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The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1871-06-23 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

OLDHAM' UNION WORICIOUSE. _ _  On Sunday morning, a strange discovery was made at the Oldham Workhouse. It appears that on the 28th of May, a man named Richardson, a painter by trade, aged 36 years, was admitted to the male imbecile ward. He had been drinking excessively for some time, and was sent to the workhouse, when suffering from delirium tremens, it being apprehended that he was not fit to be at large, as he bad threatened to kill his wife and to take his own life. As usual in cases of this kind, the man, with another similarly affected, was placed under the care of a party whose duty it was to watch his movements. He was suddenly missed on the Ist of June, and though every effort was made to trace his whereabouts, no clue could be found to them. As escapes from the house are not unusual, it was conjectured that he had got away from the place, and inquiries were made of his friends, but neither his wife nor any of them had seen or heard anything about him. On Saturday evening the nurse at the male imbecile ward reported to Mr. Geo. Milne, the governor of the workhouse, that the water had a horribly offensive stench, and that it was making both himself (the nurse) and several other inmates ill. Mr. Milne gave instructions that the water was to be run off, the ball-tap which supplies the cistern tied up, and the cistern itself examined and cleaned. On Sunday morning, a party was sent to examine the cistern, and the first sight that presented itself was the legs of a manstieking out of it. Assistance having been procured, the corpse was removed, and a sickening appearance it presented from advanced decomposition. The body was identified as that of the missing painter, Richardson. There can be no doubt that the man committed suicide, as he frequently stated as the drunken delirium began to wear off that he could not face his friends after tie conduct he had been guilty of. The cistern was on the same floor as the apartment in which he was Sept.
The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1871-02-03 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

PARIS. j expect any such effort. thanked Von Werder for his glorious victories I, Loiret, Yonne, and the Pas de ealais and Is.ord in VERSAILLES, Jan. 29th, Afternoon.-Forts Issy 1 Already movements of the German troops have against Bourbaki, which have been unexampled in' is reserved. German occupation. A decision as to the armistice ! relative to the Cote d'OreDoubs, Jura, and Belfort masters and men were equally represented, being Narier..--me ts onto " Pile anil Gravel P:ills" are copyright, MI touters.' at Stationers' Hall. • WiIeLEsALE A 4IENTs :-London, Barclay ; Stilton ; Newberry ; Sanger ; Drew, Barron, . and Co. and Bioetre were this morning occupied by the sixth 'begun, in view of ulterior operations. history. He has awarded him the Great Cross ofi I presided over by an. indepeedent person.. Such Silenanarmy °cep& Fortsßomanville,Noisy, Roane', I REPORTED SUICIDE OF GENERAL the Red Eagle. boards would, he said, tend to the establishment Bristel, Collins :mit Boma.; l'earce and Co., Re.. Liverpool, Evans, Sons, and Co. ; Clay, Dod, and Casa ; and Regent by the twelfth Saxon corps. The first i DI7CROT. , The Caelsruhe Omits publishes a proclamation 0,1 Up to that time the military operations in that I f F ' din th • , part o ranee, mclu g e siege of Belfort, I, of :in open labour market, and would enable the Rah:mean.' Co. . will ; skilled artisan to get the best price for his work. • . . Baearian army corps garrison Fort Charenton ; the p.m.-eelee Simon is the Committee of tbe National Liberal party, in- , second riontrouge and Vanvres. VERSAILLES, Jan. 30th, 2 be continued. 1 The Acts of Parliament which were said to bring , AGENTS von iirtINIZTI4:-.1. LLovn, Chemist ;W. PowELL, Chemist. going to Bordeaux. A rumour is current tha t Ducrot forming the people of their intention to send to thei Sea forces are to be included in the armistice, the : about arbitration were mere dead letters, but, withl The city of Pans has he Pay a war contribution ef - -- - !German aesemblies only such men as have shown tmieridian of Dunkirk to form the line of demarca- I slight amendments, might be made very useful, if 200,000,000 f. (.28,00c0c0 sterling). has poisoned himself. lthemselves capable of remaining true to the sup- on. the plan he suggested were carried out. the following telegram has been received at the
The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1871-02-24 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

MURDER NEAR GRIMSBY. SUICIDE OF THE MURDERER.  The murder of a stepmother at the village of Stallingborough, near Great Grimsby, on Saturday, adds another to the many crime, for which North Lincolnshire has become notorious, making three eases of violent death at villages a few miles distant from each other, within a period of little over a year and a half. Christopher Leedham, a brick manufacturer at Stallingborough„,five miles west of Grimsby, is a man in humble circumstances, aged about 65. Twenty years ago he was left a widower with five children, and afterwards married a young woman, his jnnior by many years, who has now fallen a victim to his eldest son, George Leedham, aged 45. This son, when working in a cake mill at Hull a few months ago, received an accident which caused an internal injury of the nature of a rupture. This led to depression of spirits, produced great irritability of temperament, and he had recently become almost uncontrollable. On Saturday Mrs. Leedham was preparing dinner, there being also in the loom her husband (who had just entered and was reading a newspaper), the unhappy son George, and his half-brother Elijah, aged seven years. The mother was about serving up rice pudding, when George, who stood by the table on her left side, began to eat the pudding out of the dish with a butcher's knife. His stepmother requested him not to do so, but to sit down and have sidne of the pudding on a plate. Simply ejaculating " I shan't," he struck a backward blow with the knife, which entered the lower part of the right side of the unfortunate woman's neck, just above the breast bone, to the depth of three inches, and penetrated the jugular vein. He withdrew the knife, threw it on the floor, rushed out of the house towards the brick pond, and jumped into the water. Ile was quickly followed by a brother-in-law, aged seventeen, and a labourer named Jackson, who succeeded in dragging him out. The youth then left them and hurried home to ascertain the condition of his mother. She had staggered into the next cottage, fallen down, and expired immediately. Meanwhile a struggle ensued between the murderer (who seemed determined on self-destruction) and Jackson, in which Leedbam proved the strongest. Jackson clang to him to prevent him carrying out his intention, and was dragged into the pond, and to preserve himself was compelled to release his hold, the murderer succeeding in drowning himself.
The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1871-07-14 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

MARRIED BY AUCTION.—The Grambarta Prakae. I set apart fcr the use of Her Majesty. In the others, was not. All the other boilers would produce more hike relates a curious case of marriage which is too refreshments consisting of tea, coffee, champagne, steam than could blow off. The pressure would be good to be lost. A Brahmin residing in a village American drinks, and magnificent fruits were served uniform throughout the boilers, but the safety lying close to Burdwan, unable to find a proper , during the afternoon. Two military bands were , match for his daughter, or too indolent to find out I stationed in the grounds and played at interval .' valves would not let off the steam me fast as it was generated. lie calculated that "team would la bridegroom himself, determined to sell his &ugh- I The company began to arrive shortly after four in ANOTHER CONFESSION OF MURDER AT WIGA ter by auction. A day w fixed, and several suitorslrapid succession, amongst the earliest being Prince blow off from the exploded boiler at 551 b. He N.— as should not have considered it safe to have worked A man named Henry Hogg, who was taken to the ceine in at once. After a hot bidding for some , Arthur, attended by Lieut.-Colonel Fitzgerald; that boiler at more than 301 b. on account of the Wigan Workhouse on the order of a relieving officer hours, two of the Brahmins found that they couldl Prince and Princess Mary of Teck, who wereaccom- weaknese of the flue. If it had been strengthened has declared himself to be the perste: who killed bid no higher; andthe father of the bride thought , ponied by their two children; Prince and Princess the girl Annie Houghton, murdered so mysteriously he had. gained enough by the marriage, and fixed Christian, Princess Louise of Lorne, Prince and it might have carried 50Ib. Boilers were now Belden made with longitudinal seams continnone St it farmhouse, near Wigan, a few years back, upon one of the Brahmins as his would be son-in. Princess Edward of Saxe-Weimar. The avenue was The man has been in a low state of mind for some , law. The day of marriage came, however, when toil so densely thronged with carriages that in illari as in the case of the boiler in question. Any deviaten from the cylindrical form weakened it. ! time, and has endeavoured to commit suicide. Ithe two Brahmins were found at loggerheads with cases the occupants preferred to descend et tie His impression was that there would be flue dustl
The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1871-10-13 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

THE ALLEGED MURDER IN CAMDEN TOWN.-011 Monday Dr. Lankester held on adjourned irqumt at the College Arms, Camden Town, upon the body of a young woman, name unknown, who was ft and dead in the Regent's Canal at Camden Town on the 21st of September. The medical evidence showed that there were a severe wound on the head anl other injuries which had been inflicted before I death, and it was believed that the deeca ed I at , been ill-treated and then thrown into the canal, an,l that death arose from suffocation immediately after a blow on the head- The body was that of a line 1,1,11-made young woman, aged apparently abetit 22 years.—lnspector Isard said since the adjourn. meat he had made every inquiry with the view ef eatablishieg the identity of the deceastd, but without success. Nothing was known of her. One or two letters had been received referring to missing women, but they did not answer to the description of the deceased.—The Coroner said it was one of the painful features of the metropolis that w hen the body of a youug woman was found he away. received a number of letters asking for irformation respecting young women who were missing. Numbers of girls ran away from home; some took to an evil life and others committed suicide, and when a body was found no one came forward to claim it This was certainly a suspicious case, the inedieel evitMrce 'bowing that the injuries on the body must have been inflicted before death.—The after some delibeiation, returned a verdict that the deeenin d was found drowned with bruises on the body, but that therc was no evidence to show bow I be body came in the water or how the bruises WOl4 inflicted,  OXFORD UNiVERMIY. The Dean of e'iri4 Cl,iirch (Dr. Liddell) was on M ,nday re-le tot Vice Chani-ellor for the University or )(ford. The V:c (lilac-11-r delivered a long Latin picl cri die ev,.nts of the past yesr.  _ Till: S I'OWMARK ET Ex l'lsnaloN.—Tbe fuid rai4,ll for ibt raid of the sufferers of the recent expl fin al. kites-market amounts to nearly .0.4 10. !Ca hing has occurred to throw ally farther light upsn the e:reumstances of the explosion.  THE MASTRR OF Vim TgmpLE. AT DoNoma. --,ln Sunday last the Rev. Dr. Vaughan made his
The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1890-08-22 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

MAESTEG NOTES.  [BY ASMODEUS].  The Maesteg Dramatic Society must look to their laurels. I hear of a similar society which has just been formed in the town, and which will surprise the natives, as,iit consists of the best histrionic talent in Wales. The society will make its debut in the great romance "Ragged Dick" the title role of which will be taken by the talented Edward Evanoeo.  A farmer from this district has had a very unpleasant experience lately. It cannot be termed "falling amongst thieves" but there are some incidents in the treatment this gentleman was subjected to which tend to prove that his tormentors meant to make a "light weight" of him. It appears this unsuspecting individual had imbibed rather freely of something stronger than tea whilst on a visit to Maesteg, and consequently was very shaky, so much so indeed, that he found himself in a thorny bush when he thought he was on the highway. Sonia young men happening to pass the bush perceiving a very bulky object in it, and hearing the moanings of the poor farmer, hastened to relieve him from his sorry plight. Being only three in number they found the bulk too much, and got aid from some passers by, and after repeated efforts the burly form was raised, but was tottering so much that they concluded it would be a generous and kindly act to escort him home.  They started with their heavy charge, and from the start until the farmer reached home, the journey is enshrouded in mystery. Between five and six a. in., a man could be seen crossing fields hedges, and ditches, minus his boots, hat, coat, and vest, and in a generally dilapidated state, until he reached a farm-house. Then could be heard persistent knock • ings at the door, and faint cries of "Main! oh mam agorwch y drws," and when the door was opened by the anxious parent, she nearly fainted with fright; but recovering herself, she held up her hands and exclaimed, "Ai rnachgen I yw hwn ?" and faintly the answer camp, "lea wir, main, fi sydd yam."  As some people were passing through Cwmfelyn a very curious and mysterious sight met their eyes. On a gate by the roadway was seen a coat, the sleeves of which were fixed on two spikes, and on the same spikes were fixed a pair of boots whilst on the centre spike was a hat. Rumours of suicide was at once abroad, but the general anxiety was very soon allayed when the worthy farmer's exploit was made known. The clothes were examined and the public mind was set at rest when it was found he was still living, for those articles of apparel were known from various characteristics to be his. Moral: Don't accept treats of whisky.
The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1890-06-06 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

DETERMINED ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE AT NEATH.  SAD CONDITION OF A YOUNG GIRL.  At the Nth Borough Police-court on Wednesday (before the Mayor, Mr John Arnold, and the Ex-mayor, Mr John Bevan Davies) Sarah Ellen Kearney, 18, No. 12, Latt, Neath, was brought U p in custody charged with attempting to commit suicide on Tuesday night.— Police-sergeant Jones said he went down to the Latt at 10.50 p.m., and when within a few yards of the prisoner's father's house he saw her running and her mother shouting, "Oh, my God, she is gone." He ran down after her, and overtook her within a few yards of the canal. He caught hold of her, and hurried her back towards her house. She said, "Let me go" She then rushed bake towards the canal. He again caught her and took her into her father's house, when she rushed to the mantelpiece and seized a razor. He took the razor from her. She said, "Let me alone; I'll show you what I will do." She was drunk, and was like one raving mad. On the way to the police-station she again tried to rush towards the canal, saying "I shall go after Annie Thomas ". (the girl who drowned herself a month or six weeks ago). In the station she put her mouth to the tap and turned on the water, which almost suffocated her. She said "Turn on the water, or I will harm myself with the string of my apron." Witness took her apron off. Subsequently he looked into the cell and saw her trying to strangle herself with her turnover. Ho rushed in and rescued her. She was black in the face. Upon this her mother was placed in the cell with .I:ers Police-constable Merriman being in attendance. Prisoner was remanded, and was removed in custody.
The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1890-02-21 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

SUICIDE.  The man Wl—iiittim-,-;vai-Ced-i;Wvolver twice at the two policemen who arrested Min on suspicion of being a burglar °tidy on the morning of January 28th, and who since his arrest has made daring attempts to escape flow the prison van and from Holloway Prison, still eoutiuuea to cause a good deal of anxiety to the authorities. After his committal for trial and redioval frokn Southwark Police Court he behaved very quietly on the way back to Holloway, but when once inside the prison, finding no attempt had beau made to effect his rescue, he became violent, aud it was found necessary to place him in bons. it appears that he tried to strangle himself, but was prevented, and next endeavoured to open oue of the principal arteries on one of his hands by tearing it with his finger-nails. In consequence of these attempts he has been placed under special and constant supervision ever since, two warders being Mai off for the purpose. The prisoner has written several other extraordinary letters, addressed to Lis wife, iu the hope of getting them passed out of prison to her, but in each case they have beeu discovered and stopped by the govet nor. The police have expressed great' astonishment t mat IVLittatu, whom they now couolude to have been an expert burglar, has never before, so far as can at preseut be ascertained, beau eouvio:ed of any offence. Euquiries as to his past file have been set ou toot, and it has been ascertained that he is the sou of a well-to-do country farmer. At nineteen years of age he entered the 3rd 1111881illi, in which he served three years, most of the time doiug duty in Ireland. He has sine° kept a beershop near Camberwell Grimm, but that venture was not altogether suece4Blul. Subsequeutly he joined a pantomime cumpauy, and started in business as a et:Wee-house keeper in York Street, Lambeth, where, upon his arrest, a number of burglars' twee& cities were disoovered, and a large number of pawn-tickets, some of which have been found to relate to property obtained by burglaries in South London.
The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1890-10-24 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

THE QUEEN AND THE LATE CANON  LIDDON.  A short time before his death Canon Liddon wrote to a correspondent in Melbouine a letter which finally divested of the idle gossip that was at one time current as to his personal relations with the Queen :—" June 3rd, 1890. 3, Amen Court, St. E.C. Dear sir,---certainly I should curiae you to believe very little of the personal gostiip wLioha is retailed from Loudon. It is true when Mr. Mac Coll was attacked on the score of his account of the impaled man whom he saw on the Save, I thought it my duty to bear witness to his aosuraoy. But I have no reason to suppose that the correspondence which followed ever attracted the notice of the Queen. . . . The only occasion on which I ever preached before her was eight years before it. On that occasion I did not 'imitate Bossuet 'Or use any such words as 'And you, Madame, must also die,' nor did theQueeu leave her seat betore the conclusion of the service. I have no ineaus of knowing what she may have said to the late Dean of Windsor. But I was staying with the Dean et the time, and what he said to the was quit inconsistent with the words quoted as having been used by the Queen." "I have the bast 'station for knowing,' added the Canon," that the Queen does not entertain towards me any feelings less kindly and gracious than towards others of her subjects." lu confirmation of which he stated that her Majesty had offered him the see of St. Albans, which he had been compelled "to decline on the ground of health."  A girl named Matilda Spelliug,aged twelve years committed suicide by drowning herself in the Regent's Canal. • A scientific ballooning ex{ edition is shortly to leave Geneva with the object oi studying the prin. sipal summits of the Alps. The young King of Ser via is said to be suffering from an affection of the eyes, and will henceforth be forced to wear glasses. It is understood that the forthcoming Exhibition of the Royal Society of British Artists will include a portrait of Lord Tennyson, by Mr. G. F. Watts, R.A. A Dublin telegram states that the Loudon and Not tit- Western steamer Rose ran ashore ou a mud. bank when coming into the River Liffey. It had to remain for several hours until the tide turned ard gloated her off without damage.
The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1881-09-16 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

MISCELLANEOUS AND DISTRICT  NEWS.  An elderly man, of the name of Davies, and living at the Forest-road, Pontardulais, committed suicide by hanging himself on Thursday. Mr William Jones, Llandito, who is at present a pupil at Llandovery School, was after examinalast week elected to the Bangor Exhibition. Oxford, of the value of £4O a year, tenable for three years.  Tue cricket match between an All-England Eleven and Twenty-two of Newport and the District terminated on Saturday in a draw in favour of the Eleven.  Owen Jones, aged 41, of the Denbighshire constabulary, was killed on Saturday, at Llanrhaidr, by the accidental discharge of his gun while out shooting rabbits. Major Hammersley, the new chief constable of Cheshire, has issued an order calling attention to the amount of drunkenness in the force, and asking co-operation to suppress it. Mrs Phillips, who formerly occupied the Clarence Inn, Swansea, and owned considerable p operty round it, but who has recently been in adverse circumstances, committed suicide by hanging herself to the head-post of the bedstead. It is stated that the Pentyrch Tie-plate Works, formerly owned by Messrs. Booker, have been sold by the liquidators of the West of England Bank to Messrs Spence'', of Liverpool. At the works there are about 2,000 men employed. At the licensing session at Llantrisant on Friday, Mr Gwilym Williams, the presiding magistrate, declared his intention not to permit any prosecutions under the Sunday Closing Act until a test ease had been decid2d by the superior courts. Counsel's opinion is decidedly in favour of the licensed victuallers. Mrs Williams, wife of Isaac Williams, who WBB eut down with her little boy while attempting to cross the line at the Newbridge station in front of an approaching train, has died from the effects of her injuries. Her son was killed on the spot. _ _ _  Some little time since two clerks at Cyfarthfa office, Merthyr, disappeared somewhet suddenly, and snbseqnently irregularities were iound in the accounts, leading to the belief that the missing ones had defrauded their employers and some workmen. This week the couple have been arrested in London and brought to Merthyr.