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Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1890-03-08 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

SHOCKING SUICIDE OH A WOMAN.—OD Sunday night the wife of Samuel Gall, labourer, of Hull, wee found dead in bed with her throat cut, and a son fifteen years old has given information to the effect that, previous to committing suicide, his mother made an attempt upou the life of a younger brother, who, lasni,ver, eses+.24 with ,light cut on the lain  MIDDLESBROUGH _ IRONMASTERS'  The returns of the Cleveland Iron masters for February, showing the value emd disposal of pig iron for the month, were on Tuesday issued from the office of the Ironnuisters' ARBO' ciation by the secretary, Mr 'mo. Denuington. The returns show that the number of furnaces blowing at the end of the month was 106, and the number damped down or out 47, as oomrw.r. with 99 blowing at the end of February, 1889, and 56 damped down or out. Three furnaces were blown in during the month, viz., one each by the Seaton Carew Iron Company, Limited; Sir W. Armstrong, Mitchell, and Co, Filswick ; and Bell Bros., Limited, at Walker. All three are on hemslate. The munber of furnaces on Cleveland pig iron at the end of the peat month was 61, the , same number as at the end of November and ' December, while 45 were on hematite, compared with 42 at the end of October, November, and December; increase on the month, 3. The make of Cleveland pig iron in the port of Middlesbrongh during February was 98,409 tone, compared with 106,588 tons in January, a decrease of 8,179 tons. Outside the port the make of Cleveland pig iron was 20,038 tons, against 22,676 tons in January, a decrease of 2,638 tons. The total for the whole district was 118,447 toms, against 129,264 tons in January, a decrease of: 10,817 tons. The total make of other kinds of pig iron (including hematite, spieget, and basic) was 103,070 tons, compared with 107,003 tons in January, showing a decrease of 3,993 tons. The gross product of all kinds of pig iron during the month amounted: to 221,517 tone, against 236,327 in January, • decrease of 14,810 tons. The makers' stocks of pig iron in the port of Middlesbrough amounted at the end of the month to 69,007 tons as against 51,555 tons a month previously, an increase of 17,452 tons. Outside the port the stocks in makers' hands amounted to 26,123 tons, against 28,261 tons at the end of January, showing a decrease of 2,138 tons. The total for the whole district is given as 95,130 tons, compared with 79,816 tons at the end of January, an increase of t 4 tons. In the makers' stores there were , tons of Cleveland pig iron, against 6,7971 tons at the end of the previous month, showing a decrease of 1,261 tons. The public stores of pig iron at the end of the month were as follows : , North - Eastern Railway Company, 607 tone, ' against 607 tons on January 31st; Conners stores, 177,756 tons, against 184,672 tons at the end of January, a decrease of 6,916 tons. The total stocks of all kinds at the month's end amounted to 279,029 tons, against 271,892 tons at the end of the previous month, showing au increase of 7,137 tons.
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1890-03-08 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

FATALLY FASCINATING YOUNG  WOMAN.  SAD SEQUEL TO TWO TRAGEDIES.  On Wednesday Dr. G. Danford Thomas held an adjourned inquest at the Clerkenwall Coroner's Court on the body of Matilda Lympany, aged 19, described as a good-looking girl, e. valentine maker, lately residing with her grand parents, at 5, St. James's-street, Clerkenwell. close, who died suddenly on Thursday, the 13th ult., from the effects of poison. After death it was also discovered that she was enceinte. The deceased, it was stated, some eighteen months ago' was shot at with a revolver by an unwelcome suitor at Charing-cross Station; and, although she fortunately escaped injury, she sustained a shock to her nervous system from which she never recovered. The young man who flied at her immediately afterwards shot himself fatally. It was also said that since this event another sweetheart had committed suicide because 'of her. Just prior to her death she had been "keeping company" with a young coachman, named Edward Brooks, who said he was ignorant of her condition, but had quarrelled with her as she flirted with others. He had beard her express a wish that she was dead. On Wednesday night, the 12th ult., Mr Evan Williams, medical assistant, in the absence of his principal, Dr. J. It. Gabe, of 16, Mecklenburgh-square, saw the deceased, who said she had " a pain at her side," land the witness, thinking she suffered from ftatulence, prescribed a simple remedy. Lodgers in the house, however, testified that she was delirious, and the neat morning her grandfather, Mr Thomas Horton, a lithographic printer, with whom she had lived since a child, found her dead in bed. Knowing she suffered from a weak heart, Dr. Gabe was prepared to certify that she had died from syncope and asphyxia; butl a paragraph appearing in the papers stating she had taken poison' a post-mortem examination and inquest followed. Dr. G. E. Yarrow, of 317, Cityroad, who made the autopsy, found death was due to some irritant poison and the enquiry was mainly adjourned to admit of an analysis of the stomach and its contents, which were preserved. After the evidence time jury returned a verdict of "Suicide while of unsound mind," and expressed dissatisfaction with the way in which one of the witnessed had given evidence, believing that he had been unduly reticent.  £100,000,020 ITscranteD.—A Register 312 pages, cloth gilt, containing the names of 70,000 persons advertised for to slam prcrparty and money since 1700. , Price le 6d poWi fres. Every man and woman la the world should boy this bock, as instructions are given bow to :wove/ property from Mowery free of all charges or fees. -Damsel and Co.. ea. Strand, Loncloa• A hatane awl await you. Wills sea.
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1890-01-11 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

STRANGE CASE OF A'  SUICIDE AT MIDDLESBROUGH.  This morning Elizabeth Petty, a young woman of respectable appearance, 23 years of age, livitag with her parents at No. 50, Hill-street, was brought before Mr C. J. Coleman, the Stipendiary, at tbc Middlesbrough Police Court on a charge of havieg attempted suicide on Wednesday night —Fromtise evidence given it appeared that the young womar was first seen in the vicinity of the Dock by a watchman in the employ of the 046. Eastern Railway Company, named Joseph Mae_ shall. She was then sobbing, and appeared greatly distressed. He &AA her what was amine with her, and getting no reply, told her to go away. Soon afterwards he saw her threw off her hat and boa. and go down the stone slope to the water's edge. Before he could get to her she jumped into the water, which was there about 20 feet deep. He went after her and tried to reach her from the stone slope, but slipped in himself also. He caught hold of her with one hand, awl held on to the edge of the stonework with the other until others arrived and helped them oat. When he reached the woman, she turned and cried to him. "Oh, save me." The act was seen by P.C. Appleton and a young man named William Ferguson, who ran to the spot at owe and rendered assistance. When the woman was taken to the Station she made some statement about a young man, a stevedore, named Alfred Johnson, who, she said, had quarrelled with her. Some days before he had given her a black eye. In her statement she said that had Johnson spoken a word she would not have done what she had.—The young woman now denied that she had attempted her life. She said that she had been to the Theatre with a young man, and went down there with him became he wanted to go on board ship for something. She was standing by the edge of the stone slope to the water when a man came by and pushed her down the slope, and she slipped in.—The three witnesses who had been called, however, denied this, and said there was no man near the defendant all the time.—The defendant's father was present, and said he could not believe that the girl had really' attempted her life. He promised to la* after her in future and was bound over in the sun of £2O for her good behaviour.  A
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1890-01-11 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

THE DARLINGTON SUICIDE. EXTRAORDINARY EVIDENCE.  An inquest was to-day held on the body of John Ridley, • belt mender at the North-road Shops, Darlington, who died yesterday from the effects of taking laudantun on Tues. I day last. Deceased had been having a drinking . bout, at the end of which he was charged at the Darlington Police Court on Tuesday with drunkenness, and was fined. Before attending at the court he purchased some laudanum, but Mrs Ridley and a neighbour took it from him After that, however, he went again to the chemist's and bought another lot of poison, which he took after he left the court—Mrs Ridley saw the deceased in the company of the police, and thought he was all right. She paid a portion of his fine, and the police left. Some hours later she noticed that the deceased turned queer and began to get black in the face. She sent for a doctor, and the police came, and the decemad was walked about until it was thought he died in their arms. After that, however, the doctor said that the deceased was not dead, that his heart still moved, as was usual in cases of laudanum poisoning. The doctor made the same statement next day, sind he continued to call until yesterday afternoon. Police-constable McCulloch said he assisted to walk the man about until about five o'clock when he died. He made an examination, could find no trace of breathing, while the limbs became rigid, and the flesh livid. This was on Tuesday night, and he saw him several times after that.—Dr. Hers stated that everything possible was done to recover the man, and he considered the case hopeless almost from the first. On Wednesday he saw the man, and found Lim breathing and the heart beating. On Wednesday evening the heart was still beating, and the I next day he again visited the house, and found I that life was extinct.—The Coroner: It is quite I clear that I fixed the inquest before the man was dead, which is the first time I have done that.—A verdict in accordance with the evidence was re
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1890-01-11 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

SHOCKING, SUICIDE OF A BOY. Clement Flint, a lad of eleven years of age, son of a well-known lawyer in San Francisco, ran away from home on Tuesday. Mr Flint communicated with the police, and himself walked about the streets of the city in the hope of coming across his son. On Wednesday afternoon, as he was walking down a side street, he saw the boy, and at once called out to him. Clement turned round, and, seeing his father, at once started running at his full speed. The father followed in pursuit, calling out as he ra...1 that the boy should be forgiven, and that he should not be beaten. The father gained upon the runaway, who seeing that he would be inevitably captured, darted into a doorway, drew a revolver, and shot himself in the head. The horrified father reached his son just in time to take him in his arms and see him die. The strangest part of this sad affair is that the lad was always an affectionate and obedient son, had a happy home, and indulgent parents.  BREACH OP TER PORT CLARENCE FERRY RE 0 lILATIONS.—At the Middlesbrough Police Court yesterday, before the Stipendiary (Mr C. J. Coleman), Thomas Call, labourer, was charged with having committed a breach of the bye-laws regulating the Port Clarence Ferry on the 10th November.—His Worship animadverted on the delay which had taken place in bringing the case forward. --Mx Bamley said that the matter had to be laid before the committee and the Council, and the delay was unavoidable.—The defendant admitted the offence. It seemed that he had, despite the locking of the turnstile after the sounding of the second bell, ran round and got pn board the steamer. The regulation prescribing it an offence to go on board the steamer otherwise than through the turnstile had only been posted on the day the offence was oommitted.—His Worship imposed a penalty of 10s, including costs.
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1890-02-15 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

BREAKDOWN OF THE •• THIES"  A SATISFACTORY FWDING.  The report et the Judicial Commission to enquire into the ciourgee against the Parnellite members and others is out at last, within a week of twelve months of Pigott's suicide. The report was laid on the table of the House of Commons just before question-tit/le on Thursday. There was a very thin Rouse w hen the HUS3I9 Secretory rose on the Treasury bench, and quietly submitted the docent/Mt A dozen Nationalist members pricked up their ears, Mr Brodhougli threw back his head an I inch or two farther, and the sprinkling of Tory embers, who were tslkicg in little groups, sue- I vended conversation for s moment There was neither exeiternemt nor demonstration. The Hones eeuld stercely have been more indifferent if the report had been an ordinary Parliamentary paper. It is doubtful whether two people in the public galleries knew what wee actually transpiring, so qwetly was the little formality accomplished, and the intimation of Mr Matthews that copies of the report would not be obtainable till ten o'doe.k in the evening threw members into no nutter of excitement or impatience. C.opics of the report were obtained at twelve o'clock, and the vote office in the lobby was besieged by enquirers anxious to obtain the coveted volumes, which cover 160 pages. At length two porters staggered in, bearing large bundles of blue books, and made their way to 1 the vote office door. The delay caused by the necessity of onlooking it was fatal, an impatient , member whipped out his knife, out the string of I one of the bundles, sending its contents scatter- I i ing over the floor. The laatnrid instincts of poor! humanity were superior to the moral restraints i of Parliamentary decorum, and with the excite- I maid of frantic schoolboys the crowd of members i engaged in a reguLir dinghy scrimmage for the I dispersed copies, the successful contestants rush- I , ing off with their respective shares of the spoil to I peruse them without delay. In the sale office there was almost as eager a demand, and it would ! I be only a slight exaggeration to say in theatrical I parlance that "money was turned away at the doors."  A
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1890-02-15 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

SHOCKING SUICIDE AT SOUTH STOCKTON.  About nine o'clock on Tuesday morning it was discovered that a man named Ralph Nattrass, who had been lodging at 17, Russell-street, South Stockton, had committed suicide in an unfinished Isouse by cutting his throat. Nattrass had for the last year or two been employed at Head, Wrightson, and Co.'s Teesdale Iron Works. For a week past he had, his landlady staled, been drinking heavily, and he had been absent from his lodging since Friday. On Tuesday morning some men employed at a group of houses in course of erection in Gilmore-street found the deceased lying in a back room of one of the houses, with his tiat cut, and quite dead. The wound was not a long one, but was deep, completely severing the wind-pipe, and had evidently been inflicted with much determination with a pocket knife which lay beside the body. The left hand of the deceased clutched a pocket - handkerchief, which was soaked with blood, as though the unfortunate man had applied it to his throat. Death appeared to have occurred some hours before the body was found.—Mr Henry Mackereth, deputy coroner, held the inquest at the Albert Hotel on Tuesday evening.—Margaret Potts, Nelson-terrace, sister of the deceased, said the latter was 46 years old. She laid saw him on Wednesday. He was sober them—Harry Moser plasterer, Hartingten-street, said he was working at some new houses in Gilmore-street, and about nine o'clock that morning he found deceased in the centre kitchen of the end house lying dead in a pool of blood. A large pocket knife covered with blood was near his head, and both his hands were covered with blood.—PS. Newstead, who was called to the house, said be found a deep wound in deeesiaed's throat an inch and a-half long, severing the windpipe. In his left hand deceased held a handkerchief saturated with blood. There was blood in another corner of the room, as though deceased had indicted the cut there, and then walked to the other corner and dropped.—Rebecca Rage, 17, Russell-street, with whom deceased had been lodging, said she last saw him on Friday night. He had been doing no work for the past fortright, but "just drinking." He had had three or font "bout. " like that, usually lasting al few days. The last was much longer—The wit-1 nese lsn.. added that deceased mast have got I into the house during Monday night.—The jury returned a verdict of "Suicide while temporarily insane," believing that the act was the result of dzunkennees.  The " strongest man on earth" met at s London 1 restaurant the other night with romethingin the nature of a surprise. It seems that a private of the Horse Guards Blue, rather over 61t. 41n., and proportionately broad, took offence at some remarks which he underst 41 were being levelled 'against the honour of the British army by the 'strong man, whereupon he lost no time m lifting hi& off his feet and fairly "chucking" him out of the doors,
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1890-02-15 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

BYERS GREEN MAN CUTS ELS  THROAT.  Mr Coroner Dean held an enquiry at the Victoria Inn, Byers Green, last Saturday afternoon, into the circumstance, attending the death of Jas. Cozen, a nsicer, aged 36. The deceased f.,r thu past siz months had been suffering from pleurisy, and had been ietended by Dr. MeHone. During the past fortnight he became very depressed in spirits, but especially was it notiosable on Friday last. One day last week he told the curate of the parish that he was tired of his life. On Friday the deceased was sleeping in a bed in the kitchen, his father and a cousin being in attendance on him. About ten o'clock the father and cousin left him at his ow-n request, to go out into the passage to smoke their pipes, he stating that he felt inclined to have a sleep. Ten minutes afterwards the father bade the cousin "Good night" in the passage, and returned into the kitchen. "Are you any easier now?" asked the father of the deceased as he entered the kitchen. He got no answer, and at once picked up the lamp and went over to the bed, to be startled by seeing blood ooting out from the deceased's throat. The father at once went out and shouted for the cousin to come back. Dr. Mclione was sent for, but the deceased lived no Hine. A razor was missed from a box up stairs, with which weapon the deceased committed the rash act. He had the razor hid in his troneera pocket, and his trousers were put near him between the wall and the bed at his own special request, there being not the slightest sospicion that he had the fatal weapon concealed there.— "Suicide whilst in a state of temporary insanity" was the verdict returned by the jury.  ALLEGED FRAUDS ON' YOUNG
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1890-11-22 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

THE OXFORD SHOOTING CASE.  SIX YEARS' PENAL SERVITUDE.  At the Oxford Assize Court last Saturday morning Catherine Theresa Riordan (35) was indicted for feloniously shooting James Plebe? Bright, master of University College, with intent to kill him. Mr Reid, Q.C., and Mr Lawrence were for the prosecution, and Mr Darling, Q.C., M.P., with Mr Furrel, for the prisoner.—Mr Haines, in reply to counsel, said there was no truth whatever in the prisoner's statement that he had promised her marriage. He was engaged to Miss Bright about the middle of May. lie had seen the prisoner once since then. It was before the 6th of November, and she was excited about it He had written a Btatement in which he said the prisoner's conduct was eccentric, but not insane. He had also said she was subject to intermittent fits of some kind of madness. She had threatened to commit suicide by blowing her brains out. That was after his engagement.—Other evidence was also given.—The matron of the Oxford Prison gave evidence of the written confession of the prisoner, and her expressions of sorrow for what she had done, and that she had no intention of hitting Dr.Bright.—Hie lordship (Mr Justice Mathew), in the course of a long sum ming up,which was chiefly against the prisoner, said there had no doubt been relations between Haines and the prisoner that were improper and discreditable to both, but they were those that were common enough, and on the engagement becoming known between Haines and one of Dr. Bright's daughters there followed those outbreaks which were not unusual when such relat:onships were broken off. —The jury found the prisoner guilty of wounding, with intent to do grievous bodily harm, and his lordship sentenced her to six years' penal servitude. The sentence was received with hissing in the crowded court, and the judge ordered the court to be cleared at once and directed the police to bring before him anybody who made any demonstration of either approval or disapproval.