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The North-Eastern Weekly Gazette. — 1893-03-04 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

WICIDE.  INQUEST ON THE BODY.  Mr H. W. Biunes, deputy coroner for WtMinster, opened an inquest at the St. Martin's Veetry Hall laq Saturday on the body of the late Mr John Charles Bell, who was the; defendant in the elhinouy L.uit of Bell v. Bell, and whose death occurred under mysterious eireumstanom a few days ago. Mr Bossall appeared fer the near relatives of the deceased.  Mr T. Hugh Bell, of 'Redcar, was the first witness. He said he 11'3.4 a cousin of the deceased. The deceased had lived at Harrogate, but during the last few weeks he had been living at the Junior Carlton Club, and had a bed-room at 43, Pall Mall. He had suffered a great deal from fever abroad, and that had weakened his heart. Witness did not know any reason why the (leceased should commit suicide although with I fancied he was in the habit Of taking narcotics, and possibly the effect of the reaction of the narcotics would be the cause. He had no reason 1 to think the deceased was in straits for money. I The Coroner: We heard a report to that effect. Had he any delusion about it? Witness: None at all.  Mr Wm. Watts, landlord of 43, Pall Mall, said deceased had slept at his house slime the Ist of February. Thos. Barsby, servant at 43, Pall Mall, said on Thursday morning he took breakfast up to Mr Bell's room. He found deceased lying in bed with blood on his face. He at once ben t for a doctor. Witness had seen a revolver in Mr Bell's room whenever he slept there. Mr Frederick Augustus Baton, surgeon, said on Thursday morning he was culled in to see ths deceased. He found him in bed .lying on his left side. There was a bullet wound in the right temple, and another on the opposite side. The bed-clothes were not disarranged, and on turning them down witness found the deo-seed's hands ale 1"08t3 his cheat. There was a five-chambered revolver in the right hand. One chamber had been discharged. The bullet had passed right through the head. Witness had made enquiries, and found the deceased took fifteen grains of chloral the night before. He told the chemist from whom he obtained the draught that he had a lawsuit on in the morning, and wanted to be well braced up for the occasion. _  P.C. Ralph, who searched the decerscd's rooms, produced a gold watch and chain 0•1141 other jewellery belonging to, the deceased, and also a mass of correspondence relating to business matters. Only la 4d Was found in his pockets, and also tickets showing he had been to the Empire Theatre the night before his death. There was nothing in the room to show any lessen for his committing suicide, Mr Hugh Bell, reclliod, did not think the '4eoeased had any reason to be ivorried about the fiction alluded to, but it was of a domestic uatut said would probably have caused him a good deg Of annoyance whatever the issue might have been. -c-The jury retuned a veedint al " euiaide whilst temporal* insane." You have tried end were phased wilh thrro. They the regulate the bow.* nod inmron Outer's little liver PM& Of all rilttertza.ted pamphlet free. British Viaduct, 145010n.-4.torn
The North-Eastern Weekly Gazette. — 1893-03-04 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

THE SUICIDE OF A BANEXUPT  BANKER.  AFFECTING LETTETtS.  An:inquest was held at Wandsworth last Satin,: day on the body of Bilton Cassenet Barker, the banker who shot himself in a railway carriage between East Putney and Southfields on Wednesday last week. Mr Chappell, solicitor, brotherlin-law of deceased, said doceised was depmsecl bemuse '1 he thought bail would be refused at the Mansion House. He had threatened to commit Suicide. Witness, however, did not think-his threats sere serious. Deceased had been depressed ever since the ruin of his firm. Witness handed the coroner certain letters, which the coroner perused and then handed back. One of the letters was addressed by deceased to his wife, of whom he took an affectionate farewell, and repudiated the accusations against him. It was is follows : "My darling Lu,—You I know do not credit the accusations made against me, and are aware of how I slaved at the business, notwithstanding my surgical operations and ill-health. To think that I should have brought your Ewe; to this. Let my boy, if possible, still respect his father's memory, and never allow my darlings, if passible, to hear of my disgrace. Let them think of me as the darling old Dad they loved so well. Try to think of my memory in the happy past. Thank the dear old mother, dear old Jem, and Annie, Lori and Arthur. Elsie and Arthur. Alfred and Ernest, and evetyone who has keen kind to me and us in my trouble, not forgetting faithful Fanny. You know I have never ID fig), tionally injured anyone. I feel my brain going ,under all this terrible trouble and the ruin of my brightest hopes. Forgiveyourfondhusband. Forgive me, my darling.—linzoN." To Mr Welford, Official Receiver, deceased wrote: "1 cannel doubt that as there is an Almighty above, your bitekslidings will he shown up, and the true story of the Barker prosecution will be better known, if not in this world certainly in the ilext. May my curse follow you." To his solicitor deceased wrote.that he believed the creditors would find the mistake they had made in not accepting Ta 6d in the pound and in placing themselves in the hands of their present advisers.—Mr Welford was called, and said that the ordinary course had been pursued in instituting the prosecution. Ile had held no communication personally with deceased nor had he any personal feeling in the mat ter. --The jury found that deceased committed sni;;le N 1 hilst of unsound mind.
The North-Eastern Weekly Gazette. — 1893-04-15 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

BIRMINGHAM IRON MARKET.  BERMINGILAM, Thursday. Although there was a large attendance at the iron makers quarterly meeting at Birmingham to-day there was no increase apparent in the amount of trade. The demand is still stagnant, and competition exceedingly keen. Boyers refuse contracts, hoping a further reduction. Manufacturers declare this impossible. Wages, which are to be settled by arbitration next week, may alter prices, too, consequently trade is still unsettled. Marked bars, £7; ordinary merchant bars, £5 lOs to £5 Its; sheets (singles), £6 10s tc(26 15e ; doubles, £6 17s tel to £7. Forge pigs: Northamptonshire, 41e to 42s ; Derbyshirea, 423 to 445, according to brand. Galvanised sheets are hardening, with a steady demand for shipment.  The directors of the English, Scottish, and Australian Chartered Bank, 38, Lombard-street, London, have issued a circular announcing suspension of payment pending reconstruction. It is understood that the liabilities of the bank amounted, on September 30th last year, in London and the colonies, to £8,268,349. To prevent the necessary petition a meeting of shareholders will be convened at as early a date as practicable. 1 A terrible domestic tragedy has occurred in ' Portumna. A widow, named Dourhue, with her daughter, were evicted by Lord Clanricarde, and went to live in Portumna town. The daughter went out to service, but returned at the end of last week enciente. The mother was greatly distreseed at this, and on Sunday came behind the girl armed with a razor, and cut her throat. She then inflicted wounds on her own throat, dying shortly after. The daughter still lives, but is in a dying condition. Another account states that the mother committed suicide, and the daughter, finding the body, followed the example. An inquest on the mother resulted in a verdiet of temporary insanity. Sir Wilfrid Lawson, M.P., speaking at &political meeting at Wigton on Wednesday, said that Mr Gladstone was the ,youngest man in the House of COMMOTIS as regarded his intellectual ability, activity, and agility. Everybody was sick of the Home Role subject, and he was glad he had escaped two nights of the debate. They had settled the Irish question last July, when Cumberland sent five out of six members to the House of Commona in favour of Home Rule. The idea that Ulster "corner-men" should take up arms against the whole British nation was ridiculous. Referring to a rowdy meeting at Cockermouth with reference to the Local Veto Bill, he said it reminded him of the attack of the Assyrians—  The wrowdies s.me down _like tbe wolf on. the fold,  Andtheir Teckets- We're-ha-rat:CO-kr Witlearl;,e; a.ncl.gold ; And the hue of their cheeks made it easy to see That the liquor that night had gone round merrily. (Much laughtes.)  • Vnik. • —4llo,alraDa, -.Ka,. A.  ---,1  G' ;learance Sale of Pure Slik ), suitable for Lady or Gentimam. Poet or 3 for 2s Sc!. Leeds Salk Maastactu tnover-terrace, Leeds.
The North-Eastern Weekly Gazette. — 1893-06-03 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

BADGIIIIND (11{148011. in the wall over the court. In the Russo-Turkish war of len a certain do" Rest here for a brief space, lady, and I votes and polyglot, Colonel Hausenkampf, was will bring to thee one who will attend to all thy made censor of war correspendents' letters and ants, telegrams. He did his spiriting only when the Thus speaking, the officer moved towards the letters reached headquarters in print, and seems door, but presently he hesitated, then stopped, on the whole, to have done it gently. Mr Forhee and turned, says of him :—I have always pited the unfortunate "Lady Gertrude, thee heat been very kind and Colonel Hausenkampf from the very bottom of obedient in my oompo.ny, arid I would do thee one my heart. He had to read all the letters pub. last favour. Our good Rachel, who will take fished in all the newspapers of all the corresponcharge of thee, hath a disposition peculiarly her dents, and I predicted for him either speedy own. It will be greatly for thine advantage to suicide or hopeless madness. But he remained please her. She can be kind, or she can be ugly, alive and moderately sane, spite of his arduous as she it moved. I trust this hint may serve duty and of the task which, at the outset, de. thee." volved upon him of listening to every oorresponGertrude thanked him, and he withdrew. In dent who made application for a permission. He a distant passage he muttered to himself, as he was fearfully badgered. One day I called on him pursued his way— at the headquarters in Pieced, and found "By my life! that girl bath some secret sup- him seated in a bower in a garden, resolutely port to her courage—some hope of rescue. So far confronted by a gaunt man in a red beard as the count is concerned, I know she loathes and and a tweed suit. " Mon Dieu!" exclaimed detests him. If she thought she was completely the Colonel, "will you oblige me by taking that in his power, she could not have thus borne up. man away and killing him? He is a Scotsman, Pretty soon he stopped, seemingly with a and I don't understand the Scottish language; he weightier thought, and again he spoke with him- knows none other than his native tongue. He self— come here daily, and looms over me obstinately "From the things that Harold and Saul ob- for an hour at a time, firing off at intervals the served in that hidden glade of the Bohmer Wald, single word ' Permiesion r and tendering me, as lam satisfied that it IS one of the retreats of the if he would hold a pistol at my head, a letter in Ran
The North-Eastern Weekly Gazette. — 1893-10-21 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

BEREAVED LOVER'S SUICIDE.  At an iuquest at Poole on Monday on the body of a young Frenchman named Alfred Bonnet a sensational love story was unfolded. Last Saturday morning, about 2.30, the coastguard at Sandnanka, about three miles distant from Bournemouth and the same distanco from Poole, discovered the body of a ',mins man, apparently about twenty. five years of age, drowned. So far as it has been possible to ascertain, the facts are as foliows : —The deeeitsed was named Alfred Bo:n*1. a native of Paris well-connected. About four years ago ho came to England to learn the language, and engaged apartments at Bournemouth, at a house in Francis-road. Whilst there a strong attachment sprang up between deceased and a daughter of his landlady, and it 1.. understood they were to have been married a short time ago. The young lady, however, died. and this pears to have produced a very sad effect upon him, mid one which he could not shake off. At the time of his lover's death the demised was in Paris, and he came over to England to attend the funeral, which took place at Bournemouth last Thursday week. Deceased' then returned to Paris, but arrived in England again a week later, and pad a viait to the grave, on which ha placed a wreath. HO appears to have remained at the grave for a considerable time, and later in the day took a railway ticket, leaving a black bag that lie carried will' him in the cloak-roam at the Bourmmouth East Station. It is supposed that lie then made his way to the seashore tomewherc in the neighbour. hood of Bournemouth and drowned himself. liii holy was washed ashore at Sandbanks. la the Lag WAS a letter of a very distressing character, expressing the wish of the deceased to be buried in the Si, Me grave with his love or ia one on her left-hand .ride.—The jury returned a verdict of suicide during teraixwary insanity. Quite. a . melancholy interest attache.; locally to the romantic suicide' of M. Bourlet at Bournemouth. The yo.ing lady whose death Le would not survive WWI the thugfitv of a gentleman well known in Newcastle, Mr J. 11. Peddie, the vice-president of the Tyneside Burns Club, and who with his family was long connected with Perms Bridge and Jesmond Presbyterian churches. lie has had the misfortune to lose several grown-up sons and daughters from phthisiti. Vie last being I Miss Peddie, who was taken to reside at Bourne. mouth. The deceased young lady was gifted with I a line voice, and it was, indeed, after singing at I a concert at Walker for a workman in distress that she caught a cold from which she never re.savered.
The North-Eastern Weekly Gazette. — 1893-03-18 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

DEATH THE ONLY ALTERNATIVE  TO DRINK AND MISERY.  A very sad story was told before Mr Coroner Settle at Seaton Carew on Monday night by the widow of John Ward, a bricklayer, who last Saturday jumped from the North Breakwater into the sea at the mouth of the Tees, and was drowned.— Mrs Ward, who resides at 39, Mozart-street, West Hartlepool, said that deceased told her when he left the house early last Saturday morning that he intended to drown himself. It would be better for her and the children, he said, that he should do 80, and it would remove him from the drink, the temptation to fly to which he could not resist. He kissed the children and then left the house. She did not think, however, he would carry out his threat, as he had on several occasions previously threatened to take his life. She knew of nothing but drink that could have affected his mind.--Simon Mclntosh said he met deceased on the North Gare Breakwater on Sunday morning, ' and was told by deceased that he intended to drown himself. Witness remonstrated with him, and then went for the police. In the meantime Ward proceeded to the end of the breakwater. Witness returned with Henry Jeffries and tried to get near deceased but failed, as decea.sed would , notpermit them toapproach him. They turned and walked to the top of the breakwater, and in the meantime deceased must have thrown himself into the sea, as he was not in sight when they again looked for him. Subsequently they found his body floating near the water's edge. He was then just alive, but died before they got him to Seaton.—The jury returned a verdict of "Suicide whilst temporarily insane," and a collection was made on behalf of Mm Ward and her seven young children. Deceased was aged 38.
The North-Eastern Weekly Gazette. — 1893-02-04 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

TRAGIC AFFAIR NEAR BISHOP  AUCKLAND.  On Tuesday night at the Fox and Hounds Inn, Newfield Colliery, near Bastion Auckland, Mr f2oroper 1, T. Proud held an enquiry into the circumslaloms attending the death of George Stephen Wilson, an engineer, aged 'lB, who we.; Lund drowned the previous day. For the past nineteen years deceased hell a responsible position under Messrs Bolckow, Vaughan, and Co. at their I'Vewtield Colliery. Small Ann Shin, a married dau7liter of the deceased, was the first witness called, and sail she heard the r, port of a shot in her father's house, which was no \ t to her own, about four o'clock on Monday afternoon. She was in the house shorly before that, end left decearoil and her mother sitting side by side. He had been sullering from ! in:luenza ail the winter, and coniplained of rains :in the head on the morninr, in question. Attacks of infinen a had left him low-spirited, and added to this the deceased frette I much ab .ut • , son of his who was ill. (In hearing the ! shot witness went into the house and I met the deceased coining out of the I parlour. Witness asked him if he had tired the I revolver, and he replied that he had tired at himself twice, but the revolver would not go off. On entering the room she found her mother on the sofa bleedii,g from a wound ii the check. The demased, w en lie said he had tried to fre the revolver at himself, was • asked by witness what he had done it for, and he replied, "It is my wish for us both to go together." The bullet had only grazed her mother's cheek. Deceased at emce left the house. en Friday last week he had said his head was so bad that he would like to drown himaeL in the river near the dam if his wife wou'd go with Min.—Wm. Baines said a little be'ore four o'clock on Monday he saw the de 'eased I walking Nery Quickly by the river side. Ile was ' going in the direction of Cie spot where he was ultimately fo.md.—James Wilson, joiner, of Byers Green, said he went to look f. r the deceasoi after hearing of ('no using of the revolver Witness, along with James Richmond, found the (deceased in the river—P.C. Bonett pro iuced the revolver, which was an old pin-fire w-:-cluiaribered weapon.— The Coimner having brie .y suminmd up, the Lary returned a Nerdict of "Suicide whilst temporarily
The North-Eastern Weekly Gazette. — 1893-04-08 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

SHOCKING SUICIDE OF A LEEDS  BARMAID.  Au inquest on the body of Clara Ward, 23 years of age, recently a barmaid in Leeds, and .who committed suicide last Saturday, was held on Tuesday at the Town Hall, Leeds.—The deceased was identified by her brother, William Ward, painter, of 112, Falwood-road, She& field, who stated that the last time he heard from his sister was in August lost, when she I wrote to him saying she had got a situation at £4O a year, and giving him a glowing account of how she was getting on.—Mrs Jane Wilkinson, at whose house in C raf ten-street the deceased had lived for the last five weeks, stated that deceased had latterly swinfal to be downhearted because she was unable to obtain a situation. On Saturday morning she noticed that the deceased appeared to be in a bad temper, [ and asked her what was the rnatt,T, but her a ply was, "Oh, never:mind." Later in the evening Mira Ward receive d a letter and a telegram, and after reading them she went up siabirs. without saving anything. Whilst in the kitchen she heard kiss Ward calling out, "Mrs Wilkinson, come up; I've taken some carbolic acid." Thereupon witness rushed up stairs; the young woman was then coming away from the dressingtable, and she staggered against the bed. "Miss Ward, whatever have you •dcale asked Mrs Wilkinson, but the . deceased never uttered another word. Witness called to her husband, who at once ran for a doctor.—ln reply to the Coroner, witness said she kept carbolic acid in her bedroom for disinfecting purposes, and the deceased knew of it. —Mr Cuff, one of the house surgeons at the Infirmary, where the ymmg woman died shortly after her admission, and Mrs Helen Tome, of Mansfield, sister of the deceased, also gave evideace.—The latter stated that she wrote her fister the letter alluded to, bat there was nothing in it to disturb her mind. She had no idea what the telegnen was about.—The jury returned a verdict of "Suicide whilst of unsound mind."
The North-Eastern Weekly Gazette. — 1893-04-08 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

SKYLARKING " OR SUICIDE.  An iniueet was held last Saturday at Battersea 'relative to the death of Edwin James Acland, iaged 20 years, a general labourer.—Ceorgina Emma Ricketts, a bottle labeller, residing at 'Battersea, said the deceased had been keeping company with her for the past ,17 or 1S months. On the evening of March 25 the deceased called upon her. He went out with her stepfather and returned in half an hour and ate a haddock and some whelks, I which witness ate with him. He asked witness to have some more, and she declined, when he appeared annoyed, and rose from his chair to put on his coat to go home. He went to tho door, when witness's mother stopped him. He came back to the table and picked up an open penknife, used to extract the whelks, and belonging to deceased, and made a stab at himself. Witness's mother stopped the first stab, and it struck her on the wrist. He made a second stab, and wounded himself in the left side, just below the lung. He was going to stab himself again, when witness prevented him, and he said, " Emmie, I have done it now; let me be." Medical aid was called, but the deceased died the same evening. —By the Jury: They had not quarrelled that evening. Deceased was very jealous. He was an affectionate young fellow. She never gave him any cause for jealousy.—Dr. M`Lauchlin, of New-road, Battersea, deposed to being called to see the deceased on the 2fith ult. He hrand him suffering from a wound in the side. In reply to questions the deceased said, "I was skylarking, and stuck the knife into myself. I had no intention of committing suieiie.". Since death he had made a post-mortem examination, and found that the wound had penetratNl the walls of the stomach, and death was due to nervous shock and peritonitis caused by the wound.—The jury returned a verdict of "Death from misadventure."