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The East Riding Telegraph. — 1903-10-03 (Beverley, Humberside, England)

FARMHOUSE TRAGEDY.  • small and lonely farmlmuse, standing midway I between the Staffordshire village of Dilhorne and the town of Cheadle, was on Sariday night the scene ot a terrible tragedy, John Barndred, aged 44, murdering his wife and subsequently committing suicide. The couple were married 20 years ago, and lived the happiest of lives together until seven weeks ago, when Burxdred, who in adddtloa to conducting • small term, works as an engineer at l'Ark Hall Colliery, had the misfxrtune to break a small bone of the leg in a colliery mishap. This laid him up, and for the first time in his life cow. polled him to fp; on the club funds. This circum. stance caused him to become morose, end finally unhinged his mind. His behaviour last week was so alarming that he was examined by a doctor, and on Sunday afternoon, three hours before the tragedy occurred, an order was made for his removal to Cheddleton Asylum, where he was to be taken on Monday. The delay cost both him and wife th.ir lives. Just as people were going to church a mad fit overcame Burudred, and he set 1 up in his wife with a rakfr, with which he cut her thr.mtt from ear to ear. The unfortunate woman struggled for life, and hsr hands were terribly tiashed in trying to wrest the weapon from him. 11, r screauus brought in her 17 year old bon Ernest, vibe had been milking the cows, and he arrived to see hid fro zied father hacking at his mother's thieat with a tabls-kniie, while a third weapon, another knife, lay broken on the flifor. Samuel Martiii, a heighboutiog farmer, cud two hands, who e ere burin-on:Lid, railed upon the man and attempted to pull him away, but he drove them off, and when they went cud peeped in later through the window they found him expiring Weida his dead wife with a gaping wound in his throat, Local policemen were summoned to the spot by nit siengers, who fetched them out of the village church, and immediately worship was over crowds thronged to the WM.
The East Riding Telegraph. — 1903-11-07 (Beverley, Humberside, England)

MERCHANT'S SUICIDE.  At the City Coroner's Court, London, on Friday, Cr. Waldo held an ingueat on the body of George 11-nietrius Schilisei, aged 26, a wine nierchan', of 83, Oxford Terrace, Willel,,,eter-otre.t, who was , found shot in his (Ace on Wednesday morning. Mr. Damstrius Sehilizzi, a member of the Siock Exchange, identified the body as that of his eon. Oue day his son was suddenly struck blind while walking along the street. He was taken to a specialist, who acid the case was a most reuntrkable one. His eyesight waa later completely restored. He had during his earlier years suffered from fainting fits. The C ironer : Can you account for anything which would have caused him to take his life ? The witness : I think he must have been troubltd ab int his eyesight. He had no financial wotries. Frank Symons, clerk in the employ of the deco tried man, said his employer on Wednesday morning seemed in good apirits. Half an hour before he shot hiressif he was talk iirg laughingly to fidend in Great Winchester-street. William Tulloch, a gunsmith, of Bishopsgate Church P.:silage, said Mr. Schilizzi went into hi 3 shop on Weilcesday morning to buy a double-b trrelied gun and a revolver on behalf of a friend. Iu accordance with the new Ace, he asked to see Sebilizzi's licence to catry a retolver. Schilizzi replied "Tie, will be all right. I have got the licence in my office, and you can see it when the goods are brougnt user." Wt ile his (the witness's) attention was distracted, Schilizzi took up the revolver and a packet of cartridgee, and weut out, saying something which the witners did not atoll. Five minutes afterva:ds he followed Sohilizzi to his office with the gun, when, just as he put his hand on the door handle, he was startled to hear a loud report. A ike.i whe.Ler ha had load .1 the revolver for Schilizzi, the witness said : "Ni.We never do that. We have to be very careful. One night this week, for instance, a man, without coat, collar, or hat, cams rushing into my shop, and, laying down sovereit" demanded a revolver. As he could not produce a licence, we rk f.,sed to serve him. I folloved him thrc,u2h several areas, and saw whore he wont, taking the address in case it should be wanted." EVilleLC3 was given that Schilizzi did good missionary work in the City, assisting unfortunate people who were brought up at the police-courts. The jury returned a verdict of suicide while of unsound mind.
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1893-08-31 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

THE BETTING HOUSE ACT. HEAVY PENALTY.  on Monday, at the Guildhall, Frederick Wilson, alias Hammond, 50, and Albert Hurst, pleaded guilty to offences under the Betting House Act.— Mr. Crawford, the City solicitor, said that Hammond was arrested, on a warrant, on August 22nd, charged with a contravention of the Betting House Act on certain days between July and August, in respect of preri ises situate at Finsbury Pavement. He was the principal, and Hurst acted as his clerk. From what had since transpired it was apparent that the real business in which the two defendants were enuaged was tr.isacted at the address of Hammond at Queen's•road, Peckham,. and that the a hlress in Finsbury was used merely for the purpose of having the correspondence sent there. Hammond told the police that he would give them no trouble, pod handed over all his business books. One of these contained entries extending from August, 1892, to August this year, which represented 20,500 beta, ranging from 2e. ed. to £5O. This book, together with the other documents, chewed that a very large business was transacted. Proceedings were taken in consequence of complaints from persons who had parted with their money, and, on going to the address in Fins• bury, had been unable to find the defendants. Hammond had been convicted previously at Bow. street of assisting with others in the management ot a betting house, when he was fined altogether £lBo.—Mr. Grain, for the defendants, urged that a large business had been done, but he pointed out that the defendants had naturally thought themselves entitled to do that which another portion of the community were doing daily without being punished.—Mr. Alderman Treloar fined Hammond £lOO or three months hard labour, and Hurst £lO or 14 days. Judgment was suspended for one month to allow time for payment of the money in the case of Hammond.  A serious riot occurred on Sunday afternoon in front of the Washington-street entrance to the City Hall. According to Dalziel, the Mayor (Mr. Harrison) saw the whole affair from a window of one of the offices, and was very indignant at the brutal manner in which the police were treated by the mob, who beat, kicked, and stoned them unmercifully. The disturbance wan at first confined to a struggle between the police and the unemployed, but the fight soon became more general; and it is the opinion of well-informed people here that this is only the beginning of serious conflicts between the rowdy element in this city, who are ripe for an mischief, and the guardians of law and order.  A man named Joseph Atkinson committed suicide at 68, Bravington-road, Paddington, by hanging himself in the back kitchen. His wife had sum. monad him for assault, and that is thought to have preyed upon his mind.  Great interest was manifested on the Dover sea front on Monday in • series of experiments with the 80-ton gun on the Admiralty Pier. The shots, which weighed nearly • ton, were thrown an ellollllloUs distance into the Channel, the concussion being felt all over the town.
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1893-08-31 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

SAD DEATH OF A BARONET'S SON.  An inquest was held on Saturday, at the Durham colliery village of Coundon, on the body of William George Gabriel Stokes, 30, who died that mori.'--; at Coundon, under sad circumstances. Sir George Gabriel Stokes, But., of Cambridge University, said the deceased was his aon,and wIS an M.A. and Bachelor of Medicine of Cambridge University, and lett home on the 15th to come to Coundon as partier to to Dr. Wardle. He was a pain t man of temperate habits, and so far as lie knew was not in the habit ot talcing drugs to induce sleep. Mary Brownbridge, liousekeepir, said she left the deceased in the suzigery at 10 o'clock on Thur,day night, writing. Next in ruing she went four t.mes at intervals to awaken Idm, hut could not. Shthen got assistance,and on gating into the bedroonl found him lyinz in a demi stiipir, and sent for medical assistance. Dr. Wardle said the iteceaseo can:c to Auckland on the 15th, but did not L'o to Coundon until Tuesday last. He never saw him from the Wednesday until 11 o'cliok on Friday morning, when ne found him in a deep state of insensibility, with all the symptoms of opium poisoning. He was handed a note found in the room, which read as follows:  "August 24th, 1893. "My memory is going fast; my nerves are gme; I feel lam going mad. I cannot sleep; mean to sleep sound to-night. May God and my family forgive me.—W. U. G. Stokes."  On the envelope were different times, and the amount of morphia he had taken. At 1.20 he wrote: "I am getting drowsy, but have not slept." At 2.45 he wrote, -I have got no sleep; I am tired of this." Witness did all he knew to restore him, ho; he died at 3 o'clock that morning. Death was caiped by morprda poisoning.—The jury found a verdict that the deceased committed suicide by morphia poisoning, whilst temporary insane.
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1893-07-13 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

ELECTRIC LAMP FATALITY.  On the Piazza Quirainal.llome, the other eveninr, two electric light lamptnen lost their- lives through a piece of almost incredible carelessness. One of the large lamps epPosite the Palace suddenly wont out. The lampmin belonging to the district brought a ladder and ascended, but had scarcely touched no carbon when he fell to the ground from a height of Born,. lilt. His companion, believing him to he seized with sudden illness, went up in his place, hut also immediately fell. Both men bad neglected to use the simple mechanism at the base of the lamp-post, which interrupts the electric current when any repairs or manipulations are necessary. The men were conveyed to the hospital, but they were both dead. The engineer of the Society states that the orders given to the men as to the use of the insulator are most rigorous, and the men are daily exercised in its use. The King telephoned to the hospital an inquiry about the unfortunate men.  A dead and shockingly mutilated body, believed to be that of William Cotterill, of Featherstone, was found on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway at Taushel on Saturday morning. It is believed that Cotterill attended Pontefract Races, lost the last train, and trespassing on the line with the idea of walking home, was knocked down by a train and killed.  Early on Saturday morning a dense fog prevailed off the Tyne and stopped navigation. The wife of Captain Butler and the crew of the Whiteley lighter Ada were landed at Shields on Saturday morning, the lighter having sprung a leak and foundered of Black Hall Rocks, Hartlepool. The crew of the lighter, who had a narrow escape, were rescued by the tug Integrity.  Scotton, the well-known Notts cricketer, committed suicide on Sunday by cutting his throat with a razor at his lodgings at St. John's Wood. - • - _  The Jesuits at Liverpool have lost one of their distinguished members by the death of Father Johnson, which occurred on Saturday, at the age of 84. '  At Oakham, on Sunday evening,William Peet and Michael Hurst, while bathing in a pond,were seized i with cramp, and drowned n sight of a helpless companion.
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1893-07-13 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

SENSATIONAL SEQUEL TO A SUICIDE. Near Asnieres, outside Paris, there is a place in Mid-Seine called the Ile de Cabceufs, where a series of most sensational incidents occurred the other night. According to the Daily Telegraph, a man named Dufour, two of his friends, and a young woman, Therese Ducioun, had been amusing themselves on the island during the evening, and all had dined together in the open air, as is the custom, during the warm weather, of many Parisians. The viands and wines were despatched amid a great deal of gaiety, but later on a quarrel arose between Dufour and Mdlle. Duclotui. The young woman scratched the man's face, he retorted by giving her a blow with his fist, whereupon she rushed to the river and jumped in. As night was coming on fast, the bargemen who had been requisitioned by Dufour and his friends had great difficulty In finding the body with their grappling•hooks. Eventually, their labour having been successfully terminated, a coffin and cart were provided by the Commissary of Police at Asnieres, who bad been informed of the affair, and the remains were to be conveyed to Saint-Ouen. As the vehicle carrying the dismal burthen was being driven along the Asnieres Quay the horse took fright, swerved, and fell into the Seine. The accident involved not only the immersion of horse, cart, and coffin, but also of the driver and those with him—Dufour and a policeman. The three men swam safely to shore after they had been carried out s considerable distance; the horse sank to the bottom with the vehicle, and the coffin floated away in mid-stream. Rargemen had again to be called upon for assistance, and they put out in their boats in'''order to capture the coffin, which they followed, using torches to light up the reaches of the river in their weird quest. At length they came up with the object of their search and towed it safely ashore. A new vehicle had then to be chartered for the purpose of conveying the body to its destination at Saint-Ouen.
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1893-08-17 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

THE CRUELTY OF WOMAN.  The depth of recklessness to which a cold-hearted girl can drive a good, upright, moral man wag innstrated on State-street last night. . . .  A girl and her best fellow Were walking together. She had an icicle in each eye, and &cruel, sarcastic smile on her lips, and he was taking her to task for Foine put alight, in tones suggestive of suicide, desperate mental anguish, and utter disregard for ur rounding ears. "You are a flirt, and &trifling, insincere coquette, and you don't love me!" he wailed. A smile that would have chilled an ice machine was her only reply. "And you don't love me!" he reiterated, a fresh food of tears in his voice. A continuation of the smile.  "You've fooled me right along, now, for more'n two years," he sobbed, "and I've took you to the theatre, and street car rides, and bought you presente—" "Oh, shut up!" ejaculated the girl, concisely. "Jimmy Jimson would 'vs done that, if you hadn't!" Well, then, go with Jimmy Jimson ! cried the broken-hearted lover, desperately, "and I'll go to destruction! And it will be you that drove me to it  "Now, Harry!" protested the girl, quailing at this awful threat.  "Yes, 1 will," continued the wretched youth, following up his advantage, "and when you see me reeling on the streets, or pale and cold in a drunkard's grave--" "Harry, you are real mean!" protested the girl at this awful picture, almost crying, “you are too cruel . .  "Then rejoice over your work!" lie shrieked. rushing into the open door of a saloon. She stopped outside in mute despair and horror. So did I, half tempted to get her to follow him, to follow myself, and warn him of the awful consequences of this first downward step; to picture to him in moving tones the awful consequences of this first downward step. To warn him of the gradual drowning of all his sweet youth and downy innocence in the poison bowl, just because of one false woman's treachery; the drunkard's grave, the hangman's noose, whole job lots of other things, looming up in the bottom of that first glasa—l thought I would, but I didn't. Around a corner of the screen I saw him. The would-be wreck strode firmly up to the bar, threw down his money with a steady hand; there was a mooching, icy gleam in his eye as in bitter, reckless tones he called for, and drank at one swallow, a great, big, dizzy glass of lemonade.—Arkonwe Prow/W.
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1893-05-25 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

HORRORS OF THE SLAUGHTER-HOUSE.  CHICAGO'S "GREAT" SIGHT.  A vivid picture of the horrors of the slaughterhouses of Chicago is drawn by the special correspondent of the Daily News. He declares that the method of killing was most clumsy. "The beast," he continues, "was driven into a strongly-boarded enclosure of sufficient size to permit of its standing upright without turning round. A slaughterman on a platform above aimed at its head, between the ears, with a hammer of the size and shape of the implement with which Hodge breaks his stones by toe highway. The blows were continued until the victim fell with a heavy thud, and as the man paned on to operate upon the next the side of the enclosure fell down, a chain was passed round the hind legs, and the stunned steer was hauled up swiftly, struggling faintly perhaps, and as it so hung the knife terminated Act One. In an incredibly short space of time the beast was skinned, cut up, and every serviceable portion whisked away to be dealt with in its proper place. Of the four beasts I saw clumsily hammered, not one was brought to the ground without three blows, and one of them was battered nine times before the hammer had crashed on the right spot. It seems, that, alter trying all the patent methods for dealing the death-blow, the alaughtermen have, as the best humanitarian policy, gone back to this primitive fashion. I believe the beasts are shot some. times. As for the pigs and sheep, they appear to be seized, hoisted up by machinery, and stuck simultaneously. There could not have been more expedition there. What a scene on the slaughter-house floor, with scores of men reeking with gore, and cutting and slashing right and left uif they revelled in their sanguinary work. The shouts of the men, the groans of the cattle, the rattle and bang of the machinery, the ring of hoofs against the sides of the pen, the thud of the hammer, and tha dull sound of the falling carcase, the swish.s ,ash of blood as gory labourers swept it into the gutters, the clatter of pulleys and chains as the severed portions of beef were shot out of sight, the inevitable odour of the place, spite of r:gorOUS precautions—these make an experience not to be forgotten. Yet one would think it was a sight to shudder at rather than to see! It will be a wholesome change to get out of this shamble of all shambles. This gentleman will ahew you the way," said a man, whose naked arms, high boots, clothes, and face were crimson, pointing to another employe, reeking with grease. .After the fresh air you are better able to look around the works of the 75 wealthy companies that do the packing, or follow the hides, or the entrails, bladders, stomachs, horns, bones, aye blood itself, every particle being utilised for trade in its own department. The earcases are run a by machinery to refrigerators."  Sarah Ann Fitagerald, a married woman. has been remand, d from Wrist London on • charge of attempt. 'no to drown her cla:ren Prisoner a!so tried to commit suicide.  %%
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1893-10-12 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

ANOTHER WOULD.RE SUICIDE. - John Coleman, steel hammer forger, 29, Park-street, was brought up in custody on a chazge of attempting suicide by drinking 6d. of laudnum, on the 4th inst. On the day in question he visited the Vine Hotel, got a glass of beer, drank half of it, and poured into the beer 6d. of laudanum, and then drank it. A doctor was called, who applied an antidote, and he was then conveyed to the hospital. He regretted his action. It was explained to the Bench that the defendant, a soldier, had drawn his pension. This led to a spree, and the committal of the rash act.  ()Nem Moße.- Margaret Dyer, 4, Park Place, Lower Portland-street, who WaS very drunk in Lichfield-road. on the 6th inst., was fined 55., alternative 3 days. Defeadant was similarly charged last week, and expressed her son-ow to haw to see their worships again at so early a date.  Wednesda.y.—Before Messot. Johnson and Yates. Treepassing on the Railway.—Two Eanall boys, Ernest South, ard Henry :knee, the former of 49, and the latter of 64, Waterworks-street, were charged with trespassing on the L. and N.W. Railway on the 214 of September.---Poliekstonstable 151 proved the charge, and a fine of 2e. each was imposed. Petty Embezz:'ements.—Win. Harris. labourer. 302, Cromwell-street, was brought up in custody on three charges of embezzling small sums of money, the property of his employer, a coal merchant.— William Gowan, 114, Reeky-lane, coal dealer, stated that the defendant had been in hie employ 18 mouths. One of hie duties was to hand over any money received to witness. His chief occupation wa, to carry out bags of °oat on a waggon for sale to the general pubic. On the 6th of Sept. he negleeted to pay over 2s. reoeivel from a customer, and this constituted one of the charges of embezzlement. On the 15th September he also neg. hetet to band over Li. 6d. received from the 89•11113 oudomer, and 2.e. 9d. from a third person. The defendant alleged that he paid over to witness's eon all the money that he had reettived, and three hundredweight of coal wan still unpaid for by one of the ituetomem--Harry Gowan, son of the prosecutor, maid that the money alleged to have been reeeived by the defendant had not been paid to him.- When arrested on Tuesday prisoner acknowledged detainin4 is .611., but said ho paid the 2s. in. He birder admittel receiving 2s. fkL after he erased to In, in the prosecutor's emPoy. There was at I,:vt, 20 ,imilar to,ses to the ones beard retorded 'a.tainst him—lle wax committed to pr-On for a I,:nith with hard labour.
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1893-11-02 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

LADY'S STRANGE SUICIDE.  An inquest has been held at Eastbourne on the, body of Mrs. Emily Rose Stoney, 45 years o!.:. t I` wife of Mr. Vesey Stoney, of Rosturk Castle, county Mayo, Ireland. She was admitted to Avalon It e, Eastbourne, on June 24th last, suffeing tretu depression of spirits, and on Wednesday Ia mfr.!: She j timed or fell from a secowl-itse uio ow, Sustaining injuries from which she died. Ike husband stated that sho first became deprte January and had the delusion that he was not f.o. of her. Once she tried, to jump from the root house, once she walked into the sea NVI!i) cloth's on, and once she jumped through a winds,. but he was satisfied that she was sane exceyt io: the delusion mentioned. On Monday,. October 2 r.,„  he received a letter from Dr. Sherrard saying. f.t  his wife had attempted to cut liar throat, but he did not think much of it, as Ufal would et t allow anything to take place in his establishment. A later telegram informed him that his wife v.. s dead.—Mr. Sherrard. M.R.O S., L.R.C.F. said that Mrs. Stoney went to him as a boarder sea not as a patient. Negotiations as to her coni:rg were principally carried on by her !Tether, io went to see the witness. They talked chi..fly on religious subjects, and the w:tness said he thought religion would cure lisr.—The coroner: Is your treatment religious P— The witness: Moral and spiritoal.—The coroner: And what were you g,Ti to cure her of ?—Witness: From morbid vanity net seltishness.—The witness denied that his tie,se was a private asylum; it was a medical boardim:house. He had one lunatic antler his car.. and the boarders numbered 40. On October 21st Mrs. Stoney iluded the vigliance of the nurses and. obtaining a carving knife, cut her throat slightly in four !laces. After this he wrote to Mr. Stoney advising that she should be certified as a lunatic and removed. He did not inform the police, because be did not think it necessary.—The jury found that Mrs Stoney committed suicide while of unsound mind, and recommended that the facts disc!osed should be brought to the notice of the COllllllls. sinners in Lunacy. They also said that in their opinion Dr. Sherrard was deserving of censure for his neglect to inform the police of the attempts I suicide on October 21st.