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The Express. — 1868-10-14 (London, England)

BOW-STREET. A young woman named &had lemon, who said she was a servant, was brought np on remand on a charge of attempting to commit suicide. On the night of Monday week Policeman F 67 found the prisoner in the street in a state of insensibility, and took her to the hospital. It was found that the had attempted to poison herself with red precipitate. Proper remedks were applied, and the was on Tuesday sufficiently recovered to be brought before the magistrate, when she expressed regret for her conduct. She maid she had bought the drug of a chemist (mentioning the neighbourhood but not the street where the shop was), and that rho did not know him, nor of course could ho know her. Mr. Flowers said that in consequence of a letter he had received from the prison chaplain. he should remand the prisoner, not as a punishment, but for her own sake, believing that the chaplain might be able to do some good for her. lie sincerely hoped that she would not allow herself to give way to any such impulse again, and that the efforts of the chaplain in her behalf would be effectual. She would be brought up again next week and then discharged. Ile wished bare to observe that it was important to make it generally known, and especially to remind all who deal in drugs, that an act had recently been passed—the 314 and 32nd 'Viet., cap. 121—making it unlawful to sell any poison unless labelled with the name of the seller, and of the article mid, and with the word "poison." Besides this, certain poisons commonly used are not to be sold at all to anyone unknown to the druggist, unless the stranger be introduced by one whom the druggist does know. A.+ regards these latter kinds of poison, the druggist is required to titer iu a book the haute and address of the and what lie wants the drug for ; which entry must be signed by the puTeliaser, and if he be a stranger to the druggist. hr Ins mtmdneer. Unless these regulations are complied with, the seller is liable to heavy penalties on summary conviction before a magistrate. In this case it did not appear that any of the conditions had been cow• plied with, but he (Mr. flowers) had not asked the name of the chemist, as he might perhaps not have known of the act which was so recently passed. If, however, he had been brought here, he (Mr. Flowers) would have had no alternative but to fine him W. for the first offence, and if repeated, 10/. for the second. Ile hoped that this warning would go forth to the public, that the provisions of this most salutary enactment might become known, and that chemists and druggists might be on their guard against infringing it. .Ish Musk, the cattle dealer, who has from time to time been remanded ou the charge of uttering forged bill stamps, was brought np for final examination and committed for trial.
The Express. — 1868-09-02 (London, England)

HUSBAND. An inquiry was hold by Hr. Humphreys. the crooner, last evening, at the Horn of Plenty Tames. Reeves-street, Poplar, touching the death of William H. Lloyd. aged 46 Team Mrs. Kuala Lloyd, 16. Reeves-street, said that she kept a grocer's shop. The deceased was a shoemaker, living at Zisl, Beeves-street. He was her liudaand, but three years ego she obtained a " judicial separation" on account of his not having the kindest of tempers. They were very good friends after the legal separation, and she and he dined together every Sunday. Last Sunday night, after he ha been at her house to dine. he asked her to return to his home. She refused, and went and locked herself up in her room for fear he should attempt to carry her away by violence. He had 011 Ce tried to hang himself, but his daughter dimmed the Type out of his hand. Mrs. Eliza Davies, 33, Reevos-street, said that for the last six weeks the deceased looked very wild. Ile had a habit of getting up in the middle of the night and walking about the garden in his shirt. He used to exclaim, ' I have something on my mind ; oh, if you knew it," He never said what it was.  —roli—releimViable—foice, 147 IC, said that on Monday morning be found the deceased hanging by a rope to a beans in • wash-house in the garden. He was quite dead.  Dr. F. J. Nash proved that the deceased's death had arisen from self-strangulation. The coroner said that the whole case was a most singular one ; but it was certainly strange that a man and his wife should only meet on Sundays, dine, and then lire apart for the rest of the week as if they were strangers.. The jury returned a verdict of " Suicide while in a state of temporary insanity."
The Express. — 1868-10-09 (London, England)

SUICIDE.—Last evening Mr. Langhorne, the deputy coroner for Westminster, held au inquiry at the St. Martin's Vestry-hall, Charmg-cross, rehpectiug the death of Daniel Hanley, aged 68 years. Robert Portwin identified the deceased as his father. and said that he lived at 66, Broad-street. St. Giles'. He was a drayman le tie employ of Merin. Combs, Deladeld, and Co., the well-known brewers. At times he used to wander in hie mind, and the witness had often to sit up with him. He Lad worked for the brewery 33 years. James Brown, a drityman, said that he was employed at the brewery, in Castle-street, Soho. On last Saturday morning he saw the deceased near the iron door close to the yeast vat. That was at six o'clock in the morning. Shortly afterwards the deceased was found in the iron vat. It was filled with yeast. The vat was four feet high, and be could not possibly have fallen into it. Other evidence proved that shortly before the deceased leaped into the vat, ho had been given an ale note, and ho was to have gone out with the dray. Frederick Flicker a dreyman, proved pulling the deceasedout of a vat of yeast. He was thou quite dead. He first saw the helmet of the deceased sticking out of the yeast, and he then stirred him up with an iron rod. The yeast was quite cold. Mr. -L. J. Beale. surgeon, said there was • bruise on the deceased's face. Ile first saw him lying on his back in the vat surrounded with yeast. Ile must have got on the top of one of the beer barrels near the vat, and thou Lave leaped into the yeast. The poet mortem examination of the deceased proved that death had resulted from effusion of blood on the brain caused by suffocation from drowning. The mauler having summed up, the jury returned a verdict of suicide while in a state of unsound mind.
The Express. — 1868-10-09 (London, England)

DEATM—The obituary announcements in several newspapers record the death "from the effects of an accident' of Mr. Walford Cireatorex, • gentleman aged only 40 years, and one of the partners with his aged father, Mr. Jeremiah °restores, in the wellknown Manchester warehouse firm of Bradbury, °restores and Beale. of Alderrnanburv. The circumstance of this gentleman's death, as detailed at a coroner's inquest held before Dr. Diploek, coroner for West Middlesex. are very painful. Mr. Walford Oreatorex was a married man without children, and lately raided with his wife in Cleveland-square, Hyde-park. A few weeks since he left London for Scotland, on a tour of relaxation, and whilst in the highlands svmptoms of an affection of the bruin were observed by his friends, and under medical advice he was sent back to London. On reaching his home no improvement was perceptible, and it became 'wee/eery to place the unfortunate gentleman under medical care in a private asylum at Sudbury. near Harrow. This was only a few days since, and on Friday last his father, who also resides in Cleveland-square, and has attained the great age of 135 years, sent one of his men servants down to Sudbury to inquire after his son's health. While the servant was engaged in listening to the attendant's report of his patient's condition, Mr. Walford Creator,: contrived to leave the house through the gartleu nnobis•rved, and, without either coat or hat, he immediately ran off across the fields in the direction of the London and North Western Railway. His absence was immediately discovered, and cha-is was made after the unfortunate gentleman, who ran with great swiftness, and actually swam across the Grand Junction Canal in his efforts to escape capture. On reaching the railway he went on to the metal!, and there stood with his arms upraised, as if signalling the driver of an approaching train (the Blotch. ley ballast train.) Being accustomed to receive instructions from platelayer! occasionally, and believing from his appearance at a distance that Mr. Greatore: was • man of this crass, who wished to communicate something to him, the driver, without stopping his tram, leant over his footplate, and was in the act of listening for what he supposed would be instructions, when he observed the unfortunate man disappear under the leading wheels of his engine, by which his body was literally cut to /nixes. The parties in search came up directly afterwards, and the circumstances of the calamity were at once apparent. The the also,  ne jury. on a review of the above facts, rein a verdict of " Suicide while in a state of temporary insanity." THE EXPLOSION AT A FIREWORKS MANI'FACTORY AT HARXeLET.— DEATH 07 ANOTHER or
The Express. — 1868-03-31 (London, England)

STRANGE SUICIDE OF A STAFF SERGEANT OP TEE ROYAL ARTILLERY.  LATEST SPORTING INTRILIGENCR  NORTHAMPTON MK WINO.-(THIS DAY.)  An inquiry was held last evening at the North Pole Tavern, Woolwich, before Mi. Cartes:, coroner, relative to the death of Frederick Jam, aged 32, • staff per geant the Royal Artillery, who died frees the effects of poison. The deceased, who was very respectably connected bad his prospects in early life marred by the death of • young lady to whom be was engaged, and he enlisted an the Royal Artillery. Being a young man possessed of more than ordinary intelligence, be was at once taken into the depot office, and had never been on foreign or active duty. Latterly, however, he bad been noticed to be reach depressed, and on Tuesday morning he wan absent from his duties. The next that wee beard of him worn on Thursday, when he slept at a beer-house in Woolwich, and on the following night, before going to bed be asked for a glees of water. On the Saturday morning he wee called and answered, but not coming down the landlord spin went to his room and found him lying on his back on a bed gasping forbresith. He shortly afterwards expired. in a glue which he had used was found some water of a hot bitter taste, and in the room was discovered a small portion of cyanide of potassium. The symptoms of the deceased showed that he had died from the 'Rest of that poison. It was stated that it was used by soldiers for cleaning the bands of their caps Captain Burn, of the depot brigade of the Royal Artillery, deposed to the deceased being absent from duty on Tuesday. The colonel had expressed some dissatisfaction as to the manner in which he had lately performed his duties, and of his intention to remove him to some other station. Had the deceased returned he would have been reduced. That would no doubt have depressed him. Other evidence having been given of the general habits of the deceased, and that his mind had recently become changed, The jury returned a verdict that the deceased had destroyed himself while in a state of temporary insanity.
The Express. — 1868-03-04 (London, England)

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The Express. — 1868-07-29 (London, England)

CHARGE OF ASSAULT AGAINST A MAGISTRATE. —At the Abridge Petty Sessions, yesterday, Joseph Wollen, one of the senior magistrates of the Abridge division, was charged with assaulting John Green, an esguardian of the poor for the pariah of Wedmore, on July 8. There were cross-s ununonses in this case by which Mr. Green was charged with assaulting Mr. Wollen, on July 7 and 20. The court was crowded to hear the case, which lasted for more than three hours, at the end of which the bench dismissed the summons against Mr. Wollen and fined Mr. Green in the slim of AI. and coats. considering his assault to have been of a moat violent and unprovoked nature, inasmuch as he went up behind Mr. Wollen in the street, and de alt him a heavy blow on the head with a heavy cudgel, without the least altercation.  SHOCKING MURDER OF Two CHILDREN AND ATTEMPTED Smcmii.—A shocking occurrence is reported from the neighbourhood of Rochdale. A man named Israel Whiteoak, residing with his wife and two children upon the Calf Hole Farm, Burnedge, near Rochdale, yesterday mo • , in what is supposed to be a fit of insanity, cut the of the two children, a boy aged eight years and a girl aged three, and then attempted suicide by cutting his own throat. The wife of the unhappy man gives the following account of the occurrence :—" Twelve months ago my husband suffered very much from rheumatism and I remember that he told me then that he had a good mind to commit suicide, but he did not know how I could get on with the children. I did not pay much attention to the remarks then, because I knew that he was suffering from great pain. He has not been troubled since with rheumatism. On Monday morning I was ill and vomited blood, which seemed to make him very uneasy, and he offered to stop at home from his work, but I would not let him. He told me that I must go and see a doctor on Tuesday. At night he returned from his work, and seemed very well, and there was nothing strange in his conduct. He eat a very good supper, and we retired. to rest about 11 o'clock. About 4 o'clock in the morning I was awoke by hearing my youngest child cry, and I saw my husband kneeling on the children's bed, looking wild, and the youngest child, as it appeared to me, bleeding from the mouth. I then got up, took the child, and saw that it and its brothers' throats were cut. I said to him, ' What have you done?' He made no reply. I ran down stairs with my youngest child, which was not quite dead, and my boy followed after me ; but I saw his father seize him at the top of the stairs, and again cut his throat with a razor. I put the child on the couch, and as I was unlocking the door my husband was coming down the stairs. I rushed out and gave alarm to the neighbours." Both the children are dead, but the father is still living, though in a very dangerous state. ANornxit
The Express. — 1868-11-03 (London, England)

ISI.. tal. List Bose of Bummer, lady Alice soft, Lizzb., Ma lam Paso, Mrs. Poser, Man-of-War, Malvin; Mara rh.no M Kaumite, klake.lalft .olt, Slam Menial Rey, My Love, Matador, M. • rito. Mena ret r, New r.-tau. Lou.,.Prom Vir, 'I be Pamir, Tahnitiae, Pcenseii, Pmfesir Antenna, PeckValli. Qa..n of Brun f, Homien Bear, Betty,sliorter. Kauai*, K. Le ue, Mantua, Houverein, Bonin, er, tiouw.lroso Fyby toujah Bummesaide eon, 'eripm, Toroth, LI/ Las, Watnur, Van /imbues, Venty, Virtue, Winitrei, Wuiay, Wild Huntsman.  SINGULAR SUICIDE IN A Alroaxnotraz.—Dr. Myles*, the coroner for West Middlesex, received infermath n hat evening of a singular Luse of side-dishy& man Lanced 11•Carthy. He lived at the Krii.iugtou workknot e. wi.ere he was occasionally employed as a tailor. He left the workhouse on Saturday morning, and returned at shout 6 o'ckck in the evening, and went straight up to the soma that he occupied. As he did not appear at the usual time on the following day, Wookington Dymond, the chief porter of the workhouse, wont up to his room, and found the door locked. It was opened, and upon catering the room a sheet was seen suspended from the ceiling. and reaching to the door, forming a IMMO which divided the room into two compartments. Behind this emu n the unfortunide man was found hanging. He was cot down, and upon examining the body, several wounds were found to have been inflicted in the abdomen. It is not yet known what induced the deemerd to commit the fetid act.  ACCIDINT AT • ?HILTS& —A serious accident happened on Saturday night at the Exeter Theatre Royal to the leading some's, Miss Itesinadds. who hse a twelve nights' vsmement 111 ale Pia, Of &des or, Sweet asopyrr, she sustsined character of Amity Mllooles, In the mune of the dream she bad to arms a draw-hnd^which Mein under her, and she fail te Ye dud* a WsMase of sheet Wilt Ink several piens of eaDwit lefts( epee her. The amtein was iastsat lowered, and Yin to hr Reigeolds, who had midaleed severe injly ury, War removed bleats.  13sorrnsvr. EL A. Allea's World's ensZi=jriells= 1.4441=CLZ scr.orrivrir.i ccirss. ..116.5satiM WThrow WI am osetomoo. IMporIK 1 DOVVICIZA Sad CO.. larAt eilehr" p== to se to lagetwee.elroaWriAlratl ar
The Express. — 1868-11-03 (London, England)

EDWD. STUDD. The Grosvenor Hotel, Nov. 2.  TUE SUICIDE OF A YOUNO WOMAN ON TOITENmax Maraux.s.—Yestatday Mr. Riehantl held an in. clue t at the Eagle Tavern, Cheshunt-mad, Tut. truham, respecting the death of Sit-annah Walker, !Aged twenty-tire yew, who was found 'Sing dead tar . a brook at Tottenham. Mrs. S. Giles, IQ, thclawd-p'ace, Tottenham. said that the deceased was her no. ce. the lodged at ker house. She was keptg company with a 'Tung man named Follington. Witness knew that she was esceihte, but she had never upbraided her. She bad otten laid, "I am miserable." but she had never tlucatened to take her own life. They hal written le.ters to each other. lie used to write poett yto her. They used to talk for two hours at 3 time every evening, mal then they were in the habit of taking a walk thtuuch the fields. They never quarrelled. but oho was often very sad. Follington >aid that after her great trouble was over be would inane her and make her happy for the rest of her life. en Thuisluy evening he alh d ou her, and he gave her son.o money. After he lad tcen 'peaking to her she began to cry. They then It ft the house together. Vi dams knew nothing of the eireutnstatwes connected v, ith her dath. Samuel Polliegton said that he had prouirel to miw the dceeared, and ho had intended to keep that promise. Be bad never hail a difference with her. Coroner—Why dtd you not marry hTY Witness— Because I had only li. • week, and she bad no money. Coroner—Many people marry on las. • week. and are glad to have it. If you bad given up de.nkiug and smoking you and she could have married on If. • week. Did you do anything to induce her to commit suicide Witness—No ; but I heard her esy that she felt sure she would sever get over the birth of the child. George Farbridge, • carman, raid that at six o'clock en Friday morning he sew the deceased standing on the banks of the Back theek. She turned round and looked at him. She then kept walking up and down the banks. He didnot see her leap into the wafer. Therein, pm], 3 feet 6 inobesof water in the brook. Jesse Lammas& bloper, said that he saw the dead borly of the timemed lying* the water at seven o'clock. Ite pußeg It eat. Dr. all said that the deceased had died from wtlssslisa caused by drowning. The jury rebused • Tweet of "Suicide white in a state of temperer, Is. willy." Ting arrruros of no
The Express. — 1868-05-16 (London, England)

MELANCHOLY SUICIDE AT BRIGHTON. The occurrence which was reported yesterday as a fatal accident on the Brighton Railway was established by the verdict of the coroner's jury as a suicide of singular and melancholy character. The deceased, Mr. Robert Bsyly, was a retired barrister, aged 62, and about twenty years ago had developed suicidal tendencies. Of late, however, his friends have not been anxious about him ; but he has always been of a reserved and depressed disposition. There were only three persons"who saw him run over by the train, and these were called at the inquest. The first witness, • coal merchant, who was walking near the line at the time, said on hearing the train approach he looked and paw deceased stumble just in front of the engine. When asked by the coroner if deceased did not lay himself down in front of the engine, the witness said no, it did not appear premeditated at all ; the deceased stumbled and his head fell on the metals just u the train reached the spot. The driver of the engine and • railway timekeeper, who was riding on the engine, gave, however, a very different version. Though the train was running between 30 and 40 miles an hour, and they did not see the deceased till the train was within 40 yards of him, they both agreed in sayint he darted from behind the pier of the rail. way bridge, threw off his hat, dropped his walking stick, and laid Lou• Lead upon the outside rail. The time-keeper, especially, was very firm in his evidence. lie said deceased did net stumble, but lay down deliberately on his hands and knees, and pet his head sideways on the rail, his face being turned from the engine. No letter or document was found on deceased.*After the coroner had analysed and compared the evidence the room was cleared for the deliberation of the jury. They ultimately returned • verdict of " Suicide whilst in a state of temporary insanity."