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The Potteries Examiner : — 1879-02-15 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

EXECUTION OF THE DUDLEY MURDERER. On Monday morning Enoch Whisten, a labourer, under 21 years of age, was executed within the precincts of Worcester Prison for the wilful murder of Er. Alfred Meredith, at Dudley. The particulars of the tragedy are in , the full recollection of our readers. Since his condemnation Whiston has paid attention to the ministrations of the Rev. C. G. Salt, chaplain of the gaol, but he has never shown much concern as to his fate. Indeed, from the day of the shooting to the moment of , his execution he manifested the same indifference. He was visited several times by his relatives. On Thursday list his mother, sweetheart, aunt, and i sister had an iliteriiiew with the condemned man, and took their last farewell of him, since which time he has not been visited by any one. Efforts I were made to obtains reprieve, and petitions were forwarded to the Home Office, insanity being , urged as the ground for his being reprieved. The , Home Secretary. in response, sent down from Loudon two medical men to examine him. On Sunday morning, however, Mr. Cross forwarded a communication intimating that he saw no reason to justify him in interfering with the law taking its course. On Sunday Whiston attended ?service in the chapel of the prison, and partook of the sacrament. He was also visited early on Monday , morning by the chaplain in the condemned cell. ' At a quarter to eight o'clock yesterday morning the prison bell began tolling, and by that hour lover 300 persons bad assembled outside tho prison. 1 About five minutes to eight Marwood was _ . • • •  Introduced to the cell, end the pinioning process having been performed. Whiston was escorted to the gallows in the yard. He walked with great 1 firmness, and needed no suppdtt. In a few seconds Marwood had adjusted the rope around ' the criminal's neck, and placed the white cap over I his head. At the last stroke of eight the drop fell and death was instantaneous. Marwood having given him a drop of Bft. 6in. As the drop fell the black flag on the outer turrets of the prison was unfurled and denoted that the sentence had been duly carried out. The crowd soon afterwards began to disperse. The gallows had been hired from Northampton, and was so I constructed ;hat the body fell into a pit and was hidden from view. After hanging the customary hour the body was taken down, and at twelve o'clock it was viewed by Mr. W. S. P. Hughes. coroner, and a jury, and the usual formalities were gone through. The body was subsequently buried within the precints of the prison. The representatives of tho press were not admitted to the execution,the Under-sheriff (Mr. Goldinghatn) and tne prison officials being the only persons present. The last execution at the Worcester prison was on August 12. 1872, when Charles Holmes was executed for cutting his wife's throat at Bromsgrove. Holmes's was the first private execution at Worcester.
The Potteries Examiner : — 1873-04-19 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

NIELD, SDGWC T. GWAS, in an impressively delivered and erudite address, gave sonic very ! conclusive arguments why the drinking mistotes of this country should be abolished. King Alcohol, the speaker said, was the great ruling power in England, and he was a deceiver, a robber, and a 1 murderer ; his laws arrogant and unjust, inflicting, as ! they ilia, the greater punishment on the innocent. , How was it, she demanded to know, that he did not ex, hib iit his wares as other tradesmen n his windows, be. 1 cause he lured not, as nothing vrould have a more 1 damaging, effect than the display of samples from his workshop. (Cheers.) The victims of King Alcohol were to be found in all classes a sogiety—no matter where, if they used drink they all bowed allegiance. , (Cheers.) To three parties, she said, the Good Ternlilacs were looking for the suppression of the evils of intemperance—to theniselves, to the Church, and to the Legislature. They themselves had banished the intomeating cap; to their Church they looked to awake out of her sleep, to seek to withdraw her shield from those who were engaged in the ruinous drink traffic, , and show them that their trade was no longer i considered a respectable calling by shutting them out front Church membership—(bear);—and to the Legislature they looked for wise and just laws ; to ,lint greater restrictions on the carrying on of the liquor traffic ; to make the trade less profitable one, and to pass the Permissive Bill, giving every man a right to say whether he wanted public.houses or not. Bro. the Rev. J. C. Wa'rrs was the next speaker, and he made, in the course otitis address, some rather startling revelations as to the numerous losses maisioned to society by the intemperate habits of the • ! people, and contended there was argument ettoug,h in . them to satisfy all thoughtful pool& of the expediency ' of becoming abstainers. He felt as he looked around tie town in which he laboured that the traffic in strong drink was a sliabolieal one, and that it was slevilish in 1 its origin and effects ; in fact that it was impossible ' for anyone to use language of exaggeration in speak- 1 lag of its evil—(h ear)—; with his whole heart, there- 1 fore, he wished the utmost success to the Good Tern- 1 'lilac organisation, and particularly to the lodge which was so well represented in that hall on that occasion. He hoped that before the clove of the present year the Good Templet, would he able to announce to the British public that they hail established 3,000 lodges in the kingdom, whirls would represent a mighty political power in the coming election, and he hoped that that power would be wielded manfully and bravely in the cause which they, as Good Tempters, believed to be right. (Cheers.) The above addresses were interspersed with songs, recitations, and instrumen.al music. Bro. Hudson and Mr. Bloor n-ero the singers; and Bros. H.Winkle, J. Simmill, W. Tomkinson, end Mr. W. Keeling. A solo on the concertina was given by Bro. Buckley, in his usual style. Bro. G. Redfern was the a..companist.
The Potteries Examiner : — 1873-06-28 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

WORKMEN'S WRONGS. To the Editor of the "Potteries Examiner." Si—The common crimes of English life are neglect, -Itreatment, and spoilation of the poor, who are ignorant and helpless, and enslaved by too long and hard labour. Others are robbery by pay log inadequate wages, and cheating, than by not paying enough for toil, and the worse than robbery of stopping wages as fines. In trade we have the frauds and robberies of bad qualities in goods, sham articles, adulterations— often noxious, and even murderous—the saleof diseased meat and poisoned meat; cheating by false weights and measures, overcharges, duplication of accounts, getting money by false pretences, and swindling. If the working men will not protect themselves no one else will or can. As a practical means of educating them into the leverage of self-help, I think nothing is so good as trades unionism; and I hope the miners of Shropshire, and the working men everywhere, will en. egetically suppoi the principle. Woven into our boasted civilization and social life are systems of fraud and oppression. There are sham companies whose object is to cheat, sham benevolence societies whose only results are to deceive, begging impostors that starve up true charity, robberies by the charging of fees, and by nsurous interests by money lenders and pawnbrokers; and there is established in the land thou. sands of human cormorants who prey upon the weakness and misfortunes of the people. We cannot, as working miners, combat with thcse things immediate'V, but we can begin the work that is at our own doors, and say that we will not give our labour for scanty paying in long hours. Excessive labour and a poor reward for it have been the great skeletons in the work. ing man's cupboard. God will yet in His good time, if the working men of England will only do their duty, lead them from the wilderness into the promised laud of a fair day's pay for a fair day's work. There is now a strong movement in England in the right direction. and it will progress in spite of all the opposition of selfish and interested classes. I hope that all the miners of Solon will at once join the union, and do their pal the work. Mining bottles, under the Lilleshall firm, are working their men over the time, but at other pits the men are made to play. Yet if these same men take one or two days holiday they are summoned for neglect of work. At some of the Pits girls are allowed to take charge of the pit tops, and unless this is put a stop to we shall take prove •dings against .the ~ors of such Oa, as it is contrary to the Mutes Act. A man sholde bare charge of the pit top.. I am prepared to pro these statementsand to give the day and the hour without first giving notice of their intention to those twhhee 'en loplanding, . o skipsnot wisht h e topitat banks, action ihoton zaiierear and nthrthlaew.... shHrooppinsbgireweEsxhilisrern.hrt: interests. Yours truly, biLRTIN
The Potteries Examiner : — 1880-06-05 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

OATH.  It is somewhat curious that, while we are dinettes111V in this eountty the question of l'arliamentary oaths, the • French Press is being exercised by the subjected military oaths. The ligmhti yr, Fecscccoc has published a number of very strong articles ad vocating this formality, if it is nothing more, and arguing that a soldier, and more especially an officer, cannot serve his country faithfully unless he swears allegiance to the Republic. The fact i.hat t. Gambeita was a vigorous opponent of the military oath under the Empire is, of course, no reason why he Al,ould not slow lend his assistance to the other side of the argument, since the idea of France is, in the mind of the Opportunist faction, a very subordinate idia to that of the Government for the time being, and accordingly an oath to serve the Sovereign when that Sovereign wears a crown is a very different thing from an oath to serve the Sovereign when the head. tress is a tneoloured bonnet or a Phrygian cap. The incident recalls attention to the military oath in the Roman State. This is mid by all historians to have been the most impressive and solemn of all the oaths Administered. It was dictated by the tribunes to all the men of a legion in succession, in the name of the consul or other person occupying the position of Licneral-in-Chief ; said this act of swearing in whole arnica to obedience under a single individual, natu• rally led to the adoption by Augustus and his sue. :005058 of the title of "Commander-in-Chief" as an equivalent for Emperor. It appears that the soldier wan expected, even from the earliest time, to swear fidelity to his commander, but Livy declares that it was only about the date of the first Punic War that he was compelled to to so. As soon so the Empire was established clauses were added to the formula by which the soldier swore that he would consider the safety of the Emperor as his chief care, and would not esteem his own life or that of his children in comparison with that of Cmsar. Any breach of this oath was deemed a sufficient reason for the commanding officer to inflict capital punishment without the formality or delay of a trial—Globe.  A woman named Eveline Lane is in custody at Hermit, in Hampshire, charged on her own confession with murdering her husband. A telegram from Alexandria says that it aewspaper La Reform-, has been suppressed for articles hostile to the Egyptian Goverrunent. The Chartered Mercantile Bank of India, London, and China have received advice from their Penang branch to place £l,OOO to the credit of the Duchess of Marlborough's Irish Relief Fund. On the motion of Mr. Gladstone, Dr. Mayfair has assanied his functions as Chairman of Committees.  Thc Chilian army has arrived near Tama, where the allied Bolivian and l'eruvian troops wore eoncont rated.  Thr report flint M.WAddingten would succeed M. Leon Sat• as Frunch AmbassAdor in London is not conlirma . ,
The Potteries Examiner : — 1880-03-27 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

BOY MURDERER.  The Paris Figaro reports that the Assize Court of Attie has recently been occupied in trying a lad of fifteen, for the murder of a child four years of age. The details of the affair are simply horrible. The crime was committed on October 12, 1379. On the afternoon of that day the little Adrien Saucey, son of a railway official, living at Quithan (Aude), left his father's house to go and play with some neighbours' children; and he never returned. Anxious at the non-appearance of the child, the parents caused a search to be instituted and inquiries to be made in all directions. The search was continued all the evening, through the night, and all the following day. At last, on Monday, October 13, at night. a widow named Bousquet discovered the little shoe ot the child in an outhouse close to her vineyard. The outhouse was at once examined by the police. Near the entrance, on the ground, were found large spots of blood, badly covered up with a layer of sulphur. The body of the murdered boy was tound in a ditch close by half hidden by vine branches. The corpse was naked, except for the little socks: the f see covered with blood and disfigured by great gaping wounds: the skull was broken, and the body had been horribly mutilated. Two peasants guyt evidence which led to he discovery of the :issassin. They had seen the chid Adrian in company with an idiot brother, seven years old, on Sunday evening , about five o'clock. Another boy was talking to them, anl this lad turned out to be Eugene Radoude, the son of a breaksman. Eugene at first strenuously denied having seen the two brothers Saucey, but eventually, after two women had positively stated that they recognised him a 6 the, lad they had seen with Adrien in his arms on the Sunday evening on a path leading to the outhouse, he made a full confession of the crime. He stated that after walking a short distance with the brothers he sent the elder one home, and, taking the younger one in his arm., carried him into the hut. Here he threw th. child violently on the ground, the head ...ening in contact with a large stone. Radon& then put his foot on the body of his n d with a hatchet gave Uulm!sue ecemsartatenli°y fourand terrible blows on the foe,' and *lead. lie then removed the clothes. and mutilated the body of the unfortunate little fellow in the moat frightful mariner. He now took a spade from the hut and commenced to dig a grave, but he did not make it very deep, being afraid of a surprise. He placed tho dead child in it, covered it up with vine leaves, and walked quietly back to Quillen. Radoude hat' long premeditated 'this ohne, the motive for which is utterly unaccountable. Hu was examined by numerous doctors to see if he could be insane, but they found him quite responsible for his actions. Idle and vagabond, spending his days in robbing the surrounding farms, Redondo bore a very bad name. Ile has been condemned to twelve years' imprisonment in a house of correction, being saved by his youth from eapital punishment or penal servitude.
The Potteries Examiner : — 1880-02-28 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

FLIONT. An up train was due at Brandon station at nine o'clock. 4 few minutes prior to that hour. a woman closely veiled sauntered into the station. It was Sybil Wadlow. The ticket window was open, and she laid down a sovereign upon the lodge, asking in a hoarse voice, for a first-class ticket tor London. There was no music in her tone, and the small, well-gloved hand trembled as she pa sed the coin. She received the slip of pasteboard, and was going away without the change, when the clerk called her back. "What do you want?" she demanded like a tigress at bay. She feared detection even from the sholc-headed lout who stared at her with might and main. 'Your change, madam !" ho said, passing it, and a soft sigh came from under the veil. " I already tremble at shadows," she murmured. "What will it be by-and-by—will the horror of this moment grow upon me—and if it does—what will follow I" She looked eat upon the black expanse of night, and found no repose. Far down the line twinkled a solitary light at the Si danger" point, its red disc forcibly defined against the starless sky. It said to all approaching trains "Stop," but to her it uttered no warning, and when the engine came snorting and screaming into the station, the grinding break sending forth a yell of pain, she opened the door of an unoccupied first-class compartment, and entered. The few passengers who were bound upon the same way were second or third class, and she was alone and undisturbed. The night journey-deser-arandon to London was no more than many performed daily, but to Sybil it was a fight from the shadow of a shameful death. There was strange music in the air, but it was the music of agony and pain—the wild bursta of melody of discordant spirits, outcast for evermore. The clanging of the wheels, as they tore over the smooth iron, was the shouts of pursuers following like hounds, swiftly and surely upon the chase-the sighing of the wind, dying murmurings of the slain. She had deliberately killed the man whom, a few hours ago, she had married at the altar—a fearful crime, and one she had contemplated from the first; bat this after pain had been out of her calculation. Sydney Thurston had died at her feet through love for her.  ' • You may." The Ltwver sat down and wrote out a double message, which he handed to one of the labourers. "Send that message up and down the hue," he said, "and tell them to be prompt, for murder has been done, Here's a sovereign, pay it both ways—you understand." The ntan touched his forelock, and big with thes. import:nice of the occasion, made the use of his legs towards Brandon station. In leas than an hour, the following message was wired both ways : "Slops woman clad in velvet mantle and grey silk dress, face covered with a thick lace fall—age about twenty-three, large full eyes, handsome features— ' aristocratic bearing—hair 111 ringlets. Murder has been done." The labourer, under instructions, waited for an mower. but throughout the long night it did not come.
The Potteries Examiner : — 1880-03-06 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

NELLY'S FAITH. Py the author of "4 Rustic Beauty," fa  Why, then. should the death of sa %seen a wretch as Septimus Raddle trouble her But it was so; if she looked out upon the darkness, there was his face—not as of old, with naught but low cunning in it, but agonized, terror-stricken, and unutterably reproachful. Then again were the ferns gathered around him, as be law smitten to death by the woman he had—base as his nature was—fondly and truly loved. She could not shake him off, the strong nerve which bad carried her through former harrowing scenes had dese/ted her, and Sybil Wadlow was a child, a weak, wailing, terror-stricken child. What would she have given to have recalled a year —or a day !—but it could not be. Life, so easy to take, cannot be restored, and as she thought of Septiems, lying, as she believed dead among the ferns, she buried her face in her hands and wept. 'He was mean and pitiful," she moaned. "but he loved me. Men do not kill even dogs which love them, why then have I murdered him?" The answer came from her own heart—bitter, passionate, resentful pride had led her, step by step, to this terrible pit. The evil blood of her race had led her to it.  She thought of Herbert, her father and mother at the old Hall, pictured them sitting by the fire, unhappy, but free from the ghastly stain of murder, and felt that she was indeed alone. Her plans had been to leave her husband dead, and seek a foreign land alone, there to write to Herbert and bid him come to her. Then she would have told some wild story of a fall from a precipice, or, if need be, the truth, and after a residence abroad, marry again perchance, and return home. But all that she had arranged was now scattered to ;he winds; she could think of no plan of the past— think of none for the present, all were driven away sy the face of the man she hated and had slain. She looked grandly beautiful in her despair ; and is she paced to and fro in the railway carriage, few non could have looked upon her and not pitied her, many would have forgiven her all, and fallen down willingly at her feet. The train sped on through cuttings and tunnels, across broad meadows, and over streams and rivulets, For half ATI hour, but it was an age to Sybil, who sprang out when Marlow junction was reached. "I can bear it no longer," she thought; "anything s better than confinement. It was a prison—a condemned cell." She handed her ticket to the collector, and was passing out, when he checked her. "Your ticket is for London, ma'am,"  "I know it," rejoined Sybil, impatiently; "cannot I stop half way ?" "The rules of the company ma'am," hinted the iollector, pointing to the back of the ticket, where it mite.' that it was available only for the ;Aso for which it was issued. "Am I obligedto go on to London ?"  'No ma'an'.";  "
The Potteries Examiner : — 1880-01-10 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

THE HORRIBLE MURDER IN IRELAND.  The " Irish Times" gives the following details of the horrible murder which was committed in the tovrnland of Tornahoney, near Cushendell, County Antrim. The victim of what, from the facts already ascertained, appears to have been a most determined murder, war an old woman of about 55 years of age, named Catherine M'Cormick. She resided in a small cabin in a mountainous district at some distance from a road. Her daughter, Jane ICCormick, aged 21, was severely beaten, and now lies in a precarious condition in the house, which is guarded by police. It appears that a few evenings ago, between four and five Oclock, a woman named Mary M.Keegan wsnt to the house of the deceased with the object of getting a letter written by her daughter. She found the door locked, and having called several times she was told by the daughter to open one of the windows. This she did with some difficulty, and through, it entered the house. On entering she saw Jane lying on a sofa in the kitchen, and was told by her that hej mother was dead. The kitchen door ws.s locked on the inside. She told a man named Duncan 31•Keegiin about the state in which she had found the woman, and on returning with him and some others she found Catherine M'Cormick lying duel on the kitchen floor. She asked Jane M'Cormick who had killed her mother and beat herself, and she said it would by known soon enough. There were six wounds ori the head, one on the front and temporal bone, being about five inches wide and four deep. The °that wounds were large, and there was a considerable effusion of blood on the brain. There were also some slight wounds on the body. The daughter is suffering from three wounds on the head, one q very large one; her left arm is broken, and there are some scratches about the hinds. An inquest was held on Saturday evening before Mr. Raphael, conmer. Dr. John J. O'Doherty, who had made a post-mortem examination of ibo body, stated that the wounds on ths were caused by an instrument such as spade or cleaver, and could not have been inflicted by the daughter. The jury returned a verdict to the effect that death wile theresult of violence inflicted by some person unknown. A man named Daniel M.Loughlin has been arrested under suspicious circumstances, and having been brought before Mr. A. C. Montgomery, R.M., and Mr. Alexander M`Cauloy, J. P.. was remanded, and removed to Ballymene Bridewell on Sunday morning. He resides with his brother and mother within about 40 perches off the house of the deceased, and was for some time in the American army. The supposed object of the murder was money, a legacy having been left to Mrs. Dl'Cormick some time ago by a relati who died in Australia. County-inspector St. Leger and Sub-inspector M'Clinton are oath. spot, taking the necessary steps for making the perpetrator of the murder amenable.  illittm  ;1-e-e..-ea