot. On his arrival he encountered Holmes, who threw heavy stones at him, and struck hlm violent blows over the head with a knob-stick Afterward. Tennant carte up, but after Joey had secured Holmes he ordered Tennant to pursue the other man Nun. They took possession of many yards of netting which were spiked into the ground for a great length:, three bags, three nets, eight rabbits, and other Teneents encounter with Nun was of a inumi rougher description, for on arriving at where Nun was already engaged in a desperate struggle with Marshall, Non turned upon him, and struck him several violent blows on the head with a murderous-looking " The Bench sentenced the prisoners mato three months' imprisonment with hard labour for the night poaching, and to one month's imprisonment with hard labour for the assault also to find sureties in £lO each to keep the peace for twelve months, and in default six months' imprisonment with hard labour.
The Cannock Chase Examiner. — 1877-01-26 (Cannock, Staffordshire, England)

THE ASTON MURDER. SCENE IN COVET.  On Tuesday, Mr. W. S. Poole, the coroner for Warwickshire, resumed his inquest on the body of Mary Sanders, whose throat was out last week by a barman named Baker, at Aston, Birmingham. Mr. W. T. Fallow. appeared for the defence of Baker. When Mr. Poole had taken hic seat, Mr. East, solicitor. said he appeared on behalf of Mr. Silvers, a man who had acted as the executor of the deceased woman's bus. baud's will, and who was alleged to have been improperly intimate with her. The facts have already been made public, and after the evidence had been concluded the jury returned a verdict of "Wilful murder" against Baker. Silvers, on driving away from the inn was hooted by a mob, which waited outside to see the accused, who was taken out the back way. As he was leaving the house a young woman, said to be his sister-in-law, ran up to him and kissed him. The prisoner was privately conveyed to the 'Victoria Hotel long before the inquest opened. At eleven o'clock his sister and some relatives came into the room where the inquest was hold, and grasped him by the hand. They afterwards eat down at the back of the room, and Baker gave way to emotional feelings. He sobbed piteously, and fell upon the floor in a fit. Dr. Hoare came to his relief, and prescribed a stimulant. During the whole of the hearing of the evidence he was very excited, and frequently wept. When Silvers came into the room, Baker rose up, and dashing beyond his legal adviser, attempted to clutch the throat of Silvers. The policemen set apart to look after his safety at once pulled him back, and he was thrown upon the floor and kept there for a short time. I), Hoare was called in again, and he prescribed some stitoulant. Baker exclaimed to Silvers, "You scamp. You have brought we to this." It was with some difficulty that Baker's sister could be restrained from coining forward to him. The police kept back the jurymen and witnesses in the room, and gave Baker a soothing draught. Baker remained very quiet durimt the rest of the examination, but wept bitter:y when Dr. Hoare described the wounds on the body of the ciecesces;.  A simiar scene occurred at the proceedings before the magistrates on Wednesday.  Among the replies to an aavensement of a music eom in it tsK, for a candidate as organist, music teacher, 6:e. was the following •• Gentlemen, I noticed your ertisement foe an organist and music teacher, e itner lady or gentleman. Having been both for eral years. I offer you my services."  • N TO Mr. B ealloge, poePouted itegedien; thocomplizrnitary right, en the oveasioo of hi, eon. nr at the Theatre Royal. A torch.  S:a.mvAx, formed at tte eolloge, cud the principLl itnnts before entering 'lO building iras dearaly shinnied Ana • an as r, j kjrcrd 111. At pnrcortuanee a deputation of the goxne. name Upon the stte, when . e to nit. Sohnan by 'Mr. H. ecaurorly was loldl9  ,!r.tor. E
The Cannock Chase Examiner. — 1877-04-27 (Cannock, Staffordshire, England)

CHARGE OF POISONING AGAINST A SERVANT.  At the Manchester Police-court on Monday, Martha Berber, domestic servant employed by Mr. T. H. French, accountant, 2, (Miley place, Dorset street, /Wine, was charged on remand with having attempted to poison Mrs. Eliza French by administering to her three down of medicine, in which was mixed a certain poison—red precipitate--with intent to murder. Mr. Smith (Smith and Boyer, solicitors) appeared for the prosecution. Mrs. Eliza French, the prostecutrix, for whose attendance the case had been adjourned, stated that the prisoner had been in her service about a month. On Wednesday, the 11th April, she sent the prisoner to Mr. Rix, her doctor, for another bottle of medicine, she having been ill for some time. The prisoner was away about an hour and a half, and came back with a bottle of medicine. She said Mr. Rix had told her she was to compel witness to take the medicine three tones a day, and also that witness was to keep her bed. She further said the doctor hod stated that if witness did not take the medicine she would die, and that she was " not to mind" if she was sick. lihe  prisoner said, "I don't think you will get out of tins house alive," and also " The doctor has told me you will not get better." When she came la. she did not come immediately to witness's room, but went Into the kitchen. There Was no one else in the house. The prisoner shook the medicine well up, and gave witness a dose in a wine glass line the one produced. Witness noticed that a sediment was left at the bottom of the glaes, which she bad never seen in the medicine she had had previously. As the colour of the medicine was not like what she had previously, she remarked to the prisoner that the colour was strenge, but she said that it had been mixed by the dootor and was all right. This medicine was muddy, wtth a red sediment at the bottom, whereas that which she had had hef ore was clear. Half an hour after taking the medicine she felt sick and prostrate. In the afternoon the prisoner gave witness another dose, again shaking the. bottle, and she experienced the same symptoms, but aggravated. The next nit ruing witnee, herself took a small dose of the medicine, and after that her limbs were rigid and she felt very weak. She took no more, and on the following morning sent the bottle away. Cross-examined by the p-isoner : The bottle was not enclosed in paper and sealed up top and bottom. The paper had been torn off. Witness had had no quarrel with the prisoner, nor could she assign a came for the prisoner's actions. The prisoner gave notice to leave on the Llth instant.  Some other evidence was given, and the prisoner was committed for trial at the assizes. In reply to the bench, the void, "I am not guilty; I never touched the bottle that day, and am Innocent."
The Cannock Chase Examiner. — 1877-06-22 (Cannock, Staffordshire, England)

THE ALLEGED WIFE IVEIRDER IN THE AUSTRIAN TYROL.  BOTZEN, Agsrsiss TYROL, June 18.—The trial of Henri de Tourville, on the charge of having murdered his wife. Madeline de Tourville, an Englishwoman, by throwing her down a precipice in the Stelvio Pass, on the 18th June, 1876, commenced in the Court-house of this town to-day. Count Melchiori was the presiding judge. The Court was crowded: Twenty witnesses, including Miss Scott, from London, and six experts, have•been summoned by the public prosecutor to giveevidence. The president ordered the reading of a number of documents in connection with the ease. The defence has demanded the calling of further witnesses, particularly John•Torner and Sarah Chappinson, from London. After the jury had been duly sworn, Herr Markbreeker, the prisoner's counsel, objected to the printed form of indictment against his client being communicated to the jurymen, contrary to the principle of oral proceedings followed in the Austrian Criminal Courts. The President allowed the objection. Herr Markbrecker then demanded that Frank and Eliza Thompson should not herepresented by counsel at the trial, inasmuch as they had suffered no legal wrong, and in the event of a conviction would claim deceased's property. The Public Prosecutor objected to this, and the Court decided in their favour.  A further diminution in the extent of the small. pox epidemic in London was reported at the meeting of the Metropolitan Asylums Board on Saturday. . The workmen engaged in the nail trade in Bristol have received a fortnight's notice of a re. duction of 3d. per thousand on all kinds of horse nails.  The Archbishop of Dublin has admitted Mr. Maurice Hewson, a deaf and dumb gentleman, to the office of catechist for the deaf and dumb in Dublin.  T. B. Price, recently a provision dealer, who is charged with fatally shooting a young woman in Crown street, Liverpool, surrendered to the police on Saturday night. At a mass meeting of colliers, at Wigan, onMon. day, it was resolved to continue on strike unless the present lock-out be referred to arbitration. Mr. Burt, M.P., supports this motion.  Nearly 10,000 of the Metropolitan volunteers were under arms or. Saturday undergoing their annual official inspections or taking part in the brigade field days ordered by the Government. The Dublin Mail says the Attorney-General has appointed Mr. C. H. Tandy, Q.C., Crown Prose. eutor for the County of Tipperary, in the room of Mr. O'Hara, who has resigned ; and Mr. Ryland to be Crown Prosecutor for Wexford.  The financial yZar of the Mersey Dock Board terminates on the 30th of this month, and the Lirerpool Courier believes that the revenue for the year, considerably exceeding a million sterling, will reach the largest figure ever attained in the history of the estate.  • There was a general parade on Sunday morning of the Metropolitan Corps of Commissionaires. After the inspection by Lord Mark Kerr the men were marched into Westminster Hall and briefly addressed by his lordship and by Captain Walter. The number on parade was 530. ST.