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The Potteries Examiner : — 1879-03-22 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

MURDER AND SUICIDE. happier. If we search the annals of true greatno,e This preyed upon his d, soil he sent for you." I n is all ages, we shall find that poverty lire,been, in a There is silence. The der:mum' evidently avoids Vrom Lavenham in Suffolk a murder sad siffcile vast number of eases, the nursing-mother of genius. speaking of the sis of his fellowman. The clock ticks' of a painful nature is reported. A single woman, , If Laertoo !had been a rizh man, ehould we ever have for a moment or two, and then I say— named Mary Ann Gearman, about thirty years of enjoyed the pleasure of the Percales, or bathed our "He told me that his life had not been a well spout age, who was the mother of an illegitimate child, had ' been sitti A,n • up late in company with a married sister, fancy in the soft delights of Rapholitus ? Is it not one. Did he repent?" Monsieur Curvier folds his las the child was not well, but on its becoming quiet Cicero who says that under a purple rope the fool hands reverently, and says—" Charity hopeth all she persuaded her sister to he down and rest. Whim and the wise man are alike? Out upon his theory? things; but oh, Miss Ashton, let not anybody think to the sister woke ,bou.,TettutteaVdt: Clothe a man with rags, and give him brains, with cultivate or indulge in any sin, and expect to lay it near the remises, the unthe determination tense them, and he will show forth down (if he ever does) the same man as he mother, innalhpo' "I. when f:rtunate women having secretly left the house and the image of God more fully than over could the he took it up. It will have poisoned bith fleitorom• jumped into the water. From the evidence at the ermined dunce tion is the only antidote, and there ze not always inquest it transpired that the deceased was to have The poverty of Socrates, Pericles, Wickliffe, and time." • —•- • visited the father of the child and had said that if she Antonius, went far to assist the workings of their did not get an allowance or persuade him to marry higher faculties : the poverty imposed upon them I A ILLY R her, she should have tc call upon the parish. The
The Potteries Examiner : — 1879-03-22 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

OOO. to repair the lin. 5, and the company said it would be impossible to do tho work all at once. The Master of tha rolls said there wire really no nrofits to divide.  tile coroner s jury found that the young man Ritchie, who threw himself overboard from the ferry stainer Woodside. the other night, committed suicide while in a state of temporary insanity. The deceased mule on the boat an offer of marriage to • widow with whom he lodged, and when she replied, " No, Jack, I don't want you," he flung himself into the water. 'The jury apparently held that thin act of itself applied insanity. At the Bow Street Police Court, Alexander Edgar Sutherland, a young dnuightsman, has been remanded on a charge of burglary and forgery. It is alleged that he sealed the back premises, and got into the house of Roland Plump, architect, hie former , employer, in Fitzroy Square, and carried off some property, including a ihoqne-book, and that he after. wards forged a cheque for £30., and obtained par ! ment of it at the City Bank. At a numerously attended meeting of the committee of the Beekeepers Association, it was determined to appoint an agent to assist the members of the association in disposing of the surplus honey. It is a carious fact that, while tons of American honey am imparted into English and readily sold, numerous complaints are made that good English honey, cannot find a purchaser. The associatioa is taking steps to remedy this undoubted evil.  Jam., Chute, proprietor of Chute's Minstrels, has been charged before the Vice-Chancellor of Oxf,d, with an assault at the Victoria Theatre. Defendant's wife was insulted, and believing the offender was Mr. H. Do Bathe, commoner of Magdalen, he threw a glass of bee in his face. A fight ensued, and Chute's troupe joined in the melee. Another steadier of the university, who was a friend of De Bathe, was greatly maltreated. Chute was fined £2., am! promked to leave Oxford.  The late Mr. John Foster, manufacturer, of gumnsbury, whwe remains have been interred in the burial ground of Holy Trinity Church, Queensbury, has left a legacy of £I,
The Potteries Examiner : — 1879-02-01 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

ANOTHER DOUBLE SUICIDE. ham Holstein, who had been out on bail, we, indicted arriving:, search was made, and at the mouth of the! Pova River one da ed boat was found and the traces for not becoming a candidate. His objections are git. in detail. Prin. Bismarck's 1.11118011 for ab- Another double suicide has been committed in the I gilt, .as evulenced by broken oars for having at Manchester, on the 30th October, taken ,t, . P g . t *Lodi., accenting to this journal, is attributed to the Breda quarter of Paris. Mdlle. Marguerite D—, .an unmarried girl named Sarah Cap land, being then ! "'. a ''''PurrY. " . with natives hair adhering. On the borders of the river, almost certain complications that will acme from the not having been seen by her neighbours for two days, u. r the age_ 4,0 six e.en ) , II f heerafr:tther I P°. s I tide h f'. t • out of the Siol2 n opening the ! hidden: away in the scrub, were found provisions, separation of the Bulgarians south of the Balkans, in tier room was broken open. The young woman was ,ma against th vn : II B atilt e.e , munitions, and—horrible sight—six native baskets brethren to the north found dead on her bed. By her side lay the body of 1 case for the pr_osifteitt, r. t r urwytoti4orthatErt h indictment lived i h h t 11,. , filled with freshly -cooked human flesh, from which Two thousand rounds of  - explosions, an 4 we need not, therefore, enlarge upon the claims of a fund like this, which alma at making some provision for the widows and orphans of miners who are killed whilst following their vocation. Public benevolence, when fairly roused by some sweeping disaster, is no doubt as a rule fairly adequate to the call upon it. but there are many casual bereavements of which the public never hear, or which fail to strike the popular imagination, which are nevertheless very distressing and productive of must saffering. If only to meet exigencies of this kind, some permanent fund appears to be imperatively called for; and it is to be hoped that the numerous other claims upon public benevolence just now will not cause the South Staffordshire Miners Fund to be wholly ignored by those who have the moans and the will to give to a good cause. —•—_  of the bereaved families'. A little, it was said, has been collected at present, and fresh appeals were therefore decided upon.
The Potteries Examiner : — 1879-02-22 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

MAY-, in urn, o in .. tbse Marrl nte Is I • il. 13 th • a a• •• • el • f f the Co ell of lam atePerting• M ant' .• 'me s must dby hoistling o tots carriage of a charged with uttering a , forged cheque for £750. 101., i... • •ke,, t. kl of the tradtts of the men psi and which still cent:ems. In conclusion, the ernes o sealbex 0 e un awl in Vett of widowers, this presence dimmishe3 by IF London and Westminster Bank. In •'' 1 •• ~.-. :..'.1,, that an exemplary gentence Lome re iommended various local measures, intludiug egesien to Mr. Justice Stephens. k i',..111 k/11 the London and Nerth-Western Railway, at drawn en • abo t one-half the tendency to commit suicide. the 'tsb the res octive '''''•'• t• ' i • h • ase of flsnant fraud - " f ofGo t d ' •re Royal Mal steamer Celtic, from New Took. ,e,„te,,,, re arrangement o some the vernmer, e- , a 1 on the 11th September, owing to the negli- , both cam; the statemel_l made 3' P. ~ - • .' ' ' -• ' e 'as a e • a • Women are generally less dispose Ito suicide than e,„,emeni,. Theno.,ere found to be ectly correct and it k 1.- •:, r mid it was clear that the prisoner was has been spoken with propelkr dis- , f tho temper y'a servants in not fastening the Prieenem3 . •k of Commons sebeequently 'ane in Liverpool , ~. .• , . • . nen' I•ut, whether in the married seite or widowe, tr•-• vtal t that the had Ceefn male the dupes of e - ..e. •xi. le ewindler, and that he had for many eleeted Mr. Bland:let to the office of Speaker. „bi.a, about :too miles from Fa-stnet. 1 ..... i the earrikme, When he leaned against it it was een y ;Ica:Show much leas tendency to tako ;Limy their owp another person not in custody. 'rho accused were. Yi es temed on an extenstve system of fraud an The rester-I:ern WOrkS at St. Georees ch.-A 1,...- open, anl he ftels on the rMh. Plaintiffs injue lkv -"s when- they have cEildren than wheffe they hll+6 liVina,,, Cestle, ham, owing M the regeiremenee of boto f ' 1 r mantled. but liberated on their owlet tees wem mry sevelA The jury held that the come , Y e melting. lk theren., felt it to be his duty co ' : A R'ashington Court has deeided that funeral ex• • ... no So oof -these rosette are contra,- to contra* . 11. i.: , Itotla Merriege, Men temiegarily , e • nts where wholly to blame in not teeing rnioeginaartell. sententelim lobe Irk et in penal servitude for flee ..- -' m _ .• . . . are to be reearded 131 preferred claims against the MT'. ••. ' . • :lAA!, 5 stria • 7"-a9lllllll ......gu5a,n.t...:.... , the door fastened before the train _.Leva, li ....r.:::!..a....: cl the agnsed-- . • &warded the plaintiff i 1,600.  A ni,ting of Metropol.: Volunteer commanding 01.1 boen held. at '1 it was ananirion4 it was de,iral.:e for a field.day to be 1. Monday if a saitabl, site can be ob.  i tation of the disease nto this country.  , lir lig 1 , „ •1,  wuflLc  ni. to.th,  Lte o  kt .•  S  SW:
The Potteries Examiner : — 1879-06-14 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

STOKE. KINDNESS TO ANIMALS.-011 Tuesday evening, under the auspices of the North Stattn•dshire Branch of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. a meeting Was held in the Town Hall. Mr. W. Farrow. of Birmingham, attended. and gave a Lan, on ' Kindness to Animals.' The Maser ,31e. Alderman Sweeting) was chairman. The audit nee "as mainly composed of children. The lecture was, of comae, designed to enforce the duty of kindness to animals and in anecdotal illustration and otherwise, Mr. Farrow effectively treated the subject. Kan SUICIDE Or lOrNil Won sx.—An ingnest was held on Hominy afternoon at the Copeland Arms Hotet. on the body of a young woman which was found in the canal on Friday night of last week. The hods had been &rallied as that of Elizabeth Booth. aged '2O years, dressmaker, late of Etruria.—Alexander Bullisgton ironworker. Hanley, said the holy was that of Elizabeth Booth. his cousin, whom he last Saw alive about a week ago. Her parents lived at Bradley Oreen.—Mrs. Bradley. Hanley, said deceased lodged with her, and on • having the home early on Friday morning Asia she was going to work. Witness had never new deceased since, I . but she had sent bark her ulster. telling a friend that she) was in great trouble. having been acense3 of theft by her? employers, Messm. Bridgwood, Parliament •rOw. —Joseph I Plant, watchman at the Stoke Goods Warehoase, said at nine o'clock on Friday night he saw the decetad walking along the canal side. He , saw her pia, her hat upon her jacket which was lying en the gr... and go towards the Water s edge. He then shouted at her, hut she took nis notice of him. Seeing a yonug man come along, however, she straightened her hair pat on her hat and jacket and walked on towards the Olehe Street bridge. Witness then went to the police station and gave inforraation.— In answer to the foreman, witness said he never thought of wading anyone to watch the Woman. Whilst he went . HANLEY flit 4101•6111.—THrliaraV. to the police station.—P.S. Rushton said he went with I Before Ova. Ridgway and T. Oilman. Esgs. last witn,s to the canal. and saw the hat. jacket. and RUTIi Taoreit.—Roth Woad, an apparently end's. lying on the path against the middle card, anti respectable gifi. of 19 years, was charged with having, in they got tin, body out with a boat hook. Some sham company with a man not vet arrested. stolen XlO. the jewellery !produeed) was found in her pocket.—The ' mon. of Oeorge Hancock, oa the 9th Mat. She was Coroner expressed an opinion that the witness Plantl remanded pending the arrest of her alleged accomplice, was not to blame, and the verdict of the jury was, bail being allowed in one surety of ,C2O. • Suicide during temporary insanity. •
The Potteries Examiner : — 1879-06-28 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

POLICE.—WEDstsDAv. Before B. E. Narramore and T. Oilman, Esqs. Minna-ran icnias—Mary Morley was charged on 1 remand from Tuesday, with attempting to commit suicide. The ease had been adjourned for the appearance of the huNbana, Hanson Morley. decorator, who to-day attended. In answer to the magistrates, he ! slated that his wife bad for some time been tu depressed spirits owing to Ow slsekness of trade. Th,s had had • no quarrel]. and, it hie wife were discharged, he promised to take better sate et her in the future. Superintendent Windle stated it oil the Sanity previous to prisoner's attempt to commit suicide, she had been wen walking by the canal, an.l was only prevented by some people ' passing from throwing h vself in. N'lien prisoner was got out of the canal and taken home, no doctor was called in, the Imsband stating that he was unable to afford one. Ou visiting the house the next day after the cretin, sic,, tut unhand was found to be the worse to, drink. i'he ma.tietrates rtptimanded Morley for his drunken habit'. whieh they thought had contributed very larg..ly te his wife's being placed in her present position, and aft. r cautioning the prisoner, who promised that she would aistain from drink in the future, discharged her .—Mary Simpson, a widow, residing in CaMbriatte•tare.t. Shetton. was charged with attempting to commit suit ide on tlic2 ith inst. It appeared that on the evening of th, a prisoner threw herself Sri,' the otital ::,n-place bridge, and was r. soled by two y ne a a hoprere passing by at the time. Prison, v sai that sln had been out of work three months and con'd 01 banly enough to keep her alive. The tuagistratos ...0100.,nt..1 on the serious character of the offence to oh eti imnoutT was charged. There was Certainly 00 ws,i for prtsouer to attempt to make away with herself 1,,,n wris out of work, as she could certainly have u.llll tl flout the parish or from ! the Charity Organiaatien Society of the Borough. The prisoner. on prentsi,g not to repeat the offence, was then slischer4icil.  H
The Potteries Examiner : — 1879-08-30 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

NSW.- to %V hl Ithee, My name is Braes l'erhaps sou, ou doni know mo, lout a ten 1-.: runt ittt nho t state his t • ,;:. 1 • - .1, s 1 ..ut increased ~p. with the present . • „ h. and hear. hear.) What ' farmers could nen thus tithe imported —them.. L. • 1 eonents, he sras called upon t. . • • . • tlt,' posit, nt which* Voice nosh , • . a.- latter on, he said that to 1 . • itne supposed. la the o: which allegation Mr. UOWArd .• t . that Mr. Bradford WAS talking thao, hhe WAS tillih• igloo :1111i Mr Braila , that in the Honae Of Commons M. tt• h ..1 Mr Heade. and soil tIlAt sh tilt: In, in Parliament H • should t : t th anti not of the wrong sort, like Mr. 1.:1:11am, oot there, wont,' .10 something ,'so uu.,na'i ~. And lIIS,SI. They mast make  . A liinmni to gn•rd against thin. seer, t %Is 1:11.1111 in protested and Mr. Bradfiird said oory well 1 did not come hore to tit I aid not intend to. —Tho Cas; it. • But ' •lq .1k the truth. —Mr. Bradfo, ti - lonahter).—After strong rrotvgs Iron I Chairman. Mr. Bradford conliaa,ol ha a.lot.z ties many in tho front row alio 6.1.1 nant furors. —Ultimately. how. re, the • •.1. on fire votin4 against it, and a oded to the Citairinan. en fa.  :  ‘.l I.  thliN W 31,.. M. BrAdfortl.  huller ranks of the kiertnith army are iy frequeut, a lir tve young offieer at kiity a Wit his amo to the  111015014 from streNs  tilLll Front t;  .60,1 /10, ineUrtel NtAtnnt jtnn sin.•ib It tile numb I' of suicides .in duet Is7l hos donc on increaaing to An ninfnling Whereas in that year 2,5420 of snch CMOs ;0115502. th, lot in 1077 showed a total of 1.330, divided Wntan wales and 771 females.  -an a total of 100
The Potteries Examiner : — 1879-03-08 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

SOCIALISII,IN RUSSIA.  MAIM ITROA STARVATION.  i  t,...1 all died a few days since in Rome, at th,• a • •,-,. lie was created cardinal at the Con- •. ,'.I. on the 16th of March, 1563, and in s ittised to the order of Cardinal Bishops and .•,•., ta the Sabin-hi:an See of Frascati. .1t t, of M, teittilta volunteer command,al at IL, hees of the National Rifle A - in London, it was unanimously resolved 1.1 day on Easter Monday on a large scale . ,tattahle ground not being obtainable. . • !, crtacs to hoar of a new Roumanian , .t . 7.. ten produced at the National libretto is by the reign- of Roumania, who has assumed the de Laroe. The music is by the , c:: :1 Li i skihinski. Mr. .1. it.,,troon !.,- ~,,intel to the office of arcitite, t rid survey, of the 'fabric of Westminster Abbey, vaeate.l by the htmented death of Sir Ibeet Scott. The special worksalready commenced by Sir Gilbert Scott will be continued by his son, Mr. John Oldrid Scott.  A case of death from stsrvation was brought under the notice of the Cardiff coroner on Itlonday. The inquiry was into the circumstances attending the death of Sarah Tapley, a woman about sixty years , of age. The deceased was found by neighbours to be in a dying condition. She was lying on a bed of I rapt. Her body was teeming with vermin, and her skin was brown. A doctor was called in by the neighbours, and he directed washing and gruel, the woman being evidently faint from want of food. She died before the operations were complete. The husband was apprehended on a charge of being drunk, ' Lot he was dismissed by the maAistraes. The evidence of the doctor, who had made a post-mortem examination of the body, was to the cave that death was due to exhaustion 'from want of nourishment. She derived ss. weekly from an inanity, and her husband received 1.55. weekly and food for assistant at a draper's shop. Iler husband was committed to the assizes for mau elan tritt,.  1Z,7 1.0  -- -Mr. Dillon, a well-known merchant of Southsea and Russel Street, Landport. has comnittel suicide. He appease to have taken poison and then to have drowned lilies .10 in a tank. Mental anxiety is as. signed as the elll6O. The New South Wales gold statistics for 1.170 show that 75,000 ounces were received by escort from the goldfields, and 107,000 ounces were received by the Mint for coinage. The return shows a slight increase as compared with the preceding year. At the annual meeting of the governors of the Southport Convalescent Hospital, the report stated that the trustees of the Lancashire Cotton Famine . Fund had determined to enlarge the present building and add a new wing, at a cost of XlO,
The Potteries Examiner : — 1879-09-27 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

HORRIBLE SUICIDE.  lee St. Poterol,urgh hatoig publishes an account of a snicide recently romnitted in the ti.wn ander exceptionally appallingcircur..s. A few days sgo a well-dressed traveller err -.J. at the Hotel de France of that city, stating that ;.e was Mr. .losePli o—, a colonial agent, and that he wished to say a short time in .Ihitornir upon Imsinesti. A room on the second Hour of the hate' was assigned to him, aid he spent two or three days in walking about the Streets, although the weather was 1111.11111 y wet and stormy. On the fourth evening be retired to his room early and locked himself in. Next morning he called at his usual hour, but returned na answer to the summons. After is good deal of futile knocking and ehoutiter, the hotel proprietor became alarmed at his tenant's protracted silence and ivised the door of the room to be broken open. A terribt• spectacle presented its. Alto the assembled househoilk. Mr. body was lying on the bare bedstead,from which the mattress and hedelothes had been removed; one of the sheetsipardy coverel the legs of the corpse, which walla otherwise in a state of nudity, ita left hand pressed tightly upon the region of the heart, and its right band convulsively clutching the hair. The eyes were wide open, fixed in a glassy deaths otare, and the features distorted with :molly. An Oppressive odour, as of scorched fat, pervaded the room. NO wound was perceptible upon the body, but the chest was transversely barred in several pl., s by dark red stripes. As soon ea the police accompanied by the local medical officer, had mode their appearance on the scdne of this horrible tragedy the corpse was turned over upon its face, when the cause of death botanic: for the first time apparent to the terrorstricken spectators. A deep and broad burn was exhibited in the middle of the back, and the spine was found to be comp!etely carbonised. Upon the floor underneath the bedstead were discovered the wicks, embedded in a little blotch of coil 'Mario°, of three candles, which had been taken out of the can! ilkmicka and fixed upon the planking upon a layer of melted grease. Over the flame of those candles ; Mr. 0 had lain upon the skeleton framework of his bedstead, and suffered his spine to be slowly consumed until he died. A manuacript, placed upon ; a table close to bed, contained not only a restore of tthheisrumearets.(ncahteielilynadnisatoppouinndteedrgl,o,vsee)uw-hini;hicptroed .mptedr. • tvrdom but minute details of the torturing process by nhieh he had chosen to destroy Isis life.
The Potteries Examiner : — 1879-09-20 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

HORRIBLE SUICIDE.-DASHED TO PIECES BY A HORSE.  The Frankfurter Zeitung reports an appilling ease ii suieide which a•curred is few days ago at Edmodlham, and which recalls in its features ancienttraged A farmer named Hoffinger had two sons. The elite: fell in love with the servant-maid, but had to join his regiment as a soldier and serve his three years with the colours. On his return home he discovered that lair brother had supplanted him in the affections of the tmia. lie conjured her to allow old relations to re•estaNished, but she refused. lie threatened to ~minit sunlio but she laughed at him. Some day, later she went solske 28 to taunt him with eowardir+ „Loafing that she ant ur,,•,. believe he could muster courage to drown himself in 14 neighbouring lake, tie auswert+l that he would not drown himself, but etoohl take away his life in a manner which would make her hair stand on end. The ottsv Sundae morning, while his parents and sisters were at chunli he took a young horse from the stable, fastened :t-rope securely to him. end bound the end of the rope around his own body. Ho then put a lighted slow match into the ear of the poor animal, which netssally started off, and mad with pain dragged the nu fortnnate Hoftinger after him in all directions, dualls 'donating iuto the Sockivehner Lake. Later in Ur, jay the two bodies were found in the lake still firs • tei.sed together. Hoffinger was Ik) fearfully shattered and mutilated as to be quite beyond recognition.  A di has been fought in Paris, between the editor ni the Zu.r...Yeartrow Si.-ck, and the editor of the Nursed:au, Both combatuats were slightly wounded. The tirand Duke of lituwe is experted to arrive in gagland shortß , on a visit to the Quern at Balmoral.  More than two-thirds of the WO amneetied Communist. wt,o eldt test to be brouaht to Paris have it is slated, found veldt)) meat.  'rlirs• is reason to belies, that Mr. Gifford Palpos. th proseltl'on, .1. tl,nural t in P 3-:Hrl.4. • ::1 tat, :roal that post, an.i. rl3iso4k Is as Agont W Use King el Loyd Ads!tier, ;`,l...thet ti the ,taiquis of tst t ;• v ogtllsll nrsic • ILI tilt Corn Ls.tsnge. B,u r, Llncoinsture. Tb• noble Lord is an elosiutai prasasid, and hts services ace 11...13•140.  • _ A num Gm out Weed told her beau that the was mtud•readcr. You don't say to' be ssesissisi • Osst you read slut's in my mud Yes, aid .b.: you have in mind to ...lc in. to be yOni wife, but ps sr* A .ds.L• Kihni It Oa l'lseit weAdAss-crio use oh