npedrazzini/19thc_murder_suicide_news huggingface dataset:
The Sun. — 1859-09-07 (London, England)

HEALTH OF LONDON DURING 711 E WEEK.  (From the Registrar-General's Report) The health of London is improving, and the mortality is below the average of the season. In each of the corresponding weeks of 1849 and 1854 between 2,000 and 3,000 of the population died; in the week that ended Sept. 3, 1859, the registered deaths amounted to 1,047. After excluding the years of epidemic cholera this is 76 less than the average number (1,123), corrected for increase of population. The earth underwent great magnetic commotions during the week; auroral lights were seen, thunder and lightning were observed, and rain fell on three days (0.33) ; but the most direct cause of the decrease of death was the fall of mean temperature to 56.5 deg.; or to 69.0 deg. daily as the mean highest, and 50.2 deg as the mean lowest. The temperature of the Thames was 66.4 deg., and it varied little. The 1 swibarometeraotshn4edBaa.yair was and wasnegd. Tuesday uora eywt su, dr generally.aa2yt9i .o6tnOh )0 ef an the ve The average Estei gr; ewwt velocityi nethd dnabw being 100, the humidity was represented from the south-west, passed over Greenwich, at the rate of (4.8), neatly five miles an hour ; and on eight miles an hour. Diarrhcea, which depends to a considerable exteuct upon temperature, declined as the temperature fell ; the deaths by the disease were, however, IN. The deaths by cholera were 5. Small-pox, chiefly through the neglect of vaccination by parents' '4lB- oy ed 27 lives. 15 deaths were referred to mess' les, 55 to scarlatina, 13 to 'diphtheria, 3to troop, 11 to hooping-cough. Fever was fatal to 49 perm) ; 21 under and 28 above 20 years of age. Six children died of syphilis, three persons di ed of delerium tremens, two of disease induced by i; Akin. penance. These are only a few of the deaths ei &lased by vice. Of consumption 73 persons died in the prig ae of life (20-40), and 56 at other ages. Twenty-five persons died by accidents ; be it it ie I well known that while some deaths are reall' y seei.. dental, the greater part of them arise from *le negli' ce of the persons themselves or of 1-41t0 rs, and gen many such deaths may therefore be Al. One murder or manslaughter was registered, and four , suicides. While 40 deaths of old people were regi 'ete:l4 at the age of 80 and upwards, 201 - infantf died in London under one year of age--namely,;; sof ar9,4.11pox, 83 of diarrhea, 14 of tabes, 9 of w ater on the brain, 29 of convulsions 17 of prematw „birth; and 51 of atrophy and. debility. But what N the dome of these diseases? All may well inquirll e, for a Er that the lives of young children" mai The`births of I,7lllchildien, •878. be Fese 33 andws girls, were registered during the wr ,ek• blowing wi7uinn2r uigt;  . ~ *listio.  -;;;;, ,
The Sun. — 1859-04-01 (London, England)

SUICIDE AT TIIE BANK OF ENGLAND.--INQUEST. —Yesterday, Mr. Sergeant Payne held an inqtbost at the Ward School-room, London Wall, on the body of John Bancott, aged 59 years, 23 years porter at the Ban2c of England, who committed self-destruction by cutting his throat. It appeared from the evidence of several witnesses, that the previous morning, about half-past seven o'clock, the. watercloset door was fastened, and on breaking it open -the deceased was found on his knees, with his throat cut„ and a razor lying by his side. He had lately been in alo w state of mind, in conseeuence of a desk belonging to the sc cretary of the Bank of England having been broken open.. The deceased hid the key of the office on the night of the robbery/ but no suspicion rested on him. The incident I .ressed on his mind, and no doubt led him to destroy himself:. The jury returned a verdict, " That the deceased destroyed..hiravif while in a state of temporary insanity."  St.G Stoc) Ste St  100 100 100 100 an  Paid./ Closing Price.  49 hl 95 97  Imo lot  98 101 112 110 108 112 114 116 112 114 130 132 82 84  71 73  1110 112 117 119 1110 112 103 105 63, 65 11 111  all }lOO  9(3 98 87 P 9 88 00 1100 102 110 10 164 17. Igo. 10 72 74 181 19} 91 9E 14} 141 140 142  118 120  160 165  123 125  70 72  1139 141 1101_ 103  94 96 9/ 10  llf 111 9 9f  IloBi 1093  97 98 I id  p '24 23/ 123 125 118 120 99 101  lot  24 24i 102 104 102 104  28 29A 3'211 334  53 55
The Sun. — 1859-12-22 (London, England)

LAMENTABLE SUICIDE.-On Tuesday last an in- Buckinghamshire lOO 'ln& N.W,' 99 100 20 Do.St.Johndclßey,Lim. 15 184 194 91 40 1361 quest was held at the Plough Inn, Boddicoto near Banbury, Chester & Holyhead lOO Do. 150 51 5 Do. Land and Mining Co. all - Do. do. 51 P. et ... 100 Do. 124 1: 6 1 Clarendon Consols Mini ; th. before Mr. J. Churchill, coroner, on the body of the Rev. Do . 100 . do. sp. ct. - d Oth George Mawson Nelson, 8.D., late Fellow of Magdalen Cl 1 J ydesda e unction. 100 Caledonin 103 105 40 Cobra Copper all 48 49 1 College, Oxford, who committed suicide at his residence, Colchester, Stour Val.. all E.U.ArE CI 16 17 - Cepiapo l6 71 81 nolltli° 1 DunMoun.Cop.Ming,.Co all I toddicote Grange, by shooting himself with a gun on the E.Lincolnshire,g.6p.c 100 'Gt 141 MO° previous day. The first witness who was examined was E Union,HarwichShe all jE.Counts. 4} 44 2 Fortuna re dis William Townsend, footman to the deceased, who stated Do. Woodbridge ... 100 I that ho had been in the service of the rev. gentleman about Gls Barr &Neils Drct 100 , .. . , . 100 ,Caledonin - - 3 Linares all 104 114 31 4 regard., Do. New Do. 5 Lusitanian iiiPe_l nine years, and during the last six weeks or two months he Gloster& Dean Forest all IGt. West. - 1 Mariquita all 1 4 11 • On Monday i - had witnessed a great change in his conduct. Ilartlpool.Dck.&Rail. all Yk.N.&Br - - 1 N.RhineCop.of S.Aus.L li's. par 1 p • rillA [OO.- Morning., when he was removing the breakfast things, he Hull and Selby aMining and Smelt.... all 5 7 n'S e 6 , asked deceased how he was, and he said he felt better, but Do. $ Shares all Do. - 5 Port Philip 1 f / 3 ma' he Was afraid he should soon be as bad as ever. It appears Do 1 Shares Do L ton pare ,e 'll 1 ' ' fast.,, 64 .". om on, rt nwtc . 00 S. East 64 66 1 Scottish Australn. (L.)... 10s 1 d 1 p , &Ore. that the deceased subsequentlwent into the library, where Do. Preference 1115 120 W irk Nelson and other ladies were assembled, and after re- Lon.,Tilby.&Soutend. 100 Peto &C ,o. 95 07 - the ruining there some time ho retired to his dressing-room, Lowestoft, gala. 4p. ct. 100 'Norfolk: . -
The Sun. — 1859-07-02 (London, England)

SUPPOSED SUICIDE OF A GIRL.  Mr. Bedford coroner for Westminster, proceeded yesterday morijing with a lengthened investigation, at Westminster. Hospital, respecting the death of Ellen -Daleyi aged .16, who took a quantity of essence of bitter almonds, under -very extraordinary circumstances. ' • • From the evidence of Catherine Collins, it appeared, that on Thursday evening last, she went te No. 5, George-street, Broadway, where deceaied lived with her mother. On going into the room she saw deceased sitting at the table with a cup in her hand, .and on the table was a small phial empty, which deceased told her to smell, saying it was like honey, and then handed her (witness) the cup, in which was some, liquid, which deceased mid she had poured from the phial. Witness asked what she was going 'to do with it, when she said she was going" to drink it, and almost immediately did so, when-her head fell, forward, and she became speech-: less and , appeared to be dead. 'Without delay she Was conveyed. to Westminster Hospital, and attended by Mr: Trendall, assistant-house surgeon,' but, netwithstanding• every remedy, she sank and expired in a few.lnoments..  It further appeared from the statements of. other witnesses, that the deceased had been home only a week froin a situation she was in at Windsor, where it is supposed the poison was brought from. The deceased was to have been married to a young man, named.ltichard Hill, on Sunday next, Which 4/1, she fixed herself on Monday evening last. The `medical testimony showed that/ death was caused from •the swallowing of the, essence of almonds, and *further went to show that, some doubts-existed of foul play towards 'the deceased. The Coroner then remarked that it *as one of the most extraordinary and mysterious cases he had known for some time, and he considered that the further hearing of the case had better be adjourned in order to find out whether the poison was really brought from the house in which, the deceased was in service at Windsor or not. The account that was glven of her coming frOm her ,situations and other fac4ltWidgCl:tptthrow susifieion.on 'the, case,and therefore he considered the case had bettell4o: adjourned. The jury concurred,  CITY, Two O'
The Sun. — 1859-08-10 (London, England)

WHITECHAPEL.  Each kind of meat was in fair request, at full quotations : _Beef, from 2s 8d to 4s 2d; mutton, 38 Od to 4s 4d; lamb, 4s 4d to 5s Od ; veal, 4s Od to 48 8d ; and pork; 45 Od to 4s 8d per 81b., by the carcase.  t e lastLdE inGy Ee theaDr LaTtUi the mN Times T ytlhCoa rt kMj. a BaUmßs ienz James R, oE ni t.— I t was re• acquittedc enA t 1 Ny sAtt Linsanity, of the murder of a te groundw howas of young woman, his sweetheart, at Darley, near Harrogate, had been removed, after showing some violence in York Castle, to St. George's Lunatic Asylum, London. It seems, according to the York newspapers, that the violence of Atkinson and some of his other conduct was assumed for a purpose. One of the local journals says :—" Prior to his removal Atkinson made some attempts at suicide, but we are now in a position to state that these attempts were mere faints, got up to serve a purpose with an ingenuity very inconsistent with the mental abilities of an imbecile. On the 6th of May Atkinson volunteered a statement to aZnalloswelfprisoner that the attempts he had made peell:':dantigie prison at te would were done with no other view than I ai gt eh removed to St. George's Hospital, which On the occasion of officials to believe he was insane, thhaettaonhteicimp lead to comparative ease and luxury. himselfdlvn he feigned being sense-. stated that when he was cuto his attempting to hang i his cell he distinctly proposed that he should tie himself was removed. Herd also whenthe other prisoners were in the up in the airing-ya less, and that he would continue nets of this kind until he day-room, cut him down, when he would remain apparently alarm and and that one of the prisoners was to give an. unconscious for a time. He dwishing them' good bye on. wasto write a letter beforehand, aadrdtre!,sed to his friends, an h Atkinson further informed his confidant that he e would give the officials of the prison all the trouble that he possibly could, by various studied insubordinate acts, in the hope thereby of forcing extra diet and other indulgences, if it did not lead to his immediate removal. These particulars we have from authentic depositions, and they clearly prove that Atkinson had a method in his madness, and that by his perseverance he has accomplished the great object , he had determined to attain—hie removal to as &ilium. '
The Sun. — 1850-05-02 (London, England)

EII. • AND SUICIDE OF THE MURDm--,..„lstti° A triple murder occurred on Tuesday even "0 Lord the Wood, at Ingestre, near the mansion of Stafford. In a lonely part of the wood belonging 6ll estste is situated'a house, which was uctil u" 001 o:,l:fifer; ing inhabited by the park-keeper of Lord Talb"oodlo° nameh was Spencer Yarker, and who it is unclenA,,,,oo hheen upon terms of friendship with the otber:reeo some short time since. Daring she last fe/.00111 Yarker has had attacks of delirium tremens. ~, a afternoon, in company with another keeper, r1.11;,' foe Murray, he procevded into the woods, and .".°l4,Prt. cause at present unexplained, no other persoa bel sent, Murray was shot by Yarker, and wa3 Bubseq nu' te „r, discovered at a place called the Pavilion, 'F-I;for' From subsequent circumstances it appearedftlire, after having deprived his fellow keeper ° f -11 P ceded towards his own house, the distance °,O oft' mile, upon entering which he levelled his gtlk-re vast who was sitting before the fire, and disci. rpor, contents in her body, the poor creature fslling, 'coo on the fl )or a corpse. Yarker then pointed bxls 5, 60 his sister, who bad but just returned from ',jvittlii,l she fortunately e;caped the contents of the go 7,ier forwards at tee moment he raised it to his B°ll'-stirs;9 this juncture the wife of Yarker rushed down whether to pursue the murder or pursued 14 lot" at present known; but she ran out of the bOtiSeos wood, jollied by Yarher. One ker, who, having reloadek'r fote fired its contents at charge entered ,ecill head over the left eye, and the other penetrifaisr, body, and instactly deprived her of lite. Thm:lutbe murderer then discharged the gun obliquely r ction of his own head, literally carrying 3111,‘Ifi trirm ehis face and shattering; the head. During crai tr:,,eo event, his little child was sleeping in a ,spot where the servant was killed. foru ntthertslf de en, who are now left orphans, were ctissr., neighbouring village. The reports of the gun having created an.`",-;,,¢l' of the servants connected with the farm butle,-%41, soofotnheupon the spot, and discovered the lifeless alo F servanturth Further upon e the,,re h house floor lying „Al Itf.d" blood. disclosed the s were dead bodies of Yarker and his wile, wb° to °Prisl covered a short distance from the bouset•id°; place they were conveyed, and laid side bY r„D fluor. Subsequently, the body of !Jerre,' "ors; covered, also lifeless, and was in like manner c:isqof the house of the murder, and placed by the other bodies. e The distress occasioned by this lan"'aillif (Po considerably augmented by the fact of a fop"' cd°'o4ll young children being deprived of a parenht',llo-10 means of support, by the death of !Joffe)", respected by his noble employer. • heldil The inquest on the bodies was to have bee° terday ( Wednesday).  TS, hot THE COUNTRY MABI" a:"
The Sun. — 1850-02-02 (London, England)

NAME OF RAILWAY. week. 5.' =4 le; b. U. 2 -- --- - - £ £ Jan. 26 Aberdeen .......... - .... •• • • ••• • • 631 ii 399 27 Amiens and Boulogne ....... ........ 1,142 I,' I; 26 Belfast and Ballymena ••••-•• • • • • • • 414 3:)5 27 Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire 732 695 27 Bolton, Blackburn, Clltheroe, and W. Y. 420 336 27 Bristol and Exeter • ... ..... ... 20 Caledonian.... ......... 2G Chester and llolyhead ..... ...... • 24 Dublin and Drogheda• .•• • • • ...... • • 713 645 29 Dublin and Kingstown ••••••• • • • • • " 583 687 26 Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen. •••• • • • 923 890 27 East Anglian.. -•••,••• • • • • • • • 2G Edinburgh and Glasgow .••••• •• . • - 2,439 2,615 26 Edinburgh and Perth ••.•.•.. • . • • 1,754 1,430 27 Eastern Counties and North Eastern • • 13,532 13 133 20 East Lancashire •••••••••• • • • • " • • • • 2,588 1,712 26 Eastern Union ••••••••••• • • • • • • • ' • ' • 1,604 1,105 26 Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr ••• • • • 2,407 2,035 26 Glasgow and Greenock. •••• • • • • 0. •• 810 772 20 Great Northern and E. L - 2,398 1,628 26 Great Southern and Western •••• • • • • 3,521 2,929 27 Great Western, &c •• .. ..... .....• . . . 16,434 .16,674 27 Lancashire and Yorkshire..• ••• .• .... 11,419 9,765 20 Lancaster and Carlisle •••• • • .. - Leeds and Thirsk - ......... ..... 70 765 27 Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport •• • 26 Londonderry and Enniskillen.• ••.. • • 114 89 27 London and North Western, &e. 27 London and Blackw•all.• •••••• • • • • • • 544 581 26 London and Brighton .• • • . 6,344 6,709 27 London and South Western .•••• • . • - 7.089 8,195 27 Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire '4,410 2,707 27 Midland, Bristol, and Birmingham.. • • 19,214 18,611 27 Midland Great Western (Irish) ••• • • . 1,131 974 26 Monklands •• .•,..•• 760 689 27 North British • ... ,•••••••• • • • • • • • .. 2,837 1.9 i 26 Paris and Rouen. ••••••••• • • • • • • • • • 6,274 4,929 26 Rouen and llavre 27 Scottish Central ... ••• .• ...... ••„ .• 896 750 26 Scottish' Midland ..............., .. 238 226 27 Shrewsbury and Chester • • .... ••• • .. 1,291 1,235 27 Shropshire Union .................. 343 -26 South Eastern and Branches .. •.• . - 7,731 6,63 G 20 South Devon.• • ..... .••..••..• • • • .. 1,356 1,176 2GTaff Vale ...• ...................... 1,671 1,782 27 Ulster. ••.••• • • • . - Waterford and Limerick.............- 233 20 Whltehaven Junction ........• .... • • 161 168 27 York and North Mid,and ........... 11,374 12,163 27 York and Newcastle . •  DISTRESSING SUICIDE Br A
The Sun. — 1850-02-02 (London, England)

NAME OF RAILWAY.  L. 26 Aberdeen •• •• •• •• •• .• •• •• •e• •• 27 Amiens and Boulogne 26 Belfast and Ballymena ••• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• • 27 Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire 27 Bolton, Blackburn, Clitheroe, and W. Y. 27 Bristol and Exeter .• • • ••• •••• • • • 20 Caledonian.... 26 Chester and H01yhead....... •••• • • • • 24 Dublin and Drogheda• •• • • ••••• • • • • 29 Dublin and Kingstown •••• • • • ..... ' • 26 Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen........ 27 East Anglian.... • • •• ••••" " " " 26 Edinburgh and Glasgow. •• • •••• • • • • 26 Edinburgh and Perth •••••• • • • • • • 27 Eastern Counties and North Eastern.. 20 East Lancashire ............ •••• • • • • 26 Eastern Union •• •••• •••• 26 Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr ••• • • • 26 Glasgow and Greenock.. •••• • • • •• • • 20 Great Northern and E. L. ••••• • • • • • 26 Great Southern and Western • ....... 27 Great Western, &c•• • ....... •••• • • " 27 Lancashire and Yorkshire..• ••••• • • • • 20 Lancaster and Carlisle •••• ••••• • • • • • Leeds and Thirst: ••...••••• •• •• •• ..27 Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport.... 26 Londonderry and Enniskillen 27 London and North Western, &c...... 27 London and 81ackwa11...... •••• • • • • 2G London and Brighton ..... ••••• • • • • • 27 London and South Western •••• • • 27 Manchester, S'heilleld, and Lincolnshire 27 Midland, Bristol, and Birmingham.... 27 Midland Great Western (Irish) ...... 26 Monklands ... •• • ..... • . •• .• •• 27 North British ...................... 26 Paris and Rouen • ..... • 26 Rouen and Havre 27 Scottish Central "••• • • • • .... • • • 26 Scottish- Midland 27 Shrewsbury and Chester ............ 27 Shrop,hirs, Union ..... ........... 2G South Eastern and Branches ........ 20 Louth Devon— •••• . .............. 26 Taff Vale .....• • • •......... 27 Ulster . ......................  Waterford and Limerick....::: 20 Witachaven Junction ............... 27 York and North Mid'and. •• •• •• •• •• 27 York and Newcastle . ..............  631 i 1,142 414  732 420 3,245 15,246 1,139 713 583  621 2,439 1,751 13,532 2,588 1,604 2,407  810 2,398 3,521 16,434 11,419 3,028  114 39,347  b 44 6,344 7,0b9 '4,110 19,214 1,131  760 2,837 5,274 2019  238 1,291  399 ," 23 355 695 336  3,483 1,097 645 667  34 7,731 1,356 1,671 749  35,777  581 6,709 8,195 1,707 18,611  tig9 1,9 6 4,919 2,064 758  161 11,374 5,824  22i 1,235  (;,(136 1,176 1,782 549  168 12,163 5.717  DISTRESSING SUICIDE Dr A
The Sun. — 1850-07-13 (London, England)

SUICIDE OF WALTER WATTS. This m.,ruing the greatest excitement prevailed in Newgate amongst the turnkeys end others, when it became known that Walter Watt'', the late 1 ssee of the cOolmymmplitetedThLiaitcl had, at three o'clock this morning by banging. But a few hours before Lail Donovan terminated his existence in precisely a similar manner, and during the day had both the deceased received their sentence for their separate crimes from the same judge, and is the same court. It appears that Walter Watts had, during his confinement in Newgate, been so ill, that for the last few weeks he bad teen an inmate of the ward infirmary. In the same room were six other prisoners. It also appeared that the unfortunate man had i been lately troubled with diarthee, and that ho was nightly n the habit of Kett ir g up and going to the water•clost t. In order not to catch cold h.e had always a dres.inggown and pair of .slippera. ready to put on. At and. slippers in their usual place. about three o'clock this inorning the person who slept might have happened, having heard next to him was astonished. to find the eeeeased out of TbWehdaitnatiidsnagbyissohmogweotwhfeclete tee sentence was that he received that day, he went down to the water-closet, where, to his horror, he discovered the unforiunate man quite dead, having hanged himself in precisely a similar manner to that of Donovan, to the bar of the cell window by a piece of rope and his cravat. He was imm.diatelv ciit down, and Mr. M'Murdo, the prison-surgeon, called, but it was too late, the unfurrunete deceased having breathed his last an hour before being discovered. The excitement which prevails in the neighbourhood is intense, and the circumstance of two prisoners hanging themselves in one thy requires baking into.
The Sun. — 1850-03-23 (London, England)

REPORTED DEATH OF SIGNOR GARDONL—The Moniteur du Soir states that a letter has been received from St. Petersburgh announcing the death of Gordon', the celebrated tenor. SUICIDE AND CHARGE OF NEGLECT AGAINST TUB AUTHORITIES OF KING'S COLLEGE HOSPlTAL.—Yesterday, the adjourned inquest on Ellen Ryan, who cow' witted suicide by swallowing opium, and whose death it as allcg, d had been accelerated by her removal from King's College Hospital to the police•station, was held before Mr. Bedford, at the Plough public-house, Carey" street. The inquiry was adjourned for the purpose of having the opinion of Mr. George A. Walker, and on the jury re-assembling yesterday, Mr. Walker said the treatment adopted by Mr. Steel was quite correct up to a certain period. The deceased would have had a better chance of recovery if she had not been removed from the hospital. Mr. Stanbrook, deputy-chairman of the hospital, said the house-surgeon had no other alternative but to send the deceased from the hospital. There were upwards of 120 patients in the house, and if the deceased had been kept walking about the corridors of the different wards, the patients would have been disturbed and their lives endangered. The jury. after consulting for short time, returned a verdict " That the deceased died from the effects of opium, administered by herself while in a state of temporary insanity, and that her death was accelerated by her removal."  BIRTH& On the 15th inst., Mrs. William Pocock, of Cold Harbour" road, Brixton, of a daughter. On the 16th inst., at Donnington Priory, near Newbury► the wife of N. J. Senior, Esq., of a son. On the 18th inst., the wise of W. W. Johnson, Esq., of Limehouse, of a son. On the 19th inst., at South Ferriby.hall, Lincolnshire, the lady of Cap ain W. J. Symons, of twin daughters. On the 20th inst., at Street-end-house, near Canterbury, the wife of E. Foss, Esq., of a son.