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The Warwickshire Herald. — 1888-11-22 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

THE WHITECHAPEL CRIMES.  FUNERAL OF THE LAST VICTIM.  The remains of the unfortunate woman, Marie Jeannette Kelly, who was murdered on November 9th, in Milier's-court, Dorset-street. Spitalfields, were carried on Monday from Shoreuitch mortuary to the Homan Catholic. Cemetery at Leytonstone, for interment,amidst a scene of turbulent excitement. On the afternoon of the murder the body of the murdered woman was conveyed to the mortuary attached to St. Leonard's Church, Shoreditch, and there it remained until on Nis.n.lay. Since the inquest a great amount of sympathy for the fate of .the nnhappy creature has been created, but it remained. for Mr. R. Wilton, the sexton attached to Shoreditch Church, to put sympathy itito a practical form, and as no relatives have appeared he incurred the total cost of the funeral himself. Mr. Wilton has been sexton for over 50 years, and he pray is led the funeral to; a mark of sincere sympathy with the pair people of the neigh Is an liisad, in whose welfare be deeply interested. The body was enclosed in a p.dished elm and oak coffin, with inetal mount's. On the coffin plate were engraved tin. words : "Marie Jeannette Kelly, died isth Nov. aged 25 years." Upon the coffin were two e; wilt: of artificial flowers and a cross made up of Lep rt,ense. The elan was carried in an open car dr:, wit by two horses, and two coaChes followed. An eisormssus crowd of people assembled at an early hour, completely blocking the thoroughfare. and a lal.ge number of pace were engaged in keeping order. The bell of St. Leonard's began tolling at tmon, the signal appeared to draw all the residents in the neighbourhood together. There WaS an enormous preponderance of women in the crowd, and scarcely any bad any co. ering to their heads. The wreaths npon the c..ftin Is ire cards inscrsi 411 with remembrances from friends using certain public-houses in common with the murdered woman. As the coffin appeared, borne on the sins:Osiers of four men, at the principal gate of the church, the crowd appeared to be greatly affected. Round the open car in which it was to be placed awn and women struggled desperately to get to touch the coffin. Women with faces streaming with tears cried out " God forgive her ! " and every man's head was bared in token of sympathy. The sight was quite remarkable, and the !motion natural and unconstrained. Two mourn. mg coaches followed, one containing three, and the other five persons—mourners who had betn fortifying themselves for the journey at a public. house close to the church gates. Joe Barnett was amongst them. with someone from 111`Carthy's, the landlord; and the others were women who had given evidence at the inquest. After a tremendous struggle, the car, with the coffin fully exposed to view, set out at a very slow pace, all the .crowd appearing to move otf simultaneously in attendance. The traffic was blocked, and the constables bad great difficulty in obtaining free passage for the small procesi•ion through the mass of carts, vans, and tramcars.
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1890-11-06 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

HOUSEHOLD FAIRY. " If I were only • fairy—well!' 'Twould take me ever so long to tell Of all the beautiful things I'd do For everybody I loved, or knew; For I'd have a wonderful wand of gold, Like fairies carried in days of old. "Mother should have a house as grand As any you see in all the land; A cap of lace and a velvet gown, And a carriage to ride about the town She never should do a thing all day But sit at ease like • lady gay; And all this tiresome, tiresome work, Which every day I am glad to shirk, Would just be done—wouldn't that be fine P The minute I waved that wand of mine 1 "That's what I'd like to do, but oh, I'm only a bit of a girl, you know 1 Working away at homely things, And not a fairy with shining wings. I haven't a wand; and if I had, Perhaps the fairies would think it sad, If they had a chance to look and see What a fearfully lazy girl I'd be. "But I have two nimble hands, that know How to knit and to mend and sew, How to cook and to duet and sweepCome, and I'll let you take a peep. So I'll hurry and do my very best, While mother sits by the lire at rest, And she will think, if she does not say, ass little fairy's alive to-day. And for everything that a girl should do, Can wave, n, t one little wand, but two." SIDNEY DAM/.  NEARLY • VICTIM, During the Massacre of St. Bartholomew, when so many Protestants were killed in France, a little boy of 12, named Jacques Is Force, saved his own life in a very clever way. His father and his elder brother had just been killed, .and Jacques was wounded. It was really only • slight scratch, but the boy cried owt. 'Therve kilted me!" and dropped face downwards between the bodies of his father and r brother, so that the cruel murderers pasaedoni thinking be was dead. Jacques lay there as still as a mouse who smells the cat watching for him, until he heard steps. Some of the rough men of the town had come to see whether there was anything worth stealing from the dead bodies. The boy listened eagerly, tome whether any seemed to have a more tender heart than the others. Presently he heard a voice close behind him : "What a pi 4 ! Why, be is only a child. What harm can he have done to anyene!" , Encouttged by the soft words, Jaoqu ' *sedl Id. heel', and whispered— "lam not de 'Dalt mot% toy poor child," said the kind Wiin."l4* *HI a little longer, and I will say. .fi, k.tiine, When the rest of the thieves ' ,sewind tinker ae, the stranger asked Jacques Wllse Lb was, and where he would like to go. The Iltee fellow asked to be taken to the Arsenal, where a rela*n of his woe in No ccgli the twq stattedkArband in hand, flayhanr'J gone far when they were stopped by a man, who wanted to know who the child was; but Jacques's deliverer was clever enough to persuade him that it was a nephew of hie own, who had been naughty, and was ring bone to be whipped.— ./..dde Folks if ovaries. --..... • lip
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1892-07-21 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

WARWICKSHIRE HERALD. .11TURSDAY, JULY 21, 1892  AGRICULTURAL NOTES. TUB SITUATION IN UGANDA. CAPTAIN LUOARD'S REPORT. BY A PRACTICAL FARMER. The Imperial British East Africa Company have received a letter from Captain Lugard, dated from Two BIADRS OF GRASS INSTEAD OF Oes. Kew&lla, February 11th, in winch Ire reports on It is many years since Dean Swift made one of the recent events in Ugandi, giving a very differhis characters remark that he who made two blades eat account from stories telegraphed to French cf grass grow instead of one would be a public papers. He says: "On January 12th the French benefactor, but it has not yet been realised, bishop, who had gone to meet a party of newly• although the writer probably thought that it was arrived priests, reached Menge. Though our mail quite possible that the produce of the land could was supposed to be leaving in a day or two, he lob., doubled. Just now the Americans have the same 'patched urgent mails via Usukuma, without waiting idea put before them by Mr. Dodge, the statistician for it. Almost immediately after this date matters of the Department of Agriculture. He is so con- began to assume • critical aspect here. There had vineed of its truth that be declares it is a disgrace been urtnthoithlfrtevery prospect of continued race. wanodp to his country that the , average yield of wheat daily parties, quarrels ft: rif for eo se spring leini should riot exceed 14 bushels an acre. He there- jtrcig"'twhteweteron.uutbli'lle:.lln every. instance arose from fore foretells that when agriculture in America has aggressions on the part of the Catholics. Matters emerged from its primitive stage the yield of wheat culminated in • cold-blooded murder of a Protestant will be doubled. This may occur, but not just yet: by a Ciatte.holtitc.in the streets of Mango. My urgi nt while virgin soil can be had and crops grown with- set as klfei ngltr ing itnheed torn aptutenri arteiriee eanptirelsy out manure, it is not likely the older cultivated murderer in any way, and Duette, who conveyed districts will be improved by a regular course of a second protest from me, was told openly in the cropping and a thorough cleansing of the land, Burr that if I interfered to see justice done my coupled with a liberal application of manure; soldiers lsoiersteds,hosuniddwb: should to ill, blarn,oKuramrelan. wsounehit, besides, under present conditions and prevailing language in Bum& was an entirely new departstre, prices there does not seem any inducement to adopt and has never been used since I arrived in such • course. It may come to that, but it appears Uganda. At night the French party beat the war likely that only a higher price for wheat will cause drums, and next day, January 24th,got under arms. They had been massing in great numbers in Mengo sufficient energy and enterprise to accomplish such for some days previously. While still engaged in a desirable consummation. negatiations with the King, and endeavouring by "
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1896-01-23 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

DISGRAVEFUL ASSAULT AT BROMFORD.  John Neal, canter, 2 High l'ark Street. Neettelle. was placed in the dock at the Aston Police Court, on Monday. 'barged with committing an. indecent assault on Beatrice Parry. (21), doniestic servant at Bromford, on the 18th, inst. The Magiatrateni on the 11, nehi lerll O. IL Brodie, Aitlertnae Edwards, W. Evans. and Dr. Hill Norria. The preeecutix stated that about six o'clock after paying goodnight to tor sister, in lirvinford Road, who were returning to (irevelly Hill, she retraued bee steps homeward, when she ii' tired the prisoner following her. She had previously seen him standing near a heap of stone' in the road, but did not know him. As ilhe turned into a narrow lane, prisoner said something which she did nut hear distinctly, askl she ran off. Neal also followed awl overtaking her threw her into a bank where he behaved indecently towards her. She wreamed and he put hie hand over her mouth. tste bit hit finger, which on being ahown in Court, was found to be minus a piece. She got away from him, but he caught her a eecsind time, but her screams had attracted attention, and Jofteph Whitehead. Bromford appeared on the scene. The clothing produced—a akirt and jacket—which were covered with mud—she Wad wearing at the time.—The witness Whitehead Najd he wan going home in the direction of Erdington, when he heard shouts of murder, and going in the direction from whence they preceded got within 20 yards of primmer, who had hold of the girl. lie ran away down Wainwright Lane and hid behind a heap of 'Jones. Other aesietance arrived an primmer wee unearthed and ran into the arme of Edward Lavell. The girl appeals d aa though she had been badly used, her hair being down over her face, and her Clothing covered with mud. Abe was crying and witness did not know her until she opoke to him. lie had never 8801 s the prisoner before.—Police constable hipraggett said he went to liromford and saw the prosecutor who made a etatemeist to him. Ile then went to the Navigation Inn where !Prisoner had been detained, and the girl repeated the statement in his pretence. Witness asked him if it was correct, and he replied " Yes. I did all she has said." Witness found prisoner's cap the next evening near the Peelle of the ateault.—The magiatratee after conovltation decided to reduce the charge to an aggravated aesault, and in reply to the Bend', he Irv, no explanation to 'rive of hi. conduct. He had been for a walk but had not been drinking.—The Chairman (Mr. Brodiehsaid tho Prisoner might think himself fortunate that Whitehead appeared when be did, or he might have been in a different peition and sent to the (-leasions, where he would probably have got five years penal servitude He would have to go to gaol for three months with hard labour. The Bench oiler, exnreased their sense of the nerrices rendered by Whitehead and the other mem.
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1896-07-02 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

HIPPOPOTAMUS IN LIVERPOOL. The 'teenier Calabar, from West Africa, has brought into Liverpool a baby hippopotamus. The animal is about 3ft. or 4ft high, and 4ft. or sft. long, and is only three months old. It i 3 so tame that with evident relish it permits strangers to rub Its nose. The capture of the hip opotamus was brought about in an ingenious manner. It seems that it was born in the upper reaches of the Gambia Ricer, West Africi. It is customary for the male to eat the young, and to prevent this being done the mothsr usually secretes her offal ring. The present infant was placed by the mother in a hole dug on toe banks of the river, being afterwards coversd by weeds and grass. This operation was watched by the natives of the village adjacent, and when the mother went to the opposite side of the river to feed they pounced on and secured their youthful prize. This was done by covering the baby with a net and securing it with ropes. They brought their ,stature with all possible speed to the village, and sold it to Mr. J. P. [Ammon, a trader, who was a passenger in the Calabar. The animal is in good condition, thaudi its hide bears traces of the ropes that bound It when first capture], and when its coat was tendet. Its quarters on the viya e were a large crate, and its ..h ef f •nd ~, end vegetables.  The Cumuli r .1 al•Ved at Queenstown, from New York, on Friday morning. Although six hours' fog was encountered, winch caused her to steam at reduced apeed, she accomplished the pusage in eve days, 12 mourn, 32 minutes, which beats haw own record for the eastern pewee by the long route by 36 minutes. Slm steamed 2,899 miles, and averaged 2118 knots an hour. A murder was peipetrated at Liverpool on Friday morning. The polhe on being called to the house of Andrew Larkin, coal heaver, found LArkm's see, aged two and a-half :tears, in a dying condition. The child, wMch had been hacked about the head with a hatchet, was removed to a hospital, where be expired a few moments after aumisiiou. The father has been The Poplar Board of Guardians and other locrl East-end bodies have decided to petition against the Government Agricultural Rating Bill, which, It is alleged, will increase the London rates by £400,000 yearly. In sentencing a man named Mirlhall, who had been convicted of burglary at Admirml Cator's, Abbrit's Langley, Herta, to 12 months' hard labour, Mr. Justice Mathew said hr, drew a distinction tw:tween idetour and an armed burglar. If be hal been armed, he should have sent him to penal servitude for the rest of his Ilfe, which was a fate he intended to indict on every wind buralar. . _  A sad bathing fatality occurred near Tenby on Saturday evening. A young man named Henry James, belonging to Penslly; was bathing at Oiltar Feint, and suddenly thiwttd eigns of distress. His tether, who was out, Ding him from the shore. Immediately threw ell part of his clothing and ',lunged in to his :•ni's assistance. On reaching tits, the lad clutched tlin, 1..4 both Walt cloa and were &eruct,.
Weekly News. — 1890-04-10 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

MURDERS IN MOROCCO.  News has been received of a wholesaie iturdet .iommitted in the city of Morocco. A caravan, ,tarting from the latter place, brought eight paeking-eases to Mazagau, addressed to a person oho Was unknown in the town. The camel  Iriver, not knowing what to do with the lostes, deposited them with the Caid, who,  m course of time, had them opened. It was hen discovered that the cases contained no fewer ian 18 headless coi pses. They were thugs it 16 young women, one negress, and one lean. The i.idissis had been cut up and embalmed, and were packed in the boxes with great care. Thvough the ,minel driver it was ascertained that the Loxes were ,adided to bins by a richly-dressed man. who saving init him on the Market-place at Morocco, tool :him to uis house to arrange for the carriage of the packing. !tams. When the police went to the house indicated this individual had disappesved, but it was ascertained front the neighbours that he had ivally inasbited the house for some considerable time, and .uat he was in the habit of ri calving numerous young women. Whist took place within those walls be imagined with all the greater vividness when it i.added that this fiend's only servants were a negreas and a than. Up to the present time none of the IS hvads have been found.  Harm Wharmby, of the Everton Athletic Footall Club, while playing in match on Saturday watt charged by a paver, and had to be carried oif r.tie field. It was at terwards found that Wharruby's bone had been broken and hid shoulder dislocated.  Benjamin Wood, 92 years of age, has died from hokiuz. whilst getting his dinner at the Red Lion Bankfout, Bradford. A melancholy boating accident has occurred off l'enartli. Mr. Buyer and Mr. Alfred Thornley, eOlest son ut Igajor Thornley, of the Bubniarine Mining Engineers, and himself a lieutenant in the corps, were out boating, when their light craft waa caught in a sudden squall and upset. Both, being d swimmers, made for the shore, but Mr. Boyer, ,eing that his boat was all right, suggested that her should swim back to it. lo this Mr. Thorn's,' 11,muted, and was proceeding in the direction of the bat when he was swept away by a current and drowned. Several boats put off to hie assistance, but failed to arrive in time. Since duly 31st, 114.38, the lumber of persons in England and Wales who have been imprisoned for non-compliance with the terms of the Vaccination Act is 113. During the same period no less than 1060 persnm have been fined for a similar infringement of the same Acts. The "Champion Infringer" is a man of Kent, designated in the Parliamentary return as "Mr. C. IL" Tins doughty anti-vaccinator has been fined 38 times in all, and has paid fines to the amount of 05 10A. Taking the bereughs in their order of .anti-vaooinatory Jen I, Leicester cumin's out, feici.L. Inherit, with a lung tale of no lens than 3,249 of its citizens on the fine list. The West Itidiug Of Yorkshire makes but a bad second with 888
Weekly News. — 1890-08-07 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

SHOCKING DOMESTIC TRAGEDY.  Barlborough, a mining village situate a few miles from Chesterfield, was early on Sunday morning the scene of a double tragedy which is remarkable in collier familynamed a , E,cl to. Edwardg French t yresidedcral Pet t d i w a la few months ago. He was a very respectable, quilt I young man,and was a noted athlete. Notwithstanding I the fact that lie gave his wife most of hit wagea each week, she pawned things, and, it is said, was on intimate terms with another miner. Losing all patience with her,lie brolce up the home, sent his five children to reside at Barlboro' with his brother, who curiously enough had married his (French's) wife's mother, and went to Normanton to work. Mrs. French also went to the tan., address at Barlhoro', and each week the husband remitted her 10s. Shortly after she went there, she was confined of twins. 'three weeks ago French threw up his situation at Normauton, and came back to Eckington, lodging in the lonise of Mrs. Gee, moister of his. He continued his remittances regularly, but at the early part of last week lie intimated that he felt he would do seine harm to his wife, and that he should go to America. On Saturday morning he decided to go and see his wife, and give her some of the money lie had saved op. Ho and his wife sat op till after the others in the house had gone to bed, but between 1 and 2 on Sunday morning the woman screamed out 'Mother" three times. The elder woman rushed downstairs, and found her daughter lying down with her bead nearly severed from her body, and French standing over her with a razor in hie hand. He was partially undressed, but ran out • after breaking the traitor blade from this haft. He proceeded to Eekington, and meeting two bmustu t ohne yt hael iwgehdw told lons t o escape. te l nl whatll:wickhad mgt °duo uhes, aroused the relatives he had lodged with, and his mother, who byes next door, and said he bad cut his wife's head off, and was going to destroy himself. He then disappeared, and later in the day • was found on the railway a mile or so away, his head cut off. He was perfectly sober at the time he committed the murder, lint it is believed he had meditated the crime for some time past, and that jealousy was the cause. His mother is GO ill through the shock that she is not expected to re*over. She lied previously losl two sous by collier? accidents and en* daughter by drowning.  A statue of the late Mr. W. E. Forster, erected in the Embankment Gardens, immediately opposite the offices of the London School Board, was unveiled en Friday, in the presence of • large usembly, by Viscount eranbrook, Lord President if the Council, who observed that, in the 20 years whioh had elapsed mice the passing of the Education Act, an opportunity had been afforded of seeing how far that measure had gone to accomplish Mr. Foreter's great wish, that the people cif this country should not only be industrious, but aleu intelligont and understanding.
Weekly News. — 1890-07-17 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

REVOLTING CRUELTY TO A CHILD. The first case at quarter sessions under the Act passed lest year for the prevention of cruelty to :hildren, has just been brought before Recorder Lockwood, at Sheffield. There were two prisoners, Phonies Lloyd and Lavinia Cousins, his para. Dour, and the evidence disclosed abominable malty by them towards the child of another woman who was placed in their care. The Recorder said it was difficult to find language to adequately express the horror which he felt at their terrible conduct, and he sentenced the men to fire years' penal servitude, and the woman to two, the maximum penalty under the respeotie* charge hid. It was stated that the woman frequently knocked the child down and kicked it, and more than once she picked it up by the hair of the head and dashed it to the ground. One day she tied the child to the bed and made what she called • cruoifix of it, and at another time she struck the youngster to the ground, and put her foot an its stomach. The male prisoner WY seen by one witness to be holding the child in his arms and dash. mg it upon the kitchen table, and • police-serpent Lund him beating the little one (who was asked) with • belt on which was a steel buckle.  An extraordinary case is now pending at Mande lay. Two fotesters seek to bring a pauper suit to revive, for their own benefit and that of othee foresters, a judgment of the Hlootdaw or counoil of Burmese Ministers, pronounced in 1885, fining the Bombay and Burmah Trading Corporation nearly two million and a half of rupees for the benefit of the king. The Government of India considered the /Anion of the Hlootdow wolf a gross violation of justice that it was the immediate osuae of the ie. elision and musezation of Upper Burmah. A collision bee occurred in Sheerness Harbour between the Wildfire, the flagmhip of the Commanderin-Chief at the Nora, and the War Department'. steamer Stanley. The Wildfire was at anchor, and the Stanley, in steaming alongside the Gun Wharf, was caught by the tide and drifted against the Wildfire, damaging several feet of her hull. The Stanley, which wee uninjured, left the harbour at 1 o'clock on Saturday for Woolwich. At Aldershot on Saturday. the Albert Medal of the second clam, awarded by the queen, was presented to Private David Davis, 16th Lancers, for his gallantry in stopping a pair of home which had bolted down hill, and thereby saving the livss of several children. Davis, in performing his gallant action was very severely injured, and is still in hospital. General Wood made the presentation in presence of the divisional staff. When the hangman at Vancouver (British (Jolumbia) attempted to tie the hands of a murderer named Gallagher, the man fought furiously. It r.quired Lii,, *Gelled' of *ix men, who struggled with him for three minutes, to *Oahe him. After the black cap wits pulled down over dm condemned mati's eyes, the sheriff asked Galleglier to day if he was guilty or not guilty. The latter replied, " Its none of your busintes."