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The Potteries Examiner : — 1877-03-17 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

MURDER BY A RATHER.-At the Chester spring Royal Infirmary nearly two months, when he was dim. assizes, on Wednesday, before Mr. Jo tee Lush, Roht charged as well.-Elijah Grayson eave evidence, which Hallowell, 51, ropemaker, Bollington, was indicted for confirmed the opening statement made by the counsel wilfully and of malice aforethought killing and murder- for the prosecution.-Mary Grayson, the wife of Elijah ing Robert Hallowell, the yonegeo at Bollington, on Grayson, said that when the prisoner came in on the the 31st of December. Mr. I. Williams prosecuted, day in qnestion he took tea with his wife, and appeared and Mr. Marshall defended-The prisoner, on being to be on friendly terms with her. She went on to des,. asked to plead remained silent -Mr. Marshall: lam cribe the whole of the proceedings during the early part told by the medical officer of the gaol that the prisoner of the evening up till the time a blow was heard. She is really unfit to plead-The jury were then sworn to then said that she ran into the room. There was a light try whether the grin -oiler was in a fit state of burning at the time, but there was no light when she mind to plead.-Dr. ISPEiven, surgeon to the gaol, was went to sleep at two o'clock. After the blow she beard then called. He said he had seen the prisoner recently the cry "Elijah," and the deceased woman sail, " Oh, and frequently, and in his opinion the prisoner was not tear! Oh, dear! Oh, dear !" She ran ieside and in a fit state to plead.-By Mr. Williams : They were found the deceased lying on her back with her band not allowed to keep insane prisoners in the gaol. and against the prisoner's sick. She saw the hatchet in the at is meeting of the magistrates they wrote to the Home room, but she did not see a knife. There was blood on Secretary to say that he was insane, and he understood the wall and on the axe. The deceased's face wag that he was to be sent to the Government asylum at covered with it. The axe was found on the stairs about Broadmoor.-Mr. William,: Have you spoken to him three months before. She did not know who put it with reference to the crime with which he stands there. The prisoner and his wife seemed to be on charged? I have not -Mr. Williams • Hays von CZ. friendly terme that night. She knew that the prisoner mined the prisoner in conjunction with Or. Vans? 1 was a man who was very much given to drinking et have not-Dr. Vane deposed that he saw the prisoner times. The prisoner was not fond of his child. On the the day the child met with its death, and the opinion he night her husband turned the deceased out of the house formed was that he was not conscious of the net which she had had a " sup " of beer. The husband followed he had committed. Ho had seen the prisoner sinao, and her and they remained oui all night. The deceased he did did not at all realise his position ; he thought he was used to be the wriose for Equor sometimes, 'out ii not ins capacity to understand his trial if it took place. was only when :ter husband took her out with him.- .
The Potteries Examiner : — 1877-07-14 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

CROWN COURT-THURSDAY.  ALLEGED CHILD MURDER AT TRENTHAM. Drnsilla Ritchie (2t), domestic servant, was indicted for the wilful murder of her female child, on the 30th April last. Mr. Streeton was for the prosecution ; and Mr. J. It. Rose for the defence.—Miss Campbell, a young lady redding with her brother, is farmer, at Trentham, said the acensed had lived at her brother's home about two years as. a servant. On 30th April Ritchie said she wee ill, and went npstairs to her room, and later on witness saw her faint, prisoner afterwards saying she supposed it woo because she had gone with. out food during the day. Wituess having taken her some tea to her room, prisoner then admitted that she had had a child, and MiS3 Campbell sent for a nurse, who came next moridag.—Catherine Wilding, examined, said she was asked to go to Mr. Campbell's house to attend Drusilla Ritchie. When she arrived she asked her what was the matter with her, and pri. soner said she had had a baby, and indicated the place where it was. Witness picked it up in a corner of the recta, it being then quite dead. There was a bandage tied tightly round the head, across the mouth, and also partially aeross the nostrils.—Cross.examined r She (witnes.) was a monthly nurse, and ales attended in eases of death to attend to the bodies of the deceased. It was usual, and right, to tie up the face soon after death.—Mr. Dawes, a surgeon practising at Longton, said he wise called in to see the accused on the morning of the lst of May, and was also shown the body of the child. It was a fully developed healthy child. He afterwards examined the lungs. They had bees fully inflated, and the child mast have been born alive. One : of the legs was broken, but that would certainly not , cause death, the cause of which was suffocation.—Mr. Rose subjected this witness to a lengthy cro,-examination with a view to show that the injury which caused its death might have been caused at the time of birth. ' —Police-sergeant Hughes' stationed at Trentham, said he went to Mr. Campbell's house on the morning of May I. He was shown the body of is child, and searched ' prisoner's boxes for baby linen, hut found none. On ! the following day he charged the prisoner with causing the death of her newly-born child. She said, "I have ' nothing to say.”—Mr. Rose addressed the jury for the prisoner, and urged that the appearances of the child and the presence of the bandages were all consistent with the prisoner's innocence. The theory set up, however, involved questions of surgery, which cannot be reproduced here. The learned counsel, however, made a great impression on the court by his speech to the jury, and eliaittd from the judge • warm commendation : for the ability and eloquence with which he had con. ducted the defence —After a few minutes deliberation the jury foetid a verdict of not guilty.
The Potteries Examiner : — 1877-06-16 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

OLD MAN—Before actually necessary to ressrt to the multiplication by the Nantwich =migrates, on Thursday, a young mechanical means of what they produced, and that of labourer, named Speed, was charged with attempting to the hundreds and hundreds of objects which be had murder an ald man named Challinor, of Nantwich.— seen there was not one of which they intended to pro. Prosecutor, who is 81 years of age, stated that seeing duce a duplicate. ''lt was also most satisfactory," he the prisoner come up the street drunk he went to his continued, "to see how, in a perticular Mot, this abea. garden gate and locked it. Prisoner came across and dance of faculty could be evok.'d by the judicious use of requested him to lend him a shilling. He could not do . means; for, depend upon it, it was not because Lambeth it, and the prisoner tumbled over the hatch and kicking , was Lembeth, it was beemse Lambeth is England, and off the lock of the door entered the kitchen. Armed that which has been done there vim be done elsewhere. with an axe he had procured from the back house, be I You have only to dig beneath the surface, and you will said, "I will chop your d-- head off," and then he find ample treasures awaiting your labour and re- said, " No, I will sot; I can kill you without an axe search.' The studios in the Doulton pottery are very and rushing at the prosecutor be pullsd him off Ids extensive. One would think that this art movement chair and seizing him by the hair commenced, as he I dated from 1800 rather than 1870 or 1872, no numerous said, to "best his brains out" against the floor. He are the artists, and so compeeed and self-confident are then dragged him over M the fire grate, and getting th-. ' they in their work. About fifty young ladies are em• poker, struck him three blows across the head and ployed in these studios and all are well paid. They are shoulders. Prosecutor appealed for mercy, and the not restricted to hours, like the operatives at the prisoner said, "D-- you, I will kill you," and pulled wheels and in the kilns below. On the contrary, it him by the hair into the front garden, where he stamped is understood they are artists, dependent his shoe heels all over his face and lower part of the largely upon the condition of their minds for stomach, and struck him again on the bead with the the spontaneity of their productions, and not to poker till he became insen-ible. Dr. Matthews said Ibe controlled. They are active. though, these ladies, prosecutor's head, when examined, was one man of . - and they keep the great kilns filled with the produets bruises and he was RO shockingly mutilated that he de.. ._ ________ , A FATAL DILEIRMA —The scene is an Irish police, of their pencils, baking night and day. Ido not think spairei of pulling him through, but thanks to a good EXECUTION By
The Potteries Examiner : — 1872-02-17 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

PARLIAMENTARY INTELLIGENCE.  In the House of Lords on Monday the early proceedings of both Houses of Parliament ..ere attended nith unusual, interest. - - - -• • •- • • -  business transacted wag the signification of her Majesty's assent to the election of the Hight Hon. H. Brood as Speaker of the House of Commons, and to witness this ceremony there was a good attendance of strangers, not only in the two Houses, but in the central ball and s"  co:rid-OA-a the palace. After the Royal COMMIIIIIIOII had been road, Mr. Brand informed their lordships that he had been elected by her Majeaty's faithful Commons their Speaker, and submitted himself to her. Majustra gracious nrPronatinn. . .  —T-1711,47117-Ali,7r 41;;;;;;:i IW;Mojeety ..fidenoe in the ability and industry of the right hon. gentleman, and declared hex confirmation of hie election as Speaker. When their lordships re-assembled at five o'clock, the Duke of Argyll communicated to them the intelligence of the avaassination of Lori Mayo ; and, while intimating that he had not enjoyed any private acquaintance with the Into Viceroy of India, bore emphatic testimony to the ability and energy of that noble lord, and declared that not a single difference had occiu-red between the Indian and the Home Government during the time that Lord Mayo had represented the Queen in her Eastern dominions.  In the House of Commons Mr. Brand took the chair ce S er. 1 ad stone =mum:led the murder of Lori Mayo, which he described as deplorable Oct of individual fanaticism, and in regard to which he, in solemn and feeling tones' expressed, on behalf of himself and the Government, their sense of the lowi which the public had su&itiud in consequence of this crime. , .  Mr. Disraeli deseribol Lord Mayo as a man who was well known and well belowxl in that Hon.. _ . . . .  "15,7-the-motion of Mr. Ayrion, the Public Parks and Gardens Bill we read a semiud time. . . . .  Mr. Brure ti;;W.;;;d-icTi" Iruvo to bring inn bill to ....a mrnen and consolidate the acts reLsting to the re,3lthition of . . . .  The Lord Advocate moved for leave to bring iv, bill for egtablishing an improved system of education in Scotland, and in doing Co postponed until the servmd reading any detailed explanation as to the provisions or principle of the bill. The House then adjourned.  In the House of Lords on Tuesday the find noticeable haeident in the proceedings was that the Into Speaker of the House of Commons, there known as "Hr. John Evelyn Denison," took his east on Viscount Oseington." . .  —Lord 1,;-;;;;; g;;;107.1.710. i=i;;;;;;;i;;;;Z,T..., amendment to Earl Stanhope's motion with reference to the promotion of Sir K. Collier to the Privy Council, a resolution acquitting the Government of all blame in the twitter, and very similar in terms to that which is to be proposed by Sir K. Palmer in the House of
The Potteries Examiner : — 1872-09-21 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

ANOTHER TRAGEDY IN LONDON.  On Moeday afternoon another shocking tragedy took place at Horton, within fifty yards of the hens. where Mrs. Squire. and her daughter were so re. cent'y murdered. It would appear that a young woman, of rather prepossessing appearance, aged shout 22, lodging at Mo. 9, Northportstreet, Ito-ton, was visited on Sunday by a man named Augustus Elliott, who came up from Gravesend purposely to see her. They appeaerd to be on friendly terms, and he remained with her for the night. About nine o'olook in the morning they were supplied in bed with some breakfast, and afterwards they partook of some bitter beer. About half-past two in the afternoon, at which time the landlady was with her family having dinner, she was alarmed by hearing the report of firearms four diatinut times, and then a heavy falL She at ones ran up-stairs to the beck parlour, which the girl °coupled as a bed-room, wheu she was horrified by finding the young woman lying upon the floor near the door, bleeding from the face. At this time some neighbours, hmring the , report, burst open the street door and rushed in, when they disoove.ed Elliott lying upon the bed, his face and forehead being covered with blood. They , were both partially dressed. A messenger was at onoe despatched for medical aseistanoe, and upon the doctor making an examination of the wounded persons he found that the man had been ishot , between the frontal bone and the brain, and the , young woman had received a wound in the °hook, and also over the left eye, which evidently meet destroy her sight. They both are in a dangerous state, and were at once removed to the hospital. They were both sensible. The young , woman said to the inspector, "'On. did it." The in• specter:then asked him how it happened ,and he said that he shot her drat, and then himself af,erwards. The revolver, which was a six-ohamber one, he had brought from Gravesend, and the inspector would find it under the table. The revolver was then ex, ambled, when it was found that four barrels had , recently been discharged, and two were still loaded. , Th• unfortunate persons were placed in two cabs, and conveyed to St. Bartholomew's Hospital. The only motive for this horrible crime is mipeotied to be one of jealunay. The young man, upon being examined at the hospital, refused to give any amount of himself, , stating thrt it will be known quite soon enough, except that his name is Augnatue Elliott, an-I that he , resides at Graveeend, where he is highly connected. lie has s mother, but no father. Ten days ago he bought the revolver, and left Gravesend for the pur. pose of going to America; when, on coming to London, he met the young woman Eden Moore, whom he had known for four years, and with whom he stayed until he spent all his money. On being asked for his address, in order that his friends ' might be telegraphed for, he ref WWI to give it; stating that they would know all shoat it from the newspapers in the morning. Both the Wounded , persons lie in a very dangerous state—especially the female, there being hardly any hopes of her recovery.
The Potteries Examiner : — 1872-01-20 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

ATTEMPTED DOUBLE MURDER.  On Sunday, about midnight, an engineer, named Whiteley, went to the residence of hi wife, from whom he had been separates] two years, and made a murderous attempt upon her life, and that of his son About twelve months ago Whiteley was bound over. to keep the peace towards his son, Hugh Whiteley, who now states that sinve that time his father hues threatened to perpetrate the deed be has now accomplished. On Sunday night, about twelve o'clock, Whiteley, accompanied by John Taylor, tailor, of Littleborough, knocked at the door of Mr. Robert Grindrod, situated at the top of Yorkishirestreet, and asked if Mrs. Whiteley lived there. He was told that she lived next door. He went there, and had coarsely seated himself before he took up the poker and aimed a blow at the head of his son, a young man about twenty years of age. The son seised hold of the poker, and while they were struggling together Mrs. Whiteley alarmed the neighbours. Mr. Robert Grindrod and son rushed in and wrenched the poker from his band. Whiteley was noticed fumbling in his trousers pocket, and then put his ham! behind, when Grindrod, jun., discovered that he watt opening a pocket-knife and gave alarm. Before Hugh Whiteley was aware, his father noised hold of him and attempted to cut his throat, but, in avoiding the stab, the knife entered at the back of 1113 head said made soot from there through his right ear; and while they were struggling together, stabbed him in the right thigh. Mrs. Whiteley ran to the door to try to escape, but he caught her and pushed her into a corner, and cut her throat in a frightful manner, saying at the time, "It is thee I want." Robert Grindrod, jun., seined hold of Whiteley, threw him out of the door, and tried to hold him down until assistance came. Whiteley stabbed him in the hand and then runaway, Medical gentlemen were at once called in, and Chief -constable Stevens made acquainted with the occurrence. Mr. Stevens was prompt in attendance, and mpendily put , into execution hie plan for capturing him. After scouring the town he was found by Sergeant Heywood in the boiler-house of Mr. David Howarth's foundry, Whitworth-road, where he was usually employed. After evidence was given the magistrates granted a remand.  CASSELL'S NEW POPULAR Errs CIATOR, which the Chancellor of the ENchequer recently mentioned as being "the first book which ho would recommend " to the members of the Halifax Mechanics' Institute, is about to be re-issued. the pub.. limbers, Messrs. Cassell, Petter, and Halpin, announce that the demand for the new edition, in its form of Weekly Numbers and Monthly Parts, hna become so pressing that they have determined to re-to-me it at once in its serial form. This new edition was recently complete d in six volumes, in which all additions and improvement+ demanded by the great advance made in the various departments of knowledge were perfected, and it is now intended that the forthcoming reissue shall receive all tech further revision me the intervening time may have rendered desirable.  WE
The Potteries Examiner : — 1872-09-14 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT.—Judy is now buying coal by the pound, and putting it on the fire with the sugar-tongs. . . . .  VESTED hrrEssem.—Money in the waistcoatpocket, Wito are the most exacting of all landlords 2 Why, children; because they never fail to make their own fathers and mothers pa-rents. WHY is the bone of the nom called the funny-bone? Because it is the humems bone.  Was is the wrist out of the boundary of the arm I' Because it is beyond the radius. A Dimas d la Ruse—Yesterday's sold mutton got up artfully ‘I la Kegmeg. Judy has a friend who is so feeling that he oramot bear to burn his coal. A CAPITALIST writes to say that he always inrcste his money in speculations on land rather than by sea, for he has heard that land is firsta.  The West African Herald, of July 31, states that the capital sentence passed on the three men who were convicted of the murder of Lieutenant Joost, a Dutch officer, during the disturbanee which took place at amine, on the 26th of last April, was mated into execution on the 22nd of July. Up to noon of Saturday, the 20th (says the Herald), the majority of the people of Elmina, including the King and the chiefs, could not make up their minds to believe that the British authorities would actually proceed to in. ffiet the extreme penalty of the law upon these unhappy and deluded wretches, and amongst them there were many who affected to think that the threats which had been uttered as to the determination of the King and people of Elmina to resist by force of arms the carrying out of the sentence would be quite sufficient to prevent the execution of the condemned. Notwithstanding the foot that at an interview which the King, chiefs, and headmen of Minim, had with the Administrator in the Castle, on the 19th, and during which his Excellency informed them that not only could he hold out no hope of reprieve or commutation of the sentence, but the Executive were determined to carry it out; yet hardly any one of them could be persuaded that the Government would not at the last moment alter its determination. At seven am. on Monday, the 22nd, the honwas of the pollee, to the number of 200 men, under the orders of Major Brounell, took up their appointed positioni in different quarters of the town, the bridge leading to the Castle being held by the marines and bluejackets from H.M.S. Druid. At a few minutes before eight o'clock the three culprits, whose names were Quaku Tawish, Zowe Emile, and Quaminah Fossoo, were led to the place of execution. Two out of the three were terribly overcome as the fatal moment approached, and cried like children. They upbraided the King of Elmina for being the cause of their death, and called upon him repeatedly to redeem his promise, and come to their rescue. The third met his fate more manfully, and ()hided his two companions for their fears. The most perfect order and quietness prevailed.  •
The Potteries Examiner : — 1878-05-25 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

CANADA. instrument could do such a thing, the learned counsel . irolo to make a soleinu inquiry, but found that would say that a father could not be deprived of such the Turks would not conio before him, and that New York telegrams inform as that the threats right, because it was a duty which no father could the Christians dared not come. So he could get cued renewal of the Fenian raids on Canada is eliift from his shoulders of seeing that his child was no evidence at all. The Turks did not even more threatening than over. A body of Irishmen brought up in a proper and religions manner. In oondeecend to make good iu open court their have encamped in a forest in Northern Vermont, November, 1873, when the parties separated. Mrs. theory of accidental death. So our Consular and are hourly receiving additions to their num- Resent's views were very different from those wi.ich J.oge oould only put together s luc i scraps of inhere. It is added, whether with the object, of she now held, for from November. 1873, to Jamiery, reassuring the Canadians or not we cannot say, 1 • , . 874 elm occimied the position of governese in a lOrmation as he had gained outside his court, and that the raiders are persons of intelligent and re- lergyllloll s family. In August, 1874, the lady first make a report accordingly. There was plenty of 'met Mr. Brsellaugh, a geutleinan who had exercised Christian evidence that Mr. Ogle was brutally spectable appearance. The historian of respectsit very painfal intlimuce over her, and in 1875 she de- murdered in cold blood the day after the battle of bility will -doubtless make a note of this fact, livered her first lecture as a professed Atheist. nem Makriuitna, but this eNridence could not be taken but it is doubtful whether the historian of intelli- November, 1875, to September, 1877, the child because the witnesses were in bodily fear of the gence will think it worth his while to do so. Mebel Emily, was taught by a Miss Morris, Turks. Mr. Fawcett's inquiry was therefore corn. The Canadian militia are said to be already a friend of Mr. Besante and a member of the Church pletely baffled. called out, and the Canadian militia, as well as of England. but in 1877 the child left Miss Morris's the military arrangements of the Dominion establishment, and the respondent went into a genera , Ily are much more formidable than they partnership with Mr. Bradlaugh, as a publisher of free , Commander Charles Fitzgerald has, the erne/ were at 'the time of the St. Albans raid. More. thought and rationalistic views. According to Mrs. and Nary Go:ette hears, received from the Adze& Resents own edmission. . e ratty a letter of approval for the measures from September 1877. the•' over, it is not to be doubted that the United States Government will do their duty, and thus religious teaching of the child Sras entirel sch y st but h opped. . adopted by him in renderiug assistance to fugitives