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The Dewsbury Chronicle, and West Riding Advertiser. — 1882-04-15 (Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, England)

MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR.—The circumstances connected with the mysterious death and interment of a lady named Elizabeth Mayall, of Oldham, are related in the correspondence that has passel between the Home Office, the authorities at Ilkley, and the Oldham coroner. Being of some local interest we give a few further particulars. It appears that towards the end of January Miss Mayall went to reside at a hydropathic establishment at Ilkley. At that time she was ia a very weak state of health. After she had been there about a week she attempted to cut her throat, and inflicted on herself injuries from which five days afterwards (on the 3rd March) she died. On the same night a hearse arrived at Ilkley where it remained until three o'clock on Saturday morning, the 4th March, when the body was removed to the hearse, the driver of which stated that he was going to change hones at Huddersfield, and then go forward to Oldham. The deceased had a sister residing at Oldham, and a relative at Huddersfield, No report was made to the police of the fact of her cutting her throat, and the facts only casually came to the knowledge of the police on the 9th March. In the meantime, the death was registered. Mr. Brown, the coroner for Skipton, communicated with the Oldham police on the subject, and received a reply to the effect that the servant who brought the body away had not been traced, and that the brother to the deceased, Edward Mayall, an ex-mayor and magistrate of Oldham, had committed suicide a few years ago. The RegistrarGeneral was communicated with, and he blamed the Registrar of Otley for not having reported the particulars to the Skipton coroner. The Registrar-General advised the coroner to lay the facts before the Home Secretary. This was done, and the Home Secretary has forwarded the whole of the correspondence to the Oldham coroner, Mr. Molesworth. From the reply of Mr. Molesworth it appears that the cause of death was stated to be "five days' exhaustion from inflammation of larynx." Mr. Molesworth, before holding an inquest, will obtain the sanction of the County Finance Committee.
The Dewsbury Chronicle, and West Riding Advertiser. — 1882-10-07 (Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, England)

THE ATTEMPTED MURDER AND SUICIDE IN MANCHESTER.  At the Manchester City Police Court on Tursdly morning, Martha Smith was charged, on remand, before Alderman Bennett and Mr. J. Broome, with attempting to commit suicide by jumping into the canal, near Piccadilly, and also attenopting to murder her child Ellen, ttßed four years, by taking her into the canal with her. On Frldy Polic,constables Read and Wean saw the prisoner with the chill in her arms deliberately jump into the water. She was drunk at the time and very much exalted. With the atoistance of some other persons both the mother and ehild were rescued, and removed to the Infirmary. The woman was first sem walking on the towing pa.th by some young men, who informed the police, and it was as they were returning with the Qfficers that the woman jumped into the canal. No one jumped Into the water after them, but they were got out by the officers and the witnesses leaning over the side. Mr. Bentilife, who appeared for the prisoner, said his client on Friday night had been with her husband Into Ancoats, and it was not true that she was in drink. Only half an hour previously she had left her husband, and was going back to their boat by the towing path, when some of the witnesses stopped her, and attempted to take liberties with her. It was in trying to got away from them that she accidentally fell into the water. In trying to save herself she caught the child as she fell and knocked it into the canal. The police-officers recalled, said that the prisoner, when got out of the canal, made no complaint as to the conduct of any of the witnesses, but cursed them (the officers) as they were removing her to the infirmary. Inspector Pigott also stated that the woman was brought to the station. She made no complaint, nor did she when she was sober the following morning. Alderman Bennett, on finding that Mr. Bentliffe had no evidence to corroborate his statement as to the conduct of the witnesses, said that the magistrates were of opinion that he had acted very improperly. As a professional man he ought not to have made such charges unless he was prepared to support them. It seemed to the magistrates that if it had not been for the witnesses the woman would have lost her life, and the child too. The prisoner, who reserved her defence, was committed for trial at the Assizes on the charges of attempted suicide and attempted murder.
The Dewsbury Chronicle, and West Riding Advertiser. — 1882-09-16 (Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, England)

SUICIDE OF A RUSSIAN ACTRESS. A painful sensation has been caused in Paris by the euicide of Mille. Feyghine, the Russian actress, who made her debut at the theatre in the Rae Richelieu only a few months ago. The Paris correspondent of the Standard says :—She felt very keenly her want of dramatic success ; but her beauty attracted the notice of the Duke de Merny, the eldest son of the well-known statesman. The former had only just come of age He soon grew weary of his protegee and undertook a. trip to Russia to break his entanglement. Having been a month away he returned to Paris on Sunday morning. Mdlle. Feyghine called on him at his rezidence in the Rue Matignan the same day at about dinner-time. Only a short interview took place between the Duke and herself. At midnight she returned to the Duke's residence. He had not conie home, and the servants denied her admittance; but she forced her way in, and installed hereelf in his room. The Duke came home at one o'clock. He chatted pleasantly with her, and mentioned that he would shortly return to Russia to join a shooting-party organised by Prince Demideff. On her proposing to accompany him, he said he did not think he would be justified in interfering with her engagements at the Theatre Francais, and as it was now nearly two in the morning he euggeeted the advisability of her going home. She had hardly left the room when he heard the report of a pistol, and Mdlle. Feyghine fell at the foot of the stair, having shot herself in the chest. After great Buffo-hog she died at eight o'clock yesterday (Tuesday) morning. It is said that her failure as an votress preyed upon her mind, and that she intimated her ietention to shoot herself on the stage in her next part if she "cis not more successful than in the first. Mdllo Feyghine was about 20 years of age.
The Dewsbury Chronicle, and West Riding Advertiser. — 1882-02-11 (Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, England)

DISCOVERY OF A DEAD BODY.—A shocking discovery has been made in a garden at Higher Broughton, Manchester. At the part known as the Cliff there are a number of large houses having gardens sloping down to the river Irwell,iand on Saturday afternoon a young girl, while walking in one of these gardens, saw lying in the shubbery of the adjoining grounds a dead body, which proved to be that of a young man named Harry Skelton, who occupied one of the houses on the Cliff, and who has been missing for the last 10 days. In deceased's mouth and tightly clenched by the teeth, was a discharged pistol; one of the hands grasped an empty tumbler; and half the face had been blown away by the shot from the pistol, which, there is no doubt, had been fired by the deceased. The hosier was removed to deceased's house, and information given to the police. The young man, who was an articled pupil to a firm of architects, lost his father (the head of the firm) last July, and his mother only a few weeks tip, and it is supposed that the latter event effected his mind, He was greatly depressed after the death of his mother ; and since last Thursday week he had not been heard of. His friends had made diligent but unfruitful enquiries as to his whereabouts. The body was found in the garden next to that of his own houce, and it is supposed that it has been there since the day of the deceased's disappearance. The Manchester county coroner on Monday held an inquest on the body of Henry Arthur Skelton, aged 22 years, which was found in a garden at Higher Broughton on Saturday. The finding of the deceased under circumstances previously narrated have been detailed, Mr. A. Hodgkinaon, physician and surgeon, said that about 10 weeks ago he was called to attend the deceased, who, it was said, had taken poison. Witness found he had been drinking from a bottle containing a corrosive poison, which he said he had taken in the dark, not knowing what it was. Deceased never thoroughly recovered from the effects ot the poison, and had remained in a state of very great deprension. On January 24th witness aaw deceased in bed. Ho was intoxicated, and in his pocket was a revolver. In anawer to witness, deceased denied that he had any intention to commit _suicide, and said he had bought the revolver to take to the Cape with him. In witness's ophdon bee was not then responsible for his actions. It was stated by the brother of the deceased that be was in no peceniary difficulty. The jury returned a verdict of suicide whilst of unocml mind, and offered their condolence to the family.  QUARTERLY RETURN OF BIRTHS Tt, 4" 1, .
The Dewsbury Chronicle, and West Riding Advertiser. — 1882-06-10 (Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, England)

ABORTIVE TRIAL FOR MURDER.  The trial of the young men, Brennan and Martin, for the murder of Joseph McMahon in March last, took place in the Dublin Commiscion Court on Wednesday. The evidence showed that the three men were together in a public-house, and after a shot had been heard the deceased was found lying dead on the floor. The outrage was supposed to be of Fenian origin. The jury, alter being locked up for five hourz, could not agree, and were discharged. The further trial has been postponed until the next Commission, bail being accepted for their appearance.  Mr. George Howell bee been adopted as the second Liberal candidate for Stafford. The 16th Queen's Lancers are directed to proceed from York to Ireland, and the 19th Lancers now proceed to Aiderghot. The Midlothian Liberal Association held their annual meetitg at Edinburgh on Wednesday, and passed resolutions expressing confidence in Mr. Gladstone. Colenel Chambers, the English officer to whom Garibaldi gave the sword he wore in the Tyrolese War in 1867, has offered to return the weapon to Italy, with the flag whick Garibaldi had at Monte Video. At a meeting of the Conservatives of the Pembroke Boroeghs, Mr. H. Harben, deputy-chairman of the Prudential Assurance Company, has been unanimously adopted as the candidate of the party at the next election. A Conservative whip was sent round on Thursday to the Upposition Peers, earnestly requesting their attendance in the Howie of Lords on Monday next, to support Lore Belfones motion rejecting the Deceased Wife's Sister Bill. At an inquest on Wednesday, in London, upon a man who, suffering pecuniary diftioulties, had hanged himself, it was stated that three of his relatives had died in lunatic asylums, and two others had committed suicide by langing. The remain of the late Marquis Conyngham were interred on Thursday in the family vault, at Patrixbonnie, Canterbury. The funeral proaciesion included Lord Colville, representing the Queen, and the tenantry on the Kent estates. At a meeting of colliers on strike at Rhos, near Wrezham, on 'Wednesday, it was decided by a majority of 133 that they should recommence work on Thursday, consequently the whole of the collieries in North Wales will now be at work as usual. At Hull on Saturday, a man named Barnfather attempted to murder his sister-in-law, Jane Atkinson, a domestic servant, by cutting her throat with a clasp knife. The woman lies:at the Infirmary, and Barnfather has given himself up te the police. A
The Dewsbury Chronicle, and West Riding Advertiser. — 1882-12-23 (Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, England)

SUICIDE OF THE GREENFIELD POSTMASTER.  Mr. Albert Fisher, postmaster, Greenfield, committed suicide by shooting himself with a gun on Sunday afternoon. Deceased at the time was in one of the upper rooms, and his wife and family were in the bottom room. Oa hearing the report an alarm was made and several neighbours rushed in and were horrified to find deceased in a dying state, death being almost instantaneous. A letter, the ink of which was scarcely dry, was found on the table for his wife, in which he said he hoped eomeone would take care of his ohildren.  On Tuesday afternoon Mr. W. Barstow, coroner, held tin inquest at the Railway Hotel, Greenfield, on the body of Albert Fisher, late postmaster of Greenfield. From the evidence, which was very voluminous, it appears that the deceased for the last six weeks had been officially deposed from his office of postmaster. A clerk, a Mr. McGuire, had been placed in charge, be retaining the position of clerk under him. Finding, however, that a letter sent to him by the secretary of the post office had been intercepted, he told the deceased that be could not ro•instate the more so also because he had made the discovery that the •deoeased had been guilty of recent acts of defalcations, and for which, as clerk in charge, he was responsib:e. This seems to have preyed upon his mind, and after writing a letter asking his wife to pray to God for him, he blew out his brains with a gun shortly afterwards. On examination, it was found that he had shot himself through the head, the muzzle of the gun having been pointed behind thl ear. It ia supposed that he placed the gun on the floor with the muzzle behind the ear, and leaning over, pulled the trigger, the bullet passing through his head, producing instant death. The inquest, which lasted three hours, was brought to a close by the jury returning a verdict, That the deceased committed suicide while in a state of temporary insanity."
The Dewsbury Chronicle, and West Riding Advertiser. — 1882-09-23 (Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, England)

MURDERER'S FUNERAL IN NEW ENGLAND—James Smith, of Ansonia, Connecticut, a ruffian of 23, was hanged on Friday fortnight for murdering a policeman. He was buried in his native village on the Sunday following. Ten thousand people are said to have been in attendance upon the occasion. Two hundred young men belonging to the " Monitor," "Starlight," and '' Jolly Rover" clubs, the character of which is hinted at in their names, marched ahead of the hearse ; and 21 hacks and 127 other carriages, filled principally by young people," followed it to the grave. His last days in prison were soothed by the ministrations of religion and the attendance of faithful and devoted priests, and there was no lack of floral offerings and other gifts from the class of women who habitually idealise and lionise the perpetrators of great crimes. Upon the casket at the funeral were many flowers ; on a pillow, surmounted by a white dove, the wiTcds " Thou art forgiven," and on a cross the word " Hope.' EXPECTED HIGH Tings.—Mr. Thomas Wright, of the "Nautical Almanac "office, writes again drawing attention to the nnnattally high tides which will occur from September 27th to September 30th. Along the East Ooast, he says, the tides will be as high as those which proved so disastrous on February 19 20 last. It should be remembered that a low barometer, with northerly to north-westerly winds, will considerably augment the height of these tides, and render it necessary for those living near the hanks of the Thames to take precautions against an overflow. Oa referring to the tide tables published by the Admiralty and others, It will be seen that the highest tide at London Bridge will mem on September 29th. At Liverpool the predicted height (old dock sill datum) for the morning tide of September 29th is nearly 22Et. In that ease, should there also be a moderate gale from the west or south-west, the lowlying parts of Liverpool and other places along the West Coast will be flooded.  SUICIDE OF A Baumßoom —An extraordinary Boddie occurred at Ballinaaloe on Friday morning week. Julien Gauthier, aged 60, a Frenchman, who had been cook to the E arl of Clancarty at Garbally for upwards of 30 years, came in S3lllO time ago for property and money amounting to £14,000 through the death of his wife. Immediately afterwards he took Clancarty Arms Hotel, in Ballinasloo. On Thursday morning ho was married in the roman Catholic Church to Maggie Kearns, a young woman who had been housemaid at Garbally. Marriage settinznents of the most liberal kind had been signed, and the wedding breakfast was on a grand scale. On FrPay morning, about seven o'clock, the bridegroom got up and went into an adjoining room, usually occupied by his daughter, aged 18. As he did not return to his own bedroom, his young wife went in search of him, and found him lying dead on the floor with a revolver in his rignt hand. He had shot himself through the mouth. No explanation is given for this dreadful act, M. Gauthier never exhibited symptoms of insanity, and was cf the most temperate habits.
The Dewsbury Chronicle, and West Riding Advertiser. — 1882-06-17 (Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, England)

STATISTICS OF FATAL POISONING. The Regietrar-General's recently haled report, giving the statistics of death by poisoning, has, as the Pharntaccutical Journal points out, a particular interest, viewed in connection with the important question which the Giverncient has of late been considering—the desirabiaty of adoption some fuither protective measure to regulate the sale of poisons in this country. Toe death-rate from accidental poisoning has been for some years steadily increasing, and, in the five yearn ending with 1880, is found to be 15.3 per cent higher than in the five years preceding. The number of deafly) during 1880 aocribable to accidental poisoning was 14 per 1,000,000, while the number ascribable to suicide was eight per 1,000,000. The total number of deaths from poisoning being 568, of this nimbi r 353 are referable to accident, and 215 ,o suicide, \Voile the number of violent deaths in 1880 shows a decrease of nine per cent on the mean of the preceding 10 years, the number of deatini from suicide shows a higher ratio (77 per 1,000,000) than in any previous year, except in 1879, when the rate was 80 per 1000,090. For the five years previous to this dhte (1880), it appears that suicide had been on the inoresze. It is also shown that this form of death is more common with males than with females, and that it prevails more extensively among the educated olseses. In the 10 years 1871 80, the number of male persons registered as having committed suicide by poisoning was 78 9 per 1,000 Oases of suicide in all ways, and the number of females 172.2 per 1,000. The means adopted for self-destruction are found to vary widely in the two sexes. Males generally incline to the use of drugs which, from their more intimate knowledge of poisons, they know are likely to be attended with the least amount of pain. Out of 1,000 males, 567 adopted narcotic poisons; while, out of an equal number of women, 246 only used this means for destroying life. Females, it was found, resorted to the use of stryohnia, arsenic, phosphorus, and other preparations easily obtainable in substances sold for the destruction of vermin; and to carbolic acid, vitriol, and other substances which are common articles of domesic use.—British Medical Journal.
The Dewsbury Chronicle, and West Riding Advertiser. — 1882-06-17 (Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, England)

THE DEWSBURI CRIIONRA:6. SATURDAY, JUNE 17, 1882  \ SHOCKING TRAGEDY AT RADCLIFFE. DOUBLE MURDER AND SUIOIDge On Friday night, between seven o'aloolt and 8-30, a dreadful tregtdy was committed at Ohapelfield, Radcliffe. A man named Robert Booth, 32 years old, a miner, drowned two of his children (boys), one about five years old and the other four months, and afterwards cut his own throat, almost severing the head from the body. It appears that about seven V°lock I Booth suggested that his wife should go to market which is about three•quarters of a mile distant, and when she had gone he called the little boy, who was playing in the street, to come Into the house. At the time there was a little girl named Sandiford nursing the younger ' one and he told her to go home as it was bed time. She went home, and apparently after the nurse had gone out Booth looked the doors and then committed the deed. Re appears to have filled a dolly tub full of water and then put the elder child in, and filled a washing mug full of water, and put the younger child in that. After doing this he eat his own throat with a razor in a most shocking manner. The dreadful affair was not found out till his wife returned from the market about 8-30, when she found the doors fast. She got the assistance of some neighbours, and one of them got a ladder and entered the house through the bedroom window. Re afterwards went down stairs, and in the kitchen was presented to him the shocking spectacle described above, Booth lying on his back in a pool of blood. It appears that the man had been out of employment for 11 weeks and in consequence had got into a very desponding state of mind. The affair has caused great excitement in the neighbourhood. An inquest was held on Monday afternoon on Robert Booth and his two children, at Ohapelfield, near Bury. The evidence was to the effect that Booth was a collier, and having been out of work 11 weeks was depressed; that on Friday morning his wife, on returning from Radcliffe, found the door locked, and on entry being forced it was found that Booth, after drowning the children in a large basin, had cut his throat. The jury returned a verdict that the children were killed by the father, who committed suicide whilst temporarily insane.
The Dewsbury Chronicle, and West Riding Advertiser. — 1882-01-07 (Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, England)

BARMAID'S ATTEMPTED SUICIDE. About six o'clock on Tuesday morning, a painful occurrence took place at the Salisbury Hotel, Georgestreet, Hull. It appears that a young woman named Susan Cone, who has been at the hotel only a week in the position of barmaid, and who recently resided at Swineehead, Boston, Lincolnshire, was heard to be screaming in her bedroom. The boots rushed upstairs, but found the door of the bedroom locked. He raised an alarm, and efforts were made to force open the door. Just before this was accompliehed the girl was heard to open the window anti a loud crash followed Those outside the bedroom ran downstairs, and it was discovered that the unfortunate girl had fallen through a skylight into the bar. Whilst those present were opening the door of the bar the girl appeared in a bruised and bleeding condition, and, rushing frantically past them, escaped at the door cf the betel, which had just been opened. She ran down the street in the direction of the river Hull, and an exciting abase ensued. Eventually, before she renched the river, she Wag seiz.d by two policemen and efterwanzle taken to the Hull Infirmary, where it was discovered that she had sustained such injuries as to render her recovery a matter of doubt. Daring the week that Miss Cone had been at the hotel she had made herself a great fanonrite, and although her rash act is now attributed to partial insanity, no signs of it were previously visible. On Monday, however, she told some of her fellow-servants that she wee in great trouble, as her lover, to whom she had Eisen the whole of her savings —come £lO---had lett ier and had riot returned any part of the money.  It is said that the lams of New "York very ehrely resemble t,anngeß. Yoi have gieat ircu2ect for th:tt util 2.ca 11Q77 tiiey airg =Wt.