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The Warwickshire Herald. — 1893-01-19 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

FATAL OUTRAGES.  A wanton and brutal outratie took place at Lickey-end, near Bromsgrove, tHorcestershire, on Friday. An old woman named Charlotte Pearcey was minding a little huckster's shop in the aMence or her husband, who was ill, when a sta gel entered the cottage and felled her to the grcutil with an axe, which penetrated her skull. fler assailant then mounted the stairs to the bedroom and began plundering the clothes bzies, evidently under the impression that the room was untenanted. The husband, who was in bed, how,ve:, turned round at the noise, and the stranger instantly fled. Pearcey gave chase, but when zudiisfance airived the miscreant was out of sight. Mrs. Pearcey never recovered consciousness, and died in a few hours. Pearcey says that Myond (Mutt the murderer was a tramp of fairly respectabie appearance, who had Men hawking add b gging in the district since Monday. He was apparently a man of under 30 years of age and it pouerful Loud. I is supposed that when he rolled at tie shop he waunder tie impression that Mrs. Pearcey was alone in the house. A man answering the deseliptiou of the accused has been arrestdd at 6,ourdridge and taken before the local magistrate. • •  An extraordinary affair Is reported from Clodoek, near Hereford. It appears that a 'timber of persons attended a funeral on Thuisilay,ard that many cf them drank freely. Upon returning h.-me at night some of them determined to play piact teal jokes upon their neielibours. On, man is teporied to have been dragged from his lied abil elibeready thrown into the river. A labourer named Proeser is said to have been aroused froal his deep by a clamouring at his door, lie had no time to dress, and made his escape at the back of the pp oases just as the front door wis Woken in. Ile was ihereupon chased across country in h a imperlectly clad condition, and was towed di a.l in Friday niereing, being suspended by his shirt, waisxmit, and breccs from paliegs three-quart. re of a mil, ' from his cottage. The priets of the deceaseit's ;liked feet Mere traced back from the pal,. gs for a long distance, and close to them were the footmaiks ef live other persons. At Hereford, en hatu day, a miller named William Davies and two farm' labourers namid Leonard Miles and John Williams were cha• g a with having caused Prosser's death by assaulting him and subjec:ing him to exposure. They w. re formally remaedid on bail. La er in ll* day two other mm n, named Walter liiif6:hs and Tlern: s J -es. were ancreed on suspicion of briler e. nre.n in the outrage. Time inquiet on the body of the deceaseo Wilk opined on Saturbay afternoon, and several witnesses expressed the opitnoti that Proseer must have caught himself on the railings: aid that, becoming ixhau,ted, te was unable to rase himself. The inipiiry was adjourned to allow a post-mortein examination to be made.
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1893-04-20 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

SALAD.—Put a nice young chicken in boiling water with one small onion, a bay leaf. fur clover', and a sprig of parsley. Cover and simmer gently until the meat is quite tender. When the chicken is perfectly cold remove the skin. and cut the meat into dice. It is better to use only the white meat for the salad, saving the dark portions for croquet 4. When the meat is cut up put it away in a cold place until wanted. Wash and cut the white parts ot celery into pieces about half an inch long; throw them into a bowl of cold water, and also stand them in a cool place till wanted. To every pint of chicken allow twothirds of a pint of celery and a cup and a-half at mayonnaise dressing. When readv to serve dry the celery and mix it with the chi, k ii, dust lightly with salt and pepper, then tholoughly mix the mayonnaise with it. Serve on a cold dish,garnished with white celery tips. One cup of whipped cream may be added to every half pint of mayonnaise when ready to use. It makes the dressing lighter. with less of the oily flavour. VEGETABLE Soup—Cook the bones and very dr; pmces of mutton g3ntly for three hours in two quarts of water. At the end of that time the wat,i is reduced to three pints, which should then strained into another stewpan. Add to the brotn half a gill each of turniu,carmt, and onion (all cu: fine shreds), one tablespoonful of celery, 051" tablespoonful of rice, one cupful of the cold me.' (i ut in cubes), one generous teaspoonful of salt. orie-eighth of a teaspoonful of pepper, and ono tablespoonful of flour, mixed smooth with hall a cupful of cold water. Place the stewpan on tip' lire, and when the coetents begin to boil, the Fa" allotild be moved hack where the soup will Oil) hioble at one side. After two hours of this sic,s c,x.iicing.add half a pint of raw potato cubes. Cook an amp half aa hour longer, when it is ready to serve 111 During last wet frosty nights prevailed throughout Hungary, the thermometer sinking in most titstvicts toll or I,!d.eg. Fahrenheit below freezing point. In addition to the frosts, the so-called green worn has done great damage to the fruit trees and vines. A telegram trim Clinton Junction, Wisconsin. says that the other day Matt Elkton murdered his wife and the wife of one of his neighbours nion,il Hearn, and then cremated the bodies of his victims. Since then he has been in hiding. On Saturday the sheriff's posse in pursuit succeeded in surrounding him, and when he saw his escape cut off lie drew • pistol sad stot himself dead.  first Ate }tombs The 1 •&Whig Deng 'Tont. Ikeda Third Fieurt Till h. I_2A To  The Shares amounl  Upw year, t 11,638Mi1l ioi 'Mese ;.Or 0911 Not year,— Liabili  In r SBOUti mill rims the Li shich publial  7
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1894-07-12 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

ATTEMPTED WIFE MURDER.  Charles Jonathan Fryer, 31, desalbed as a sugar/Oiler, of Long-lane, Bermondsey, was charged, before Mr. Biron, Q. C., at Lambeth Police-court, on Friday, with attempting to murder hie wife.— Mary Ann Fryer, the prosectitriit, who appeared very weak and ill, and had to be accommodated with a seat, said the prisoner was her husband, but they had been living apart since Whitsun Saturday. The previous night she saw the prisoner in St. George's-road, Camberwell. He asked her to return to him. She told him she would not return until he had got a home, and had got work. He exclaimed, "You shall go," and pulled out a Imife and stabbed her in the breast. The knife cut through her clothes and entered the fiesh. She was taken into a public-house, and a doctor attended her—Mrs. Odell, who was in company with the prosecutrix, corroborated her evidence, and stated that after the first blow the prisoner rushed at his wife and exclaimed, "I will put it through you again." Witness pushed the prisoner back. A conetable afterwards came up, and the man was arrested.—Police-constable Proctor stated that is consequence of what was told him he went to theft George and the Dragon public-house, St. George'sroad, and saw the proseeutrix lying on the Ilooe bleeding from a wound on the left breast. Mrs. Odell pointed out the prisoner, who was standing tutaide. When charged by his wife the prisonee "Yes I done it with this," and took out ths pocht-inife produced.—Dr. Sheard said he WM called to the injured woman and found • wound about three-quarters of an inch deep on the left breast. The knife was very blunt, and considerable force must have been used. He did not anticipete any serious mischief from the wound.—Mr. Biros committed the prisoner for trial.  At Gloucester Assizes, on Friday, before Mr. Justice Hawkins, George Stones pleaded guilty to embezzling money, the property of his employers, at Cirencester Post-office, and was sentenced to nine months' hard labour. His lordship said prisoner owes his sad position to the pernicious effect of betting, and condemned betting agencies in very strong terms. A quaint bird service was held recently in se American church. The peaches had asked his congregation to bring any song-birds they possessed, as he meant to preach upon birds. Forty cages were brought and hung on the walls, and though the birds were shy at first, and would only twitter to each )tiler, by-and-by, when they got used to the organ, gie birds buret forth into full song with fuze oiled.  "Msmma, where do the cows get their milk?" ,aced Willie, looking up from the foamingixin of milk which he had been intently regarding. "Where b you get your tears ? " was the answer. After t!irmglitful silence he again broke out: "Do the 2.aws have to be spanked, then ? " Little Tom K— was to have a new father, and As grandfather, who was to prepare his youthful nind for the event, said: "Tom, by this time to:norrow you will have a new papa, and your mother will have a new name." 'Tom (with bewilder. 'neat): "And who will! be, grandpa I"
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1894-06-07 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

SHOT FOR STEALING CHERRIES.  An unfortunate young French soldier, who was serving in an artillery regiment stationed near Le flans, has just been killed by a peasant for having stolen a handful of cherries. The young artilleryman was passing along a road bordered with cherry trees belonging to the peasant in question, who, unseen by the soldier, was watching him from behind a hayrick. Stopping beneath one of the trees, the soldier plucked some of the fruit and ate them, whereupon the peasant remarked to a friend who was with him, "Here's a soldier eating my cherries! I am going to teach him not to do that again," and went off. He returned in a few minutes with his gun, which was loaded with buckshot, and crept unnoticed to within some 40 yards of the soldier, who was still leisurely plucking the irate peasant's cherries. Taking deliberate aim, the man Ared both barrels of his gun one after the other, wounding the unfortunate artilleryman in the head. The 'after had just strength to rim to a neighbouring inn and give a hasty accOunt of the affair before he expired. The murderer, whom the dead man's comrades were with difficulty prevented from "lynching," and who had remarked to • a peasant in the village just before he was taken into custody, "I have not merely frightened him this time, I have damaged the thief considerably," showed not the slightest remorse for what he had done. His only words, when questioned by the °Akers were, "Do you know that during the time he stood under my cherry tree he must have etfikin at Wait twopeanyworth of fruit."  Throst Irritation and Cough.--Sorsnese and dryness, tickling, and irritation, inducing cough and affecting the voice. For these symptoms use Epps's Glycerine Jujubes. In contact with the glands at the moment they are excited by the sot Messrs. Macmillan have published a selection of of nicking, the Glycerine in these agree.Jgeoon- Arthur Hugh Clough's verses as one of their %alone becomes IctivelP henling. Sold on4n "Golden Treasury Series." Half of the volume is bexes, 70., tins Is. lid., labelled "James occupied by the poem "The Bothie of Tober-nee and Co.. Homceopathio Chemists, London.• Vuolich," the best-known of Clou,gh's pieces. Moore, in his were on "Nose end Throat Diorama" Hitherto his works could only be -obtained in two says: "The Glyosehte by James volumes, "Prose Remains " and "Poems." Epps and ere of as is curative Th e succem of the "Story of Creation," of which ar palliative NNW' /w'raidirtr. Ga Hohnos, MOM 10,000 copies were rapidly sold, has led Kr. Sewer Pitrinimo to, the _ lEnnittitol „Tbreot. end .rat Edward Clodd to prepare an abridgment of that I-flintier?, writes: 'Amer an =Hama _ have book, which will be published at Is. Bd., so as to found your Glycerine Jujubes of coasiderable bens& bring it within the reach of all classes. It will be in almost all forms of *rest dimes." =tided a "Primer of Evolution," and issued by Messrs. Longman, some time in the autumn.
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1894-03-22 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

TRAGEDY IN NORTH LONDON. JEALOUSY AND MURDER.  Between 7 and 8 o'clock on Saturday morning the barman of the Swan public-house, 125, Caledonian-. read, was found lying dead 'on one of the bedroom loon with his throat cut. In a bed in the same room one of the landlord's step-daughters was also discovered lyeng dead, with her throat cut, and another of the landlord's daughters, who had ,altpeafietnttelry wasietarv:enne intervened, had been: ressrgroselpyittabbrme name of the barman is George Wards, that of the murdered girl is Lily Kate Allen. It appears that at 7 o'clock thst morning a servant was sent up with some tea to the bedroom usually occupied by Miss Allen and Miss Hill. When she went down the left the door open, and from what the mother gathered from Miss Hill, who made • short statement before being put under chloroform, in order that a wound in her arm might be stitched up, Wards rushed into the room immediately the servant went down. He then attacked the elder daughter with a hatchet, and the younger daughter placed her arms around the elder daughter's neck to protect her. Ward first stunned Mies Allen with the hatchet, and in so doing severely injured Miss Hill's arm. He then cot Miss Allen's throat with a razor, and seeing she was dead, deliberately cut his own throat. The murdered girl, who was tall and good looking, was 17 years of age, and was an accomplished singer. She was engaged to he married to a young man living in the neighbourhood in May next, and Wards, who seems to have been himself ford a her, had no doubt becime jealous. Mrs. Hill, the mother, states that she never like.] Wards, and had for some time felt suspicious about him. Moreover, Wards a short time ago 'hewed Miss Hill a razor,whicb, he said, be had bought for shaving. and the girl then told her mother that she did not believe him. Mims Allen did not serve behind the bar, out was engaged as a milliner at Mrs. Ellen Hedges,in Edmund's-place,Jewin-street. At, however, she was in the habit of sleeping at home at night Wards had frequent opportunities of seeing her; but it is stated that Miss Allen in no way encouraged the overtures which Wards appeared so anxious to force upon her.  From letters found in the murderer's possession there is little doubt that the act was premeditated, and carried out with great determination. For some time Ward appears to have been under the impression that his attentions were acceptable, and, although he lived in the same house, he wrote several love letters to the object of his affection. On the arrival, however, of a young midshipman from Australia, Hr. Gohegan, to whom, it is said, the young lady was engaged, Ward's letters grew of an angry and threatening character. About a fortnight ago one of these epistles fell into the mother's hands by mistake, with the reault that Ward was warned as to his future conduct. He then became very despondent. The bodies were both moved on Saturday evening to the mortuary at the Chapel of Ease, Holloway. During the whole of Saturday and Sunday the house in which the double crime wee perpetrated WM literally besieged.
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1894-01-25 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

DEFINITION WANTED.  "Have you got a dictionary here P" be softly asked of a hotel clerk on Grand River avenue yesterday. "No, air." "Are you pretty well up on Webster yourself f "Fairly so. What's the trouble?" "1 nant a term defined. A fellow just referred In :ye as a parsimonious slinker,and I can't exactly ,tct: on."  " Oars/lam:nous means stingy and close." "I know she does. I've aline knowed that." "S,ulker—sliuker P A 'linker must be a man who slinks." "Sins that way to me, but I didn't slink." " hat were the circumstances?"  Wi.y. I went into a saloon after a glass of beer. re was a stranger sitting there and c,me up to the bar. I asked him if he ever ,rack, and he said he did. I ordered beer for me ad water for bias, and be stuck up his chili and +ll ins a parsimonious clinker. Was the referent ,I.prvpriate to the occasion r" “Well, somewhat." . . _ . .  'Then it's all right. I thought be had slipped a r gin his grammar,or was addressing the bar•tender. •11,ii he probably meant me ? 111 right—all right, ne must have meant me, for I noticed he 'n't Mink the water, and I thought he uaid some,,ng about knocking my eyebrows off. Sorry to troubled you, but I was a little curious, you low. Good day."  The dead body Of a man, named Henry J. HI, uwright, a bricklayer. h,longing to Steckhm-on-Tis was found, near midnight on Saturday, at th bottom of a declivity on the town wall. flattProo, Hie head was smashod in, his pockets turned josh', out, and his watch missing. When the hody tvfl taken to the mortuary it was found that the untie. clothing was saturated with blood, although non, was to be seen where the body was found. It is therefore thought the man was robbed and assaulted. and afterwards fell or was pushed over the town wall on to the Toad below. A platelayer named James Hammond, while crosaing the line at Braintree. was knocked dos n and cut to pieces by the no Continental ewe.. on Monday. The deceased, who came heliisd stationary train, had not seen the approadlin:z express.  The two men John Nolan and John Mem., el,e recently were Charged with the murder of Petrick Reid, in Cardiff-lane, Dublin, and who. n.Per several remands, were discharged by the na,gieLn,e. Clue being .no evidence against them, left on Monday in. Amenca.. A ongtit monthly literary magazine, publisled for the benefit of English-speaking rend eta in Tyrol, is the daglo-C,ontiantal, printed in English at Reran, and edited by Miss C. Pemberton. It commenced its fifth year in January, and is well napposted not only by English residents, but by the German-speaking races on the Contini•nt. In the number to hand the fiction is especially strong. In use and get-up this is the most ambitious English publication ever attempted on the Contineit.. it may interest our leaden to • know tkat there Is • high-cla‘s literary magazine published in RANs• dories the winter_manths.  f---%*----WitifeII77—HORS'SFORD'6 . ACID PHOSPRATS ado as t brain food, 1.•1. citnidey hit siestal,.libiS lid imparting new energy to *My Mils*. OVAL Chemists.—Wimalasalso lova United, food Specialises, Loodosioareassaaltsat
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1894-02-15 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

RUSSIAN CONVICT PRISONS.  Vague rumours of the unsatisfactory state of the convict prison of Onor, on the island of Sakhalien, having reached St. Petersburg, a Government Commission was instituted some time ago to inquire Into the matter. The report, says the Standard St. Petersburg correspondent, is now to hand, and reveals a terrible tale of suffering and crime. Instances without number are recorded of merciless beatings and lopping off of lingers and arms by sabre cuts, whilst cannibalism under stress of famine was a COllllllOll occurrence, murder followed by cannibalism being also frequently committed with the sole object of putting an end to the misery of existence at Onor, and instances are related where several convicts disputed before the authorities for the guilt of a murder. During the whole of 1892 there was an almost continuous string' of convoys with corpses of convicts passing from Door to Rykovskaya, the residence of the authorities, and the bodies were so mutilated, and presented so pitiful a spectacle, that the report says the spectators could not look upon them without tears. No inquiries, however, wers made, and the bodies were simply buried without further ado. Neither of the two doctors living at Itykovaltaya ever visited Onor. In 1893 a band of convicts was handed over to an inspector who could neither read nor write to construct a road from Onor to Rykovekaya. If any convict failed in his work, he wee at once put on half-rations the next day, followed by a third of rations, and when he could work no more the inspector finished Mm with a revolver bullet, and entered his death in the books as from disease. The principal author and encourager of all these atrocities is the convict Rbakoff, who is a favourite of the Commandant of the district, and has been made Inspector General. He has lately been recommended for good service, and be and all his colleagues have succeeded hitherto in keeping their misdeeds secret from the world. The above details are not,it must be noted, • convict's tale, but are taken from an official Government report. Mr. H. de Windt (continues the correspondent) will probably visit this prison amongst others, and it will be curious to see what Impression it will make upon him.  au es, registand it au es, would never -4 ...,.patrbiiteda=. m boo duturritiae in its with bas testi hie • aresersuo A millionaire who was noted for his eccentricity has died at Antwerp. M. Van Goulaken was one of the celebrities of the city of Ruben.; and his house one of the sights that etas more amusing to the visitor than to the neighbourhood. Van Goulaken bad a special antipathy to tram lines, and when they were laid down in front of his house many yearn ago. he took an oath, and mad it In a letter to the authoriti that ' never have his hones cleaned or , boast was long disgrace to the which he lived; but he regarded grin anisfaadon. In his will ha Min tb vas tiro words "rant" in any not el Ids dm*.