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The Cannock Chase Examiner. — 1874-09-19 (Cannock, Staffordshire, England)

THE OUTRAGE ON CONSEIL MAGEE. . I dinner he knocked . her on the ffc,ot and kicked I lug, and on his wife coming from the, mill to naty.,,,,..4,..ll.4:iordsomb:setret,..trvAantifirla4 the eerv7ce of Mr. Allenboro, near Peterborough. Cabtan, Aug. 14.—Adviees receives from Gua'ca. downstairs and pushed her out of the ht.u.se and her violently. He had frequently drigged her • Lae committal suicide under rather peculiar •oirniale, announorrahat Cominandante ,Gonvadee and threatened to murder her. die etripped his sou of cunistances. From the evidence of one of her his accomplice, Carlos Baines, the perpetrators of hia clothes and pawned them, and tpest the orooe9 fellow-servants at the inquest, it appe.red that the the outrage upon Consul Magee, have been tried by in drink.—The prisoner, who promised amerdment. deceased was very quiet in her m•inner; and was court martial. Gontates was eenteneed to nee was sentenced to six months' interlsouteent, and fretpiently seen to be much affected white reading years' imprisonment with hard labour, and Boise. ordered tofind sureties, or tag° to garlidor another the Bible. Without there being an3thing it her to two years' imprisorunent. The seitthithe of the six months. . manner leading to an apprehension of such an court martial has been sent up to the 'Supreme James sl'Van and Catherthe Monaghan were occurrence, she rose in the night and drowned herCourt for approval. It is expected that it will he charged, at the same °Art, with. violently aactult- self fig.. pond close to the Wnon„,,. A voi.„1;oh of confirmed, and probably the terms of imprisonment leg Jame* Fierney. The paitlekivere at the Ploegh "Suicide while in a „nu of ihi,„„47 e won' 1 increased for both prisoners. Lord Dere:, is re- Inn on Saturday night, when n7lmirel took place. turned. ported to have deolined to confirm the article of Monaghan-called out" Wire in, s:urt punch hl heal . . . , the Protocol, leaving pecuniary indemnity to omo Complainant. diti-not keew who knocked l hi'. L.ADRI'NKIN CAnSIAN.—At the Westminster Paliee.court, on Monday, Geo. Brierley, a cabman. ' Consul Magee an open question, notwithstanding ~i,,,,n, I bat 11' Van kicked him ea the head and face, whose fire and ear were, it is stated, badly cut, WWI that the Consul has refused any moneyjndemnity. and inflicted several severe reminds. tdonaahen The English Government is seeking toNmpress on . kicked him several' times on the 'Cp. ex,,,,phainant charged sub heing drunk during his emplo,menb • Guatemala the necessity of more caution in nP- .waa taken t. I tr. 'Maitland, who dressed his wounds. as haekney.earriage driver. A policeman sad that pointing publics officials. . Fie cid lint blame 'the Man half ag ranch vs the . on'Sonday mornieg, at One eclair, he was on duty • wonian.—M'Van v-a, sentenced to three menthe', in tepipel street, Chelsea, and found the defendant • . .
The Cannock Chase Examiner. — 1874-09-19 (Cannock, Staffordshire, England)

WEDNESBITEY.  DETHEntrEED SWIM* UPON THE Ramwev.—On Sunday afternoon, a determined case of suicide oceurred 'en the London and North Western Railway, between Wednesbury and Walsall. It appears that as the 3.35 brain for Walsall to Wedneebury, wee nearing the Weitt Bromwich Road Bridge, at Newton, the driver taw a man step from behind the abutment of the bridge, throw himself upon his knees, and deliberately lay his head upon the line of metals along which the train approaching, being only a few yards from him at the time. The train ahnost instanteously reached him, the gutted of the engine turning the mane head on one side, the wheel of the engine then passed obliquely over his chest :laid killed him instantly. He has since been identified eu an old painter unmet Rogers, who left the West 13romeich Workhouse a few weeks since. He was seen to step fro n the side of the bridge by a man atonable upon it, who shouted but to no purpose. An inquest on view of the body Was held at the Talbot Inn, Woduesbury, on Monday afternoon, before Mr. Hooper, coroner for the district, and a verdict that decease I cram tted suicide while in a state of temporary insanity was returned. The e•iceuce of deceased's daughter wan given and showed that he had been wandering about for some days getting his living in the best mentor that he could, and that she had nimbi arrange. menta for his being taken beck to the workhouse that , slay, . 'fluswous Srasnw AcettanT.—On Thursday afternoon, 'as Mrs. Ems, wife of Mr. Edmund Ems, Holy. heed Road, manager of Messrs. Bagnall's Imperial Worka, Weiluesbury, was crossing Holyhead road, she was knocked down and run over by a light spring trap, in which were two females. Several passers-by at once went to the assistance of Mrs: Ems, aad she was conveyed to her home, a few yards away. Mr. Kerr, 'sur' geon was called in, and, upon examination, he found that several of her ribs on the left side were broken. Au soon as the accident occurred, the occupants of the trap, who, it is said, at the time of the accident, were driving furiously, and on the wrong side of the road, drove off in the direction of West Bromwich. Mrs. Ems now lies to a precarious condition.
The Cannock Chase Examiner. — 1874-09-19 (Cannock, Staffordshire, England)

SUICIDE OF A CLERIC OF THE PEACE. A. profound sensation was created on Saimrday afternoon by de rumour that Mr. Henry Oliver Hunt, Clerk of the Peace for the county. .ad Town' Clerk of Stratford.on•Avon. had sect himself at his residence. 111 that town. For a use little time pant ' Mr. Hunt's manner and appearance attracted some ' attention, but there was not the slightest suspicion : Vasa the unfortunate gentleman had a suicidal tendency, neither can any reason be assigned for the rrian af.'portentwaarr4 etluaciirlarvte colecuem. atneweatsB. 'in prietice ad a solicitor. t m Saturday morning he come down to breakfast at his usual hour, and the servants heard him enter the ' breakfast room. .His letters were lying ready for Inn., and it seems he opened aid read them, as they were found placed in his diethodical mcnner on the table. Shortly afterwards he was heard to go upstairs, and after a while the rervants heard a noise, Which Rounded to them like h glass falling. Presently the noise was riceated, and the servants west into the garden.to see if the looking-glass .had really been blown from the bed room window by the wind, but observing it in it. place they re. tureed to the house, end went to the deceireeila bed room. Finding the door fastened, they sent for his nephew, Mr. Mounts Hunt, who speedily arrived, end, weinertaining that the bed room door was still secured, be went personally for Kr. Hatton, surgeon. They returned together, and forced open the door, when a most Painful , spectacle presented jtself. Mr. Hunt lay in a pool of blood, faintly breathing. On examination he was found to be quite beyond human aid, and he lingered for about three hours, when he expired. He h.l shot himself with a revolver twice under the jaw. The first shot had not taken effect, and he tired a second, which inflicted a mortal wound. The deceased gentleman was a widower, without any family. He was appointed town clerk in succession to his late brother, ib 1064, and was elected clerk of the peace on the death of his brother, Mr. W. 0. Hunt, in December. 1873, and practised it Stratford as an attorney. His manners were always refined, and be was extremely courteous and singularly methodical in his business habits. He belonged to a family whose name hes for many years been associated with the borough, and his melancholy end is deeply deplored.—Strininglrem  :011,
The Cannock Chase Examiner. — 1877-10-05 (Cannock, Staffordshire, England)

SINGULAR CASE. turning to work, he recommended the meeting to ' At an inquest, at Sheffield, on the body of Thomas At the Central Criminal Court, London, Reuben ask the executive totake into consideration the proDickenson, who had committed suicide by jumping Lane has been indicted for the murder of his wife, priety of establishing a co-operative fat. into one of the waterwolks reservoirs in the nresence Emma Lane. The prisoner was a railway porter at of , tory —( applause)— anti- he believed that a number of people it transpired that 100 perHampton, and he was charged with causing he S 5 had committed suicide in the same place within plenty of producing co-operative societies would be found willing to inveat in eneh a con- ' a specified period of years. In this case Dickenaon death of his wife by administering a noxious drug to her for an illegal purpose. It was Jane at the ha been a very hard drinker, and had told his wife cern. The Walsall Co-operative Padlock Factory, a which' they helped to establish a few year. ' during the week that he should murder her and 1,,.... wish of his wife, and it appeared that her heart was swe much diseased, and the doctor was unable to then kill himself. He had, in fact, just before._at. ago, had done well, and if they determined . upon a like venture he could get several gentlemen ' give any positive opinion as to the cause of death. tempted his wife's lita With a-akarp knife, bst. for- , The ease was, therefore, stopped, and the prisoner • tunately failed. l then pleaded guilty to a charge of misdemeanour in outside the trade to put £2OO or .£3OO each in it, i while many workmen would be glad to invest small having administered the ingredient referred ti. 8111118—(hear, hear). After some other remarks he rho prisoner received an exoefient character from produced some samples of nuts and bolta which he the rector Of the parish, Mr. Eykin, of the Stark said had been made by " blacklegs" since the strike Exchange, who lives in the neighbourhood, and the began, and declared that although these things were station master, and the learned judge sentenced him ready to be sent out, if society men had made such to eleven days' imprisonment, dating from the b••work it would have been cast upon the scrap heap-ginning of the session, the effect of which was that (Voices: "And quite right too.") he was at once discharged. After a few brief addresses in favour of co-opera. tion, the following proposition was unanimously agreed to, viz. :  HEATH_ OF
The Cannock Chase Examiner. — 1877-06-01 (Cannock, Staffordshire, England)

PARI,II CLEHIL.—Joseph Goadbm for be thought by the lady questioner a lover of liters- 27 years pariah clerk at the old church of Market tore. "Hare you," continued the inquisitive lady, Bosworth, Leiceetershire, destroyed hinmelf last week "ever read 'Ten Thousand a Year?'" "No, madam; by cutting his throat. Deceased committed the act in I never read so many novels in all my life." an outhouse in his garden. After inflicting the fatal wound, he staggered to the badk doer of his house "William," observed a Milwaukee woman to her covered with blood. Meeting his daughter at the husband, "Mrs. Halcomb feels pretty badly now, since door, he handed leer the knife, but afterwards fell the loss of her child, and I wish you would drop over down, and expired Minima immediately. Deceased, there and see her. You might say that all fiesh is who was tin t tears of age, was highly respected, hut grate; that we've all got to go the same way; and see for some time putt he had teen exceedingly depressed if she is going to use her dripping-pan this afternoon." in spirits. When Mr. Joughnes entered a shop and observed on SUMODS DEATH oN LEAVINO 011ArEl..—On Studs, Ike wall behind the counter the legend, "If you don't morning as Mrs. Jane Galtrey, the widow of a Custom see what you want, ask for it," his eyes quickly roved house officer, residing in Dean 'trey, ocarborougb, all over the establishment, and not seeing what he mae walking home from Queen street Wesleyan Chapel wanted he asked for it. The proprietor "Iseult' n'teeee in that town, it here the Rev. J. Cranswiek had been it" either. Joughnes wanted five dollars' Inunh of conducting a service, she fell down deed AO St. Thomas credit. street. She was 70 tears of age; and the Yorkshire An Exeter jury found a man guilty, and then recom- Artillery Militia regiment was passing at the top of mended him to mercy because it was not clearly proved Queen street at the time on their way from church. that le had committed the offence charge- against This caused a crowd and may hare excited the old lady, him. There was less logic in their proceeding than in who was suffering from heart disease, which was as that of the Poole jury who, although a prisoner con- doubt the cause of death, reseed himself guilty, yet acquitted him became, as the SUICIDE or A SUR, floa IN
The Cannock Chase Examiner. — 1877-03-02 (Cannock, Staffordshire, England)

BRUSKELS.—A Br,iseete oorrespondent writes :—The Sark of the Union do On:alit Bank who had fire denounced the frauds of Emerique and Vandeein h.s committed suicide. The, act is attributed to anno) auces which he had to suffer from the other cierks of the hank, who are said to hare sympathised with Emerique.  _ . The new series of Crystal Palace plays will consist of dramas founded upon well. uown novels, and will mclude adaptations of Miss Braddon's "Lady Au& ley's Secret, "Henry Dunbar,' and "Aurora Floyd;' Miss Edwardes's "Ought We to Visit Her and Mrs. Henry Wood's "East Lynne." Messrs. Oxen. 'ford, Tutu Taylor, W. 8.1 liberty 0.8. Cheltnam, and George Roberni are respec!ively responsib!e fur the versions.  LOSS AND RN:COVENT or £O3OO, Information wig given at the Metropolitan Police Office the other morning of the loss of ,Oi3lol in bank notes. It , appears that an American gentleman, named Charles Akers, a shipowner, of New York, on the 2lii ' February, sooompauied by his wife, went to the Bask of itogland, and received the proceeds of a cheque fes £6300 in notes and gold. The notes he placed in a pocket-book In the breast pocket of his coat, and tits , gold in small bag. Subsequently he went to several establishments in the City and West.end, and finally to the Langham Hotel. On reaching, the latter place ,he discovered the loss of his pocket-book, which con. twined, in addition to the amount sated, many valuable papers and bonds; but it, was then too -late to make Inquiries. Meanwhile a eine-hii an in the employ of Mr. S. Hart, of New Bond street, at whuse establish. ment Mr. Akers had rolled, diecuvered the pocket-book inside one of the carriages, and handed it to the manager, who, seeing the valuable nature of the con. tents, awaited inquiries respecting it, and eventually restored it to the owner, Mr. Akers immediately rewarding the finder handsomely.  An OLD LADy's
The Cannock Chase Examiner. — 1877-08-03 (Cannock, Staffordshire, England)

MELANCHOLY SUICIDE. —A little hey, on being threat- 1575, 7,00(1,000; in 1876, 10,000,000. sued with a whipping, hung—his head. Drers.—Tlects are planted in Apri'v when the WHEN do skipping lambs become like literary volumes? When they become boandin' cheep. ground 0 tii. to work, which ensures all the seeds to gerreitiiitt, &riving the chance to have a plant about WHAT in it that is always kept perfectly dry tiltlmugil.l twelve iratea in the row by thinning out with the there in a running spring in it ali the time? A watt:hoe. '1 he work between the rows is done entirely "Locals an internal transport r exclaimed an en.thusisetie poet. with the horse and a thill cultivator provided with forwarding mercha'n' V. is a canal b°",.. 'aid a' o.". cast-steel reversible shares. Since the adoption of level cultivation, the farmer has been unifor.mly re. . . . .  .... •eoon, warded with from eight to ten hundred bushel; per acre of mangel wurtgels. The same preparation of the id and entire pro -ess will insure tut equal —.was should  groom. yield of rota bares, winch experience proves 1.. be planted about the last of May. A MEN ANIt Liza Berion.—Mr..l. J. Mochi writes. in the Agricultural Gazette, surely no observing person can fail to see, and then to believe, that the feathered tribe are the farmer's best friends, not excepting rooks, partridges, and pheasants, provided ree drill our corn deeply in the coil, as we should do. flaying many broods of chickens, and as the same broods and their mammas have at all times free access through my wire fences to my fields, they spread over these fields, and I watch their operations, often early and late. Their ever-searching eyes and quick motions discover and appropriate every living insect—insect which no human eye could detect, leiat evening they were on a recently-cleared clover field, and shortly after they were irccornpanied (but at a respectable distance) by is large flock of starlings, and as I watched their active and darting movements in search of their prey, I mid to myself, " Surely entomology should form a part of every young farmer's education, and bird's-fleeting should be (as it now is by Act of Parliament) strictly pro. hibited. Although we throw down corn for our poultry, they graze, like sheep, on crass, and search industriously for worms and insects. Flies  most adusirinualy for worms atm _ have no chance with them when on the legs at our sheep, cattle, or horses.
The Cannock Chase Examiner. — 1877-08-10 (Cannock, Staffordshire, England)

DETERMINED SUICIDE NEAR WEDNESSURY.  For some time a boot and shos maker, named William Partridge (54;), of Lea Brook Reid, Wednesbury, has been addicted to drinking lad spending his earnings, the consequence being that he has not been able to pay his debts, the ctief item being that for rent. The landlord of the house in which Partridge resided waited upon his last week, and requested him to pay part of the rent that was owing, but as he refused the laid. lord employed bailiffs to seize the goods. Ttis having been done, Partridge said to his mitthours that he did not know where his childsn would sleep, for he had not anything for them to sleep upon. Accommodation was ultimstell, found for the children by the neighbours. Pritridge remarked to one Ann Hickman, whiletit in a bewildered state, "that it was hid eaoso now, but it would be worse to-morrow." UP° Partridges youngest son, a boy of 13 years of ire, going into the house on Saturday morning, he us horrified by finding that his father lay ins pool?t blood, his head nearly severed from the body, tte latter being in a bag, whilst the shoulders Wel covered with two or three old costs. The hod lay on two bricks, which were covered with a pie't of linen. At the side of deceased lay a ra3 covered with blood, and in one of the pock!' were found a razor and a sharp shoemaker's kith, Information was given to the police, sad t• house was closed, the children being card for the neighbours. Deceased was a widower. On Monday afternoon Mr. Edwin Hooper, B. trict Coroner, held an enquiry at the Cotta Spring Inn, Ocher Hill, touching the death William Partridge. After evidence showing ta deceased had been addicted to drink, the lug aft' a short consultation, returned a verdict 0 Thr deceased committed suicide whilst in a stated temporary insanity."  The Bill brought in by the Local Government Bari constituting one united drainage district for Biases!, ham and tAse neighbourhood, Wag read a third tiol and passed in the House of Commons on Betook!. WoiDaereL
The Stockton Examiner, and South Durham and North Yorkshire Herald. — 1879-08-09 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

OMI ANY. the threateningconduct of the Maoris, who commeneed A clergyman obtaine.t t.. 1,60) damages from the p.ougiiing up some of the Europeans' land in the Laheasiure and Yorkshire Railway Company for perneighbourheod, insisted on an armed force being sent s•di:rl injuries arising•from a coll:sion which took place th,.]r prote,:tion. Yielding to their urgent repro, at Ilitt,kratield Station in February, 1070. The st.idations, the Government, during the last week or pliintirf, the Rev. COrlrarl S. Green vicar of Helm, t is',, have been sending detac'iments of armed con- near Huddersfield, was strung 'slid lie dthy up to the 'I tin try to the threatened id:strict, together with a time of the accident, hut he received such a shock by I p:eiitif ul supply of arms, ammunitlon and equipments; the c•,llision as to prostrate him both mentally and inl, in order to be prept red for all contingencies,piiei'-ally.erred between L 30,1 and £4OO ordcre I a large quantity of warlike stores from in vimita to Southen.l, Blackpool, and America, but lit.n. Simultaneously reports reached Wellington hi. medical attendants advise comp:ete rest and attt•tiihts being made to supply the Maoris with s 'thin from work, and he has therefore completely arms, and it was stated that the latter wort: offering SeVtlaal is connection with his parish for two years. tat iouch as titc, per pound for powder in the neigh- —The defence was that the plaintiff unintentionally b•uutood of Wangamir. exaggerated bin symptoms, arida nutuber of eminent _ .  nth. with. N  prof; ;idioms' men.' geld he would recover his usual mental faculties, which alone were affected, as soon a- the anxiety about the trial was over. The jury, Mwever, returned a verdict for £l,ood.—Mr. StyThe Coroner for Central Middlesex Dr. Hardwicke, nmur, in asking his lordship to stay execution, said received information on Monday from the authorities the darreiges were larger than the claim could have of tie llouseof Correction, Coldbath Fields, Clerkenbeen adjusted for.—Lord justice Bramwell could not amll, of the suicide of Henry Pace, who was a short sav the verdict was wrung. the refused to stay exedra.; ago sentenced to 18 months' hard labour fez the manslaughter of a young man named Cole. Both ----....,-.-.....---/ men were employed at the Clerkenwell Gas Work', St. James's Walk, Clerkenwelhland in a fit of passion