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The Haslingden Gazette. — 1914-01-31 (Haslingden, Lancashire, England)

HUSBAND'S ALLEGED VIOLENT TEMPER.  Last Wednesday, at the 'Accrington Police Court, before the Mayor (Captain Harwood) and other magistrates, Thomas Lenenan, tailor's cutter, 179, Avenue Parade, was summoned by his wife, Betsy Ellen, for alleged persistent cruelty. Mr. Frank Britcliffe, appearing for the men. plainant, said the parties lad been married fourteen years, and there were two children, a boy aged 12 j and a girl aged 8. The wife asked for a separation I order and the custody of the children on the ground that the husband had been guilty of persistent cruelty. The evidence was that from the corn. mencement of the married life the defendant had had a most violent temper, and perhaps this had been aggravated occasionally by the taking of strong drink. She was content to put up with this until about five years ago, when she loft him. Subsequently she was persuaded by him to return, and she did so. He was all right after that until the last eighteen months, and then commenced his eon. duct. He seas !in the habit of flying into a rage without any apparent oaus.e. and had threatened he would murder his wife. He had said. "1 will cut your throat, out miss, afterwards." Such threats had caused the woman to be in absolute ! terror, and masters came to a climax on Jan. 6th. On that evening she went out shopping, and laturned about nine o'clock. Defendant was waiting at the door for her, anti, although there bad been no trouble before she went out he said he would make her smart for it. When they got into the • house defendant flew into a rage, threw his supper and the pots and pans about, and ultimately get. ting Sold of her by the throat said ho would strangle her. There was considerable struggling. but after some time complainant got away, and the following morning she left hint This was not the first time he had threatened her. because just before Chit:sinus he said he would cut her throat, and • he felt she must ask the magistrates to grant her a maintenance order.  In the course of her evidence, Mrs. Lenehan said they were married fourteen years ago, and there were two children, Clifford, aged 12. and Sarah, aged B. Defendant's temper had been bad all the way through the marriagt, and five yoars ago she left him on account of his violent temper and threats. She returned to him subsequently, but about eighteen months or two years ago he started again. When he was in a temper hi. threatened and threw things about the house. lie had threatened to cut her throat once or twice, and then said he would cut his own afterwards. He had also told her to clear out of the house. on several OCCa.9IOII. On Tuesday evening, January 6th, Ale had been out and returned about nine o'clock. Ile wee waithig at the door for her, and commenced to stake a row, and would not take any explanation. She told him not to make any bother, as there was nothing to make a row about. However, he started calling her names, and said
The Kenilworth Advertiser. — 1876-11-25 (Kenilworth, Warwickshire, England)

ALLEGED MURDER BY A GIPSY AT DERBY. 0 ' the published accounts of the board, Mr. Alderman DYNES drew attention to an error or omission in the drizzling rain fell during the whole of the game, Tuesday, a gipsy, named Nelson Boswell, was average attendance in 1871. As it was published and enlivened occasionally by sharp showers, charged at Derby with the wilful murder of George increased attendance in 1876 appeared to be 600 Chitham, for the home team, won the toss, and Ride, a blacksmith. It was stated that the prior 700 greater than it really was. chose to play, with the wind in their favour. soner belonged to a gang of gipsies who are encamp- • Mr. KIRBY explained that a fresh calculation had ing in the fields close to the town. The deceased Young IWhitnash Captain) kicked off at 3.15, been made, and the difference was found to be 300 or was a blacksmith, and had cohabited with the pribot the ball was promptly returned by the 400. The returns had been correctly entered on who is the mother of deceased's three Coventry backs, and soon worked down in the 61c11%:nist;it., the minutes. appears that late on Saturday night A number of persons were in attendance to show foreigners' quarters. After about twenty minutes they out. they left a raulbplca-hontse with a number of otherght plav a 'real was splendidly kicked by Baldwin. persons, and were wrangling as tlie cause why the payment of the school fees were in Whit:lash now played up wlth spirit, and having Shortly afterwards, the deceased was found lvinr, on got the boll well away placed their opponents' the causeway by a policeman, who thought le;vas arrTeharesVisiting .Officer's report was as follows : No. of houses visited and re-visited since last 619 goal in danger, making a good shot at the goal, drunk. Flavin, declared his intention of taking but the ball was well stopped by the goal keeper, him to the lock-up, two men carried him to the Nor.eTchildren—visiteh between i 'and ii years Once more the ball was run dowo to the visitors' gipsies' camp, where he died during the night. The of age .. .. goal, and a good try made by Chitham, but the prisoner reported his death at the police station No. of children visited not attending-school .. 89 post spoilt this shot. At half time end were shortly afterwards, and upon a post mortent exam. No. of those not attending school when visited: s Motion being made, deceased's changed, and still the home team pressed their bi dit was found that the decesd'Who have since gone to school .. .. .. 1! 44 skull was fractured. This led to the arrest of the Who o are absent through sickness. .. .. enemy hard making repeated shots, but were absent through inability to pay the prisoner on a charge of murder, and it presumed " not successful in scoring. About a quarter of fees .. that lie struck the man on the head during a queran hour before " time," the Whitnash men made rd Who are absent through other reasonable a most successful run and obtained a goal, which . The prisoner was remanded. ' Who are absent in opposition to the bye-laws.. 26 was mainly owing to one of the Coventry backs B
The Kenilworth Advertiser. — 1876-10-21 (Kenilworth, Warwickshire, England)

ALLEGED DOUBLE MURDER IN LONDON.  Silas Barlow (26), a labourer, was brought up for re-examination on Saturday on the charge of the wilful murder of Ellen Sloper, the illegitimate child of Ellen Sloper, who was also supposed to have been poisoned by him with strychnine. The prisoner had cohabited with the mother, mad after her death he took away the child, saying that he intended to place it in the care of his cousin. On the following day the body of the child was found floating in one of the reservoirs of the Waterworks in Battersea. The prisoner had been remanded several times for the result of the inquest on the body of the mother. The jury returned a verdict of wilful murder against the prisoner in the case of the mother. The second charge of murder was entered upon the sheet. Mrs. Jessie Wilson; of 18, Leopold-street, 'Vauxhall, said on the 21st August last a woman came with a child, and took a room in her house in the name of Mrs. Smith. The prisoner visited her occasionally, she representing him as her husband. She went on well till the 3rd of September, when she was taken ill, about half an hour after the prisoner left her, with sickness and vomiting. She recovered by the following Sunday. The prisoner visited her on this day. He came to witness, and said his wife had had two fits. She went up and found her on the bed in convulsions. When she partially recovered she said to the prisoner, "It is the nasty sarsaparilla water which you gave me made me like this." He said, "Oh. _  took more than you did." The convulsions went on, and she died in the prisoner's arms at two o'clock in the morning.—The prisoner said she had told a lot of lies. He could account for the sickness. She was obliged to take medicine. The sickness was caused by her drinking spirits after she had taken some medicine.—The witness, in reply to a question, said she never knew her to take medicine.—Medical evidence was given to the effect that no trace of strychnine could be found in the body, nor any morbid appearances to account for death. A minute quantity of strychnine was found in a small quantity of fluid in a bottle taken from the prisoner's lodgings.—Mr. Bridge expressed a wish to :have further scientific evidence, and remanded the prisoner for that purpose.—The prisoner was committed for trial for the murder of the child.  IT it stated by the Berlin correspondent of the Times that the Reserve is being called in in some of tin Western Provinces of Russia, and troops are being moved towards the northern and eastern frontiers of the Austro-Polish province of Galicia. There are, it is added, some 20,000 horse on the war footing in Russian Poland, and Russian volunteers, monks, nuns, doctors, telegraph officials, and other persons required for the transaction of civil and military business, rre continually being sent to Semis. Russian residents in Germany and Austria liable to military sen ice have been ordered to start for home immediately.
The Kenilworth Advertiser. — 1876-03-18 (Kenilworth, Warwickshire, England)

ASSAULT.  1 George Reynolds, labourer, of Bulkington, was ' charged with unlawfully assaulting Thos. Wood, at , Bedworth, on the 4th inst.—Plaintiff said he was on the high road at Bedworth on the 4th inst., and defendant came up. Witness and defendant both had dogs, and defendant wished to set the dogs fighting. Witness said he had not got a fighting dog, and defendant then said, "You must fight if your dog don't." A man named Lakin was with defendant, and pushed him up against witness, and defendant then hit witness over the head with a stick, and also struck witness in the face with his fist, knocking him down in the road almost senseless. A man came by, and said, " Don't murder the man." He then went into Bedworth, and gave information to the police.—Cross-examined by Mr. Homer, who appeared for defendant: He bad had the defendant up at this Court before, and the case had been dismissed. He was on his road from Bedworth to Bulkington. He had been to the Navigation Inn and other public-houses in the village. He was noir turned out of the Navigation Inn, and would have gone straight home had he not been stopped. Lakin I wanted to " rag " witness, but witness wanted to i have nothing to do with him. He did not fight with Lakin, but Lakin kicked a bottle out of his hand. He could not tight with Lakin, because he (witness) had a bottle in one hand and a basket of tools in the other. Witness did not assume a fighting attitude. He had seen defendant at Bedworth a day or two before.—Mary Wright, widow, of Bedworth, a witness for complainant, said if complainant had gone home he would have got out of the affair altogether. She saw a tall young man strike complainant, and then another man came up with a stick. She then went in home again, and left them.— Cross-examined: She did not see Wood strike any blow. There was a crowd there, and he went out to fetch her sons away, in case they might get into it.—Henry Clarke was called, but only saw the stick. —The sergeant at Coleshill was called to prove that the wound on complainant's head was done that night, and that it was apparently done by a stick.— Mr. Homer having addressed the Bench at some considerable length, Joseph Lakin said: Witness and Wood had a wangle in the public-house when defendant was not there. Wood left first, and would have had time to get home had he not waited for witness. Witness wished to see the complainant home, as he had had a "sup of beer." Defendant then came up, sup wanted witness to fight the complainant (Wood). Witness would not fight complainant, and defendant then gave complainant a " bit of a shove."—Fined ss. and expenses 18s., or 14 days. Joseph Lakin, witness in the above case, was charged by Wood with using the stick about his head whilst Reynolds was punching him, at the same time aud place.—Defendant said he was guilty
The Kenilworth Advertiser. — 1876-08-12 (Kenilworth, Warwickshire, England)

CAPTURE OF A NOTORIOUS CHARACTER. At the County Petty Sessiors, before Mr. J. Cove Jones and Mr. W. H. Child, William MoClow was charged with attempting to murder Thomas Walking, an officer of the county constabulary, on the 21st of March lest.—Thoniaa Walking, in his evidence, said he was on duty on the 21st of March on the footroad from Laddington to Stratford-upon-Avon, near the railway crossing koy the East and 'u eat Junction Railway). Vv haat standing against a gatepost, he saw four men coming down the Honeybotu-ne line. Three of the men went behind a gateman's box, but one named Walker continued on, carrying a bag on his back. Some fowls had been stolen from near the place, and he suspected that what they had in their bag had been stolen. At that time he had not noticed McClow. Witness went towards Walker. When the yang of four men got into a field at the back of Glenavon-place, he gut up to Walker and seized him. He asked what was in his bag. One of the men said, "Then you won't see." A struggle ensued, and MoClow said, "If you hit him (Walker), and d'in't loose, we will well murder you." He loosed Walker and seized MoClow. Walker then attempted to get his stick from him. They then got on to the line and went under Sanctuslane Bridge; he followed, saw McClow stoop, and heard him say, " Smash his head with a stone;" and instantly he was struck with a stone above the im of his helmet. The blow partly stunned him, and he fell against McClow, and attempted to seize him, when they wrenched his stick from him and beat him on the head, breaking his stick by the force of their blows. Whilst he was on the ground MoClow and Walker threw a brick at him, which smashed in his helmet; he got away into an adjoining field. McClow and Walker followed him, and the man who had the stick kept beating him violently on the head, so that he became stupefied and weak and unable to use his staff, and he fell senseless into a ditch. On recoveting, he got up and went by the Bother Merket into the town. The injuries be received laid him up for two months.—Dr. Luce, M.D., described the injuried received by the man. He had four severe wounds on the head, exposing the bone, wound also below the ribs, on the elbow, and on the right elbow joint. Walking was under his treatment two months; the stick probably caused the wounds, but not in the condition in which it had been produced in Court—there must have been something sharp about it, as the wounds were incised.—John Baldwin, platelayer on the Great Western Railway, proved finding the constable's helmet.—Superintendent Rowley took the prisoner into custody at Walsall on 22nd July. The prisoner said he knew all about the matter; he had seen it in the papers. There were no bricks or stones; all was done with a stick. The " bobby " was pitching into his mate Walker, and he (McClow) took his part, and " lent " him one or two. He said he would do the same again if a policeman interfered with him.—The prisoner, against whom there were 31 previous convictions, was committed to the Assizes for trial.
The Kenilworth Advertiser. — 1876-08-05 (Kenilworth, Warwickshire, England)

SENTENCE OF DEATH.  THE BLACKBURN MURDER.  William Fish, indicted for the murder of Emily Holland, at Blackburn, on the 28th March, was tied last week, before Mr. Justice Lindley, at the Liverpool Assizes. Mr. Higgins, QO., who, with Mr. Pope, QC., and Mr. Addison, prosecuted, in addressing the jury, asked them to di-miss from their minds all that they had heard about the ease, as it was impossible for them not to have heard about it. He detailed the circumstances of the case, which are already well known, and stated that the prisoner made a confession which, if true, left no d,ubt of his guilt, and he proposed to prove the truth of the statement by independent evidence, including the mother and father of the deceased, several police-officers, and 00028 acquaintances of the prisoner, on various points connected with. the discoveries made, tending to prove that, indepencient of his confession, Fish was the culprit. The father and mother were examined, and said they identified from various marks the portions of the body which had been found OA the body of their deceased child; and it was also shown that on the evening when the parcel of remains was found at Col:ditto Farm, Fish was notioed coming from that direction. Other circumstances were that his shop was closed earlier than usual on the evening of the 28th, and that a bright light was observed through the chinks of the shutters coming from the fireplace. Evidence was also adduced as to the employment of the bloodhound Morgan, and the discovery of some of the remade, of the murdered child upon the premises of the prisoner. Pieces of cloth and clothing which were attached Is the various porthole of the remains were identified by relations of the deceased. Medical evidence was given Is show that various members which had been discovered all belonged to one body, and that over the body were • number of short hairs of different colours and quality, such at might be found in • barber's shop.--Dr. Malt, land said he had examined the prisoner and saw nothing to indicate insanity. It was a fact, however, that at times outbursts of mania occasionally took place without any warning, but some traces of such outbreak always remained afterwards. He thought the prisoner knew what he was doing at She time of the murder. Mr. Higgile 8 I mua.4 up the evidence far the defence, and Mr. Blair addressed the court fo7 the prisoner, contending that the very atrocity of the crime proved thtt the prisoner was not in his rt,ght mind. He also dwelt upon several circ ,mstanoes, which he argued were not the acts of a sane man. The Judge 'lammed up, and said it was not because • 1111111 was p.stsessed of the devil and did something hideously wicked that it was to be assumed that he was irresponsible. The jury, without leaving the box, found the prisoner guilty of murder, and be was sentenced to death. The condemned man manifested little emotion, and was at once removed.
The Kenilworth Advertiser. — 1876-07-15 (Kenilworth, Warwickshire, England)

CONNAUGHT. Cow Coirrowr.—lce in the hot weather, you will or not, and holds you even after it has oast Any unnatural discharge from the skin is at all times On Friday evening his Worship the Mayor of " Ekonomy," says Josh Billings, "don't konsist you off. No matter whether the face be fair or not —no matter if features are irregular and complexion disagreeable, but in hot weather it becomes irritating Liverpool (Lieut.-Colonel Stehle) gave a grand civic in saving indiskriminately, but in saving judii- .—sometimesanscortflutacsieve. eruptions legs, old wounds, scro: banquet at the Town Hall to about 180 guests, who °ltaly." varying, the eye holds you captive, and then laughs In' ' at and chains.. Lucrezia Boraia's eves were grey, cured by Holloway's giinoti'ms ea:: colotleat,sooonethe ead;realsatds were invited to meet His Royal Highness the Duke PAINTING THE Lim—Generous slioeblack (to ana 3oti may be sure they were like these. So were - eyes were all diseases of the surface by purifying and regulating the circulation in their neighbourhood, by giving those of Ninon de L'Enclos. Many another woman of Connaught. Nearly 300 invitations were issued, coloured gentleman) : Better 'ave 'em done, air; energy to the nerves of the affected part, and by but many of the invited guests were prevented I'll touch up yer face too for the same, dr ! being present in consequence of parliamentary or AT A FLORlST'S.—Customer : How much for the has such orbs; perhaps she uses them more info- expelling all poisonous and noxious matters. It other duties. Amongst those who accepted the lilies of the valley?—Florist ; Fire shillings a bunch. centl y and legitimately, but the effect is very much ejects the seeds of all virulent eruptions and ulcerainvitation of the Mayor were—Major Pickard, —Customer : Too mut:h.—Flea-id (blandly) : Well, the must take e same; and if people choose to face the danger tions, and thus confers no partial or temporay boon t ta the conseqaences. One piece of but a comolote and permanent cure. By means of equerry to the Duke of Connaught • the officers of madam, if you will have the lilies of the valley, you advice will I give to young men in all sincerity : these remedies all sufferers may aim at attaining the 7th Hussars now stationed in 'Liverpool ; Sir must pay the valley of the lilies. Henry de Bathe, in military command of the die- At some penny readings recently a cock s n-y as Never marry a woman who has these eyesl were never made, be sure, to serve only as la. They health, and will invariably succeed. lamps for ft w MONS! TO lAND.—Mr. Henry W. Buer lends cash triet ; Colonel Jones, inspector of rifle volunteers, attempting to recite a part of Bailie Nicol Jarvie, • a domestic hearth privately, from £5O to £5OO, and Colonel Peel Yates, in of militia and but with indifferent success. A brawny Soot in the - ' on the borrowers note of hand alone, or on deeds, leases life policies, farm auxiliary forces in Liverpool; Sir L. Turner; audience, indignant at the iuthless murder of his Pnorrrsime