npedrazzini/19thc_murder_suicide_news huggingface dataset:
Widnes Examiner. — 1884-01-05 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

RUNCORN.  January 4. Death of Mr. William Lyon, of Mersey House.-12: Collision between the Albert and the Yankee on the Mersey below Runcorn, one seaman killed.-25. Storm at Runcorn: great damage. February 9. Wreck of the schooner George and Sarah, of Runcorn, at Mangold Head, Isle of Man : The mate, John Garnett, and the captain's stepson, William James Hatton, were drowned. April 7. L tunch of the three-masted schooner, Fox.27. Presentation to the Rev. Canon Barclay. May 16. Boat accident: A mother and two children drowned.-23. Death of Thomas Humphreys from injuries received on the 21st April at Messrs. Brundrit and Cornpany's works. June 26. Marriage of Captain C. W lia4lehtarst to Miss bleeder Jane Astbury Keen, of Egbagion, Birmingham. July 1. Sudden death of Mr. Thomas Jones, of the South Bank flotel.-3. Opening of a Mission Room at Rocksavage.-25. Miss Elizabeth Houghton burned to death at Hough Green.-28, Robert Berke'', oh Pool-lane, a boatman, drowned in the river.  I August 5. Mr. Joseph harper, marine store dealer, Runcirn, committed suicide.-11. Thomas Royle, of Ellesmerestreet, killed at the Old Quay -Docks.-30. Marriage of Dr. Finlay McDougall, of Runcorn, to Miss Alice Willis, youngest daughter of the late Mr. T. Willis, solicitor, Leighton Buzzard, at All Saints' Church, Leighton Buzzard. —3l. Presentation to Mr. Leach, late station master at Runcorn. September 21. George Massey. two years of age, of Brunswick-street, killed by falling from a bedroom window.  October 27. Robert Ashley, a Perry-street, accidently bled to death.  November 5. John Henry Williams, a labourer, fell from a swing boat in Runcorn fair ground and received injuries from which he afterwards died.-7. Runcorn Town flail opened.-13. Old Quay Mill burnt down Damage estimated at £30,000.  December 3. Storm during the night: Damage to propetty.-10. Severe storm during the night: Damage to property exciting scenes on the Mersey.
Widnes Examiner. — 1884-01-05 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

ADVICE TO A YOUNG MAN.—My son, don't be in too great a hurry to accept "advanced opinions." It is "the thing" to be "advanced " in this progressive day and generation, but there's a heap of shallowness in it. Did you never notice, my son, that the man who tells you he cannot believe the Bible is usually able to believe almost anything else? You will find men, my son, who turn with horror and utter disbelief of the Bible, and joyfully embrace the teachings of Buddha. It is quite the thing just now, my son, for a civilised, enlightened man, brought up In a Christian country and an age of wisdom, to be a Buddhist. And if you ask six men who profess Buddhism who Buddha was', one of them will tell you he was an Egyptian soothsayer, who lived two hundred years before Moses. Another will tell you that he brought letters from Phcenicia and introduced them in Greece; a third will tell you that she was a beautiful woman of Farther India, bound by her vows to perpetual chastity; a fourth will, with little hesitation, say he was a Bramha of the ninth degree and a holy disciple of Confucius; and of the other two, one will frankly admit that,he doesn't know, and the other will say, with Some indecision, that he was either a dervish of the Nile (whatever that is) or a felo de se, he I can't be positive which. Before you propose to know more than anybody and everybody else, my son, be very certain that you are abreast, at least, of two-thirds of your fellowmen. I don't want to suppress any inclination you may have toward genuine free thought and careful, honest investigation, my son. I only want you to avoid the great fault of atheism in this day and generation; I don't want to see you try to build a six-store 7. house on a one-storey foundation. Before you criticise, condemn, and finally revise the work of creation, my son, be pretty confident that you know something about it as it is, and don't, as a man who is older in years and experience than yourself, don%, let me implore you, don't turn this world upside down and sit on it, and flatten it entirely out, until you have made or secured another one for the rest of as to live in while you demolish the old one. If ever you should develop into an " advanced " atheist, my sort, just do that mach for the rest of mi.—Burlington Ilatokseye.
Widnes Examiner. — 1884-07-12 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

SHOCKING SUICIDE OF A LABOURER. A shocking affair occurred at Warrington, on Wednesday when a man named T. Bates, aged 46. shot himself through the head with a single-barrelled gun at lam house. No. 1, Appleton-street. The deceased, who was a labourer, bad been employed at Dallam Forge. It appears that he had been drinking more or less for the past seven or eight weeks. and in consequence of that he lost his situation at the forge. On Saturday he remarked to his wife "I shall not live long; I shall not want this shirt any more." On Wednesday morning the bailiffs were put into the house for rent due, and that apptared to trouble the deceased, who, after speaking to one of them, went upstairs. Shortly afterwards the report of a gun was heard, and upon a neighbour going upstairs she found the deceased in the back room, lying on his back on the bed, with his brains blown out. By hie side was a single-barrelled gun. Yesterday afternoon Mr Husband, deputy coroner, held an inquiry relative io the occurrence at the Horse and Jockey Inn, Winwick-road, when Alice Bate, the widow of the deceased, said that her husband had taken to drinking for the past few weeks. On Saturday last she was hanging up a clean shirt for him, and seeing it, he said to Albert, their son, "Albert, you have the shirt, as I shall not want it any more, nay days will not be long." Witness told him that "he was haying her on, and that he must net talk like that." On Wednesday morning bailiffs were put in the house for rent that war in arrear, the amount being £2 2s 3d. Her husband took the matter very much to heart, and went up stairs to awaken his sons to see if they had any money. Directly afterwards she heard the report of a gun upstairs and ran out of the house. Deceased had bad his leg broken about two years ago at the forge, and she thought that he must have received a severe shock, as he has been somewhat queer since. His father was buried two months ago, and he was considerably upset by that and losing work in consequence. The gun produced was in the Mouse at the time. —Mary Hamersley, wife of William Idamersley, Apppletonstreet. deposed that on Wednesday morning she WAS in the house of the deceased when the bailiff was there. The deceased seemed very mach put about in consequence. Subsequently she beard the report of a gun.—Edittt Blackburn, wife of John Blackburn, engina driver, Russell-street, said that she was at the house of the deceased on the day in questim. She met Mrs. Bate in the entry, and Mrs. Bate said that her husband had shot himself. She went into the bedroom and found deceased lying on the bed. She touched . him on the shoulder, and said " Mr. Hate, what have yen done." He then turned his head towards her and tried to speak, but was unable to do so. His lips quivered, and that was all. The gun produced was by his side, and there was a wound on the left side of his head ; his whiskers were blackened with smoke.—Verdict "That the deceased committed suicide whilst in a .fit of temporary insanity."
Widnes Examiner. — 1884-05-10 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.—Wrn, Henry Adamson, of Stanleymore popular we can scarcely imagine. It is true that they A FEAT OF Timemeamewm—We have often heard of the road, Liverpool, clerk, has been admitted to Chester Infirhave not the rich colours of the black-reds, but they have wonderful line between this country and Teheran, the capimary with his throat shockingly backed. Adamson was other qualities which should equally recommend them. tal of Persia, a distance of 3,800 miles, but we scarcely realfound lying under a hedge in the suburbs of the city with a Probably the fact of there having been such a run on the ized the fact that good signals were obtainable through so razor in his hand, attempting to kill himself. His condition black-reds may account for it. Fashion has led the way in great a length of wire until recently, when we availed ouris very precarious. one direction, and fashion is a powerful goddess. If this is selves of an invitation from Mr. W. Andrews, the managing The death is announced near Liverpool, on Monday the only reason, it only needs a little effort on the part of director of the Info-European Telegraph Company, to make night, of Mr. H. A. Bright, of the celebrated shipping firm brawn-red breeders to improve their stock and to get better a visit of inspection. It was between 7 and Bon Sunday of Gibbs, Bright, and Co., of Liverpool and London. The prizes at shows, when fashion will more equally divide her ' evening, April 13, when we reached the office. In the basedeceased possessed considerable literary ability, and was favours. In brown-reds, therefore there is a good opening, ment of an unpretentious building in Old Broad-street we one of the first Nonconformists who took the degree of The same may truly be said of ducltwing game bantams—a were shown the Morse printer in connection with the main M.A. at Cambridge on the abolition of the University really beautiful variety, which does not receive anything line from London to Teheran. The courteous clerk in charge Tests. like the favour it deserves, and were anyone to go in heartily of the wire, Mr. Blagrove, informed us that we were through m
Widnes Examiner. — 1884-07-26 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

TIIII ATTEMPTED SUICIDE OP A SAILOR AT RIINOORN.— At the Runcorn Police Court, on Saturday, before Captain Hazleharst and Mr. G. L. Davies, Arend Smit, a tall, goodlooking seaman, 24 years of age, was charged with attempting to commit suicide by cutting his throat on Sunday the 13th instant.—P.C. Morris said that at twenty minutes past five on Sunday morning he found the prisoner lying in Holloway-road. Thinking he was asleep be tried to wake him. Re got the prisoner upon his feet twice, and be fell down again. He then noticed that in his throat there was a great gash. He took the prisoner to the police station where be told him that he had cut his throat, and lithe knife with Which he bad done it had been sharper he would have killed himself. He further said that be bad thrown the knife away, and on going back to the Holkway-road he found the knife produced not far from the place where he had found fruit lying. After the man had been seen by a doctor he was taken to a house in Bridgewater-street, where he had been since.—The prisoner,who was not able to speak ,itglish, had the statement of the constable interpreted to nirn by the captain of the vessel Tasmania, upon which he Se-id it was all true.—William Schwth, master of the TasMania, said the prisoner, who was one of his crew, had been strange in his manner far the last day or two that he was on board the vessel.—Dr. McDougall said ha was called to see the prisoner. MS manner seemed to be peculiar. Be examinsd him and found a gash in his throat cutting through Portion of the windpipe. From what he saw he believed that the prisoner had been suffering from the effect of sunstroke, and being excited through not being able to get some money owing to him he had been led to commit the rash act. In reply to Mr. Johnson, deputy magistrates' clerk, Dr. McDougall said he believed if the magistrates s tav fit to discharge the prisoner be would be perfectly competent to look after himself.—The Bench discharged the prisoner, and %eked the superintendent of police to exercise some care over him while he remain,d in Runcorn.—The prisoner thanked the Bench for his discharge, and through the capof the vessel said he should nut make another attempt 11Po0 his life.
Widnes Examiner. — 1884-06-07 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

PRISONER RELEASED. —gr. dugh Shorthand, barrister, who has been in custody i ,ir sef ingsbridge, in Devonshire, on aaspicion of murdering his elite, was discharged from custody on Saturday. It will ' as remembered that the remains of the deceased lady were, donnd in a pond near her father's estate on the day after Lan wedding, the original suppoeition being that she had, sernmitted suicide. Some mygterious circumstances havin te-been hinted at itt connection with the marriage and the br ideal melancholy death, the husband was placed under arrest ton a charge of murder. It was suspected that the deceas ed had been poisoned, but after a careful postmtertem examintation of the body, and equally careful analysis ot the con tents of the ctornach, no traces of peison were found. The Troasura had taken up thepr osecution, but have now abandon edit, and the cause of the poor lady's premature : death must -be relegated to. theilong list of unsolved mysteries. Prism Wonas IN lennta.—Thc followingietter has been addrossed by Mr. J. K. Cross to the East India Association : —"lndia Ofifice.--Sin—l am desired by the Kecretary of State for India in Council to acknowledge the receipt of a memorial, signed by yourself on behalf of the East India Association, urging an early and active prosecuticu of Public Works in India, both in respect to railways and-irrigation. In reply, lam decked to say that Lord Kimberley fully recognises the importance cf the subjects to which you have drawn his attention. The remarks, bowever,eontamed in the memorial of time association show that considerable raieapeerehension exists in some important particulars. So far from there having been antrdecline in the prosecution of public works during the past year, I am to acquaint you that the estimated capital expenditure by the Government of India during the current year, 1883-84, upon railways and irrigation (irrespective of outlay by guaranteed and other raidwav companies) is £5,753.800, while the outlay on , the same description of works during the two previous financial years amounted to a total of £7,443,118 (1882-83, .83,495,70 e 1881-2, £3,947,478). Farther, lam to point . out that the number of miles of railway opened for traffic during any single year is no sufficient indication of the general rate of progress. Average number of miles of new Railway cpened yearly: Miles I
Widnes Examiner. — 1884-04-19 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

WOMAN AT WIDNES.—At Widnes Police very likely Mel ine where I drowned the dog." He had 'Court, on Monday, Susannah (Mein was charged with .drowned a dog celled " Spot " in the canal near the iron '4eeaVing, on the 12th April, stolen 13s, belonging to Thomas bridge in Febrit ay last. On the third April the deceased 7, arPhet, a labourer, who lodges at the house of Thomas had two pints of beer, and about seven o'clock at night he e'cggan, 10, Nelson-street. Murphy placed 13s in his left home to visit a Mrs. Dillon in Anne-street, and he did 1 trifler can, which he hung in the kitchen of his lodgings. .not return. Next day a man dragged the canal at the place e then went to bed. Ms's. Duggan, during the afternoon, mentioned by the deceased, but without 'result. The delta,w, the prisoner, who lodged in the house, go into the 'ceased was not Insetted hut was in the Shepherd's club, and e,"chen, and shortly afterwards ehe heard the sound of in benefit.—Thornas Tobin, of 51, Sutton's-lane, said on '''PeV jingling in a can. In the evening Marphy told her Monday morning last his flat, the Diana, was moored in the ptoetetch the money, but eho found it had been taken. The canal near the iron bridge. . He was on hoard and saw a 4:4 ner told her that she had received iPs from her hats- man's head in the water, and with a boat hook got the body • • 'and Of tbis she paid her Se teed, spew, Is 9d in pro- out. There were no indications that violence had been used. Tvle,menti, ls in rum, and is lel she Paid to the pawnbroker. —Catherine Killalea deposed to laying the body out. It ~,.."°6 P4Ytneata were made after the prisoner had been in was very badly bruieed and was black. The bruises seemed .`te back kitchen.—P.C. Snowdon deposed to apptehending to have been made by passing canal boatie.and the chemical yee prisoner in Ann-street West. Whilst coming across the liquid in the water would cause the blackness.—The jury minket-place she threw Os 5d to the ground, and he picked returned a verdict that the deceased committed suicide it U. • When charged, she said to the prosecutor "You can whilst ternporarilo insene. have that money, and if there is anything more I will see it Tun SOCIAL E4ir...Lre Runcoata—At Runcorn Petty &s-ell right, .e was emptying the tea leaves out of the cane sions, on Tuesday, before Mr. Fred Rigby and Mr. 'James whelk the money fell on the ground."—The prisoner was Handley, James Phillips, a sailor, was charged wills baying sentenced to a month's imprisonment. . on the 12th . April unlawfully assaulted ildar Spencer —The . . . . . . .. .... .... ....  15. MarketDlsoe, 171, Oxford-street, 127, lisisholese,road, 125, Bloomsbury, 119, Denmork-road, acl 2, Prinees'-road, lionskester. . .
Widnes Examiner. — 1884-05-24 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

GENERAL (JORDON AND THE SOUDAN.—Lord HARTINGsaid that she had had some misunderstanding with her hue- TON, replying to Viscount Folkestone, said communication band in relation to money matters, which seems to have had nand with Messrs. Cook as to the conveyance of pate weighed upon her mind, and she threw herself into the sengers on the Nile. Messrs. Cook have no steamers of river Mersey at Wilderspool. A man named Pemberton, a their own, but they hire them from the Khedive. Ni, doubt forgeman, of Dallam-lane, who was near at band at the Messrs. Cook would place those boots at the disposal of the time, fortunately cbserved her, jum pee into the water, and I Government.—Lord Frresemeaing, replying to Mr. Ashuaead with great difficulty rescued her—On Wednesday morning Bernina, said the sefest telegram from General Gordon was Mrs. Lally was brought before the county magistrates at Ihh or 10th April; it appeared in the Blue Book. A further the Warrington Police Court, and charged with message of a confidential nature had been sent to General having attemptee to commit suicide.—fnmector Charnley Gordon. and there - was reason to beli4ve the messenger said that between three and fouro'clock in the afternoon of had entitled Khartougi, but he could not leave. The Mandi this 19th instant, a man named Pemberton and his wife were was supposed ti be at Kordofan, but was prevented going walking along the riverside, and saw the prisoner de- to the White Nile by his followers.—Sir S. NORTHCOTH ltberately jump into the water. He (the inspector) believed asked if the CroverMnent had any farther information from that she said that if she was rescued she would de it again the Soudan.—Mr. GLADSTONB replied that there was He had been told by Mr. Hunt that the prieoner was a re- nothing from 'Khartoum. the latest information from speetable woman, and that there had been some dispnte at Berber and Dongola Was of an assuring nature.—Mr. her home with renpect•to money matters, which had preyed ULADSTONE, replying to Mr. Ashmeard Bartlett, declined to on her mind —Janet Pemberton, witted Joseph Pennserton, answer a question as to the fidelity of the Governor of , Dallam-Line, said that when she and her husband passed the pongee,. 1 prisoner on the river side she heard her moan, and, turning Two
Widnes Examiner. — 1884-01-26 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

ENGLISH PATENTS. The following patents amongst are you doing to mama?" In reply to all other questions he merely muttered, "Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway others, published in the Patent Office Official Journal, were Stock." Shortly after midnight he was removed to the sealed during the week ending January 19th, 1884:—John hospital, where notwithstanding the unintermitting efforts Petrie, of Rochdale, and Frederick William Petrie, also of of the doctors he gradually sank, and died at a quarter to Rochdale, for improvements in machinery or apparatus for two o'clock on Sunday rimming. Under the firegrate of his scouring, washing, and cleansing wool and other fibrous bedroom Was found an empty bottle, which 111 contained materials; John Alfred Griffiths, Liverpool, improvements laudanum. Among some telegraph forms was a in or applicable to tricycles and other velocipedes, and in i brief note addressed to Miss Croucher, stating part to other purposes; William Lancaster, Accrington, cer- that the writer was tired of his life, and that lain improvements in machinery or apparatus for preparing I she would be duly paid, as there was money in his portend spinning yarns of all fibres; Thomas Derham, Bolton, i manteau. Along with it was a letter addressed to his son. certain improvements in hydrometers and saccharometers ; An inquest was held on Tuesday on the body. Mr. Nowell, Edmund Knowles Muspratt, Seaforth Hall, Liverpool, and railway contracter, of Manchester, identified the body. The George Eschellmann, Widnes, improvements in the menu- evidence showed that Mr. Asquith crossed from Sottthampfacture of chlorate of soda; Wjlliam Birks. junr., Notting- , ton to Guernsey on Wednesday, took lodgings, and was barn, improvemements in the manufacture of cobbin net or found lying unconscious with a rope round his neck, and twist lace; Thomas Woolfall and Thomas Turner Mercer, presenting Symptoms of narcotic poisoning. A bottle Blackburn, improvements in or applicable to washing, wh;eh had contained poison was foand, and also a letter wringing, and mangling machines.—List-supplied by Mr. asking the landlady to telegraph to his son and Mr. Nowell George Davies, CE., Fel Inst., P.A. Patent Solicitor, 4, whenshe was dead. Tem jary found that the deceased cornSt. Ann's-square, Manchester. =Wed suicide while in a state of mental depression. gAy's 'IC PILLS, a speeitic In Neuralgia, Face-ache. Ace 90; Marocriess, EL sari°