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The Poole Telegram. — 1883-01-26 (Poole, Dorset, England)

DOUBLE EXECUTION AT TRALEE.  Silvester Poff and Thomas Barrett, the two men convicted at the last Cork slams of the murder of a farmer named Thomas Browne, at Castleisland, ors October 3rd, in broad daylight wet° on Tuesday morning. executed In Tralee gaol. Browne was a husbandman ix good reputi, who held farm at Dromultan, near Ceetleiatand, under Mr. Robert Fitageraid. Oa the data in questioa lie wit, working in a field near his house when two men, tubsequently identifild as the now executed criminals, went up to him, and, apparently without any warning, shot him dead. A boy named O'Ocemor witnessed the occurrence. which took place in the afternoon, in a neighbourhood where many peraons were passiug to and fro. Both men were tried at (Jork A114i30 last mouth, before Mr. Justice Barry, and after having been twice tried, tue Jury in the first trial haviug diaagreed. they were convieted and sentenced to death. Marwooil, the executioner, arrived at Tralee on Thursday last, and at once directed the erection of the scaffold, which was built by wo. kmen from Dublin, no local men being obtainable for the purpose. It was outdated in the east angle of the gaol yard, and was a substantial structure of about 12lt. high. the two wretched men did not lows a very rest:el night, Betrett rising about six o'clock, and Pelf threequarters of an hour alter him Ne,t ler took any breakfast or any refresnments, but at seven o'clock they were waited upon by the it.fV. Father Riordan, who administered tile sacrament to them and celebrated mMe in the chapel of the hospit .1. The culprits were conducted into the presence at Marwood a few minutes bet ore eight o'clock. Weilst they were being pinioned, Poll cried out, "I declare before my God that I aiu innocent of this murder. I never murdered Brown, or took any port in it, but I forgive teem that have sworn against me." Barrett made • similar statemen., declaring that he neither murdered Bro ma nor took part in any outrages. After the process of pinioning had been compieted, the culprits, each accompanied by a warder and preceded by the sulreheriff and the sub-governor of toe gaol and the chaplain, walked from the cell in the hospital, weer., they had been pinioned, to the scaffold, a distance uf about eighteen paces. Hach Luau was attentive to ihi exhortations of the priest, and lervently repeated the responses to the sortie for the dead as read by the Rev. Patter Riordan. They mounted the steps ot toe scationt unassisted, and took their places on the drop without making any further observations. Marwood Quickly accomplished the, final eparations ot airapping um legs of the calprita, and at live minutes past eight the bait was drawn, *hen toe MAI appeared to die iuetantaneoualy. The Mack flag was immediately his ad on the wall or an out-building in the yard. The wif a of the man Puff was near the gaol when the black flag wai run up. After the bodies bad remained hanging for an hour tney were cut down, add tne customary inquest was held.
The Poole Telegram. — 1880-11-12 (Poole, Dorset, England)

CHILD MURDER AT SPAXTON.  An incpiest was held on Thursday by Mr. Munckton, district coroner, on the body of a female infant child, who was found buried in a garden adjoining the premises of James Day, occupied by himself and daughter, Rhoda Day, aged 25, at Merridge, near the Travellers' Somerset. Two women, named 'Waygood and Southwood, deposed to having visit-2d the premi<es and seen a quantity of blood on the ceiling and 11 )or of a downstair room. They rave information to the police, and P.G.'s Hunt and Everley visited the premises, and on dizging up the garden they saw about si:t inches below the surface the body of a child with a piece of rag tied s, tightly roundita neck that Dr. Axford (who made the .poht-morteue examination) stated it made an impression half an inch deep. The body was wrapped up in a hag and a portion of a skirt. On Rhoda Day being apprehended she admitted that the child was hev, and on subr=equently being removed to T ‘nnton gaol she remarked to P.C. Hunt, "I have no one to blame : I done the died, and I hope I shan't have the rope for it." Dr. Axford Wed that the hody was that of a fiilly-develop-d and healthy child. The longs were fully inflated, and the hesrt and separate rrrtions of the lungs floated in water. He was of opinion that the child had lived several hours. The undoubted cause of death was strangnlation. It was stated by the policeman that. though James Day, the father (a widower of about 50 years of age), and Rhoda Day, ha da,ughter. occupied the premises. there was hut one bedroom, without a Partition, a condition of things which Superintendent Jeffs remarked was perfectly revolting. The foreman of the jury (Be'.. A. J. Bowen) and other jurymen concurred, and the corcep-r. vrh., added that the premiss were in a wretched condition, suggested that the matter should he at once brought under the attention of tho Sanitary Authority. The jury returned a verdict of "Wilful murder" against Rhoda Diy, who is under remand on the charge of concealment of birth.  T nrcl Cloncurry, who ha- ree.eived warning from the police authorities that his life is in danger, ig one of the most i nProYing landlords in Ireland. On his fine Proverty in Kildare he introduced high farming; employs n larm amount of ahour keons an iminen-e herd of stock w ich he feeds hi.,h (his bill for food last year ATV minted to betw(en £3OOO and £4000), and yet he considered as a wortty victim by the followers of the Land Learzne.  _ The Vat-quis rf "raterford, %Ole +mends the greater part of the year .4) his Irialt e4tate,,, noticing agn that if he attended a oertain idiom he would not leave it alive He went triers', and happily the foul threat, turned out to be merely a cowardly device to intimidate and Lord Wa'erforel regultirly honta his pack of hounds, as he has done fro- yearp,.svidh. this differen,e, that instead of e trrvinz a flaQk and sandivioh-eaae, the pouches e big saddle are giv wi up to six-chamber revolvers. one being carried on either Oicife:
The Poole Telegram. — 1884-01-04 (Poole, Dorset, England)

SHOCKING MURDER AT SOUTHWARK.  About four o'clock on Fri lay afternoon a waterside labourer, named Robert Plimpton, &eel 49. livingat Bankside, Southwark, stabbed his wife with a pocketknife under t e left ear, inflicting so terrible a wound that death ensued in about an hour and a half afterwards. It appears that Plumpton and his wife and one child have been residing in a street of small houses at Banksiis known SS Princess-place, and occupied one room on Vie first floor at No. 4. The deceased woman, Emily Maria Plumpton, who was rather younger than her husband, IS stated to have been a cousturit tipper and spending a good deal of money in drink, with the result that she sod her husband had not been on the best of terms. On Friday afternoon Plumpton and a nephew, named Coot, went to the house together about half-past three, what they found that the deceased WaMBU was away from home. In about a quarter of an hour she came in, 5.,0 Plimpton asked her to gat him some tea, ts which she replied that he must wait. Angry words foilowed, and ne then asked her what had bee Anis of the blankets t rom tie bed in the room, and she said she had pawned them. This further incensed Plimpton, woo then asked her what she had done with the 10r, he ha 1 stivsn her on the previous day, t which she sharply reissued taat she had spent the in may. He then made • rush t strike her. and a rrtruggle ensued, during whirl) the deceived woman shoute I to her nephew, who was then trying to separate them, "Oh, Geode, I am done for; he has done for me C colt then caught sight of an open pocket-knife in Plum ptoo's hand, and saw blood gushing from a wound near the e.r in deceased's neck. Soo rushed out a the room, downstairs, into the street, and he followed, P.umptsn remaining in tie room, and on reaching the door Cook say her lying on the stories in front of a neighbour's door. He ran off t find a docto-, attraoteol by the woman's cries. A barrow was obtained, and she was at once taken to Gay's Hospital. The ss.b was found to be most serious, and death ensued short before six p.m. Meanwhile, Police-constable Henry Roberts, 119 M. was fetched by one of the women residing in the house, mil on entering the room, which was and while he was gone a crowd of Vas nei.hb3urs collected, bespattered with blool, he inane' Plumpton lying the floor beside the bad, which was also on the It or, ael It dazed with drink. Ha got up, and remarked that he had always acted I,ke a roan, and, producint the knife from his Pocket. said he had committed the act with that Instrument. He further added that his wife ought to have been dead long ago.  Wide bill this 4 Best this I  All Cocoa Mout( Kinds and V irgii weed: RLFF  tN ii Gil im , mi  L .E 69 Lad CH CA To, P. F .1
The Poole Telegram. — 1884-01-11 (Poole, Dorset, England)

TIM MURDER OF CAREY.  --CONFESSION OF THE MURDERER. This week's United Ireland. of which Mr Perm.We henchman, Mr. William O'Brian, M P., is the editor, contains an accouut of the tr .gedy on board the Melrose Castle tram the pen of a gentleman who received the Ft etement from O'Donnell. It was not to be told so long as the shadow of a chance remained to save O'Donnell's life from the Lallowe. It appears Cone this statement that O'Donnell did &tither et ely kill Carey, and because he was James Carey. There was no struegle. Carey made no attack on O'Donnell, and O'Donnell never set up the plea of self-defen n. Red Judge Denman permit ,ed him to speak before preuouucing the materna, O'Donnell would then have tild the while truth and vindicated himself. His denunciation of the BaAish Coeern while the officere of the court drvgg d him from the dock was not the fury of a cewer d, but the frenzy of a baffled and h meet man, who, having del berately done whet he considered a duty, tat been compelled ttgetn,t his will to ocmoy en ignoble attitude. O'Donnell did net know Carey on the voyage trim Eagland tithe Cape. Ile was not a member of any society. He was going to Australia with no definite alio. lie could not read or write, hut he knew of Corny. He had no suspicion, howevers that the man aith whom he had played cards and drank an occssieua' glass of beer was the informer. He, however, recognised nitn by a woodcut which he saw at Capetewn, and in-t ently resolved to kill Ceres,. and On the imp use of the moment he a sit to Cubitt '4 I'll lull him." From the moment he formed his purpose he never wavered in it. OD moult determined to ship with him to Port E iz aberh. go with him to the farm Carey had told him he was going to take, and than without cohce slm, nt of purpose or incrive sh,,w th-t there WAR no spot on which an Irish iuf errner wo Id be safe. Finding himself suddenly alone with Carey anal his travelling companion, he could not resist tee desire to kill hint at once. Ceres., with lightning quickness, perceived his danger. Tue two men glowered at each other. Cir.:), hissed. "Di you knew O'Donnel hissed back "I do; you are Carey. the informer. To hell with you." The bollet sped with the words, and the deed was done. Carey clu died his own revolver, but it was too late. O'Donnell discharged a second shot and a third to make sure or his work, aud Carey rolled to the deck. No one saw the encounter except O'Donnell's companion, who threw her sr as aroun I him and filled the ship with her cries, lie told her that morning his determination t 3 kill Carey, and that he should he hanged for it. When Mrs. Carey reaehed the scene O'D Antal said t her, "1 had to do it." The at ticle further states that 0 Donnell's counsel was responsible for the theory advanced at the tria', and that Mrs. Carey an,l her eon's writing to Carey's brother in Dublin gave a wholly different account of the 'air from that which they gave at the trial. _  -*
The Glasgow Chronicle. — 1849-11-14 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

EXECUTION OE.THE MANNINGS. As early aa 8 o'clock on Monday night, the neighbourprison vas (*piety crovrtled by persons who . . - for the night to ' morn ot authorities I had been discharged. They siini of the inspector' and as i be require' he claimed their restoration. Mr. Seeker—But you can On Friday afternoon a Roman Catholic prelate are instruments used iTaunton had interviews with both prisoners. He ha. known them wallet living at that place, and hearing of one Mrs. Manning's Mubborn conduct, he felt an anxiety to dec. _ .r that It 6 see her, and endeavoured to soften her heart. She paid no Pledged them; theretore I have a of .ler.o,Swecaskerth—o runs itsueoLeiriyuroeuamson.ttot..... attention to his remarks and was rather rough in her man- ttrtuhmereen ner towards him. The Rev. Gentleman afterwards visited In fact, the male convict had acknowledgedait4lstei. the male convict, who !teemed pleased to see him, , fused any religious consolation at his hands. On Monday last the female convict drew up a memorial • to the Queen, imploring her Majesty to save her from the Mr. Seeker.scaffold, and reiterated her innocence of O'Cminor's death, one of them had used to This memorial she enclosed in a letter addressed to the theyybleiecromuegtohe foroopoeur‘t ot of part Duchess of Sutherland, in which her Grace was asked to Mr. kdarne.—g But lay it before the Queen. The letter was duly posted, it ap- money upon ' pears, but being unpaid, was rejected on presentation at them h gm tt L. h ha hbaaevek Btefford House, and yesterday (Saturday) morning, it was Mr. Seeker.—l opened in due course at the Dead Letter Office in St. Mar- is in the hands e tin's le-Grand. The wretched woman, impatient of a reply, wTish for the • had written on Friday to Sir George Grey requesting his re had intercession. piso Among the foremost to take steps to appeal for mercy for Manning, slid who are deeply impressed with the belief miAhrt that Manning was only accessory to the murder, we mention the benevolent family of the Gurneys, the bankers of Lombard Street; Mr. Sudlow of the eminent legal firm of Sudlow. Storr, and Cory of Bedford Row; and Mr. geant Wilkins, who have been unremitting in their tions to save the unhappy convict, (From tAs Thew of Monday.) The whole space in front of Horsemonger Lane Gaol ha for the last two days bee* crowded with people drawn thither to view the scene of the approaching execution, and probably that each person might decide beforehand upon the position which he or she should occupy on Tuesday morning. All the windows in the neighbourhood whence I a view of the execution can be obtained havebeen let at prio of one guinea and two tops will algal—  1 commit murder. Mr. Adams.—Bat _......a hat made a I . in a legal way, consequintlyi.thought your • 'el" order inspector Yates to restore them, e exer them to him to examine. There is no  . by , —The. were the actual pistols, a.. 1p on the I,lth of August. It has were purchased,. therefore it " ...rown has a right to detain th,-Mr. Adams.—l shall take the Treasury immediately.
Glasgow Courier. — 1855-09-29 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

HORRIBLE MURDER IN AMERICA.  The following account of a horrible murder committed by a boy on his father, mother, and brother, appears in the American papers received by the last packet :  Sterling, Cayuga Co, tug. 30. Our usnally peaceful town was thrown into a state of terrible excitement this morning, by the perpetration of a deed which strikes a chill of horror to every heart. A boy, the name of John Fitzgerald, with the deliberation of a fiend, put an end to the lives of his father, mother, and youngest brother. The family had retired to rest, with the exception of the criminal, who had been quarrelling with his parents, and had refused to go to lied, but lay down on the floor in the kitchen. Towards morning he arose and took an axe, went into the room of his parents, where at one blow he nearly severed the head of his father from his body. Ile then attacked his mother, who raised her head, and after four or five blows, any one of which seemed enough to accomplish his object, he succeeded in killing her. Ile then went into the next room, where his brother James, a boy of fourteen or fifteen years old, lay sleeping on a lounge. Ile struck the boy on the face with the axe, making a fearful grifh, and breaking his jaw bone; with another effort he cut higher lip into the cheek of the child. By this time the remaining brother, Patrick Fitzgerald, was awakened, he supposes by the falling of James trots the lounge. He hastened out of the recess iu which he slept (for it was in the same room), and was met by John, who pointed to his parent's chamber and said, 'There is a roan in there.'  Patrick saw his brother James on the floor weltering in his blood, and wild with fright he flew to the door and made his escape, and alarmed the neighbours. James O'Neal was the first man to reach the scene of the horrid butchery. The boy was still living. He had struggled around the room, had been to his mother's bedside, and sensed to recognise O'Neal, and cried, "Take me awar take me to your house.' He literally bled to death'. The neighbours gathered in, and, overwhelmed with horror, they gazed on the fearful spectacle the now senseless and dying boy, with his clothes completely drenched in blood, while the same fearful colour dyed the floor over which he had walked in his agony, and the dead parents in each other's arms in that bed now soaked in their own gore. And there stood the murderer—a fine !oohing boy of between seventeen and eighteen years. Ile expressed some concern, but the impression of his guilt was too strong with that awe-stricken crowd for him to excite any sympatthy. During the whole day, till the arrival of the coroner in the evening, the greatest confusion prevailed ; people were pouring in front all parts of the country. The unhappy boy has confessed his crime, hut wishes to implicate others—their names not given publicly we will await the result of the esamination.  !elfttns
Glasgow Courier. — 1859-04-23 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

FARM. Smut. Itirtuair. Ist. 24. lat. 9d. S. D. IL D. S. D. O. D. 61&8109 tu Mow A Romineati 110 1 4 3 1 2 7 „ Heed of Goreleoh, ko. 2 3 1 9 3 II $ 3 -About 1641. ,or bit Jane, Additiosal fitemases es the Ganda& and Lahloa.ond will run in amaseties with Up_and Down Trains. For further informatioe relative to Train, 81sansen.„ Fares, Season Taken., ke., we Time-Tables teak. BY i cileitow, April 18% 104  1 Ottilint on S. The Emperor Napoleon on Wednesday completed his 51st year. A Belgian paper states that the Emperor of Austria and the Prince Regent of Prussia will shortly have an interview at Teschen, on the frontiers of Bohemia and Saxony. The Marquis D'Azeglio, on a special mission from Sardinia, had an interview with her Majesty on Wednesday. The following anecdote appears in the French newspapers. A General having taken an opportunity of expressing to the Emperor a hope that he might be employed in the coming campaign, his Majesty replied—" Never fear, General, if war breaks out there will be commands for everybody— even for me." His Majesty the Emperor of the French has presented Mr Henry Bradbury with a magnificent gold snuff-box, surmounted by the Imperial crown and cypher in brilliants. The announcement of the death of M. de Tocquevilla, which has been prematurely advanced, is unfortunately confirmed by the Debats of Monday as having taken place on Saturday at Cannes. He was 53 years of age. Horace Vernet is going to be marriqd at the age of sixty-seven. The banns are now placarded at the mayoralty of the 10th arrondissement, in the Rue de GreneLle' Paris. The illustrious painter has gained. the heart of a widow, Madame Marie Amelia Fuller, whose first husband was M. de Bois Rioheux. General Ulloa, who took a share in the defence of Venice in 1849, has just arrived at Turin from Paris. La France Centrals is permitted to announce that in case of a war the staff of the army will be corn. posed as follows Emperor, Commander-inChief ; General Canrobert, Major-General; General Neill, General de Service; General Lebouif, Commissioner of the Artillery; General de Martinbrey, Chief of the Staff. The &uprose of Russia has presented several ornaments of the value of 10,000 florins to the church of Ingenheim, in Grand Ducal Hesse, which her Majesty's brother, Prince Alexander, has just caused to be repaired. Ina villa in that village the Empress passed part of her youth with her mother the Grand Duchess of Hesse.  raritti "In Cork," says O'Connell, "I remembers supernumerary crier, who had been put in the plaoe of an I invalid, trying to disperse the crowd by xolaiming with a stentorian voice, "All you blackguards that Isn't lawyers hive the court entirely, or make ye, by the powers." I saw a murder oase tried in Louisville, where the barrister had his quid of tobacco, and the judge had a quaff from a great white jug—not from tumbler, glass, or any stioh thing, but from the jug itself, held aloft with two hands before the court.  _ 81415 WATS' air GLASGOW aim 411311130CUL. I I GLAoliow. Ostaisnoint„
Glasgow Courier. — 1854-07-29 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

TRE MINISTRY DIVIDED AGAINST ITSELF.  ( Fromm the Daily News of Thursday.)  A curious steno took place in the Home of Commons bat night on the debate on the Russian Securities Rill. The principle involved in this bill is the old.fashioned English doctrine that, if you are at war with an enemy, it is just as criminal to augment his resources with your money as to assist him with your arm. It makes very little difference whether you hire troops and lend the., to Russia or lend Russia the money to pay them with. Mammon does not see Ibis, or will not eets it. Mammon does not care how the money comes so that it does come. Mamma does not care whether bis guineas come to him (severed with ordure or reeking with blood. Maoism holds with Vespasian, that money, however pro'need, cannot stink in the nostrils. A guinea is a guinea in Mammon's ere, and let it be as black as a murderer's consciences, Mammon will find means to polish it. Thus Mammon in the House of Commons knows no difference—except that shown by the various rates of interest—between money lent to the Queen for !he purpose of punishing the Czar and money lent to the Czar for the purpose of enabling him to shoot the subjects of the Queen, and Mammon very naturally voted for the sale of Russian securities. rn the great money market Mammon says, 'LetQuean Victoria and the Czar stand upon an equal footing.'' Ills gratifyinr, to find that Mammon has it not all his own way in the House of CQlllllOO‘. He and his Russian friends could do not hing against thetssghteous English feeling actuating most of its members. During the debate on the subject, Mr. Wilson, one of the Secretaries of the Treasury, expressed opinions adverse to tbe provisions of the bill. Lord Palmerston, who took dm proper common-sense English view of the question, in the course of his observations, remarked that the statements of the Secretary to the Treasury were 'sheer nonsense.' This is • curious way of backing your friends. Something still stranger took place. A division took place, when Lord Palmerston and Mr. Wilson were the two tellers on opposite sides. The noble Home Secretary was anti•Rulsian, the Secretary for the Treasury was for free trade in Katrina promises to pay. After, the division atten'es was called to the fact that an honourable mem'Kr W. Molesworth, who was lathe House before, , the lobby when the division was taking place, 1 from voting. Here is the Home ring the Secretary of the Treasury, dent of the Board of Works trying to responsibility of • rote. This was not  the termination of the Comedy of Errors. After the division for reporting progress Sir V. Shelly, one of the tellers, reported that Mr. Lowe, the Secretary, to the Board of Control, who was in the House when the division was called, had 'bolted up stairs,' and abstained from Noting. Are scenes like these calculated to give confidence to the country in the Coalition Ministry?