npedrazzini/19thc_murder_suicide_news huggingface dataset:
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1888-07-14 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

THE SUICIDE OF A LOCAL MAN AT  YORK.  Last week a person who arrived by train in York at an early hour from the North, on leaving the station proceeded across the road, and within some fencing shot himself dead with a revolver. The body wee removed to Lendal Bridge mortuary to await the coroner's inquest. The deeeased was not known at the time, and when the inquest was opened by Mr J. R. Wood, coroner, the jury were sworn to decide its to the cause of death of is man unknown, and the inquest was adjourned until Tuesday afternoon, at the Lendal Bridge Hotel. Since the opening of the coroner's inquisition the identity of the deceased has been ascertained, his name being Wm. Clark, of Cockerton, near Darlington, and 52 years of age. He was in beeriness up to November last as grocer at Warden, near Hexham, when he retired and went to reside at Cockerton. He was a widower, left with a eon about twelve years of age, and was extremely fond of him. The deceased was in bad . health, and of a very nervous temperament, but in good pecuniary circumstances, having realised a seasonable competency in bnsiness. The revolver with which the deceased shot himself was six-chambered, two of the barrels being discharged, and the other four remained loaded. Papers were found in his posenssion, showing that he had obtained medical prescriptions from Mr Williamson, High-row, Darlington, druggist, and from Mr Marley, chemist, Newcastle, the latter being dated the 28th ult. He had been at Newcastle, and Dr. Murray had prescribed for him, finding him sngering from disturbance of the nervous system. He suffered very much from nervousness and violent pains in the head, and was not able to sleep at nights.—The jury found that the deceased was Wm. Clark. of Cockerton, and that he bad committed suicide whilst in an unsound state of mind..
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1888-02-04 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

TERRIBLE TRAGEDY IN LONDON.  WIFE MURDER AND SUICIDE.  A terrible murder, followed by the suicide of the murderer, was committed on Wedesday afternoon, at 147, Back Church-street, Whitechapel, a poor thoroughfare running out of Commercial road, London, and inhabited mostly by a low type of foreigners and small shopkeepers. The house before mentioned had among its occupants a boot-finisher named Louis Cohen, and living wish him as his wife was a young Russian Jewess, whose name, as far as can be ascertained, was Potstatni. It is stated that the female came to England from Russia about five months ago in company with her husband, who, it is alieged, had married her from a house of ill-fame. Two months since she left her husband and went to live with Cohen, and the husband, though much , distressed, kept himself at a distance, not even ! disclosing his address. Yesterday morning, however, a man calling in at Cohen's for two shillings that were owed him, remarked that he had seen the worean's husband in the street. No particular notice was taken of this, and at one o'clock the woman went out to buy some provisions. Soon afterwards Cohen heard the woman screaming, and on rushing down the stairs was just in time to see her lying in the middle of the road, with her throat cut from ear to ear. She was just able to point in the direction of Commercial-road. and then became unconscious. Meanwhile some neighbours saw the husband running away, and pursued him, but in passing along Greenfield-street, alter crossing Commercial road, he noticed a constable coming towards him, and turning his back upon the policeman, he immediately cut his own throat with a shoemaker's knife. The constable at once procured a cab and took the man to the London Hospital, but he expired on the way. Whilst this was taking place the woman had been removed to the same Hospital in a barrow, but she also died before arrival at the Hospital gates. Although no one actually saw the warder committed, it is evident that the man attacked his wife and cut her throat at the foot of the stairs as she reentered the house, and that she ran out and fell down in the road, as the floor at the foot of the stairs had a quantity of blood upon it, and the provisions which the woman was carrying were strewn in all directions. The murderer was in. the same trade as Cohen, and the knife with which he committed the deed is now in the possession of the police. It is an ordinary bootfinisher's knife, and was secured by the constable at the time the man committed suicide. The affair has naturally created great excitement in the neighbourhood, and Inspector Thrasher, who has the case in hand, is now collecting evidence, and endeavouring to ascertain where the murderer has been living recently.  The roof of the new basic steel works of the Patent Shaft and Axle Company at Wed. nesbury fell on Wednesday, killing one man.
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1888-02-04 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

ANOTHER PLOT AGAINST THE  CZAR.  I CONSPIRATOR COMMITS SUICIDE. The Czar has bad ;nether very nszrow escape from assassination, an escape for which he is nowise indebted to the precautions of his Government. A St. Petersburg correspondent says : An officer Wae on Monday brought into the hospital in a dying state; he had shot himself in the region of the heart, and his attempt was hi so far successful that the doctors uhhesitatingly declared his wounds mortal. On being apprised of this, he signified a wish to make an important statement before the authorities, who were sent for at once. Before they arrived, however, and before superfluous listeners could be sent out of the room, he confessed that he had shot himself in order to avoid shooting the Emperor, which he, as a member of a revolutionary society, had been deputed by lot to do. This much, and only this much, was heard by persons for whose ears, in the opinion of the authorities, it VMS not intended. They were at once arrested ; but as two of them were members of a liberal profession, present in the hospital in fulfilment of their duty, they were released after many warnings. My information comes directly , from one of those who himself heerd the first part of the dying man's confession, and was then reprimanded and sent out of the room. It is, therefore, absolutely trustworthy. When the authorities arrived at the bedside of the dying man they listened to his statement, which they took down in writing, and then they submitted him to a cross-fire of questions enough to have exhausted a young man in the enjoyment of perfect health— with what result lam unable to say. Whether he has named his fellow-conspirators or given any clue to their discovery is known to none but those who took his depositions. Sonic highly. interesting questions may possibly be cleared up later on, such as the social position of the revolu. tionists ; was the secret circle • purely military one, or were the conspirators to any great extent officers of the army, and were they numerous.? Ac. It seems to me probable that they were not numerous; for the strerrgth of the revolutionary movement in Russia, in its new phases, lies precisely in the lags number of separate secret circles, composed each of a comparatively small number of conspirators.
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1888-08-04 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

DETERMINED SUICIDE AT NORTHALLERTON.  any yesterday morning a determined case liminide was brought to light at Northallerp, when the dead body of a saddler tamed chard Summergill (66) was discovered in Mr Jenkinson's garden. Decamped had been in ins health for some time, and had been reeeiviiok pay from the Providential Sick Society, as ho was considered fit to work, his pay wee a short time ago, and this preyed on his He was missing from his lodgings about o'clock on Saturday afternoon, but was , by Mr W. Heath at nine o'clock on Saturday it. As he failed to torn up • search was Is for him until midnight, and resumed at ibresk, and shout five o'clock Messrs Campton John Sykes discovered decamped hanging by , neck in a summer-house in Mr T. Jenkineonrs lee. The body was in a sitting position, the being curled up, so as to prevent the feet 'ling the ground. Deceased had been most frmitel to commit suicide, for his open knife Mend on the seat of the summer-house, and ad evidently eat off a portion of the clothesand affixed it to an iron crook in the ceiling le house. Deceased was a widower, his wife is some years ago. ft P. Walton (Coroner) held an inquest at the ig's Arms, Northallerton, on Monday, on the ly of Summergill.—Elizabeth Todd, widow, It whom deceased had lodged, said he d during the past three weeks been very dull d queer and nervous, and had had a very bad lest Thursday morning. He had not been e to do anything for the past twelve months, during that time had been in receipt of from the Oddlellows' Club, of which he been long a mentier.—ln answer to the suer, witness stater' that she had not Bent doctor, as he never used to come when sent Deceased had told her that Mr Jameson, ,secretary of the Club: had stated that in order  the i-elief he would have to obtain a unite from the Club doctor (Mr Bartmm) every A. Deceased had gone to see the doctor, and the doctor) told him that he hadn't seen Mr 288011 as he required to do. He had to go back, when deceased called again the doctor gave the same answer as at firtst, stating that he . .  not give his certificate till this interview.— - - - - -  A. Campion stated that he had sees deceased Friday noon, and he seemed to be in s very way.—Other witnesses spoke to deceased rig very much annoyed at his money beina tped.—The jury returned s verdict " That he tmitted suicide whilst in an unsound state of .d.' and they tegaested the Coroner to draw actention of the Club to the evidence, which ved that the withdrawal of the allowance bad -tly affected deceased's mind, and also draw u to the conduct of the medical officer.  W.
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1888-02-18 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

STRANGE SUICIDE OF A GIRL AT  WEST HARTLEPOOL.  On Monday evening Mr Coroner Settle 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 nervation 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 dimmest-a 'servant by 'Whitfield T. Burnett, cow-keeper, who was then residing in Onstou-street, but had since removed to Foggy Furze.—Mrs Burnett deposed that when they •removed to Foggy Furze deceased sMd she pre. f erred living in the country. She appeared quite healthy and sound in mind. On Saturday night about half-past ten she shouted from the front 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 gipsiee last week.—Whitfield Thompson Burnett, deceased's late master, proved engaging deceased at Stock too hir.ngs as a general servant. She had no field work to do, and her wages were £6 for twelve months. Shs was a very good servant— cheerful, and apparently coutented. About halfpast eleven on Saturday night he found her hanging by a short piece of cord from a beam in the kitchen. She was about a foot above the floor, and quite dead. Ile cut her down, and at once gave information to the police. Deceased had apparently adjusted tho cord from a form, from which she mist have jumped after placiag the rope round her neek.—Sergt. Dunn, who saw the body immediately Mter it was cut down, said there was a fnrxoweil mark all round the neck, and she had had a drop of about 14 inches. He searched her clothes aud box, but found nothing to show why she had taeiii her life.—After hearieg the evidence, the jury found that deceased killed herself by batwing, but there was not sufficient evidence to show the state of her mind at the time she committed tho rash act.
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1888-07-21 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

ANOTHER ATTEMPTED SUICIDE  IN CLEVELAND.  On Thursday at the Middlesbrough County Police Court a young woman named Rebecca Jane Itßum (21), belonging to Guisborough, was charged with attempting to commit suicide at Eston.—Jane Ann Williams said she had known prisoner intimately for about five years. and had been her companion. Witness was honse• keeper to a man named lienitinin 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 convereation 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 notie, an prisoner had made tho same remark on tevetal occasions during the past twelvemonth. She remained until midday on Monday, taking her child with I her. Witness asked her where she was going, and she replied. "I know." Witness did not see her seam.—Matthew Graham, platelayer to Bolckow, ' Vaughan, and Co., said he was in the platelayers' cabin leading from Eaton to Eaton Junction about a quarter to one on Monday last. He saw a woman with a child in her arms etanding 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 jumped into the reservoir, which was nine feet deep. On getting up he saw prisoner with part of her be.dy submerged and her head resting on some planks which reached from the side of the reservoir to what is known as the valve box. Ho got her out, and found her unconscious. A red silk handkerchief was tightly tied round her neck. Ho 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 respiratory organs into action he did not believe he would have been able to have done so.—ln. Spector Silversides said prisoner's father was be• Iteved to be dead, and her mother, who was psis"lysed, lived at Guisborough. Prisoner's brother said his sister was married, and had been living apart from her husband some nine mouths. She had bad two children.—The Bench, after con• sidering the case in private, handed prisoner over to the care of her grandmother and brother, who undertook to take charge of her.
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1888-07-21 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

LOVE AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.  A ghastly way of departing this life has just 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 be came in contact there that he was 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 Roue stealthily and unnoticed back to his room, :or 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 I attracted his attention was a long travelling I trunk lying in the middle of the door. As it was unhinged and unlocked the servant raised its cover and started back half-dazed with terror as he saw inside it the apparently lifeless body of the Englishman, clothed in correct evening dress, white tie, white gloves, and all. The servant ran down to the landlord in 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 I and a letter in English. Thanks to the Iskill of the doctor who was called in, the stranger was restored to life, lent he only upbraided his ‘: resurrectionists " for bringing him back to a world from whilik he had ! longed to escape. It appears that the 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 longerlive. Let her have my last sigh !" The jilted lover had arrived in Paris from Nice about a month ago.  The South American Journal, which in 1863 was commenced as a monthly publication and shortly afterwards altered to fortnightly will in future be issued every week. This journal has for a quarter of a century devoted itself ex. cinsively to the interests of South America, where so many millions of English capital have been invested.
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1888-01-28 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

SUICIDE OF AN ADMIRAL.  SHOCKING REVELATIONS.  Last Saturday the inquest on the body of RearAdmiral Versturme woe held at the residence of the deceased, Arwenack Mansion, near Falmouth. Mrs Versturme, who was greatly affected when giving her evidence, deposed that she and her husband dined together on Thursday week. They were very happy, and the deceased was in good spirits. Alter dinner they went into the drawing-room. Having a sore throat she asked her husband to excuse her singing to him as was her custom, and said she would play the piano only. She went to the piano, and her husband at the same time walked over to the fireplace and put the small brass poker into the fire, as she supposed to make a blaze. Shortly afterwards, as she was in the act of opening the piano, she heard • '' stuttering" noise, which caused her to look round. , She then saw that her husband had the red hot poker in his hand. Somathiug in his face alarmed her, and she rnshd across the room and seized the poker. In the struggle which ensued for the possession of the weapon she burnt her hands, and then she fainted. After that she remembered nothing more. She always lived on the best of terms , with her husband. There were, however, some , family troubles which upset her husband lately; and at the dining-table, when she was trying to cheer him up, he remarked, "You are the most cheerful companion any man could have. Witness added that in the desperate struggle for the poker her husband seemed bereft of his senses, and seized the lamp, the shovel, and, in fact, anything he could lay his bands on.—Ellan Davis, the only servant in the house at the time of the tragedy, said he heard groans proceeding from the drawing-room, and hurried thither. She found her mistress on the floor in front of the fire, and unconscious. A little distance from Mns Vereturme lay her master, with a poker in his hands, "struggling and banging himself about." She took the poker from him, and threw it to the end of the room. A lighted lamp . was also on the floor, and this her master was: " hugging' to him. She threw a rug over the lamp in order to put it out. She could not hear her mistress calling her, as the kitchen was too far away from the drawing-room.—Dr. Bullmere deposed that on his arrival he found the deceased on the floor of the drawing-room in a perfect state of frenzy. He was, in fact, suffering from a paroxysm of suicidal mania. There were four punctured wounds in the abdomen, two of them going right through the integuments, and all with an appearance of burning. The heated ' poker had penetrated to the peritoneum. Blood was flowing from his mouth, caused by his swallowing broken pieces of glass and china. Witness knew Admiral Verstarme had been in • despondent frame of mind owing to family troubles, but he had never shown any sign of suffering from mania or delirium tremens.—The jury returned a verdict that the deceased died from the effects of wounds self-inflicted while in a state of temporary insanity.
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1888-01-07 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

MISER ROBBED.—At the tion mourns the death of ex-Secretary Manning. I Cornwall Sessions on Tuesday William Walters COMMITTING SUICIDE TO PAY HIS Cr.eemoss.—At the adjourned inquest on . and Elizabeth Lawrence were charged with stealing 5:52 from James Lawrence, labourer, near Wednesday Lanuceston, father of the female prisoner. Pro- touching the death of Joseph Armstrong, the general superintendent of the locomotive department of the Great 'mentor had for years been hoarding money, which for security ha placed under a stone in his Western Railway at Wolverhampton, who was run over and killed on the line near the kitchen thinking nobody was aware of the hidingworks early on Sunday morning, the jury seplace. His daughter, however, discovered the secret, stole the money, and cave it to Welters, turned a verdict of" Suicide whiie se:Terme from to whom she was engaged to be married. temporary insanity." A letter in the handwriting Walters alleged that he returned the money tot of the deceased was produced, in which he stated the girl and that she hid it in a hedge, but it has that he had been driven to commit the act by not been discovered. The sentence was three Pressure of monetary embarrassments, and, if months' imprisonment each, the reason of his desalt was "kept dark," the ier :VIVI; THOUSAND DOLLARS FOR A Kiss. surnnee o-a tee life would cover his debts. —A young married lady living in Ontario has FATAL ICE AceirmeTe.—A hoe- named - commenced an action against the wealthiest man John Holland, 15 years old, who lived in Oldie that locality, in which she demands damages I street, Liniefield, Bury, was on Tuesday drowned to the extent of 5,000 dollars on account of the .in a pond on which he was sliding. An attempt 1 gentleman having, without permission, imprinted! to reach him with a piece of timber Ceded, and a kiss on her coral lips—or, as the process is he sank ten yard. from the hank.—en Tuesday otherwise described, " osculation without leave." 1 afternoon, whilst a number of boys were sliding The lady is reported to have been so terribly ' on a pool near to Netherton Railway Station, startled and grieved by the action that she was the ice gave way, and two boys named Edwards confined to bed for several weeks. If she and Denies were immersed. A collier who witreeds in obtaining the full damages claimed the nessed the occurrence gallantly plunged into the arm. case should take record. It will surely be the water, and with difficulty rescued Daubs. He highest price ever paid for an" set of osculation." endeavoured to rescue Edwards, but, owing to flUssLtN