The Potteries Examiner : — 1872-01-13 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

ONE LUNATIC MURDERED BY ANOTHER-On Monday an inquest was opened by Mr. Humphreys, at the Grove-hall Lunatic Asylum, Bow, touching the death of a military lunatic patient named Dickson, who was murdered by another patient on Boxing-day. Deceased, with others, was working in the grounds removing a heap of rubbish four feet high, using Asap spades. The evidence went to show that a fellow-patient, named Solyms.n, had killed the deceased with a spade, but no sane person was present, as the attendant had gone away for a few minutes. Medical evidence was taken, and the inquiry was adjourned. MEMORIAL CHAPEL TO THE EARL OF Daunt—The Liverpool Mercury says :—"A stranger visiting Knowsley Church, on Sunday morning, would, for some time at lead, have failed to observe that the day was associated with any unusual oocurrefl. ; yet the service was connected with an event of special interest to the locality, and not altogether uninteresting, probably, to many throughout the nation. Edward Geoffrey Stanley, the fourteenth and late Earl of Derby, was no less distinguished for his high intellectual attainments and statesmanship than for the nobility of disposition and the kindly feeling which were evinced towards all with whom he mime in contact. None experienced the force of them excellent qualities more, perhaps, than the tenants with whom he had not unfrequent personal intercourse in the management of his extensive estate at Knowsley; and therefore it was with the most poignant sorrow they mourned his death, now more than two years since. Soon after that sad event a very general desire was manifested by the fr..nantry, and a large number of other friends in the neighbourhood, to record in a lasting manner their respect and esteem for his memory, and ultimately it was decided to add to the parish church of Knowsley a chantry or memorial chapel containing a statue of the late earl. The new chapel was inaugurated on Sunday morning, and allusion was appropriately made in the course of the sermon to the late Earl, whose memory was more especially recalled by the interesting event of that day. The total cost of the memorial chapel is about £3,000, of which nearly £l,OOO has been expended on the statue and tomb. At the service on Sunday morning there was a large attendance. The congregation included the Earl and Countess of Derby and family. Service was conducted by the Bishop of Chester; the Rev. Edward Hereby, rector of diary; the Rev. William Peilden, vicar of Knowsley; and the Rev. J. B. Bolton, curate of the parish and private chaplain to the Earl of Derby."  THE WOMAN SUFFRAGE QUESTION IN Aetsatcs.—Elisabeth Cady Stanton, Isabella Beecher Hooker, Elizabeth S. Bladen, Olympia Brown, Bru3an B. Anthony, and Josephine S. Gritting, have united in a memorial presented to Senator Trembull and referred to the Committee on Judiciary, asking for the enactment of a law giving female suffrage, and asking that they may be permitted in person, and in behalf of the thousands of other women who are petitioning Congress to the same effect, to be heard upon this memorial before the Senate and House at an early day of the present session. CAPTURE OF A NOTORIOUS SWINDLER John Hewett, with about twenty aliases, ha a been remanded before the county magistrates at Northampton charged with defrauding numerous persons, including ladies of rank, of jewellery, furs, and sealskin jackets, which had been advertised in the Exchange awl Mart. He was captured by Detective. Inspector Swain, Northamptonshire Police, at one of his homes in Green-street, in the above town, while he was unpacking a parcel that he had just received, and which the detective had watehed being fetched from the railway station by a boy. A warrant for forging the name of the editor of the Exchange and Mart is out against him.