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The North Cumberland Reformer. — 1890-04-18 (Carlisle, Cumbria, England)

TTII,L.  A shocking murder was perpetrated at Masi'', Nevi Ws Bakery, Milkwood-road, Herne-hill, on the afternoon of the 12th Mat. Shortly alter half-past three o'clock, a lad named John Moorer, who is employed by the firm, and asides at No. 64, Danielsread, Nunhood, d•covered a man named Thomas Furlonger, • bread packer, lying in one ef the furnace. rooms in • pool of blood. Mt erer ran for the foreman, who saw that Furlonger had sustained shocking Injuries. Dr. Garnhatri, ol Milkwood.road, was summoned, and was quickly n the scene. He f0w..,./ Furlonger, who was fully dressed, lying on the Moos of the furnace-room, quite dead On making an s ea• mination of the body, four deep wounds were discovered on deceased's head near the top, two on the right side, and two on the left, which were no doubt caused by heavy blows with some sharp, weighty instrument. His hat, which was Jying beside him, also testified to the violence used, as the brim on the right sic/8./rag cut through in two places, and on the back also there were marks of blows. On the body, being raiseit these wag found underneath the left arm a piece ol iron about a foot long, the remains of an old furnace, bar, which was sharp at one end. With this. mi doubt, the injuries were inflicted. The police authorities at the Camberwell-green Police-station were at once communicated with, and Inspector Fry, accompanied by several constables, proceeded to the premises, where they were informed by the foreman that deceased received his week's salary, which amounted to £1 3s. 3d., with the rest of the men at half - past twelve o'clock the same afternoon. When he was discovered no money was found on him, and his right-hand trousers pocket was turned inside out. There appears, therefore, to be little doubt that the unfortunate man was murdered and afterwards robbed. As no strangers are allowed on the premises the facto point to someone employed by the firm being concerned in the affair. The deceased was seen alive about a quarter of an hour after he received his money by Alfred Spurgeon, an engineer, and shortly after two o'clock Alfred Daniels spoke to him in one of the sheds. That is the last that was seen of him. Furlonger was 60 years of age, and resided at No. 78, Tilsonroad, Peckham. He had been employed for many years past at Messrs. Nevill's Bakery, and was much respected.  AN Annan'. A young man named Gorrie, 30 years of age, wall charged at the Lambeth Police.court on the 14th Inst. with the wilful murder of Thomas Furlonger, at Nevill's Pread Factory, Milkwood-road, Brixton. The prisoner was employed at the bakery, and was said not to have given a satisfactory account as to his movements on the day of the alleged murder. None of the murdered man's missing money was, however, traced to hls possession. Be declined to say anything In court, and was remanded for a week.
The North Cumberland Reformer. — 1890-08-28 (Carlisle, Cumbria, England)

ROBERT WATSON, U.K.A., moved "That this meeting would earnestly and respectfully call upon the Licensing Justices to refuse to renew the licence of all those who have been convicted of permitting gambling or drunkenness; and also to decrease the number of public-houses in those parts of the city where the number is far more than enough for the supposed wants of the neighbourhood." Your petitioners would call special attention to Botchergate, Caldewgate, and Rickergate, where the public-houses are out of all proportion to the number of inhabitants. He said a Carlisle Tory newspaper described such meetings as disturbances. If that was so there was one thing certain, they were got up by the friends of law and order to try and prevent a good deal of drunken disturbance that would be the outcome of any fresh licence to sell strong drink. (Hear, hear.) The special and peculiar temptation afforded by a man who sold bacon, bread, cheese, and other necessary articles also selling drink, had been a curse to many homes. If they must have drink shops, then don't mix up matters by making grocers into publicans. He saw the Chief Constable had stated that trade was improving at the Town Hall. Then why give another permit to sell drink and cause more cases or the police? The Garlands, he understood, was full; then why set up another lunatic-making establishment in the form of a grocer's public-house? Only that morning he saw from his window a boy stopped with a calf by the police, until a paper could be produced to show that the animal was free from disease, and fit to be sold, and there they stood in that meeting like policemen watching and asking those who wished to sell beer if it would not spread poverty and drunkenness. If so, they offered their protest, and said they would do all they could to prevent snch mischief. It was considered that one publiehouse for 500 in certain parts, and one in 1,000 in others, was enough to supply the demand, but in Carlisle we have one to 250, There was another matter he would like to call attention to, and that was the number of side and back doors leading to publichouses, At one of these doors, people could sneak in, or if one of the police happened to look in at the front door, the drunks could be pitched out at the back like a pair of old boots. He sometimes thought it was easter to convict a man of murder through circumstantial evidence, than to bring in a publican guilty of causing drunkeness. The number of publicans summoned was out of all proportion to the number of those summoned for being drunk. Evenhanded justice would never be meted out until the drunkard maker and the drunkard stood together in the dock, and both were punished far law-breaking. Mr OSBORNE seconded the resolution, which war adopted. The meeting was very enthusiastic and unanimous, only one person voting against the second resolution. Mr James Beaty, builder, offered his protest as a property owner to a licence being given in the district. Another meeting will be held in the open air, weather permitting, this evening (Thursday), at seven o'clock.
The North Cumberland Reformer. — 1895-03-16 (Carlisle, Cumbria, England)

FEEDING YOUNG OYSTETL9.—An experiment remore firmly than ever that you should marry cently made proves that young oysters may be fed Helen. But how was that to be done? I knew artifically. It has for some time been known that that, although you liked Helen and she liked you, the food of the oyster is purely vegetable. The only Walter also liked her, and she cared more for him difficulty was to find something of a vegetable nature than for you. I was desperate. I think I was miuuto enough to be eaten by the yeung oysters mad. Anyway I acted like a mad, conscienceless when but a few days old. The egg of the oyster is man. There can be no shadow of excuse in my exceedingly small—so small, in fact, that it can case. I committed a most heinous crime. But I bareiy be seen with the naked eye. In season an think, although there may be no excuse, there are oyster is supposed to lay several million eggs. At causes that lessen my offence. Ido not think I Beaufort, where the experiments were conwas fully responsible for my actions at the time, ducted last year, the oysters lay their eggs about the Continual losses had, lam sure, impaired my 15th of May. A. large quantity of eggs which reason. had just been taken from the oysters were placed "The first thing I had to do obviously was to in a glass aquarium, where their growth could prevent any chance of Walter marrying Helen. be easily watched. For a few days after being How should Ido that? If I sent him out of the hatched the young oysters can live without food. country on any business pretence, they would wait In order to get food that would be sufficiently until he had come back. If I sent him for an inde- minute for the young oysters,the leaves of the sea finite time out of the country, say to manage the lettuce were crushed as fine as possible and put Jamaica plantation, she would be sure to follow in the aquarium. On these the oysters seemed to him as soon as she was free of my guardianship. I thrive. they grew much faster than they would if must do myself the one bit of justice to say that I left to themselves in the water. For the first month never for a moment thought of—yes, I must say it or so after the oyster is hatched it floats around in awful as even the repudiation of such a thought the water in whatever .direction the tide may carry seems now—l never for one moment contemplated it. When it grows to be about one-fourth the size of or even considered murder. a clover seed it attaches itself to come stationary sub • " Well, it would not:do to send Walter out of the stance and there remains. It is not known just at country on a commission that would soon be exe- what age an oyster arrives before it attaches itself. cuted, and it would not do to send him out per. It is probably between one and two months. manently to Jamaica. And yet it was necessary to A
The North Cumberland Reformer. — 1895-03-16 (Carlisle, Cumbria, England)

VIOLENT SCENE AT A WORKHOUSE.  Im Soer, with grey hair and beard, giving bis age as 95, was charged at North London Police Court on Wednesday afternoon, with stabbing and otherwise illtreating the porter at St. John's Road (Islington) 'Workhouse. The prosecutor (Frederick John Chedley) said that the prisoner, who was an inmate of the workhouse, got leave of absence that day. Ho was leaving with a bundle in his posses. gen, and was asked -what it contained. Ho smacked the bundle in the face of the porter,and asked him if he thought him a thief. The prisoner used very bad language, and spat in his face. He (prosecutor) took the old man to the receiving ward, and reported the matter to the master. Returning to the receiving ward, the prisoner male a lunge at him with a knife—a table knife belonging to the house—and cut him on the thumb knuckle of the right band. After a violent struggle the knife was get from the prisoner, when ho turnel round and with a poker struck witness across the back. The poker was Hon from him, and then he seized a shovel. A policeman was called, and the prisoner given into custody. The stab wound had to be dressed by a doctor.—This evidence was corroborated by an inmate, who added that ho heard the prisoner say he would murder (Medley.— The prisoner (who was very deaf) had this evidence read over to him by Mr. Knott Bowers (the clerk), during which the prisoner became very excited and violent, and had to be held by the gaoler and his assistant. He declared that be was not sorry for anything be bad said or done, and loudly, denounced the porter as a scoundrel and a murderer. Though he was 9:5 years of age he would strike any man who struck him.—Warder Turrell, who was in court, said he had known the prisoner for over thirty years as a most violent man. He bad been convicted twenty-five times in eighteen years, and on ono occasion had twelve months for a similar offence to the present. The prisoner was in Bentonville Prison at the latter end of last year for an assanit. This was read over to him, and he did not deny it. On the contrary, he declared that, old as lie was, he would use all his strength upon any man who went against him.—Mr. ?larsham considering the prisoner's age,sent him to prison for only six weelis ; end when this was told to the prisoner be gesticulated wildly, and shouted, " Send me to prison for six months ; it is better than the workhouse." He was forcibly removed from the dock to the cells : but soon after become calm. In reply to the magistrate Sessions Warder Turrell said be did not know the man's exact age, ansl did not think he knew himself: but he had been an old man ever since be (Turrell) had known him. The police could trace Soer's residence in London 45 years back, and his nationality was French.
The North Cumberland Reformer. — 1895-11-02 (Carlisle, Cumbria, England)

THE KENSAL GREEN MURDER.  At the Central Criminal Court on Monday, before Mr. Justice Grantham, Richard Wiugrove, 33, an ex-eoldier, was indicted for the wilful murder of Jane Eagle. Mr. Charles Matthews prosecuted; Mr. Warburton defended.—Mr. Matthews said that the facts of the case were not disputed, but a question would arise as to the state of mind of the accused at the time of the commission of the ad imputed to him. The prisoner had served twelve years in the Royal Artillery. He was discharged from the army in January, when he received about £3O deferred pay. He lived upon this money in common lodging-house in Kemal Green, until Sep. tember. There was no evidence to show when he made the acquaintance of the deceased woman, who was about forty years of age. He Was seen in her on the night company of the murder, on a piece of ground at 'initial Rise, near the Plough Inn, where the woman's dead body was found, on the morning of September S. There had been some dispute in the Plough Inn on a previous date detween the parties about a shilling, which had been lost. The woman and another man accused the prisoner of finding the mousy. The unfortunate woman was discovered with her throat cut in a terrible manner, and serious injuries had been inflicted to her head, the result, apparently,of kicks or striking with some heavy instrument. She was not identified at once, but the prisoner made pertain statements, and ad'Bitted that be knew all about her. He added if the man Who had accused Lim of having the shilling had been there be would have killed him as well, as "he might as well be hanged for two as for ona person!: On the following afternoon the prisoner gave himself up to the police, saying, " I am the :nen who killed the woman last night; I  meant to kill Dongnty vas wan reterred to.) Take me to the police station." A. number of witnesses were called and examined relative to the incidents which led up to the murder, and as to the subsequent behaviour of the prisoner. It was shown that he bad imv,,d in Africa, the West Indies, and other places abroad. —The prisoner made a statement, after being charged with the murder end having been cautioned, to the effnet that he went in search of the woman, who had accused him of stealing a shilling, and when he found her he struck her a violent blow on the head with the biggest stone he could find, and then out her throat with his knife as she lay on the ground. He made use of coarse and foul expressions alluding to his victim, and added that he desired to murder also amen who had accused him of stealing a shilling. His statement was accompanied by terrible oaths and threats against some of the witnesses.—Mr.Warburton urged that the prisoner was insane at the time of the commission of the aot.—The jury, after a short deliberation, found the prisoner guilty, and Mr. Justice Grantham, in passing sentence of death, observed that the case was one of the most cruel and heartless that had ever come under his notice.
The North Cumberland Reformer. — 1895-06-15 (Carlisle, Cumbria, England)

SOME POPULAR SUPERSTITIONS.  TUE SHAITZADA'S UNPUNCTUALITY  EXPLAINED.  A curious instance of the persistence of popular superstition, even in high places, is (eays the "Standard" in a leading articHortforded by the new Greek Ministry. Though appoint. dto their various posts On Monday Inst,and eager,ne most Hellenic politicans are, to assume the reeroneibilitiem and other accomvaniments of office, they declined to be formally ;worn in until Wednf sday, because Tuesday is " a day of ill omen." We are not surprised that similar scruples should be attributed to our guest, the Shnlizada, since he comes from a region where one looks for less freedom from old world beliefs than in polished and progressive A theme Punctuality has been described as the politeness of Princes ; and even in Afghanistan the adage holds good. But the occasional lapses in this respfct which have occurred during his stay einong us are explained by the statement that, before lee vieg Cahill for the longest journey performed by any of his race, Neptune Khan was supplied with a calendar drawn up by the most eminent native astrologers. By the assistance of this esoteric g uide-beek the Royal traveller has been enabled to ascertain what are the lucky days and hours for arriving at or leaving the various stages on his route. When lie has been,in the opinion of his hosts, behind time,he has in reality been observing a higher punctuality than ordinary mortals can understand. More d nwpilising, though equally illustrative of the strength of what may almost be called scientific superstition, was the announcement that the exKing of Servia won £28,000 over the race for the Grand Prix last Sunday, having been prompted to tack the winner by the fact that a mare had carried off every eigth contest for that prize. Gamblers, of course, are notoriously given to occult calculations. At every drawing of the State lotteries so common on the continent, certain individuals, supposed to have the secret of lucky numbers, are eagerly implored to favour all manner of people with the benefit of their mystioal knowledge. Indeed an Italian priest was murder. a few years ago by some irate peasants because a refused to pander to their credulity, while anyone acquainted with the company who haunt Monte Carlo nowadays, and hung around the Homburg tables in former times, is well aware how "lucky numbers" and " combinations " of the most absurd description enter into the " systems " by which otherwise shrewd punters sedulously woo fortune. King Milan has now shown us that the frequenters of horse-races may indulge in a more recondite method of "putting on their money" than studying "private form" and picking up "stable information." Lucky days, like unlucky numbers, are au integral portiion of primitive faiths. Even in the present enlightened time, and in so " advanced " a city as Paris, it is so difficult to let a house numbered " 13" that the owner generally inscribes it "12 bis " ; and in Spain the question was gravely raised whether the little King should take the title of Alfonso
The North Cumberland Reformer. — 1895-09-14 (Carlisle, Cumbria, England)

ESCAPE OF MURDERERS.  Several nights ago (writes a Naples Correspondent) shortly before two o'clock, eleven murders undergoing penal servitude for life in the prison at Nisida succeeded in escaping, not only from their room, but from the island. One of them having procured small files some time before, the bold convicts gradually and unnoticed out through the solid iron bars of the windows. Having heard that it was intended to remove them to another prison, they hastily brought their slow work to a conclusion, still unnoticed by the gaolers, whose business is to inspect the bars, and tying their bed sheets together and fastening them to the window sill, the convicts removed the sawn bars and let themselves down one by one into the first enclosed space round the prison. There was no sentinel at that point, and the eleven fugitives climbed the wall, about eight yards high, without impediment. They then followed the steep paths down to the little quay, where a few boats are always lying ready for the prison service. The convicts cut the rope that fastened one of these boats to a signal lantern, improvised two oars from the benches of the boat, and rowed swiftly to the opposite shore. At that moment a Custom House guard observed the boat approaching and, thinking it might contain smugglers, he gave the alarm. Some workmen of a neighbouring glass factory and several peasants armed with sticks ran up, and, just after the convicts had landed, gave chase. Two of them were caught, one of them, a Sicilian, 33 years old, condemned for murder and robbery; the other, a man from Miletello, condemned for like crimes. The other nine convicts succeeded in escaping into the open country. Some hours after, towards dawn, a polioeman in Via Rama observed two individuals loitering in a suspicious way near the shop of Mr. Gutteridge. He stopped them, and the men declared they were masons, waiting for a workman who lived near. The policeman feigned to go away, but shortly returned with a comrade, and succeeded in arresting one of the men while the other, throwing away a weapon, ran away. The man arrested, who was quite exhausted, and whose shirt and drawers were all torn, was taken to a police office and recognised as a prisoner from Nisida, No. 3,753. He had been condemned for murder and robbery, and, after being imprisoned in different places, bad now been in Nisida since three years. He confessed to having organised the escape, and provided the files. He seemed not so much to regret his being taken as frightened at the severe treatment he had incurred,and said to the policeman who had arrested him, " This arrest will gain you a small remuneration, but it will cost me three years of solitary confinement." Marengo, for such is his name, gave a sad picture of the material treatment of the prisoners at Nisida, and begged to be transferred to some other prison. He is now in the prison of the Carmine.
The Northern News. — 1898-06-11 (Carlisle, Cumbria, England)

SUPPOSED MURDER OF AN ENGLISH PLANTER IN CEYLON. ALLEGED DELAY OF JUSTICE.  A remarkable case of murder has just been investigated at Colombo. A year ago Mr. Sydney Tewson, son of the well-known London auctioneer, took temporary charge of a tea estate in a low country district some forty miles from Colombo while the superintendent, Mr. J. B. Coles, went on leave to England. The assistant-superintendent, having had fever in December last, went on an eight-days' sea-trip round the island. On the 15th of December Mr. Towson died, and the young Civil Servant who held the inquest accepted the evidence of the native servants, and recorded a verdict of "Accidental death." The evidence was that Mr. Towson, who was troubled with rheumatism, had fallen in the night against a box, striking his head. When one or two planters from the neighbouring estates arrived in the morning Mr. Tewson was unable to speak. When Mr. Coles returned to take charge he received a letter of Mr. Tewson's to his mother, which had been forvarded to Ceylon, and in this Mr. Towson remarked that a dismissed Cingalese servant had been heard to threaten to take his life. Mr. Coles found suspicious blood-stains, and gleaning further information, applied for warrants to bring back from India a Tamil woman and her brother, who were in the bungalow at the time of the death. As Mr. Coles could only believe them to be important witnesses, and could not swear their evidence to be material, the Solicitor-General instructed the police magistrate that only a summons could be issued. The attitude of the authorities was in other respects apathetic, and an extensive agitation followed. The planting member in the Legislative Council moved for an investigation, and Sir West Ridgeway promised that Mr. Coln should not be called upon to pay the witnesses' expenses. Still, only summonses were forwarded to India, and when duplicates were wanted, the Solicitor-General refused to issue them. Mr. Coles then had a personal interview with the Governor, who ordered duplicate summonses to be made out, and Mr. Coles then proceeded to India and brought back the servants. The investigation was resumed on May 12th, and the woman stated that the dismissed servant returned to the house or the day of Mr. Tewson's death. She was awakened in the night, and saw her master lying in a pool of blood and the man in the doorway with a knife in his hand. She Fuld not disclosed this at the inquest because they threatened her. Great indignation (adds the correspondent) is felt at the apathy of the authorities. The Solicitor-General is himself a Tamil, and the affair is taken to show the bad policy of having a native at the head of an important Government Department.  Mr. Somerset, son of Lady Henry Scmerset, whilst f.cling win. Lady Katherine Somerset, near Easinor Cast* was thruwn from his home, which he had juet hired, and received serious wounds in his head. He was co:iveyed to Eastnor Castle in an insensible elate, and medical men were summoned from Malvorn and Ledbury. Mr. Some:sot has been announced le the future Liberal candidate fcr South Herefordshire