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Northern Times. — 1857-12-31 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

TEE WA' ERLOO-BRID3E MURDER.  A PRETENDED CONFESSION.  Daring Sunday, at C,l,liester, soms sensation was carped i the town by a rumour that a soldier at the camp had confasard to having been concerned in mar,"ta ing the man whose mangled remains wow recehly fout)d on one of the piers of Waterloo—bridge. It appears that a deserter from the 66th Regiment, name t Ito ~as Pedlar, was brought back to the camp on Saturday evening, and whilst in the guard-room attempted to commit suicide by strangling himself with his nec-rerchief. He afterwards dropped some hint , about having committed some crime. which he cared more about than desertion ; at last said ho, with two others, murdered a man in London, and after he had been cut u ,'and pat into a carpet i.ag a woman took it away and threw it over Waterloo bridge. Ia reply to the sergeant who had charge of h.m ho aid Ihi man we.. not a foreigne-, but a farmer, and had £6O abo.:r him. He added that he did not commit the murder, but wan in the house at the tone, and hail part of the money. The circtunvancewAsclunnunr.e.ated to the Buronsh police, and tr,.nperintenclar t Dann had an interview with the prisoner, when he said it was all humbeg, and knew no more about the murder than he had read in the papers. The prisoner wag brought up to—day at the Boronga Bench, when he made a similar retrrc atioo. He is a poor idiotic-looki, g fellow, and by no means likely, Judging f om physical characteristics, to have played a part in so nnblile and sanguinary a transaction. He k t tint he comes from Brist,l, but will not tell whether he has sing friends, or whom ho was employed by in that town. The Mayor (wee is a physician) expressed his belief that the men's mind was ) ermg,al. He also a pe,,scd to wish to each nge military for civil cu-toly, ac by call he wonld rather go to gaol than be sent back to the camp. Ni chance whatever was place i on his statement as to the murder, and he was handed bark to i the mil tary authorities:
Northern Times. — 1857-07-21 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

AND SUICIDE.  A roclarcholy catastrophe has (ceurrefl at Gloucester; a tradesman named George Meadows lido, ley, hair-dresser and tosshop-keep'r, fhvio7; elr)vvni:d him;elf and his two daughters, one fourteen, Cie other nine years old. An inquest was hel I. on the holies by Mr. Lovegrove, coroner, on Sourday night, when the following evidence was taken : —Charles lialtord : Air lit six o'clock this m -ruing I was called up to " drag" she Gloucester and Berkeley Ship Canal, in search of the bodies of Morley and his daughters, Elizabeth and Augusta, who were sapposed to be drowned. Between eleven and twelve .'clock in the forenoon I found the holies of the father and his youngest daughter. They were lying in the canal, about a mile from Gloucester, -about six feet from the curial bank, and in eight or nine fe,t of water. The bodies were liked together; the father had his left arm passed round his daughter's waist, and grasped her wrist with his left hand, while his right arm was curved, as though he had bell the Eldest daughter in the same manner as the youngest, but she had got from him. Shortly afterwards I found the body of the other daughter. Harriet Morley : I ern the widow of the deceased, George Morley, and en tber of the two girls. My husband has for some time been :suffering from eVreme depression of spirits, arising frosa disease of the cheat. Two years ago be was in a depressed state, and I watched him narrowly, fearing he would inflict some injury upon himself. Several witnesses said the deceased complained to them of being ill on the .morning of the melancholy occurrence; and Mr. Cookson, surgeon, his medical attendant, said he thought him insane, and nnabl to control himself when actuated by any sudden impulse. The jury returned a verdict in effect that the deceased drowned himself and his two children while labouring under temporary insanity.
Northern Times. — 1857-11-07 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

SUICIDE.— A. suicide of a very deter. ch treater was committed 03 Thursday. one the e',.eie,liati,d Gloucester branch of the Midland Railway. "vo and three o'cloce is the afternoon, during 14isttslago of one of the up goods trains, a woman and Vas 1 eit ! hey were accosted near the Crosswave-brldge by a f.oretgn acceet, From the peculiarity of his k`,eta 'nd appearance the woman and her boy were inttit •thes stranger, and they observed that after rd a little distance from them be made his way on to 4t 'aY emb^ kmen' t and upon reaching it took off f 'l3* thAt44,irc'el his head and way :d it aloft, as if in the ect licv:ng• They then saw him descend and go along eehet' e until the whistle of the goods train denoted its kj, pe "1 4, :iet othe an thgroand, afteren re-ascendewh icd t.heh he des embankcenmentded !hd anTupon thee prateC 71 'ekineealed Liesself in a crouching position behind te,""el-"e bushes. In this posture he watched the apeha train and upon the engine arrivingwheel nearly I the hiLlies she threw himself tied o. the s, trOiete.whole train passed over him, literally cutting him 44 Fri' , The body is said to have been identified as that ee'elay-".eo doctor named trio% who left his home en 4'l he In a despeteeing state.- The engine-driver states abate te'''W the man on the line Rhein a quarter of a mile (11:etvi ~e /13°`, and that on sounding 'he signal-whistle andl Ilicf/kl)> Coat he moved off the line, he c included that al et:!re!,Lree'ewas oeer. Finding that the engine jerked conleree Passing the tip t where the eec- ase I had conVie!)eeemelf, the engine-striver stopeed the t air, and 11444" "'ek found the mangled remains scattered about - 'he hat was af.erwarda found at the spot where lin and boy saw it placed. •
Northern Times. — 1857-12-26 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

SUICIDE OF FREER, THE ACTOR. Wednesday, Ma Charles Freer, the actor, committed suicide by cuqing his throat with a razor. He had been residing until very lately in Lambeth, and removed a few days ago to a small coffee room in Bridge-court, Bridge-street, Parliamentstreet. He was in very indigent circumstances, having no means of obtaiting a livelihood, and, being nearly seventy yews of age, was past all theatrical employment. It appears that between six and seven o'clock in the morning some of the p?.ople in the house ha;Tened to go to his rocm, and to their astonishment found him in bed in a pool of blood, whioh, upon further examination, was found to have proceeded from an extensive wound in his throat. A:, alarm was given, and a surgeon was sent for immediately; a police constable was als t called in at the tv,me time. Toe poor eau w. s then sensible, and told those about him that he had it acted the wound himself with a razor, indicating where the weapon was to be found. He. was at once removed to the Westminster Hospital but, from the exhaustion caused by loss of blood, he only sure ived half an hour. Mr. Freer was rather an important theatrical personage at the East Earl of L mdon some five and twenty years ago, his line of business being the melo-dra natic and the tragic. He was particularly known by his impersonation of Jaffier, in " Venice Preserved," and, in conjunct' I" with another rotor of the time, he used to ornament his bills by the following distitch :—" Cobham and Freer as Jaffier and Pierre " Mr. Cooke, the proprietor of Aetley's, has been loug a friend to him, and has uudertaken to previde decent funeral for his remain=.  ROBBERY BY A CLBRk AT
Northern Times. — 1857-10-13 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

SUSPE;;TED SUICIDE ON THE EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY.  On Saturday evenlnT,, Mr. Baker, Coroner, htl 1 an inquest at the Ca•pentors' Arms Tavern, Cambridge-road, Bethnal-gre m, respecting the death of a male person unknown, apparently about 30 years of age, who was ki led on the line of the Eastern Counties Railway, under very mysterious cirtnmstances. Thejary h vying been sworn, proceeded to view the body, which was lying in a shed. .The deceased presented a sad spectacle, the head being crashed in, and other por ions of the bady exhibited severe inju-le George Barber, a fireman in the service of the Eaten Counties Railway, d -p, sed that on Wednesday night about half-past nine o'clock, while he was on an engine coming from Cambridge to London, be suddenly saw a man walking on the line. The night was dark, and the train was travelling at the usual speed. Witness could sae the deceased by the light of the buffer lamp. He was walking on the external rail of the np-line, his tars towards Lon lon. When witness first saw the deceased, he was walking on that portion of the line about a mile oa the I ondon side of Ponder's-end, in the Parish of Enfield. The deceased was only about four yards distant when WrtnesS first saw him. The whistle was sounded. the steam shut off, and the beak instantly applie Ito stop the train, by witness ant she engineer. The deceased was struck by the buffer and forc.:d across the line out ide the rails. Amon as poosib e, witness procured a light, and found the decease I about half a mile down the line. He was in-ensible, but a'ive. Ho was placed in a carriage, and b:onght to the Mre-end staton, bat deceasei had expired. There were seventeen carrines in the train on that nigh,. The deceased hal no business oa that portion of the line, end there was no pubic pathway near the spot where he was found. Mr. George Henry Boa,well, the stationmaster, said th it the deceased was not at present known, although every means had been used to discover the relations of the unfortunate man. The deceased hat a return ticket from Water-lane station to London, and in his pockets were found 3s, a knife, two keys, and a letter, not dated. The following is a copy: A •  Percy-street.  D •ar Henry,—As I have not seen you all t'le weak, I have raison the first epp•rtunity of writing to you, to inform you that it is grate impossible for me to get oat while I am here, or I should hays written to you b,fore. Dear Henry, if you are not engaged on Sun !ay next, I hope to have the pleasuru of your cJmpany. Hying this will find you wa:l. —Yours, ever faithfully, E.
Northern Times. — 1857-10-13 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

APPRENTICS.—A young man, Stlelivil William George Mats in, an apprentice in the szatattirg-house of Messrs. Horsbargle, fiddly, and Co., siesemlits, 5, Drury-'are, was brought u 7 by detective stars Patrick, and superintendent Enright, of the So ithan:piton Police, on a ohaNe of having stolen £3OO. The Tarn officer said be arrested the prisorer at Soethampton, etan found £133 ss. en him. Mr. John Criealtop, Ina elish-keeper at Messrs. Horsburgh, said, oa the even'ug of lite 34nla S ptermlcer, he had occesion to send £AO to lacadoss, and he procured three notes tf £lOO each, and Risatil-,em in a letter which he sealed himse f. He gave at,* Tette( to the prisoner to post, but he did not see him afar lentil he gat him in Southampton, and with the asenteatee of the officer Enright, he arrested him. Two elf tat notes ware charged in the Bank of Erglard next asecaimg, end ore at Mr. Samuel's in South Castle-street, thr mime evening. Mr. 'Yates, a yaurg man from the talhea of Mr. Eamuen; said,om the evenirg of the 30th Strystareher, I received a Note for £lOO from the prisoner. Mr- Clough : Was it in a half or whose? I think in talluee, but lam not certain. Did you take the number? Itra. MI. Clough : Why did you not ? It was after six outlet}, ard Mr. Samuels was gone home. What did you &with the nate? I gave it tO a east mer, whom I know, tab* acnt morning. He put it in a letter and posted it. Mr- Clough : How much did you give him for the note? 3gava. him £3O. Mr. Cleugh : Why did yell not give him 111113 flan £3O for it ? He yak d for only £3O acd a geese pt for the remainder, and I did so, but never saw him akate. The remainder has been since paid to Messrs. Arsret sr/ h. Mr. Clough said, as the notes could be tratearir, be would ask for a remand. The prisoner was sanztath d.  11.17EMPT/ID SUICIDE —A female, namel was charged with attempting to drown herself in aim of the docks. The unftir`unate creature was in a stlte efeefrriuni tremens at the time. She was given up to her Sines, on a pramis3 to take care of :ler, and she wits ci ed as to her future conduct.  T.E.
Northern Times. — 1857-11-11 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

VEESELI LOST.—The brig Her Majesty. of Whitby, Caatai a Osborne, from o Istadt, laden with hemp an .1 deals, let Elsinore on the 17th Oe.ober. 0.1 the .6th, a boa 's crew was seen to pe ish off Meunsley. Shortie after, a boat came on :hare, with the name IF r Majesty pointed n the 6th instant, the papers le`onging to tip v... 1 were we lard up es toe same pta e, leavieg little room f-r doubt that the shin is loaf, and the unfortunate crew dr Avnetl, The h-ig Naylor, of Whitby, Cape, Thompsoe, is also supp reed to be lest, with the crew. She was bound for Schied m, and was out in the late gale, and has net since ben heard of. The cap•ain wis a widower, and has left sii childree. These mike ten Whitby ships lest isithin little more than a menth. The liar Mej sty is the ve sea on board which (cm red a fearful trewedy cheat two years ego. Slm was on her passage from --'altitica to Quenst,wr, when a seaman, named James Veale, murdered the c tp:ain, the mate, and the cook, w untied a a amen, and th- n committed suicide. ARaISAL OF THE 9:a REIIbtF.NT Ar PORTSMODTFI —Her Metjes,y's sc•ew troop ship Valean has arrived at Spittle td Prow Quebec, with the 9 a Regimen', ineludiag 35 officers, eight idlicee,' wives, 13 officers' children, 502 nor-coraruiesioee.i era and p iv tee, 53 women, an ! 63 chtliren, and 17 prisoners from various regiments in Canada. Toe Vulcan left (11,h •te oe the 17tn of Octo'er, an-1 has m tide a very fair passage h.rne. Al'. went right aetil the•3oth, whoa a freest melancholy accPerit occurred to Ensign Robert R. Laurel, of the 9.0 Regi nt, who bad retired to his cabin ; •but t cos q lent upon the heavy rolling of the ship, he w -s forced a;aiest the cabin door, and that giving way, he was p eeiditated to the deck b dor, and, pitching on his head, dislocated his neck, cot:deg instant cleats. Re was buried at sea with the usual soleineiti.s, aid and ci'ti ,g a deep gloom over the ship. The tro rps wilt nit lend ultil to-day. Tire following is a list of the °Meets who have come home in the Vulcan :—Col B•rtun, C B.; M joys Bethitne, L sloe, and Taylor ; Cap.ains Reunee, W lkirsor, Terre, net s:raub neee ; Lieutenants. Boxeme, Hervey, Douglas. fle,sey, Tliresf4rd, Thompson, Bmtnn, Vibert, Bu land, M (lents, Elinitiett, rmere A enew, and 13 ; Ensigns P:uteri Ige, Ridsd tile, Coadeitek, Massey, and' B d haw ; Paymaster Sieve/right ; Qaar:erma-ter Banhary; Sergcou Teornten ; Assirant-Surgeons Ow,,ns and l'tieadows. THE " CRASH" IN Now
Northern Times. — 1860-01-03 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

COROWZ2C.I3 COURT.—The --following inquests were held at this-coUrt, yesterday, before P.,F. Curry, Esq., coroner:-)On the body of kn. Crowe, a-servant in the house of -the Rev. H. S. Brown. The , deceased, for some time ‘previous to her death, had -been suffering from a violent fever, and on &today afternoon she committed ,suicide, by cutting her throat-with -a razor. The jury returned-o verdict of temporary insanity.—On the 'body of ward Butler, one ef the twenty-two men who were drowned, by the sinking ef ,a•hoat in the Mersey, on 'Friday evening. The first witness called, was William Williams, who stated that, hetwa.s a rigger, and knew -the '.deceased, who was also a rigger. On Friday nierniur, the deceased, with ten other men and a boy, went over to the Birkenhead .Dock to the ship Grand Trianon. They left the Birkenhead Deck, and took the ship abreast of Rock Ferry. Between three and four o'clock they,h.-•ft the ship in Thcmas Mackay's boat. At that time -the ,wind was about sauth,west, -blowing fresh, and the -tide about one hour and a half's ebb. About thirty men.got into the boat, end some of them complained that- there were too many in her. Witness heard Thos. klae,kay, the owner of the boat,.say, "She will carry thirty men:" They made far-the Cockle-hole, khetween the Brunswick-dock and the Coburg. A sea lethen struck her, andsh2 went from under them. Lichard Willer, a shipwrigkt, said he was standing on the :-Csburg-pier when •the...weident took place. He saw a '.sca go over the boat uwilen she was near Abe Avalk; it filled her, and she waswashed from under the men, and went floating down the liver. The dock-gateman, threw a life-buoy, which was seised by one of the -survivors. Tht coroner said the affair was evidently an accident, and4e jury returned a verdict of accidentally drowned. Finat IN
The Daily Times. — 1861-01-26 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

EMBEZZLEMENT AND SUICIDE. PAINFUL CASE.— • the death of Helen Martha Webb, aged On Thursday afternoon, the City Coroner held a painful inquiry in the board-room of Eridewell HesPitalf into wasmr. gathered. Bird, a tiiough : who committed suicide under the following circumstanceseighteen years, nessess, the subjoined history of the unfortunate girl h---umFrbolemptehoepleev,idaeundcebaodf a. great numher of wit„of lie ia the service of dairyman, woafs Ttuhrne _lndaibeungehn.te: ..sue It Clerkenwell, for about nine years, and had ahoy,/ bad . greatest trust and confidence reposed in her. Amongst h,zr other duties she had to deliver bills at her mistefa enston:,era and collect the money, and not the slightest suspicion was attached to her until Monday evening hot, when Mrs. Bird called on a customer for a small accottnt of Bs. 4d., and the lady said she had paid the deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Bird taxed deceased with having received the money, but she denied it, and eventually the lady and the deceased were brought face to and said she face, when the girl burst into tears, hoped she would he forgiven. his. which asked licr which she had if there were any other moneys received and not accounted for, but she ..did not answer, and he said if he found any other ca_se_s_he lira send for a policeman. She went to be and Mrs. Hoe om said she was very mother,•who slept in the same ro tO and to forgive her restless all night long, and called• ast five an dressed In the morning she got up at halfPki the hurriedly; after which, instead of to ng out milk, she ran away, and it is supposed that she must have , into the river, gone to Blackfliaes-bridge and jumped for nothing more was seen of her till half-past three in the afternoon, when the attention o City. constable Robinson, 365, was drawn to a barge lying in the mud hich a human foot near the bridge, and from under which of the City Gas Works, was projecting. Mr. Mau", and others, rendered every assistance; but it was not till the tide floated the barge, at a quarter past six, that the body could be extricated from an d its fearful position had Dr. Hutchinson saw the body, said that life been extinct some hours. Mr. Bird, in answer to the coroner, said that he had since ascertained defalcations to the extent of £l5. Verdict—" Temporary insanity."
The Daily Times. — 1860-07-11 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE OF A LICEXES,D. VICTUALLER.—On Monday, Mr. Wakely, the ooroner, instituted an investigation at tWeYorkshiro Stingo, Marylebone. road, London, into 'the circumstances attending the death of Mr. Dolan Weatherstead, aged forty-seven, lately resicl,ent of 205, Marylebone-road, and former/3' well known as the proprietor of the Windsor Casik, Edgware-road, from which he seine time since retired, It appeared from the evidence, that deceased, wbs wtis a widower, in possession of considerable means, Aircried a Mrs. May about a month since. On ttQ 23rd ult., he made a codicil to his will, drawn up is April last, in which he bequeaths an inco4e to his new wife and his wife's sister, and a lege(Y ,E5O to her mother, and on July 3rd he further bequeathed to his wife all his household effects, A fey' days previous to his melancholy demise he was attacked with the rheumatic gout, frOm which RI, to his death he suffered severely, and complained of being unable to obtain sleep. Otherwise he appeared perfect)), healthy, both in mind and body, was of sober habits, and never complained of pain of any sort in his head; indeed he often retearked .that be never stitreied from headache-in his life. Cln the morning of Saturday last, between seven and eight, Mrs. Weathorstead; who, during the abort time they had been married, treated her husband with u left him in bed in more than niform kindness, ect of usually buoyunt tipirits at the prosp his early recovery from .the gout, to get him _a cup of teaa. Which she did at his reepeiat, and on her return i, few minutes afterwards she inund him .ituienailile, with his mouth hill of 1)1°4 , and *oft oozing from his lea npstrildouble-barrelled ,pistol lay by his side, With one barrel capped, and loaded to the muzzle, and underneath. his Pillow, on the mattress, were found. ball, Powd and eapi, all of which, it' ia Presumed, i,urchased for t4e purpose of self-destruction, e 7iinn; her he secretly ti previously: 'Tim unfortunate lady, on diseGaivann, bat huabaOts_ dying condition, at aim gave aisne ceased to before medical assistance was obtained d ambreathe. The medical evidence prove h the palate through " t death was occasioned hp a pistol bullet passing The singularity of into the posterior part a thefbor from the evidence adduced, the case- was further shown hadr written a letter t 4, his proving that deceased Itc, of his taaroisge, and thteengt brother, stating t but most banal tertag, expressing in the e's happiness, and inviting. him his s and his end the followingo7l mow with them, and also stating that o phe had be always supposed to have a horror of ewcide., It4q corptiqr having expressed his thn numerous and unaccountable suicides astonishment ast°: no, talqq utce,designedigh he desiged as really awful, l'n melt.verdict was returned, to the effect that deceasedied committeded suicide by discharging the contents of a pistol into his head, while in a state of mind unknown.  w. •  3  JAMBS gTEWART & CO.,