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The Kenilworth Advertiser. — 1879-12-13 (Kenilworth, Warwickshire, England)

DEATH OF THE DUKE OF PORTL AND.  At an early hour on Saturday morning the Duke of Portland expired at Harcourt House, his mansion in Cavendish-square, London, after an illness of several weeks. His Grace was the second (his eldest brother, William, having died in 1824) son of William Henry, the fourth duke, by the eldest daughter and to-heir of Major-General John Scott, of Balcemie, Fifeshire, and was born in London on the 17th of September, 1800. He succeeded to the dukedom and large estates on the death of his father, in March, 1854. He was appointed a Deputy-Lieutenant of Nottinghamshire in 1859, and was a family trustee of the British Museum. The late duke was unmarried, and is succeeded by his kinsman, William John Arthur Cavendisia, only son of the late General Arthur Cavendish Bentinek, only 8011 of Lord William Bentinck, by his first wife, Elizabeth Sophia, eldest daughter of the late Sir St. Vincent Hawkins-Wbitshed, Bart., and was born on the 28th of December, 1857. The late duke was brother of Dowager Lady Howard de Walden and Viscountess Ossiugton, widow of the late Speaker of the House of Commons. The first peer's father was Bentinck Heer van Deepenham in Oveyssel. The sou came to England with William and subsequently distinguished himself at the battle of the Boyne. The third duke was a wellknown Minister in the reign of King George 111., was for a short time Lord Privy Seal and Lord President of the Council in 1827 and 1828.  Viscount Chetwynd died at noon on Saturday at his residence, Moston Crescent, Exmouth, in his 78th year. By the new French Military Service Bill, the number of twelvemonths' volunteers has been reduced from 10,500 to 3,000, but General Greeley objects to the entire abolition of the system, because, he says, the legal and medical careers, which are the glory and honour of France, require a certain number of exemptions from the full term of service.  Henry Waters, a labourer, living at Llanwern, near Newport, Mon., is in custody on the charge of having wilfully murdered his wife, Eliza Waters. At the inquest on Monday, it was proved that the body, only partially dressed, was found in a broos. The medical evidence showed that the deceased had sustained a fracture of the skull, caused by a blow from a blunt instrument, and that death was aused by suffocation. The enquiry as adjourned. Major Burnaby, speaking on Saturday night at a ainner given at the Royal Hotel, Temple-row. Birmingham, to the officers of the Balsall-heath Artillery Volunteers, said that, in view of the enormous increase in foreign armies during the past eleven years, it was now time for every Englishman who had the honour and interests of the British Empire at heart to learn how to defend his country. He hoped that ere long the crack of the rifle and the roar of the cannon would be heard as frequently in the practice grounds of England as the thud of the bowstring was in the days of Robin Hood.
The Kenilworth Advertiser. — 1879-11-01 (Kenilworth, Warwickshire, England)

CONSCIENCE-STRICKEN.— Henry Harman, a labouring man, is now in custody at Swindon, on the charge of having murdered Joseph Grymes, seventyseven years of age, on the 17th January, 1874, at Parton, near Swindon. The old man was found in his cottage, where he lived alone, with his head cloven in twain by a billhook. Harman, who was proved to have been near the cottage on the day of the murder, was arrested and committed for trial, but the Grand Jury threw out the bill. On Thursday last he gave himslf up to the police, stating that he had a urdered Grymes, and could bear it no longer. The latest novelty in drinks is temperance beer, manufactured with Cinchona bark, and highly recommended in cases of confirmed inebriety. Like the waters of Marsh, it is bitterness out-bittered— savouring powerfully of coinaquintida, and its most ardent admirer has never been known to prefer a , request for more. Hence the secret of its success. But even this celebrated beverage is excelled in pungency by a stimulant which a Colorado saloon keeper brews for his customers. Let him tell his own story —"1: couldn't get their whiskey strong enough for them, so, after trying every way, I made up a mixture of naptha, bluestone, vitriol, cayenne, pepper, poison - oak, petroleum, fusil oil, spirits of wine, and butter-nut. That fetched 'em. My first patient was a pedlar, who, after a sip or two, became so elevated that he stole his own pack and hid it in the woods. The next one, after knocking his mate under a two-horse waggon, proceeded to the Court-house and fired off his Derringer at old Judge Tomkins." THE ARMY DISCIPLINE Ac-r.—At the County Petty Sessions, at Warwick, on Saturday, before Lord Leigh, Lord Dormer, and Colonel Vangliton, Mr. T. Plant, from the office of Messrs. Rowlands, Bagnall, and Co., solicitors, Birmingham, again applied to the magistrates for an order directing the commanding officer of the 6th Regiment of Foot, stationed at Budbrooke Barracks, to give up Alfred Birch Ludlow, a recruit, to his master, Mr. Tailbey, cooper, of Loveday-street, Birmingham. The magistrates were at the first hearing inclined to make an order to hand the lad over to his . master, leaving the commanding officer of the regiment to take any further proceedings he might think necessary ; but it was ascertained that any prosecution instituted by the military authorities against the recruit, for having made a false declaration when he enlisted, must be commenced at the same time as the order was given; and for the convenience of Captain Whitworth, who appeared desirous of consulting the authorities at the War Office, the case had been adjourned to Saturday last., when Captain Whitworth, having informed the Bench that he had received no order to institate a prosecution, Ludlow was ordered to be gi :en up to Mr. Tailbey.  T  .   BENSON'S "Workman's " E nglish Lever, as above £5 ss. (Warranted). BENSON'S " Everbody's " Silver Watch, Crystal Glass, as above, £3 38. (Warranted.) BENSON'S CLOCKS SILVER & ELE CTRO Of all kinds at 1 to 1000 PLATE guineas. For Presentation, etc.
The Kenilworth Advertiser. — 1879-09-20 (Kenilworth, Warwickshire, England)

ANOTHER PARISIAN MURDER.  Provost, the policeman who murdered the pad! Lenoble under peculiarly atrocious circumstances was again examined on Saturday by M. Bresselles, Juge d'lnstruction. He stated that he had known Lenoble some time, and had spoken to him about buying a chain. It was arranged that the deceased should go to his house, in the Rue Riouet, between twelve and one on Wednesday afternoon for the purpose of concluding the bargain. PrOvost however, all along intended to murder him, and on the morning of the ill-fated day he bought a butcher's knife and a chopper, and took several bottles of water up to his room. When Lenoble came in he spread his wares upon the bed of his murderer, who on some trivial pretext moved a little away. This was Pr6vost's opportunity. As his victim was bending over the bed busied with his goods, Prevost, with a heavy lump of iron, struck him three blows over the back of the head, and all was over. The corpse was then placed in a box and out into a hundred pieces, the awful task lasting from one until five o'clock in the afternoon. The liquid portions were thrown down a closet hard by, and at nightfall, wearing a blouse, the murderer went out with a basketful of the remains, which he scattered here and there as opportunity offered. About nine o'clock he supped at a wine shop and then went to bed. The next morning he donned his policeman's garb, and went about his work as if nothing had happened, leaving behind him the bead, and the case, and clothes of his victim. At one o'clock on Saturday the murderer was taken to the Morgue, where he identified the daris of his victim in the presence ot the magistrates, after which he was conducted to his room, which was carefully examined. Other portions of the body have since been found in places pointed out by PrOvost and also brought to the Morgue, where they have been joined as far as is practicable to the head of Lenoble and the whole photographed. There are in all 76 of these pieces. The .3onfession of Provost has naturally advanced the investigation to a considerable extent, and it will soon come to a close. The murderer disp!ays no penitence for the horrible crime that he has committed. The remains of his victim are still at the Morgue, and nothing is as yet decided about the faneral, the expenses of which will be defrayed by the Prefecture of Police. There is some talk about another murd9r commited by Provost in 1876. His mistress disappeared one Sunday, and has never been seen since. So far the wretched man has made no confession, though he admits that he knew the woman, who was with him on the day in question and left an umbrella behind her, which he took to the Commissioners of Police who conducted the inquiry. A new inquiry, directed by M. Cl6ment, has just been instituted.
The Kenilworth Advertiser. — 1879-10-04 (Kenilworth, Warwickshire, England)

BABY FARMING AT TRANMERE.  COMMITTAL OF THE PRISONERS.  At the Birkenhead Town Hall, on Wednesday, before Mr. Freston, the Stipendiary Magistrate, john and Catherine Barnes were again brought up, charged with having wilfully neglected to provide proper nourishment for the child known as Florence, at present in the Birkenhead Union Workhouse, and with having murdered Alice Mafia Mabel Rodenhurst, and " Mabel," two of the children who were found by the police at the house of the prisoners in Church-road, Tranmere. and who slabseqnently died in the Workhouse.—Mr. Moore (instructed by the Solicitor to the Treasury) again prosecuted, and Mr. Pugh appeared for the prisoners. The first witness called for the defence was Sarah Mint, wife of John Mint, who lives in Preston-lane, behind Church-road, Tran. mere, not far from where the two prisoners lived. Witness kept a milk house, and supplied milk in the neighbourhood. The accused were in the habit of obtaining milk from her. She supplied them regularly night and morning. In the morning she supplied them with a quart, and at night a pint. Witness always supplied it herself. This supply went on for about three months. She was no scholar. Her daughter put it on the slate. For the pigs, witness got a good deal of broken bread from the accused occasionally. She got other things, including potatoes. She knew nothing more of the prisoners than that they came to her for milk.—Cross-examined : Do you know where the prisoners lived at the time they got the milk? By the Black Horse.—Did you know them when they resided in Walker-street, Tranmere ? Yes ; I used to see them, but never knew anything of them.—Have you any books? No, we pt.t it on the slate and rubbed it of. I am no scholar myself.— What did you get broken bread for ?—For the pigs. —Was the broken bread given you for the milk ?--No; they just gave it me, and never asked me anything for it.—Did you get any money in payment for the milk? Yes, regularly. He only owes me for a fortnight's milk.—Re-examined by Mr. Pugh: He owes you now a fortnight? Yes ; that is all.—l never saw Mr. Barnes. Mrs. Barnes used to come every week.... .  Mary Hill, employed as a dairymaid by Mr. Jones, farmer, of Higher Tranmere, and wife of Thomas Hill, said she went round with milk in a shaudry night and morning. She knew the prisoners, and used to supply them with a pint of milk every day, taking it to them at night. She did not for six weeks. That was six weeks up to the night they were taken away by the police. They paid for one weak, and now owed for five weeks milk.—Mr. Preston: How much did they pay a quart; 4d. ? Mr. Moore: Yes; and they supplied pints at night. —Mr. Preston: Fourpence is the usual price for the best milk.  Farther evidence having been given as to the supply of milk to the prisoners, they were committed for trial at the Assizes on charges of wilful murder and misdemeanour.
The Kenilworth Advertiser. — 1879-02-08 (Kenilworth, Warwickshire, England)

THE KENILWORTH ADVERTISER, SATURDAY, FEBRUABY 8,1879.  MR. BROMLEY-DAVENPORT, M.P., ON FOREIGN TARIFFS AND FOREIGN COMPETION.  Mr. Bromley-Davenport, M.P., in a letter addressed to the secretary of the Coventry Ribbon Weavers' Committee, says he has long been of opinion that the French Treaty was a mistake, and has acted injuriously to many trades in this country. There are many difficulties, however, in the way of a return to even modified protection, tut he thinks the appointment of a Royal Commission to enquire into the subject will do good. He affirms that Lord Bateman is quite wrong in ascribing the decline of the Thames shipbuilding trade to French treaties of want of reciprocity. "That trade," he says, "was lost to the Thames entirely by the action of trades unions. The employers told their workmen that they had large orders from abroad which they would be obliged to decline unless the men moderated their demands for increased wages. The men refused to moderate their demand and the orders were consequently declined, and the trade was transferred to the Clyde. The same, thing, or nearly the same, has occurred in Warwickshire in respect to the coal and iron trade. Those who are chiefly responsible for the privations and distress now around us are such men as Mr. Macdonald, whose reckless, not to say infamous, advice to the Warwickshire miners should never be forgotten. He advised them, at a time when there was a good prospect of resumption of work after a long strike, to continue the strike, "though they turned Warwickshire into a desert for the next twenty years." In con3lusion, Mr. BromleyDavenport assured the weavers' committee of his sympathy with the distress.  threats which the pr Boner had used to Mr. and Mrs. Dyson, remarking that three witnesses were present when these were uttered, and that that part ef the pi osecution did not therefore depend solely on the evidence of Mrs. Dyson. He also stated that it was a question that could not be disguised from anybody who had to consider the case, wby the prisoner, on the night of the murder, went to the Dysons' premises armed with a revolver? That was not disputed in the case, and it should be considered. Mrs. Dyson denied all about having sent letters to prisoner and while she admitted that she had been to some of the places suggested with him, she denied that she had been as often as it was concluded she had been by the other side. It really came to this. Even if she did go about with the prisoner and wrote him letters, which, being a married woman, she ought not to have done, what did that come to 1 And it was said on the part of the prosecution that there was a motive for what subsequently happened—that the prisoner was fond of her and disliked the husband. The question, however, was how far the jury were satisfied that 9 scuffle took place, and that the pistol accidentally went off, for that was the matter they were trying.
The Kenilworth Advertiser. — 1873-11-06 (Kenilworth, Warwickshire, England)

BEGINNING EARLY.  At the Gnildhan police-oonrt, in London, Edward Engledew, aged 16, a i shopboy, and Harry Tucker, aged 15, warehensaboy, both n the employ of Mr. Russell, pawnbroker, 37, Fore-itreet, City, were charged, on remand, with stealing about £lO in money and also watcher, chains, gold studs, and other goods to the value of about £lOO, the property of their em. ployer. Last Saturday night week, after the manager had put the silver in the strong room, Engledew went in with some books and took tee bag of silver out. The two prisoners were up all night on the Saturday pack. ing up the goods, and at seven o'clock on Sunday morning Tucker went for a cab. When it arrived he began to load it with the property, while Engledew assissed in bringing to the door the parcels they had packed up. William Smith, detective sergeant, saw the cab drive up to Mr. Russell's door, and watched it, and eventn ally went up to Tucker and said "Is this all right? Woere are you going ?" and he replied "Yes, it is all right, I am going to Lynn with my brother." He asked him if the housekeeper knew he was going, and he said she did. Smith took Tucker to the aide door and saw Eogledew. Tee gas in the place was fnll on, and a number of parcels were plated near the door ready for removal. He rang the bell, and Engledew said, "Can't you do something elie with us without taking us to the police-station ?" Smith then charged them with stealing the goods, and sent them to the station in charge of an officer, when they both began to cry. On Tucker he found three parses c )ntainiog £4 13e. In silver, a silver watch and gold chain and locket, three gold studs, three gold pins, three gold keys, a cigar-ca.e, and other property; bad on Eagledewhe found £4 13e. 3d. in money, a silver watch, two gold etude, a purse, and a gold pin. They stated that the goods ail came from the stock. Tucker said, "The robbery was concocted a fortnight ago and we have bten staying up all night packing the gOo.ie" It appeared that the boys had been reading the Headless Pirate; Lightning Dick, the Young Detective, Margaret .Catch palm ; . or, the Prelate Hors teeter, Footpad, Smuggle., Prison Breakers and Murderers, and similar books.  Mr. Russell identified the property as his, and said that he wished publicly to thank Bmith for what he had done in the matter, for if it had not been for him the prisoners would have got clear off with everything. Alderman Allen said he supposed they would not have £5 for What they took with the exception of the watches and jewelry. Mr. Ramiell said he thought not considtuing the mannri in which ,they would have had to dispose of them. Mrs. Tucker, who had been left a widow with a large 'family, pleaded for her sou, and Mr. linseed thought that Tucker had got hold of some bad oompanions Wila had prompted hiroto all that he bad done, and he bad led Eugledew astray. Tbe prisoners pleaded " Guilty," when the magistrate sentenced them each to two months' imprisonment and hard labour.
The Kenilworth Advertiser. — 1873-07-31 (Kenilworth, Warwickshire, England)

THE GAME LAWS.  The recommendations of the Parliamentary committee appointed to inquire into the working of the game laws, have been the subject of considerable comment since the period when the report was issued. In a session during which there have been such attractiom as the visit of the Shah of Persia, and the trial of the Tichborne claimant, the evidence given before the Game Laws' Committee has created little interest, and commanded scant attention. Yet it is obvious that the subject is of immeneqmportance in the agricultural districts, and tie* will grow morn weighty the ,ge-weamealhd math the ve.coviis of laws oonicto the frost. One of the prinaipal sag. gestions of the committee is that rabbits shall be struck out of all Game Acts, a concession which will be welcome to many a tenant-farmer. The excessive stocking of cultivated land with ground game is condemned, and the committee express an opinion that landlords should be prepared to insert clauses in their leases to ensure the restriction Of this class of game within mo&rate limits. At the same time the tenant is advised to secure protection from loss under this head. It is further recommended that offences under the Day Poaching Act should no longer be criminal, and that, unless night poachers are armed, and more than two in number, a discretion should be given to the magistrates, enabling them to inflicts fine instead of giving them no option but to pass a sentence of imprisonment. , It is moreover suggested that those who are con- , tided, should no longer be required to provide securities against a repetition of the offence. Whether these recommendations will be embodied in a bill, and submitted to Parliament, is another matter. his the too common practice to regard a reference to • select committee ass convenient way or placing a troublesome question upon the shelf, and it is possible that this report may long lie unheeded amongst the mass of parliamentary docu-, meats issued in the course of the session. Althoug the committee do not go the length of those who I demand the total and unconditional repeal of the Game Laws, they decline to declare game as pro- , perty ; and if their suggestions could be placed upon the statutobooks of the land, they might, for a time at least, help to lay at rest a controversial which is likely to become more irritating the longer I it is kept open. No one can have any ay mpathfl with the midnight poacher, whose deeds of lawless violence have so often converted the .rich nian's• park into a scene of murderous strife, On the, other band, in the face of the high price of animal , fowl, it may well become a question of national im_ portance how far vast patches of cultivated land are to .41,901444.44iit.0PF.  w If the :natter is between the production of food for the people, and providing sport for only one class, there is little doubt which way the answer ought to be.
The Kenilworth Advertiser. — 1873-01-09 (Kenilworth, Warwickshire, England)

EXECUTION OF THE PENDLETON MURDERER.  On Monday morning in last week, Michael Kennedy, who was sentenced to death at the last fialford Hundred Assizes for the murder of Ann Kennedy, his wife, was executed within the precincts of the county gaol, Manchester. A petition in favour of the reprieve of the prisoner had been got up and forwarded to the Home Secretary, but from the first no hope was entertained that the capital sentence would be commuted. The circumstances attending the summer were as follows : --- •  On the Bth October last the prisoner and his wife were residing at 6, Brunswick-place, Pendleton. They had been married 36 years, and had had 14 children, seven of whom are living. The prisoner was said to be • good husband when he was sober, and much attached to the deceased. He, however, had given way much to drink for some time before the murder. About three o'clock in the afternoon of the Bth October the prisoner went into his house partly intoxicated, and became very angry with his wife became his dinner was not ready. A short time afterwards a report of • pistol was heard, and the deoesaed rushed into the street, bleeding from a wound on the right side of her head. The prisoner afterwards gave himself up to the police, and on being told that the deceased was not dead, he expressed his sorrow, as he said, "I intended to shoot her dead. If she is not dead, I hope she soon will be. If I had shot her in the heart, the job would have been done right." Some days afterwards, when the deceased died: and he was charged with the murder, he replied, Drink and madness." It appeared that the prisoner purchased the pistol from a general dealer in Strnde-hill Market on the morning of the day on which the murder was committed.  ------The prisoner during his trial wasapparently very little affected, but since his incarceration he has shown that he has realised the enormity of his crime. He was a Roman Catholic, and has been attended by the Roman Catholic chaplain of the gaoL On Friday he was visited by the Rev. Dr. Vaughan, Roman Catholic Bishop of Salford, who spent some time with him in the condemned cell, and administered to him the Holy Sacrament. The execution took place at eight o'clock, on the ent scaffold at the north side of the prison. rer,l7rtaillit, with an assistant, performed the duties of executioner. The culprit was brought from the condemned cell with his arms pinioned; he appeared to be quite resigned, and submitted to be put on the drop in a passive manner. After the fall of the drop he straggled slightly for a few seconds. At nine o'clock the body was cut down, and after an inquest had been held upon it it was buried by the side of the three Fenian and the two other murderers who had been executed within the prison. Kennedy was 'visited several times by his relatives In the course of the last week, and to all he expressed his contrition, and said that, if he had known the force of religion as he did now, he would not have murdered his wife.