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Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1885-08-22 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

SHOCKING MURDER AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.  -- The quiet little town of Abingdon, situated a few miles from Oxford, has been the scene of a terrible murder and determined attempt at suicide. A woman named Sarah Willoughby was on Tuesday struck on the head by her husband with a coalhammer, and so great was the force of the blow that there is little doubt she was killed instantaneously. At the inquest it was stated that the man used threats towards his wife in the morning, and had threatened her for some time past, and some years ago he underwent a term of five years' penal servitude for a murderous assault upon her. Whilst the deceased was I talking to her neighbour Willoughby came up and asked her if she would go for a walk. This she refused to do, and he thensaid, "I will make you suffer for it before night." Shortly afterwards one of the children ran into the street, crying out that his father had hit his mother on the bead with a hammer. On the neighbours going Into the house they were met with a horrible sight. The woman was lying dead, with a hole in the top of her head, and beside her was her husband, with a deep gash across his throat. The room was covered with blood, and by the side of the bodies were the coal hammer and razor, with which the crimes had been committed. It is believed that whilst the deceased went for the dinner, the husband secreted himself in the coal cellar, and as she passed on her return he inflicted the fatal blow. It was at first reported that both were dead, but on examination the man, although unconscious, was found to be alive, and he was removed to the Radcliffe Infirmary at Oxford. It was considered necessary that he should be watched, and during the night he made a great effort to tear the bandages from his throat and reopen the wounds, and but for the fact that someone was near there is no doubt he would have done this. The coroner's jury returned a verdict of "Wilful murder.'
Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1885-08-29 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

ATTEMPTS AT SUICIDE.  Ellen Simpson, 14, living with her parents in Bangor-street. Netting-hill, has been charged '.before Mr. Saunders, at Hammersmith Police-court, with attempting to commit suicide tiy strangulation. The mother stated that she found her daughter in the bedroom, with some tape round her throat attempting to strangle herself. She (the mother) thought it was through reading penny books, Mr. Saunders remarked that ponnY books did not teach peopleto commit sulfide. The prisoner, who cried, at first said she had no reason' but afterwards stated that her father accused her of thieving. The Mother: -He thought no, and only cautioned her. As the prisoner had twice before attempted to commit suicide, the • nsagistmte remanded her for the chaplain to see her.— Mark Merchant, inspector at Gunnersbury Railway-station, was charged with attempting to commit suicide by cutting his throat with a penknife. The prisoner, who had been in the service of the company for 31 years, was found in his office on the platform at the station on Sunday morning last, lying on his left side on the floor, with a wound on each side of his throat, with a penknife in his right hand. He was removed to the West London Hospital. The prisoner said he was very sorry for what he had done. He could not account for it at the time. Mr. Saunders, after hearing the prisoner's wife, allowed him to be discharged.—Priscilla Goodson, a married woman, residing in Ifield-road, South Kensington, was next charged with attempting to commit suicide in a water tank. The prisoner rushed upstairs in an excited state, and plunged into the water tank at the top of the house. She was pulled out and removed to the infirmary for an injury to her hand. She was asked the reason of the attempt, and she said it was trouble. Mr. Saunders remanded her to prison for the chaplain to see her.
Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1885-02-14 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

OUR YOUNG WOMEN.  The Rev. Dr. Howard Crosby writes thus wisely of "Our Young Women " : A primal defect in our social life is the notion that girls have nothing to do. Boys are brought up to sonic employment, but girls to none, except where pecuniasp want compels then. This unequal discipline of the sexes is the basis of innumerable evils. It makes the girl careless and Selfish; it turns her mind to personal adoniunent and ether frivolous matters as the great concerns of life ; it takes away the sense of responsibility, and produces feebleness and disease in her physical constitution. It also prevents her from asserting her true dignity in the eyes of man ; for the life of utility is alone i dignified. Women thus brought up in ndolence are looked upon by men very much as were the women of the old dark times of the world, as mere playthings, expensive toys, not as counsellors and friends. Marriage in such circumstances belongs to a low, sensual plane, and the girl is prepared neither in body nor mind forthe serious responsibilities and lofty duties which marriage implies. ITer training, moreover, or lack of training has made it necessary for a long purse to apply for her. Economy, helpfulness, co-operation, these are not coining to the new household from this vain source. Dresses, drives, entertainments, Ouse will form the staple demands on the young husband. Accordingly in city life, where this class of young women is chiefly found, a young man is (greatly to Ids hurt often), kept from marriage by reanon of its costliness, whereas society should be so ordered that marriage would help the larder and not beggar it. We want simplicity of life, frugality, modesty, industry and system. If we could introduce these virtws in our higher society, we should diminish the despair, envy, jealousy, dissipation, end suicides of the single, soil the bickerings, wretchedness, and divorces of the married. Let our girls have as regular daily duties as our boys. Let Idleness be forbidden them. Let risr.ition be indeed recreation, at proper times and in proper quantities. Let us open more numerous avenues of female indnsthe dignity ua.ned etful liLv every Lon:usenhbe. crlethre(2,:trolni about? My dear madame, begin it yourself. Rule your household on this principle. tiller the courage to defy fashion where it oppeeee. be a bold leader in this reform, and you will boonalla ahaat ulfollewas Oadtmeecaue from kilevklioltr.
Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1885-08-08 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

SECRETARY FOR SCOTLAND DILL.  On the order for going into Committee on the Se.cretary,for Scotland Bill Sir L. Mayfair moved an amendment declaring it to be inexpedient that the charge or scotch. Must ion should be removed from the Vice-President of the Council in order to transfer it. to the Secretary for Scotland. This was seconded by Mr. J. A. Campbell.  A sew steam-tug, the Alejandro., one of the latest additions to the Dirt e attached to the Metropolitan Fire BrigadeTeir dialing with fires on the river or by the waterside, has arrived in the Thames. The Board of Works have decided to increase their Boating fire extinguishing force,' and the building of two steamtugs and tsto river floats on which land steamers can beconveyed to a fire in an awkward position) is one tif the first kteps in this direction. THE Dublin coroner has held an inquest on the man Wholle body was found under a railway bridge at the Tiorth.wall, under circumstances which led to the belief that he had been murdered. The police had gained no information whatever as to his identity, and the jury returned a verdict of "Found dead," leaving the police'to investigate the mystery. A CORON'PR'S inqueSt into the tragedy at West, Waster has resulted in a verdict that tieorge Whiteman committed suicide while of unsound mind. His wife, whi mills severely wounded, is still alive. Wu. MELLOR, a farm lahourer, of Apperhulme, near leek, pleaded guilty, at the Staffordshire Assizes, of rigistering his own death, whereby he obtained burial anoney from a lodge of Foresters. He was sentenced to twelve monelue hard labour. He also pleaded guilty to horse stealing, and was sentenced to a similar pretence.  A PISTOL duel is reported to have taken place at Dehreezin between two Hungarian staff officers, in which one of the combatants was shot dead.
Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1885-08-15 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

POWDEIL.—KiIIs bugs, moths, ileac, and an insects (peztectiv unrivalled). narrate to everything but insects. Tins, ad. nod to.  A FRENCIi ironclad has arrived at Phalerum.  Tint widow of an Irish cattle dealer, .named Cosgrove, was awarded .£7OO at the Leeds Assizes for the loss of her husband, who was killed on the NorthEastern Railway at Holbeck, in November last, while walking along the line in charge of the company's servants, prior to changing trains. Toe Governor of Carmarthen Gaol has received a telegram from the Home Secretary, respitin," John Price, a serjeant in the Cardiganshire Militia, who was to have been executed for the murder of his wife at Aberystwith, in May last. AT almost all the metropolitan police-courts there was a marked diminution in the number of Bank Holiday charges, and no serious cazes were brought up.  AN inquest has been held on the body of Dr. O'Connor, aged 62, the resident medical officer of the St. George's-in-the-East (London) Infirmary, who committed suicide by taking poison. It appeared that the deceased was much troubled about an inquiry that was proceeding at the infirmary, and for two months past had had no sleep. The jury returned a verdict of "Suicide whilst suffering from temporary insanity."  A Fins, which proved of a very destructive character, occurred early the other morning at the London Wharf, West Ferry-road, Mil!wall, occupied by Messrs. Skinner and Richardson, timber dea'ers and general merchants. Besides the damage done to the buildings and their contents, a barge and its cargo were injured by fire and water, and sunk. A BEELIN correspondent announces the arrival of the German East African Naval Squadron at Mauritus. THE MEDICAL RELIEF RILL and similar measures a myth in comparison to the sanitary condition of the Emp:re. Nearly every form of disease can be traced to sanitary ignnranoe and imperfect action of the Liver. The great success of Eno's Fruit Salt throughout the world has plainly established the fact that it promotes the separation of the bile from the blood (by natural means), which is then passed from the system, thus preventing and curing fevers, blood poisons, and other dangerous diseases. Directions in 16 languages how to prevent disease. Caution.—Examine each bottle, and sec the capsule is marked "Eno's Fruit Salt." Without it you have been imposed en by worth'ess imitations. Sold by all chemists. Prepared only at Eno's Fruit Salt Works, Hatchet°, London, SE., by J. C. Eno's patent AT Halesowen Alfred Edmonds, ironworker, has been sentenced to one month's imprisonment and ordered to find substantial sureties for twelve months, for systematic cruelty to his wife. The police stated that the prisoner had systematically ill-used his wife for four years, and on several occasions nearly killed her, and turned her into the streets. The prisoner was detected in an act of brutal outrage, and sa,l be had a right to do as he pleased with his wife.
Cradley Heath & Stourbridge Observer. — 1864-05-14 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

DRINKING.—A French paper grandfather of the late baronet, by his atrocious relates the following : cruelties to the insurgents, acquired the sobriquet of Two or three a" d a an o respectably-dressed f shout the `• Flogger," by which he was long remembered in fifty called lied on • at St. Etienne and said, I mamabuilder Tipperary. The Irish peasantry firmly believe in Pro- by trade, and I. making my °entreats am sometimes obliged vidential retribution in cases of uppreesion, and, if the to drink rather too freely. Finding myself lately indisposed wrongdoer escapee in this life, they have no doubt in consequence of those ...sot t was advised to apply to that his descendants will be punished in his stead. at N.—, of Caux, who had, less told, a secret of sovereign The history of this family seems to have confirmed the efficacy in such cases. I followed the recommendation and took the remedy, which consistd of a white powder done u') popular belief, for it has suffered iieveral heavy ca in small packsta, but, Instead of being cured, I find lem amities, and all have been regarded as Divine judg- pdsoned, and I have been told this morning that the remedy means. The son of the "Flogger," who inherited his is eremite. Yes, sir, continued the speaker with great violence, titles and estates, was drowned coming from Liverpool I amp isoned, and already to-day I have had one violent in the Nimrod. A young son of the suicide hanged attack? While speaking his countenance changed, his breathhimselfellmbee lame h egamgatuodhtahvreo Lionitrhheirmarfambadcylfnign a iciebrpiqee;spx?some years ago from a nail stuck in the wall, to which he fastened a cord. According to the The doctor went towards him and found that —he was dead. popular story, the boy was showing to his little sister A vou t te examination proved that the man died and brother how his grandfather used to hang the from pii-ralrm' e yeisof the pectoral muscles brought on by rebels, when he met with his sad fate. violent emotion produced by a diseased imagination.
Cradley Heath & Stourbridge Observer. — 1864-04-16 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

INTEMPRRANOE AND SUICIDE. Mr. Martin, a physician at Burmantofts, near Leed' s had for scene time been intemperate in his habits, and white in a state of delirium had attempted to poison himself. On Sunday week he drank heavily. About ten o'clock at night he went into his wife's bedroom, kissed his chid, and then apparently retired to rest in another apartment. Soon afterwards, however, Miss , Pawson, his sister-in-law, heard him call for her, and ' on her entering the room to see what he wanted, he gave a slip of paper into her hand, of which the following is a copy :  - Dear Annle,---I have taken morphia. I have been very unhappy. God Mesa you and Frank. Your lotlng—enAs. kl  The !crawl was evidently written under excitement, but, as Mr. Martin had previously written similar notes and not acted upon them, the wife and sister were not much alarmed. About twelve o'clock Mrs. Martin went t see how he was progressing, and she blind him breathing heavily, and with his eyes half open, and making a peculiar noise. A nelghbauring medical man, Mr. Homes, was called in, and he administered the usual antidotes, but deceased expired early on the following morning. The jury returned a verdict of "Temporary insanity." PLEASING TUEM AT LAST !—The forebodings of the Parisian prees on the position of the English eabinet have subsided since the retirement of Mr. Stan-feld, who is regarded as a second Jonas flung overboard to save tne ship from going down. The Tenzps considers that a still better mode has been found to restore to the Cabinet the popularity which hal been somewhat damaged by the protection accorded to him—namely, Mr. Glarletone's Budget It thinks that Parliament will now pause before upsetting a Ministry that gives so mlnifest and so palpable a proof of its ability. It dwells with a feeling. in which paltry envy has no share, on the fact that not only is there a large surplus revenue, but that this surplus is at once applied to a reduction of the imposts. Such results, it wide, soon re-establish the popularity of any Ministry A
Cradley Heath & Stourbridge Observer. — 1864-04-02 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

NDAY-BCIIOOL CONFERENCE AT WIGAN. On Cowl Friday the lith conference of delegates from Sunday-schools in Cheshire, Lancashire, Derbyshire, and Staffordshire was held in the public hall, Wigan. The proceecings were opened at 10 o'olock in the morning by the reading of a paper on" System awl Method in Sunday-schools," by 5.r. Shrimpton, a deputation from the London Sunday-school Union. The paper urged the great need there was for improvement in many schools, it mentioned several matters which could be beneficially altered, and strongly advocated the regulation of all that was done at the schools by a fixel plan to be strictly adhered to. A discussion hollowed, in which the views of the essayist were in general endorsed. In the afternoon a paper was read by the Rev. W. Roaf, of Wigan, on "The Relationship between the Christian Church and the Sabbath-school." The lee. gentleman considered the two had been joined taxother by GU, and therefore ought not to be put asunder by man. He thought no pero.on ought to be regarded as worthy of a place in a Cho istian church who was not willing to aid in nursing the young to Chest, and every Christian ought to place his household at the dispo=al of a school superintendent. At all meetings of the church the state of the school should be a primary question' and in the absese o of pro:vs./iv in the school the churches should hold days of footing and supplication. The church ought to see that the teachers were well furnished with all the material.; for their work. Discussion followed, the majority of the speakers agreeing with Mr. Roaf, and warmly praising his paper. In the evening a public meeting as held, when addresses were „. .  t.lelivered on ovariety of topics, all having reference particMaily t the Sunday-in:lima and its work. There trim a Large attendance at each of the meetings. EXECIIIIoN OF A SOLDIER IN THE lONIAN sLANDs. —A letter from Corfu of the 9th inst. contains the following passage :  There has been a case of hanging here. It took place on the 7th inst The culprit was a sergeant of the 6th Regiment, who about six weeks ago shot his wife deliberately with his Title. He was tried by a general court-martial and sentenced to death. its attempted two or three times to commit suicide, and once, having succeeded in secreting a piece of glass in bed, he cut a vein in his arm, and was quietly bleeding to death, when it was discovered, and the bleeding was stopped with some trouble The only pet sons a lowed to witness the execution were the troops In garrison, the sentence having been previously read to the prisoner, who in a brief speech exhorted his co trades to keep from drink, which he said had brought him to such a miserable end. He wore many medals. There was great difficulty in obtdning a hangman, 63 the Greeks would have murdered any one et their own people if they had known him to perform the part of executioner. In the way it was managed it was quite tin. possible far them to got hold of him, as he was brought over secretly from Albania, and wore a mask while in Cod u.
Cradley Heath & Stourbridge Observer. — 1864-04-02 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

DEATHS BY DRINK, CRINOLINE, AND  WAR.  A collection was made last week for the sufferers from the Sheffield flood at St. James's Hall, in London, af:er a sermon by tte Rev Newman Hall. In his introiluetory observations he referred to the value of human life aud the universal shock of distress at the loss of 250 lives at the regent flood. Very properly, steps were being taken to guard against similar catastrophes. But, ho sail, we should be chnsistent, and not be indifferent to still greater loss of life from causes more familiar. Far more people perished in this country every week by strong drink than were lost in that flood. The coroner far West Middlesex had told him that during the last year he had held 1,093 inquests. There were 33 cases attributed to excessive 4lrinking, 379 axidents, M 1 suicides, and 591 sudden deaths. Dr. Lankesier said that, judging from the evidence given, two-thirds of the suicides, half fhe accidents, and one-third of the natural deaths sere directly or milirectly caused by excessive ihinting. This wbuld give 137 deaths from drink in a single district under one coroner's observation during a mingle year. Should not the same concern for human life manifissted in connection with the Sheffield disastsr lead to still greater efforts to prevent the sacrifice of at least 20,000 people throughout the country every year? Reference was then made to the danger arising from the present fashion of female attire. Ont of forty-eight deaths by burning under Dr. Lankester's notice last year, twenty-three were of persons above 10 years old, and of these twenty-one were females, the majority, if not the whole of whom were victims to " extended lrewp,." On the same authority it was said that, in three years no less than 2,500 women had been thus burnt to death. Was it not the duty of ministers if religion to urge the abandonment of a custom which was proved to be-so destructive to human life? The preacher then referred to the wholesale ravages of war, and expressed surprise that to ,fly who were shocked at the loss of 276 dyes by the flood at Sheffield should often tslk recklessly if war, and wlvisede this country engaging in hostilities when the first battle would in all probability destroy ten times as many lives.
The Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1866-01-06 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

DISPUTE ABOUT GLORY.— One of those curious ! trials which so often occupy the attention of the Parisian world attracted an immense crowd to the First Chamber of the Tribunal on Monday, of which the president is M. Benoit-Champv. M. Mier., in his " History of the Consulate and Empire," attributes the glory of the celebrate! attack on the town of Reims, on the Thh of March, 1814, when a handful of French attacked a division of the allied army, and carried off eleven cannon, to General Count Segur. The Count de Meynier maintains that the honour of the day be! longs to his father. M. ('aborts leads for the De Magines family, and M. Raze for M. Thiers. Some private business having detained M. Base the affair is I put off for fifteen days. I DISTRESSING SUICIDE TIIROCcII WANT OF I \Wax.— An inquiry has been held in London respecting the death of Joseph Alexander Leslie, a carpenter, aged 23, who was found in the Regent's Canal with his throat cut. Elizabeth Leslie said she WWI the I widow of deceased. He was a sober mall, but had I been out of work for the past four months, anti last Tuesday week they were turned out of their lodgings I because he could not pay the rent. She went to her aunt's and he left her, and she had never seen him ' again. He had said that if lie did not soon get work ' she would be a widow, as a watery grave-would be his. , The day after he left she received a letter from bins, ' which she immediately handed over to the police. The coroner's officer produced the letter, which was as follows :  My dear Behy.—l now take the 'opportunity of writing these few Imes to you for the last time, for by the time you get this letter I shah he at the bottom of the canal at Pad. dington Bridge Let me beg of you not to fret take are of the dear little baby God Ides. her and yourself lb. not cry far me. Ton may, please God, find friends now I am gone where you would not while I lived So good bye. God Meal you every one May you never do what I have done with • broken heart Yorg:ve me, Betsy dearest, for the wrong that I have done. (Mod bye, dearest. A kiss. I die lake agog. —J. A. L  The pollee produced a large knife with which it appeared deceased had wounded himself before jumping into the water. Some other evidence was then given, after which the coroner remarked feelingly upon the case, and the jury returned a verdict of stucide whilst in an unsound state of mind.