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The Dewsbury Chronicle, and West Riding Advertiser. — 1882-05-27 (Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, England)

THE MURDER OF A FISHER BOY. EXECUTION OF BRAND. _ _  On Tuesday morning, at eight o'clock, Osman Otto Brand, the ekipper and proprietor of the Rising Sun smack, which sails from the port of Hull, paid the last penalty of the law in the county gaol, Leeds, for the murder of his apprentice, William Pepper, under circumstances which heve rarely been paralleled in the annals of crime. Since his conviction, with rare intervals of despondency, Brand has behaved in a light-hearted manner, hts impending doom not seeming to weigh heavily on his imagination. On Saturday last Mrs. Brand SW/ him for the last time, and this painful interview had a cchering effect. On Monday he wrote a long statement of the care, which was forwarded to the Homo Office, and he also wrote to his wife. He rose on Tuesday morning in wonderfully good spirits, and paid attention to the ministrations of the chaplain. The pinioning process was deftly inerformed by Marwood. and the condemned man paid but little heed to it. The trying walk to the scaffold was accomplished with remerkable fortitude. Brand stood under the beere whilst the rope was adjusted round his neck, apparently free from the slightest fear. His look was dim:oy upwards, and his lips moved evidently in earueat prayer. Marwood allowed a drop of eight feet. Another account states that when Marwood pinioned the culprit he was terribly startled, but reamed by a great effort to reeein.eoreposure. On the way to the gallows he was evideritty evffering keen mental anguish, though he at•empted to control it. A long drop was allowed, and death was very speedy, being preceded with only slight struggling.  Brand's trial was opened at Leeds Assizes on the 4th inst., before Mr. Justice Watkin Williams. The evidence of eye-witnesses showed that the boy was killed by inches, between December 23rd and December 29th las, by a slow, in the first instance, and then by a rapid course of persistent cruelty of the most shocking character. The smack, of which Brand was the captain, left Hull on the 16:h December with six hands, including the deceased. As soon as they had got to Bunk Island, in the Humber, Brand began his course of ill-treatment. The deceased was thrashed with thick roves, sticks, and other articles, and caused to stand at the helm for three days and nights in the North Sea in the depth of winter. Boone of bucketsful of sea water were thrown upon him there. He was set up as a butt for Brand and others, hoisted up the oross-treee, and dropped upon the deck. He was lowere.d into the bilge water, his month filled with filth, and he was systematically starved. Pepper died on the 29th of December, and The prisoner set up a report that he had been washed overboard. The Me was conclusively proved, and the trial, which lasted two days, ended in the conviction of the accused, who was sentenced to death without any hope of mercy being held out. No attempt was made to obtain a reprieve.
The Dewsbury Chronicle, and West Riding Advertiser. — 1882-12-16 (Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, England)

THE STATE OF IRELAND.  E XECUTION OF THE JOYCE FAMILY MURDERERS. DECLARATIONS OF INNOCENCE.  Yesterday morning, Patrick J ycs, Myles Joyce, and Patrick Casey were executed in Galway Gaol for tee share they took in the Maamtraena murders. The three condemned men were aroused at six o'clock, and shortly afterwards made their confessions, and received the last sacraments of the Roman Catholic Cherch. They all refueed to eat or drink anything. The executicn was fixed for eight o'clock. Each of them was pinioned in his own cell. Patrick Casey and Patrick Jeyoe bore the operation with the greatest firmness. Myles Joyce, daring all the time It was proceeding, asserted his innocence, and resisted alarwoad slightly. At 8-15 the first of the condemned, Myles Joyce, made his appearanee ; he was followed by Patrick Casey and Patrick Joyce, known daring the trial as Patrick Joyce of Snaunallehill, to distinguish him from the other prisoner of the same name, charged with the offence. He was immediately preceded by Marwood, carrying a number of ropes, and was followed by the Rev. Mr. Graven, parish priest, repeating the Litany for the dying. Patrick Joyce alone repeated the responses, which he did in a low but firm voice. The procession then proceeded about 200 yards to the scaffold. The prisoners, with the exception of Casey, mounted the steps without assistance, and were then placed in position by Marwood under the three ropes which were dangling from the cross-beam. After this was done Myles Joyce, turning to the kn rt of spectators, made a number of exclamations in the Irish lan• gaege to the effect that he was innocent of toe c-ime, but the other two men did not says word. On Marwood going up to him to adjest the rope round his neck he resisted slightly, and the other two men permitted a like operation to be performel In their oases without the least resistance. The executioner then drew the white cap over Patrick Joyce's face, then over Casey's, and finally over Myles Joyce's. The latter, however, who continued to talk all the time most vehemently, twisted his head in some manner after the cap had been drawn over his head, and Marwood had again to arrange the noose round his throat, the other two continuing all the time perfectly passive. Myles Joyce even then did not cease speaking, and continued thus " I am going before my God, and I am as innocent as the child unborn. I neither raised hand nor foot against the people. I had neither hand, act, or part in the murders." At this instant Marwood drew the bolt, and the three men disappeared from view. The prison was surrounded by sentries all night, and a body of police were on duty outside yesterday morning to quell any disturbance which might arise, but scarcely a dozen persons assem'eled either at the gate or around the place, even after the black flag had been run up to show that the sentence of the law had been carried out. The bodies hung for an hour, when they were cut down, and an inqaest held by the coroner, Mr. Cottingham. The usual verdict was returned.
The Dewsbury Chronicle, and West Riding Advertiser. — 1882-05-20 (Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, England)

THE FENIANS AND THE ALIEN ACT. Tne Fenians will denounce the revival of the Alien I Act. The miscreants who plan ctxtragez and murders I will find it difficult to procure agents to wet cute the diabolical crimes when there is some peril of detection ; ! and unless there ar3 outrages and nenrdere in Ireland the Fenian revenue in the United States falls off, and that does not snit the Fenian leaders. There will proaably be an appeal to the United States Goeernment to assert the right of Americans to visit and reside in the United Kingdom; hnt es Sir W. Harcourt said, the exercise of the right to remove foreigners who are clangorous to the safety ef society cannot be complained of by any nation. The people of America will only regret that, instead of removing the Fenian agents, the British Government will not be in a position to consign them to life-long penal servitude. It won't; be a gross insult to the American people to have the best doubt that they detest the wretches who openly declare that they are plotting and directing most abominable crimes in a foreign country. It is remarkable that public opinion in America has not demanded a cheek being pot to some of the Fenian proceedings. The Home Secretary said :—" It is well known to this House that much of this deadly work is performed by foreign agents. We know that abroad there ie onen advocacy of murder, of explosions, of dynamite. We know that subscription:: are opened for the assassination of men in public eitnations. It is not for the emissaries of O'Donovan Rosen that the hospitality of England is offered." Such a statement made by a Minister of the Crown in the Houte of Commons onght to attract attention on the other side et the Atlantic. It is not only a breach of international courtesy, but also a violation of the Law of Nations, for a Government to to:erate the open incitement to the commission of crimes in a foreign country. Even when nations are at war it is not allowable for any entajects of a belligerent Power to do any hostile act against the enemy unless there is the express authoritation of the Government. It follows that when nations aect at peace any hostile act against the peace of the foreign State should be prohibited, prevented, and treated as a punishable offence. However, there is one excuse, and to a great degree a valid excuse for the United States Government and people not interfering with the Feniano, even of the Bosta section. Such interference might be extremely difficult; and, en the other hand, the British Government has an easy and certain remedy for the evil. Deal with the Fenian agents as persons Ruilty of an offence against the Law of Nations—an offence which, in law, deprives them of the protection of their own Government, and also of any claim to the erivileges of the municipal law of the foreign country, and there would soon be an end to the United Kingdom being infested by American miscreants. The revival of the Alien Act is the beginning of such a defensive policy.—Evening Standard.
The Dewsbury Chronicle, and West Riding Advertiser. — 1895-07-24 (Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, England)

BOY.  On Saturday, at North London Police-col rt, before Mr. Bros, Frederick Charlotte, a cadaverous fellow, of Queensland-road, Holloway, was charged, on a warrant, for illtreating his son in a manner calculated to cause him unnecessary suffering and to endanger his life. Mr. Clarke pall prosecuted for the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, and sOd this was a very sad case. The prisoner had a son christened Prince Albert, 15 years of age, who was now far gone in consumption. The boy was in an exceedingly weak and nervous condition, and ir was suggested that his illness was considerably aggravated by the prisoner coming home night after night and creating a disturbance. This usually had the effect of producing violent coughing for the poor boy, and the society had taken these proceedings as a last resort. The prisoner had been frequently warned as to the danger to the boy as a consequence of these disturbances. The prisoner had been gradually selling up his home, and one after another his children had left him. The prisoner's cruelty culminated on the 11th inst., when he, at 13 o'clock in the morning, went into the bedroom in which the sick boy lay. pulled down all the pictures, took all the bedclothes off, and threw them and the pillows out of the window, and the bed down the stairs. The sick boy was taken to a neighbour's house where he had been kept ever since at the expense of the society. %The prisoner's excuse for this conduct was that he was going to whitewash the room.—A daughter of the prisoner bore out this statement, and added that for a long time her father had kept them awake until 2 in the morning, and was up again at 5 in the morning whistling and dinging about the house and doing all he could to annoy her poor little sick brother.—Mrs. Sheppard, a neighbour, who had taken the sick child into her house, said that on the morning of the 11th inst. Prince Charlotte screamed "Murder!" from his bedroom window, and she went in, and took she boy away. He was almost fainting from excitement —Mrs. Evans, a neighbour, said she had at times given the sick boy food of which she thought he had not a sufficiency.—Dr. Pollard, who had attended the sick boy, said the latter was in the last stage of .consumption, and no doubt the conduct deposed to was very prejudicial to his life. The boy needed mcri iallipavy us urn eutaeby, nom I.IQU called at the hou,e the prisoner was the .worse for drink, and used such violent language.in the room that the boy occupied that he (witness) left the place for the sake of the boy. At another visit he (witness) found the boy alone, and with only a saucer of sopped bread for his sustenance.—The prisoner now attributed all the disturbances in the house to his wife's aggravating ways.—Mr. Bros bound the prisoner in a sum of £5 to be of good behaviour for 12 months; and to pay for the support of the sick boy in his new quarters until he is 16 years of age.  TO
The Dewsbury Chronicle, and West Riding Advertiser. — 1872-01-27 (Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, England)

STRANGE ACCIDENT.—The Yew York Sun says :—"Miss Mary Ellen Foy, a young lady whose throat was cut by the core of an apple in the Normal School a few days ago, is dying. She was eating the apple, and while in the act of swallowing a portion of the core it cut the lining of her throat and several of the arteries like a knife. Her classmates were astonished to see her fall over on the floor and vomit large quantities of blood. She was carried to the Police Station, but little could be done for her beyond keeping her perfectly quiet. Her mother, who had been summoned, was not allowed to remove her until next morning, for fear of fatal consequences. The poor woman sat in the.station-honse watching her daughter all night. Next day she took her home, where she had lain ever since, slowly wastingnwey, It is impossible for her to swallow anything whatever, and her stomach has become so contractod that nothing can enter it. She is so weak, from loss of blood and starvation, that the physicians in, attendance refuse to perform any operation on her, or even to insert a silver feeding-tube below the wound, as has been successfully done in other instances where the mouth or throat have been injured. They say that she could not survive an instant. She was a bright, amiable young woman, very much esteemed and beloved by her acauaintancee." A WIFE SAWN TO PIEOES BY -HER HUSBAND —A men, named Casimir Vignal, has just been tried at the Loire Assizes, on a charge of murdering his wife, whose corpse he deposed of by sawing it in pieces, and throwing them into the river near Saint-Chamond. The murderer was formerly a member of a religious fraternity, which he Quitted because he could not agree on some of the regulations. He afterwards married a young woman named Claudine Piret, of whom he entertained feelings of • jealousy. She disappeared in September, 1870, at which time it is supposed the crime was committed. To the enquiries made concerning her, the murderer (who has confessed his crime) told two different stories; ene being that she had gone into service at Lyons, and the other that she had probably followed the Mobiles who left that part of the country. The discovery of the murder was -mede as far back as January last. Some workmen employed at a woollen factory, found the trunk of a ' woman in the weir connected with the works. The head, arms, and legs were gone, having evidently been cut off with a saw. A search was matde for the other portions of the body, and the river being dragged, the head and other A pertions were all found, and the 'corpse identified as that la. of Vignal's wife. In his defence, be pleaded that his victim was a liar, a glutton, and a thief, and, unfaithful >llO towards him. The tribunal found the prisoner prilty without premeditation, and he was sentenced to hard reek labour for life:
The Dewsbury Chronicle, and West Riding Advertiser. — 1872-11-23 (Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, England)

THE PICKERIN-G MURDERS.  FURTHER DISCOVERY OF BONES  An inqUest on the remains found in the sack on Charter's farm at Lastingham, was held before Mr. Nass, the district coroner, on Saturday last. John Wood, brother of the deceased, gave evidence as to his disappearance. Thomas Stead and John Dobson deposed to the - finding of a portion of the deceased's clothing on the farm after Charters had left it.  Police-superintendent John Jones deposed to the apprehension of the man Charters, and, in the course of his evidence, said :—On the 14th Charter called to witness from his cell at the police station, and said, "I want to tell you the whole truth about it." Witness gave him the usual caution. Charter said, "I wish you to take it down in writing." He then made the following statement, in the presence of Inspector Nicholson and witness :—" A little before three o'clock on Saturday, the 18th May, I heard a noise and got up, and came out. I found Joseph Wood laid against the gatestead leading from the front garden to the stick heap in the orchard. He was dead. There was some blood about his head and on the ground. I took him into the barn, and placed him amongst the straw in the barn, thinking I should. be blamed for murdering him. I went and foddered the horses and cows. I let him lay there about a week. I then took and buried him in the orchard near the stick heap. About three weeks after I saw three bones of the boy in the foldyard. It appeared as if he had bean devoured by the pigs. They were leg bones. I buried the bones against his father. I let them remain there till about a week before I was coming away. I tried to pull him out. His clothes-slipped off. I took his clothes and threw •them into the pond. I took the remains and put them in a bag, and took them to one of my fields near Lastingham, and placed them in a hole in a corner of the field next to Lastingham. No one had any concern in it but myself. After that I began to feel concerned about it. On, Sunday, the 19th May, I thought I should be blamed for murdering him, and I wrote a letter, and I saw a young man coming from Rosedale, and asked him if he was leaving Rosedale, and he said that he was :going to Liverpool, and going to leave this country for America. I asked him to go into the house with me and wait a few minutes until I had written a letter. He went in, and I gave him something to eat. I then wrote the letter and gave it to him, and told him to post it at Liverpool. I thought it would save so much trouble searching and rummaging about till things had got settled. I received the letter back again in a day or two afterwards from the postman. John has nothing to do with it. He knows nothing about it. I have never seen him since the Sunday before Kirby Moorhouse steeplechase. (Signed)
The Dewsbury Chronicle, and West Riding Advertiser. — 1872-05-04 (Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, England)

THE ALABAMA QUESTION.  The Times thinks it would be an odd result of some eight years of agitation if the Tribunal of Arbitrators were finally to determine that we were not liable to pay anything whatever in respect of the breaches of neutrality imputed to us, and it is odder still that a finding of this kind would be really acceptable to both nations. We should, of course, be well pleased at being exonerated from liability, while the United States' Government would be gratified at having brought us to submit to Arbitration without having exposed themselves to onerous obligations as neutrals in the future. Yet, in fact, nothing is more likely than that this may be the result of the appeal to the Tribunal at Geneva. No man is a good judge in his own cause, and what we say must be accepted with this qualification; but an examination made as impartially as possible of the charges against us as laid before the Arbitrators leads us to the conclusion that there is nothing whatever on which to found a hostile verdict against us in respect of any ship, except possibly the Alabama. In the case of the Alabama there is evidence to go to a jury, but even in respect of this ship there is nothing more, and the decision must turn on the measure of "due diligence" adopted by the Arbitrators.  that the claimant is Orton. If all England were polled, the claimant would have a majority of five to one in his favour. All I can say is that if the plaintiff had committed murder and had fled his country for fifteen years, the evidence in reference to the scar on his head, the twitching of the eyebrow, the lancemark on his foot, his knock-knee, and his peculiar gait, would have hung him. My own opiniou is that a great injustice has been done the plaintiff, inasmuch as I firmly believe him to be the rightful heir, and I shall always continue to think so, even if he were hanged at the Old Bailey to-morrow. As I have said before, the great body of the public are dissatisfied with the'trial, and unless his opponents can produce positive evidence to show that he is another man than Tichborne, they will always remain dissatisfied. Of course, the affair will not rest where it is. Pray why was not Gosford put in the box, and Arthur Orton's sister and Holmes? The fact is, the principal witnesses were suppressed. Orton's sisters were kept in the court for days in order that the public might fancy they were there for the purpose of swearing that the plaintiff was their brother. The defendant's counsel, however, never intended to call them. To .cut the matter short —if he is not Roger Tichborne, surely the defendants, with their commission enquiries and detectives, can prove who he is. If Judge Bovill and the jury do not require this information, the public do.—Correspondent of the Indian Daily News.
The Dewsbury Chronicle, and West Riding Advertiser. — 1872-06-01 (Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, England)

BOOKSELLER ROBBED OF. £ls.—Abram Gehrenstein, 31, hawker, King's Arms Yard, St. Peter's-street, Leeds, was on Thursday placed in the dock at the Town Hall, before Mr. Bruce, charged with having assaulted and robbed 21r. James Lord, bookseller, Dewsbury-road. The prosecutor, according to his, own statement, was in Lowerhead-row On Wedneichiy night, 'about eleven o'clock. He had had something to drink, but was not drunk, and knew perfectly well what he was doing. The Prisoner and several others came up to him, knocked him down, g n wnLeainnd robbed him of his purse containing £l5-412 gold, naenrdwtahs e there sit man w n silver.h n knocked down; he could not say who robbed him. The prisoner, when apprekerided by the police shortly after, said he was not the man, ' but he knew the guilty peaty. On being searched, some told and silver, atuounting to about w oud himl swear that the £3, were found upon him.—Mr. Bruce having asked him if he had anything to-say, he entered into a long stateMent. lie admitted being present, and stated that the prosecutor was drunk—very drunk. There was a crowd about, and he went to see what was to do. He did not steal the money! He had a good character, and had lived in Leeds for eleven years.—Mr. Bruce thought the case was one for further enquiry, and remanded the prisoner for a week. FRIGHTFUL MURDER OF A WHOLE FAMlLY.—Captain Patty, of the schooner Flirt', 'who has .arrived in New York, from Martinique, brings intelligence of the massacre of a family numbering' ten persons, on May 2nd, in the French settlement of St. Peter's, on that island. A gendarme, patrolling stealthily in the darkness from John Feuthe village early on that day, saw three towards the beach. He obtained gmi ee e house, c api assistance, and, launching a whaleboat, followed the fugitives, who were then in a sailboat. They were overtaken and handcuffed after a desperate struggle. John Fougier's ~hous,e 'was :then examined. John Fougier, jun.. his wife, and four children lay weltering in blood. John Fougier'e, head had been cut off with an , axe, and a daughter, who had evidently been awakened by the noise,-lay on the floor in a pool of blood. William Fougier had been shot twice through the headin his room, and the bedy of Jean Fottgier lay in another room, with gashes in the head ami breast,' and shot wounds in the stomach and neck. Ten _bodies in 01l were found in the .heuse. The family- had inherited 6,000,000 francs from relatives in Bordeaux. The assassins were Louie Bertheniy, an heir under the will, and two desperadoes who had accompanied him from France. Berthemy had coutested in the French courts the will of John Bertherny, by which a large fortune had been left to Marie Beano:lay, the wife of John Fougier, and the courts, after a tedious litigation, had decided in her favour. John Fougier had refused din France to consent to any comprornise, anti it is supposed that Berthemy plotted the massacre of the entire fentilv in order to ohtarn possession of the property. The a',.eged murderers have been sent to France for trial.