Bridlington and Quay Gazette. — 1886-03-20 (Bridlington, Humberside, England)

THE YOUNG PRINCESSES AT TORQUAY.  During the earlier days of their stay in Torquay I there was, says the World, rather a tendency to mob the royalties, but not roughly. When the Princesses went shopping on the " Strand" the thoroughfare along the pavement was all but impassable, because of the throng of curious loiterers. But these demonstrations presently passed away, and now the yotuig lathe., who evidently look on the Torquay visit as a whole holiday, are left quite unmobbed when they promenade the Strand, and dive into shop after shop to make little purchases, which they quite decline to have" sent home." On the second day of their stay the three Princesses turned up in tine buoyant spirits in a boot shop with a short piece of wood, which they explained was the measure of the length of the maternal foot, and requested to be supplied with a pair of goloshes to measure of the stick, for "mamma." The scene was very comic, as the shopman, entering into the spirit of the thing, inserted the stick into golosh after golosh, till at length the young ladies were satisfied, whereupon they paid for their purchase, had the articles wrapped up, and walked away with them under the arm of the youngest of the three.  MURDER AND SUICIDE NEAR lIALTON. A moat distreseing case of what appears to be • deliberate murder and suicide recurred at the village of Hutton, Ambo, near Melton, on Thursday. It seems that for about two years past there had lived in the village Mrs. Harriet Stillborn, widow of the late Mr. Charles Stillborn, whore family were highly respectable farmers in the district. Mrs. Stillborn, who wee 90 years of age, was left with ! two ehildren, a girl and a boy, on the death of her I husband, two years ago, and she has since maintamed the family by keeping • little groper', .hop mi Low Hutton. Of tote, it is stated, she hue not acted very rationally, but, be that as it may, on Thursday niorning, just after half-past eight o'elook, she was , seen by Miss Alice Ferndale, a young lady resident in the village, to take her two children by the hand and go mewls the fields in the direction of the river , Derwent, which flows very near her house. Mies Ferndale state, that the children were see eamieg at the time, and seemed very reluetaet to accompany the mother. Fearing, therefore, that retnething was wrong, Miss Ferndale ran to tell her father, who immediately followed Mre. Stillborn, Slld wag greatly alarmed to nee the ohddren and Mrs. Stillborn floating down the river. Springing into the overhanging branch of a trre, Mr. Ferndale succeeded in getting hold of the youngest !Mild, Arthur Ernest Stillborn, • child of 4f years, whom he at once dragged out. Meanwhile two men, named Thomas Baker and Thomas Dickenson, lied seen the actions of the unfortunate woman from the other side of the river, and they tan down and tried to get the bodies of the mother end daughter out of the water. The river being somewhat rough and !! vravy," se well as running rapidly on recount of the "fresh," carried both bodiee nearly a quarter of rode, down to a place called Lareike, and both were got out before they sank. 01 amine the greatest excitement prevailed for some time, bat whilst Mr. Ferndale ran up to his house with the body of the little boy, three on the bank did the best they could to restore ettiontion to the mother and daughter, who were laid by the river aide. Dr. W. T. Colby, of Melton, was immediately telegraphed for, and the bodice of Mrs. Stillborn and the child I were carried to an empty cottage near her own reeidence. The little lad, meanwhile, was seised with convulsions and had revered fite, but his , reectrers continued their efforts to reetore him, and in this they fortunately eurneeded, as when the roe. respondent raw the poor little fellow about two hours after he was taken out of the water he had quite romovered consciousness, and was bright and lively. Dr. Colley. with Sergeant Watson, of Melton, arrived on the scene shortly before eleven o'clock, and the doctor at once set about tryiag to resuscitefe Mrs. Stillborn and the other child, both of whose bodies were warm, but the efforts of both himeell and resistants were entirely useless. Dr. Colley was of opinion that Mrs. Stillborn had died partly from the shock and partly from drowning. The child, Annie Stillborn, who was thus deprived of life, was a fine, bright, healfhy girl of nine yearu of age, whilst the mother does not appear of strong physique.