Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1890-05-24 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

STEAMER SUNK.  --The master (Captain Smith) and nine of the crew of the steamer Harold, 1700 tons, of Hull, have been t landed at Londonderry by the Liverpool steamer Telegraphic. The Harold was bound from Spain for Ayr 1 With iron ore, and went ashore near St. John's Point, county Down, during a fog. She floated off with the rising tide, but after steaming some distance filled . with water and foundered suddenly, carrying down with her six of her crew, including the first mate and the first engineer, the former of whom had gone below to get some of his clothes, and was in his cabin when the vesael sank. The names of the drowned are Brunton, of Hull, first mate; John Ake, of Hull, first engineer; Hobert Lindsay, Newcastle, donkeyman ; Owen Mills, Dundalk, seaman ; Harry Lee, Southampton, fireman; George Middleton, Kent, messroom boy; and Angus Campbell, Portree, Skye, lamp trimmer. The latter was picked up and taken on board the Telegraphic, but died subsequently from exhaustion, making the seventh death. All the deceased, with the exception of Middleton, were married, and leave • families. Most of the survivors received injuries, and ! one of the firemen is in the infirmary, Captain Smith, who remained on the bridge until the vessel got 6 under water, states that the rescue of the survivors was effected by Lloyd's boat, which came from St. - John'. Point, and by the Telegraphic's boat, the I utmost efforts being made to save life.  nature.  MURDER AT MITCHAM The usually quiet village of Mitcham has been thrown into a state of excitement in consequence of a rumour, which proved to be well founded, that a murder had been committed, and that a well-known resident of the labouring chum had been arrested in connection with the crime. bitaatrd not very far from the old parish church are three small houses known as Simmonds' cottages, one of which was occupied by George Bowling, a labourer, who has not of late been in regular employment and who has cohabited for some time with a woman calling herself Eliza Beadle, but who is supposed to be the wife of a man named Nightingale. Beadle was in the employ of Dlr. William Lunt, a market gardener, of Lower Mitcham, for whom she had worked for ten years, being regarded as a quiet, inoffensive woman. She left her employer's premises at =nine o'clock at night. On the following morning she did not put in an appearance, but no particular notice was taken of her absence. Nothing wrong was suspected at Bowling's cottage, as the other lodgers thought the woman went out at the usual time; but later in the day a relative went into bee apartment and discovered I Beadle lying on the bed quite dead, with terrible I wounds on her head. An alarm was raised, and a messenger dispatched for the police, Inspector IL Butters and Sergeant Loftus, W Division, being soon on the scene, accompanied by Dr. Love, the divisions' surgeon, who made a cursory examination of the body, which was quite cold, having evidently been dead for some hours. He came to the conclusion that the fatal injuries had been inßicted with a hammer which was found in the room. Bowling was arrested at Upper Mitcham.