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The Weekly Gazette for Middlesbrough, Stockton, Hartlepool and Cleveland District. — 1883-01-20 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

STATEMENT BY DR. WHIT MARSH. The representative of the Press Association has had an interview with Dr. Whitmarsh, and has obtained from him the following statement concerning the now notorious case of suicide at  Hounslow:— Dr. Whitmarsh : In justice to myself, my wife, and family, I feel warranted in making public such a narrative of facts as I may not have an opportunity of giving at the inquest, amid all the excitement and enormous prejudice which exists at Hannslow. I have been in practice there for twenty-one years. During the first two years I was on probation as assistant to Mr Chapman, since deceased, and whose practice I acquired at a cost of nearly £2,000. After his death I had a partner named Dr. Glenville. On his retirement I sold my practice to Dr. Taylor Siaith for £3,000, undertaking to give him three years' introduction. At the end of that period Dr. Smith said as we had worked very well together, and the practice had come up to what was represented, I might retain a half share of it if I liked to i take n settlement the deposit of £2,000 which he had paid. I agreed to this, but in 1881 a dissolution of partnership took place by desire of Dr. Smith, who was tired of Hounslow. I paid him £1,500 in cash, also half the book debts, &c., amounting altogether to about £2,000. When I first entered into partnership with Mr Chapman the practice only returned about £1,150 yearly, but in five years, through in exertions, it reached £2,450. Upon Dr. Smith leaving, Dr. Edwardes called and desired to buy a half-share. He was introduced by Messrs Wyman and Westwood, my wholeade druggists. He gave me no references, but said be had been in practice with Dr. Andrews at Oakley-square, and that the latter had given him £4OO more than was originally paid to give up the share. I told him the return of my practice was about £2,000, and said I would sell the half-share for £l,
The Weekly Gazette for Middlesbrough, Stockton, Hartlepool and Cleveland District. — 1883-05-12 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

PARIS SUICIDE.—In Paris on Indian warrior, and one of the leading spirits heat NOR, and the games between Mason and morning, at six o'clock, a well-dyes among the wild tribes of the Far West, but, of Rosenthal, Mackenzie and Sellman, and Skip- tabout thirty, leading by the hand a <nurse, greatly refined by contact with eiviliza. worth and Bird were drawn. The record now of five, was seen descendue the tion and the softening influence of Christianity, stands—Zukertort 7, James Steinitz 6, Techi- Pont an Double to the S Be belongs to the family of Indian nations -,s,orin 5, Mason 41, Bird 4, Blackburn° 4, threw herself into the i known as Algonquins. He s a pleasant speaker, Englisch 4, Winawer 3, Mackenzie 3, Rosen- frightened, was taken care of . a member of the 1.0.G.T., and comes with thal ite, Sellmau 2, Noe 11, Mortimer nil. A policeman dashed after the la excellent testimonials from friends in America. At a tow ll's meeting At Glasgow on attempted a rescue. ",ny bonze His philanthropic object being to strengthen the 'Werliseetiay it was 'unanimously agreed to her body Wei brought and wa mission funds of his own people, most of whom peewee :a sword of honour to Sir Archibald fled as that of Mdme. Ws he states are Christians. 'Alison. Jacaues.  The statement made in Parliament that the Rev. Charles Garrett, president of the Wevleyan Conference, approved the Affirmation Bill has greatly exercised many Wesley-ans in and about Liverpool. One member of the denomination, resident at West Derby, wrote to Mr Garrett on the subject, and has received the following reply :—"Dear Si r,—l have received so many and such abusive letters on this matter that I had ' resolved not to notice another. Your letter, however, is so courteous that I break through my rule. I have done all in my power to prevent any agitation in Methodism on this subject, and, though strongly tempted, I avoided any expreesion of my opinion- Sir Richard Cross, however, read a letter in the House which he said he had received from me, strongly opposing the Bill. A friend wrote to me calling my attention to the statement, and asking if my letter was official. I pencilled a private note, saying I was perplexed at Sir R. Cross's statement, for I had never written a line on the subject, and, moreover, that as it was to be non-retrospective I was in favour of the Bill. I also wrote to &friend in the House, asking him to call Sir R. Cross's attention to the mistake, as it was either a forgery or he was mistaken as to the name appended to the letter. Here heft it. I have since taken no step whatever. Could .I have done less? Do I deserve the abuse I have received? You, lam sure, will do me justice, and you are free to use this as you please.— Yours truly, Cnain.rs
The Weekly Gazette for Middlesbrough, Stockton, Hartlepool and Cleveland District. — 1880-03-13 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE AT  NORTON.  A FAREWELL LETTER.  The quiet little township of Norton has been thrown into an unusual state of excitement by a sad affair which occurred on Sunday morning. It appears that about ten o'clock, two men named Robert Lyuton and John hey, were walairag through Junction-lane, when their attention was attracted to the pond on the roadside by a noise as of splashing water. On getting close to the pond, they saw a young man named Thomas Mowbray in the water wi h his coat off. The water was then about up to his neck, and from the thoroughly drenched and exhausted condition in which be seemed to be there could be no doubt that he had been struggling in the pond for some minutes. The men promptly dragged the unfortdnate fellow out, and conveyed him n to the residenes of his father in Hermitage yard. Restoratives were there given him, and in the course of an hour or two he had recovered considerably from the effects of his bath. His coat and waistcoat were found lying at the side of the pond, the following letter being in one of .the pockets:—  " Sunday, March 7th, 11380. "Hermitage-place, Norton. "My Dear Father,—l now sit down to write these few lines to you, hoping them to find you in better spirits than you were on Saturday, and not to be so keen of sending for Sergeant Tate for any more of my brothers or sisters, as you will have something else to think about now. Yon can get uncle to knock a box together for me, as lam not going a yard out of Norton. I have not got a job, and I am not going to beg from door to door. I have slept in Charlton's cow-byre right straight by your house for two nights now among straw and full of rats, and I have not had a pennyworth of bread since Wednesday night, and I can't stand it. You will And me in Charlton's pond. Make nothing to do about me, but lay me by the aide of my poor mother, and let us both rest peaceably. You don't know how soon it might be your turn, but I think myself I have been wished dead long enough; but the time has come at last, so when you receive this I ?hall be dead; and I trust to the Lord that you will say a few words for me when you receive this. "From your Son, "
The Weekly Gazette for Middlesbrough, Stockton, Hartlepool and Cleveland District. — 1880-06-05 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

GENERAL NEWS.  _ Ceetain PereY B. Bernard, M.P. for Dane, has a„..^epted the stewardship of the Chilton Hundreds. _ nipaotn'shoremleig,iaorne, The objections to 14.2"1., which have found express,. neither felt nor expressed by a.."Y seoion in It:ilia—not even by Seotohmen. The Queen's usual gift of £3 has been t'AZIY received by Mr Willis, of Brotherton, the father of the three children born there a few *eeks ago. One if the children has aims died. In consequence of the late drownieg of two students in the Cam, above Newham, the Council of the Senate at Cambridge recommend that students shall be called upon to declare their ability to swim before being allowed to take out boats. The expenses of the candidates at the Sheffield election were filed on Tuesday. Those of the Right Hon. A. J. Mundell& and Mr Waddy, the Liberal candidates,amotint to £2,512 10s, whilst the expenses of Mr Wortley, the Conso rvative candid at e, who defeated Mr Waddy, are £4,025 4s 53, nearly £1,500 more than the combined expenses of the two Liberals. A robbery of an unusual character was iT vcstigsted in Glasgow on Tuesday. Charles Macaulay Wai charged with stealing the watch of a dtowuing man. The man, it appears, committed suicide by drowning himself in the Clyde, and Macaulay, in attempting to save him, robbed him of his watch, and then absconded. Prisoner was re maeded. Circulars were received on Tuesday morning by the customers of the Earl of udley announcing a reduction in all kinds of coal supplied by his lordship. Furnace coal is now 9s per ton, and lumps Bs. Lord Dudley's prices rule the local trade, and a reduction in furnace coal is accompanied with a reduction of colliers' wages. Thick coal men will be reduced 31 a day, and thin coal miners lid. SAD Csas or
The Weekly Gazette for Middlesbrough, Stockton, Hartlepool and Cleveland District. — 1880-06-05 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

CAIIIIIAGE.-Mr Joseph Shaw, member of the firm of Kendal and Gent, machinists, of Salford, committed suicide on Monday by cutting his throat with a razw, io a railway carriage, between Bodlt-dale and Castleton.  eight years before na in prosperous circumstances identified the body as that of the absent one, -_ who, no doubt, bad intended to surprise his dreds or mother and sisters by an unexpected visit. him. The house was They recognised even the ring he used with the exception of the to wear as that of his deceased grandmother, which it was hoped by many persons ne Why, however, had he only a few marks would subsequently attempt to remove, already in his pocket, while they knew their brother During the excitement a closed car drove farewell to the pomp to be a thriving man? It turned out that up to the neighbourhood, containing a lady stance of Royal rank. The terms _ Neuhaus had been at a tavern in company and a gentleman. It having been reported cession were fairly stated, and seemed to be with another young man, and accordingly that the occupants were the barmaid and her founded on common-sense. A five-shilling months on a suspicion of of murder was aroused. Ills corn- uncle, the car was immediately surrounded doctor wedded to a twopenny title would be of £l2 was to be paid. _ panion was discovered and arrested. He by the crowd, anxious to get at the young a poor object for princely patronage. So the owing, defendant, it appeared, coo,-_ recognised the body as that of his friend, lady. The driver, however, saw the necessity Duchess Pauline 0 Wurtemberg became another loan of £l3 10s, for which a bonus inau„__ a clerk in an office at Essen, who had been of getting away with his fare in order to simply Mdlle. de Rippach, in order that she of £l5 was to be paid.—Defendant denied fearful evils is in low spirits on account of family mis- secure their safety. He drove along the Lee might make yet one other change in life and that he contracted a loan of £26, but only for Great Industries of Great Di " fortunes, and whom he had suddenly missed Bank road in the liireetion of the Five Ways, become the bride of Dr. Willim, of Breslau. £l5, and received but Ed.—The Judge (Mr as they were returning home from KOnigs- but his Progress was much impeded by the The Goldsticks of Stuttgardt are inoonsol- Motteram, Q,C.) characterised the conduct of
The Weekly Gazette for Middlesbrough, Stockton, Hartlepool and Cleveland District. — 1880-06-05 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

THE BIICKINGHAMSEIIRE BLEEPING GIRL.  Daring the last nine years public attention has been occasionally directed to the case of a girl, the daughter of a labourer at 'Dir. vale, Bucks, who is said to have remained for that period in a condition of trance, perfectly helpless and nuconscious. The only food given her has been a few er^oonsfuls of wine and tea, or wine and milk, administered at frequent intervals. The case has been visited by numbers of medical mea, and at:out two years ago it was the subject of correspondence in the daily journals. Local notice has just been directed afresh to this curious instance by the sudden death of the mother; of the girl on Wednesday last. The coroner for Bucks, Mr Frederick Charnley, held an inquest on the body on Friday, and in, the course of the enquiry some questions were pit to the stepfather oaid I sister of the " sleeping girl " as 'to the way in which the deceased woman had treated her. They stated that nine years ago the girl was in Reading Hospital for four months, and was discharged as incurable; she was brought home in a bed, and remained ever since in a state of catalepsy. Her mother,the deceased, attended her, and administered the liquid food by means of a small teapot. About four teaspoonfuls at a time were poured down her throat through an orifice caused by a decayed tooth. In the course of his evidence Mr Hayman, F.R.C.8., of Btokenchurch, said he had occasionally attended the deceased during the put few years, and had often seen the "sleeping girl." In his opinion she was paralysed, and was quite unconscious. It was believed, however, by the Vicar of Turville (the Rev. T. M. Studholme) that the mental was not quite so torpid as the bodily power. He (Mr Hayman) had several times fed the girl in the mannec described, and he had observed that the liquid passed down the throat like a funnel, without any act of deglutition. The Coroner told the jury that he had thought it right to put a few questions about the girl, because it appeared that the deceased had waited on her, and it would be necessary that some arrangements should be made by the parish authorities that she should be properly looked after. The father was away from his home the greater part of the day, and the rest of the family had their own household to look after.—The jury found that the death of the mother had resulted from effusion of water in the cavity of the heart.  On Wednesday morning Samuel Brook, agcd 67 years, formerly a farmer, who resided with his brother -in - law, John Garside, mungo dealer, Luck-lane, committed suicide by hanging himself with a cord in his bedroom.
The Weekly Gazette for Middlesbrough, Stockton, Hartlepool and Cleveland District. — 1880-05-22 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

MORAL INSANITY.—On Sunday the Rev. W. Stoddart, 8.A., preached a sermon in the Unitarian Church on "Moral Insanity," in which he made some references to the case of the man who committed suicide on Saturday, the Bth inst., at Middlesbrough. He said: "When a man commits suicide, what further evidence is necessary that the man is insane? Yet twelve men of this enlightened town of ktiddlesbroegh could not find any proof of insanity in such an insane arnion. And the learned Justice of England, puzzled to know how to punish a criminal who had fled beyond the bounds of human jurisdiction, wreaked its vengeadce on the inanimate body, thus lacerating the bleeding heart of the lone widow. Insane injustice that Gross ignorance must have darkened the minds and judgments of those twelve jurors l" Moral insanity he defined to be, not a disease of the brain, but an unbalanced condition of a mind that had got out of harmony with Nature and with God. It was a disease whose cause and whose remedy were not physical and material, but moral and spiritual, and it must be cured, not by the doctor of medicine, but by the preacher of truth, who is the true physician of the soul. Moral insanity he affamed to be a wide-spread disease, caused by disbelief in God and the soul, and this unbelief and Atheism was a reaction from the unreasoning belief in absurd dogmas and irrational creeds. Christians, he said, had a special mission to fulfil in saving from the maddening whirlpool of Atheism those who had left their old moorings and were drifting they knew not whither. They had a solemn duty to fulfil in seeking those who had wandered from the path of life through doubt and unbelief, and woe unto them if they folded their arms with indifference and said, 1" Am I my brother's keeper ?" The blood of that man cried autotchem from the ground.  Bang Wong Pus INota.---It is gratifying to find that, notwithstanding all that has beeo said about Cleveland iron in connection with the Tay Bridge, the Teesside Iron and Engineering Company (Hupkius, and Co) havejust received a valuable order for bridge work for India.
The Weekly Gazette for Middlesbrough, Stockton, Hartlepool and Cleveland District. — 1880-06-12 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

SUICIDES. Sergeant James Charles, of the Ist Royal Dragoons, a company of which is at present stationed at Liverpool, whilst under arrest succeeded in getting possession of a loaded carbine, with which he shot himself through the head. The shot blew nearly the top part of the head sway, death being instantaneous. Mr Charles Polkinghorne, senior partner of the large brewery firm of Polkinghorne Brothers, of Plymouth, committed suicide on Sunday evening by throwing himself from the second floor window of his house, he having l[previously attempted ineffectually to cut his throat with a razor. Deceased was a gentleman of great respectability, wealth, and integrity, and probably his mind was overbelanced by the almost sudden death a week ago of his brother, senior partner of the firm. This had thrown upon him the burden of a Very extensive business. A Crarous. Muir•xe.—An extraordinary ease has taken place at Egremont, a populace suburb of Liverpool, on the banks of the Mersey between Seacombe and New Brighton. It appears that a day or two ago the supposed dead body of a man was found lying on the shore, and was in due course conveyed to the dead.honse, the supposition being that the man bad been drowned. Having been deposited in the dead-house, the body was left for some time:while enquiries were made. The police returned, and one of them commenced to search the clothes of the supposed oorpse. Scarcely had he begun to do so, however, when the " corpse " came rapidly to life, and rising up on the table called out in a somewhat vigorous tone, "What are you doing ?" It is stated that the searcher was so astonished and alarmed at the " dead " man thus coming to life that he ran away from the chamber in terror, whereupon the corpse began to follow. It was ultimately found that, instead of having been drowned, the man had simply got very drank, and had fallen helpless on the beach at the spot where he was found. He had had, however, a narrow escape of his life, for ha 4 the tide been spring instead of neap he would have been covered at high water. THE New
The Weekly Gazette for Middlesbrough, Stockton, Hartlepool and Cleveland District. — 1880-11-06 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

GENERAL NEWS.  - -The Baroness Burdett-Coutta was on Monday presented with the freedom of the London Hsberdashers' Company. Mr Parnell was on Monday presented with the freedom of Waterford Town Council by 18 votes to 17. The Archbishop of York has been ordered to leave England for the winter He will go to Biarritz in a few days. The Birmingham Daily Globe, a Conservative evening newspaper, announced on Saturday that its issue on that day was its "last issue for some time to come." Mr Wm. Archer Redmond, MP. for Wexford borough, and who has sat for that constituency since 1872, died euddenly on Tuesday morning of h. art disease at Cork. At the Central Chamber of Agriculture on Tuesday a resolution was passed declaring the Highways Act, 1878, most unsatisfactory, and required change and large amendmerts. • The Attorney-G. nerad has appointed Mr F. B. Firth, M.P., to be junior counsel for Post Office prosecutions on the NorthEastern Circuit in place of Mr Greenhow, lately appointed a County Court Judge. Sir Philip Crinliffe Owen, director of the South Kensington Museum, has obtained permission from the Emperor of Russia to copy in electro-type about 250 objects in gold and silver smiths' work from the Imperial collections. Of these reproductions provincial museums may obtain fact-similes by purchase or loan. The proclamation of the President of the United States, appointing a thanksgiving Day, says the country never had such abundant reasons for thanksgiving, inasmuch as health, prosperity, and peace exists everywhere, and the great body of the people firmly adhere to the principles of liberty and justice. At Manchester Assizes on Tuesday morning Samuel Holdliam was charge'] with 'attempting to murder his son at Roohdaie. Prisoner made preparation to account for the boy's disappearance, and then threw him into the canal, but the lad got out on the other Bide. The prisoner was sentenced to twentylive years' penal servitude. One of the men sentenced on Monday at the Manchester A-sizes for burglary at Stretford committed suicide on Tuesday in one of the cells of the prison by hanging himself with a bed sheet. His name was Thomas Daniel. El, was sentenced to seven years' penal servitude and seven years' police Rapt r• vision. He had already served seven' years penal servitude for a previous offence. FATAL ELECTION Rtox IN
The Weekly Gazette for Middlesbrough, Stockton, Hartlepool and Cleveland District. — 1880-07-24 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

SUICIDE IN MIDDLESBROUGH. On Tuesday evening an inquest was held before Mr J. T. Belk, at the Volunteer Inn, Cannon-street, touching the death of Jane Shotton (37), married woman.—Wm. Shotton, shipwright, 32, Lowe-street, Cannon-street, said that deceased was his wife. He last saw her alive at eight o'clock on Monday morning. She then appeared to be in good health. I small fiat bottle (produced) he saw on Sunday with whitky in it. The deceased, he was sorry to say, was a woman of intemperate habits. About three years ago she attempted to destroy herself by taking laudanum. She did not make a praotioe of taking laudanum. On arriving home at four o'clock on Monday afternoon he found his wife dead.—A woman named Crosby, living in Hutchinson-street, stated that she had known deceased for about a year and a half, and during that time she bad scarcely ever seen her sober. On the previous afternoon witness was passing deceased's house; the door was open, and she heard deceased groaning. On going into the house she found her lying down, black in the face, and foaming at the mouth. She had had a lot of drink that afternoon. She died directly after witness found her. She pledged the furniture in order to get drink.—Poliee-Sergeant Atkinson said that about half-past three be was called to Shotton's house, where he found the deoeased, who was then dead. There were three bottles in the house, one of whioh bad laudanum in it, and the other had had lanthanum in it.—Martin Cook Wardle, chemist, Newport-road, said he supplied the deceased with to drams of laudanum about eleven on Monday morning. She said she wanted it for rheumatic pains.—Dr. Williams stated that on the previous afternoon his assistant, Mr Scanlon, was called to see Mrs Shotton, who was dead when be arrived. He (Dr. Williams) had made a post mortem examination of the body. The brain was very much congested, and a strong odour of alcohol prooeeded from it. Deceased was a stout, well-nourished person, but there was fat on the heart. The stomach was much inflamed, and oontained about half an ounce of reddish thick fluid, but there was no distinct evidence of opium. He, however, accounted for that by the fact that the absorption of opium was rapid, and was scarcely ever seen some Lours after death. Laudanum and too much alcohol acting on a weak heart had caused death. —A verdict of death in accordance with the medical testimony was returned.  A Poomsn