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The Potteries Examiner : — 1871-10-14 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

ATUFLONR.  A week or two ago, in connection with the finding of the dead body of a young woman in the Regent's. canal at Canedon.town, under very suspicious oircum. dances, the 1'a2,!..” 11! Onzett, remarked on the peculiarity of the feet that while come murders attraoted a great amount of public attention, other murders equally atrocious and mysterious seareely excited any issue vet at all. While the name of the victim of the Eitham murder was, for a time, in I everybody's month, hare is the case of another young woman found murdered much in the earns way, with levers wounds on the head, and other injuries which bed been indicted before death, and yet the fate of this later victim appears to create little concern. The adjourned inqueet on the body of this "fine, wall.maele yonng woman, aged apparently about 22 years," was held by Dr. Lankester en Monday. Since the adjournment no success had attended ties inquiries that had born made with a view of establishing the identity of the b ady. Nothing was known of the young woman, not even her name. Letters had been received referring to missing girlabut the deceased answered to none of the descriptions. Deeper seed darker coveter, who could imagine I And how pathetic, in its utter helpleasness, is the verdict of the jury, "That the deceased was found drowned with bruises on the body, but that there was no evidence to show how the body came in the water, or how the bruises were inflicted."  Comte PIIENOSiniON.-8-t Leigh, a fishing port near Southend, there died on the 26th alt., the daughter of a fisherman, named Jane Johnson, who, though aged between IS and r.) yeara, had a body less than that of an ordinary infant a year old; her limbs were like those of a child, only shrunken and dead.looki,g. The head vrae se remarkable as the body and limbs, for all the nourishment and growth were centred there; it measured at death thirty.six inches in 'circumference, and at the postAnortem examination by Dr. G. J. Jones, of Prittlewell, the bead alone contained six pints of blood; the brain hod diminished to a piece no bigger than a Bogor nail. The poor creature hod been seized with fibs at four months old, and since Ono bed not grown, bat remained in a helpless condition, though her intellect allowed her to converse on local topics with ease, and to readily recognise, as ehe lay in bar cat, the foot. steps of neighbours who visited her. A number of photographs were taken some time provions to her death by desire of Dr. Jones, under whase notice she had been tinCO or y,  THE ENGLISH SEND rum) AND KIENCH enors.—The Correspondro,e Buropeome says on this subject The crops fr.nn the seed have been very satisfactory in the case of oats, barley, and potatoes, hut the March wheat bite not succeeded no well, having been sown late. rcrtnnately the committee has yet at its disposal 309,000 francs, part of which will be employed to assist the farmers, whose wheat crone have failed, while the remainder will be distri: bated among those agrhnnturists who hare suffered most from the invasion."
The Potteries Examiner : — 1871-07-29 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

TRIAL FOR MATRICIDE.  At the Northern Circuit, before the Lord Chief Baron, Hebert Hodgson, 44, brioklayer, was charged with the wilful murder of his mother, Jane Gardner, I at Hambleton, near Garstang, on the 30th of , May. The deceased woman was a widow, shoat 05 ' years of age, and the prisoner was born before her marriage. For some days she had been confined to her room, and on the night in question Mrs. Poole, a neighbour, was Bitting up with her. Prisoner, who had been drinking rather freely daring the week, went and laid down in his mother's room. About eleven o'clock he asked for something to drink, and Mrs. Poole gave him a small quantity of rum and water. He subsequently walked from the bedroom into a pantry, and presently returned with an axe in his hand. Mrs. Poole asked him what he was going to do with the weapon, and tried to get it from him, but he wrenched it out of her grasp, and oried out, "Stand bialk ! " He then pushed by her, and went into his mother's room again. Mrs. Poole then rushed up;staire and awakened the prisoner's sister. On going into her mother's room she found her in a dying state, and prisoner was standing by the bedside with the axe still in his hand. He coolly remarked, "She's guttling now; it will soon be over." She died in the course of a minute or two. Two fearful wounds had been inflicted on the temples with the blunt end of the use. Upon Mr. Barton, surgeon, being oalled in he said to prisoner, "Do you know what you have done F" and he replied "Yes, I've killed the old woman." In answer to a further question, "Are you not sorry ? " he replied "No, not es terrible much," adding "because she neither believed in God nor the devil, and would not have anybody to pray with her as I wanted her." The only motive which could be assigned for the commission of the crime was that prisoner thought he had not been fairly dealt with in regard to some pro. party which had been left by an uncle, but it seems that the deceased woman had made a will for dividing the property equally between her children, prisoner included. The defence sot upon his behalf was that he was not responsible for his actions at the time of corn. mitting the deed. The jury returned a verdict of guilty, with a re. commendation to mercy. The judge then passed sentence of death upon the prisoner, who displayed the greatest indifference at the result.  CROSS S nnioNsEe.—At the Greenwich Policecourt on Tuesday, Mr. Henry Peek, eolicitor,appeared to two enmmonsee charging him with having, on the 6th and Bth of May last, been guilty of violent bebaviour at the police-station at Blackheath. There were also cross summonses against two policemen, for abusing Mr. Pooh, who, it will be remembered, conducted the me of Edmund Walter Pooh in its earlier etages. The present proceedings arose out of an altercation between the solicitor and the constables at one of the preliminary inquiries Mr. Pooh was fined 405., and the summonses against the constables were dismissed.
The Potteries Examiner : — 1871-11-18 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

SCENE.  PEARFUL  My shore were stripped from my feet, and my making were torn and bloody. Fallen trees lay in my way, but I clambered over, and crawled under them in my desperate flight. I woe agonised with terror and deepsir, and finally sank to the ground with my boy in my arms. I mast have fainted, for I knew nothing of what plumed till I wag rudely ehaken by the shoulder, and heard is wild, gibbering laugh. I opened my eyes, and above cue stood my mother with a drawn knife in her hand. The weight seemed all ablaze, although the air wee not no intolerably hot as it had been. The forest beyond the clearing must have been burning at its edge, and the strong wind carrying the emoke upward and over our heads. My mother looked down upon me with eyes blazing with that hated light of insanity. " Ho, ho ! " said ehe, "fine time of night for a mother and ohild to be running through the woods ! Fine night this! Night—it to day ! Look at the red light—tie the light of dawn ! Le Jour! Is jeer do jugernent est orrice! And the rooks are burning ! Call on them to fall upon you! The cloudn of thunder and the day of doom ! The Lord is coming, and the wheels of his chariot burn with his mighty driving. Let no go up to meet him in mid-air ! Let us ride on the smoke and thunder and sweep the stars from the hoavens ! Coate, you ellen go with me!' And she seized Louie, who had thrown himself upon me and wag °hutting in terror to my breast. I sprang to my fees and cried, "Mother, mother ! what would you do—would you kill me and Louis ? " " Kill you, yes, why wait? The Lord calls and the devil drivea. He hue let loose hie imps against the world. The treee fall crashing in the formt ; for all hell's demons pull them down with hooks of fire. I have ogee them as I followed con. I have seen you all the way. I rode over on a wolf; 'twits a lottp-gamie, an old friend of mine, brought me over safely nod kept me from the deer. I will kill you; would you burn to death? You shall go up—up higher than the moon and be. pond the fire. Come, tel us go!" and again eke eeized Louis while the knife gleamed in the air. I sprang at her, and with all the strength of 10 mothers in my arms I atm:lasted with her. Torn, worn, and bleeding, as I was, the thought of my child and my hum oand gave see the strength or a giast I overpowered the mad woman, rind forgetting that she woe my mother —that she was anything bat the would.be merdereas of my boy—l seized her by the throat when she was down rolling on the ground, and I would have strangled her. Her immnity bat almost made me mad. I felt then what a murderous maniac, feels. But then I thought my mother was lying almost dead and powerlem, and the fire would liCron advanee and, perhaps, overwhelm us all. My hand was stayed, and when my mother rose to her feet, all her wildness was gone, and in ite plaoe had returned that oainneAs—almoat imbecility— which had characterised her for the last few years. She was ready and willing to do everything that I told her, but I kept that knife fast in my hand.
The Potteries Examiner : — 1874-04-04 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

TUESDAY. (Hame K. F. Bodier et.llJ• W. Clemeution, Esisre.) Toe MAD 000 Nrts...—The following pe.11110611 were nommoned for allowing doge to lee at largo—Hoger Shuffle. botham, Marsh-street ; Jacob Wood, Wellington-Areet ; Wm Nixon, Mollart-street ; Joseph Cope, Highetreet ; James Brabin, Cobdenstniet ; Rom. W. Molloy, Brunewick-plan ; Will hen Holford, New-street ; Catherine 11• Donald, Black Horsolane •, Friderick Underwood, John-street ; (emerge Mieklewright, Bagmen-Arcot ; Paul Solomon Leib, Hopestreet ; Jules Aaroe, Marsh-street; James Taylor, Boldatreet ; George Ashford, Newetreet ; John Lockett, Lichleld•atroet ; Job,. Harrop, Johnntrect ; William Walton, Newcastle-road. The defendante were ordered to pay 3a. 64. ouch costa.—Mr. Bodley mid in all future came they would be dealt with according to the bye-laws. A FEROCIOUS DOG ex LAII/..—Henry Scarratt, house painter, Bucknalldroad, was charged with the above off ,nee. —Mr. Brunt, secretary of the Mechanics Institution, said he Ka going along Old Bncknall-road on Monday wok, when he atopped to speak to • friend. • dog sudelenly came behind him, bit his lag, and thou disappeared np an entry. The wound woe attended to by Dr. Walker.—Defendant mid when he went home he found the dog locked up in the home. He would not wear that it wen not his dog that bit Mr. Brunt—Mr. Hadley said no it we. a seriom Kee, it had better be adjounni. Terearzeino a Win.—George Hemming., bankeman, woe charged with having thnmtaned his wife.—Mr. A. Tennant prosecuted.--On Saturday night N....trio went to the Cheshire Cheese to her husband, who we, drank there, to ask him for some money to buy food for herself and four children He Arndt her, and knocked her head against the fireplace. She ran away, and he followed her, turned the children out of the houn, and threatened to murder her if she came in. On going back she by upon the bed, end she now her hasband put his hand upon a manor, and fearing that he we. going to out her throat, she cried out. He hail not provided suMeimt food for kernel( and children.—Defendant mid he would behave bettor to his wife, .d would gin her more money.—Defendant wait required to find curette to keep the price for six months. CSUSLl2.—Willism Hill waa charged with working a hone which wax in an unfit Kate, .d Thomas Dawson, the owner, we. charged with allowing it to be worked when it wss in an unfit state. Inventor Bourbon° mid he cow Hill ' going with a horse attached to C night-mil cart Kong Buck- I nail-road. He examined the hone, and found • wound on the heck and 00 000 leg. The womeds were binding. Super. intendent Williams geld that the hone wen not 6t to he worked. The caaa against Hill, who had gone out with the horse the first time, wm dismissed, and Dawson wan fined , Ms and orerte.—Richard Aklock was charged with allowing ' • horee of his to Is worked when it was in an unfit Ante, cud, 'wish Kidd we, charged with working the hone. The In. spector having given evidence, a fine of 20e. we, inAmted.
The Potteries Examiner : — 1874-10-31 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

MURDER. —On Wednesday, three men, named Nathaniel Evans, Joseph Evans, and John Williams, navvies, employed on the Narberth-road and Mlienclochog Railway, were taken into custody on a charge of having murdered George Jefferies, alias William Williams, also a navvy, and a native of Thorn. bury, Gloucestershire. From the evidence adduced at the inquest, held on Friday, before William Vaughan James, Esq., it appears that., on the night of the 13th inst., the three prisoenrs attacked the deceased on the highway, and heat him with stakes and a sweeping. brush, causing such injuries that he died on Wednesday morning, causing such injuries that he died on Wednesday morning, after lingering for eight days. Two or three witnesses stated that they witnessed the occurrence, but were afraid to interfere, and although there were a dozen navvies lodging within a dozen yards of the spot they gave no alarm. Mr. Griffiths, solicitor, Carmarthen, watched the proceedings on the part of the prisoner, but produced no evidence, and was, of course, prohibited from addressing the jury; but at the magisterial inquiry, on Friday next, the defence will be that there arose a question of nationality amongst the navvies, and tliat, On the night of the fatal occurrence, the accused, who are Welshmen, were pursued by some dozen English navvies, and on being closely pressed they turned, and one of them dealt Jefferies a terrible blow on the head, laying hire insensible. The others, on seeing their companion fall, retired to their lodgings. This is the story, as told by the prisoners, but as the have no witnesses, and their own mouths are closed, it will be difficult to make good such a defence. They bear an excellent character in their neighbourhood, and this it greatly in their favour. Tie coroner's jury returned an open verdiet—" That the deceased died from a fractured skull, but by whom the injury was inflicted there was no evidence to show." In other words, they did not believe the witnesses. Were it given to our organic eye to ete into the minds of others, we should judge a Mtn Manch more sorely from what he dreams, than from what he thinks, there is will in the thought, there is more in the dreani.  Never go bark. What you attempt, do with all your strength. Determination is omnipotent. If the prospect be somewhat darkened, put the fire of resolution to your soul, and kindle a flame that nothing but death can extinguiah.  The person who grieves, suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it ; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time. A pompous village clergyman felt his dignity mightily offended by a chubby-facee lad who was passing him without moving his hat. "Do you not know who I 1.1, sir, that you pass me ins that unmannerly way? You are better fed than taught, I think, sir."—" Whew maybe it is so, for you teacheo me, but I feeds my.
The Potteries Examiner : — 1874-08-08 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

FATAL ACCIDENT AT FRODE.—A sad accident befell a labourer named Wm. Yeo, aged 264 in the employ of Mr. C. Case, tanner, of Lower Keyford. Yea left his home at about 6.30 in the morning for the pun.° of turning some skins that were in pickle or putting them in another pit. While doing no, it is stipposed that he was seined with a fit and fell into one of the pita, as he was subject to fits. At about twenty minutes pant seven o'clock a fellow labourer, named Thomas. Brown, found his body quite dead in the pit in an upright position, the liquid reaching to hia shoulder. It seems that his master had cautioned him not to go on. the works in the morning. The deceased has left a wife and two children.  -Tan-HUSPICIO rS DEATH OF A FRENCH &SAMAR AT Sw .—The adjourned inquest noon the body of Pierre Forge°, a French seaman of the Nouvelle Annie,. who was fatally stabbed on board that vessel on the , night of the 22nd of July, was resumed before Me. Edward Striek, the coroner, at the Gloucester Arms Hotel, Strand. The accused captain, Emanuel Godin, who has beet committed for trial by the magistrateiron. the charge of wilful murder, was represented by Mr. W.. H. Smith (Smith, Lewis and Jones), solicitor. The ern, denee has already been laid before our readers. The principal witness seas the cabin boy, Ferdinand Martin, , who, however, made different statements in one or two particulars to that given by him before the magistrates ; these points, however, were not essential. He still per. in his statement that the deceased and the accused had a row when he (witness) sad the accused came on board on the night in question ; that the captain, who WAS eating with a knife in his hand, rushed at the accused, and that instantly he called out, 'Oh. God, strike a light. You have given me a bad stroke" (wound). Deceased staggered forward, and fell down the forecastle steps. and died in about twenty minutes. Mr. Smith made a forcible address on behalf of the captain, and contended that under the most adverse eircum. stances there was no evidence to show that he intended to kill the man, and therefore the verdict should be menslaughter only, and not murder.  -EILASTIC STOCKINGS, KNEE CAPS, lie., _LA' for VARICOSE VEINS, and all cases of WEAKNESS and SWELLING of the LEGS, SPRAINS, Ac. They are porous, light in texture, and inexpensive, and are drawn on hate an ordinary stocking Price from 4s. 6d., 7s. 6d., 10s., to 16s. each. Postage Free. JOHN WHITE, Manufacturer, 218, London. COX'S MAGIC POLISHING PASTE FOR Bar Fittings, Brass Window Boards, Nome Plates, Metal.tep Counters, Dinner Covers. , Saves half time and labour in cleaning. Warranted freo•from Reid. Pound boxes, 6d. Wholesale ware. house, 81, Bishopgate Without, E.C. A Fortune for a Trifle, £25,000 for XI. -DULL Particulars of this most advantageous Money speculation, guaranteed by Government, will be sent Free on itpplication, enclliing stamped directed envelope, to JOHN FOSTER, Esq., 8, Craig's Court, Charing Cross, Loudon, S.W. CI_DODALL'S
The Potteries Examiner : — 1874-09-19 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

MURDERS AND BRUTAL ASSAULTS.  The papers contain shocking accounts of fresh cases of murders and brutal assaults on the person. A qua, rd l concerning a debt took place between two men in the eastern district of Glasgow on Saturday evening, and a fight ensued. One of them, named Hobert Fair. Icy, finding that he was getting the warst of it, took up • poker and struck John Guises a blow on the head which killed him. Fairley escaped throirgh a window while the police were endeavouring to effect an entrance into his house.--An attempt was made at Atherton early on Saturday morning to arrest a young man named Peter Campbell on the charge of beiug concerned in the murder of Richard Morgan in Tithebarn-street, Liverpool. The police traced him to a house in Atherton, and, having effected an entrance, two of the officers seised the first two men they could lay hands on, neither of them, however, being the murderer. A struggle ensued, the light was extinguished, and during the ni4/4e Campbell walked out of the front door, which had been lett unguarded, and escaped.—The poli, of Newcastleupon-Tyne likewise apprehended a mad named John Lawson Vass on the charge ox causing the death of his w;fe by brutal violence. Vass was the brother of a man who was executed at Newcastle in 1863 for the murder of an old woman.—Thomas Redhead was on Saturday committed for trial on the charge of attempting to murder his sweetheart, Ann Faulkner, at Bridge Norton, in Oxfordshire, on the 27th ult. Since his arrect the prisoner has frequently expressed a wish that the girl was dead, and assumed an air of indifference as to the result to himself.—Geolle Macca',um was sentenced to death at Perth, on Saturday, for the mauler of Peter Sharp hfason on the 7th of March last. The muraer was accompanied by robbery, but the jury, by 14 to one, lecommended the prisoner to mercy on the ground of non.premeditation. The charge against the pCsouer's mother, Mary Reid, of being an accomplice in the crime, was withdrawn.—A shocking murder was committed at Aldershot on Saturday morning. On the previous day Thomas Smith, a private in the 20th Hussars. was awarded seven days' punishment drill by Captain J. 1). Bird, the officer commanding his troop, and while at ball practice at the rifle range, Caesar's Camp, on Satuiday morning, Smith deliberately shot the captain, who died almost immediately.—A woman named Ann Elisabeth Guy was apprehended at Sheffield on Tuesday right, charged with having caused the death of Mary Moore. The women lived me lodging house in Silver-street hew:, one of the lowest dens in the town, and it is alleged that they qaarielled whilst diunk, and Guy pushed Moore down stairs, at the bottom of which she was foinid shoray &Bei wards dead. A girl swears that she saw the prisoner push deceased down slain; and a maims who was called in believes that death resulted horn the skull being fractured.