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The Midland Examiner and Times. — 1877-10-06 (Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England)

FAVOURITE SPOT FOR SUICIDE.. _ ,l A SINGULAR CASE,. At an inquest, at SheScld, ow the body of ThoWIWI At the Central Criminal Court, London, Reule.n . Pink Lane has been indiet4l for the murder lif his wifus Mr. Alderman Grundy is expected to be the nal Dickenson, who had committed suicide by Jam into one of the waterworks reServoirs In the nreeenee ui.Lam. . nil wtanis,as, a r.iilsest porter xi. 'Mayor of Manchester. of a numbar of people, it transpired that iOO perHampton, and he was charged with causing the At Chariton, au old woman named Sarah &mint hal sons had committo suicide ba, the same place within death ot his wife by administering a noxious drug. Past died at the ag,,,ef 100 years. a specified period' e years. Ittlhis case'Dickenion to her for an iflegal purpose. It was done at too Mr. Tames O'Brien, IDUblin soleitor, WM drowned t had been a very bard thinker, and had told his wife , tvish of Lis wife, and it appeared that her heart was on Wednesday in Clew Bay, Galway. during the week that he _ should murder her and yes y itud'l diseased, anti the doctor was unable to Owing to the railway strike. We passenger traftL bce• positive opinienr to the mime pi dulth. keen Dublin ant Coin is sow carried ou by sea. then kill himself. He had, in facts just behore at- ii, a,,,tempted his wife's life with a sharp knife, but for- i The (..i Ss. 11,419, thertforW, topped, and *w'prisou, r A Vienna tele,tram ntates that Sic son of nli. faintlinately failed. I then plead..l guilty to a cargo of Misleinbnour ,n price Minister of Justice has been killed' in a S,:l VI II g I.l.llllllAered the referred I, . duel.  . -.re ingredient es.ferreu eel. • The prowler received an exc, Petit character fr,..... The tereeteste 1 lockson, of linen operatives at Forthe teeter of the parish, Mr. Eakin, . f the Ste •.: for hes- t ,-...:, t-• ace, and upwarde of 2,000 pereena are ' Emil:mac, who liv, ain the ea:if:beer hood, and t: . now throw i all -; r, station miteter, and the learned judge mantel:teed Mai At a me, :•• • ..ethe Preeton Town Council, a commit. ~.- to els Yen 'lays' imprfeemmeut, slitting from the 7. _ tee two , .. ,e- emoted. to coneider the propriety of 1 I Outline of the session, the effect of which was 1.1.. e. .1 *s.' b 0 , ~ i ~•,, at rary. he was at once died:meted. Mr. If. .1 '' : : . 1'.4.A.., Deputy Grand Master of ; . Um 0 Kf.,:' . ... ......,,,IS, tow jled died, at the age of '
The Cannock Chase Examiner. — 1876-12-01 (Cannock, Staffordshire, England)

RAILWAY AGE. VIT'Et A LIT NATTh.  45 express train from Lime r, Nov. 24th, to catch the they were slowly rotaiglin Frodshain station by her we sharp shrill whistles hoist), stoppage of the train in rfarpool Side of Frodsham. lb. Lnwin, is commercial ; of the carriage to ascertain a man without hat h urried ly ndow, scattering the titan ny another fellow, who ran endeavoured to gel. into guard came alt aud pulled ; grasp of the guard, and ir side of the carriage and s but the train came to a The guard endeavoured to grasp" the rails so fenneleirluiely impossible to poll lof three other men. He e e mad Man, and then the iicken to observe an elderly with bin farm, hands, and I, gesticulatang violently at they went up to hiss and tod, and he was carried off p.,at Fredishain, where his ed. In the meantime, the sued to commit suicide , of the stationmaster at transpired that the two nt were Thomas Helms, rest, Wigan, and his son, 3, Vulcan street, Gorgon. , better he said his name was tpher, 27. Ratcliffe irreet, snowing particulars of what it Lime street with two nice, rht till we were just cuter. en the younger man jumped en knife in his hand, and I will put this into von." Oat, and made a desperate ith the knife. I thioight ;bery, so I handed him my In gold, which he pitched low. I then knew that I wag o. • Re continued to attempt as knife. I was underneath seat. He knell on my breast, at my throat I laid hold of he knife and kept him at buy s father got behind him and ; was at that lime within as he stood over me. He the knife out of his band, trusted with his father, a corner of the carriage. in., smashed it all to pieces, and attenipteti to pitch toe to the window, but he failed, hand thumb into his mouth, 11101713, and nearly severed my He then leaped through the caught him by the heels and of the die.r for about a mile, if blood, just ta the train came i,rodsham. I M. not recollect be prisoner, who is evidently a ; Frodsham, in company with auor at the time. ii EA.sTEEN
The Cannock Chase Examiner. — 1876-05-12 (Cannock, Staffordshire, England)

POLICZNIEN.—At Bow street, on Tuesday, Oharle.s Grimes was again remanded or. the charge of shooting two police constables in Euston square. One of the constables is still too ill to give evidence.  The election of a Board of Guardians at Plymouth Tuesday caused great excitement owing to a keen political contest, winch resulted, as was ascertained late in the evening, in the election of sixteen Conservatives and thirty-two Liberals.  At an early hour on Turaday, a boiler exploded in the paper manufactory of Messrs. Thomas Galton aud Go., paper makers, Yelling Shore, near Gateehead-onTyne, by which firemen were killed. The only other mai, on the premicas,escaped uninjured. ,r of the conic filet., of the Metropolitan Police has comi.utted suicide ',1.:, • ,ost resolute tray. The oflicer, whoer name was Mac', • I, bad joined the force after barter failed in buriner., i,nel it was xr iv iced that he wag depressed in spirits. Ire tied his legs together, and irmged bismohf4n a•closett  Mr. B. M.P...has obtained a return showing that last year 11,853,;Z1 gallons of foreign and Colonial Kpirits were charged with duty for consumption. against 10,674,2F7 in the preoeding year. The wine . . .  charged with d 47 for censuinigion last year was 17,23f,,807 gallons, against 17,165,674 in 1574.  Acrimi eon Li am..—ln the Common Pleas on ToesJay, in the ease of Rogers v. The Scottish Newspaper Company, an action by a Presbyterian minister against the Edinlonryh Courant for a libel, impoting misconduct in referenowto the Wallace fond, it verdict was  teem by consent for ten guieena, 'nth an ample aPoklgY•  • -The 81-ten gun, having completed anothoe series of trials, has been taken into the Turnery at the Royal Dun Factories In the Royal Arsenal, W..olsvich, to here the powder chamber enlarged, so as to enable the gun to consume an increased charge of powder with the thin. shot. This opi•retion is considervd a novelty in musrle-loading ordnance. MR.
The Cannock Chase Examiner. — 1876-09-08 (Cannock, Staffordshire, England)

VIENNA. September 4.—Count Andrassy, it Is sated here, after having received notification of the set cession of the Sultan Harnid, charged the represents. tines of the five Great Powers in Austria to eemmuth oate confidentially to their respective Cabinets that the I new Sultan had given Count Zichy. before hie se cession, a formal promise concerning the slew c,sc ' arWliore as to Bosnia, and that he had also pledged himself to act in accordance with the Powers comens log the peace conditions to be proposed to Berrie In cqnseouence of this it is not doubled here tat that at the Powers will recognise the new Sultan without any difficulty. (Prom the Standard.) ,NSTANTINOPLE, September 2.—On Monday last I telegraphed to you that the deposition of BUltht Moored was imminent. On Thursday I telegraphed that it had occurred. It has passed off very quietly, and has created no other feeling than one of pity is Mourad who is universally regarded as TM amide end untodiunate man, The now Sultan is au Will and vistorous man of 34 years. He epees and writes French. Not only has he no debts, but he has saved a sum which Is said to amount to £lOO,OOll. His mother died many year, ago. It is said that he has requested the mother of Moored to aCt as Sultana Valide. Only one change I has as yet taken place in the Ministry, the Minister of Commerce, Mahumud Pasha Deemed, who Is the Sultan's brother-in-law, having been made Marital of the Palace. No other changes of consequence are expected at present. There is a report that M. Fate, the Director General of the Ottoman Bank, is tots Minister of Finance, but I believe it to be wholly Inds out foundation. It is not at all likely that thine Sultan will live long. His disease has made rel rapid progress, and in the last week he has made two attetupts to commit suicide.
The Cannock Chase Examiner. — 1876-08-04 (Cannock, Staffordshire, England)

MALVERN COLLEGE.—Last week the annual recite'. ____ -.—.... ------ , lion of speeches was held before a large and influential saying she wanted to stop, as she was very ill 114 pit company. The Beauchamp, Smith, Council, Pekingpoieoned herself. She exred from the 141w-eas ion, and other prizes were distributed by G. W. Hots poison on Saturday last. The jury returned,' e logs, Esq., member of the College Council, and Chairof' Suicide while under temporal++; Inanity. man of the Worcester School Board. The Head STRANGE Deane Or AN ENGLise Lanv.—A old. Mesmer, the Rev. Arthur Faber. was able to congratu- occurrence, by which a young English lady htll late the College on the large Increase of members since life, is at present being investigated by the sabot the preceding year, and on the liberality with which of Trafoi, in Austrta, on the confines of the TO" additional house-room had been provided by Lord the Swiss grisons. Some days ago there arrivals, Beauchamp. The list of honours, which included five Hotel von Kammerzofe, at Trafoi, a couple OOP open scholarships, was then read, and the following apparently to the higher classes. The hushed,* speeches recited:— I. E. S. W. Johnson, "Opening was about thirty hears of age mid who had sold Address," H.O.C. 2, H. B. S. Fowler and D. H. tinguished air, inscribed himself in the bred lOW Johnson, "The Rivals,' Sheridan. 3. W. H. Hadow, local papers say, as Mr. De T---• ; and his wit' C. E. McLeod, J. IL Stewart, W. B. Tyndall, T. Base was elegantly dressed, is given by the seine suthd ter, A. Dußuiseon, Greenway, and Pike, "The Achars as English. The next morning they were dries nians," Arietopenes. 4, A. J. COPP, "The North- wards a neighbouring glacier, but half way these West Passage,"
The Cannock Chase Examiner. — 1876-07-07 (Cannock, Staffordshire, England)

RUSSELL—A L.A. correspondent writes :—I hear that Lord Russell, having refused to allow Viscount Amberley's children to be trained by the Scotch tutor to whom :heir sceptical father entrusted them because of Ins r)mpathy  M religious views, has yet decided to pay Ong gentleman the yearly salary bequeathed to him by Lord Aruberley, without requiring any services in return. Scepticism has proved financially succes,ful its this instance, for the annuia stipend is, I believe, ttir,O.  . . fession to advantage in diagnosis, nor yet in prognosis 1 . ~., It is with a certain sense of confusion and shame that ,IIkIICIED WITH AssAI'LT.--At Liverpool, a_PAOLMS el Illeedelf 'lTilliam Bennet , t a gaoler, was charged with we read that she tried mesmerism "to obtain some release from the use of opiates. To her own eurprise n.. ..,e ‘', ajrrested for drunkenness, and on being taken 7, 11,1tte ' "ohn G , who atated that on the 1.1,th and that of others the treatment procured her a .... psi, v- —••• e4swell Bennett struck him several time, and release from the disease Itself, from which tieveral broke hi s jaw with a key. Another gaoler stated that eminent medical men had declared recovery to be imthe . licenian who apprehended Grace had strack him possible. In five months she was perfectly well." to tre Bridewell, and the case was adjourned for this IA-hen she eterwards rode on a c , mei to Mount Sinai, attendance. and on horseback to Damascus, the evidence of the rean's ELOPEMENT AND SUICIDE --A young man named John recovery was complete. Her memoir before us finishes. I Idle hae committed suicide at Rampatead. About • " Her disease was deterioration and enlargement e, i , week ago, the deceased's wife eloped with a man named the heart, the fatal character of wh.ch was discover ad Robert Sheckle. Idle shot himself on the right side of in January, 1855. She declined throughout that the chest—the second rib being fractured and the lung arid subsequent years, and died" on the 27th °Mime, perforated- but before doing this he wrote the follow-Is7o. There can be no doubt that Harriet Mar- tog note i—" I, John Idle, do hereby give notice that tineau's case is not one of the triumph, ,of the Robert Sheckle, commonly called Grimwood, Sorry, has profession, and that the particular attention attracted broken my besot. I have not time to gar more. Al to her c .se did not add to the confidence of immy per. sons in medical skill as to the diagnosis or d prognosis Dr. Lunge, who has most ably filled the office of of affections of the heart. In 1835, Mt er mertineme President of the Newcastle-upon-Tyne Chemical was 53 years a age, and doubtless suff,ered, as marry Society, has been appointed to a Professor's chair in females do about that age, from email lerable debility the Polytechnic School of Zurich. of the heart, with dilatation of its eh, ,nagre. But wee They are now organising at Prague an exhibiiion of thorn any deterioration of it• strut ure ? The subee- newspaper
The Cannock Chase Examiner. — 1876-08-25 (Cannock, Staffordshire, England)

YOVNG LADY.—An inquest was named Volney, and is nineteen years of age. I held last week, at 10, Lee place, Lee (the residence It was on March 9th, 1543, that, by Act of Perlis. ' of the deceased), on the body of a youngilady named meat, permission was given to read the Bible. The Susannah Eleanor Gladwell, aged I. t sppearmd Act declared "That It-shall be lawful to all men to from the evideuce that the deceased was riding on read the Bible and Testament in the mother tongue." horseback over Blackheath on Tuesday evening, when . the animal suddenly bol.ed, causing her to fall from In comesquenne of their refusal to submit to the new Itersien law in the lormer_Kingdone of Poland, by the saddle. The horse proceeded on its course, and, loch all the officers of justice are bound to Learn as the decayed was unable to release her foot from Russian, 1000 officials have been dismissed from their the t.rruP. she en. dragged- Wong the ground for a situations. distancef o ,00 yarda. On being extrnested. she w. , men by Dr. Purvis, of Blackheath, who advised her A correspondent writes to a contemporary that there removal home, where was attended by Dr. Gooding, of is now in the Infirmary ward of the Monaghan Union Greenwich, who found that she had sustained s severe Workhouse a female pauper whose age is alleged to be fracture to the skull, from the effects of which she Vet. Although bedridden she suffers from no cola died the same night. The Mei returned a verdict of Plaint whatever. secidentel death.  LTTEMPTED MURDER AND SUICIDE IN  - ----- On Sunday morning, about one o'clock, a notorious wife•beater, living in Dunfermline, named James Chalmers, ramie a desperate attempt to murder his wife and then commit suicide. Chalmers and his wife had gone to bed u hen, at the hour named, he rose unexpectedly and the. etened to take the life of his wife. The poor woman made an endeavour to escape, but Chalmers succeeded in stabbing her in the left sido. with a knife.. She contrived to get out of his clutches,. end sought shelter in ;t nei,z labouring house. Chalmers,, hearing that the police were after him, bolted his door and cut his throat with a rarer. The door we' broken open, and Chalmers was found bleeding profusely. I  aieperoed:
The Cannock Chase Examiner. — 1876-08-25 (Cannock, Staffordshire, England)

THE EXTENSIVE FORGERIES BY A HULL  DIERC RANT. OnTuesday, at the Hull Police Coort,Jarnes 0. Ward, who is charged with forging a bill of lading for £4200 and other documents, and who had been apprehended in Fiji, was brought up on remand. Dr. Itollet appeared for the prosecution, which is carried on by Messrs. Ilrochner, of Hull. He stated that the prisoner had obtained sums of money, amounting altogether to £14,000, by means of forged documents, blank forms for the making of which were found in his desk after be had absconded. In all WOOS the ships he described in the forged pap-re had no existeoce, or they did not convey cargoes such as be had described, and for which he obtained money. On his arrival at the Eiji Islands, prisoner passed by the name of Ellis, and when the detective lrom Hull arrived there in pursuit, be denied that he was Ward,and affirmed his name was Ellis. While there the le,' gentlemen he employed placed a yacht at his dispos'al to give him the means of escape, and he had actually got on board a steam, for the United States when he was token On the voyage to England Detective Traffoid found a letter In his bed, in which he intimated his intention of committing suicide, and gave omgestion. for the deposal of his offish.. He said he p eferred the disc-on', t of a few momenta in the water to those of life in o ponce cell. A bottle of chloroform and a knife .. ere also found concealed on his v.'s., and . approaching England the detect:re discovered a rofo smracy amongst those OD board to conceal the pri.mier and aid his e•mape nu r,ioirl4 st Lend. Ti Pl.looOr had, ths;refore, to he placed in irons ii-nd closely watcheo After the evidence h.,d been compl..,ed the priacner was f.,rn ally remauCed.  him.. l'ortunately, however, , After he got into his house Tremble went to his bedroom, and from the window there th reat ened to shoot the constable, Davies, if he went anywhere near him, and I did not stand further back. Davies and Morgan —dye- outside the house, but
The Cannock Chase Examiner. — 1876-05-05 (Cannock, Staffordshire, England)

THE WEAK PART OF THE BRITISH NAVY.  It may be taken, says .the Saturday Review, that up to the present time, or at least up to the time when the plans had to be settled, the Inflexible is a very complete and redoubtable instrument of war. Still it must not be forgotten that it is only an Met runient, and that it requires intelligent and practical persons to work it. An addleiheaded giant is, after all, a poor creatiire ; and the best ships in the world nosy be a source ot weakniss rather than of strength if manned by scratch crews of insufficient numbers and demoralised by a cruise being turned into a party of pleasure, and coinmutated by an admiral who is afraid to give intelligible orders in a fog, and simply trusts to Providence till he himself gets to port, leaving his ships teeny fate that may overtake them, in utter ignornece of their niovements, and by captains who do not know, or are Indifferent to their duties. Recent disasters have supplied a forcible lesson on the danger of officers doxing over their worker indulging in se:f confident recklessness ; and unfortunately these are faults which have been not only condoned, but encouraged, by the Admiralty of the day. We have read before now very pretty accounts of the mechanical perfection of the ',erten'. ironclad", and to a certain extent this perfection has no doubt been attained. The Vanguard was lost, not because she was badly constructed, Mk because she was stupidly commanded ; and the Iron Duke ran Rite her consort, and afterwards nearly eoininitted suicide, because she had incompetent and careless people to look after her. You may have the most perfect instrument in the world, but, if you put. it intothe handa of a fool, he will probably out his fingers or wound a friend. It may be doubted whether the facilities which improved mechanical science bes afforded for working ships have not. had a deteriorating effect both on the prompt skill and on the habits of attention which formerly distinguished the service. It was certainly not owing to mere mechanical pre-eminence that the English fleets of other days gained their glorious reputation. It need to be the pride of men lite Nelson to win victories with any kind of rotten old tub, and to make up by professional genius. alertness, and daring for the deficiencies of their ships. INnwaday., under Mr. Ward Hunt's ad min i strat inn, officers in high places are encouraged to make themselves purel ornamental persons, and are assured beforehand that the Admiralty will always take care to supply a sclxigoa, of inferior rank. The figure of an incapable First Lord cast a dark and ominous shadow the other day on the tem.& of the Inflexible.
The Cannock Chase Examiner. — 1875-04-10 (Cannock, Staffordshire, England)

CLASSICAL MESIC IN WOLVERHAMPTON. 1 i i '--:.•,h41..,:tttr,•.,fe, t- 46 wen The Wolverhampton Fasts ii Choral Society i "a %date. it will'l,i's.e.e:i'fr.oni u :•ep:,t 'irrat'oft.V:?°r is composed of those who ardently love music, I column that i - 'touts so I' a and wish not only to feed the desires of those who • , . e t packeto, the poison i . nan irregular "WIWI% to a are votaries of St. Cecilia, but to cultivate a taste man who Was afterwards brought lief°, the justices for the refining art among the inhabitants of the 1 on a charge of attempting, to commit suicide. and town generally. who Was liberated under sureties.  "Music from her sacred store , Enlarges all our narrow bounds, And adds sweet length to solemn sontads, With Nature's mother wit, and arts Unknown before.'' The labours of the Choral Society have not always been fittingly appreciated by those well able to do so. :Last year, after the series of concerts, they found themselves considerably in debt, though all the labour attendant upon the formation of classical music in the town had been , given freely. The society then decided to discontinue the concerts, but were prevailed upon by the solicitations of various ladies and gentlemen not to do so, and the money deficient was subscribed. , This year again, however, the receipts have not ' been enough to meet the heavy expenditure of engaging lirst-class vocal and instrumental artists. It does not speak well for the musical culture of a large town like Wolverhampton, that such disinterested efforts as those put forth by the Choral Society are not heartily and generally supported. The programme of the concerts have been frequently made severely classical to suit the cultured middle class of the town, but we have no doubt that if accomodation could have been provided for that intelligent portion of the lower-middle and working classes, who so thoroughly enter into the enjoyment of a good musical treat, that the society would have paid its way easier, because an increase in the number of shilling seats would not only have added to the proceeds, but the occupiers of those I seats would be less exacting in desiring the enssagement of the more highly paid artistes. Wishing, as we do, success to tit:, Choral Society, and the continuation of its valitable services in cultivating the musical taste t the town, we trust that the attendance on lruesday evening next will reward them for the p:: 3t and encourage them for the future. The wallas of the artistes and the programme will be fo,uad in our advertising columns. Every name is: a recommendation.