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The Express. — 1867-09-18 (London, England)

THE PAN-Al  THE SPECIAL SE  This morning, the e vices in connexion with Synod was held in the Jewry. There were from 7 o'clock the procession communion table, there b 8.A., the rector ; the Re of SL Augustine (a eon o Rev. Edmund Ibbetson, 111 of Honolulu ; four other c Central Africa, who is to rise this evening. The I nary of the Bishop of How from the steps of the coni been requested to state wl take part in the proceeding been expected to do. His months since, and as his in by the church of England, United States of Amen r America to see his comm. United States.  The Holy Communion Tozer pronounced the hew  The brother of the Hague with a suite of 10 p The iron mines at were recently opened, are It is only three weeks sh already 6,000 tons of ore k to Cleveland or Erie—m company are now shippin day. The ore is of excelle it is active.  A memorial, signed churchwardens of the din dressed to the Archbish certain views as to I ministry, the communi clergy in remitting or been laid down autl of Salisbury in a ro memorialists believe to be log of our church, and utt standing and character. the memorialista, " we h plain meaning of Scriptul lanes on some all-imports fear of contradiction, tl avowed these opinion., th, cruel persecutions and viol We are in a great strait, as to appeal to your grace, a superior, with the earnest to take such step" u ma: urch from disruption, al the spiritual well-being o briefly replies that the add ef a legal as well as of a th fer, for the present, any THE VACATION JUDO yesterday Mr. Justice ce the vacation for Chic *sill 'lit again on Friday. GREAT REFORM MP, Scottish National Reforu Glasgow yesterday, whit itundred delegates from all from England sad Irela Others Mr. Beale/ and May, of Dundee, presi Were approved of to the lag principle of manhood eounty to borough franc U. conferring of votes on 2. Condemning the propos most unsatisfactory, inasm to neutralise the extended Power of the great landi addition to the represents the principle of the ball, ".Mested that the attenti, -.cards a scheme ira in Ireland id labour. !NIHON or T 1 411 M—The tit I Williams, and mod of Smith& -opting to breal ula Colonel I s under whicl police odker untimely hour rens found to ipoeition to ice been idenl OF A Hot other addition h have recent] hue being a la MI. The time trade of a lc ickkiln-street ioniing about 1 v .I.eth Ke and the ling by a carts found dead 1, and he th, his father an, marrel nor a. )0. While tl are to have reach the hook edge of the ta to the table.-11 lab who had al false teeth with 1p meeting at thins eyes and ix  IMAS directed towar dition of affair ing capital and APPRER EN liarrouterrli Wright and IV • 'ffithhourhood on of attempt the notoriot icumatances cluiar. A p use at an In '.'u• They we Lowy • dial 'cf have slut SUICIDE ere was snot icicles which icicle this tie "rte Bruton Tried on his 1 nom of Brit etterday mar r aomed E Bruton's hot el the oeilin fore he was I haek t work for h . t been no qu rc and his sot aPPears ele, to reac' the edg, near to 1,1 • A dentist 6 tote of f ala 4 4,•)carrifs: urns of g °re of •
The Express. — 1867-09-05 (London, England)

GREENWICH.  BUICIDZ ON ♦ RAILWAY.  Lawton Robert Ford, a man about 45 years of age, who deanibed himself as a plasterer, residing at Sydenham, appeared in discharge of his g racognisances' to answer • e c of unlawfully trespassin on the London and B ton Oompany's line of railway, and attempting to commit suicide.  It appeared that on the afternoon of Saturday, the 6th July the defendant way observed to climb a fencing bre feet in height, dividing the line of railway from the public roadway in the neighbourhood of Forest-hill, Sydenbam, and, getting on to the line of railway, be laid himself across the metals of the up-line, his face fronting an approaching train. Just as the train reached the spot where defendant wee lying he rolled over, and the engine passed without touching him, but the step of the succeeding break van caught him at the beck of the neck and hurled him into the six-foot way,where he was picked up in an insensible state, bleeding from the mouth, and was corned off the line apparently dead. He had since been under medical treatment for injuries sustained. Inspector Carpenter, the chief of the railway company's police, said the defendant had bees summoned by order of the company, the polite not having taken him into custody, as he had not only endanger his own life, but might have been the cause of the train being overturned and the injury or death of the passengers. The defendant, in answer to the charge, said his mind had given way under depression, owing to his being unable to find money to register the patent of an inven. tion, and also to his being reduced from living in • house with two servants to the occupation of a room 7ft. square with his wife and five children. He had suffered greatly, and now regretted what he had done, of which he had no knowledge at the time. Mr. Trail said the defendant bad is the most determined manner sought to destroy himself, and had most miraculously escaped being cut to pieces. He should therefore require him to find bail in the sum of 461, for his good behaviour during the next three months. The required bail was tendered and accepted.
The Express. — 1867-10-10 (London, England)

EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE. —Last evening Dr. Lankester held an inquest at the Prince of Wales Tavern, Pentouville-road, on the body of Ann Rotten, aged 44, who committed suicide after four attempts on Sunday last. Jabez Henry Rotten, &watchmaker, occupying lodgings at :ti, North-street, Pentonville-road, said the deceased was his wife, who had been a drunkard for 20 years. They bad no family. They lost a child 41 years old, and that was the foundation of his wife's drunkenness. Last Sunday morning he left home at a quarter to one, leasing his wife to prepare dinner by half-past two, but his mind being ill at ease he returned Lome and found his wife doubled up on the floor. There was a cotton handkerchief round her neck, and a little blood on the floor. There were two cards on the table, on one of which was the following inserintion :—"I beg to state my husband, Jabez Rotten, is perfectly free from this deed. This is done with my own hand.—(Signed) ANN lorrint."l Mr. Thomas Bell Hay. M.R.C.S., deposed to being called to the deceased on Sunday last. He found her on her back , on the bed. She was quite dead, but there was foam about the mouth. There was a wound across the throat (a scratch), extending from the left angle of the jaw to the I right, and another across the elbow joint opening one of the veins. He had made a post•mortein examination, and found that the holy was well nourished. Internally the lungs were healthy. The heart was feeble, with air in it. The stomach contained about two ounces of paraffin oil. I The liver and kidneys were diseased from drink. There had no doubt been four attempte at suicide, viz., cutting the throat, drinking paraffin oil, opening the vein of the arm, and strangulation by the handkerchief. Finding that air had entered the vein of the arm. he cut up to the shoulder, and found the sir had entered the heart. The , cause of death was the entrance of air to the heart rl the opening of the vein in the elbow, which stop the heart's action. The jury found a verdict of ' Suicide while in an unsound state of mind, brought on by habits of intoxication."
The Express. — 1863-10-06 (London, England)

MARLHOROUGH-STRIIIT, Martha SaraA Genie. • decently-attired married woman. wee charged before Mr. Knox with attempting to commit suicide. Police-conatable 36 F said that about 8 o'clock on Saturday night be was informed by the husband of the de- ' !indent that she had taken poison, and on going to Moomouth-court be found the detendant lying &we, with her head resting ageing the wall. She admitted that she bad . taken poison, and that she had bought it at • chemist's shop in Sevend Ws. lie then took the defendant to the Charing-croon Hospital, where the stmnach•pump was implied, and it was ascertained that she bad taken sulphate of zinc. 1 The husband said his wife bad been drinking all the ' week. Oa Saturday night she came into • home where be was, exclaiming, Die done it—l've done it," and that she bad bought poison at • chemist's shop *lose by. He then watt to the shop, where there was • bit of • boy behind the counter, and he said be bad sold his wife some poison. His wife had once been remanded for cutting her throat Mr. Knox said the thing that struck his m most fearful I. the case wee that • buy behind a counter should sell poison in poesy worths to Wt-drunken venous. He would have the female met to the infirmary fora week, whet the chemist and his boy must attend, and if they declined summonses should issue. The defendant was then remanded. Mr. William Franktin, • baker at Somers-town, wee charged with being drunk and diorderly. Charles Robins, E, deposed that on S'abirdaybe myths defendant in Great Titchisldutrott. Tim defendant bad bees drinking, and was calling out to Mr, Ribs, a baker. " You German yes have lowered the Rims in Somerstows, end I have come to annoy you." The defendant had • cart and two men with him, and was selling breed at 4d. the 411. leaf. There wee a crowd of three or four hundred
The Express. — 1863-02-17 (London, England)

THE NAVY. —A parliamentary return, blued this morning, shows that in the year 1861 the total number of awes of Immoral punishment in the navy were 1,076; the number of lashes indicted 36,463; the total number li►ble to corporal punishment 58,594 ; the number of Mabee inflicted by eenteoce of coart-martial, 2,090; the highest number of lashes indicted, 48, and the lowest 9. The Amphion, Mars, Agamemnon, Bacchante, Odin, Nile, and Orion, compete for the largest number of =eh awe.  Tam BRITISH NevY.—lt appears from a parliamentary return issued this awning that the number of mew Mraniships now afloat is 414 ; and of paddle, 108. Thirteen BMW sad two paddle steamship are building. The bonding of 29 Ahem is suspended. The effective sailing ship afloat are 10.3 ; making the total steam and sailing ship in the British navy on the Ist of this month, 669 all.  Falb AND Nawnow F.scarr--(Twr; Dar.)— Ws marshy •an broke out on the premises of Merry. One and On., tea dealers and mows, 10, Kent-place, Old Beet-reed. The whole family were brought down from their bedrooms in a fire-escape. The dock in trade wee mealy an destroyed.—A fire at the Eagle Iron Foundry, Stariardwas, Builadde, Southwark, has also done considerable mischief. Ditz•Drut. Stumm—This morning, the police authorities at Sootland-yard received Intelligence of • dreadful suicide committed near the Patriotic Asylum, Wandsworth-common. It appears that yesterday William (jades, • purtmaster, carrying on business as • baker in York-road, Battersea, was seen by two plate-layers loitering .ear the West End and Crystal Palace Railway at Wandsworth-Gammon ; and on the approach of the Brighton express train he ran down the embankment and placed his Lead upon the metals. The train immediately passed over it, smashing it in • most dreadful manner. To such an extent was the poor man's head crumbed that he could only be identified by his clothes. His remains were carried to the workhouse of the Wandsworth and Clapham union, to await an inkling'. From the inquiries made of his friends, it appears that the demtwed had bee. is • daspotuling state for some time.  --- --EXTRAORDINARY CASs or MALICIOUS DAMAGE —Between nine and ten o'clock last night the extensive wine cellars of Wawa Chaweu Brothers, wine merchant', situated under Percy Chapel, Charlotte-street. Fitzroysquare, were broken open by some person or persons, and wine in bottles and wood to the amount of 5001. destroyed, the bottles being smashed and the imp drawn from the pipes, the flooring of the cellars being completely saturated with the wine which was allowed to Sow all over the place. A reward of 50/. is offered by the Inn for any information which may be the means of the persona who have committed this outrageous and wanton set of dedructioe lain apprehended. It is said that nose of the wine has bean taken away. The matter is in the hands of the pollee. Tai Ray. DR.
The Express. — 1863-01-06 (London, England)

FATAL FALL PROM THZ MAROATE CLIFF.-011 Saturday last, about noon, the body of Robert Pridham, ay-driver, was found under the cliff near the Fort steps. ne deceased was observed about the town during the morning, bat nothing strange was noticed in his man. oars. He went into the Crown public-house about 12 o'clock, and there had a pint of beer and • peony. worth of bread and cheese, and afterwards up on the Fort, at the Britannia Inn, be was treated with • pint of beer by Mr. John Sony, and shortly after partaking of which he proceeded along the cliff, and, on arriving et a spot between the Sebastopol Goo and the Fort steps to the Sands, he fell over—the fence and • portion of the cliff st the spot having been carried away during the late ple. lle• ceased's father and brother committed suicide, the latter about fifteen years ego. An inquest was held at the town• ball. yesterday (Monday), before W. H. Payn, Req., 0:0 roper, and, the above facts having been deposed to, the jury re turned the following verdict :—" That creased came by his death by a fall from the cliff but then is no evidence to show how he came there ; and the authorities are cen. surable for not taking steps to defend or protect anyone from falling over the cliff."—Kentish Gazette.  DARING GAROTTE ROBBERY Nail NOTTINGHAM". A daring highway robbery, accompanied with violence, took piece at the village of Buford, three miles from Nottingham, on Saturday right last. Mr. Charles Brown, of Bar ford, left ao Odd Fellows' lodge in the village about half. past 9, and when within 150 yards of bin owu Imam three men soddenly rushed upon him. The foremost of the met knocked him down with a bludgeon, std the others fell upon him, seized him by the throat, and strangled him. They then dragged him from the highway into a narrow lane, and riled his pocket. of nearly 41. Before leaving him the robbers kicked him violently io the aide and other parts of his body, rendering him insensible. A person named Pendleton passing by soon after the robbery heard gnaw, and soon discovered Mr. Brown. Assistance was immediately procured, and the unfortunate man conveyed home. No clue has yet been obtained as to the perpetrators of the outrage. A bag which contained the money was found a neighbouring field on Sunday morning.
The Express. — 1863-07-28 (London, England)

SOUTHWAIOL  TWO CARES OF ATTEMPTED MUD! AT BEACILFRIARS-bRID.E. Sarah Brans, a very respectable-looking woman, we/ brought before Kr. Burcham, charged with attempting to commit suicide in the River Thames, near Blaakfrisre-bnage. Police-countable 39 Al said that about 10 o'clock on the previous night he was on duty on the east ride of the Black. friers-road, when be saw the prisoner rush past him, cm, over to the other side of the road, and rush down the stem He pursued her as quickly as he could, and on his arrival at the bottom of the steps found her struggling with a houng roan. The latter told witness that be seized bold rd er just en she was about to throw herself into the river. He then took her into custody. Ths prisoner, who cried very much, said that she was a married woman and had three children, but we/ ea.', heartbroken because her husband had left her and had taken the children with him.  Mr. Burnham asked her what she had to say for attempt. ieg to destroy herself That wee a •cry wicked act indeed. She replied that ehe was in great dutot. at the time. She had no home to .go to. A sister of the prisoner here stepped forward sad said she would take care of her until some arrangement could be made about her husband and children, if his worship would liberate her.  The prisoner faithfully promised never to attempt such as act on any future occaaion, and on being admonished by his worship, wail given up to her sister. Harriet Brown, a hat trimmer, was also charged with attempting to drown herself at the same place. Samuel Watts, 37 L, said that about half•past 12 the prisoner rushed down the steps crying, and suspecting that she meditated suicide he followed her. and took her into custody. On the way to the atatioo•house she told 'aim that she had meditated suicide, but she was glad that lila had not accomplished the wicked act. It appeared that she had quarrelled with bee friends and then ran away in a passion. She now promised his worship that she would Meer make any attempt on her life again. In fact she was only in a foolish passion when the constable stopped her. Tberimistrate ordered her likewise to be given up to her f •
The Express. — 1863-05-07 (London, England)

SUPPOSED SUICIDE 'OP THE BLOOMSBURY MUEDIRER. Yesterday afternedu Mr. J. Humphreys held ari inquiry at Hoare mid Co.'s Tap-house, Lower East myth. 6414p=soting this death of a man aged about wko to hive committed suicide. Memel („„ amishag &low is tbe esitoss, said that hat Moseley evening be Sem the deceased deaths( off the Bt. Katherine s Desks Wilarm saddled in getting the body ashore. it was that of • scan about 30 or 32 yews ell. The hands we Bed tegellue; frith twine, apparently by himself. The tame had sot the • black appeases°, them that it hal The cunt, looters, nod waistcoat niat...Led. They ye. ilia* at and grey Sneed Tweed. The coat wee lounging Wei; the tremors bad a Revell cord. Ase shirt, a white &Iva& east, and • bhek silk tie suss pletml the dram. A tomie-bac, a leather bolt, two piste, of comb and • beaditmettial, were fogad is the peskoli. Dammed was about 5 feet 7 inches in height, rather stoutly beak—lnspector Heavy Beckett, of the novel cake, mid be sea presetwhen the body was towed. He thogait ft bad ben from eight to twelve days ia the water. EN. sense Amid say Vowed had best • dark, and not a lab*. log man nor a Mike. He had small whiskers and moustache. There was • tuft of hair cm the chins-The Carouse mid be should take the derv& to be • foreigner from his appearves. The boots bed kid tom and they wet* anistaly more slightly fashioned thee was moat with Emilia ova. The wieners, however, vid he wine iodised to think dammed was an Englishman. The bests were side-spriags, and were slighter than llama ; the fret each was slit up for about an inch. Mr. Perry, mresets officer, mid that sem& detectives had bees dome to see tht, body, and they had brought with them Margaret Ca the servant who had erased the door of the brothal George-street, Bloomsbury, for Remus Jar-loos sad her ins. darer, on the mg of the 13th April, and also Willies Stokes and Chicle who bad caught a glimpse 0( the suspected pereole.* daceved's hm, however, bee unfortunately inmate like that ot • bleak man end tie, were unable to. Aril* it. Ahhoughlhey had been as. paved they had rue away without giving evidence. The Coroner said that at was amectial that they shell be start and examined, aßil he should adjourn the court for that pg. pow masa while the body should oat be burled,' but be tsken to th's workhouse, so that after • Vitale deacriptioe of it had piped publicity, any one might V& the vporMultyti =VI it. me comb found ha deoseseei pocket ems • novella, i • Purl, caoutcheac." It was shout sin inches loss, and was broken in two. A large white cue brio handkerchief was, also in the pocket ; one crew wee tore Off, evidostly deep, and with the view al give& rid of a name or WV& The Canoer directed that it &Oda be shown to the relatives of tie murdered women. +
The Express. — 1863-03-13 (London, England)

EXTRAORDINARY OABR OP ALLEGED CHILD  JICIADEB AT THE EAST END.  An inquiry was bald by Mr. John Humphreys, wooer for Middlesex, at the White Horse Tama, White Horse-street, Comemesial-raid, hat night respect= death of a child which was alleged to have been m under very singular eirmusetanvea. Mr. Wildest Daffield, 6 Suffolk-place, Commadal• road, said that lee was a oonfectioser, mod had • alsop-gbi named Merle Mart* in his employmest. She appeared to be • steady reepedshie young woman. Some time mime Mn.. Dameld eatedeined some suspicions this she min I endear, sad taxed her with it, but she so indignantly de. used the imputation that nothing more was thought of the affair. Last Friday, as she did not come down to the shop as usual, the servant was seat upstairs for her, but returned, stating that she oould sot be found. Witham salt for her friends, sad they marched the hose* melody, bolds( seder the beds and is all the cupboards, bat without finding her. They found her bonnet and mantle missies, and they ooncloded that she must have slipped out of the hones surreptitiously and committed suicide. Late in the (mecum however, the servant rushed downstairs saying that the girl was under the bed upstairs. Thick iog that she had made away with break' he mut for Dr. Arnold and west upstairs with him, but she was not under the bed. They searched the house carefully again, and looked into the clothes cupboard, but saw nothing. As he wu closing the door he observed something move, and he then found the shop girl lyiag tat on the door, and covered over with the clothes. She was dressed. . .  Dr. G. R. An:idsaid that he was celled in at ten o'clock last Friday evening, sad he found Maria Martin lying in the clothes cup/mord. Some one sisatienied his name, and the girl said, " If it is Dr. Arnold I have no objection to be men by him." She was asked what had happened her. She said, "Hen it is," and handed up to witnem a bundle of Botha containing the body of a male child. When asked if it was alive, she said she did not Witness attended to her sad then examined thecbild. It wee quite dead, and had been born about twelve hones. The tam was much eompromed from right to left, and there was • considerable eochymoeie on the cheeks sod back of the neck. The child had been born slim and was well grown. It had apparently been placed in the bundle sad ties leis upon, either designedly or while the mother was in a faint. The mother took the kindle from under her, when she handed it to witness. Death re. suited from suffocation by preware through the mother's lying on it, and eras aanderatied by hemorrhage arising from I want of duo attentim.  hfr. Duffirdd said that the girl had been removed from his house under the ears of the doctor. The Coroner said that the case was of so serious a tbs. racter that he should adjourn the inquiry, to allow the per• son implicated an opportunity of being present before a verdict was returned, so that she might offer any staternoot in her defetice. The inquiry was secordingly adjourned.