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The South Staffordshire Examiner. — 1874-08-22 (Wednesbury, West Midlands, England)

KEEPING A CORPSE IN A CRI.I,AR FOR THREE Weeue.—At an inquest on the body of a child, held in London, last week, the mother, Margaret Barns, a married woman. raid that the deceased was born three weeks ago, but died on tne following day. No medical man was called to see the child. The undertaker mime to her lionic at night, a. d took the body away, and she paid him Os. to bury it.—doseph lilimAen, undertaker, said that he told the father he would it veto get a certificate as to the cause of death; bet the father found that he could not, and th irefore witness was unable to bury it—The jury !cued a verdict that there was no evidence to show the cause of death of the child; and, at their recommendation, the coroner strongly censured the mother for not seeing that the child was properly interred afte . it was given to the undertaker. The jury &en thought that the undertaker was licservinc, of censare for keeping the body in the cellar FO long. SAVED FROM nROIVNING ET • D20.-4t One of the London polioe courts, on Saturday, a woman named Ellen Taylor was charged with attempting to commit suicide by throwing herself from the canal bridge at Old Ford. 1 police-constable said that the pressioas evening he was on duty on the tow. ing path at Old F,)rd, whcsLiaattentioui,.s tolled to the primiler and another woman, o were silting on the hick with their hands claeped to their heads as if orying. He told them they mast move away, as it was private ground. The prisoner answered by saying, "Yon don't know what our troubles are." They then went sway, but suspecting there was something wrong, he followed them. They walked n to the Whitmore mad bridge whieh crosties the Regent's Canal and when in the middle the prisoner jumped of! into the water, and the othor woman jumped after her, calling out " Police " et the top of her voice. A gentleman stood on the bank at the time who had a large retriever dog with him, and he sent him into the eater. Tim dog swam to the prisoner, and :eizerl hold of her and dragged her seely to the book, and the constable took hcr in charge. She was p?naar.;',l.  DI,
The South Staffordshire Examiner. — 1874-10-24 (Wednesbury, West Midlands, England)

IMAM. to have committed smule, and not to have made bin escape. He ivies taken to the Woolw ice ich Police i • I Medley's steam lanutihee him been presented to the PATTI orT Or Timm-Patti, it appear, appe, ' Church Mission .ry Society for service off the coast tetnpting commit i Station and eh ed with at • to has 'lethally hail a failnre. A few days ago she sang 1 . arig 7I of Africa, in the vicinity of Zanzibar, and for the 14 suicide when the magistrate fined him 205., or . in Paris for the benefit of the little A leace.Lor. ' I use, among others, of Jacob Wainwrighe-noises. 'd : a' im rigonment rainer , when she took the part of Valentine in . Y P I at, Mn.tvn m p A,;,, mu, c 0,„.„,,,,,,,,.... The Manchester Ceurier is authorised by Colonel 'es fingearts. A fc-ntletnan elm saw and heard eer m e eeLLIVele. ~ ~ onthe occasion, writes i-- Botb mnsicand character i -At a meeting of the L Legb, M.P., to state there tans fouselat ion for the and Clare Far. I d were as unsuited to her person en m d talents as eal ' mere' Club on Saturday, •deputation of Nationa announcement, which we understan to have been lists i be, and thugh eh.n was aliplandei from recegritim ' attended from Limerick. Mr. Daly, the spokeem made by several of our contemporthiee, that behalfan i and severed with bouquets, it ens imp assible for of the deputation. taxed the club with impertinence, been raised to the peerage. the frodienos net to reeve that this briebt, ametale, for presuming to fix the time and place of the On Saturday, at the Oldham Policsecourt, James grateful little woman should uneertate en stern and approaching Houle Rule Demonotratien at Kit. ' Howson, a dealer in gunpowder, was fined £2O and sombre a role All the power of the opera diseppeared ' mattock, without consulting the party. Another coats, for having on his preuniSed 7251ba of pence Was trans coned : the passionate Valentiee guee, Inelkiber of the delegation gee,- Cie chairman , seceder in excese of the quantity (2001bse allowed way to the plaintive Amine. or the sickly Violetta. to unders'and that the people of Limerick 14 Lee, and whenever Mdnie Patti tried to be ardent and did not wont moral force in Ireland, but i . strong, she was merely violent end hard. She not something more effectual. Mr. O'Sullivan, • John Collier, under police supe-vision, was on Saturday nest t . for six months b the Man isnly made • failure. but risked a catatitrophe." i M.P., was fiercely attacked for having abandoned , h teray a to PeTcfnor not having reportedy him-. Tan RAILWAY PARRItNara
The South Staffordshire Examiner. — 1874-09-19 (Wednesbury, West Midlands, England)

SHAULTS. It is stated that the Khedive of Egypt will with. ' At Blackburn on Saturday inernh."Z. Eli Duck. draw his subvention for the Italian operahouse, worth was charged wi h assaulting wife. On after the season, which will soon be COM menoed. 'Do.6 Privi6ne day he drag.zel her by her fn The coastguard retirement pension of .e2O a-year, her loom, kicked her, tried to strangle be t• and vacant by the death of Retired Contmander R. threatened to kill her. He afterwards foil,. red Parrey on the 23rd June last, has been conferred :her home, and again savagely kicked her until s..'e on Retired Commander Edward F. Wells. was unable to move. Be was sentenced to six The Spectator referring to Mr. Disraeli's visit to months' imprisonment. At the same Police-court on 1,-eland, says that be will be an Orangeman and a Monday morning, Peter O'Hare was charged with bro:ber at Belfast, and not very far from an Ultra' assaulting hit wife. The prisoner had been driek- nionikne in Dublin. ing, and on his wife coming from the mill to fluircws ettoir Retrolors blame. A girl, dinner he knocked her on the It tor and\ kicked named ki,ary Leigh, a domestic servant in ' her violently. He had frequently dragged her the service ; +if Mr. allenboro, near Peterborough, downstairs and pushed her out of the been and has committed suicide tinder rather peculiar cirthreat,ned to murder her, He stripped his son of cumatancee. From the evidence of one of her his clothes and pawned them, and 'peat the money feilow.eerrants at the inquest, it appe ired that the lin drink.—The prisoner, who promised smerdnient, deceased was very quiet in her manner, and was was sentenced to ma months' imprisonment, and frequently seen to be much affected while reading ordered to find sureties, or to go to gaol for another the Bible. Without there being anything in her sin months, manner leading to an apprehension of such an James 311-an and Catherire Monaghan Wore occurrence, she rose in the night and drowned her. char at the same court, with violentiy aeoutt. self in a pond eke. 1:0 the -house. verdict of bug Jame, Fierney. The parties were at the Isloegli I ! A , Suicide while in a state of insanity" was se. Inn on teetturday nigh', when a ecarrel took place. I turned. Monaghan culled out ff Wiro in, anti pinch hie head off." Complainant did not know who knocked him A D
The South Staffordshire Examiner. — 1874-05-09 (Wednesbury, West Midlands, England)

IHE LOCK-OUT OF FARM LABOURERS. woe, ing in a field near the house, she came. i dceirn stairs and commenced searching for something n The Executive Committee of the National Agri- the litchen cupboard, telling the servant ehe cultural Labourers' Union met on Monday at Learn' could find what she wanted herself. She after. ington. It was reported that 1832 men were still wards told the girl to go and wash the cellar stripe, locked out in the eastern coanties; 157 had migrated and to close the door at the top of the steps 00M. or emigrated, and 172 more hail been locket out municating with the house. She then returned last week. .2800 was voted for relief. Liberal to her bedroom, and shortly afterwards the servant contributions from trades unionists arid other was !started by hearing the report of a pistol over friends continue to be received. The committee head. On running up stairs she found the deceased know nothing whatever of the obnoxious rule the lying on the floor, and the room full of smoke, removal of which, it has been stated, would termi- and at once ran to fetch her master. He hurried nate the lock.out. Th.- lock-out in Warwickshire to the house, and on going to the room found that has terminated, the men having migrated. There his wife had shot herself with a horse-pistol be. is no prospect of any settlement of the lock-out. longing to him. The room presented a most Lord John Hervey, writing from Bury St. Edmunds, sickening spectacle. It is supposed that, having enclosed a cheque for £21.1. which he desired should be for the benefit of labouiers locked out in the loaded the ',idol to the muzzle. the unfortunate woman discharged its contents into her mouth, the eastern counties for belonging to the union. He : hoped that the union would be disposed to adopt a result being that the upper part of her head wee blowu completely. off, and the brain. scattered ' conciliatory policy as soon at; the attitude of the about in all directtons. One piece of the skull was farmers' defence associations enabled them to dose °found embedded in the ceiling. On Saturday. without a sacrifice of rinciple. an inquest wan held. A verdict to the effect that I . the deceased committed suicide while labour's! ' THE SCOTCH TRADES UNIONISTS AND returned !'"-,1,-.,--4?' ander temporary insanity was , , 1 MR.
The South Staffordshire Examiner. — 1874-10-03 (Wednesbury, West Midlands, England)

WEDNESBURY. skull." She went down stairs again. and after a time came up with a quantity of water. Site mid she in• A special service seas held at All Saint's Church, tend, il to put him in total darkness. He was already Fallings Heath, in memory of the deceased, luring the blind of one eye. She then threw the water over the afternoon. bed, Ind he found that it was a preparation of mustard and C illi-nr. B igi ie.—ln our advertising columns will pepper. S;urts time afterwards she came up into the mom be f :end ,:;. itnnonne; meut of the Catholic bazaar to he again with a large knife. Finding he wan still awake held in Ilti• Town Hall, on Monday, Tuesday, and Wed- she said she should catch him asleep some_ time. In nes ! .y. The arrangements made, and the promises of the morning when he got up be found her laying down ' sup.. ivt, ar_ine will for the Recce. of the undertaking. in a state of intaxietition.—ln eroos.examina"ion, cons. 1.i..1 11,eacT PRIMITIVE METIDITHST CHUTE, —a be plainest admitted that when defendant yea, hound over anniml sermons in aid of the funds of this building will to keep the peace be was also hound over himself. lie I be preached to-ectirow (Sunday), and on Monday a lee- bad been married to the defendant six years. She was 1 tar.• will be delivered by the Rev. J. R. Bestow, author 56 years of age, and under medical treatment. He did of the Biblical Dictionary, on "Geology and the Bible." not look to see if the blow from the poker left any Pari:eulars will he found in advertisement. mark. He did not go away a month ago and leave SINGULAR Seicine.—A mealoncholy case of suicide , complainant deotitati..—Mr. Ebsworth addressed the took place on Tuesdaynight, in the case of a man named Bench for the defence, and characterised the whole Thomas Lewis, a blacksmith, in the employ of Mr. Jet' Cleary., all one of malice brought by the husband against ten e, wheelwright. It appears that Lewis had ban the wife.—The 31mistrates said they had no doubt as lodging at 87, Albert-street, and on Tuesdey night re- ,to the assault, but they did not think it was so bad a tuned to his tea, and appeared quit'-cheerfnl. About case se the complaidant wished to make out. They eleven o'clock he was discovered by his landlorle hang. , had decided to send the defendant to prison for fourteen 1 mg by his braces to the door of the water closet in the dv.s. yard, quite dead. No cause is assigned for the rai.a act, I ' A Niciatogerr Downo.—Enoch Knowles, in the and the deeased had not long been rfTident inthe Dleell, employ of Mr. Tiaesley, of Portobello, woe charged
The South Staffordshire Examiner. — 1874-06-27 (Wednesbury, West Midlands, England)

MELANCHOLY SUICIDE OF A WEST BROMWICH PHYSICIAN.-00 Saturday, Mr. Hooper, coroner, held lan inquest, at West Bromwich, on the bode of Mr. Peter Ambrose Cotterill, 47, physician, of street, in in that town, who was found strangled in the cellar of his house on the previous evening.—Mr. John Cotterill, of Wednesbury, brother of the deceased, deposed that be had not been on friendly terms with his brother for nearly two years until about a week ago, when they became reconciled. He had visits- I the doceased nearly every day daring the week, and found him very despondent. On Thursday he was greatly depressed owing to his son, fourteen, having gone away from home, on Wednesday night, with a schoolfellow, named Alfred Kite, and neither having been heard of store On Ftiday morning witness and a friend went to West Vromwich, to his brother's house, and rang thr bell, but there was no response. They went away and returned in three-quarters of an hour .and rang repeatedly, but without effect. Subsequently they saw the danghter of deceased, with two ladies who bad accompanied her from school. The ladies had also been unable to gain admission. Suspecting that there was something wrong, witness gave information to the police, and then taking his latch-key opened the door. He found the house in its ordinary condition, and searched. The cellar door was open, and he soon per. deivea the deceased hanging from the ceiling, suspended by a muffler, which was attached to a hook in the roof. I The deceased was cut down, and Dr. Manley, surgeon k was sent for, but he was dead.—Emma Harris, of Bollstreet, stated that on Friday she went to the slecesped's surgery, and was supplied with a mixture for her ?. mother. Mr. Cotterill appeared very strange, his hair • was rough, awl his eyes swollen, so if he had been cry. I ing. After serving her he opened the door, amt let her I into the street.—The verdict of the jury was Must the r deceased had destroyed himself while so a state of temporary
The South Staffordshire Examiner. — 1874-09-05 (Wednesbury, West Midlands, England)

SHOCKING SUICIDE.—On Thee* night, the neighbourhood of Caldmore, in the borough of Walsall, was startled by the report that Elizabeth Saddler, wife of Joseph Saddler, landlord of the White Hart Inn, Corporation-street, Caldmore, had cut her threat. The report proved to be too true. It appears that about a quarter past seven Mr. Saddler missed his wife, and on proceeding upstairs he found the bedroom door fast. The door was broken open, when Mr. Saddler was found lying quite dead, the unfortunate woman having out her throat with a large carving-knife. Dr. Maelachlan was at once called in, but his services were of no avail. The deceased, who was 33 years of age, is said to have been • very respectable, hard-working woman. She leaves several children, one of whom is only a few weeks old. Domestic troubles are said to have been the cause of the poor woman committing -suicide. On Thursday. Mr. A. A. Fletcher held an inquiry at the White Hart Inn. Caldmore, Walsall. into the circumstances attending, the death of Elizabeth Sadler. aged 33. wife of Joseph Sadler, the keeper of the house. Mqry Ladbury, Stabber's Green, Maridge, sisterdn.law to the deceased, deposed on Tuesday evening she called to see her brother and his wife. Seeing that the latter aid not look so well as nsnal, she said to her, "What's the matter, Bossy?" The aeceasea replied. "Oh, trouble, trouble," bat did not aria any explanation, being called away, and witness did not again see her alive. Had never noticed any signs of insanity in deceased, bus she was generally very reserved. Hid heard that her mother had destroyed herself. About ten minutes after deceased was called away, witness inquired where she was, and Mr. Sealer, sen., said, "Perhaps she has gone apatairs." Deceased's husband was then told that his wife was missing, and he left the brewbouse, where he was brewing at the time, out ran upstairs, but came lack saying the door was locked. Witness got him to go back upstairs with her. A man who was in the house followed them. She called out, "Open the door," but no oneanawered. Dia not notice whether the key was inside. hut there was no key out. site the door. The deceased's husband broke open the door, and his wife was found lying on the floor, in wrest quantity of blood. a yard or two from the dressing table, as if she bad fallen backwards. A large I earving.knife lay on the table before the glass, in a pool Of blood. Deceased's throat was very severely cut.— The Coroner said from the facts that had come out it was clear that it was a case of suicide while suffering from deliriang tremens. the position of the boar and of the wound showing that the latter was self-inflicted.— Some of the jar°, said it was notorious that the couple had net lived happily together, and wished evidence on the point : bat, after a short consultation, a verdict of "Sale-isle while in a state of temporary insanity" was returned.
The Shropshire Examiner and all round the Wrekin advertiser. — 1876-05-19 (Wenlock, Shropshire, England)

SERF WS ACCIDENT NEAR LANCASTER—As some men were engaged in taking off the roof of a church at Holton, near Lancaster, a few days ago, a large beam snapped asunder, and a great part of the roof fell io. Four men were on the top at the time, and they fell to the ground, amid the wreck, a distance of twenty feet. The accident, though alarming, is not expected to result fatally. The death is announced of the Rev. Peter Frye limy, LL.D., wh., is said to be the oldest clergyman connected with the University of Oxford. He ti‘ok his B.A. degree upwards of seventy years ago, and shortlyeterwards was elected to a fellowship in Oriel College, which he resigned some years ago, and has not for a long time past held any ecclesiastical preferment. He died in Loadon at the age of ninety-four.  SrICIDE "I, A MANCII,TEIt MAMA ACTURER --On the 12th in.taut Mr. Henry Kenway Balatone, fustian mannfacturer„ Manchester, committed suicide by cutting his throat. The deceased, on leaving his warehouse tt e previous evening, appeared exceedingly unwell, his nervous system having been much shaken during a continued moical of wont of appetite and sleepiest., es. Soon after reaching his house, Woodlands I'a4, near Altrincham, he became more uneasy, though the syrop• toms were not so marked as to cause suspicion or exeite alarm, He went to bed at his tutusl hour, and between six and ReVell o'clock in the morning the servants found ,irn,elf 1-cerooss.  IHEtitlt";,, • XHiIfItN  Abe meeting of the oxecotiro ~,,,ittee for theßelas selo Exhibiti,e, held h.et sr. k rho Society of A.rt., General 1:0n,,,•d ill ite,t the tr.,- to the opening, ou the 26,-, f done, when th, Kg ,v.II inaugurate the exrihitioni perso. !t woo stt,d that the British section walk! ~..ontair, , ain,..)le c.,llection of life-saving apparatus, end that with some slight assistance from the public the repreoentation of this country would be pa/featly eatisfaotury.
The Shropshire Examiner and all round the Wrekin advertiser. — 1876-04-21 (Wenlock, Shropshire, England)

TERRIBLE SUICIDE. named Preston, 01 72, Nelson street, Preston, In February last a robbery of a £2O Bank of Engto bring over two of his dogs, one half bloodhound land note, some gold, and jewellery, belonging to it and spaniel, and the other a Clumber spaniel. Police- Mrs. Lonedale, of Birmingham, was committed at the detectives Holden and Livesey were sent out wtth the Grosvenor Hotel, Chester. The perpetrator of the dogs to the pinee where the trunk of the hotly wit. theft was not discovered until he missing bank note found at Btvewell, but nothing was scented. The was traced from the Bank of England to a local dogs were taken close to where, in Royshaw Wood, a tradesman who had received it in payment of certain man had been seen to go backwards and forwards to purchases from Hannah Cheers, wife of a Mr. Thomas Lower Cunlitf, Rishton, where the legs of the child Cheers, who holds a respectable position in London. were found, but without ally result. They returned to The police searched Mrs. Cheers 's house, found the Blackburn, and Mr. Potts then decided to have the jewellery, and arrested her. She was lodged in a cell doge taken to Fish's shop and the shop of a barber at the TOWL Hall, with an unguarded fire in it. About named Denis Whitehead, who Mid also been suspected. , midnight the officer on duty, hearing screams, pro. Between nine and On o'clock the two detectives, along ceeded to the call, And sin entering, disccorred Mrs. with Superintendent Eastwood, entered the premises of Cheers enveloped in flames. Assistance was procured, the two barbers simultaneously, Holden remitinimr at and, after some difficulty, her burning garments were Fish's shop, while the other establishment was examined. extinguished, but not before her body and head had From the movements of the dogs the police had sustaMed horrible injuries. She was conveyed to the no retestto suppose that an) thing was concealed infirmary, but she died in great agony on the 15th there, and Superintendent Eastwood, Detective Livesey, instant.. It is supposed that the unfortunate womar Taylor, and his dogs proceeded to Fish's shop. The set herself on fire. She has left a family of tell children. bloodhound at once scented up the chimney ot a front room upstairs, and the owner of the dog on putting his
The Shropshire Examiner and all round the Wrekin advertiser. — 1876-12-08 (Wenlock, Shropshire, England)

BANQUNT TO TOE ARCTIC EIPLORERS.—The crows of the Arch, ships Alert, Discovery, and Pandora, were entertained last week at a banquet by the people of Portsmouth. The men paraded at the dockyard, and, he ,ded by the marine artiilery baud, snatched through drenching rain to the hall, where dinner was served. The Mayor presided, and a number of the officers of the ships were present, also Mrs. Norm, who was enthusiastically received. The crews of the various vessels were heartily toasted, and a member of each ship's company' responded. Several oomp Imentary toasts were proposed. Subsequently singing was ; heartily entered into hy the men, and all appeared to I thoroughly enjoy themselves. • STRANOE Suicios OF A PutsoNns.—A remarkably  del-ermined suicide was committed at Bristol Gaol on the 30th .Noveinher M. Ann Dine, widow, aged forty, undergoing three weeks' imprisonment tor stealing provisions. She had ,revioudy threatened to destroy herself, after spendiog money left by her husband. Na he visited at chaoel tone she was found dead, suspended from the cell beli by a stocking tied tightly round the mouth. Strangulation was really caused by three strands of oakum round the neck ano feet, first tied with a handkerchief, deceaeed having swung herself MT the bed. The gaol surgeon hid noticed nothing peculiar in her conduct. An in4uest was held, whlch resulted in a verdict of "Suicide during temporary insanity."  ENIOOWMENT or THE SEE en Sr. Ala, NS. The Bishop of Rochester presided, last week, at a meeting of the oommilee for pr moting the endowment of the See f St. Athens. His lordship mode the announcement that the sr Atow 'tient of the See of St. All:roris had now been secured. The nurch4se money of Winchestee House win:ld be estinni.ted at .1:-!3,0110, and .1:13,000 had been sulvteribed in answer to his appeals for help. This would bring the total tic to .£50,1100, which would at once -ectne the endowment stipulated in the Act. of Parliament. The bishop also announced that steps were ben g takes towards completing the restoration of St. Alba. Abbey, and that he had already received p ',es of more than £BOOO tow,rds this °Nee', but th4t £30,1100 would be re.mi ed to c,mplete the restoration of the nave, and probably a further sum of J:20,000 would be meded for the internt.l (!ttings and necessaries of divine service.  A ItR4VA IL OF