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The Potteries Examiner : — 1872-08-24 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

TRAGEDY IN LIVERPOOL.  A frightful attempt at murder and suicide has been committed in Liverpool by a man named Richard Spencer, living at Gregeon.street, Everton. Spencer, who is 59 years of age, made a desperate attempt to murder his paramour, and an equally determined effort to take away his own life. It appears that both retired to rest sober, and at seven o'clock the following morning the woman, whose name is Elizabeth Wharton, was awakened by feeling something which she thought waa a heavy blow on the head. She immediately got out of bed, and ran to the house of a neighbour, under the impression that she had been wounded with a knife. A police-officer at mice visited the house, and discovered Spencer in his room, lying in a pool of blood, and a nix-chambered revolver, three of which had only just been discharged, by his side. On the table lay a table knife. The two persons were afterwards taken to the Royal Infirmary, where it was found that Spencer was Huff ering irom a wound in his forehead over the right eye, the result of a pistol shot; the bullet had laid bare the bone, but did not penetrate the skull. The other shot had entered the neck, just behind the ear. The woman had received a bullet in the right jaw between the eye and ear. The deputy stipen. diary tbdr. Mansfield) visited the pair on Saturday, when the woman made a statement to the effect that Spencer had often slept with knives under his pillow, and had had the "horrors." Spencer said, "She brought me to this. I thought we both would have died together. I shot her first, and afterwards myself." Spencer has been for some time past in a very dejected state of mind, owing to the failure of his business.
The Potteries Examiner : — 1872-08-24 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

HAIR.-16re. S. A. Allen's World's Hab Restorer is the only preparation that will positively renew and restore the original and natural colour of grey or faded hair, stop its falling off, and induce • luxuriant growth. It never fails. Sold by all Chemists and Perfumers. in lame bottles. Six Shillings.  oSUICIDE BY A Boy.—An inquest has been held at the White Hart Inn, Hayes, on the body of George James Dolby, aged 16, who had committed suicide by hanging himself in a most determined manner. For some time previous the deceased, who was the son of a labourer, had appeared very strange in his mind, and a few weeks ago he threw himself upon the metals of the railway in order to I be run over, but before the train oame along he I altered his mind. On Thursday morning he committed a till robbery, and fearing lest he should be detected, he went and hanged himself in a coach' house. His body, which was quite cold, was dieI covered suspended from a beam, the cord with which the act was committed being bound three times round his neck. _ _  ---61;;WA:r.: -ifixEss.—Tho results of the Government examination of the classes of the IMiners' Association of Cornwall and Devonshire have just been published. The young miners have distinguished themselves in a remarkable manner, as the following summary will show. The numbers passed have been, in chemistry, 44: mineralogy, 1 21; geology, 18; mining, 5; theoretical mechanics, I 5; applied mechanics, 5; steam, 3. Total, 101. I A HORRIBLE MURDER has just been perpetrated at Rheims. A butcher's man named Garet, was walking with a young woman, gydonie Cauchy, in the neighbourhood of the town, when a quarrel I between them arose, and Garet stunned her with a I blow with a stone, and then cut off her head. He I afterwards gave himself into custody.  WIMLPTOIN'S VEGETABLE PIIILIFYING PILLS have for more than 35 years proved than value in Diseases of the Head, Chest, Liver, Kidneys, and Digestive Organs. They are a direct Purifier of the Blood, and in all Skin Complaints one of the best Medicines known. Sold by G. WIIEUTON & SON, 3, Crana.conrt, Fleet-street, and may be had of Chemists and Medicine Vendors. Sent free to any part of the kingdom ou reoellot of 8.14 or 33 damps
The Potteries Examiner : — 1872-09-14 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

SAD SUICIDE OF A GOVERNESS.  Mr. F. S. Longhorn has held an inquest et the " Esser Head," Strond, London, to inquire into the circumstances of the death of s young woman who throw herself off Waterloo-bridge, end who was presumed, from • letter found in her possession, to be an American governess of the name of Alice Blanche Oswald.  Elise Castle, ooffee-house keeper, stated that the young lady, who went by the name of Lockie, had lodged in her house for a fortnight, and that a gentleman and a lady had each called once, and gone out with her. She seemed much upset after reading a letter which she had received.  WillismKing.iuspeotor of Thames police, searched the body of the deceased, and found neither name nor initials on her linen or clothes. The green silk umbrella was found on the bridge, and handed to witness by Tngham. There was a purse containing a bronco halfpenny, a duplicate for a shawl, a wed• ding ring, a small box key, and a ring was on her finger with seven small diamonds. She had a pair of gilt ear-rings and a small brooch, a locket with a black enamel cross outside and a photograph of a gentleman inside; also a small cross on a blue ribbon round her neck. These were several papers found in her pocket and purse. The letter produced was there also. It was in the following words : " London, September 3rd, 1872, 178, High-street, Shadwell,  "The crime I am about to commit, and that I must suffer for hereafter, is nothing oompared to my present misery. Alone in London; not a penny or friend to advise or lend a helping hand tired and weary with looking for something to do; failing in every way, footsore and heart weary, I prefer death to the dawning ef another wretched morning. I havo only been in Britain nine weeks. I came as nursery governess with a lady from America to Wick, in Scotland, whence she discharged me, refusing to pay my passage back, giving me my wages, which amounted to ..£3 10e. After my expen son to I London I found myself in this great city with only I ss• What was I to do P I sold my watch, I The paltry sum I obtained from that soon wont in paying for my board, and in looking for a situation ; now I am destitute, every day is a misery to me. No friends —no hope—no money. Oh, God of Heaven, have mercy upon a poor helpless sinner—Thou knowest how I have striven against this—but fate is against me. I cannot tread the path of sin, for my dead mother will be watching ins. Fatherless, motherless, home I have none; oh ! for the rarity of Christian hearts. I am not mad; for days I have foreseen that this would be the end. May all who hear of my end forgive me, and may God Almighty do so before whose bar I most so soon appear. Farewell to all this beautiful and yet wretohed world. "Ames
The Potteries Examiner : — 1878-03-23 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

MINERS MISREPRESENTED. After a few words Duke of A. ll froth Lord Hammond and the i To the Editor of the "Potteries E.eosniner." The Earl, Sein,—Every class of men are void of common gyof Derby replied. Ile said that the 1 transfer of the duties of the Foreign Department I sense' I suppose, besides 'the editors of the 1 to the First Minister would be the official suicide Coliery Guardian, Iron and Coal Trades Review, i Capital and Lobetir, &c..ct c. Here is a specimen of one Minister and the physical suicide of the of one of the wise men from the East—" Short other. With respect to the Conference, Lord Derby ! said the Russian Government had given an tinder- time and high wages have done more to brutalisel ! the miners as a class than any other improvement taking that the complete text of the treaty at ld be communicated to the Powers as soon as the ' yet*" A greater untruth and a more unfounded ! libel never was written. What was the condition ratifications hail been exchanged, but a question had since arisen as to whether all the provisions of the miners. morally and socially, before the short of the treaty were to be placed before the Con- ' time and high wages were received? grass, and this had not yet been settled. He was 1. They were, every evening of their lives encept Sundays, like sweeps living in a country not prepared to say what answer the Russian Govwithout water in it ; with clothes on like the eminent would give, but be thought it would be 1 i sweep (if that term may be applied to what they admitted that the demand was reasonable and wore); and when they washed it was only just a moderate, and that without such a conditioa it ! little around the middle of the face. Since then would be of very little use for a Congress to meet 1 at all. . spirit, hie, and telf-lespect hard been imparted to The subject then dropped, and the Haase ad_ 1 them; and the whole of them have left off the , journed. old habit of the sort cf washing just descr:bed, 1 and get a good wash, and lots of them new wash , themselves from head t 1 foot daily ; and each one I Willa out in clothing and appearance far more ' respectable than they used to do on theft holidays, and the poorest that cannot buy a coat now appears in one bought and cared for in good times gone by., .... . . . . . .. .  Tea!onsibll  HOME OF COIibiONS.—
The Potteries Examiner : — 1878-03-23 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

WILLIAM BERNS V. CHARLES LIDISCIN.—n. busy with ha was -. . on bail, was indicted for em. returned in about half an hour, but prisoner had announcement as to the terms. The Earl of Derby replied. Ile said that the ...., s . - . .• s , plaintiff, who was represented by Mr. Walker , 1 suppose, oestaes the Knows of the (from Is from biting ossa Ferocious Do. I mono y from the taanaale gone. She never gave her the sa-Lavinie Moor Earl Beauf efliamp broboiThh.tuilL no a lilt for he ref irfattlmieidniustties oofutldhebhe'rofrheeigonffiDeiestriimnlet 77oliery Guardian, Iron and Coal TrOdes Review, the office of Messrs. Ste:meson and If mitts) is a the aogs belonged a ose of thte .m. Ma Corner appeared veld she was the wife of Mr. Bloor, grocer, H:mley. foundation o our new a•, - ir m f Minister Capital and Labour, Ac., Ac. Herein a specimen whole:ale grocer at Hanley, aml the defeadomt, for ata of dem ;twig.of one of the wise men from the East.-.` Short whom Mr. Acktill appeared, is a retail grocer and bah dogs to he keep, s'ishee for the preeeeti. The prisoner entered the shop and began convert- in the province of York. at Liverpool. Newcastle- o one and 'ct.loos physical suicide of the prod ion dealer at oh II The action which was Wei a • ' t Total to o ,eution. in opentng Mg. She said she wanted some things, lout had on-Tyne. and Wakefield; and the fourth at other. With respect to the Conference, Lord Derby time and hioh wages have done more to brutalise -ho was appointed not "sot any money with her. She asked her to Southwell, in the provino.• of Cointerbury. His said the Russian Governtnent had given an tinder- .. . . - the miners as a class than any other improvement wing ins 1 by a jury, NPOS brought to recover
The Potteries Examiner : — 1878-08-17 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

HORRIBLE CRIME.  A WIFE, XOTZER-IN.LAW AND INFANT CHILD MURDERED—THE FERFETEATROR COMNITS SUICIDE. Monday, July 22, Wilson Honchins, a prominent farmer living near Eluvana Court House, Virginia, U.S., committed a horrible crime. He had a beautiful wife and three sweet children. For the last five years he had threatened to kill his wife and family. Why he bad had this animosity to them as never been known. Three months ago his wife discovered him standing over her in the middle of the night with an uplifted dagger in his hands and a fiendish look in his eyes. She cried for help, and scared him away. Early the next morning he saw her, and begged her not to say anything about it, and that he was only fouling. She kept her tongue, unfortunately, as the sequel proves. Since that time he has made several attempts to take her life; she has been forced to leave him in the night several times. He never gave any reason for his desire to destroy his family. Monday morning, however, he put his fell design into execution. He mune upon his wife and children and mother.in-law while they were seated at the breakfast table. He had an axe in his hand. He then dashed the keen axe into his motley in-law's head, killing her instantly. He next killed his wife, as she fell down on her knees and besought him to spare her children. As he brought the murderous weapon down on her uplifted head, he said, " Your time has come !" She fell, and her last words were, "God forgive you for this crime." He then dispatched in a like murderous manner his little infant child. His oldest son, about seven years of age, upon seeing his frenzied father commencing the attack, seized the other little child and made for a neighbour's house, thereby saving his and the child's life. After finishing the bloody work, he deliberately went into his parlour and wrote the following note, which he left directed to the coroner " I have intendpeEte do this thing for some time ; the devil is in me; elik'mother.in-law drove me to it; she has tormented me to death ; I cannot live as long as she lives ; she bus poisoned my wife and children against me, and lam a miserable man. Whiskey, too, has had some' thing to do with it. Let all take warning by my untimely end, and I die believing that God will forgive my sins. Pick up my fragments and bury the many m ntIy.—
The Potteries Examiner : — 1878-08-17 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

SUICIDE AT THE EXPOSITION.  A MAN WANTS TO ASCERTAIN WHAT HELL IS MEI, AND STAWIS ON A VOYAGE OF EXPLORATION.  Last June the keeper of a lodginghouse at Pussy went to the room of one of his guests—a retired coal merchant named Ecmel—with a letter which bad jmt arrived for him, and found the lodger suspended by • silk neckcloth from a hook in the ceiling. He cut him down and sent for a doctor, who managed to restore the suicide to life. Two days later a boatman of the Seine , fished from the water the senseless figure of a man. Within a week more, just as some quarrymen at VSIIVreI were igniting the train for a blast, a well-dressed stranger rushed pant them and sprang upon a mass of rock the explosion was expected to shatter. One ef the quarrymen extingui,lied the fuse while his oompanions dragged the madman au-ay, and handed him over tas the village police. For the third time this person who was so anxious to put himself out of the world was Id. Ermel, of Passy. At the intercession of his friends, and on his promise of abstention from further attempts against himself, the ex-coal merchant was set at liberty. In the ensuing five days he made five determined attempts at suicide by hanging, the pistol, Paris green, laudanum, and drowning, and was frustrated in all. Finally, the morning of 3uly 4th found him missing. On the afternoon of that day his body was discovered behind an engine in the American department of the Exposition bulldog at Paris. He had his throat cut with a large pocketknife. In his pockets were found a considerable sum of money, seven different packs of playing-cards, and a note dated the day he attempted first to hang himself. at Pussy. The note said 'The present political situation is disgusting, and the Shah is an infamous barbarian. Why, then, should I continue to exist while France makes an exhibition of herself before all the world ? One would think one 1 Exposition was enough for them;: but these Frenchmen are never satisfied. Thak God, lam a Breton. I have consulted the cards. They are Unanimous in their conelusions. So am I. Besides, I have heard no much of hell that I have a curiosity to ascertain what it is like."
The Potteries Examiner : — 1878-12-28 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

DETERMINED SUICIDE AT BURSLEM. 1 two o'clock, Sergeant Smith, of the Herefordshire . A determined case of suicide came to light on 1 Constabulary, was passing Jones's cottage, when,' S eturday morning, the unfortunate man being he observed a light being moved about in the I Janie. Brooks, a hollow-ware presser. fifty-four house. On going up to it he observed two men ! years of ago, lately resident at 2. Navigation. inside ransacking the boxes. He effected an en- ; street, J. Em! ry, at the Church Works, liiirslem. It Pdiddleport, and in the employ of Mr. F. tracce by the window, when he was struck a severe i blow on the head with a candlestick by one of the 1 eppears that the deceased man returned home on I Saturday night at a late hour, considerably the burglars. Notwithstanding this he sem d one of the men. and a desperate struggle ensued, the worse for liquor. He turned out his wife and officer being assaulted by them both while he children, and refused to find them shelter. He defended himself as best he could. Ultimately then wrote a letter to his wife and eon, and hung I one of the men ran out of the house and the gallant himself with his neckerchief, which he attached to officer secured the other. An examination of the a hook in the kitchen used for a clothes line. On house showtel that Mrs. Jones, who Vill3 in bed, Sunday morning, at about eleven o'clock, a woman had been fearfully treated by the ruffians, her living in Lower Hadderedge want to the house, and. finding it locked, raised an alarm, which head being bruised and cut to such lin extent that on Saturday evening she was in a very precarious resulted in an entrance being effected and the state. The man who was apprehended gives the finding of the body as described. Great interest name of John Turner, alias Stevens, and says that was evinced in the neighbourhood, the mere RO as the deceased was well known and considered ,he belongs to Montreal, Canada. He has been I remanded for a week. Plundar appears to have respectable by his neighbours. I been the aim of the scoundrels.
The Potteries Examiner : — 1878-12-28 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

SUICIDE OF A TEADESMA .1 AT NEWCASTLE.  On Sunday morning, Mr. Robinson. Iraper, the Ironnmeket, Neweastle-under-Lyme, d cd from the effects of a suicidal act committed and 'l' peculiarly painful circumstances. Mr. Robinson has been in a large way of business, and was well known and respected. Lately be was stricken down with typhoid fever, and being at times delirious under the influence of this terrible complaint, it was found necessary to give him close attention. On Friday the nurse happened to leave the room for a brief space, and Mr. Robinson at once got hold of a razor and cut his throat. He received tha best attention, but on Sunday morning he succumbed to the injuries and died. On Monday evening an inquest was held at the Town Hall, Newcastle, before Mr. J. Knight, borough coroner. Mr. T. Robinson, we understand, was twenty' seven years old, and was engaged to be married shortly.—Minnie Vine, a certificated , nurse from the Nursing institution, Harts. hill, who had been attending the deceased, was examined, and her evidence was to the effect that she went on Friday morning last to attend upon Mr. Robinson; who was ill with typhoid r fever. Having given him his medicine on Saturday about one o'clock she left the room far a short thee. ; He had not, about that time, shown any signs of ; wandering in his mind or speech. She returned to the room in about a quarter of an hour afterwards. and found Mr. Robinson out of , bed and standing before a locking.glosi, just lifting a razor to cut his throat. She fonnd that he ' had cut his throat before that. She tried ' to stop the bleeding, and did all she could for him till a doctor came. She subsequently stated that Mr. 3 Robinson was very ill, but she had no reason to apprehended that he would do widener, to himself. Dr. Orton was also called, and he spoke to the serious state in which Mr. Robinson was in on Friday and Saturday mornings, and then to his going to the house after 31r; Robinson ; had cut his throat. The wound was attended to, but ; deceased seemed almost to sink under the shook, r though he rallied a little at night, and seemed to r recognise him. He became worse afterwards, and I died on Sunday morning. He had no doubt the shock i deceased received in his serious state of illness and the loss of blood from the wound would contribute materially to his death. The act would doubtless be done during the delirium of fever. The jury returned a verdict to the effect that Mr. Robinson had ' died from having cut his throat while in the delirium ; of fever.
The Potteries Examiner : — 1878-01-26 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

THE FENTON TRAGEDY.  The adjourned inquest into the circumstances atteiuliug the death of Annie Brookshavr, schoolmistress, Longton, whose body was found in a pool at the top of Queen-Areet, on the Mb, inst., was held at the Dog and Partridge Inn, Fenton, on Wednesday, before Mr. J. Booth, coroner. Mr. J. W. Jones appeared to watch the case on behalf of Mr. Thomas Walley and his wife. Mr. James Weaver, M.D., Leugton, stated that be first NM the body of the de, eased on the 19th inst.. He made a post mod< as examination of the body. It appeared to be of the age of about twenty years, and was clean and well nourished. It was free from any marks of violence. Oa op ling the Indy he found that the lungs and the various organs of the chest presented a healthy appearance. The lungs were moderately ex. tended, and were congealed with blood. They &Igo con. tamed a small quantity of water. The right side of the heart contained a considerable amount of dark blood, hut the organ was otherwise healthy. The stomach was distended, and contained quite a quart of wartery fluid, in which there were particles of partly digested food. The other organs were for the moist part normal. His opinion was that that the deceased died from asphyxia, the result of drowning. He had to) doubt but she had, within a month, been delivered of a child—probably within three weeks. There was nothing to say whether or not the child was full grown. The coroner said that he proposed to call no other witness. The p,st nucleic, examination had been made, and it had answered the purpose for which it was intended—namely, to satisfy the jury as to whether the deceased hod been recently confined. That went to show the reason for her committing the wit. No ohe usaald have any doubt but what deceased drowned heron'!. aidl the only other question was its to the state of her mind at the time. From the fact that charges had been made I;galust her of having recently been delivered of a child, and that for the benefit rd the school of which she was mistress, and for the purpose of clearing up the matter, it had been suggested that she should undergo an examination by a doctor, he did not think there would be much dilficuly incoming to the conclusion that at the time she committed the act she was midi r the fear of being found out, as she had probably secreted the child, and dreaded the consequence. After the Jury hail deliberated for about threequarters of an hour, they returned a verdict that the deceased committed suicide whilst suffering from temporary insanity.