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The Warwickshire Herald. — 1887-06-09 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

JENNIE. meeting was a" Saved Dynainiee." who was eriod enough to favour the company ite hi- ' i xperigE BURGLAR AND HIS ences." He must be a fearsome yes-el indsat, to judge from his own account lo ' imetlf. Ile it, or 'YACHT, rather was, "a dynamiter, who ha i tp-en 4000tilmed drunkard from the age of thirteen. He hat Seen a Cheshire, Petty Sessions William smuggler, had tried to kill hie w tie, snit hid tie ice • who owns a yacht, in which h..ve artempte 1 t. , commit suicide. and in the hist occaee proceeds of several burglariee don he was cut down, when he was very it- arly remand, Charge' with breaking hanged, by a member of the etelvat•on A imv. and tures, Seacombe, and stealing became saved." Saved he ohvi ii-Iv was; end it ,v, and various ether articles was only CorarnOn decency on his fart to j In the ith burglary at Blskeley, army after wbat had ham ned. But his aeces-ion ether burglary at limits- to it- rarks opens up pleasing possibiliiies of a (oasis rin tbe Se icombe ete.,e political nature. If a French dynamiter is ',twerp. on the night of May tible to Salvationist influences, why 5e0.11,1 not his ~ Al half-pest two Irish-American brother be ciutieear-eb e le an it out of his beds equally saleable way? Why alio ild the British lie lending on to Government not subsidise a sp. ceil expeulitiotrary ling over the coups for the peaceful conquest of tee hearts of the 'sing struggle " better men. The converted !evincibleu would, i raised an no doubt, be invaluable for the waging of -teritual prisoner warfare by the turtling metheds iii which tie army 'Ark hoe deliehts, and all would go welt in the huei of all The possible worlds. Sair. Ts, A
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1887-03-03 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

SOME ODDITIES IN HEAD•DEESS- (SEE LADIES' LETTER).  Roe's establishment. Belfast having beer. reachcd, the pair proceeded to Greenock, from Greenock to Eoitiburgh, from Edinburgh to Leith, and from Leith they took a steamer for France and landed on French soil. The fugitives travelled through the country without delay, and Ethel Roe is now in Metz with her mother, her brother, and sisters. happy and contented. The Preeman's Jilurnal adds that these particulars come from a source which it considers trustworthy, and says Mrs. Roe, the aunt, will have to content herself with the knowledge that Ethel is well and happy, and reconcile herself to the fact that she is not a child to be proselytised. The story is in many ways remarkable, but in none more remarkable than in the devotion and self-sacritice shown by humble working people who had no other motive in this matter but one of pity for the child, and a desire to rescue a h man soul.  A GENTLEMAN named Cannon, living sa, Cat naught-place, Kingstown, committed suicide va Sunday by shooting himself through the heat with a revolver. He was the owner of extensive property in county Galway. AT the Hereford Police Court, on Saturday, Henry Peake was fined, including costs, £8 ss. for selling an unfit salmon, and, in default of payment, two months' hard labour. Defendant said he theme* they could only give one month for a single s.alioeck, and not,ce of appeal wai given. WILLIAM SAY LES, a timber merchant, who wan for several years a member of the Helper Loard Guardians, on Saturday remanded by the Nat.. lock Magistrates for uttering a forged acceptance te a bill of exchange for the payment of £22 10s., wida intent to defraud the Derby Banking Company. . . . .  AN inquest was held on Saturday at Dorchester on the body of a boy named Arney. He was, with other children, "playing cows" in a timber-yard, and hid behind a heavy framework, which lett ea him and crushed him.  THE steamship "Sinbad," Captain Page, bound from Calais to tiarston with a cargo of stray, war f mud to be on fire at about three a.m. on Sunday, when midway across the Channel. She was immediately headed for Milford Haven, whkli reached at one p.m. She was then grounded on Sher; mud and scuttled.
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1887-06-23 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

MPTED MURDER AND SUICIDE. 1 classes for lan eguaese-Mr. Prime spoke in favour • - 'The other morning Henry Kellaway (49), a dock 'of the gymnasium propositisn, saying the cost ! elles.s u. would and would be but triffing.--Dr. A. Hill repelled the 's wire leafer, commit toil a murderous assault on In , s with whom he resided at Stonehouee, by beating her s too warm, statement of Mr. Hanbury that they were no, about the heal with h miner. Kellaway, who letel a a assible to Paying • sufficient attention to education. They ; , es ouppo.scal to have been much the worse for liquor, ee tlian were providing instruction and amusement cons: l• kit his wife for dead, locking the door of the apartbined, and he gave a resume of the past session it ',erne ment in which she was lying, and, half-dressed, sd support of this.. -Several other members also) the to Great Western Docks at -Millbay. He spoke. --Mr. Barker suggesing that they should' , - evaded tiie policeman, who is alleged to have been get rid of the choir and dancing assemblies, as . aateep at the dock gates, and plunged in at the -ey had resulted in a loss for the year.--The water close to the floodgates, near which his dead en was carried unanitnoustly.-On the motion body was found several hours later. Mrs. Kolbe ' %airman, seconded by Mr. Bentley, a voto way, who is in a dangerous condition, has received t was accorded to the president, Lord live or six fearful wounds about the head, face, and •nd the vice-presidents; while, a sinneck. She has been married some twenty-nine -t was paid to Mr. Davenport Adams years, and for the last three had maintained her 'man during the past session.husband. A month since she summoned him be. eorted that the following had fore the Plymouth magistrates for assault, but the Incil for the year :-Messre. hurt, A. Hill, B. llill, ease was adjournedon deceased promiaing to amend. 'Allor, Mole, Patterson, I -- ---- --- --- - el Wilkins. -A vote '
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1887-10-20 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

SAD ENDING TO A LOVERS' QUARREL.  By the mails just to hand from Australia an ac,•bunt is brought of a mysterious affair at Melbourne. Captain Moore, of the Sarah Griee, a large ship of over a thousand tons register, being on the eve of leasing that port for London, appeared at the police-court and rep,rted that a young woman named Laura Swain, to whom he had been engaged to bo married, had committed suicide by jumping off the Victoria-street Bridge into the Yarra. The captain was the only witness of the occurrence, and his statement was that he met Miss Swain in the afternoon by appointment and they took a walk together. After having tea they went to vi-i Ia married sister, and in the middle of the bridge, which is sixty feet above the water, lie stopped for a moment to light a cigar. Suddenly he heard a loud splash in the water below and then saw that the young woman had disappeared. He ran down the banks, and in the darkness fell a considerable distance into the brushwood, and although he heard Miss Swain's screams, he was unable to render her any assistance. Captain Moore added that he saw two meo on the bridge to whom he offered money if they would assist him in the rescue, but he could not induce them to do so. rhe police have since been endeavouring to solve the mystery, but-up to the departure of the homeward mail without success. rhe body of the young lady had not been recovered. A servant girl who knew Miss Swain said she and Captain Moore sometimes quarrelled, and that she saw and heard them quart cluing on the evening of the reported suicide. Captain Moore remains behind at Melbourne while the case is being investigated.
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1887-10-20 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

SUICIDE OF A HARBORNE CHEMIST.  On Sunday morning a gentleman named Thomas Brown, temporarily residing at the Cobden Hotel, Corporation Street, Birmingham, committed suicide in the hotel by cutting his throat. Deceased, who was about fifty-five years of age, had lived at the Cobden for a few months' past. At about half-past seven on Sunday morning he was seen walking along one of the corridors enveloped only in his night attire and a top-coat. A few minutes later one of the visitors to the hotel informed the " boots," Albert Terry, that a gentleman was ill in the lavatory. Terry went thither, and perceived blood trickling from beneath the door, which was locked. The lavatory door was taken from its hinges, and Brown, who had only a shirt on, was seen crouched in a corner and was covered with blood, which flowed from a terrible gash in his throat, extending almost from ear to ear. A white-handled razor with bloodstains upon it lay by his side. Life was extinct. In the afternoon a son of the deceased's, living at Northampton, identived the body. He paid his visit to Birmingham in consequence, as he stated, of receiving a letter from his father that morning, who wrote that by the time the letter reached its destination he should be dead. The son, on receipt of the letter, naturally hastened to Birmingham. Deceased many years ago lived at Recker, but he left his family, and up to some months ago they were ignorant of his whereabouts. Whilst in the town, deceased had been acting as manager of the chemist's shop at High-street, Harborne, belonging to Mrs. Gould, a widow. Some weeks ago, however, he left his situation, and had then only to fall back upon some money (about £5l) that he bad in hand. Deceased, who is a widower, is credited with having been a heavy drinker. It is also stated that some time back he paid his addresses to a lady at Harborne, but was not looked upon with favour.
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1887-10-20 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

JZAZINIE.  A RUSSIAN CENSOR OF THE PRESS. -A St. Petersburg correspondent writes :—A great scandal is the topic of conversation in our literary circles. It was discovered the other day that the chief of the so-called "Highest Press Administration" has abused his position for the sake of cash. The "Highest Press Administration" is an institution created to be a cuNtodium ntorunt of the entire Russian Press. The chief is entrusted with wide discretionary powers. He can at any moment summon the editors to appear before him. He orders them to treat political questions in the way he likes, or forbids them to discuss them at all. He indicts penalties upon his white slaves, and is thus enabled to reioler their exists:two a burden. How niany times have Russian papers been suppressed for mouths, or altogether, thanks to this petty tyrant! However, for some time reports have beets current respecting the corruptibility of this official; and it was reported and believed that a great number of Russian papers paid him tribute. It was also ruanoured that any one who wished to obtain permission to publish a paper must begin by bribing this gentleman. But it was only the other day that his enemies succeeded in getting the necessary proofs. It seems that they organised a plot, a Jew aud a famous Russian publicist being the principal conspirators. The Jew solicited permission to publish a new paper, and, after long negotiations, in which the money que,tion played the largest pirt, the concession was given for a suns of 3,000 roubles. Two hours after this happened the conspirators had denounces' him and delivered the proofs to the authorities. Ilse official in question has been dismissed.  A SCHOOLHOUSE in cause of erection in New York fell in on Monday, burying a number of workmen in the &brio. Six bodies were recovered, and four men seriously injured have been removed to the hospital. It was beliewd that 14 others were still beneath the ruins. . • . . .  DIOMAB CIIATTELL, parish clerk at Catworth, near Kimbolton, committed suicide the other night under soniewhwt extraordinary circumstanced. A search being made by hid wife he was found in church in the pew from which he discharged his clerkly duties, with his throat cut from ear to ear. AN eleven-ton howilzir gun, when being fired at the range of Messrs. Armstrong, Mitchell, and Co., at Silloth, on tisturday, burst. Five pettoiliS %Vele deriomly injured.
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1887-12-01 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

TERRIBLE TRAGEDY IN YORKSHIRE.  A shocking double murder has been committed ,at Otley, near Bradford. A man named William Taylor, a County Court bailiff, went home drunk and quarrelled with his wife. About two o'clock in the morning the quarrel was renewed on account of the woman disturbing her husband by rising to attend to a sick child. Taylot followed his wife downstairs, and a lodger, hearing the altercation, attempted to interfere. Taylor thereupon threatened to swing for both of them, and, picking up a double-barrelled gun, fired in the dark. It missed the woman, but the full charge entered the body of the child, which died immediately. The wife and lodger escaped to a neighbour's house, and an alarm was given to the police, who proceeded to the house to arrest Taylor. Their task was a very difficult one. Taylor was known to be a deadshot, and to attempt to enter the house seemed to be to invite death. They consequently resorted to watching the house to prevent his escape. At seven o'clock Superintendent Birkill came upon the scene, and went to the door and endeavoured to prise it open, when Taylor thrust the barrel of his gun through the window, close to Superintendent Birkill, and fired, the charge entering behind the left ear. The unfortunate man fell mortally wounded, and was removed to a neighbouring house, where he died. He had been 25 yearn in the force, was 57 years old, and was widely respected. At eleven o'clock Taylor endeavoured to escape. lit one hand he had a table knife, and in the other a shovel. Police-constable Macdonald flung himself on Taylor, who struck out, cutting the former's face above the eye ; but with the assistance of Mr. Holdsworthy, the manager of the Co-operative Stores, Macdonald succ-eded in getting the mastery of Taylor, and securely held him till the arrival of the police from the front of the house. A cab was then procured, and he was conveyed to the police-station. ['he scene was witnessed by some hundreds of people, who, if permitted, would, it is said, li Lve lynched the prisoner.  EDWARD MARSH, 38, a convict, has committed suicide at Chatham Convict Prison, in a most determined manner. The deceased fastened one end of his bed rug to a window bar in his cell, and twisting the other end round his neck hung his full weight on the rug, drawing up his legs until he was in a sitting posture. Thus he remained but a few inches from the ground till life %%as extinct.
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1887-12-01 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

TIRED OF LIFE.  An inquest has been held at a workhouse in London respecting the death of Jane Bridge, aged 19, a domestic servant.—Miss Margaret Jones deposed that she was living at the Bridge of Hope Mission Refuge, 26, and 27, Prince's-square, St. George-inthe-East, where she was helping the Lady Superintendant. The deceased YAW admitted there on Friday, the 18th inst., and slept at their night shelter at 11, Prince's-square. On the Saturday morning witness saw her, and she then said she had been walking the streets for two nights, and had had nothing to eat. Witness noticed her dress was stained, as if marked with blood; but deceased said these stains were caused by her lying in dirty courts. She said she had been living in a situation at Hackney, add that her mistress had been very unkind to her. Witness noticed that the deceased seemed ill, and that ker lips were parched and drawn. She advised her to go to the infirmary, and told her they would take her in again when she was better. The deceased replied that she would do whatever the witness thought best. The witness gave her some bread and butter and coffee. Deceased drank the coffee, but did not eat the food. She was afterwards admitted to the infirmary.—Ellen Jackson, an inmate, said when the deceased was brought into the refuge, sbe could not eat her dinner, and, on the witness's advice, lay du .vn, Witness, at about seven in the evening, proceeded to undress her. Deceased was quiet all night, but in the morning she said, "I will tell you the truth ; I have taken poison."—The nurse who attended the deceased in the infirmary deposed that the deceased told her she had first taken some liniment, but as that did not kill her, she afterwards bought some rat poison in Bethnal green-road, and took it.—Dr. William Steer, resident medical officer, said the deceased told him she had taken phosphor paste. She afterwards died from the effects of some irritant poison, and the symptoms were consistent with phosphorus poisoning. She gave as a reason for taking the poison that she had had a quarrel with her mistress, and was tired of her life.—The jury returned a verdict of suicide whilst temporarily insane.
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1887-01-13 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

ACCIDENTS AND CRIME.  How THE CAKE WAS FIRST  ON Saturday afternoon some roofing, covering a path leading to Shrewsbury Station, suddenly collapsed, killing Mr. William Heath, a coal merchant of Shrevvsburv, and injuring a boy. The accident is attributed to the weight of the snow on the roofing. FIVE years' penal servitude was awarded at Birmingham Quarter Sessions to George Buller and J. C. Holdcroft, convicted of a series of "long firm" swindles in Cardiff, Bristol, and elsewhere. The police stated that there were 150 additional complaints, and that officers were waiting to arrest the orisoners for forgery at Cardiff and London. A DISTRESSING case of suicide is reported from Batycliffe, a village near Ulverst me. A man had been out of work since Whitsuntide, and all his efforts to obtain employment proving of no avail, he hauged himself on Saturday. He leaves a widow and seven children.  A PECULIARLY brutal murder was perpetrated on Saturday at Pendlet .n, near Manchester. The supposed murderer is a man named Leatherbarrow, who lived with a woman named Quinn. The couple seem to have been on bad terms, and after some quarrelling had been heard, Leatherbarrow hastily left the house. The w,-)man was subsequently found by a neighbour lying on a mattress with her head batterel in, and quite dead. Leatherbarrow made his way to Victoria Station, Manchester, where he was subsequently arrested, just after he had booked for a distant town. ON Saturday evening a sad ice accident occurred at Hawick, by which a boy, aged eleven years, lost his life. A number of people were skating over a deep pool when the ice gave way. All were safely  ___-- ----) • rt... N, ' ' 1 ip ''. , • 1 ! , • \ 1 1 1 ~, _ (,t•-„, • ...., .14'14 I SANE .1 I -..,Si'l t. f //lig ' • 4 L. ---•-- , 1"S , 78c • , -7-__-__- _ a.,•-• ----. Z..:1,... • ............,-."'" ................... ........7 --) --s ' ..
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1887-11-24 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

EVERYTHING.  GIZADBTONZ has been ontffering from skoold, wbich seized him while he was mini's/down a tree daring the inclement weather in Saanrdey. . AT the West Bromwich Polioe-onart, on Saturday, William &nor, a brewer's traveller, was seatamed to three months' hard labour for embezzling £4 is.  The Queen's Bench has ordered the trial of the emergency men for the alleged murder of Kinsella, on the Coolgreany Estate, county Wexford, to take place before a special jury. THE death has occurred at St. Leonard.' of Col. Edward Akroyd, formerly Member for Halifax, aged seventy-six. He was a great benefactor to the town of Halifax.  THE forty-seventh birthday of the Crown Princess of Germany, Princess Royal of England, was celebrated on Monday. She married the Crown Prince of Germany Jan. 25, 1858. A GREAT FrEE occurred on Sunday night in the small market town of Gornia Orehovitza, in Bulgaria, by which over 30 houses were destroyed, including the postal and telegraph offices. THE remains of Alderman Sir William M'Arthur were interred at Norwood Cemetery; the Rev. John Walton, president of the Wesleyan Conference, officiatingb A WIDOW, residing at Tanner's-hill, Deptford, committed suicide on Saturday by cutting her throat. The deceased woman supported herself and her three children by working at a laundry. THE POPS has expressed great satisfaction at the mission of the Duke of Norfolk, which he looks upon as a prelude to the reopening of the question of the resumption of diplomatic relations between England and the Vatican. M. GooDsox, the wife of a fisherman, of King's Lynn, has just given birth to four children, all boys. Three of them were born alive, but one of the three died shortly afterwards. The mother and the two surviving children are doing well. Fame Sofia is is reported that the man recently arrested on suspicion of being concerned in a plot against the life of Prince Ferdinand, has confessed that the Odessa PanalEvist Committee had made arrangements for the assassination of the Bulgarian political leaders by means of bombs. PRINCE NAPoidaort has written a letter in which he says that the resignation of President Grtivy is necessary. France does not desire a Monarchy, he adds, but a government emanating from the people. AT the Middlesex Sessions this week Henry Taylor, formerly superintendent of some publics baths at Paddington, and who pleaded guilty to having embezzled over £l,OOO belonging to his employers, was sentenced to five years' penal servitude.
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1887-02-24 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

THE INQUEST.  On Tuesday afternoon the inquest on the body was held by Dr. Iliffe (the borough Coroner) at the Beggar's Bush Inn. Councillor Mee was the foreman of the jury.—Kezialt Kimber, mother of the deceased, said that she resided at 108, Adderley Park-road, Sarney, and that her daughter was twenty-five years of age. The deceased had often complained to witness of the dullness of New Oscott, and had, on more than one occasion, expressed her intention of leaving there. Deceased was not engaged to anyone, and, as far as witness knew, there was nothing to induce her to commit suicide.—ln reply to the Coroner, witness admitted having a daughter of rather weak intellect. —Annie Collins, wife of ‘Villiam Collins, builder, New Oscott. deposed that she had known the deceased for several months, and had found her lowspirited attl desponding. A week or two since deceased told her she had a sister of weak intellect and that she was afraid she was going the same way. Witness added that she was not at all surprised when she heard that the girl had committed suicide.—Samuel Tyer, landlord of the inn, said that the deceased had been in his employ as barmaid for about four months, but lately she appeared to be very ill and depressed. The last time he saw her alive was at about a quarter past eleven on Sunday night, when she went to bed. At about half-past seven on Monday morning he got up, and as he passed her door said "It's only half-past seven. You need nob get up yet. I'll light the fire myself," to which deceased replied, "All right." At about half-past eight o'clock witness took up a cup of tea to her. He knocked at the bedroom door three times, but received no reply, and he consequently pushed the door open, and was shocked to find deceased hanging from a hook behind the door. Witness at once cut the body down, and sent for a doctor and policeman.—A verdict of " Suieide while in a temporary state of insanity."—Remnants of letters were produced to the effect that deceased contemplated a change of place owing to the dull life, admitting at the same time that the landlord had promised her good references of character.