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The Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1866-04-28 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

MANX TRAGEDY.  An inquiry of a very painful nature has been held in the parish of German, Isle of Man, before Mr. Christian, coroner general for inquests. It related to the murder of a respectable woman named Catherine Cain, about 39 years ,rf age, who resided in the village of St. John's, opposite the Tynwald Mount, and who had been brutally murdered the previous morning by her husband, John Cain, who afterwards committed suicide :-Fromthe evldenec given at the inquest it appeared that Cain was a Jon neymaii blacksmith, about 44 years of age. His wife kept a small grocer's shop in one part of the house in which they resided, and upon her he depended for his subsistence. She was a very striving, industrious, and kind woman, aril was much respected in the village. A few days previous to the tragedy, Mrs. Cain discovered that her hasband had availed himself frequently to take the groceries out of the shop and sell them for drink, and she consequently refused to let him have the key of the shop. With this he was greatly offended, and remained In bed all day in the sulks, having his meals sent to him. Cain had frequently been heard to mutter threats that he would "serve them all out," and that he would “flit them yet." On the previous day he had been drunk, but MI Tuesday he had no liquor. Mrs. Cain went to tied about twelve o'clock on Tuesday night taking with her a little boy shout three years old, her only living child Nothing more was heard of them until five o'clock on Wednesday morning when a noise was heard upstairs like the rush of falling water, and then the child cried. Mrs. Cain's sister went upstairs to get the child, and finding the door hooked on the inside, she raised the fastening with the edge of a hook and went into the room. She found Cain with his head hanging over the edge of the bed, with a frightful gash in his throat. Mrs. Cain was lying nearer the wall. Her throat Wallah° cut, and there wanalso a large lacerated wound on the right side of her head, which had fractured her skull. She was quite dead, sod halt was lust dying when they were toned, but the child was un'injured sitting up in bed crying, arm covered with his mother's blond A light blacksmith's hammer Ira, found on a box at the font of the bed, and apparently that was the weapon with which he had struck the poor woman before inflicting the wounds on her throat. Apparently she had been mardered in her sleep, for there were no marks on her hands as it she had tried to defend herself.  The jury returned as their verdict that "Catherine Cain was wilfully murdered by her husband John Cain, who afterwards committed suicide." Cain was a well-educated man, much given to reading and the 'Andy of the Scriptures, but a firm believer in fatalist doctrines.
The Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1866-03-03 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

DETERMINED SUICIDE THROUGH I , PASSION.. • • Ms linguist has nein hem at tlbidon, lAindon,le injiire into the subilde of limy APS iiptehens, sited rs year-.Willia litiotinakeromid that 4ecOMed wits hie daughter. She was a ckenille net maker, and' heed with him and her eldest sister. On Fri4aY•l Morning last his 'eldeAt damiliter came and told i.im, that the deceased WM 'going to run away from home. lie want downstairs and the deceased told him she would take a room ; it was only to poison herself in it. She was half out of doors, and he used force to pull her-back, as he was afraid of what she might do. Ultimately, to calm her he let her out to take a room.  She returned in ten minutes. and shortly afterwards he found her on de stairs poisoned. He took her into the parlour and sent fir a doctor. Elizabeth Hutchens, a chenille net-maker, said that she was invited out to tea on Sunday last, and the deceased on the previous Monday said that she would go with her. Witness demurred, saying that only one was invited. Deceased got into a furious passion about the matter. On Thursday she renewed the quarrel and would not go to bed all night. At four o'clock in the morning witness entreated her to go to bed, but she said, "so; when daylight comes I will poison myself." At nine o'clock on Friday morning she was in a desperate passion, and she began to dress to go out. Witness s,id that she would go with her, but she refused to permit her, and said she would take a room. Witness dreaded mischief and called her father, who prevented her going out. Sae then rushed to the window, and was going to jump out, when she was prevented by witness and her father. She rt njainvd in the room for an hour in such a passion that witnesses suggested that to claim her sh eshould be let out to take a room and try the experiment of living by herself. She went out and returned in ten minutes. She got a teacup of boiling water. Witness did not like the look of it, and upset it, saying, "You shall not take that." She laughed and said, " I don't care for your upsetting that." She went into the parlour and after staying there ten minutes she returned to the kitchen, saying, " I have done it." Witness said, "You never mean to say you have taken the poison ?" She answered, "I have taken enough to settle me." Witness called her father. Deceased tried to walk upstairs but she fell and had to he carried up. Mr. Worley, surgeon, said that he was called in to the deceased, and he found her lying on a sofa, cold, clammy, and in erJruciating pain. She had taken nearly three-quarters of an ounce of oxalic acid. He applied what remedies he could, but she resisted him as far as she was able. She expressed no contrition whatever, though for some time her mind was quite clear. She gradually sank into a state of coma, and lost her sight. She died at four o'clock the same day. She had taken oxalic acid enough to kill six people. The jury returned a verdict of suicide while in a state of temporary insanity from violent and excessive passion.  MR. BANCROFT on the ANNIVERSARY  of
The Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1866-06-23 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

ITLE: OBSERVER.  ether day. The only result of immanseMabour is a suicide, of which no better account can be given than the eccentric reason for which poor creatures occasion- , ;Ply put an end to themselves. Why has the Liberal iiivernment thrown itself over a precipice ? No honest jury could ilossibly return enylother verdict than that it has committed suicide to ye estimated rental a better test than rateable v e. Such is the bri;lit martyrdom Mr. Gladstone h estaillid to. But what a time to do it id ! IL the better the day the better the deed, we presumedlfie worse the day the wombs the deed. Here are the nations of Europe generally declaring war against each other. Her Majesty, without whom nothing can be done, and who has both to accept resignations and fill the vacancies, is now dimobarging the ffinctions of lt9yalty at Balmoral, near six hundred miles from Westminster. All that could be done hitt night wag to announce the general standstill, and promise more definite explanations in a few day, when letters and answers, if not Ministers, outgoing and incoming, shall have had time to traverse the island to and fro. Unless Her Majestyshould further shorten the very short stay she intended to make in Scotland, twonuccessiee Cabinets will have to visit the Highlands within ten or twelve days, at what loss and (neon. vemence to the public service it is frightful to think. Then come a few other questions. There is the Session to be wound up. There is business that must be done, and business that need not be done. There are also accidents that may happen even before we get &Government at all. If the American Ci vil War gave us so much trouble, will a Germanic Civil War be quite harmless ? We are boasting our immunity perhaps prematurely. There is one comfortable reflection, only one, that occurs to us, and we owe it to Met :ladstone and his colleagues. They have not been overthrown by the Opposition. They have been slain for no principle and for no antagonist. There is neither cause nor foe. 'the blow such as it was, to which they have suceumbed was dealt by one of their own party. If the chiefs of the Opposition conic in now, it is because they are invoked aa mediators, and called in to heal &party feud. The Government has subsided, and another takcs its place by the laws of succession. Not a single item of retribution is due to the new Government, not a grudge ; on the contrary, all possible co-operation. The Liberals are bound by the very terms of their own self-immolation to give the Conservatives a fair trial, and certainly not to exact from them a task which, with everything in their favour, they have found it impossible to bring to even a respectable end.
The Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1866-05-12 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

CHOME, FOREIGN, AND COLONIAL.  DOOB AND CATB.—According to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, there are 300,000 dogs within the rruted Kingdom for which their owners pay licence, and it is computed that only one dog in ten is so licensed. Therefore we have amongst us no fewer than 3,000,000 of dogs. As for cats, we have no such clear statistics; but we may set them down at double the number—that is, 6,000,000, as against 3,000,000 of their canine enemies. The sum that these animals cost their owners per annum is something prodigious, and may be computed as follows : Dog licences, at 12a, 180,000/. ; keep of dogs, at Id. per day, 4,502,5001.; wages of keepers, at 521., 15,6001. ; keep of cats, at §cl. per day, 4.502,5001.—t0ta1, 9,320,6001. The amount is a startling one, and so far as the number of animals is concerned, does not appear exaggerated. Taking the population of the United Kingdom at 30,000,000, the estimated number of dogs gives one to every ten of the population, and of cats one to every five.  SUICIDE EY A Poo !—The following is taken from the Manenestcr Examiner:—  A day or two since,. line dog, which was known by the name of r• ltracc," and belonged to Mr George Hone, of Frindsbury, near Rochester, committed • deliberate act of eulcide by drowning, in the Medway, at l'pnor, Chatham The dog, • fine animal, had, from some cause been suspected of having given Indications of approaching hydrophohla and was accordingly shunned and kept as much as possible from the house. This treatment appeared to cause him great annoyance, and for some days he was observed to be moody and morose, but still wi bout any oppearance of becoming rabid. On Thursday miming, he wannest to leave his house and proceed to an intimate acquaintance If his master s, at Upnor, on reaching the residence of whom he set up &piteous cry on finding that he could not obtain admittance. After waiting at the house some little time, he was seen to go 0wards the river close b 3-, where he deliberately walked down the bank, 'and after t netting round and giving a farewell bowl he walked into the stream, where he kept his head under water, arid in a minute or two rolled over dead, This extraordinary act of suicide was witnessed by several persona The mariner of the death proved pretty clearly that the animal was not suffering from hydrophobia.
The Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1866-09-08 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

SUICIDE OF A CLERGYMAN.  Great excitement, says the Surf ii Eastern Ad,ocate, was caused in Rye and the neighbourhood, on Friday evening, by the report that the Rev. Thomas Nightingale, formerly rector of St. Clement's Hastings, and recently curate of Iden, had been found dead in his room, with his face and head fearfully mangled, and his brains scattered all over the room. A recently discharged pistol was found lying by his side. It appears that the deceased had been into the town, in the afternoon, and on his way home had conversation with the Rev. 'l'. Lewis, curate of Rye, and the Rev. L Robinson, curate of Play,lon. On arriving at the top of the hill he went to the Rye Un'on house and held conversation with Mr. Tat to at the porter's lodge, and went over the house. He was exceedingly pleasant and cheerful, and nothing transpired which would lead to , the supposition that the deceased eontemplated suicide. Between five and six o'clock he returned to his apartments at Playdomcottage, and went to his sitting. room. Shortly afterwards Mrs. Austen, the occupier of the house, heard the report of a pistol, but took no notice of it, as the deceased was accustomed to use a pair of pistols which were in the room for the purpose of shooting small birds from the window of the sitting-room. About ten minutes before six she proceeded to the room to lay the cloth for dinner. She knocked, but received no answer. She entered, and noticing dc. ceased lying on the hearth-rug in front of the fireplace, she said, " Are you ill, Sir?" At the same moment, looking at him, she perceived the blood flowing, and a horrible scene presented itself, causing her to shriek and call for immediate help. A young man named Ellis was in the garden, and was soon on the spot, and as goick iy as possible medical aid was called in • but deceased had been dean for some time. Mr. Reeks was soon iii attendance, as were abs Messrs. Adamson and Son, and it was then discovered that a pistol lying by the side of the deceased lad receetly been d•scharged, the contents entering his head. The vicar of Rye, the Rev. L. Bates, awl other friends, were soon at the cottage. No letter can be found which would indicate that he contemplated suicide, and Al far as letters and other matters of important consideration are concerned, nothing can be found that for a moment would lead to the supposition that it was a premeditated act. A very singular circumstauce is that the pistol by which the deceased came by his death is the iinc used by Mr. Stare, of Winehelsea, who committed suicide by shooting himself at a plays, called the Half-Moon Battery, between Rye and Winchelsea, nearly thirty years ago.
The Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1866-08-25 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

RESPITE OF A SKY:TIERCE FOR NICRPER.-At the recent remixes at Leeds a young married man named William Turner was convicted of the murder of his infant daughter, by cutting her throat at Sheffield. The jury recommended him to mercy, but before the sentence of death was pronounced on him by Mr. Justice Smith, the prisoner, in a rather remarkable eldreis, expressed a hope that the recommendation of the jury would not be attended to, inasmuch as he had mein his peace with God, and that he had rather die than lead a life of misery, which he should have to Ito if he was kept in confinement. It appears that the prisoner had suffered from a sunstroke while serving as a soldier in India, and that at times he was scarcely sane. On Thursday the Governor of the Leeds Borough Gaol, in which Turner is confined, received an official intimation that the capital sentence will not be carried out. In all probability the sentence will be commuted to penal sin •itode for life.  POOR GIRL ! —On Sunday morning the body of a young woman named Jane Murphy was found in the ornamental water, St. James's Park, London, under circumstances which leave no doubt that she had committed suicide. The deceased, who ward • fine young woman, twenty.tw,, years of age, is the daughter •,f. a law writer; and it seems that on the previous Sibliday she came home to spend the day with her paronts, having got leave of absence from her situation until nine o'clock in the evening. It happened, how. ever, that she stayed much later than that time, and, not liking to go back again for fear of a dismissal, or from some other reason, she remained at home. This circumstance appears to have preyed greatly on her mind, and she was very greatly depressed. It is evident that she had made up her mind to commit suicide, as a small piece ..f parchment was found in her pocket with her father's address legibly written upon it. _  . - ANOTIIER PROPOEED DEPUTATION TO TUE Qvzinc. —A meeting convened by the Clerkenwell branch of the Reform League wait held on Monday evening, on lerkenwelbgreen, London, and preeided over by Mr. Coffey, a member of the branch The followingresidu. tom wae carried :  Tit this meeting pledge. itself to claim, demand, and th eta .ripon the right 01 every person who is expected to defnd fhe country, pay tsxes, and obey the laws, to a share In the government of the State The second resolution, which was carried, was to the following effect :-  lhat the working( men and otheri composing this meeting Pledge themselves to support the object. and principle. of the Reform League by enrolling themselves members, and Op all other legitimate mean. The following resolution wag also agreed to : • - - - - -  Theta petition, signed by the chairman of this meeting, be presented to her Slajesty the Queen by e deputetion from the clerkeneell branch of the Reform League requesting her Co dismiss her present blinisters.  A DwzmAn IN
The Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1866-07-21 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

SAD AFFAIR.  On Monday morning Mr. C. St. Clair Bedford, the coroner for Weetruinster, held an inquiry in St. Ann's vestry room, Dean-street, Soho, London, relative to the death of William Mold, who committed suicide after having attempted the life of a young woman with whom he had cohabited, the attempted murder and suicide being committed almost in the presence of deceased's wife, and at his residence. El'zabeth Handley Mold, the wife of the deceased man, said : • • •  I live at 20, Kira-street, the deceased was my Intsband he was fiftpone years of age, and a public house broker. He had several times threatened to destroy himself, and generally had poison by him He sometimes threatened to do so owing to pecuniary pressure. He has been in a lunatic asylum I have been married to him three years, and previous to that time he had twice attempted outride with laudanum. On one occasion he took too much. He was not of sober habits. In 1854 he received all Injury which affected his brain. He was at times delirious Ilia affair. were in a confused state, which affected him, and on Thursday last he said he should not live throughout the day. I said, "I don't believe you, for you have mid it so often." He replied, .• You will find it out." After ten he lay down, and a young woman being in the room he attempted to poison her. She screamed out, and said deceased had tried to force vitriol into her mouth. I rushed into the roam, and I saw my husband lying on the bed. The young woman was also on the bed, both being dressed. All my husband could say was " Water, water . " I gave him some, from which he drank, and he never spoke afterwards.  It seemed from the doctor's evidence that it was not vitriol, but cyanide of potatetium, which the deceased took, and which he endeavoured to pour down the young woman's throat. The account given by the latter was extraordinary. It turned out that though she had lived with Mold before his marriage, she still resided in the same house with him and his wife and her illegitimate child five years old, of which he was the father. The jury found that the deceased was insane.
The Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1866-05-05 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

SCENE ST A MVRDEREIVS FLIIERAL. —At •,-1,. as he told me on Thursday, that he will never consent delight, and great masses of People clustered around twelve o'clock on Saturday night 'week at St. be; a candidate for the Presidency again. I will the police-station, demanding that be be given them John's, Isle of Man, the body of John Cain, the 'd that the President looked better in health to hang. He was with difficulty taken before the murderer and suicide, was interred: 'lt Was conveyed - -vw him some month's ago, and that he mayor, and squads of armed police were required to to the grave on a rude one-horse cart. The grave was -learner., force, and ability, and guard the carriage in which he was conveyed from the situate in a solitary corner of the Cemetery. When • -tit upon which he is talking amanita of the infuriated snob, The German told his the coffin was placed by the side of the grave, Pre. ' -tie figures and illustra- story, and said the family were murdered *a described Paratory to its being loweredlherein, one of the reabove, but laid the chief part of the crime on an latives of the murdered woman, carried away by his accomplice. The accomplice, he said, killed the feelings at the recollection of her tragical fate, -- family' he, the amirentice boy, and it all had been wrenched the inscription-'p'at off the murderer's '-ne troth axes and • hammer. They plundered the coffin, and hurled it, together with the hammer and -d got a few trinkets, some clothes, and 350 razor with which the horrid Crime had been committed, -n. This terrible crime had been cam- into the grave. The coffin 'wee then thrown into the -v not more than 70i. The City earth, the grave was fillidaqiNni, burial service being 1 general search is being read,) and in a few momerffetllose who had attended ' had served in the this" funeral" departed.—The ' funeral of his victim --eau ~,ya be wife was attended by the laliffiet-conconrse of persons vnd this ever assembled at St. JontY's:—So asticione are the vo relatives of the murdered SVOllia,ll to blot out every --ace of the murderer that on Monday they burnt his `4tes,..wearing apparel,. as books, which were ^al romances: ' • • r . "PtisTrorCoi, Evratm
The Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1865-08-19 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

LETTERS FOR DENMAR IC AND NORWAY.--A reduction of postage has taken place on letters for Denmark and Norway forwarded via Prussia, and, in future the following rates, British and foreign combined, will be chargeable on such letters, viz. :—To Denmark: Not exceeding half ounce, Bd.; above half ounce, and not exceeding one ounce, is. 4d.; above one ounce, and not exceeding two ounces, 2s. Bd.; above two ounces, and not exceeding three ounces, 45.; every additional ounce, Is. 4d. To Norway: Not exceeding half ounce, is.; above half ounce, and not exceeding one ounce, 25.; above one ounce, and not exceeding two ounces, 4s. ; above two ounces, and not exceeding three ounces, Gs. ; every additional ounce, 2s. The postage may be either paid in advance, or left to be paid on delivery of the letters, at the option of the sender; but unpaid or insufficiently paid letters will be charged on delivery with an additional rate of 2d. when not exceeding half an onnee in weight, and SO on, according to the above scales. By command of the Postmaster-GeneraL —General Post Office, August 14, 1865.  POOR OLD Hoss !—The "Dundee Advertiser' records the last act of a dismal old horse, too broken down to work, and too valuable to kill. He was turned out, without "house or hauld," to eat grass with the oxen. With hungry belly and broken heart, he wended his lonely way down by the Moor's Shore, pas. sed Luckyscaup, turned the Moor's Point, and still held on his lonely way, regardless of the wondering gaze of the Pool fishermen. At length he arrived at a point opposite the wreck of the Dalkoume, where he stood still', and, while the curiosity of the fishermen was wound to the highest pitch as to what was to follow, he, neighing loudly and tossing his old tail, rushed madly into the briny deep, got beyond his depth, held his head under the water, and soon ceased to be. The fishermen conveyed the true, although strange and startling tidings, to the respected owner, that his horse had committed suicide.