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Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1883-05-26 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

THE STOCKTON HERALD.  A NORTH YORKSHIRE YOUNG SUICIDE OF' A REPORTER. LADY ELOPING WITH A COACHMAN. On Wednesday .evening an inquest was held at An amusing scene was witnessed at Felling- Plymouth concerning the death of Herbert lionon-Tyne on Tuesday. It appears that a tague Francis Evans. a young man, reporter on a young rady living in the north of Yorkshire daily newspaper, who committed suicide that ran away with her father's coachman on morning by swallowing prussic acid. He left Monday. The couple were traced to Newcastle behind a letter stating that he had attempted .by the young lady's brother. At the Central suicide the previous week, but was prevented, , Station they took a cab and proceeded to Fell- that the cause was his grief at the refusal of the lug, and were followed by the brotherin another parents of a young lady to allow him to pay his cab. An exciting chase followed, and addresses to her, asking that she might follow at Felling Station, where they were him to his grave, and giving minute directions overtaken, a lively scene ensued; the as to his funeral. A verdict of suicide while young lady coming in for a good deal of knock- suffering under temporary insanity was reing about, her brother holding on to one arm, turned. and the coachman to the other. After some strong language had been used, Mr Plender, member of the Local Board, whose place of business is exactly opposite the Station, intervened, and requested the lady to make her choice as to whom she would accompany. She decided to remain with the coachman, and the pair left for the South shortly afterwards. The lady, who appeared to be about 22 years of age, was of prepossessing appearance, and her lover was also rather good-looking.
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1880-03-13 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE AT  NORTON.  A FAREWELL LETTER.  The quiet little township of Norton has been thrown into an unusual state of excitement by a sad affair which ocourred on Sinday morning. It appears that about ten o'clock, two men named Robert Lyuton and John hey, were walking through Junction-lane, when their attention was attracted to the pond on the roadside by a noise as of splashing water. On I getting close to the pond, they saw a young man named Thomas Mowbray in the water wila his coat off. The water was then about up ,to his neck, and from the thoroughly drenched and exhausted condition in which he seemed, to be there could be no doubt that he had been struggling in tint pond for some minutes. The men promptly dragged the unfortunate fellow out, and conveyed him to the residetioe of his father in Hermitage yard. Rabtoratives were there given him, and in the course of an hour or two he had recoveeed considerably from the effects of his bath. His coat and waistcoat , were found lying at the side of the pond, the following letter being Moue of the pockets : " Sunday, March 7th, 1880. " Hermitage-place, Norton. "My Dear Father,—l now sit down to , write these few lines to you, hoping them to find you in better spirits than you were on Saturday, and not to be so keen of sending for Sergeant Tate fez any more of my brothers or sisters, as you will have something else to think about now. You can get ' uncle to knock a box together for me, as lam not going a yard out of Norton. I have not got a job, and I am not going to beg from door to door. I have slept in Charlton's cow-byre right straight by your house for two nights now among straw and full of rats, and I have not had a pennyworth of bread since Wednesday night, and I can't stand it. You will find me in Charlton's pond. Make nothing to do about me, but lay me by the side of my poor mother, and let us both rest peaceably. You don't know how soon it might be your turn, but I think myself I have been wished dead long enough; but the time has come at last, so when you receive this I shall be dead ; and I trust to the Lord that you will say a few words for me when you receive this. "From your Son, "
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1880-06-05 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

GENERAL NEWS.  Captain Percy B. Bernard, M.P. for Bandon, has aceepted the stewardship of the Chilton Hundreds. The objections to Lord Ripon's religion, which have found expression at home, are neither felt nor expressed by any section in ledia---not even by Scotchmen. The Queen's usual gift of Zs has been duly received by Mr Willis, of Brotherton, the father of the three children born there a few weeks ago. One of the children has since died. In consequence of the late drowning of two students in the Cam, above Newham, the Council of the Senate at Cambridge recommend that students shall be called upon to declare their ability to swim before being allowed to take out boats. The expenses of the candidates at the Shef • field election were filed on Tuesday. Those ol the Right Hon. A. J. Mundella and Mr Waddy, the Liberal oandidates,amount to £2,54.2 10s, whilst the expenses of Mr Wortley, the Conservative candidate, who defeated Mr Waddy, are £4,025 4s sd, nearly £1,500 more than the combined expenses of the two Liberals. A robbery of an unusual character was investigated in Glasgow on Tuesday. Charles Macaulay was charged with stealing the watch of a drowning man. The man, it appears, committe(l suicide by drowning himself in the Clyde, and Macaulay, in attempting to save him, robbed him of his watch,_ and then absconded. Prisoner was  - - remanded. Circulars were received on Tuesday morning by the customers of the Earl of Dudley announcing a reduction in all kinds of coal supplied by his lordship. Furnace coal is now 98 per ton, and lumps Bs. Lord Dudley's prices rule the local trade, and a reduction in furnace coal is accompanied with a redaction of colliers' wages. Thick coal men will be reduced 3d a day, and thin coal miners 10. SAD CASE or
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1880-02-21 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

GLADSTONE ON BREACH OF PROMISE TO MABEL—Writing to acknowledge the receipt of a book entitled " Breaches of Promise," Mr Gladstone, referring to the motion in the House of Commons, says—" I have much confidence in Mr Herschell's legal proficiency, and I should be loath to speak strongly without further study, but I own to be unwilling to part with the imperfect check upon misconduct supplied by the present law until I shall see that better ones have been pro videi." During Monday's terrific gale a schooner went ashore near Salcombe, and was dashed to pieces within a few minutes. The coastguardsmen fired rockets over her, and one man, seizing the rocket line, was drawn on shore. Two coastgnardsmen stooped on the rocks to help him up, when the wave washed away all three, and only one was saved. A coastguardsman named Clements was drowned, and all the schooner's crew. Her name could not be descried. It was a long name. An inquest was held on Monday at Manchester on the body of a yonng man named Maxsden, a clerk. On Friday he was found shot in the head in a railway carriage on the Altrincharn line. He was unconscious, and never rallied, dying on Sunday. A revolver was found in the carriage. The evidence did not show whether the case was one of suicide or accident, and an open verdict was given. The screw-steamer Kenley, Captain John Udall, of London, from Seaham for Rochester, put into the Tyne on Sunday, and the master reports that on Saturday morning, when off Flamborough Head the steamer was in collision with the barque Ibex, Capt. Goodwin, from Hartlepool for Whitstable, the consequence being that the Ibex was sunk. The captain and Thomas Gibbon, the mate, were saved, but two others of the crew named Henry Oakes and Edwin (surname not known), were drowned. The Kenley sustained considerable damage to the starboard bow, and her fore compartment is full of water. The steamer has been placed on the ground of Messrs Smith's dock, North Shields.
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1880-02-21 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

SHOCKING SUICIDES ON  T YNESIDE.  On Monday morning, at an early hour, the ' body of an elderly man named John Towers, who has been employed at Brancepeth Colliery as a eartman, was found in the backyard of his house at WiWngton with his throat terribly gashed, and life quite extinct. Deceased retired te bed with his wife on the previous night apparently in his usual health, and had not previously displayed the slightest indication that he meditated self-destruction. When he got out of bed his wife has no knowledge, but on leaving the bedroom he had seemingly proceeded, dressed only in his night-shirt, to the fireside in the kitchen, where a large pool of blood showed he had cut his throat. He had then gone to the privy, where he dropped the weapon he had used—viz., a large buck-horn handled pocket knife, and he had apparently stood there until in a last agony he had rolled out out into the yard, where he was found. On Monday morning, shortly after the 8-30 a.m, express train from Tynemonth had passed the station at High Walker, the driver's attention was attracted to a man who was standing by the side of the up.line of rails waving an umbrella. The whistle of the engine was immediately blown to warn the man of his danger, and for a moment it seemed as if it was going to be effectual, as the man stepped back for a short distance, but immediately afterwards laid his head on the rail in front of the engine, and was instantly killed, his head and face being mutilated in the most shocking manner, his wrist severed from the right arm, while his body was flung almost parallel with the line. The unfortunate occurrence took place at the identical crossing where a young woman was decapitated a short time ago, only in the present instance the melanchely affair happened on the up instead of the down line of rails. The man appeared to be between 35 and 40 years of age, and was respectably dressed, but no memorandum or money was found upon him, the only aiticles likely to lead to his identification being his stockings, which are of dark brown wool with pink cross strokes,and bear, neatly worked in pink wool, the initials "J. P." The body has not yet been identified.
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1880-07-31 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

BEWLEY.  The peace of the quiet little village of Cowpen Bewley has just been considerably disturbed by the suicide of one of its principal inhabitants under the most lamentable circumstances. It appears that about one o'clock on Tuesday afternoon Mr George Farthing, farmer, retired to his bedroom, telling his wife that he was "going to lie down for a little while. Mrs Farthing had not the faintest suspicion that her husband contemplated suicide, and consequently took no more notice. At a quarter to two, however, she was startled by the discharfe of firearms in the house ; and on going into her husband's b.,: oni she discovered him lying on the floor, and an old-fashioned six chambered revolver at his side. Blood was flowing profusely from his left temple, and the room was filled with smoke. Mrs Farthing at once raised an alarm; Dr. Wilson, ~f Not tOll, Wevb called in, but his services were of no avail, as the unfortunate man had shot himself through the brain, and death had followed almost instantaneously. The police having become acquainted with the sad affair, Police-constable Cowen proceeded t ) the house and took charge of the revolver with which the deed was committed. On examining the weapon it was found to havehad all thesix barrels loaded, but only one of them had been fired. It is rumoured in the village that the deceased had lately had a great deal of domeatic trouble, and the general opinion is that he committed the fatal act whilst suffering from an attack of temporary insanity. He leaves a family of three children.—On Thursday afternoon Mr Coroner Settle held an inquest at the Three Horseshoes Inn, Cowpen Bewley, on the body. The evidence was ,merely a repetition of the facts reported above, and the jury returned a verdict that the deaeased committed suicide by shooting himself with a revolver whilst in a state of temporary insanity.
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1880-08-14 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

SAND WIC 7{. ELECTION PEUTION. THE CONSERVA.TIVE MEMBER UNSEATED.  Justices Lush and Manisty gave judgment in the Sandwich election petition on Tuesday. The hire of 88 public-houses was considered necessary for meetings, but cue real motive the electioneering agent disclosed when he stated that the licensed victuallers were an important element,andindispensablo in an election. Corruption had largely prevailed, and Mr Crompton Roberts (C) was declared not duly elected, on the ground of bribery by his agent. The petitioner was simile' ly to blame. Each party to pay their costs. At the general election the Right Hon. E. H. Knatchbull Hugessen (L) was elected without opposition. In May ho was created a peer, and upon a new election on the 18th of that month Mr Roberts defeated Sir Julian Goldsmid, Bart (L). it is rather singular that at Oxford, the Wigton Burghs, and in the above instance the candidates who defeated persons who had been favoured by the Government have been unseated.  News reeeived on Tuesday morning from Zanzibar reports the sad intelligence that Captain Carter and Mr Caden head, of the Rayal Belgian exploration expedition, have both been killed by the Chief Wrambo in Central Africa. This may possibly mean the great robber chief Marcambo, the name apparently having ' beet altered in telegraphing. Chi Tuesday morning the Assyrian Mon-, roh, a steel vessel, built by Messrs Earl for it, , Royal Exchange Shipping Company, and 3 'tended to trade between London and New fork, was launched at Hull. She is the i,.rgest steel vessel built at the port, and is three hundred and seventy-two feet long. She was christened by Lady Brown, wife of Sir John Brown, chairman of the Earl Company, and there was a large company interested in steel shipbuilding present. The Aurora announces the formation of a new association for collecting money for the necessities of the Pope, entitled the Universal Union for Daily Tribate to the . Supreme Pontiff, the amount of the daily tribute demanded from all Catholics being one centime, or six sons, for the month of thirty days. , A mason, aged 26, condemned to four I years' imprisonment at Cusans, has starved ' himself to death. From the day of his sentence he ref need to take fo ,d, and, no compulsion being resorted to, be died at the end of thirty days. His funeral was purely civil, the priests considering him a suicide.
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1880-05-15 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

DREADFUL SUICIDE.  Mr R. T. Combe, a Somersetshire magistrate, committed suicide on Saturday by blowing his brains out with a revolver. The cause of the rash act is supposed to be the sudden death of his wife. He was chairman of the Illminster bench of magistrates, recorder of Langport, a member of the Somerset Police Committee, and highly esteemed in the county. A shocking affair occurred at Cheetham Hill, Manchester, on Saturday evening. A young man, well connected and in easy cifcumstances, named Henry Gill, a captain, it is said, in the mercantile marine, had for some time been paying attentions to a young lady, the daughter of a well-known Manchester merchant, Captain Gill having apartments in Cheatham Hill village, quite close to the house of the lady. His attentions were not approved of by the young lady's father, and she accordingly broke off the connection. On Saturday eveL in g, in broad daylight, and in the main road, Captain Gill met the young lady and her sister and spoke to them. They were passing without taking any notice of him, when he took a pistol out of Lis pocket, placed it to his ear, and shot himself through the head. The young ladies screamed and ran off, and other people who were passing attended to Captain Gill. He was found to be breathing, and was at once removed to the Manchester Royal Infirmary, where he expired shortly afterwards, having remained speechless till he died. The pistol is a now one, and in the pocket of the deceased were found two bullets. It is supposed that, having heard that the young lady would not acknowledge him when they met, he had determined, in case she did not speak to him, to commit suicide, and for that purpose had bought the pistol. For some days past his rejtctment had preyed heavily upon his mind.
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1880-12-25 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

HEAVY WEATHER IN ME  ATLANTIC.  Steamers arriving both at Liverpool an. New York report having encountered very severe weather in crossing the Atlantic. The steamer Canopus, which arrived at Boston on the sth inst., from Liverpbol, encount:red strong westerly gales during almost the whole of the passage, with heavy head seas. On the 24th November she shipped a sea which carried away one of her boats. During the voyage the Canopus passed two derelict vessels, one of which, the India, was boarded. She was found to be waterlogged, and had a large hole stove in her port side. The rudder was gone, and all the hatches were off. The other wreck was a vessel of about 100 tons register, and was passed bottom upwards on the 24th November. The steamer Pereira, whioh reached New York on the 7th inst., had a most eventful passage, dariag which one of her passengers committed suicide through fear and excitement. She left Havre on the 20th November, and very BOOn afterwards encountered the fall fury of the gales. She dipped and rolled alarmingly, and her decks were continually swept by heavy seas. She had a number of passengers on board, and the bad weather had continued for several days they went to the captain and asked him not to drive the vessel so fast, they being of opinion that her speed was too great. During the interview one of the passengers, a young Frenchman, named Claude Micosiler, cried out that they must all go down, as nothing could save I them, and he then climbed up the poop and jumped into the raging sea. It was impossible to lower a boat, but a life buoy was thrown to him. He grasped this, but could not remain his hold, and be drifted away and was lost. The gale continued until the 27th, on which day one of the sailors was severely injured by being swept along nearly the whole length of the deck by a heavy sea. On this day, also ,the steering gear brake, but, fortunately, the duplicate steering apraratus could be brought into use. During all this time the passengers were in a state of the most abject terror; BOMB implored the stewards to tell them if the ship was going down, while others secured their valuables about their persons, fully expecting the vessel to founder every moment. On the 28th, however, the weather moderated, and the steamer reached her destination on the 7th inst.
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1880-09-25 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

SHOCKING SUICIDE OF A  LUNATIC.  A Coroner's enquiry was held at the Durham County Asylum at Sedgefield on Tuesday afternoon into the circumstances attending the death of an inmate of the asylum, named Elizabeth Corrie. The , deceased was the wife of a labourer at Tyne Docks, and was admitted to the Institution in March last as a lunatic of suicidal inclina, tion. Shortly after ten o'clock on Monday morning last Miss Elizabeth llodgson, an attendant, took the deceased and four other female patients out for a walk. The deceased—who then seemed to be calm, and was well behaved—expressed a desire to go in the directicn of Fishburn, and the defendant gratified her wish by walking that way. About eleven o'clock they turned off the Fishburn road, and went across a piece of waste ground to return to the Asylum by what is known as the Backroad. There is a limestone quarry near this road fifty feet deep, fenced off from the road by a low stone wall. When nearing the quarry the deceased ran away towards the stone wall, and before the attendant could catch up to her she jumped over the wall,and fell headlong into the quarry. The unfortunate creature was killed instantaneously, receiving a fracture of the skull and other rsevere injuries. Mr Thos. Waite, Clerk of Works at the Asylum, said the wall at the point where the deceased jumbed over was not more than 3 ft. 6 inches high, and he thought that, considering the depth of the quarry, such a wall was not sufficient for the protection of the public. Dr. R L. Rutherford, Assistant Medical Officer at the Asylum, said be was of opinion that one attendant should not have the sole charge of five such patients outside the Institution. The Jury, after a short deliberation,returned a verdict to the effect that the deceased cornmilled suicide whilst of unsound mind.
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1880-04-24 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

STRANGE SUICIDE NEAR LEEDS.—Abraham Naylor, oordwainer, Pndsey, near Leeds, committed suicide on Thursday by opening a vein in his arm with a pooket knife, and allowing himself to bleed to death. His landlord heard him groan about 3-40 in the morning, but before he could effect an entrance to the room the man had expired. SERIOUS STREET ACCIDENT AT SToCKTON. —Between eight and nine o'clock on Monday night an accident which might have been attended ,with fatal results occurred in Norton-road, Stockton. The Corporation have opened up the road for the purpose qf laying new water-pipes in place of the old ones, and during the progress of the work every precaution has been taken to guard against mishap. On Monday night, however, it seems that a puddler named William Morgan was going to his home in Pearson-street, when he, somehow or otSer, walked into the ope in the road. In the descent the man's came violently in contact with the side of the trench, and the result of the collision was that Morgan's face was severely out and contused. When the unfortunate man was rescued from his uncomfortable position it was feared that he had received some serious internal injury. He was consequently taken to the Surgical Hospital, where it was found, on examination, that no bones had been broken. The wounds on Morgan's face were then dressed, and in a day or two he will no doubt be able to leave the Institution and resume work. "THE DOME" differs from the ordinary kinds in the following important points :—lt is manufactured only from selected materials of the BEST QUALITY, and being prepared by a special process It not only P01,18110E3 MORE QUICKLY than other blackleads, but , also adheres at ones to the stove or grate, thereby AVOWING INJURY TO THE FURNITURL from dust. Sold by Grocers and Oilmen everywhere. E. James and Sons, sole makers, Plymouth. ROTAL DEVoNsITERE