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The Cannock Chase Examiner. — 1875-04-03 (Cannock, Staffordshire, England)

THE ATTEMPTED MURDER AND SUICIDE AT HARBORNE.  On Saturday, an inquest was opened before Mr. E. Hooper (coroner for South Staffordshire), at the King's Arms, Harbome, on the btfly of John Pavia, who committed suickle, after attempting to murder his sweetheart on Monday night.. Evidence of identification simply was taken, and the enquiry was then adjourned.  Thomas Davie, gardener, of Serpentine-road, said he was the father Of the deceased, who was eighteen years of age on his last birtday. Deceased was employed as warehouseman at the Metal Works, Selly Oak. The Coroner then said the jury of course knew the circumstances which led to the enquiry. The young woman, Elizabeth Haynes, was not able te attend, and therefore it was not his intention to proceed further with the enquiry until she was able to attend.  It was ascertained thst the young woman would not be able to attend for a week, and the inquest Wile, therefore, adjourned for a fortnight. Mr. J. W. Robinson, solicitor, appeared to watch The etiltiry on behalf of the friends of the deceased.  The. deceased was buried on Saturday afternoon at the Isaiah churchyard.  •-trfAMPTON AND SOUTH STAFFORWIRE liikRDWARUS. . WotvrairattAmilf;-TtnudaY.—qhe Paster hcflidtv have, as usual. tamed a general interruption to &atrial operat ions in the Aistrift tint iwoot, Valltageils hlmany eases being tilken of the li to eacry out repairs to pbuit amtl maalintaw; dechih of the coal and iron misters arrived at week with regard to the course of prices next quarter, has caused some disappointment to the hardware manufacturers of the district generally, and esPo6ialaT In btelprpdueerst of the heavier classes of irimMork. This ffirtheritestponement of the general reduction in prices which is inevitablea_will, it is feared, have the effect of favong, the contintiadee of the policy which has evolothir mievailed tuliong buyers of restricting their operations as .much so possible to immediate requirements. In sue .se it is not thought probable that the: note (Rifler will yield a very olq.o.t.r_tpurinps. 04191 gzs -amount of the home-or foreign markets. q7iile the general 4e nclency of prices is in the direction of ease, and the tclay in proclaiming productions obstructs the Channels of business, we have still to report OCC4I,lional and exceptional instances of changes in the Opposite direction, The latest instance of this is in the case of the plate-lock trade. The discount allowed off the list of ordinary plate-locks is reduced I per cent., and fancy plate-locks, which are sold at t net list, and under numbers, are advanced as folows:-6, 7, and Bin. are advanced Is. per dozen net. the manufacturers intimate in the circulars anmuncing this advance that it is due to the eonCessions recently made to the workpeople in the rate pf wages.  WOLV El;  hdliday4 to ins
The Cannock Chase Examiner. — 1875-10-16 (Cannock, Staffordshire, England)

SUICIDE OF A PRISONER AT BRIERLET  HILL.  A painful sensation was created in Brierley Hill Police Court on Monday when it became known that during the proceedings a prisoner had cont. mated suicide in an adjoining cell. At about midday Police-constable Holland left the Court for the purpose of bringing into the dock a prisoner named Thomas Pearson (40), carpenter, and a native of North Wales. When he entered the cell he found Pearson lying motionless upon the floor, with his head in one corner and his feet near the door. An alarm was raised, and Mr. J. H. Houghton (Dudley) and Mr. Hodson (Cradley Heath), surgeons, who happened to be in attendance as witnesses, at once left the Court hut upon examining the man they pronounced life extinct. Around the nett of the deceased was a narrow piece of sacking torn from that which is used in the cell as a pillow. Another piece was hanging from the grating of the ventilator, near the ceiling of the cell. Deceased had evidently jumped from the cell closet, and it is surmised that the sacking broke after death had ensued. It appears that some time ago Pearson obtained a situation under Mr. Edward Lucas, I landlord of the Whittington Inn, Kinver. He worked for a month, and on the 20th September was, seen upstairs under suspicious circumstances. He left the premises, and Mrs. Lucas afterwards missed a cashbox, containing .fl 2 . On the 4th October he returned to the inn, and information was given to Sergeant Stevenson, who arrested him. On Monday week he was brought before the magistrates and remanded. Inquiries were subsequently made respecting him at Longton, where his wife and family resided, and it was ascertained there was another warrant against him for stealing a quantity of brasses on the Ist October from the Lane End Ironworks, belonging to Messrs. Thomas Goddard and Sons. He was dao "wanted" for other offances. Poliemconatable Lowe and John Bland, foreman at Mess,. Goddard's works, came to Brierley Hill on Monday morning as witnesses in the charge of &falling brasses. They asked to go into the cli for the purpose of identifying the prisoner. When they inquired if he knew them he became pale. dropped his head, and turned away. The cell was vi:ited afterwards by Police-constable Richards, who saw nothing about Pearson to create suspicion; but in twenty minutes, however, the other officers found him dead.'
The Cannock Chase Examiner. — 1875-12-11 (Cannock, Staffordshire, England)

CANNOCK.  SCHOOL BOA RD. --011- —7iirrs:l;3; an ordinary monthly meeting of the members of the Cannock School Board was held at the Clerk's office. Mr. F. H. Gilpin presided, and the other members present were tie Rev. T. W. Pelle, and Messrs. Hall, Jones, Sharpe, and Gwynne.—A claim which had been received from Mr. Fellows for .40 for unexhausted interest in a piece of land on the Walsall-road, Cannock, on which it is proposed to build a Board School, was again brought forward, and the Clerk was instructed to expend a sum not exceeding £lO, the Chairman remarking that it was optional whether Mr. Fellows gave up the land until Lady-day. IB77.—The seal of the Board was ordered to be affixed to a mortgage for the repayment of a loan of £8.333 18. s. 91., to be advanced to the Board by the Public Works Loan Commissioners for the erection of the Wimblebury and Heduesford Schools : also to a lease from Lord Anglesey for the site of the Rawmsley School.—A discusaion was evoked by the reading of some correspondence which had passed between Mr. Gilpin the Clerk. ami Mr. Foden, the agent to Lord Netherton, as to the terms of sale. by his Lordship to the Board, of the Walsall-road site at Cannock. At the meeting of the Board in October it was understood that his Lordship would pay his own costs, and a minute to that effect was made.— The Clerk was now instructed to write to Mr. Foden, explaining that the Board so understood the matter. and stating that a letter which Mr. Foden bed referred to had been laid before the Board.—Some routine business was transacted, and the Board separated.  The two servantgirls who were °Gently found lying in bed near Portsmouth, with their throsts cut, and sufferering from the effects of poison, --- have recovered enough to be taken into custody Printed by the Proprietors, WILLIAM Os r. .aI charged with attempting to commit suicide. ALEXANDER JEFI ace, at their Offices, I'darket They pleaded guilty, and said it was the result ' Street. 'WOLVERHAMPTON, and Published ti of disappointed love. Benjamin EVHDR, HedHeßfOrd, Staffordshire.
The Cannock Chase Examiner. — 1875-10-02 (Cannock, Staffordshire, England)

SUOCKING SUICIDE OF A *ELL-KNOWN  CUKE MEILCIIANT. The village of (impel End, nelv,Sedgley, was, on Saturday merning, thrown inlin state of great alarm, by the sad intelligence that Mr. David Hill,. a gentleman extensively known.in commercial circles throughout the Midland Counties, had committed self-destruction. (in inquiry the shocking news was found to be too tone. It anieurs that Mr. Hill, who resided at Gospel End, get np about eight o'clock, on Saturday, morning, and having washed and dressed himself, came downstairs. When his groom, George Shaw, saw him he wished him ~..vend morning, and inquired after his health—Mr. having been poorly several days—to which Mr. Hill replied that hp felt "middling." When breakfast was ready, Mr. Dill, could not be found anywhere, although looked after and called in every directicin. The groom Willi sent in search of him, and as he did not readily find him he went up into the maltroom, which is a little way detached from the reeidence of the deceased, and there in the corner of a disused kiln he was horrified at finding the body of his master lying in some straw': and bleeding from a cut in his throat. Near to the body was a dagger. Mr. Walker, surgeon, of Upper Gornall, was fetched immecllately on the discovery, but on his arrival life VMS extinct. Dr. Best, of Bilston, the family medical attendant, was also there directly after the occurrence. The wound in the throat was a clean cut of about four inches straight across, and deep under the chin, the windpipe being completely severed. Before committing the mete act, deceased had taken off his hat, collor, and necktie, and laid them down on the floor of the kiln. The deceased has been more or less unwell for some time, and was in a melancholy and desponding mood at the time. No reason can be assigned for the act, as he was in ailment circumstances, and surrounded with everything to render life enjoyable. It is stated that he passed a restless night, and it is generally said that the death of his wife a few months ago has much depressed his spirits, and that he has frequently been found to mourn her loss. Mr. Hill was for many years an attentive and Useful guardian of the poor of Secheloy, and he also creditably filled other offices.
The Cannock Chase Examiner. — 1875-12-18 (Cannock, Staffordshire, England)

XIILTITX IN PANTO.  It has been resolved, at an influential meeting held at Dundee, to establish • school of cookery in that town.  The Smithfield C lob Cattle Show was brought to a close on Friday. It was attended during the week by about 100,006 visitors.  Captain Salt, M.P. for Stafford, has been appointed Parliamentary Secretary of the Local I;overnment Board, Whitehall, in the room of Mr. Clare Sewell Read. The appointment will not vacate his goat in the House.  A New York telegram announces that a riot has , taken place between the white population and the negrots mar Vicksburg, Mississippi, and that Neves of the latter were killed. The cold in Navarre is so intense that a number of Carlists have been froren to death. The Carlin forces, according to the latest reports, are estimated at 52,000 men and 105 guns.  That was rather a smart remark in the indi'pendeuce Beige the other day about our recent naval disasters:—' The Iron Duke, having great remorse for having dcwtroyed the Vanguard, endeavoured Ito commit suicide by opening one of its valves."  A resolution was passed at a recently-hell meeting of millers at Rugely that from and after the Ist proximo all sacks supplied to customers will be charged at a uniform rate of is. 6d. each, the cash to be refunded when the sacks are returned.  In the official Army List" for the present month are the names of about 150 soldiers who have died in the service since 11405, leavint unclaimed property amounting in the whole to over -Cl,OOO, veiling in amount from .tO3 to a few shillings, for which the next of tin are invited to apply to the Secretary of State for War.  Some idea may be formed of the extent to which Sebastopol was fired upon when it is stated officially that, from a tax of fid. per cwt. which the Government levied upon the production of the sales of old iron, shot, and shell picked up and sold. by the people, a sum of nearly .515,000,  . . was realised.—Baikter. The Channel Tunnel is positively to be commenced in April next, the results of the experimental boring having proved in every case so satisfactory. Further powers are required before commencing the grand shaft at the Bay of St. Margarets, and it is not believed that the proposals of the company will meet with any opposition. - - •
The Cannock Chase Examiner. — 1875-05-29 (Cannock, Staffordshire, England)

ROMANTIC ATTEMPTED SUICIDE OF A BARMAID.  The Ch,ster Observer says e have had lately a hoax (the matrimonial ones which very nearly ended in a tragedy, and now we hear of a tragedy which has almost ended in a farce. It appears that a young woman of very prepossessing appearance was some days before the races engaged as barmaid at a well-known inn in this city. This, ac3ording to our information, was her first time "out," although not her firet engagement as barmaid. Her parents, who are highly respectable people, li, a in Northwich, and while in that town the young woman formed the aequaintance of a gentleman who condescends at present to act as a clerk to a law surveyor in a Lancashire town. The raze week at Chester is a highly favourable time for such 'dead sets" by young women, we are informed, and the particular barmaid, with her flaxen hair and blue eyes, succeeded in captivating a gentleman whose lose in quo is in c heater, greatly to the indignation of the individual we have before mentioned. How he got to hear of the affair we do not know, I but telegrams paned at all events on the subject. A few days since the young woman left her situation and went to reside with some relations not far from Dee iana. She was rather melancholy, and permed her old love letters for want of any more serious occupation. The next day, however, it would appear that she made up her mind to t.sitiOle off this mortal coil," and in order that her departnre should be effected in the proper way, she sent to a druggist in Foregate street for six pennyworth of laudanum, saying, through a messenger, that this " medicine " was for tho toothache. Immediately on receiving the " medicine " the young woman (about mid-day on the same day) drank three parts of it at a draught in the privacy of her bedroom. She, of course, became very ill, and an aunt with whom she lived, having some enspicion, sent for a medical man. Two medical men were soon in attendance, and, although the lady relative had been some time in making up her mind to send for a doctor, he any. ceeded in pumping up the poisonous liquid. The young woman's father was immediately telegraphed for, and he duly arrived in Chester, accompanied I,y a friend. The would-be martyr tc Cupid was at once conveyed in a cab to the Northgate railway station, and A is to be hoped that the fresh air of the Wyches will soon recover her from the effects of the rash act.
The Cannock Chase Examiner. — 1874-05-02 (Cannock, Staffordshire, England)

ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY. ENTERF.STING LETTERS PROM DR. LIVINGSTON-E. At the meeting of the Royal GetTnali Annety. in the Theatre of the ifatvernon. doh, I,c Aonday, several letters of Dr. Livingitanele, ! written between October, 1969, and potaaaheet time before his death in S 1 were. read. The theatre wee filled in every part 1111011 i tier guest* being Captain Wove & and Ms. H. I M Stanley, both of whom were cheered on ' entering; Jacob Wainwright Mr. Thos. Livingstone, the Baroness Burdett Coutte, Lord Rough. ton, 'Sir Henry Rawlineoa, the Lord Pretreat of llasgow, Sir James Watson, Col Grant (Speke's mpanion), Admiral Hall, Rev. Horace Waller, ' • ; and on the table at which eat the President ere a bust in pleader of Dr. Livingstone, taken then he was young; also an oil painting and veral reline of the Zambesi expedition. Behind .1 table was a splendid map, draws by Captain Feorge, R.N., tcheas the letters were read, Wsw  " •1 T 1 SMIIDII OP AN AGED SOWIMQVa A distwesalng case df suicide has just cantered at Abingdon, the deceased being Mx. James Hadcock Bedgetleld, aged 74, a solicitor, who had filled the °thee of County Court Registrar for many years. On Wednesday, last week, the coroner for the borough, Dr. Hemming, while in a boat on the Thames, near the Culham Reach, observed a coat and hat on the bank, and about four yards from the bank the body of the deceased in a stooping position, in the water. The body was removed to the Anchor Inn', where Dr. Hemming opened an Inquiry, and himself deposed that he had attended the deceased for several months past. He was very much depressed, and had an idea that he would be ruined. He had been to Brighton recently for change of air and scone, and returned much better. The jury found that the deceased committed .suicide by drowning while in a state of temporary insanity.  nuitted ,
The Cannock Chase Examiner. — 1874-05-02 (Cannock, Staffordshire, England)

ATTEMPTED MURDER AND SUICIDE. At Warrington a few days since, a butcher named Lowe attempted to murder his wife, and afterwards committed suicide by cutting his throat. Lowe and his wife had not lived comfortably of late. On various occasions Lowe had assaulted his wife in a brutal manner. About twelve months ago he broke a saucepan on her head, for which outrage he was sent to prison for six mouths; and at the time of his latest exhibition of brutality he was under recognisances to keep the peace towel da his wife. It appeared that on returning home about eleven o'clock on Friday last week he found that his wife was not in, and he sent his daughter in search of her. The girl went to the house of her mother's brother, in a court in a low part of the town, and she was followed by Lowe. An altercation took place at this house between Lowe and his wife, and the two were ordered out. The woman was about leaving, when Lowe threw his arm round her neck, drew a clasp knife, and plunged the blade into Ler throat, drawing it along about six inches. Mrs Lowe's brother, Kenwright by name, rushed to the rescue, when the would-be murderer stabbed him in the back and side. A policeman happened to be at hand, and on hearing what had occurred he went inpursuit of Lowe, and followed him home. In the meantime Lowe had ruahed upstairs and cut his own thioat. He CHM° clown in time to meet the policeman at the door, but he died a few minutes afterwards. A medical man was soon in attendance upon Mrs. Lowe, and it was found that neither the jugular vein nor the windpipe had been , severed, but she remains in a very precarious condition.
The Cannock Chase Examiner. — 1874-12-19 (Cannock, Staffordshire, England)

WOLVERHAMPTON AND SOUTH  STAFFORDSHIRE HA.RDWARES, WOLVFRIIAMPTON, Tuesday. —As A general rule the manufacturers are well occupied, and the orderhooks give an assurance of sustained activity until the tAra'rl'yf hheealntloiworacartecoru'ut The the tone of business insd Pi4retwi. Zealand markets, and the Cape orders for emigrants' requirements, which have been of fair extent for some time past, afford every promise of continuance during the next quarter. The local shippers of hardware to the United States report that their latest advices from that market are more encouraging. Quotations are without much actual change, but the general tendency is o-oak. Some few exceptions are, however, to be noted as the result of increased cost of material or wages concessions to workpeople, as instances may be mentioned an advance of £2 per ton in sine pails, and one of five per cent, in some classes of wrought_ Iron nails. The Wolverhampton hollow-ware founders are steadily engaged in the tinned and enamelled branches, and for builders' requisites, in foundry work, and also for general castings, the manufacturers' order books are for the present tolerably sr II filled. The tin, plate ware manufacturers are ste occupied on orders for season requisites, both of japanned and painted descriptions. The Willeuhall lock trade is buoyant in all tee principal departments, and complaints are arising as to the scarcity of skilled labour. Bolts (tower and barrel) are in fair re mest, and I "ices are steady and uniform. The wrought-iron tube ..aanufaeturen report business quiet hi all but the gas tube branch, in which the requirements of the season naturally cause a little literate be doing. The engineering ironwork establishments in this neighbourhcelt are in moderately steady operation, nothing like actual , buoyancy having been ex•terienced iu this direction for some little time past. The marine and naval ironwork manufacturers on the Dudley side of the district complain of the restrictions imposed by recent legislation . as to the testing of anchors and cables.  By order of the Earl of Dudley, antidnas taken a new lease of the far-famed Black Mount Deer Forest, and the fiehings connected therewith, inclined paesages have been cat in the rock forming the Falls of the Orchy forthe free run of salmon.  At the Barnsley Town Hall, on Monday, a miner named John Henley, living at New Wombwell, was committed to prison for su months, three ,parate charges of brutally so.saulting hie wife haring been proved against him. The case was the more painful from the fact that the man's ill usage had led his wife to attempt suicide, and upon that charge she was re. mantled in custody.
The Cannock Chase Examiner. — 1874-08-22 (Cannock, Staffordshire, England)

ROMANTIC SUICIDE FROM NOTRE 1 THE ESCAPE OF MARSHAL BAZAINE. DAME. t . The Times' Paris correspondent says :—Although A few days since, in the afternoon, a fashion- 1 the escape of Bazaihe is now four days old, it does ably-dreesed young man was seen flourishing his not cease to Le one of the chief anxieties, and it hat on one of the towers of Notre Dame. He threw i may be added vexatious. OE the ohiet of the GovernIt down and then jumped after it. He was picked i meat. Marshal MacMahon considers Bazaine's. up quite dead, and so mutilated in the face that it I flight after his own refusal to modify the regulawas thought useless to expose his body in the i tons laid down for him as a Aina of bravado i t . .. Morgue. From a Passport found on him it al,. Idirectly addrested to himself. Toe nvestigatien enured that his name was Eraile Jean Christian on the spot seems to have concluded, and it toll Hubert, born in London. The asstmption, how. , now be continued elsewhere. IsVthing very new ever, from these names, is that he is not an seems to have been elicited, but -the legend of the Englishman. He had a gold chain and a fliarpond rope has been quite disposed of. Bazaine clearly ring, a watch, and nearly £4O in English and did not effect his descent by th s method, whaeia French money—gold and notes. Nothing is km mu makes nu% a figure in all famous escapee., He had of him at the British Embassy. He is believed to no risk to run in reaching the boat, but simply tea commercial traveller, and the rumour is that • pursed out by the postern, turning the leek with a his despised love by an English girl drove him to common key, without any danger of receiving the suicide, bullets of the sentinels or ot being dashed to - pieces' against the rocks He went quietly through ACTION FOR LIBEL AGAINST THE the postern to the foot of the fortress and then to