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Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1879-03-29 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

REJECTED  LOVER.  On Monday an it.quest was held by Mr. P. Taylor, the coroner for Bolton. touching the death of John Andrew Sykes, aged 25 years, of John Taylor street, who had committed suicide t under the following circumstances :Deceased, who worked in the timber yard of Mr. Norris, was thrown out of employment last week, and that, coupled with the fact that about the mom time he was rejected by the object ea his aff tc tions (a servant engaged at a public house in RAtou), bad a most 4lepressiug effect upon him. On Friday evening he called at the Oliver Cromwell beerhouae, in Bridge-street, anti expressed his determination to drown himself. Ile also said that he had a penny, and as that would be the last drop of beer he should have on earth be would have • penny gill with B. The latoll.ted, Mr. Joseph 11,01,w, symiathetically remarked to deceased that if he was going to .ICII "straight work" of himself, he should hoe t pint of beer for the penny, and at once snpi lied him with it. The deceased invited the compao) to drink with bins, and as he was about to leave the house he was tiak,td to leave something by way of a legacy. Be ilieu emptied his pecksta of their contents. which he distributed amongst the comimuj, giving to one a knife, sad to another his pipe. Ihe lau.:lord expressed • desire to have a lot k of hair, but diseased appeared reluctant to grant the r, qu,st, and rave him a brass button which heti come off his trousers. This tile landlord nailed up in the taproom at a memento, awl then advised Sykes, as the weather was so very cold, to find a warm water lodge in which to drown himself. De cea.ted then left the littuae, an I appears to hays  gone and thrown himself into the warm water lodize -1 Messrs. Larinten and Sons, in Conti ranostreet, whence his body was recovered,—Tue jury unturned a verdict of "Temporary in ity."  WOMAN BURNT TO DEATH AT MOSsl.n.
Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1879-09-06 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

THE CASE OF -TIJIOMAS POTTS. l nk %letter to the Londt daily PeEers, Sir C arias L &hes thejfolltnning partictilars concernin this ..... I have nindn Remy' businesato institute pesOnal i'Snifith. and I ton glad to 'my -pnit; unfortuntia. Thomas Pntta ic. he doett not owe- any of his bOubh ito the action of the officers of the School rd. i'rftd of the officer of the Schtiol Botud I vjng S to the employer of the. eldest boy and nnde l'oc give up his situation," Alessi-a. Ormiston 4ssire u_le Pint they detect: wide* instruotione fro her iteieetis Inspector of Factories, who would not rtify L''' .7 for work. This fact is, this unfortunate man, teeing changed ihis reside igiaa several thews, tally 114, 'Stealth his children- into the workhouse in pril l'ee, to escape frets, a drunken wife, and did not me till June 20, . wben he :joined - his wife a her 'edgings at Clerkenwell. taken underau assumed ame. Nothing was knowp of them by the &boo] Illoard 'tom beceuiber last till the teeent case of ' attehinted ,Paicide eke reported in the papere. The School .""a had foe two Tears befriended these neer.% children, remitting school fees, ' provading e.ttles end boo* through the .Charity Organisation Society, and in °etcher, 18733, cur suneriutendept of the Citv division pertained for them I'2 in-on:mei and complete Snit., ~-,f elnthes for the four children. ; Tim lettle.f spent the moneys: on herself.ithe childreniwere Eftt tO school, and that: they hate daily. brehd is it, not to her, hut to cleighboula,-. who-wool not lee the children starve." - T 01 he 811, 210 doubt, is obe "ledeerated upon hi a !tetra- fete. but it is only j hat to I" 'het our viskore have acted in_lhO kindest manner to bi.e cruelly neglected children.  bmBtnetba.—A. young married woman, named h Tor, who lived in Elm-grove, Brighton, apart from er husband, recently committed suicide * taltirtg IlOse of ealts of lemon.  THE DUKE OF CAMBRIDuE
Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1879-01-25 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

HINDOO GBIEVABOE.  In his report for 1877-78 Capt. Barton. assistant agent, governor general, Rajpootaua, gives an account of a, curious event which occurred in the State of Bikaneer. Early one morning about 70 or 80 Skids, Mindoo fakirs, who held villanea and occupied extensive lands, rushed into his compound, makinn a great disturbance, and shouting out that their chief prieat, the Mohont, had been unjustly arrested he the durbar, and that unless he wa immediately released, they would all kill them:mites onnoaite his dime. These people are in the habit of it:utile:inn themselves, or even committing suicide, vithen they consider them. selves oppressed or ill-treated by the thither. Capt. Burton, however, failed so ramify them. and accordingly eon:mites] the Bikanyer yakeel in the presenee of the Sidds. The vain-el P,a,ed that there were several grave chargea against the Si,iflß who had been arrested, that their eases would be carefully invessi med, and that it was right. .Insthonath. the priest. should remain in confinement until lie had :mastered the complaints against hint. 'rite Skids were still an stubborn as ever : they declared the raj wan oppress. inn them, and being armed with worth., knives, anti daggers, which they frequently flonrialied. they said they would commit suicide unlesit their request was acceded to. After this they, in a body, went and sat outside the compound for two days, oinking inueh noise. On the third tiny it was reported to Captain Burton that the Sirlda had prepared four excavations, in ear-it of which a nein was seated, ready to be buried while the others declared they were about to destroy thernael ten. At first tin-y refused to desist, but eventually became tinier. though they would lake no food : and about the fifth day some were even thing of benner. On the sixth der Ju,stionath was released rn bail, on the seventh the Sinus partook of food. and on the eighth they left the spot where they had entamped themaelVea. It appeared there were many Points to be armlet between the durber and these Sidds, and that both parties were to blame, the former wishing to extort, in the ahape of revenue, as touch money es possible from the latter, who were trying to evade payment. The matter, however, was amicably settled after several months, and the Sidde returned to their villages.—Thaes of India.
Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1879-11-01 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

COST OF MAINTAINENCE AT ASYLUMS.  At the weekly meeting, on Tuesday, of the Preston Board of Guardians, the Chauman (Mr, C Jacon) said he toned that at the Prestwich Asylum the coat of maintainsuce had been reduo d by 7d a week and it was now 80 9d. instead of 9s. 4d Be formerly. He thought it was a pity that all tie nnylems (amid not work tog. the! instead of in that jerky way. The authorities at Whittingnam ward not roduoe the rate, bectuturie the least retraction they were able to make was Id. per day, end that would make a col/rich-ruble difference. Ito thought the bent plan wound be to fix the cost of mainteinence every anx mom., and kesp reserve fund; and if they found the Jewrn growing too large they could then reduce the coat and draw on the fund. They were not actually keeping the inmat. at Prestwich for lees than the; cost at Whittingham, but their balanee had ruerearied, and they were working upon that; but When one union war working at an apparently less cost than another it tended to create discontent.  A MAN BOOED WI 111‘ )U1 A COr FIN  A oorrespon lent of a contemporary write, t—A strong feeling of indignatton has been excited throughout Gloucestershire by an oocur taco which has just taken place at Dy mock, in that county. A few days ago an old mau, named Itottert Meredith, 77 years of age, committed suicide by hang• tog himself Dom a team in a stied near Dj mock. An iuqueat was held, and evidence was given snowing that the deceased had obtained an order to eater Newent Wo, knouse, where he had passed the previous winter; but the old man had a great objection to go to the uuion, and said that be would rather drown himself than do so. The morning after the conversation took place in which he made this remark, he was found dead under the tnrcurnstances described. Upon this evidence the jury returned a verdict.! felo dear, and the Coroner mad* out the usual order in such Osseo for the burial between nine and twelve o'clock on the following nigh' . The verdict was generally coadettined in the neighbourhood, it being felt tnat it was probable the old man's faculties hint become i ipauted by old age and privation; but even the jury themselves could warmly have an ticiputed that their veruict woulo re.,u.t in aflutter disregard for common d anal, in the burial of the deceased. Such, however, appeere to have been the case, for the deCeaaell WWI conveyed in h cart one litter of stew, with nothing Sot a sheet to cover it, t yen this being onontnuod by the person who provided it before the interment. When at the churchyard tho body was taken out of the cart, KU,i one rope being premed under the neck and anotbei under the legs, it wan so •rritr uuderhaod to the grace The grey hair and the head, tut wed no the naked legs, were plainly vimb,e, nuu the buoy was thus buried withou, any coffin or covering, It is to be hoped teat the LOOKI Government Board Or static authority wiilorder on inquiry into the circum• stances.
Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1879-09-13 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

OLD QUEEN'S BENCH PRISON.  The hammer of tbe auctioneer has just sounded the hello( this well-known and once notorious edifice, twang at the east end of the Borough-road, Southwet but which is now doomed to demolition and Oohed to share the fate of the old Fleet. the Markiwi, and White Lion and White Cross-street ioo'nes, which in their day and generation were its rowed rivals and compeers. An announcement awl from her Majesty's Office of Works stated iht that , department is prepared to receive leaders for the purchase of the land connected rell the establishment and the buildings which nee it, so that on the site of the "Old Bench" there mho doul t soon be erected buildings of a modern •lae. hid out and fitted for commercial and domestic The sale consisted of what was called in ologue "unserviceable stores," comprising five deep-sea lieu; some twelve tons of iron, in wrought, and scrap; eight tons of cheveaux -as which formerly surmounted the high walls eding the building, and which rendered the its yard within admirably adapted for racket„a • iie in which the inmates were stated to have tech &light; iron blocks, brass stop-cocks, about was, old canvass, and rotten stone, The larger fl of the articles were exposed for view in the iapel of tite lauilding, now sadly dilapidated, thn .adicationa of its having once been a place of I":,etseat worship being the three tablets on which epgraven the Jen Oorremandments. the Lord's Prner, and LIM Aposee's Creed, which still remain wer the place where an altar had once been.  SUICIDE OP A EktiriF.orco,rixt..l Mr. E. W. Gwen, the district confner; held an inquest at the Cite!animal Workhouse on the body of the young man Who comoritted suicide under very painful cirsentences. The unfortunate young 'fellow was 22 , Bus of 51., by trade helvoie a picture frame maker, I 44 the young woman is Emily Gertrude Gdegory, I *0 is respectably connected in the town. On Sun- I thy they were married at Bt. Peteie Church, and +fienrards lie took his young bride to bin new ifte in Townsend-greet, where the marriage lestivisere celebrated. At about six 'O'clock in the *Nag he went downstairs, and as be didn't return wife became alarmed, and scent to look after him. After searching in vain the poor woman's horror can biosfibed when she found a white.handled knife, rod-stained, and other blood-stains about the place. "L'
Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1879-04-26 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

THROUGH A PRACTICAL JORP..—An inquest was held at Birmingham on the body of Annie. Wife of David Seegal, gunsmith, who committed suicide on the 9th inst. From the evidence of the husband it appeared that some time since deceased received a registered letter, for which she had to pay 10d., end on opening it she found it contained a blank sheet of paper and a farthing. He also stated that on the morning of the day that the deceased cut her throat she had some hallucination in, the shape of believing that men were going to ransack the house. She had been confined fame months ago, and had been ill ever since, but what seemed to prey most upon her mind was the receipt of the registered letter which the had to borrow the money to pay for. The deputy coroner, in summing . up to the jury, paid the act of sending the letter ref/err...11010 tbo deceased was a most cruel one, and be had very little doubt that the persons who did it, whoever they were, were mainly the cause of the poor creature's death. Although they were not legally, to leis mind they were equally as guilty of murder or . manslaughteg, whatever it Might-lib, morally, ad if they had used the razor themselves. The jury found that the deceased committed 'suicide while in a state of pnsound mind, and expressed their sorrow and regret* anyone oho* he so mean as to play the feLeith of sending' the the registered letter to a woman deputycoroner dr swi.idth4ln ciiteeussas the deceased was. The deputyagreed with them in the addition the./ had made to their verdict. -1170gIllia. 09. BOMBS IN A CatracH.—A desprach from Seville announces that two large bombs had, been thrown into the church at San Antonio in that city with the object, iris supposed, of creating a panic, during ,which the perpetrators might be able to s te. some of the valuable sacramental plate belonging -to e at-antis- Several persons were hurt by the oaplolion of the bombs. Several arrests have been made in bonnection with the explosion of bombs In the Church of San Antonio in Seville.
Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1879-03-15 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

NTON.  On Monday afternoon last an icy lest was held at the Old So:diet Inn, before Mr F. Price. ooroner on the body of Jaines Clayton, of Marshall--street, off Wilton-street, who it will be reinamhered oocamitted suicide on Thursday week by banging him self in the closet.  Annie Howard said that she was mingle woman and was a hat trimmer. She had lieu living with the deceased who was her uncle. He was • hatter and was 68 years of age. Was Ter: intemperate in his habits and bad been KO for many years. lie had not followed his employment for two and a half years Had been maintained by her. On Wednes. day night deoeaed came home mace the worse for drink and went to bed shout half-paeteleven. On going to work about twenty minutes to ten the following morning, the deceased called out to her to lock the front door and go out by the back. This she did and took her dinar with her. The back was left unfastened. On rat...unit.: ' home at 7 o'clock sheifonad the trot doer fastened 1 and the bank door also, Alice Am tl Wagstaff : lodged at the same house but was not a ith her at, the time. She then went to Mrs Swallow's, a 1 neighbour. thinking that he had g ine oot and left ! the key there, which he was in the habit of aoing. 1 Finding lie had not left it there she want to Mr ' Harrison's, the Oddfellows Arms. He was not there. She came back and looking over the yard door and sew his hood in the closet, but was not sure whether it was him or not. Could not see that be was hanging. She gave as alarm and • man named Thomas Torr cat him down. Sue did not aeo deceased that night, but was told that be had hang himself and was dead. Deceased did not go out much. Did not notice that he seamed depressed. Ills sister at Openahaw ;gave him money to spend. It wee about • fortnight since he had been there.  Thomas Torr stated that he heed in Wiltonstreet and WAR ajoiner. Oo Thursday night about 7o clock, Loin what he heard he went to last witness's hoase. On looking over the yard-door he saw deceased hanging by a rope fasieried to the bead of the closet door. It being near be out the rope without goin.r in, and heard he body fall on the loge. He got over the yar,i•door and found de. ceased quite deed and wild. From all appearances he died from hanging. His knee. were bent. Never saw him befote and knew nothing about him.  Police Constable (Jerboa stated that from information rec,ived be went I. deceased's bowie &boat half pest seven, aad (wand him lying in the yard with his feet in the closet. The rope produced was round his nook. Knew nothing about him.  A verdict of " Death by banging' was returned, there being no evidence to show the state of his mind.
Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1883-01-06 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

STRANGE SUICIDE AT HOUNSLOW.  Dr. Diplock has held an inquest at Hounslow on the body of Dr. William Whitfield Edwards, who died from the effects of poison. Dr. Whitmarsh, the partner of the deceased, elated that he had seen him at a late lentr at night, when they were together for two hours. The deceased was in trouble at the time. Certain arramminents were discussed between them, and afterwards the demenet sent a message to his house to say that the ! arrangements would be accepted. Dc. Edwards sent for witness, but he did not think it nereisary to go. Mrs. Ada EdwardS, widow of the deceased, said her husband hol been very depressed of late. She bird gone to bed when her husband came home early in the morning in company with the assistant, Mr. Garrett. Her husband can" up into the bedroom, and he seemei utterly crushed. She had no hesitation whatever in saying that bin interview with Dr. Whitmarsh bed caused his death. The assistant !Wrongly advised him to accept Dr. Whitmarsh's oder --namely, £5OO to turn out. She sabasgo begged her husband to go to town in the early rimming. and one her father, and afterwards return and see Dr. Whdenarsh and a Mr. Lay, solicitor, at lirentford Pol'ee-court, soften the latter would arrange with his client as to a warrant. About tea minutm after this she heard two or three groans, and some one knocking against the tireirons. She ran downstairs and found her husband in his arm-chair in the dining-room in an unconscious state. She ran for Dr. Ball, and on her return saw an einoy bottle on the table. The deceased did not recover consciousness, and died in about eight or ten minutes. Tile stone morning her servant foetid in a drawer a letter in the dc used's handwriting, and marked .• Depot-tint." After a long discussion it was decided that the letter rta I. In it the deceased stated that a most fu I mid horrible charge hal been made against him, awl that he was innocent. After the evidence of hr. Ball, who attributed death to poisoning by prussic acid, the coroner adjourned the inquest.  AN INQUEST has teen bald at Brill, near Thome, on the body of Mr. A. Whichello, a butcher of that place, who, whilst driving towards Wotton no the pre, jour morning, was thrown out of the trap, I\ hereby his neck was dislocated, death being instantaneous. A boy who was riding with the deceased was oho thrown out, but was scarcely hurt all all. A verdict of 0 Analilen!..!l loath' vms returned.  NA
Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1883-01-06 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

THE INQUEST.  On Monday last an inquest was held before Mr. Price, district coroner' at the Angel Inn, Hyde-road, on the body of John Wilde, whose melancholy death we recorded in our issue of last week. The first witness called was Jane Wilde, the wife of the deceased, who stated that deceased had not been well for some time and especially since cue of their children had suffered from fever. lie seemed in great dread of catching it. lie had been very low spirited for two or three days before his death, but had taken no more drink than usual. Ile did not eat any breakfast that morning. He was out and was away about ten minutes. When he came back he complained of pains in his head and I made him some gruel and put a little brandy in it. He said he would go and lie down and thou he might feel better. About live minutes after he had gone upstairs I heard a peculiar noise and on going upstairs I was horrified at seeing him standing on the floor and Mood ramfMg from hi, month. 1 thought he had burst a blood vessel. I called out for assistance and a young in an named David Rhodes came in. Mrs. Acton, a neighbour, was the first who told me be had cut his throat. He died between twelve and one o'clock. I know of no remiou why he did it, except the fear of taking the fever. He was 35 years of age. David Rhodes, of Broom Grove-lane, stated he woo in the next door talking to Thomas Acton when he heard a knock on the wall on the stairs and Mrs. Acton went in Mr. Wilde'., and immediately ran back and asked me to go in, exclaiming "Jack is killing 501116 one." I I went in nod saw Mrs. Wilde walking about the chamber in distress. Deceased stood on the I floor with his head in his bands and I saw blood issuing from his throat, and lie put his hand in the wound to tear it open. I held him until some one came. I did not stay till he died, I left him in care of his brothers and others.— In answer to the Coroner, witness said: It struck him that deceased hail done it himself.  Mr. E. Millington stated the deceased's wife had asked him to look after him that morning. He had seen him but merely to speak to.—Mr. Howard, one of the jurors, stated he also bad seen him that morning, but he did not notice anything particularly about him.—Tho jury, of which Mr. Jenkins was foreman, immediately returned a verdict of "Suicide whilst in a state of temporary insanity."  A Pitscious Girr.—No one will deny, that the exotic shrub yielding Pure tea is a precious gift; adding much to our health and comfort. Thou. sands use daily Horniman'r Pure Tea, because it is strong, rich, delicious, and sold at moderate fixed prices.—Six seiUwn packets sold yearly. The following is a list of Horniman's Agents, for this locality