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The Atherstone, Nuneaton, and Warwickshire Times. — 1888-11-24 (Atherstone, Warwickshire, England)

WHITECHAPEL  OUTRAGE.  The metropolis was alarmed on Wednesday by rumours that another horrible murder, followed by the mutilathm of the victim, had been committed in the neighbourhood of Flower and Dean Street at an early hour. It was subsequently ascertained that although an attempt was made to commit the crime, the assassin in this instance fortunately failed to achieve his purpose. The scene of the latest outrage is a narrow thoroughfare, named George Street, which leads at one end into George Square, the scene of one of the earlier outrages, and at the other side into Flower and Dean Street. In the latter street a number of improved artiaans' dwellings have been erected, but these are surrounded by registered lodging-houses of the poorest description. It was in the house, No. 29, George Street, apparently a perfect den of squalor and misery, that this latest outrage occurred; and the victim, whose real name has not transpired, is said to be generally known as "Drunken Liz." She lodged in the house, and during the early part of this morning was drinking with a man, who accompanied her to the house. Suddenly the inmates were aroused by loud screams, and presently the woman, whose age is between 3o and go, came rushing downstairs, blood flowing from her throat. The event caused quite a panic in the locality, and by the time the police arrived the street was swarmed with loafers and with women, many apparently greatly frightened, and others indulging in violent threats as to what they would do if they could only lay hands on the woman's assailant, who was generally described ' as "Jack the Ripper:' Dr. White was promptly called in, and dressed the wound in the throat. The injury, ' it was said, must have been inflicted with a sharp knife, but evidently the struggles of the woman had prevented • the man inflicting fatal injuries. As soon as possible she was placed on an arnbuI lance, and conveyed by policemen to the , Commercial Street Police Station, there ; to receive further medical attention, and to give what information she could to the • I authorities. .  The alarm caused by the event once again served the murderers purpose, and while the people were looking to the injured woman he seems to have escaped without attracting much observation, only one or two of the bystanders following him for a short distance. It is satisfactory to know that the woman has been able to give so minute a description of him that the police entertain little doubt of being able to trace him.  Several statements have been made to the authoritica, but they do not accord with the 1 description of the man who is supposed to have committed the eerie. of murders, and the general opinion, 1. well as that a the police, is that the author of Wednesday's outrage is not the lnurderer in the previous cases. Greatescitement, however. stili prevails in the locality, although apparently the outrage was the result of a common quarrel.
The Atherstone, Nuneaton, and Warwickshire Times. — 1881-01-22 (Atherstone, Warwickshire, England)

TIIE REPOR I'ED CONSPIRACY AT KOLA PORE.  Later information states that there is no longer doubt as to the truth of the reported conpiracy irt India. A Bombay telegram, dated Saturday, gives a list of names of persons charged before Lieutenant Ferris, at Kolapore, with conspiracy. The prisoners, says the correspondent, are charged with waging or attempting to wage war against the Empress, and with colspiracy to commit the same ; also with collecting arms for this purpose and with concealment. Names are also given of the assessors and counsel,  The Timex- correspondent at Calcutta, in 'a telegram of Sunday's date, says that the story of this couspiraey as told by the Public Prosecutor is briefly as follows :—" Early last year one of the prisoners named Itambhut conceived the idea of raising a rebellion in Kolapore, and announced to his confederates, his intention of deposing the present Maharajah and proclaiming, one Chime Sahib, who was joint Maharajah in 1857, and who being suspected of complicity in the Mutiny, was deported to Kurrachee, where he died in 1867. There seems to be a belief amoug the ignorant people in Kolapore that Chime Sahib is still alive, and Rambhut traded on this belief. The massacre of the English residents and a general rising against the English formed part of the plan, and as ready money was required a series of dacoities was organised, and some of them carried into effect. Several meetings of the conspirators were held, at which, it is said, from 3,000 to 5,000 persons were present, and it was agreed that the Europeans were to be murdered when they were assembled for evening service on Sunday, the 31st of October. The treasury was then to be seized, the city looted, and the telegraph wires cut. Heavy rain upset this plan, and its execution was postponed till the following Sunday, the 7th of November. On that day the conspirators missed their way to the church, and did not arrive there until the congregation had dispersed. Then it was agreed to fix the rising for Sunday, the 14th, and every precaution was taken to ensure its success, but before the day came the plot was discovered. The witnesses who have been examined so far havespoken to the discovery of arms, and have given an account of the meetings of the conspirators. It would seem that the plot was wild, and certain of ultimate failure. As it was, however, it was really seriously contemplated." The Mondani'. Bombay correspondent, who was the first to inform us of the conspiracy, telegraphing on Sunday, says :—" We have now the particulars of the ninth day's evidence given at the Kolapore trial. A Brahmin mendicant deposed that lie was present at one of the meetings of the conspirators, and that arrangements were made for the murder of thc European residents when at church, and for the cutting of the telegraph wires. Krishna, one of the prisoners, has been identified by a native officer as the man who, four years ago, falsel represented himself as being the Maharajah Chimu Sahib."
The Atherstone, Nuneaton, and Warwickshire Times. — 1881-02-19 (Atherstone, Warwickshire, England)

NEAP. SliirsPON-oNSTorit.—Emily Hannah Smith (18), described as being unable to read or write, was indicted for the wilful murder of her illegitimate chili!, at 'Willington, in the parish of Barcheston, on the '2nd of January.—Mr. Whiteway prosecuted, and Mr. Soden defended.--The prisoner, who is of prepossessing appearance, lived with her mother at ‘Villington, near Shipston-on-Stour. The child which was the subject of the inquiry was born in December, 1878, and the accused obtained an order from the magistrates, made upon the putative father, for the payment of 2s. a week. The reputed father, who lived near the accused and has a wife and four children living, unsuccessfully appealed against the order to the Court of Quarter Sessions and the Queen's Bench Division. Subsequent to the appeal he refused payment, and the law had to be put in force to obtain the sum allowed for the maintenance of the child. Recriminations had lately occurred between the accused and her mother in consequenc of the former having been found to be unerinte. Her mother told her that they were willing to support the first child, but that she must go to the workhouse with the second chill, and that she should tell her father of her condition. On the evening of the let of January the prisoner's mother reproached her for having allowed the father of the child again to visit her. On the following morning the prisoner got up to prepave breakfast. Instead of setting the meal she took the child to the river Stour, which runs near her mother's residence. A man named Rouse, who at about nine o'clock had seen the prisoner carrying the child along the footpath leading to the stream, shortly afterwards heard a man crying for help, and on going in the direction from which the cull proceeded, found a neighbour named Box holding up the body of the prisoner, who was immersed in the river. Box, while casually walking by the side of the river, had noticed the water moving, and, on going to the spot, svw a woman's foot and leg on the surface. At that point the water was twelve feet deep, and Box, who is a good swimmer, had plunged in and brought the woman up ; but, the bank being steep and several feet high, he was unable to get 11.1. r ashore without assistance. With the aid of Rouse lie got out the prisoner, • who wits in nn insensible state. A minute or two later the body of the child, which was seen floating down the Stremn, was brought to the bank, but its life proved to be extinct. On the table, in her mother's house, Superintendent Hittite, who is stationed at Shipston, found a note in the prisoner's handwriting,usking the mother not to go in mourning for her, and stating that neither she nor the child would trouble the family again. %Viten charged by Mr. Inside with the wilful murder of her child she made no reply. When confront•ed by her mother at the Shipston Police Station she embraced her mother and said, " Oh, mother, it is that naughty- man Padbury and my sister at Shipston that have brought me to this:,
The Atherstone, Nuneaton, and Warwickshire Times. — 1881-06-18 (Atherstone, Warwickshire, England)

ANOTHER NIHILIST PROCLAMATION.  The Nihilists of Russia have issued another proclamation, which is entitled "Trial and Torture," of which the following is the text :—"A trial lately took place at St. Petersburg. They sat in judgment on four persons accused of criminal participation irs the murder a the Czar. The trial was ceremoniously gone about. The press and Government vied wita each other in praise of the impartiality, the justice, and the mildness shown the accused. This renowned public, speedy, just, and ' inquiry came to an. end, sentence of death was pronounced, and now began that unmentionable epithet treatment of the prisoners which was called torture in the Middle Ages, but which every man of feeliiig. and thought now judges very differently. The condemned men ought to tell the people of the pains they had endured in the interval between their legal examination and their execution, but only one, the unhappy Risaketf, succeeded, with laconic brevity, in making intelligible to the crowd the terrible words, 'They have tortured us." The roll of the drums drowned the rest. But that is not all. The accomplices of the Government present at the torture could not endure the spectacle; they fell ill and raved and blabbed against their will, relating what had happened, and acquainting society with the reverse side of the celebrated trial. We are peaceful people. We neither belong to the party of terrorists nor that of Revolutionists; we are simply men, with ordinary human feelings, yet our souls are deeply stirred wtu bitterness at the thought of what was done to political criminals in the dark recesses of our fortresses. We, therefore, address to all Russians the following question—ls it right of the Government thus to deceive a State containing 90,000,000 inhabitants by parading before them what it calls a free and legal trial and behind it setting in operation against the persons of human beings the knout, the thumb -screw, and other hellish instruments of tyranny ? The Russian people have an adage—• Do not strike a mart when he is down.' Now, the people did not aimlessly form their proverbs and strictly adhere to their observance, but our Government pretends to , know nothing of them. Peaceful citizens, Lave ' you really tee strength to attend to parents and children though you hear the groans of uur martyred brothers, who were racked on the way to the scaffold, were stilled by the rcll of drums? As for us, we must confess we cannot do so, we have not tho strength. Even the Government has at last recognised the unfavourable impression produced by the public execution of the tortured criminals, who in consequence of their cruel tr, lament had not strength enough left to keep their feet. and has abolis.,el pubhceexecutions. It is not difficult to divine wnat now awaits the wretches who forego the final advantage of being beheld by multitudes on the scaffold.-Printing office of the 11-al of the Pe,ple, May 22, Se. Petersburg.'' There is no corroboration of the statement that Risakofi called out to the people USA his way to execution.
The Atherstone, Nuneaton, and Warwickshire Times. — 1882-10-21 (Atherstone, Warwickshire, England)

THREATENING TO MURDER PRINCE OF WALES. At Bow Street, London, on Saturday, William Brookshaw, aged 34, described as a traveller, of nc home, was charged, on • warrant, before Sir JAMBI Ingham, with maliciously sending a letterthreatening to murder the Prince of Walea—Mr. Stephenson and Mr. Thomas appeared for the Public Prosecutor. The letter was as follows :—"Oolonel dr,—To be brief, I am a young man within sight of Buckingham Palace, aaxious to work, and cannot get it.to thing that I can do under those cat(' go abroad to one of the colonies. al master, the Prince of Wales, that to start me there. If I succeed it wiebe repaid. I want it this week. Send it to me, at Wm. Brookshaw, Lemon's Hotel, 21 and 22, Great Chapel Street, Westminster.—P.S.—lf you do not send it this week I will camp on the Prince of Wales's trail, and by all the gods serve hiss worse than Lord Frederick Cavendish was served—Your. in great earnestness,—W.C.B.--Sorry to speak so harsh, but severe diseases require severe remedies. Don't forget this week."—This letter was posted on the 9th of October, and it was proposed to show that the prisoner, who was an ' inmate of Fulham Workhouse, woe absent that day, and that the letter was in his Litudwriting.—Thomas Brown said he was porter at St. George's Workhouse, Fulham. He had known the prisoner as an Inmate there for seven months, during which time he had left and returned several times. On Monday, 9th October, be left at eleven o'clock. He returned on the 11th. Witness produced a receipt for clothing signed by the prisoner. The paper upon which the letter was written was similar to that supplied to inmates. The envelope bore the workhouse stamp. To the best of witness's belief the letter was in the same handwriting as the receipt for clothes—William Bolton, an inmate of the workhouse, acting as assistant to the last witness, proved the signature to the receipt as being in the prisoner's handwriting.—Mr. Coll, master of the workhouse, said that he had no doubt the paper upon which the letter was written, and the envelope, had been supplied from his office.— Mr. Wilson, an inspector of the South Western Dietrict office, proved that the letter WM posted in the neighbourhood of West Bromptou for the twelve o'elock delivery on October 9.—Superintendent Walker, of the Metropolitan Police attached to the Frinqe 9, Wslee's kivu9ellold, proved receiving the letter from Colonel Teesdale. It wee subsequently handed to the authorities at Scotland Yard, by ishom inquiries were made. The prisoner was arrested by Chief Inspee,tor Hagan on Friday night, at St. George's Workhouse, Fulham. Re aid that he was born in Buckingham Palace, and had been for several years in the United States army.—ln answer to the charge, he said :—" It's an infamous lie; I never wrote snob a letter. Somebody has been making use of my name."—The prisoner was formally asked if he had anything to say in answer to the charge. He said, "I am not guilty, and under no circumstances would I be guilty of such a crime."—He was committed for trial.
The Atherstone, Nuneaton, and Warwickshire Times. — 1882-06-10 (Atherstone, Warwickshire, England)

STRANGE CONFESSION OF MURDER.  George Stennings; of Putney, was charged at Wandsworth, on Saturday, on his own confession, with causing the death of a man unknown. Os Friday night the prisoner confessed to a man named Dougherty that he had " settled a man," and Dougherty gave information to the police.— Sergeant Cannon, who took prisoner into custody, read a statement which he made. It was as follows : "I had a fall out with a man last night. He assaulted me at the drawdock (at back of the Duke's Head). There were three of them, and one who assaulted roe I struck by the side of the ear with my fist and killed him. I took off my coat, and carried him under my arm down into the water, and he is down below. I put him in a hole. Ido not know the man ; I believe he belongs to Wandsworth. The other men ran away. lam very sorry.. I hope he will be found. I feel relieved in my chest since I told you." The officer produced a white jacket which he found upon the prisoner, under his coat, and pointed to some stains on the wrist. The prisoner said the stains were caused by red paint while working at the engine—The prisoner's landlady was nailed, and said he had not shown any symptoms of insanity.—Mr. Paget reminded the prisoner, and gave directions for him to be examined by a surgeon as to his state of mind.  According to the report of the American Iron and Steel Association for 1881, the production for that year amounted to 4,641,564 tons of rolled iron, including rails; excluding rails, 2,155,346 tons; Bessemer steel rails, 1,330,302 tons, iron rails, 488,581 tons; crucible steel ingots. 89,762 tons ; open hearth ingots, 146,946 tone ; Bessemer ingots, 1,539,157 tons; total production steel, 1778,912 tons. The miles of railway built in 1881 were 9,650 ; ships, 42 ; the imports of iron and steel were $61,555,078 ; exports. $15,782,282. John Geoghan, a carpenter, of Plaistow, is to be pitied—that is, if the tale he told the West Ham magistrates respecting his domestic relations is correct. Being summoned for assaulting and beating his wife, he set up a plea that hid wife first assaulted him by hitting him with a plate, and he then unfolded his grievances, which all rose from the jealousy of his wife. His wife, he said, could not let him move out of the house without her, and if he went into a public-house she would go in also, and wait till he had drunk his beer. She would get up at four o'clock in the morning and see him off by train to his work, and in the evening would go the station to escort him home. He could not go out for a walk on Sunday morning unless he took her with him. The magistrates full of sympathy for the man, who was thus bound to a jealous wife, only fined the defendant 40s. and costs, as no one had a right to strike a woman as he had done.'  Mr. Barnum arrived at Liverpool on Monday to arrange for a European tour of biegreat show." He received many inquiries an to the welfare of Jumbo.  LOCAL BILLS IN PARLIAMENT TRAMWAYS PROVISIONAL ORDERS (LEAMINGTON AND WARWICK, Sm.)
The Atherstone, Nuneaton, and Warwickshire Times. — 1882-05-13 (Atherstone, Warwickshire, England)

EATON, M.P., was loudly cheered on rising to respond. He said: I scarcely know how sufficiently to thank my old and kind friends for this cordial welcome.. I am always received most enthusiastically end for that I owe you my deepest gratitude. lam glad to have tbe opportunity of appearing here to-day, and at being present at what we may consider the inauguraSon of the new Conservative club—(applause). My good friends you have not started thar too ' soon—(hear, hear). The premises are in the centre of the town and it will be the head quarters for your deliberation and work. We, as Conservatives, have no great reason to hope that the present disastrous Ministry will continue much longer in office,for what have they done? To my mind they have brought confusion into all their work. In South Africa we suffered intense humilation, our prestige in Afghanistan is entirely a matter of the pant, and I believe what was called a "nies.sage of peace to Ireland has proved the most miserable failure of all modern politics— (applause). That once happy country is at this moment unfortunately in a most miserable condition, and a great blot on sur civilization and our common Christianity. Who is not horrified and dismayed day by day as they read of unprovoked murders by masked assassins, and the maiming of dumb and unoffeuding cattle? The Prime , Minister, a few years ago, was most energetic I in denouncing Bulgarian atrocities, but he failed now to raise his voice against the deplorable horrors which have been inflicted on the Jews of late by the Russians. Turning to domestic legislation what do we find? Why that the great and Isupreme effort of the Prime Minister was to stifle and gag discussion in the House of Commons, and to place in the hands of a barOmajority a weapon dangerous, and quite contrary to those principles of liberty which has made England prosperous and free—(cheers). I believe after what has happened during the last few days that the country will not remain quiet much longer under such a Ministry, or under the rule of one man, a Minister who is the most despotic ever known in our time—(hear, hear). We must therefore at all hazards fight earnestly when the time arrives, and probably the day of battle is nearer than many of you antiopate, for those principles which we all cherish, and which our late noble friend and Premier, Lord Beaconsfield, so ably and eloquently expounded. We must fight hard and unitedly, and with the assistance of our Club. I have not the slightest doubt you will not commit the same error as you did at the lest General Election, which you have acknowledged by again sending me to the House of Commons once more as your representative —(applause). I believe the proceedings to-day, will put fresh life into the hearts of every Conservative in the city, and if you are really in earnest with the work, and work with the determination to win. I have no doubt you will once more be represented by two Conservatives, of whom, considering the number of years I have been in jour service, and