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The Potteries Examiner : — 1877-03-31 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

THE CONDEMNED CONVICT AT LEEDN—AI the recent Leeds assizes John Henry Johnson was convicted of the murder of Amos Waite, at Bradford, in December, and was sentenced to death. Prisoner, who had recently returned to Bradford from America, had quarrelled with his wife, and hail lift her behind him in the United States. At Bradford he took up with a mill girl, and it was in consequence of insults to the latter by several members of a public-house company, of whom the deceased was one, that the quarrel arose which ended in Waite ben,: shot dead in the street by the prisoner. After the first quarrel the prisoner went home for his revolver, and subsequently waylaid the deceased in the street, and killed him. Since condemnation the convict has appeared deeply penitent for his crime, and resigned to his fate. Having expressed a wish to become reconciled to his wife before his execution, his brothers tele. graphed to her in America, asking her to coine over per earliest stoma, and it is expected that she is now on her way to England. According to present arrangements, the execution will take place at Armley Gaol, near Leeds, at eight o'clock on the morning of Easter Tuesday. - - • -•  SOME Tatintrws or Poou Ifew.—lt is not &little remarkable that most of the mighty works of the world have been accomplished by poor men, but men so thoroughly ab.orbed in their labour as to ultimately exercise the most widle.spread influence. David Livingstone for instance and Smith the Assyrian explorer have recently shown that it is not wealth which makes a man famous. Liviug,tone, who opened up the interior of Africa, and whose memory is se fresh that it need not be dilated upon, was a factory boy. Sir William Herschel, who made so many discoveries in astronomy, actually came to England when a youth from Germany as a street musician. It was a great step when he became organist to the Octagon Chapel at Bath. Unable to buy a telescope, he made one, and while in these humble circumstances discovered a new planet, then Galled the Georgian Sidus. From that moment he he. came famous; but it is certain that it was not the hope of public applause that sustained him previously, but pure love of science. Jenner, again, the inventor of vaccination, which at this moment is being so carefully enforced in London, 'worked for twenty years in the obscurity of a country village before his theory was accepted—and in addition was bitterly satirised and scorurd. Sir Huraphry Davy was an apothecary's ap. prentice, and at first worked at hi. ideas with no better material. than suck small pots and bottles as he could find in the kitchen. There is a whole muster-roll of celebrated names in science of men poor in their youth, whose disinterested labours pursued under every aim. rutty have afterwards yielded benefits to the world at large. The ,team.eneine itself was brought into pnicfiend use by James Watt, who had to earn his daily bread be making mathematical instruments and repair. Mg fiddles, and indeed, seems to have been glad to get almost any employment. —Prom " Cassell's Faciiig Magazine" for April.
The Potteries Examiner : — 1872-07-13 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

HORRIBLE EXECUTIONS.  A Paris correspondent, writing on Saturday night, says :—" The bloody plain of Satory was the Beene of two more executions this morning. The men shot this time were obscure individuals belonging to the dregs of the Paris population who were sentenced to death by a court-martial population, common law crimes during the reign of the Commune, without, as the prosecution alleged, any political pretext. And yet one of them, Baudoin, was convicted, not only of murdering a man named Herron, but of setting fire to public buildings. The other convict, Bonilla°, killed a man named Dubois, and afterwards robbed his house. The prisoners, coarse brutal men, whether justly condemned or not, assumed the airs of politiDeal martyrs. When warned at four in the morning that their sentence was about to be executed they abused the gaolers, and said their friends would avenge them. They both refused to listen to the priest, and repulsed him rudely. When asked if they desired anything before leaving the prison, they took some wine and coffee. Bonilke smoked a dirty short pipe, laughed frequently, and sang snatches of songs. While this scene was going on Baudoin recognised in one of the gaolers an old r comrade in the artillery of the Guard. With him he conversed quietly, and spoke with great coolness of the certainty he felt that his political friends would soon get the upper hand. After the r very short interval for refreshment and preparation ' the prisoners were conducted to the execution ground in prison vans. The chaplain, Abbe Foist, rode with them. On the plateau of Satory, at five in the morning, there was the usual scene, 10,000 troops drawn up on three sides of a square, and two firing parties opposite two posts. The prisoners I walked steadily to the posts, but again repulsed the priest so roughly that he hastily withdrew to a carriage, quite frightened. They placed their backs against the posts, Bonilla° still smoking his pipe and singing, and seemed to await their fate as bravely as many better men have done in the same place. Bat, in consequence of its having been found at a recent execution that the soldiers were made nervous by I the sight of the prisoner's eyes, and could not take good aim, positive orders have been given that bandages shall be put round the eyes of every man brought out to be shot. Both Baudoin and Bonilla° strenuously resisted the soldiers sent to execute this order. They loudly declared they would I look death in the face. They tore off the I bandages after they had been put on, and violently pushed the soldiers away. It was a shocking and Impossileled scene. Ultimately they were overpowered by numbers-and not only were their eyes 1, ' bandaged, but they were forcibly lashed with strong cords to the poets. In this position they were shot. Every bullet took effect. The bodies were so strongly tied that they did not fall till the cords were cut. Then they dropped without the least life left in them. The like of this was never before seen at Satory."
The Potteries Examiner : — 1872-08-17 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

INCREASE OF RAILWAY RATES AND FARES. between the sides of the two. Her head was crushed —At a meeting of represent Mires of leading rail. shapelesd and her body dreadfallY mangled. Her ways held in London recently; it was resolved, in death was instmt, and the body was removed, consequence of the greatly increased cost of work. alter cutting away tho timbers and planks between ing the different lines, to raise the passenger faros as which it was wedged. Her husband escaped without well as the rates for the transmission of goods and daugerous hurts. Besides the body of She. Cutting, minerals. No definite rate of increase was 05. two other corpses were removed from the fatal solved upon, 11.4 each company was left to make such wreck. One of these killed was identified from papers alterations as it may consider to be expedient. A as E. Burnham Smith. of Detroit. No wounds general re-classification of goods is to be made for mourn dice'ivocc on the corpse, and no fracture of through traffic on all the lines. The alterations are bones. Death had been produced apparently by tto come into force on the lot of September. suffocation. The bi dy f the third and last of the MURDER IN SWITZEItLAND.—The SWiss killed has not yet been identified. It wao found le Tines publishes the following telegram from Lucerne. work of time and difficulty to release the wounded On Sunday evening a dreadful Occurrence happened from the coach. They were pinned between the lon the road that leads from Gerson to a chapel floors of the two ears. The entreaties of some of situated in a beautiful locality, which by common them to be relieved were heartrending. The report bears the name of " Kinlismord." An ear above threatened at any moment to sink American lady accompanied by two daughters were farther down into the passenger coach, and one walking on that road about six p.m. Just as they of the injured who saw the peril begged the men came to the neighbourhood of the chapel a stranger, who were extricating the wounded to prevent the who is said to be also an American, hurried after danger. Thirteen persons were found to be seriously ! them and begged one of the daughters to let him injured. I speak a few words to her. The two other ladies had - - - lin the meantime gone forward a few paces. Suddenly MASTERS AND SERYANTS,—The act to make they heard a shot, and then another immediately further provision for arbitration between masters after. The stranger had first shot the girl through and servants (35 and 36 Vie., rap. 46) hes been the temples with a revolver and then put it to his issued. It recites the Act, 5 Geo. IV., cap. 96, in own forehead. They may that even in death their which provision was made for the arbitration, in a ' hands were fast clasped in each other. Nothing mode therein prescribed, of certain disputes bens:mon further is known at preeent masters and workmen. Provisions are now made I
The Potteries Examiner : — 1872-11-02 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

DIOJKIEN OFFENOEB.—David Jones was charged with being drunk and disorderly and ussaulting P.C. Williams He was fined 10s. and costs for each offence.—Three brothers, John, George, and William Heaton, were charged with being dank and riotous at Maslow, near Washerwall. The defendants went to the house of Mr. W. Lees, publican and farmer, between seven and eight on the morning of the 15th October, and after having bad two or three pints of ale they became quarrelsome and fought. A policeman was sent for, and they walked off. They returned the same evening between seven and eight o'clock with their faces blacked and forcing their way into the house, made a disturbance, and caused the break up of a party of dancers assembled in the house. When put out they kicked the door nearly in, the landlady of the house accused William Heaton with indecent conduct. Mr. Richardson for the defendants, denied the drunkenness, and said that at the most they were only guilty of "loose play," in which they were merely doing what they had done scores of times before, without any notice being taken of it. The defendants were fined 20s. and costs each.—William Clay, collier, was charged with being drunk and assaulting hi wife, at Smallthorne. About half-past one on Sunday morning P.S. Bierne received a report that the defendant had nearly murdered his wife. Going there he found the defendant drunk and his wife in bed with blood flowing from a cut in the back of the head, where she had been struck by her husband, with a gingerbeer bottle. The defendant said the blow en his wife's head was an accident, while opening the bottle. Mrs. Clay, a stout, decent looking woman, said her husband came , home on Saturday night between twelve and one o'clock I when she was in bed. He was drunk and he told her :to get up, which she refused. Ho then hit her on the back of the head with a gingerbeer bottle. He had beaten her before. He assaulted her on Saturday morning when he was sober, hitting her under the eye (viliere there was a mark still visible.) They had been married seventeen years, and he had beaten her before. Cross-examined She threw a shovel at her husband on Saturday morning. She was lying down in bed (not sitting up as the defendant alleged) when he struck her with the gingerbeer bottle. A. female lodger was called, and said Mrs. Clay came to her on Sunday morning with blood running from her neck. While he , was beating her on Saturday morning he canoed her baby, which she was nursing, to fall on to the floor. On Saturday week the defendant brought home no wages, and last Saturday be only brought home 10s. He had three children. He was a collier in regular work, and spent his earnings in drink. Mr. Balguy sent the defendant to prison for a month, and told him if he came up again he would have the full sentence.
The Potteries Examiner : — 1872-05-04 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

THE PARK-LINE MURDER. ARRIVAL OF DIXBLANC.  Marguerite Dial)lane, the woman charged with the murder of Madame Riel, is in England. She was handed over to the custody of the English police on Monday afternoon at the port of Calais, and was brought over by the mail boat to Dover. The news of her anticipated arrival having been circulated, the pier audits approaches wore crowded to witness the , landing of the prisoner. As soon as the boat La France moored alongside, Disblano, who had seen. pied a deck cabin daring her journey across the Channel, was brought up the luggage gangway, and taken on to the station, and placed in a secondclass compartment of a carriage of the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway. She wore a white cap and a waterproof wrapper, and as she passed along her demeanour evinced her strong sense of the serious position in which she is phased. During the journey across the Channel she refused all refreshment, but after the train had started for London she accepted a little weak brandy-and-water, together with a biscuit, which were tendered her by the officers who had her in custody. She spoke but few words on her way, and in no particular referred to the tragedy of Park. lane. With the view of avoiding any undue demonstration, the police authorities of Scotland-yard advisedly met the train at Herne-hill, where Mr. Superintendent Williamson, the chief detective officer, was in attendance, and tools charge of the prisoner. So careful were the authorities to keep the arrival of the prisoner a secret that no more than a dozen persons assembled at the picturesque little station with the specific object of getting a glance at the woman who had so mercilessly deprived of life, as she herself asserts, her mistress "in a fit of passion." The train drew up at the station about six o'clock, upon which Messrs. Druseovich and Pay alighted from a second-class carriage and handed out their prisoner, who walked from the extreme end of the platform to the steps descending to the roadway, where a cab was in readiness. Here she was handed over to Superintendent Williamson, who at once conveyed her to King-street Police. station. There she was formally charged with the murder of Madame Rid, and upon the fact being interpreted to her by Inspector Druseovich, who asked her if she understood the stature of the charge, she replied in French, "Yes, yea, monsieur, I quite understand." She was then asked if ohs had anything to say, to which she replied, "Non rien." She was then conducted to a cell.  Marguerite Dixblanc, charged with murder, was brought before Sir Thomas Henry, on Wednesday, at Bow-street. Mr. Poland prosecuted on behalf of the Crown ; Mr. Godfrey was instructed for the defence. The evidence was extremely lengthy. Amongst the witnesses examined were Eliza Watts, the housemaid, Willa. Biel, daughter of the deceased, the police who were called in on the discovery of the murder, the cabman who drove prisoner to the station, the French police, the charcoal-burner, and the English detectives. The hearing was then adjourned.
The Potteries Examiner : — 1872-01-20 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

CHARGE OF WILFUL MURDER AT ICIDSGROVE.  At the Kidsgrove Police Court, on Thursday, before J. Bohm, Esq., Stephen Mayer, collier, was charged with the wilful murder of John Moores, collier, Buttlane. Superintendent Baker conducted the prosecution and Mr. Sherratt appeared for the prisoner. Mr. Baker stated that an inquest was opened on the body of the man Moores on the previous day and was adjourned. He should slow call several witnesses and then ask that prisoner might be remanded for a week. Willidm Henry Gallimore, the stepson of deceased sided that on the 11th inst. his father was at the court as a witness in an assault case. He was at the Red Bull public.lfouse, Butt-lane, at night, and between 11 and 12 o'clock he and his mother went to fetch the deceased I home. They found deceased and prisoner sitting together very comfortably at the Red Bull. Having finished their drink deceased and prisoner got up and they all left the house together. As they were leaving the house Alethia Prownsword, the servant at the Red Bull, gave prisoner a piece of bread and treacle and prisoner gave part of it to deceased. Prisoner and deceased called at the Mill Stone public-house to get some more beer but the house was closed and they had to walk on. When they got to deceased's house, witness, his mother, and deceased went down the entry, leaving prisoner at the top of the entry. The yard door was fastened and witness and his mother turned back, and entering the house by the front-door went to let the deceased in at the back. While they were mike house they heard a scuffle in the entry and witness ran to the front-door. When he got there the deceased had just got into the street. Prisoner was standing in the street and threw something which struck the deceased on the forehead and rebounded on to the step. Witness picked it up and found it was a stone. They got deceased in the house and directly after another stone came through the window and struck his mother in the fate. Before throwing, prisoner said if deceased would  come in iihe lane he wield knock his b—y brains out. I The prisoner and deceased had walked very comfortably together from the Red Bull to deceased's house ' and seemed on friendly terms. When his father was etrock with the stone he fell and bled very much from the forehead. He and his mother got deceased to bed, and as he did not get better a doctor was sent for on the Sunday. He died on the Tuesday morning at two o'clock. The lad was cross-examined at great length by Mr. Sherratt with a view to show that some other person than the prisoner might have thrown at the deceased, but his evidence was not shaken. Alethea Brownsword, domestic servant at the Red Bull publichouse, found that prisoner and deceased were drinking together at the house, and that two men and the deceased's wife and step-son all left together. The prisoner was then remanded.
The Potteries Examiner : — 1872-04-20 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

OWN HOUSE.—Edward Spencer, beerseller, Gate-street, was charged with drunkenness. On the previous Thitrsday he was summoned for allowing drunkenness in his own house, the person drunk being himself, but the charge was dismissed. He was now summoned under a statute of James I, on the general charge of being drunk.—P.S. Birch said he was on duty in Wells-street at half.past three in the morning? when he heard cries of "murder" and " police, ' proceeding from defendants house. There was a great disturbance in the house, and defendant, who was drunk, was beating his wife. Shortly after he again heard the cries, and knocked at the door, which was opened by a chili. He asked what was the matter, and Mrs. Spencer asked him to come upstairs. He went to the bedroom where he found the wife in bed with her eye bleeding and the defendant was in the room drunk. She said her husband had beaten her. A child sat by the bed crying. Mr. Ackrill denounced the prosecution as persecution, and having been got up by Mr. Alexander in spite. Having being defeated last week, he now summoned a man for being drunk in his own bedroom. The officer had no right in the house, especially to invade the sanctity of the bedroom. The charge was laid under an obsolete statute, which was never intended to be applied to such a case, and for the superintendent of police to search old statute books to find ground for bringing a charge for the purpose of revenge was a thing which ought not to be encouraged. The act did not contemplate amen being drank inhisown house, and surely it was no offence. He hoped the Bench would not allow this old statute to be revived for the support of this charge. The Mayor said the Bench recognised a difference between a public and a private house, and Mr. Alexander bad only followed the instructions of the Bench, and had not acted from spite.— Mr. Ackrill Then I am very mush surprised. After that expression of opinion I shall not press my defence. —The Mayor We are willing to take the responsibility of the case.—Mr. I have nothing more to say. I shall ask for a conviction—The Mayor, after consulting his colleagues, said the Bench were unanimous in regretting that they had to dismiss the case. They considered the conduct of the defendant such as to deserve punishment but they were unwilling to establish a precedent for punishing • man for being drunk in his own house. _  BSBREOIIBE Leeke, beerseller, Elizabeth Street, was charged with selling beer at illegal hours on Sunday. At 4 o'clock on Sunday afternoon, Inspector Windle saw a man go to the back door of defendant's house, and leave shortly afterwards with a large bottle filled with beer. The landlady when he spoke to her admitted the sale. A fine of 40s. and costs was inflicted.  NumKrica.—On the application of Mr. Wright, the inspector of nuisance the bench made an order upon Mr. Enoch Palmer, of Lengbon, for an abatement of a nuisance on some premises, in Oldham Street, in seven days.