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Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1883-05-26 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

EPITOME OF NEWS.  A TRAVELLING showman named Robert Quick has committed suicide near Taunton in a pe. Mier manner. He was standing on Creech-bridge with his eister, when a goods train from Bristol passed order. Quick leaped from the bridge on to the passing train, and was rut to pieces. AT a meeting of the executive of the Scottish Farmers' Alliance, held at Aberdeen, complaint was made that the Componsation Bill for Scotland had not b oa issued. On the Lord Advocate's explanation of the bill, it W. revived to send to the various branches a general recommendation of the bill, an far as it goes, while orce,Uing it as an instalment of their demands, and as vie! dog the principle of compensation to tenants,. but it, 'quest them to discuss it very carefully clause by clime for the purpose of amending it, and which in their Opinion it stands greatly in need. One of the main ob;eetions to it is that there is no guarantee against the rent of &selling tenant being raised on his own improvements.  AT Birkenhead William Farley, iron-moulder, was lately charged with stabbing a polies-constable named WM:then in the [least The evidence showed that the prisoner acted in an extraordinary manner in the Street, and called out that he was a Fenian. When Interbred with he pulled oat a large clasp knife and ribbed the officer, the blade cutting through his coat, vest, and three shirts, and penetrating the fourth rib. Be was committed for trial. Pkaus have been received at a meeting presided over by the Dean of Canterbury and attended by the Bishop of Dover, /the Mayor, the cathedral dignitaries, and other gentlemen, for the propose I new sedilia to be placed in the cathedral as a local memorial of the late Archbishop Tait. No decision was arrived at, it being thought desirable that endeavours should be made to Indece the trustees of the national fund who have de. ided to place a recumbent figure of the late Primate in the dihedral to allow the memorial instead to take the form Of a new reredos. A
Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1883-06-02 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

DENTON.—James Rigby, (35), hat blacker' living at 58, Heaton- 1 street, Denton, made an attempt to commit suicide at his house early on Sunday morning last. Rigby has been in a very depressed state for Borne time. lie has had very little work to do for several weeks, and for some days past has been under medical treatment for an illness, which has prevented hint from attending to his work. Since Friday, his wife and several neighbours bad noticed that his mind seemed aff,cted, and that lie often said very strange and incoherent things. On Saturday night his wife watched him closely, and when early in the morning she woke up and found him gone from bed, she immediately suspected something was wrong. Going downstairs, alto fOIDDI her husband lying on the floor with his throat emit and a pool of blood around him. The carvingknife that lie had used to injure himself was lying by his side. Rigby was quite unconscious. Dr. Chambers was sent for and was soon on the spot. The injuries are not considered danger. nun. The throat was s.wu up in the afternoon, and since then the man has been doing very well From all accounts Rigby seems to be a very 1 worthy man. He was not in the habit of taking drink, and it is considered that he would never have attempted tire deed hail he not been suffering from mental aberration. Ile has a wife amid three children dependant upon him, and it is unposed that his coin bined anxiety about money matters, caused by the slackness of work and iris own sickness, had unsettled his mind. His father and mother who are living at Reddish are very winch distressed by this affair. Since writing the above. Rigby has been taken worse, au4 his death to expected. Later reports an. nourice the moan's death, on Thursday.—The inquest was held at the Queen's Hotel yesterday (Friday) before Mr. Price. The jury returned a verdict of "Suicide during a fit of temporary insanity." ARTIFICIAL TESTI' on a new and improved principle, without pain, fixed on Gold, Platina, Vulcanite or Celluloid plates. A. ROYSE, Chemist and Druggist, Practical and Mechanical Dentist, 14, ASHTON ROAD, DENTON, (late Arraudale's old established Drug and Seed Store.)—[Advt.]  THE DRUNKIiN
Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1880-06-05 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

GOVERNMENT STORES: PITIGEOPED DROWNING OF WI OF THE IMPLICATED MEN.— At ,no Siiketheioi Police Court, on Tueeday James Welton. a marine store dealer, was charged with having etolen • quantity of paint, oil, and other scorer, worth altogether front thirty to fiery pomade, the property of the Crown. From the evidence submitted it appeared that en Thursday afternoon last the prisdne ,in company with a man named Corlett a petty officer of the gunboat Cromar, lying oft Rock ferry, went into the Government Stores Yard, near the Rockferry alio. tiorlett there obtained the key of the pate. The p.ntoner had loaded upon carts, and conveyed to his marine store in Grange Lane, a Large quantity of white lead and oil barrels, as well ati timber aud iron Corlett had claimed the property as him, and the prisontr had agreed to purchase Ga,: lot for about £4 lb.. Superintendent Clark stared than Corlett had absconded, flaying matte his escape by jumping overboard from the Cromer, hawsou one and two o'clock en Monday morning. It is feared that he hu been drowned i a attempt:Up Sm swim ashore. The pri oiler was remanded in order to see if Corlett could be found,  MISTAKEN IDENTITY,—Some weeks ago the body ot a welicloased young man was found at /Cootie winter, on the Rhine. The presence 01 a revolver . his Wiattere I Mad wore thought to bode" naiades. In one of his pockets wan found • ca. i bearing the some of Mar Nettles,. A fern ly re.ident in Rhineland, whom son hid liii horncome tiJbs tents before for Americo, and error war ha prosperous 0i1,111.11.1.0:10e4 ill Chive^ meat tfia. tile body as that of the absent oue, A A,•, uouln hail iuteoded to burp nee ins mower and cistern by all unexpected visit. They recognised even the r ng tie used to war as that ot his demaried grand. not,er. Why, however, bad he only a few marks! I his pooket, wi.ile they knew their brother won a turiving nun? It 'tumid out that Retailsua hal beet. eta tavern is company with another man, tel no .rdingly cu.pcion of mord r was aroused. His companion was discovered and arrmted, Ile tecoent.ed the body as that of his friend, a clerk in no, °Hoe at limo; who had been in low spirits on account of family miafortunes, and whom be had suddenly named as they were returning home trom Konigeorinier. The Neuhaus lamity at ones telegrephed to Chusago, and received en answer that toole eou was still there, and in pt r ectly good health. A there was no further question as to the suicide of the young man, his friend was, of course, forthwith net at liberty. Tun
Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1880-05-22 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

SUICIDE OE A YORKSHIRE LADY THROUGH LOVE.  On Friday a painful inquiry was hell at the Mall, alsteed, Essex, before Mr. Harvey, Deputy Coroner, on the body of Alms Fanny Clements Naples. 20, daughter of • retired gentleman, of Brighouse, York. shire.— Airs. Susan Kent, Dale Manor, Belated, mid that she was aunt of the deceased, and she had been staying with her for about Six or seven months. fler father was at present on his way home from abroad. Witness last saw the deemed alive ou Thursday evening. She had been dreadfully depressed, and on Thursday forenoon, while witness was sitting talking to her, she suddenly got up and left the room. Ad alto did not return for some minutes. witness got up, and upon going into an upper room found deceased with her head on the table and crying. She tried to get out of her what was the matter, but she declined to say, telling witness not to trouble about her, as she should mon be all right. In answer to the coroner, witness mid she knew the deceased had for the last three months been keeping company with a young gentleman named Charles Frampton, who, she believed, had gone to India, during the last fortnight. On Thursday evening, before deceased retired, witness said to her, "I believe, Fanny. you are troubling about Frampton— is that not so?" and after hesitating Inc a while, she said, iii wish he had not gone away." Withins never saw her afterwards alive. On the following morning the servant knocked at her bedroom door to call her, but gett tog no answer whom was called, and upon entering the rooni found she was absent. The house was searched, but she was not to be found, and upon going tuft pond in a meadow close at the rear of the house the body of deceased was discovered. A piece of paper was produced on which deceased bad written the following: —lt was dated May Ii (Wednesday). "Dear Aunt,-1 am deeply eorry to bring this trouble on you, butt cannot help it. I feel so low and feeble that I feel I must do it, Kindly forgive me. J have burnt all Charley's (her sweetheart's) letters. It's all through hirn. I told loin not to go, but lie persisted, and I said to him I should be dead before he came back; but .1 trust to meet lam and you all in a better world. I feel so grieved that I cannot write any more. Farewell all, and happiness to everyone" The letter, which was written in pencil, was signed "Fanny Naples." It was found in her p-,rse, and in her pocket was her young man's portrait—rite jury haring heard other evidence returned a verdict of "Suicide while in a state of temporary insanity:.
Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1880-01-17 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

SHOCKING MURDER AND MUTILATION AT HENDON.  The body of amen named William Sibley, residing at Burnt Oak, Edgware, WA found floating in the Brent River on Saturday. On examination it was found that the lower part of the abdomen had been cut away, and was missing. The body was removed to the Midland Hotel at Hendon, and inqairies net on foot, when it was found that Sibley, who is 61 years of age, slept on Friday night with his son at Burnt Oak, who did not see him get up, and did not wake until eight a.m., about the time when the body was found three miles off in the river. Inspectors Millward and Bannister were engaged in trying to unravel the mystery all Saturday, but nothing could be toned of the knife or miming parts of the body. The next morning, however, the local police, headed by Inspector Goldsmith end Sergeant Porter, were dragging the river very early, and also marching around the spot, when they found some distance away the missing parts of the body hidden in a hedge. They subsequently found a hat and a seek also hidden, and lastly a knife covered with blood and hair. The knife was a table knife with a white handle. There can be no doubt that the deceased met with his death by foul play, as there were only a few spots of blood in front of the bridge, and the missing parts of the body were found twenty yards from the place where deceased was put into the water, whilst the knife was carefully hidden away. It is supposed that the man was brought to the bridge in a cart, and then in a semi-inmnsible state thrown over into the water. The body was first seen at about 8 a.m. on Saturday by a man named Gem-ge Abery, who was driving pest in a cart, and who, with the assistance of two men who were with him, got out and threw a rope over the floating body, and than got it to shore. Great excitement exists in the neighbourhood. ,• ,  The police have found near the pla'ce where the body of Sibley was discovered at Hendon, on Saturday, the knife with which the inutilation was accomplished. The matter is still involved in mystery, as no one has been found who saw the old man on the morning of Ms death. The theory that he had committed suicide is repudiated by the police surgeon, who believes that after such wounds as the body had sustained death must have been almost immediate.
Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1880-09-04 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

SUICIDE OF A YOUNG WOMAN BY VERMIN POWDER, AT HYDE.  • On Monday afterncon a painful sensation was caused in Flowery Fold, by the n toe that • young woman bad committed suicide by taking poison. Her name it Kate Turner, and she was servant to Mr. John Curfew, chemist and druggist, Flowery Field. She was 18. years of age, and had been in his employment for four years. It appears that about four o'clock on Monday afternoon she went out at the back door of Mr. Curfew's house, and crossed the yard to the house of Mrs. Dawson in Well Meadowatreet. Almost immediately after Mrs. Damian came to Mr. Doi few'e and informed Mrs. Curfew that Kate was in her house and was very ill. Mrs. Curfew went at once to see her, and asked her to come home, mad she replied that she would directly. Mrs. Curfew then went baok to the shop for a sceut bottle, and while she wee making it up Mrs. Dawson came again, and said the young woman was dying. Mrs. Curfew hastened across with Mrs. Dawson, and when they got to the house they found she was dead, Information was given to the police, and Sergeant Gibson soon arrived, and shortly after Sergeant Sergeant A, dern. Her pockets were searched, and an empty vermin powder paper was found upon her, and there in hardly any doubt that she took the powder and poisoned herself. Vermin powders are kept in the shop, and the deceased boo easy access to them. While in a dying state she took a key out of her pocket, aud told Mrs. Dawson to give it to Mrs. Curfew. This key, it was found, would open Mr. Curfew's private drawer, in which be kept Ma monsy, and there is every reason to behove that the girl was systematically robbing her master. Not long ago she went to Dakinfield, telling Mrs. Curfew, that she was going for a present that was to be given to her. When she came back ahe brought a sealskin jacket, and also a parcel. She said she did not know what the parcel contained Its opened it, and it contained • rich silk dress. She pretended it was a present, but Mrs. Curfew's suspicion's were aroneed, and she subsequently found out that instead of the dread being a present it was made for her in Hyde. Mrs. Curfew spoke to her on Monday forenoon about these thing., and told her she was satisfied that she had been robbing them; and no doubt it was the knowledge that she had beau found out which caused her to , oommit suicide.  DTITOII Chun
Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1880-09-04 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

DETERMINED SUICIDE.  On the arrival, the other night, of the eight o'clock tram at the Tinge-mom Station of the Metropolitan Underground Railway great alarm was created amongst the passengers by their obeerving a welldressed man standing on the steps of an approaching train from Gower-street. As the train reached the platform a down train from Aldgate arrived simultaneously at the Station, and before the driver pulled up the train the man leaped on to the line, and the wheels of the engine passed over him. A railway porter left the platform and found the deceased fearfully mutilated and quite dead. At that time one of the wheelie was resting on his neck, and the driver of the train had to back in before the deceased could be extricated. The body on being placed on the platform presented a shocking sight, the head being nearly severed from the body. The right wrist was not in two, and both legs were also partially severed at the thigh-bone. The suicidal not was deliberate and one of the porters say the unfortunate man deliberately jumped in front of the Aldgate train. On his removal to the kit. Pancras mortuary a card bearing the name of Henry Morrie, of Warwick-lane, City, was found. On his person were found 2s. and lid. in bronze. He was wearing a wedding ring and keeper. Deceased was well-dressed in a suit of black. In a thirst class carriage was found an umbrella and a coat, as well as a silk hat with a deep mourning band.  WHILE A GANG OF MEN were making excavations for anew warehouse in Stanley-street. Liverpool, a mass of clay fell and buried three of them. named Thomas Murray, Thomas Cameron, and William Smith. They were dug out as quickly aa possible and taken in an insensible state to the Northern Hospital, where it waa found that Smith had sustained serious injuries. AT THE WHITBY COI7NTY COURT a medical man named Mellor summoned a patient of his for On. 6d. for a bottle of medicine. His Honour gave a verdict for the plaintiff, but the curious feature in the cose wee the fact that the plaintiff had oome all the way from the Isle of Wight to enforce hie claim, and the costs were allowed by the judge.
Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1880-11-20 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

WALPB.—The 9th inst. being the 30th anniversary of the. birthday of the Prince tel Wnlre, it, tem miebrated in the 'Royal ti /rough with tee mot-miry honours paid to the etsmhesu of the Royal femils• Mosey peals were sent foith from the bells if Sc. George's Clatpel. Windsor Cmtle, and St. Jobe's, Church. Royal salutes were fired in tbe Long Walk. dm at Fort Belvedere, Virginia Water. The town wao gaily decorated with bunting. JO PRISONER NAMPO CHABLIO3 DATAIr was brought uo an tie, Limon Amisre on a eharge of burgiary, end orderet to be detained during her efajesty's pleasure. In July last homes placed among some lunatic prisoners, one of whom struck him on tint head. Since then weakness of intellect and suicidal tendencies have developed thrmsrlvee. and Davey has twice ettempted to conned suicide. His wife end five children have become inmates of the workhouse, and only lest week the sixth child was born. THP Cerneff 91DerreNT.—At Carmarthen Police-court, the Rev. John Frank Morgan, clerk: in bitty orders, residing at Llmisaeig. was lined 20e. and ro4A for asmulting Charles Horatio Cerponter, keeper oi Messrs. Smith and Son'a bookstall at Carmarthen Ralway-station. A nearerl ensued between the parties, which eventuated in the defendant striking the cow pleintht • sevens Moe on the forehead with big walking-trick, rendering lilt,, insensible. The defendlint would have smirk him nerein, hut was preveisted. , It nen BOON 44POnTRU to the Clerk of the Peace at Peewee that foo,and•nionrit dimes., frees whieff the county line been free lon two or tbyee veers, lies broken out on a fano at Sionlesbury, near Preston. A Qtr4STION Or Paltlenrseelt.d—Wl.eis Mr. 7ustieelitisokine look hie met on the bitneb. at Conbridge Areiiiet The-Other inUrning. the Vice-Chancellor of the Dniverskj, attended ity the 10,quire, entered Use ,thurt and claimed the right by encient eu.tom to take precedence of the high sheriff of the, county, nod to sit on the right of the judge. This the high theriff. Captain Galling deolineil to accede jto. and on appeal to theildgict efter a loug eud earnest comultation, Ju;tice intoriurd the Vim. Chnnerllor that no curl, right existed. Thd-PlifeChancellor thin left the court.. .
Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1880-10-23 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

SAD DICATH.—Mr. Payne, the City coroner, held an inquest at St. Bartholcmew's Hospital on the body of Mr. T. Groom Corley, the manager of the Positive Life Office, who met his death bye fall from one of the second floor windowa of tie race in Cannon-street, London. The deceased gentle. man, it appeared, came to business in his ordinary health and spirits. During the morning he expressed himself as dimatiefied with certain hooks which had been left projecting on the outside of the building, and over the second floor waiting-room window. Between one and two in the afternoon he was seen falling from tve window in question; and his bend striking the pavement, he received a compound fracture of the skull, from which he died a few hours later at Sr. Bartholomew's Hospital. There being no evidence to support any theory of suicide, the jury returned a verdict of "Accidental death."  Ocronert Thant Ar thorosn.--In a congregation held on the 11th inst., at which the VAceChancellor presided, it being the first day of October term, the following degrees were conferred : Masters of Arts—J. Faithful!, W. Waller, University; U. Moore, Balliol A. Bartley, A. Begbie, and J. Cocking, Queen,; L Browning and W. Marriner. Lincoln ; J. hat, dl. John's; 0. Connolly end F. Butler, Worcester; and F. Milne, lieble. Bachelors of Arta—B. Upeott, Balliol ; H. TYlden, Exeter ' • C. Cbadwell, Oriel; W. Prichard, Queen's; 0. Fletcher, Magdalen ; A. Weathcrley, Brayennvo; W. Waller, University; IL Blandy, A. Mardonell, and J. Young, Corpus; J. Warren, Kehl°, and B. Arnold and_R,Oracroft, Hertford.  Mirians' Conwniustrax.—An important Conference of Miners' Delegates was opened in the Miners' Hall at Barnsley, to consider the advisabildy of giving notice of a general advance in wages throughout South Yorkshire and North Derbyshire. About aft), delegates were present, r.preeenting nearly 20,000 coal hewers. It was argued that the only way to improve the coal truths was for the masters to combine and enforce. general rim in the mice of coal. bTBANGE
Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1880-01-31 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

POISONING BY CHLORODYNE.  Dr. Hardwicke held an inquiry at IR. Pancras , Coroner's Conn, London, on the body of John Ma.c• ham, aged 61, surgical instrument maker, of 37, Oakvillage, whose death had resulted from the effects of chlorodyne. Mrs. Jane Mecham, widow of the deceased, mid that he had been ailing for the last twelve months, and had been to St. Bartholomew's and other hospitals for relief, and be was also in the habit of taking Dr. Collis Browne's chlorodyne. On the night of Monday week, shortly after he went to bed, he seemed to be powerless and not very sensible. When (die got up on the following morning she found him in the some state. About ten minutes to eight, an she wanted to go to the laundry, she tried to some him, and she then saw he had a bottle containing chlorodyne in the bed with him. Medical aid was procured, but he died about half-pasttwelve. Thedeceased began takingchlorodyne about three months ago, but she did not think he had had more than two battles. He was very deewinding in mind, fearing he would lose his trade. He said he could not bear it, and had said he would destroy himself, and she feared he had done so, although she NM in hope ehe had talked him out of it. Mr. Reuben Thomas Warne, surgeon, of the Highgateroad, said when called in on Tuesday week he found deceased in a state of collapse, and he died shortly after. He had made a pist-martern eminination, and found in the stomach a quantity of streaky fluid. The heart was fatty and the lungs and brain congested. There was no doubt that the deceased had died from poimning by chlorodyne. The coroner and jury had considerable discussion as to the facilities for obtaining poisons, especially those contained in quack medicine.. The jury then returned the following verdict : " That the deceased committed suicide by poisoning himself with chlorodyne. being at the time in an unsound state of mind. The jurors are further of opinion that the most stringent measures ought to be enforced to prevent the sale of poisons in the shape of patent mcdiclnes, and that, at all events, it should be made compulsory that a label should be affixed thereto bearing the word poison,' as was compelled to be done in regard to the sale of laudanum and other poisons."