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The Express. — 1865-08-08 (London, England)

ACCIDENT.—An inquest was hold on Saturday evening at the lied House Farm, Lillingtoty Warwickshire, on the body of Mr. Thomas Carpenter, the ootnpier of the farm. The deceased, who was 68 years of age, bad latterly suffered from lowness of spirit+ and dieere of the liver, for which be bad been attended by Dr. Borniblow of Leamington. He did not, however, appear to be suffering in a way that would warrant any restraint being put upon him, and on Saturday morale( he got up at air o'clock and had moons couversation with his arm, who is about twenty-five years of age, and resided with hits. The latter informed him a number of rooks had located themselves in a certain field on the farm, and wore committing great havock amongst the grain. The son proposed to take out the gun and shoot some of them, but the deceased preferred doing that himself. and directed his sea to attend to some lambs upon the farm. Deceased then took the gun, which was a double-barrelled one, and having loaded it, he went away in the direction of the field which had been pointed out to him, about 600 yards from the house. He was mean to be walking about this and the adjacent fields by • man named Smith op to nearly nine o'clock, but he bad not been heard to fire the gun off while he had been there. The hat time Smith caw Wm be was tisad,BB On • gate, and directly he bad tensed hie back towards him, he heard the report lot a gun. Oa turning round he mired the deceased tram the gate, and on going to the spot found him lying a short distance from it with the gun between his lege. He was quite dead, the top part of his head having been shot away. There was no evidence that the decoked had anything on his mind, except that a neighbouring farmer had stopped up s footway, the use of which he ',maiden.' he was entitled to ; but this drcurnkance had preyed upon his mind. In the absence of any direct evidence to show that the deceased had committed suicide, • verdict of " Accidental death" wag returned. a A
The Express. — 1865-08-25 (London, England)

THE MURDER IN BANSIIIDL—IS is stated that the origin of the mambos d the woman Bother Lack, which have impelled her to muds/her children. was debility of constitution, caused by a birth of three triplets some "oven or eight years ago. So great was her prostration, that when being led along the court by the polies she became usable to move her limbs. sod a stretcher had to be sent for. It may be mentioned that upon the occuiou of her giving birth to the three children, as mentioned, her fdsiesty the Queen sent her • donating of 31. THS ALLEGED MURDER AND ASTRIIPTED SUICIDE AT Ethrriasza.—The investigation into the eircurestimees of the alleged murder by poise. of William Ault, an infant, aged 5 weeks by his mother, Mary Ann Ault, who so:used herself of the crime end endeavoured to commit suicide, was concluded on Wednesday night by Mr. W. Gorier, the coroner for Surrey, at the Wandsworth union-house. Mrs. Ann Hassell, with whom the accused lodged ; Mr. G. B. Shaw, from whose surgery the bought. through her daughter, a pennyworth oft audanum ; Mr. G. Shaw, who was celled is u surgeon immediately after thesuppoesdadotioistration of poison ; and Dr. Pettigrew, having been examined. Polioe-constable Stirling said that Mrs. Ault was still in Horstimooger-lane Gaol wider remand, charged with the murder of her child, sod with attempting to commit suicide by hanging herself. She new seemed to be quite rationaL The little girl, Mary Ault, whose state of heathen ignorance surprised the coroner, said that her father had " sever tad her nothing " and that she !now nothing aboat another world, had never mid a prayer, end did not know the differs' between right sad wrong. Her stridence, therefore, could not be taken. The coroner said that though so doubt the ma'am intended to kill the child by administering laudaaum, yet the medical evidence was cosclusive that she had failed is causing death by that mess., sod she could set be charged with the satuder. The jury found the following verdict, " That the child, William Ault, died from natural males sod not hem poison." OuntwaY.—Yesterday tie following persons were proslainsed outlaws to the Sheriffs' Court A. Enema, at the suit at William H. Berland ; Hwy Robert Morris, at the snit el Reheat Monis ; Jones Beek at the suit of Arthur Deseerakm ; William Booth, the suit of William Watts Lesko; Benjamin Porker, at the wria of Thomas White sad alms ; the her. Henry O. Wake, at the snit at Robert Morris ; and Edward `M. Perry, albs salt el Roberta. Heehaws. No appearamo wee made by the defeviants, &Rhenish they were severally railed upon to ennendisr. The next amity COWS appointed Gs Tharsiay, the 21st September.
The Express. — 1865-09-25 (London, England)

WIDIONDAT. s. vf. so LK...Aerate, Coats 8.15.11, to W.& W ii, OM. derate to street. LILL to &LW., mo- WrOTZLII. as to S.W. nog dente I. fresh, rah' fresh to street, so well in me some rile. LN.L to rrir, fresh 130tItIZA1. Entail to soot to moderate, One. fresh. Otte met*. &L. to S.W. and beck, laintim. 8.8.1 C to W.e.W. mi. fresh to moderate, Berate to strogg, AN One. genersilr. - -  Narthern=lkartlaraL Wantarntlyinnd. Wales. tad las. crualaa. Boutberux_loctlatt Manna and Say tie shew. liskatent=lastward mows sad North boa.  SUICIDE OT A BEIDE DURING THE HOSEYMOON -. An inquest wee held oa Feiday, at the village of tlegiggi about two miles from Stamford, to Winks into the • death which occurred there nob* peculiar am& stances. On the 14th inst., Richard fern ' Ba wee married to Elizabeth Kirkby. atow' 'Mk ? years his juke. From the evidence ag,h;id 4 the Inquest it appeared that Hereby, who tansies a living by out-door manual labour, was on Widnes:ley eyapd ; hie ordinary occupation, leaving his newly-mulcted mir -o-i His Grace the Duke of Richmond and party have hams. On returning at sight he was horrified to lag on lad good sport at deer-rtalking in Gleall during the bride • ereP•o• She L 7 rule* S' bed in her eight alsthe, peat week. His Grace the Duke of Rblthoond, Lord mid wee quite cold. In the room were triad a oath Algernon Gordon Lennox, and Lady Fiancee Gordo■ of tumblers—one ortainiag water, and the bottom et ne . en Lennox, arrived at Glenfiddich on the evening al Monday other bolo; covered with • precipitate, supposed *lon week. On Tuesday his grace went to Bleakwater to deer- been tom by the evaporation of laudanum A War stalking, sod laid over a very fins stag with ten point,. On !octet ree,Mo, _DOM the daomeed'a weddiell-rinY It os a the same day Lord Aldermen Gordon Lemma. I. mooaddloh. follows: " gay dear Menai, I am brokoshowey brought down two stags, right and left, a feat which is aed ounce rat •07 more an thin earth- I the e through this last year. Hubbard will maks a set rare, and not by say mesas oar. Os Saturday the party God will forgive me. Nobody can tell what Ino all left for Gordon Castle, and on Monday his grata retuned, accompanied by Lord and Lady Alesander Lennox. There's • sovereign and some silver, mid some other Colonel Peel, /ma Captain Ihincombe. Colonel Peal sad let 3147 (her daughter) know my unhappy end, lot Inds Captain Dooromho wont to dom..stoniiiid and mod three not bear myself any longer. I never Wilk I stags. On Tuesday the Duke of Richmond and Captain should come to this untimely end; bat I cued at Duocombe killed two very line stag. Lady Flores nor sleep, and the thoughts of being mantel I sir Gordon Lennox leas been occasionally enjoying trout fishing bur. u I kb" I hould bs hippy my be in the Fiddich.—Aberdeen Herald. my dear boy (a church mioloory in Rupert's lar4 in tide world I think. What a trouble it will be ts ' THE BRAttil•lt
The Express. — 1865-12-22 (London, England)

THU NURDZIEM SOUTHEY. The Post questions the policy of acoaspting, as is often done, in MIN of suicide the set itself as presumptive evidence of at least a temporary ►berration of rump. It would be dangerous indeed if japes were to adopt the same view when the murderer is charged not with slaying himself, but persona to whom he is attached by every tie of relationship and love. Of lase years there has been a growing tendency on the pact of the medical profession to *steed the meaning of the term insanity. A man, we are told, may be afflicted with moral insanity, which, without manifesting itself by any of the ordinary symptoms of mania, would nevertheless exonerate the subject of it from legal responsibility for his actg. The verdict returned yesterday at Maidstone furnishes a satisfactory proof that the novel doctrine has not yet found favour with the mesa of the community. The medical evidence given in support of Southey's insanity was simply puerile, and the pretended madness of the prisoner in the dock was so transparent a sham that at times Southey himself appeared to be ashamed of it. The Telegraph characterises the madness of a man who commits assassination by wholesale, without passion and without motive, as the "medusas of bedtime," which is totally distinct from the organic disease of the brain that must exist in every case to maks a man insane. The dieUnction is one between moral and mental madness ; but the confusion slips in because we fasten the moral wive on to the mind, and the mind again on to the brain, and so get a chain of causation in which it puzzles as to point out the particular link at which misfortune ends and responsibility begins. No shadow of any such puzzle can exist in the instance of Forwood, or Southey, se he prefers to be called. Common geese suffices to pronounce that mainees with such method in it mast answer to the law under the name of murder. The only possible alternative would be to alopt the Socratic idea altogether, and treat the most villainous criminals as that which indeed they are in one sense—the most nog :ramble of mankind. Read Southey as a half-educated creature, eaten up with self.coeceit, utterly selfish, vulgar at heart, lazy, with a fixed idea that bombast is dignity and that fine words con. statute morality, sad you have the portrait with which every incident of his career previous to the murders barI monism. The Star sees no reason whatever to impeach the verdict sf the jury. The murderer was insane, as every murderer is insane, at the moment of his deed, and no more. It is one of the many dangerous and demoralising effects of our system of capital punishment that it has rendered exmashie and almost necessary the modern theory of insanity —the theory that every wicked person who commits great crime is mad, and therefore irresponsible. Who shall say how far the conduct of a man like Forwood is governed by the conviction that if he only commits crimes dark enough tt will be an easy task for him to make the very blackness of his guilt his best means of securing impunity
The Express. — 1865-10-19 (London, England)

THE PAINPUL SUICI DE OF .4 WIDOW IN WHITEPRIARS.  Merchant Shipping • Minwalllr Ld.tDeckLl Mtnerall trot w orts..  Parldikal II le 61 6 ♦dl• T) SI Odis a 6 idle rir db 1•5 lotem id 1 do d dis _ 4P.a I I 1 Pao II le 1.111• Par ldis 66 0 IS If I 1 rits T  An inquiry was held by Mr. W. J. Payne, the I deputy-coroner for the City, last evening, at the Mack ! Mon Torero, Whitefrianotreet, Fleet-street, repeating the suicide of Mrs. Anne Beckenham, aged 57 years. Mn. Cerullo Smith, No. 13, Whisefriarestrest, said that the deceased was the widow of George Beckenham, • carpenter. Her holland died on Thursday last from inflammation of the lungs, and on Toadsy be was baried. After her husband's fumes' the deceased said, " I cannot beer to live afar him ; I most do something with myself ; I will do away with myself." Since last Christmas the deceased bed been very ill, and she was also strange in her manner. She was compelled to go into King's College Hospital, where she remained for some time. but last week the surgeons of that hospital turned her out as incurable. She lived in witness's house. George Beckenham, eon of the deceased, mid that on Wednesday morning he entered hie mother's room. He found her kneeling against the wall, and he thought she was at prayers until be discovered that she was dead. Be sent for the police Edward Davis, 328 City police, said that the deceased had fastened • clothes line to a nail in the wall, at one end of Iher room, and she had then takes the rope and passed it through • pulley in the upper girt of the wall at the other end of the room. She must have then made the loose end of the rope that was directly uodenteath the pulley into • bow and slipping her head and neck into the bow have fallen upon her knee& Mr. S. Banish, surgeon, proved that the cause of dei ceased's death was strangulation. I The Coroner having remarked upon the singular and I melsncholy nature of the cage, iI The jary returned a verdict of " Suicide while of unsound  miii iiiiiiiiiiiaa:o7(t 1 Imam& U. Cca (1* I • National Prey. 111 I Nagionia item liar. ID liatimotta Oast AL. ,I G be. Kew I f N.Zislaad 1.41111.1 g. L N.Ziabsad LolcUpabil. Norttssnassantea(L) 00.  3.l3riLatistraniataaa4 ;14 ft Deflateterms la.ll I Nowions Tee (Llontiod,, Uosaa Mona' kimonos. Oriental Commerelal(L. 'Oriental ifisameml(Liss. lOrlostal Gal (LWOW) lailt t. ini...ew 73 L), taxa" R ..ttian.ll avast Ottoman Company (I )I Itittotnall helnataeltil J.. I lOMOrtiotn Om ;Limited). lOmmend,Ourney,Co. (L. L leassmall.. etaausii. I Do. do. New.. , assiatarsissasua:p ,Yeslnsalar & 0. Swam I Do. do. New— a ;art!!! L., 11.- ILL ( Iron Into J. City hams.R ) I I Ditk• ditto . .ti o Janeiro OM (Um ) al • ssocassas.tassa. seta., Ibled, &Co. I Siss.Flaso..i'Mgyptitix 11.1trioen IL a as. l Omni Australtan Land Illabonseine Televise— n Do, Scrip rol.Construe4Mals._(l. Tbarman Mersey la. (L.' Trinidad retracing (LI TrnotaAgeneyotime.L. T. a I. 00. of U. Canada Un.blarine of User. L. exLTdne. Co. Q.l Unisex'. Marine lits Ippeo As int Teallans. Ditto ..
The Express. — 1865-10-16 (London, England)

GREENWICH. Emma Ford. a domestic servant, was placed in the dock, before Mr. Trail], charged with attempting to commit suicide by swallowing a quantity of white precipitate powder. It appeared that the prisoner was a servant at Blackheath, sod that for the last three or four years a moldier belonging to the Scots Fusilier Claude bad been paying his addresses to her. It had bees arranged that they were to be married, bat being diseppoieted in this respect the prisoner was heard to threaten that she would destroy herself. No attention was paid to theme threats, but on the servants being summoned to attend family morning prayer the prisoner sought an excuse for her absence by saying she was unwell. She subsequently conofs that she had swallowed the contents of two packeta g white precipitate powder, which she had obtained at a neihbouring chemist's. A medical gentleman was swot for, and the usual remedies having bees resorted to with sucesaa, she wee given into the custody of the polies. In answer to the magistrate, The prisoner said she was now sorry fee having made the attempt upon her life, and promised not to repeat the offence. Mr. Trani ordered the prisoner to find for her good behaviour for the next three moiths.  Why imperil your own and children's health by Massed meat and other unwholesome food or maw eu drop when Du Barry's delicious health resterhist itewileota Ambles Food yields thrice the nourishment ot the bat beet and cures, without medicine Of inconvenience. (Issligestka), gaga, 'Mama, 000somptloo, =am, wren, billow, liver, sad stomach comptabas, rat. eves Say lees Ito cost la oast remedies 7 0)000 cures saassily.—Ds Nam and Co., No. 77. Eassatetrect, London. W. In flee, lib., ye. al.• 1131st. NM: eas. also at 01, Gramcbafrkalrett 4. ilarsystis . M. 1/0, sad Ilk Odardalred ; sad at all Grooms. •eadvarNasaisa.)
The Express. — 1865-01-25 (London, England)

SUICIDE DT CHARCOAL.—Mr. Hlllllpbrey. 0011dooted an inquiry yesterday Leto the circumstances standlag the death of a married women tamed Bliss BM** aged 29, who had committed saki& by inhale( the fume of charced. Hr. J. Blalock, builder, of 17, Newart-ter. ram, Cambridge-heath, husband of the deceased, deposed that he was the proprietor of • public-hew in Gruel/ass, where he was making certain alterations facts Wei✓MS was commenced. He bad seat his wife and children to der there for the present, is order that they might look after the valuable property he had there. They went about four mouths moos. He did not live there himself, bat went over sometimes for • night. He visited her on Saturday last, and they had • few wards of difference about • lamp which bad been Woks.. bat he did not remote. He woa, however, gain over again salt day when our of his ohildres stet him and said her mother was dead. A cousin of the wife, who hod bees stayisg with her ° for • few days, testified that as the &Sudsy wties Moloch I come to the house In Gravel-lane. ha quaveUsd with his wife for an hour upotaies, and err wise they raw down they quarrelled far half as lour mere. He kept offering to read • letter, bathe did sr do it. The wife was ,very aagry. After be bad gem she imams very eels, sad about two boars sf termini' leads some Samaria as te where Marra mold be purchased. She was teld, and Nor afterwards west net. She did not retain few some hours. She them brought with her besides sonar house. bold this, some charcoal, sayisg elm was going to worm the parlour with it. During the night she Mem& her I child, who used to sleep with her, to the bed of her ; coeds, sad left it there, may* she wired to met. I In the maniac she woo found dead ha tow bed, with • pat fan of bona( Marra at the lest. yea Ostiwap, of 31, Orscorstrese.mad, sold that roe Saturday merle. between 112 sad 1 °Week, the desired mallet apse her mid said that ! she had loses to lallegtos. She was very seasli►eizitateji and mid that ohs lied quarrelled with her be kept • mitres Mr add, " will lie • rpm. ties, but who* will berme of ay addles ? I arid take ' a situation. He mid be did not love me." She said ganef bed bra mins ea for three were. The medial I widens, proud Mat Art& had bra eared * the Mids. tin of mhos% add the fumes el obsavesl The Jay thew returned the Teflowisg vardiet—" VIM desessed we farad dead from the iabelatia• of the term t shsemel, and that she bed astir red her Sr bp semi ihaidles I midis he • Make el tomporam imewity UMW Ibis* jaidesey as re esedirs al bar Inersed." It is in aostomplatioa to establish assthat Assam Midge at the mouth of tie /her Hama. In BsNs, is e'er sumer of the rapid isteresee In else of the yaws ell Wed. star, Mods! as the autos ale al Ito sissik al do Ilabos, sad dm* apposlisllasamplic
The Express. — 1865-11-01 (London, England)

FOUND DROWNED. —On Monday evening Mr. W. J. Payne, coroner for the Duchy of Lancaster. held an inPit, at the Cock Tavern, Clapham, respecting the suppled suicide of Fanny Pierce, aged 46 years. The Rev. Mr. Trhas, Muorstensquare, itegent'epark, said that be had known the deceased for 18 years u a member of the cony*. ptioo of the Clayton ChapeL She was au upper servant. red was very religious and well conducted. About a mouth ago she called upon witness and stated that she 'ma out of a situation. She was very desponding, and said that she was afraid the should come to want. Wham said that he and his wife would Dever lit her want, but she burn tote tears and said flat she was gettior old, sod that she should he better mad than alive. The witness believed that she commutd through failing to obtain a 'acetic's. Serpent H. Beaumont said that the deceased was found drowned in Moutat•pood. Clapham-eammon, on Friday morning. Her umbrella was found on the grass near the pond. It appeared that on the previous day the del:laud had acewered an advertisement in a newspaper, but there were several other applieants, and she failed to get the libation. She was out all day la the rain look* al tar duff meet situations, and it is supposed that belag namecredal she returned by the train to Clapham steMpu. sad. instead of goiog to the house of a lady at Balhi where she was allowed to atom turned sells drowned herself in the pond, which was only 150 pails from the roadway. She bad said to a friend, "No ems is so noforturiate as lam ; I feel that I shall go eat ed my mind.* The levy returned a verdict. " That deceased was bud drowned is Monalrpoed, Clapham."  MIIPMNIME
The Express. — 1865-10-03 (London, England)

STREET.  • SINOCLAR CASK OW AIALKOID ATTIKMD SUICIDE. A tall gaunt man, with a patch of congealed blood on his forehead, respectably dressed, and who gave the name of William Clifton, was charged *a follows : Waite:Leech, 201 N, said—Between 12 sod I o'clock this morning, while on duty at Clapton-consmon, I observed the prisoner walking our a pond end talking to himself. I don't know what he Rid to me, but instantly after he bad passed the pond Le turned round, walked lack, stepped into it, and thee flung himself down. I and soother constable got him out, and took him to the station. house. A doctor was sent for. Mr. Sefford—Did he make any remark to yon? Witnees—Yu, sir. He said, I woo passing this way in the morning, aid thought it a most *pavement place." I consider be was in liquor. Carpenter, 578 N—l saw the prisoner about the time in Tiwiliou. His fees appeared to be bleeding. I =cl What is the manor ?" but he did not answer, and en. Soon after that I bird an alarm, loud him in the water, and when I went into the pond to save him, he Godly said, " Let me be, let me be." ALL Safford-1M you wish to ask the witnesses any quer. toes! Prisoner (displaying a roll of paintings he carried under arm)—No, sir, no ; I cant deny that I was in the water, hot the question is how 1 came there. I say that's the qoestioe. 1 was not drunk, sa the constable hairnets. No I Ind taken only the third portion of a half-quartern of opirit —so most. Now, sir se you perceive, lam an artist, and have been in a bad state—not well used, sir—no. Well, air, while passing this peed, I wan attacked-7s, sir, attacked.  Mr:-S;fford—Atiacked! Prisoner—Yes, sir, violently attacked a bleeding at the now and well knowing from medical advice that water was the best thing to stop it, I retraced my steps to bathe my nose in the pond. Now, air, I wear, as you perceive, cooeave glasses, which fearfully diminish in poser. I Mopped over what I thought wee the edge of the pathway, but which in feet was the edge of the pond, put my foot oe the bottom of one of the mile, lost my perpendieular, went head foremost, sad turned right over into the water. I did see the polioeconstable ; ob, yet ! and I said " Let me be ; let me alone, sod be with you immediately." I well know the secret of lying quiet in the water, and I floated, rowing myself gently I along with one arm, for the other is paralysed. The,, air, how I oame in the water, and how I behaved while in the water, from which I oould leave Paved myself, but they took me into custody, sad I my, thank Providence for it. constable—At the statlou.house prisoner said, "Thank you. air, you base saved my life." Prisoner—Sir, Ido my thank you. I was most kindly treated at that place by you and the other gentlemen, but I declare befogs high heaven that I had not the moat remote idea of committing suicide. Mr. Miami told the artist that at any rate there was an absence of testimony to enfficisetly prove it, and directed his dialers*.