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The North-Eastern Weekly Gazette. — 1888-06-16 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

SUICIDE OF A BLIND MAN.—MT J. S. Sussex-street, Middlesbrough, has at length conWalton on Monday held an inquest at Rep. structed the mahogany model for the dials of the wick on the body of George Watson, limed fifty. new town clock which be has been ceminissioned six, a blind man, who committed suicide in a to make. The wooden model, nine feet in most determined manner by hanging himself on diameter, is composed of no less than 204 Sunday morning. For some years past he had Pieces, and the four dials will be cast for it by been an inmate of Thirslc Workhouse, but on Megan Mainwaring. of Stockton, the centre in Saturday he visited Wm. Dennis, sexton at Over I one piece, and the remainder in six segments. Beton, and told him he was going to hang him- The Boman numerals and the minutes will be self, and asked if he could do so in Dennis's cow. painted black, the remainder of the byre, but was told in a joking manner not to make ironwork being gilded. The framework any bother there, but to go to Kepwiek and hang will be filled in with pure white opal glass, end, himself, as he had been out of his mind for years, with a strong illuminating power, the town clock and always threatened to hang himself. He then of Middlesbrough when placed in the tower of asked Dennis to procure him some poison, but the Municipal Buildings ought to be a con. Dennis refused to buy it for him. He told stemma landmark for miles around. The clock Dennis to ring the bell for him tho next morn- itself is an imitation of the Westminster Palace log, as he would be dead, and pointed out the clock, with its gravity escapement and compenparticular spot where he wished to be buried, sating peat stn, the invention of Mr E. Beckett After leaving Over Silton he went to Kopwick, Dennison, now Lord Grimthorpe. It will also be and paid a visit to a friend natned Jane Iv riot, 1 furnielied with an automatic apparatus for turnand told her that he had come biome to die. He , int; its own gas on and off at night and morning, left a short time after, and nothing more wpn 1 ne,' ' •g the length of the illumination heard of him till Sunday worm"- --' year. It will be fitted with the Wright, on ^el- `e Ames (four bells), and the hour hanging ' elk- wee.: on a bell weighing 40 cwts., the total belt he was wearing. buckle,. ~. routet les neck, I weight of bell metal being over 80 cwts. The and fastened it to the rafter. -Verdict : •• Suicide I bells will be cast by Taylor, of Loughborough, whilst in a state of unsound mine." I The minute hand will be four feet six inches in
The North-Eastern Weekly Gazette. — 1888-08-18 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

AFTER THE SNOW WAS VEEL—OnMonday at the Auckland Police Court Thos. Power was charged with having assaulted P.C. Hodges, and also darnaging the officer's uniform to the extent of 7s 6d. The prisoner was very drunk at Shildon Flower Show, and in a struggle with Police-constables Henderson and Hodges dropped his watch and, t'iinkin,g it belonged to the officer., threw it away as far as he could.—The prisoner pleaded guilty, and said 1 he could not remember anything which had occurred—Sergeant I'arker said that prisoner had been summoned repeatedly in that Court.—The Bench committed him to prison for twenty-one days with hard labour, and if the costs are not paid another nine days will have to be undergone. GRANGEToWN PRIMITIVE METHODIST Cutracu.--Last Saturday afternoon a public tea was held in connection with the above church, when over 250 sat down. After tea an interesting lecture was given by Mr J. Coward, IP., of Durham, entitled "Little Abe; or, the Bishop of Berry Brow." At the conclusion of the lecture the Rev. S. Barker. late superintendent of the Middlesbrough circuit, now removed to Bishop Auckland, was presented with a very neat artistic illni,linated address in a massive gilt frame, which was executed by Mr W. Hind, of South Bank. On Sunday special sermons were pr: ached morning and evening in the school chapel to good congregations by Mr Coward, and in the evening a service of praise ' was given by the choir, Mr T. P. Malcolm pre,l _ .  SUICIDE AT MID DLESDROUG EL - Last Saturday an inquest was held at St. Peter's Mission Room, Lower Fast-street, Middlesbrough, on the body of Christopher Worrell (67), 5, Paradise-place, who was found yesterday afternoon hanging by the neck to a nail in the wall of the house where he lived. The deceased went out of the house in the morning at halfpast nine o'clock, and retarned in about two hours, saying he would go up stairs and lie down. At a quarter to two o'clock his wife Margaret heard a noise, and she and a neighbour ran up stairs and found the deceased suspended as described. Dr. Bateman was called, and found that life was quite extinct—The jury, after hearing the evideuce, returned a verdict of "Suicide during temporary insanity."
The North-Eastern Weekly Gazette. — 1888-08-25 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

IRISH NOTES.  TnE inquest in the case of Dr. Ridley, the Tullamore Gaol doctor who committed suicide while the Mandeville inquest was in progress, has ended with the result that everybody anticipated. No action will follow upon the verdict of the Coroner's jury, but it is impossible to believe that no good will be achieved by the exposures which have been made during the past few weeks in regard to the methods of prison management, particularly in the case of political offenders. The Coroner, in his address to the jury, commented severely on the evidence of Dr. Barr, but the Chief Secretary believes in the criticised doctor who serves his purposes, and he does not wish to believe in the Coroner who criticises the Government servants. Dr. Barr is, therefore, sure of the continuance of Mr Be.lfour's protection and special fa % our.  • • • TRE Irish Loyal and Patriotic Union must spend a large sum upon its pnblications. We scarcely think the effort is worth the money. What good the publications can do we fail utterly to see. The compilers seem to occupy their time chiefly in searching for ancient letters, and old speeches by Irish Nationalists in the days when their backs were to the NA all, and then selecting words and sentences which, given without the context, cannot but misrepresent the authors. The effect of the publications will certainly not be to draw the two rival parties in Ireland nearer; on the contrary, it will embitter feeling and widen the gaping chasm. The men engaged open these so-called loyal and patriotic publications might be better, and they could not well be worse, employed:  • • • MIME was one point in Mr Morley's speech on which it behoves all Liberals to lay the utmost stress. It is that the present Coercion Act is employed not—as was professed at its passing—solely against crime, but against the orderly expression of pubbe opinion hostile to the Government. This charge is constantly made by our speakers, constantly denied by the Tories, and as constantly reaffirmed by the facts.  . Mn MORLEY on Saturday supplied a crucial incident. At Baliinasloe a meeting was called for the perfectly legitimate and constitutional purpose of protesting against the action of the Government in suspending the Board of Guardians. It is impo,sible to imagine a more absolutely harmless object. Yet the meeting was broken up by violence, and the people bludgeoned and battered till they dispersed. The public conscience has no reprobation for coercion directed against murder and arson, but surely it cannot tolerate this.
The North-Eastern Weekly Gazette. — 1888-02-18 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

SUICIDE OF A GIRL AT  WEST HARTLEPOOL.  On Monday evening Mr Coroner Bettie held an inquest at the Crown Inn, West Hartlepool, on the body of Mary Jane Holmes, who committed suicide by hanging herself at Foggy Furze, West Hartlepool, on Saturday night.—George Holmes, platelayer, of Eldonlane, near Bishop Auckland, identified the body of deceased as that of his late daughter, who was aged 17, and fairly strong and healthy. He knew no ree son why she should take her own life. He brought her at the end of November last to West Hartlepool, where she was engaged as a domestic servant by Whitfield P. Barnett, cow-keeper, who eas then residing in Oustometreet, but had since removed to Foggy Furze.—Mrs Burnett deposed that when they removed to Foggy Furze deceased said she preferred living in the country. She appeared quite healthy and sound in. mind. On Saturday night about half-past ten she shouted from the frpnt room to deceased, who was then in the kitchen cleaning boots, telling her to go to bed when she was done. Deceased replied "All right." Witness did not see her alive after that.—By the foreman : Deceased was of cheerful mind. She was not aware that deceased had seen gipeies last week.—Whitfield Thompson Burnett, deceased's late master, proved engaging deceased at Stockton hirings as a general servant. She had no field work to do, and her vutges were £6 for twelve months. She was a very good servant— cheerful, and apparently contented. About halfpast eleven on Saturday night he found her hanging by a short piece of cord from a beam ni the kitchen. She was about a foot above the floor, and quite dead. He cut her down, and at once gave information to the police. Deceased had apparently adjusted the cord from a form, from which she must have jumped after placing the rope round her neck.—Sergt. Dunn, who saw the body immediately after it was cut down, said there was a furrowed mark all round the neck, and she had had a drop of about .14 inches. He searched her clothes and bor, hut found nothing to show why she had taken her life.—After hearing the evidence, the jury found that deceased killed herself by hanging, but there was not sufficient evidence to show the state of her mind at the time she committed the rash act.
The North-Eastern Weekly Gazette. — 1888-02-18 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

SUPPOSED MURDER AND SUICIDE.  On Sunday morning, about half-past seven o'clock, Charles Williams, captain of the tugboat Manchester, belonging to the Ship Canal Company, saw the body of a child floating in the water. It was got out and removed to the Navigatiou Inn, Bradheath, and the matter was reported to the police. About eight o'clock the captain of the boat Annie and Lizzie, whose name is Twigge, observed a dress bodice on the canal bank, and he at once began to use his boathook. Shortly after he drew out of the water the body of a woman partially dressed. This body also was removed to the Navigation Inn, and at first was thought to be that of a tramp. It was afterwards identified as that of Emma Bradshaw, 27, wife of a beerhonse keeper at Broad Heath, and the other body as that of her infant child. She bad been separated from her husband for nearly two years, and has had an allowance from him of 7s weekly for maintenance of herself and three children, and in addition to which he has paid the rent. She was last seen about eleten o'clock on Saturday night, when all the children are supposed, from the quietude which prevailed, to have been in bed. She was heard by a next door neighbour going to bed about midnight, and nothing more was known of her until her body was found as stated. She took the little one in its night dress, and is supposed to have first thrown it into the canal and then to have jumped in herself. No motive can be assigned for the act. The deceased woman was steady and well conducted, and did not mix much with her ueiglabours. No letter or anything was found. Err house was ' poorly furnished, and in the way of provisions only a loaf of bread and a little tea and sugar were to be seen. Neither of the two elder children have any idea when their mother left the house.
The North-Eastern Weekly Gazette. — 1888-07-21 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

ANOTHER ATTEMPTED SUICIDE  IN CLEVELAND.  On Thursday at the Middleebrongh County Police Court a young woman named Rebecca Jane Mann (21), belonging to Guisborough, was charged with attempting to commit suicide at Eaton.—Jane Ann Williams said she had known prisoner intimately for about five years, and had been her companion. Witness was house. keeper to & man named Benjamin Wilds at South Eaton, and prisoner several times stopped at her employer's house. Witness believed she was married. Last Saturday prisoner came to her and in the course of a conversation said she wished she was dead, as she was tired of life. Witness told her not to get such notions into her head, and took no more notice. as prisoner had made the same remark on several occasions during the past twelvemonth. She remained until midday on Monday, taking her child with her. Witness asked her where she was going. and she replied, I know." Witness did not see her again.—Matthew Graham, platelayer to Bolckow, Vaughan. and Co.. said he was in the platelayers' cabin leading from Eston to Eaton Junction about a quarter to one on Monday last. He saw a woman with a child in her arms standing at the side of The waste water reservoir. She sat down and suckled the child, and he afterwards saw her wrap the child in an ulster. She also took her hat and dress off, and covered the child with the dress. As soon as he saw her take her dress off he made towards her, when she jnrnped into the reservoir, which was nine feet deep. On getting up he saw prisoner with part of her body submerged and her head resting on some planks which reached from the side of the reservoir to what is known as the valve box. He got her out, and found her unconscious. A red silk handkerchief was tightly tied round her neck. He had her taken to the Eaton Hospital.—Dr Fullerton said he saw deceased on her being brought to the Hospital, and he successfully brought her round, but had it not been for a member of the St. John Ambulance Association getting the 1 respiratory organs into action he did not believe be would have been able to have done so.—lnSpector Silversides said prisoner's father was be. hewed to be dead, and her mother, who was paralysed, lived at Guishorough. Prisoner's brother said his sister was married, and had been living apart from her husband some nine months. She had had two children.—The Ilench, after con• sidering the cams in private, handed prisoner over to the care of her grandmother and brother, who undertook to take charge of her.
The North-Eastern Weekly Gazette. — 1888-07-21 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

LOVE AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.  A ghastly way of departing this life hits jnst been tried by an Englishman who lately arrived in a small hotel on the Boulevard Magenta, in Paris. The man had been for some time in the house, and it was noticed by everybody with whom he came in contact there that he aas subject to fits of melancholy and depression On Thursday week he told the landlord that he was going away from Paris for some days, and that there was no occasion to clean his room until he came back. After this the man must have gone stealthi'y and unnoticed back to his room, for on the following day one of the servants of the hotel went into the place as usual in order to sweep it, ' and on opening the door the first object that attracted his attention was a long travelling trunk lying in the middle of the floor. As it was unhinged and unlocked the servant raised its cover and started back half-dmed with terror as he saw inside it the apparently , lifeless body of the Englishman, clothed in correct evening dress, white tie, white gloves, and I all. The servant ran down to the landlord in I great terror, and the police and a doctor were sent for. The body was still warm, and near it were a phial which had contained chloroform ; and a letter in English. Thanks to the I skill of the doctor who was called in, the stranger was restored to life, but he only upbraided his " resurrectionists " for bringing him hack to a world from which he had longed to escape. It appears that there was a woman in it. The stranger had been thrown over by some "light o' love" for whom he had pined, as the letter was worded in the following terms: "She has left me. I can no longer live. Let her have my last sigh I" The jilted lover had arrived in Paris from Nice about a month I ago.
The North-Eastern Weekly Gazette. — 1888-07-21 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

THE BANKRUPTCY OF A DARLINGTON SPIRIT MERCHANT.  EXTRAORDINARY ADMISSIONS. On Wednesday at the Stockton Bankruptcy Court William Aietrew Jackson, lately a wine and spirit merchant at Darlington, was further examined in bankruptcy by Mr J. R. Stubbs, J.P., Official ltecet var.—Bankrupt said he had been unable to furnish a supplementary statement of his accounts because the Governor of Durham Gaol, where he was confined, said he had no power to admit the books and papers into prison. He could have made a ' complete statement had he had access to those books and papers. James Bell, formerly of Darlington, and whose weereabouts were unknown, owed him £152 for beer supplied. Tbe Ta,dcaster Brewery Company made him (Jackson) bankrupt for a debt of about £53. A year before he was made bankrupt his assets, according to a statement made by Mr Airey, actountaut, exceeded his liabilities by £1,103 12s 11d. He estimated his profit in the year before he was made bankrupt at .£l.O, and his household expenses at £l3O. In bad debts he estimated that he had lost about £1625, and of this he claimed £1,060 from Messrs Ind, Coops, and Co. brewers, whose agent he had been, and who had not abided by a verbal agreement to pay him certain sa!ary, commission, and warehouse rent. The only tad debt he had made in the year before his bankruptcy was a sum of .ti,4 17s 641.—Mr Crumble, of York, cross-examined the bankrupt with regard to an action entered against him by the Tadcsater Tower Brewery Co., and implied that in the hearing of that action the bankrupt committed deliberate perjury by saying thet he had already made payment, on account of the sum sued for. Bankrupt admitted that during his visit home in December last year, when he was a fugitive from the officers of the law, awarrant having been taken out against him by the Official Receiver, his daughter wrote letters at his dictation. One of thor letters was to the Tadcaster Brewery Company, and in it the writer stated that she believed her father had left England. He now explained this by stating that what was meant was that he was about to leave England. The writer also s%id her father had expectations from an uncle who had immense wealth. (Laughter.) Bankrupt now explained that the uncle he referred to was dead, but had a great estate in Jamaica—(le,ughter)—which was now in Chancery --(laughter).—The examination was further adjourned.  ATTEMPTED SUICIDE OF A GIRL
The North-Eastern Weekly Gazette. — 1888-04-07 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

VIOLENT WOMAN.-Annie Ryan. a Authority considered Mr nut's otter a very rea- nuisances in that district-Mr Ness's work. ace_ , fault with the action of the petition bad character, who is well known to the police, seeable one. the Sewage Farm. - Dr. Eastwood said • wished to poiut out that tic by ul3- was charged on Wednesday before the Middles- SUICIDE OF A MIDDLESBROUGH FIREMAN the feet was that the Somme Farm wag affix the meal ef the Corpor not a success, not having been maned main brough Bench with haying men drunk and riotons AT Sic,-News has just been received at Middles- e except the Board itaelf.-A the at the Dunning-street Police Station, and with brongh of a most determined suicide at sea. `'n r---- • proper principles. A great amount of Ma You just like to throw a Icii money which had been spent upon le by the 'id assaulting P.C. Harper by biting him on the John Reed, a seagoing fireman, belonging to this . ~ people when they have di D. rough of Darlington had been utter] wasted. reele : sine money has tem '• arm. The constable stated that prisoner went port, recently joined the s.s. Nellie, of Grange- —• beewho dud When it was made a number of men i act to the Police Station drank, and was placed in a mouth, and 09 the steamer was proceeding . m will lose six mouths' iiitcrea understand the matter went about seeing Mho ell. Presently he heard a noise, and on going to through the English Channel to St. Mato he ally. on the motion, of Mr Se farms and ad teed a most - found her attempting to strangle herself with leaped overboard. Although every effort was put ineffectivesenviciage'method f disposingexacsdasges Mr W. Gray, it was deceit ndkerchief, and she had been so far success- fortis to save him he made no attempt to take a 0 teed been eitbdrawn it-be sewage. He moved that the question of the interest until it Ives whited. at she was black in the face. She was hold of the lifelmoys, and, of course, soon sank. Black Banks nuisance be deferred for twS i down to a stretcher, and she then bit The master (Captain Burns). who repotted the 5274 12s 8d were ordered to vi the arm-Chief Constable Ashe said occurrence on the return of the vessel to Mid- months to give Mr Ness an opportunity of mane. the Council -adjourned. his new . arraimentents.-Afser some come rse 'might ago prisoner was sent to gaol for dlesbrough, states that there was nothing in the BULLYING AT A ruBL tweet discuasion Dr. Eastwood s motion ma • and violence, and she then expressed demeanour of the deceased to indicate that he me mn • Durham County Petty Sc a the Salvation Army Home. Major was deranged in his mind, though some of the ''''`uPsn" . a charge of assaidt was set , el to take her after her release, crew stated that he had been thinking heavily