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Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1888-12-01 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

THE EDLINGHAM BURGLARY.  PRIM PARDON PPR BRANNAGAN AND MURPHY.  •• Mr Ml:Lying :I be to ask the Home Secretary a question, of which I have given him private notice. It is to the following effect :—Whether  rhe is aware that the two men, Richardson and lEgdell, who recently confessed to the commission of the crime of burglary at Edlingham, in the County of Northumberland, in 1879, were on Saturday convicted and sentenced Newcastle; whether be would now advise Her Majesty to grant s free pardon to the men Brennan and Murphy, released on license, who were in 1879 convicted and sentenced in respect of this offence; whether he will take into his consideration what sum of money ought to be offered to Braunagan and Murphy by the State—(hear, bear)—as some reparation for their having been made to suffer nearly ten years' penal servitude for an offence which they never committed : and whether he will take any, and, if so, chat, proceedings against the police on whose testimony Brannagan and Murphy were convicted. (Hear, hear.) Mr Dismiews : I am informed that the two mon who recently confessed to having committed the burglary in question in 1879 were on Saturday convicted and sentenced, and I shall accordingly advise Her Majesty to grant a free pardon to the men Brannegan and Murphy, who were convicted in 1879 of this offence, and have been released on license. I am now considering what recommendation I can make to the Treasury for compensation to these men. (Hear, hear.) The further question as to the police I propose to refer to the Director of Public Prosecutions. (Hear, hear.) Mr T. HEALY : Is it the fact that the two men now convicted have got only five years' penal servitude, whereas the innocent men were sentenced to penal servitude for life? Mr Bf/ern:taws : That is so. I gather that the men pleaded guilty only to burglary, and not to ' the more serious crime of shooting with intent to murder. Sir Wm. HARCOURT : I would like to ask the Home Secretary whether he will consider the propriety of instituting an enquiry into the eases which have occurred in recent years of innocent men having been wrongfully convicted. (Hear, hear.) My attention was called in former years, when I was at the Home Office, to the frequency of these cases, and I think it is very desirable that some regular enquiry should be made. (Hear, bear.) Mr Mirrusws: I shall be happy to consider the suggestion of the right hon. gentleman. Materials have been before me in a disjointed shape more then once. Mr MILVAIN : Is it a fact that frequent petitions were sent to the right bon. gentle man opposite (Sir W. Harcourt) when he was at the Home Office, and no reply was received? (Laughter.) Mr idArrimws : I am not aware of that. (Laughter.) Mr Picyolt : Would the Home Secretary advise some change in the law which will give some other mode of redress to persons wrongfully convicted than that of a pardon for an offence which they Lever committed? (Hear, hear.) ho answer was riven.
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1888-09-08 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

HORRIBLE MUTILATION OF AN  INFANT.  A mysterions mnrder was perpetrsted Birmingham tact Saturday night, an nitwit beef horribly mutilated whilst lying in its b&acr.tui in a house in Clifton-place, Asylum-road, ru mother, Ada Feredity, wife of Harry Ferediy, employed at Kynoch's Ammunition Works, left 'the child about live o'clock in the evening a charge of a boy named Alfred Forrester, a,al twelve, the woman's father, an old maa named Smith, being asleep in the same room on a ,c 4. When she returned in about half an her found that the Loy had left the house, but sister, Alice Forrester, who is ten years of was there in hid place. The girl immedu drew the mother's attention to blood which sa issuing from the basainette. Upon examivata the baby was found to be wounded, evidently by ta knife, in the right leg, and wai at once tabu to Dr. Jones's surgery, where the wound, was a very deep one, was dressed. Upon tab ing the child home and making a further se animation its left foot was discovered to a almost severed from the leg, the main entail having been cut, with the result that prabes hemorrhage had taken place. When ongirally taken to the surgeon the child was in • commas state, and on being conveyed to the Geherd Hospital died 60013 after its &mire/ A tads( kne is was found in the bassinete, but in ths opinion of the medical attendant it conld hardly have been used with such powerful effect by i mere child. The grandfather was still in bed when the murder was discovered, bet so fie nothing has been found to actually implicate hie in the tragedy. He had had his supper &rug the absence of the mother, but asserted that be knew nothing of how or by whom the wont had been inflicted. It is stated that he recent!y lost his wife, and had since given way to s. temperate drinking. The &ceased am sit months old. The mother was csl:4 and gave an account of leaving the chili at home on Saturday evening, and finding her with her legs cat. The wound upon onell only was discovered, and the child va taken to the surgery, where it •.ras dressed: sal the wound upon the other was not disc:armed until after she returned. roar persons beside herself, including neighbours saw the chid with- • out noticing that the other foot was nearly cat ul. It appeared that when the mother came bora, till little girl Alice Forrester said, "Oh, Ada, loo!ott the blood." The mother then saw blood : under the perambulator in which the child ve : and turning to the girt said, " What the ' have you been doing?" The girl imrnecnstp, left the house. as the mother went to pick up it child. She then appears to have gone to anoth. aunt, and asked her to come to the house,. Minnie had got her foot cut. The aunt ban given evidence, the enquiry was adjoarned ti Monday next. The children charged wah tht murder were not present at the inquest.
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1888-06-16 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

FATHER.  - Great public interest was aroused at Kidderminister on Thursday by the magisteral enquiry touching a charge against Thomas Wyre, a farm labourer, of murdering his son, James Wyre, aged nes years, under circumstances of the tatmoet barbarity. The'street outside the Court was thronged with people the whole day. and an angry feeling existed aeainst the prisoner, who showed a very unmoved appearance during the hearing of the case, which was one of circumstantial evidence entirely. Up to Ma-ch 3rd the prisoner, his wife, and two children lived together in Wolverley parish. That day they broke up their home, the wife agreeing to tae one child, and the prisoner the boy he is accused of murdering. A neighbour, William Roden, heard him leave his house at 5.15, and he changed the direction in which he was at first going. Roden saw him get over a hedge iu a field, whore there was no footpath. Prisoner was carrying his boy, and a conversation occurred, in which be asserted he was taking the child to his (prisoner's) mother in Kidderminster. It is ten miles to Kidderminster and back. Roden said the rrisoner was back in an hour and a-half, ahci be spoke to him about the time. Prisoner replied that he ran some of the way back. Roden and his wife subsequently saw prisoner several times, and enquiries were made about the child, to which he replied, " It is all right at my mother's in Kidderminster." This was shown to be false. The prisoner's mother was called, and stated that he did not bring her the child. It was not till the discovery of the decaying body of a boy in the well of a long untenanted country cottage that the significance of the prisoner's conduct on March ..trd was apprehended. The house where the body was found was permanently abandoned as a residence, the well was closed up with heavy timber, and it afforded, apparently, a safe place of concealment. One of the witzlesses stated that it was a house where the prisoner once lived, and he was seen in its vicinity before the body was found, and, singularly inough, had a conversation about the child, again repeating that he was in Kidderminster with his mother. By the merest chance the well at the cottage was opened by some strangers to the neighbourhood on Friday week, and a boy's body found. The police collected a strong meshwork of evidence against the prisoner. The body was decomposed too much fcr recognition, but the clothing upon it afforded remarkable proof that the body could be none other thus the prisoner's son. The police hunted over part orShropshire and Herefordshire after the prisoner, and at last found him at Alembic, on the borders of Worcester. When cla-cod with the capital offence, he was s Lit. The prosecution completed their case after a long hearing, but the Bench complied with a request for an adjournment to enable the prisoner to call witnesses. He was rem n ei till Monday.
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1888-10-13 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

THE LONDON MURDERS.  MORE ARRESTS.  ANOTHER IMITATOR OF" JACK THE RIPPER."  LATEST PARTICULARS.  The London police are still pursuing their en- I quiries into the Whitechapel atrocities, but have not yet succeeded in capturing the assassin. Several arrests have, however, been made. In one instance an army pensioner who entered a public - house in Clerkeuwell and asked the barman to sign a document relating to his pension papers, which bore the name of Conway (the same name as that of the husband of the Mitre-spare victim), was apprehended on suspicion. In another case the police have their eye on an inmate of an infirmary in the East End of London—the man having been admitted to the institution I since the perpetration of the crimes, and under I circumstances which have created suspicion. A man was arrested at Belfast on Thursday night I on suspicion of connection with the Whitechapel murders. He had in his poesession a bag containing a spring knife and three razors, one of which is stained with blood. He was' charged at Belfast Police Court yesterday with I being the Whitechapel murderer.—Constable Edward Cartand, who made the arrest, said the accused would give no further account of himself than that he was the son of a London brewer; that he had an income; end that be had been in Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Greecock. Further evidence went to show that the accused, who first gave the name of William John Foster but afterwards said it was John Foster, had in. formed the police that he was a watchmaker, but did not work at his trade. Prisoner is about thirty years of ago; wears a slight sandy I moustache; and speaks with a Cockney accent. I He was remanded for a week. He wore a white turned-down collar, on which were blood stains. ' Mrs Sodeaux, wife of a Spitalfields weaver, living in Hanbury- street, London, near the scene of the murder of Annie Chapman, was found miTeuralay to have hanged herself to the Mumisters of her house. She had been much excited aid affected by the circumstances attending the murder. The deputy of the Bee Hive Lodging-house, in Brick-lane, London, on Thursday informed the police of the peculiar behaviour of a lodger named Andrew, known about Spitalfields as " Parnell." Enquiries were instituted, and "Parnell" was requested to give an account of himself. If his statements be proved correct he will probably be soon released. The people at the lodging-house state that he did not sleep there on the nights of the Hanbury-street and Mitre square murders. The police attach a great deal of importance to the spelling of the word " Jews " iu the writing ou the wall at the spot where Cho Mitre - square murderer threw away a portion of the murdered woman's apron. The language of the Jews in the h,sist End is a I hybrid dialect known as Yiddish, and their mode of spelling the word "Jews" would be “Juwese" This the police consider s stroll?, indication that Ithe crime was committed by one of the numerous foreigners by whom the East End is infested.
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1888-10-13 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

MURDERER TRACKED BY BLOODHOUNDS.  The suggestion that bloodhounds should be used to track the Whitechapel murderer recalls to the mind of J. B. Smedley, of Alford, Lincolnshire, acase in which to his own Personal knowledge, a dog marked a murderer down. A young farmer was discovered. one Snnday morning early, with his throat cut, his face horribly gashed, and his body pushed ender the hedge of a bye.rosed leading from li— I,— to the adjoining village, where he resided. While examining the body, and listening to many conjectures respecting tne murderer', design. and tracing him. I suggested to the Coroner that my bloodhound Herod should be fetched to try his supposed instinct for tracking down a blood trail. My groom was there, and went for the hound, bringing him in a leaah. He sniffed around the face and the ground saturated with blood. I then encouraged him to find a scent. He leaped over the hedge adjoining the lane into a large pasture, and worked steadily towards a gate leading to a eimilat field. He rose to the top rail of that gate, and again sniffing it over, he bounded across it, and went more rapidly and direct to another gate, which opened into the high road. He took the road, at the same pace, for about a quarter of a mile, and then halted and "cast back" perhaps a minute. He returned to the former Scent, and, picking it up, he immediately leaped over a hand-gate into private path through a shrubbery leading to a large hone known as the Manor House, which, with a large farm, was occupied by a widow lady and a younger son. The hound had reached the side entrance, and was there still holding up to an apparent scene when there, hini away by the collar, convinced he was misleading us, which was the opinion of the Coroner. But Herod was right, and we were mistaken, for that younger Boa was the murderer of Mr C—. He was tried, condemned, said paid the penalty with his life. Mr Williams Buchanan, writing to the Times with reference to the employment of bloodhounds in tracking murderers, mentions the following incident:—ln 1861 or 1862 (my memory does not enable me to give a more exact date) I was in Dieppe, when a little boy was found doubled up in a horse-hin with his throat cut from ear to car. A couple of bloodhounds were at once put on to the scent. Away they dashed after, for a moment or two, sniffing the ground, hundreds of people, including the keeper and myself. following in their wake; nor did the highly-trained anima,s slacken their pace in the least till they arrived at the other end of the town, when they made a dead stop at the door of a low lodging. house, and, throwiug up their noble heads, gave a deep bay On the place being eutered, the milprit—an old woman—was discovered hiding under a bed. Let ma add that the instinct of a bloodhound, when properly trained for tracking by scent, is so marvellous that no one can say positively what difficulties in following • trail it cannot surmount.
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1888-08-11 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

IMY ORNITHOLOGICAL SOCIETY.—The ti exhibition was held on Thursday in St. IS Rill. The number of entries showed dud falling off As compared with that of last , and probably the Society will see their way • the time of the year of holding futnre exme. Some of the birds shown were remark. for their beauty, others were indifferent in !reed and colour. In the open classes "viral prize takers were Messrs Eaton and .1, J. Young, W. Marlborough, Dr. B. F. Edmonds, E. W. Frankland, itt T. Young, Mrs A. Wade, T. Haw, fagill, R. Balmer, F. Hutchinson. T. E. Rarstow, W. Dodsworrh, J. ThomRail. N. Frankland, and H. Brown. other classes were purely local, and conk) members. There was also an Indusexhihition. the first prize.takers being A. B. Lea, Miss Sarah Carter, Miss Shaw, Miss E. Dickinson, and Miss N. W. G. Barker took first prize for best riting by boys, and the first for girls was by M. McKenzie, a scholar in the Whitby The judges were :—For cage birds and ;Piga Mr J. Bezton, Derby : industrial ,rns J. C. Simpson, Mrs T. Tinley, and lirrbull; handwriting. Messrs H. Hallgate Stonehouse.  liszam Mings."—Under this title Mr v Hume, a youthful writer who has if bccome famous by the "Mystery of a oTS Cab," again solicits attention at the sf the generous public. His Bret. story 'lithe public taste so well that there is very wonder that be should endeavour to repeat i:Pcrinieut. His second venture is equally , i..al fully as sensational. It is in two au, the first of which is located In and the second in Melbourne. the latter we come incidentally tostact with some of the characshe figured prominently in the 143,Y —a.., for instance, the lawyer Calton, IChinitou, and the detective Bilsip. There leshuess about the story, however. which, _ nth it is built on similar hues, mazes is ether distinct. Madam Midas hereon is a ,ste, having in her teens married a gaspen to run through her fortune, pulls up before Isis late, and renounces him before he has !ed. the money settled on herself slope. ,thistuoney she invests in a gold mine with value Lame, which eventually turns sell, and makeg her rich beyond I' ill the meantime, she enher secretary one M. Vandelottp, 155 himself off saagentleman in reduced ine.ces, but who is known to the reader 41e. outset as an escaped convict from the ,seitlement of New Caledonia. Thus man out to be aflutter scoundrel, robs his mis!educes an innocent and confiding damsel. te a sitirder or two, and gambles success[ii tho share market OA well as at ecart.e not prepared to trace his history, for we %at our readers should do that for them'; but we may say that his dupes and their It trial him make up a charming but Sen. ll story, quite as full of startling incidents t which followed the murder of the late 4 Oliver Whyte. The book is published llansom Cab"*"..'ublishing Company at a 1 p rule,  coul, who. it h, io 114
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1888-01-14 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

ALLEGED SHOCKING CHILD  MURDER.  A well-dressed, ladylike-looking girl, describ3d as a shop assistant, and who said her name was Maxwell Res, was charged at Marleybone Police Court last Saturday with causing the death of her newly-barn male child on the 29th of November, at 20, Montpelier-road, Kentish-town—Elizabeth Fitch, a servant, who was employed at 22, Montpelier-road, said that on the 30th November, in the morning, she was in the back garden, when her mistress called her attention to someth iug lying on the ground. On lookin at it she found that it was the head of a child, lying on some ashes, the remains of Guy Fawkes' Day bonfire. She at once fetched a policeman.—ln ansiVer to the magistrate the witness said that there was nothing round the head. It was not wrapped up in anything—Police-constable William Dennuigton, 149 Y, stated that on Wednesday, the 30th of November, he was called by the previous witness to 22, Montpelier-road, and in the back garden ha found the head of a child in about the centre. On making a further examination he found a. leg lying near the wall parting the premises from IN O. '23, and another leg on the gravel path. At the top of the garden he picked up two arms. In the garden of an empty house which adjoined the promises he found the trunk of a child's body—Mrs Sarah Osborne, living at 20, Montpelier-road, a widow, stated that she bad known the prisoner for four years, and she used occasionally to call on her. She lived in the Holloway-road. Sometimes the prisoner stopped at her house for the night. On Tuesday, November 29, she came to the house-, and, complaining of a bilious attack, witness allowed her to rest all night on a sofa. At ten o'clock the next morning witness entered the room and found the prisoner lying insensible on the floor. She continued unconscious for two or three days, and was at the end of a fortnight removed to the Infirmary.—Mr Holland Wright, surgeon, of 2, Ospringe-road, Kentish Town, deposed that he was called to 20, Montpelier-roaa. The prisoner was unconscious, and subsequently hal a series of fits of an epileptic form. From an examination he connected her with the discovery of the remains in the garden. The body was dismembered into, he believed, eight parts. It bad . been hacked to pieces. The knife produced (an ordinary table knife) had been handed to him to see if there were blood marks on it, and he had found there were. Cross- ' examined, the witness sail that the prisoner's . mind was a perfect blank as to what had taken ; place. She was suffering from puerperal insanity. She would commence on other subjects. ! but appeared to have forgotten everything in reference to the birth of the child. A woman suffering from this did not know. what she was doing.—At this point Mt Hannay ordered a remand, and gave directions that the prisoner should be taken to the House of Detention in a cab.
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1888-01-14 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

CONFESSION OF MURDER AT  RICHMOND.  A man named Alfred Carter bas given himself up to the police at Richmond, and accused himself of murdering a companion, who was on tramp with him, near Barnsley. He said that in August last he met a mate in Derby, named William Hawkins, a man 28 years of age, 5 feet 7 inches high, with fair complexion, and sandy hair slid moustache. They went on tramp togather. On the morning of the 23rd December they left Barnsley, and about ten minutes past ten in the forenoon they reached a place near Layton West, six or seven miles from Barnsley. They were standing near a gate m a lonely part of the road, when a quarrel arose between them. Hawkins struck him, and in hie passion he (Carter) drew a large clasp knife and stabbed his mate under his breast bone, killing him instantly. He then dragged the body through .the gate into a field, and, alter depositing it in a ditch, covered it over with leaves, though not before he had placed the knife beside the body. Superintendent Graham wrote out the statement, read it over to Carter, who said It was quite true, and signed it. The Superintendent then communicated with the Banialey police, and handed the prisoner over to them at York last Saturday afternoon. On Monday afternoon, just before the rising of the Barnsley Police Court, Superintendent Kane, addressing the sitting Magistrates, said he wished to call the attention of the Bench to the fact that on Saturday he received information from the head constable at Richmond stating that a man named Alfred Carter had given himself up there and confessed to murdering a man named William Hawkins at Clayton West, near Barnsley. He sent an officer to York, and having I received the prisomer into his custody he removed I him to Barnsley. He was taken to the detective room at the Westgate Police Station, where he conversed in a rational way, and confirmed the confession he had made at Richmond. He was then locked up, and was told that next morning he would be taken along the road to Clayton West. Carter slept well and ate a hearty breakfast. About nine o'clock in the morning he was . taken into the passage, when he became strange in his demeanour, saying dogs were running about the place. He then made a violent assault on himself, P.C. Day, Inspector Burkinshaw, and P.C. Carr, several of whom he bit. Dr. Blackburn was sent for, and after examining him ordered him to be sent to the padded room at the Union Workhouse, Barnsley, where he still remains.—ln answer to Mr Dyson, who asked if there were any circumstances or events which had occurred at all analogous to his story, Superintendent Kane said there was not, and they could not believe a word Carter had said, but they were searching the district from Maxborough to Clayton West. He could not say on what day Carter would be fit to appear before the Magistrates.—Carter was again brought up at Barnsley Police Court on Wednesday and further remanded for the attendance of Mr Birkinshaw, who was the most violently assaulted.