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The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1886-02-20 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

LIGHT-KEEPER'S STORY.  A startling story comes from Morgan City, Louisiana, and is told by Third Assistant-Keeper Leach, of the Ship Shoal Station Lighthouse, on the Gulf of Maim He says: "I was third- and Mr. Dunn was principal keeper of the lighthouse. We had started the first and second assistant-keepers up the Atchafalaya bayou for provisions. They didn't come back, and after waiting five days for their return —the distance was only about 50 miles—we concluded that something serious had happened to them. The morning of the fifth day, while we were staring outside, we noticed a boat becalmed to the southward, and on examination we came to the conclusion that it was the missing boat belonging to our station. So I took the dingy and pulled out to her. On getting alongside I found in her only one man, and he was a stranger. I asked him where he was going with our boat. He said he had bought her of three men near Morgan City for 100 dole. I told him our first and second assistant-keepers had gone up the bay in her; and we hadn't seen them since, and that I proposed to take him to the station. He made no resistance. For three days we fed and watched him, hearing nothing from the missing keepers. The fourth night Dann was in the watuliroom and I lay asleep below in my own room. I was awakened by a terrible pain in my head and found myself bleeding and the stranger standing over me with a hatchet, giving it to me as fast as he could. I yelled ' Murder ! 'jumped up, called to Dunn to come down and help, and bad no sooner got the words out of my mouth than the stranger out with a revolver and began firing. Three balls struck me and I fell in a faint. Dunn in the meantime had hurried down and armed himself, but when he got to the foot of the stairway all was quiet and dark in my room and he could not hear anything. He crept cautiously into the small room where the small lamps were kept and past a skylight that caught the gleam of the big lantern. The stranger was watching for hifi and banged at him through my window, hitting him in the right shoulder. Dunn fired back into the darkness in the direction of the flash and the stranger shot him twice more, again in the right shoulder and in the right side. Dunn- fell over, but got up at once, and just then I came to and called him. We heard nothing more otg the stranger for some minutes, and then discovered that he had gone aloft into the watch-room. We barricaded the stairway, covered the skylight, and then turned to estimate damages. I was ready to faint again from loss of blood. Half my face was gone, just as ydu see it, and I had three pistol wounds. Poor Dunn was 'leering principally from the two bullet wounds in his shoulder. Each of us had to use one left hand in binding up as best we could each other's wounds. The next day we took our prisoner to Morgan City, and he is now in gaol.'  'Why didn't you come when I ran?" said Texas lady to her domestic. "Because I didn't he'ah de bell." Hereafter when you don't bear the bell you must come and tell me se "Yes. mum."
The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1887-12-17 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

NOW- could be the matter with him. It was fancy, doubtless, but a strange fancy had seized him while he was standing at the altar. In a remote corner of the church, half screened by a pillar, he had seen first Mr. Stone, and then the face of his dead cousin, as he had seen it in the wood on that dreadful night, which he never should forget as long as he live I. It was only a delusion born of the shadowy corner and the lights falling athwart the pillar—for the pales was empty when he looked again—but it had been very real to him for a minute or two, and he felt as he had done on that ghastly night, SS if he must shriek out his guilty secret to all the world, and proclaim himself a murderer! He must go; that was all his thought, and Phyllis obeyed him, as she would have done no matter 'what he bade her do. So they drove straight to the station and caught a train that was just starting southwards, and so eluded Mr. Stone, who had really been in the church, and was waiting for them at the hotel to which they were going. Horace Gayford had actually seen him, and the association of ideas had caused the rest of hie disquiet. I am nicely sold,' he said, as a porter came from . the railway station instead of the newly-married pair, and fetched the luggage away. 'But I shall find them again. I can relieve Mr. Jarvis's mind about his daughter, at any rate. She is his wife now, and properly and legally married too. I don't think I quits understand his motives. He does not love that poor child—not the tiniest bit. It's a tangled skein ; it will unwind itself some day, I suppose, and we shall know.' The telegram that presently went flashing along the wire to Campsie House brought some little comfort with it to Mr. and Mrs. Jarvis. They would almost as soon have seen Phyllis in her grave as Horace Gayford's wife; but under the circumstances it was a relief to know that she was his wife, and not betrayed and abandoned, as they had feared might be the next news for them. 'Stone had found them,' the lawyer said to his wife, putting the telegram into her hand when he returned from London after a day's hard work at the office. I thought he would not fail to trace them.' Found them; but how r asked Mrs. Jarvis, afraid to read the missive. I dread to hear.' 'You need not. He has married her. Poor child! Poor child! What will be the end of it? She is infatuated now, but her eyes will be opened some time. The false-hearted scoundrel! He does not really love that poor silly child, whatever he may have made her think.' 'But he has married her,' Mrs. Jarvis said; mightily comforted by the knowledge. And we can always befriend her, Hedderwick. She is still our child, whatever he may do.' °I expect we shall have to befriend her Tem soon.
The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1887-05-14 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

PER LB. . NSTRIBUTED BY AGENTS.  A FATAL QUARREL. A shocking murder was committed at a little after eight o'clock on Saturday night, in the presence of hundreds of people, just in front of the Café de Is Terrain°, at the corner of the Boulevard Bonne Nouvelle and the Rue d'Hauteville, Paris. Among the regular customers of that café were two commercial men, MM. Weissmann and Patrice'. The former, a man of about 40, was born at Constantinople. Daring the Franco-Prussian war of 1870 and 1871 he served France in the Foreign Legion, and took out letters of naturalisation as soon as peace was restored. Since that time he had been a sort of agent for the sale of Turkish carpets and other Oriental merchandise. He had recently had a dispute with Patricsi, who seems to have shown great irritation against him, when, accompanied by his wife and nephew, he met him on Saturday night at the Café de la Terrasse. In any case, to avoid an altercation between his two customers, the master of the café, M. Terrien, went up to M. Weissmann, and • told him that he could not serve him, and invited him to leave the establishment with his wife and nephew. This put M. Weissmann into a rage, and a scuffle ensued between the two men; but M. Terrien had succeeded in pushing Weissmann out of the café into the street, and was pushing him away still further, when suddenly Weissmarn drew his sword-stick and mortally pierced his adverssry through the heart. The sensation which this tragical ending of the affair created may easily be imagined. The crowd that had collected jumped to the conclusion that the assassin was a Prussian, and immediately attacked him. Three young clerks, wha had been looking on and talking together- in a foreign language, were also assailed, and seriously ill-used on suspicion of being Germans. Fortunately several policemen were at hand. After arresting Weissmann they protected both him and the three young clerks, who would otherwise c9rtainly have been lynched for the crime of not speaking in French. Weissmann declares that the deed was done without any sort of premeditation on his part. He had no idea that M. Terrien had determined not to allow him to continue to frequent his café, and the sword-stick had been bought by him two years ago. He has a rather bad wound on his forehehead over the left eye, which he affirms was inflicted on him by M. Terrien, who struck him on the head with a thick glass beer jug. It was, be says, after the jug had been broken on his head that *he drew his sword-stick. M. Terrien, the vif"tiin, was a man of 55 years of age.  4T '?!  .  :;., ; •,,, , i • 1 , v : ;'  .. ,  >°<c  WER T n 1.,.. *, 3,4.- ,f e*; '-'. lg! ii -....„:„.:.• 6,7 ,f . - -,- • ' . totioos
The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1887-05-14 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

HOP GROWERS' GRIEVANCES.  The East Kent Farmers' Club held a special meeting at Canterbury on Saturday evening to discuss the scheme put forward by Mr. Ambrose Warde for placing a Customs duty of 28s. per cwt. on foreign hops, and a tax of 20s. per acre on English hop land. Mr. Warde said that in an interview he had nad with the Ch- ncellor of the Excheque; Mr. Goschen admitted that the coraumer would not in this way be affected in the s!ightest ; it was a matter between the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the hop growers, and the brewers. Mr. Warde intimated that he should shortly nave another interview with Mr. G-:schen, and they would soon learn what the Government were likely to do. .Considerable diversity of opinion was expressed by the speakers, and, while several leading hop planters spoke in favour of the scheme, many others took objection to it, especially to the proposal to impose a tax on hop land. Mr. Amos said that if they could not get an import duty on foreign hops unless they agreed to pay this tax, they had better go without it. He believed that a duty on foreign hops would drive the second rate hop land out of cultivation. Mr. J. Robinson objected to a depressed industry such as agriculture being taxed to relieve an important industry such as the brewing trade. Be urged the hop growers to ask for a protective duty, without taxing themselves. Mr. J. Day, as an old free trader, said he saw no reason why foreign hops should not be taxed. But it must be remembered that foreign bops had not competed with the home growth to any extent worth mentioning during the last season. Mr. T. L. Collard thought it would be ample time for the hop growers to agree to pay a duty of 20s per acre when the Government suggestsd it. Eventually the debate was adjourned.  IT would appear that, partly owing to extremely bad harvestspartly e as f h and to the fall in prices, Russia is arvlosing her power to compete in the wh3ut-markets of oiria a bdgeerenatbenautmenb,erfireotf years losingEuro p e . her hold, and by the United States and now PsypelnrmiaUaentAlys unable to can be judged at present, she to produce wheat at existing prices. Great excitement wss caused at New Rrompton near Chatham, on Saturday evening, by what is supposed to have been an atteroptepvife murder. It appears that a hammerman eroplo)eu in Chatham Dockyard, named Robert Newland, went home at four o'clock, when, t alleged, he knocked his wife down with a poker, and then jumped upon her and beat her with his fists. One of his children witnessed tiv,e,oottgeece, gaud, slushing_ to his grandfather's house, gave an alarm. Several neighbours rushed into the house to the assistance of the woman, and Newland, who thereupon left the place, was followed by an excited crowd, who tried to lynch him. At length, however, he succeeded in getting away from the crowd and barricaded himself Indoors. The woman, who was in a delioatu state of health, lies in a precarious conditiou
The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1887-08-27 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

THE WHITEORAPEL MURDER.; C'INFESSION OF THE CONVICT. ' On inquiry at Newgate on Sunday evening a representative of the press was informed that the convict Lir tki had made a full confession of his guilt, which he signed in the umal manner in the presence of the Governor of the prison. The following has been published as the text of the  cot tfession : "I, Israel Lipski, before I appear before God in judgment desire to speak the whole truth concerning the crime of which lam accused. I will not die with a lie on my lips. I will not let others suffer, even on suspicion, for my sin. I alone was guilty of the murder of Miriam Angell. I thought the woman had money in her room so I entered—the door being unlocked and the woman asleep. I had no thought of violating her, and I swear I never approached her with that object, nor did I wrong her in this way. Miriam Angell awoke before I could search about for money and cried out, but very softly. Threupon I struck her on the head and seized her by the neck and closed her mouth with my hand, so that she should not arouse the attention of _ those  who were about the house. I had long been tired of my life and had bought a pennyworth of aqua fortis that morning for the purpose of putting an end to myself. Suddenly I thought of the bottle I had in my pocket and drew it out and poured some of the contents down her throat. She fainted, and, recognising my desperate condition, I took the rest. The bottle was an old one which I had formerly used, and was the same as that which I had taken wjth me to the oil shop. The quantity of aqua fortis I took had no effect on me. Hearing the voices of people coming upstairs I crawled under the bed. The woman seemed already dead. There was only a very short time from the moment of my entering the room until I was taken away. In the agitation I also fainted. I do not know how it was that my arms became abraded. I did not feel it and was not aware of it. As to the door being locked from the inside, I myself did this immediately after I entered the room, wishing not to be interrupted. I solemnly declare that Rosenbloom and Sohmuss know nothing whatever of the crime of which I have been guilty, and I alone. I implore them to pardon me for having in my dcspair tried to cast the blame upon them. I also beseech the forgiveness of the bereaved husband. I admit that I have bad a fair trial and acknowledge the justice of the sentence that has been passed upon me. I desire to thank Mr. Hayward for his efforts on my behalf, as well as all those who have interested themselves in me during this unhappy time. This confession is made of my own free will and is written down by Mr. Singer at my request. May God comfort my loving father and mother, and may he aceept my repentance and my death as an atonement for all my sins.—Sunday, August 21, 1887. "ISRAEL LUSK!.  " Witnesses: S. Singer, minister; E. S. Milman, Governor Her Majesty's Prison, Newgate." The confession was at once forwarded to the Home Secretary.
The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1887-07-23 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

REPORTED MURDER OF MR. H. M. STANLEY.  [REUPER'S TELEOR kM.I Sr. THOMAS, Wednesday.  According to a report which has reached the West African Telegraph. Company's station here, Mr. H. M, Stanley has been shot dead. Two versions of his death are given, one b?ing that he was shot while fighting ;some natives to obtain supplies; the other that his steamer was sunk in ascending the river, and that'll was killed by natites. The report em mates from a missionary at Matadi, who is said to have heard it from a native from up country. No direct messenger from the expedition has reached the coast up to the Nth inst.  The Press Association :—A. rumour was current ie the City on Wednesday to the effect that news had reached London that Mr. 13. M. Stanley had been shot; but although inquiries were made in several directions by one of our representatives the rum air could not be co ifirmed. The origin of the statement was given as Ceutte's Bank, where Mr. Stanley has an account, but it was there stated by spensible officials that ne sun news had reached them, It is remarked as singular that rumour should have been afloat in London twenty four hours before Reute 's telegram fro:n St. Ttiomas -onveyed the same intelligence; and it is further ce.nmented upon that the news of three striking events that had previously oc-urred in Africa.— namely, the death of the Prince Imperial, the murder of James Carey at Port Elizabeth, and the death of Geneial Gordon—was conveyed to London in a similar fashion, the event being the subject of common rumour long be`ore the no es arrived through the customary channels. Tee Central News says: The committee of gen lemen who sent Mr. Staney ti the telief of min Pa-ha do not a:tech the slightest credence to the te!egram published announcing the death of the explorer. The latest definite news of Mr. Stanley bri'tgl his in tvements down to June 2nd, Wien he racued Aro ,hu mi The news inblished .tpp as to have no better found ition than the statement of a mizsionary at Matadi, who is alleged to have heard tte repert from a native t• up country." It would have been utterly impossible for any news of Stanley to heve lett Arouhuitni after June 2nd to have reached a missionary at Metadi who cauld have brought the news down to St. Thomas's by July 20. h. It must be remembered that the corm ry between Arouhuimi and Matadi is of the most difficult kind, that the distance is over 1,000 miles, and that had anything happened to the gailant explorer a special messenger would at once nave been sent back to the coast. But even relays of special messengers could not have brought the ruses down in the time. Authentic news of Mr, 6tal,ley ma; be expected now very shortly, but it will in all probability come from the East an I not tee Wen Coast of Africa It is fully expected by the committee that the !vat news will notil:, ca relief of imin Pasha by the expedition.  SATURDAY JrLY 2,1887.
The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1887-07-16 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

PROSSRII., 112, Spring Bill. Birmingham.  j 1  HOUSEHOLD NECESSITIES! k6l •Ei '/4 so CD ..CO ZO JO 'Zi LtJ g •''4 gLI /4 Arie g z ' r 0= 0 g I'D 4' 0 I iiy  A JUDGE ON JUDGMENT SUMMONSES:  In the City of London Court, before Mr. Commissioner Kerr, the case of Lewis v. Jewison came on on Saturday for hearing. This was an action brought by the plaintiff against the defendant to recover £l4, rent due. Mr. Boad, solicitor, appeared for the plaintiff and stated that his Honour sent the case up to the High Court, but Mr. Justice Cave refused to deal with it, and accordingly sent it back, as he thought a small order ought to be made. The Defendant's Solicitor: The defendant is in receipt of £250 per year as clerk in a bank. He has eight children (one born last week), and there are also five judgment summonses against him in the Lord Mayor's Court. His Honour: Five judgment summonses in the Lord Mayor's Court! You know what that is; five vampires in a man's heart: Mr. Bowl: You said at the last hearing that you had no feeling with a man who does not pay. His Honour: I have no feeling for any man who cheats his creditors. It is nothing in his favour to have £250 per year and have eight children. He should put a sum of money by him Boas to pay his creditors with. Mr. Boad : This is a claim for rent of furnished apartments. His Honour: The landlord should have the rent in advance. Mr. Boad : So he did at first, but the plaintiff ileft it off after getting into his confidence. His Honour: I have told you before to have the rent in advance, and the sooner landlords learn to do this the better. I should like to see judgments nodoutbhtethatietheemMaialr but Ctohuerte.oetle have the debitn very heavy. That is, a small debt increases to a large one by heavy costs inflicted, which goes into the lawyer's pockets. If the defemiant will bring the summons next Suturally, I will no doubt have somethirg to say about the Mayor's Court gentry.  Writing to Mr. Stephens, the Conservative candidate for Horusey, Lord Randolph Chin chill applauds him for the very decided support he has given to those who are striving to substitute efficiency and economy for muddle and chaos in the administration of the Army and Navy Department.  _ A St. Petersburg telegram says it is stated on good authority that U. de Giers will not go abroad this bummer, but will go for change of air to Finland. Mr. Thomas Hudson Beanie, of University College, London, was on Monday elected Professor of Chemistry and Engineering in the new Heriot Watt Collet.e, Edinburgh At Brighton on Monday, William Wilton, 40, was:: remanded on a charge of having murdered his wife on Saturday by cutting her throat, under circumstance@ previously reported. The prisoner, when erreetede admitted his guilt.
The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1872-01-13 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

EXECUTION AT GLOUCESTER.  The execution of Frederick Jones, for the murder of his sweetheart, Emily Gardner, at Cheltenham, took place on Monday morning at the Gloucester County Gaol. This is the first execution that has taken place at Gloucester under the modern system of semi-privacy, and indeed, it is many years since a public execution took place in that city. The culprit shed almost without a struggle, immediately after the drop fell. There was but a small number of persons collected outside the gaol and on the bank of the Severn which commanded a, view of the prison. The body having hung the usual time was cutdown, and an inquest held upon it by Mr. Bull, one of the coroners, as required under the new regulations. The circumstances attending this case were of an unusual character. Both the deceased and the prisoner were young, people. The former was the daughter of a small publican, who kept the "Early Dawn" publichouse, and prisoner had, unknown to the girl's parents, been paying his addresses to her. His advances, however, were not favourably received by the girl. Nevertheless, he still followed her. On Sunday evening, the 10th December, he was at the "Early Dawn" and accompanied the deceased girl with her sister to the house at which the latter was in service at Saxhan-villas, (!heltenham. After leaving the sister at Saxhan-villas Jones and the deceased proceeded towards the "Early Dawn." This was ten o'clock at night, and some persons in the neighbourhood heard cries of murder, but although the minder was committed almost in the middle of the town of Cbeltenham, and although one man actually Saw Jones dragging the body of his victim across the road to a ditch, no one interfered, and the fact of the murder was not known until Jones himself, returning to his own home the same night, announced that he "hail murdered Gardner's daughter." He told his incredulous hearers where he had committed the deed, and on proceeding to the spot the body of the poor girl was found in a ditch by the side of the road, with her throat cut from ear to ear. When questioned about the murder he said, "I've killed Emily. She tried to cut my throat and I cut hers ! "and he added, "I'd do it again if I was hanged to-morrow ! She commenced on me, and I've finished it, and the sooner the rope's round my neck the better." Th e funnier had been committed with a razor, belonging to the father of the deceased, which had been kept in the back kitchen. This was known to the prisoner. The razor was found near the spot where the murder wait committed. This razor, the prisoner. through his counsel on the trial, alleged the deceased hail attempted to cut him with, and that he took it from her and retaliated. The defence, however, was unsupported, and has been quite set aside by the admission of the condemned man since his trials