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Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1882-01-28 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

STRANGE SUICIDE OF A YOUTH AT  ST. HELENS.  A few days ago, about half-past two o'clock in the afternoon, Henry Thompson, a youth sixteen years of age, who resided in a back house off Monton Bank-lane, St. Helens, committed suicide under singular circumstances, and without any apparent motive. It appears that deceased, who for a short time had worked as a dataller at the Laffak-Garswood Colliery, overslept himself in the morning, and did not proceed to work. He " played " about until dinner time, when he had a few words with his mother about a hammer which he had left on the floor, and which a child had picked up and thrown at another. Prior to this, and, indeed, afterwards, he appeared to be all right. Mrs. Thompson sat on the bottom stair mending a shirt, when deceased passed her and went up into the bedroom. About ten minutes later she went up and found him suspended to the tall wooden bedpost with a strap which he bad passed round kin neck. His feet were pushed along the floor, his body bent, and his face covered with an apron. Mrs. Thompson held up the body, in which there then appeared to be signs of life, and screamed loudly for assistance. A neighbour came and slipped the strap from the pin on which it had been hooked, and efforts were made at reemeitation, but without effect. Mrs. Thompson states that although she sat on the bottom of the stairs, and the bedroom door was open, she did not hear a sound.  THE NEWS OP A CONSPIRACY in Nepaul is conOrated. The British Resident has now reached Khatmantle safely. Ile reports that the Nepaulese army is quiet. The plot has taken years to mature. It was disclosed at the last moment. Eighty notables have been arrested, and twenty-one military officers have been summarily executed. The British cavalry post at Spowlie has been reinforced by a squadron. Tum TOWN COUNCIL at Stoke-on-Trent have resolved, by a large majority, to open the Free Library and Museum of that town on Sunday, from half-past two till half-past five in the afternoon. Mr. C. M. Campbell, Mayor, and principal of the large firm of Minton's, which employs about 3000 hands, was the chief promoter of the movement.  THE RECENT STORM and high tide has inflicted terrible losses in the parish of Glenelg, on the west coasts of Scotland. Sin dwellings were knocked down and fiftyt others flooded, the furniture being more or less destroyed, and the winter store of meal, potatoes, and herrings damaged or washed away. But the most serious loss to the poor people is that of their boats and nets, which they cannot replace. From this cause between 150 and 200 persons are deprived of their means of livelihood. An influential local committee has been formed to receive and tAstribute subscriptions.
Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1882-09-09 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE.  The coroner for West Middlesex, Dr. Diplock, has held an intjuiry in the board-room of the Boye' Industrial School, Feldiom, regarding the death of Maurice Barrow, a boy 10 years of age, who committed suicide by hanging himself. Joieph Rowland Brooks said be wa.4 the superintendent of the Feltlam Indostrial School, of which the deceased Maurice Barrow, was an inmate. He was 10 years old, He was admitted on July 26 last. To the winless's knowledge he 1.-9 never punished before a few days ago. Minor punishments conk! be ordered by the inferior officers. No corporal punishmentcould be inflicted except by witness's order and in his presence. Seclusion for four hours might be ordered by the inferior Officers. The seclusion was, in fact, deprivation of play hours—two hoursat a time. While the other boys played the punished boy was alone. The deceased's offence for which he was punished was inflating a live frog by blowing Into it. He then squeezed the frog with his foot. There was no list of punishments within the boys' observation, showing the offences that would he punished, but they were well known to the boys. The deceased : was not at the school for stealing fruit. Edward Henry Hummer, the labour-master, said the hey had not been under his direction for more than about three weeks. There were three labour-masters to 150 hope—day and night. On the day of his death the tleceseed got a frog and inflated it, and was about to burst it. Witewe told him he was a bad boy, and that. If he were brought up, he would be punished. In the afternoon witness thought it over," and stopped his play. He pot deceased in a cell at about half-past four o'clock. Thttre was another boy implicated. and he was put in another cell. Witness entered the cell punishment, b,-cause, had he reported Barrow, the boy would have been flogged. The Rev. William Anthony Newton said that at a quartr-past five he went into the deceased's cell, and was horrified at seeing the boy suspended by a leathern heckle from a Vr,tel pipe. The jury, after long deliberation, said they consitlertsl the deceased hanged himself while of sound mind. The coroner said that was verdict effete de se, and the jury found accordingly.
Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1882-09-09 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

ASHTON.  DEATH OF A CHILD IN ASHTON FROM SCALDS.— On Tuesday evening Conotable LudISM SAS inform. el or the death of Minnie Goddard, eget 16 monwie daughter of John Goddard, mechanic, residing at 12, Yorkshire—street, Ashton. It is otattd that on Thursday Not the child was at the breakfast table, when she spilt a cup of tea over her coest. Sue Wel belly melded. Dr. Baxter wee called iii. end attended the child, who not only nuffored from the melds, but was attacked by scarlatina, cud died as above stated.  A MAN FOUND DROWNED AT NATERIIOURE&— About half-past twelve on Tuesday +1 ceruoon, the dead body of an elderly man named George of deaoonefleld• street, Ashton, was found in the canal near the tunnel at Waterhonses. Deceased was a labourer at Oxford Hills, Ashton, and was working until breakfast tune that morning. After hreakfast be left home, apparently without saying anything a• totiis intentOt with reference to his returning to work. Between ten and eleven o'clock he called at tne flare and Hounds Inn, Littleniome where he stayed only a few pliant.). Nothing further seems to have been aeon of hiin until his dead body was found in the oanal. Whether he committed suicide or accidentally fell into the Re water is as yet only a matter for conjecture. tie was 66 yearn of age.  The Soatlt•Eaatern Gazette quotes a atriking instance Of toe reduced know value of agricultural land in Kent. The All Hallows Farm, near Ito. ohesteir formerly let at £9OO a year, had neon in the toareet for two year., alit o 8 b.o extensively advertised, yet the solo result ia twit a tenant hoe j,ist been scoured for it at an aunuml rent nut ex• ceeding £350. Tins is believed to be the grisiteic tedeadeu yet made.
Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1882-01-07 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

SUPPOSED MURDER AND SUICIDE IN  )11FSTER.  A shocking discovery has been made In Ehorhon-onMedlock, one of the townships of alanchester —a diacovery which points either to a murder and the suicide of the murderer, or a double suicide. In a house in Hastings-street, Bronswick-street, lived a girl who went by the name of Polly Harcourt. She had occupied the premise. about six months, renting them from a person who let furnished houses. Harcourt, who is now deceased, was about 19 years of age, and lived with a man named L'Estrange, who was 35 years of age, and waa a traveller for a well-known firm of distillers. Nothing had been heard of the girl or the man for a week or two past until a few mornings ago,when theagent for thehouse, who had not niceived his rent for .ome weeks, called, and, receiving no answer to his knocks,effected an entrance to the premises. Ile found the parlour (which was the only furnished apartment downstairs) unoccupied, and accordingly he made his way tutu the front bedroom upstairs. Here a horrible spectacle met his eye. Lying on the floor dead was the man L'Estrange, undressed, and in the bed was the girl Polly Harcourt, also dead. It is believed that death in both cases has resulted from poisoning, one or more bottles containing poison having been found in the coon,. There are no marks of violence on either of the bodies. The police were at once communicated with, and are now in possession of the premises, around which a large crowd almost constantly gather. Inquiries are being actively pursued by the police authorities. Appearances at present indicate that one of the deceased (which of them can only be surmised) had poisoned the other and then committed suicide. The deceased girl was well known in the locality, where, as already stated, she had resided about six months. She was not married, but was the mother of a child. She had an aunt resident in the neighbourhood, and she had been communicated with. Later information is to the effect that the police authorities suppose the names of both the deemed to be fictitious. A quantity of solution of chloral bas been found in the house. A bottle which had contained some of the solution woe found empty in the bedroom where the bothcn were discovered. It is thought the medical evidence will tend to show that the girl died from strangulation after the administration of a dose of chloral. There are black marks on her neck and arms. Her body showed signs of advanced decomposition; the inaa appears to have died more recently.
Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1882-07-15 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

HAUGHTON SUB-OFFICE. Opened, IT, SIC LAYS,? a. cu. to 9p. co. Cloaca for deapatou, 7.45 a. m.„,t 6..31)  , Not opened on Sunday.  SUICIDE IN' A EILLIAItu ROOll,  Shortly before &even o'clocz u dondsy morn. ins a report of firearms was heard in the bar of the Ship Tavern, Kennington-road, London. On the manager, Mr. Sims, ascending; to the billiard room, he discovered a gentlemanyeamtly returned from Australia, lying on bin book with a bullet wound just above the right oar. The done sod Mr. Hobert Peters, sixzy yearA, arrived in England about three mouths ago, and had resided wish his niece. About ten a.m he left home, and after an absence of throe-quarters of au hour he was seed wandering near toe tavern in the Kennington-road apparently such depressed. Ile entered tile tavern preainig his forehead with hie hand. Notbi: more some seen of him until the report of to pistol was heard. The bulet had penetrat d the skull about nue inch oho, the righ ear, and lodged in tee brain, causing ins- anon sal  ACCIDENT AT In accident of a somewhat alarming cheroot, r took place at the Oldham and Lees spinning Coapany's mill at Dowry just before noon on Monday. It appears that a minder named John Sykes, Who resides at Newroad, Lees, was engaged iii putting a driving strap belonging to his mule ou to the drum 01 the main shaft, and whilst doing so was caught and taken up by the stray, and his left arm getting entangled he was hung on the shaft. Subsequently, the strap breaking, he was taken round the abaft. Fortunately, at this time the engine was almost stopped, an alarm having been given, otherwise the affair would no doubt have ended fatally. The injured man was removal at once to the Oldham Iniirmary, where, on examination, it was foand that the left arm was broken in two places—below and above the elbow—and was badly burnt by friction.
Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1882-01-21 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

TRI.RORAM FROM TORONTO states that the aquatic champion of the world, Edward Ilanlien, has left there for England, for the purpose of meeting his engagement with Itcwwl, of Middlesbrough, for £lOOO. ILlatri Was enthusiastically cheered Oil taking his leave by the numerous friends who had assembled. He sailed from New York in the lonian steamer City of Chester. Prior to leaving he agreed to row Wallace Roes on June 20 next for £2OO aside, mid articles were duly signed and £lOO posted. Haulan also otTereel to row Trickett on Antlust 1, Lukt the Australian declined, saying he was wriiiingro Hogland. The champion scaler intends visitbee,, on hin return to Canada, Manitoba and the NorthWest provinces. A THOUSAND VOLUNTERRS accustomed to take part in ride competitions in different ,ewts of the country have fonearded a manorial to the Com. il of the National Rifle dwocrat ion to reacind the alterations recently arrived at, making alterations in the position in which competitors may shoot at the Wimbledon meeting, alleging that by the regulations enabling men to tire in any position in which they eon show the greatest skill with the rifle the greatest proficiency is developed, And that the proposed regulations would, by their restrictive character, lower the average shooting power of the force. The volunteers'. petitions come from almost every county in England. Scotland, and Wales, and the signatures include those of eighty officene and over four hundred non-commissioned officers, many Queen's prizemen, and other distinguished shots.  AT LPICESTPR, Charles Henry Wilson, plasterer, has beim 'charged with attempting to murder his sweetheatt, Mary Jane Fink, and then attempting to commit suicide. The woman is still unable to leave tha infirmary. Prisoner was remanded. ALt, THE MINIM on strike at Ushaw Moor Collier? have now been evicted from their homes. The men hove held a mass meeting under the presidency of ' Mr. John Lee. The meeting was ..ow,ressed by several of the union leaders, and resolutions wee, passed to continue the strike. The distribution of money by the treasurer of 'the union was anxiously awaited by the men, as most of them were beginning to feel the pinch. The men all suffering tho most, as the tent in which they are Ivo,itA. was blown down by the recent gale. The evict. Al far uhes are receiving a considerable amount of local At present there does net seem the sligh, support. 1 settlement. The number of evicted f, prospect of a 4
Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1882-01-21 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

THE CHILD MURDER AT CHESTER.  At Chester City Pollee-court Mary Ann Milieu, wife of Jonathan Millett, a horse driver in the employ of the Joint Railway Company at Chester, was charged with wilfully murdering her child by drowning it. A neigh. boor said that several days prior to the murder the prisoner was labouring under the hallucination that as the child could not take its natural food it must he wasting away, wherms the child was thriving nicely. The day before the crime was perpetrated the prisoner asked what they could do tuber if she put the child in the river or under the train. She added,' I have taken the child several times to pat it under the teem, but the angels have protected her." A postman who was passing the River tire deposed that he .I.W the prisoner near the water, and after going on heard her scream out that she lead thrown the child into the river. The case was re. mended, pending the recovery of the body.  THE HOME SECRETARY has declined to interfere in the case of the young man named Holmes, against whom a verdict of felo de se was returned at Tiverton. Between two and three thousand persons signed the petition, and furthers steps are spoken o. LINO LOOK, a Chinaman, and his wife, were charged at Lewis Assizes with having caused the death of a boy in the Oxford Music Hall, Brighton, under circumstances which have been already reported. Both were declared not guilty by the jury, and discharged. The proprictrMs of the hall had also been committed for trial on the charge of manslaughter, but the grand jury threw out the bill against her. At the same time the grand jury expressed strong disapproval of exhibitions of this description. THE LEEDS POLICE received a telegram stating that a man answering the description of John Rom, who on Christmas Day murdered a young man named John Marley, by stabbing him aftm leaving a public-house, had been apprehended at Ely, in Cambridgmhire. A detective was at once sent to Ely in order to irantify the prisoner. Ira THE cAsn of Sir John Holker, the appointment to one of the highest judicial offices of an exAttorney-Cieneral still sitting on the Opposition benches of the House of Commons, is probably unparalleled in legal history. One of the nearest appointments to such a thing was the appointment by Lori Brougham in 1881 of Lord Lyndharst, the ex-Lord Chancellor, to the office of Lord Chief Baron. In the case of Sir AV. Page Wood, who Woo appointed by Lord Cairns to a Lord Justiceship in 1868, along period of judicial service had intervened since be had ceased to be alum Officer.
Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1882-12-16 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

TERRIBLE MURDER AND ATTEMPTED  SUICIDE.  At East Ferry, in Lincolnshire, a village about ten miles from Gainsborough, there has occurred a tra„ical ending of a police-court ease, recently heard. James Anderson, a farmet, summoned and obtained a conviction against his son, Charles, in whose favour the wife of the prosecutor gave evidence. During her examination Mrs. Anderson complained of her husband's ill-treatment, and dech.red that she was afraid to live with him, whilat the son pleaded in extenuation of an admitted assault on his father, that he did it to protect his  mother. The case was characterised by the chairman of the Bench as the worst story of family dissension it had ever been his misfortune to listen to, and he intimated that only the plea of guilty induced the magistrates to convict. Having seen his son bound over to keep the peace, Anderson returns to West Ferry, a village about a mile distant from his risidence, and remained there all night. At noon the next day he proceeded to his own house, where he found his wife alone. What passed is not known, but shortly afterwards the unfortunate woman was found with her throat cut, and quite dead. Anderson was also found with his throat cut, but his wounds are nut no severe, and he still lives. (chic band was a pocket knife, with which the murder and attempted 'Weide had been perpetrated.  Tax office of receiver and aceonntant-genenu at the General Post-office has become vacant by the demise of Mr. G. Chetwynd, C. 8., who has just expired at his residence, Hyde Vale, near Blackheath.  WlLT:rata FOWLS' a bank clerk, of Aberdeen, who was arrested at Plymouth on board an outward. bound steamer, was charged before the magistrates with stealing £3OO in bank notes, which had been .rent through the post in a registered letter from the Inverness branch to the principal office of the Town and County Bank at Aberdeen, where the money was missed. Pri.oner was handed over to the Aberdeen police, and left in their custody. Inquiries are being prosecuted in London with a view to tracing the remainder of the notes, ES only being found on the pi isoner when he was arrested. r Miss, JoRtY WHITE, of Parsonage Farm, Rinkmansworth, has held in the Town-hall her annual bazaar and sale of useful fretwork articles made by the youths belonging to the Working Lads' Industrial Club. Several ladies of the district also 001 d at their various stalls useful as well as fancy goods, the whole affair being in aid of the Lads' Club and the National School Boot Club.  I
Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1882-12-16 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

HYDE.  ATTEMPTED SITIM DE BY POISONING  At the Hyde Police Court, on Monday, before John Wood, 'lei, and A. C. Boyd, Esq.. a men named Thomas Harrison was charged with attempting to commit suicide by taking two packets of vermin killer, or mouse powder, at Hyde, on Saturday. He appeared to be in a very weak condition, and was placed on a chair near the dook.— Sergeant Bennett said 9.20 as,, on Saturday, from information he received, be went to Cameron's lodging-house, in Charles-street. He went upstairs, and found the prisoner lying in bed. He asked him what was the matter with him, and he said, I have taken two packets of mouse powder out of a bottle, and pitched the bottle into the reservoir at the old factory, Manchester-road. in Hyde. I bought the lot at 113, Aspinall-etreet, Manchester. I lost that, and I bought the lot Lore's, in Stalybridge, and another one at Denton" He sent for Dr. Sideleetiotn, and he came at once. He was at the lolging-houee all night, and brought to the pollee station the following moraine. When charged with attempting to co 'omit suicide by takin, poison, he replied, "1 canuot say more than I eaid last night." At the lodging-house he searched his clothes, but could not bind abything.—Dr. Side. bottom said about a quarter to tai on S iturday night he was called 111 to see the prisoner at a hones in Charles-street. He found the erisoner euffering from symptoms of strychnine poisoning. He admitted that he had takeu two packets of vermin killer.—Mr. Wood Cm n conversation with Mr. Boyd): They were working beautifully. He administered an emetic, and he managed to get rid of the poison from his system. There was generally enough in one packet to kill a man, but he believed that the manufacturer, in mixing the preparation, had not de,tributed poison very equally. In that Case some packets would get more than others, and he supposed those taken by the pd. saner were such as that.—Captain Languid: It shows how very dangerous the sale of these pobsous is. This is the second case we have had during a very short time.—Dr. Sidebot torn: And it stows how anomalous the Sale of Poisons Act ie.—Prisoner was committed to Enutford &mime for trial.
Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1882-11-11 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

LISTRR 00..MAket, 1.11141,1  A YOUNG BEAN named George Barnes recently gained admittance to the house of a Mr. Duddeld St Beckford, near Evesham, by means of the cellar. The door into the house WAS locked, but he called out to the servant-girl, who had been his sweethe,n, and eh° was alone, that he would cut his throat if she did not oleo the door. She did no, and she alleges Barnes then criminally a-saulted her. A warrant was issued, but Barnes abacondei. He, however. returned a few days ago, an', being pursued by the police, fired a revolver ..everal times at th. m, but without effect. He was eventually led sight of, the revolver being found next morning in the gro.:nds of a neighbouring mansion. Barnes has not been seen or heard of since, though under the belief that he had committed suicide a pond was dragged. A WOMAN named Elizabeth Small, wife of a working man, has committed suicide at Wohrrhampt.mn by swallowing a quantity of rat-poiaon. Jealousy  supposed to have be'an the .cause. Tan Longtown Coursing Meeting was brought so a successful close a few days ago, when the Netherby Cup stakes resulted Inn division between Mr. J. Hutchison's Clyde Rocket and Mr. Ceorge Co earls Courtoisie. The Border Union Stakes also terminal, d in a similar manlier, the two successful dogs being Hotspur and For'ard Away, Mr. M. Fletcher owning the latter, while Hotspur can in the nomination of Mr. W. Forster. THi: Haldon Hunt has just met for the first time this season, under the new mastenvhip of Mw•rs. Whidborne and Studd. There was a large attendance at the most which took place on the raitcourae, near Brener. For some little time, stag—which turned out In be a reg lac old forester—bas be n in the neighl,u, hood, arid was quii kly discovered in a wood dose a, /1,1 Ti.e stag mad^ its way towards Teignmouth, but ltr taking a ,traight course for i.e. eral miler. doubled, d mine back towards Stamm., oveattia!ly Ow