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The Kenilworth Advertiser. — 1873-04-17 (Kenilworth, Warwickshire, England)

WALLIN() IN FRANCE.  The Paris correspondent of The Timer, sends over the following letter : Duelling has always been a favourite practice and pastime with Frenchmen, from the days when gay and gallant mousquetaires gracefully ran each other through the body on the Prti aux Clercs down to the present time, when journalists go to Boulogne or Vincennes to exchange scratches and meet at breakf mt. The practice, when it ceases to be murderous, has a tendency to become ridiculous. In England ridicule has had a great deal to do with its abolition, and the same cause must ultimately do away with it in other civilised countries. In France, however, one still occasionally hears of fatal duels, and one of these has given employment to the Assize Court of the Department of the Mayenne. Baron Ritter, a public functionary at Blayenne, was put at the her on Monday, charged with bllingM. Appleton, formerly Sub-Prefect of the same city. With him were arraigned his two seconds, Count Chemise° and M. de Roquefenil ; and those of the deceased, M. Entries and M. CarnS-K4risonet This last gentleman, being a member of the National the permission of that body was requisite before could be put upon his triaL This was not granted until January; so that, although the duel occurred on the 3rd of September, the case only now comes before the Court. There is some mystery about the exact canes of the fatal encounter, but there had long been enmity between the two men, arising, it is said, from political causes. Rutter, a man of forty, who was formerly a cavalry officer, some years before the fall of the Empire had been named receiver pillion/4er at Mayenne, whither, after the 4th of September, 1870, went Appleton, described as "a very elegant young man," to fill the pmt of Sub-Prefect, to which the new Government had appointed him. Here, then, was sufficient ground for antipathy, without asking the usual question, 04 est la femme!" . . . Ritter and Appleton met in society and became acquainted, but their intercourse, never cordial, seems to have ceased in January, 1872, in consequence of the Baron not having returned a call made at his house by the Sub-Prefect. The latter was shortly afterwards trareiferred to Avesnes ; but in July he went to Mavenne, and soon he and Ritter met at the house of a Madame de Reizet. No greeting was exchanged between them. In the course of the evening Ritter accosted Appleton, and asked why he had not saluted him, to which the other replied that when he was Bub-Perfect at Mayenne he had paid Ritter several visits which had not been returned, and that he, therefore, considered himself released from all obligations of courtesy towards him. Ritter asserted that he had returned the visits, and twisted on Appleton's saluting him, threatening to strike him in the face with his glove if he did not. Appleton refused ; Ritter was imperious and insulting; iy he threw his glove into the face of Appleton, who responded by • box on the ear.. Count L'hamieso, who was meant at We discreditable  Assembly,
The Kenilworth Advertiser. — 1873-04-17 (Kenilworth, Warwickshire, England)

DILATH. Thomas Scobbie, labourer, 36 years of age, has been charged at the Dundee Circuit Court with having, on the 24th of September last year, murdered George Spalding, gamekeeper. The circumstances or the cane will be well remembered. Scobbie was caught in the act of stealing shirts from a green Dear Dundee, and was taken into custody by Spalding, who set out with his prisoner for Monifieth, the nearest police-station, about three miles distant. Notb mg more was heard of Spalding until next morning, when his dog betrayed signs of uneaidness, and some neighbours following it, fount: the murdered body of the keeper lying in a ditch covered with grass and bramble bushes. Scobbie was apprehended some time after with marks of blood on his shirt and rents on his trousers, which appeared as if caused by the teeth of a dog. The evidence given at his trial, though entirely circumstantial, was very conclusive. No witnesses were examined for the defence. The jury unanimously found the prisoner guilty as libelled, and, by fourteen to one, recommended him to mercy. Lord Bseaa passed sentence of death in the usual form, and the excecution was fixed for Tuesday, the 29th of April. The prisoner heard the sentence with the utmost unconcern. lacherearion. —The Medical Press says "The attention of our readers may be advantageously directed to the subject of incremation of the dead broached by Prot Polli. He repeats some of the ersl27 meats that have been used against the process, but now-a-days, when sanitary science has made snob advance, when every inch of ground almost has become of value—in a country such as Great Britain, where the population is out of proportion to the area of soil, and where the infection f water by the percolation of decaying animals, situated, it may be, even at a considerable distance, has been proved to occur frequently and to give rise to sickness in an intense degree, it really becomes a Question of consideration as to how far burial in the earth is hygienically correct or convenient. Habit and the association of ideas have inured Lle to the practice of earth burial, se that it seems alarming even to discuss the possibility of such • method being displaced, yet the incremasion prooeas, could it be carried out so as not to hurt the sensibility of our nature whe i bidding adieu to the last veWger of our fellow-creatures, offers certain advantages. By the present procedure we lay the body in the earth to resolve itself into its original elements, by the slow and (cAtid we witness it) the revolting proo of decomposition. We preserve no traces of the material once so loved and precious in our eyes we rear monumental slabs, and commemorate the intensity of our feelings by inecriptiOns. Would it not be more reasonable to decompose the body by incineration, and ratan in monumental urns, if so desired, the ashes of our friends and relatives? The question is one of increasing importance viewed from a hygienic and social point of view."
The Kenilworth Advertiser. — 1873-04-24 (Kenilworth, Warwickshire, England)

DREADFUL OUTRAGE IN INDIA.  A dreadful story comes from the usually quiet and dull station of Ahmednuggur (says a Bombay paper of the 24th tilt). It appears that on the night of the 14th, about nine p.m., two Punjabee sepoys belonging to the 13th N.I. went, armed with their guns and ammunition, to the Budder Bazaar, and on some pretence or other persuaded two prostitutes of the Mang caste to leave their house with them. As soon as they came into the street they began loading their rifles and fired at the women, but missing them, unfortunately shot a bystander named blallari Mahar, who fell dead on the spot. Nathoo Purmanand, a havildar of police, hearing the report of the gnus, rushed to the rescue, but was at once fired at and shot dead, while a third man was severely wounded at the same time. After this the murderers made off, hotly pursued by the police. Captain Daniell, the energetic Superintendent of Police,, as soon as he was informed of the sad occurrence, started in pursuit, and the whole night was spent in search of the fugitives, but favoured by the darkness they were soon loot sight of.' Still Captain Daniell kept up the search; every road, every byepath was carefully guarded until early in the morning he himself came upon them in the jungle of Bendy Packordie, about seven miles from Nagger. No sooner did they see their pursuers than they ban to fire again, which the gallant captain of course did not leave unanswered. He wounded one of them and arrested him; the other, after firing six or seven shots at the captain, and luckily missing him each time, was also caught, but only when he had spent all his ammunition. Since the above was published, we have received the following additional particulars :—.l The Partday and Mussulman of the 13th N. L each took with them sixty rounds of ammunition, and in the bazaar shot the poor havildar and a Dhair dead, bayonetted another Dhalr, and fired at two corporals of the 3d Hussars. In the pursuit Srplvlll ida° Daniell so disposed of his men as to prevent the ruffians from escaping, and having come up with them, followed them alone. The murderers frequently fired at Captain Daniell, but fortunately all their shots missed. Captain Daniell fired four shots infront of them and repeatedly called on them to give in, but, as they refused, and as Captain Daniell's infantry and foot police were a considerable distance off, he shot one of them, and then the other gave in. The wounded man had his rifle at the charge when shot, and the ball went through his right hand into his stomach, and it is doubted if he will recover to be hanged. A third has been arrested for complicity, and it is thought . one or two more are concerned in the affair. The wounded man says that he and his companion intended returning to Nuggur to expend their 60 rounds before giving in. They are now safe in gaol, heavily ironed."
The Kenilworth Advertiser. — 1898-10-29 (Kenilworth, Warwickshire, England)

WARWICKSHIRE MANIAC IN LINCOLNSHIRE.  A TERRIBLE FIGHT.  The Yorkshire and Lincolnshire papers have been telling the following story —A Lincoln cabman, Named John Thomas King had a frightful experience ffate on Thursday evening. While waiting for fares at the Midland Station a gentleman in shooting costume engaged him to drive him to Wiokenby and afterwards to Reasby, villages about nine miles from the city. At the houses of two gentlemen he called at the visitor was refusedadmittance, and when leaving Reasby on the return journey he became intensely excited. On reaching Langwith a bicyclist was passing the cab when the gentleman got up, and standing on the footboard drew a razor from his pocket, and threatened to jump off and stab the man if he did not turn back. Cabby shouted to the cyclist to race off to Linclou for the police, and be passed ahead. Near Reepham Lane end a man with a horse and cart came up from behind, and the gentleman repeated his threat to the driver who whipped his horse and made off. A boy on a bicycle (mune up directly after when the gentleman jumped out of the cab and stopped him. Probably murder would have been committed, but at that moment a trap belonging to Mr. C. C. Sibthorp of Sndbroodke Holme, drove up, and at thiperiod others came on the seene, viz., Mr. Mark Chambers and his son (both employed on Mr. Scorer's farm at Reepham), and Mr. Gillespie, of the Station Hotel, Langwith, and notioing the state of affairs they and the men in Mr. Sibthorp's trap Mr. Ward (the butler) and Mr..Randle—stealthily crept up behind and suddenly seized the maniac's arms. Mr. Ward had pluckily led the attack, and the very moment when the madman's arms were seized the cabman grabbed at the hand which held the razor. —Unfortunately he missed, and exerting his great strength, Taylor for a moment wrenched his arms free. Then commenced a terrible struggle. With his razor Taylor cut two awful wounds on King's thighs, Ward also received two ugly outs on the thighs but both he and King courageously continued the struggle, and at length had the satisfaction of getting Taylor thrown. Then he was quickly disarmed, and King sat upon him while the other man tied his ankles with band and strapped his hands behind him. The madman was eonveyed in Mr. Gillespie's cart to Lindsey Police Station at Lincoln, and here again there was an exciting scene. He, of course bad to be carried almost like a trussed fowl into the 'tidal, but as be seemed quiet, the band tightly fastening kis ankles was removed, and not a second later, he bad another fit of maniacal fury, and kicked Supt. Dein savagely about the thighs and legs. The superintendent at once, threw him down again, but it took four other °Moen to bold the man before he oonld be again strapped. Later on he was seen by two doctors and on Friday he was oonveyed to the Bracebridge Asylum. It was on Friday ascertained the lunatic) is • Mr. Taylor, of the Old Manor House, Kilsby, Rugby.  Oats
The Kenilworth Advertiser. — 1898-09-17 (Kenilworth, Warwickshire, England)

ANARCHIST OUTRAGE.  OONFESSION OF THE MURDERER.  A crime which sent a thrill of horror through the whole civilised world was committed at Geneva on Saturday shortly after noon. The Empress of Austria was assassinated by a young Italian, whose name is given as Luochini. It appears that her Majesty, who had been visiting Montreux, made an excursion theme to Geneva to see her friend, Baroness Rothschild, and was making her way from the hotel Beau Rivage, where she had stayed, to a small steamer on her return journey when the fatal assault was made upon her. Just as she had reached a spot between the famous Brunswick monument and the Hotel de is. Paix a youngish-looking man was observed standing in the shade of a tree at the edge of the pavement. There was nothing in the man's appearance to attract attention or to cause alarm. The Empress merely glanced at him, and then turned her face towards the lake. At that moment the stranger suddenly jumped from under the tree on to the pavement, threw himself with dumb fury upon the defenceless Empress, and dealt her a terrific blow with an awl. The blow was so violent as of itself to throw the Empress to the ground.  The few spectators who were about did not see any weapon in the assassin's hand, and supposed that the lady had been brutally assailed by an ordinary ruffian's fist, and they seized the scoundrel under that impression. Meanwhile the Empress managed to rise from the :ground with the assistance of the lady-in-waitiug, and to stagger towards the steamer, which was almost adjoining. She told those who inquired that she was not much hurt, but soon afterwards she fell back into the arms of her attendant in an unconscious condition. The steamer was by this time on its way to Montreux. The lady-in-waiting now began to fear that the Empress had been seriously hurt by the miscreant's fist. She became more alarmed when she noticed a small, dark stain on the bodice of her Imperial mistress, and with trembling Minds she proceeded to remove the bodice, and to unlace the stays. Then to her horror she saw that the Empress had been stabbed, for just under the left breast there was a wound from whioh there had exuded two or three spots of blood. Orders were at once given for the steamer to be put back to the hotel Beau Rivage. It had actually got as far as the Parc Plant d'Amour.  Meanwhile the Empress's breast and face were bathed with water, and the lady- of -honour attempted to staunch the blood. The Empress was still unconscious, and her face was as the face of the dead. When the steamer reached Geneva, she was carried into the room in the hotel which she had left such a short time before, and was placed upon a bed, from which she was destined never to rise again alive. Three doctors were quickly in attendance, and it was decided to probe the wound, in order to ascertain its direction and depth. This operation was immediately followed by a great eatrush of blood from the wound, and the Empress gave a slight gasp and expired.
The Kenilworth Advertiser. — 1898-02-26 (Kenilworth, Warwickshire, England)

VIII. waa fond of cutting off his wives' heads and that a certain pink soap won't wash monkeys, that two and two  make four and that somebody or other's patent pills will cure everything under the sun except housemaid's knee. Another new departure in the same line was lately noticed on a certain football - ground, where the press box was placarded for several weeks with theatrical posters, with the result that the unfortunate reporters occupying it were held up to the scorn or a ribald crowd as "The Forty Thieves," "The School for Scandal," "Rogues and Vagabonds," " The Liars," and so ou.  " And if children, then hares," was the curious way in which a well-knorn passage from the Epistle to the Romans was rendered by a lay reader of the lessons in a certain church the other day._  A consideration of recent matrimonial complications compels one to conclude that man that is married to a woman is of many grievances and full of trouble. In the morning he draweth his salary, and in the evening, behold I it is gone. It is a tale"that is told. It vanisheth, and no one knows whither it goeth. He riseth up, clothed in the chilly garments of the night, and seeketli the soninambulert paregoric wherewith to sooth his infant posterity. He cometh forth as the horse or ox, and draweth the chariot of his offspring. He spendeth his shekels in the purchase of fine linen to cover his family, yet himself is seen in the gate of the city with no buttons. Yea, he is altogether wretched. Yet, when the nurse comet!' unto him and telleth him that twills have been born unto his house, all his friends will hasten to congratulate him thereon. For such is the foolishness of this world.  Tithes, according to a schoolboy, are "what are worn by young women in pantomimes and circuses."  Justice Hawkins has been having his little joke. At Rutland Assizes, in charging the Grand Jury, several of whom were in hunting attire, his lordship said Uakhatn was not a popular "meet" with lawyers, for the very good reason that they seldom " found " there, and that accounted for the abgence of anyone who even looked like a lawyer. He asked them to diligently draw the ‘c covert " close by, which belonged to that district, and if they did not " find " to come and inform him, and he would tell them what to do. After a few minutes' absence the foreman, the Right Hon. Gerard Noel, announced that the jury had drawn their covert blank, and his lordship, in discharging them, said tint they might go to other fields and pastures new where he hoped, they would "-find." To pursue the metaphor, one wonders whether the prisoners in such a case would share in the appreciation of the sport,. and whether, in the event of a murder trial, it would have been thought proper and dignified to talk about the prospect of winding up with a "kill." There might not be any question of scent to " lie," but some of the witnesses would very possibly do so. They would be pretty sure to " fence" with the question, at all events. But, after all, it seems scarcely "meet's for a lodge ou the Bench to make such remarks..
The Kenilworth Advertiser. — 1898-07-02 (Kenilworth, Warwickshire, England)

THE ATTEMPTED MURDER AT  NUNEATON.  PRISONER COMMITTED FOR TRIAL. At Nuneaton petty sessions on Thursday, before Mr. R. Stanley and Aid. E. Haddon, George Case, pauper, Chilvers Colon, was brought up on remand charged with attempting to murder Elizabeth Ann Ball, matron of Nuneaton Union Workhouse, by cutting her throat with a table knife, on June 20th. Mrs. Ball stated that at about 1.35 p.m. on the day in question she had gone upstairs to change her dress, and had taken off her cap, and was reading on a couch at the foot of the bed when she heard the dormitory door open and shut. Her bedroom door was closed at the time, but was not locked. She saw it opened, and Case came in. She rose and rushed towards the door, but prisoner 1 closed it behind him, and drew a table knife from his coat sleeve. She took hold of his hands, but he threw her backwards on to the couch. She continued to struggle to keep the knife from her throat, and the prisoner put his knee on her stomach. She continued to scream, but felt her strength giving way; her hands were relaxing, and she felt she could not hold out much longer. He seized her by the hair, and endeavoured to push her head back, he meanwhile cutting at her throat, and she trying to protect herself by holding his hands and forcing her chin on to her cheat. The nurse arrived just when she felt she was getting too weak to hold out any longer, and seized Case. About two years ago, prisoner was sentenced to six months' imprisonment for assaulting her, and on the 15th of May, 1828, he threatened her again, and was sent for 14 days.—Sarah Byrne. nurse at the workhouse, :said she was attracted upstairs by screams. On entering the room she was horrified to find Case kneeling on the matron's chest, on the couch, holding her by the hair of the head with one hand, whilst with a knife in the other he was hacking at her throat. Case did not hear witness enter the room, so she seized him by the neckerchief and strangled him off, telling the matron to escape as soon as she could. Witness kept hold of Case until assistance arrived.— Richard Facer, workhouse porter, said that whilst Cage was being removed to another room he said, "If I come back I'll murder the b —." Mr. Walton, workhouse master, said he heard prisoner say he would murder Mrs. Ball if shows. not kept out of his way. During the time he (witness) had been master of the workhouse, prisoner had been inoorrigible, and had been proserouted time after time for various ofienoes.—Dr. Xenon, of Nuneaton, said he found five wounds on Mrs. Ball, and her stomach and arm wen bruised. He examined the knife, which had been rsoendly sharpened. It had bloodstains upon it, and was bent.—ln reply to the Chairman, Dr. Ramon said Dr. Brown, of the county gaol, had written to him when Case wan last there, saying that prisoner, although not of a bright intellect, was not, in his (Dr. Brown's) opinion, insane. Prisoner was committed for trial.