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Darlington & Richmond Herald. — 1874-10-17 (Darlington, Durham, England)

SUCCESS OF THE BELGIAN IRON MASTERS IN ENGLAND.  There has just arrived in South Staffordshire, for use in the midst of the iron works, a consignment of Belgian iron, which is giving rise to not a little excitement amongst the local ironmakers. The iron comprises splendid specimens of the product of the mills and forges of Belgium. They are four flitch plates of the extraordinary dimensions of 35 feet 5 inches in length, by 18 inches in width, and it inch in thickness, and each plate weighs 15 cwt. The iron is lying at the Highfield Engineering and Ironfoundry Works, near Bilston, of Messrs Perry and Sons, where they will be used with baulks of timber in carrying the roof of a new fitting shop. It was sought to obtain the iron in this country, but the effort was unsuccessful. Although about 20 firms were applied to in England and Scotland, yet one only quoted a price. No difficulty whatever was experienced in getting the plates in Belgium, whence they have been obtained at more than 6/. per ton under the price quoted by the only firm in this country at all prepared to do the work, showing a total difference on the four plates of 24/. 5s in.favour of the Belgian prices. That such a transaction should be possible is regarded as very significant of the future if more enterprise in their mill arrangements should not be shown by the British ironmasters.  In Virginia city, the jurors in murder cases are allowed to go to the theatre in the evening. The Empress of Russia left Livadia on Monday afternoon. Her Majesty will proceed via Odessa to England, and is accompanied by the Czarewitch.  The Quarterly which will appear on Saturday, writes on "The Ritual of the English Church," "The Jesuits," "Provincial Turkey." arid the Strikes in the Eastern counties. There is an article on that standing dish of the Magazines and Reviews, "Bishop Patterson :" but another, that entitled "The Republic of Venice; its Ris(., Decline, and Fall," cannot be accused of occuoying such well traversed ground as that of the Life of the Martyr Bishop of Melanesia, the South Seas. _ .  SAN 4LY'S finflCS.—At the meeting of the United Presbyterian Synod, at Manchester, on Tuesdsy, Dr. Cairns, of Berwick, in ,peaking upon the work achieved by Messrs Moody and Sankey, referred to Sankey's hymns. He sild that he, of course, preferred the Presbyterian hymns, but he had seen such indications of blessings arising from these hymns, that he should be sorry to see any Y missing the blessing of havinz these hymns widely sung and incorporated with the religious life and recAlectiona of the 3-oung. It was astonishing. how those hymns bad spr.ad over the whole of the country. He had just been staying at under the hospitable roof of the alaarector'sofEthid' the last. parish in England (a lanol), and he found these hymns sung in that family; and he had been asked to let them know the air to lwela'rienbed IdMO lof the hymns which they had not be sung. From Orkney mad Shetland to the Land's End, therefore, as lie knew, those hymns had already cliffueed themselves over the length and breadth of the land.
Darlington & Richmond Herald. — 1874-03-21 (Darlington, Durham, England)

ALLEGED WIFE MURDER AT DABLINGION.  On Saturday evenine, Mout half-past seven o'clock. Darlington was thrown into a state of exeitement by a report that ft wem in had been brutal'y mnreered by her husband at Albert Hill—the scene f the last murder. The facts on while this rumour was based appear to be the folloeirg :—A Iron had been apprehr mled on the charge of causing the death of his wire, brit not in the brutel manner stated in the town. The prisoner, who was Wien intr custody shout half-past six, is an elderly man, of respectable appearance, named Geerge Malleby. He and his wife resided In a shop in Nestfiel I-street. where he carried on business as a tailor dee. ilevinr a man or two in his employ. At out six o'clock on Saturday evenine, it appears that the prisoner, who, it is stated, is addicted to drinking, and his wife qnerrelleri abut one of their sons, who, the wife stated. hal taken some things from the house ; and it is stated by a woman named Robinson, who resided with them, that the prisoner strut+ his wire violently on the face, causing her to fall beekwarde on the fleor. The deceise I was a cm Talent woman, and would fall heavilv. After this the woman Rohinson went into the yard at the hack of the house for the Purpose of procuring s ime water, and on returning she found that deeeeeed had been removed by the rrisoner on to it bed in the kitchen. She was bleeding profusely from the month and nose, arid the reienner was bending over her washit g her face. Immediately after this Mallaby, who was slightly the worse for drirk, left the house. The floor, which was covered with b'ool, after the departure of the prisoner, was washed by the w nnan Robinstin and a daughter of the deceased, a girl about fifteen years of age. When it was found that the woman was dead information was given to sergeant Cuthbert, who irnmedistelv proceeded to the house. On entering, he found the deceased was lying on a bed in the kitchen, blood still flowing profusely from her month and nose The bed-clothes were saturated with Mood. and upon the floor there were marks of blood. There nere no external marks of violence neon the body of the deceased. Meanwhile prisoner had been informed of the deathsef his wife and returned to the house, and be was taken into custody by Sergt. Cuthbert and Policeetenstetile Elliot, and at once removed to the po'ice station. On the way to the station, prisoner stated that he had been "provoked by his wife. and that it was a bad job; he could not help it now it was done." He was perfectlycalm and collected. After prisoner had been taken into custody, Dr. Easby, accompanied by Slept Rogers, visited the home and examined the body of the deceased. Prior to her death it is said that deceased, who had the character of being an exceedingly intemperate woman, had imbibed a quantity of drink. Deceased was in the receipt of an annuity of 100/.
Darlington & Richmond Herald. — 1874-10-24 (Darlington, Durham, England)

BRUTAL ASSAULT ON A WIFS AT  WEST HARTLEPOOL.  John Reed. boiler maker, was brought before Mr W. J. Young, and Mr George Pyrnan, at the West Hartlepool Police Court, on Monday, on a charge of assaultiug his wife, Mary Ann Reed, an elderly person living in John-siredi Complainant, who appeared in court with her head bandaged, stated that her husband "used her badly every eliky that the Lord sent," and on one occasion over the supper table he threatened to cut her throat while she lay in bed. Ten years ago he ill-treated ner, but she forgave him that time. The present Charge had reference to the 12th and 18th mats. She asked him on Monday morning whether he was not going to work as she was not able to keep him unless he did go to work, and, using some profane expressions to her in reply, he flourished a coal rake and smashed a couple of pictures. On the Sunday night following, the 18th, after she returned from church, he asked her for the key of the outer door. She first said she had not got it, but as he again demanded it, she, in her fear, told him that she had thrown it away. He then threatened that that was the last night she would be allowed to live, as he meant to cut her throat before morning. She consequently resolved to sleep at a neighbour's house, but when he understood ter intention, he suddenly struck her on her forehead with a tin bottle. Her sou James, who was in the house, at that instant rushed in between them, , crying, "Oh father, don't kill my mother," and, taking advantage of the opportunity, Mrs Reed escaped by the window.—Her evidence was corroborated by her son.—Sergeaut Bowman was called in shortly after the scene we have described. He found a wound one and a half inch long, from which the blood was spurting like a fountain. After dressing the wound, the sergeant apprehended the prisoner, who offered great resistance. He then told the sergeant that' it was a good job he came as the missus would have been dead before morning." Reed's only defence was that his wife got drunk and turned up her sleeves to fight him. Mr Young, cnairms.u, said the Bench were satisfied that a most aggravated assault had been committed. Reed, however, might congratulate himself that he had not been arraigned on a charge of murder, seeing that the effect of the blow, if directed at another part of the head, might have been fatal. These offences were not to be treated lightly by any Bench of magistrates; and, as the prisoner was committed in June, 1873, for six months, for an aggravated assault on a female, the Bench felt that they would not be doing their duty were they not to inflict the maximum penalty allowed by law, and ordered him to be imprisoned for six months with hard labour, at the expiration of which time, he would be required to be ,  boutni in toe sum a 50/. and to find two sureties of 25/. each, to keep the peace for a further period of six months.
Darlington & Richmond Herald. — 1874-12-12 (Darlington, Durham, England)

MEAN OLD BACHELOR'S CONUNDRUM.—Why do we men talk less in February than in any other month? Because it is the shortest mcnth in the year., A man named Dunlop boasts that his name cculd not te punned upon. Nothing is more easy," said a punster; " yust lop off the name a little and it is Dan." An old farmer who has been carefully studying some of the leading trials for murder, has made up his mind that whenever he determines to kill anybody he" will not premeditate it beforehand." Did the defendant go at the plaintiffs seriatim? "inquired an attorney, the other day, of a witness in a case of asPault and battery. No, he went at 'ern with a poker," was the emphatic reply. An An erican who has recently visited Italy writes, "Venice is a nice place, only I n,ust say I think it's damp. It must have rained tremendous before our arrival, for at present we can only get about the streets in boats." A physician having ordered draughts to be applied to the freet of a patient to relieve him of a pain in the head, the latter exclaimed: "No, no; if Is bad enough as it is, and I never could bear to have the horrid pain drawn the whole length of met" A New York politician, in writing a letter of condoler ce to the widow of a deceased member of the Legislature, says: I cannot tell you how pained I was to hear that your husband had gone to heaven. We were bosom friends, but now we shall never meet again." When old Lord Holland lay dying, the witty George Selwyn, who had a morbid love for seeing corpses, executions, death-beds, and the like, was a constant visitor of his. "If Mr Selwyn calls to-morrrow," said the master of the house, "be sure he is admitted, for if I am alive I shall be glad to see him, and if I am dead he will be glad to see rne." _ _ .  " Gentlemer," said a political speaker, "show me an opponent of the resoluticns which I have had the honcur to lay before you, and I'll Ehow you a liar?" I'm an opponent of 'em," growled a burly farmer near the platform. "Well, then, you just come round the corner and show you a fellow that said I could'nt find an opponent of 'cm in the county."—tlnte, ican paper. A debtor, who had "failed badly," being called upon by a creditor, Ehowed him his books, and told him he'd ray him -50 cents on a dollar. "But," said the creditor, "according to your books your assets will pay only thirty five cents on the dollar ? " "I know that," responded the deb'or, with en air of great candour and magnanimity. "1 kcow't that my assets will pay but thirty-five cents on the dollar; but, sir, I'm an honest man, and sooner than let my creditois suffer, make up the difference out of my own pocket."
Darlington & Richmond Herald. — 1874-01-10 (Darlington, Durham, England)

THE INQUESTS.  At ten o'clock the inquest on the bodies of the culprits was held in the office of the Deputy. Governor, before Mr John Graham, coroner, and a jury. The jury, having been duly sworn, proceeded to view the bodies, which were coffined in an adjoining room. The body of Dawson was in the centre, that of Gough on the left, and that of Thompson on the right. The white cap put over the face of each prior to the bolt being drawn was lying at the head of each coffin. The faces of the culprits did not present any striking features. Gough's and Thompson's suggested a kind of happy repose, but not so Dawson's, the expression of which was anything but peaceable. The Jury having spent some time in examining the bodies, returned to the Deputy• Governor's, when the inquest on the body of Edward Gough was opened. The witnesses were Mr James Young (deputy. governor), Wm. Thompson (a warder), who had been in attendance on the deceased, and who identified the body, Mr Richard Bowser (under. sheriff), and Mr Was. Boyd (surgeon to the gaol.) The Jury found that the body they had seen was that of Edward Gough, on whom the sentence of death had been duly executed, for the crime of Wilful ntarder.  The inquest on the body of Charles Dawson waselext 'held. The following fornral evidence was adduced : Mr James Young, deputy-governor of the county prisons, said: The deceased Charlee Dawson was a puddler, and was committed by the county magistrates at Darlington on the 19th Sept. last for trial for wilful murder. He was tried and condemned at the Winter Gaol Delivery, before Sir George Essex Honyman, for the wilful murder of Ifartha Jane Addison, on the 11th December, and sentenced to be hanged. I was present this morning when the sentence of death was executed within the walls of the prison on the said Charles Dawson. James Telford (warder) said : I have had charge of the deceased from the night of the 11th December until this morning at. six o'clock. I was present at his execution this morning, and the body is the same which has been viewed by the jury at this inquest. Mr Richard Bowser said: I am Under-Sheriff of the County, and reside at Bishop Ancl.cland. I produce the formal order for the execution of Charles Dawson for wilful murder, signed by John W. Hays, Clerk of the Crown, which said order was received at the Sheriff's office in Dur.  ham on Friday, the 19th day of December last. I was present this morning within the walls of the County Prison when judgment of death was executed upon the said Charle4 Dawson.  Mr Win. Boyd said: I am surgeon to the county gaoi, and was present at the execution of the said Charles Dawson at eight o'clock this morning. At nine o'clock I examined the body of the said Charles Dawson, and f6tind him dead. I was present when the same body was viewed by the jury. In Dawson's case a similar verdict was given as in that of Edward Gogh.
Darlington & Richmond Herald. — 1874-10-10 (Darlington, Durham, England)

ALLEGED SEDUCTION BY A DAR LINGTON MUSIC TEA.OHER.  THE SEQUEL.  On Tuesday, at the Darlington Borough Police Court, John Chambers was charged with assaulting G. S. Shaw on the 30th September. Mr Webster appeared for the complainant, and Mr Robinson for the defendant. The complainant said he was a clerk in the employment of Messrs Plows and Son, Wine and Spirit Merchants, and lodged with Mr Baker, music teacher, Central Hall, Darlington. On Wednesday last, about 10 minutes past 12 o'clock, he found the defendant in his bedroom. On enquiring what he wanted he replied "I want that B tker." Complainant remonstrated with him, and requeEted him to leave the house. When defendant was going down stabs he turned and struck complainant in the side. Complainant then took hold of defendant and. 'pulled him down stairs. At the Lottom of the passage defendant kicked and struck him again. Cross-txamined by Mr Robinson, defendant said that he wanted to find Baker, who had seduced his daughter. Complainant denied throwing the defendant to the bottom of the stair, nor did he kick him.—Margaret Elizabeth Clark corroborated complainant's statement.—Mr Robinson, for the defence, said he was instructed that defendant never struck the complainant, but that complainant threw defendant to the bottom of the stairs. Defendant merely went to the house to see Baker, whom he alleged had seduced his daughter. —Defendant was further charged with being drunk and riotous at the same time. The-complainant in the previous case said when defendant was at Baker's house he was in a state of intoxication, and on being put out created a disturbance in the street.—Mr Robinson: What did he say I—Witness: He was swearing.—Mr Rob.uson : What about ?—Witness : About the shameful manner in which his daughter had been used.—Mr Robison: Exactly so; that. was what he was swearing about.—Defendant was then charged by: William Baker with threatening to stab him on the Ist inst. Margaret Elizabeth Clarke said: On the day in question defendant came to Mr Baker's house and enquired for him. She told him that he was not at home, when he said, " R ill murder him; I will have my knife into him. "—Cross-examined by Mr Robinson: Defendant did not say he could feel in his heart to put his knife into Baker. He said, "I will murder him; I will put my knife into him."—Complaiuant said in consequence of defendant coming to his house and using threatening language he was afraid of him. On one occasion, when defendant visited complainan,'s house, he smashed two chairs and an umbrella-stand.—Mr Robinson said that he was instructed that defendant said he could "feel in his heart to put a knife into Baker." After a short consultation, the Bench decided to dismiss the first two cases; and in the latter they found defendant over, himself in 201., and two sureties of 10/. each, to keep the peace for twelve months.—The cases excited a great deal of interest, the court being ci owded during the hearing.  • Allt
Nantwich, Sandbach & Crewe Star — 1891-04-10 ()

THE WOLF WAS NOT KEPT FROM TIIIS DOOR. Printers' boys, as a rule, are not over interesting, that is, they are not such as a certain class of eentimental humanitarians care to gush over; they are generally "loud in their manners," precocious in their instincts; the nature of their work does not render them at all times objects of personal cleanliness, and yet in spite of the many drawbacks, printers' boys are often the forbidding grubs out of which an army of bright and noble workers have developed. Yes, the printers' " devil " has often emerged into an angel of light. One instance of the nobility of character has just been brought to our notice in the publicity of the home history of brave George Barrett, the lad who on six shillings a week strove to not only pay the household rent of 43 63, but feed the family and a sick mother, until slow starvation took her away. The stern grit" of that little lad who kept his own counsel as to home affairs because "mother told me so," and who toiled week after week, hungry and faint on his penny a day, giving no sign to show the gnawing agony his embryo manhood kept down, will convince the most sceptical that the nation's heroes are not all in Westminster Abbey or St Paul's Cathedral. Of course Georgie and the other little ones will be "all right now." Society will go into convulsions over the sad story; much pity and some little cash will be unloaded upon the orphans, but Georgie's mother is dead, and no amount of patting him on the back will repay him for her loss, or make atonement for society's neglect. Now that this latest social murder is out the survivors will be in danger of beigg coddled to death and spoiled by  charity, but that is how we manage things in the 19th century: " After the horse is gone we lock the stable door." By all means let restitution be. made to George Barrett and his brothers and sisters so far as it can, but what about the other Georges and the other mothers who are not yet dead, but who are very near it? Is this the only case of desperate battle with poverty and the hunger fiend? Would to God it were. Why? They are all around us, and justice demands that they have attention, not as a charity, but as a right. Once more, to come back to George Barrett. If in years to come he should be found amongst those " shocking people" who march behind a red flag, and talk very loud at our street corners, and say our social condition is all wrong and must be swept away to make room for a better, ought we to be very much surprised? Will he not resent the murder of his mother, and may he not grow up to hate a society which, in the richest city in the world, permitted a woman and a mother, whose only crime was that she was weak and poor, to slowly starve ? Truly, if George Barrett does not develope into a loyal subject and sing " Rule Britannia," it will be the fault of those who permitted orallowed this calamity to overtake him.
Nantwich, Sandbach & Crewe Star — 1891-11-06 ()

POST-CARD'S WANDERINGS.  A remarkable inttance of the erratic wanderings of a post-card, which had particular interest for football players,is reported at theLuton Post-office. On Aug. 13, Mr. G. R. Worboys, secretary to the Luton Charity Cup Competition, addressed a postcard to the secretary of the 16th Lancers' Club at Aldershot, inviting that club to take part in the season's contest. The card fafled to reach its destination, and seems instead to have been passed on from Aldershot to India, receiving half-a-dozen stamps at Lucknow, from which place it made its way to Bombay. After thus going half round the world it has just been returned to the writer, half covered with postmarks.  DARING OUTRAGE ON A FRENCH RAILWAY  An extraordinary attempt to murder a passenger was made on the railway between Paris and Havre. M. Schwad, a young man of about thirty years of age, who acts as a trendier for a commercial house at St. Etienne, was sleeping in the train, when he was suddenly attacked by an unknown individual, who attempted to stupefy him with chloroform, apparently with the intention of robbing him. A fter a struggle the commercial travellersucceeded in pulling the alarm-bell, and the train was brought to a standstill. The miscreant'was then taken in charge by the railway officials and brought on to the St. Lazare terminus, where he was handed over to the Paris police. On being questioned at the police-station he rpfused to give any explanation of what had led him to commit the outrage. "My name," he said, "is Carob o Boulavera. lam a native of the Argentine Republic, where I worked as a plumber at Buenos Ayres. I have come to France to perfect myself in my trade. lam not going to answer your questions, however. What I have to say I will reserve till the proper time comes." The prisoner declined to state his place of residence, and no letters or papers were found on him which might prove a clue. The following is Mt Schwad's account of the outrage: "I got into a second-class carriage at Rouen at a quarter to nine at night. Scarcely had I entered the train when another passenger got in, and sat down opposite me. I noticed that he regarded me veizy attentively, but as he did not speak I paid no fur, ther attention, and went to sleep. At about nine o'clock, as we were passing the station of Pont de l'Arche, I was suddenly awakened by feeling a, heavy pressure on my nose and mouth. I opened my eyes and saw my fellow-passenger, who was alone in the compartment with me, standing over me. He had a revolver in his hand, and was holding a chloroformed handkerchief to my face. 'I tried to cry out, but it was impossible. I then made an effort to rise, and seize hold of the alarmbell, but the man pinned me down by the arms, and caused me to fall back on the seat. Feeling myself being gradually overcome by the fumes of the chloroform I made another violent effort to free myself, and this time succeeded in reaching the bell-handle. In a few minutes the train stopped, st.nd my assailant was thereon arrested."