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The Weekly Gazette for Middlesbrough, Stockton, Hartlepool and Cleveland District. — 1880-01-17 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

ALLEGED MURDER IN GLASGOW.  A BLIND MAN THROWN OUT OF A WINDOW.  A man named Joseph Miller and a woman named Ann Tollan, or O'Neill, were brought before the stipendiary magistrate at the Central Police Court, Glasgow, on Saturday, and remanded, on a charge of causing the death of a blind man James O'Neill, the female prisoner's husband, by throwing him out of a window. O'Neill, his wife, and family resided on the top flat of a fourstorey building at Moodie's Court, 31, Argyle-street, and Miller was a lodger in the house. The man O'Neill was jealous of his wife and Miller, and some hot words passed early on Saturday morning. O'Neill, apparently in jest, was heard to " wish that he were dead," and his wife, who had left the room for a moment, returned just at this juncture, and ordered her husband to "hold his tongue," adding, it is alleged, with reference to his wish, that "he would be dead soon enough." When this remark was made Miller was sitting by the kitchen fire. Mrs O'Neill then left the room, while Miller, rising from his seat, entered it and closed the door behind him. A noise was immediately afterwards heard issuing from the apartment, as if of a scuffle between the man O'Neill and Miller. Then a fearful crash was heard. The room door was reopened, and Miller returned to his seat in the kitchen. The door being left ajar, the occupants of the kitchen were horrified at the sight which then met their gaze. O'Neill, the blind man, was not in the room, *ma the broken window left no doubt of what had I become of kim—he had evidently either fallen lor been piahed right through it. One of the children at once rushed downstairs, and meeting the police just at the close, the poor blind man was found lying in the court, in a pool of blood, quite unconscious. His skull was dreadfully fractured, and it was evident the unfortunate man had not long to live. He was at once put on to a stretcher, but expired while being carried to the police office.  The War with the Zalas has ceased the death of many good and brave men, but how many more deaths have been caused by a neglected Cough or Cold? Any person troubled with either of these complaints, or any affection of the Chest sad Lungs, should try "SUDDEN'S BALSAM OF HOREHOUND AND COLTbFOOT " One dose relieves, one bottle cures. Is 10 and 51 M.—Agent for Middlesbrough: Robeson, Chemist, 37, Linthorpe-road: Stockton Wm. Clarke, 153, High-street : Hartle pool: Jackson Bros.. 64. High-street. 38  THE Comma STllVOGLE.—inything calculated to moderate the asperity of party feeling during the coming political contest sh mid be encouraged A liberal use of that delicious and soothing liCitlOr GR.NT'S MORELLA CHEESY BRA:VDY, cannot fail to produce a favourable effect, and It may be procured at all Bars. Restaurants, ash Wine Stores. Manufacturer, Thomas Grant, Distiller, Maidstone.  W. L. MORTON'S TE Mit at 2s, 20 6d, 3s, and 3s 44 are first-class value—they suit the water of this neighlsouriseed. Tile alarms is 20, Linthospe-road.
The Weekly Gazette for Middlesbrough, Stockton, Hartlepool and Cleveland District. — 1880-03-27 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

STRANGE FATALITY AT WEST  HARTLEPOOL.  person DODO'  On Tuesday Mr John Settle held an inquest at the Ward-Jackson Hotel, Sirenton-lane, on the body of a boy aged eleven, named Alfred Smith, who met his death under the following circumstances : Deceased, who was the son of Frederick Smith, a railway guard, residing at 32, James-street, West Hartlepool, was on Saturday afternoon watching some men bowling a wooden ball for cocoa nuts on a vacant piece of ground at the corner of Lynn-street and Strantonlane, when be was struck on the head by the ball, which was thrown by a man named Patrick Rouse. Deceased was knocked insensible by the blow, and died from the effects of the injuries to his head at twelve o'clock on Sunday night. Frederick Smith, father of the boy, said deceased shortly after he was brought home commenced to have fits, which continued up to the time of his death. He was seen by Dr. Stewart and Dr Mackechnie. John Calson deposed that he was a traveller with "hobby horses," swing boats, ktc., and at present rented a piece of ground in Lynn-street, where at the time of the accident he was plying his " profession." The ground was roped off, and outside of that there was a woo Jen fence. On Saturday night the bail produced was need for bowling for cocca nuts, which were placed on wire at a distance of nineteen yards from the bowler, and a few feet from the gable end of a house. There was access le,hincl the ropes, but anyone standing outside was, as a rule, perfectly safe, except when a ball was wildly thrown. He made no application to the Town Commis- , sinners to carry on his game, not being aware that it was necessary to do so. Medical evidence showed that the boy died from contusion of the brain, and the jury returned a verdict of "Death from misadventure." Some strong comments were made by the jury on the Commissioners allowing dangerous games to be played on open spaces in the town that ought to be fenced in; and the Coroner, upon their recommendation, undertook to bring the subject under the notice of the Commissioners.  A CHEQUE THAT CANNOT HI Foisden.--At the general court of the proprietors of the Bank of England on Thursday week, the Governor stated that during the past year he had been in communication with Mr Coe and others conversant with the etilleet respecting the beat means of baffling all attempts at forgery, and , he believed that they had now a cheque that I would do that. The cheque, he added, was I not quite ready, but would be in a few days. John Wingfield was hanged in Newgate on Monday morning for the murder of his wife by stabbing her in the street. During , the whole of the progress from the cell to the scaffold the prisoner prayed earnestly, his last words as the cap was being drawn over his face being "God have mercy on me." The drop was over eight feet, and the prison surgeon declared that death was installI timeous, the neck being broken. Marwood I was the ezecutioner,  ,•4, • I
The Weekly Gazette for Middlesbrough, Stockton, Hartlepool and Cleveland District. — 1880-02-07 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

BURNS AT  THE MIDDLESBROUGH WORKHOUSE.  •OOMMUNIOATION TO THE LOOAL GOVERNMENT BOARD.  On Tuesday morning Mr J. T. Belk and a jury held an inquest at the Middlesbrough Workhouse touching die death of Robert Redman,aged six years.-Sarah Hearing, an inmate, said that she was in charge of six children, varying from nine years down to three months. There was a fire in the room, but no guard till aftsr the accident. There were small guards in the nursery; but no stand guards after the accident. On Tuesday afternoon about two a'clock she left the room for a brush and shovel,and about two minutes after she had gone she heard screams. She ran back to the room, and found the deceased in a blaze. She wrapped a blanket round him, and so put out the fire. Wines was the only person in charge of the room. There was a woman named Webb, who was rather lunatic, who slept in the room, and she enticed the children to the fire. She was violent at times, and hadbeen unkind to the children. She threatened to throwknives. Annie Chinsey nurse, said a woman in the adjoining room, would have taken charge of the children if she had been asked.—Dr. Longbotham said he did not know Webb was violent, or he should have ordered her to be taken to an asylum. Ho attended the child,who died from shock.—The Workhouse Master said that he reported to the Guardians the recommendation of the jury on the child which died from burns last November, that fire guards should be procured, but he had had no direct orders to get them, and no nursery fire guards were got anterior to the present accident.—Mr J. Dent, Clerk to the Guardians, said that from a newspaper report he reported the recommendation of the jury to the Guardians. He did not remember the Master's report being presented. No order had been given for stand-guards.—A little boy said deceased was poking the fire, when a hot cinder fell on him. The top bar of the grate was broken. —The jury returned a verdict of "Accidental death," and recommended that a report of the inquest on each of the children fatally burned at the Workhouse be forwarded to the Local Government Board.  At Manchester County Police Court on Monday morning. Superintendent Bent informed the Bench that the High Sheriff of Lancashire, Mr W. Garnett, had intimated that he would add one hundred pounds to the reward already offered for the discovery of the murderer of Sarah Jane Roberts, this making the total three hundred pounds, his offer to hold good for one month, at the end of which he will reconsider it. At the County Police Court, Manchester, on Tuesday, Robert Haild was again placed in the dock. Mr Crofton, who appeared for the police, asked the permission of the Bench to withdraw the charge of perjury, the only charge made spinet him. In the opinion of the police he had been sufficient!) punished for making the false declarations. The Bench cffered no opposition, and the prisoner was set at liberty.
The Weekly Gazette for Middlesbrough, Stockton, Hartlepool and Cleveland District. — 1880-02-28 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

THE ALLEGED MURDER OF MISS MCLEAN. Mr Justice Hawkins did not conclude his summing up until late on Tuesday afternoon. The jury retired to deliberate about halfpast four o'clock, and after an absence of an hoar and a quarter returned with a verdict of inanslaughter. On the question being put to prisoner whether be had anything to say, be expressed a, wish to make a statement. He commenced by calling attention to Ins calmness of demeanour, and then, in as collected a manner as he seemed capable of, detailed the history of his conneoti ni with the unhappy woman. He protested his entire innocence of attempting to hurt" that poor little lady," the deceased. He denied that he had any motive for such a crime. The Judge, in sentencing the prisoner, said he had been guilty of a crime next in atrocity to murder. He had power to pass a sentence next in severity to death, and that sentence he felt it his duty to pass. Prisoner was then sentenced to penal servitude for life.  Intelligence received from Lloyd's on Tnesday morning states that vessels arriving in the Channel report having encountered a fearful hurricane on the 13th instant in the North Atlantic. The storm raged with great tnry for two days, and it is feared many vessels have been lost. The American barque rcher, from New York to Havre, with a full cargo of oil, was fallen in with in a sinking condition by an English steamer, which arrived off the Isle of Wight on Tuesday, and signalled that she had the crew safe on board. The American ship Alexander Marshall, 1,508 tons, from New York for London, with a cargo of oil, was abandoned dismasted and fast sinking on the 18th inst. The crew of 26 men were rescued' by a Danish steamer and landed at the Isle of Wight on Tuesday. When fallen in with the crew were worn out with pumping, and the captain and several of the crew had to be drawn through the sea on to the deck of the steamer. The ship Jessie Boyle, from Pensacola has reached Newport in a:disabled condition. While crossing the Atlantic she lost four boats, had her decks swept, her bulwarks washed away, and one man drowned. The barque Modesto, from New York to Dunkirk, with a cargo of oil, has been abandoned; all hands were saved by the steamer Assyria. The barque William, from Hartlepool for Holmstrand, has been abandoned; crew of nine men were saved. The iron ship Dun. Craig, from San Francisco, has reached Queenstown, and reports fearful weather off the Western Islands. She is partly dismasted; has lost all boats, and had everything swept off her decks. Two men were washed overboard and lost. The ship tempest, from Hull to New York, has been towed into Bermuda dismasted. The mail steamer Allemannie, from the West Indies to Southampton, has out back to St. Thomas damaged.  The crew of the schooner Gazelle, of Brizhaven, were landed at Plymouth on Monday night, having abandoned their vessel which sprang a leak during a heavy gale on voyage from New York to Exeter. One wee drowned.
The Weekly Gazette for Middlesbrough, Stockton, Hartlepool and Cleveland District. — 1880-05-01 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

MURDER OF A GIRL AT DERBY.  A shocking murder was committed in Derby on Monday under circumstances of singular atrocity. At noon a man named John Wakefield, about 110 years of age, who has not for a lcug time followed any employment whatever, residing with his vridlwel mother in Green•street, gave himself up at the Central Police Station, charging himself with having committed a murder. The man made the statement in such a convincing manner that he was seen by the Chief Constable (Colonel Delacombe), whom he asked to go down to his house and see if the facts were not as he had stated. The Chief Constable went to the house indicated by the prisoner, and there found a little girl, nine years of age, named Eliza Wilkinson, lying dead in a corner of the downstairs front room in a pool of blool, which was flowing from frightful gashes in her throat. By her side there was a sharp-pointed dinner. knife, covered with blood. The murdered girl is the daughter of s man named James Wilkinson, who lives in Bridgestreet, and who has been in the town about a month. He is not with his family, who belong to Newcastle. It appears that the girl, together with an elder sister, 17 years of age, went out on Monday hawking comb-boxes. The murdered girl took the houses on one side of the court, while her sister went to the back of another row of houses in the same yard. The elder sister's name is Ehzabeth Wilkinson, and after parting with her younger sister in this manner she never saw her alive again. She waited for some time, expecting to join company with her once more, but when she failed to make her appearance she searched for her in vain. None of the neighbours in the yard heard any noise of the struggle, but the inhabitants of the houses on both PlaOS of the court were mostly at work and away from their homes. A woman living in the same yard, named Mary Aun Keeling, says  . _ the girl came to her door and asked her if she wanted to buy any combboxes. She was busy, and dil not stop to open the door, but shouted out that she did not want any. Another neighbour, named Elizabeth Henley, saw the man coming out of the court at 11-15, but she did not see anything unusual in his manner. It is almost certain that at that time he wa.s on his way tc, the police office to give himself up for the murder. The prisoner did not appear to be under the influence of drink. From the absence of indications of a struggle, it would seem that the child had been overpowered, gagged, and outraged before the crime was committed. The murderer, who was recently charged with a criminal assault upon a child, was formally charged with the crime of wilful murder on Monday afternoon, but made no reply. He was thereupon lodged in the cell, and brought before the Bench today, and remanded.
The North-Eastern Weekly Gazette. — 1893-12-23 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

WITHIN AN ACC 01; DEATH.  He was once arresting a check stealer at Barns. bury, aud was ushering him into a hansom. "Then, to my astonishment, for I had never suspected that he was armed, he pulled out A revolver, and cried, 'Let me go, or you are a _dead man He did not wait, but polled the trigger. I heard the hammer fall with a click, but ,there was no explosion. With my left hand I retained hold of him, and, at the moment that he tined a second time, seized the pistol with my tight hand. By a merciful interposition my thumb .eanne tinder the hammer, and a deep cut was caused from which the blood flowed freely. I still held the prisoner fast with my left hand, and the revolver with my right. The man would, not relinquish his hold of the revolve, and,, the struggle continuing, we both rolled off the'footboard into the road. •We grappled with each other for quite a quarter of an hour, and I will not say what my feelings were during that time. The man's eyes burned with the lust of murder; he meant to kill me, if he could, and I was fighting, , not merely for duty, but for dear life. And yet, I although a crowd of spectators collected, no one would assist me, as they were all afraid of the i evolver. Finally the driver of a coal waggon passed, and! called upon him to ai&me, and he most willingly did. Then I aucceeded in forcing the prisoner into stub a pcsition that my friend-in, need, the `coalie,' was able to get behind him. ' He throttled him with such good will thatthe man was nearly suffocated before he gave up the revolver. 'the cabdriver now came forward, and we I secured the desperado. I found that the revolver was sin-chambered, and was loaded in five, the sixth cartridge having evidently fallen out, so that when he fired for the first time the hammer had fallen hat mlesely."  A worthy Scot, who may be called Mr Hector Munro, was a magistrate at the Cape. He liked his glass of whisky. Returning home late one night alone, Mr Munro halted near his own gate, and disvatisfied with the apparent jerkiness of his environments put himself in the dock in imagine tion) and thus soliloquised : As Magistrate " What is your name As Accused: "Hector Munro. 3.er witehup." M.: "I thought so. Your offence?" A.: "Drunk, sir." M.: • Finiti time, eh ?" A.: "Na, us, nor the thirty-first." M.: "Sorry to hear it. You look respeetable, but I must do my duty. You are fined 56." A.: "Thank ye, yer wusimp." Truro ferring this aunt from one pocket to another, Mr Munro exclaimed, "The law is satisfied. You may go, Hector, but don't appear before me again.' Mr Munro then retired for the night, doubtless to oontinue his reflections on the dignity of the law and the pecoability of roan.
The North-Eastern Weekly Gazette. — 1893-06-17 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

THE MURDER BY A POLICEMAN.  SENSATIONAL CONFESSION.  At the resumed inquest at Hammersmith on Wednesday upon the body of a woman found murdered in Wormwood Scrubs on Wednesday week, and in connection with which Police-constable Cooke is in custody, Ellen Godman, wife of a house painter at Tottenham, identified deceased as her daughter by a former husband, named Lockley. She stated that deceased was= years of age, and was a single woman.—Mrs Kate Robinson, with whom Cooke lodged, gave evidence that on the day following the murder she saw him burying something in the garden. Witness afterwards rcruoved the earth and •saw a truncheon and whistle. Deceased had visited Cooke at her house, and they then seemed on good terms.—The last witness's husband, a policeman, stated that Cooke told him he had picked the girl up in the Strand when she was leading an immoral life, and that she would come in for iZoo.—Constable Macdonald stated that on Thursday last, in the charge-room, Cooke said to him, in alluding to the crime, "They have not yet got the instrument with which it was done. It is a good job they did not catch me red-handed."--SubInspector Hatcher gave evidence as to the confession which he said Cooke made to him' after remarking "I suppose it is no use trying to get out of it," Cooke wont on to say that on the night in question the woman visited him on his beat and they had an altercation. 1.13 continued :—" Thinkhig to get out of her way I went across the Scrubbs, but she followed me: In going across I took my truncheon out of my pocket, and put it up my sleeve. When near the spat where she was found I said, 'Are you going ? She said, 'No; lam going to stop and annoy you till Sunday, and then you can yourself.' She then turned her head. I drew my truncheon and hit her on the side of the head. She fell down, and never moved. I then hit her, I think, twice on the head, once under the jaw. I then placed my foot on her neck and kept it there for about ten minutes. She never moved, but gave one gurgle. I then went back to the prison and saw P.C. Kemp, and we were very jolly all night. She was always annoying me, and I was in misery." The above confe :sion create'l profound sensation amongst the public in court. ' —lnspector Morgan aaid Mr Godman was mistaken in supposing deceased to be her daughter. summing up the Coroner said Cooke's alleged confession was a most damning piece of , evidence, particularly as it showed premeditation. —After the jury had consulted for an hour and , a-half the Foreman said they found a verdict of murder against Cooke, but that he received great provocation. There appeared to be some difference of opinion among the jury, however, and they were directed to again retire.—On returning a second time the jury said that by a bare majority they had found Cooke guilty of the wilful murder of the woman with great provocation. This verdict was recorded.
The North-Eastern Weekly Gazette. — 1893-12-30 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

KICKING A DRUNKEN WIFE. A JURY'S SYMPATHY. At Button Town Hall on Wednesday a Coroner's jury enqaired into the eircumstanon surrounding the death of Margaret 33.s,Derby. aged 3; the wife of James McDelby, a bill distributor and a pensioner oi the Royal Irish Constabulary. The husband, who stands remanded by the magistrates on the charge of murder, was present at the enquiry. The evidenoe of a son and a daughter, as well as that of a neighbour, showed that the deceased _woman was in the habit of giving way to drink, and pawning anything that was bandy in the home. On Saturday night the husband arrived home wet through, and I asking his wife for his shirt to effect a change, was told that it had been pawned as well as a blanket. This led to a quarrel, which ended in the woman's death. An eight-year•old daughter, , who was a witness of the scene, gave evidence to the Coroner. She said her father on ' - finding that his shirt had been pawned knouked her mother down and kicked her. Her mother re- I fused to get up, and then witness was sent by her father for some bread along with her brother. On their return her mother was laid on the sofa bleeding. She only saw her father kick her mother once. This witness, as well as a son, stated that the deceased often sent them with clothing to pawn for drink, and added that their father was always kind to them. Prisoner when arrested said, "Yes, I kicked her. I could not hold my temper; the devil overcame me."—The Coroner said the prisoner had had a bad wife, and he thought his pi oveiAtion was such as to allow the jury returning a verdict of manslaughter. One juryman suggssted they should let the prisoner off altogether; another was for returning a verdict of accidental death; a third hvoured justifiable homicide; a fourth said the tnan should not be punished at all, having done it in se]f -defence ; and a fifth held that if they agreed to manslaughter they should add a rider that prisoner had had great provocation.—The Coroner said it would be beet to simply return a -verdict of "Manslaughter." and this was unani• monsly agreed to. The Coroner also allowed bail.  A renewal of the disturbance is reported at rontymister, where the steelworkers are on strike against a reduction in wages. A number of &admen and North of England ironworkers have been imported, and the works are garrisoned by the county police. The strikers attempted to make a raid upon the Scotehmen at their work, when the police intervened, and endeavoured toget the stnkers away. The men, however, assumed such a menacing attitude that Superintendent Boaangnet drew up the constables, and charged the mob. Several men were injured in the con. flick One of the strikers was conve7ed to the police statics, and placed under medical treatment. Sloes were Mao thrown at the police. iloperetimadest Breeocieet wee atrnek in the hoe &Ara d the rioettabies was also injured. Ow 41 the Mame hill et the river during the SlNSollitimi wee Fawned by the pekoe Alter 000diat the crowd was dispersed, end " woe imarsieuely drafted WO