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The Nuneaton Times. — 1875-04-17 (Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England)

SHOCKING MURDER AT THE CRYSTAL PALACE.  A shocking tragedy has just been brought to light at the Crystal Palace, which has led to the apprehension of a young woman named Rose Ellen Norton, aged about 22, for the wilful murder of her infant At Kingston, an action, " Check v. the Metropolitan 1 tnale child. It appears that the young woman has Tramway Company," has been heard to recover for sonic time past been engaged as cook at Messrs. damages for injuries sustained by a child through I Spier§ and Sponds, at their refreshment rooms at the the alleged negligence of the servants, of the defen. Crystid Palace, she and threeother young women sleep. dents. The plaintiff is a railway porter, and the child lag upon the premises. The prismer had been quesin question is a little girl eight years- of age, who' timed, some time back, about her nonditidn, but she went to school with her sister in the Whitechapel. denied the accusation.. Some workmen has since been road. On the afternoon of the 24th of November, engaged in cleaning out a water, tank at the Crystal about 4 fololock and nearly dark, the children were Palttee Station of the nigh Level Railway, when they dismissed from school, and the child ran across the . discovered the body of a child tied to a piece of wood road at the moment a tramway car was approaching, . afloat in the water. Information was given to the and the step caught her and knocked her down, police 'at Gipsy-hill, and Inspector Ralf made Both the fore and hind wheels passed over her leg, inquiries which resulted in the apprehension of the and nearly severed the foot from the body, and in the prisoner, when she was conveyed to the station-honeo result the leg was amputated above the knee, and the at Gipsy.hill and formally charged with the crime. poor child will of course be a cripple for life. The 1 negligence imputed 'to the defendants in order to render them liable for the accident was that, in the , first instance, it was said that the paving close to the . rail was cot level with it, as it ought to be under the Act of Parliament, and that the consequence was that the child, in crossing the road, had atm k her to. against it, and was thus thrown down ander the wheel ; and secondly, that the clothes of the child was first caught hold of by the step and she was dragged &considerable distance, and the driver might have put on the brake and stopped the carriage if he had chosen to do so. It was said, however, that although several persons called out to him to stop and to put on the brake, and told him a child was under the car, either from want of presence of mind or some other cause he made no attempt to stop. The jury, in the end, gave a verdict for the plaintiff—desnages £lOO,
The Nuneaton Times. — 1875-10-30 (Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England)

ITALIAN WAINWRIGHT/6SB. A pendent case to the celebrated Whitechapel.road murder has just coma to light under the following circumstances:—On the 24th of September last the emoloyea of the railway station complained of a very bad smell coming out of a shed where unclaimed goods were stored. The station-muter caused the numberless trunks and packages it contained to be overhauled, and at lut the stench was t quid to come from a common wooden trunk, painted green, corded, and carefully sealed up. It bore on the label an inscription showing it to be sent by Francesco Buono of Naples to Francesco Buono of Rome. The delegate of police attached to the railway station was then called, and he at once ordered the box to be opened, which was no sooner done than, to the great horror of the assistants, it was found to contain a human body packed up in tow mixed with coarse kitchen salt, and already in an advanced state of decomposlion. The body had been doubled up and forced into the trunk which only measured 1 metre 40 cent. by 50 cent.; the upper part of it was bent down with great force, and the head reached the knees. The body was taken out of the trunk and laid upon a table. In the meantime a magistrate had arrived with two doctors. The body was conveyed to the dead.house at Campo Varela°, and a pv,t-sa,rteas examinetion took place. The remains were those of a female from 28 to 2e years old. The murderer or murderers had cut through the right side of the abdomen and through the opening had extracted the viscera, the heart, the liver, and both lungs, the large cavity thua formed had been filled up with tow and rat, and the body had been rubbed and strewn all over with salt. When found, it was dressed in a Cotton shift, camisole, and stockings. None of those articles were marked. The trunk wasiof a very common description painted green outside and lined inside with white and blue wail paper. The cord with which it was secured was new,4 and the wax seals bore the impress of a two.centime coin. The body offered no signs of external violence, other than the section already described; and the absence of the viscera and other organs render, i it very difLeult to ascertain the cause of death. The degree of decomposition to which it had arrived led to the supposition that death had taken place at least three months before. The discovery caused a very great sensation at Rome and at Naples, and the police set engulf to work to unravel the mis. wry. On consulting the station books it was found that the trunk addressed to Franceseo Buono had been received from Naples, and had arrived at Borne on the 15th of September. And on investiga. Ling the entries at the booking office of the station at Naples an entry was found corresponding to the above date and description, so that it was established be. yond any doubt that the crime, had been committed in the district of Naples.
Penistone, Stocksbridge and Hoyland Express, etc. — 1916-02-19 (Penistone, South Yorkshire, England)

CPOE3-SalllMolls charging Walter and Eveline Barker with assaulting Bramall—Eveline Barker, wife of Walter Barker, Hatkenthorpe, in reply to Mr. A. E. Hall, solicitor, Eckington, who appeared for the prosecution, said about 6-80 p.m., on the Bth inst., when she was passing defendant's door, she saw tho defendant about three yards from his door, and heard him say he would --- well kill her husband. She said "Shame!" He :avid "Why did he put that lock on the door?" She said he could please himself. lie thereupon struck her on the jaw with his left fist, knocking her down. Be had half a brick in his right hand at the time. but did not strike her with it. She afterwards WM a doctor, who told her to foment her jaw, which was badly bruised, with hot water. About four o'clock the SIMS afternoon she was at the top of the yard, when she heard some one call out, "0 dear, nieer:' She. ran down the yard and found her husband leaning against a wall, and some caw said Braman had been hitting hint. Braman was standing with half a brick in his hand. Her husband's mouth was bleeding, and he was bruised on the arm and leg. Be had to go to a doctor. She Bever touched Brainall.—Fred .Rippon, who lives four doors from the defendant Bramall, saw him knock Mrs. Barker down with a blow with his left hand when site was passing his door, and he saw the half brick in him right hand at the time—Percy Rippon, when at his door, saw defendant atrike Mrs. Barker, knocking her four or five yards across the yard, and also strike Ferns Barker with the half brick.— Walter Barker, miner, said be was coming out of his gaNif.a. Defendant came running to him and said, "What the -- have you put. that lock on that door for?" and struck him on the mouth, got- his arm round his neck, milled him to the ground, and started kicking him. Ile sheuted fur his brother Ferns, who was in the house. Ferns came. end said " Give over kicking him. Walter." ' Defendant said, " I will --well kill you both."---F. Barker was going to work in the early morning of the ith inst. When passtug defendant's door he was hit with something that knocked him down. Then defendant jumped on the top of him and started giving him "some fist." lie shouted "murder," and Walter Barker rushed out. Defendant did not go to work that day.—The defendant said ha did not strike Walter Barker, and as for Mrs. Barker he merely gave her a push. What he did to Ferns Barker Alas in self-defence Walter Barker and his wife fame out, and the three of them got him down and beat him.—Walter Bramall was fined Li and 7s. special costs, and bound over in £5 for six months. Walter, Eveline. and Ferns Barker were bound over in -CS each for six mouths, and ordered to pay their , own costs.
Penistone, Stocksbridge and Hoyland Express, etc. — 1916-02-12 (Penistone, South Yorkshire, England)

COLLIERY FA'TAIATT.—The death of Samuel Jackson, of George street. aged 47, was investigated by the ;Coroner, Mr. P. P. Maitland, at the Barnsley Beckett Hospital, on 'Tuesday. The evidence vas to the effect that the deceased was working in the lloyland Silkstone mine with a men called Thos. Taylor at the time the accident occurred,• and while standing holding a lamp a fall occurred from the side owing to a sodden I weighting and a burst, and he was crushed I against a prop. Though medically attended. I he died in an ambulance on his way to the hospital. The witness Taylor, in his evidence, said that in his opinion nothing could ; have been done to have prevented or hays !avoided the accident. ' Accidetrtal death" was returned. Mr. A. Hayes. the colliery manager, represented the Colliery Co.—The ; funeral took place on Monday at the Ifoyland. Law burial-ground, the officiating clergyman being the Rev. T. G. Rodgers.  INTERESTING LECTr lecture on the war was given in the Inorneliffe Cricket Club Reading Room on 'ruesday, by Mr. Geo. H. Womersley, of Chapeltown. Mr J. Sharp presided. Mr. Womersley dealt with the relationship of Christianity to war in general, and then detailed at length the incidents which led up to the present csonfliet. from the murder of the Archduke of Austria to the German invasion of Luxemburg. lie showed in a clear manner from the negotiations how Great Britain and her allies s;.rove to preserve the peace of Europe. and also proved how Germany was equally determined , that the much-talked-of "day" had arrived. 'An interesting discussion followed, in which Messrs. H. G. Gradwell, C. Marsden. and J. N. Cumberbirch took part. Mr. Womersley was heartily thanked, on the proposition of Mr. Charles Kirkham, seconded by Mr. W. Marsden. CONVKit LS. In connection with Mount Pleasant Wesley Guild a successful concert was given last Thursday in aid of the Old Folks' Tea. There was an attendance of sat presided over by the Bev. IL Windrows An excellent programme had been arranged by Mr. E. Everett, assisted by Miss N. Everett, , to which the following contributed :—Miss Violet Kirkby, A.L.C.M., Miss Williams, Miss; Foster. Mrs. Wastnedgo, Mrs. Hilton Ben-1 nett. Miss R. Harrison. Miss A. Everett, Mr ; . 1.. Ellison, Mr. Raymond Kay. Mr. W. Kay, IMr. A. B. Thompson, and Mr. Tom Kay. The following young ladies took part in a tableau,' entitled "Britannia and Allies": Misses Alice Lecher, Beatrice Ellieon, Maggie North. Gladys Bennett, Annie Everett, Kate Bennett. Ethel Warburton, 'F.dith Bolton, and ' Bertha Everett. The accompaniment, were shared by Mr. A. B. Thompson and .Alr. Ellison.—On Monday a concert under the lauspices of the 130.rnsiey British Co-operative Society was given in the P.M. Schoolroom, Burn Caws. Mr. J. Canlilwell, J.P., presided, and an address was given by Mr. A. rhappell, director. The vocalist-. Miss A. Kellett and Mr. W. Crick. gate great satisfaction, .21i did Mite G. Milner tviolinist and Mr. G. Cooper Ccelloist.). Miss E. Milner accompanied at the piino. There was a large attendance.  "
Penistone, Stocksbridge and Hoyland Express, etc. — 1909-01-16 (Penistone, South Yorkshire, England)

CHAPTER VIII. IN TIIM MMST MAZUR. "Point one already gained," solilognised Strange. "is, that the body has been carted thiough this door. By whom is &natural question, but well let that watt over for the present, merely supposing, for the sake of argument. that the murderer did that part of his dirty work houself. The next thing is, had he an accomplice, did he contrive to open the door, lift the body through, and then cicse the door after him again, and get this great hulking slab of wood in place again? At first sight ,it seem. aa if the counter couldn't have ..een 'stuck up in position again, crypt from this side. But l'in a bit chary of going upon flint opinions, so, Mr trance, we'll just try a few ex, enments, and see how matters turn out for ourselves." He walked across to the shipbroker's office and stepped in. "Sold again, Mr. Strange, I'm afraid, from the look of your face," said the mg.. Can you keep. secret ? " asked Strange. "Secret? Oh, yes, half a dozen of 'em if you like." "All right Now you may tin as you like with the other five, but this secret I'm going to give you must be kept till I give the word to go. Is that 'timed?" "I'll keep a tight month." "Thanks. Then sit close and prepare for a bit of a shock. There's been a man murdered on the floor below, as perhaps you know ? " The shipbroker intimated the the Petton !case bad been thinned into his ears during the I pet week almoet to the exclusion of everything else.  "Precisely. I'm, afraid it has got • bit notorious. The thing's out of the common run, you know. Now, for instance, you did not guess- nor did ,nyone else for that matter— that the body had been carried through this very office wilere were sitting at this minute." ?" "Across that dusty Inmber-rooml" "Row do you know?" "Ind through a door in the further end there, out into the nest block of Micas. Where it went after that, I can't say at present." "I should think not. Why, man alive, you must tie dreaming. There is no door. I've been tenant here for twenty years and ought to know."  nuOiogan: ship  He returned into the garret of 103. shut connecting door, replaced the heavy mahr counter, and then went acroas to the banker's office. Well 1'  The man was fairl7 bristling with excitement. "I've i een and Ire looked, and there's no one there." "An!"  "But he's been there and cleared out."  "Able to trace hint, dye think?" "I haven't got that far yet. This is • deliberate affair, and one only gets on • single step at a tium. Now, I've only one thing to ask yon." "And that's to keep my mouth shut." "Precisely." "I'll do it, Mr. Strange, I'll do it, trust me. But you'll let me hear from time to time how you get along, won't you? I'm awfuliy interested." "I'll keep you posted," said Strange, "and many th•nks for your help so far. And awls , good-bye ,or the present."
Penistone, Stocksbridge and Hoyland Express, etc. — 1913-11-22 (Penistone, South Yorkshire, England)

HIS FARTHEST THOUGHT.  George Henry Roebuck, father of the de, ceased. repeated the evidence he gave at the I previous inquest. and appeared to be in great distress. lie said the deceased lived at home up to last Easter. when he went to live with the murdered woman as a lodger at West Melton Green. _ _ •  —,.—.—. The Coroner: Before he let. did you know he had bean keeping company with the  . - _ _ woman tiibsonF Witness: Tim. sir. Ind you try to persuade hint not to go?— Yes; both myself. his mother. and his ; younger oister... . • .  And you could not keep him? No. he would live at West Melton. Green.  Was he healthy? For anything that I know of, sir. Was he generally cheer-till and in good spirits ? Yes, until he got with yon party, and he I seemed to have got turned different altogether; and if you talked to him a little bit he got very sharp-tempered,—very nasty. And was he fairly steady as far as YOU know?  Yes, oh. yes. Be seemed US a rule fund of life. didn't Le? —Yee You never thought he would kill himself? No, it was the farthest thought in my head that he would come to what be has come to. Proceeding, the witness said that before his son left him be said, -Father. I am going to be a good lad." Witness had not.seen the deceased's body. Fred 'Taylor. 53. SC llelen's Street, Elsecar. a tramnaer. said that at five minutes to five on Tuesday morning he was proceeding to work at the Gortonwood Colliery, when he noticed some clothing in a corocr near Birks Bridge. in Tingle Bridge. lie found a jacket. waistcoat, and cap, and they were folded up and placed carefully on the ground. Witness called four men who were going to work at the time. They noticed a card on the cap bearing the words "(I. Itophuck. Bother Ilill." It was very dark at the time, added witness, and they had only two matches. Witness then drew the attention of the Hemingfield policeman to the clothing. The clothing. razor, and cigarette patlet. were produced during the inquiry. This was the whole of the evidence, and the Coroner, in summing-up, said tilt after committing the crime the deceased seemed to have di,appesied. and was not seen alive again. Then he was found on Tuesday morning in the canal. drowned. Ile the Coroner) hail always held tile opinion that when a person committed a crime and took his owit life to avoid the results of it. it Wad clearly a ease of fele de se. This was not a case of drowning whilst inaane. Ile had clearly taken hia life in order to avoid the consequences of his wicked crime. lie suggested to the jury that the only verdict they could return was one of felo de Sc. The jury returned a verdict accordingly.
Penistone, Stocksbridge and Hoyland Express, etc. — 1920-08-07 (Penistone, South Yorkshire, England)

HOVLAND VICAR ON PRESENT  EVILS.  Preaching at St. Andrew's, Hoyland, on I Sunday night, the Vicar (Rev. H. CrowtherAlwyn), whose subject vas "God's Kingdom on Earth," observed that one of its laws was forgiveness. The world was in its present parlous position because we would not forgive. We had been murdering the children of Central Europe because we would not forgive and fling wide the gates of commerce. Ireland, unhappy country, was dyed in blood because green-eyed hatred flashed everlastingly across the Irish Sea. Capital and Labour never ceased rolling up their sleeves for a scrap. There they stood on the hill of hatred, Mount Industrialism, two thieves being crucified on either side of Christ. Capital was # murderous thief. "Ca' canny!" it cried, must be sure of my dividends— ten, twenty, thirty per cent.? I must not sink my capital without being sure of a cash return. I must protest against the Kingdom of God coming unless it promises the contintance of a good rate of interest," forgetful of the fact that Under the term of usury it is condemned in the Bible. And what of Labour? Ca' canny! And the bricklayer laid hundreds of bricks less every week than hi) could comfortably lay.. And consumption was rife because of unhealthy houses which could not yet be pulled down, and adultery many a time was due to overcrowding. The ' Kingdom could not be organised into existence. There were societies to prevent every kind 'of evil, but the devil lived on merrily. Organisation was necessary, but a large congregation could be drawn by a sensational preacher in a pyjama suit. Christ believed that "love never faileth." Let them dare to make the experiment of applying it to our social and economic troubles, which would vanish away. They must not be afraid of being laughed at as visionaries if they followed the Visionary. Let Love, instead of Lloyd George,, take the chair at the conference of Nations. Put dear old Foci on halfpay! In our troubled dreams we still saw the, Germans .drinking their hellish toast: "Der Tag!" It wa4 our holy duty to drink another toast in the chalice of redemptive love: "Der Tag! To the day when the Kingdom Of God shall come." Of course, that meant that Christians must live dangerously —they would be regarded as • fanatics and traitors; they would be hated by Conservatives and reactionaries whose strongholds of privilege were threatened; they might be despised by Socialists because theirs was the' larger scheme, dealing as it .did with two worlds instead of one. The Christian movesilent bore the hall-mark of eternity: the Socialistic, the mark of time, of which the end was visible before it had been estab-s lished. The Christian must be at war with the world or deny Christ. We wanted a world, not crushed beneath Divine forces, but reconstructed by them, so .that the Creator's holy dream and eternal will might be realised: "God saw everything that Be had made and. behold, it was very good."
Penistone, Stocksbridge and Hoyland Express, etc. — 1917-07-28 (Penistone, South Yorkshire, England)

REPRISALS. '  Chapeltowa Vicar's Views.  In respect to the much-discussed question of reprisals a correspondent of the "Express'. has interviewed the Rev. W. Suttees, Clear of Chapeltown, who said he had no objeetion publicly to state his views on the subject. "Personally," he said, "I think the word reprisals is an unfortunate one and misleading in many ways. We must remember that we are at war, and not at a cricket match, and that we are struggling against the most brutal and most inhuman foe that ever lived. War consists of a series of reprisals, sword for sword, shot for shot, gas tor gas, starvation for starvation. There we 'cease, being civilised, leaving the Germans ;ts bomb open towns. If the former are aJ' lowed as civilised warfare, why should not this be resorted to by us? The head of the German nation tells his subjects to hate the English. and utters his blasphemy again and again by declaring that the 'mailed fist.' with the additional help of the Almighty, will secure him the victory.' The 'mailed fist' is put first, the Almighty added in. So that we are fighting against a man who is both a blasphemer and a murderer: and as far as numbers are concerned, greater than Herod in respect of the innocents he has caused to he slain. Reprisals have saved the lives of the French, and prevented further murders. We have adopted the word through the French, why not adopt the work? Bishop Ken, one of the holiest Men that ever lived, in his 'Divine Love,' prays: 'Make me.peacetul and reconcilable, always ready to return good for evil, to repay injuries with kindness, and easy to forgive, unless in those instances where the impunity of the criminal would be injustice and cruelty to the public.' , "What a long list of acts of injustice and cruelty the German War Lord has committed against every law. Divine and human (and specially directed against this nation, which . has now severad all connection with him and his family), simply because we have let him do as he likes and do not pay him back in the only way in which he could be prevented from shedding more innocent blood. Our hearts bleed for the poor man whose children asked him to kiso them betora he went out to his work in the morning of the London raid. When he returned he found home and children gone—done to death by the orders of the Kaiser, who gloats that bombs were ! dropped on 'the fort of London.' The Kaiser , has paved his way through hypocrisy and deceit to this height and depth of infamy., by throwing his gold dust into the eyes of 1 those who considered him a saint and a loverl of peace, while he was all the time, according: to his own confession, preparing for war. He is by far the greatest ,:•riminal that ever lived; and our airmen would be doing the ,Igreatest service to humanity if they could• .1 locate him and dislocate him on the spot." .