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The Warwickshire Herald. — 1889-10-10 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

SUICIDE OF A MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT.  Brighton has been deprived of its junior member by a sad occurrence. Sir William Tindal Robertson, M.P., for some time past has been in • serious mental state. He has recently been residing at Broadstairs for the benefit of his health, and returned to his Brighton residence about five weeks since. Restored to his family circle, he appeared to improve, and the anxiety of his friends was in some measure removed. On Saturday night he retired to rest at his usual hour, nothing unusual being apparent in his condition, but when his attendant went to rouse him on Sunday morning, about • quarter to 8, he found him dead, with his throat out and a razor lying close by. Medical aid was at once sought, and Dr. Lowe, who lives close by, was called, and was of opinion that death had ensued about an hour before the body was found. The deceased had been in a desponding state for some time past. Sir W. Tindal Robertson was the eldest son of the late Mr. Frederick Fowler Robertson, of Grantham, was born in 1825, educated at King Edward Vl.'s Grammar School, Grantham, and studied at University College Hospital with a view to entering the medical profession. In 1846 he matriculated at the London University, and, after serving as junior medical officer at the Middlesex Hospital, graduated as doctor of medicine at the University of Edinburgh. In 1873 he was shame a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians. His connection with Brighton began in 1876. He was elected a member of the Town Council, and chairman of the Conservative and Constitutional Association, which post he continued to occupy until he was unanimously selected by the party for nomination as member for the borough. In 1886 he was elected to Parliament to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Alderman David Smith. Sir Tindal Robertson rendered signal service as a member of the Royal Commission on the Blind, the Deaf, and the Dumb, and it was in connection with the Commission that he received, in 1888, the honour of knighthood. The deceased gentleman was blind, the result of a disease which attacked him when in the prime of life. He was extremely popular at Brighton with all parties. An inquest was held onalionday as to the death of the hon. gentleman. The evidence 'hewed that he had of late suffered from illness,depression of spirits, and bewilderment. The jury returned a verdict of suicide while of unsound mind.  Captain S. J. Engelhardt Jorgensen, who left London on the 12th September in a new lifeboat 1 Galled the Storm Hinz. haa arrived at Madeira.
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1886-08-19 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

COMBE MILLER, J.P. has offered his park at Oakfield (about a mile fiom Dartford) to celebrate the return of the nineteen Conservative members for the county of Kent. Probably the whole of the nineteen M.P.'s will be present, and many of the leading Conservatives. The demon.  strat-ion will not be -held until the second week in september, so that Lord Randolph Churchill may fulfil his promise to be present. AT a meeting of the subscribers to the fund which was got up to relieve the relatives of the 124 men who perished through the "Daphne" capsizing, it was reported that £2,100 had been expended in relief during the past year, and that £lO,OOO had been distributed since the fund was started.—The Chairman stated that last year fifty widows had been aided, and eighty-three children educated at the fund's expense. Eight widows who had married this year had each been presented with £2O as a wedding present. THERE was unveiled on Saturday, in St. Martin's Church, Brighton, a memorial erected by the officers and men of the sth (Royal Irish) Lancers, in honour of their comrades who fell in the recent Nile and Soudan campaigns. The church is that always used by the regiments quartered in the Brighton barracks.  THE Medical Officer of Canterbury has reported to the sanitary authority that the epidemic of diphtheritic sore throat which attacked 200 persons there arose from drinking contaminated milk. THE estimated cost of the Manchester Jubilee Exhibition, to be opened next year. is £32,683. A guarantee fund of £lOO.OOO has been already subscribed.  A YOUNG Chinese officer, attached to the Legation in New York, has attempted suicide by banging in consequence of an unfortunate attachment to a young lady of Washington. THE Queen has just presented the Indians and natives who recently visited Windsor Castle with photographic groups of themselves, taken on the east terrace during their stay at the palace. The pictures have been printed in monochrome, in order that the visitors may possess lasting mementoes of their interview with the Sovereign. Mr. C. N. NawnEGATE, addressing a large meeting at Nuneaton on Saturday night. strongly advocated the retention of the House of Lords. The Americans, he said, were no fools. They were Republicans, but nothing would persuade them to have less than two legislative assemblies.  A FARM labourer named Pigott. recently crployed near Sevenoaks, in Kent:has just come into a snug little fortune of £70.000 by the death of a relative..  tin all pp Dll  urn] tinli thai tras  , 1 . I 1 •
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1886-05-27 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

ACCIDENTS AND CRIME.  A MINER named Thomas Hopinson, of llyhope, attempted to commit suicide at Sunderland on Saturday morning by jumping over the Wearmouth Bridge, a height of close upon 100 feet above high water mark. Three men who were passing in a boat at the time picked him up, and be appeared to be no worse for his immersion. A letter was found in his pocket asking his wife to forgive him for what be was about to do,  AT Leatning,ton Police-court, last week, two errand boys, both aged fourteen years, were brought up in custody, one being charged with robbery and the other with receiving stolen goods. The receiver was found in possession of a silver plated revolver and a bowie knife, with which he had armed himself preparatory to a voyage to California, where he intended to use the weapons in hunting antelopes and other wild animals. When threatened with apprehension by the police, he said that when they came !he should put a bullet through them. The thief was ! ordered to be birched and the receiver to be sent to a refonnatory for five years. AT the Leeds Assizes, on Saturday, a barber named Robert Kenworthy, Cliff, was found guilty of having committed a criminal assault on his daughter, aged ten years. Justice Wills said he must pass a severe sentence, as he almost invariably did under such circumstances, because an oatrage of such a kind had features which scarcely any crime of the same nature possessed, lie sentenced the prisoner to fifteen years' penal servitude. A SE RIOUS outrage has been committed at Croagle, county Sligo, a woman having been nearly killed and her house having been wrecked. The victim of the outrage bad purchased some goods at a boycotted establishment at Gurteen, the owner of which had been publicly condemned by the local branch of the National League. . _  AT Leeds Assizes, on Saturday, Sarah Ann Hall, a domestic servant, pleatied guilty to abandoning her female illegitimate child, aged seventeen months, half dressed, in a field at Carnaby, near Bridlington, and thus endangering its life. She was sentenced to nine months' imprisonment with hard labour.  A SAD fatality occurred at Enfield Lock Railway Station on Saturday afternoon. A man named Webb, a native of Ware, who had been to that place seeking work, was crossing the line to catch a train. when 'he was knocked down and killed, being terribly mutilated. Deceased leaves a widow and several children.  ANOTHER death from the recent severe weather has taken place at Ravenstonedale, Westmoreland. An old man, named Daniel Tanner, of Harling,den, Lancashire, wandered to the house of a person named Hewetson. He had suffered dreadfully from cold and exposure, to the effects of which he succumbed. He was seventy-seven years of age. AT Stannington, near Sheffield, on Monday, a boy, five years old, was killed by a traction engine one of the huge wheels of which passed over the child's head and shoulders, causing instantaneous death.
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1886-08-26 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

ACCIDENTS AND CRIME.  MR. GEORGE COOK. a tradesman of Buckle, was found dead on the floor of his shop on Saturday morning, having taken a quantity of carbolic acid. He had not been in bed during the night. The wife missed him at 3 o'clock, and found him in the sitting-room. On asking if he were going to bed, lie said lie would follow her. She then returned to bed and fell asleep, and in the morning he was found dead. It is stated that he was afraid of being accused of taking liberties with the servant. JAMES CORNER, a well-known railway porter at Slough, and lately of Windsor. has din! worth £4,000 or £5,000. the accumulated savings from his wages and " tips." ON the arrival cf the midnight express from London at Leicester on Saturday morning, the dead body of a gentleman was found in a first-class carriage, under circumstances which pointed to suicide. A six-chambered revolver was found on the step of the carriage, and deceased had been shot in the left side of the bead, which caused death. A season ticket found on deceased from London to Manchester bore the name and address of James G. Lowe, 4, Langley Place, Victoria Payk, Manchester. AT Chichester, on Satunlay, about twenty charges were heard of cruelty to animals arising out of the traffic at Goodwood laces. The condition of many of the animals annually brought into the district for the purpose of conveying passengers from Chichester and Drayton to the racecourse has been the subject of remark, anti in rem•nt years the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has taken measures in connection then with. With one exception all the charges were proved. and tines inflicted, varying from El to £3 16s. Most of the defendants came from London.
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1886-04-15 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

MATRIMONIAL MORNING. SOME curious matrimonial problems came up fr solution before Mr. Cooke at the Marylebone police-court, but in neither of the Cases was the magistrate able to afford consolation to the applicant. In the first case a young man had been engaged to be married to a widow with two children, but when the happy day arrived she literally "swore off" with an awful oath, and they subsequently lived together without any marriage ceremony at all. Two more children were the result of this irregular union, and now the lady has levanted, leaving the young man in the lurch with the four children. "What am Ito do " piteously asked the applicant. ," I don't know; I can't help you," said the maOstrate. In the next case a young woman had left her husband and waisted to take a situation, but was afraid of being annoyed by her lord and master, who had given her no money for the last two months. Mr. Cooke suggested that the wife should get parochial relief, and so compel the husband to support her ; but she scouted the proposition, as she did not want his money, but protection. The magistrate explained that there was no such thing as a protection order under such circumstances. The third applicant, a well-dressed, middle-aged lady, merely wanted a judicial separafilm and was a little disappointed when Mr. Cooke told her he did not preside over a divorce court. This lady had two grievances—the one that her husband had assaulted her, and, the other that he had tried to induce her to commit suicide, on the promise that he also would do so. In this modern version of "Johnny Sands" the magistrate could only advise the issue of a summons for assault. Married people must remember that they take their partners " for better or worse."  Next week we shall commence the highly interesting Story by the
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1886-10-07 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

CONVICT'S TROUBLES.  A RESPECTABLE-LOOKING elderly man, who said he was a surgeon, made an appeal to Mr. Bridge at Bow-street Police-court, on Monday, to be allowed to give up his ticket-of-leave, and to be sent back to prison to serve the remainder of his time. He said that since he left prison he had done his best to get some means of livelihood. He had been walking about in all directions, and his applications had been everywhere met with derision and contempt, and the fact of his being a convict was thrown in his face. A ban seemed to be upon him, and everybody seemed to know it. Since the previous afternoon at three o'clock he had not tasted food. He managed to have his case brought before Sir Charles Warren, and that gentleman had informed him that there was no fund which would enable him to give the applicant bounty for the purpose of starting in business. He had written a work which, if published and successful, might provide him some means of support. Misfortune had so broken bins down that he often thought of committing suicide.—Mr. Bridge : There is no doubt Sir Charles Warren has no fund to relieve you as you desired. Would it not be better for you to go to the workhouse than to cancel your license and go back to prison 1— The applicant : You would not say so. your worship, if you knew all. I know something about the workhouse. I was in one for eleven months. I would rather go back to prison. Ibe of you to cancel the ticket, and send me back to finish my time. In prison the ban will not be felt by me.—Mr. Bridge i!.timated that he would make inquiry as to the applicant's ease.— Later in the day Mr. Wheatley. secretary of the St. Giles's Christian Mission, attended, and stated that -that organisation would see what they could do to soul the applicant to the colonies.—Mr. Bridge: ‘Votild you like to go to the coloniest—The applicant : Certainly, very much. I shall be glad to ilo so.--Mr. Wheatley and the applicant then left the court.  THE Adelaide I:overturn:a have decidol not to cont rihute funds towards the proismed Imp9rial Institute. as they consider that the expense incurred w add be prejudicial to the interests lof the Jubilee Exhibition to he beld'at Adelahle next year. It is intelilud to submit to the Muse of Assembly any fresh scheme for covering the etficit.
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1886-09-16 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

ACCIDENTS AND CRIME.  AT Tharles, on Saturday, a farm servant, named Stephen Corcoran, was engaged gathering hay with a large hay-rake, to which a horse was attached, when the animal knocked him under the machine, several teeth of which were driven into his chest. On being extricated from the machine by his father life was found to be extinct.  ANOTHER body VHIS found in the Ouse at Bedford on Saturday morning, making the third in three days. This has been identified as that of a man named Flood, lately carrying on a small grocery business in the Midland-road, Bedford.— Verdicts of "Suicide while in a state of unsound mind" were returned in each of the other cases, and it is supposed that Flood's death is attributed to the same cause.  THE Earl of Huntingdon and Mr. Bassett Holmes, of S. David's, Nenagh, have had a narrow escape from drowning in the Shannon. They had gone out in a small boat with sprit sail, and being caught in a full gale their barque capsised. Both the earl and his friend struck out for the Clare shore, •but the earl not being much of a swimmer Mr. Holmes held him up until two men came to their rescue. WHILE a man named John Cross, aged twentyeight, was crossing the line at Gillingham station, Dorset, yesterday, the up fast express knocked him down, killing him instantly. The deceased's wife was on the platform at the time with some friends Two children are left by the deceased. . .  AT Wolverhampton, on Saturday, Thomasjeollins, scene painter, who is wanted by the police in other parts of the country for similar robberies, was committed for trial on a charge of stealing a valuable lot of theatrical costumes belonging to Miss Violet Melrose.  A LARGE number of sheep are pastured on the open commons of the East Fells, in Cumberland, and at a periodical counting on Saturday it was found that several hundred of them were missing. Information was given to the police, who discovered that a few days ago fifty-six sheep were sold at Hexham auction mart, about twenty miles distant, which have been identified as some of the missing property. The man who it is alleged entered the sheep for sale gave a name and address which aroused no suspicion. He was paid the amount realised directly the sheep were sold. There is no trace as yet of the other missing sheep. AT Luton Sessions, on Saturday, William Day and Sarah, his wife, were brought up and remanded. both bing accused of committing bigamy. The parties are both about sixty years of age, and the circumstances are most peculiar. They were married in 1848, and, after living some years together, the woman, it is said, absconded, and since then they are both alleged to have married different perSOll9, one ceremony taking place at St. James's, Islington, and the other at St. John's, Kensal-green.
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1886-08-12 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

SEDUCTION AND SUICIDE.  natural life. Colonel Sir Frederick Stanley haying been given a pecraze by Lord Salisbury, will vacate the Blackpool Division of Lancashire, and there Mr. James Lowther will reign in his stead. There much eotiket ure here as to the title that colonel Stanley will take. He is heir to his brother, the Earl of Derby, and it is understood that he will be called to the House of Peers as Lord Knowsley. The Stanley peerage is a very old one. The first earl. dom of Derby was created in 1485. ht 1627 the head of the house was made a baronet, and in 1832 another title, viz., that of Baron Stanley of Bickerstaffe, was given. Knowsley is the family - seat, and it it would be fitting for the new peer to be called by it.  IT will be a sourco of great satisfaction to the friends and admirers of the late Charles Dic%ens to know that the novelist is not without hont•ur even in his own country. A short while ago Miss Mary Anderson, the American actress who has condescended to make a good deal of money in this Country, recently paid a visit to Cobham in Kent. This is the centre of the Dickens country. The locality is filled with landmarks that have been made immortal by the novelist, and in Cobhani itself stands the " Leather Bottle Inn" which Mr. Tupman and Mr. Pickwick and other friends used as headquarters on a certain memorable occasion. Miss Anderson on the occasion of her visit looked into the inn, and paid a very high compliment to the memory of Dickens. She requested the landlord to hang up her portrait in the most famous room in the inn! This has been done. and I suppose other actors and actresses will follow the in. telligent lady's example, and secure unto themselves an inexpensive advertisement.
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1886-08-12 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

THE SHOCKING DOUBLE MURDER AT HALL GREEN.  PRISONER BEFORE THE MAGISTRATES. On Saturday at the Solihull Police Court, before Messrs. H. H. Chattock, G. Beard, R. Ramsden, and Dr. Kimbell (magistrates), Sarah Taylor (38), charwoman, who resided at Hall Omen, was brought up in custody on a charge of having murdered her two children, named Herbert and James, aged respectively ten months and three tears. Prisoner was further charged with attempting to commitsuicide. It will be remembered that the tragedy was committed on the 3rd ult., and the circumstances were of a most distressing character. The prisoner, after taking the lives of two ot her children by cutting their throats with a razor, attempted to destroy herself in a similar manner. The self-inflicted injury was of such a character as to necessitate Mrs. Taylor's detention in the General Hospital. By careful treatment, however, she ,gradually recovered, but it was not until a week after the tragedy that she remembered anything of the shocking occurrence. Since then she has been entirely at a loss to understand what could have been her motive for taking the lives of her two children. She had been living on the most affectionate terms with her husband and children, and the only suggestion that can be made is that she committed the deed in a moment of mental aberration. She was discharged from the hospital on Monday, August 7th, and has since been in custody at Acocks Green police station. It will be remembered that a verdict of " Wilful murder" was returned against the prisoner at the Coroner's inquiry two days after the occurrence. Prisoner, who was led into Court by Policeconstable unman, appeared to be in a very feeble state, and was provided with a chair near the dock. Mr. Mitchell (Magistrates' Clerk) having charged the prisoner with murdering her children and afterwards attempting to take her own life, asked her if she had anything to say why a rethand should not be granted, as they had not yet received a reply from the Public Prosecutor. Prisoner, who had nothing to say, was remanded to '*Vinson Green for eight days, when she will be again formally remanded until the 21st inst.
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1886-09-23 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

SENSATIONAL CRIMES IN FRANCE.  A NEARLY identical reproduction of the horrible crime which occurred last week in the Rue d'Albouy, has taken place in the Rue d'Orsel at Montmartre. The victim was a woman named Marguerite Derval, aged about 38 years. She was married to a shop. man named Derval, who, however, had for some time connived at her following an immoral life. This, however, had of late led to much quarrelling between the pair, and a few days ago the woman left her husband. On Sunday evening Dorval went to the house where she was, and asked if his wife , was in. On being answered in the affirmative he proceeded upstairs to her room. A few moments,' afterwards the landlady of the place heard sounds I of high words, followed by loud shrieks, which came from the room occupied by Marguerite Derval. She ran up the stairs to the third floor, the shrieks growing fainter as she got near the room, and finally dwindling into suppressed gurgles, as if somebody were being strangled. Opening the door, the landlady peered tremblingly in, and saw Marguerite Derval lying dead on the floor. She immediately ran down stairs and informed the police, who found upon their arrival that the door had been fastened from the inside. A locksmith was sent for, but in the meantime the police inspector and his men heard a great shouting in the street, and looking out from the windows of another apartment they saw that Derval had precipitated himself upon the pavement beneath. He was killed instantaneously. A hastily-written letter from him was found on the table of the room. In it he stated that he had for some time fully decided upon strangling his wife because she had threatened to get some street ruffians to murder him, so that she might be left at perfect liberty to do as she pleased. —A terrible suicide is reported from the Citte d'Or. A lad of 17 and a girl of 15 awaited the approach of the express train running between Chagny and Meursault, and quietly laid themselves on the line. The engine-driver tried to pull up, but in vain. The girl's head was completely severed from her body, but her companion was not killed, his foot only having been badly crushed. He was taken on by the next train. Nothing is known as to the motives which prompted the couple to make away with I themselves, but suicides of this description have I been alarmingly frequent of late.