npedrazzini/19thc_murder_suicide_news huggingface dataset:
Widnes Examiner. — 1885-01-24 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

YEAR'S RAILWAY ACCIDENTS.—Returns have been issued of accidents and casualties on the railways of the United Kingdom, reported to the Board of Trade, during the nine months ending September 30th, 1884. The total number of persons killed was 859. and the number injured 5,832. Of these numbers 31 passengers were killed and 558 injured by accidents to trains, rolling stock, or permanent way ; 77 were killed and 487 injured by accidents from other causes. Of companies' servants 21 were killed and 83 injured by accidents to trains, rolling stock, 3:.;;.; and 374 were killed and 1,660 injured by accidents from other causes; 44 persons were killed and 23 injured at level crossings; 254 trespassers (including suicides) were killed and 136 injured. THE UNEMPLOYED OF THE METROPOLIS —A meeting of the unemployed, to consider the depression in the condition of the industrial classes, was held on Saturday afternoon in front of the Royal Exchange, London, Mr. W. Saunders presiding. Mr. Hennessy proposed "That the ever-recurring depression in trade, the chronic poverty of the induatrial classes, and the difficulty of finding work, even at starvation wages, are intolerable evils, which ought not to be tamely endured by those who suffer from them, and cannot safely be ignored by any class in the nation." The resolution was seconded by the Rev. Fleming Williams, and carried with only two dissentients. The Rev. Stewart 'Lleadlam moved, and Mr. Pike seconded, "That these evils are the result of the denial of the equal rights of men to the elements provided by their creation for the empleyment of labour, and we pledge ourselves in every way to imperatively demand the restitution to the whole people of their birthright in the land." The resolution was adopted. Mr. Henry George said it was time the men in the streets and workshops took up this question. There was slight interruption, but no disturbance. Mn.
Widnes Examiner. — 1885-09-19 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

DOUBLE MURDER AND SUICIDE.  On Wednesday, Mr. J. the County Borough Coroner, opened an inquiry at the Reindeer Inn. Sutton, near Liverpool, on the bodies of Emily Louisa Mappleton, aged four years and 'iii months; Thomas Mappleton, aged two years and three months; and that of their mother, Louisa Mappleton, aged about forty-nine years, who committed suicide atter murdering the deceased children.—Thomas William Mappleton, of Glenham Cottages, Spa. avenue, Sutton, farm labourer, deposed that the deceased woman was his wife. On Monday morning he left home as usual to go tce• his employctent, leaving the deceased woman and Lwo children in bed asleep. He returned as usual about a quarter-past seven in the eveninz, but after continuous knocking at the door and failing to get-any reply, he got over the wall at the rear of the building. Upon entering the building he called for his wife. Receiving no reply from her, he went upstairs to the bedroom, where he had left her, and was horrified at finding the place covered with blood and his two children and his wife surrounded with gore. He raised an alarm, and medical assistance was sent for. It was then discovered that their throats were fearfully our. In answer to the coroner the witness farther said that the deceased woman had I been in a strange condition of mind for some days past, but he had not the slightest suspicion that she would do any harm to herself or the children. She had been of late a great student of the Bible, and he believed that her mind had become deranged in consequence. She was very much attached to the children The jut:, returned a verdict that the deceased children's lives were wilfully destroyed by their mother, who afterwards committed suicide while . under a state of mental derangement. ,  ONE °ln of Army and Navy MCMICINES con'stns sufficient to Cure contagious diseases of 'a certain class (internal or external); 45. ed.. Pamela post 6a. Single bottles of Mixture, 2s. ed..—If&ETKuRN, Operative Chemist (late Bowker), 332 k Dean.sgate, Manchester.—Advt.
Widnes Examiner. — 1885-05-09 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

ATTEMPTED SPICIDE AT FRODSAAM BRIDGE. At the Occasional Court House, F odsham, on Saturday, Clifford Scott Hoskin was charged before Mr. E. A. Wright with attempting to Commit suicide at Frodsham Bridge, on the I‘t inst., by cutting his tkroat. Margaret Duocalf deposed that on Friday afb.rneon she saw the prisoner corns out of an outhouse near her house at Frodsham Bridge. He had blood at his throat and on his hands and dress. He followed her towards her house, and then turned off along the river side. She followed him as far as Ashworth's bone works, when Mr. Earlam asked the prisoner if he would wash himself, and he did so with the assistance of several persons.—')r. Weaver said a few minutes after five o'clock on the previous day the prisoner was brought to his surgery by A policeconstable. There was a quantity of blood about his neck and chest, sad a wound on the left aide of the throit It WAS an incised wound about two and a half inches long, cutting through the skin to the tissues beneath, and was more than half an inch deep. In the deepest part it w-tis about three-quarters of an inch deep. It was a jigged wound, but the great blood vessels and the windpipe were not cut. The wound was such as might have been inflicted by the knife produced. The prisoner handed the papers produced to the witness at his surgery, and said ‘• You see I meant to do it, and I wrote this for my wife," pointing eat the pencil writing on the paper. which was as follows : " Ist of May, 1885. My dear wife.—lf you will not seeme alive, you will see me dead.—Yours truly, C. S. Heskin." The prisoner was committed for trial at the Chester Sessions.
Widnes Examiner. — 1885-01-10 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

KIND OFFER. The CHAIRMAN said be had just had put in his band a letter from Mr. W. Harmston, offering, if it was agreeable to the Guardians, to allow the children at the Workhouse to see the performance at the circus free of charge on Saturday, or should the weather prove unfavourable on that day he should be happy to admit them on the Saturday afterwards.—Mr. BLACKHURST asked if that invitation would include the children at Padgate.—The CHAIRMAN said that it would.—Mr. BLecsnurtsr said it was a very kind offer on the part of Mr. Harmston, and he should move that it be acceoted —The CHAIRMAN seconded this proposal, which was carried, several Guardians expressing the opinion that it was a very kind offer. NEWTON VACANCY —The CLERK intimated that he had received the order te fill up this vacancy on the Board. This concluded the businesq.  A Snocamo DEATH occurred at a public-house in Wolverhampton on Wednesday morning. A brewer, named George Jones, was sitting on the edge of a copper of boiling wort, when he overbslanced himself and fell in. The poor fellow was got out as quickly as possible, and was taken to the hospital, where, after excruciating agony, death put an end to his sufferings.  MURDER AND StumnE.—A horrible discovery was made at Laughton, a village about six miles from Lewes, on Thursday morning. Two brothers, named John and Amos Barber, aged 55 and 65 respectively, occupied a little cottage at Laughton Pound, and earned kliving by shoemaking. In consequence of a letter which their yotrager brother sent to a man named Burton, who resides in the locality, saying he intended to commit suicide, Police-constable Gillham went to the Barbers' house on Thursday morning at nine o'clock. Being unable to make anyone hear, be broke the back door open, when he found the house empty. On going to a wood shed at the back of the premises he saw the eldest brother lying on the ground with his head battered, and the younger hanglng by a rope to a beam above. Both were quite deid.
Widnes Examiner. — 1885-01-10 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE AT CROFT.—On Thursday evening week, soon after seven o'clock, a blacksmith named Cornelius Unsworth, residing near the Smithy-brow, Croft, attempted to commit suicide by cutting his throat with a razor. It appeared that Dr. Sephton saw him on Thursday morning, and said he must be carefully watched. About seven o'clock in tbe evening, as he was seated by the fireside, he commenced talking in a strange manner, threatening to kill his wife and children. They ran for assistance, and while they were away Unsworth cut his throat from left to right, inflicting a wound about four inches long. He threw a lighted paraffin lamp, which was burning on the table, into the pool of blood which had flowed from the wound. The cut is a deep one, and has been stitched up by Dr. Sephton, who is still in attendance. Unsworth has been cvefully wa,ched since the occurrenc,, as he seems determined to destroy himself, and is obviously suffering from temporary insanity. TEL PARTY AT Srocrc-rosz UV:Tn.—The annual tea party in connection with the IRdependent Methodist Chapel, Stockton Heath, was held on Monday, when over 200 sat down to tea. Afterwards a very profitable and interesting miscellaneous entertainment was given, and was more numerously attended than on previous similar occasions. The meeting was presided over by Mr. Joseph Mounfield, of Warringtcn. The programme consisted of songs and solos, which were rendered in excellent style by the Misses Critchley and Whitley, and also by Mrs. Isherwood, and the Messrs. Worsleys, Shaw, and Goodier. The recitations, which were given by. Mr Josiah Furness, of Warrington, followed by scholars of the Sabbath school, were given in a very creditable manner. The choir sang with sweetness and precision, showing careful training on the part of Mr. Peter Harrison, who also presided at the harmonium, in.l showed marked efficiency. After a vote of thanks had deen given to the chairman and others, the meeting was tyought 0 3 close by singing the doxology.  rriE
Widnes Examiner. — 1885-05-30 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

DAISIES. , knaves," whereupon his opponent "moved the Cot" that the rapier be taken from him, lest he should Co She was a little Irish maid isuicide. With light brown hair and eyes of grey, Mrs. Blake (to Mrs. Flint): "And so you have moveel4 And she had left her native shore, since I saw you last. And how do you like. yttir nes! And journeyed miles and miles away, location?" Mrs. Flint: "Oh, very much better diem the Across the ocean, to the land lold one. We are on an avenue that leads directly to the Where waves the banner of the free, cemetery, and almost all the funerals pass our dbor, And on her face a shadow lay, -- makes it-extremely pleasant." w m art f r-sick at heart 'noe as she.' . . , . ~ lll cpur religimi..4 a mond kndiffereoce, a calm bargainFOWhen from the city's dust and heat, ec ' fnJg 'With Ged, a prudential Speculation, a discreet fear of And reasa.less noise, they took her where -- hell, a frigid propriety, a servile keeping of-the letter of The birds were singing in the trees, God's law, it may he a religimie but is it the religion And flower fragrance filled the air, , written in the Bible? Is it the fire which it was our And their leaf-crowned heads upraised dearest Lord's one will to kindle 7—Faber.' ; To greet the 'pretty grey-eyed lass, Thy task may rirell seem over hard - A million blossoms starred the road, Who scatterest in a thankless soil , Anci grew among the waving grass. - Thy life as seed, with no-reward, : Save that which duty gives to toil.  teem  "Why, here are daisies!" glad she cried, And with hands clasped sank on her knees; Now, God be praised, who east and west Sakttern such lovely things as these I Around mymother's cabin door In dear old Ireland they grow, With hearts of gold and slender leaves As white as newly fallen snow." Then up she sprang with smiling lips,' 3 Though on her cheek there lay a tear; This land's ribt half so strange," she said Since I have found the daisies here." ---1111ZGAIIST ErrtVile.  Yet do thy work; it shal succeed In thine or in another's day; And if denied the victor's meed, Thou shaltliet lack the toiler's pay.— Whittier. In one of her letters to the Queen. dated from Seehelm, the Princess Alice says:—" The country here is more beautifskl than ever, and country air and flowers are a great "enryment. Every little walk is up and down hill, with little brooks, rocks, small green valleys, fine I woods, &c:, . All my children are great lovers of nature, andif develop this as much as I can. It Makes life so rich, and they can never feel dull anywhere if they know tow to seek and find around them the thousand beauties and wonders of nature." '
Widnes Examiner. — 1896-05-23 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.  THURSDAY.  In the House of Commons on Thursday Colonel RusSELL asked Mr. Chamberlain if he had received any confirmation of the sentence passed upon the leaders of the reform movement at Pretoria. Mr. Chamberlain referred the hon. member to the telegrams published in the papers. With regard to the treatment of the prisoners in gaol, he said he had not seen any suggestion that the insanity and suicide of one of the prisoners was due to the severity and hardships of imprisonment. He had received a telegram from the British Agent at Pretoria stating that the President of the South African Republic had promised that special gaol rules and regulations w‘ould be immediately framed, and also that the housing and accommodation would be vastly improved. The final sentences upon the four men who had been condemned to death would be considered next week.  Asked by Mr. KILBRIDE why the importation of Irish store pigs into Lancashire had been prohibited, Mr. LONG said the regulations were imposed by the local authority in order to prevent the introduction of swine fever into the county, and it rested with the local authority to say when those regulations might be withdrawn.  Asked by Sir C. DILICE what he intended to do with reference to the petition from nine members of the jury who tried William Kearsley for the murder of Detective Kidd at Wigan (in which the jurymen stated that had they known the full facts of the case before .they gave their verdict they would have found Kearsley not guilty), Sir M. White RIDLEY said that after carefully consiiering all the circumstances of the case, and after consulting the judge who tried the prisoner, he had come to the conclusion that Kearsley was rightly convicted ; and although there were circumstances which justified him in advising the exercise of the prerogative of mercy, he saw no grounds for reconsidering the case. Mr. Balfour proposed the suspension of ths twelve o'clock rule, so that the debate on the Agricultural Rating Bill might proceed after midnight. The motion was carried by 215 votes to 103. On clause 2, which provides for the payment out of the local taxation account in respect of the deficiency arising from the exemption granted under the previous clause, Mr. Lloyd-George moved a drafting amendment to provide that the amount to be paid to the local authorities should be described as paid to make up the " difference " and not the " deficiency " in the rates. After some debate, the Solicitor General promised that the points raised should receive careful consideration before the report stage of the bill, and Mr.
Widnes Examiner. — 1896-05-16 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

GATE.  TEIE SUICIDE OF A FARMER.-Mr. Brighouse held an inquiry at the Plough Inn, Houghton Grren, on Monday morning, relative to the cl( hof John Howard, farmer, whose body was found hanging in a barn early on Friday morning.—Mary Ann Howard, wife of the deceased, gave evidence of identification, saying that her husband was 69 years of age. He had gone to bed early on the night of the 7th inst.,because he could sleep better than if he retired at a late hour. The following morning he got up about 4.30, after which she had not seen him alive.—Alice Houghton, domestic servant at the farm, said she was awakened by the deceased on Friday morning about 4.30. She got up and went downstairs, but found he had not lighted the fire, as Vrkg his wont. She went into the yard and looked for him, but not finding him she entered the barn, where she saw his body suspended by a rope from a rung of one of the ladders. She at once communicated this fact to the son of the deceased.—William James Howard, son of the deceased, deposed to having beard his father waken the servant. Soon afterwards she came downstairs, and asked him (witness) if he had seen his father. He replied that he had not. She then went into the barn, and immediately came out and told him his father bad hanged himself. He went into the barn and found his father hanging from a ladder which had been reared against the wall. Under his feet was a basket. Witness's impression was that his father had stood upon the basket to put the rope round his neck. Witness cut the body down and informed Sergeant Barnes. His father had a severe illness some time ago,and that had seemed to affect him. He had never heard his father express a wish to be dead, and he knew of no reason for his act.—The jury returned a verdict of "Suicide whilst temporarily insane." They also passed a vote of condolence with the bereaved
Widnes Examiner. — 1896-06-13 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

CHURCH.  Councillor J. SHILW GREEN proposed a vote of thanks 'n toe Rev.E. o.Clleman,Miss Collin, Miss I .rwnoil, Mr. U. Perkins,the thildren,and all others who d v“oally or otherwise to the evening's ~r . iius. lie said tie derived the greatest satisfaction from the work of the Sunday schor.l in connection with Silver-street. He only wished they had the same accommodation that. there was at Bold-street. It was a strong temptation to him to follow the question of education. In his financial duties be had a very full acquaintance with that particular question, but he dare not go into it then. It was a controversial question and he should not like to add any word that would give a feeling of inharrnonv to the meeting but he should like to say that in Warrington there was one iostitution which was one of the noblest in the kingdom and that was the People's College. It was one of the most perfect educational institutions ft young people of a certain class to be found. Warrington owed a good deal to it. (Applause.) We had nearly 10,000 children in attendance at our day schools and W 3 had not come into actual touch with the School Board, and perhaps Mr. Natkins was not far wrong when he said it was the 21. or 3d. in the £ that turned the scale. It was the strong desire on the part of certain clergy in Wnrrington. At that time he believed in them owing to the rate being 6s. 6i. in the £. Education did not stiffer much either at the hands of the managers of the schools or the authorities of the town. Referrine• to the curse of gaMbling the speaker said he had seen in the papors laudation of the result of the Derby (" Shame.") In an evening paper he read that at a meeting in a certain institution a vote of thanks had been passed to the Prince of Wales for winning the Derbv, and side by side with it he read of the suicide of a man owing to the same race. War, it or just that those who vrere at the head of affairs should take Dart in the gambling institutions of the day? (Cries of "No" and applause.) The Rev. G. D. MASON seconded the vote of thanks which was carried unanimously, and after Mr. Pigot had also been thanked for his services during the anniversary, the meeting terminated.
Widnes Examiner. — 1896-03-07 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

CHIEF CONSTABLE'S ANNUAL REPORT.  The annual report of the Chief Constable of Warringtan for 1895 (which is,of course, the first report prepared by Mr. Talbot), has been presented to the Watch Committee and has been printed fOr..pirculation amongst the members of the Town Council. The report contains the , followirr, particulars :—The number of licensed houses 1 in the borough is as follows :—Licensed victuallers, 87 ; beerhouse keepers, 45 ; shopkeepers, 74 ; Music licences. 38. Transfers have been made in the cases of 6 licensed victuallers, 3 beerhouse keepers.and 7 shopkeepers (off). The number of children detained in Reformatory and Industrial Schools during the rear is 44, for whose nart maintenance the sum of £64 3s. 93. has been received by the Police and forwarded to the Government Inspector of Reforma`nories. Eighty-seven pedlars' and six sweeps' certificates have been granted,thefees for which amounted to £22 10s., which is payable to the Police Superannuation fund. There are 11 cab and omnibus owners in the Borough and 70 drivers plying for hire, Eight marine store dealers, and 40 gunpowder and fire work dealers, are licensed for those businesses. Fortyfour persons have been summoned for keeping dogs without licence; 20 being convicted, 23 being discharged, ' and 1 case was withdrawn. 422 dogs .were found at large unmuzzled ; 255 were given up to owners, 156 destroyed, 5 escaped, and 6 were sold. The sum of £27 18s. was received it fees. One hundred. and three sudden, unnatural, and violent deaths were reported to the Coroner through the police ; inquests were held in 45 cases. 55 were referred to the Registrar, and 3 were certified by doctors, The verdicts, where i nquests were held, were 24 "accidental," 9 "natural causes," 3 "open," 1 "misadventure," and 8 "suicide during temporary insanity." Seventy-five lost children were found and restored to their parents ' • 70 horses, cattle and sheep found straying were penfolded,and afterwards owned. Three hundred and sixty-six shops.warehouies. and private houses were found insecure by the police on night day, by reason of doors and windows being left unfastened. Six fires took plane in the borough, the probable danaage amounting to £15,890, mostly covered by insurance. The latter figures include the damage done by the serious fire in May at Messrs. Skelton's premises in Anrsemarket-street. The gross total cost of the police establishment is £5,279 2s. ld., half of which was paid by the Lancashire County Council. Total cost in 1894, £5.076 3s. ed. The Police Superannuation Fund amounts to £10,338 75., the annual charges thereon amounting to £326 109. 81 Total amount in 1894, £9,290 174. 61,the annual charge thereon being £5O ss. 4d. Number holding certificates of St. John Ambulance Class :—One chief constable, 4 inspectors, 6 sergeants, and 42 constables. Total 53. First aid has been rendered in 40 cases. The strength of 1 the Force on the 312 t of December, 1895; was 54 all told.