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Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1886-04-24 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

PROFITABLE BUSINESS.  On Monday, in the Chancery Division of the High Court of Justice, Vice-Chancellor Bacon had before him an ea parte application, made by Mr. Marten, Q.C., on behalf of the plaintiff in the case of Gordon v. Seaton, for the appointment of a receiver. The learned counsel said the business of the partnership was that of wagering on horseraces and executing commissions for other people on such races. In December last the amounts of tle business, up to the end of the racing season of 1885, shewed, after the discharge of all debts, a ba;ance of profits amounting to £18,525 or thereabouts, the whole of which had been received on behalf of the partnership with the exception of £4,730 still outstanding. Tne plaintiff stated that of his fourth share of thesepr..fits, less L'2,400, allowed to the defendant for expenses, part was still unpaid to him. There was, however, a dispute between the parties, and the plaintiff, therefore, sought to have a receiver appointed in order to protect the partnership funds.—His Lordship refused to make the order upon an ex parte application, but gave the plaintiffs liberty to serve short notice of motion.  " General " Booth has decided that the Salvation Army shall withdraw from trade operations, and confine themselves, as formerly, to papers, books, and uniforms.  At Leicester an aged woman, named Bowles, has been Ened £2O with the alternative of three months' imprisonment for keeping a disorderly h.,ose at Be'grave. She was fined £5 and costs in 1880 for a similar offence.  The Sultan of Johore has settled with the Foreign Office the boundary question, which detained him in Eogland after the matter of his title had been dispo-ed of. There is reason to believe that he will now remain here until after the opening of the Indian and Colonial Exhibition. The body of a baby with its arms nearly severea from the trunk,upon which were several burns,wa on Tuesday found lying wrapped up in paper in the grounds of St. Mary's Church, Brixton. A telegram on Tuesday from Alexan ria to the Times states that the natives between Wady Haifa and Assiuut maintain that the rebels are preparing to advance in August next on the rise of the Nile. They anticipate that the enemy will advance stiaight to Wady Haifa by the river route. The partial withdrawal of the troops has arrested the peaceful dispositions previously noted. Laura Phillips, "a pretty and well-educated young woman," committed suicide in Omaha the other day. She took blood from her own veins, and wrote with it the following note, which was found on her pillow: "I, Laura Phillips, hereby sell my soul to the devil, in considt,ration for which he agrees t give me wealth, beauty, and the power to t..ercome all my enemies." She left a comfortable home in lowa three years ago, and went step by step into the slough of degradation. UNWILLINCr' TO
Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1886-05-01 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

SCENE AT A GAMING TABLE.' • 4 At last there has been a genuine, attempt at suicide at "the tables" at Monte Carlo. A correspondent of the World happened. to. he . amongst the many English eyewitnesses of the occurrence, which took place only a few minutes before the closing of the Casino, in the large central salle de jets, in which the three roulettetables were crowded at the time. The first report of a piitol-shot created general consternation, and as it was quickly followed by two more in rapid succession, the alarni and Confusion became very great. There was a general stampede from the tables and rush. to the spot whence the reports proceeded, but any further attempt on the part of the would-be suicide was prevented by an Englishman, who seized a chair, arid; using it as a means of offence and defence, checked further danger by knocking the fellovf off. thelsofis on to the floor. . He was then disarmed of his revolver, and on examination by a retired English army surgeon, who happened to be present, two wounds were discovered on the left side near the heart, which did not turn out to be serious, however, as the victim was removed to the hospital at Monaco during the night, and is reported •to be going on all right. It is necessery"(adds the World) to use the term "reported," owing to the secrecy which has been maintained respecting• the affair, which has not found its way into a single newspaper. During the censternation.occasioned by the pistol reports, it became a case of sauce qui petit amongst the punters, and one Englishman took shelter under the roulette-table at whichhe was playing, only to discover that 47 lotus which he had won had been • raked in or otherwise appropriated duriog ,his ,tern. yorary retreat. , A TERRIBLE DPJATO:' , An inmate 'of Falmouth Workhouse who, it was known, rwae so/oqt to epileptic fits, has gieffered a terrible death. Be Wa* left in his bedroom eating on a box before the fire, when he igipmiTs to have been seized with a fit, for he Was subeequently Mind to have fallen forward with his arms upon the hobs of the grates and his forehead resting against its iron balk. His face was thus directly over the full strength of the fire, and when he was pulled off the flesh was burned to a cinder. At the inquest it transpired that although there were several epileptic patients in the house, there was no one specially appointed to look after them, and that the grates were all open, and without fireguards. The jury added to their verdict a rider recommencling that this state of things should be remedied.
Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1892-12-10 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

SENSATIONAL SUICIDE.  Shortly before midnight on Saturday a policeman who was on duty at the Bayswater side of Hyde Park, near Victoria-gate, was startled by two sharp reports in quick succession. He then perceived a gentleman at a shortNistance fromiliim without a hat and reeling as if injured. The gentleman fell to the ground, and the constable, on running to his assistance, found him lying unconscious and bleeding from the head. The officer had the man conveyed to St. George's Hospital, where he was seen by the house surgeon, Dr. Barry, but the unfortunate man never regained consciousness, and died at five minutes past two on Sunday morning. From papers found upon him it was discovered that the deceased was Mr. Archibald .Pinching, about 38 or 40 years of age, who has recently occupied apartments near Piccadilly. The deceased was, up to the year 1891, one of the Government Inspectors of Mines, but was compelled to resign his position by coming somewhat prominently before the public in a police-court case. The charge against him was that he did seriously assault a young woman, named Ella Guttchall, who called herself an actress, of Brompton. After a lengthy inquiry the charge was dismissed. The esposi, however, ruined Mr. Pinching socially and professionally, and it is stated by those who know him well that from the day the charge was brought against him his fall began.  Practical horticulture promises to offer an excellent field for the activities of women. Two of the lady students at Swanley who took high placf.s at the recent examination held at the Hortirolutral college were immediately offered permanent employment by a local nurseryman, and frequent applications for trained lady gardeners to take charge of graperies, ferneries and hot-houses are being made by owners of large and small estates. In addition to gardening, the lady students arn given i practical instruction n dairy and poultry fuming.
Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1892-05-07 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

DISCOVERY OF DYNAMITE AT WOOLWICH.  Early on Sunday morning a man passing through Cann-row, a secluded part of Woolwich adjoining the Royal Arsenal, saw a black bag lying against the Arsenal wall. On opening it he found that it contained eight tin canisters tilled with explosives, part being dynamite, or gun-cotton, and part gunpowder. There were also in the bag a cartridge. belt loaded with cartridges and some documents the nature of which the police lcq ep secret. It is, however, asserted that some of the papers are in a foreign language and are written in recommendation of a person whose name is mentioned but who cannot yet be traced. There does not appear to have been any attempt to tire the charge, and no fuse or detcnator has been discovered. The man who found the bag took it to the William-street Police-station, whence it was conveyed to the Royal Arsenal. The police decline to give any informatin on the subject, and conceal even the identity of the person who made the discove,ry. They profess to have a theory that the hag and its contents are the proceeds of a robbery, but the discovery, especially from its having hippened on May Day, is, in the minds of the neigh Lours, associated confidently with the Anarchists.  A case or determined suicide occurred on /Backfriars Bridge on Sunday night. Walter Spink, of Bridgewater-street, Somers Town, was walking homeward in the company a his wife, when readdenly. and without a word of warning. 11411 clambered the railings about the centre of ;lie bridge, and precipitated himself into the rive: below. His body was et once borne away by the tide and immediately lost to sight. Dragging Operations were commenced without loss of t:rn. but without success. The wife is unable be wig' au,y, reason fer the rash.act.  Vt. • V}: ,F-4,4 • • • DV 981041 91101 ilJb vir;rl J :-.1
Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1892-01-16 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

DEATH OF •A. CELEBRATED PHYSIOLOGIST.  There has just died in Vienna, at the age of 73,in consequence of the after effects of an attack of in9uenza, Hofrath Ernst Wilhelm von Briicke, a celebrated physiologist, who for nearly 40 years had been a professor at Vienna University. From that position he bad, §ays ths ,t(Qtdor(l Correspondent, to retire when he reached the age of 70, and the Emperor Francis Joseph then made him a life member of the Upper House of the Re ichsrath. He also had the distinction of being the first Protestant Rector of the Vienna University. His researches and books had rendered him famous in all countries, and many Englishmen and Americans came to Vienna expressly to hear him. Besides his physiological and microscopic studies,he also wrote on new methods of phonetic transcription, on the new system of articulation for the deaf and dumb, and on various other subjects only slightly connected with the main work of his life, which was the study of physiology. His los3 will he regretted by the entire medical world.  MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF AN INVENTOR Thc body of a well-known Russian engineer, M. Choubersky, the inventor of a movable stove, has been found in a house in Paris, in a condition showing that he had been dead for live or six days. He had, indeed, been missing ever since January 2nd, when he assembled his employes and received their new year's felicitations, leaving a large sum of money with his cashier for the settlement, of all debts of 1891. He told his principal employes that he was going to Russia, and he wrote to his wife to join him there. Since that time nothing had been seen of him, and as he had accustomed !kis friends and family to sudden and eccentric departures, nothing was thought of his disappearance. But an intimate friend on Saturday becoming anxious, went to one of his apartments and found him shot through the temple. He is supposed to have committed suicide, but no sufficient motive is assignable for such a supposition.
Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1892-01-16 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

EVICTION AND SUICIDE.  A particularly disgraceful instance of the abuse of landlords' rights has occurred in raris. Madame Caroline Lap;)tre, a widow of 70, living in the Rue Beautrellis, received notice the other day that the landlord had resolved to evict her on account of her rent being in arrears. The old lady had occupied her fiat for eight years, arid up to this month had regularly paid her rent every quarter day. She was a little pinched for money, but, scraping together all she could, she managed to send the landlord the amount of last quarter's rent all but Ms. On Monday her doorkeeper informed her that she must pay this sum without delay, or be evicted, to which she replied that they would not turn her out while she lived. During the day M. Breton, a bailiff, accompanied by a police commissary, proceeded to the Rue Beautrellis to carry out the landlord's inhuman order. The two men knocked at the door in vain, and were at length compelled to send for a locksmith to open it. They found the body of Madame Lapare lying dead on the bed. A grate filled with live charcoal in the middle of the room shewed that she had committed suicide. It was morally a case of manslaughter.  The post-mortem examination or ale remains of Colonel Angerstein, the Englishman who died at Rouen a few days ago under mysterious circumstances, has been carried out by Dr. Carliez on behalf of the Public Prosecutor. The doctor came to the decision that the death of the colonel was not due to natural causes, and the intestines and lungs of the deceased have con.sequently been sent to Paris, where they will be subjected to a careful examination.  A fire which occurred at Great Brington Rectory, Northamptonshire, the residence of Mr. Morley, Earl Spencer's estate agent, was attended by the fire-engine and brigade from Althorp House, under the personal superintendence of Earl Spencer. They reached the fire about 3 in the morning, and so ably coped with the flames that when the engine from Haddon arrived its services were not required. Earl Spencer returned to Althorp with his engine and men at 6 in the nilrninv.
Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1892-01-16 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

TRIPLE TRAGEDY IN NORTH LONDON. Early on Monday morning the usually quiet neighbourhood of Bowes Park, Wood Green, was thrown into a state of great excitement by the rumour that a double murder and suicide had taken place in the Myddelton-road, and it was soon discovered that the' rumour was only too true. It appears that for some time past there has resided at 1, Bijou-villas, Myddelton-road, a pretty suburban villa, a Mr. Francis Weare, a jeweller, aged 65, Eliza Weare, his wife, aged 29 years, and a son three years old. On Saturday all three went out and returned about 8.30 p.m., when they were seen and spoken to by a Mrs. Wood, who resides next door. On the Sunday it was noticed by several of the neighbours that the blinds were down all day, and when some workmen went to the house on the Monday morning they were unable to obtain admission, no one answering the door. At about 11 a.m. Mrs. Root, mother of Mrs. Weare, arrived on a visit from Stratford, and she also, after a continuous knocking, failed to make anyone hear. Having her suspicions aroused, she fetched SubDivisional Inspector Barnett, from Wood Green Police-station. This officer at once proceeded to the house, and, going to the back of the premises, broke the kitchen window and effected an entrance. He then went to the front and admitted Mrs. Root and Mr. Wood, the next door neighbour, who is also foreman in Mr. Weare's employ. On going upstairs the inspector found the front bedroom door locked, with the key in the lock inside. The door was forced open, and the body of Mrs. Weare was found lying on the bed as if asleep, but quite dead. By her side, but with his head covered with a pillow, was Mr. Weare, and on the pillow being removed it was seen that he also was quite dead. On searching the room further Inspector Barnett discovered the child in a cot with his head covered with a pillow, and also quite dead. Drs. Hocken (divisional surgeon) and Wilde were quickly sent for, and they, after a minute examination, gave it as their opinion that death in each case was due to poisoning. On a chair by the side of the bed was a glass which contained some liquid, and on a table in the room were two tumblers containing some dark liquid, which has been retained for analytical purposes.
Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1892-12-17 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

TRAGIC DEATH OF A FORGER.  A tragic scene has been enacted in a quiet,aristocratic looking house in the Boulevard Port Royal, Paris. At 8 o'clock in the morning four men, dressed as artisans, entered the house, stating that they had come to do some repairs. M. Angel Desblanc, the master of the housemet them in the drawing-room. One of them was proceeding to explain that they were detectives, when Deeblanc suddenly drew a revolver and blew out his brains. On hearing the report of the revolver a beautiful woman, scarcely dressed, rushed into the room, but staggered back thunderstruck at the sight of the four detectives and the corpse. Desblanc was an accomplished and successful forger. One of his methods of swindling was to buy from thieves stolen and consequently unnegotiable bonds. He possessed a large stock of false Government and official stamps, and when he obtained the bonds he changed the numbers and passed them on to one of his brokers. His favourite figure was £4,000. M this way, as far as is already known to a certainty, he has obtained over €120,000. lle has committed similar frauds in several other European capitals. On account 0! previous convictions his latest crimes rendertd him liable to transportation to French Guiana. The knowledge cf this probably ca.tised him to commit suicide. The woman with whoh;i Desblanc was living was the involuntary cause ot his arrest. Her husband, a large Antwerp brewer, wrote to the Paris police, and mentioned that his wife had eloped, carrying off a large sum of money. Detectives were put on the track of the fugitive wife, and these discovered the lover's identity. As. she was entirely ignorant of her lover's career of crime, she was not arrested.  lin •tuesday the (lean noclie4 tiVe men, who WI been entombed in the colliery at Raven's %liars, D.wsbury, since the first week in August, throug:i an outburst of water in the old workings, weie recovere,i. They were found !ying lace downwards 4n the extreme end of the workings.  ------------ At Edinburgh Polioe-court, on Tuesday, Richaid Unwell, at one time the world's champion bicyclist, gras fined 205., with the alternative of 10 days' linprisomment,for behaving i a disorderly manner in a public-house in Cathei,i.e-'street and assaulting two professional cyclists, J. W. Lamb, of Shields, and D. Dodds, of Wallsend, by striking them with Sis *lists. Dodds and Lamb had been riding in the Waverley Market Cycling Tournament, and a quabble arose over money alleged to be due.
Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1892-08-13 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

SUICIDES IN RAILWAY CARRIAGES.  A shocking discovery was made at Chatham Station on the London, Chatham and Dover Railway on the arrival of a train shortly after 1 o'clock on Friday morning. A porter, on opening the door of a third-class carriage, was horrified to find that its sole occupant was a man about 40 years of age, bleeding profusely from a wound in his head. A doctor was summoned, and the wounded passenger was removed to St. Bartholom?w's Hospital, Rochester, where he died shortly afterwards. On searching the carriage in which the deceased had travelled, the officials discovered a sixchambered revolver loaded in five compartments, the sixth having apparently been discharged. Further search resulted in the finding of a bullet. which had evidently passed through the head of the deceased. The man was a stranger at Chatham. Photographs of two ladies and a child were found amongst his belongings, and also a visiting-card with a printed address, 9a, Gray-street, Waterloo. road, London, and the name H. Potts. Upon the back of the card was written in pencil, 33, Lansdowne-road, South Lambeth. Another printed card bore the name and address of W. 1. Crew, 51, North Sherwood-street, Nottingham. The railway guard states that the deceased got into the train at Holborn Viaduct Station at 11.55 on Thursday night. He apparently shot himself soon after leaving London, for his clothes and the carriage were saturated with blood. The deceased is about 51t. 6in. in height, and wore a dark suit of clothes with light dust•coat and high black hat. He had a portmanteau, in which was another suit of clothes, a white shirt, and a light tie.  A second case of suicide was discovered on the arrival of the 11.16 a.m. train from Waterloo to Clapham Junction on Friday. When within a short distance of the Junction a loud report was heard by some of the second-class passengers, and on the train stopping in the station it was found tha-t a respectably-dressed man, apparently about 30 years of age, had shot himself. He was lying in a pool of blood, with a large revolver by his side. He was at once removed. Medical assistance was summoned, and it was found that he was quite dead. The body was afterwards removed to the mortuary.
Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1892-11-05 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

DOUBLE SIIIOIDE THROUGH POVERTY.  What appears to have been a case of double suicide is stated to have occurred at Upper Tooting. A few months ago a Frenchman, said to be Edouard Maniere, took a house near Coe Cricket Ground. A few days ago the landlord, ute,ble to obcain his due, distrained for the rent. The "man in possession" soon became aware that there was very little furniture in the house, and on Wednesday evening left the premises and slept out. Returning some time during 'Fimursday morning he was unable to obtain admittance, and accordingly summoned the landlord, who was at work close by. The latter at once procured a ladder and obtained an entrance through a window. Ile proceeded to time bedroom, forced the door, and was startled to find both the man and his daughter lying fully dressed upon the bed. Examination soon shewed that the daughter was beyond human aid, and the father quite unconscious. The air was heavy with the suffocating fumes of a charcoal fire, and this afforded ready explanation of the condition of the prostrate pair. The landlord at once went for the police, who, on being informed of what had taken place, fetched Dr. Woodward. the divisional surgeon, who applied restoratives and succeeded in bringing the man into a state of consciousness. lie was then placed on a stretcher ready for removal to the Wandsworth Infirmary, but he had a relapse and died within a quarter of an hour. The father and daughter are supposed to have been driven to attempt suicide by their poverty.  A Mr. Edwards, a wealthy Englishman, who owns Some sulphur mines in Sicily, has, with his engineer, been attacked by six brigands at Caltanisetta. Fortunately Mr. Edwards was armed with a rifle, and lie boldly replied to the revolver shots of the brigands by firing into the midst of them, which had the effect of putting them to flight. The year 1892 is, the Law Times says, somewhat remarkable in the annals of Roman Catholicism, so far as it is connected with the administration of the law. The Lord Mayor of London is a Roman Catholic; so is the Attorney-General ; and so is the Judge selected by the Government to preside over the Evicted Tenants' Commission. And on the opening of the Courts a number of Catholic barristers qtended High Mass as part of tl:e day's proceedings. llt is denied that there is any foundation for rumours recently circulated in the native press that a famine is imminent in Bongal.—The latest news from Afghanistan indicates that the Flazara rebels continue to offer a most determined resistonce to the Ameer's troons.