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The Tamworth Examiner and Working Men's Journal. — 1874-07-04 (Tamworth, Staffordshire, England)

ATTEMPT TO MURDER A. CHILD AT BRISTOL.  On Monday afternoon a most astonishing and brut& ' attempt at murder was made by a man named John Shaughnossy, living in a court in Eugene-street, St. James's, who deliberately hung one of his children, a boy aboul. three years of age, up to a door-post, and but for the timely discovery of some of the neighbours would have succeeded in taking the poor little fellow's life, as when released from his perilous position be was quite black in the face, and when afterwards taken to the Police-station the marks of the rope with which the father had sought to carry into effect the inhuman act were plainly visible upon his neck. It appeared that the father, John Shaughnessy, who lived at No. 4, Fox j and Crane-court, Eugene-street, St. James's, was drink- I ing with his wife and some other persons at the Fox I and Crane tavern. An altercation tock place, and I Shaughnessy, who was evidently under the influence of liquor, became very excited. He suddenly left the public-house, and going home he saw his boy Michael, three years old, playing in the court. He called him into the house and was heard by some of the neigh. hours to say that he intended banging the child and himself, but as he was intoxicated his threat was believed to be an idle one. Soon after he had entered the house, however, a Mrs. Lewis, who lived opposite, observed him deliberately hanging the child to a doorpost, with a rope or line which he had fastened round his neck. She ran immediately into Shaugbne,sy's house, and, screaming for assistance, a man named Dempsey, who resides in the same house as Shang], , nessy, and was fortunately at home, ran to her aid, and ; he observed the child hanging from the door post by a 1 clothes line, which had been fastened twice around his I neck, and the inhuman father was pulling his legs. Dempsey immediately cut the rope and released the' child, who was then quite black in the face and nearly insensible, but he soon recovered. P.C. 41 was called in, and he found Shaughnessy in a state of semi-nudity , and in a very wild and.excited state. Being informed of the circumstances, he took him into custody, and eonveyed him to the Central Police Station, where he was locked up on the charge of attempted murder. The child was also taken to the Police Station, and the , marks of the rope upon his neck were plainly visible to . the police authorities.  In Loudon and twenty other large towns the average mortality recorded last week was 22 per 1,000. In the order of health the returns were as follow :—Leicester, 14; Wolverhampton., 15; Norwich, 17; Sunderland, 18; Loudon and Edinburgh, 19; Portsmouth. 21; ilull, Shef- j field, and Nrdtin,diam, 22 ; Leeds, 23; Birmingham and , Dublin, ; Bristol, Manchester, and Bradford, 25 ;1 Glasgow and Salford, 26; Newcastle, 27; Liverpool, 28; and Oldham, 32. In London 2,228 births and 1,2161 deaths were registered, the former being five above and the latter 167 below the average of the last ten years.
The Tamworth Examiner and Working Men's Journal. — 1874-05-02 (Tamworth, Staffordshire, England)

ALM LI. imay fire nor flood to root you out from earth," " Faradol I've escaped," pleaded Mrs. Holt, looking o the immobile face of the artist from the depths ber dark blue eyes ; "it is you who are a Krum of iger to nor." "Only while you persist in being a source of danger to yourself." " What can I dare or do, or hope to dare or do," cried Mrs. Holt, clasping her bands passionately, "so that you will cease from so cruelly hunting and pursuing me? lam wicked, God knows that I am," Cie sobbed, falling upon her knees, "but have I not suffered already beyond my guilt? Have I not paid the penalty of my sin again and again these past few months in bitterness and in tears? My future—my lifeassmy all is in your hands. Tell me, then, mine accuser—tell me what I've done that you may not shew site mercy?" 'You do not ask for mercy," answered the artist. "You ask for power to add another link to that awful chain of sin with which your later life is all bound up. Shew mercy to Sir Marmaduke, Mrs. Holt, before you dare to crave the boon from me." "Can nothing move you, then, nor entreaties nor supplications! Look at ! Look at my tears! Let me pray to you. Spare me. Forget what I was; see what I am. I plead at your feet for my life! S. how repentant I am! Have mercy on me, then !" "I'm not unmerciful," responded the artist, in his cold merciless way. "I offer you more than mercy. Abandon all hope and all thrght of Sir Marmaduke, and I offer you my hand! Mrs. Holt started to her feet. "I'm miserable you tell me, I'm wicked you tell me; and yet you would stoop from the high pinnacle of your own great virtues to marry me—whom you call a murderess. But my heart's blood, Mr. Armitage, is not to be saved at the price of my heart. I yield Sir Marniaduke because It is the price you put upon my life. For the rest, I scorn it all. Death itself would be more welcome to me than the insults with which you have mingled my prayers and my tears. I loathe you, Mr. Armitage. Leave me." Mrs. Holt pointed with her finger to the door. The ruddy firelight—for the gas was yet unlit— played duskily over Mrs. Molt's features, ending to her a look of horrible wildness as she stood there with her tresses all dying in the wind, beckoning the artist to be gone. Mr. Armitage rose on the instant. "To-morrow, madam," he said, "yon will think better of this. I leave you to your thoughts, and I wish you good evening." Mrs. Holt id not answer, and the artist strode slowly from the room and along the hall, where he dashed away a great tear that had rolled down his big brown beard. Mrs. Holt sank back into her chair as soon as he was gone, and, burying her head in her hands, wept and thought by turns.  Into d dant
The Tamworth Examiner and Working Men's Journal. — 1874-11-28 (Tamworth, Staffordshire, England)

THE MURDEROUS ATTACK UPON A WOLVERHAMPTON TRADESMAN. DEATH OF MR. NENDICK.,—THE INQUEST. Mr. Nendick, grocer and provision dealer, of Wor. cester.street, who was murderously assaulted last Monday evening-week, at his own shop door, died front the injuries he received, about seven o'clock on Sunday morning. During the time he has been in the Hospital his wounds have been carefully attended to by Mr. Appleyard, the hospital surgeon, and his °colleagues, and up to Saturday last hopes were entertained that he might recover. Towards midnight, however, feverish symptoms appeared, and on being examined it was found that erysipelas had set in. He gradually grew worse, and died at the hour stated above on Sunday morning. The inquest upon the body was opened on Tuesday morning, at the Haymaket Inn, before Mr. Horatio Brevett, deputy.coroner, in the absence of the coroner, Mr. William Henry Phillips. The foll.c.ving gentlemen comprised the Jury :—Messrs. Fsak Walker (foreman), Thomas Wadley, Charles Warner, Harry Jones, Edwin Brown, George Dudley, George Lovett, Alfred Dicks, Lewis Benjamin, John Garret, Samuel Giles, Thomas Burns, Robert Carter, and William York. Thomas Harrison, shoemaker, was the first witness called. He said in reply to the coroner: I knew the deceased, William Nendick, and had done so for many years. My shop in Worcester-street is next door but one /0 his. I last saw him alive on Wednesday night week, about a quarter past nine o'clock as near as I can think, and he was then closing his shop. At that time I was fastening my shop door. I did not speak to him. I do not think that I had seen him before on that day. I did not notice anyone near him when he was putting the shutters up, but two young people were passing. I then went to my son's shoji which is above Mr. Nen. dick's, and I then observed two young men standing in the door way of his (the son's) shop, but I did not know them. I should not have observed them had I not en. tered my son's shop; but I had to pass between them in order to enter. The men had not been purchasing anything nor did my son know they were there, he not being able to see them, owing to the door being nearly shut and the shutters up. The young men were rather short and stout, snd they had dark clothes on, but I did not notice their hats. They were respectable-looking, and I thought they had gone there to shelter. When I went into my son's Mr. Nendick had not finished putting up :he shutters. Up, coining out of my son's shop one of them said toe "It's as wet night." I said it was, but Mr. N( did not speak when I passed. Mr. Nendick appe to be in his usind health. Only one of the young is spoke to me. I did not notice whether Mr. Nendick shop was shut or not when I left my son's nor any light burning. I asked my son when he came home if he had seen two young men, und he replied that he had
The Tamworth Examiner and Working Men's Journal. — 1874-03-14 (Tamworth, Staffordshire, England)

THE GOOD TEXPLABB.—Speaking at Stookton. on-Teeq on Monday, the 4 ;rand Worthy Chid Templar, who is restored to health, said the One of Good Templars was making rapid progress it the country, and he was hopeful in reference k future political action. The New York Tribune of the 26th of Fobrer reports a heavy fall of snow on the previous de; throughout an extended region north and son* In New York the storm is described as 'the malt uncomfortable and severe of the winter, delaying travel and seriously interfering with business,  The Tichborne trial is actually wandering into the realms of music. No less an artist than It Charles Gounod has written a song concerningtlie same, which is shortly to be published, and will be called " Chidiock Tichborne." The substance of the song consists of words quoted in the Attornop General's closing speech.  ru CaPe teleg been \Tole  laeovirooji Pe&t!d t fail ec tter to 1 tY obtain, ,k oft estructi, , &ban  On the eiiy h sength eld Bpi] reo., whe!  Cardinal CaPen has issued a pastoral, in ;chi& he refers to the Pope as a prisoner, robbed of his estates and left without necessary means; but who, thanks to the obedience and attachment of the faithful, ha not been allowed to suffer the evils and affliction of poverty. The Cardinal said that in Germany most iniquitous persecutions aro carried on against bishops and priests and other religious men. An inquest was held on Monday, on the members of the Coombe.) family, who have been poisoned, three more of whom, the father ant two little children lgirls), died on Saturday. The inquest was adjourned. It is stated that the fatal), have beet p4isoried by using water from a bucket which had once contained a sheep dressing composition. The three remaining members of the family are dangerously ill.  At a meeting of the members of the West Lancashire Co+l Association, representing the colliery proprietors of the Wigan, St. llelens, Leigh, and other districts, held in Liverpool on Monday, the following resolution was unanimously adopted That in consequence of the recent reduction in the price of coal, and the depression of the trade, the wages of the colliers in the West Lancashire district be reduced 15 per cent., and that a fort. night's notice of this redaction be given on Tuesday, the 10th of March inst, at all collieries, to commence running from the next making•up day." On Sunday morning the dead body of a inuor., named Peter Sharp, was found lying near the Baptist Chapel, Crieff. On examination it was found that the man had been stabbed in the eide, and had lost a great quantity of blood, for the ground was marked with blood for a distance of about 200 yards. That a foul murder had been committed seems beyond a doubt, for the deceased had been robbed of his watch and ch .in and what money had been in his possession. The occurrence has created a great sensation in the town, and the authorities are investigating the matter.  a at one ito the t We occ dl liber I imm  I had wee fel 1 of th 011 e the  ALLZGED OCTBAGE Olt TH7
The Tamworth Examiner and Working Men's Journal. — 1874-12-19 (Tamworth, Staffordshire, England)

THE NEWEST PATTERNS. B. (Siff uel, at Dun.tall, said he was tot watching on the Burtou-plece, about fifty yards off. He then saw two night in question, mid hearing shots fired went in the 1 persons at the spot from where the noise proceeded, dir, ebi .of the sound, and eventually came upon a man 1 close to Goldstraw's double gates. Witness heard two Attendance every Saturday Evenin at the Market Hall, Swadlincote, from 6to 10 p.m. g 11811. LL William Owen, who turned round and shot at I heavy groans ; that was perhaps three minutes after witness, but he (witness) seeing him turn, "dropped 1 he hesiel the words. Seeing som,?hing like a "shadow" down fiat," and the shots went over him. He (witness) 1 on the footpath, directly after he heard the groans, witgot up and continued the pursuit, anti the man then , ness sent his son to see what it was, and while his son called to two other men who were in advance to come • was going up Burton-place witness saw a short stiff . back, which they did, and commenced stoning witness. 1 man stoop down within a few yards of the place where Prisoner was arrested at Wolverhampton. Mr. Young 1 the quarrel had taken place. The man, whoever he contended that the evidence of identity was not suffi- I was, ran away in the direction of Buclepall Road. cb-ntly clear to convict the prisoner. The jury found ! Herbert Clewlow, a son of the last witness, aged prisoner guilty, and his Lordship remarked that he had ! nine, gave confirmatory evidence as to going up Burton been convicted no less than nine times, and be now Fen- I Place. towed him to seven years' penal servitude. 1 Ann Clewlow said her attention was willed to Burton THEFT Br A Pograissr.—William Goddard (18), ' Place on the day in question, and on going there saw a letter-carrier, pleaded guilty to an indictment charging I man lying against the wall, and another man trying to him with stealing, on the 16th October, 1874, at the I raise him up. parish of Castle Church, a post-letter, and also on the . Mary Jarvis said she was going up Meigh.street, Seth of October, stealing two poet letters, the property i about half-past eight. A niti came running down. of the Postmaeter-General. Mi. McMahon said be was He seemed to come horn B on Place. He caught instructed to prosecute in this case. During the time her right shoulder an I Woe her roued. She heart a the prisoner was employed at the post office at Stafford groan. She said, "Oh, man, what have you been Station, a number of letters and other articles had been doing? Have you been murdering someone?" He missed, and some of them were traced to the possession then struck her a blow in4iiie eyes, which stunned her. of the prisoner. Mr. Young produced letters urging the —Cross.examined : Theitrwas a lamp near to where good character of the prisoner.—His Lordship passed a she stood. She could not swear to the man. sentence of five years' penal serviture. Mary Ann Boot sail she was at the corner of Burton
The Tamworth Examiner and Working Men's Journal. — 1874-09-12 (Tamworth, Staffordshire, England)

POETRY.  THE GAME LAWS. BY A CHURCH CLEBOYMAN.—(CANON KINGSLEY.) The merry brown barns came leaping Over the crest of the hill, Where the clover and corn lay sleeping Under the moonlight still. Leaping late and early, Till under their bite and their tread The swede, and the wheat, and the barley, Lay cankered, and trampled, and dead.  A poacher's widow at sighing On the side of the white chalk bank, Where under the gloomy firwoods One spot in the ley throve rank. She watched along tuft of clover, Where rabbit or hare never ran; For its black sour haulm covered over The blood of a murdered man.  She thought of the dark plantation, And the hares and her husband's blood, And the voice of her indignation Rose up to the throne of God. "I am long past wailing and whining.— I have wept too much in my life; I've had twenty years of pining As an English labourer's wife. A labourer in Christian England, Where they cant of a Saviour's name, And waste men's lives like the vermin's For a few more brace of game. There's blood on your new foreign shrubs, squire; There's blood on your pointers' feet; There's blood on the game you sell, squire; And there's blood on the game you eat ! You have sold the labouring man, squire, Body and soul to shame, To pay for your seat in the House, squire, And to pay for the feed of your game You made him a poacher yourself, squire, When you'd give neither work nor meat; And your barley fed hares robb'd the garden At our starving children's feet; When packed in ore reeking chamber, Man, maid, mother, and little ones lay; While the rain pattered in on the rotting bride-bed And the walls let in the day; When we lay in the burning fever On the mud of the cold chy floor, Till you parted us all for three months, squire, At the cursed workhouse door. Can your lady patch hearts that are breaking With hanafuls of coal and rice, Or by dealing out flannel and sheeting A little below cost.pricur You may tire of the jail and the workhouse, And take to allotments and schools, But you've run up a debt that will never Be repaid us by penny-club rules. In the season of sham, .1 sadness, In the dark and dre:: When scrofula, gout, a.. indnese, Are eating your race . When to kennels and liveri, arlets You have cast your clang: bread, And, worn out with liquor aid harlots, Your heir at your feet lies dead; When your youngest, the meally-mouthed rector, Lets your soul rot asleep to the grave, You will find in your God the protector Of the freeman you fancied your slave." She looked at the tuft of clover, And wept till her heart grew light; And at last, when her passion was over, Went wandering into the night. But the merry brown hares came leaping, Over the uplands still, Where the clover and corn lay sleeping On the aide of the white chalk hill.
The Tamworth Examiner and Working Men's Journal. — 1874-09-12 (Tamworth, Staffordshire, England)

INTOLERANCE TO LABOURERS' UNIONS IN LINCOLNSHIRE.  We extract the following " leader " from the Daily News :—A correspondent has sent us a programme of the fourth annual exhibition of the Elsham and Worlaby (Lincolnshire) Cottagers' Horticultural Society, which has among its subscribers and supporters Mr. H. Chaplain, M.P., Mr. It. Wynn, M.P., and many other gentlemen of .influence. The society, we learn from its programme, is established "for the purpose of encouraging useful and neat cultivation of cottage gar. dens." We cannot say that we admire some of the rules announced for the management of the iihow, which takes place, it appears, next Friday. A notice rather conspicuously printed announces that "no person in the Agricultural Labourers' Union, on and after the Ist of June, 1874, will be allowed to compete at this show." It probably did not occur to any of the persons concerned lathe management of this remarkably exclusive exhibition that a little of this sort of thing is just needed to make every independent agricultural labourer in a district feel inclined to go, rightly or wrongly, the uttermost length that any union will carry him. Another rule sets forth that "any per. sons obtaining entrance without payment, or in any way misbehaving themselves, will be ducked in the pond." This intimation is printed in italics to make it the more emphatic. The sort of coarse horse-play which Ruch an announcement as this is calculated to stimulate is likely to elevate very much the character of the show and its frequenters and the neighbourhood generally. The Elsham and Worlaby Society, which is established for the encouragement of neat gardening, is not much concerned apparently about the encouragement of decent manners. It is not the Agricultural Labourers' Union, at all events, which endeavours to introduce among these Lincolnshire oottagers the performances which we all admire so much when the roughs of a low rAce-courae get them lip for the punishment of "welchers." We do not know which rule of the society is calculated to do more for the improvement of the neighbourhood—that which puts the Agricultural Labourers' Union under a ban, or that which invites the select and admitted crowd to duck objectionable persona in the pond.  An Armenian youth named Sarkies has been murdered in the open streets of Calcutta by a Benemlee Sabo°, a clerk in the Foreign Office, who stabbed his victim in the throat with an eraser. The deed was the result of a quarrel. UNNOTfOLESOME FoOD.—A generalerusade has just been made by the officers of the Sheffield Corporation against certain tradesmen who have been dealing in bad fool. Mr. John Brinnen, butcher, of Fowler-street, was fined £E3O for exposing for sale eighty Pieces of bad meat, some of which was thoroughly putrid ;, and Isaac Plant, provision dealer, of Meadow-street, was fined .f.,55 for exposing for sale eight hams totally unfit for human foal. A trait dealetr, tatibed William Cooper, living in Old-street, was also hued .f.. 5 and costs for selling bad pears.
The Tamworth Examiner and Working Men's Journal. — 1874-08-15 (Tamworth, Staffordshire, England)

BRUTAL OUTRAGE UPON AN IRISHMAN AT TAMWORTH—On Thursday at the County Petty Sessions, James Sidwells, miner, of Clifton; Joseph Sidwells, miner, of Coton-in-the-Elms ; John Jackson, alias "Brim," alias "Brummy," bricklayer, Coton-in-theElms ; William Toon, alias "King," miner, Linton; Herbert Paynton, miner, Linton; and Samuel Peech, alias "Ward," miner, Linton, were charged with wounding and inflicting bodily harm upon James Kearns, an Irish labourer, of Seckington. It appeared that the prosecutor, with two companions, was proceeding from Seekington to Tamworth, about nine o'clock I on Saturday night the first inst. when they were overtaken by a trap containing five or six men, including the prisoners, who were accompanied by several dogs, two of the latter being particularly noticed by prosecutor and his companions as black greyhound, ono with a ring of white hair round its throat. As the trap passed, one of the party addressed prosecutor and his friends as b--- Irish paddies," to which they rejoined, "We are ' not Irish paddies." One of the men in the trap then ordered the driver to turn back, so that they might "kill the Irishmen," and, seeing the trap turning round, the three men got over a stile into a field. They were followed by three men, and two of them coming up with Kearns, set upon him in a most brutal manner, knocked him down and kicked him repeatedly whilst on the ground, breaking two ribs, causing the blood to flow profusely from his head and face, and braising his body from his head to his knees. They then left him, and drove away at full speed in the trap. Kearns' companions, on hearing his cries of "Murder,' and "Help," hurried back to his assistance, in time to see his assailants move off. The injured man was found to be unable to move, and a handcart had to be procured to take him to Tamworth, and he has been and still is an inmate of the Union Infirmary. He is a labourer, and recently came over from Ireland, where he has a wife and five children, for the harvest. It being dark at the time of the assault, prosecutor was unable to identify his assailants. Mr. Argyle, however, called Sergeant Adams, of the Derbyshire Police Force, who saw four of the prisoners leave Coton in a trap about 7.30 the same even leg, and proceed, accompanied by two black greyhound dogs and a smaller one, in the direction of the place of the outrage ; it is supposed the two other prisoners ' (the Sidewells) got into the cart further on, as they were found the same night at Tatuworth, sleeping together in the same inn. They had with them a horse and cart and two black greyhound dogs, which were identified by Ream's companions as the same that passed them with the trap. On being examined by Messrs. Woollaston, blood was found on the back of Roynton's hands, and two spots of blood were found on James Sidwell's trousers. Peech was with the latter, and gave his name as " Joseph Ward."—The Magistrates eventually committed the prisoners to take their trial at the next Warwickshire Assizes. Bail for their appearance was aecepted.