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The Tamworth Examiner and Working Men's Journal. — 1873-12-27 (Tamworth, Staffordshire, England)

DISTRZSSING SUICIDE AT BRITNTIFOOO.—A. sad sequel has followed the recent prosecutions in this town under the new Adulteration Act. On Thursday last seven dairymen were convicted of adulterating their milk with water—the "marriage" (as it is called in the trade) being in some cases as much as cent, per cent. Among the number summoned was one Joseph Haggett, aged 49, who carried on his dairy business at Albany. terrace, Old Brentford, where he had resided some seven years. Haggett was not what the world culls a pros',peons man, but sustained himself and wife upon the yield of one cow and the occasional letting of apartments. He was a plodding sort of man, and not being in the habit of letting everybody know his business, the townsfolk thought he was well to do, occupying as he did a modern-fitted and well-appointed shop. When summoned before the magistrates it was noticed that he was greatly excited, and on it being hinted to him that he might be heavily fined, he exclaimed that rather than pay he would rot in gaol. The analysis in his case proved that 26 per cent. of water had been added to the milk vended by him, and the magistrates imposed a fine of .65 and 12s. costs, with the alternative of two months' imprisonment, a week being allowed for payment of the fine. The excitement was so great amongst the convicted dairymen that few noticed the depressed state of Haggett, and his wife does not seem to have held actions apprehensions of his state of mind. Three days after his conviction' however, the terrible depression lied so matured that on Sunday morning he hung himself from his bed-post with his silk neckerctief. In the early morning, as usual, he had fetched his solitary cow from the pasture, but as he did not bring the milk into the shop as usual his wife sent the assistant to call him. Ten minutes later he was found a corpse as described.
The Tamworth Examiner and Working Men's Journal. — 1875-04-10 (Tamworth, Staffordshire, England)

SUICIDE BY A LIVERPOOL SHIPOWNER.-Mr. James Alexander, a shipowner, of Liverpool, committed suicide on Sunday by shooting himself through the head.  Sir John Gray, M.P., who is staying at Bath, is dangerously ill. By direction of Cardinal Cullen, prayers for his recovery were offered on Sunday in all the Dublin Catholic Churches. Mr. Lawrence Waldron, D.L., late member for County Tipperary, a Home Ruler, and Chairman of the Wicklow and Wexford Exilway, died on Sunday. The Spectator says Mitchel's last message was a malediction against England, as were also Martin's last words in Pfu-lia,,,ent. Their lives displayed a kinship of detestation, and in their deaths they ' were not divided.  The money article of the Standard announces that a circular has been issued to the shareholders of the Anglo-American Telegraph Company in favour of the division of the stock into preferred and deferred stocks. The Austro-Hungarian Cabinet has accepted the proposition made by the Servian Government respecting the commercial convention, which will be signed in the course of the next month or five weeks.—London Telegraph. The National Opera House on the Thames Embankment is to be finished in about two years' time It is proposed to plant the river front as a garden cafe, to enable visitors to take refreshments in the open air after the continental fashion.  The handsome edition of Poe's works, just issued by Messrs. A. and C. Black, is printed from types set up by the young women whom Messrs. Black have, since the strike of the Edinburgh printers, been training as compositors.  The Lyceum, after being closed for a week through the lamented death of Mr. Bateman, was re-opened on the thith ul'., when the performance of " Hamlet" was resumed, with the same cost as before. The theatre is to be carried on by Mrs. Bateman.  A Times telegram, dated Paris, April 2, says Prince Napoleon is expected at Brussels, where he will establish a paper, the political basis of which has been arranged in Paris. The editor of a Parisian paper is to be placed at the head of the paper.
The Tamworth Examiner and Working Men's Journal. — 1875-06-12 (Tamworth, Staffordshire, England)

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE OF THE ',MURDERER. nA,,t7c.i.iler,„ of wower. with regard th other matters. They had been treaten The question in litigation was whether the respondent, ce nit ient,l iLuaot nil os Illy iLT t .1.11:r‘•,,, oi 70 r a iriceplztrontogjain orffietal. i' T ~ The Newcastle Chron,,la gives the following par- the Prince of Wales presided at the fifteenth anA meanie or tAh "eWei:k:lp Mrs. Robertson. was or was not married to Major nual banquet of this institution, which was held at haumton was held tA the Tiger Hotel, North-streen hended the iil of V itrati n ' NaNiitthhottitgar tlil,TletfoOrl•::l,lvo,irn,, vil,i-1,1, StewarteK.C., of the 9:(rd Highlanders, who died in ticaare of this sad tragedy :, , Willie's Rooms, London. The Prince of 'Wales in proposing the toast of on Tuesalay night, to further aiscuss the wages and Mr. Annetrong Zli°ought oif • thOy (HI awa w,itla thioa Hiaherton Make, nuaelt dottbt IllaV be tak.'it'r•'." 5 ictober, 184;8. Major Stewart, who had served wits The victim is a conman named Sarah Duafielet •:a . ry. distnmtien in the Crimea, and India, was heir to a Charlton, and the murderer is her h -.band, the everting said :-One math object which the pro- arbitration question. Mr. Jevons presided, and there arbitration, which Inul done them so much "clod rThende'that at a meeting held a (he,ar, hear). I:l),ftoi:::.fttiristi::ailt::t„l,-isersh'tolilt"tl. . . . . . et. large entail.a property in Scotland. In 1865 he formed Richard Charlton, a labourer, who i 3 not expected t wenl.l le, iif irmcla value at sise unless 't • the acquaintance of Miss Wilson, then aged 15, the to recover front the injuries lie thtlieted upon him- meters of the ins Million have lomt in view is, as walst ilinn:ymbicerorTmaetintebnei muck as possible, to relieve those unfol tunate y n a ljournment was resolved upon Chairman, he cßoeriPtel the past ten years, they would certaii.,:hay,7l;:iereiticaolfoewle-nice,daughter of a fishing tackle manufacturer in Edinburgh. rtislef rorienc.gthtinis,e,rlcl7,7ge,n:ftittrivecisicio,! 7t,1-11e, ic:ffirocaeielr,„lss ~,,,,,,i„,,,t,, 0,,,r1 t(o„,,41) yi-iidneera ttibaatnmorbeyisoraii•tionh,,,lly I,l.eviak self. From what can be gathered, Charlton, who _ . . k -' 1 • men who nnght otherwise have to go to the wee prenons a . t f ti In February, 1566, there took place, it was alleged, w. hat Workhouse, or to remove to distant parts of ance of ed. per hour 00118tituted a valid, though irregular, Scotoh marriage. lived in Dinnington, married aHsisteminlaw, of Mr. tv'a rri 07,117 h :g).° ay. The Major kneeling, placed on the girl's finger a r:ng, Robson, ifarmer. Gardner 8 ousea, Dinnington, the kingdom as much as possible under the conThe Chairman now said he 001114 not state that 1771 ianial.Yn 11'17 jr°.eict te'ttlhei.B iinoeetetill.ig iNolfr.thyeoniagsthear,si 1 1 , , ~
The Tamworth Examiner and Working Men's Journal. — 1875-02-27 (Tamworth, Staffordshire, England)

HORSLEY.  Mr. Leslie Trotter, medical practitioner, o Coleford, stated that on the 9th inst. he made a post modem examination, under the direction of the Coroner, upon the body of the dweased man, Thomas Watson. Began with the brain, which he found healthy. Then examined the chest. The walls of the heart were rather thin, the right side containing blood. Both lungs were congested, especially the left. The stomach contained about six ounces of fluid. It had patches of congestion on it in both orifices, more especially at the lower end. The mucuous membrane was softened. The upper part of the small intestine was congested in patches as well, but no ulceration. The liver was about the average size, and fatty; its actual weight was about 51bs., which is about 11b. over the average. Deceased's body was immensely fat. The gall bladder was about two-thirds full. Left kidney congested. Noticed that all the organs were exceedingly much covered with fat. The appearance was such as he should expect to find from a man of drunken habits; it would not be at all surprising to find in the case of a man of such drunken habits as deceased the condition described, or that he would suddenly collapse altogether. He was of opinion also that deceased at the time of of his death was mitering from diarrhcca, so that he must have been in a very weak state. When at the water-closet he must have been in such a condition, and the probability was that he fainted at that time. He died of fatal syncope. The Coroner: Mr. Horsley says he died from exhaustion—syncope, owing to the absence of sufficient stamina to keep him alive. Mr. Trotter Just so: he died from exhaustion and fatal syncope. This concluded the evidence, when The Coroner proceeded briefly to address the jury, observing that he should not have. to trouble them with many remarks, more particularly with regard to the cause of death, which was very conclusively shown by the evidence of Mr. Trotter. He would here state that he believed it to be a very proper case for investigation. He should always have a very painful recollection of this inquiry—a case in which a man had as nearly as possible committed suicide, but upon grounds in regard to which the jury need not inquire. Both himself and the jury, he
The Tamworth Examiner and Working Men's Journal. — 1875-04-03 (Tamworth, Staffordshire, England)

AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE  IN CARDIFF.  A crime of this nature was discovered to have been perpetrated at 200. Bute street, Cardiff. on Sat..rday. The perpetrator of the deed was a man named Richards, the mate of a vessel, but who had beeri of employment, it is believed, in consequen,e of the lock-out now causing almost univer ea; misery and distress in South Wales. The Ticti., was his wife who, with himself, was in 1-d at +he time of the occurrence. Their ap2.7nts were on the third story of the heuc, ,:hich is occupied by several families, and the first indication of the committal of the frightful deed was in the knocking ag the partition wall of the poor wife, which was -c.,are by the girl who was sleeping in the next root. The girl opened the door whore the decea,, was in come, fuence of the noises she heard, and sic her struggling on the bed with the hue', .nd, who v as on the top of her cutting her wi'h ii clasp knife. This girl, whose name is Mc states that the time of the occurrence wp. • coven o'clock, and that she 'inmediately gave th, Iler parents, who dwell in the house, thc w,ht she was mad or that she had been dr,r.ling, and gave no credence to what she sail with reference to the deplorable affair. An _ ther woman on the premises then gave end the police were sent for. The wen,.n died at about eight o'clock, and the /nal:, who had cut hi 3 own throat, was conveyed in a p,,,trious condition to the Infirmary. There is no on assigned for the acti nof the murd,rer 0..:d that which he gave himself to the doctor, to whom he remarked that he did it for poverty. Tk,. woman was found lying on the b d in her nighdress, eltering in blood. The gash in her neck as a frightful one. The main artery was se,y_ed.  Til Rev. Dr. Monsell, one cf her Majesty's eha: 'ains, last week, fell from a stone on which he was stanaing. and dislocated his shoulder.
The Tamworth Examiner and Working Men's Journal. — 1875-12-25 (Tamworth, Staffordshire, England)

MOTHER MURDERED BY HER SON.  On Friday evening, about five o'clock, a horrible tragedy was enacted in the quiet rural village of Clarkston, about a mile east from Airdie, in Scotland. About that hour a man named John Macklin, a powerful fellow, said to be of a very sulky disposition, had a quarrel with his mother, an old woman about sixty years of age. Macklin is a hammerman, and is said on Friday to have staved away from his work and spent the day with companions in Airdrie, and it is supposed that this was the cause of the altercation between him and his mother. The quarrel took place in the street, and in the course of it Macklin drew a loaded pistol, and deliberately shot his mother. The bullet entered the side of the unfortunate woman, who fell down and expired almost immediately. She breathed after being lifted up. but never spoke. The murderer, after committcng the dreadful act, reloaded the pistol, and ran off in the direction of Monkland Glen, across the fields, threatening to shoot anyone who iuterfered with him. The local constables, who were at once apprised of the act, set off in pursuit, but though they caught sight of the fugitive he reached the woods, and the police are forming a cordon round the place where the murderer was last seen, so that he may either commit suicide by shooting himself with the pistol or by drowning himself in the Calder wat,r.  On Saturday forenoon, Macklin was found by the police inc. wild, bleak spot, on the Shott Hills, about five miles from Clarkston, the scene of the tragedy. Macklin was discovered lying in a pool of blood, which had flowed from wounds on the lower past of his body, which the culprit had mutilated in a most .revolting manner. On being removed to Airdrie, his wounds wcre dressed, but since then he has remained in a semi-conscious state, and fears are entertained for his recovery. It is rumoured that Macklin is insane.  The Duhe ( f Edinburgh will take the command of an ircnch d, and serve his time in the Mediterrmean squadrm, early in Spring.
The Tamworth Examiner and Working Men's Journal. — 1875-09-25 (Tamworth, Staffordshire, England)

THE MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE OF A YOUNG WOMAN FROM BRIDGNORTH.  The Body of Charlotte Peters, the young woman whose strange disappearance from her home at Bridgnorth, on Sunday, the 12th just, under circumshnces detailed in our last issue, was found on Friday evening, by Rickard Roberts, master of a barge, in shallow water, at Danesford Creek, in the rivcevern. The deceased was last seen alive abo o'clock on the night named, by William Jarm n, of the Eardin,gton and Oldbury turnpike gate. She was then alone. Evidence of this having been given, and the body being identified by the mother of deceased, at the inquest on Saturday, Reginald Pilkington was sworn and said: I am clerk at Messrs. Cooper and Purton's Bank. About ten minutes past eight on Sunday night last deceased and I stood talking together at the bank, and afterwards started for a walk. We went down Listley-street, and over The Yards," by Mrs. Newell's; we turned to the right into the Ludlow-road; we went up the Hundred House Bank, took the first turn to the left, and crossed into the Conduit-lane. We came down the lane, and crossed Paul's Pool Meadow into the main road, and went on down Salop street. At the top of Pound-street I wished her good night, and left her. It was about a quarter past nine. Our converadion was about her brother, and when turning down the lane at the left of the top of the Hundred House Bank, I recollect asking her where she was going to. She said something to the effect, as far as I could understand, "Drown myself." I said, "What makes you talk like that .t" but she made no reply. I did not think it necessary to press her for an answer, nor did I think any further of the remarks she made. I have never taken her for a walk before. I have never heard that deceased had complained to her mother of my being in the sitting-room, although I have been in the habit of going there, where she generally was. Ido not go into the bank through that room. I wish to state that I never had any improper intercourse with the deceased. My object in going into the sitting-room was to mai the Birmingham Daily Post. I observed nothing unusual in the manner of deceased on that evening. It is my duty to go to the bank twice every Saturday.—Dr. William Thursfield said he had examined the body, and found no marks of external violence, beyond what might be accounted from the body striking the rocks or stones in the river. My opinion is that the deceased died from drowning, and from the evidence, had probably committed suicide. When at the infirmary some years ago she was a, girl of strong impulse and determination. She once remarked to me, as to the scar on her face, "I would sooner die than not be like anyone else." From my external examination I have no doubt she was not pregnant —The jury returned a verdict "That the deceased threw herself into the river Severn, and was drowned whilst in a state of temporary insanity."
The Tamworth Examiner and Working Men's Journal. — 1875-10-16 (Tamworth, Staffordshire, England)

SITICIDE OF A PRISONER AT BRIERLEY  HILL.  A painful sensation was created in Brierley Hill Police Court on Monday when it became known that during the proceedings a prisoner had committed suicide in an adjoining cell. At about midday Police-constable Holland left the Court for the purpose of bringing into the dock a pri. I soner named Thomas Pearson (40), carpenter, and a native of North Wales. When he entered the tell he found Pearson lying motionless upon the floor. with his head in one corner and his feet near the door. An alarm was raised, and Mr. J. H. Houghton (Dudley) and Mr. Hodson (Cradley Heath), surgeons, who happened to be in attendance as witnesses, at once left the Court; but upon examinieg the man they pronounced life extinct. Around the neck of the deceased was a narrow piece of seeking tarn from that which is used in the cell as a pillow. Another piece was hanging from the grating of the ventilator, near the ceiling of the cell. Deceitsed had evidently jumped from the cell closet, and it is surmised that the sacking broke after death had ensued. It appears that 931210 time ago Pearson obtained a situation under Mr. Edward Lucas, landlord of the Whittington Inn, Rinver. He worked for a month, and on the 20th September was seen upstairs under suspicious circumstances. He left the premises, and Mrs. Lucas afterwards missed a cashbox, containing £2.. On the 4th October he returned to the inn, and information was given to Sergeant Stevenson, who arrested him. On Monday we he was brought before the magistrates and remanded. Inquiries were subsequently made respecting him at Longton„ where his wife and family resided, and it was ascertained there was another warrant against him for stealing a quantity of brasses on the Ist October from the Lane End Ironworks, belonging to Messrs. Thomas Goddard and Sons. He was dso "wanted" for other citaiees. Police-constable Lowe and John Bland, foreman at Messrs. Goddard's works, came to Biierley Hill on Monday morning as witnesses in the charge of stalling brasses. They asked to go into the coil for the purpose of identifying the prisoner. When they inquired if he knew them he became pale, dropped his head, and turned away. The cell was visited afterwards by Police-constable Richards, who saw nothing about Pearson to create suspicion; but in twenty minutes, however, the other office= hand him dead.'
The Tamworth Examiner and Working Men's Journal. — 1875-12-11 (Tamworth, Staffordshire, England)

CANNOCK,  SCHOOL BOARD.—On Thursday an ordinary monthly meeting of the members of the Cannock School Board was held at the Clerk's office. Mr. F. H. Gilpin presided. and the other members present were the Rev. T. W. Poile, and Messrs. Hall, Jones, Sharpe, and Gwynne.—A claim which had been received from Mr. Fellows for .210 for nnexhansted interest in a piece of land on the Walsall-road, Cannock, on which it is proposed to build a Board School, was again brought forward. and the Clerk was instructed to expend a sum not exceeding £lO, the Chairman remarking that it was optional whether Mr. Fellows gave up the land until Lady-day. 1.877.—The seal of the Board was ordered to be affixe4 to a mortgage for the repayment of a loan of .C8.3:33 13s. 9J., to be advanced to the Board by the Public Works Loan Commissioners for the ereetion of the Wimblebury and Hedneaford Schools ; also to a lease from Lord Anglesey for the site of the Rawnsley School.—A discussion was evoked by the reading of some correspondence which had passed between Mr. Gilpin the Clerk, and Mr. Foden, the agent to Lord Hatherton, as to the terms of sale. by his Lordship to the Board, of the Walsall-road site at Cannock. At the meeting of the Board in October it was understood that his Lordship would pay his own costs, and a minute to that effect was made.— The Clerk was now instructed to write to Mr. Foden, explaining that the Board so understood the matter, and stating that a letter which Mr. Foden had referred to had been laid before the Board.—Some routine business was transacted. and the Board separated.  The two servantgirls who were eceatly found lying in bed near Portsmouth, with their throats cut, and sufferering from the effects of poison, have recovered enough to be taken into custody charged with attempting to commit suicide. They pleaded guilty, and said it was the result of disappointed love.  ANOTHER EXPLOSION IN SOUTH WALRg
The Tamworth Examiner and Working Men's Journal. — 1875-10-02 (Tamworth, Staffordshire, England)

SUICIDE OF A WELL-KNOWN  COKE MERCHANT.  The village of Gospel End, near Sedgley, was, on Saturday morning, thrown into a state of great alarm, by the sad intelligence that Mr. David Hill, a gentleman extensively known in commercial circles throughout the Midland Counties, had committed self-destruction. On inquiry the shocking news was found to be too tree. It. appears that Mr. Hill, who resided at Gospel End, gut up about eight o'clock, on Saturday morning, and having washed and dressed himself, came downstairs. When his groom, George Shaw, saw him he wished him good morning, and inquired after his health—Mr. Hill having been poorly several days—to which Mr. Hill replied that he felt "middling." When breakfast was ready, Mr. Hill could not be found anywhere, although looked after and called in every direction. The groom was sent in search of him, and as he did not readily find him he went up into the maltroom, which is a little way detached from the residence of the deceased, and there, in the corner of a disused kiln he was horrified at finding the body of his master lying in some straw, and bleeding from a cut in his throat. Near to the body was a dagger. Mr. Walker, surgeon, of Upper Gornall, was fetched immediately on the discovery, but on his arrival life was extinct. ' Dr. Best, of Bilston, the family medical attendant, was also there directly after the occurrence. The wound in the throat was a clean cut of about four inches straight across, and deep under the chin, the windpipe being completely severed. Before committing the rash act, deceased had taken of his hat, collor, and necktie, and laid them down on the floor of the kiln. The deceased has been more or less unwell for some time, and was in a melancholy and desponding mood at the time. No reason can be , assigned for the act, as he was in affluent circumstances, and surrounded with everything to render life enjoyable. It is stated that he passed a restless night, and it is generally said that the death of his wife a few months ago has much depressed his spirits, and that he has frequently been found to mourn her loss. Mr. Hill was for many years an attentive and useful guardian of the poor of Sedgley, and he also creditably filled other offices.