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Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1880-01-24 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

EXECUTION IN PARIS.  The Tarts Corrempondent 0 the Dairy Telegraph, wrlttlig on Monday night, gives the following account of the execution of Prevost :  "The long expected execution of Prevost, the murderer of the travelling jeweller Lenoble, and the girl Ad;ele Blondin, took place this morning, in the Place La Rognette. The enormity of the double crime was such as to remove all hope of a reprieve, even in this country, where murderers have of late been treated with singular leniency. It became known in the Qttartier late last evening that the guillotine would be required in the morning, and by midnight a large crowd bad already collected. The cold proved, however, very trying to the patience of the would-be spectators of the morning's tragedy, and many gave up the attempt of witnessing it. At four o'clock, Diebler, the executioner, arrived outside the prison with his cart containing the materials for erecting the scaffold. The hammers quickly went to work, and the uncouth structure was soon completed. A strong body of police kept order, and a company of the Garde R publicans were also present to represent authority. At half-past five a • cab bearing the fatal number '148,' that has become legendary in connection with such scenes, drove up in the darkness to the pr .sou door, and the chaplain of the R miquette. Abb6 Crozes, alighting, passed into the building. The arrival of the gendarmerie of the Seine at half-past six announced that the hour for the execution had come. At the same moment the door of the condemned cell opened, and Prevost saw that he was in the presence of the executioner and the Commissioner of Police for the Quartier. He rose from his seat and murmured, ` Ah, then, it is this morning.' He was recommended to be courageous. 'I shall be so,' he replied. Being asked if he had any further revelation to make, he said, 'lt is quite enough to have committed two great crimes. I acknowledge them, but have nothing more to say; He then listened to the exhortations of the venerable abbe, and proceeded to dress. Seven o'clock struck, and the great door of the prison opened, the gendarmes raised their swords, and all eyes were turned towards the tall form of the culprit, which could be detected ad. van dug through the obscurity, Although perfectly livid, Prevost walked firmly to the scaffold. There the chaplain gave him the customary lase, the signal for the executioner to seize him and place him under the knife. A few seconds afterwards the triangular steel descended with a dull thud and the head of the murderer rolled into the basket prepared for it. The remains were hastily put together in the cart, which drove off rapidly to the cemetery of Ivry. No sooner was the form of consigning the body to the grave gone through than it was lifted out again, replaced in the cart, and driven to the Clinical School of Medicine, where it was subjected to various galvanic experimentc."
Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1880-03-06 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

HINTS ON POTATO-GROWING.  The Mark-Lane Express publishes the following letter : Sir,—Fifty years ago or more you courteously inserted several letters from me on the low price of corn. I now venture a few lines on the high price of potatoes, and how to stamp out the potato disease, if people will follow the following method of cultivation.  First, procure an early sort, the Ear y Rose if they can be found. Second, plant in May or June; let the land be in a nice state. Do not use rotten farmyard dung for the potatoes. Be careful to prevent the potato seta from heating. Prefer whole small potatoes, Take them up before ripe, say in twelve weeks from planting. Hugh Burns, thirty years of age, and Patrick Be careful to secure them dry; if sent to market in a Kearns, twenty.ene years of age, both labourers, who, damp state they are liable to disease. If taken up in with Mary Ann Tracey, twenty-eight years of age, July they will probably produce a less crop, but the were found guilty at the recent Liverpool Assizes of the murder of Patrick Tracey (husband of the female price is generally much higher, besides the good chance of planting again, whicii will be much smaller in size, prisoner) at Widnes, were executed on Tuesday at but more hardy for seed the following year. Kirkdale Gaol, LiverpooL—The woman has been O. The way to preserve them is (now the danger of frost spited, and is now in gaol awaiting her confinement. over) to lay them thin on the floor of a barn or The reporters were refused admission to the gaol may be granary, and let them sprout (this is for late planting). save under conditions which would render their ad. lam told this morning by a farm labourer that he saw mittance useless, and the gaol officials refused to give potato plan any information save that an execution had take planting going on when the land ploughed up place. However, at ten o'clock an inquest was hel iike liver. He remarked, how can anyone expect a load, crop of potatoes under such a state of the land? within the prison before Mr. T. W. Barker, deputy coroner for the district, and the reporters were believe there is a much better chance for a great crop a planted in July, that is, if the potatoes have been admitted, Major Leggett, the governor, gave formal carefully preserved from natural heat and damp. I evidence of the execution. The jury returned the ordinary verdict in such cases, the coroner remarking I have at this time a few potatoes, the growth of 1878, with several sound young potatoes around them.—l that he thought it was highly desirable that reporters I au,,--Sir, &c., Jorer Low, 16. Victoria Park-road, should be present at executions as independent persons Hackney, London, Feb. 26, 1880. on behalf of the public to see that everything had been , duly carried out. I .
Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1891-07-11 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

THE RECENT RIOTS IN FRANCE.  CONVICTION OF THE LEADERS.  At the Assizes of the Department of the Nord, held at Douai, the trial has taken plaza of M. Culine and Dr. Lafargue, charged with having—the former at Fourmies on May Ist., and tho latter in a speech delivered at Migirchies on April 11th—excited the workmen to commit the acts which led up to the untoward events that created such a painful sensation throughout the length and breadth of the land. Dr. Lafargue denied that he had advocated murder. and M. Culine declared that he had implored the people to remain tranquil. The most interesting evidence,says the Daily Telegraph Paris Correspondent, was that of Major Chapus, of the 145th Regiment, who, with 150 men under his command,gave the order to fire. He said that he had several times vainly exhorted the crowd to keep quiet. Some of his men were wounded already by the stones thrown at them. One of them fell dawn with his face Needing, and a non-commissioned officer had been dragged away and knocked down. The military regulations, his own honour, and the safety of his men rendered it impossible for him to yield, so he gave the order to fire. Not one of his troops had replied to the insults and assaults with a single word. The Police-Commissary also deposed that the rioters were engaged in a struggle with the soldiers. An officer was dragged otT by the men. Major Chapus advanced towards the people holding out his hands and asking them to withdraw, as he would have to fire on them, and he warned them that the rifles were loaded; but they came on with more energy than ever. Major Chapus ordered the ctorojo e to advance with fixed bayonets, but they not move a step—they were completely hemmed in. Then he gave the order to fire in the air, and as this was of no avail the men were commanded to aim at their assailants. Another witness said that at the meeting held on April 11th M. Culine had unfurled a red flag, but had not uttered a wont. Dr. Lafargue, in the course of his address, had declared that the employer in these days was worse than the baron of the olden time. He had constructed immense bagnes, in which they were irnprLsoned 12 or 14 hours out of the 24, and as if that were not enough they who had no possessions had also to mount guard as soldiers for the protection of the wealth that had been thus amassed. He then went on to ask if they knew what a general strike of miners meant. It meant the closing of all the factories at the expiration of a fortnight, fireless hearths, ne gas, no electricity— nothing but the dark night.which favoured enlists. The English were more advanced than they in the matter of new ideas, but they were behind them in one respect. They did not know how to use the rifle. Well, those present were superior to the English in this matter. They had all been soldiers, and when they were wanted they would know where to find their weapons and how to ' use them. Eventually Culine was sentenced to six years' confinement and 10 years' police supervision, and Dr. Lafargue to one year's imprisonment and a fine of 1001.
Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1891-06-06 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

THE OUTRAGE IN NORTH WALES.  On Saturday morning, Richard Duncan was brought up, on remand, bfort the Bettws-y-Coed magistrates, charged with attempting to murder his wife, Kate Adelaide Duncan, on the 12th May, in the parish of Bettws-y-Coed. The prisoner, who had been brought up by an early train from Carnarvon Gaol, was put in the dock at noon and appeared to be in a very dejected condition. Mr. Williams, landlord of Benar View Hotel, Dolw,yddelen, deposed that prisoner came to his hotel and stayed there some considerable time last year. This year he returned on the 25th of April bringing his wife with him. They stayed 17 days. They kept very quiet, and appeared to be on the most affectionate terms. After prisoner had been arrested on the present charge witness drove him to the police-station, and had a talk with him in the cell. Witness remarked, "1 am sorry to see you here; I cannot understand it all; were you under the influence of drink?" Prisoner answered he was not, and that if that farmer had not passed when he did both he and his wife would have been dead in 10 ininutes. Witness said, "Then it was a drawn out plan between you." Prisoner answered "Yes, it was." Mr. Duncan stated that he would reserve his cross-examination of the witnesses.—Dr. Jones, of Festiniog, stated that he was in attendance on Mrs. Duncan. She was in a very critical condition, and during the past few days had been getting worse, and there was danger of further complies, tions arising. She could not possibly give evidence for several weeks. She was more or less unconscious, and quite unable to answer any question coherently. No further evidence being offered, the bench remanded the prisoner till Friday, and he was removed.—The Magistrate's Clerk afterwards intimated to the prosecution that the bench would expect more material evidence to be adduced at the next hearing, otherwise they 'would decline a further revaanu.  At Oran Assires,on Friday atternolm,Jeanne Weiss (na Daniloff), aged 24, was found guilty of an attempt to poison her husband with arsenic. The jury discovered extenuating circumstances, and she was sentenced to 20 years' hard labour. She left the court ernijing. erroy is again threatened, and this time with final irrecoverable destruction. Unless admirers of Homer and his apostle Schliemann bestir themseli ss there will soon ba left not one stone upon another. Now that Dr. Schliemann is dead there is no oue to guard with jealous care the precious ruins which he brought to light. Next month the guardian of Hissarlik, who was placed in charge by the lamented excavator, will be withdrawn, as there in nobody to pay his salary, and there is es doubt that in a short time the villagers will demolish the remains of Troy for the sake of the materials and the relics. To obviate the writer it is suggested that those who take an interest to these sntiquities should provide the paltry suss 40f. a month required for the guardian's
Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1891-02-21 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

ANOTHER EAST-END MURDER.  "JACK THE RIPPER" AGAIN.  Another of the series of terrible crimes which have been connected with East London during late years was committed at an early hour on Friday morning. The revolting features which characterised most of these murders hitherto were happily absent; but the circumstances of the crime, the character of the victim, and the mysterious features by which the deed is environed, undoubtedly place it in the same category. The time chosen by the murderer, the locality, and the precautions taken to escape detection ate in all respects similar to those followed on previous occasions. It appears that shortly after 2 o'clock in the morning Constable 240 H, while passing through an archway of the Great Eastern Railway, which leads from Swallow-gardens to Orman-street, two thoroughfares running parallel with the Whitechapel-road, but lying more towards the river, observed a woman extended on her back in the centre of the thoroughfare. He had passed the spot 15 minutes previously, and there was no one there. On approaching and turning his lamp on the prostrate figure, he was horrified-to find that the woman lay in a pool of blood, which was flowing from a terrible wound in the throat extending literally from ear to ear, lie at once blew his whistle for assistance, and was joined within a few minutes by Police-constable 327 It, whose beat is adjoining. The woman gave no signs of life, but the body was quite warm, and the policeman felt that the pulses were beating faintly. Further assistance was soon brought to the spot by whistling, and a man was despatched to the residence of Dr. Philips, the surgeon to the division, who resides near at hand. In the meantime, acting in accordance with instructions issued during the panic at the east end, nearly two years ago, the police allowed the body to remain in the position in which it was discovered, and took careful note of the surroundings so as to be in possession of any available clue. The woman appeared to be from 25 to 27 years of age, and lay in the roadway, her feet crossed one over the other and towards the footpath. She was bareheaded, and while one arm was stretched by her side, the other was bent towards the breast. By her side lay a black crape hat, and in the pocket of her dress were several pieces of black lace or crape and a vulcanite earring. Strange to say, a second black crape hat lay partly hidden in the folds of her dress. An old striped stocking and a comb were also found in her pocket. By this time Dr. Philips had reached the scene, and alter a short examination  pronounced that the woman, although not quite dead, was expiring fast. As a matter of fact, she  expired before preparations could be made to move her on a stretcher, which had been brought from  the Leman-street Police-station. When the medical man pronounced life to be extinct the body was conveyed to the Whitechapel Mortuary, where it awaits an inquest. The blood stains were erased by the police, who cut a cross in the woodwork on the side of the arch to mark the exact spot where the body was found.
Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1891-06-20 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

CHARGE AGAINST YOUNG LADIES.  At the Worthing Police-court, on Monday, an extraordinary charge was preferred against two young ladies named respectively Edith Spiller, 16, and Rose Brame, 17—viz., of conspiring together to feloniously kill and murder Edith Spiller, the firstnamed defendant.  Three young ladies, named respectively Miss Goble, Miss Taylor, and Miss Hopper, gave the following evidence: On the previous Thursday they were on the box-seat of a brake which went to Chanctonbury and back. The two defendants were sitting immediately behind them, and there were several other people on the vehicle. The defendants conversed together in a voice sufficiently loud for witnesses to hear the greater part of what was said. Miss Spiller remarked, "There will be a row tonight"; and then added, "It is years ago since I first met Jack." She appeared to be in great trouble, and all the way to Chanctonbury was talking about it to Miss Brame. On the return journey the witnesses heard the defendants mention prussic acid, laudanum, and choloroform. Miss Brarne swore she would get it for Miss Spiller,and added that if they got it all at one chemist's it would look suspicious. She also said, "It will kill in 15 seconds." Miss Spiller said she did not want to take anything that would burn her; she would rather have something that would send her to sleep. It was understood that two letters should be left behind, one for Miss Spiller's mother, and one for somebody else, to say why she did it. The defendants then began talking about after life. Miss Brame said to Miss Spiller, "You are not bad enough for hell, and not good enough for heaven; you will go to purgatory." The impression which the witnesses formed from the conversation was that they would go to two different chemists to get the necessary poison, and that the deed was to be done that•night. The three witnesses therefore decided to follow the defendants when they left the brake; and they did so. They saw them go into a chemist's shop. The three ladies afterwards went into the shop, and on hearing that the two defendants had bought laudanum they told the chemist what they had heard on the brake. Superintendent Long stated that in consequence of what the witness Aston told him he went to No. 22, The Steyne, where the defendant, Miss Spiller, resided with her parents. After telling Mrs. Spiller what he had heard, he obtained the two bottles, produced, which were wrapped up in paper in a bedroom. The same evening he arrested Miss Spiller at her parents' house, and subsequently he arrested Miss Brame at her home at Highgate. The solicitor (Mr. Nye) who appeared for Miss Spiller, said his client bought the laudanum to ease her toothache, and had no intention of taking her life. Everything else stated in evidence was the subject of a joke, and lie hoped the Bench would look on it as a girlish freak, and dismiss the case. The Bench committed the two defendants for trial at the next Sussex Assizes, but granted bail, Miss Spiller in a surety of £5OO and Miss Brame in £lOO. Both defendants protested their innocence.
Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1891-11-21 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

MURDER MYSTERY.  The police of Indianapolis have received informa• tion of a brutal murder in Greencastle. The body of the victim was found in the lowest part of the town. There were 37 stab wounds in the breast, aide, and head. The head was nearly severed from the trunk. A man living near heard the noises of persons fighting one night in an empty car standing upon a siding. The inside of the car has Leen discovered to be covered with blood, spots being found upan the roof. Some tramps were seen lo?tering in the town previous to the night of the murder. The body lay in the morgue and 2,000 persons viewed it, hut without recognising, it as a, ierson whom they had ever seen. The victim is abmt 25 years of age, with light hair and moustache. He is 1-olleved to be an Irishman, as his arm is tattooed with a harp and a cross. A telegram from Terre Haute, 40 miles from Greencastle, says that %Valiant O'Brien. a tramp, has been arrested there, and confessed that he had been with the murderers of the unknown man, though he himself had taken no hand in the murder. He says that the victim is Matthew Shea, of Toronto. kihea had told him, O'Brien says, that the he iding Irishmen of America would give a large sum of money to see him dead, because he knew too much about the Cronin murder. Shea said that he was in communication with the Chicago Clan-na-Gael. and t.ltat he was wanted by the police of that city. O'Brien says that the men who murdered Shea met him (O'Brien) in a Greencastle public-house. O'Brien is, or pretends to be, ignorant of their names. They were all going to sleep in the car when the attack was made. O'Brien adds that he was afraid, and hid himself in a stable. O'Btien's father is a watchman in Nashville.  In connection with the proposed con7eyance of the crews of British men-of-war front Halifax to Vancouver and rice rersd by way of the. Canadian Pacific Railway, the Admiralty has ben informed that the Canadian Customs Department will afford every facility for the execution of the plan. Ships' it() re will be permitted to cross the Continent in bond.  Mr. Anthony Hamond, lee master of the West Norfolk foxhounds, met wit!' a serious accident at Massingham while hunting on Saturday. His horse stumbled over so:ne wire netting, which had been use,' for restraining sheep or rabbits, and which W.ti concealed by the long grass. Mr. Hamond was thrown to the ground, and had his collar-bone broken.  Mr. Henry Irving has been elected an honorary Vice-president of the Elizabethan Society. In acknowledging his election, Mr. Irving says he desires much to see extended to our own generation know.ledge of the literary culture of the century. His card of membership has enclosed in a case of blue calf, on the side of which has been worked in red and gold a Tudor rose. The.rose has been copied by a member of the society from the Great Seal of King Henry