Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1888-11-10 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

NOVEMBER 10, 1888.  TERRIBLE TRAGED AT PICKERING.  THE MURDERER STILL AT  LATEST DETAILS.  A domestic tragedy has occurred at Mg which appears to have originated in waruly tongue and an unrelentiog disposicot the part of the woman, and unressaning jealoa on the side of her husband. :Altogether, painful case. The family which has be, unfortunately broken up resided at Black 13,7 otherwise known as Low Carr, a place hid hour's walk distant from Pickering on the between that town and Maltori The ' would principally be remarked by the , as the site of a disused station. It ip mainly inhabited by platelayers at work en railway and a few others employed at r yard adjoining the line. Between the, premises and the Black Bull Inn, which girei name to the little villa,7e, is a crossing the line and extending into farming district beyond. On one side o' Pickering and Malton high% ay is the ill]; sign swinging at the gable end; and on the, a small meeting house, erected by the Prim, Methodists in 1859, now apparently IA (Amble accommodating the local adhennts as thi years ago, when first reared !ler the education of the young and the spiritnal edi tion of the aged. It is a pleasant walk Pickering —itself suggestive of rural fc The sinuous roadway is marked by whose ruddy tints—the yellow and browns oh thorn leaves and the deep ruby oh the ha/ help to make tolerable the keen air which tinctly suggesta the wintees tooth. A short from the high road brings one to the raid Platform, where the white drawn Llinds under spreading eaves—did they not tell so sad at would seem almost to harmonise with the use aspect of the obsolete station-hone.  Toone of the dwellings formed onto( the stab buildings Jatnes Pennock came with his wi:e, children eight years ego. They were 1 Pickering folks, the wife being a native Morishes, and the husband a native of Cr, Nineteen years they lived together. and this neriod ten children were born to k Death reduced this number by two: end two the elder girls are out ia service in the  Six were living at home—the youngest only years old—when the double tragedy of T night, as it is generally thought, left the without the protection of their natural r  Upon the eldest is cast a care not cieily to borne. He, a young fellow of seven, came home only a short time ago. had been at work as a farm servant under Lett., of Scamoston, and whilst there so much injured- by a thrashing machine he lost one of hislegs. and now only moms aboi by the aid of crutches. Before this haw the Pennock family seemed to poises's, for class, tolerable means of livelihood, and even worldly comforts. The husband received its week for wages, lived rent free, had a ear patch. a number of fowls fed at the door, two or three years ago, by the acquisition of cow, the home seemed to be possessed of not few elements of contentment. .l'ennock him was an energetic member of the Primii Methodist Connexion, and not only did he act one of the snperintendents of the little Sand School at Low Carr, bat often of a Sabbath as a local preacher, officiated in the pulpits of the Pickering circuit. Both and wife were physically robust, and but for has now intervened years of future I'might have been in store.  Eventually, however, Pennock harboured suspicion that this all, stalwart help meet gi too cordial a reception to the attention. others of his atm and soon intimate (needs, religionists, and country dealers. all and 11011,11 came under his hen. Unfortunately, hie wife believed to have done little or nothing to hie disquietude, and matters grew from had worse. In church matters the man is seii have liked control, and because his claims leadership were disputed he at one time ;oio the Salvationists, but finally returned to t more familiar fold. The woman to whom wu mated apparently cared not to " bear forbear." and her persistence coming in BMOC titan with the depressing circumstance of son's misfortune and his own notione of ant rity seems to his mind to have entirely blo-i the avenues to hope of domestic amelioration prepared him for the deed which level children motherless and himself either ar' or • social outcast_