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The Warwickshire Herald. — 1899-02-02 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

DOUBLE SUICIDE AT BURY.  A sensational tragedy has occurred at Bury. About half-past eight on Saturday night a lady and gentleman arrived at the Derby Hotel and engaged • room. The gentleman spoke in broken English, and entered their names as "Muller and Co." in the visitors' book. They were shown to their room by the chambermaid. Whilst their travelling bags were being brought in the gentleman requested the barmaid to direct him to a chemist's shop. She did so, and he went out, together with the lady. On returning a few momenta later the gentleman ordered • decanter of brandy and several bottles of mineral waters. Ue also gave instructions that they were not to be disturbed very early, as they were fatigued with much travelling. Up till two on Sunday afternoon nothing was heard of the couple, and their room was entered by • page boy. He found the pair in bed clasped in each other's arms, and quite dead. They are • distinguished-looking couple. The lady Is about thirty years old, and appears to be of German origin. The gentleman is slightly older, and of French extraction. Both have dark brown hair. They had two ES bank-notes and over E,3 in cash in their possession. In a letter to the coroner the deceased directed that the money should be employed for burial expenses, and any surplus given to the poor. The letter also stated that it was no use reeling to discover their identity. They had to die together. A bottle containing poison and some headache powders were in the room, as well as the programme of • London music-hall.  An important clue to the identity of the gentleman was discovered on Monday. It was brought to the notice of the police that Messg,s. Kerslake and Dixon, tailors, of Hanover-square, London, makers of one pair of the deceased gentleman's trousers, are In the habit of putting the customer's name on the Inside lining of each garment. On receipt of this Information, the police at once subjected the trousers to further examination, the result being the discovery of the name "John Knight," with the date, "April 12th, 1898." It is stated that this name and date completely established the identity of the deceased, who was one of two brothers, Messrs. John and Edward Knight, residing at Rotterdam, who dealt with the Arm. Mr. John Knight's permanent residence was in the Dutch town, but he visited London three or four times a year.
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1899-08-17 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

THE CHAIN OF OUR SINS.  BT MISS M. E. BRADDON, Author of "Lady Audley's Secret,' "The Fatal Three," "The Day Will Come," "Lost for Love," "The Doctor's Wife," "Whose 'Wu She Hand ? " "One Life, One Love," "Thou ILA the Mao," "Sous of Fire," &a  SYNOPSIS OF OPENING CHAPTERS: Arnold Wentworth, who has taken the assumed name of Alfred Wildover, a man thirty years of age, is returning to England from South Africa. Aboard the steamship he meets Mary Freeland, whom he bad known as a child in the days before he ran away than his home in England. He has made money at the diamond fields, and is returning to England on a visit. She, too, has left home against the wish of her aunt, with whom she had lived, and gone upon the stage. Her aunt has since died, and bequeathed to Mary Freeland her fortune. Wildover las received a letter in South Africa from a woman for whom, before leaving England, he had formed a sincere attachment. She has heard of his good fortune in the new country, and beseeches him to return to her. The story of their relationship is a sad one. When quite a girl Lisa Rayner had been led astray and deserted by a man many years her senior. She had, however, lived through the period which followed without falling into a life of vice, and had managed to support herself in a poor quarter of London. Whilst living thus she had made the acquaintance of Arnold Wentworth. He himself, having run away from home, had been reduced to great poverty, and it was only the intervention of Lisa Rayner which had saved him from a suicide's grave. From this there had sprung up a sincere affection between them, and they had lived together as man and wife.
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1899-06-29 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

RUFFIAN GETS FIVE YEARS.  - . At the Central Criminal Court, London, on Tuesday, before the Common Serjeant, Thomas Bartley, twenty-three, labourer, was convicted of a robbery with violence on William George Dennis, and stealing from him a watch and chain and two cent pieces. The prosecutor was returning to his home in Canning Town at night,when„he was accosted by the prisoner and another man. The prisoner was seen to strike the prosecutor a violent blow, causing him to fall and dislocate his shoulder. His eye was cut open, and his injuries were of such a character that be had since been incapacitated from doing his work as a decorator. It was stated that he would still be under medical care for some time .to come.—ln defence the prisoner represented that he was acting merely the part of a Hood Samaritan in endeavouring to assist the prosecutor after the assault and robbery by other men.—The police stated that the prisoner was a member of a gang of thieves in the neighbourhood of Canning Town, where no less than fifteen cases of this kind had occurred within a very short period.—Prisoner (whining): I've been in and out of hospital, my lord, for some time past.—The Common Serjeant: You seem to have been very muscular on this occasion, to knock a man down, dislocate his shoulder, and incapacitate him from his work.—The sergeant in charge of the case said the prisoner, who had liven previous)' convicted, was an associate of a very dangerous gang of thieves.— The Common Serjeant 'Lien w must get rid of him. (To the prisoner): The sentence of the court is that you be kept in penal servitude for five years.  isomer  A married woman named Moon. residing a Sheldon (Devon),has attempted suicide in a remarkable manner. She smashed her skull in with a mason's hammer, inflicting such injuries that littlo hope of recovery is entertained. A lid named Charles Cooper, a hosiery hand, dia. appe.ared from his home on Monday at Market Harborough, and next day his body was found in cm> canal. He had been discharged from his employ, and is believed to have committed suicide. Sir T. Lipton's yacht, the Shamrock, which is to compete for the America Cup, was launched on Monday at Millwall. Lady Russell of Killowen performed the christening ceremony, using the words: "I christen you Shamrock. Crod bless you. Good luck to you. May you bring back the Cup."
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1899-02-23 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

EDINBURGH HOTEL TRAGEDY.  MURDER AND SUICIDE.  The latest news of the terrible tragedy in an gdinburgh hotel gives it the appearance of a de. liberate murder, followed by suicide. When the bedroom was entered both its occupants were lying on the top of the bed, the body of the man lying across that of the ROMail. A pool of blood was on the bed. The man's head was nearly severed from the body, and a razor was lying on the bed close to his hand. Both were fully dressed excepting their hats, and the lady even wore her gloves. The eyes of the girl were wide open, and her arm, perfectly rigid, was uplifted, as if her last act had been to shield herself from the fatal blow. The hate and umbrella of the couple lay on the table, and this fact, in conjunction with the circumstance that the lady was gloved, would seem to indicate that she was unaware of the untimely end that awaited her. Further evidence pointing to the fact that the woman was not a willing factor in her own destruction is found in the fact that her tongue was almost bitten through. The names of the deceased were Charles Stevenson and Annie Florence. Both hailed from Peterhead. They were not married, hut they had be. engaged nearly two years, and were to have been married in the summer. Mr. Stevenson was thirtyone years of age. About five years ago he came to London, and he was for two years in the Olen Service Stores. Latterly he held a good position as City frivoller to Messrs. Bsume and Co., jewellers and .silversmiths, in. London. . . . . .  Miss Annie Mary Florence, the other victim of the tragedy, was a prerusessing woman of twenty-seven years of age. She was a tall,handsome woman, with regular, well-cut features, and somewhat delicate complexion. She lived with her widowed mother, who has recently been in very delicate health. Stevenson left behind Film • latter which was to be opened "only by one in authority." It was in pencil, and was dated Wednesday evening. It concluded as follows: "The end is near. Keep everything as quiet as possible. Make no fuss. Spare us newspaper publications.—Trusting to receive the free pardon of all ent.iled in our troubles, CRABLIM BrsveNson."  Inquiries made in London shew that Stevenson bore an excellent reputation, and was much liked by his employers. His books were all correct, and Messrs. Baume and Co. know of no reason to account for his sad end.
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1899-01-26 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

DEVINE. His letter this morning Is in safe keeping, and he seems perfectly resigned that I must die." Dr. Craig, L.R.C.P.. gave evidence. He said he was in his studio when his maid informed him that someone had been shot in the dispensary yard. Witness at owe proceeded to the passage way, and found deceased shot in the temple. He removed a loosely clasped revolver from her hand. She expired at ten o'clock. Dr. Craig said he first met the lady twenty-five years ago, when her sister painted a miniature of his wife in Edinburgh. She had desired him to marry her, but he resolutely declined, and in consequence bad been continuously persecuted by the lady. Witness would have been agreeable to marriage about twenty years ago, before deceased went to New Zealand, but he had told her that twenty years altered circumstances, and that he now had no vies of marrying anybody. They had corresponded, and deceased visited him and his daughter, when she further urged him to marry. He declined, and she left the house, and wrote that she would not visit the house again. She never did, but wrote again urging an interview, and after. wards he received violent vituperative letters from her. She telegraphed for replies, and expressed sorrow for offending him. She had told him if he did not marry her he should marry nobody else. Tnat was a promise witness said he could easily give her, for he had no intention of marrying her or anybody else. After a scene deceased would threaten to destroy herself. She recently asked permission to visit his house, but he had to decline. Witness, In the most emphatic manner, said: "I stand before you all and declare most solemnly I did not know that the woman was in the neighbourhood until I was fetched to her. You have known me for thirty years; do you think I should have stood by and seen a woman destroy herself ? I thought a good deal of the woman. Do you think I sould have stood by and let her do it?" He had tried to dissuade her from many threats she made. The coroner accepted Dr. Craig's evidence as quite satisfactory, whereupon Dr. Craig said he was sorry to say so about a dead woman, but she was most vindictive.  rlict of suicide while of unsound mind Will returned.
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1899-09-28 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

ATTEMPTED MURDERS AND SUICIDE.  On Monday evening a young man named William Thake, a cloth-presser. of Haverhill, Suffolk. made an attempt upon the life of his sweetheart, Kate rank, aged about twenty, the daughter of a gardener. The couple had been courting for some time, but had had a quarrel on Saturday, when the girl diEmissed him. On Monday night the girl and her sister were walking homewards when, at a lonely part of the road, they were met by Thake, who requested Kate to stop and speak with him. She declined, and Thake thereupon fired two shots at her, neither of which took effect, the girl's only injury being that her eyebrow was grazed. 'Make there• upon made off. Ile was afterwards found lying on the roadside several wiles away, having shot himself thrpugh the temple. Ile was taken to a neighbouring farmhouse, where he expired.  At Warwick, on Monday morning. William Taylor, a pensioner of the Royal Marines, made a murderous attack upon Thomas Rose, a gardener, and afterwards committed suicide. Taylor bad been very strange in his manner for some time, and had been diguing up plants in his neighbours' allotment gardens, including that of Rose. Rose, who is eigity-three years of age, was working in his garden, adjoining Taylor's, when the latter attacked him savogely with a five•pronged garden. fork, piercing his ear and skull and fracturing an sm. On Charles Middleton, an enginmdriver. and Police-constable Mason going to Rose's assistance, Taylnr escaped to his home and cut his throat from ear to ear. He was discovered dead when a policeman arrived. Rose is in a critical condition and is not expected to recover.  HUGE RUSSIA:. L‘AtL WAY ORDER,. A Pittsburg (U.S.A.) despatch sa3llll that Mr. Evans, one of the threctcrs of the Westinghouse Erake Company, in an interview, stated that the Russian tmvernment has been unable to place orders either in Europe or in the United States for seven hundred locomotives, which are required for the Trans-Siberian Railway. All the great railway engine-builders are so busy that no firm could un..ertake to deliver this huge order within a time wich the Russian Government considered reasonable. Mr. Evans says that the result will be that operations on the Sint:ruin Railway will be seriously lundered.  A NEV Ailk;fto
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1899-09-28 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

DOCTOR'S TRAGIC DEATH.  The death of Dr. John Dick, of Pevensey-road, East. bourne, has been reported to the East Sussex coroner. The facts of his death, an Eastbourne correspondent says, are of a distressing and extraordinary charaler. The dere ased, who qualified ten years ago as a medical man, came to Eastbourne some months since. On September 16th a crowd assembled outside his house, and Dr. Wheeler Taylor, Dr. Mactlueen, Dr. Pollock, Dr. Colgate, and Dr. Sherwood arrived in quick succession. They found Dr. Dick in a serious condition, and evidently suffering from the effects of strychnine. Miss Dick, his sister, emphatically denied that her brother had attempted or had any reason to attempt to commit suicide, and facts which have now come to light bear out that view. It appears that on the night of the 14th inst. .Mrs.Geer, of Harcourt-terrace, Eastbourne, called on the deceased at his surgery. He had made up a bottle of medicine, which Mrs. Geer carried home. Next morning Mrs. (ieer took a dose of the medicine, about a tablespoonful in water, and became so very ill that Dr. Cameron, of Eastbourne, was sent for, and he attended her. Later in the day Dr. Dick called, and Mrs. Geer then informed him that the medicine he gave her had masse her very ill, and that she believed it had poisoned her. Dr. Dick, angered at this statement, exclaimed: "You could under stand a man who drinks poisoning people, but not a man who is always sober. It is only iron and bitters, and to shew you it is not poison I will take some myself." Dr. Dick then put the bottle to his lips and drank some of the contents, and then said: "It is nasty, but you shall not think it is poison; I'll take some more before I go." Afterwards Dr. Dick rode house on his b.cycle. and *hen his sister opened the door she found him foam. ing at the mouth. He ilI against the door, but it appears that he had strentli to ask for the stomach. pump, and medical aid wai quickly summoned. At first he reenied to get bette:, but this was followed by a change for the we, is'. and he died at four o'clock on Sunday mornin The contents of the bottle stated to have been givetv by the deceased to Mrs. Geer have been analysed, and it. is reported that the trio:Heine contains a large quantity of strychnine.  severe storms are reported from Granada, Seville, and Carthagena. and several persons have perished. The clubhouse of the Formby Golf Club was completely destroyed by fire early on Sunday morning. the damage being estimated at between £7,000 and £B,
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1899-09-28 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

MURDER ON THE STAG E.  Frank Leiden, the bsding actor in a comedy company, has been shut on the st.gs at Chattanooga tinder sensational circumstanceg. in the middle of t e second act, while Leiden was saying his lines, Julia Mon ison, the leading lady, stepped I eside bile, and pointing a revolver at his heart, Bred with disastrous effect. As the actor fell Julia fired again into the body -right in front of an almost panic - stricken audience. As Leiden wan lying prostrate upon the stage Julia again placed the muzzle of the weapon against his cheek and Brel a third shot. She then stepped back from the stage and another actor advanced to the footlights and asked if a surgeon was present among the audience. A panic followed, in which Julia Morrison alone remained unmoved. The actress's husband, who is also a member of the company, stood in tt e wings awaiting the outcome of the icrinat Mind deed of his wife. The police arrested Mrs. Morrison, the corn. la v at the Immanent demanding the arrest of the husband, charging Min at the slim time with having instigated his wile to the committal of the deed. The crowd threatened to lynch hot ha parties, and a large force of poles was required to restrain them. A. the coroner's inquest a verdict of . wilful murder was returned against Julia Morrison, who, in defence, declared that Leiden had persecuted and insulted her.  Another fast cruiser, of 3,000 tons displacement, will shortly be laid down in a Danish yard to the Ceder of the Russian Government.  It hi announced that General Zurlinden will probably be appointed to the command of the 18th. French Army Corps, which will shortly become vacant.  An offer of £40,000 has been made to Captain Dreyfus by a publishing firm lor the rights of his story, written bv himself. At Temple Ewell, near Dover, Mr. E. G. Ford, aged thirty-four, one of Messrs. Lipton's travellers, was run over and killed.  "Here goes!" shouted a shabbily-dressed man on Saturday afternoon, shortly before two, to some pedestrians on Westminster Bridge, and leaped over the parapet into the Thames. An alarm was at once raised, and assistance soon at hand, but the suicide was carried away by the tide and drowned.
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1899-11-02 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

YODNG LADY SHOT. SUICIDE OF THE ASSAILANT. • A shocking scene was enacted on Saturday night irs,the fashionable district of Earl's Court,road, Kensington. About Wquarter to twelve people were startled by bearing three revolver shots in rapid succession, followed immediately by the blowing of police whistles. When the police arrived they found S young lady named Carruesi lying in a pool of blood in front of the steps of the house where she and her mother lodged, and her assailant, a Belgian gentleman, named Gee Hosteau, lying dead close by in another pool of blood, shot through the right temple. Two ct:ictors were soon in attendance. An examination of the young lady revealed'tl.e fact that she was shot in the face under the left eye, and her removal was at once ordered to the nest London Hospital. Hammersmith. The police removed the body of Hosteau to the mortuary. Miss Carrozzi is an Italian, highly connected, her father being an officer in the Italian Army, and her brother occupying an important position under the Government. She is a musical enthusiast, and was the solo harpist at the Queen's Hall. She and her mother came to this country about three months ago. Mr. Newman, musical director of Quern's Hall, had a high olinion of her abilities, and predicted for her a brilliant career. Shortly atter the mother and daughter took up their abode at Kensington Hosteau appeared upon the scene, and wished to pay his addresses to the young lady, but her mother objected, on the ground that he had no recognised position. He pressed his attentions, however, and it was found necessary to call In the assistance of the police. Hosteau had not been seen for the past ten weeks. His place of residence was not known. It appears that he waited on Saturday night fur the return of his intended victim Dorn the Queen's Hall, near her residence, and when she arrived he rushed behind her and fired two shots, the second taking effect. Then he shot himself. The police are try ing to trace his antecedents. Miss Carrozzi is only twenty years of age, and the L deceased was about twenty-six.
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1899-04-27 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

CLAIMS THAT FAILED.  • In the Nisi PriuTCourt at the Manchester Assizes two interesting cases have been tried. In one a Liverpool tobacconist sought to recover from the proprietors of a sporting paper a sum of £250 which he claimed to have won in a competition for naming winning horses got up by the defendants. Mr. Justice Bigham held that the defendants' rules excluded the plaintiff's claim, and judgment was given for the defendants. In the second case a young artist's model, formerly living at Swinton and now in Lower Broughton, sued a mechanic for breach of promise of marriage. The parties flatly contradicted each other about the alleged promise, and too jury, after hearing both of them examined and cross-examined, found a verdict for the defendant.  Tie Spanish cruiser Teinerario will shortly make a cruise along the the north coast in order to prevent the Carlists from landing arms and ammunition. If the commission inquiring into the beef supply to the United States forces in Cuba during the late war results unfavourably to General Miles, he will demand a trial by court martial. A disastrous fire has occurred at a tannery and a tallow factory at Madrid. There was no loss of life. The damage is estimated at 850,000 pesetas.  Tht• nnperor William, during his approaching visit to Wartburg Castle, will meet in conference the Puke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha and the Duke of Connai4it. It is surmised that the meeting has relation to tn.) nuccession of Coburg-Gotha.  After a new Buffalo Lodge had been opened at the Beehive, Boole, two officials were found at 11.'0 supping with the landlord, and the Chester magistratea tined them 10s. each for being on licensed premises in prohibited hours. ---- • - •  Mary Hammond Morgan committcti suicide by throwing herself into a pond at Ilussnge, near &mud. It RSA stated that deceased suff 'red from religious n,anl. irliit t,.lnnorary