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The Miner and Workman's Advocate. — 1864-12-24 (London, England)

SINGULAR APPLICATI,3N.—At the Marlborough -street Pol.ce Court, a weliatitessed man app,ied to Mr. Tyrwh ti for advice. Ho said that he lied made the ac qua ntance some time ago of a lady of grea: attainments but ot no proper y. Sue had o tar sacrificed herself to b r children as to have redueed herself to indigence.. Be had made a vow to her to .see her through her difficulties, but being, as far a-s pecuntary matters were concerued, somewhat saniiarty circumstanced, he had suggebted that airy should unite their fates and make ajo nt efiort to la se themse yes into that position of society they were entitled to occupy. He found, however, that he could not many the lady, as she had bu band, from whom she was separated, and that they could not get a regular divot ce toF want of funds. They had come to the deterannation to form a union w.,ich bhould be binciingon each other. At the same time, they stipulated that. if they failed to rev.° themselves into a higher p,sition, they would commit SUici.e. The drugs were purhased, but they continued together, hut, ta Ihig in th, ir object, they reconsidered their determination, and vad now tesolved to separate and not to commit suicide. He now begged to hand ovei to the snag strate the bottle containing the poison, as a prooi that all rash resolves had been given up. Here the alp leant offered to the magi•trate something wrapped op in paper.—Mr. Tyrwhitt: Wed is this— poison ? I don't ste that I am required to receive it. Take it to the police. The applicant continued: He said that was the first part of his case. The second part was of greater importance. He was desirous of assistance in ra sing hinisel again to that position he once filled, end wit ch he ielf he ought to occupy.— M,. lrywhitt \Vela has a magi tra eto do with such a matte' ? If a Cent email of your large eift eneliCe, al concert with the E rl of Shriftesi.try and Sir Edward ',salon Buiwer—men who itave studied life, and sho are dee ly sailed in its mysteries will join with the all-power ul press in this work, I cannot tor a moment doubt that they will nt once d, cide on the value to be p ftc d on my mot al and intellectual attributes. Mr. Itywiiitt said he had no lime to dcvote to such affairs. As he bad no con,rol over the pr as, lie must rater the applicant to its conductors. The applicant glen rourou.
The Miner and Workman's Advocate. — 1864-12-03 (London, England)

DOUBLE MURDER AND ATTEMPTED  SUICIDE NEAR LEICESTER.  Great consternation prevailed in Leicester at an eaey hour on Saturday morning, in cousequ.ence of a report been extensively circulated that a dreadiul tragedy had been perpetrated at hyston, a village about four miles •distant, at a late hour on the previotts night, and ,hit the mur,orer had been taken to Leicester and locket up at the County Police Station. The murderer is a man named Timothy Baum, twenty,ight years of fig., a Wheelwright, Hying at Syston, and his victims, his wif Jane Baum, aged thirty-two, and a daughter .Enamn Baum, eleven monthsold. The particulars of this ureadful occurrence appear to be as follow : About eleven o'clock on Fr,day night., the murderer's mother-in-law, Mrs. Jane Shelton, who Jived with her 'daughter, was asleep in a room adjoining to that in which the prisoner and his wife and child were sleeping, when she was disturbed by the crits of the child. -On getting up and going towards the prisoner's -bed, TOOM, she met the prisoner coming out of his room with .a bloody knife in his hand, and his shirt also bloody. •Ehe asked him the cause of it, but lie made no reply, and at once made an attempt to cut his tiiroat, but he vas frustrated in his design, as the we pou was dashed ,out of his hand by Mrs. Shelton. H. then rushed .down stairs, but returned in a tow minutes with the .knife-box in his hand, and was feeling as if in search for the carving knife, which fortunately dii not happen to be there. With great presence of mind she also dashed the knife box out of his hand, s ized him, and dragged him into a bedroom where she pushed lit:n into a chair, and cried out "Murder." This called to her assistance a youth named Toone, an a- prentice, w.io slept in an adjoining ro-m, and he speedily gave the alarm to the neighbours, and two men, Matthew Toone and Win. .Adcock, were quickly on the spot. Mrs. Shelton then went into his bedroom and found her daughter lying in bed with. 6 stab in her throat, quite dead, an I her child lying at-her side, also wit!' its throat cut from ear to ear. Mr. Robinson, surgeon, cf Syston, was sent for, and on his arrival he pronoueced the infant to be Etill alive, butnotwithstanding his medical skill, the poor thing only lingered4ill about three o'clock, when it expired. As the prisoner had been in a low way for some time past, and tinder Mr. Robinson's .keatment, the latter did not con. eider him in a Condition to be removed that night. He 'was therefore kept under the surveilla ,C 3 of the police and conveyed to Leicester on Satur.lay morning, and lodged at the county police station. We understand th it the murdered woman was near her confinement. We nyky add that the pr &oiler also made an attempt to stab T no and Adcock with a carving fork, when they endeavoured to bind him. Prisoner was .aken before the Magistrates sitting at the County .Pablic-otlice, on Saturday at-noon, and was remanded.
The Miner and Workman's Advocate. — 1864-12-03 (London, England)

SILENT CLUB.—According to several papers a new club, to be called the "Silent Club," is about to be esta)lished in Paris. The members may eat, drink, read, /trite, or smoke, but they must not speak, nor wear boots, nor play at dominoes, nor "rattle the .ones," nor, in short, make any noise whatever. The loor3 will be covt.red with thick carpets, and the doors will open without a sound.  SHOCKING SUICIDE IN STATIONERS' HALL CoURT.—On Monday morung Mr. Serjeant Payne, the Coroner for the City and Southwark, received information of the death of a man named Joseph Knight, who committed Biocide on Monday morning under the subjoined painful circumstances :—The deceased man, it would appear, tad been in the employ of Messrs. Houlston and Wright, wele-known publishers in Paternoster-row, in the *putty ot porter, for some years. In addition to .the pub ishuig premises belonging to the firm in Paternosler-row, the firm have a series of underground ',remises t.eneath the Stat.oners' Hall, in the court named alter hat company, in which they warehouse a portioli of their .tock. It had been a part of the duty of the deceasel to go to those warehouses as well as attend the house in he row. On Saturday afternoon he left his work at sbout five or six, and resumed his dut es on Monday morning, when nothing strange was noticed in his manner actions. He went down to the warehouses tor some purpose or other at about seven o'clock, and nothing more was seen of him until another employe of the firm ha occasion to go into the cellar, when he was horrified t..) find the deceased was suspended by a rope from ilts !e Assisiance was at once procured,, and the un,...naniate man was cut down. Medical aid was ca.'lo m, tint it was of no avail, as death had taken place for some time. Upon the body of the deceased was found a letter, in which he Rave the names of his children. sod spoke of his unhappiness of mind, arising from Less. The deceit ed was about 50 years of age, and hai telt a wife and six children. 4,0
The Miner and Workman's Advocate. — 1864-05-28 (London, England)

WINDOW.—On Monday morning Dr. Lankester held an inquest in the board-room of the Holborn Union, Little Gray's Inn-lane, on the body of Mrs. Jemima Wells, aged 33 years, who destroyed her life by jumping from an attic window in Hatton Garden. —Mrs. Sarah Harper, of 60, Commercial-road, Lambeth, said the deceased was a friend. She had been in ex. treme trouble during the last twelve months, principally owing to the paralysed condition of her husband. She had also been suffering from slow fever. On Wednesday morning last Mr. Wells was sent in a cab to her house, and, as he could not speak, his wife (the deceased) had written a note to witness in which she expressed avvish that she would take care of her husband for a few days, as she was so ill, and to go and see her in the evening. Witness went and found her in bed, and after some conversation she requested her to go into the kitchen to deceased's mother, who would tell her what deceased's husband would require. She did so, and while taking a seat to sit down, the mother who was then seated opposite the window, screamed out, "There's my child !" Witness saw a shadow suddenly pass the window and when she and her mother ran into the back area they saw the deceased upon the stones. Deceased feebly exclaimed, "Oh, mother !" She was then taken to bed when she again spoke, and wanted to know what was the matter with her arm and side. Witness remained with her till she died. She thought that the illness of her husband had deranged her mind. Mr. G. H. Strange, of Hatton Garden, deposed to deceased haying fractured the humerus, the elbow joint, and the base of the skull by the fall, from which, independently of the fever, there was no chance of recovery. Evidence was giventhat the attic window from which deceased had undoubtedly thrown herself was on the fourth floor, and nearly forty feet high. The Coroner then referred to the melancholy circumstances, when the jury returned a verdict of suicide under temporary insanity.
The Miner and Workman's Advocate. — 1864-01-30 (London, England)

DOMESTIC TRAGEDY IN CUMBERLAND. The quiet village of Oughterby, near Carlisle, was the scene of a sad tragedy on Thursday, the like of which it is not often our duty to record: A farmer's son, named Thomas Wills was proceeding along a road leading towards Kirkhampton, about five o clock, when hefound the dead body of Mr. Wm. Brown' a respectable young farmer, lying face upwards, the clothes covering his chest in flames, and a gun resting upon his bowels, the muzzle pointing towards his face; one .end of a string was looped upon the trigger, and at the ether end was sloop a few inchesm length, by means of which he had discharged the gun with his foot. Willis gave an alarm, and on the arrived of some neighbours it was discovered that the unfortunate man had shot himself in the left chest. It appeared at the inquest on Friday, that his young wife had died on Wednesday, three weeks after her confinement of their first child; and, so great was the afflicted husband's grief, that his reason was eclipsed, and himself driven to the desperate extremity of self-destruc. tion. He resided at Oughterby with his wife's relations, and on Thursday he went to his mother's at Kirkhampton, where he got the gun from a rack in the byre. Several witnesses spoke of the exceeding warmth of his attachment to his wife and on the day of her death he repeated again and again that he could not live without her. In his pocket were found a powder flask and some shot, as well as a small copy book, containing the following pathetic lines, traced in trembling characters: —I hope that the Lord will forgive me. Withoet my Maggie cannot be. You need (not) mourn me, because I • must go. You will all look after our darling boy. The little sum that would fall to my darling wife and me will make him comfortable some time after. My wish is that we may be laid in one grave. This is the end of eight or nine years courtship! Now the shot must pierce my heart. Oh, happy shall we be! On another leaf were the words: The old dog Wattle met (me) at the Croftfoot, Kirkhampton, Put me with my love Maggie on Saturday! From a phrase or two in this melancholy c eistle, it was evidently written within a short period of his sad end. His wife was the daughter of Mr. Hodgson, of Midtown, Oughterby. The verdict of the jury was, "Suicide while labouring under the effects of temporary insaity," His last wish will be observed •, he will be laid beside his "love Maggie."— Carlisle Examiner. A
The Miner and Workman's Advocate. — 1864-02-13 (London, England)

HORRIBLE SUICIDE OF A WOMAN IN THE JAPANESE MANNER.—An extraordinary case of suicide formed the subject of inquiry, on Friday night, before the ;City Coroner. The deceased was a married woman, named Mary Elizabeth Cranfield, aged 49. . Alfred Wheeler, a policeman, said that on Wednesday evening he was called to the house of the deceased, and found her lying on the floor covered, or rather drenched with blood.. She was in her night dress, which wasdrawn up. Herstomach was frightfully cut in the form of a St. Andrew's Cross. The bowels protruded, and were partly on the floor. A razor, clotted with blood, was found under her. She was perfectly dead, and apparently had been dead one or two hours. Mary Ann Cranfield said that deceased .was the wife of a smith, but had been separated from him for eleven years. On Wednesday evening the deceased was found by witness lying on the floor, dying from dreadful injuries. She said to witness "I have opened my stomach." Mr. Edmunds, surgeon said that deceased had been ailing for some time, and had a delusion that "she was always in crystal water." On Wednesday he was called to deceased, and found that she had inflicted a frightful wound on her stomach. The :injuries were the . most dreadful he had seen, the intestines being quite exposed.--R. Cranfield said that deceased had left him to live with another man. • A few 'day's before her death she sent for him as she had not seen him . for ten years, and she said she 'thought he would wish to see her before She died. She said she . was very ill, and he told her that it did not surprise him considering the wrong she had done him as well as God. He read a chapter in the Bible to her, and said .that the altered her ways too late; He wished now to get has jewellery and wearing apparel.--Mary Ann Caulfield said that last witness himself had abandoned the doceased eleven years ago' Wm to live with another oan. as Deceed having a large family, had to live with another man to save them from starvation. For three years past she had lived With witness, and now last witness, who had not for eleven years contributed a farthing towards her support, •aotually wanted to take possession of the clothes and some rings which witness had given to her. .The Coroner remarked upon the .painful nature of the case, and said that the-mode of suicide adopted was the most terrible that had coma beforelim.—The jury re turned a verdict of " Suicide while in a itate•of temporary ..•.:,..10 : .t: .C.e.:, CM , if 5 oral twit loo:ifirlolit ' ".a  AN
The Miner and Workman's Advocate. — 1864-10-01 (London, England)

THE PRESTON TRAGEDY.  William Barry, (not Berry, as previously printed), who nurdered his wife and then attempted to commit suicide 'cy cutting his own throat, in Ormskirk Road, Preston, tbout a fortnight ago, was brought up at the Preston police station on Saturday. He was removed from the House of Recovery in a cab, accompanied by the head constable and two policemen. The gash he inflicted on his throat has closed up. On arriving at the police station on Saturday, he walked up-stairs into ene of the ante-rooms, and sat down in an arm chair near the fire, with an air of perfect indifference. During the investigation which ensued he remained quite calm and collected. Evidence of the murder having been given, Police Constable Dilworth deposed: I have been in charge of the prisoner at the Preston House of Recovery. On the 14th instant the prisoner made the following atatement to me, which I took down in writing, relative :0 the death of his wife:—" Kate (a neighbour) came lown to our house in Lund-street about six o'clock on Bonday evening. I and my wife, with Kate, went up to Leach's, in Ormskirk Road. I had some green peas. tfter that I became giddy. I told Leach that I imagined [was going to be put in prison. Ned said, No, no ;you have done nothing.' I then said I would go and drown myself. About twelve o'clock Mary and me went to 'bed. Ned and his wife went to bed at the same time. At four )'clock in the morning I thought I heard some one tap, tap at the door. I touched Mary, and said, "The devil must be here." Leach's wife got up and went down stairs, and when she came back I got up and fastened :he door. I went back to bed and heard the tap-tap. "gain at the door. I put my hand out for my trousers,. which were on the floor, and took the knife out of my: pocket into bed, and said to Mary,- The first one that comes in to strike me I will put the knife Into them.' If :hen began trembling, and, if I think rightly, it was then' that I did the job. I think I made the second blow at her. I knew what I was doing. Ido not know whether It was then that I cut my throat.. The devil *d it, awl 4 ao one else."—The prisoner was remanded.
The Miner and Workman's Advocate. — 1864-10-01 (London, England)

SHARK.-011 Iffonday morning, while Mr. Berland, druggist, Homestreet, and some other gentlemen were bathing outside the eastern breakwater at Granton, a shark suddenli rose :and seized hold of Mr. Berland by the left leg, biting him in three places. Fortunately, Mr. Berland was near the bulwarks, and, notwithstanding the severe nature of the injuries he had sustained, he was able to get out of the water.. The shark was afterwards seen by the other bathers, rho say that this strange visitor to the Firth appeared to be about three feet in length.Bcottntasz.  AN ECCLESIASTICAL TiZ ON Cantouttr.—An ecclesiastical commission sat last week in Paris to decide on the increased tariff for the chairs hired to ladies in the churches and chapels of Paris, it having been proved to demonstration that in a space which ten years ago accommodated a hundred persons but thirty-seven an now find sitting room, Naturally an enormous deficit in the church revenue has been the result. The conclusion of the board of inquiry has been that as one crinoline takes the place of three individuals the rent of chairs ought to be raised in proportion. In a church of Alsace it has been already decreed that wearers of crinolines should oar J.f. for low mass. and ie. for grand mass. A few counterfeit sovereigns of a rather dange- ons character have within the last week been detected at the Bank counters. They are made of gold, but of an inferior quality, The sound, which is dull and wants the sharp clinkof the true sovereign, is one of the bestmeans of detection. A strange mode of committing suicide has Lon by a poor woman named Brown, living at Deptford. She swallowed two large doses of parafin oil, and alto. gether, it would seem, a pint of the noxious fluid. The poor creature suffered from delusions, andwas manifestly of unsound mind.  On dit that a nobleman of high rank, well known for; his sporting, and especially for his yachting tastes is' shout to be united to the daughter of a Scotch minis'ter,l resident somewhere about the head waters of the Spey.' It would seem that Lord—, when in the North on at crusade against the grouse, casually saw this beauteous. maiden, and ere long fell a victim to her surpassing' oharms. The nuptials, it is said,will be celebrated early In the ensuing spring, and Lord— is said to be on the look out for an estate to purchase in the vicinity of the present residence of his lady-love. She is reported to be one the of fairest maidens north of the Grampians.— Court Journal.
The Miner and Workman's Advocate. — 1864-10-15 (London, England)

ATVS ADVO.  licd,{tncous.  The list of suicides at the Gcrman gambling hells 11 this year higher than ever. Half of them are foreigners whose friends in most cases never learn the fearful end they come to. A private in the 74th Highlanders, named Robert Wil,on, died on Friday from injuries he sustained by falling or throwing himself from the Castle rock at Edinburgh, on the previous morning. - - -  .„ Although no actual change has taken place, it is likely that Mr. Wood, who is attached to the suite of the Prince of Wales, will succeed Mr. Waldegrave Leslie, M.P., as private secretary to Sir George Grey. The Corresponda.nce Litteraire states that M. Renan is about to leave for Asia, to visit the places wh:ch were the the ttre of the greater part of the life of St. Paul. A new work of M. Renan's is to be devoted to the preaching of the apostles.  We believe that Major General Lord Templetown will succeed Major General Hutchinson in command of the western district, Lord Templetown was well known as Colonel G. F. Upton of the Coldstream G lards, the Ist battalion of which regiment he commanded in the Crimea.—Armv and Nary Gazette.  A report hair reached us from Portsmouth that tne Victoria will probably be the future flagship of Sir Frederick Grey, who has ag,ain been named as the probable Commander in Chief in succession to Vice-Admiral Smart. Sir Alexander Milne will, it is also rumoured, take the seat at the Admiralty to be thus vacated by Sir Frederick.—Army and Navy Gazette.• The trial Of the Armstrong and Whitworth 70-pounders still continues, under the auspices of the very able coratuittee selected by the War Department and Admiralty; but we understand that preparations are being made in the arsenal to proceed with the rifling of the large batch, of breach-loading 70-pounders recently altered intc muzzle loaders, and called 64-pounders, These, it is said, are to be rifled upon the shunt plan, ana supplied to the navy.—Arnzy and Navy Gazette. Miss Florence Nightingale has written' to Sir Harry Verney, Bart., M.P., her brother-in-law, intimating that it is her intention next season to present the 3rd Bucks (Buckingham and Winslow) Volunteer Rifle florps with piece of plate to be competed for on such, terms as they may arrange. Lady Verney, anxious to' manifest her interest in the volunteer movement, has allu detev mined to order a silver cup annually to be shoi for by members of the same corps.  A
The Miner and Workman's Advocate. — 1864-12-31 (London, England)

ATTEMPTED SUICIDES.  At Worship-street, John Gatland,. a young counkry looking man, evidently in much mental suffering, was charged with attempting self-murder. Mr. Peter Sair' a lodger at 52, Mansfield-street, Good.man's-fields, Whitechapel, said that on. Saturday last he heard a great disturbance below stairs. in an apartment occupied by Gatland and his. wife. On entering he found him in a condition of desperate excitement, consequent upon the discovery that his wife had eloped during his absence, ami stripped the place of nearly all it had contained, Witness endeavoured to sooth him; and placed him in a chair, where he covered his face with his hands, and sobbed like a child. Suddenly he sprang up, seized a razor from the mantel-shelf, and inflicted a wound in his throat, which must have been of a more serious : character had he (witness) not struck the razor from his hand. A police-constable was then sent for. Prisoner had always been a respectable person while living in the house, but occasionally had words with his wife, who assuredly had taken up with another man._ She had not any _  Prisoner, who heardthis sfatement without uttering one word, was remanded—bail refused. Patrick Kelly, a shoemaker, was brought up on remand, charged with a double attempt upon his life.  Prisoner called upon a brother workman some weeks since, and from some unexplained cause, but supposed to be jealousy, cut his throat in a fearful manner with two knives used in the trade. His life was despaired of, yet he now attended out of danger." Mr. Cooke remarked that he had determined upon sending this case for trial. So much penitence for the crime,, however, had been expressed to the chaplain of the House of Detention, and such a solemn assurance given never to repeat the attempt, that he might now be discharged. Prisoner appeared grateful.  One man in Chicopee, Massachusetts, manufactures three barrels of hair-pins in a day.---New York Paper.