npedrazzini/19thc_murder_suicide_news huggingface dataset:
Penistone, Stocksbridge and Hoyland Express, etc. — 1917-08-25 (Penistone, South Yorkshire, England)

ELSECAR DOCTOR'S DEATH.  An Overdose of Morphia.  Victim of Locomotor Ataxy.  An inquest was held by Mr. P. P. Maitland," at the Clothiers' Arms hotel, Elsecar, touching the death of Dr. Charles Abbott, whieh took place on Tuesday at his residence, The Bungalow, Elsocar. Dr. Thomas Bland Abbott, of Abet-ford, said deceased was his brother, and came to ElSeCar 50112 P 12 years ago, establishing himself in practice there. Witness had been in the habit of paying frequent visits to deceased up to the beginning of the war. De last saw him about three months ago, and he then appeared in his usual health. Deceased had formerly been a ship's snrgeon, and whilst thus engaged he contracted locomotor ataxy, a disease which affected the spine and the brain. It attacked its xietiente litparoasym: at violent pain. whieli produced staggeong gait. At times the pain was beara4le, making the use of narcotics imperative; for that reason his brother as in the habit of taking morpbia. The disease- was pregeessive. and the do-e% of morphia had to be increased. lie was quite AUTO his brother was quite careful it thi• 11-A of the drug. In (11/IqIIIPTIVA of all urgent meesage he came to Elsecar on Tuesday, arriving about 3 p.m. . Deceased was unconscious, and did not recover. The symptoms indicated morphia poisoning. He Saw the bottle containing the morphia pills, and took charge of it. Death 'took place about 2-30 on Wednesday morning. lie did not know ot any other trouble and he was write sure that there waft no 'disposition to suicide " Mrs. Sarah Moore, of the Fitzwilliam Arms, , said she had known the deceased for many " years. Since he had tome to Llseear :he had , acted as his nurse, and was aware that he "took morphia pills. He Wag Qeizt,cl with a paroxsym on Saturday, and had to take to his bed. On Tuesday morning lie became " unconscious. Dr. Ritchie was sent for, and he paid several visits (hiring the day. and ' was with him until nearly 2 a.m. on Wed" nesday. Witness, added that she thought Dr. ' Abbott had been somewhat troubled by letters he had received lately. Dr. Ritchie said that when be first saw deceased an Tuesday he was in a hopeless condition. Death was due to misadventure by t.aking an overdose of morphia.  The jirry returned a Terdi-e't in avcordanee with the medical evidence.
Penistone, Stocksbridge and Hoyland Express, etc. — 1917-09-22 (Penistone, South Yorkshire, England)

WELL-TIMED EARTHQUAKE.  Whilst the missionaries were singing, 'art earthquake shock was experienced which jarred the prison walls, loosed the chain. wherewith the prisoners were bound, and released the bars which held the prison doors ig place. The gaoler, finding the doors open, supe reed that the priaonerrs had escaped. Know. tug that he would be responsible, he drew hie sword and was ibout to commit suicide, whoa  St. Paul called out, "Do thyself no We are all here." _ . .  By this time the gaoler was fully convinced that the missionaries _were remarkable mem—,  not ordinary criminals. He made the prison secure, and then brought the mialionaries into his own living quarters in the prison, where he attended to their comfort. Mean. time, he beard from them something lug their mission—respecting Jesus the slab and his death as the world's Redeemer. The gaoler was convicted of on. He imageil for a reconeiliation with his Creator, and be pereeived that them miesionaries could held him. Hesse be inquired, "'What, mist 141 to be saved? " t TN, answer came promptly : "Believe Oh the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy hotise.". Taking this statement* as a text, the missionaries explained to the gaoler and his household wane of the philaidetti of the Divine plan of Atonement—the of Jesus, the Just for the unjust; the bleak hag that in dis• time is to reach Adam and his entire race through the resurrection pot the • and e privilege now of bearing nod accepting the divine call to joint-heirship oftli Jesus as his members in the sufferings of present time and in the glory to follow. THE PLIGHT OF THE MAGISTRATE!. Next morning the magistrates, baring learnt something of the circumstances of the mood; tug night, ordered the release of the am swamies; but Si. Paul had not been a limy" for nothing. When the order for their release reached the prison, the missionaries re-st,word to the riders that they were Roman citizens A and that in their ease Boman Law had bind violated in three particulars: ( They ltk4 been beaten; (2) This had been done pubnegfll (3) This was especially reprehensible in ilmi they had not been lefially condemned. These charges might have roe Isard against the magistrates. Hanes it is not to be wondered at that they came to the prison, es( the Apostle requested, and brought the min. sionaries forth publicly, thus giving evideneo to the people that they conceded an injm bad been done on the previous night.  NORTOXLEY LiDIaS v MOlrro MIXT CEriXa
Penistone, Stocksbridge and Hoyland Express, etc. — 1917-05-26 (Penistone, South Yorkshire, England)

SERG EA NT'S STOE Y.  Detective-Sergeant William Shaw said he was the first police-officer to trrive at the spot where the bodies were found, lie got , there at 5--.910 p.m., and Wright and an old farm labourer were there. So far as Le .ould see the bodies had not been touched or moved. Witness corroborated the statements of Wright as to the position of the ladies, :Aid said he took the knife oat of Ward's right hand. The knife was not tightly clasped by the hand. The razor was found as the !saiies were being removed. Ile noticed the womAn's thmat was cut, starting from near ea.. for about an inch, the skin being simply pierced and cut, became deeper, and Sin vred the windpipe and ingul•-• vein'. It was a big gash. The wound was a dean cut, and opinion had been done with the razor, altich was blood-stained. It was a bigger wound than the one on the man's throat. The man's, throat was a cut from the left and the ridpipe pierced half-way through. The wound was /rigged, and witness was of opinion it vas mused by the pen-knife. found in Ward's band. The sound had the appearance as if the pen-knife had been stack in and s-uldenly jerked out. There was not the slightest sign of any struggle. The bodies were laid on the grate, and their clothing not disarranged., The woman had her spectacles on. 1:Nil -t waiting for-the conveyance he found a ravor cast (produ.edi in the man's rain-coat pocket. Witness had got a number of letters from a tin box !whinging to Ward at his loagings. and had gone through them &AL some if the letters belonged to the deceased woman. written to, her by her husband, as wt.,: as letters written by her to Ward. but all wire in possession of the latter. There was no note of any description left at her lodginv. The Coroner: Did You find anything in the letters to throw any 'light upon their deaths' —Witness: In the last letter there ale tuo The Coroner. Is this all one letter? Witness, who was shown a lengthy letter: Yes, sir. Replying to questions, he tab! 35 near as he could tell the date was Xpril 20th. 1917. The letter bad been identified by the witness, John Edward Ives, as his s ife's hand-writing, and in it she a‘ked Ward: "Did you tell Mr. Ives that you threatened to take Iniv life?" In a letter she had written ;,140, ather than he dependent upon the. I will drown myself." These were the only two remarks witness oould find bearing cn their deaths. In his opinion, it was a ease of murder and suicide: he had not the slightest doubt about it. The distance from where the bodies were found to the ktlas lie Canklow. was about thretsonarters of a n.ile, and the bodies were removed on a dray.
Penistone, Stocksbridge and Hoyland Express, etc. — 1915-01-09 (Penistone, South Yorkshire, England)

TRAGEDY OF PAIN.  Itexbz,ro lan's Determined Suicide.  The ?ramie (-irnornettsmies wirroundthe the drat it of twaiall (lough (Sit, of Albert Street. MetoorO. who was found on Monday morning w (ill los h roa I cot, bin head being nearly revered from hie bocty. were investigated the ea me afternoon in the Park Rotel. oy Mr. Prank A Gen ( District • Coroner. Onunoiflor T. .ilien wae elected 'forget's!) of the jury. William Gough. Sather of deceased, said hie son had been unable to work at hie own snrployment for the law twelve montlwi. Re had been attended by Dr. Lee for internal trouble, and about eti monthe ago he underwent an operation at Sheffield. after that he 'appeared to get better. but during the Last ftw days he had a rectirrener of the troubie. On Singtay night he a.ppeared well and hear y &MI ate a good supper. but a day or two before be bed saki be would "do away with himself if it came on again." Oil Mondar morning. about eight Ociock. watmese gas tailed dowirstatre by he other son. and mow deceased Iritrz on the hearthrug. Ile was quite dead, and neer his body was the blondetained razor produced. Demised. so far as witness( knew, had no other trouble atiart from his iitnees 1  Thomas Ootneh. miner. teethes of deceased, e.tieted that dereaeed had not ooinplained until the last tens weeks. On Runday they went to bed toged.her at about 11..3(1, and when witness woke about eight o'aiock be missed the rlenerasexi. who had been sleeping with him. He went downstairs. and found him on the hearthrug, as desineihed by the previous witnew. Daring 1144 week he had heard risosseed en, that he s,nild take hie life if the pain CILI,I*. .71 again. The nies- erste-nod a warders of "Rnitside during ternpricary nwanito
Penistone, Stocksbridge and Hoyland Express, etc. — 1915-11-13 (Penistone, South Yorkshire, England)

HOYLAND WOMAN'S SUICIDE.  A Tragic Discovery.  A story of a particularly sad e.ha,racter was told to Mr. P. P. Maitland. the West lliding Ottioner, on Thursday, when he presided over an inquiry touching the death of Ars. Mary Jane Liothard. of Bank Street. Hoy Land, at the Prospect Tavern, lloylanti. After the identification evidence ,had been riven by the ilecenacd's daughter. The chief witness was James Wilfrid Gothanl. a boy of thirteen years of age, who stated that be went to bed with his mother on Tuesday night, and when he viols@ the next morning he found his mother had got up. Ile came downstairb just after 7 a.m., and when be got ixlo the room he found the peggy tub with %luta in it, and he thought that his mother hod rot it ready for washing. Ohe wam not about, .however, and he went into the kitohen, and he found her hanging from * hook in the roof  Sergeant Greenwood tatatrA that be Was sent for, and he at ono', went to the honee, and he found the deeemed as the last witness had stated. From the a,ppearance of the room and the thing:: that were in it, he was under the impression that the deceased had first tried to drown heaself in the tub at water. and then, finding that she could not very well do so. ehe had gone inn the kithben and hung herself. From Me inquiries he found that her husband was at the front in Prance. A brother of her husband had been killed out in France, and another relative had teen missing for smut. time; and ahe had three children under her care, and it would appear that the trouble and anxiety had preyed on her mind.  le jury. who exprewied ther deep sylnpathy with the mother:new family, returned a verdict of -Suicide Whilat. in an unsound mind."
Penistone, Stocksbridge and Hoyland Express, etc. — 1915-06-19 (Penistone, South Yorkshire, England)

ATTESITTED SUICIDE AT WOMBWELL. A D0213.5nC TruktiEDT.  Mary Link (43), married, was charged vih attempted suicide by strangling herself at 1-30 the same morning. _  Arthur Dale, miner, of 50. Cross Milton St., IWombwell, said that Mrs. Link and her husband lodged with him. He went into the house on Tuesday night about five minutes past 10, and accused and her husband seemed to be quite all right. Ten minutes later they went to bed, and shortly afterwards started quarrelling. In the night witness one them shout "Aye, come here, Arthur." Ile !then went upstairs, and accueed's husbsai said she had done something. The woman' !bead was resting on the husband's knee. Shi had a piece of string round her neck, and ea. ' was pulling at it. Witness, tried to untie it but as he could not do so he sent downstairt to fetch a knife. When he got back to the room the string had been taken off, and the woman fell on the bedroom floor unconscious. Witness said the Links had lived with hire for six weeks, and he had newer heard the woman threaten to commit suicide before, although they were constantly qua.realling. P.c. Bell said he called at the house and found the accused in the bedroom watt her husband. Ile asked her what, she had been doing, and she replied that she bad been tring to strangle herself, and she would do it again at the first opportunity. She was in a dizzy condition. and when she ran out into the back yard be toek. her to tbe etation. policeGeo. Link, the husband. maid be wished her to go hack to him. but accused promptly is'plied that she would not. saving "1 havetai nine months.of misery, and I do not wamany more." The Beach rantiesiodrUnsassetwed-toaatmiey. gaol fora week. lICSBA.ND
Penistone, Stocksbridge and Hoyland Express, etc. — 1915-01-02 (Penistone, South Yorkshire, England)

WOMAN FOUND DROWNED.  Mr. F. Allen. Doncaster District Coroner, bald an inquest on Monday, at the Mexboro' Cemetery, on Sarah Hart, agcd 50, wife of Berm- Hart, miner, 29, Schofield street, Mex. bore'. Deceased had been missiug since the 10th of December, and was last seen alive by her .on Albert. For some tin.' he had been subject to depreezion, eipiaineu the Coroner, though he ciid not know what was the cause. She had a son invalid, and anther i•ou had enlisted. He could not gay whether that had preyed on her mind at all. The husband, Henry Hart. said .he last saw deceased alive at five o'clock on the morning of the 10th, when she saw him off to work and kissed hint good-bye. Then, he supposed, she weal hack to bed. She seemed quite all right at that time. About noon he received a telephone message at Manvers Main to the effect that she was missing. ln answer to the Coroner, witness said he dig not know any reason why she should go away as they had lived happily together. though one of her SODS had been fll, and she herself had had to ooneult a doctor, and had been "down." They were together at the picture hall the night before. She left no meseage, and the point of the canal at which she was found wag U minutes' walk from the house. She had no business in that direction at all. The Corotrer: What do you think about it? —I think she has put herself into the caliai. Albert Price, son of the dense-ed by an earlier marriage, said he was a pony-driver at Ilanvers Main. He returned home from the night-shift on December 10th at about 640 in the morning. His mother then appeared to be quite all right and not in any trouble. He had never beard her threaten to commit suicide, ar.d she did not say she was going out. The husband, re-called, in answer to the Coroner, said some time ago he and his wife were separated by a magistrate's order, but subsequently they came together again and bad made up their differences. The Coroner remarked that he remembered the case, and that the magistrates decided it enhetantiallv in favour of the man.  _ Annie Bramblell, of 45, (+engem street. .Ifoxborn'. wife ot a boatman, said that on Sunday last. about one o'clock in the afternoon, she and her daughter went for a walk on the canal hank. and when near Messrs. Waddington" glassworks they saw a body floating Ail or ~.ecen feet from the hank. It was the body of a woman, for she noticed hairpins in the hair She called to a man workang at the glassworks, who threw her a hcet-hook, anti ,be hnought the body to the side. She limew deceased casually and recta-navel her body. The jury returned a verdict of " Found dtowned.- although the Coroner remarked that he could not imagine why e woman, and oi.pectally a woman with houeehold duties, ahould wall along the canal hank at the particular time of day when deceased was missed.
The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1893-12-16 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

SUICIDE OF AN UNDER GRADUATE.  Mr. John Troutheek, coroner for Westminster, ha', held an n quest a, t..ra Coroner's Court with reference to the death of George Denman Larken Wright, aged 21 years, who c-immitted suicide by throwing himself from a ihird floor window at. Mayfair. The Rev. George Howard Wright, of Chilham, near Canterbury, stated that the deceased, who was his son, was a stn,'.ent at Tani' y College, Cambridge. Oa the 2nd in-t. he IA 11,4 in such an exhausted o ~,,, tition from acute dyspepsia, following influei za, that witnese took hina for treatment to Dr. Eccles, of SI syfsir. Hs had never threatened to take hie life, and the witness had no remon to suspect anything of the kind. D.. Eccles, Mayfair, mid he took charge of the decease I on the previous Saturday There was nothing particular the in Ater with him, except thm he was extremely emaciated mod suffering froui dilatation of the stoaraoh. Ile seemed quite sane, and there was no history of any suicidal tendency. Oue afternoon witnets was in his front sitting-room n when he hem d a thud in the street, aud found the deceased transfixed by the left thigh on t e area railings. Witness fitted him off, and havinc carried hitn upstair-t, hell his thumbs on his femoral arteries until surgical aesistasce arrived. It was then found that there was a compound o muninuted fracture of the left thigh, which was ampntaterl. Louisa Hopkins, a nurse, lin whose care Mr. Wright wait, stated that, after giving hill his hooch ail bed, she left his room lo get his medicine. Upon her re:nrn she found that he had thrown himself out of the window. He had removed some trellis work from the windowsill. Dr. Thoniaa P.ckering Pick, nergeon, of 18, Portmatnetree., P.triman:quare, woo p. formed the operation said Mr. Wright died 20 hours afterwards from the shock. The deceased seemed perfectly sane, and asked whether the amputation would cause much pain. Ile afterwards said he wanted to die. The disease from which he suffered frequently produced hypociiiondrissis.— The Coroner, having remarked that he het investigated an exactly similar case, in which a man was seized with a sudden impulse to destroy his life, the jury returned a verdict of suicide whilst temporarily insane.
The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1879-01-04 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

ORDINARY TRIAL FOR  MURDER.  to.. •  A WWI for murder, which excited considerable '-telimitirm in Eiwiteseland, has lust concluded at ~./. On the lOW es et October, say. a Tin , the May et • tittle girl, *bait eleven old, use rowed halving in • shed sear the 'railway station atiribeettg. At And it was sup' =thoiiast 'be bad °outwitted suicide, but the opinleadsmalealexpurte ROA that the eltildliad been stramlial before being hanged, and that it was • clear awe' warder. Search was lben made for the ammelm. Phutrigreithe of the murdered child memati te mem boa as Switzerland, and deaseiplieaa at published in • every country in Europa. Poe maga weeks the affair remained ea impenetrable mystery, and the detectives were Mont to abandon their guest in impair, when, by the merest accident, bunk:ion wee thrown OR a woman lamed &what, living at Corcelles, in Canton Vend. The •iserderred child was proved to be here and Vie theory of Obi:cosmetics was that she wished to get rid of it becalm it stood in the way if • marriage she was about to contract with her present husband, her daughter having been horn to her when the was • single woman in service at Leiusic. Not the least extraordinary part of the aim is that Henrietta Bergh, the melee name if the murderess, was actually married to Jean Realist, at Coreellee, at the very moment yawn all Switterland was ringing with the story of her crime and the police were on her back. It appears that she made a full confession to the examining judge, but it, Mew and Jean Buchat's testimony by no means owitirm the theory of the prosecution as to Henrietta's motive in taking her child's life. &what, it seems, knew of the daughter's existenoe ; and although he had been told she was his wife's niece, he wren that wren had he been aware of the truth he would Mill have made Henrietta hie wife. Ambling to her statement her motive for committing the mime warn solely to save herself the expense of the child's maintenance, and she confessed that to this end she deliberately fetched her from Berme, where she was staying with her tthe girl's) uncle, strangled her with • shoelace, and bated her to • beam in the eked of Lee Pillete. in the hope that it might be supposed she had hanged hissed. The jury having declined to woomies extenuating eireumatannee in the case, the ROAM &what bee been condemned to imprisonment for life.
The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1879-07-26 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

WIT AND WISDOM.  As ammomm mtdo—Absby Wm. Wm Owistemol.  When im • men obliged to keep hie word When one will take it. fiome girls are like old muskets and 11/16 11 great deal it potato, but don't go off. In the vegetable wee who ever war the tomato ketchup. . . . . .  The young lady who married her father's coachman rays eke was driven to it. I " Heave= and earth I" cited Cetywaro. ." there's Prince Napoleon...l surrender." More people should die on Saturday than any other day; lie the recognised and of the weak. It has been aeoertained whin Moses was when the light went oat. fie was in the dark.  Tennyson, the poet *create, smokes so much that he is sconethaes spoken of as the bacon, laureate.  "How Jimmie is growing !" " Yee ; I see the top of hie head polr.l through the Grown of his hat."  " There [a • world of difference between • me. meld end unsuccessful attempt at suicide." Correct. Just ono world.  Whet is the difference between the weather and the baby P One never rains but it pour.; the other never pains but it mare.  A 'Western editor, in noticing a church choir, said "it ia like driftwood in • atream i it drags on the bare and yet don't amount to a dam." An Indiana man shaved off his moustache, and thereby epoiled hie marriage with a glxl who thought he looked just SI handsome as • brigand.'  'sty Soul's at the Gate" la the title of a new pieoe of music. Be had better be careful, or he may ilnd the old man'. mole at the gate too, mime of these fine ermines. While tittle Ave.yeabold Flora was earnestly watching the dare, she soddenly exclaimed, "Mama.., we maid not find our way to heaven if the stars didn't twinkle so." An old bachelor, who particularly hated literary woman, asked an authoress If she: could throw May light on hissing. "1 could," Bald she, llacking archly at hint, "bet I think its better in the dark." " Yon hare played the deuce with my heart," said a gentleman to a j rtliparillar dllrill, game of midst. " Wall," the lady, with an i arch sail., "it was imply batman you Played the knave." "Do you me that Mick, sir P" said • very inapid soqurtatance to Sidney Smith. "This stick has been all round the world, air." 4. Indeed," said the remonelena Sidney, "and yet it is nothing 'out • stick."  There are two little gbh at the same name in s vicinity. The rate night one at them said her prayers, and for tear they might be credited to the other child, she added, No 19 Orange street."  A boy et the dott•show demurely insneeted the blacks and the blues and the big* and the little.; Lea ss id, in • voice that was iew and defected, '0 elfky ! My eye.! What a place for tin kettles • - -  A Attie phi in one of or public aohools the other day Mid tocwaion to pease the word "Angel." Coming to the gender elle stopped ' dismayed, and uned her tc /Aber if " there Ire Oil