Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1874-07-18 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

ADMIRAL RANDOLPH. The eettrt-martial on Admiral Randolph erspi,llo on gisimoydsf. After the defence, in which the al indignatrtty denied the ac,cipation, tho court that the chnittge had not been proved. Had Adnil;' Randolph's &tiers been carried out the ships not have groanded. The President returned mire' Randolph his sword wills very much pleame.  Malet, Mr TEM COBDEN OlisirlißL.ewis The annual dinner of the Cobden Club took phi,„ 0131 Tel. Leon x8LSIds1::: , D presided,a tr Juliusthe Ship, ancl Faucher,aGnireo enn 1 r ißgarotehhne . Gl4ll. My° BortnBWotEel '. beck, Mr Malton Sands, New York; Mr Joseph S. 11°Pelleastaear tit c;inkirnatUiYr. 11.1.1ileietlted; was read from m. Chevalier, stating that among other matters which prevented hisbeing present, he was specially enge4 in business relating to the submarine taunfil between Dover and Calais.  MUBDER AND SUICIDE IN CUMBERLAND n."' , The town of Maryport wae on Friday evni thrown into a state of great excitement by the rumour that a woman; named Jane Poutled4e, siding at Collin's-terrace, had murdered her son child about eleven months old, a od afterwards eon. mitted suicide. The rumour unfortonately, on vestigation, proved to be correct, ant the foliowino are the dreadful particular s of the oecarrence. The woman, Jane Routledge, was epelativrof Newmjti. and about twenty-eight years Of age. She waa the wife of a pit sinker named John Rontlestge, who belongs to- Maryport, and has bieenelten.detmAhbepoleousytteedi7i:osfninte. jug a pit near that town for the trustees of the late Mr Harris,- of Greysouthern. Routledgs and his wife resided at Gellin's-terraoe, a row-of netylv. built houses about half a mile from Maryport, the Workington road. Their neighbours speak of them both. as quiet, inoffensive people, and the peoplewoo abl: amongst w appears ade whomvet °r e have oshf tewdgi , a boy and a girl, and ten days after her birth the girl died. The bov was an ailing, sickly child, and the mother apnea, to have been very apprehensive that she would I. him too. About a fortnight ago she returned home from a visit to her parents at Newcastle, and since thett had been very dull and low-spirited. Thechild was in a very delicate state of health after his mother came back with him from Newcastle, and on Thursday sbe said to a neighbour that she had done everything for the boy be eould, but she had (tete lost heart about hied:misery. During the forenoon of Friday the neighbours saw her outside of her own honse, but they observed nothing unusual in her demeanour, and about ten o'clock she told one of them- that her little boy was still asleep. It is now'thought that the child had then been mur• dered. The women WftS Kim to go into her own house about a quarter-past eleven o'clock, and was never seen alive afterwards- Her hndband was at theanarket, and returned home about 12.30 p.m. He found the house door locked, and after waiting outside for a considerable time, borrowed a snap key from x neighbour, opened the door,,and let himself into the house. There was no one to be seen downstaire, but, on ping upstairs. Routledge found his wife and child lying dead upon the floor. The jugular vein of the hot was compietelv severed. The throat of the wonna was cut in the most frightfal manner, and one 'of her hands covered with blood, was resting upon the head of the child. There was a pool of blot on the fiber near to the bed, and'a razar smerei witn blood was found in the room. The horribA husband at once rushed out of the hove and at. quainted the neighbours with what bad &cursed and a communication concerning the affair woe made to the police.