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The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1867-11-16 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

DREADFUL SUICIDE IN LI VEREOOI.,—At an early hour on Monday morning Mr. John Doyle, sixty years of age, who carried on the business of a cotton dealer in Liverpool, committed suicide by jumping from his bedroom window into the street, a depth of between twenty and thirty feet. He fell , upon his head, and death was almost instantaneous. Some two or three years since he lost several thousand pounds by speculation in cotton, and a few months afterwards he quarrelled with his wife, and inflicted a wound upon her arm with a carving knife, from the effecta of which she died. These things preyed upon his mind, and he took to drink, becoming a man of most intemperate habits. FATAL GUN AeCIDENT.—An accident, attended with fatal consequences, occurred at the gun manufactory of Mr. Aston, in Edmund-street, Birmingham, on Tuesday morning. A number of men were em. ployed in finishing Snider rifles; one of them was engaged at a bench fitting a cartridge into a barrel which was held in a vice ; from some unknown cause the weapon exploded, and the bullet struck a man named L nderwood, who was working at the next bench but one, in the hip. It passed through the abdomen and the other thigh, thereby inflicting a compound fracture of both thighs, besides otherwise injuring the lower parts of the body. The wounded man cried out, " What's that," and fell down. He was conveyed in a senseless state to the Queen's Hospital, where he was attended by Dr. Jolly, but he died a few momenta after his arrival at the hospital. The son of Mr. Aston had a narrow escape; he was actually working at, the nest bench to that at which the accident occurred, but had just altered his position to examine his work, so the bullet posed him.
The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1867-04-06 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

UNEASY LIES THE HEAD."—The New York Timea says The fact that Mr. Peabody, during his ten months' visit to his native country, has received 4.000 letters of application for pecuniary assistance is not calculated to give him a very high idea of the independent spirit of his American fellow. Citizens. We have no doubt that in the aggregate they demanded a sum not less than our national debt, and that the reading and consideration of them all would have required at least ten years. Probably half, at least, of the letters were in behalf of really worthy objects and persons; but whether they would all have been benefited by the gifts they asked is another natter. As many of the writers requested that their applications should be kept secret, Mr. Peabody, intending soon to leave for England, has caused the letters to be burnt in his presence. had he published them in a volume It would have been Instructive and lively reading for this generation and the next.  AN EPIDEMIC OF SUICIDE !—I r6gret to say (re marks a Vienna correspondent) that the number of suicides committed in Austria, and more particulary in Vienna, is fearfully on the increase. Two or three people a day kill themselves here; young girls, old men, cooks, pensioned officers, clerks in bunks, market women, persons belonging to every social class, lay violent hands upon themselves for CallSes which are frequently but too trivial. In this morning's paper two suicides are recorded in this city. this young fellow hanged himself after a love quarrel, and another, a clerk in a lottery, suspended himself to a tree in the Prater, nobody knows why. The female self-murderers generally drown or poison themselves; the males open their wrist veins cut their throats, or hang themselves. It is an appalling sign of the times, of the general j distress, and of the recklessness brought about by the I unfortunate results of so many years' bad government, that self-destruction should have assumed such an epidemic character.
The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1867-04-20 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

NETHERTON.  THE LATE SEIM:IE.—MT Brooke Robinson, the Ties rough Coroner, held an inquest on Tuesday night last at the Rose and er.,wn, Darby End, upon the body of Enoch Hackett, aged 23, an underhand puddler, who committed suicide on Sunday morning last. Henry finest. miner, stated that he knew the deceased. On Saturday evening last, witness saw Hackett at the house where the inquest I was being held. He was drinking at the time. Witness knew that he was out of work, in consequence of some alterationt or repairs at Messrs. Hingley s furnaces. Deceased had told him several times that he was angering from hunger, and that he was tired of his life. Willa,s could not say whether the deceased belonged to any union. He had worked six days previous to his death. After leaving the house abeut midnight, deceased ran towards a well, and attempted to throw himself down; but he was prevented doing so by witness. He then went away, and threw himself into the canal near Withyursor. Witness divested himself of his clothes and followed, bat Was unable to seiXe the deceased. At the time Hackett threw himself Into the canal he was singing, and continned to do so until he had reached the middle of the ! canal. He was a good swimmer and diver. When he sank it appeared to be his own :wt. When the deceased was drunk he was very Ftepid—Solomon Slater said Ise knew the deceased intimately. Had never seen anything strange in his manner. Witness recovered the tidily of the deceased with a shaft pole. Several persons entered the water, but from the inclemency of the weather, they were not able to continue the search—The wife of the deceased was called, and stated that her husband was I very ill-tempered when out of employ, and frequently beat her. On Saturday evening the deceased offered her 12s, upon which she complained, and he left the house. I He had more money with him. —Esther Bird stated that the deceased was not skunk at the time of the occurrence. —The Coroner having sninrned up, the Jury returned a I verdict of " Einicide whilst in a state of temporary insanity."
The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1867-04-20 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

POSITION OF AUSTRIA.—The following is from a correspondent at Vienna :  The Luxembourg questions has given occasion to preliniinary inquiries by the French Ambassador as to the position Austria Is likely to occupy In the event of an actual conflict breaking out between Fiance and Prussia. The answer given to the French Ambassador has been—as I ern assured on perfectly trustworthy authority—that no diplomatic arrangements binding Austria tor the observance of a particular line of policy exist between her and Prussia, that the Imperial cabinet is pre-eminently inclined to a strict neutrality, and that in the extreme case of being linable to pursue such a policy any longer, she would Join that power which would make the largest concessions to the Austrian interests.  POOR FELLOW !—A singular suicide has been committed at the Futteral, near Coleford, in the Forest of Dean district. A young man named James Ball, respectably connected, sixteen years of age, hanged himself with his whip in an oak tree on the Coleford-road. It appears from the evidence given at the inquest that he was carting sand, when by some means a shaft broke and injured one of the horses. The deceased said to a lad, " I would not have done it for 101., it will cost U. to mend it ; that is a fine tale to go home and tell father to-night ; it is enough to make a boy go and hang himself." Deceased then went up a hill into a small wood, and asked the lad to go with him. The lad (Amos Baynham) said " No. ' and deceased went away alone. Baynham waited for him a quarter of an hour, and, finding he did not return, went to the wood, and there saw him hanging to the branch of a tree by his whip, tied round his throat,
The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1867-05-11 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

REMORSE AND SUICIDE OF A MURDERER.— The mystery attending the murder of the young woman Emma Jackson, on the Bth of April, 1863, in Georgestreet, St. Giles's, in London, has not to the present time been satisfactorily elucidated. Recently a man of respectable appearance was discovered dead in a quiet neighbourhood in the city of New York, and on the matter being investigated by the authorities there was little doubt left on their minds that he had terminated his life by his own hands. On his person there was found a letter, written to a friend, stating that he was the man who on the Bth of April. 1863, beguiled the young woman Jackson to the house in George-street, St. Guess, and there assassinated her, and that since that time he had tracelled from place to place, but being unable to find any rest he had determined upon committing suicide, and that he haul put an end to his unhappy existence.  THE MILLENIMI AT LAST !—The Progres of Lyons publishes a letter from a chemist of Marseilles, who suggests a mode of opposing the needle-gusts by a Greek tire he has invented. He says : To give an idea of the efficacy of my discovery, I declare, and I am ready to prove, that I can, at a distance of 1,000 metres, envelope an army of 100,000 men in a sea of flame, within less than five minutes. If a town has to be taken by assault 1 have no need of a rotopshine, as I can set it on fire in very nearly the same period. In a 118,Vfa battle I would run into the enemy, and in flfteen seconds coy, r all the deck of the vessel with a torrent of flame which would burn the rigging, penetrate between the decks, and Instantaneously stifle all the crew. In an attack on a seaport, I could burn the town and arsenals within range with the rapidity of lightning. With such means no war is possible, 1111 neither victors nor vanquished would return from the field of battle. As to the fortress of Luxe:lll,onm, the imbject of dispute at the present moment, I undertake to rid it of its garrison in a quarter of an hour.  . The Prorrrra add that if there no 1\ bits,iilaise ex aggeration in the above deacription. much an invention could certainly put an end to all war.  _
The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1867-07-20 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

SUICIDE.—At the Petty Sessions, on Tuesday last, Henry Knight, of Dayhouse Bank, was charged with attempting to commit suicide on the sth Mat. From the evidence it appeared that defendant was in the habit of drinking to excess, and on the above date he gad been indulging in beer rather too freely, and sveut to • pool at Itumsley Hill, beleuging to Mr. Cook, and tried to drown himself. He was got out with assistance, and apprehended by Police-conatable Knowles on a chargeof attempting to commit suicide. In answer to the Bench, prisoner said he was very sorry that he had made the atteuipt. He was drunk at the time or be should not have done no ; and promised never to repeat the offence. On his brother, Richard Knight, being bail in VO !or his good behaviour for the next twelve months, he was discharged with a caution.  oNEGLECTI,M TO SUPPORT A WirE.—At the Petty Sessions, on Tuesday last, John Harris was charged by WUham Green, overseer, for Rumsley, with neglecting to support his wife and allowing her to become chsriteable to the Parish. Mr. Green proved that defendant's wife came to him for relief, and that he gave her one shilling. Defendant said that his wife had left him, and that she had no business to have relief. Defendant was ordered to pay le and costs; in default 21 days imprisonment, with hard labour.  EJECTMENT Case.—William Pardoe was summoned to show cause why he refused to leave his house, due notice having been given to him. William Harris, agent, proved that defendant rented a house at £2 5s per quarter. He was considerably in arrears, and refused to leave. Witness proved that notices had been properly served upon him, and that he applied for possession on the 22t1i of June last, and lie refused to give up possession, giving no excuse. The Bench made an order for him to give up possession in 21 days.
The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1867-08-10 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

SUICIDE'S LAST LETTER.  A strange case of suicide has been investigated in London. A Polish Jew, named Fredeborg, poisoned himself with laudanum at the King's Arms, in Bishopsgate-churchyard, where he had lodged for some time. He had had notice to quit, and was to have left on Monday. The coroner said that befere the deceased died the doctors of the London Hospital to which the deceased was taken, having been discovered before he was quite dead) sent him a letter which the deceased had written and placed in an envelope directed "To the Coroner for the district." It was clearly written on forty-live sheets of paper, was dated April 4, 1867, and showed that he had at that time find planned his suicide. On Monday he had put a postscript to his letter which ran ! . - .  Ten minutes past eleven o'clock. I teok the ingredient for my destruction. (hope it will relieve me front this accursed world. May the God of Israel and of Jacob pard. ia me. I thought I had friends, but I have found that at the sight of poverty friends fly." As the letter itself contained a serious attack upon a woman; the caroller said he should nut read the whole of it to the jury. It concluded thus : I can starve no longer. I haVe had no meal to-day. twit end.all while I have a bed to lie on. It is very painful to be found dying of starvation in the streets of Loudon. My only fear is that I will be discov.red before I am dead, and that .liegrace will be worse than ail. There is no hope for me. I do rod know where I shall sleep to-night. It may be in heaven or the opposite region You will require no postmortem examination of my body, for the cause of my death In laudanum I wish to he placed in the burial ground amongst my people. After In me deliberation the jury returned a verdict of "Suicide while in a state of temporary insanity."
The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1867-12-21 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

MELANCHOLY CASE.  We learn with mush regret of a sad attempt at suicide in Bristol, .on Sunday morning, by a young lady about twenty-one years of age, the eldest daughter of a merchant of eminence recently deceased, The funeral of the respected gentleman only took place on Saturday, and intense grief, acting upon a mind previously much impressed IT religious excitement, led to the painful occurrence, it appears that about halfpast seven o'clock a man named William Broad was going across Durdham Down, when he saw a young lady at some distance from him take a short run, and then disappear from his view. He hastened in the direction, and in a clay pit, which had been nearly filled with water by the recent heavy rains, he saw a young lady wholly submerged. He waded into the pool up to his waist, and succeeded in reaching her, and raised her partially out of the water, but was unable to rescue her without assistance. He called for aid, and a man named Dyer, who happened to be passing, came to the pool, and helped ti, rescue the young lady and carry her to a neighbouring seat. The young lady in question was missed from her home at about half-past seven, and messengers, both mounted and on foot. were instantly despatched in every direction in quest of her. She slept in the same room as two other members of the family, and on their being called in the morning they at once missed her from her bed, and it is stated that she left behind her a letter in which she expressed an intention to commit the rash act which she so nearly succeed din carrying into effect. The melancholy occurrence caused a considerable degree of excitement in the neighbourhood of Durdham Down, and of course much aggravated the poignant grief in which the friends of this unhappy young lady were plunged by the loss of a near and much beloved relative.
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1876-06-24 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

NOVEL DELVING MACHINE.—On Thursday ,a,t there was put to work on a cutting at Plumtree Hill, near Embleton, on the new line of railway b.:tween Stockton and Sunderland, a new delving machine, which has been purchased by Mr T. Nelson, the contractor, from the makers, Messrs. Dunbar, Ruaton, and Procter, of Lincoln. This novelty in the way of digging requires six men to work it, but it digs and fills 150 w.iggons per diem, an that immense saving of manual labour is rfrectel. Nunil,ers of people gathered round the machine to see it work, and the utmost astenishment and satisfaction was evinced at its progress. The machine under t.,•tice lathe fourth of its kind that has been issued I em the above works.  SHOCKING AND FA"! AL OCCURRENCE AT PokTrAcK.—On Saturday night, an occurrence of a 6 hacking and fatal character occurred at Portrack. I: appears that f. r some time a man named Hughes, iiving at Portrack, ha i been unwell. About eight o'clock on the night named the unfortunate man w left alone in the bedroom for two or three nmantes when his wife, who was downstairs, heard it crag') of glass, and at once ran ...p.taitis. She was there horrified to find  eer hush nd, who had only his night dress on, tit:ing out of the window. She seized him by the .hirt in order to prevent him falling, but it was not Nufficiently strong, and be fell into the yard below, striking a tap in his descent. Medical aid was immediately procured, and he was ren.oved to bed. Deceased succumbed to his injuries about 11 o'clock Ott Sunday morning. On Monday night an inquest was field at the Prince of Wales Hotel, Poitrack, fore Mr Settle, coroner, upon the body. Nothing i.ci,ond what has already appeared transpired, and the jury, after hearing the evidence, returned a verdiet that the deceased committed suicide whilst in an unsound state of mind.
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1876-08-12 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

SHOCKING DISCOVERIES.  On Sunday night, while a man belonging to Ryhope Colliery was walking through Ryhope Dene, his -log ran into a thick bush and commenced to bark loudly. The dog was called off, but as it refused to leave the spot and barked more loudly than ever, the man made his way through to the Flace, and was, horrified to find there the dead body of a man hanging from a tree, and in such a frightful state of decomposition that the flesh was eaten away in many places and covered with maggots. The person who discovered the body informed the police, who cut it down, but the stench from the remains was so great that they had to be left on the spot till a coffin could be procured. From the dress and ay pearance of the body, the deceased seems to have been a stonemason or stone-dresser, about sfl. 6in. or Bin. in height, and dressed in ;a dark coat and cap and moleskin trousers. It seems to :have been a very determined case of suicide, as:hewas hung to the tree with some of the thin, strong cord used by masons, and had accomplished his fatal purpose by sliding down ths sloping bank below the tree. The circumstance that the suicide had chosen the littlefrequented western part of the Deno accounts for the non-discovery of his body till Srnday night, for it must have hung there for six or eight weeks at least.  A discovery, similar to the above, was made on Monday afternoon, about three miles north of Dundee.—Three boys who bad entered the wood to gather wild raspberries were surprised by discovering the body of a man hanging by the neck from the branches of one of the trees, and about sixteen feet from the ground. Deceased was suspended by his braces, and from the advanced state of decomposition of the body, it is supposed to have hung for about a forteight. The deceased appeared to be about twenty years of age, and was very dark in colour, and looks like a foreigner. Nothing was found on his person to identify him. The body was removed to the Dundee Dead House.
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1876-07-15 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

TRAGEDY AT SCARBOROUGH.  The mystery in regard to the girl who was found drowned in Cornelian Bay, Scarborough, has been cleared up in a somewhat trade manner. It appears that the girl, wh was only fifteen years of age, and was named Mary Alice Agar, had bees living with a sister at It, sedate Abbey, near Whitby. A young man named John White had for some months past bean paying his addresses to her, and on Tuesday night last the twoavere seen together at a picnic in that village, and must Lave eloded the same night. The girl's friends strongly opposed the match, and White has bean heard to say more than once if be could not have her nobody else Ph 71111.1. A warrant for abduction was ob'ained against him, and sent on to Scarborough, to wh•ch place it was thought the missing couple hat taken flight. Simultaneously with the warrant the girl's friends arrived at Scarborough, and were shown the b3dy of the girl, which they identified, and a heartrending scene was the result. A search in the town wai made for White, and his dead body was fount washed up on the sands at noon, but within a hundred yards of the spot where the girl's body was found. The facts of tha case strongly point to murder, seeing that the girl's body was found at about four o'clock on Thursday morning, and in the man's pocket have been found two tickets for the Scarborough Cliff Bridge, dated the same day. The man must therefore have been living after the girl was drowned, and it is thought he first threw the girl into the water, and a few hours afterwards committed suicide.  On Monday an inquest was held touching the death of John White, the young man whose hody was washed up by the sea at a point about a mile south of Scarborough, on Sunday last, and who on Tuesday last elcped from Rusedare Abbey with a girl, whose body was loon I in almost exactly the same spot two days afterwards. The Scarborough Cliffe Bridge tickets, which bore Thursday's date, and which it was thought had been issued some hours after the body of the unfortunate girl was found, it was stated at the inquest were pait-da ed, rind issued on Wecuiesday night. Tbts will in a measuie help to dispel the idea that the man White was alive after the girl had been drowned, bat that they died toge.her has not yet been proved. It was stated at the inquiry that the deceased were p is. sionately in love with each other, but the cause of the objection to the engagement on the part of the girl's friends was not elicited. The inquest was adjourngd until Saturday next, when it will be re•opened in regard to both deaths.