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The St. Helens Examiner, and Prescot Weekly News. — 1905-09-16 (Saint Helens, Merseyside, England)

VOLUNTEER SERGEANTS' PICNIC.  The Sergeants of the Ist V.B. South Lancashire Regiment were most unfortunate in the choice of day for their annual picnic, which took place on Saturday last to Gateacre. rho day opened bright, but fitful showers made the outlook anything but promising. A start was made at 1.30 p.m., about 50 sergeants taking advantage of the outing—which was extremely good considering that clan firing at Altcar prevented the attendance of the staff and a number of sergeants. On arrival at Gateacre the party, through Captain and Quartermaster A. F. G. Potter, had the pleasure of going through Colonel Hall Walker's magnificent grounds—the head gardener acting as guide. Here again the weather intervened, the glass houses being eagerly sought for. Nothing daunted .the Sergeants stuck the whole round and were delighted with the lovely collection of beautiful flowers which I were shown. The kennels also were visited. After I visiting the grounds the party left for the Elephant Hotel where arrangements had been made by the Mess President (Colour Sergeant. J. Cliffe) to have their usual hot dinner. A bowling main which had been arranged had to be abandoned owing to the weather. A billiard handicap was immediately got up, but owing to the length of the journey however only the first round was played which resulted as follows : Col Sergt C. Russell 1,3 Col Srgt. T. Ashworth) „ Band Mstr Richardson I " Sergt Aikenhead. 5° Col Sergt W. Woods 163 Sergt Woolstencroft. 1 „ Sergt D. L. Owens. I Sergt C. Dagnall. J Qt-Mstr Srgt Willcock 163 Sergt G. Bebbington. 57 Col Sergt W. Spencer. J Mr. S. C. Gimson. The last was an extremely interesting game. The re turn was made about 8.15 p.m. the party arriving in Warrington about 10.30. The transport arrangements were undertaken by Messrs. Maginn Bros. and were arriacl out in their usual first class style.  A Cracow tailor named Kalinsky committed suicide by thrusting a needle into his heart.  CRAWFORD'S  CREAM CRACKERS
The St. Helens Examiner, and Prescot Weekly News. — 1905-05-13 (Saint Helens, Merseyside, England)

CHAIRMA.N, in calling upon Mr. Crosfield to discovered the life would have been saved.—P.S. Mellor : tribute the prizes, expressed the great pleasure which I asked Mr. Warburton why he did not cut the body it afforded them to see him present and thanked him for down, and he said : "You have to be very careful his generosity in presenting the prizes. nowadays. I thought I had better let the police see Mr. CROSFIELD delivered a short speech. He observed him first."—The Coroner: How long is this supposi- that people said at times that he took toolfmuch interest, it-;1 or had never encouraging tion that people are not entitled to cut down a body games, eitherto osboy iwngsthoe until the police have seen it going to last ?—The jury had any qualms of conscienacebonuranthdhetiopmossiaenyt. He believed returned a verdict of "Suicide," there being no evid- I that ga.mos were a means to an end, and he thought it once to show the state of deceased's mind at the time. was a great pity when people made them an end in themThe following is the police description of the deceased: selves. There were very much more important things —About 20 years of age, five feet five inches in height, than games, but still he felt very strongly that games light brown hair, slight Drown moustache, grey eyes 1). immensef He thoughtciw ti h he here was dressed in dark grey overcoat,black jacket and est,blac vi formation o ' a vast deal of Englishtruth in theac saying of the late Duke .oqf trousers with blue stripe and patent leather boots. Wellington that was quoted to him when he viewed the From the discoloration of his hands, the police believe picturesque grounds of Eton College the other day, that he was ach mical worker. i the Battle of Waterloo Was won in the play-grounds !of Eton." Mr. Crosfield paid a tribute to the excellent  Personal. speeches which Mr. Vivian had delivered at the public meetings and said he had kindly promised to address Mr. Hedley H. Taylor, son of Mr. J. Taylor, dentist, 1 ' • the gat ermg. Museum-street, Warrington, has this week passed his Mr. Crogffeld then distributed the prizes as follows: final examination in London, and is now a. licentiate in
The Potteries Examiner : — 1876-08-26 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

OUTRAGE AND MURDER BY RUSSIAN MONKS.—A case is reported from a Russian cloister, in which a girl who had been inveigled, with sonic of her companions, : into the cells of monks, was murdered. After having, with her own consent, passed the night with one of the pious fraternity, she was, to all appearance, smetherul under a pillow. The worthy abbot of the Belogorski cloister, when informed by some brethren of what bad happened, knew of no better device than to have the corpse of the girl transported from the cloMer to the bathing establishment close by, and to give out that the corpse of some unknown female had been discovered there. Ile also entreated the doctor by letter to hash up the matter; a 'ding 50 roubles as a bribe. The doctor, however, made the proper denunciation. The four monks, found guilty, partly of the murder, partly of the crime of concealment, have ben sentenced to ; six, eight, nd twelve years' banishment to the Siberian mines.  Love AND Suicins.—Mr. Weekes (deputy coroner), on Friday evening week, hell an inquest at the Laurels Inn, Flingesten-street, on the body of Mary Pearce (17), who had committed suicide on the Tuesday previous. From the evidence of semral witnesses, it appeared that on the 17th of April last the deceased purchased some " Battle's vermin killer' from Mr. Topp, chemist, of the Horse Fair, giving the name of a shopkeeper in Smallbrook-street as the person for whom the poison was required. Deceased had been engaged to a young man named Marlow, of whom her parents disapproved, and she had said that if she could not marry him sho 1./mid destroy herself. This, however, had always been treated as a joke on her part. On Tuesday evening deceased reti red to bed, previously remarking that her sister eould have certain articles of clothing belonging to her, as she should never want them again. She took a glass containing water with her upstairs, and shortly afterwards was heard screaming violently. 0a her mother going to her, and asking what was the matter, she confessed that she had poisoned herself. Two surgeons were called in, but she died shortly afterwards.— A verdict of "Suicide during temporary insanity" was returned.
The Potteries Examiner : — 1876-07-22 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

CHEDDLBTON. SUICIDE.—Those who are familiar with the neigh bourhood of Cheddletow know that the railway tunnel is at Basford. Early on Wednesday morning a rumour got afloat that a man had placed himself on the metals, and had been run over by a train near the tunnel. The real circumstances of the unhappy affair point to most wilful fele de or. About six o'clock in the morning, as the mineral train entered the tunnel in the directon of Froghall, the driver, Thomas Duddel, saw a man at the other end, apparently watching the approach of the train. The whistle was immediately put on, but the man only went nearer the line, and when about thirty yards distant he flung himself across the metals. The train could not be brougnt up, though the steam was iustautly put off, before the tender,which was run. nine first, went over the body, mangling it in a most fearful manner, and the engine pu-hing the body off the Inc. The victim of this rash deed turns out to be one James Goldstraw, aged 37 years, son of Mr. Saml. Goldstraw, paper manufacterer,Cheddleton. The body ' was removed to the Boat Inn. The friends of the unfortunate man were entirely unaware that he was in the neighbourhood at all, as for some time he at been working at Mancloster, at his trade, as painter and gilder. It appears that his clothes gave indication of his having been in the water, and it is supposed that he had been iu the canal or the Charnet, which runs close by. He is a single man, and carried in his pocket two tickets, showtr.g that he had pawned his watch and guard in the name of John Goldstraw, a razor, and 148. 441. It is .said that the deceased was habituated to drink, and that of late his conduct had been some. what strange—An inquest was held before Mr. Bagsham, the deputy coroner, at the Boat Inn, on Thursday. —The landlady of the house at which the deceased lodged in Mancheste , said deceased of late had been in a very desponding state of mind, and on Tuesday said he had a good maid to shoot himself. A doctor vi-ited him the same day, and told her not to allow dooms dto go oat of her sight. In the evening, however, he went out, at.eolllpanled by her awl some members 0? the family, and slipping round a corner she never saw limo again.—The jury returned a verdict that deeea-ed " Committed suicide while in an unsound state of mind."
The Potteries Examiner : — 1876-09-02 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

SHOCKING SUICIDE OF A WOMAN.—At about five o'clock GE Saturday morning a married woman, named Elisabeth Pedley, was found dead in a waterteloset attached to the house of Lewis Baker, London-road, Leek, with her throat cut, and a razor, covered with blood, tightly clutched in one of her hands. The on. fortunate woman, who lived on the opposite Ride of the road from where she was found, was about fort-yeigtt years of age. and is supposed to have been driven to , commit suicide on Recount of the conduct of her Inesbaud, who has been repeatedly sent to prison for various offences, and only on the previons Wednesday was sentenced to one month's imprisonment for cruelty to a horse. Deceased wan the mother of eight children, four of the youngest of %limn, ranging from four to fourteen years old, are at home, and at the time of their mother's death there was not a particle of food in the house. On Tuesday an inquest won held at the Swan Hotel, before Mr. Booth, touching the death of the deceased.—Lewis Baker deposed to finding the deceased in the closet belonging to his honse shunt five o'clock in the morning.—Sarah Ann Hollinshead, one of the neighbours, state! that between nine and ten on Friday night deceased fail her that she was in difficulties. She appeared much depressed, and said that she was in debt, and her husband, who was drunk in bed, eared nothing about it. About 1-30 Rhe knocked at witness's door. Witness told her she would open the door to her, whereupon deceased said her husband was in bed, and she only wanted to know the time. Witness , thought perhaps decatsed had been falling out with her hushand, nod wanted shelter, which a itue,s had often afforded het—Charles Pulley, husband of the deceased, stated that his wife went to bed about ten o'clock on Friday night. Subsequently he found that she was not in bed, but took no notice of the circumstance and went to sleep, knowing no more of her until he heard that she had cut her throat —The jury found a verdict that the deeeased committed suicide while in a state of temporary insanity.—At the request of the jury, the , Coroner addressed Pedley in highly censorious terms, telling him that his wife had without doubt committed , suicide in consequence of his reckless behaviour and unhnsbandly conduct.
The Potteries Examiner : — 1876-06-03 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

SUICIDE BY A GIRL AT WALSALL.—OR Monday morning, at about half-pastel,en, Amelia Brown, aged 15, the daughter of a widow, living at 261, Greeu.lane, Walsall, went into the house of a woman named Sarah Genders, Short Acre, and putting something into a glass with water, she drank off the mixture, and at ones bee ime very ill. Mr. Hubbard, surgeon, was at one, c lied in, and did all that was possible for the relief of the misguided girl, who died, however, soon after. It has since transpired that on Saturday she quarrelled with her mother, and left home and took lodgings in Frederick-street: and this family difference is the only cause that, so far, can bc assigned for her laying violmit hands upon herself. It is believed that the substance she mit into the glass was vermin killer,—Oa Wednesday afternoon, at the Ceainmaker3' Arms, Nlralsall, Mr. Fletcher, coroner, held an inquest on the body of Amelia Brown, aged fourteen years and eleven mouths, who committed suicide on Monday, by taking apr tparation known as vermin killer. It was shown that the girl lett home on Saturday because she thought to. per week, which she was paying to her mother for her lodging and maiutenanee,was too much. On Sunday slie visited the yard in which her mother lives, nod was offered pudding and also tea by her mother, both of which she declined. On Monday she went to work at Mr. Ballow's, in Long-street, as usual, and worked till eleven o'clock, when she borrowed 31, from a girl who worked is Rh her, stating that she wanted to buy some c:dre. She went direct to the shop of Mr. Hubbard, chemist, and bought threepennyworth of vermin killer. This she mixed and drank at the house of a feiend named Genders, and died soon aftewards, although Mr. Hubbard, surgeon, had done all in his power to counteract the effects of the poison. A verdict of" Feb de se" was returned,
The Potteries Examiner : — 1876-07-01 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE.'  The Lagliwyette Attend reports an extraordinary case of suicide committed by James A. Moon, a farmer in good circumstances, residing about nine miles from that city. He engaged a room at the Lahr House Hotel, and on the following day it was found that he had erected in it a guillotine constructed bv himself, by which he had been decapitated. Where the cord conmeted with the axe was fastened it was divided, and a , candle inserted between the strands. FO that when the ' candle burned down sufficiently the two strands would come together and the cord would be burned in two. Right under where the axe would fall a soap box was secured, screwed to the wall and the floor, with the opening outward into the room, so arranged that the axe could come down in front of the box, the upper edges being bevilled to secure a straight stroke from the implement. The axe, the irons in which it was I clamped, and the timbers in the beam, altogether I weighed a hundred or more pounds, to say nothing of the force of the fall, a distance of six feet. After arranging the machine, the suicide appeared to have laid himself down noon the floor at right angles with the guillotine, buckled a strap, which was screwed down to the floor, around his thighs, buckled another around his body, which was similarly fastened to the flow', put both his hands inside his , of course, upon his back—and placed his head inside : the box above mentioned. The box was filled with cotton waiOng saturated with chloroform: To keep the chin out of the way, holes were made in each s!de of the box and a Wooden red ran through. upon which the chin rested. It is .supposed that having his machinery orsonised to to his ,at,l,sfaction and the candle lighted, the sraeide laid himself uuon the floor, placed his head in the box, and calmly sle until the use descended. When the candle burned down sufficiently the cord was burned off and the axe fell, completely severing the head from the holy. The head re,^mmed in the box, while the blood flowed not upon the flear awl accumulated in a great pool.
The Potteries Examiner : — 1876-03-25 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

MELANCHOLY SUICIDE OF A STAFFORDSHIRE MAGISTRATE.—OR Tuesday night, Mr. C. Simpson, ' the city coroner, held an inquest at the Chequers Inn, Lichfield, on the body of Charles Holland, M.D. and F.R.S., and for many years a magistrate in the county of Stafford, who, after no illness of sonic duration, was found in his bed room that morning dead, and under circumstances which tended to show that he had committed suicide—George Bullock, butler to the deceased for.the past twenty years, stated that the deceased had suffered very great pain for the past three days, but when he left him that morning, he said he was more comfortable. About a quarter past eight witness and the coachman went into his room to lift deceased into bed, when they found him on the floor, in a sitting poptare, with his head against the bed-post. On attempt. , tog to raise him, they discovered that he was dead, and that around his neck was a silk handkerchief which had been fastened to some webbing, placed around the bed to enable deceased to move himself about whilst in bed. When witness left deceased an hour and a quarter pre. viously the handkerchief was tied round deceased's wrist, and lie was then sitting in his chair, from which he most have thrown himself after tying the handkerchief as it was found. The coachman having given I evidence, Dr. H. M. Morgan stated that he was medical ' attendant to the deceased, but as Dr. Wainwright, a ! relative of deceased's, lived in the house, he did not visit him regularly. On the previous day witness went to de.ssased's house, and in the course of a conversation Dr. Wainwright, who was too ill to attend the inquest, . told him that deceased lota developed a stadia: mania, and on Saturday had cut his wrist with a view to destroy himself. Orders were given to keep all weapons from the deceased, and, foiled in that attempt, he had written to two druggists for poison, but the letters were intercepted. A bottle of morphia had been found in one of the deceased's pockets. Witness said he mentioned those facts to show the determined attempt deceased had made to take away his life. Proceeding with his evidence, witness maid he was called in after deceased was found dead that morning, and on examining him he found a mark of COMpTCA,IOII around the neck, and be thought the acute pain that deceased had snffered of late had driven him to distraction.—A verdict "That deceased committed suicide while in a state of temporary insanity" was returned.
The Potteries Examiner : — 1876-01-29 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

AND MONEY.—A curious Case Came before the Dublin Recorder on Saturday. I man named Clarke sued a young woman for .£2, money lent. The plaintiff wits engaged to marry the defendant, who will be entitled to £5OO under her father's will. The at defendant's request, lent her .£2 to go to Longford to obtain the consent to her marriage from her uncle, who is her guardian. The uncle refused his consent, and the plaintiff sued for the money, which the defendant declined to pay. The Recorder dismissed the case, observing that the plaintiff bad acted shabbily. The defendant intimated that it was the plaintiff who bad broken off the match, and that she intended to bring an action for breach of promise. DELIBERATE SUICIDE BY A GIRL OF FIFTEEN :A girl, fifteen years of age, named Emma Ashmead; the daughter of a labourer living at Barnwood, near Gloucester, committed suicide by hanging on Saturday morning.—An inquest was held in the evening, before Mr. Lovegrove. From the evidence given it appeared that the deceased was a servant-girl, in the employ of Mr. Nest, an ironmonger, living at Foley-plaes. Gloucester. She went to her mistress at six o'clock in the morning, and then went downstairs. Two hours later, when her mistress went down, she found that none of the household duties had been slum, and on goiug into a room adjoining the kitchen she found the girl hanging by a rope from a beam. Her screams brought assistance, and the body was cut down, but he had been dead for some time.—Mrs. Nest stated that the deceased was of slovenly habits, and she had frequent complaints from her lodgers of the deceased's dishonesty. She accordingly reprimanded her, and her father did the same. She had conversed a deal about Wainwright of late, and she was of very peculiar habits.—Mr. Nest said the deceased was a weak-minded girl; and a lodger in the house said he always thought she was of a morbid and diseased state of mind. She had put the rope four 'times round her neck, and stood on a chair to fasten it to the beaus, afterwards kicking the chair away.—The jury returned a verdict of "Temporary insanity."
The Potteries Examiner : — 1876-04-22 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

HORRIBLE MURDER OF A PRIEST.—The popula. tion of Prades (Pyrenees-Orientales) as been thrown into consternation by the discovery of a horrible crime. The Abbe Manna., superior of the training school for priests, disappeared most unaccountably on Thursday evening of last week. Every search was made, under a supposition that he might have committed suicide, but no light could be thrown on the mysterious affair for some days. The idea of a murder then arose, and after careful investigation in all the localities where a body was likely to have been buried, some freshly turned soil in the cellar of the school attracted attention, and the hods of the murdered man were found. The head was feat 10113 disfigured from blows, seemingly with a shovel, and a pistol-shot was apparent in the lower region of the stomach. The crime wal a mystery, as the deceased was distinguished by his kind and cordial manners, and was much beloved in the locality where he resided. Finally, suspicion rested on a man named Seconds, a Carlist ref u;;ce, employed as a gardener in the establi.h_ meat, and he wasarrested. A telegram states that the accused has made a full confession of his guilt.  Too OLD TO BE TAUGHT BY A Boo—The Detroit Free Press says a clerk in a Detroit hardware store was setting things to rights for the business of the day, a citizer with grey locks and self-satisfied looks, dropped in oil kindly asked :—"Have you any four. van porous I..ettles " Porous kettles?" mused the clerk, "I never heard of them." "What do you call these ?" demanded the citizen, as he nosed around and held up a kettle. "That's a porcelain kettle sir," was the ready reply t "that's what you waiatis it f" "That's what I want if it is a porous kettle," said the citizen. "We call 'em porcelain," replied the clerk. "What right have you to call 'eat so? Why don't you call a dog a cat? ' But how can iron be porous l• ' humbly inquired the clerk. "How can a young man be a fool?" shouted the citizen. "It has come to a pretty pass, when a boy of your age attempts to teach a man of my years anything. Don't you suppose I know the difference between porcelain and porous ?" "Yes, sir." "Well, then, here's your seventy-five cents for this purers kettle, and I'd like to have it sent around to the house right away." The clerk had to submit. He says that a rich man can do anything, while a poor clerk is kept down.  rig  1