Lancaster Standard and County Advertiser. — 1894-10-12 (Lancaster, Lancashire, England)

SEICIDE.—On Thursday. Edward Samuel Walker, miner, of Stairfoot, near Barnsley, attempted to murder his wife, Edith Walker, at Hemaworth, by stabbing her in 14 places with a pocket knife, near her mother's residence. The prisoner, who tried to commit suicide by stabbing himself in the throat, is a native of Dudley, and resided with his wife, who is not expected to recover, up to Saturday last. John William Cutts was brought before the Nottingham magistrates, on Wednesday. charged on remand on his own confession with having murdered an old man, Thomas Watkinson, chemist and herbalist, of Nottingham. The police said they found that the statement the prisoner made a week ago was untrue, and he had admitted that it was. He was, therefore, discharged. The police have as yet been unable to find any clue to the murderer. The Foreign-office was on Wednesday the scene of a aensational suicide. Mr. P. Henderson, British Consul at Cadiz, while speaking to one of the officials suddenly Placed a revolver to his bead end tired, the bullet entering his right temple. Upon a medical man being summoned it was found Mr. Henderson was still alive, but he died shortly after admission to the Westminster Hospital. NO cause is assigned for the act. bet Mr. Henderson is known behave been suffering from rheumatism. A poor woman at Paris. driven to desperation by the inability of her husband to procure work, killed herself and five children on Tuesday by lighting a charcoal fire, after having caraully prevented ventilation. When the unfortunate husband came home, after having been out all day trying to earn enough to pay the rent, he found his wife and children lying dead. He had to be secured to prevent him doing injury to himself, and was so determined in his attempts to commit suicide that the police finally locked him up for safety. At Leeds, on Saturday, John Henry Tharkrah. 34, rnonlder. Armley, wan charged with being a lunatic at large. As the Royal procession was passing along Park Row on the previous day, the prisoner jumped upon the step of the carriage in which the Duke and Duchess of York were seated, turned the handle of the door, and was stout to , enter the vehicle, when he was prevented by one I iof the 17th Lancers, who formed the escort. No weapon was found upon him. At the Town Hall, the prisoner said that he wanted work, and that I 'he was kept out of it by Royalty. The ilagja. trate said he was glad to think that what had happened was simply the freak of a disordered brain. He should commit him to an asylum. The story of a shockingcrime c.omes from Achill Island. About three miles from lingort, in Black. sad Bay. Mrs. arl/orniell, said to be the wife of a London barrister, lived alone in what is described as a "county mansion" known as Achill Valley House, and formerly occupied by the Earl of Cavan. She is also the owner of a small estate in the district. On Saturday eight her house was set on fire byes incendiary, and Mrs. M'Donsell in trying to make her escape was attacked, according to her statement, by a man named Lvischehan, who was, or formerly had been, her Limit, but with whom lame unpleimatness had arisen. She wee shamefully maltreated, her skull being beaten in by a heavy stone, and she state. that Lynchehan attempted to throw her into the stamen. Mrs. M'Donnell is not expected to recover. Her eupposed assailant has been sweated.