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Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1873-01-25 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

SUICIDE AT SOUTH STOCKTON. -- On Friday, au inquest was held before Mr S. Spry, deputy coroner, on the body of Willia•n Tomlinson, saddler and harness maker, of South Stockton, who had been found hanging by the neck in his own house. Deceased was engaged in a profitable business on his own account, and leaves a widow and four children. Evidence was adduced as follows :—Ann Tomlimon said,—The deceased was my husband, and 37 or 38 years old. lie has been low in spirits, but not so as to attract my atteution. I found him yesterday at seven o'clock in the morning.—John Fisher Holmes, residing in Stevenson-street, South Stockton, carter, said . I knew the deceased William Tomlinson. He was a saddler. I have known him for six or eight months, having gone into his house twice or thrice a week. I never noticed any change in his demeanour until Monday mornini, last, when he seemed to be very dull, as though having something on his mind. I next saw him yesterday morning, about seven o'clock, suspended in the kitchen of his own house. I as knocking at the door, and Mrs Tomlinson came down I stairs to open the door. Then it was that she found him. I saw deceased hanging by a halter, ike that producerl. I know that deceased bad been drinking a little beer lately, butt never saw him drunk. He was quite dead. The rope was fastened on a crook. There was a stool close to him on the left side. His feet were clear of the ground. I had on Monday asked deceased what was on his min I, and he said that he hoped to be all right again in a few days, if he had peace. Dr. Laidler deposed: I was called to deceased's house immediately after the rope was ,ut. I made an external examination of the body. It had the appearance of having died suddenly. ,There was no swollen face, nor congested eyes, which attend ordinary hangings. The neck was very loose, and evidently the spine was ruptured, which would be the immediate cause of death. The rupture would be caused by hanging. The neck is very considei ably indented by the rope, and the knot was cn the left side, immeiliately under his ear. 1 I,now nothing of the previous history of deceased. I always considered him a , Woody, quiet man. The body was warm, evidently not having been dead long. The stool which stood beside deceased was two feet high, and it was evident that he had adjusted the rope deliberately, and then sprang off:it.—The Coroner said, from the fact of Holmes having found deceased in a depressed state on Monday, the jury would not have much difficulty in arriving at a verdict of temporary Insanity. The jury concurred in this opinion, and a verdict that deceased committed suicide whilst in a stale of temporary insanity was returned. The jury unanimously resolved that the fees allowed to them should be presented to deceased's widow. Dr. Laidler handed his fee of 21s to the superintendentuf police, and requested him to apply it to the same charitable object.  Age.
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1883-01-06 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

DISAPPEARANCE OF A BLUE RIBBON ARMY LEADER.  EXTRAORDINARY STORY.  A sensation has been caused in Leicester by the inidd en d isappeanince, and subsequent rAtempted suicide, of a "converted clown" named Fred Eugenie, who has taken a most prominent part in the Blue Ribbon Army movement all over the country,but especially in the Midland and Northern counties. The person in question had announced a free Christmas breakfast for 1,000 tramps and destitute persons at the Temperance Hall, Leicester, at his own expense. By some means, however, considerable subscriptions , were raised, but when the morning announced earrived the " converted clown" could not be found, neither mild 1 he be traced, and the local Blue Ribbon Army ' has been burdened with all the cost. Some time ago it was announced that a large fortune had been left by a Newcastle gentleman to 'Eugenie to carry on temperance work, and large sums of money wore also paid to him to conduct missions in all the large towns of England. Ho was also announced to conduct a mission in Nottingham in a few days. Eugenie set up a very considerable establishment at Castle Donington, and he seemed on the highway, if not to fame, at least to fortune. There are many rumours afloat, but it is now believed that the story of a fortune being left him is unfounded. It is stated that an arrangement had been entered into for a marriage, in connection with which there are some extraordinary disclosures. A baronet is reported to be among those who espoused the cause of the clown and who have bacon duped. Every effort was made to trace Eugenie, Ina nothing transpired until Saturday, when information was received that he had been spending the week at the Half Moon Inn, Yeovil, spending money freely, and that he had been discovered in the yard of the public-house with his throat cut, having attempted to commit suicide.
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1883-05-19 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

THE SONS OP TEMPERANCE ANNUAL CONGRESS. The twenty-eighth annual movable Congress of this widespread and important national association was inaugurated in Barrow on Saturday evening. Although the Order is comparatively of recent origin, its membership has grown to the number of 17,308. The delegates numbered 140, and included representatives from all parts of England and Wales. As this great Order includes amongst its members some very able and popular Temperance speakers, it is its practice at every annual Congress, wherever held, to make its meeting the occasion of one or more popular public meetings for the propagation of temperance views generally, and also for the diffusion of information upon the objects and constitution of the Order, so as to increase the number of its adherents by showing the immensely superior advantages it offers over every other society of similar purposes. Its first great principle as a friendly society is that its members must be total abstainers from intoxicants. This ensures that its funds shall not be touched for cases of sickness or death brought on by drunkenness. This, of course, materially lessens the number of cases for sick allowance, and also, as their authenticated statistics clearly show, makes their average yearly death rate only sin every 1,000, as compared with 8 per LOW of non-temperance societies. Having thus aloes average expenditure upon sick and deceased members, the Society can afford to give a higher allowance to all such cases than all other friendly societies can; and are also enabled to be less stringent in the application of the rules when a member fells sick or becomes defunct whilst in arrears of his subscription. This Society therefore, as will be seen, not only encourages thrift and provision for times of sickness and death, but also directly stimulates its members to continue as abstainers lest they should forfeit their membership. So greatly have the principles of this Order corn. mended themselves to the judgment and appreciation of the people of England since its first establishment, that in the comparatively short space of 28 years it has grown to its present vast proportions, and every annual assembly shows a constantly increasing clientele. At its conference meetings it took into consideration the action and position of every society in its Union, and also decided upon the admission of new societies desirous of being received into the body. In honour of the holding of this year's Congress in Barrow the various temperance societies of the town, including the Blue Ribbon Army, Band of Hope Union, Rechabites, Good Templets, Parent Temperance Society, St. Mark's Church of England Temperance Society, &c., organized a grand demonstration of the united societies.  ----- -Mr James Stillman, collector for the Liverpool Protective Assurance Socieliy, comriitted suicide in Dublin on Thursday night.  '
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1883-10-27 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

THE SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST  A BURGEON. SUICIDE OF THE ACCUSED.  At the Hammersmith Police Court on Tuesday, Mr Shiel proceeded with the charge against Mr Dalton Adolphus Haffenclen, surgeon, of Bath-place, Kensington, and Mrs Julia earn Hardie, of 128, Goldhawk-road, Shepherd's-bush, for being concerned in procuring abortion. Mr Poland conducted the prosecution on behalf of the Public Prosecutor. Upon the case being called on, the female prisoner entered the dock alone, and Mr E. Clarke, Q.C., who had been retained to defend the male prisoner, said he appeared under very painful circumstances. He came with the confident conviction that he should be able fully to vindicate Dr. Haffenden, but he regretted to state that the defendant had removed himself from that tribunal, having that morning committed suicide. For the consolation of Dr. Haffenden's numerous friends, he had left behind him in writing statements to the effect that he was innocent of the charge. The female prisoner here remarked, " He was innocent."—Mr Stephen Noekolds, medical practitioner, residing in Goldhawk-road, deposed that Mrs Hardie told him that her husband did not like children, and that she asked Dr. Haffenden to mske the operation.—The case was again adjourned.— Much commiseration is felt for the family of Dr. Haffenden. The following is a copy of the writing left by deceased, and referred to by Mr E. Clarke, Q.C., who represented him at the Hammersmith Police Court :—" My own Darling Wife,—The fearful disgrace that has come upon us is more than I can endure; it drives me mad. I must be utterly ruined, and can be of no help to you in any way. You will be far better without me, my own darling, whom I have loved so fondly. Oh, this suspense is most awful. How can I ever live under the suspicion of this foul charge of which I am perfectly innocent r
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1883-11-03 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE OF A LITTLE BOY. At the Thames Police Court on Tuesday a little boy named Horace Brown, whose head scarcely reached the top of the dock, was eh arged with attempting suicide by strangulation. It appeared the child was found by his mother lying on the bed with a rope tightly twisted bd round his neck, being black in the face. He said he did it because of his mother's cruelty. The ayistrates censured the mother, whe admitted bating the child severely, and discharged the boy witt F. kindly remonstrance. Tun flaw FAMILY MATCH( Bern io7. !Iry-ant Slid May's Patent Safety Matches supplies a Want that has long been felt, and will be adopted at oneet4 all careful housekeepers. It is very ornamen and contains three dozen boxes of Bryant and May Patent Safety Matches and three of the metal match cases, and can be obtained front any grocer or oilman, filled and fitted complete for 2s 6d. It is strong and damp proof, and should be found in every store room. PAGE WOODCOCK'S WIND PILLS have for thirty years held the first place in the world as an effectual antidote to Indigestion. Wind on the Stomach, Biliousness, and all complaints arising from a disordered state of the stomach, bowels, or --- Tonic, Invigorating • '• •  ....-- , with the object of 'getting clear of ii-V-er. ~-in i ______ ,and purifying ,they form the unction .of the sinking vessel, we the-bea-remedy eitant.—le lid and 2s 9d per box, dived off the steamer's railing into the water, of all chemists, or of Page Woodcock, High-street, as also did the mate, and on rising sank again, Lincoln, for stamps. and it was not until the third time that I If you are troubled with a cough or cold, difffcaught a plank, to which I clung fast, and culty of breathing, hoarseness, tightness of the ?3hestEoNr,gazlfy asffectoiornn of the chest or o . other planks aided me in this. It seemed to me to be nine minutes before I saw one of the One dose relieves, one bottle cures, Don't be per. steamer's boats, and as they passed me they suaded to take anything else. Ask for "BtrDruni's told me to bold on, as they were about rescuing BALSAM," and see that you get it. Prepared only one of our crew, who happened to be the by BUDDEN et Co., Chemists, Liverpool. Bottles, Lii liclos,:ind Is Oil. f Sold bykfucoost=eet bl ehr mists. apprentice, and he was then swimming for his life. The boat after picking up two o 11Paerdcasire agents for gn, High-street :West Hartlepool, 1 the men, came back to me and hauled me in. Clarkson, Brunswick-street ,• Middlesbrough, RobThey then hauled in another of the crew, and son, Linthorpe-road Btokesley, Pierson.
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1883-02-03 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

HIINT. Stop thief I—there he goes— Ile runs like a deer ; t On' his heels the crowd close In permit with a cheer.° Hp'alley, down street, Bound the corners like mad; He staggers—he's beat— .16 Knock hint down. Bravo, lad. He's down in the mud— Hew they clutch at his rags I They've hurt him; the bloody Trickles down on the flags. Poor devil I How white • Is hie face—and his eyes Axe starting outright, And he gasps and he cries— " Let me go, in God's name Let mc go, if you're men.' I know I'm to blame, thief—well,but then It's the first time, I swear, And the loaf lay inside Of the shop over there With the door open wide. "I've a wife at death's door, 'Lying hungry and cold On a bare garret floor, With a babe a week old. And she raved for a crust; We were starving. I say. Let me go, men, you roust—. 0, don't take me away I 0 Don't hurt me, I'm ill I Ali, sir, 'twee your bread. Yea; forgive me—you will, 'Taint the prison I dread I But, 0 God, she—my wife, tin that garret alone With the babe—it'a her life o/hat-I ask—not my own. o,lf•you'd heard her moanj iln.the fever, and cry, And' you-hadn't been atone, You'd have done just as I Run out in the street 4Like a madman, and said, 'WI steal she shall eat And I stole—just this bread. " 0, don't hurt my wrists, 'l'll go—yes, I'll go, Since no pity exists 4"' In your hearts for my woe. God have mercy this night-. On a woman who lies Mad with hunger and fright While the law claims its prize I" All this as he goes He stammers and shouts, Half-blind with the blows Of the loaf ere and louts Who have beaten him down With a bloodthirsty gleeFor the scum of the town Call a Man Hunt " a spree." The station at last I He's thrust in with an oath, And the doors are made fast Gainst the crowd, who axe IVA To abandon their game While the scent is so aeons. Such an ending is tame To the man-hunting throng. Shall we pause and take breath And turn back from the crush, Or be In at the death When the law claims its brush This fox Allied himselfHanged himself in his cell; For that pitiful pelf %Wand the suicide's bell   ;y1 I
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1883-11-16 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

SUICIDE OF THREE VENETIAN  SISTERS.  A Venice correspondent writes :—The suicide of three sisters of the name of Angeli, belonging to a very good family, has caused great consternation in this city. The greatest mystery still prevails as to the reasons which induced these three young girls to take so desperate a resolution. They left their house on Monday afternoon and walked as far as the Rive degli S?,biavoni. Here they took the steamboat, which was running the last time that afternoon to the Rive. One of the young ladies, before starting, had expressed a desire to go in a gondola. During the short journey they sat in the cabin with the steward and appeared very melancholy. One of them asked what time the last boat returned to Venice. They then commenced speaking French between themselves until they alighted at the Lido. They walked as far as the beach, and were seen late in the evening walking together. As they did not return home that evening information was given to the police, who at once traced their movements up to a late hour on the day of their disappearance. The news that a fisherman had digcovered one of the bodies on the coast near Malamocco created much sensation. It now appears certain that they committed suicide. One of the sisters was suffering very severely from her eyesight, and the second was subject to epileptic fits. They had on several occasions declared that they found life miserable, and would put an end to it. The youngest of the sisters, a girl of extreme beauty and grace, had been heard to say that she would not live an hour after her sisters' death. They had lost their mother, whom they adored, and it appears that before starting for the Lido they had placed a wreath of flowers on their mother's tomb. In the room of one of the sisters was found a volume of Mazzini's " Promessi Sposi," left open at the chapter describing the sadness of Lucia on leaving her native home.  ADVICE TO MOTHEES!—Are you brogen in your rest by a sick child suffering with the pain of cutting teeth? Go at once to a chemist and get a bottle of MSS WINSLOW'S SOCrTHTNG
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1883-09-29 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

THROWING AWAY HAPPINESS. Although there is a large amount of enjoyment in the world, yet multitudes play havoc with their happiness, never taking even the trouble to enquire as to its conditions. Many lose health by neglecting its simplest rules, to say nothing of those who destroy it by intemperance, like the statesmen of last century mentioned by Mr Trevelyan in his life of Fox, who, through their deep carousings, were old before middle age. Men's callings in life, which ought to give them so much pleasure, become a source of misery through their neglect of their successful conditions; be when they have callings really suitable to them they will grumble continually at them like Charles Lamb, and only find out when they get, as he did, insipid leisure, how much they have been quarrelling with occupation, their best friend. The wrong use of that excellent gift money is a fruitful morror of happiness. Some are not provident, and are tortured by debt. Others, who have made money, are injudicious in their mood of investing I:, and then break their hearts over their loss, like a tradesman in our neignbourhood who, after making £20,000 in his business, committed suicide 'because a portion of his wealth took wings. Others fix their aims amiss, and are chagrined because they are not accomplished. "My hopes, public and private," said tlazlitt, writing in a soured spirit, "have been left in ruins." Marriage, that great fountain of felicity, often becomes, through want of prudence, a Marah of bitterness. Some grieve because they cannot get married, while others, like the poor man in toe story, would go to the clergyman who tied the nuptial knot to get it untied, did they not know that, like him, they would he referred to the sexton in the churchyard as the one who I unmarried people.—,Suctiey at Home.
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1883-07-21 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

SHOCKING TRAGEDY AT BED FORD.  An inquest was held at Bedford on Wednesday afternoon with reference to the death of Miss Evelint. McKay, who was shot on Tuesday ! evening by an officer named Vere.—Mr John! son, sur„aeon, identified the body as that of the daughter of Mr McKay, deceased, her age being twenty years.—Mr Charles Stimson, solicitor, in describing the sad affair, said four friends were playing tennis on a private lawn, near the Ship Inn, Miss McKay being one of the players. During the game Vero arrived, ! and became aware of the deceased lady's pre- ! sence. Witness signalled to Vere to go back, as Vere and the lady were not on speaking terms. Vere left, but shortly afterwards returned, and walked up to Miss McKay, fired a revolver at her, one bullet penetrating the left side. She fell back, dying, and Vere then shot himself through the head. Witness had no reason to think Vero was not sober.—Edgar Kempson corroborated the previous witness, and said there had been no quarrel between Miss McKay and Vere. There were not two seconds between the shots.—A little boy who saw the lawn tennis game from the wall deposed to seeing Vere draw a revolver from his pocket and fire at Miss McKay. The weapon was a new six-chambered revolver.— Roselle Darlow, servant at the inn, deposed to Vere coming in excitedly for eight pennyworth of brandy, tendering a florM for it, and not taking the change. When she took the change ,to the tennis court Vera was dead, and the  lady was dying. —Mr Howland Coombs, surgeon, proved finding Vere dead and Miss McKay unconscious and dying, death ensuing in a few minutes.—The jury returned a verdict " That Eleanor Evelyn McKay was wilfully murdered by Hubert Wigram Vesey Vere."—An inquest was then held on the body of Vera. The evidence given above was supplemented by several witnesses, who spoke of a certain reaerve and strangeness on Vere's part since his return from Tel-el-Kehir and Kassiuisin. On the body was found a letter addressed to his mother.— Mr Mitchell, solicitor, addressed the jury against returning a verdict of felo de se. The letter was kept secret, and a verdict of" Suicide during temporary insanity" was returned.  A
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1883-08-11 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

SUICIDE AT STOCKTON.  Mr Coroner Settle opened an enquiry at noon on Tuesday, at the Stockton Police Court, with reference to the death of Mr John Richardson, manager at Messrs Lightfoot's Agricultural Implement Works, Bishopton-ls.ne, Stockton. After the jury were sworn they accompanied the Coroner to the works for the purpose of inspecting the loft where the deceased was found hanging from a beam on Saturday evening. They also went to the residence of the deceased, 31, Cobden-street, to view the body. On returning to the Court Mrs Richardson, the widow, was called to give the usual evidence of identification. She also said that the deceased (who was generally a healthy man) had been somewhat dull and depressed since Thursday last, but he continued at work throughout the week. On Saturday he came home as usual about one o'clock, when he complained of feeling too unwellto take any dinner. He remained at home till about three o'clock, st which time he left -to return to the works. He generally returned home again on Saturdays about six o'clock; but, as he did not do so on this occasion, Mrs Richardson went to the house of Mrs Oliver (wife of one of the workmen at the factory) to ascertain, if possible, whether anything had occurred at the works to detain him. When Mr Oliver came home he said that he hadn't seen Mr Richardson since dinner time. Ile, however, went in search of him at Mrs Richardson's request. Between nine and ten o'clock at night, 'Mr Oliver and another man named Carr discovered Mr Richardson hanging, quite dead, in a loft at the works. William Oliver, who reaides in Milbank-street, was next called as a witness. He said that on going to the works, about half-past nine on Saturday night, he found the main door fastened on the inside, instead of by a padlock on the outside. Witness and another man named William John Carr got into the premises by a window, and on searching discovered the deceased hanging by a piece of rope from a beam in the loft, which is used as a store-room. They cut down the body at once, and sent for the police. Inspectors Parkinson and Welch came to the works, and in accordance with their instructions the body was taken home. Life seemed to have been extinct for several hours.—Mr Carr said be was at the works on Saturday afternoon, and left about half-past six. Deceased appeared to be in his usual state of mind, and talked to witness in a very rational manner—The jury returned a verdict that the deceased committed suicide whilst in an unsound state of mind.