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The Atherstone, Nuneaton, and Warwickshire Times. — 1886-04-17 (Atherstone, Warwickshire, England)

STRATFORD.ON.AVON.  SIIIANCE Hearn ne A I ETLOOhE, -- An , inquest wan held bv Mo. T. It. coachman I (coroner), at the Town Hall, on Saturday 'after. noon, reepecting the death of George Lea, a gentleman of independent means, who resided at 07. Went•street. —The evidence showed that the deceased wax abont sixty•three year. of age, a,,a that he formerly occupied a farm. called Kongo, near Bearley. Three years ago he lost kin wife, which circumstance greatly depreeetel him, and caused lain, to give way to intemperate habit.. On Thursday night deceaeed and the servant were I alone in the honse, his daughter who lived with i him, having left the Mwn on a vieit to friedde. About midnight the servant, thinking eoinething n-as wrong. went to the decetteed's bed room, and found oat lying upon the floor partly • undreseed, a pillow under his head, and covered with a blanket. The deceaned ton, breathing very heavily, and appeared to be melee'o. The girl unloosed hie collar and necktie, and left liim. Next morning ehe was surprined at not hearing 11,,, deceased about, and on going to hie room found hit., It-log in e anti ,1t,00,a,0e posit ion rot when ehe la, iiilll. HO was quite dead. The girl at ono, co 1111111 l nicated with the police.—Mr. LiLlinICT Greene, surgeon, who made a poet mortein examination, eaid softening of the brain had not in. The heart, lungs, anti liver were diseased. but none of the eynmpt ..... e deecribed• in hie opinion, were sufficient to cause sodden death. The condition of the liver wan no doubt due to eye...dye drinking. Having carefully con, eidered the core, bin opinion on, that death re• suited from syncope anti comas-The jury retnrned a verdict in acconlance with the medical eel. • dence.  %Vs lett, that tla!  ..e . . painting (nom the b iph of Sir J. E. kfillnin. 0... It A., known tIK Hobble.," repre.enting a handnom° feiphniredoon child blowing neap bobbles (rem. )p&rrhmAf by rho proprrtoro of ,:p b1:1 Hundred l'onithi. We believe the painting in to be the .object of. nhow e int for M Penni' beeline.. Too moth credit cannot he. given to thin entnrprining h tine for the rultore.l tone they hare introducel into advert Ping.  Sncrn.iO Lone Swmgraseevor. —The Esrl of Shaftombury committed mu'eide in Unnion on ,Tuesdsy by .hooting him. It with a revolver in Regent-street while driving in s cab. An inquerd ' was held at the Mifdloe Flompital. London, on Thureday. It appeared that dee...wand had been very strange in him Inst.°, being under the delumion that he woe .ußering from 'lnvolve, where., there wam no Jimuse of any kind. Owing to this a watch had been kept upon him, ard .11 firearms pla,ed beyond him oontrol. A verdict of '• Suicide whidat inmane" *ea returned.
The Atherstone, Nuneaton, and Warwickshire Times. — 1886-04-24 (Atherstone, Warwickshire, England)

SHOCKING SUICIDE AT MERIDEN.  Dr. Wynter, divinional coroner, held an inquest at the Workhouse, M ,nion on Walnenrlny, on the body of man undlentitied. but who from n piece of paper found upon h•m is believed to be named Archer, lately re.iding in Birmingham and who on Monday !ant committed euicide by shooting himself. The deceeeed, who was respectably dressed, and of middle age, hailed a cab in the Mowley.road on Monday. and asked to be driven to Packington Blocs. Ile arrived there shortly before throe o'clock, and remained to seo the second race--c. Selling Hurdle Race for 90 sovereign.—and then suddenly and in an excited manner left the course end returned to the cab, which hod been waiting for him. Ito seked the driver (George Bunn) to convey him as fast as possible to Birmingham, but when the cab arrived at the Bull, Head, Meriden, the decesmd asked the cabman to stop. They then both adjourned to the publochouse, and the dereased pehl the driver 104.—the fore demanded—and for a drink. He only said a few word, tot Bunn. but from his manner he appeared to have lost heavily on the Selling Hurdle Race. He left the mikrofon, saying that he was coitur down the road for stew yarde. The driver, however, followed him, and noticed thot lie took something out of MR pocket and put it in his mouth, then he hoard the discharge of a revolver, and can, the man fall backward.. Horan to him at once, but the unfortunate man watt dead. A policeman f:onveyed the body to Meriden work. house.—The jory returned a verdict " That the deceased committed suicide whilst temporarily insane.”—ln one of hie pockets was found a piece of pater, on which the words " George Archer" and 'God blew you," were written. At the bottom ot the paper. in almost undecipherable writing, was the word Birmingham. and there was also written the name of a street which cannot be made out.
The Atherstone, Nuneaton, and Warwickshire Times. — 1886-11-13 (Atherstone, Warwickshire, England)

SUICIDE OF FILED AICCIIER.  The tragic termination to the 'linens of Archer, the celebrated jockey, han, it need beetle be naid, created a very painful nenration otatniae purely "Wing eireles, for the achievements of Archer in the saddle bal been such an to make for hini 2. reputation far exceeding that of ordinary jockeyc. Archer was the non ..f a well-known nteeploeliane , rider, who won the Liverpool .11eand NOtlolilti in 1/159. M hen only about twelve years of age he was bound apprentice h. !Matthew Dawson, the trainer, soon aft,r the latter NO left the employ of Mr. James Merry, id Lambourne, aind had to renide et 'Reath House, New ket. Archer f ri.. childhood irn,i evineed connate, nide aptitude for riding, but he did not appear in the naddle at a rare meeting until 11170, when he rode a mare called Athol Dainy, at ('loaterlield. It was not, however, until 1472 that he ea .... • intr4 prominent notice. and in the antioun of that year Ire wou the Cenarewitch for Mr. Radcliffe wOh Salvation, carrying the feather weight of sst. 71b. excellent horsemanship ion that ocranion attracted the attention of Lord Falmouth, whvae horses were trained in the Mahle where Ire wan apprenti....M, and the next yene his nervicen S. a light weight were in great olenintill. So well did he ride that Lonl Falmouth clammed him with the mount on Atlitlllid for the Two l'houvand Cainean.of 1074, thoogla he had to met up a great deal of dead weight. From that day to this lie has during 13 nneeessive sermons been ni the head IA the lint of winning pndreya tic..,n after nemam, he was credited with upwards lot '2llO victories. and though in 10.40 hi. score fell to 120, as lie. was unable to ride for a long time owing to an injury to one of bin arms, he iron /dna, then ' gone f triumph h. triumph, winning 210 mem 1002. 232 in Itakl, 241 in 12114, and 240 in NM. thene two had totals being higher than tine. aulaieved loy ant oth jer ockey .of the pant or the present. lie hml, though mill in advance llf ni other jon-key,, been less suerennbil thin seaman, he had ridden onl) 1711 winners out of 512 111111 l Front New 11l l rket Areher went to ride at
The Atherstone, Nuneaton, and Warwickshire Times. — 1886-10-16 (Atherstone, Warwickshire, England)

GLA.,.a was obliged to remaia indoons on Sunday, owing to a cdd. 11. daughter, Mr.. Drew. continues very ill. '  Lord S*Lflooor ~It. it I. ..peered. pay • visit to Her Majesty at BalmoraL shortly after hie return to London Irons Diepps. The Anchor line steamer Auchoe!a, which left Glasgow for New York on September 16, and about which grave anxiety to to her eatety was felt, mrived off blewfuoudland coo Sunday. Oh '•• • •  ..... A verdict of • Temporaty inaanity" was returned by a coroner'. jury at Carli.le. on Saturday. in reepeet to the death of an old gentleman, named Marindale, who committed suicide at hm lodgings by thruating • darumg•nuedle into hi. hem t.  -11"i-iiTe-xpecteit that the Qa.n and the Royal suite will leave Scotland on the Slat inst., and travelling at night, by spedial train, will arrive at ! Windsor on the morning of the 2ffied. Seine. tad Prince.* Henry a Batteuborg will probably leave • few days earlier for Windsor. At Preston on Sundry, a man name] John Ridch wan discovered with hit feet protrudmg from a sewer grid, kin head and shoulilere being inmiersel in the ilelirage. How he came in that pireition Jo 0, krionn, cod the matter a being in vended by the police, rumours being current of an Saturday, an adjourned inquest wan held on the hody of Florence Morton, a little kid who in suppereed CO have died from the eff,ct of eating rotten fruit. The surgeon, who had made • pm< moron, examination, said he had fouled traces of ponioning, and the enquiry was agein adjourned, in order that au analysur might bo made tithe content• of the atornach. The +tate of affairs it Delhi oontinues critical, and reinforcements of dragoons and infantry have been despatched l.oat Meerut. The Mohan, med.. have deetroyed a email [Ludoa teneple, breaking the idols M piecee anti smearing the place with blood. At Bombay a inerious cat 0. corona on Friday between the liindoos and Mobaumeokens of Jetpur, In the Sattywar district.  The Dario pep,' contradict the report that it I was under nor...adoration m appoint t;erieral Dorgan. Dcabordes to the consumed of reinforcemanta for ,Sladaginic tr. and add that, ie roe., af improvement in the situatioo, there ean ha : no idea of sending fresh troops to the island et I present. I The moot sacred day in ths Jewish coleuder. the : Day of Atonement. commenced At friday at ' %moot, and torrnieated on Saturday 0•011111 about treaty-four hours it Is to h• Jewish people to partake of •ny food or drink, it being the grate gay whereon. according to Seriptural dictate% "Obey aro toatlliot their souLii..  7
The Atherstone, Nuneaton, and Warwickshire Times. — 1886-01-23 (Atherstone, Warwickshire, England)

BEASTLY FELLOW P.M/U.N. PUNISHED JoArs Lethbridge, 79, Shrultland.street, woo charge,' with haohm indecentiv entaulted Alice Pigniitt, 14 years of age, at the b ek of the Joiners' Arms, Shroblandtstreet, on the 10th inst. —Mr. Crowther Davies defended —Complainant stated that she wee a nWee of Mrs. Lan4,don, of the Joiners' Anna. On Saturday night, about 11 o'clock, she was ,eoing to !Mut the bark door of the inn, when she NOW the prisoner standing againet the hrewlionse door in the yard. Defend. ant came to her and eommittetl the memult cam. pleined of. She told hint that the would tell her mother, and Mro. Bloehem, who saw- the assault coeumitted, told hint that he wee a flirty beaet. On teeing that he was observed defendent went away. The defendant did not appear tn he finite eober.—Mrs. Amelia Meehan, F. Shruhland• etreet, corroborated the girl's evident,. —Chiefconstable Brabner stated that when defendant wee charged at Set Town Hall, he said toe only did it for a lark.—The tlroel, tenteneed him tot tnooth's imprisonment. with hard labour.  Dm.rato3..— Widions o,,ing, 19, St. Mary'screscent, was charged with having used °twee.. language in St. Mary's-ereseent, on floe 12th Dud. —Mr. Crowther Davte• defended—Detectivesergeant Balloo coated that the defendant used offendve language towards Il i 111 l and called hint spy and a detective paid to dog liink about. —Poliee-constahle Rainbow atated that the defendant called at the office on the 1211, inst. to lodge a complaint against Detective llama, when Ike admitted that he lost his temper and used bad language—The Chief.eonstable explained that there was no ground whatever for the defendant's smpieion that he was being dogged by the police. I —The Bench tined defendant as awl cost., 13... I expreasim,' regret that the defendant should have forgottenhk. respectable position. ATTEOI,I,O So-tmoa—There wa.s a charge againd *We. Worroll, of 36. Clarencestreet, postman, of attempting to commit suicide by cutting his throat early on Sunday morning but on its being called on the Chiedeonstable stated , that the nmn was. not milliciently recovered to he I removed from los home, and the clkarge was accordingly adjourned. A Mivstxti I,Dia. —John Wlallo,k, a youth of 14, re.iding at 6. Kenilworth.street, was charged with stealing a piece of leather, value Rd, from 21, Oxford..treet. the property of the Receiver td the estate of Henry Itorton.—William Adkin. appeared to prove the charge, and produced loin appointment as bailiff of the eldate by Mr. Pews., but wao unable to prove the appointment of Mr. Deir.on as Official Receiver.—The Clerk said float this wa, floe missing link, as there was no evidence before the Court that Mr. Ihwton coo a bankrupt, or that Mr. Peirson had been ap. reinnetdadjoOthurcniaeld eels'''. utnotilthrirat;,tldr-TtLe production of the certificate of Mr. Peirson's op iskintment.
The Atherstone, Nuneaton, and Warwickshire Times. — 1886-01-23 (Atherstone, Warwickshire, England)

SAICIDE. —At the Pslire Court, ,Coventry, on Monday, Mary Ave Smith, domeatic t. I. Orme-villa fewer Ford.otreet. was charged by Polme-eons.ble Stanion with baying attempted to commit suicide by taking poison. oa tho 15th Inst.—The Chief conetahle stated that the prieo.lo, area servant with Mrs. Brown, of Lower Ford-street, and on the previous day sho admitied to tier mistress that she I had taken posomaThe mistrem ate ea sent ifor co' netthltan7odn roadcln'the hod use he prPoopel ' took the prisoner into custody. The poison did not affect her much—she did not tato enoligh it ; end as the case wan not of the etrouge-t kart he thought that if her father :would pronthe to look :dbr her propioly, h.., the better course would be to ...charge her.—The prisoner's father promised to look after her, and told the Bensh that the occurrence was doe to her vi 'lout tempt. • —The Beech. in discharginv the prisoner, severely • reprimanded her, and toll her to keep Am tsmper under proper control. If abe came oefoie tlitm again on a sitnilar charge, she Plight be sent for trial at the Assizes. A most remarkable ease in given in the Rri.tel Time 4 and Mirror, ...T1 verified by the poblialiera. Honry Ricketts. reshheg at Trym-. ottsuos. ' by, Gloucester:4.e, euffsrod two years with severe theirmati.m. Hes:idly Ito was so Peverrly alt ,eked. that he was sent to Bath Hospital • for treatment and the use of the water.. In five seek. he was iiimhasced worms than when he toter-ti lie was proem:nes:l incurable. Taken hone, he wea pesanadsd to try St. Jacob's Oil. Ile did so. Wonderful an it Inlay appear, • single apploation freed hint from all pain. The remedy has also been nand Pe to. family for tooth-ache with the Name happy result.. Posen. rd other cases are cited by the Times, provitg the marvellous effset• of the remedy,— St. Jacolm Oil is sold by Chemist. nt 2s. 6.1. • Bottle, or by poet 2.. Pt, from the Charles A. Voueler Company, Sole Ptopriotar, OS, Farriagdon Road, London.
The Atherstone, Nuneaton, and Warwickshire Times. — 1886-11-27 (Atherstone, Warwickshire, England)

ALLESLEY.  Ruse.. oe Pon-1r7;f7,-;..—An inquest wae held at the Rainbow- In, Allealey. yesterday. i before Dr. C. W. Iliffe. Coroner. on 1110 lally Of Jonoph Miller. a labourer, 60 yearn of a.m. of Alle-dev. who had hanged I self on the previous day.—thomaii Miller. • bicycle painter. living it, Well-ntreet. Coventry, said that the deceased was his father. He livml at Alloolov. and latterly had seemed troubled about hmilaughter, and through twiny; short of work. Ile last .aw him alive on Saturday night, when he seemed an well a, usual, t a little ,itrange. Ile left Inut about one o'clock on Sunday morning. He had had a little beer.—Harry Hollick, a youth. living at Alleilev, also gave evidence, and said that they expected deceased at their house on the Itiontlay ...... but he did not going —Police-constable Mumford 'mid that he had knot n the deceased for some time. On Monday, about a quarter-past two o'clock, he entered the h"one and found him banging f 1111 l ilie hod-end. /le was dead, though the hotly wits warm. tine leg on,. on the Inal and the other on the finer. He cut him down at once.—The jury returned a verdict that deceased committed suicide whilst in a state of unsound mind.  Scotto., Bowl. Ehioritte. —The oath,. relative to the approaehoof tomenial election of • &luau; Hoard for the par.. of 5•0•11 have juat been boned. The nombor of membere to be elected ai live. No nomination paior triil be received after 4 p.m.ont 1.025 th let. and withdraw ale meet beeent before 4 p.m. on the 29th November. l'ubdo notice tvall be given of the lot of candidate* on or before the 27tit mat. The election win take place on the 6th Deeember, and, le tf'tot the poll will no open from 12 noon to $ p tet. TM re t g officor de Mr. Jame* Tom4ite, of the Lottgo. Foto-1011, eat Coventry, to oho. ...a and withdrawals must be tent. We may add that the hour, of polling a. e .I.ff reut from hat they 'teed to be, hovang been alt.«, by the Slump Pon Department Order of May, 1820. erlrch direct* that. in • p•ri.bcomamam a population of leen than 15,000. the poll dish be open from 12 000• to 8 p.m.
The Atherstone, Nuneaton, and Warwickshire Times. — 1887-03-19 (Atherstone, Warwickshire, England)

SUPPOSED ATTEMPTED SUICIDE. —On Saturday : morning last a girl named Emily Fletcher, 19 years of gig, living at Allesley, attempted, it is stated, to cut ler throat. She was found in an with Ivo throat bleeding from a severe wound, awl va, reinoved to the Covvotry and Werwielishire Hospital, where she now lire. The Honsesoresin OP. W. W. Fenton) net at present old, tomato if there), any likelihood of her me, wv. Her condition when admitted wan yery nerionS, and there him been scarcely any change sitiee.  •• THE ENGINE," hy Dognlti Clerk, is the title oof a mod ended werk. loy Longman, Cense, and Co., Leedom, in whielt the netted. has endeavoured to systematise the know/led-et in exisottnee noten the stobject, and to Thanks to the inereadttg efforts of Inane inventors ON le-en ntioised dual .. g recited Y.-ar. for manY purposes inelm deg the moo tern engine. which is. perhatte, the most emortomical and eonvenient of ail the power. 'POW known for driving machete,. The treatise her ore us contains ATI IliSlOric:d ef doe g ts engine, and desriPthat-, tti:t I •tel teel and oneeloattical details, the whole ittliti et letlng elenely and exhatedively [realm', ;gel illnitintell I A diagrams and en' gratin-is.. It MO, lotetfoil work of reference 11,111 an T etoldtetri A, 111.• liettotit li-Atit nes-inns, on Tuesday. before lirtOtoghtion-LAglo and K. it. Wood, Estor-.. and Colonel Cooper, TI ..... ms Henson, of o tet ott milo driver, was chargeol with stealing too tett,- tat. rake 305., the propirty of Willis., t Itedgt Newsome, at Rugby On March ith. -I' itit -ergot tnt Webb stiteol.that on the toe Mr. riewsonie left Inst.-err-oat in ..nt he Windmill Inndinol when he toe test morning it wai gone. The It .1 4.eping in the loilliandroom, II I. lk is lied to his moister, and he was met it wan found that the coat wwo II to the police, and Policeotel tto • c not model-roe oth the tot do. 11, now asked for a d to, the defendant being loileself in 4;25 anto one morety  11, ~nestic tl.••  r  -,.,... • • Iv. rttigtt,rktroAty,.. •••••t to I lie llenitrktng place it the caltrial Lane Chap.!, and there I,eing tcrecent itt.t•lrtng ettntrett m the g- were itrtvate. hut the Wrill.r err,. reitiiinitioned et the meeting, which a half, When the note. •riptittn •••ill he forwarded 1•` !ALI ',fore the  l'"rt;loLord 'itaOley.. of
The Atherstone, Nuneaton, and Warwickshire Times. — 1887-08-20 (Atherstone, Warwickshire, England)

IVS. dead. Impector Cunaock, E Division, produced several let Mrs and momy he fouoJ in the room. One letter was ad. dressed to hie mother, who resides ar St. Colonab, Corawall, and the other to the lady to whom he was engaged to be married the next day. The Coroner read Mem letters. That to his mother complained of hie deprewion of mind from want of sleep, and elated he intended to come to Cornwall for rest, sod although engaged to be married the next day he had postponed it. Is his Mtter to the lady to whom he was engaged • he said he was afraid their marriage muet be put off for a time, as be had decided not to marry ma deprewion hae passed away, and he thought & short read would affect it. Me wish*oo her to tell her friends that he had been called away to Cornwall. Dr. John Powdrell, of 160, Euston-road, ' said that ma Monday week deceased °ailed on him, and complained of depression from want of sleep, and said he had come to London to we Dr. Bradford, who had cured him before. He prescribvil for hina, and he came the next day, and said he was sure he was not fitted to be married. From whet evidence wane. elicited in mover.tion he believed Veale had some fear of marriage, cod although he told him it was the beet thing he could do he (deceased) insisted he we, not in a fit etate. Verdict, "Suicide whillst of unsound mind."  =Nothing is commoner, remarks a contemporary, than for bathers, confident in their ability to swim, to plunge Mto theeea at unknown imote without coneidering for a moment the drift of the tide. It ought to be cleaily underatood that the motion of the waves is Illusory. It le a mere riving and felling of the water, and though the meat of the wave may tumble towards the ,hore, the actual progress of the water beneath may be in the oppoeite direction. Except in spot. %Imre the force of the tide is well underetood bathing should never be indulged in except on the incoming tide, and this rule is one which the strongest swimmere would do well to °hearse.
The Atherstone, Nuneaton, and Warwickshire Times. — 1887-10-29 (Atherstone, Warwickshire, England)

NEALE BROUGEIT TO COVENTRY.  PARTICULARS OF THE VOYAGE AND ARRIVAL  -The s.e. Oroya, of the Orimt Line, arrived at Plymouth on Sunday afternoen, having on board Detectivelnspectorlby, who had charge of Mr. W. W. Neale the absconding Coventry solicitor, whom he had teen to Australia to britig home Ore the eerier's charges which have beea preferred against him. Inspector Golby went out in the Orizaba, which left Plymouth at 1.40 p.m. on the 23rd July. Naples tear reached on the 30th July, and Port Said on the 3rd August. the Suss Canal being entered on the seine day The vensel arrived at Aden on the Bth, end left on the Ott,, and arrived off the Semaphore, Port Adelaide, on the 28th. She left there again theatre, day, and reached Hotson's Pay early on the morning of the 30th Ang,ust. Fine weather w. met .ith to Naples. After passing Cape_Guardafui at noon on the 10th Arigust, heavy S. W. monsoons were ex. perieneed, mith a very high beam sea for three days. The equator was creased on the 131 h, and the SE. traneecommenced in 3 south. They proved strong, attended by heavy squalls end high head sea until their termination on the 21st in 23 tooth and 98 east. The weather then became Son, but only continued no until getting round Cape Lenwin on the 241 h, when a heavy S. tV gale was experienced, moderating mmewhat on on the following day, and continuing fresh after wards to arrival at Adelaide. The passengers numbered 479 in all classes. There were three deaths on the voyage, one occuring on the day ' after leaviag Plymouth, when Ann Hernahaw, a third class passenger, who was going out with ! her husband and one child, committed suicide by , strangling herself in a determined manner with a small piece of con,l, which she made fast in a loop to a rail, and pr.sed her neck tightly against it. When found she was dead. The vemel reached Williamstown at one o'clock . en the morning of the 30th .1,0 at, and at nine o'clock, Inspector Colby disembarked, and took train for Melbourne, a distance of 8 or 9 miles Arriving there on at once set about the business on which he had travelled over 13,000 mil., first obtaining no interview with the Con, mimioner of Police, and then proceeding to the