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The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1891-04-18 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

SAD SUICIDE OF A DEACON AT  TREFOREST.  On Monday afternoon Mrs Hammond, Wood•road, was walking along the brink of a pond some 20 feet deep on the Forest Iron and Steel Co.s ground, when she saw a hat and coat and in the water a cap. She at once called the attention of some of the men in the works and Mr-Rob-MP, the manager, and P.C. Lewis were soon on the spot. Mr J. Brooks with a drag after a few trials succeeded in bringing the body of a man to the brink which was at once identified as Edward Thomas, engine driver, formerly in the employ of the Forest Iron and Steel Co, but up to a fortnight ago employed in the Albion colliery as engine driver. The body was brought, to 110 Wood-road,amid considerable excitement. An inquest was held on Wednesday at the Bush his, Treforeat, by Mr E B. Reece, coroner, and a jury of whom Mr James Richards was foreman. From the evidence offered and from statements made outside it appeared that deceased, who was a most respectable man and a deacon of Calvary Baptist chapel, Wood road, had Jeff his home about a fortnight ago to look for work at the Maritime colliery, although he had not then left the Albion. There seems to have been. some domestic unpleasantness which weighed heavily on the poor fellow's mind. When at the Forest works where he had worked for some twelve years until it stopped, it seems that Le occasionally preferred sleeping in the engine house to going home, the reason given to Mr Roberts being that he found it hard to live at home. He threatened then to pat an end to himself. It is supposed that these home differences preyed upon his mind and finally led him to drown himself. He had slept in Llantwit at a Mrs Harriel on Saturday and Sunday night and had told her that he had been away from home for a iortnight sl,eping out duriug that time. She noticed that he was depressed. lie left on Monday morning at 4.30. Only 14d was found in his pocket in an iron tobacco box. Deceased was 52 years of age, and had recently buried his father. The jury returned a verdict of '• Found drowned," sad that deceased had committed suicide while of unsound wind." It was stated that the Rev. Mr Thomas, baptist minister, of Newport, was an uucle to the poor fellow.  • *TRierr,--.1,7^4.1r,t,f,
The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1891-02-07 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

THE.SUICIDE OF THE DUKE OF BEDFORD.  FURTHER INQUIRIES IN PARLIAMENT. Mr. Cobb, M.P., not being satisfied with the answers given by the Home Secretary respecting the inquest on the Duke of Bedford, again addressed a question to Mr. Matthews in the House of Commons on Monday evening. He asked the Secretary of State for tfie Home Department whether he had yet ascertained from the coroner if the statement which he furnished for the information of the House truly represented the facts; whether he had been informed that, in this case, the usual practice was departed from, and that upon the notice card in the coroner's office, which, for the information of the public and the Press, gave the dates, places, times, and numbers of inquests to be held, no reference of any kind was made to the inquest in question; whether it was the custom to use a notice card until the notices extended to the bottom of the card, and if in this case the notice card, although not filled up with notices, was removed on the afternoon of the day of the public announcement of the suicide, and destroyed, and another card substituted ; and, whether he would cause a thorough investigation to be made into all the circumstances, in order that the public might know upon what official in the coroner's office the blame rested.—Mr. Matthews said that this question implied a charge of untruthfulness agamst the coroner, which, on his behalf, he was bound to repudiate. The statement which the coroner furnished truly represented the facts. The usual practice was not departed from. The card was filled in as was customary, and the inquest in question was referred to in the card, the place and date of holding it being mentioned. The notice card never mentioned the name of the deceased. It was not removed before it was filled, and the hon. member was probably not aware that by law it was absolutely in the discretion of the coroner, if he thought proper, to hold the inquiry in private. He (Mr. Matthews) was not aware that any blame attached to any official of the coroner's office, and he should not feel justified in causing any further investigation to be made (Ministerial cheers).—Mr. Cobb asked the right hon. gentleman whether, if he could prove to his satisfaction that the statement of the coroner, which he made for the information of the House, was not true, he would cause any inquiry to be made (a Ministerial cry of "No.")—Mr. Matthews: I will, of course, listen with the greatest attention to any proof which the hon. member tenders to me, and act upon my judgment in reference to it. Mr. Cobb, says the Daily Nem, does not intend to allow the question of the coroner's management of the inquest on the Duke of Bedford to remain as it was lett by the answer of the Home Secretary I last night. He is convinced of the accuracy of the statement set forth in his question denied by the Home Secretary on behalf of the coroner, and will take steps to substantiate the facts.
The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1891-01-24 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE OF A LADY.  A profound sensation has been occasioned In Sheffield by the mysterious disappearance of Miss Alice Hutchinson, a maiden lady related to prominent residents and manufacturers in the town. Miss Hutchinson resided with Mr. and Misses Ward, at Broomhill, a suburb of the town, and on the morning of the 2nd January it was discovered that her bedroom was empty, and the back door of the house was unfastened. She had apparently risen early in the morning and had left the house very imperfectly clothed, having little more than a long fur cloak thrown over her night-robes. There was not sufficient snow upon the ground to leave traceable footprints, and a thick fog existing at the time she seems to have got away entirely without observation. From that time to the present nothing has been heard of her, although every effort has been made to find her. She was accustomed to take long walks, and her friends at first formed the impression that she had walked out towards the moors, and might have found shelter in an isolated cottage, but that hope they were compelled to abandon. A woman living at Rurginglowe, four miles out, gave some information which led to the belief that the unfortunate lady had been there, and search parties of her friends—numbering thirty or more—have been for days scouring the moorlands in the neighbourhood but without success. In view of the possibility of suicide, the banks of the waterworks, reservoirs, and mill-dams have been carefully scanned, and since the thaw the reservoirs nearest her residence have been dragged, but there has been no result. The friends have now abandoned hope that she is alive, and are at a loss in what direction to pursue further investigation, but the possibility of so complete a disappearance, baffling a fortnight's search, is occasioning a painful feeling in the town.
The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1891-09-19 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

MURDER AT BRIGHTON.  Herbert Arthur Green, aged 34, a respectablydressed young man, described as a clerk, *es brought up at Westminster Police-court, London, charged on his own confession with murdering his daughter Louisa, aged five, by the administration of ohlorodyne. It was said to have taken place at Brighton on the sth inst.—Prisoner seemed in • very dejected condition, and throughout the proceedings, as he stood in the dock, held his hands to his forehead.—lnspector Dyer said on the previous night the prisoner walked into the Rochesterrow (Westminster) Police-station, accompanied by the Rev. Hill Jones, one of the local clergy, to whom he had previously made a statement. The clergyman said, "This man will tell you what he has already told me." Prisoner was thereupon cautioned, and made and signed the following voluntary statement:—"On Saturday, the sth inst., I took my two little girls (ages seven and five), to Brighton, intending to drown myself and them. Before going I bought a bottle of ohlorodyne at Mr. Read's, chemist, of Bockingham Palace-road, for which I paid 3s. ed. When at Brighton I gave each child some from • small toy pail, and then I took them into the sea, where they had been paddling. When they commenced to scream I took them further into tho water, and the little one, Louisa, screamed so loudly that I then brought them both out—that is, as far as I oan remember. I then, with the assistance of • fisherman (name unknown), took them to the Royal Sussex County Hospital, where Louisa was seen by the house surgeon and placed in a cot. I asked them to send for me if she turned worse, but they did not. The girl died at half past 2 o'clock on the Sunday morning. I believe I attempted to commit suicide myself after that, and for this offence I was charged at Brighton, and liberated on my wife promising to take care of me and bring me to London. And now I Wish. to give myself up, as I conscientiously think that I have been the cause of my ohild's death."—Detectivesergeant Weadock said that no doubt the prisoner's child diddle at Brighton in a mysterious manner, and there had been an inquest. The little girl was seen in the ass., but it was thought that she was accidentally out of her depth. She was taken to the hospital, and expired a few hours afterwards, btrii it was thought from shock to the system. It was also the fact that prisoner was afterwards charged with attempting to commit suicide. Witness had the newspaper reports of both occurrences. —The Magistrate: Have you made any other inquiries I—Sergeant Waldook : Yea, sir. We have found that a man did purchase a bottle of ohlorodyne at the chemist's mentioned; but as the sale is not at all uncommon, prisoner is not identified. The accused has been drinking rather heavily of late. —The Magistrate granted a remand, observing that the mile must eventually be remitted to Brighton.
The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1891-11-07 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

TRAGEDY AT KENILWORTH.  A shocking case of attempted murder and suicide has occurred at Wbitemoor, Kenilworth. The parties concerned are cousins, named John Reuben Rainbow, a farmer, of Wappenbury, and George Brewer, who has followed a similar occupation at Whiternoor. It appears that at six o.clock in the evening ,Rainlsow loft his • home (which is about nine miles from Kenilworth) and dr4cihuri.ri horse and trap to Brewer's house at K Fite parties appear to have been in eac o s company for about an hour, when Rainbow invited Brewer to accompany him as far as "Tommy's" (referring to a public-house about a mile down the road) to have a glass of beer. Brewer said he would go with pleasure, and both got Into Rainbow's trap and drove off. They ' had not got far when at a secluded spot ia ' road Rainbow, without the slightest preroation or warning, turned round, produced six-chambered revolver from his pocket, and uhntkilltewer in the side. Brewer thereupon, seege violent character of the assault, and the; fact that he was rendered powerless ,to resist, I scrambled from the trap in a fainting condition, ankh& ossailant drove away in the direction of Wappenbury. Brewer, although very faint from loss of blood, managed to reach his house, where he told as best he could what had happened. Inform Woo was .at once given to sergeant Alcott, at lingliserth, who proceeded to Whitemoor, and assistance of James Jackson, took a cab and went io search of Rainbow. They proceeded in the direction of Wappenbury, but before reaching there they found that Rainbow, had left his trap and decamped across the fields. Feeling isertain he would go, home they went to his house only to discover that Rainbow had shot him. self about ten minutes before their arrival. Alcott and Jackson went upstairs, and thus found Rainbow in a pool of blood, lie bad shot himself in the head, and was then quite, dead: Although the attempt on Brewer's life appears to have been premeditated, there is very little known to have 00-4:Jerre/between 4:Jerre/between the ammo to justify such an out'rage. It is stated that Brewer's mother died about  year age, and that money was left, over which ere was then some dispute. Brewer asserts that had no grievance whatever against Rainbow, d until the bullet was fired they Iverson the best
The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1891-12-26 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

CHURCH. perley, named Hamnett, and it is stated that, , fearing her husband's displeasure' at finding her La , A correspondent states that the Archbishop of arrears; she late at night placed herself and the Vienna or Friday performed the rare ceremony of child, aged two veers, upon the railway, and waited reconseorating the Metropolitan Church which was the arrival of the train, which passed toVer and desecrated4ophe suicide a young librarian killed both. The woman had been married about named 8o ' ~, who s.. - ' • th a revolver four years. main. 'the • red ed ' '''-' ' warned, his .. At the inquest it appeared that the woman took pretty fiancee, who h . , ' .44 oarrimil tbo her child, walked to the railway, and having late. She cried, "My . ',.~ ,' • ~y loves" lava placed the boy across the metals, sat down and committed edieide ; I wil i hem waited till s train came along, when both were cut appeared. ~ to pieces. The husband, who was called, denied --------that he ill-treated his wife. The jury returned • While a number of workmen were engaged pick. verdict of wilful murder against the woman, but , ing 'in the outting at Whistlefield, a few miles said that the act was committed while she was from Helenburgh, on Monday afternoon, a dynatemporarily insane, mite cartridge concealed in the rock unexpectedly exploded. One man, Kenneth M'Lay, belonging, to Red in every. shade (says a lady correspondent) is Skye, was killed, and three others were more or the fashionable color this winter, and not without IOBS Injured. . ~........4,,,_ ~. reason. % iliffihe On Sunday 411EMY WHY _itt other 1. The School Board for London.-have had a long Joseph Schooling, labourer, of Romford, took a discussion on a motion that the Board should gun to pieces and while he was placing the stock adopt a memorial to the Education Department in his pocket the barrels fell told exploded, the asking that temperance teaching might be made a charges edumiag the 'loWer part of his bOdyl • Ile code suicide. Ultimately the matter was re- died shortly afterwards. ferred to the School Management Committee. At the military barracks at Ennis on Sunday At Braintree James Brown, a discharged soldier, night a boy 12 years of age, the son of Sergeant was sentenced to one month's hard labour for Ashbary, of the Clare Militia Artillery, while play: breaking 100 panes of glass in the woikhouse ing with s number of other children, obtained • windows. Prisoner, who had been nine years in revolver belonging to his father. The weapon hope lunatic asylum, said he had been driven fo panel to be loaded in one chamber and while toy. desperation by the scandalous conduct of other mg with it the revolver went off, the bullet peesMmates, log through his heart.  „” and dis
The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1891-06-27 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

SHOCKING SUICIDE IN A BEAR PIT.  A terrible suicide is reported from Frankfort-onMain. A servant girl who had lost her situation climbed over the railings athe Zoological Gardens, undressed herself, and let herself down by a rope which she had brought with .her into the beer-pit. The Polar bear awoke, sprang at her, seized her by the head, and lifted her up. The poor girl in her agony screamed out, and the keepers hurried up and tried to drive off the bear with poles. The girl begged them to shoot the animal, but the keepers could not make up their minds to this, fearing to shoot the poor ghl, and hoping to get her out alive. In the meanwhile the bear began his awful meal, and tore the flesh from his victim's face and breast. The keepers at last succeeded in driving the beast away from the dreadfully mutilated body, which was then hauled up. The girl on a former occasion told one of the keepers that she would throw herself into the lion's cage, but her remark was taken for a joke.  A collie w&sattacked by thirty weasels near Morpeth the other day, and was only rescued from the vermin after ten of them had been killed.  At the Watford Petty Sessions on Tuesday, Caleb Shepherd, a young married man, a labourer of Heronsgate, near Rickmanswerth, Herts., was committed for trial for a gross outrage upon Elizabeth Young, a young lady organist at Heronegate Church, and formerly organist at Mill End. John.C,onnelly, a bricklayer's labourer, was on Tuesday committed for trial at Blackburn on the charge of causing the death of his wife by kicking her during a drunken quarrel. The deceased gave her husband a violent blow on the nose, and prisoner, it is alleged, retaliated by kicking her so viciously as to cause death twenty minutes later. The prisoner wept copiously in court, and begged for a lenient sentence.  Blast furnaces continue to be rekindled in Scotland, where the iron trade is now recovering from the effects of the prolonged strike in tho smelting department.
The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1891-05-30 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDES OF CHILDREN.  A boy named Alfred Webley Penton, 10 years of age, died at the Miller Hospital, Greenwich, from injuries inflicted upon himself. The deceased livhd with his grandmother, his parents being separated, and attended a Board School at Deptford. On the day in question, he left school, and half-an-hour later the police discovered him throwing stones In the streets, and took his name and address. He then went home, and his grandmother left him in the kitchen with his dinner. In a quarter of an hour sbe returned, and found the deceased lying in a pool of blood in an outhouse, with a carvingknife and a table-knife, the latter very sharp, beside him. He could not speak in consequence of his throat being cut. Before being removed to the hospital the deceased wrote on a piece of paper that he inflicted the injuries himself, and did so because he wanted to. At the inquest a police constable named French said he saw the deceased, who was with another boy, throw two stones, op° at a window. Witness took his name and address, and deceased went away, but returned and said to witness, "You wor.'t summon me, will you?" Witness told him he would have to reportit, peoeased seemed very much upset about it. The jury returned a verdict of suicide, deceased at the time suffering from delusions in consequence of having been detected throwing steles by the police. A remarkable MIMI of suicide occurred near Worcester the other evening. As an express train approached the city a young girl in a naked condition suddenly rushed in front of the engine, and was instantly crushed to death. Police-constable Williams, who was called to the place, was horrified to find that the child was his niece Kate 4aghes_, 13 years of age, who lived at Kingswinford. Her clothes warp found under an archway beneath the line. Nothing is known that mut& account for the girl's extraordinary conduct.  Mr. Roby has secured • place on Tuesday, the 9th of June, for • resolution declaring the expediently of limiting the underground working day to not more than eight hours for each person. . At Lelosater this week William Garner, ironmonger, Melton Mowbray, war munmoned—for exposing 90 sheep affected with sheep scab lathe Leicester Cattle Market. Defendant said the sheep came from his farm near Grantham. Mr. Blackwell remarked that there was an additional offence in moving them. The chairman said the Bench had decided to deal leniently with the cue. Defendant was liable to a fine of £5 on each sheep, but he would only have to pay 10s. and oosts for each animal, or in default one nsessth's imprisonment.
The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1891-01-03 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

ACIOIDENTS ON THE ICE.  _Th.  The cootinsed prevalenee ef frost provided plenty ot lee, Ansi the exhilarating pastime of skating has been engaged in by very large numbers of jieople all over the country. The frost was so severe that the lee was Many inches thick. • It* sport has not, however, been unaccompanied by accidents. A large number of persons were skating on the River Avon at Warwick on Saturday, when the in. suddenly collapsed, and four young men ' fell into the water. Three of the men were rescued in an exhausted condition, but the fourth man, Themes Burgess, was drowned, and a young man named Thomas Wm. Wing lost his life in attempting to effect a rescue. The bodies of Burgess and Wing were not recovered for two hours. The accident happened a few yards below the confluence of the Avon and the Learn. A serious accident happened on the Cherwell at Oxford on Saturday, Mr. T. Linley, of Holywellstreet, having the misfortune to slip up and break his leg. Two little girls ventured on the Idonnow at a spot where the ice was rotten, and both fell in. A brother of one, aged nine, ran to their rescue, but was himself nearly drowned. His lather, James Lewis, saved him and a girl named Morris, but Ada Lewis, aged five years, disappeared. Her body was recovered two hours afterwards. At-Castle Douglas on Monday John Gordon, a plasterer, was skating on Carlingwark Lock when he jell oackward, fracturing his skull. He died immediately. At Worcester a number of boys were skating on the Worcester and Birmingham Canal when the ice gave way, and five of them were immersed. George Large and Ernest Andrews, each about seven years old, were drowned, and the others were rescued with great difficulty. At Stowmarket, two girls named Welton and .Eley, aged respectively 11 and 13 years, were drowned in consequence of the ice over the river giving way. An inquest was held at the Sportsman Inn, Royston, near Barnsley, this week, touching the death of Thomas Foxon and William Leadbetter, aged 11, sons ot miners, who were drowned on Friday in the canal near Ryhill. After hearing the evidence the jury returned a verdict of accidentally drowned. Information WWI supplied to the fame coroner of the death of Beckett Hague, aged nine, of Elsecar, who was drowned in the canal at that • whilst sliding.  were  were  Three men on Monday entered a bank at South Chicago while the cashier and book-keeper were at lunch. After overpowering the official in charge they robbed the safe and drove off with their booty at a rapid pace. The alarm was, however, immediately given, and after a long and exciting chase all three burglars:were captured. A seaman named Gmndfield fell from the gallery into the pit of the Theatre Royal at Caterbury on Saturday. Re sustained fracture ef the skull and oonoussion of the brain.  charge,  S IRANGE SUICIDE ,oy A