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The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1892-11-26 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

SERIOUS CHARGES AGAINST A  YOUNG LADY.  SHOCKING SUICIDE OF THE MOTHER. Mrs. Catherine Lula Maude, the mother of a young lady named Gwyneth Maude, who is in custody on a charge of having stolen silver plate from Messrs. Spink & Sons, silversmiths, of Piccadilly, committed suicide by jumping out of a window on the third floor of the Creat Western Hotel, Pad dington. The bookkeeper who received Mrs. Mande on her arrival at the hotel, says she brought no luggage with her except a small handbag. She was a fine, handsome woman, of about forty years of age, and very tall. She was, too, as very heavy woman, and in her fall from the window she passed through the thick material with which the area was roofed over. The inquest was held by Dr. Danford Thomas at the Paddington Coroner's Court, on Saturday. Evidence of identification having been given, Dr. Schofield said he examined the body and was of opinion that the deceased must have jumped from the window with her head downwards. All the injuries were about the head, and shd must have died instaaly. The distance she fell was 48ft.—Henry Myers, solicitor to Mrs. Maude, said he had recently been consulted by her respecting the charge against her daughter. She seemed to be in a distracted state, and said she had instigated her daughter to the thefts, and therefore wanted to take her daughter's place. —The Coroner having summed up, the jury returned a verdict of "Suicide during temporary insanity."  Gwyneth Maude, 18, the daughter of the lady whose death is described above, well dressed, and described as residing at Hyde Park-gate, Kensington, was charged before Mr. Newton, at Marlborough-street Police-court, with having stolen two sil7er salvers and a silver waiter, valued together at £165, the property of Messrs. Spink & Son, silversmiths, of Piccadilly; also with having stolen a sealskin mantle worth 200, and obtaining by false pretences two sealskin jackets and a muff from the Grafton Far Company, of New Bond-street. She was further charged with having obtained credit to the amount of £137 under false pretences from the Grafton Fur Company. The evidence was to the effect that an assistant of Messrs. Spink took a number of valuable silver articles at the prisoner's request to her address on several occasions, and left them there for the inspection of her mother, wlio was said to be an invalid and confined to her room. —The proceedings arose out of the discovery that some of the goods had been pawned.—ln the end Mr. Newton remanded the prisoner, allowing bail in two sureties of £2OO each.
The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1892-10-22 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

THE WOOLWICH SHOOTING CASE.  Mrs. Perkins, whose life was for some time in from a revolver wound, was on Monday able to attend the police-court at Woolwich to give evidence in the case against John Armitage, who is charged with shooting her with intent to murder, and also with attempting to commit suicide. The magistrate intimated that he did not propose to question the witness any further than he had done in the Infirmary, and cross-examination was reserved.—Susan Grummitt was then called, and said she was a married daughter of Mrs. Perkins. On Saturday, Oct. 1, she was at her mother's house in Bell Watergate at half-past 3, and sent for her mother, who was at the Crown and Cushion publichouse with the prisoner. About a quarter of an hour afterwards her mother and the prisoner, who was occupier of the house, came in. They were both under the influence of drink. Armitage being very drunk. Her father was at the time standing by the mantel-piece with a revolver in his hand. He told her she had better go home, but she remained. Presently her mother went upstairs, and the prisoner followed, and soon afterwards there were loud reports. She ran upstairs and found Armitage and her mother in the children's bedroom, both bleeding. Armitage had in his hand the revolver which she had seen in the possession of her father. —A waterman named Digby said that on the morning of October 1 the prisoner told him that he felt giddy and queer, and just as though a gun had burst inside his head. In the afternoon witness saw Mrs. Perkins drag Armitage out of the Crown and Cushion, saying, "Give me the rest of my money." The prisoner then complained that she had stru:k him on the face with an umbrella. As they went away Mrs. Perkins said to witness, " You'd better have another drink, John, for you won't see us any more." Both she and Armitage said that they meant to do away with one another. A few minutes afterwards he heard the report of fire arms and followed the last witness to the bedroom. —ln cross-examination the witness said he was not sure that Armitage said anything. The prisoner had been drinking since his wife died 12 months ago —Dr. Tees said the woman had a bullet wound commencing the right side of the nose and coming out below the left ear. She Was shouting, "Save my life 1" and was undoubtedly in great danger.— The Magistrate remanded the prisoner for another week, and again refused to take bail.
The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1892-10-22 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

THE BROMPTON MYSTERY.  D. HERON EXCULPATED.  Dr. G. Danford Thomas resumed the inquest touching the death of Marion Fanny Sharpe, aged 20, described as an actress, and professionally known as "Ruby Russell," who died suddenly and under suspicious circumstances at Brompton.— Bertha Clayton, daughter of a 'bus driver, stated that Miss Sharpe had lodged at her father's house at Hammersmith. She had known her three years, and they were very friendly. She had told the witness that she hal often taken morphia abroad in order to induce sleep. She did not say how she took the morphia, whether by injection or otherwise. She said further that she had a private drawer. Mr. Heron was greatly distressed while the deceased lay dying, and said, "If she dies, my place will he beside her."—Dr. Harris, who was called in on the night of the 20th ult., said the deceased had all the appearance of suffering from some narcotic poison.—Dr. Fitzroy Benham, of the Jubilee Hospital, gave corroborative evidence, and added that Mr. Heron said, "For God's sake, pull her out of this." The witness was suspicious about the lemon juice which Mr. Heron had given the deceased, and some of which remained in the glass. To satisfy the witness, Mr. Heron drank the rest of the contents. —Dr. A. P. Luff, official analyst to the Home Office, deposed to finding traces of morphia.-1 he Coroner : What do you consider to be the cause of death ?—The witness : I consider that the deceased died of morphia poisoning.—Replying to a juror, the witness said the deceased had not taken any lemonade, otherwise he should have found traces of the acid in the stomach.—The Coroner, while he thought the weight of evidence tended to show that the deceased committee suicide, suggested that an open verdict was really the only one which the jury would, in the circumstances, be justified in returning.—After deliberating in private 20 minutes, the jury found that the deceased died from morphia poisoning, but how or for what purpose the morphia was taken there was no direct evidence to show; and they added: "The jury desire to say that, in their opinion, the evidence in no way inculpates Mr. Heron."
The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1892-08-27 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

YOUNG SURGEON'S ROMANCE.  The story of the romantic love of the young doctor who was found dead was unfolded before Mr. Thomas, one of the London coroners. A photograph of a handsome young lady was found upon the body. Charles Graham, surgeon, of Wolverhampton, brother of the dead man, said the latter—whom he had not recently seen alive— had been for 20 months assistant to Dr. Brewer, Dalston. Witness knew his brother to suffer from rheumatism and to be subject to fits of depression. He heard that lately he had suffered, too, from sleeplessness. Dr. A. H. Brewer stated that the deceased, who was his assistant, was a sensitive, honourable man, and a very good fellow. Than him the witness had never had a better assistant, or one whom he liked so well. The other morning the deceased left the surgery to attend four patients, three of whom witness ascertained he had visited. As he did not return the witness at night became uneasy and went to his lodgings, where, for the first time he learnt —although the deceased was generally communicative about his affairs—that Mr. Graham had fallen desperately and passionately in love with a certain lady whom he had known six or seven weeks. He was very exeited about this lady, and declared he could not live without her. While he was missing a letter from the lady to deceased arrived by post at the witness's house, which letter never reached Dr. Graham, and was after his death opened by his sister. Witness knew the contents of the letter. The lady wrote simply expressing surprise that she "had not heard" from the deceased. There was no evidence of a quarrel having occurred between them or any rejection of Dr. Graham's attentions on the p.rt of the lady. Witness thought that with the deceased's temperament he was very likely to be deeply affected if the course of love did not run smoothly. The Coroner : Yes, love is sometimes responsible for suicide, and so is debt. I have known many highminded, sensitive men destroy themselves. They feared they would not be able to meet their pecuniary liabilities. The jury returned a verdict of "Suicide while of unsound mind."
The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1892-12-24 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

DOMESTIC TRAGEDY AT WALSALL.  WIFE MURDER AND SUICIDE.  Late on Sunday night a bricklayer named Joseph William Bates deliberately murdered his wife at Whitehall, a suburb of Wale di, and afterwards committed suicide. The couple have been married about nine years, and have lived most unhappily, owing to the man's drunkenness and brutality. Towards the end of last month Bates assaulted his wife severely, and she went to live with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Bunt, in Hospital-row, Whitehall, and a summons, which was returnable on Monday, was served upon him for this assault. On Sunday night Bates made his way to this house in a drunken state, and sat talking to the family in a fairly amiable but maudlin manner. His wife was not at home, .and her  mother' fearing that Bates would do her some harm if they met, went out to endeavour to find her daughter or send a messenger to her warning her not to enter the house. For a time she was not successful, but eventually she met her daughter at the door, and advised her to go away again her husband being there and drunk. The ill-fated woman, however, decided to enter, remarking, "I may as well fisi him as not," and In a few moments she went into the room where he was sitting, and accosting him with "What brings you here? " added to her father, "Father, order him out." The father did not act upon the request, and Bates laughed and treated the whole affair is a jocular manner. Then he rose, and going near to his wife, asked her repeatedly to kiss him, but she pushed him away. He repeated this request three or four times, and then, after sitting on the sofa smoking for a time, he suddenly stepped across to his wife, and, taking hold of her arms threw them up over her head, as if about to make an attempt to kiss her if she would not kiss him. But in a moment he produced from his pocket a razor, sad with a sweep drew it across his wife's throat. She gave a piercing scream, her husband at the same time releasing her, and her mother catching her and taking her out with blood streaming from the gash over her deem'. A scene of intense confusion at once took  place, as may be imagined, and Bates stepped back to the couch and inflicted upon his own throat a gash almost as formidable as that which he had made in his unfortunate partner's neck. By that time he was stretched upon the couch, and WS Mrs. Bates tried to take her daughter past him he attempted to kick them. The first idea seems to have been to take Mrs. Bates to ~be hospital, but death taking.place before the tpp of the street was reached, she was brought back. Police-constables Severn and Brierley soon after arrived, and started to take Bates himself to the hospital, but he died before that institution was reached. Mrs. Bates is spoken of as an industrious, uell-con• duoted woman. Two children are left, one seven and the other two years of age.
The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1892-10-08 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

TRAGIC AFFAIR AT WOOLWICH.  On Saturday afternoon a waterman, named John Armatage, shot a married woman named Frances Perkins, at 2, Bellwater-gate, Woo‘wiob, with a revolver, and then shot himself. Armatage is a widower, and has been the tenant of the house in question. Mrs. Perkins, with her husband, lodges at the house. Perkins is very frequently away trom home, and for some time past Armatage and Mrs. Perkins have been in the habit of going about together. They had a quarrel on Saturday morning. At half-past 3in the afternoon they were drinking in t'.e "Crown and Anchor", Market. head, Woolwich, where Armatage was heard to threaten the woman. On returning to the house they went upstairs, and immediately after a report of firearms was heard. A married daughter of Armatage ran up and found Mrs. Perkins lying in a pool of blood on the floor, whilst Armatage was bleeding from a glnshot wound in the temple. The two were attended by doctors, who found that a bullet had passed through the face of Mrs. Perkins, severing some important blood vessels. Armatage shot himself in the temple, but the bullet only grazed the bone. When Inspector Folkard arrived Armatage said, "Good God I What have I done? Where have I hit her? I tried to shoot myself in the mouth, but the revolver missed fire.' The injured woman was removed on the ambulance to Woolwich Infirmary, while Armatage was taken to the police station and charged. The medical men having expressed an opinion that Mrs. Perkins would probably die, her depositions were taken. It was subsequently reported that Mrs. Perkins may recover. She speaks in kindly terms of the prisoner Armatage, saying that they mutually resolved some days since to die together, and that she was with him when he bought, at Woolwich, the revolver with which he attempted to murder her and shoot himself.  On Monday, at Woolwich PutiQe-court, before Mr. Kennedy, Armitage was uhaig.d with shooting Frances Perkins, wife of another bargeman, with intent to murder her. lie was also charged with attempting suicide. Evidence having been taken, prisoner was remanded.
The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1892-10-08 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

LONDON SUICIDE.  At the Hackney Coroner's Court, Mr. Alfred Hodgkinson, deputy coroner, held an inquiry with reference to the death of William Wainwright, aged fifty-three, brush manufacturer, lately residing at 15, Addington-road, Bow, who committed suicide by blowing his brains out with a revolver in a first-class carriage on the North London Railway. The deceased was a member of the Whitechapel Board of Works, late a churchwarden, and a past master of a well-known Masonic lodge. He was a brother of the notorious Henry Wainwright, who was executed seventeen years ago for a brutal murder at Whitechapel. Florence Sarah Wainwright, a daughter, deposed that her father had been drinking heavily for two or three weeks past. Deceased's wife ran away from him some months ago, and suddenly returned a short time back, and then went away again. They had not lived happily together for years.—By the Jury : Her mother used to drink very much.—A domestic servant deposed that on one day she found deceased in the sittingroom handling a revolver. She asked him what he was going to do, and he replied that he was going to blow his brains out. Witness took the revolver away from him, but she did not say anything about the matter until after death, when she gave the weapon to his daughter. The deceased Must have procured another revolver.—Evidence having been given as to the finding of the deceased in the railway carriage, the jury returned a verdict of suicide during temporary insanity.  The once powerful Grand Shereef of Wazan, Mulai Sid hadj'-ebd•es-Salaam, has expired. Mulay-el-Aly, the elder of his two sons by his English wife, will succeed .to his father's title, although some of the late Shereef's other sons are older.  Whilst a train -.A fifty empty mineral waggons was passing Spring gardens Junction, near Barnard Castle, on Saturda;', on the North-Eastern Railway, the two heavy compound engines left the metals, as also did about twenty waggons. Through traffic was interrupted for several hours. The United States Consul at Cape Town has cabled that Captain Buckley, master of the barque William Hale, and his wife, were murdered on the voyage to that port by the steward, a Chinaman, named Ah Jow. The murder is believed to have been the result of a mutiny among the crew.
The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1892-10-08 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

THE TRAGIC SUICIDE OF A DOCTOR.  ----At the inquest on the body of Mr. Alexander Woodburn Heron, surgeon, held by Mr. E. Barnes, Deputy Coroner for the Westminster distript, the following letter was read : London, S.W., Saturday 24th Sept. 1892. SIR, —As I informed you to-day, there was 40 intention of separation between the late Miss auell and myself, I therefore go to rejoin her as quickly las possible. There can be no doubt that the death seas not due to natural causes, and existence to me is notworth having if, through myself, icy promised bride to her own life. Apart from this, however, owing to the unfortunate circumstances attending the death of my wife in Jamaica, suspicion must attach itself to me in this last terrible bereavement. It is not worth while to stay and fight out the whole horrible course the affair must now take, so I go. If any residents in Gambia will take the trouble there will be overwhelming evidence that Miss Russell and the writer lived a life of such happiness as is rarely met with on this planet. Any passenger or officer on board the steamship Niger on her last homeward voyage will be able to testify to the same effect. Dr. Adams, of Liverpool, who attended us at the North-Western Hotel, could also certify as to the perfect accord there was between the late unfortunate child and myslef. Now that it appears that death must have been due to poisoning, it comes to me that had I noted more carefully not what was said, but the manner of saying it, my poor darling might have been alive now. I presume the case will be carried on to a conclusion in the usual way, and there is thus every hope that all suspicion against the writer will be shown to have been unfounded. As before stated, however, now I am alone it is out of the question I should go through any more horrors for the paltry privilege of continued existence. I shall, therefore, take an overdose of morphia as soon as some other matters have been satisfactorily settled. —I have the honour to remain, your obedient servant, A.
The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1892-01-09 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

PATHETIC SCENE IN A POLICE COURT.  At Marylebone Police-court, London, on Monday, a tall, fair-haired young woman, dressed in black, giving the name of Elizabeth Whitlook, aged 23, of Molyneux-street, Marylebone, was brought up on a Charge of attempting to commit suicide.—lt was shown that on New Year's Eve prisoner was seen trying to climb on to a parapet of the wall of a canal bridge. Being convinced that she meant to drown herself, her observer rushed forward and seized hold of her. She struggled to get away from him and exclaimed, "I must go; I will go." He held her until a constable came up, and she was then taken into custody. In reply to the magistrate, Whitlock said she had been separated from her husband about two years and could not endure it any longer. She had been receiving an allowance from a gentleman. The prisoner's husband was in attendance, and at the request of tlfe magistrate (Mr. Montagu Williams) he entered the witness-box, and on catching sight of his wife as she atood in the dock, he turned half round to hide his face, and then wept aloud. The prisoner, with expressions of intense anguish marking her face. extended her arms as though she would have csressea him had she been free to leave the place she was in, and beseechingly besought- her husband not to weep. The Magistrate left his seat, and going to the husband at the witness-box, begged that he would compose himself. Asked by the Magistrate how long they had been separated, the husband said his wife left him one year and ten months ago. Questioned as to the cause, he said he could not say. Having remarked that it was a long, sad story, the husband again broke down.—The M .gistrate : Will you take her home again if I let her go? —The husband : Yes, I will, if she will promise to behave herself.—On hearing the conditional promise, the wife shouted hysterically, "I will." Then, slowly falling on to her knees in the dock, with clasped hands and outstretched arms towards her husband, she exclaimed, with deep and intense emotion, "Oh, I will, I will, I will 1" (sensation). —The Magistrate (to the prisoner) : I don t want to say anything that may further wound your feelings, but you have got an honest, good fellow as a husband.—The prisoner: I know that. The Islagibtrato : He wishes wie to let you go, and promises to take you back to live with him again if you will promise to behave better in the future.— The prisoner : I will, really.—The Magistrate : Then you are dismissed.