The Dewsbury Chronicle, and West Riding Advertiser. — 1894-04-07 (Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, England)

THE STORY OP THE CRIME. CLOWN'S DRAMATIC DSLITH The murder for which Philip Garner suffered the extreme penalty of the law this morning was of a peculiarly atrocious nature. Prisoner, who was formerly in the Army and served for some years abroad, came into Yorkshire, accompanied by his wife, in 1887. He seems to have tramped about the country a good deal, and on Saturday the 25th of November last he arrived at Doncaster. After ' visiting several • houses in company with the deceased woman, the pair went together to a lodging-house kept by a man named Hoyle. At this time the couple appeared to be on the best of terms. Early the following morning they went out for a walk together at the request of the convict. They went to an inn and stayed there for some time. After leaving they turned from the road and went across a footpath leading through the he ds to what are known as the Low Pastures. Immediately afterwards two boys, who were following them, saw the prisoner I getting out of a ditch and as he got out he rubbed I something off his hands. The boys passed him, and looked into the ditch,. where they saw the deceased woman lying face downwards, her head covered with blood. Very soon afterwards the prisoner presented himself at the Borough Police Station at Doncaster, and asked the constable on duty there whether the Low Pastures was in his district. When he was told that it was, prisoner said: "My wife is dead there. I have killed her with a hammer. I have knocked her skull in. I have tried to do it before but failed. I have done it this time. I have blood on my hands (at that time be showed the officer his hands which were blood-stained) ; you will find her in a ditch near the stone stile in the Low Pastures. The hammer is laid by her side. I have had the hammer by me for several weeks." Gainer was tried at the last Leeds Assizes, on March 13th, and found guilty, with a strong recommendation to mercy, made on the ground 'of his wife's infidelity, which was proved by the evidence of the police under cross-examination. This recommendation, however, was not given 'effect to by the Home .Secretary, and Ithe sentence on Garner was, therefore, duly carried out.  Auguste, 'the great French clown, has come by his death in a circus at Dresden under circumstances peculiarly dramatic. He was making one of his usual "saute de carpe" _amidst the applause of the crowd, when, with an awkwardness that was irresistibly comic, he fell. He not only fell, but, on the ground, indulged in contortions that delighted his public, and, to crown all, simulated death, lying rigid and motionless in the middle of the arena. It was the supreme art of clownery, and was recognised and rewarded by the applause of an intelligent audience. They had seen bun do this kind of thing before, but never so well. However, as he remained motionless, a , groom went up to him and found that again, and for the last time, he had deceived his public ; the vertical column was broken, and the man was dead,  WHERE IGNORANCE IS BLISS  A cynical analyst, having dined at a continental restaurant, jotted down in his notebook the following lively recollections a the meal :—‘. Had as 'an aperative a vermouth, rendered agreeable by the addition of sulphuric acid; epotage of tapioca made of potato starch, to which copper had been added ; buttermade of calf's fat, coloured with lead ; roast of inferior quality, improved with saltpetre ; salad vinegar seasoned with vitriol; peas coloured with copper; chocolate cream made of glucose, red oxide of mercury, and red ochre ; pastry, an amalgamation of common flour, margarine, bad eggs, alum, and turpentiny essence of lemon ; sausages composed of bread and vegetable colouring ; coffee, a mixture of roasted horse liver, chicory, and caramel ; glass of kirschwasser containing as much as twenty-two centigrammes of prussic acid to the litre; mug of beer, a decoction of poppy-heads, elder, belladonna, datura stranionium, tan bark, and picric acid 1 "  A football club they call a team, but they call the umpire everythiug. It has been discovered that a man who was rocked in the cradle of the deep slept his last sleep Au the bed of the ocean.