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Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1869-06-04 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

SHOCKING MIT RDER BY A SUSSEX FARMER.  A. shocking murder of a wife was committed on  Sunday at Ashliurnham, a small village in Sussex, a few mike from [Lotting& Near the vilttge is a quantity of land called " Gardener's Farm," which is f rtned ly an old man named Stubberfield and his son Jeremiah. The son, who is married and about forty years old has • separate residence about sixty yards from that of his parent. Out Saturday evening there were living in the same house with the son, his wife, Matilda, their son, Mary Deeprose (a companion to Mrs StubberfieluO. and several farm labourers and.domestie servants. The boy, eight years old, who occupied the same room as his parents, states that early on Sunday morning, whilst it watt scarcely light, he saw his father kneeling noon his mother and equerzing her throat. Hearing his mother say "Oh," feebly and as if in pain. he said to his father. " You're hurting mother." "You hold your toneue." replied the father. "I'm only tickling her." The boy eosin made • similar remark, upon which his father said, that if he didn't hold his tongue, he woold 'see to him." Stuhherfl-ld then dressed himself, and having kissed his wife and child, took his coat on his arm, and went downstairs. The boy immediately aro.ised the other tom utea of the house. In the meantime Miss Deerose, having heard a moaning in Stubhertield's bed.room, and thinking something was the matter, had gone to the father's house for assistance. On her return in about ten minutes she met Jeremiah Stobberfieltl at the door, is he was about to leave the house, and tried to prevent his escape, hut did not succeed in doing so, although she struggled with him for some minutes. James Honeysett, a carter, who was one of the first persons aroused by the boy, got up directly, and went into the bed-room, where he found Mrs Stubberfield lying in the bed dead. He says he heard a "pretty &mart" struggle in the yard; that he went there immediately, and found Miss Deeprose exhausted by her efforts to detain Mr Stuhherfield. Several otner persons were soon in the bed-room of the murdered woman, and Dr. Simmons, who lives a mile and a half distant, was at once sent for. It was six o'clock when that gentleman reached the house; and there being no appearance of a struggle, he was first led to suppose that decercted had died suddenly from natural causes. All examination of the neck, however, revealed marks, and the doctor then came to the opinion that the woman haul been murdered. The police were then communicated with, and were quickly on the spot. Search was instituted fur the murderer, but without success. It is said that Stubberfield had been in a depressed state of mind some time. He had been married nine years, was much respected, and was understood to have lived vary happily with his wife.  THE IRISH CHURCH BILL
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1859-10-08 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

SHOCKING TRAGEDIES IN BIRMINGHAM.  Early on Saturday morning one if not two murders were committed almost simultaneously in Birmingham, and both in the same locality. In consequence of the annual Michaelmas fair being held, many persons have been making holiday, and there is generally on these occasions a considerable amount of drinking and debauchery. It appears that to these causes the present shocking circumstances are due.  A young man named Samuel Dutton, about 21 years of age, left his work at the Royal Mint about seven o'clock for the purpose of "seeing the fair." Ile was accompanied by a companion named William Rliek, and they visited several public-houses. At about halfpast one in the morning, they were in the Star liquor vaults, in Dale End, where the landlord observing that they were intoxicated, 'Timed to allow them to have any more liquor. Dutton thereupon began to talk with some other persons who were present, and at length left the place with them. Wick staying behind. in a few moments after, a man came running in. stating that some persons were kicking Dutton in the street. Elick ran out and found his companion on the pavement, while tiro men were kicking him in the most vicious way as he lay apparently helpless. They immediately det-isted, however, and in the confusion managed to escape. As for the unfortunate man Dutton, he could only moan out "Oh, Lord, Bill ! Oh, Lord !" when he became insensible. Ile was bleeding freely from an unseen wound, and, suspecting that he had been stabbed, he was promptly removed to an adjoining surgery. but expired before he reached the spot. Upon an investigation, it was discovered that he had received a mortal stab in the groin, and that it had evidently been inflicted by a knife. The wound was of such a character that no skill could have saved his life.  Almost at the same moment that this fatality occurred, a quarrel arose a few yards off, between some profligate women, and in a moment after there was a cry that one of their throats had been cut. There could be no doubt about the accuracy of the alarm, for one of the women immediately fell covered with blood. She also was taken to the surgery where Dutton's dead body lay, and was attended to as speedily as possible. It was found, however, that the wound was of such a serious character that it was considered advisable to have her removed to the General Hospital. It is doubtful whether she will recover.  Both these events are surrounded with some mystery at present. It is conjectured that the attack upon Dutton had robbery in view ; and that, as he was a man who mould take care of himself, having fought two pitched battles, the knife had been used to prevent capture or discovery. As for the injuries inflicted upon the woman no one seems exactly to know how they were received, whether inflicted by her opponent or by another. The police, however, have instituted an active inveaigation into both affairs, and will doubtless elicit much that at present is incapable of solution.
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1859-01-01 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

ASSAULTING A GATE-KEtPEß.—Benjamin Evans, who desetibed Mm-elf as a labouring ii ao, living in Middles brough, was le ought up, on remand, for an assault upon John Hudson, keeper of the Toll-gate ii the Stockton and Middltabrough New Road. Complainant said, that he was one of the Middlesbrough Police Oflicos ; that on Friday last detbndant was passing over the bridge on the New Roa I, and he demanded the toll of one peony, the usual toll for foot passengers. Ile refused to pay itComplainant objected to his passing without the toll being paid. He said he would not lie stopped by such a man as he was, and took out a knife, which complainant prevented his opening, lie then struck at him with it, and produced blood from his lice, and said he would as liet kill him, and put the knife into him, as not; he did not care for his life : he seized complainant by the throat and tried ththrottle liini, kicked his dog across the house, and kicked over the table. Complainant told a woman, who was passing, to send help, amid a man came, and he then got the shackles on the defendant, and took him to the Stockton Lock-up, but did not search him, and could not produce the knife. .•• • • •  A witness, of the name of Dawson, said he was at work near the Toll-house, and a woman called to him and said there was murder going on at the gate. He jumped over the fence and ran up, and saw the two men struggling, and the Officer bleeding from the face, and seized hold of defendant and held him while the Officer put the shackles on him, who then took him away. Mr. SCURFIELD Geer said it was a monstrous thing to demand toll of a man walking on a highway such a thing was not heard of now, on a turnpike road. He was aware the law of this road sanctioned the demand, but the proprietors ought to place a board up at each end of the road, to let the public know that the/ had to pay. • •  Mr. TROTTER said there was no hardship in the case : the road had been made for the public convenience, and the payment of one penny was a legal payment. He had been one to promote it, and did not think such a statement as had been made should be allowed to go forth to the public without explanation. It was not to be expear(' that he should be called upon to pay for the accommodation of other persons, who made use of the road.  Mr. Hems, who appeared f.r the prosecuth.n, said that, according to the Act, a board stating the tolls was placed up on the Toll-house, and the Officer had pointed it out to the man.  He was fined £2 and costs, or two months imprison Frette-HousE Br.swit.—lsnae Thompson and Mr. M,Millan were charged by the Police with dh:orderly con. duct in the bunse of Thomas lid!, publican, Not-ten, on the 7th inst. There was a danee in the house, and one of the defendants called the other names, and a tight was the result. Fined 2s. &I. tech.
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1873-03-22 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

YORKSHIRE SPRING ASSIZES. (From our Gym Reporter.)  ,_ • York, Friday afternoon. To-day the trial of prisoners for the City of York, and for the North and East Ridings of the county, have commenced, and the county calendar is remarkable for the number of cases which have been sent from the borough of Middlesbrough, and the police districts of Langbaugh North and Lanbangh East. The only case in the city was one in which I Robert Parker, of Stockton, who was married to a I.6lwife of that town, at the Register Office, in , 1854, had taken to himself another wife at a York 1 Church on the 12th Feb. last. En route for York there I was a large turpamt of policemen and witnesses at ' Think Junction, the most conspienotus being Inspector Robson, of North Ormesby, who has some 16 or 17 witnesses in hand for the Moyle forgery case. The precise charge against Mr Moyle is that of forgery and uttering certain scrip certificates and an impression of a seal, purporting to be of the firm of Jackson, Gill, and Company (limited); also forging a certain deed, purporting to be a transfer of 220 shares of and in the firm of Jackson, Gill, and Company (limited) ; also forging the signature of Edward Sticklv White; and also forging a certain letter, dated 16th December. 1872, purporting to be a letter written by one E. S. White, with intent to defraud, at the township of Nortnanby, in the North Riding. He was committed for trial by Messrs W. R. J. Hopkins and H. Cochrane, and is described in the calendar as being 38 years old,and of superior education. Sergeant Bowser, of Redcar, a witness in the Pickering murder charge, was there; as also was Sergeant Temple, of Middlesbrough, with half-a-dozen boys for the Industrial School. The little fellows seemed to nave been better cared for on leaving home than when there previous to this committal, for they were all carrying cakes and oranges, and one of them was able to produce a silver sixpence. The • Rev. J. R Bealey, vicar of Middlesbrough, with several local gentlemen, was also on the platform, proceeding to York to give evidence in behalf of the Rev. V. H. Moyle, whose defence is in the hands of Mr Timothy Crosby, of Stockton. From a well informed narter, it is stated that a further forgery by the v. Gentleman his been discovered in connection ith Eston schools, he having forged the name of Mr Ralph Outred, auditor of the accounts, to a return by means of which he has swindled the Education Department out of £2OO. Four witnesses have also been Eubpeened against him to prove the forgery of the South Durham Iron Company's shares. Agaiust this overwhelming string of mimes, it seems to be useless to contend, and we have very good reasons :or saying that, Mr Moyle will plead guilty, after which counsel (probably Mr Digby Seymour) will address the judge in mitigation of the punishment, present petitions from the Church people of Coatham, Redcar, Eston, North Ormesby, and other places, and then call witnesses as to Mr Moj le's good moral character.
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1873-02-22 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

WIT AND  OUR.  LITERARY GLILLNINGIL , to ()Runs or Wegence wh . wanting ! flikoode thflor sytageringofinmosiltFothdt 4hlualar ' alli ll' G"dTbe height of oft;rat aersitch-tyi"king-B—PledginguiPhytarouriPiriaiZ ky . Ifeß be their parents for aid, and partly In any great exertion serving as arelief. Prolonged scream. ..... bad wind up of the week--leeling home on ing inevitably leads to the gorging of *e blood. Saturday night. Vessels of the eye; and thi• will have lead, at first Au early epriug_sumping out of consciously, &IA at last habitually, to the contractio* a'clock in the morning. of the muscles round the eyes, in order to protect them. At the same time, the spaemodie pressure Why lab: prima inec nalahiselr ious jevreller4l;t7nßeseeserse on the surface of the eye, and the distension of the 5 cam ahe may . vessels within the eYff, without necesearilY ...qtailiPli, What lathe difference between a forward minx and any conscious sensation, wig have affected, througle a shot rabbit P— One's over bold and the other's reflex action, the laohrymal glands. Finally, through bowled over. the three principles of nerve-force readily:passing There is time for all things. The time to leave is along accustomed channels—of association, which ie when a young lady asks you "Wlat sort of • day sowidely extended in its power—and of certain actions being more under the control of the will than it is for welling." others—it has come to peas that suffering readily When orosaing sweepers cease to touch their hats causes the secretion of tears, without being neces- to you, consider that it is probably time for you to easily accompanied by any other action.—Mr. procure new clothes. Bemis. Doctor —to a sailor in a hospital—'• Well ray man, have yet taken any remedies yet? Sailor— ." No ; but they've dosed me nearly to death with physic r An lowa jury has decided that a cow's tail bitten off by a dog was just worth five dollars to the owners, of the cow. Its value to the animal herself cannot be estimated. The man who put a lighted pipe into his coattail pocket and sat down on it, afterwards explained that he thought the weather was moderating very suddenly. Doctors in Tennesse are said to have rather a hard time. If the patient lives he seldom pays; and if he dies the rest of the family want to shoot thor physician. A young yachtsman writes to ask what is the paver season for pitching his boat. Take it out the next rough day and manage it yourself; the wind will soon pitch it over for you. A reporter who attended a banquet concludes h's description with a candid e"at ?Anent that" It is not distinctly remembered by anybody present who it was that made the last speech." The insanity plea has- lately received a new fiarelopment in Philadelphia, the counsel kr a eonvict,ed murderer in that city having moved or a new trial on the ground that one of the jurors w..., insane.  Tra:lo  londli,  A.  bed at five
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1873-01-25 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

THE GREAT CORAM STREET MURDER. At Bow-atreet, on Tuesday afternoon, Dr. Gigfried llessel, a elergyman, was placed at the bar before Mr Vaughan, to answer the charge of having murdered Harriet Buswell, in Great Co.ram-street, on Christmas Day last. Mr Douglas Straight ar. peered for the defence, instructed by Messrs R. 4114 S. Mullins, on behalf of the Consulate of the Ger. man Empire. The prisoner ia apparently al)out twenty-three years of age. Suticrintendent Thomson made a statement of the circumstances under which the prisoner had beka arrested, and proceeded to call witnesses . .  Mrs Wright. the landlady of the houb3 No, 12, Great Coram-street, was first called. She gave et. dence of the facts already stated in the reports st the coroner's inquest.  William Stalker, waiter at 90, Leicester-squar, the Hotel Cavour. I knew the deceased as Mr'  Brown. I have been shown the likeness of tlis de. ceased (produced). It is the woman I knew as Airs Brown. She was in the habit. of coming to the hotel, which was also known as the Alhambra Restuarant. She came occasionally. Usually I saw her about ten minutes past eleven to ten past twelve. She was generally there with a gentleman. She Wa, resting the,whole time and partaking of refreshment She came in on the 24th ult, with a man, and left with the same man. They had rofresliment—screi cold fovil and a bottlo of stout. I believe the mar  paid for it. There were a few persons at the bar at the time. There were not many at the tables ;no one on the side of the room where they sat. hap. plied the deceased and the man with what they had, I took the order. Their account came to 4s id. I am not allowed to take the money, I have to Gall the head waiter. I had a good opportunity of seeing the man with her. We were not busy. When he got up I helped him on with his coat. I heard them spent together, but very little. He spoke in a roughiall voice, And rather like a German. I supposed bin: to be IWerman because he talked like one trying to speak English. I understand German. I eon sure it was a foreign accent. To the best of toy belle?, I have seen that man since—on Sunday nigh:, at the Town Hall, Bamsgate, when I rai called there. He was not alone, but with ten (Acre. No one pointed him out to me; in fact, I was kept in a room by myself, and the other witnesses taken away. I had no doubt. I see that man hers to. day (looking at the prisoner at the bar). It is the prisoner at the bar. If it is not him it it ha "twin" brother, or I was never more miitaken in my life before. Mr Vaughan: Do yon give that evide ze, remember. tug always the importance of it, and after careful consideration! Witness : Yes; if I did not think ;it important I would not say it. Mr Vaughan: What makes you come to the
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1873-11-08 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

INQUEST ON THE MURDERED  CHILD.  On Tuesday morning, an inquest was : held on the body of the murdered child of Thomas William Brown. The jurymen were as follows: —Richard Broughton (foreman), William Mellanby, John Barritt, George Wildon, John Horden, John Apple. yard, Henry Jackson, Beckworth Johnson Hopper, James Mattinson, William Thomas Ball, Robert Gargett, and William Spencer. The jury first proceeded to view the body. After returning, the first witness called was Thomas Onions, the grandfather of the child, who said: lam a labourer. The deceased was my grandchild. He was four months old. He was the son of William Christopher Brown. My daughters's name is Ann Brown. They have been married between fourteen and fifteen months. They have been living latterly in Guisborongh. My daughter came home the week before last. I believe it was on Monday. She came by herself. She went back for the child the same day, and returned in the evening, and stayed at my house. On or about Wednesday, William Christopher Brown came to Middlesbrough, but I declined to let him stay in tie hous.J. The party next door took him in, and gave him lodgings. During the daytime he came into my house. He might have only one meal there. He seemed to be very fond of his wife and child, and wanted her to go back with him to Gnisborough. She did not gu back with him. On Sunday morning I had been asleep, and when I awoke in the forenoon, Brown was then in my house. I must have fallen asleep again, for I did not hear him go upstairs. I w..1.e shortly afterwards. I then sent my grandson, a iioy about eight years old, upstairs to get a clean shirt. The boy's name is William Antwizzel. The moment he got upstairs, he cried out " George " (which was the name Brown went by) had cut the bairn's throat. Beyond the persons before-mentioned, there was no one in the house, except my daughter, and the moment I heard the boy call out, I went for a police. man. I met Inspector Thorpe and another officer opposite the Parish Church, and they returned with me to the house. I followed them upstairs. I think the child was laid on the father's arms. They were both laid on the bed, and tioth had their throats cut. The child was dead. By the Jury: After I got up, my daughter was washing the child, and I heard Brown call to her to wash the child, and take it upstairs to him. My daughter did not take breakfast with Brown on Sunday, that I know. I did not see George Hampshire in my house till after the murder was committed. They had two rooms in a house in Guisborough, and Brown took the child from her, and said he would let the woman where he lodged keep it, and pay 6s a week for it. He behaved very badly to me when his wife was confined in my house. The reason why I would not admit him to my house was because I thought he had not behaved well to me. By the Coroner: I have never seen the knife produced by Inspector Thorpe before.
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1883-04-28 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

TIIE MURDER OF A CHILD AT  LONDON.  Mr Hull, coroner for Mid-Surrey, rseurned an enquiry on Tuesday afternoon, at Wandsworth, as to the death of Emily Smith, nine years of age, whose body was found on the 13th inst. in a sideboard cupboard of an unoccupied house, at No. 28, Ferrier-street, Yorkroad, Wandsworth. According to the evidence given on the last occasion, the girl left the house of her step-father, John Peryer labourer in a match factory), on the evening of the 31st March to go to some "roundabouts' at a fair in the York-road, and he had neither ' heard nor seen anything of her until the body was found as above described. Or, Tues-Iday Mr Dougherty, who was elected foreman of the jury on the last occasion, and who was now absent, was fined £l.o.—Dr. Fleming Sandwith said he examined the body of the child whilst it was lying in the cupboard of the house lin Ferrier-street on the evening of the 130) of April. The body was clothed, but the legs and lower parts were naked. The shoes and stockings were on. Ile made a post-mortent examination, and should say the -body had been dead about ten or twelve days. There were no fractures or bruises on the body, but blood had come from the nose, mouth, and other , parts. Considerable violence must have been used, and the child had been outraged. The cause of death was probably suffocation. At the sitrde time, the organs of the body were io decomposed that one could not speak with absolute certainty. The child was three feet ten inches high, and witness did no, consider her small for her age.—The Coroner adjourned the enquiry to May 7th, to enable the police to get some clue, if possible, to the miscreant The Coroner also bound over each of the jurymen la the sum of £lO to attend on the next occasion.  A young man ied. in Rowe. Georgia, a few days ago, after an illness of forty-eight hours, and lns physician said his death was due to congestion of the lungs, caused by smoking cigarettes. .  Ttie Rev Dr. Temp/A. Bishop of Exeter. has Ir?en eleeted RR Bampton Loctnrer for the ensuing 'ea,. The endowment now* produces :A. tit £ 00 to emch lectorer.  On Friday evening, during an alterca• ton with some young men respw.tnut a pigeon fly mg match, a man named Corner wits thrown d wo, and one of his legs broken below the knee.  . It is sta,ed that, as the result of the division on Mr &anal,:ld's motion. the Government will, on an early day, bring in a Bill to repeal the Contagious Diseases Act. The estimate now given of the damage done by the great warehouse fire at Liverpool Is £150,000 At the City Police Court four men were sentenced to terms of imprisonment for committing or attempting to commit petty • felonies while the fire was raging.  THE HEALTH OF THE W:.—Since the Queen's arrival at Osborne Her Majesty has daily taken carriage exercise. Her Maiesty health is good, but the knee-joint still causes trouble, and it is feared that some months may elapse before the Queen is quite teetered to her accustomed good health. .