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Middlesbrough & Stockton Gazette and General Advertiser. — 1872-10-03 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

GAZETTE.  t 't•l  - 1  rejcitner).  I prevented  4,0,0 .0/100 gokup and . me, and tried to take liberties with me. I struggled with him to ;prevent him from doing 80. He then struck ree several times on the head and face, knocking me down. Whilst I was down the prisoner tried again to take liberties with me. Whett‘ I tried to ehont, he put his band over my mouth, and prevented me from doing so. All the struggling took place in the dark. I then got free from the prisoner and crept under a table win re the prisoner failed to find me and where I waited until he fell asleep. I then slipped out.! the house and went to the police office where I gave information of what had taken place. Twooffioers came back with me and I gave the prisoner into onstody, during the time I was struggling with the in isoner I received several severe blows on my head face and body. I never saw the prisoner before. Cross-examined by Nfr Bainbridge: The proseoutrix said she did not invite Hunter to go with her. She went to the Live and let live" beerhonse, in Deerestreet, where Mrs Samson had furnished rooms. She did not tell her young men to go to her back door. Her husband was master of the " Viceroy " stearntug. There was meat on the table at Mrs Somer's sufficient for three or four people, but she did not go for it. She had only had one glass of wine that afternoon, and was perfectly sober. Inspector Mauer said that about three o'clock on Sunday morning the prisoner was brought to the police-office by Sergeant Tomlin accompanied by Mrs Cowell. She stated that the prisoner had got into her house and tried to ravish her, and that because she resisted he abused her. This took place she said between ten and eleven o'clock on the previous evening, but she did not give information sooner, ae the prisoner threatened I. murder her if she shouted. Mrs Cowell was very drunk, and had apparently been beastly drunk.—Sergt. Tomlin gave similar testimony.—A Mrs Graham deposed that she called on Mrs Samson to give her a cake on Satan day night. There was lin old missionary there. (Laughter.) In an hour and a half she went back again. There was a tall man and a young man present. Mrs Samson said that Mrs Cowell had gone out for meat. Mr Bainbridge said the real facts of the ease were—that the defendant ',poke to the complainant in the market-plane. She asked him to go to Mrs Samson's to get drink, which was paid for by defendant and Hunter, who also paid for the meat which Mrs Cowell fetched. Complainant induced the defendant to accompany him home, and the first thing he remembered was the policeman finding him on the hearth stone in her house. The evidence for the complainant was so conflicting that the Bench dismissed the charge of assault, each party to pay their own costs. Defendant was then. fined 10a 6d for being drunk.
Middlesbrough & Stockton Gazette and General Advertiser. — 1872-02-15 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

FEB. 15, 1872.  ASSASSINATION OF THE GOVERNOR. GENERAL OF INDIA. We deeply regret to state that a telegram was received at the India Office, on Monday, to the effect that Lord Mayo, while engaged on Thunaday in inspecting the convict prison in the Andaman Islands, was stabbed in two places by a Mahometan prisoner, marl died on the spot. The feeling of con. sternation Oast prevailed at the meeting of the -House of Commas an the afternoon, when the con. tents of this telegram became known, is more easily imagined than described. According to the dee. patch, the Viceroy was assassinated on the Bth inst., at seven o'clock in the evening, by a convict who had been convicted of murder in 1367, and sen. tenced to transportation for lite. Lord Mayo was no his way to the boat to return to the man-of-war, when the convict, under cover of elle darkness, suddenly broke through the guard, and stabbed him twice in the back. HIS lordship expired shortly afterwards. The assassin was arrested, and would be tried at once. Lord Mayo was on a visit to the Andaman Islands, whilst returning to Calcutta from Rangoon. Just before quitting the Indian capital, which he left on Thursday, the 25th of Jariumy last, in the flagship Glasgow, he had royally received the young King of Siam, and his stay in Burnish had been attended with the happiest results. The late Vice. roy, Richard Southwell Bourke, better known as Lord Naas, was the eldest son of the fifth Marl of Mayo, and was born in Dublin on the 21st Feb. ruary, 1822. He was educated at Trinity College, lin his native city. He was Chief Secretary for Ireland in Lord Derby's administration, in 1852, and on that occasion was made a Privy Councillor. He held the same office in Lord Derby's second administration in 1858-59, and again, with a seat in the Cabinet, in Lord Derby's Government in 1866. He was returned to the House of Commons as sae of the members in the Conservative interest for the ccapaty of Kildare, in August, 1847, and was mem. bee for Coleraine from March, 1862, till March, 1857, when he was returned as member for Cocker. mouth. This seat he held tiff December, 1868, when he was appointed to the Governor• General. ship of India by Mr Disraeli, in whose administration he had dield office, after the ietirement of his former leader. •He was the author of a work entitled "St. Petersburg and Moscow," and succeeded his father as sixth Earl of Mayo, in the Peerage of Ireland, in August, 1867. Iu 1843 he married Blanche Julia, daughter of the first Baron Lecon. field, and leaves a family of four sons and two daughters. His eldest sun, who succeeds him in the Peerage, was born 1851, and holds a commission in the army. Lady Mayo is at present in India. The news of Lord Mayo's death created a deep feeling of grief in Dublin, which was shown by all classes. By this time the body of the late Viceroy has probably arrived at Calcutta by the ship Glasgow.
Middlesbrough & Stockton Gazette and General Advertiser. — 1872-02-08 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

THE MEELERA REPORT.—The Army and Nary Gazette understands that the MegEera Commissioners have signed their report, but of course it cannot be made public until submitted to fler Dfajesty the Queen, which we presume it will be on Monday next.  A Board of Trade inquiry was held at Leith on Saturday into the loss of the steamer Hazard, which while going at full speed struck on Port Eynon point in the Bristol Channel. The court suspended Captain Campbell for three months and censured the mate.  The Lancet announces that Sir William Gull has just purchased the estate of Relugas, in Morayshire, a county of which, in common with Sir William Jenner, he holds a high opinion for its mild and equable climate, and to which he has frequently sent his phthsical patients. SAFETY OF THE BARQUE BYETHORN, OF SOUTH Sins.—On Saturday night, a letter was received in South Shields, from Captain Gibson, of the Byethorn, which stated that the barque was lying in Portland Roads, all well. The anxiety felt in the district for the vessel's safety will thus be set at rest.  The will of Bishop Patteson, who was murdered by the savages in the South Seas, on the 20th September last, has been received from New Zealand. He leaves the whole of his fortune—upwards of £l2,ooo—to the mission work to which his life was devoted. ,The Bishop was unmarried, and had been ten years away. from England at the time of his death. The London correspondent of the Leeds Mercury writes reduction of upwards of £1,000,000 has been made in the army and navy estimates. This very considerable decrease in the national expendi• ture has, I have reason to believe, been effected without in any way decreasing the efficiency of either of those two great branches of the public service. At Sheffield, on Saturday morning, a child in the family of a shoemaker, several of whose members were suffering from small-pox, met with a fatal amident. The boy had been placed by the father's side while the latter was asleep, and the father, being unaware of this, rolled up the child in the bedding and threw it into a corner, thus causing suffocation.  • A meeting of the United Kingdom Alliance was held Maltnn last week, but the objects of the society being very unpopular in the town, a strong opposition was offered to the proceedings, and they were consequently of a very turbulent character. Fights took place in the ball, and the meeting was broken up by the police without any resolutions being passed. It is calculated that the defence in the Tichborne case costs at least £5OO per day. This is not exaggeration, but fact. The trial has already lasted 85 days —say that it lasts but 150—a sanguine hypothesis— and the costs of one side only will amount to £75,000 ! This calculation, it must be added, includes the expenses incurred in sending out commissions to Chili and to Australia. —Globe .
The Weekly Gazette for Middlesbrough, Stockton, Hartlepool and Cleveland District. — 1879-05-24 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

III. we b.came aware of the curious fact that while we bad been engaging a few Zulus at one side, a very large number of them had come the way we ascended, and others to otr right and leit, and that we were being surrounded. A very few minutes' aobservation was suffici,-lit to convey the terrible impression to our minds that once more the Zulus had got us into trap, and that we weoe going to have to tight for our lives to get out of it as best as we could or die. The wily savages began to appear od every side—not in twos or three., but in hundreds and thousands. Some of them had ev.dently climbed what to us seemed a positively perpendicular buttress On our left. We leoked to our commanding officer to know what was to be done. Our retreat was cut off, and there was nothing to be done but either fight it out to the end" or endeavour to escape down an almost perpendicular pass a few hundred yards in front of us. There had been too much "fighting it out to the end" in the two months immediately preceding Isaudnla, and the prospect of falling by the hands of Zulus was calculated to mouse all that was self-protective in a white man. I should have stated that Captain Barton had been detached with a portion of his force ti bring in or bury the dead, and that Colonel Weatberley and his corps had also got separated from the main body. Well, there was but Dne outlet for us, and towards it we had orders to gallop. I was in the rear, and when I reached the place the sight was sickening. There was an almost perpendicular pass about tea feet wide, and about 300 or 41;0 yards down. It was filled with rough, ragged boulders, between which were crevices, where once the poor horse and rider fell he was seen no more. It seemed full of horses and, men floundering one upon the other in dire and dreadful confusion, while the Zahn; were pouring a murderous fire amongst them. How I gut down I do not know; I have not met with a single comrade yet who does. The chief sensation I experienced was that behind me, at about 800 yards distance, was a very strong force of Zulus, yelling in a , manner the most bloodthirsty and fiendish. In one or two places progress was altogether impeded by chasms six or eight feet wide, and it was only by jumping them, or rather risking the attempt, for many a poor fellow lost his footing and his life here, that farther descent was possible. Nearly all the horses were killed or had to be left before we reached the bottom. All this time the Zulus were firing on us, and, amid the most piteous shrieks for mercy, rushing from the sides of the pass and asseeaieing cur poor fellows. How any of us escaped it is to me, and almost every one else, a miracle.
The Weekly Gazette for Middlesbrough, Stockton, Hartlepool and Cleveland District. — 1879-04-12 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

SERIOUS DISASTER AT SIL LOTH.  COLLAPSE OF THE DOCK GATES.  A singular disaster has befallen the port of Silloth, Cumberland. On Sunday afternoon one of the entrance-gates to the principal dock gave way whilst the dock was being filled, and the water rushing out with great force carried away about twenty yards of the West Pier head. The effect of the damage has been to cause a complete stoppage to the trade of the port for some months, although arrangements may be made for temporarily using the jetty. About twenty vessels, including the screw steamer Silloth, trading to Liverpool, are imprisoned in the dock until the obstructien can he removed. The damage is estimated at £23,000. Silloth Dock forms part of the Carlisle and Silloth Bay Dock and Railway Company's property, which is leased on a long lease to the North British Railway Company.  William Hebron is to have a "thou" by way of compensation. If William is wise he will take a pub, and paint his name over the door in large letters. In a few years he may retire, and tell his children the story of how he was condemned, first to death, and then to penal servitvde for life, and set them pondering on the ways of justice. At the present moment ther 3is also a young woman walking about and enjoying herself who has heard a judge in a black cap mention her neck. A dramatist in search of a situation, who married a young man found guilty of murder and sentenced to a young woman found guilty of murder and sentenced, would be pelted by the probabilityites. Yet Alice Rhodes and William Habron are spinster and bachelor —midi who knows what may happen ?—Referee. In a late broach-of-promise case the lover was convicted of writing, "Mi hart beets mily for the. Mi darling huney." Lasu " QUARTETTE," WITH A LITTLE ONE —This interesting sentence occurs in the report of a concert held in Coleraine : '"Come where my love lies dreaming' was sung as a quartette magnificently by Miss M. Doherty, I . Miss Sine', Miss K. M'Colgan, Mr Joseph I Doherty, and Mr John Mains." Instead of indulging in language that polite people regard as improper, especially when goaded thereto by the pangs of jealousy, Mr Fredrick Heller, of Eureka, California, inserts a card in the Humboldt Times, warning off all suitors for the hand of the lady who has macerated his heart, which is to the following effect—" Warning to hum it me concern I—Miesis Christine Rossow, wido of Gotfried Rossow desised, had prommisset me to go in the bonds of mattrimony with me. From anknoing grounds now she , decline to fulfil her promisses. In regard to ' that I heard from good autorita that zum underhandet game bin plait behint my bac, from zum anprinliple fellos, knoingly, given my prommisset bride boggy rides aud promenading; probaly der is were th? rabbit lais in the pepper. Bout to there benefit I publicly Lotefy them herewith, keep hands of, or prosecution in a lawoffie way will follow. I intende to let them not impose and tramp on me—
The Weekly Gazette for Middlesbrough, Stockton, Hartlepool and Cleveland District. — 1879-07-19 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

NEW YORK MURDER.  The city of New York has far ten days past been greatly excited about a mysterious murder, which thoroughly baffled all police linvestigation, and which was not explained hentil June 23rd, when a Boston newspaper reporter was the means of capturing the murderer. Mrs Jane L. De Forrest Hull, a well.known lady , reeidine at 14, West Forty. Seeond,street; New York, and iho wife of Dr. Alonzo Hull, was found murdered in her bed on the morning of Jane 11. She had been suffocated by a pilldw or clothing pressed upon her mouth, and was bound hand and foot by strips of sheeting to the bed. A trunk alongside the bed had been rifled of its contents, and valuable rings tore from her lingers. There was no clue to the murderer, but many were suspected, even the lady's husband, who sl...pt in another part of the house, The crime and the failure of the police to find the murderer strongly agitated New York. The newspapers every day published pages on the eubject, giving theory after theory which were worked mit -with no result, and there Was quits a hue and cry raised about the inefficiency of the police, when chance led to the detection of the murderer in a man not before suspected. It appears that last week t negro In Bostom disposed of a set of cameo jewellery to a pawnbroker. This was subsequently identified , as part of Mrs Hull's jewelry, and the fleece's Idescription being posted at police head-quarters, Mr W. B. Balch, a newspaper reporter, while walking along ShaWmutavenue, thought he saw the Mau Walking in front ()fhb]. Ile werit'up and, accosting the negro asked a direction. The negro replied that he could not give it, as he was a , stranger there from New York. This con• firmed the impression, and following the 'negro rintil he entered a negro church, the repotter informed the police, who arrested him. He submitted without resistance, and Mrs Elnll's watch being found in his possesSion, hg at once confessed the crime. He said he entered the house through a window about 10 p.m., taking a candle with him. Ascending the stairs he heard some one snoring in a bed room. Mrs Hull asked, 'Who is it?" He replied, "The doctor."' She put her band up and touched his face, I whereupon be threw her hand back and laid his hand heavily upon her month. She struggled, when he got hold of a Cologne bottle and dashed it over her face, after which he got on the bed and made a gag of the bed clothes. By this time she Was exhausted, and he tied her to the bed in the manner in which she was found. He then relighted the candle, and holdingit close to her face to ascertain her eondition the Cologne ignited, singeing her eyebrows, and burning her face —injuries which, at the tirne, added to the mystery of the murder. He then robbed the trunk and look hot rings; and, leaving the house, soon afterwards went to Boston.
The Weekly Gazette for Middlesbrough, Stockton, Hartlepool and Cleveland District. — 1879-11-29 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

GENERAL NEWS.  The Grand Jury have returned a true bill for perjury against Sewerin Bastendorft. Mr Henry Crawshay, of Oaklands Park, Forest of Dean, the well-known ironmaster, died at his family mansion on Monday of congestion of the lungs and heart disease. He was in his sixty-seventh year. Mr J. T. Delano, late editor of the Times, died on Saturday in his sixty.seoond year. The booking-office and the refreshmentrooms at London-road Station, Manchester, were destroyed by fire on Monday. About £5.000 damage was done. North Dipton Colliery,' Durham, giving employment to over 600 men, has been reopened after having been closed for 18 months.  Consett plate mills re-started on Monday, the men having agreed to refer the proposed reduottun to arbitration. At a meeting of the English Church Union at Leioester hist week ..resolution was passed deprecating and opposing any alteration in the Book of Common Prayer. The death is announced of the Rev. Jacob Abbott, of Maine, U. 8., the voluminous author of school and story books for children, which have had a wide circulation in England as well as in America.. _  Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to forward to Major Chard a valasble diamond ring as a mark of her appreciation of his heroic oonduot at Rorke'e Driit. The gift is accompanied by an autograph letter. The London Echo says the Sisters of Mercy who have been nursing the sick and wounded in Natal, and who had made arrangements to leave for England, have been waked to remain in the colouy, as a uuw serious war is expeoted with becoooeni. The Government et India, on the reoommendation of Sir Francis Roberts, has confirmed, uneonditionally, the appointment of Major. General J. Hills as permanent Military Governor and Commandant of the city of Cabul. A battalion of infantry is to be stationed permanently at Pretoria on the settlement of affairs at the Cape. The 94th Regiment will be the first told off. Thomas Delve, isentenoed to death for wife murder at Devizes, has been respited. The Home Secretary has directed a commission to , enquire into the state of his mind. It is proposed to mark the occasion of the occupation of Cabul by the distribution of a number of honours among those native Primes of India who have given evidence of their loyalty to the British cause during the present and the late Afghan campaigns. . Ms LADOUCHERS AND THE REDENTEAIL CLns.—The cane of Mr Labouottere against the Beefsteak Club, in which the former asks to restrain the club committee from expelling him, was mentioned before the Master of the Rolls on Friday week, and postponed week. About eight o'clock on Monday morning, whilst some 30 or 40 men were working at the new works at Seacombe Ferry, Cheshire, the "camel" onwhich they were working overturned. They were precipitated into the River Mersey. After a struggle for life, most of them were rescued, but it is supposed some four or five are missing, though at present no reliable information is obtainable.
The Weekly Gazette for Middlesbrough, Stockton, Hartlepool and Cleveland District. — 1879-03-08 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

EVENING WALE WHICH BRINGS HIM INTO  DEADLY PERIL. Tim Raggs was too good a diplomatist to plunge at once in a direct way into the theme of conversation for which alone he had requested the company of mine host of the Spread Eagle. lie wanted it to appear that he was a stranger needing some amusement to pass the evening, and that not the slightest personal curiosity prompted him to receive what local information the landlord could afford. Accordingly, for the first ten minutes or so the talk was far enough away from the subject which the guest aimed at, but Tim:watched his opporitunity, and got it introduced quite naturally. It arose out of mention being made of the various industries and sources of employment in the district. Agriculture and sheep farming formed, of course, the principal pursuits of the population, and, according to the host's representation, promised to be the most permanent. "Great things," be observed, " were ex• pected frae the reopeuin' o' Greystone Quariy, but, guid Booth, the quarry kasna , turned oot weel ava. There was a contractor frae Dunse took a lease o't last year, but he has glen up workin' it already. " Ah, indeed, the stone has run out, has it ?" remarked Tim, in quite an indifferent  tone. "No, no ; that's no the reason. But it, proved to be far softer than was believed, and the price he got he wadna pay the quarriers. Mair than that, it wasna every ane that was bold enough -to work at the place, for word gangs that it is haunted." " flaunted ! Pooh! what's to haunt it f" "It's said to be the ghost o' a man that was murdered there in the spring o' last year. He was a play-actor named Harvey Rotherham. His company was playin' in my big room on the aiclit o' Blackford fair ; and that nicht he gaed amissin.' A' body tlaocht he had 'run awa'—made a munelicht fiittin,' as we ca' it—but some weeks after, when the quarry was drained, they got his murdered body in it." "Eh !What ? I seem to have heard something of that before?" cried Tim, with an apparent manifestation of sudden interest. "Very likely yo hae, sir. It made a great stnsation here, and the trial spread & owre the country." " That's-it—the trial. I was travelling in Northumberland last autumn, and one wet evening I was shut up in a country inn with no one to speak to. The only thing I could get to read was a Berwick paper, with a long report of a murder trial. I got quite interested in it, read it over and over, having nothing else to ao, and remember the particulars quite distinctly. Bless my soul, do you mean to say the event occurredhere 9" " Ay, sir, this is the place where it happened." Of coarse it is," exclaimed Tim, getting animated. " I remember the names quite well Greystone Quarry—Blackford—and this very inn—The Spread Eagle—where they brought the body." " Richt, sir—quite richt. Ye seem to be weel acquaiut wi' the facts."