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The Express. — 1866-01-11 (London, England)

REPEAL OF THE MALT TAX.—On Tuesday evening a meeting to promote the reduction or repeal of the melt tax was held at Balesworth, Suffolk ; Sir E. Gooch. a young gentleman who has just attaioed his majority, in the chair. Sir Fitzroy Kelly, M.P., in moving the first resoluticie, recapitulated the principal resists in his repent speech at Ipswich, and moved " That this meeting is of opinion that the continuance of the excise duty upon malt ie a great injustice to the grower of barley, ands wholly at variance with the free.trade policy of the country." Other resolutions were pined. the speakers being Mr. R. Reward, Mr. A. R. Johnstone, Mr. R. L. Everett, Mr. J. Crabtree, Mr. Vincent, and Mr. Garroulii ; sad the chairman, in responding to the vote of thanks far presiding, wound up by declaring that his 'simian would always be ready to promote any good old tory wormiest. (Sight biases sod laughter.) ROYAL Hum Ass Soeizry.—The half-yearly meeting of this society was held yesterday, at the office, Trafalgar.equani ; Mr. J. M. Cave in the chair. Mr. L. Young, the secretary, reed the report, which stated list the tend of general cases which had been brought before the society during the past half-year bad been 297 persons. of whom 282 bad been anoeessfully treated. and 15 were beyond recovery. Of the above annm her, 22 were attempted suicides. The total number of bathers in Hydmpark during the season bad been 314,351, with only 45 casualties, and none of them fatal. There had bees 11 attempted eideides, with three fatal. The hooorary rewards dozing the half-year had been five silver medals, 92 broom intto, 23 thanks oo vegan, 57 thanks on parehmest, sad 74 memodery rewards of ratio= sums. The receipts for the half-veer had id been 1,8341. Bs. ld., and the expesdi• tare 1,5364 7s. 10d. The report was adopted.  II  T
The Express. — 1866-06-27 (London, England)

MURDER AND SUICIDE IN CAIIIBRIDGESHIRE.---• Nilitti: .r.. Tir,),si• -- -A CI SC a most delilwrste populous r and suicide occurred this morning at Swavesey, a populous on the borders of Cambridgeshire sad ritintingannshire, and neat to St. Ives, between Oolibridge and that place on the Great Ewstern ltailway, and, as may be supposed. a great deal of excitement prevails in the toethatthere itthh, nrhood in consequence. Inquiries on the spot show were resident at Swarresey Mr. Dodson, a harness maker, and pecapying a small quantity of land, his wife (one of the deceased, aud, it is to be feared, the perpetrator of this double crime), and several children. The whole of thefamily, inehuling an apprentice, breakfasted together .‘t 7 o'clock this morning, and the meal, at which nothing unusual occurred, concluded, Mr. Dadaon took his way into the field and the apprentice proceeded to his work. About 9 o'clock the apprentice bad occasion to visit the back yard, and was then horrified at finding the bodies of Mn. Dodson and the youngest child (the latter about four years of age) suspended from a beam in a cowehed close upon the house. The alarm was raised, Mr. Dodson. the neighbou, and medical assistancewere all summoned andchild asrssembled in baste, but both Mrs. Dodson and the were dead, and had evidently been so for some time, according to the opinion of Dr. Daniels. There is every fear re that M. Dodson first destroyed the child and then the in her own life. There are sundry rumours afloat as toatigating motives of this double crime, hot the whole the of the attendant circumstances will be ingok d into at Dodson had taken inquest on Wednesday. It is said Mrs. much to heart the facts of her bnaband having lost several beasts by the rattle plague. of its first having appeared in the homestead of her 'yobs':A, sad spread thence to those in the neighbourhood.
The Express. — 1866-09-01 (London, England)

CONTRACT CORPORATION.—Yesterday this case, under the winding-up order, which was on Tuesday last before Mr. Peake, the chief clerk in Chancery was resumed at Vice.Chaucellor Stuart's chambers. The liabilities exceeded 1,000,0001. Numerous parties attended yesterday, and objected to a call of 30f. being made until there had been a full investigation and the books opened for inspection. The National Discount, and others, for whom Mesas. Thomas and Holland appeared, were creditors to 260,000/. ; Overend and Gurney were put down for 81,0001. Mr. Layton, for four shareholders, contended that under the 01st section of the Companies Act of 1862 the contributories were entitled to full information before the calls were made. Mr. Linklater's clerk, for the official liquidator, said that an inspection would be allowed. Mr. Layton said the poor shareholders were not to have a ,pietol, in the shape of • call, presented to their heads in the dark, and sold up if they did not pay. Mr. Clarence Harcourt asked for full information, as did others who appeared in the case. The chief clerk (Mr. Peake) said he would allow a call of 30/., but stay the Vice-Chancellor • until next week, and the Vioe-Chanor would bear the appeal on Friday next. He had simply acted for the chief clerk of the Master of the Rolls, who had been engaged in the affair. Order accordingly. e report of the medical officer of Pentonville Prison bag just appeared, and contains a reference to the ease of Victor Townley, who committed suicide on the 19th February last. The comment of this official is worthy of attention—" During the whole period of his imprisonment here previous to his suicide he had never shown any indication of mental affection."  [Advertisement. J—HoLLowAY's Pna.s. —Health's Posuithin —lt cannot steely be necessary to remind any Wahlgent reader that the parity of the blood determines every inth. lid's health and Amer. Holloway's medicine searches out the slightest taint in the vital field and neutralism or amen it, me that the circulation magpoila the Whin in place of sowing the seeds of decay. When epidemics are advancing and (theme Is iptftWly on the increase it behoves every one to have a rosterslive Hite these rah ready to set right NW Irregularity to fiellsak bowels r or kidneys. Holloway's Vestment am eigieelany meltable fee Pie delicate, tad nervous, who sre wet INeerie& new pm stehness, arid whom violent nmenewes Ismail endanger little loss than tho epidemic.
The Express. — 1866-12-18 (London, England)

LLD., said that he was one of the trustees to an annuity of 401., which the deceased had settled on him. He practised as a surgeon. He was a licentiate of the Apothecary's Company, but he bad not passed the college. For the last six weeks he had lived at No. 5, Three Colt-lane. Bethnal-green. For years past be drank excessively. In 1864, the Dean of Lichfield left him 4001., which was invested in house properly that yielded him 401. a year in addition to his annuity. He at once gave up practice, and took to drinking until all his money was exhausted. He then mortgaged the houses to a pawnbroker, and drank the proceeds. On last Thursday, witness received a note from the people at No. 5, Three Colt-lane, stating that Mr. Vale had become maniacal, and that a medical man had ordered him to be watched night and day lest he should commit suicide. Witness had already' dvanced him 4/. out of his own pocket, since he bad been paid on the 2nd November his annuity, but all the money was spent in liquor. Ile used to compel the instant payment of tLe instalment due to him in a lump sum by threatening the executor with an action. Witness at once took steps for the proper care of deceased on the Thursday, but on the next morning he was found dead. Selina Greener said that three weeks ago when she went to live at 5, Three Colt-lane she found deceased lodging there. Ho had nothing to cover him but a coat, not even a shirt. He had uo food. She bought him a secondshirt with money given her by Dr. Halle. He spent every thing in drink ; the first thing he took in the morning was a quantity of ruin. The place was in a dreadful condition, but she had to use great tact to get an opportunity of sluicing it out with water. Dr. Robins cautioned her against going into the room alone fur fear deceased would knock her on the head with the poker. On Thursday morning deceased began to get mad ; he shrieked out " Stop him ! stop him !" She called in a doctor, who advised his removal to the union. The neat morning she found him dead on the floor nearly naked. Dr. Halle said that deceased used to wrap himself up in an old rug like a wild Indian, and go to sleep ou the floor. Until witness made himself responsible for his rent, he used to be perpetually seized upon or turned out of his lodgings. Witness provided money for his use on Thursday, and sent Dr. Atkyns to see him. Mr. B. J. Shaw, surgeon, said that deceased died from effusion of serum on the brain, arising from excessive drinking of ardent sprits. Nearly all the organs of the body were in a state of disease from drink. The jury returned a verdict " that deceased was found dead from effusion of serum on the brain, the result of ex' I cessive drinking of intoxicating liquors." . . . .
The Express. — 1866-02-09 (London, England)

SOUTHWARK. AITIMPTID BUICIDI TN THII POLICI-CILL. Elisabeth Grant, a youog woman about 18 years of age, en brought before Mr. Woolryob, charged iu the first Maus, with unk and riotous, and committing an is on her ester; and In the second instance with attempting to Ursula herself in the police-cell. Pohoe-constable 124 L uld that the prisoner was given his custody near the Waterloo-road for assulting her rider. They were both unfortunate females, and bad been qurrelling all the evening, and at last the prisoner folioed the other, and attacked her like a tigress. He then NIL her to the station-house, and she was locked up. The sitter confirmed the statement made by the officer, ebenLamb 72 L said be had charge of the Tower-street Police-station. The prisoner was brought in about 11 o'clock at night, and he locked her up in a call by herself. About an hour afterwards be had occasion to unlock the cell door whr z be saw the prisoner lying on the floor apparently lifeless. He took hold of her and found that she was quite black in the face, and that she bad fastened her waistband tightly round her neck. He instantly cut it off and carried her into the reserve room, and sent for the dirisiosal surgeon ; but before he came she recovered. Had set witness entered the cell at that time no doubt her life would have been saorificod. Mr. Woolrych asked her what she had to say for attempting to commit suicide. Slie replied that she knew nothing about it, asshe was the worse for liquor. She never did such a thing before. Mr. Wooh7ch told her that he should have thought that tar immoral mode of life would have been sufficient without attacking her sister, who followed the same unfortunate pursuit, and then making such a determined attempt on her life. She did not seem to feel her critical pontos and the serious offence she bad committed, therefore he should remand her until Wednesday, so that in the Duane* the chaplain of the gaol might be enabled to show her the enormity of her offence.
The Express. — 1866-04-26 (London, England)

THE MYSTERIOUS OCCURRENCE AT READING.— Yesterday, Mr. W. Weedon, deputy coroner for the 'Upper Division of Berke, held an inquiry at a cottage near Reading into the circumstances connected with the death of Mr. William Hobbs, formerly a solicitor of large practice in that town, whose body was four in a stream near Mr. Champion's flour mills, Fohneymeadoets, on the e xamined, and afternoon. Several witnesses were examined, and their depositions proved that on Thursday, the sth instant, Mr. Hobbs left his residence, the Priory, Bathroad, and walked towards the town, this being at about 9 o'clock in the morning, and there was no reliable evidence of his being seen alive after that hour. On Tues. day afternoon a man named Fry, in the employ of the Rennet and Avon Canal Company, saw something dud against the branches of a willow in a stream leading from the canal, and on procuring assistance, found that it was the body of a man ; and Superintendent Purchase beingsent for, arrived at the spot, and the body was taken out, and identified as that of Mr. Hobbs. His gold watch in his waistcoat pocket showed that it stopped at a quarter to 2 o'clock. Mr. Cooper said that when e left home, the deceased informed Mrs. Hobbs that he should return to lunch at 2 o'clock. Mr. Cooper also stated that at the request of the deceased's relatives he had examined all his papers, securities, &c., and he could find nothing in them that would lead to the conclusion that pecuniary embarrassment had caused Mr. Hobbs to commit suicide. Mr. Hobbs' accounts were made up to the 3rd April, two days before be was missed. The coroner read a letter from G. May, senior, surgeon of Reading, stating that he was unable to attend, but that he had known Mr. Hobbs for 30 I years, and noticed his mental condition, and he beli for aeved him to be of unsound mind. The jury deliberated short time, and returned a verdict of " Found drowned, an d that there were no marks of violence on the body, and no evidence to show how deceased came in the water." The deceased was 50 years of age.
The Express. — 1866-10-04 (London, England)

EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE OP A SEA CAPTAINS WIPE.  An inquiry was held by Mr. Win. J. Payne, the &Linty coroner, last evening, at the Committee-rooms, Yountatheourt, Minories. respecting the death of Mrs. Anne Elliot, a Scotch lady, aged 31 years, who was alleged ito have committed suicide n conaequence of being charged with extravagance by her husband. Captain John Elliott, commander of the Rifle, a Chinese trader, said that the deceased was his wife. About a week ago she left her home in Scotland to meet triton', who had returned from an 18 months' voyage abroad, and she and her three children took lodgings at No. 2, Circus, Minarim. When witness met her she complained of being rIL On Saturday last witness reproved her for being so extravagant while he was at sea. Witness said to her, What have you done with the money I left at home ?" She remained silent, andburst out crying. She said that she had put some of the money in a Scotch bank, and then she said that she had put none of it in. Witness was about to return to Scotland, and she knew that he would find out all about the money, and that fact preyed upon her mind. She said to witness afterwards, "You will find out all bye and bye." On Monday afternoon witnem returned home and found her dying from the effects of poison. Mary Keefe, servant at the deceased's lodgings, said that on Monday last the deceased complained of toothache and asked her to purchase one shilling's worth of gin and sixpennyworth of laudaum. The chemist would not sell six-pennyworth, and witness only got three-pennyworth, and the gin. Shortly aftervrasda she was found lying insensible on the bed in her room. Dr. W. R. Cook, Tower-hill, mid that be was called in to see the deceased on Monday. Her face was pale and livid, and she was suffering from the effects of poisoning by laudanum. She bad taken three drachms. Witness dad not think that the chemist ought to have • Ten so much a three-pennyworth to the servant. The deossssd expired at 3 o'clock. Mr. H. Madsen, chemist in the Minories, said that he refused to give the servant six-pennyworth, and that he would not have given her the three-pennyworth only that he knew that her master kept a large lodging-house, and he thought it was required in case cholera broke out. Dr. Cook said that the demand had mixed the laudanum with the gin and that rendered the poison more powerful. Witness did not think that she had become insensible for an hour after she had taken the poison. Mrs. Eleanor Irwin said that the deceased had told her that she was nearly distracted with the toothache. She said that the pains were going to her head. She showed witness a 25 guinea shawl that her husband had brought her from abroad.  —..... The Coroner having summed up, the July returned a I'verdiet that That the deceased destroyed her own life whilst in a state of temporary Insanity, and their opinion wee that she had committed suicide in consequence of the rebuke she had received from her husband, and that she was afraid of the consequences of her acts when he returned to Sootland and found no money in the bank."
The Express. — 1866-07-02 (London, England)

HILL V. HVG`ITA.  The testator was a hairdresser at Manchester. He made a will in 1856, and added a codicil in 1863, and deposited both with his banker for safe custody. On the 14th September, 1865, he asked for and got the documents back. About that time he fell into an illusion that he was reduced to poverty, and although be was really worth 8,0001.,the could not be convinced of it. In this kind of insanity be committed suicide, and then the will could not be fesand. The presumption was that be destroyed it ; and the question now to be decided was whether he destroyed it before or after he became insane.  The jury found that the will was in existence up to the time the testator went out of his mind, and The court pronounced for the will (which existed in draft) ; costs to oome oat of the estate.  Tai WEBTIEINSTZR ABBEY SERVlCE3.—Yesterday eve there wee • very large congregation in the nave of Westminster Abbey, to hear • sermon by the Rev. Benjamin Jowett, of BeDial College, Oxford, Regius Professor of Greet. The prayers were rung by the Rev. 8. Flood Jonas, M.A., minister of St. Matthews, Spring-gardens, the lessons being read by the Very Rev. Dean Stanley. Professor Jowett selected for his text the 26th chapter of the Acts of the Apostles, verses 24 and 25 : ' And as he thus mike for himself, Padua said with a loud voice, Paul, thou art beside thyself ; much learning (loth make thee mad. But be said, lam not mad, meet noble Feetus but speak forth the words of truth and soberness." The sermon at the special service next Sunday evening will be preached by the Rev. Henry Twells, M.A., master of the Godolphin Grammar firkw,l. Hammersmith.
The Express. — 1866-03-10 (London, England)

AGMIIIIT • 001191111.. In this ass. which was undefecdod. • jury was moth to awes damages, which were estimated by the petitioner himself at I,ooof. Dr. Warebey appeared on his behalf. He had married the respondent in 1854, and had lived with her en perfectly good terms till suicide • comperatively recent period. Be wee the proprietor of the refreshment rooms at the Worcester station of the Oxford Worcester, and Wolyierhampton Railway. The co-respondeat, who was formerly the manager of the ga•-worts of the same city, used to come to the room", end • considerable Memory bad thus spnaug up between the parties. The husband, however, suspected Nothing till 1804, when a box came into his hands directed to his wife. Ste was from home at the time, and, thinking that it might eposhiht something that it would be neomeary to forward to her, he opened it, Pod toned that it was filled with photegrephs, trinket', aad lave-letters which his wife had written to Outlet., but which Outlet bad thought for sores reason to return. There were an malty as 200 of them. It smeared that at this moment the co-respondent wee in Wakefield county prime, suffering four years' penal servitads for &treadle the eve company ; but The jury the damages at the fall amount claimed. Deere* chi, with sods.  1301:71iT OF MiNICIUTPTOY. (Before Mr. Comminioner Wiselow). DI:PORTANT DECISION ONDEZ A 1111:181 DIEM Two debtor., partners, had entered isto a deed of composition with their joint creditors. Mr. Chidley, =behalf of a separate creator, applied for Ism to lone executiort, as the ground that the separate creditors were not bound by the deed. Mr. Pulleys, having beim hard on the other side, Hie amour referred to the rue of the European Coattail Railway Company o. Weston (Common Law Reports, Mirth, 1866), where it bad been held that • deed between the members of * Ana and the joint creditors, wee so ter to a proceeding br • separate creditor. The operate debts were set Latiefied by the deed, sad therefore execution mast inns.
The Express. — 1866-04-13 (London, England)

SUICIDE OP • BANKER AT SILICRWSEURY.—A profound sensation was created throughout Shrewsbury iny morning, by the intelligence that Mr. W. HaiB the firm of Mears. -Roche, Eytme, Camp pity, Old Bank, Shrewsbury, had comma suicide on the previous evening. It appears that the deceased gentleman had returned to his residence from the hank shortly after three o'clock in the forenoon, and almost immediately retired to his dressing. room. At fear o'cluk, his usual hour of dressing for dinner, his valet knocked et the door and asked whether he was reedy for dressing. Mr. Bayley answered shortly in the negative, and after waiting el 6 o'clock the valet again knocked at the door and inquired whether he might enter. Receiving no answer, he opened the door and saw his muter kneeling over the foot. pan with his bead hanging clown, and a razor covered with blood in his right band. On lifting him up he found his throat cut from ear to ear. Medical eminence was at ono, obtained, but the deceased was then quite dead. There had been a special meeting of the proprietors held at the bank on Wednesday morning, and many rumours are rife throughout the town as to the motive that impelled the dummied to take his own life, and though none of them am sufficiently substantiated to warrant publication, it is stated on good authority that the causes arose from his private circumstances, and do not affect the position of the bank. Throughout yesterday morning there was, as might have been expected, a great run on the bank. but later in the day confidence in its stability seamed entirely restored. The deceased gentleman held a high position in the county, throughout which he was widely ]mown. In addition to his commercial badness he practised as a barrister, and had a good connexion on tie Oxford Circuit. He was an ex-mayor of Shrewsbury, and at the time of his death occupied a seat in the town council for one of the wards. ADMIRALTY Arm 12.—ArroncricsNTIL —Hastees F. R. Taylie, F. C. Corbett, and A. J. W. Neville, to the Princess Royal, additional, for disposal.