npedrazzini/19thc_murder_suicide_news huggingface dataset:
The Sun. — 1838-10-20 (London, England)

CORONER'S INQUEST.—SUICIDE FRONT OPENING A VaiN IN TIIF: Attic.—An inquest was held by Mr Higgs, Coroner, on Wednesday night, at the Joiners' Arms' . Elizabeth-street, Belgravy-square, upon the body of 111ary Sale aged 52, who committed suicide by opening a vein in her arm. Mr. James Hamilton, haberdasher, of Lower Elizabeth street, deposed that the deceased was his mother-in-law, and. resided in the same house with him. About six years' ago, while in the service of the Rev. D. r. Thorpe, she was attacked with paralysis, and from then at intervals her mind had aP . pearing wandering, but witness never thought she would hive committed suicide. On Wednesday morning, about seven o'clock, upon going into her sleeping room, he found hPr right arm hanging over the side of the bed, with a deep wound in it, and a stream of blood on the floor. Witness immediately sent for Mr. Jay, a surgeon, who attended. Since the deceased was attacked with paralysis, she had been a great sufferer. Mr. Henry Jay stated that he had attended st ee had deceasedbe e n for sufferingseveral under years. disease Fo r othe thelast b rfiveain r Six years which produced paralysis, and at times rendered her unconscious of her own acts. He attended on Wednesday morning directly ho was sent for, and found An incision in the right arm, half an inch deep, and extending entirely across the arm. Near her was a table knife covered with blood, with which she had inflicted the injury. The Rev. Dr. Thorpe, of No. 9, Belgrave. street, deposed that the deceased had lived in his service upwards of 24 years, and was looked upon by his children as mother. She was an exemplary servant, and he bad never had an occasion to complain of her. Her daughter had been lately married, and a week or ten days ago the deceased was removed from witness's house to her residynce, and he settled an annuity upon her for life. During the last five years she had been four years confined to her bed, Verdict, " Temporary InsaniV,"  PRICES OF CANALS, DOCK STOCK,  SsETRANCE COMPANIES,&c. &c. &c.  •
The Sun. — 1838-04-11 (London, England)

MORGUE AT PARIS.—YOU pass at once from the street into a small square apartment, white-washed and well lighted ; having on one side an open grating, behind which are three broad planks, supported by trestles, each forming an inclined plane, in order that the countenance of the )rp3e should be fully exposed ; while along the wall the garments in which the unhappy victims of murder or suicide were clad on their reception, are exhibited, for the purpose of identification. The apartment, or cell, is scrupulously clean, and even cheerful ; and it is impossible to imagine an establishment of so melancholy, and indeed awful, a description as La Morgue, more thoroughly divested of gloom. —The River and the Desert.  An intimacy of the closest nature had long subsisted between the clerk of a merchant in the Rue Saint Denis urgedand young ger woman of respectable family. Having in vain to fulfil his reiterated promises of haeyr lo marriage she ceased to hold any communion with him, and contracted a legitimate alliance with a gentleman of honour and fortune. After her union the young man repeatedly assailed her by letters, endeavouring to seduce her to violate her vows. She, however, remained firm to her duty, and repelled all his advances, till, alarmed that his correspondence might be detected, she wrote last week by the hands of a confidante of their former intercourse, urging him in the most affecting terms to desist from his importunities. Through the same channel the infatuated young man replied that, in order to comply with her request, he was on the point of putting an end to an existence which he could no longer endure. The secret messenger was sent back in all, haste to prevent the catastrophe, but she arrived too let e--the young man was found lifeless in his room, having shot himself through the heart. There are several native lepers in Calcutta, who follow the occupation of confeet:mners. The public should, therefore, be cautious in purcb asing sweetmeats, or they will be apt to bring this loathsome distemper on themselves.— Parbury's Oriental Herald.  PRICES Or i,ANALS,DOCK STOCKS,  ASSURANCE COMPANIES,&c. &c. &c.
The Sun. — 1838-08-14 (London, England)

FRANCE.-Three doctors and an apothecary left the French metropolis for a professional tour through the provinces in January, 1837. The quack medicine which they vended was calved the "Sucre Mexique," a composition of jalap and sugar, in the sale of which they were very successful, reaping an abundant harvest from the folly and credulity of the public. At Orleans, however, their career was arrested : being legally qua:itied to practice, they could not be prosecuted for the assumption of that right ; but the irdictment contained a count for swindling, en which they were convicted, and sentenced respectively to tine and imprisonment. The charge vras, obtaining money on &Ise pretences, the guaranteeing a cure in all cases, and proscribing the same remedy, the " Sucre Mexique," for every disease, without distinction of age, sex, or constitution. A young man, named Cotigne, residing in the Cite Pergere, having for some time past shown signs of mental derangement, his family mule application to the proper authorities for leave to put him in confinement, but, unfortunately, his madness was not deemed to be ouch as to warrant this measure. A few days ago a friend, on walking into his bedroom, was horror-struck at finding M. Cc tigne on his bed, 1% a 3 covered with blood. The first impression was that a suicide hadl been committed, and the Commissary cf Police was sent for. This oE cer soon arrived, presented himself as being a physician, and asked Coigne how he did ? " Very well" was the reply; "come and sec how I have cut off my little toe ; a little too, you know, is of no use, arid mine was always in my Way ;" and he exhibited his mutilated foot. The young man did not show the least emotion, and it was with the greatest difficulty that he was persuaded that he must go to his surgeon's house, since he kept declaring that. it was by no means necessary, and t hat he neve; !"...it was at iergth taken to a private -bOtiSC.
The Sun. — 1838-11-24 (London, England)

RUSSIA AND POLAND. We received to-day the following letter from Warsaw, which acquaints us with the measures the Emperor had thought proper to adopt, after escaping in his capital a pretended or real conspiracy, of which he means to follow the ramifications in Poland :  " WARSAW' Nov. 4.—A. Government messenger having arrived here from St. Petersburgh, with despatches for Field Marshal Paskiewitch, it was immediately reported that a conspiracy had been discovered in that city, and that several officers of the Imperial Guard had been arrested. The courser was said to be the bearer of a list of other officers who arc to be arrested in Warsaw, and the remainder of Poland, as also of an order to the Field Marshal, in the Emperor's own hand-writing, to repair without delay to St. Petersburgh. Those reports may not be well founded for aught I know ;but, immediately after the arrival of the courier, Lieut.-General Kaisaroff, General Berg, and the Director of the Police of Warsaw, General Storojenko, were sent for by the Field-Marshal, and, at this very moment, the Caucasian cavalry, who for some time have done duty as a sort of body guard of Prince Paskiewitch, have been drawn up in all haste on the square in front of the castle where the Governor-General resides. " I communicate to you those facts as they now occur, and commit my letter to the post, not knowing but it may be kept back and opened. . Nobody, with the only exception of the authorities, has received his letter from St. Petersburgh, although the post officershaerecogrerneesrapollnydevnecrey punctual and expeditious in deliveringv the out, it is true, but they do not contain a word about disturbances said to The Russian journals have beeng:he l astonishing,ha\' have taken placese stare not whatever pleases the imperial aasrewhoinelby, allowed ert,ois instant informed that Simeon Koiitihose that capita We have been this ar y of the Polish emigrants, who narski, the pretended c pparcaensorship." In a letter, wrtten by to one of his friends, andwas imprisoned at Wilnmilis,shad committed suicide by star' vation. i strength forsaking him, which was found in his pocket, he says that he had resolved on dying, because he felt his and' feared lest the Russian authorities extorted from him, by torture, false statements that might compromise other citizens.—Commerce. The contract of marrif-ge between Duke Maximilian of Lencbtenberg and. the Grand Duchess Maria of Russia, wits, according to a letter of the 7th inst. from St. Petersburgh, completed on Sunday the 4th, at Tsarkoe Seloe, on I I which occasion the Court were admitted to congratulate the Duke and her Imperial Highness. The Duke will remain in Russia till the celebration of the Emperor's fete day, December the Gth ; after which he will have attained his majority, and will return to Bavaria, to take possession of his apanages ;but will again go to St. Petersburgh in the spring, when, it is said, the marriage will be solemnized,
The Sun. — 1838-11-21 (London, England)

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE OF AN ENGLISH GENTLEMAN IN PARIS.—An English gentleman, whose initials are given in the Paris Papers as Sir A— D—, attempted to destroy himself on Saturday last, in the French capital. He is represented to have been a man of large fortune, which he spent in gambling and dissipation. He staked and lost his last 500 francs at an ecarte table on Friday night, and then, having drunk a quantity of brandy, applied a razor to his throat. It appears that he had not nerve the finish the operation. He was found by the servant of _ house bathed in blood, She gave the alarm, medical aid was procured, and the unfortunate gentleman removed to an hespi al, where he now lies with some chance of recovery. We find the following in Galignani's Messenger, in reference, we suppose, to the same unfortunate transaction : " A young Englishman, who had only fifty pounds left out of a considerable fortune, into possession of which he had lately entered, came last week to Paris, and was enticed into a private gaming house, where he lost every remaining shilling. He immediately weft off to an inn at Courbevoie, whre he had resided for some time last year, and ordered supper, but previously drank a great quantity of brandy, the effects of which rendered it necessary to carry him to bed. The next morning he attempted to commit suicide by opening the veins of his arms with a razor, but the act was discovered in time to prevent the fatal effect intended, and he was brought to the Hospital Beaujon, where he is now doing well." Charlemagne, with Mr. Ducrow and his horses, Mr. Van Amhurg and his living lions, will be performed as the first piece, on Fliday next, at the Theatre-Royal, Drury-lane, to afford an opportunity of witnessing this most extraordinary novelty at an early period of the evening.
The Sun. — 1838-12-08 (London, England)

MANAGERS. Sir Peter Laurie, Ald. Chair- John Irvine Glennie, Esq. man. Charles Hertslet, Esq. Francis Warden, Esq., Deputy 'John Pirie, Esq., Alderman. Chairman. Isaac Sewell, Esq. Robert Cockburn, Esq. Walter A. Urquhart, Esq. Archibald Cockburn, Esq. George Webster, Esq. John Connell, Esq. Benjn. Boyd, Esq. } Resident. W. Petrie Craufurd, Esq. Mark Boyd, Esq. Physician.—John Webster, M.D., 56, Grosvenor-street. The advantages offered to the Public by this Corporation are-1. Ample Security from their large capital. 2. Rates of Premium nearly 5 per Cent. lower than most other offices acting on the system of participation of profits. 3. Premiums may be made payable either in a single payment, or by annual, half-yearly, or quarterly payments. 4. The assured may either participate in the profits secured agaimt all responsibility by the capital of the Corporation, er may pay a less premium for securing a specific sum without periodical additions. 5. When policies effected by parties on their own lives are assigned to others for onerous causes, the holders are assured against the risk of the original assured dying by suicide or duelling. 6. Every facility given on moderate terms to persons going beyond the prescribed limits of the policy. 7. Advances made on security of policies of more than three years' standing to the extent of their value. 8. A liberal price given for policies to parties wishing to surrender them. 9. Persons resident in the country can effect Insurances by corresponding with the resident Members of the Board, Messrs. B. and M. Boyd. Attendance daily at the Office, No. 4, New Bank-buildings, Lothbury, London, from Ten o'Clock in the Morning till Four in the Afternoon, where Tables of Rates and Forms of Proposal may be obtained.  PREMIUMS For the Assurance of £lOO on a Single Life, Quarterly, or Half-yearly Payi  either by Annual, tents.  Just published, in royal 4t0., with gbod writing paper, price 10s. half-bound.
The Sun. — 1838-01-22 (London, England)

NEWCASI LE-UPON-TYNE CORN MARKET.—Jan. 20. . _  Our supply of Wheat was again moderate from the interior at this day's Market, and we had no fresh arrivals from the coast, which caused the whole to be in good demand, and at an advange of Is. per quarter on the prices of last Saturday. Barley also being scarce, brought Is. per qr. more money. Oats were in large supply, and sold freely at last week's rates. In the demand for Malt there was no improvement, sales being difficult to effect at our quotations. For Rye we have rather more enquiry, and prices are a shade higher. In Beans or Pease we can note no change. Flour meets a fair demand at an advance of Is. per sack.  New. Old. Wheat, Northumhcrland - Norfolk and Suffolk 545. 60 f..... 665. Cs. 1 Berwick and Scotch l3s. s —s We. ---- Foreign Rye, Norfolk and Suffolk Foreign Barley, Malting, Norfolk and Suflhlk SOs. 34s -s. —s. Grinding and Feeding 23s. 24. Malt, Norfolk and Suffolk s2s 57;. —s. --s. Beans, Small —1 —8 rrh Si s. Tick —s. --is 33s. 84s. Pease, White 13s. 3,a. . ... --g, .—.4, -- Gray Oats, Northumberland, Potatoe ... Es. 255....... 255. 275. —.---- Feed Foreign Flour (per sack) —s. --8 4ls. 445.  An old woman named Mary Clifford died on FriFriday at Brighton in a state apparently of the greatest destitution, but after her decease was found to have left a will, bequeathing to her son property to the extent of 1,000/. She lived in so miserable a manner, and presented altogether such an appearance of extreme poverty, that every one who saw her was deceived by her looks; the tax-gatherers had remitted her rates ; the assistant-overseer and his deputy, keen as such persons usually are, were her dupes. The deputy visited her at her house, and reported the case as one which required " great attention," as appeared by the parish-books, and relief was accordingly granted. Yet this wretched old creature (she was 72 years of age) had, in the usual phrase, " seen better days," and received the advantages of education. She was a native of Stone, in Staffordshire, had filled the situation of governess in the family of the Earl of Glasgow, and also of Mr. Hare Townsend, of Guilford. On becoming a widow, twenty years ago, she hired a lodging-house at Brighton. At her death she had 180/. in the Brighton Savings' Bank, upwards of 100/. in the Bank of England, a bond on a gentleman of property residing here for 6. 00/. with other securities for money lent. So completely did she carry on the deception, that her son, who is a jobbing carpenter, aged 50, was quite ignorant that his mother possessed any property, and was proportionably surprised to fied himself heir to the above sum. It is painful to add that the medical men who attended her are of opinion that her death was accelerated by the want of nourishment ; and her death, possessing such means as she had in her power, cannot be considered but as an act of suicide.
The Sun. — 1838-10-15 (London, England)

THE'. HULL COUNTESS.—This lady honoured York races last week with her presence, and excited great curiosity. She is the same person who some years ago appeared in the ball-room at Doncaster races as the Countess Schwartzenburg, and led off the ball with the Mayor of Doncaster. She was then under the protection of the Noble Lord, who was much surprised on finding from those who had known her ladyship in early life, that the ci-devant Countess was in fact a milliner from Hull, who had been for some time in the habit of playing off these pranks. Oa other occasions she has figured as the Countess de Sierawska, representing herself as the widow of a Polish Count, and again as the Marchioness St. Arden and Lady Cecilia Ferguson. She is now said to be located in York.—Hull Times. _  ...._ On Saturday an inquest was held at the Nine Elms, Battersea, on an elderly lady, aged 82, named Ann Lawer, who committed suicide by hanging herself. Mary Ann Billiard deposed that the deceased was her grandmother by the father's side. She was 82 years of age last March, and resided with her son. She (witness) took her breakfast to soe dsal beingtsb, y aan weak her on Tuesday morning inpiece ne and childish ; but she had been,ausps aensdupapboosueta:nsttahnedipnrgelvoioouks_ day. After she partook of her breakfast the witness left her, bed, she (deceased) suspended so' and never saw her alive again. In about an hour afterwards She spoke to her, but receiving ing out of the window. she went up stairs tocaetnsatdaikwmeseaht:vehre sdheechewaasesd especially for the last six months. of riband. She called for assistance, and two persons came sqe Etete:r icnsib,giel thed ijosohrkfocoodrinsuops some and cut her down, but she was quite dead. She had been Verdict—" That the deceased d tes royed herself in a temporary state of weakness of mind, • • arising from age and infirmity. .  It was the remark of a celebrated bon-vivant that " when aman had once too much, he could never have enough."
The Sun. — 1838-09-07 (London, England)

STRANGE YET TRUE.---On Thursday, the 23d ultimo, an Irish gentleman, resident in Dumfries, left Birmingham at 6A. Si.,in company with a host of other travellers, on his way to Liverpool. For the first six or eight miles the speed was what it should be when the steam is up, and away went the long-drawn line of carriages as vigorously as game newly flushed. But, after a little time, pace Aackening, reached the incipient point of death halt; aid the passengers supposing something had gone wrong, mad, fearful lest some succeeding train should salute them, after hostile seventy-four gun fashion, eagerly inquired what had happened. But, as the guards were too busy to answer every question put, they at once alighted, and then learned that there was a want of coke to mix with the coal, an article, it appears, essential to the rapid generation of locomotive steam. In this dilemma the engineer knew not what to do; but, on observing an old wheelbarrow at hand, the thought occurred that wood might form a substitute for coke, and accordingly he got it shivered to pieces forthwith, and thrust into the furnace; and the effect was so magical that the snorting steam steed careered more fleetly than ever until the engineer reached a station where he expected to receive a supply of coke; but he was disappointed, and equally so in caperclawing a second wheelbarrow. Anything, however, will do at a pinch, and, on observing a ladder leaning against a wall, he again came to the conclusion that its steps might be advantageously made use of in improving his own ; and from this point forward the train moved onward, step by step, without further let or hindrance. Many things are discovered by accident —exempli gratia, the selfregulating safety valve, which we owe to the sagacity of an idle boy—and, if chips happen to be cheaper than coke, the above hint will not be lost.—Dumfries Courier. It is stated that the Lord Mayor, as Conservator of the Thames, has issued, or is about issuing, an order forbidding persons to angle in that river on Sundays. An inquest was held yesterday at the University a large a College Hospital, on the body of a woman named Andrews, who committed suicide by owallovvin laudanum, which she had procured in small small quantities from different shops. It was given in evidence that deceased's busand that he band, who is a tailor, hod frequently ill-used her, quantity of is a drunken, dissipated fellow. Verdict, Temporary Derangement, occasioned by the ill-treatment of her husband." On Sunday morning the Vivid steam-boat, of Shields, was engaged to tow some ships out to sea, and had got her steam up for that purpose, when the owners, who worked the boat, found that she was not in a fit state to do so; they accordingly brought her up, and while two of them were employed in raking out the fires, the boiler exploded with great violence, and dreadfully scalded the two men who were below. They were immediately conveyed ,home, where they lingered for a few hours and died. The accident appears to be the more singular, as the boiler bad been undergoing some repairs, and was only finished on Saturday.— Tyne Mercury. A
The Sun. — 1838-09-07 (London, England)

STRATHALLA N. HONORARY MANAGERS. J. Evan Baillie, Esq. The Right Hon. Jas. A. Stewart Lieut.-General Mbert Bell. Mackenzie. Vice Admiral Sir J. P. Beres- James Mackillop, Esq. ford, Bart.. W. A. Mackinnon, Esq., M.P. The Right Hon. Henry Ellis. George Traill, Esq: Hon. Archibald Macdonald.  'John Irvine Glennie, Esq. Charles Hertslet, Esq. Francis Warden, Esq., Deputy 'John Pirie, Esq., Alderman. Chairman. Isaac Sewell, Esq. Robert Cockburn, Esq. ;Walter A. Urquhart, Esq. Archibald Cockburn, Esq. I George Webster, Esq. John Connell, Esq. Benjn. Boyd, Esq. Mark Boyd, Esq. } Resident. W. Petrie Craufurd, Esq. Physician.—John Webster, M. D , .56, Grosvenor-street. The advantages offered to the Public by this Corporation arc1. Ample Security from their large capital. 2. Rates of Premium nearly 5 per Cent. lower than most other offices acting on the system of participation of profits. 3. Premiums may be made payable either in a single payment, or by annual, half-yearly, or quarterly payments. 4. The assured may either participate in the profits secured against all responsibility by the capital of the Corporation, or may pay a less premium for securing a specific sum without periodical additions.  Sir Peter Laurie, Ald. Chairman.  5. When policies effected by parties on their own lives are assigned to others for onerous causes, the holders are assured against the risk of the original assured dying by suicide or duelling. 6. Every facility given on moderate terms to persons going beyond the prescribed limits of the policy. 7. Advances made on security of policies of more than three years' standing to the extent of their value. 8. A liberal price given for policies to parties wishing to surrender them. 9. Persons resident, in the country can effect Insurances by corresponding with the resident Members of the Board, Messrs. B. and M. Boyd. Attendance daily at the Office, No. 4, New Bank-buildings, Lothbury, London, from Ten o'Clock in the Morning till Four in the Afternoon, where Tables of Rates and Forms of Proposal may be obtained. PREMIU3IS For the Assurance of £lOO on a Single Life, either by Annual, Quarterly, or Half-yearly Payments.  - - - For Seven For the Whole Life, ior the Whtle Life, 9 For One Years, at without Profits. with Profits. - n Annual r A ----------, (-------A---, Year. a ' Premium, Half- Q Yearly. Half- Quarof Yearly. Yearly. t, rly. Yearly. terly. X. a. d. X. s. d. £. a. d. .Z. s. d X. a. d La.d'..£ a. d. £. s. d. 20 1 2 3 1 4 3 117 6019 4 0 91l 2 1 0 I 1 10 10 9 20 1 7 3 1 9 6 2 6 61 4 0012 2210 61 6 1013 3 40 114 0 11711 I 3 0 91 11 r 0 16 04 4111 13 80 17 2 50 2 610 213 0 4 3 3 3 3 5 I 2 2 4 711 2 5 10,1 :3 4 60 3 7 9 317 8 6 0 93 8 61 12 716 7 23 610 1 14 5  LOSS OF TEETH SUPPLIED, WITHOUT SPRINGS, CLASPS, OR WIRES, LOOSE TEETH FASTENED, And Filling Decayed Teeth