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Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1874-10-31 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

TRZ POLICZ. Patrick Larkin was charged with assaulting P.C. Peacock in the execution of his duty. P.C. Peacock stated that on Saturday night alma quarter past 11 he was on duty ia Lower Feversham-street, when he heard cries of " Murder" and " Police." He ran into Liineral-street, and was there met by 'Berea women who told him that Larkin was ill-using a woman, and begged him to go and take him. He went into the house, and tried ti pacify the man,wheu prisoner took up a cup and flung it at him striking him on the head with it. Prisoner then seised him by the throat, and had nearly strangled him, when P.C. Jepson came to his assistance. P.C. Jepson stated that when he went into the house prisoner bad hold of P.C. Peacock, by the throat, who was black in the face. Prisoner called his father-in-law as a witness for the defence, but the witness really proved the assault. Nothing .was known of the prisoner, and the Mayor stated that the abs:nce of auything against him he would be dealt leniently with, or otherwise he would have bean sent to gaol. He was fined 21s or 21 days. Y 0172.10 RllMlNB.—Patrick Feeny and John Feeny were charged with striking Patrick Cavanagh on Saturday night. Complainant stated that be was going down Vine-street, when he was molested and assaulted by the two iprisonere. He knew of no provocation. A witness mimed Mrs Maddon, stated that she saw the two prisoners assault Cavanagh, and that she dragged Cavanagh into the house, the two prisoners following. She went for a constable, as they were very violeat, and while she was away, they assaulted her hashand, who had been in tied, but was "raised" by the row. He was so badly assaulted that he was compelled to keep- his bed. P.C. Mitchell and P.C. Kialber came, and the two tpriaoilers got into the back yard, and when the officers attempted to take them iuto custody, they were assaulted. There were others who entered Into the row, and bricks were thrown about freely. P.C. Mitchell stated that he was thrown down and struck by the prisoners, and P.C. Simber stated that he was also assaulted. Co roberative evidence' was given, and the pr sellers were cc:omitted to gaol for one month for the assault on the police, and for another month for the assault on Cavanagh, and ordered to pay the costs, £2 each, or an auditions' month's imprisenment.  Tuusnay.—Before the Mayor, W. Taylor, and Hy. Thompson, Esqrs.  ASSAULT ON A Womax.--Robert Lackey, plasterer, was charged with assaulting a widow named Eliza Henderson. The two had cc habited together,and lived unhappily and the complainant alleged that the prisoner was in the habit of beating her. Her face bore marks of violence. Prisoner pleaded in extenuation that the woman wai in iho habit of taking drink and provoking him. He w.B sentenced to three months' imprisoummt with hard labour. AssAmir.— William O'Brian, and Julia O'Brien, were charged with assaulting James Hornsey, labourer, ou the 17th inst. Tney were each fined 21s each, ex 21 days' imprisonment.  A ` I 11 90
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1874-10-03 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

FROM THE ALTAR TO THE GALLOWS. The second act in the tragedy of the Penescal murderers has closed, and two of the murderers have, sap an American paper, paid the forfeit of their lives to the laws of the country. One of the persons claimed to have taken no part in the murder, but admitten he was present and took a share of the stolen goods. The other was active in the outrage, and he has admitted to being engaged in several other murders, among them those of Messrs Murdock, Hatch, and Crocker. A strange ceremony, and one almost unknown in the annals of crime, was that of the marriage of Hypolito Tapia to his former mistress, while standing, as it were, with the rope round his neck. The woman, 'Trinidad Ba,yestero, had long been living with Hypolito, and was the mother of several of his children. To have them legitimated as far as possib e she induced Hypolito to consent to a marriage, which he readily did. So on Thursday evening a large number of his relatives and friends, and thcse of the woman, assembled at the gaol, and were admitted to an interview with the condemned. The priest soon came. Trinidad is an ordinary looking woman, with a five months' old child in her arms, and was dressed in a common calico dress, with the never ahem black shawl thrown about her shoulders. Tk .nterview between her and Hypolito affected at greatly. The }kJ. Father C. Jaillet officiated, amid surroundings in the highest degree dramatic% and solemn. Under the sentence of death for the commission of a terrible murder, and witliin a short twenty-four hours of his doom; within a gaol, at one portion of which stood the dread machinery that was to launch him into eternity; with witnesses composed of his sorrowing and weeping relatives, and his companion in crime doomed at the same time to suffer death with him; man del and in chains, this man stood to take unto himself that holiest of all t hings— a wife ! Two of the great events of life—marriage and death—under such circumsranco3 ! Hypolito during the ceremony, preserved a calm, collected demeanour, and made all necessary responses in a firm, clear voice. Not Po Trini lad, who barely preserved sufficient command of herself to go through the marriage ceremony. The marriage concluded, the parties present were told that the hour had come to close the gaol that night, and that they must part. On the eeaffold, Tapia said, "My friends, lam here today to die by hanging. I have killed no person, nor helped to kill any one. The people forced the person who was guilty to swear against me; but it is all right—good bye." Davilla had nothing to say. He stood very still, with his eyes cast, and evidently communing with himself. When the drop fell a series of heart-rending screams were raised by the crowd. Unknown to Tapia his family came to see the i;anging, ana they were loud in their lamentations and expressians of grief. The necks of both men were broken, and they diEd without a struggle.
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1870-06-03 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

THE DENHAM MURDERS.  -..-......-- Since the inquest on Friday last, a most 'mportant piece of evidence has been obtained by the Bucks constabulary. They have found that a man named Smith met Jenkins oo the Sunday morning after the murder about twenty minutes' walk from Marshall's house. That was at about five minutes to eight o'cliiek. Jenkins offered a watch and chain to Smith, and asked him to buy them. The watch and chain ia the hands of the po!ice have been shown to Smith. who not only identifies them as those he saw in the possession of Jenkins. but also recognises the &tithes (Marshall's) as those w,rn by the prisoner when lie met hint on the eventful Sunday morning. Smith will, consequently, be produced as a witness.  The feeling among the brickmakere (who are extremely numerous in this locality) is very strong against the murderer, and some yf them have sworn to kill him if they can get him boo their hands—no ids threat, as the excitement attending his removal to Aylesbury last week will show. Every precaution wil: be taken by the Bucks constabulary to m eveut a surprise by the mob, and of course tile time of the prisoner's removal from Aylesbury will be k ,pt a secret, as will also that of his arrival at Slough. Ttie morbid desire to possms a ino me fit no of the horrible crime has, it appears, shown itselt very prominently among the visitors to the cottage of 'he murdered family at Denham. A fir tree has been yearly stripped, arid many Ii os articles abstracted in spite of the precautions of the police. On Sunday last, the scene of the murder was vi:-ited by great numbers of people. 'Buses and pleasure-vans from different parts of the metropolis, with the announcement, printed in large letters, "To Uxbridge, to Denham." pasted on them in the most conspicuous parts, found plenty of passengers. Waggonettes, pony•chaises, and traps of all sizes and shapes made the road in some places impassible; in fact, near the scene of the murder, the few police had the greatest difficulty in keeping the numerous conveyances moving. Bicycle-riders, to the number of perhaps 50, managed to find their way to the spot. The Rev. C Joyce, curate of Denham, delivered a touching sermon in the old church on the subject, taking for his text the Book of Deuteronomy, xii., 9, " For ye are not," &e. He mentioned that only the last Sunday a member of the murdered family was asked for the third time ip that church; how little the congregation then knew that the one, the called, would be numbered with the dead ; how our the morning the bells which were to have pealed merrily rang a funeral knell ; the doors which were open to receive a bride receive') instead a corpse! During the whole of the sermon scarcely a dry eye could be seen, everyone present being deeply overcome by the excellent sermon delivered.
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1865-04-14 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

SIIOCKIN'G MURDER AT FROME.-011 Wednesday morning week, John Biggs, aged 53, a pensioner. WAS brought up at the police-court, at Frome, and charged with the wilful murder of Mary Wallis, aged 70, on Tuesday, in Sun-street, in that town The prisoner, who is a powerful and strongly built man, appeared but little concerned at the gravity of the charge against him. The prisoner, who is in receipt of the ordinary pension of a soldier, has lived for some years with the deceased woman, Mary Wallis. Ile was a man of very drunken habits, but the witnesses agree in stating that she was sober and industrious, and although it is certain that he subjected her to continual ill-treatment, she would not leave him, and, in fact, did much to support him. For some time lately he was scarcely ever sober, and quarrels were of aim ost daily occurrence. On Monday he beat her, and broke most of the crockery in the house. On Tuesday, a little after half-past twelve, Ann Burgess, who lived in the next house, was more than usually alarmed by the noise going on next door, as it appeared from the words she heard that the prisoner was demanding money of the deceased, and was beating her very severely. Burgess, in consequence, went in. and found the deceased lying on the floor, apparently insensible, and the prisoner sitting in a chair by the fire. Seeing the state of the deceased, she said, "Well, John, you have done for her at last." He replied in a very coarse way, and told her to go out, and then flung a chair at her. Seeing another neighbour, Mrs White, passing by, Burgess called her in, and just then Biggs came out of the house, and said to Mrs White, "Mother White, go in, I have killed the old —at last." He added, " Do what you en, and come back to me and have a share of a pint of beer." With this he sent away and seeing what had taken place Mrs White called after him, saying she would go for a policeman at once. The prisoner only answered " All right," and went away. Ann Burgess and Mrs White then attended to the poor old woman, who to all appearance was dead. They undressed her and put her to bed, and sent for a surgeon and the police Mr Cockey came a little after one, and from the state of the poor woman saw that her recovery was hopeless. She never recovered consciousneas, nor ever opened her eyes afterwards, and at eleven o'clock the following Tuesday night she died. The apparent cause of death is a severe blow under the left ear, where there is a swelling. The deceased WAS in her usual health in the morning, and had been in and out of the houses of her neighbours. who state that she was quite sober, and that she was not given to drink. The prisoner, on the other hand, was in a state of semi-drunkenness; he could walk quite well, but he was in a furious state. Ile Was taken into custody at two o'clock and locked up. The only remark he made was that the deceased fell down, but on Tuesday he told the police that he "did not strike her very hard." He was remanded.  .  STOilao.",%; .‘AOZT`fil ANi;
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1865-10-27 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

THE POPE AND TIIE FREEMASONS OF FRANCE. —The Masonic lodges of St. Etienne and Condom, like those of Lyons, have published replies to the Pope's allocution. The members of the former thus speak : It is said that hatred is the basis and pivot of our institution. This is a strange delusion and delirium. Men who hate are those who despotically impose themselves and their ideas on others; men who employ moral and material constraint; men who threaten with eternal fire the soul triply sacred by its divine origin, its liberty, and its immortality ; men who condetnn to the galleys and to exile those who pray in accordance with the imperious requirements of their hearts and their consciences. In reply to those who, in a kind of frenzy, hold us up to public reprobation, we shall answer in the words of peace, love, and forgiveness, alas! so little understood, used by Him who said, "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do." This last sentence, says the Areith• National, contains the solution of the matter. The Court of Rome has lost the consciousness of its acts: it deals out at haphazard blows which fall only upon itself and prove the senile infancy into which it has fallen. The members of the Condom lodge conclude their reply by saying :—No, most Holy Father, we do not profess the theory of murder, and instead of sending our brethren to fight against their brethren-children of the same blood and the same country—on the plains of Castelfidardo, we preach to them toleration and teach them to love one auother.  About eighteen months ago, the engineer of a colliery at Wigan, in Luncashire, named-James Barton, was murdered under circumstances of unprecedented barbarity, the body of the poor man, or rather the unconsunted portions of it, being found in the boiler fire he had under his care. All efforts to trace the perpetrators of the outrage were at the time uusuccesstul, and a long and fruitless inquiry ended in the general belief that this would probably for ever remain amongst the list of undiscovered crimes. It appears, however, that the most hardened villains are sometimes troubled with an uneasy conscience and to this aw ,kening of moral sensibility we are indebted for the discovery of the murderers. There is naw in Warwick County Prison a man named John Healey, undergoing a long term of imprisonment for burglary. In a fit of real or pretended repentance, this man has confessed that he was present and assisted at the murder of Barton. He states that he was at the time on tramp, and meeting with four other men at a public-house near Wigan, he was iuduced to accompany these four men, who were strangers to him, to the colliery engine-house. Having arrived there, they robbed Barton of his watch and money, anti then put hint into the fire. The whole party afterwards fled, and Healey declares he knows not what became of the rest. While admitting participation in the crime, he pleads in mitigation of his own conduct, that what he did was done under the impulse of tear ot his companions. A
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1865-03-03 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

ALARMING SCENE IN A RAILWAY TRAIN.— A correspondent gives the following account of an exciting scene with a lunatic on the Great Northern line, on Monday. The writer, who is a lady, says On Monday morning last, accompanied by my sister and child, three years of age, I entered the middle compartment of a second-class carriageat the Doncaster station, the train leaving at 917 a.m. for York. A gentleman connected with the Great Northern Railway jestingly told us there was a madman in the next place. I asked him to lock us in, and then we should be safe. He did so, and we started, but before the train had passed over the road-crossings we were startled by the man attempting to look through the place where the lamp usually hangs. After a little while, however, he was quiet, and remained so until within a short distance of Askern, when he pushed his hand through the place where the lamp is fixed, and threw the metal covering on the top of the carriage. We spoke to the guard at Askern, and he removed him to the other end of the carriage, assuring us he was quite safe. At every station we stopped at he attracted attention, but nothing was done, except locking him in. 'After passing Church Fenton, and only just past the platform, he commenced kicking and knocking at the partition, and called out murder.' Perhaps ten minutes elapsed after he had called out, when, to our horror and alarm, he appeared outside our window, having forced himself through his, and began beating the glass with his fist (but first trying the door, which was luckily locked), and using the most disgusting language, swearing he would murder us, as (he said) we had cut his wife's throat. We could not open the opposite window to call for assistance, and I had to exert all my strength to prevent him from forcing himself in. Had he done so the result can scarcely be doubted. I forgot to say that a young gentleman had got ifito the compartment, previously occupied by the madman, at Knottingley, and my sister called to him, but he was unable to assist us. The man was &roughlooking powerful fellow, dressed as a seafaring man. He clung to our carriage, uttering threats all the time, until we were within a mile of York, when the guard's attention was at last directed to him by some people working. The train was then stopped, and the guard got him back again into his seat, and went on with him to York, and we had the satisfaction a few hours after of seeing him in a cab on his way to the lunatic asylum. I have ventured to ask your kind insertion of this letter in the hope that something may be done to secure the public safety. Had some one been in charge of the man he could not have got out of the window. Both my sister and self fortunately never lost our presence of mind; had we done so, and got to the furthest window from him, he would, no doubt, have succeeded in getting in."— Yorkshire Gazette.
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1865-09-15 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

DISCOVERY OF A HORRID PLOT.—Robert Brown, Esq., semi, opened by mistake a letter addressed to Robert Brown, E,q., junior, the author of an (unpublished) sensational novel, and this is what the poor old parent read:—" Dear Bob,— You really must show more caution in constructing your plots, or the governor will be sure to discover the dead body of Geraldine in the cellar, and then your secret will be out You consulted me about the strychnine. I certainly think you are giving it to him in rather large doses, and if I were you I would not have two illegitimate children. One ;is quite sufficient. Let Emily put her mother in a mad-house. It will answer your I purpose well to have the old girl out of the way. I think your forgery is for two small a sum. Make it three thousand. Leave the rest of your particularly nice family circle to me. I will finish them off, and send you back the 'fatal dagger' afterwards by book post—Yours, Jac K."—Fun. 0' FLYNN, THE II iGttwAvmAN.--This notorious character, says the Irish Times. has been identified as the perpetrator of another outrage quite in the " Dick Turpin " style. It appears that OM the same night on which Cummins was attacked by him, about half an hour previous, at the Finglas bridge, he stopped a decent farmer named Carey, and, presenting a pistol at his head, demanded his money. The man had in his possession only 2s, which sum he gave to O'Flynn, who then proceeded to make a search of his person, in a most systematic manner, rifling all his pockets. Not finding any more money. he was about to leave him, when Carey said to him, "Sure you are not going to take such a trifle ?" upon which, in the most magoanimoue manner, the prisoner flung back the 2s and departed on his way, itninediately after which he must have met with poor Cummins. The prisoner, who cannot yet be said to be out of danger from the wounds he received, is progressing towards recovery. ATTEMPTED DOUBLE MUltDElt NEAR GODAT,miNo. On Thursday evening week, a very painful sensation was created in the quiet little village of flascornbe, which is about four miles from Godalming, by the report that a murderous assault had been cont. mitted upon Mr and Mrs Underwood, general shopkeepers of Hascombe, by a man, who, it is presumed, must be of unsound mind. It appears that the man, whose name is Oliver, entered the shop of Mrs Underi‘ood and demanded some beer, and upon being refused immediately attacked Mr Underwood, and inflicted upon him serious injuries with a knife. Mr Underwood's cries for help quickly brought Mrs Underwood to the rescue, but a like fate was in store for her, for the fellow rushed upon her, and stabbed her several times in the neck and head, causing wounds of so dangerous a character that her life is considered in imminent danger Mounted messengers were immediately dispatched to Godahning for medical assistance, and at present both victims of this murderous and unprovoked assault are alive. The man was arrested, and conveyed to the county police-station at Guildford