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Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1888-12-15 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

OOO. leeeynne fox whom he worked in America. who dwelt in that and neigiabouzing tosses had twelve strokes wife it bitch rose which were dilly I and Meeera Berber said Stepaeu" -- - \e"TamoaTearitunehia n 7,1 nisei Mroposal to alter the next bank holiday from the The beige sum demanded for the expense a force nee one of tie had made another statement, elfhireb, had toe.doeforwheseemettlyeer shop:sit. tryNowto mthaeketitre adskliuMiteLaredniale Ditnnpubenese. e TILE TeeteMotien. I ma&ethe eiyegeein&l6.4ger dialogue. A i''''''*l-.".' P `ligher up on the front eoth to the 2.th test., an riving mean i • d h • dto the the Irish Constabulary aired ashocer Ilartle ion Mon- enuesa' pro:meanie. watch s• eee Ily occupied by Mr representation he had received had decided that the many examples of the cost of goveruing had been elven to pr. Kneeler-If%, Court. h the method f rcion -Mr Dillon and would probed* be produ . . place ;t _ ty , -The bad] a Pe° MY 3' a aphatleco our wreorsaheipwshhaotu&Milbeen."(.46lp sertes&Yee.rt day has been identified by the clothing as that ele i e:ymaaabtUtalezeostereee to make his speech no alteration should be made. This announce- Irelandy e o if the box or table meat was received with general cheers. considered it monstrous that whilo. the ematlim Faure, who was hanged for the Pheenix Park Towards this object they had already in and a mend Buckley, aged 17, Lute an see Witness admitted meesentange with Michael and re- 1 Patrick 011ius, labourer, was Petty-chare charge,, (xenon nee as a Frees IN isTwanoinnts. eon of Ireland was rapilly deereasia-g - the weeders, and the other men sentenced for corn- sum of 115. They had receivea £5 from prrtice on 1 steallatßrrbeek:;so:rotailn theme!: i nthpeteris. :erre IYodgedef Main' baud the brig Granite, torneyeGeneral staled that the opinion police force was mildly growing.-Me Balfour due plieity in that crime, but said he only knew Mr Spotra•eon who had been his almost life-long cepa), lost with MI hand's at the mouth iingseutheen/Horge'cing of Itthee Alac officers of the Crown was that the said the increase of cost nes largely of the Tees. The poor lads erpmiences of fife • of the mother church el Wellingwton. ttseeta .were singularly sad. He was breeent up midst she em a wages weeps.. mese I"weatre Mr Broad- deemetion of fines from "gee was Moral when to the increased pensions, pay, and prime them - casualty. 'me dewed that he left friend-Camels' neme---115 from their hind fres:Maas night, and such deductions were other than the stoppage of leges . given to the police, and also M Haglond in id in "sednence of .6""dcnce give" Farrell, the ire-armee-, respecting an atMeePt Stockton. and La from Mr Thomas re, mos. great poverty by mimes.. demerit,e parents, who n V, with ker debate unearned wage. the increased duties thrown upon them. hi' to murder Barrett, in Dublin, statang that. he Besides the nemsaity for painting and &meted hme at kne, mer of la leaving hem home_ 1 of
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1888-10-06 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

MAN WITH A BLACK BAG.  A man named Albert Bsrkert has made the I following statement:—l was in the Three Nuns Hotel, Aid:gate, on Saturday night. when s man got into conversation with me. He asked me questions which now appear to me to have some bearing upon the recent murders. He wanted to know whether I knew what sort of loose women used the public bar at the house, when they usually left the street outside, and where they I were in the habit of going. He asked further questions, and from his manner seemed up to no , good purpose. He appeared to be a " shabby genteel' sort of man, and was dressed in black I , clothes. He wore a black felt hat, and carried s black bag. We came out together at closing time I (twelve o clock), and I left him outside Aldgate Railway Station. Mrs Mort mer, living at 36, Berner-street, four doors from the scene of the first tragedy, says :1 was standing at the door of my house nearly the whole time between half-past twelve and one o'clock on Sunday morning, and did not notice , anything unusual. 1 had just gone indoors, and was preparing to go to bed, when I heard a commotion outside, and immediately ran out, thinking that there was another row at the Socialists' Club close by. I went to see what was the : matter, and was informed that another dreadfnl murder had been committed in the yard adjoining , the Club house, and on going iuside I saw the body I of a woman lying huddled up just inside the gates, I ! with her throat cut from ear to ear. A man I teuched her face, and said it was quite warm, so that the deed must have been done while I was standing at the door of my house. There was certainly no noise made, and I did not observe anyone enter the gates. It was jnat after one o'clock when I went out, and the only man whom I had seen pass through the street previously wee a young man carrying • black shiny bag, who walked very fast down the street from Commercial-road. He looked up at the Club, and then went round the corner by the Board School. I was told that the manager or steward of the Club had discovered the woman on ills return home in his pony cart. He drove through the gates, and my opinion is that he interrupted the merclerer, who must have made his escape immediately under cover of the cart. If a man had come out of the yard before one o'clock I must hare seen him. It was almost incredible to me that the thing could have been done without the steward's wife hearing a noise, for she was sitting in the kitchen, from which a I window opens four yards from the spot where the I woman wag found. The hod), was lying slightly Lou one side, with the legs a little diamm un au if  in pain, the clothes being slightly disarranged, BO that the legs were partly visible. The woman appeared to me to be reepectable, judging by her clothes, and in her hands were found a bunch of grapes and some sweets. A voting man and his sweetheart were standing at the corner of the street about twenty yards sway before and after the time the women must have been murdered, but they told me they did not hear a sound.
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1888-04-28 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

STRUGGLE WITH A MURDERER.  FOILED BY A BRAVE SISTER.  The story of a heroic struggle with a would-be murderer has been extracted from Miss Mary Smith, aged 22, who lies in St. George's Hospital, London, suffering from three bullet wounds. Her mother is a widow, who lets apartments in a house at Kensington, and the injured girl is she eldest of three daughters. Some time ago a youbg man named Alfred William Rayner, who I lodged in the house, wanted to pay his addresses Ito her next youngest sister, Johanna, aged 19, but the mother and sisters united ,1 in disapproving the match. He left the ,1 house in November last, but subse! quently tried on several occasions to renew his courtship of Johanna. Johanna, who had given ;back to nun his engagealeut ring and a.photograph, would, however, have nothing to uo with , him. A few evenings ago he went to the house, after an absence of some months, and when • lodger opened the door he asked to see Johanna. In answer to the lodger's call, the youngest sister, Jane, 16 years of age, went to the door. Rayner explained to her that he had got a berth on board a ship, and had come to say " good-bye" to Johanna. But Johanna—with good cause, as subsequently appeared—was afraid to face her discarded lover. Jane went to the door, and told .Rayner her sish.r would not sae him, but Rayner refused to go sway. Suddenly he rushed up stairs with a revolver. Mary came out on the landing with a lamp in her hand and tried to prevent him going into the room where her sister was. She saw he had a revolver in his hand, and in great terror raised an alarm. Johanna at that moment opened the sitting-room door a little way and looked out, and Rayner fired at her. Mary, afraid her sister would be killed, had put up her arm, and the bullet went through her wrist. A desperate struggle took place. Mary tried to recede into the room and shut the door. In the scuffle the lamp was blown out. Rayner got partly into the doorway, and whilst Mary was trying to shot the door against him he fired in the direction where he supposed his sweetheart to be. This bullet also struck Mary, and lodged in her shoulder. She sank exhausted, and Rayner got past her into the room. By the flash of the second shot he had seen his sweetheart crouching in a corner. Ho fired again, but in the darkness she had changed her position, and Mary got this shot also throagh her wrist. Rayner then ran down stairs. In the hall the youngest sister tried to hold him. There were three young men near the door, and she asked them to moist her, but they refused. Rayner shook the girl off and got away. It was believed ho had gone on board a ship for Belgium. The police took Johanna to Antwerp to identify him, but the man suspected proved to be a stianger.
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1888-07-28 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

DART-ram taunted the Opposition with having raised a variety of objections to the tribunal on the ground of the cuuree of procedure that might be pursued, instead of frankly accepting or rejecting the enquiry. Sir J. Simou denied that any attack had been made upon the Attorney-General in the course of the debate. The learned Attorney-General had only done what any other AttorneyGeneral would have done in accepting a brief for the Times in the recent suit. Toe only persons who bad been blamed, or could be blamed, were the Government, who had allowed the Attorney-General to accept the brief. Mr Ili-sveu regretted that the member for Northampton had announced that he did not intend to divide the House against the second reading of the Dill, as he should like to have recorded his vote by way of protest against a proceeding which he regarded as entirely unconstitutional. ----- Mr INLAY said that the point which had forced itself most upon him was that this offer of enquiry had given rise to a series of the most embittered attacks on the Government. For a long time they were told that enquiry was the one thing desired. But now that enqury was offered before a tribunal to which no exception could be taken, the Government was attacked even more bitterly than was the ease when they were said to have declined to make an enquiry. After defending the conduct of the AttorneyOeueral in the action of O'Donnell r. Walter, the hon. and learned member said it hal been alleged that this Commission NVAIII proposed because the Government distrusted the constitutional mode of trial by jury, but that was not the ease. This.enquiry by COMMiSSiOII had been proposed because Irish members bad, for some reason which would not stand a moment's examination, declined to go before a jury. If they distrusted an English jury, why did they not go before a Scotch jury? (Hear, hear.) They were told that the hearts of the people of Scotland were with hon. members below the gangway. (Hear, hear.) The second reading of the Bill was carried without a division.  The Committee waa fixed for Monday. The House adjourned at thirteen minutes past twelve o'clock.  The Hon. Reginald Brett, candidate for the Liskcard.Bodmin Division, speaking at Lost svithiel last week, made a remarkable statement in connection with the alleged forgeries in the He remarked that a gentleman who had been a member of Par:iament, and who had sat in the House of Commons with him, called upon him one day, and offered to put him in possession of documentary evidence in the shape of letters to the effect that Mr Parnell and certain other leading Irish members had been in intimate communication with the "physical force party " in America in relation to the Phainix Park murders and other outrages. Be offered to do this on condition that he (Mr Brett) would give two pledges —viz., that he would observe secrecy with regard to the source of the letters and pay down a sum of £l,
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1888-11-10 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

THE LONDON HORRORS.  ANOTHER WOMAN MURDERED.  INTENSE EXCITEMENT.  BLOODHOUNDS ON THE SCENT.  At half-past ten yesterday morning the dead body of a woman, with her head almost severed from her body, was found in an untenanted ' out-house of a shed in Dorset court, Dorset -street, Spitslfields. It must have been there some hours, and was qmte cold. An alarm was raised, and an inspector of police and some constables were immediately on the spot. The greatest excitement was floon raised in the locality, and crowds flocked to the scene. The Central News telegraphs—The police at Scotland Yard confirm the report of a woman being murdered in Dorset-street, Spitalfields. She was found this morning in a room in a lodging-house with her throat cut, and it is stated there were farther mutilations, but the extent of these has not at present transpired, nor is it known whether the murder is similar to the previous tragedies. The Press Association in a later telegram says , the victim was a woman of the 'unfortunate " I class, about 21 years of age, and the neighbours state that she was of genteel appearance. They do not, however, know her name or anything about her,except thistsbe formerly lived with a man from whom she recently separated. The police have found this man, and he has identified the body, which, it is rumoured, is terribly mutilated. Bloodhounds are being used to track the murderer. The crime was first discovered by a young man named McCarthy, who went to the house where the deceased lived to collect the rent, and oa opening the front door he saw the body in the passage. He immediately gave an alarm, and the police took possession of the house.—Morris Lewis, a tailor, states that he was playing pitch and toss in the court at nine o'clock, and an hour before that he saw the I deceased leave the house and return with some milk.--No clue to the mnrder has been obtained, though whether anyone was seen to have I accompanied the woman to her home, or was I known to have visited her there, is a point which has not yet been cleared up. Sir Chas. Warren, on receiving information of the crime, proceeded directly to the spot, ' arriving there shortly before two o'clock, and the large staff of detectives still kept in the neighbourhood were told off for various duties. The body has been photographed this afternoon for the use of the police. In the House of Commons yesterday afternoon Mr Conybeare asked the Home Secretary whether I in view of the fact that another horrible murder i had been committed in East London he did not I think that the time had come for replacing Sir Charles Warren by an officer who would investigate such crimes. The Speaker said the hon. gentleman must give notice of the question, and Mr Conybeare intiniuted that he would do so. Mr Cunningham° Graham desired to know whether Sir Charles Warren was at this moment abroad, to which a negative answer was returned.
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1888-11-03 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

SHIPLOAD OF WOMEN CONVICTS.  The Russian steamer Petersburg art..ved at Colombo on Saturday. September 29th. On enquiry (says the Colombo correspondent of the Nec-„,) I found she was a convict ship conveyiug female prisoners from Odessa to Saghalien, the long narrow island off the east coast of Si' aria belonging to Russia. She has on hoard oi:e hundred female convicts, a number of women who are the wives of men who were taken out in the Nizbni Novgorod, ad about forty pas• sensers, besides officers and crew. I enquired if there were any political prisoners amongst the Niemen. "No, none," was the reply. "Do you know that 75 per cent, of the prisoners on board this shirt are women who have been Sentenced to Siberia for the murder of their hesbands ?" I gasped. "And almost the whole of the , other 25 per cent, are women convicted of incendiarism—setting fire to houses that were I insured for the purpose of obtaining the incur' ance money. One of them is for uttering false coin." "Do you send no political prisoners by sea ?" "Scarcely any. in fact, political I prisoners are very rarely sent to Saghalien, which is the place where all the convicts transported by sea are taken to." "Are the women always kept below, or do you allow them on deck any time ' for exercise?' "At sea they are on deck all day, from seven in the morning till sunset, if they like. Of course, they are only women, and we have not so much reason to fear a revolt amongst ithem as if they were men. But these women have good food, and they look a great deal better now than they did when they left Odessa as most of them had been in prison for two or three years." "I should think with a steam or hotwater hose ready to turn on them at the first ! signs of insubordination, as I understand you ! have, the convicts would very seldom mutiny. Have you ever known them to do so ?" "Never." "What is done with the convicts on .__ .  arrival at Saghalien ?" "They first have to work their times in the mines (coal mines), and then they are allowed to settle on farms if their conduct has been good. They have their wives and children there, and some of them get quite wealthy, but they are not allowed to leave the island. Those whose conduct has been good have full liberty in every other respect. The ground is very fertile in some parts, and the climate is a very good one." "You have a very wholesale way of keeping your male prisoners clean by turning a hose on to them, I believe? Are the women bathed in the same way ?" "Yes, they are pat into a , big box, into which a number of pipes, communicate, and the water is turned on. They also have a shower-bath every day at the same time."  TOWLE'S PENNYROYAL AND STEEL PILLS you PEDIA_LEEI quickly correct all irregularities and relieve the distressing symptoms so prevalent with the sex. Boxes le lfrd and Is 9d, of all chemist& Sent anywhere for 15 or 34 stamps by the Lrso".-al
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1888-03-03 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

SENTENCE OF DEATH. I bare and slabs and billets of steel, 11 dole. per At Nottingham Assizes last Saturday a fitter, I ton. now 17 dole.; irou or steel rails, 14 dole.. Darned Wm. Booth, was brought up for the wilful arid fiat rails 15 dole. per ton, now 9-10 and 8-10 murder of his daughter, Louisa, aged six, at had, of a cent per pound; round iron, 1 cent, per ford, on the 7th of February. The mother of the , pound, now 1 2-10 cent. On sheet iron there is a child died last September, and the prisoner had i unilorm reduction of 1.10 of a cent per pound. been in depressed spirits ever since. Although I excepting top bars of iron. On hoop, band, oe he married again, be soon separated from his scroll iron lees than Bio. in width there is a resecond wife, and had been out of work since duction of 1-10 of a emit per pound; also a re. Christmas, but obtained employment on the 6th duction on other mannfactures of iron. Steel in. of February. On the following day he stopped rots, blooms, die blocks, blauks, bars, bands, at home, and in the afternoon eat Ms daughter's sheets, crank shafts, gun mouldings, ste,l throat with a razor. Afterwards holockesi the , castings, dm., valued at 1 cent, are to door af the house and gave himself into custody. ho charged 4-10 of • cent pet pen ; • Medical evidence showed that the prisoner's brans those valued at more thau 1 cent and not more .functions were in a disturbed and pervettesVcon_tleui 4 cents per pound, 45 per cent. ad salor,r, . ditiou through alcoholic irritation when the The present rate is 45 per cent, on all valued N 4 =imp was committed, bat the same evening he- leas than 4 cents per peened, mid 2as 31 tents 'telly realised Ms petition. Soon after Mesmer*, per pound for higher grades. The dates on iron ' tion he suffered from hallucinations and deiiriaar tor steel latelmx, poitsleoltimos,. buileFing. forms, tremeNs. The doctor sMi it was possible that, at and other structural shapes are fixed at 6 the time the murder took place, the prisoner was cents per pound (now 1±); on steel or partly steel unconscious of his action, as he stated he was to railway wheels and tires or ingots 11 cer.ta the doctors. The jury found the prisoner guilty I pound, now 21 cents. Iron and steel wire remains with a strong recommendation to mercy, and he unchanged, with the provision that no duty shalt was sentenced to death. exceed 60 per cent. ad salostm. There are also reductions in wood screws, old copper, coptsAt chippings, ingots, and Chili bars, rolled plates, sheets, rods, pipes, lead ores, and dross in rip bars, &c.. for remanufacture ; sheets, pipes, and shot; sheathing and yellow metal; nickel, ore or made: zinc and epelter in pigs or for re-manefacture; hollow ware; needles, peuknives, razors, pins, type meta', and other articles; and sugar. It is proposed that the Act shall take effect on July Ist next.
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1888-12-01 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

TERRI:ME SCENE ON TII/4 SCAFFOLD.  As to his own experiences' of the guillotine, Dr. Loye gives a detailed and very interesting account of an execution which took place three years ago at Troyes, at which the author, together with another French medical man, was present:— Both of us believed that our wide experience of bloody vivisection would have hardened us sufficiently to go throagh the spectacle without very great emotion. The condemned man had nothing by which he couhl attract any great interest or pity. He was a professional malefactor who, in his last exploit, had murdered my companion's aunt and cousin. We had, therefore, no reason to regard such criminal with compassion. However, when the fellow arrived in front of the guillotine we could not help • feeling of painful emotion creeping over us, and by which, no doubt, we partly lost that mental neutrality which is necessary for all scientific investigations. As a proof of this fact I may say that the percephon of time. of duration, was immediately disturbed with both of us. The carriage stopped near the guillotine, A policeman stepped out, a warder, the execsBother's assistant, and another policntaan ; they r all seemed to move very. very slowly. At last the condemned man go* out, accompanied by the chaplain, an execntioner's assistant, and a third policeman. He stood beside the vehicle with a pale face, eyes and month open, his tint-Tied look fixed obstinately on the enormous knife which !glittered at the distance of a few steps. They arrived in front of the guillotine; the I assistants threw the patient down, and his head wise fastened. When the upper Dart of the boards I between which the man lay was fastened it Fpposted to ne as if he were already beheaded , Alas! I shall not soon forget the man's facet It ' was turned downwards to the box into which his head would fall; he looked at this box with err expression of fear and terror snub as I have never seen on any other face. His month was wide open, his forehead contracted, and the eyes , seemed to be starting oat of their sockets. It was a horrible sight. At last the knife came down. We could follow it se it descended; we saw it slacken its speed as it neared the neck of the criminal; we saw the head cat inch by inch from before the board, the face being drawn into a terrible grimace, and making in its fall a kind of bow. All this seemed to last an eternity. A dozen times I was on the Catof calling -oat to the executioner to make and shorten our own and the patient's agony. . . . I looked at my watch—and it appeared that only fifteen seconds bad passed since the condemned man arrived under the guillotine. During these fifteen seconds I had seen every detail of the execution; I had seen the slow descent of the knife, which falls in the third of a second, and / had seen the head slowly severed from the body. My companion had felt the same widening out ef time, and he was as surprised as I when he heard what was the exact time of the operation.