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Northern Times. — 1859-07-19 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

PREMEDITATED MURDER AND SUICIDE THROUGH LOVE. . • --TEXTRAOILDINAILY CAKE.-On Saturday, Wakley proceeded with an inquiry in Middlesex Ilospital,;touching the death of William Charles Stevenson, 'a carpenter, aged 21, who committed self-destruction under the subjoined peenliar circumstances :----It appears that the deceased was found lia,ngingi by a rope from a beam in his father's workshop,  on Thursday morning, at five o'clock, and 'upon being.cut .down arid' conveyed to the hospital,. life was found .to be extinct. Ths act•• appeared to be the result of a  in his working attire, with his carpenter's cap on and his 'sleeves tucked up, just as, though he 'had  quitted his bench, and at once• committed the rash act. Amelia Shephard, the deceased's sweetheart, said. she saw the deceased last alive on Wednesday night about twenty minutes past eleven o'clock. She had known hini for about two years, and, of late, within the last two months, he appeared very unhappy. This was 'caused by her wishing to leave him, as he had not kept his promise to marry her, at  various  rends WlShec  break the connexion off. On Wednesday night' shC told him that she did not wish to see him again, and he appeared affected, and said he would remain with her as long as he could, and said' he would make away with himself. He added that if he did kill himself, she (witness) should go too (sensation); and she expostulated with him and said, "What astir it would make in the neighbourhood" ---The Coroner asked the witness if •he was to understand that the deceased had  threatened her life.---The Witness.repned amidst much sensation, and coutinued :---A few evenin while returning from Hampstead, when crossing t:  le affirmative  bridge in the Harapstead-road, they stood looking into the water, and she observed, " This water looks awful." The deceased replied, " What do you say if we two die now." Re took her by the waist, lifted her over the bridge ; she resisted, saying., "Oh Charles, don't do, such a thing," and they then walked to her house in. Charlton-street. lie had been more kind to her of, late, and she told him that it was not her wish to be parted from him if he would carry out his ,promise and .marry her, but differences with his friends nre vented his doing ,so. Other corroborative evidence, hav'ing been given, the coroner summed up, and the jury returnee a verdict of " Suicide," leaving the state of mind an onei  '
Northern Times. — 1859-11-30 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

ACCIDENT ON ,THE LANDING-STAGE.—An extraordinary accident took place at the Great Landingstage, 'yesterday. At, half-past eleven o'clock, a van belonging ,to Mr. Cerkhill, of .Birkeuhead,. laden with more than a hundred pounds' .worth of furniture, and urawn by a horse; worth about £5O, proceeded to the north end- of the Landing-stage, in order to be taken across -by the ferry-boat William Fawcett. The stage was very 'slippery; and there being an incline towards the edge, the vehicle became too heavy for theliorse and pushed him, on towards the,water's edge. AU would have gone over, Vit.- the van coming in contact with one of the slage staunphions, its progress was arrested. The horse, how. eizer,; plunged over the stage, and was hung by the harness suspended in the air. The only chance to save ,him was .to . cut the harness, which was done, and the horse fell into the river, between the Stage and the paddle- of the boat. By. directions, of Mr. William Rowlands, a, gentleman who was present, ropes were passed round the neck and under the body, of the horse; and, after great exertions, the horse was hoisted on , board the steamer in a very exhausted.'state, but was t i,s'oon after revived by attention. Much credit is due to 1 Mr. IloWland.s for his exertions. • CORONER'S iCounx.—The following inquests were I held yesterday, -before P. F. Curry, Esq., the borough coroner :—On- the body of Joseph Edward Bailey, a little boy,, who .resided in 15, Dalrymple-street. For some time previotio to his death, the "deeeased had been suffering from ;the effects of a violent cold, and on Saturday night he Partook of some paregoric, and died .on :Sunday morning: From the evidence which was ;adduced yesterday, ut would appear that the deceased .olied from an oTerdose.of paregoric, but the case has been 'adjouned till this day for a post mortem examination.— On the..bodv of John ,Dillon, a bricklayer, who fell to the ground from a height of about thirty-eight feet, sustaining injuries from which he died -shortly after his fall. Verdict, " Accidental death."—On the body of WilliaM Hewitt, who committed suicide, as stated in our yesterday's paper. 'Verdict, " Death from temporary insanity."--On the body of Mary 'Ann Hughes, a servant, aged sixty-four. She appears to have been .a strong, sober woman; but nn Sunday last, while performing her.domestic duties, ,she fell downstairs 'head first, and died almost instantaneously. , A verdict of " Accidental death" was returned.-.=-Also, on the body.of William Woolfit, a coachman to Elkington, of Church-. street. The deceased fell into a: parry while returning , . home on -Saturday evening. A verdict of "Accidental death" was returned.: '
Northern Times. — 1857-10-06 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

BOYS' CLOTHING HA-E WI 'H. MIS TV.TE AT LEWIS and COMPANY'S, Ranelagh-street.  Fa:flown.— On Friday, an act of suicide was committed by M. Kimlnd TA?lor, a gentleman, s'x y year of age, at Poolu'a Lot•chn Bridge Ilot4l. The deceased gentleman, who was eett known in the city, had for some years past been in the employment of M-ssrs. Lennox and C i., !tierch ,r.ts, of B oid-stieet. Ahmt half-past eleven o'clock on FrirLy morning ha went, to the abOve hotel, wh,re he was well known, aril proceeded to the collar-tot-am, there being no per,son besides himself there at the time. lie sat down and commenced wri and was left alone. A, about.a qaarter to ene o'clock the waiter went Eto the ro m for the purpose ef cleaning the glass in the 'o r, when he saw the deceased apparently resting his heal between two tables, and there was an unusual smell in the room. He went up to inn, and then sew a wound under his left ear, from which the blood had awed copiously. A penknife, marked with WO, was 'yin:, near him upon a tab'e. The w iter gave an slatm, and Mr. Croft, surgeon, was rent for, and promptly attended. On his wrival he said the deceased was dead, and had been so for some time. A letter written by the deceas-d was found upon the tab'e, directed to Mr. Middleton, surgeon, of B aw-lane, referring to the fact that he intended to comm t suicide and wishing that his body mi2lit be sent to a hospi'ei r dissection, for the purpose of ascertaining what was the matter with him, as he had suffered from acme i'itcrn'il cempl,•int. TRADE OF TIIE WEST —The Chicago Press thus wriots on this subject : —" A' every step of our progress down the S. Lawrence, we re sliced more deeply the truth of the remark of o ir old frierd Captain Robert /Ingunin, that the g,-eat Gel when he made the great fertile Wtst, made also the lakes and the mighty S. Lawrence to carry i,s commerce to the ocean, and though, for a time, tural boundaries and natural barriers, essential to the existence of three lakes, have turned aside that commerce from the rnagnin tent &Ismael which the God of nature has provided fur it, nearly all these obstacles are now le at ved, an] the itte:itable laws of trade will, ere long, fully appropriate the most mageificent highway for the commerce of the
Northern Times. — 1857-10-06 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

BLACKBESTIES.—TiIe beiges and woods in the neigh— bourhood of the city are, this sees -in, literally covered with blackberries ; and hundreds of women and chi'dren find abundant em loyment in gathering this welco:ne fruit, which they retail in this city at from 31. to 41. per quart. Some families are making as much as 7s. per day. Several persons from Sunderland find this ❑ew tract, a lucrative speculation. They arrive in this city by an early train in the morning, ether large qtantities, and return again in. .th.e evening, when a market for the fruit at 61. per quart, is readily found.—Durham Advertiser.  Tun VOLUNTARY PeisciPiA.—A church rate emennting to about £4O was, it will be remernhEred, refused a few weeks ago by a la ge majority of the pa i hioners of St. Paul's district, Oxtord. The Incamb •nt (Rev. A. Hackman) and the churchwerdens resolved to make a direct appeal to -he onngregation, and that, as the rev gentle nan stated, al hough their plan might be considered novel in these days, they had Scrip-ural autlpri.y and usages of the Prinf Cy,: Church for so d inz. Tne sys'em has been adopted. On the 20th anal 27th ult., during the mornin: and (vAiinz service, bags w• re taken round from pew t r irw, and the c&lec'i so amounted to about £6 The same pl in will be cm jetted every Sunday, and the surplus, at the end of the year, will be given to the deaerviig and needy poor of the district. Front t'-e fact of so many non-parishioners attending St. Paul's Church, a large surplus may fairly be expect ad. &Notre &R CASE OF INFAN ricyDE.—Thq, Evansville Journal thus speaks of the crime of a woman, Sarah Bedwell, now oe trial in Sullivan county, for infanticide It will be recol'eated that on the arrest of the prisoner it was charged that the crime had teen commuted with the complicity of her own brother, who was arrested with her, but was subseqaently released on bail, They were both to he tried at the present term. The girl, on her examination before the magistrate, made a c.nfets'on. She was living at tae tine in her brother's family, consisting of five or six rreons ; the.ghbo child was boll during the absence of the family at a nei when there was only a small girl in the house. Irramidittely after its birth, she took it into the field, one hundred and fifty yards from the h use, and placed it in a stump, and covered it over with I),rk and leaves ; she returned to her b?d, a Id the next morning rose and performed her duties, concealing all trecss of what had happened from the family. She did not kn rw whether the ch 11 was born dead or alive ; it did not cry. and she did not wish it to live. It was sibsequently taken from the stump and buried by a mar. Who the man was. she refused to tell, or make any acknowledgement of the paternity of the child, and in this she pe,s'sts up to the present date. After her committal to prison, she attempted suicide by starvation, and for the space of twen•y-re days refrained entirely, as the sheriff said, from taking any food. Finding it a slow process of trial, she repented, ant gave it up; and is now on trial.
Northern Times. — 1857-08-20 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

SMPOWNSRS AND OTIIERS.--By a report addressed to the Board of Trade from the British C onsul at Bahia, re-ipecting the cause of the prefFe3ea given to foreign vessels over British, it appears that masters of the= former are more careful than those of she latter, and deliver their cargoes in better order. THE ALLEGED FORGERIES AT lavErrrqo.—A removir has been circulated that a merchant at Liveipool, lately. deceessd, has left liabilities estimated at X 300,000, of which £lOO,OOO are upon forged a^ceptanas. The predso facts have not transpired, but the statement ie believed to be t•ue The death of the defaulter is stated to hyFe been by suicide, and his losses are suppled to have been incurred by heavy speculations, both in cotton. and sh-ires.—Tirres. AFFAISS OF CARE BROTIBM, AT NEWCAsTi,E.—Yesterday (Tuesday), at a meeting of er.tditors, held in Landon, Mr. Coleman, the accountant submitted a statement of the affairs of the above firm, which showed a surplu4 of £38.11)00, claims £678,000, assets £716,64C), The Northumberland District Banking Corap-‘ny, Nano hold, mortgages upon the principal part of the milies, have considerately consented to allow matters to.Bvrad over for a year, provided their interest is paid, and itispectors are appainte i. By a forced sale the amount of the moeme could easily be realised, but the surplus in that case for the general creditors would be small. The course deermined.on by the meeting was to wind up the estate under inspection, as to ensure a full return to the creditors, and to give Messrs. Carr and Co. time to consult with their friends, and perhaps make a suitable arrangement without the transference of. their property. The inspectors appointed were—Mr. Bigg, . manager of the Northumberland District Banking Company ; Mr., Anderson, manager of the ZsTewcastle branch of the Bank of England ; and Mr. B. G. Smith, of Lombardstreet. The amount of debts represented at the meeting was about £540,000,
Northern Times. — 1857-10-07 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

THE N ORTHERN TIMES. -LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7,185 Z  INDIAN FUND.  the woman's clothes, by some :in ans, came in contact with tho fire, and she was instantly in a blaze. Her screams attracted her neighbours, who immediately broke open the door and extinguished th' flame., but not before she was so dreadfully borned as to cause her death next day. Anl whit rendered the circumstance, more appal. ing, not only was the wret_hed wattle so drunk as to be unable to save herself, but her haste tad was .senselessly drank in bed in the same apartment, and perfectly unconscluts of his wife's screams and striletings ; and, awfu to re'ste, from that moment Smith was never sober, audio about ten days utter fell into the river, wnen drunk, and was drownel. Thomas Lawrence, late di ‘pen, er of medicine at the Rose-hili Disp -miry, was picked up in the street, and booked for safety in Vauxhall Bridewell. He was n iticed to be unwell, and a medical man was sent for, but he died immediately. De:eased hail !-een for acme tim 3 suffering from erysipelas in his head and neck, and it appears had been dismissal from his situation for intoxication. Au inquest was held upsi the body of Ell-n G)rmen, residing in Paul-street, who was found deal on Sunday morning last, haling retire I to bed on the previous night intealcated. The jury returned a verdict of Died from excesiive drinking." The Coroner for the City of Westminster presented a report to a Parliamentary Committee, of 121 perzons who had comrni ted suicide during the year ending July, 1831, wien drunk, or through drunkenness.  Mr. Fitzgerald, mayor oF Limerick, said before the same committee, as coroner for the year ending An;u3t, 1333—1 11.3'd 110 inqueats, ani I can safaly affirm that m)re than one-hilf of that e❑ormeus number was eadsed by Intniestllg drinks. (To be continued )
Northern Times. — 1857-09-28 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

CORONER CONNERY OU CD ONE.—Tha IndianoPe'o". nal is publishhin a series of sketches of e ali Stioi occurrences in Indiana, of which the following is:6o4 —A man was fund deal one cold morning, svi' In% broken, lying in the woods. He had been seen .t.• frorj before considerably intoxicated. The b )dy 41 f f lfg An inquest was held before noon of the same ualiscrl Coroner Clifford. The jury formed a hollow eq2;001 1 body in the vivre. Coroner Clifford—" Gentleurell inquest, there are three things to be coosiderenuon man c anthits suicide by idling his neighbour. 11,e4 he come to his death by incidemce? Second, Piusie til to his death by accidence? Third. Did he e'i"„eto death by the hinds of the incendiary?' Look at rno.af gentlemen, and return your verdien" The jurieserret nearly five minutes. " We, the jury, fled that aeosr came to his death by incidence, having put too l°,,u 1 in his whi,key, causing him to freeze last night. /old, WHIT THEY EAT AT KEY WKS r.— Key West Sal ,„0 about the size of the new Great Eastern steanier'4ll,Al'i thinly populated. The means of supporting hae3-sttrn the island may be guesed at from the followieeriOn con indrums propounded by the ship steward teviraf portant personage" in the crowd on shore: "efff e Wive you g 4 any beef?" Airs.—" Ni !" ,i 52 "NJ !" ' • Mil k?" "No !" " Any chicken. i'ilvt'' " Nu!" "Veal i" "No !'' " Mutton ?" , .101.7 Steward, (in despair and a clean shirt,) ''.o3/le4 anything to eat on the Man::?" "Oh yes—turlLirit, it." Sa sundry green turtles wre brought 00 701 for three days we have been turtle;zad in e'teitn ceiv able form in which turtle ever has been ePe tr• leile what new forms the imagination of the cook Outbirl'i The diuner bills of fare discourse somewhat in "netei soup, turtle; fish, turtle ; boiled turtle ; roast t?'--011.0 dishes, turtle steak, turtle pates, turtle augrat'llioils) turtle, turtle on the half shell, &c.; game, te,,ertenl4 (Alluding. no doubt, to one that dove overoninito so on, including turtle at discretion, (and a ,esi'"ofj count.) Sometimes, I heir, the inhabitaatsst !I West get a little beef from Tamba Bay, but v(lnlitir' turtle being the staged by, and the eople 11- i hard shells. ti3dril •
Northern Times. — 1857-09-29 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

LORD CANNING.—the Laity News contains to elsbnrate article on the competency of Lord Canning for the office of Governor-General at this arduous juncture. His merits are candidly taken into mcount, and the subject is impartially trereed. The writer shows that, in his opinion, Lord Canning is not equal to the crisis. C2an:NAL WISRMAN'S PASTORAL ON THE INDIAN MUTlNlFS.—Yesterday (remday), a pastoral letter directed that next Sunday he set apart by the Roman Cathol c body as a day of humiliation and prayer. 'the Cardinal refers to the mutinies in terms of horror execration, and encourages the faithful to believe that their prayers will be heard against the enemies of Christianity.. THE RECRUITING Seavica.—Fitt} thousand men must be recruited to fill up the new second battalions, the regiments dlyerted fr ,na home and eelonial service in augmentation of the usual Indian establishment, and in providing for the recessary drafts to be sent from the depots at borne to the head-cpiarters in India. A large number of these have already been raised, and rewriting is reported to be going on at the rate of a thousand a week or ma e. ExTaxortnettee Surerna.—Mrs Olive Cycle, of Bristol, Vt., lately committed suicide by starving herself to death ! Her husband ha 1 deseret t er, aid unable to support herself, she received aid from the town. Wir situation SO weighed ou her mi ad that she toiled into a deep melancholy, and, refu-ing all fool, after thirty-three days of fasting, died in terrible agony. Everything was done to cause her to break her determination that pi ulcnce could dictate, but in vain. Wrees.—The will of the late General Sir H. W. Barnard, K.C.8., has been sworn to in the London Plobwe Court; it was made in 1838, and has one codicil, dated 1854; the personalty, £9,ooo.—Sir Edward llsiggerstone, Bart., of Effingham, Northumberland, £2s,ooo.—Dame Anne Fagge, of Cha haw, Ken', £3,000.--John Blake, Esq., of Bremerton, Norfolk, £oo,ool—Thet nes Plant, Each of Kings Winford, Stafford, £2o,ooo.—Mrs. Eleonora Margatut Bag. t e of Vouseester-plane, PQrtnaausquare, £25,000.
Northern Times. — 1857-10-15 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

ATTEMPTED MURDER AND SUICIDE AT PRESTON.  On Tuesday Jane Kirby, the poor creteure who at'empted to drown herself and girl, seve s years oil, in the Rib lie, last Thursday. was branAht up et the Preston Town Hall on the cha-g s. S e was in gre..t rief, and s`ted tears tbroaghout the investi ati•m. The facie are shertly, that the poor V7Jrarld iven frantic by •ha conduct of her husband (thechild is hers by a fe mer hu >band) oa T!.nrs lay afternoon, threw herself and child into the reeling tide of the Bible ± the WA Quay. James Riker, a shipwright, and a friend named Frodsha n, while at work saw the splash in the water, and a moving object sailing down with the tide; and they rushed to the rescue. Fisher jnoeped into the water and cau_;ht the p:isoner in abo t ten feet doe ,of water, swan out with hor, and gav he- into the case of Frodsha.n. He then struck on. efter t!.e girl, about twary yards further down the river, and succeeded in bringt:'g her to shore An a,sp ication wls new made to a'mit her to ball, but wa s refused, the magistrate thinking that the poor creature would be better talc,n care of in prison, especially 19 else wad weak In mini. She was teen committed for trial at the Liverpool aesilea. Mr. Ainsworth, the magistrate, then sad, " Lefore JameS Fis`ler leaves the b x, I should like, on tena'f of tile bench:to say tad we are glad t tindin rre,ton a perso t sv't , has di,tingnished himself so much by his humanity and' gallan ,ry as he has done. Tune is the thirteenth or fourteenth time you hate rescued people from a watery grave, end you ,iready possess the medal of the Humane soclety. I hope your fellow townsmen will give you some m re tangible approval of your conduct than a medal. I shall bo glad myself to contribute towards a reward fori`your intrepidity." The sane of 50s •was immediately colleet..d in court.
Northern Times. — 1857-07-08 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

LODGING HOUSES.-01 Tae!day morning wet Fitfilzkoild copies of the reports from medical officers of health on the stcrk..-vcorr the acts relative to common lodging houses in the metrwst-ism„,_ filets. and also fr m the local Loards of health in the proviikti.f.,&a.tricts. These reports c. near unanimously as to the grt.fraincrravi, ment in the health and habits of the Inmates of these dwcilis.rs > s et* the acts came into operation. There are thirty-eight trove districts enumerated in the reports, in which there scat 4am-tie common lodging houses, or the acts have been so rec Alt patifies force that no information can to given.  In consequence of cons:derable purchases of land and therars l.sr,. don of shott leases made In tie three great cemeteries, etc Paris has now sufficient roam for interments for all classes iv= ;XUS:i 20 years. Pere La-chaise has been nearly doubled in eater!: tif3tiluc purchase of the plain between Meniimentant. Charva,rws, radrtilitt f rtifications; Montmartre has been enlarged by 30 acres tt.s,.avit.lise Batignolles and St. Ouan ; and Montparnasse, to abort a el:sitar to the east, on the side of the Barriers d 3 Montronge. 7`7e, !low large cemeteries above named now contain, on ground eta Mar ever, not fewer than 100,000 tombs.  SUICIDE OF A CuILD.—On Saturday last a girl named raw-mail Ong'ey, aged eleven years, Jumped Tote the river "Ica- tnmsai bridge, Maidstone, and was drowned. It seems that she b.sk.T.larai4 some oflence, and her mother was about to be +t her for it, wistathe ran off towards the river, which is nearly half a mils diitsuMtraa her parents' house. The mother pursued her, and thmewct severely punish her. At length the child reached the risert iumt‘ and was seen to jump in immediately. An alarm was givew„ avetax man named shoobridge endeavoared to save her, but whet Ow isms got eut it was found that she was quite dead. An inquest mss, the same day at the Ball Inn, and a verdict of " Drotrusf lazelf under years of discretion" was returned.