The Potteries Examiner : — 1876-03-25 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

DOOM.e l's wife waited on the chief constable, at Warwick, asking him to withdraw the notice, but he replied that all artingemeets were made, and must be carried out. On her return home she apprised her husband of what had passed, whert upon he became very excited. Next morning deceased's wife, when she got up, left him in bed, and, in her absence, he went into the attic and hung himself to a 13,Ta11, life being quite extinct when he was discovered. —Th.. coroner, in summing up, commented upon the painful nature of the case, and a verdict was returned to the effect that dittoed dirtroyed himself while in an unsound ,tat,, of mind. The jury expressed in a written statement their opinion that for th• last eighteen years deethised had performi d his duty in a most impartial and efficient manner, and that he had been most harshly Scull with by receiving an order for so sudden a removal. There was no doubt in their minds that this hail been the cause of the net of selfdlestruction on the part of deemsed, 9.11,1 they felt that such an arbitrary course ought not to have been resorted to.  11It. BALIIOE AND THE Um:mt.—At the Woolwich Police ('curt an application has been made by a young ETOI and woman for magisterial advice. The latter stated that she Elk; no arly nineteen, and had been en. gay il for several veers to the young man who accompanied her. Her mother had consented to her marriage, and the banas had been onbli,hed; and now, when everything was ready, her mother refused to sanction the wedding, and hail told her she must wait until she was of age. The applicant consented to do so; but the previous night, whilst taking a walk with her lover in Shooter's-hill-road, her mother caine up and assailed her with the 'host threatening language. She had repeated her threats that afternoon, which had induced her (applicant) to take cab and drive to the police court, her mother taking another cab and following her.—Mr. Balm t But surely you don't wish to summon your mother ?—Appl Moot : No; hut can't I marry the young man P—Mr. Balguy, I Yen are an infant in the eyes of the law, and she min object. itas she been kind to you —Applicant : Yea; she has always been kind ; bat after giving her consist, and arranging everything, she stopped my marriage.—Inspector Ford t The mother is here, ins very excited state, and declares she will murder her—Mr. Balgay : Bring her in—lnspector Ford t She won't 'come in. The daughter is willing to go home, but is afraid of the threats wed by her mother—Mr. Rilguy requested that the mother should be taken into his private room and, after a short consultation with her, he returned into the Court and told the posing woman that her mother had given him her reasons for disapproving of the marriage, and he advised her to take her parent's advice and wait until she was of age. —Applicant She has declared she will take nip life.— Mr. Balguy t That is all nonsence. She ha.s promised me that she will be kind to you, and she will allow you to receive your lover at her house; but she does not like him to take you about. Your mother is too fend of you to take your life. Will you go hick to her?— Applicant': Not by myself.—Mr. Balguy Then I will take you to her—The magistrate then left his scat and accompanied the young woman to his private room, where he handed her over to her mother. Upon returning into court he said to the young man tShe has gone home with her mother, who says that if you behave properly and respectably she will not object to the marriage in course of time.