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The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1880-12-11 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

SAD END OF A LEADER OF THE PARIS  COMMUNE.  A profoundly melancholy and touching and at the setae time strangely dramatic story is that related in the Paris newspapers concerning the end of a leader of the Paris Commune. Among the rebels of 1871 was a " Commissaire Centre'" named Parmentier. This man, after the collapse of the revolt, was supposed to have fled, and he was condemned to death "in contumaciam " by one of the courts- martial sitting at Versailles. But Parmentier ha i not run away. He had not even left Paris. His wife, who was a workwoman in a match factory, sheltered her husband in a garret,. an the sixth floor of a house in the Rue Popincourt ; and this garret, during a period of nearly ten years. the proscribed Communist never left. The concierge and the neighbours were wholly ignorant that Madame Parmentier had any ons living with her. About a month ago the porter became aware that she no more passed his lodge. He waited for a few days, thinking that she might be in the country; then he made his wey to the sixth storey, fearing lest his " locataire" v.., IA be ill. •He knocked repeatelly at the door led to obtain any response. By this time, thoroughly alarmed, the concierge proceeded to rep, rt matters to the Commissary of Police of the quarter • and that functionary, accompanied by a medical man and a locksmith, speedily made his appearance on the scene. The doer of the room on the sixth floor was broken open, but at first those who sought to enter were driven back by a fearfully noisome odour. When asy did enter a shocking spectacle presented itself. On the bed lay the corpse of Madame Parmentier, and by her side was the dead body of an unknown men. By the papers discovered on him he was, however, speedily recognised as the Communist Commissaire Central Parmentier, condemned to death in 1871. It further became manifest that the unfortunate couple, who had been many days dead, had committed suicide by suffocation with the fumes of charcoal. Both husband and wife were on the verge of 60 years, and it is conjectured that the poor woman, finding her health and strength declining, and unable to procure sqfficiently remunerative employment for the sub4ieteLee of herself and her husband, had at length yielded to utter despair and persuaded or been persuaded by her husband to put an end to the existence of both.
The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1880-06-19 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

LOCAL BOARD BATIL—IT was decided at the last meeting of the Pontypridd Urban Sanitary Authority to impose a rate of Sd in the pound for the half year. ACCIDENT AT THE STEEL WORKS TILEFoREST.— On Sunday afternoon considerable apprehension was felt in Treforest by many of the people, owing to the hard galloping of a horse belonging to the Steel Works whose rider was evidently in search of medical assistance. It turned out that a young fellow named Thomas Farrell about 19 had fallen off a ladder from a height of about 20ft. No bones were broken but he had been much shaken and had sustained severe contusions about the body. No fatal result is apprehended. Dr. Leokie, the surgeon to the works, was speedily in attendance.  Drrtantsso Suictorr—On Thursday morning much excitemeat pervaded the village of Pont Sho • Norton, Pontypridd, at the news that the body of a man was found hanging from a tree in the wood. It seems that about 6 o'clock an alarm was raised by a man removing furniture from Blackwood, who found what turned out to be an old man about 60 years of age on his knees, • handkerchief round his neck, one end of which was attached to the fork of a small wait g, only shoot aft. 6 inches from the ground. He called attention of a man named Davies. watt finding the body to be cold, did not cut it down until a policeman arrived, after which it was removed to the Bassett Arms. The deceased was well clad, and the body appeared to have been fairly nourished. The determined character of the suicide may be seen he had made an attempt some few yards above the place where the effort was suoceseful, and only shifted because the branch was not strong enough to bear his weight. It was at this place that the man's hat was found. He has been identified as the brother of a woman named Nancy Nicholas, of Pontypridd now deceased. But what his name is has not yet been ascertained. A Coroner's inquest will of course be held.
The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1891-05-02 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

COMMITTING MURDER FOR TWO FLORINS.  AN INCREDIBLE STORY.  The mystery surrounding the tragic death of Madame Joisefa Kirsch, a rich innkeeper in Detta, in Hungary, who was found strangled upon her bed a morning or two ago, has just been cleared up, says a Budsfesth correspondent, by the confession of an imbecile farm labourer named Marcsin Gilzan, who says that he killed the woman by her own wish, and for a consideration of two florins. He also produces a letter in Madame Kirsch's handwriting in support of his statements. His story is as follows :—" When on the day of the murder I visited the dead woman's inn, she sat down at my table, and told me that she was tired of life and desired nothing better than a painless and speedy death. She asked me if I knew of a pleasant way of committing suicide, and upon my suggesting strangulation said, Yes, I think that would suit me, but I am afraid to do it myself, as I might again be interrupted by some busybody, as on two former occasions when I have attempted that method of suicide. Poison I detest for similar reasons; there always seems to be a stomach pump ready to disturb one's peace.' Then the woman asked me if I wanted to make a little money, and upon my answering in the affirmative, she said, 'Come round about midnight, and I'll see what I can do for you ?" Marcsin further deposes that upon his arrival at the stated hour the woman gave him an immense bottle of Schnaps, and bade bun go to her bed-room as soon as he had finished it. He did as he was told, and when he entered Madame Kirsch' is room he found her lying on the bed, waiting for him. 'Have you sufficient courage to kill me V she said. Marcsin said he was drunk enough to attempt anything she wished. "Then take the rope, lying upon the table, together with two florins and a letter to the police exonerating you from all blame,' continued the woman. Bind icy hands and feet and when that is done strangle me with both of your hands. But mind do not leave me until you are sure lam quite dead. Grip my neck with both hands for five minutes at least.' Marc.sin says he strictly followed these minute instructions, and, after killing the woman, he sprinkled her body as well as himself with holy water. Then he left, taking his two florins and the letter to the police with him.
The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1891-08-01 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

VESTRY IMPOVIS. a party of fourteen or fifteen plain-clothes officers 'fferent parts of Paris. , minster Aquarium, has undertaken for a wager of, suicide on Saturday, were both suffering from punThe question of advance in the wages of the made a descent upon the premises. At first it is said, a considerable amount, to live without monia, both committed the deed while delirioua, employes of Battersea Vestry has been before • admission was refused, and the officers proceeded and both used a razor to end their lives. am the recent meeting food for the unprecedented period of 50 days. special committee some time, and at length • to smash the glass pannelling in the upper portion The butchers in Narbonne have been on strike NtiOn at Binley are Arrangements have been made at the Citadel, d some recommendations have been of the door. Resistance being of course in vain for the t few days, their action being intend n, especially as the issued, one of the latter being of the * g that many e the door was thrown open, and the detectives, ' Dover, for the reception of the 2nd Battalion Pas . .• 3 intended as a protest against a new municipal rate on -uctal one in the, Grenadier Guards, who are returning from 13ermen shall receive in future an increase of a shilling rushing in, arrested everyone found in the estao- - slaughter-houses. Hardly any meat can now be nth is that the v obtained or two oa mentTwelve r week. The roadmen are now to get liah. in all were taken into 'dent for its - -persons the Highland Light If muds. On Saturday the quarters were vacated b • by the inhabitants. 255. per week when engaged in heavy work, but custody and were removed to the Cloak-lane Infantry. The number of divisions in the House this Session n, namely, the committee has recommended also that the Polioe-station. It further a that the United appears at eA few days ago a guard was thrown from a m ahead 380 • Y , as again,. a t total of 262 last C the out-year. surveyor should have discretion to pay only 225. Exchange Club was about to change hands, for a carriage of a train between Rothe Erie and Aix-la- At a meeting of the Cardiff guardians Mr. It must per week when the men were incapable of doing copy of a deed to that effect was found in the Chapelle by one of the passengers when asked for Bircham, the poor law inspector, stated that there Ne tr.' heavy work from physical or other causes. possession of one of the prisoners, his ticket. He fell over a viaduct and sustained was a smaller percentage of pan to pars population uncil • fatal injuries. be STRIKE IN OIVORDsHIRE. in Cardiff anion than in any other union in the A case under the Lotteries Act was heard before country. The cost of 78 The Dockers' Union have just scored their first• mainte nonce was also less.
The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1891-08-01 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

DYNAMITE OUTRAGE IN MANCE. .  A series of dynamite outrages lure been causing a great sensation in Franoe. They have been in the shape of explosive wogs sent to Madame Censtan, wife of the Minister of the Interior, M. Etienne, Under Secretary of State for tit, Colonise', ana M. Trains, the chief of the Health Department of the Colonial Office. A few days agostietter and ploket which came by post were tsi.;zint et the boa and plaoea upon the table of M. Gieitalall by one ef the servants. The Minister, wbcosans in shortly afterwards, looked carelessly, at tita packet, and seeing that it was a Galilean miswldated 1741 imagined that it came from a devout reistion, and sent it, with the letter, to Madame Conatans.. On finding that the book had • damaged look the Minister's wife remarked to her maid that the sender probably wanted to play some practical joke upon her, and ordered the parcel to be taken away. Suddenly remembering herself, however, Madame Constans warned the servant to be careful in opening , It This advice was followed ; and when it waa discovered that the box contained explosives, M. Constar's, who was at the Elysee, was sent for. Further examination showed that the leaves of the missal had been removed in such a way as to allow of the insertion of a small tin sardine box. This contained twenty grammes of fulminate of mercury, twenty-two revolver cartridge. wrapnari in paper, and some GAvelot capsules. Happily, diabolical attempts of the same kind made against M. Etienne and M. Treille were frustrated in the same chance way. The latter was openins the packet with a paper-knife, when some grams of the black powder fell out. M. Treille's suspicion was aroused, and as he is himself an analytical chemist, he speedily oonvinoed himself that foul play was intended. U. Etienne, who had already heard of the attempt upon his colleague, did not even take the trouble to open the parcel sent to him. He merely inquired whether the postmark was Toulon, and, on being informed that it was, sent it off to the laboratory of the Prefecture of Police. The latest news seems to point to • certain M. Henri Volta, a discharged colonial functionary, who committed suicide at Toulon, as the person who sent the packages.
The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1891-11-28 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

SUICIDE OF TWO SOLDIERS.  The suicide of two soldiers is reported from Aldershot. A private in the 93rd Highlanders, named William Bathie, aged eighteen, shot himself through the head with his rifle in a barrack passage at North Camp, Aldershot, dying within a few minutes. He had been examined by a medical officer, who had pronounced him unfit to go out with the regiment to India next week. This appears to have preyed upon his mind. On the following morning John Thomas White, 21, the big drummer of the Ist Warwickshire Regiment, stati,nt4l at Aldershot, shot himself with his rifle whilst in bed. Surgeon Captain Creagh was at once fetched, and the man was removed to the North Camp Station Hospital, where he died shortly afterwards. He had arranged to take pare in a football match the following day. A double Inquiry was held, when in the case of Bathie it appeared his mind had become temporarily deranged owing to& medical board refusing to pass him as fit for foreign service, whilst in the case of White, whose mind was also deranged, this state scents to have occurred owing to the fact that a chum of his in the regiment was discharged as unfit for further service. The jury returned a verdict of temporary insanity in both cases.  Mr. A. H. Haggis, deputy•ohairman of the London Couacil, died suddenly while on his way to the County-hall on Tuesday morning from disease of the heart.  The Duke of Devonshire has granted the tenant farmers on the Buxton portion of his Derbyshire estates a remission of 10 per cent of their rents. According to annual custom, the Messieurs de Rothschild have given a sum of £4,000 for distribution among the 20 Arrondissements of Paris. The donation is intended for the assistance of deserving persons who experience difficulty in paying their landlords.
The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1891-01-17 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

ROYANTIO SUICIDE.  A Paris oorreepondent telegraphs: The oourtmartial of the 4th Army Corp., sitting at Le Mans, gave judgment on Saturday on a Sergeant ()orbit, of the 102nd Line Regiment, who came before it under these oiroumstanoes :—List October two apparently dead bodies were found lying in blood on the high road from Mayenne to Ambri eras. They were found to be those of Sergeant Corbetend Addle Chopard shoemaker's daughter, who had eloped with Min from Chartres. Her father was the regimental shoemaker, and had forbidden ()orbit to visit at the house. She was found to be dead, shall having gone through her heart, but he was only severely wounded in the chest. After three mouths' treatment for his wound and the extraction of • ball, he was able to stand his trial on the charge of murdering the girl. He pleaded "Not guilty," and declared that each had determined rather than live apart to commit suicide. Yortunately for him, she had written to another girl the following romantic letter: " Deer Adrienne.—Forgive me the shook I am about to muse you. When you receive this letter your poor Mead will be no more. I puffer too keenly to oars for life. We both have resolved to quit this sad world hi which your friendship has bees bsone consoling circumstance of my lift You will, I hope, come occasionally and prey war mettimva. My wish is that we, ()orbit and ayes* ran be Pieced in the mune Wish. OW I cannot have tb• happiness of passing my life with him. Let nobody separate- as when dead. I wished to mad you a photo of my flamed, but have not been able. We see each other so seldom. This enforced sewed& has been the source of our despair. It Is imposMble for one to live without the other. I send yarlialbek of my hair and a flower given me by my loved one. We leave this world without regret. —
The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1891-03-14 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

STRANGE SUICIDE IN AMERICA.  On Friday last says a telegram from Toledo, Ohio, a gentleman arrived at the Boody House Hotel, and registered his name as Charles F. Edwards On the following day the Rev. Father Quip/ly called upon the Chief of Police and informed him that Edwards mended to commit suicide. The Chief of Police loit no time in verifying the priest's suspicions. He secured the aid of the hotel manager, who ordered one of the bell boys or pages to climb through the transom over Edwards's chamber door. The boy opened the door from the inside, appearin with a white scared face. When the investigators entered they found Edwards stretched dead ou the floor, with nearly all th, popularly known liquid poisons represented in ounce bottles by ids side. These were six one-ounce phials of laudanum, one of tincture of aconite, one of aqueous extract of olden', and one of prussic acid. In the fire grate were the ashes of a number of letters or other papers which he had utterly destroyed, no scrap remaining to reveal his identity, "Charles J. Edward." is -believed to have been an alias. Father Quigly then told what he knew of the dead man. Edwards, as he called himself, waen seeking an interview with him, had called at the presbytery on Friday evening He recei ed him in the parlour. The man shifted uneasily in the chair until he managed to sit so that he could have a clear way to his hip pocket. Then reaching round with his right hand as if for a pistol, he exclaimed : "Doctor, I came to Todedo to commit suicide." His look and gesture belied his words. Father Quigly, who is a powerfully proportioned sixfom er, was frightened, and cried out, " Stop ! Would you shed a neighbour's blood! And on a Friday, too, the day our Redeemer gave his blood for mankind ?" Edwards accepted his intended victim's interpretation of his design, and was overawed by the sacerdotal nature of the protest. Ile withdrew his hand without a weapon, and replied, "Then I will take my own life.' Without another word he turned and left the house, the priest watching him wend his way to the Boody House.
The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1891-11-14 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

THE SINKING OF FISHING- BOATS.  .' THE NEW WARDEN OF THE CINQUE roßrs.  The Queep has been pleased to approve he appointmenrof the Marquis of Dufferin and Avai E.P., to be Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports and Constable of Dover Castle, in the room of the late Riglit Hon. NV. H. Smith, M.P. His lordship, whit is an Irishman, has served his country mostly abroad, in various capacities. After filling several minor offices, he was in 1804 appointed UnderiSecrbtary of State for India, and two years later he became Under-Secretary for War, which post he held for a few months. He has also been Chan' oelloi• of the Duchy of Lancaster, which he resignea in 1872 on receiving the appointment of Geyer nor. iGeneral of Canada. He remained in the Dominion as the representative of the Queen for six years, discharging the duties with conspicuous ability and Success. Shortly after returning to Engla.n& he went as British Ambassador at the Court of the Czar, and in 1881 he was transferred to Constantinople. He was subsequently sent on a special mission to Egypt, and in .1884 he was chosen to succeed Lord Ripon as Viceroy of India. This office he resigned in 1888. In the following year his Sovereign rewarded his distinguished services by raising him a step in the peerage, and he then took his present title. Lady Duflerin3 who is an Irish lady, is well known for the symipathetic interest she has taken in the education of the women of India in order that they might afferd tsisters the benefit of medical attendans reti ce is at presetit denied to theni. It is expected that the Marquis of Dnfferin and Ava will be publicly installed in his new office, in' accordance with ancient form. The interesting ceremony was dispensed with in the case of tho late Mr. W. H. Smith at his express request, and by the imperative order of his physicians. Several' of his predecessors, however, including the Duke of Wellington, the Marquis of Dalhousie, Lord' Palmerston, and Earl Granville, went through the' installation ceremony. The appointment, which was once of considerable importance in the maritime interest, of the kingdom, has now no duty attaching to it beyond the pleasant obligation bocskajcsAlly eccupying Widmer Castle. The. peculiar jurisdiction of the Lerd Wardens was abolished in 1855.  Mr. Balfour took leave of the officials at Dubi reetle on Saturday. Ii is stated in New York that one of the tyre Araerican firms manufacturing from aluminium • has received an order from Germ'any for cups, cert..* ridge boxes, and linings far knapacks. The objelli` in view is to lighten the burden of the conunon soldier.  A shocking discovery was made near St. Denis one morning this week. A man and his wife ant their two children retired to ;rest in good heakbil but were found dad in the morning in their room, teying evidently been asphyxiated. It is not nown whether the melancholy event is the. result f suicide or accident. , i