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The Statesman. — 1823-03-28 (London, England)

SHOCKING SUICIDE.—Mr. John Lumley, a respectable boot and•shoemaker, in Lower Smith-street, 'Northampton' square, Clerkenwell, was seized with a sudden fit of hiss., niiy, on Monday morning, a little after he got up; he threw Off his hat and coat, exclaiming, I will make my ess cape, 1 will not be longer confined in a mad-house;"— be snatched up one of his cutting knives, ald ran oat; he was immediately followed, hut ending he was close'y pursued, he cut his left arm across in two places quite to the bone, he then struck the knife in his wrist, and ripped up his arm quite to the shoulder, and before the knife could be wrested out of his hand, he cut his throat across in two places; he was carried home in a dreadful state, and su tide cal assistance immediately procured, but be expired U.S Tuesday night, leaving a disconsolate x idow and a large family of children to lament his loss. Mr. Lumley exhibited symptoms of mental derangement on Saturday, but the day preceding this melancholy catastrophe, he appeared quite composed. DREADFUL Acctoe\T=On Saturday (the as a servant girl was cleaning a winnow in the opp, r story of the house occupied by Mrs. Downes, bat'er, of this city, she lost her balance, and tell to the gro,.nd, a height of nearly thirty feet. She was taken u u alive, and the best medical advice promptly I mareil; bat t 1 e Four girl expired the following morning. She bete cautioned by her mistress, the inmates a. the house, and a neighbour, against the danger she in, urred, and had been desired by her mistress to desist from mere !ing. with a window on a lower story; hut during ti.e tem. erary absence of her mistress. the usfartanate gi,l, of er own accord, commenced cleaning the w• ielow frt.to Whet tie sbe nut her untimely fate.- (11creford 'fauna .)  DR. EADY respectfully calls the attention of those afflicted, to his peculiar and effectual method of cure, end although he will not presume to pledge infallibility in every description of case, yet as far as human aid, assisted by medical and surgical experience can be app ;led, jos promises a speedy and permanent restoration.—Dr. E. is stoneulted daily at No. 38, Dean-street, Soho, by patients of both sexes. Country letters mast respectable attention by return of second post.  The Norfolk Assizes,did not terminate till between 10 and 11 o'clock on Friday night. Of the dreadful list of 26 capital convicts, all were reprieved before tf.e Judge left the town on Saturday morning, except Bray, whose crime of borglary,aggravated as we stated on Monday,by brutality against the poor woman, whom be robbed, placed him out of the reach of mercy  ...., .. _ - -• . • 4 ' - k ,•• • ' ,Zwiiii ‘ . •-..) ' '-' (14.14 '`. -.,•\''' • .. . .
The Statesman. — 1823-03-28 (London, England)

SUICIDE IN THE COMPTEK. —A man of the :tante of JVm. Cooper, wins had been taken to the till:sem-street Coinpter, on Wednesday night, charged with several unequivocal acts of indecency towards the person of 4 emu who lodged in the same room with him, and w. • front the nature of the charge had been looked up far the night in a separate room by himself, was found yesterday morning, when the keeper went to unlock the tell, quite dead, baying suspended 'liftmen by his silk haisdk-ratiief from the top tit the inner-door. A Cortme.'s I r .uest wit be held upon the body on Saturday. Yesterday morning a young man, named Payne. son to a cow-keeper in Kentish town, was found haticTog in his father's cow-house. He was cut does iunur,Jiatriy on being discovered, and a neighbouring surgeon .sent for, who opened a vein, and used the necessary means for restoring suspended animations his success, as he was restored to liie. it is said that •he cause of his comm.*, ling the act was his father's disapproving of his marrying a young woman in that town to whom he nas vto'early attached. Sultana or w YouTH —Lint evening an inquest was hell at tile house of Air. Hill, llervick-stre.u, ou the ho I y of %V. Hill, his son, who put at► end to his existence by hanging Itimielf. Verdict The deceased hanged himself in a state of inertial derangement." Wednesday morning part ofns small new hum., •recting with others in one of the ti-Ids near the Coburg Pheatre, gyve way, and three men, who were employed underneath, we c dreadfully bruised by the tiinners, ,ricks, and other building sulterills falling upoulliens. One of the men was so seriously injured, that it was fuunl neces,ary to carry him for surgical assistaace.  •
The Statesman. — 1823-07-16 (London, England)

SINGULAR FACT.—Ao old travelling trunk, which had for more than twenty years been used in the tool house of a ttentletnan's garden some few miles from this town, as the depository of seeds for the use of the gsrdener, it was a few weeks ago accidentally discovered, contained ibiee hundred and sixty-eight guineas, winch by the ingenious coutrjranee of two secret drawers must have been long concealed, as the guineas, we undeistind, were principally coined in the reigns of Charles and James. We expect, 'hotly to be favoured with further. particulars touching this long-hidden treasure, and shall, of coarse, communioato the wig to our readers.—((,circa' Paper.)   The Act relative to the kiteroent of persons found felo de re, received the Royal resent last week: no snore per. sons committing suicide 'are to be brried in the crosstoads. At Stoelbton the 34 Instant. James 31,31e11in, pedestrian, c • nonenced wklkinr /06 toils sin 44 sureessi• e hours. which' he performed 8 minittes within the beforementioned time.—Theweatlit proved very unfaronesble. ' Charlie Panels, e'cossigt,itasescaped 'from the Hulks at Ureenwielt. He was corvicied of felony at the lilaccooler Noires in ISA% and sentenced to seven years' transportation. aid received or board the Milks soon afterwards. lie end other convicts were sent to work in the Dockirara, at Deptford, wises, last week, he swain across the River, where there *as a person in waiting for him with a change of drese, and hal nut been heard a since.—(Gtoseester Jottrital.) There are now in the gaol at Shepton•Mallet 80 pri. toners fur trial at the ensiling Sessions at Rridspewa'rr .of this number 44 are cases of felony. There are Obewia? "8 prisoners for trial at theensuiwg Assizes. Total of pr:-, sons confined lit the gaol, 104. • Saturday lest, the Commission was opened at Worcester, where there are '4w prisoners fur the county, and 13 for the city. 8111T11-11n Saturday morning, the Nth Mr•.(ific. Jenkins, of Wernottih-street. Portland-oas,, of a son.
The Statesman. — 1823-10-03 (London, England)

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.-.-A respectable looking middle aged man, dressed in black, threw himself off the centre arch of Waterloo Bridge yesterday. A boatman of the name of Keeting was passing Borough the arch of the bridge at the time. and picked up the nafortnnate men on, his ascending to the surface of the water, and he received, no material injury. He turned out to have been a testier at a school over the water, and he was conveyed to Lis apartments in the New Cut, which bespoke the state of distress which was the occasion of the rash attempt. tivictss.-Considerable sensation was Teats erday erected in the neighbor• hoed of Hattor -garden. by a report of • woman having been hoed with Is throat cut in the closet attached to No. lei.Salken-bill. As the report i.e the nature of the event, whether murder M. aulcide, kteetitimlnate, as eik_,_".• Brown. was dispatched from the Pollee-OWe, Hattonlarden..to the particulars. From his Inquiries. it appears that the woman, whist no' is Mary Benutleims. was married to an Italian. by whom she bashear child/ea. They lodged eta haledresser's en So flronAill, and yesterday monde/ abed ten *Week after the hasbend had gone out, the unhappy woman was sees it !MUM, chisel. wive. se hour aftenvardca person elbow.. of Moollssit on looking thrmigh a metier. saw her on her knees, with her wad ow" the seat, with* Was covered with blood. He immediately raised anal/re and same premiss anteing the deer. which was fast, was broke, gyms.' a surgeon sent fee. but withent avail. By her side was lying the rasetirbidi perpetrates the fatal deed. It would seem that she went to the Plans with most determined purpose of mind to make away with herself. as* ■•• takin the precaution to fasten the deer with a Pend, independently elbowing the bolt. Extreme distress is supposed to bare been Shaman that kite de .rash act. Her bullhead used formerly to hawk barometers. ito4 ges ; is both trades, however, he had been very unsuccessful. Sins* Ins eve it, the parish °dicers have admitted the con with hirchildres Meth! workhouse. An inquest was immediately summoned by Mr. 7-Itniing• after a deliberate investigation, the Jury remelted a valet UM* rary Insluitty."
The Statesman. — 1813-07-31 (London, England)

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.---A young man, respectaley connected, who enlisted with a party of infantry, st " k three The Bill in thiicase stated, that the Plaietiff had A correspondence of some length was then read, - wee 'West End Fair, on Tuesday, absented himself ce one into air auction-room, where a house at the after which, of thie ki was never known in England before " • ' ! the following ay, and on being discovered at his A Gallowa - node twelve hands, thepropertyof ; y, r west end of the town Was advertised to be sold, awl i Mr. forme maintained, that from this come- apartments ip Portland-street, he drew a knife from Mr. Jebb, trotted sixteen miles within an hour, on • purchased the house at 509.1. lie had then just re-' spondenre between the Captain, the Owners, and his pocket, and lacerated his throat in a sheek::-e turned from Prance. where lie had been a prisoner., the Consignees, it appeared that Pensacola was ex- . Wednes y, th on the Beacensfield-road, for a stake • manner. Surgical aid was immediately procured,' tied wanted a boom, for his family. There was only !elusively the ship's destination ; and that as the of 100guineas.The animal was rode eet' bidder against ..t+om he took, as lie alleged, for ; ship arrived at Pensacola, the risk of the under- was brought in, in fine style, in three minutes within cover. I bona fide bidder : but he afterwards discovered : writers had terminated with her arrival there. lie the given time. 1 A dreadful thunder storm was experienced in the that it was only the vender, or an agent employed . contended. also, even admitting Ore New Orleans ' As a lady and her daughter, with another young parish of Bielby, near Pecklington, Yorkshire, oe bv the vender, to bid. There was also a charge, was'the ultimate destination after tonc'eng at Pen- lady, a visiter, were sitting at a table drinking tea, _ Menday last. As Mr. Harris-on, a farmer of liik It.y, that if their were any other bidders, they also were ; molt, yetibitt no theface of the policy it could not, at a farm-house at Pt•lnnarsh, on the 224 instant, a and two men, with his maid-servant, were making agents-for the vender. The bill prayed, that the' appear that the. ship could be allowed to -remain youth, about ten or eleven years of age, took up a • hay in a field, a severe dash of lightning, arcomcontract might be set aside, on the ground of fraud, from the Ittii Or Sptettiber to the 11th of,Otto. gun to go and shoot at sparrows, and on passing the parried with a most awful clap of thunder, terrified the price being
The Statesman. — 1813-03-09 (London, England)

FAEY-Dt Y.—The Association for the Relief of the Forbes. Vise. Montgomery, Sir B. V rottesleV. n. Moore P. , Wynne, Sir w. W. filleasnfacturing and Labouring Poor are authorised Postweeret Vl* Morlaal, S. B. Wynoe, Sir W. W. eq say, that at a muting of a committee of the so. Foster, A. defy of the people called Methodists, late in con. I The names of two Gentlemen who voted, we bare not been section with the Rev. John WEsLtY, at the City I able to !earn. PAIRED OM Iced Chapel, Lower . d, it was agreed to make 1 Campbell, 0. Hussey, J. Tawashend. Lord .1. ireblic collections to-morrow, the 10th inst. in be. ' Fitzpatrick, Rt.Hn. Miller, Sir J. - Wellebley, W. half of the Association for the Belief and Benefit It. Shalespoare. A. 4144 - • of the Manufacturing. ano Labouiting Poops, The following Gentlemen were. kw away by Innen, to their families, or some accidental came; is hoped; That the principal *congregations in that ! &riot, sir T. Holmes, Sk L.. &bright, Sir J. connexion, and of other religious dattoOkiaidi Iserkl.rckhZ;,..l. I=Ltm3L.' tt= HonP J. 0144.1 will fenny. thous eawaspits..- -- - T.-- -- -"' ' -. Croshie J. Pelham, Bon. C, Vane, lion. F. The dejection of spirits, and unhappy disposition 1 Dandy, J. 'lt T. Lhismose,r:t.W. • 11;"ireri"Ti'ong• W. to suicide first appeared in Sir Wit.t.t.tat EasKINE, ! Folkestone, Vise. Quin. lion. W. Williams, 0. after his return from Walcheren, and it is said to 1 Fasakerley, ,J. N. Ridley, M. W. have been occasioned' by witnessing the miseries to il oWte have wdoeuifit nhuetd t;triet vLio:s*orn the :Ili inisterrtl. 3,i.ti: which his countrymen were subjected in that wretch. , ;,,,,c1,74,t, k Wee..ooW that the very iiiii POMO mentioned it: %rik. 6d expedition. It is most remarkable, that shortly K. Abercrombie, Esq. voted with the majority; as did L. after his arrival from Zealand, he attempted the i (4'l'4' "q' same mode of destruction is that by which he ' perished. He was at Ramsgate, in a low state ; and contriving with great dexterity to ba left alone in his room, he started from his bed and threw himself• at the window; the resistance he there met repelled him back into his room, breathless and. bloody. After this he recovered, and was again employed. , . Bow-a/
The Statesman. — 1821-09-24 (London, England)

POUCH.  Bow-svairv.—Late on Friday evening, a very miserable looking old loan, who rave his name Oeorge Bailey, was brought up before 0. B. klinsball, Esq.,  the Sitting Magistrate, by Alexander Dallas, streetkeeper, of the Strand, who stated, that he bad oh served the prisoner sharpening a knife on the step of a door in Swan-yard. Snspeeting from his manner that he was about to commit suicide, he went up to him and perceived blood streaming down his clothes from his neck, which was stabbed in two places. Dallas directly took the knife from him, and on question. ing him as to the purpose for which he was sharpening it, be confessed that he had inflicted the two wounds in his neck, ■nd that lie meant to put a period to his existence, "which the calamities heaped upon him by an ungrateful world had rendered intolerably miserable."  On being remonstrated with by the Magistrate, the p man seemed greatly affected ;he stated that he resided at a village (which he refused to name), about 60 miles from London ; that pecuniary embarrass. ments had forced him from his home, and having expended his last farthing for sustenance on the road, he was forced to solicit charity of the passengers he casually met ; disgusted at the necessity which subjected him to their refusal, he continued his journey to town, and on his arrival here, which was about five o'clock on Fridity afternoon, he wandered Abut, having no friends to whom lie could-apply gar *mistime*, until be was at length reduced to make the attempt epos his life. Mr. Minsbull suggested' to him, that the only way he could provide an asylum for him, was to summit bile to prisen,lsaa-tbat he should have his liberty whenever he chose ; to this he readily agreed. He was accordingly committed to Totbill-fields Bridewell.  It is so much the practice of those who have made any discoveries, from which they hope advantage by laying them before the public, to speak in the most extravagant terms of their merits, that the discerning hesitate to patronise them, lest they should become the victims of quackery. A similar prejudice operates against the honest dealer, who, conscious of the superiority of the commodity which he supplies, and satisfied with a me. derate profit, looks for remuneration in an extension of his business. Mr. CHAPMAN, however, seems to enjoy Ka ample share of public confidense: bet to meet the objections of the most fastidious who may wish to per. chant Isis Ace and Burn, yet doubts itsgeneleeness, he has made an affidavit, of which the following is a copy : Sworn at the Mansion-house, before the Lord Mayor :44 It. Cita:quart, of Bagnigge Wells Brewery, in the parish of St. Pancras, in the County of Middlesex, Ale, Table Ale, and Table-Beer Brewer, maketh oath, and *aide; that his Ale, Table-Ale, and Table-Beer, are brewed. from hops and malt only, avid that he never has nor ever will permit or suffer any drugs or other injurious ingredients to be used is his brewery. And this deponent further saidt,4lelt he imperial's:de the whole of • his brewing If. and is, thereby, with safety, fully tif-dqesing to the *hove facts. R.
The Statesman. — 1821-10-12 (London, England)

NIA REMO. . s pressed their gave a is private purse, M Leghorn, on the lOth ult. the lism. Arnim Hill Trevor, a consequence for the supply of his present wants. eldest son of tee Righ like Engladd, 00 t t lion. Lord Viscount Dungannon, to e treated savSophia, daughter of Georges D'ArCy Irvine, Esq. Castle ' roes who had Afunoen.—On Saturday last an inquest was held lirstte...,o9". tat° liaairmisalt4 ire's". of Mayland. Essec, a little u*r along 1 yesterday or at then.Kesucklas. in the .parish of Hayup. in the and it was in county of Radnor, before Edward Meredith, Esq. one adds to deisingetarity Oahe awe, the lovely tell aailliem ofnuatitt.'-'74,elisti'eteove, a bleisainpsitusesel of..W. see west he assistance of the Caironers for the County, for the purpose of seven yeprs betrothed to the ems of the bridegroomst:eri On thilimi inst.ert St:Jimei's`churels, WestininstetA 'ascertaining how Arthur Bedward, late of the parish tract had been of' Beguildy, tailor, (who was found murdered and to m„overmr. ewe" 4„„gkied.of the late cot. tiledadek,ef. James Darken, of the lion. East India Conmpany's ' r their native 'brought them thrown into a ditch near the road le 'ding from Whitehaveis, Cumberland. Keighton to the Llayney,) on the Friday morning blEii.---"---"-------. nest wlmatever preceding, came by his death: and after a patient and On Monday last, a! his'bomiteat Pentenville, Joseph ...fit lividuals were attentive examination of the ease, the Jury returned a tint. Etta- of lisrlli'll'll"klildiagst 11"lb"rus agedW 19 11, so munch so,9f the comfit' of Essex. verdict of "Wilful Murder" against Samuel Harley, e!' y ursboaDepudtitteliVirrwivertree, ,;,:i the 27th mdt. oil her ounnit suicide of the'parish'of Knighton, labourer, and be was comof Thugs* 1. • neitteil to the consulon gaol at Preeteign to take his t nee. g4q. and daughter of Itesiry Wright, Esq. of St. BPrunswick, F.,mther, the wife r could not be -a; trot; New. pl.cant might Vial for the same. i The deceased was an elderly man .. n.'New fireasosiek. m I came to seize Of , age of 60 or upwards, and was murdered as he use of /brie M days, r. James Allison, sea. tar- rti 'ennead:ls last, theS4 lost. at Lents Walk. after a action, if they waegoieg house from Knighton market on the Thum! dace}4be. to his lON year: rs.i' : suit would be day. right, between the hours of ten and eleven .; lie. Qtr dial/Ith ult. at Harwood Lem neer Bolton,_r ulieb. 11; me brought to , has left a widow and ten children- to lameni his nui gentry.
The Statesman. — 1821-08-23 (London, England)

ROBBERY AND SUICIDE.—Monday evening, Robot Frost, ostler at the Bell and Mackerel, Mile-ad, while attending is the skittle ground, where a umber sf loose characters were at play, was knocked dowa by some of them, and robbed in a most daring and barefaced swarm of two sovereigns and IL 10s. in alter* with which the party escaped over the palings. liferoration of the eirourastanee was given to the police of the district. Tuesday evening, Gibbs. conductor of a party of the Boviaetreet stationed in that quarter, from private informatioa, watt in pursuit of the gang awards Bow Gam on, where they usually neat to, look after prey ea their discovering his approach, ear lieding that they were likely to be secured, one of the pail. who it appeared was the ringleader and most active ta the robbery, seined John Christy, jumped into the• middle of the Regent's Canal, close to which they wen at the time, and before he could be got eat he was unfortunately drowned. The body was taken ashen some time afterwards, bat all the means used to re store urination proved ineffectual. The body was takers to a public-house adjacent for the Cooner's  111  FATAL •xa DISTRESSING Acctioarr.—Abost son day on Friday week, a melancholy event occurred la the vicinity of Cirencester. under circumstances of po cellar alliction. iifr. aid Mrs. Stephens, as aged and. respectable pair. who had recently resigned tasks: at Siddington to their son, and had Axed the Hag of their declining days" in animater, est 111. with the intention of walking over by the cane/ sides to visit their see, the distance scarcely oceeeding two miles. They bad not proceeded far, when Mr. Ste► pbens met as old labourer with whom be entered lain conversation es some business. whilst Mrs. fliterisoes contineed leiserely walking on ber way: bat what mast have been the age y— grief and asksaisbneast her husband, who was rot Legg recovered from urea illness, on reaching a point of the Cool where a high wall was raised to a level with the bank, lastead, as be expected, of rejoining her, to And some laboarlog wee actually dragging out of the water a Hiders edgy, the beloved partner of his age "hos he bad tees set five missies before is the enjoyment of 4**W:iota happier than she bad bees for three years in witaessing his eonvalesceace I—lt is sapposed that Mrs. Stephese had left the pa to look at the plan of a swing bridge. which is to be placed over the canal at this spit, sof being seised with siddecgiddisess, bad fallen en bar bead into the water, and life became instantly 'millet. It would be a painful, but a vela attempt, to describe the effect of so dreadful a shock epos her Aided j hasbeed, and her alfectionatfam .