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The North-Eastern Weekly Gazette. — 1894-10-06 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

WORD.  many years .acted &El agent  for the miners of Fife'shire, has got a Fife landlord on the hip. At a meeting with his constituents the other evening he said :  He was credibly informed that a landed proprietor who had been asked by two miners for a subscription to the soup kitchens refused to give any donation, but said he would give them a gun each to go and shoot Weir and hums (the chairman). After this was done they were to sell the guns, keep the money, sad go bark to the landed proprietor, who would give them £5 each. He hoped this story was not true. Where was the Sheriff This was direct incitement to murder. If a blackleg was to be protected against a trade unionist, be would be protected against a landed proprietor. He gave due Itleiniltir that, unless this gentleman was hi the hands of the police within twenty•four hours, be would report the matter to the Secretary for Scotland.  Barking dogs seldom bite. Mr Weir, however, is not a barking dog. In a conference between the mineowners and the ntirters of  Fifeettire I  held lately he gained a signal moral triuinpla by the self-restraint and dignity he displayed, while the leading representative of the masters was indiscreetly making use of most provocative language. He is a strong, experienced, admirably disciplined man, who knows when he has an advantage and how to tarn it to account ; and if the landowner referred to has actually made use of the words quoted, he will not easily escape punishment. He may expect something mach worse than an unpleasant quarter of an hour. We cannot believe that the angry words were seriously meant, or that, they produced any impression on the minds of those who heard them prejudicial to Mr Weir. Still, if they were used at all, their author cannot complain if he is sharply called to account. During the strike the Sheriff of the county has very property let it be known that he is determined to put down with a strong hand any. thing like an incitement to violence, and several miners convicted of intimidation practised against neighbours at work have been smartly punished by him. What is sauce for the goose is saace for the gander, and if the opponentsof the miners otter threatening or law dininrbing language they must expect to bear the consequences of their indiscretion equally with the suffering miners. Everyone who knows anything of industrial disputes is well aware that intemperate and foolish language is frequently used by rude-tongued or hot-tempered opponents of , ' the men on strike. As we have already , said, these disturbers of neighboney concord and good-will, if not of the public peace, do not always really mean what they say. But justice and fair play require that they should place a bridle on their tongues in times of excitement and suffering under penalty of heavy punishment equally with workmen or their friends when, under provocation, they eire way to excess. The law does not recognise that-
The North-Eastern Weekly Gazette. — 1894-04-28 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

FOUR YEARS FOR SWINDLING.  The man Hendrik De Jong, who was originally arrested on a chime of murdering his English wife, Mine Juett. 'formerly a nurse in the North Riding Infirmary, Middlesbrough, and another woman, Maria Schmitz, wan tried on Thursday, before the Criminal Court of Amsterdam, on three charges of swindling, the more serious accusation having been dropped for want of evidence, no trace as to the whereabouts of the bodies having been discovered. He was sentenced to four years' imprisonment, less the term which 'be has already passed in gaol. De Jong listened attentively to the judgment of the court, sometimes shaking his head. When the reading of the sentence was finished he shrugged his shoulders and smiled at his advocate. He then quitted the dock in the custody of the prison warders. The fact that one of the unfortunate women who disappeared so mysteriously was before her marriage a nurse at the North Riding Infirmary, at Middlesbrough, caused the Freshet interest to be taken on Tees-side in the progress of the search for the bodies The circumstances in which De Jong made Miss :Nett% acquaintance were somewhat romantic. In 1892 he traded regularly between the Netherland ports and the Tem, and on landing in November he was discovered to have • large quantity of cigars in his poesession, and was taken into custody, and charged with and fined for smuggling them at Middlesbrough Police Court. As, however, he was in is feeble state of health he was removed to the North Riding Infirmary, where Miss Juett nursed him. De Jong, who spoke very broken English. was • native of Hamburg. lie was 28 yearn of age, lift. ttin. in height, and well developed. Miss Juett was a homely, good-natured, cheery-voiced girl of 25, and was a general favourite with all who knew her. Miss Juett was married from her home, and was never again seen after she left London for the Continent. De Jong subsequently took lodgings with the Mimes Schmitz at Amsterdam, and quickly got into the good races of the two ladies. The two women told him all about their circumstances. They were alone in the world. They had had a little money, and with it they had bought enough furniture to make the lodgings they advertised presentable. De Jong explained that he could not allow the sister of his wife to keep a lodging-house, and the two sisters took his advice and warehoused their furniture. He secured lodgings for Miss Schmidt, and before proceeding to Amsterdam to be married he went to the warehouse where the furniture of the Misses Schmidt Wae stored, took possession of it, became for the moment an auctioneer, sold it, put the money in his pocket, and then returned to Rotterdam and rejoined his unfortunate inamorata. This was exactly twomonths after he married Mies Juett. Soon after the ceremony the second wife disappeared, and though the clothing of both victims have been found the bodies have not been discovered.
The North-Eastern Weekly Gazette. — 1894-12-08 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1394. TOPICS OF THE WEEK.  "it'''Ps.  even  eXCUHe  lIIITIDeII  I expI!IISE  of the victim of his suddenly excited pension. Indeed, he tried to throw the blame on no one. , He at once admitted the full responsibility for ' the crime; and in a spirit of contrition surrendered himself to the law to bear the  consequences of his madness. Many people doubt whether penal servitude for life is a more merciful punishment than immediate death on the scaffold. The meaning of the jury's recommendation cannot, however, he mistuaderstood. It is an appeal to the some Secretary, as the adviser of the Queen, to forego the capital penalty, which is held by the law to be the punishment due to murder, and to substitute for it penal servitude; and in view of all the circumstances public opinion on Tees-side must support this appeal. David Bell made a fatal mistake, and fatal mistakes are often crimes, but no one can say he was a hardened criminal, and his immediate confession and deep remorse must plead powerfully on his behalf.  IF Sir Joseph Pease be not " TELU MEETING himself a Prophet, asOF 'IRE WAress." suredly he is the son 01 • Prophet.. No doubt can be entertained on that point after the remarkable citation he made at the meeting of the Tees-side Commission the other day, from fie, diary of his father from August 9th, 183.  that-day Mr Pease with some friends sailed up the Tees to the rising land on which the f armhouse of Middlesbrough then stood, in order to survey therailway extension which was in progress. Before he retired to rest that evening he recorded as the fancy of his imagination that a day would come when the bare fields around the farmhouse which he had traversed " would be ' covered with the busy multitude and numerous vessels crowding to its banks denoting the., busy seaport." The work of the Tees Conservancy Commissioners in subses uent years may fitly be regarded as a fulfilling of the Pease prophecy.' Hiawatha and his Friends have during the intervening years been busily at work on the Gitche Gurnee, the Big Sea Water, subduing and controlling it, guiding its flood in one free, deep channel, fitted to bear on its bosom the largest and the richest argosies of an industrious people. Tees-side owes much of its prosperity to the operations of the river Commissioners and to the enterprise of the shipbuilders and of the merchants who have made so admirable use of the wise and heroic labours of the Prophet, with the strong man Kwasin, and all his other allies. These pioneers of the pros-, perity of Tees - side gradually, however, recognised the need of another agency promotive of the greatness and comfort of the district. To the shores of Gitche Gurnee was wafted the fame of the lovely Minnehaha, the Laughing Water, that ruled over the upper reaches of the river. The imagination if not of the Tees Hiawatha, at least of one of his friends, took fire.
The North-Eastern Weekly Gazette. — 1894-05-05 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

HORRP3LE MURDER IN LONDON.  Early on Wednesday the dead body of a man, who had evidently been murdered, was foetid on Barnes Common, new; Longdon. The body, which WU that of a labouring man, was terribly mutilated, the deceased having been subjected to great violence. The scene of the crime was likes shambles. He was nmegnised ma man who had been seen drinking with a companion of the same claw+ in Barneson Tueaday.. The murderer no doubt is bloodstained, and the Metropolitan police were warned to search lodging-houses and shelters. Enquiries were being made in the district. The man was afterwards identified as James Wells, • butcher,. of Glanthorne - road, Hammersmith. He was sufficiently oonscions on being taken to the hospital to say that the deed was done by a et= named Fred. West, who ban been taken into custody, and lodged at the Berme Police Station. He is a sallow-complosioned man, about 45 years of age, and is dressed like a workman. No blood was I found upon his clothes. The murder was cornwitted with • piece of cart wheel tyre, which had been straightened, and a handkerchief had been wrapped round one end to enable the murderer to have a firmer grasp. Robbery was not the motive for the trims, but the murderer evidently lay in wait for his victim. Wells had been to Putney on Tueensy to 800 two anion, and was attacked I when returning home acmes the common, and his assailant apparently pounced upon him when he bad been about a quarter of an hour on buy journey. Wells had lately been bookmaking, and it was thought at first that he had been attacked and robbed, bet his money, was left untouched The body was first seen abeßit midnight by a gentleman, who called two bimrdista who weressing, and the latter summonfid the police. The iron picked up was bloodsted, with pieces of flesh adhering to it. The gentleman who discovered the body was attracted to the spot by Wells's groans. The murder has caused much excitement in the neighbourhood where Wells was well known. Be was a good-looking young man of 33 years of age, and an idea prevails the crime may be the result of jealousy, Miss Wells states that her brother, while in a eerni-comatose condition, made an in. ,mherent reference to West, but she firmly believes that the name was merely mentioned in connection with some betting transaction. The murdered man ad-o mentioned another name beside that of West, and it seems probable two parsons were concerned in the crime, Miss Wells declares it is inspoesible to believe that West committed the crime,. ait' Wells and West were on such good terms. She rather thinks her brother was attacked by an ordinary fooepad, who was disturbed- Store being able to carry out his intention of robbing deceased. The condition- of Well's hands indicates that he did not aurrerider his life without a struggle, but there is very little douot that he was attacked from ad that ha was unable to use a heavy stick which he was carrying at the time.
The North-Eastern Weekly Gazette. — 1894-08-11 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

THE NEWCASTLE MURDER  MYSTERIES. MAN ARRESTED IN BEVERLEY.  At the Beverley Borough Police Court on Tuesday a young fellow who gave the name of Henry Dales, and who had several aliases, was charged with being a wandering lunatic. The prisoner had been apprehended on Sunday on suspicion of being connected with the murder of two females of the unfortunate class in June last, at Newcastle, and the poise of that town were communicated with. Detective-Superintendent Spencer, of Newcastle, arrived in Beverley on Monday, and was present in court that day.—Stiperintendent Knight said he had every reason to believe the prisoner was a dangerous lunatic. He had been in Beverley about a fortnight, and his manner at times had been very violent. When arrested he bad a formidable knife up his sleeve. Ho had been four times in a lunatic asylum. The account he had given of himself was very in. coherent.—On the application of Mr Knight he was ordered to be handed over to the , Detective-Superintendent from Newcastle, whc ultimately conveyed him to that town.—The police are said to have had 50121 e suspicion attaching to bins since shortly after the crime. He is said to be a native of Easingten, in the County of Durham, and has served some time in the army. lie is also alleged to have been in Sedgeheld Asylum. and is said to suffer occasionally from violent attacks. Last June he was working in Durham, but it is said be disappeared from his lodgings no June 29th, the day befffrs the murder, and did not return until a few days afterwards. He ha,' then his arm in a sling, but declined to say how he had received the injury, or what it was, or where he had been during his absence from the lodgings. The same week he suddenly left his lodgings, and  IN THE MIDST OP THE HUN AND 611 Y that wee then being made after the murderer information concealing him was given to the police at Newcastle. Their investigations led them to the conclusion that he or a man answering his description had been seen in Newcaidle on the Saturday, and search was made for him, with the view of tracing what evidence there was against him, but it was not until the arrest by the Yorkshire police that anything could be done. It may be said a once that Dale does not answer the apoearanoe of the man whom several people said they saw with Harland on the Saturday night of the murder, and he in just as unlike the description given of the supposed Goeforth murderer. In both cases the man was said to be tall and square-shouldered, and Dale is neither one nor the other. He is short, and very slightly built, and in this fact alone the police had sufficient to make them doubt the value of the arrest. It is a coincidence, but not unworthy of note, that , the clairvoyant who attended at the police office , a few weeks ago to give his aid to the solution of I the Town Moor murder said the culprit wee a tie. man on board a boat which traded with the Tyne, and he would commit, or attempt to commit, , another murder five weeks after the date of his Town Moor crime. Saturday last was the night on which
The North-Eastern Weekly Gazette. — 1891-04-04 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

GIRL'S THROAT CUT BY HER  LOVBR.  PRISONER CHARGED WITH WILFUL MURDER.  On Sunday a young man named Alfred William Turner, who has been courting for some six months past a factory girl named Mary Ellen Moran, 18 years of age, Turner himself being only 20, called for her at her lodgings, and the two went out together for a walk. When in a lonely spot near the Woodstock Spinning Company's mill, which is on the outskirts of Oldham, be aocused her of having walked out with another young man. This she denied, and Turner than /mired her round the I neck, drew a knife from his pocket, and inflicted a deep wound in her throat. He then left her, and some time afterwards he adopted the ruse of going to the neatest pollee station and there slating to the inspector on duty that while he and his sweetheart were deriding near to a wall close to the mill named two men jumped over the will and attacked them. He was knocked down by one of them and rendered insensible. The other man had in the meanwhile attacked hie sweetheart. When he had re overed consciousness he saw his sweetheart lying on the ground, and he found she had had her throat cut. The inspector sent a constable with him to the spot, and found the injured girl standing against a well bleeding profusely from a severe wound in the throat, and in a very weak condition. The constable que-itioned her as to how the wound was inflicted. She was unable to speak, but pointed to Turner. The latter attempted to ran away, but the constable detained him, and he was subsequently locked up. The injured OA was taken to the Infirmary, and it was at once seen that her ease was almost hopeless. Consequently on Monday morning her depositions were taken, the prisoner being present. She stated that when she denied prisoner's socamtion, "the prisoner then got hold of my throat and held me with one hand, sad out my throat with a knife which he palled hom his pocket. After cutting my throat prisoner ran away, and I got unconscious." At the time of his arrest the prisoner's clothes were besmeared with blood, which he accounted for by toying that he tried to assist his sweetheart after the attack upon her. Turner, who is a rough-looking young fellow, bears • very bad ammeter. Four years ago he was charged with attempting to murder an Oldham constable by shooting him in the back with a pistol, and be was eventually eenteneed at the Liverpool Asti es to six mouths' imprisonment, the light sentence being on account of his youth, he being only lb at the tune. It transpired during the trial that he had mistaken his victim, he haying intended to shoot another constable, who had reported him for a minor offenne. The tragedy of which he is now the author has caused considerable sensation in the to en, A the inquest at Oldham on Tuesday the jury returned a verdict of "Wilful murder" against Turner.
The North-Eastern Weekly Gazette. — 1891-11-21 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

HORRIBLE CHILD MURDER AT GATESHEAD.  AN OPPORTUNITY FOR TRUTH. On Wednesday at Gateshead Police Court Mr J. Graham, Coroner, held an inquest on the body of a I newly-born female child, which was found, wrapped 1 in handkerchief', and brown paper, in a beige in! Fern Dene-road, on the 31st ult., by Matthew Lister.—Dr. Kay said the child had had a separate: existence, that there were abrasions on the face which had been caused by pressure from hand, which had been held tightly over its mouth, that the child had been strangled by a handkerchief having been tied tightly round its throat, and that, still finding life in the child, it bad been taken and ,1 its head battered either on the floor or some ; hard substance, causing fracture of the skull.— Matthew Lister, recalled, said on the 31st ult, he left borne at. nine o'clock in the morning. He met one Wm. Hardy at the corner of Deckham-place . half an hour after. They went together down • Inskip-terrace, along Durham-road. towards Low 1 !Fell and down Fern Dene-road, leading on the ' north side of Saltwell Park. They went nearly as! ; far as the Sandhole, intending to gather black-1 1 berries. They did not pass anybody on the road., 1 Witness noticed a brown paper parcel in the ; hedgerow, about thirty yards east of the Sandhole. He picked up the parcel and openel it. When he opened the parcel he found it contained tbe body of a newly-born child. Nothing was said 1 about burying the child there. The brown paper was quite dry and clean when he found it, although, the ground was damp.—The Coroner : Without' , further beating, abant the bosh, did you take the parcel there? Witness: No.—The Coroner: Did your mate take it with him? Witness: No; he came straight from the Plough public' house. The Coroner : Now, you told n 4 you came from your own house.— Witness: He was standing at the corner of Deckham-place, and the Plough Inn is at the corner.— The Coroner :Itis a very suspicious matter. This brown paper was perfectly dry, and It cnuld not have been there on the wet grass more than a minute or two. Just at the moment you say you found it a. cartintua comes up. Now was it not the , 1 other way—did he not come up just as you were 1 putting it there ?—Witness: No.—The Coroner: Did not the other man ?—Witness: No, we had it , on the footpath when we saw him.—The Coroner: It won't do, Lister. You know more about this matter than you choose to tell us at present.— Detective Jervis: Are you sure you have told us all you know? Witness: I wish I may be stiffened if I have not—The Coroner: Don't say that; you might be. It will be a very awkward matter for you if it turns out afterwards. Witness: I know that —The Coroner: Now is the time for telling us the truth. You will only have this chance. This is your opportunity if you cheose to avail yourself of it. It will be too late afterwards. Witness: I am telling the whole truth.—The jury returned a verdict of wilful murder against some person or persons unknown.
The North-Eastern Weekly Gazette. — 1891-12-12 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

MIDDLESBROUGH SCHOOL BOARD. and the hills, and they cut it widget.. reap-hook and Waeson,J.P.) stated that the Vicar of Stockton had _a__ Highness proposed the toast of the Queen thrash it out on cleghs with the old flail. The men consulted him about the two little boys Reba and The first meeting of the new Board was held at health of the Viceroy in an admirable speech axare usually given one-half of the crop for harvest- Thos. Wood, eons of Wm. Wood, who had been Middlesbrough on Monday.—Alderman W. BuL cellently delivered. She said that she placed the big it, and it is nothing for one of them to make convicted of murder at the recent Durham Amines. said he had great pleasure in proposing the whole of the resources of the State and her own £4O to £5O in four or five weeks. I get 68 for I The boys were now in the Workhouse, but they itz-sLaceme or ALDSRMAN naLL As CHAIRMAN life at the disposal of .the Queen. The Viceroy, in for the ensuing three years. Re knew that ` announced that the Seguin had offered to shoeing a light. hack, 4s for 'removes, 8s for were about. to be received into Dr.. Beanareees a large hone. Coal is 37s per ton, but have to pay Home.—The Vichut sweated Ihadathe -Guardians 'gent/awe would give every member • • tree reply', the fru'ght,lsa per ton, from Lyttelton, a distance should provide them with a complete outfit, and end imputiel leering, and e• more ostateshie !merge her troops into an Imperial Service Corr*. of not 60 miles. Nearly all our goods come by I pay the expense. of their removal to London._ t eoard. man aeuld not pa found to ad as heed of the sea, as the railway is 14 miles away and at the 1 Mr GneanAn moved, and Mr R. C. Dzerroe, other side of a big hill. Labourers' wages are 6e-- amended, that this be done, and it was agreed to. J.P., —Tee Rev.. E.-0. Hirairear seconded, and Mies Mason, in her latest Government report on the paeseasilimi was carried unanimously.—Alder. the boarding-out of pauper children, emphasied per day, but nearly all theework down here is eon. tract. Work is not over plentiful, but has 'there was a slight alteration in the member_been better this last winter than for a long time. ship of the Board he did not think rwwaren by the lady meinbere of committees, and At the end of the peninsula about t wenty miles away, the policy of the Board would be in any gives example(' to allow that, melees such exain' 11214 are the far-famei Canterbury Plane; they are as -se way changed.—Mr John Gjers was elected vice- Lion be made, an entirely wrong impression as to flat as a pancake and splendid land. Some yews chairman. The chairman, Father Wood, Mr the real condition and treatment of the children they have grown seventy ta eighty bushels of oats, Smith, Mr Blenkineop, and the Rev. E. O. muss often prevail. She says the supply of really forty to sixty of whale, and potatoes sixteens to —nee Herbert were appointed the Finance Committee. twenty-five tone. The potato crop this year has