Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1883-09-22 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

HENRY HUDSON'S DOOM.  Henry Hudson, of whose early life but little is known, started in 1607, with ten men and a boy, on a course holding towards the North Pole, to seek a shorter passage to China than by the circuitous route round the Cape of Good Hope; but he did not get farther than Spitsbergen. He made three voyages after this—the fourth and last terminating in a terrible tragedy. After entering the great bay which bears his name be was beset in the ice, and calling his men together, he gave them the option of proceeding or returning. Tisey reluctantly agreed to proceed, but it was evident there was a mutinous spirit among them. As time passed onprovisions began to fail, game was procured with increasing difficulty, and a day came when, with tears in his eyes, Hudson divided the bread on board— about a fortnight's rations. The wretches with whom he was associated were unworthy his compassion, for already they had determined upon the diabolical scheme of turning out their commander and the sick men of the crew into a small boat, and, cutting them adrift, leavingthem to their fate. As Hudson came forth from his cabin one morning a band of these ruffians seized him, and, tying his hands behind him, thrust him into the boat with his son and seven invalided men. A gun, some ammunition, and a little meal were thrown into the boat, which was then cut adrift, and left to the mercy of the winds, the ice, and the sea. There was nothing ever after heard of the fate of the brave Hudson —as daring a man as any on the refi of Britannia's heroes. The story of the mutiny was told long afterwards by one Habakkuk Pricket, who stated that he endeavoured to quell it, but failed, and his life was threatened if he did not hold his peso..  S  gloomy Ind despairing cries of the old family nurse tlut her mother and her uncle had died exactly so." At the trial, during her cross-examination, Sarah Ha.ncicock, the nun* in question, stated that Wainewright's uncle, Goo. Edward Griffiths, died in 1829, and Mrs Abereremby- in the following year. Wafflewright was present during the brief illness and death of his uncle, and Mrs Abercromby died while on a visit at Waineivrighfs house, at Turnham Green. It has been conjectured, but of course absolute evidence on the subject was not forthcoming, that both deaths were the re!suit of poison administered by Wainewright. By the death of his uncle Wainewright profited considerably, but it is not -clear that he obtained any pecuniary advantage from the death of Mrs Abercromby. Suspicion has also laid to Wainewright's charge the death of a certain gentleman from Norfolk, for some time resident in Caroline-place, Bloomsbury, and afterwards of Boulogne, whose life had been insured in the Pelican Offce for a sum of £3.000; bat the case has never been precisely stated, and remains in a clouded condition. Apparently. Wainwright gained nothing by the murder, if A , was a murder. He was supposed, however, to be quite capable of poisoning in jest. He wore, it is said, a ring—the orignal of the poisoned ring in Lucretia—which contained strychnine," crystals of the Indian nux vomica, a poison, almost tasteless. difficult of -disc tiery, amicapahle of a most infinite dilution." It is curious that he never poisoned himself, the whole of his life being considered.  A