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Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1878-04-06 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

TRADE OUTRAGE TRIAL.  At the Northern Circuit, before Mr. Justice Brett, William Acton, 30, William Hughes, 24. and John Hodson, 24, were charged with having, at Manchester, on the 19th of January last, feloniously placed against the dwelling-house of one Robert Hannett certain corrosive fluid and other explosive substance with intent to kill and murder Robert Hannett, and also with having maliciously thrown gunpowder against the dwelling-nous° with intent to do grievous bodily harm to Robert Hannett.  This was an allezed attempt to prevent thecarrying on of the briamakirm trade in a manner moot profitable to the mast,o.  It appeared that Messrs. Hannett and Pendlebury, who had mumenced as brickmakere, but had raised them elves to the position of master., in January last were carrying on the business in Manchester. Previous to J...nuary they had belonged to the "Manchester and SAford Brickuakere' Operative Association," but ia consequsnce of having introduced steam power and ordered machines for the manufacture of bricks, they had been expelled from that society. The prisoners were members of the union. Mr. Bassett was in the habit of getting up about 930, and, keeping no servant, went down first thing and lit the kitchen fire. On the morning of the 19th of January he overslept himself, and about six a.m. be was awakened by two violent explosions at an interval of about a quarter of a minute between each. He went down and opened the street door and then found on the footpath about tem feet from the door an earthenware pot-bottle with a fuse still burning attached to the neck. Several pieces of lead were found about the door, also pieces of the bottle which apparently had been blr wn to pieces by gunpowder. About 4ft. from the door there was a canister ripped to pieces, with bits of cloth and rag lying about which bore treem ef having been steeped in pitch. /he evi. dense as far as it affected the prisoner', was that the headwater and Salford Brickmakers' Operative Association held their meetings at the Bull's Head, and that on the night of the 18th Hughes and Hodson were present, though the landlady could not speak to having seen Acton there that night. Some conversation was heard between Hughes and Hodson, in which ohe mid,. It's eeven inches,"and the etheretud, "It's more." This the prosecution interpreted as re. terring to thefanlightabove Flatmates door, which was of those diinensione. On the morning of the 19,h, ' about 6 a.m., a man going to his work beard the explesions near Hannetee, and saw two men going across the field from the direction of Hannett's house. Another witness spoke to having seen firemen towing from the same direction. Acton was erreeted on the 30th of January, when he put on some boots, the heel of one of which corresponded with a footprint close to Hannett's house. At the conclusion of the case for the prosecution, his lordship ruled that there was no evidence against Hughes and Hodson, and not sufficient evidence against Acton to allow the ease to go to the jury.  :
Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1884-07-26 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

ORS.  In the City of London Court, before Mr. Brandon, presiding for the Comm wiener, Joseph Magford, a clerk in the employ of the London and Westminater Loan and Discount Company recently appeared to support his petition for liquidation with his creditors under the new Bankruptcy Act. ',ho amount of his debts he placed at £l2 1I a `ld , and in answer to the learned judge, he ardd he proposed to Ivy 2s. in the pound by instalment.. Mr. Mason, of Caledonian-road said be appeared for four of the creditors, and wished to ask tlne petitioner a few queatiais with, view of showing either that he owed more than £5O, under which circumstances the court hail no urisdiction, or that he had meane at his command which wonld enable him to pay a considerably larger dividend. The petitioner then, in answer to ...v.tiona, admitted that the items were small in thertixlves, though numeroua, Ruch as £0 Ils. Id. to Mr. Ludgate, proprietor of the Wool Exchange Tavern, Coleman-street, for band and lodging; ot os. to Mr. Heller, of the White Kw., Moortields, for money lent £1 15a. to Mrs. tare n, widow of a Into City detectivesergeant, for band and lodging £1 12s. to Captain Lowry, of the 2nd bliddiesez Artillery of which corp., he was a m- mbar ; IA to Mr Jones. late of the Turf Club, money lent; £1 to Mr. Morphew, ci King-street. Covent-garden, military accoutrement maker, money lent, the remaining items being for tailor's Ulla, Se. Mr. blason : Have you not been and are you not at the pr.ven time in constantt employ it —The Petitioner: With the exception of 12 months, yes. Mr. Mason What has been your salary ? The Petitioner: tiz per week. Mr. Mason And you are still in receipt of that sum C—The Petitioner : Yes. Mr. Ala-on Is It true that within the laid three or four years your mother gave you her life policy, and you disposed of it and had the money ?—The Petitioner : tea; I sold It. Mr. Mason: Did you also receive £2OO over the arrest of the murderer Let toy £lOO from the Government and £lOO from the London and Brighton Railway Company?—The Petitioner: I did. Mr. Mason That was the reward you received for being the means of arresting that notoriou• criminal and brinaing him to junice. What did you do with It?— The Petitioner Paid £lO of my debts with a part of it. Mr. Mason And what did you do with the remaining £lOl. The l'etitiooee : blade preaenta with it. _  (Laughter.) Mr. Mason . To whora ?—The Petitioner: To tny mother, toy brothers, and sisters. (Laughter) Mr. Mason Have you not boasted to one of your echeditled creditors that you have put .£lOO of the reward in, bank ?—The Petitioner No His Honour: I think you have gone far enough, but I fail to me that I can to other than accede to the petitioner's proposal to make an order for Ii Initiation of 2s. in the pound, which is, as these case, ran, a for larger sum than ordinarily is offered. An order was then made to that effect, payable in four monthly instalments.
Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1885-08-22 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

DOUBLE MURDER THROUGH JEALOUSY.  One of those terrible dramas, writes a corretepone dent, of which jealousy an I revenge are the leading motive., cud of a pert rare in Switzerland, thou rh only too common in France, has ccurred at lieneva. In the street known al the Granderue lived r. widow of the name ord. antet by birth a Savoyard, and by pretension a dre,suiaker. She lived quite alone, occupying a little room on the ground door. About (lin o'clock in the morning on the day in queetiou spine of the neighbours heard a noise in her roam as of scineborly trampling heavily, aul a cry of" Au necoars," hat lie neither noise nor cry was very loud and did not moor, an I they were occupied with their own Jeff era, no further notice was taken. But tow aril, nine o'clock a woman who had businees with Ma lame Jeantet knocked at the door, and as no one enewered she naturally felt surprised and mention°. the mater to a neighnour. who, after also knock• lug, equally without result, climbed up to the open win tow tool looked into the room, where he new, to his horror, two ere...in./1y lifeless bottle., one being that of the eressmaker, lying on the floor. I oformation was straigtetway given to the police and the door broken open. Madame Jeantet was found lying on the iiJOr, her feet under her bed and her haute stretched out as if when streak down she hal been in • the act of repulsing an aggressor. Close to her, with one of hes arena round her wai-t, lay a moos, and near his right hand we, a hrsod-blenled blood stained knife. From either body was Id twiner a stream of blood, aud a deep pool of it had forme I under tne corpse., for life in both COSOrI Wil• qui it tile bodies snowed tout the man bad stabbed the wolnau to the tenet as nhe advanced to alert and probably to repulse hien, that they had then fallen together on the floor, when the mate dealt his victim a seemed mortal wound, and that, this done, he atabbed himself three times in the region of the heart and immediately expired. The body of the Wan was identified as that of Hippolyte Tournier, a workman who, though of French birth, had lived several years in Geneva and wandoluiciled there. Albeit he had reached his 40th year, and the widow were past 46, Tournier appears to have fallen hotly in love with her. At first she lent a willing ear to his addresses, but being after wards sought in marriage by a cab proprietor at Bellevue, who wane good deal better off than Teenier, she rejected the latter in favour of his rival, and torough a 001131.0011 friend let him know that hie vitas must crane. On this he became gloomy and taciturn, lost tin apt etite, and appeared to be meditating revenge. Tournier had it good character, and was esteemed an excellent workman. Ile served with some distinction in the war of 1870. was taken prisoner at Sedan, and spent thereafter several years in Fran& Gillian&
Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1885-04-18 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

ATTEAIPIED MURDER IN OLDHAM.  A desperate attempt to murder • master wright cud engineer was made in 01,1ban3, oa Tuesday afternoon. It seems that about three o'clock a low-browed roffiianly looking man, who statue that he is named John Taylor, 51, jainer, residing in llaggate•laue, Repoli, presented him• self at the Sun Ironworks in Ashton-road, and asked to see Mr William Whittaker, the owner of the works. Being told that Mr. Whittaker was in the works he went forward and encountered Mr. Whittaker beside tee door of the fitting shop. He said something to him, to which Mr. Whittaker replied, "I don't want to bother with you," and was about to pass forward wbon Taylor seined him fry the collar, drew a revolver, and fired it underneath his right eat, the bullet passtug through the neck and out at Mr. Weittaker's mouth. A workman, seeing the attempt to murder his meow-, sprang forward and seised the would•be assassin, who, loosing himself from his Ittlilaiiol2Cll grasp, again fired at Mr. Whittaker, but the shot did not take effect. A short euarp struggle ensued between Mr Whittaker and Taylor, who, by the aid of timely help, which arrived at that moment from the workshop, was taken prisoner and given into the custody of the polies. Meanwhile Mr. Whittaker began to feel the effects of the wound through his neck. He fell powerless into the arms of the workmen who had assembled, and was carried by them into his adjoining house. He is 70 years of age, but as he is of strong constitution, and tbe injuries caused by the bullet wound are not of • very dangerous nature, there is an impression that bets likely to recover. Taylor is said to be related to him by marriage, and it is reported that some ill feeling has arisen between the two through the dispositiou of some property. The revolver uatel by Taylor to carry out his fell purpose is six chambered,of the bulldog type, and upon being examined after the occurrence was found to have four cham• hers loaded. Taylor's character is disreputable. Later information received is to the effect that Mr. Whittaker has shown favourable symptoms of recovery. . .  The p.risoner, who is about 0 years of age, was brought up atAthe Oldham Police Court, on Wed. needay but on the recommendation of the chief constable be woo remanded.  ADVICE TO Id °Tunas !—Are you broken m your net bye nick child suffering with the paiu of cutting teeth? Go at once to a cheniist and get a bottle of Mn,. WINSLOW'S SOOTHING Sync,. It will relieve the poor sufferer immediately. It is perfectly llamado, and pleasant to Gists, it produces natural, quiet sleep by relieving the child from pain, and the little cherub awakes "on bright sea button." It soothes the child, It soften the gums, allay, all pain, relieves wind, regulates the bowels, and is the best known remedy for dysentery and diarrhoea, whether arising from teething or other mums. Kra. Winslow'. Soothing Syrup is sold by Magigigg dation evarprktre at la 14. or lAO6
The Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1866-02-17 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

LETTER FROM MR. GORDON.—The planations, will make four volume 4, MO or 800 following letter has been sent to the papers by Dir. Chatuerovzow, of the Anti-Slavery Society. It was tinges, also costing not less than 1 doL 50c. for the printwritten by G. W. Gordon to his wife whilst he wag on ing and binding of each volume. his way to IKorant Bay : C ußiot's CasE.—The " Gazette des Tribunaux" On board the [Cohen.% 18th October, 1841 hoe the following, and which related to a paragraph Nly best-beloved. f,ucy,-1 do not know what turn matters that went the round of the papers last week :,-will take lam innocent of tae transactions which have transpired, and I must leave myself in the hands of a just A l'aris journal hes reproduced an article extracted from God. This may le the last time I shall write to you I have the Prectmetir d' Anvers, in which the correspondent of ! written very hurriedly, and lot rolling sea. Remember roe that paper, speakieg of the emotion caused in the Palals de affectionately and forgivingly to au See also auntie and Justice by the death of the wife of one Jf the Judges, added myfether, and say I shall, if? mist, go hi pewee, and with a factswhich must, he ettirmed, bring on a judicial levestigaclear conscience of being any oarty to the outbreak here. Wm. lit fact, the welter insinnated that the lady had been Remember me to the dear old blonde at the .• Tabernatte," murdered in a maws, calalage. The real fact. are these:— and to ail my strvants, lOW alto to !WM°, who Mu Wes A lady 'married for more than 20 year,, tinding her health alweys kind and faithful to me My heart throbs with love declining, went let year to seek in the climate of Nice an for you: hut let your soul he stwed on God through Chest, atmosphere more favourable to her lungs, irritated by so and be not sorrowful as those Mthout hope, Say 4;ood4sysi frequent cough. The invalid returned to Paris in better to all, and to old Harris. My very, very dearest oak I health ; but winter haviim again brought on alarming I hope his Excelleecv the Goverior will be so kind ss to let symptoms, she thought It best to return to Nine, and Mal. you get this lithe end cones with me, I shall in death took her departure from the capital with a maidliervant remember year warm, and bird, and devoted, ant sale. and a lady to act as companion. The journey was apaintui Monate attachment. Hoping hat we shalt gin meet In one to the sufferer, and she was obliged to stop at Lyons,: Christ to part no more, yours even to the last moment in that city her malady became aggrava ed so rapidly that G. W. 000505. her medical attendant recommended her to return to Paris. ! teitt,ofonkr I,leis ar.e,e,dicri teztaged a carriage in the railway
The Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1866-03-31 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

THE ROAD MURDER.  Mr. Baker. Insrector Fsmsries. in Ins .a.lansl report makes the following remarks  _ Me Sub-Inspector Kent hat beex a leugeh enabled to resume thoise active exertions which his unhappy position in the public mind had so lag rendered him incapable of. With respect to him, I venture ROW to advert for a few momeuts to that which I can speak of. perhaps, better than anybody else—namely, the wrong which has been done him by the public for so long a period in condeseehet him, almost unheard. in a matter I.) vitally important to him in every way. and from which he is now, I trust, completely exonerated. It is a proverb almost too trete to repeat, and many have found it so in life. that they who have done , a man an injury never forgive him. Yet there has been an exception in this axiom in Mr. Kent's Ca..; for no less important a person than the mayor of a laree manufacturing town wad lately heard to declare that so deeply did he feel the injure which he himself had aimmittal on Mr. Kent. by condemning him anheard. if a national sibecription was commenced on his behalf, he would be one of the first and largest contribntore to it. lam sore I can say if the tenour of Mn, Kent's life for the !set four years bad been known to the world as well as I have been able to observe it, his anxiety to clear his name from unmerited condemnation, only rendered more intense by the agony of doubt a* to the actual criminal. the threatened blindnese of his wife, now unhappily terminated in paralysis; the isolation of his family from society, added to the cares of an infant family almost dependent upon acorn. parativelly small office held by one advanced in life. that public se 'apathy always general.; to suffering, and doubly so to injustice. might have probably replaced the sum he has been compellal to appropriate from his private resourea. partly in elucidating so mysterioesa murder, and partly in defence of his vrretche.l rhild who, as a woman, has done what she could to vicdicate. the aeputation of her family, and to clear it from a participation in her crime. Soon after the Road murder tirst attracted public notice, I was obliged to ask for Mr. Kent's removal from Wiltshire into a quiet clatrict in Wales. when that which he wee in would not tolerate him ; and when I would have sent him to another, that also threatened to rise in public array against him to avert my intention. Thus driven from district to district, a mark and a sceff for everybody. his dietrees of mind can only be faintly imagined, but cannot be portrayed. His name is, however, clear from the foul blot which it has so long 512.1WW21.i from the act of wild revenge of a child, who. to say the leaet of it, was born of a mother who fir years lived acd srho died insane ; and it seemed to me due to him t that I should take this opportunity of referring to the circumstance, in the hope that there may be left to him many years of official services now that so much of his past calamity is being forgotten.
The Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1866-09-15 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

MORMONISM IN ENGLAND.—There Wa.9 3 Mormon conference held at Birmingham last week, on which the Lcmdora Rtrioe remarks :—Brigham Young, jun., was in the chair, assisted by Mr. Orson Pratt. Mr. Aldridge spoke first, and, it would appear, in the American language, having mentioned thit he " felt well," and that the saints under his jurisdiction were " first rate." A Warwickshire Mormon followed. According to him, the saints w.re moving onwards. Mr. Hatch related an instance of the ecstatic height to which a Mormonic conscience may be elevated. An elder, addressing the meeting, "asked for permission to stand on the Nelson monument, he felt so good." Thus " elder " appeared to have some religious views in common with St. Simon Stylites. but probably not many. We regret to learn that in Warwickshire alone there are Bid members.  IT IS TIME FIE WENT THERE !—A letter from Rome says:— Mr. Gladstone is expected here, apparently to remain some time, forthis apartment Is taken for three months A Roman prelate lately asked the English conoil If the coming of Mr. Gladstone was certain, and on being answered in the affirmative, "We mint be prepared," he said, "for his visiting the prisons ; he never fails to do that." There is reason to believe that if Sir Illads tone does really visit the Pontifical prisons he will he no little surpri•esi to find there the numerous point 'at prisoners who still are paying the penalty of having loved Italy too well and desired her unity What would he nix astonishment to see smog the rubbers and murderers of the ertrceri noon', young men belonging to the elite of Roman society, and who for long years have awaited a word of pardon.  BAD WEATHER ELSEWHERIL —lt appears that England has not had a monopoly of bad weather of late. In Paris there have been frequent rains and high winds, but scarcely any day has been bad throughout, and the timperature has been generally warm. According to letters from Swiizerland and North Italy the weather has there also been variable, fluctuating between heavy rains and high winds and heat, rather unusual for the season. At Como the changes have been so sudden and violent as to cause illness. The cold and wind have frequenlly obliged the inhabitants of the numerous villas which surround that delightful lake to close all their doors and windows—a very unusual circumstance there in August or early in September. In Switzerland the season has been most unsatisfactory both for tourists and hotel-keepers. The war at first kept many persons at home, and, when that finished, the increasing stream of tourists was met with such a counter current of rain that many returned or diverged in quest of less pluvious latitudes. During the laid few days it has been very warm on the Lake of Geneva, and haymaking has been going on, but as yet no grapes are ripe; and in parts of Northern Italy the vines and Nome other kinds of produce are so backward as to cause uneasiness.  A
The Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1866-09-29 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

THE MURDER IN ST. GILES', LONDON.  Jeffrey, who VIM found guilty last week of the murder of his child, immediately after being sentenced to death, admitted the crime, and has since made full confession of all the circumstances connected with the horrible offence, which is in elfi-ct, as follows -  Ile had, before the month of July, Intended to destroy the life of his child, thinking that it moult be the means of relieving him from the miserable feeling he entertained as to its paternity, and he took him away from hi. grandmother .m the night Of the 291 h of July Ile was well acquainted with the %kr .•• knotri,„ it. lonelinese, and that access could be niu ioit at any ?tour •a.. °let!;, lie bad made all the arrangements In his own mind how to obtain the child from the custody of his grandmother, and he resolved upon going to the house of hi. dater Directly after he left hie sister's house he proceeded to the cellar. It was then the dead of the night, between two and three o'clock The poor child was very much frightened, and while he was looking for a fit place to carry out his horrible design the child fainted and became perfectly insensible, and as be was in that condition he placed the rope, which he had taken with him for the purpose, round the child's neck, and hung him up to tee post ef the cistern.  This statement of the prisoner confirms the evidence of Mr. Harvey, the surgeon, who made a post•martem examination of the decesaed, and who expressed an opinion that although the I loath of the deceaaed was attributable to suffocation by hanging, that he was in a state of insensibility from some cause or other before he was hanged. On Saturday morning the sheriffs informed the prisoner that the day fixed for his execution was Tuesday, October the 9th. The prisoner hear the fatal announcement with the same coolness that as characterised him all along. He should be quite prepared, and was glad that he should be so soon out of his misery.  The London correspondent of the Liverpool Albion makes the following remarks on the above case :7_  Very grave doubts are entertained as to whether Jeffrey really could have been in his senses when he murdered hia poor little boy, whose touching prayers to the Redeemer, uttered In presence of the culprit, ought to have disarmed the greatest fiend In human form. It Is almost impossib to believe in the existence of such a monster as Jeffrey must be If he were in his right mind when he tied the pretty little fellow's hands behind his bitzlx and hanged him. But If he were not, there arises the question whether madness brought on by drink should save from the gallows one who committed a deliberate murder—and such a murder! Among the pulihe of London there is not the slightest sympathy for the ruffian : but if it can be shown that he was really mad when he committed the den lit Is not likely that he will be hanged. In any ease lilt to be hoped he will never get the chance of committing another assassination.