npedrazzini/19thc_murder_suicide_news huggingface dataset:
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1841-09-07 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

CHARLES THE SECOND. King Charles, Mr. Anderson ; Rochester, Mr. Chaplin ; Captain Copp, Mr. Baker-, Edward, Mrs. Barton ; Lady Clara, Mrs. Baker; Mary Copp, Miss E. Honner. Mr. Knowles' new Play of THE BRIDALS OF MESSINA, or JOHN OF PROCIDA, will be performed during the engagement of Miss Ellen Tree and Mr. Anderson, in which they will sustain their original Characters of lsoline and Fernando.  TO CORRESPONDENTS  go. 2 of the " Analysis ofour Exports" on Friday  The lines of ." C. B. G." were received too late. We cannot find that the " suicide" referred to by our London correspondent was ever inserted in the Standard. Our attention is again called to the illuminated clock of St. George's Church. When last we noticed it, the defect was remedied for a night or two ; but the light might as well be taken away altogether unless some effectual means be devised to render it of some use. No complaint is ever made of St. Peter's ; and it is evidently a sheer piece of neglect that the former is allowed to remain as it is. It is a complete eyesore..and worse than useless.  We anticipate the radicals will " gain a loss" by the continued agitation of Mr. Quayle's unnecessary litigation. A summary of the facts connected with the case appeared in the Standard of the 31st ult., which could not fail to impress the public mind with the strong conviction that the opposition, on the part of Mr. Quayle, to the just demands of Mr. Shand has been, from the commencement, trivial and vexatious. A letter from Mr. Hodgson, one of the members for Everton Ward, appears in another column, and will, we doubt not, be read with interest. It treats the whole affair in a common-sense, business-like way; and if the Council to-morrow agree to Mr. Aikin's proposal, they will add another proof of their incapacity for their offices.  We should have been glad to have inserted the report of the Protestant meeting had we received it earlier. The Albion of yesterday has the following :—" It becomes our melancholy duty, as the penny-a-liners say, this week to inform our readers, that Lord Sattdon is not President of the Board of Trade." His lordship, we have reason to know, was strongly solicited to render his valuable services as a member of the present efficient administration, but the interests of his constituents are dearer to him than place and pay, and induced him to abandon the offers which were made to him. Had Sir Joshua Walmsley, whom our contemporary is so fond of extolling, been similarly situated, no doubt his worship would have turned his back upon those whose sweet voices he is now so desirous of winning.
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1841-10-26 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

SUICIDE FROM UNREQUITED LOVE.—On Thursday afternoon, an inquest was held before Mr. Baker, at the Adam and Eve, High-street, Hoxton Old Town, on the body of Sarah Bygrave, a beautiful girl, aged 18, niece of Mr. Holloway, the landlord of the above house, who destroyed herself under the following circumstances:—A neighbour said, that on the Tuesday preceding he bad seen deceased suspended by a cord to a beam in the skittle-ground of Mr. Holloway, and immediately cut her down, when she was found quite dead. He had been informed by one of his lodgers that, about one o'clock the same morning, she was awoke by hearing a stifled cry of " Dick, Dick, save me, save me." Mr. Henry Holloway, the deceased's uncle, said his niece had lived with him for the last nine months, and had enjoyed the best of health and spirits until a fortnight hack, when a young man with whom she had been acquainted in Northampton called upon her. He slept in the house that night, and left on the following morning. Since then he had noticed a great change in her, and her mind wandered so much at times that she was not conscious of what she was doing. She was often in tears, and complained very much of her head. The same morning that she parted from theo rung man she was overheard asking him "if he intended He h(w9itZus) !, wry her," to which he replied, ~ No, Ido not." on Monday night, shallsa never see me more," was the rejoinder. r bed-roore. w her last alive a few minutes before twelve heSilfter the house was closed, going towards and got into the g.g ;her father was months back the deceased eskeitrst have partially retraced her steps, ground by a side door. Eighteen and her father were both thrown out of a ; s killed on the spot, and she had her right arm broken. lenanotths after her mother died of misunderstandingecame dependent on a brother, broken heart, and she she elf between him ther, but in consequence of a to,at the deceased destroyed here t and came to reside evidence to marry her, of tvivnitdiltihliemy.oulingismopairtilioanlluwdaesdoi bell' through the refusal of the young whom she was dotingly fond. Other inence of a similar nature having been given, the jury returned a verdict of " Temporary insanity.
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1841-10-26 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

SUICIDE FROM UNREQUITED LOVE.—On Thursday afternoon, an inquest was held before Mr. Baker, at the Adam and Eve, High-street, Hoxton Old Town, on the body of Sarah Bygrave, a beautiful girl, aged 18, niece of Mr. Holloway, the landlord of the above house, who destroyed herself under the following circumstances:—A neighbour said, that on the Tuesday preceding he had seen deceased suspended by a cord to a beam in the skittle-ground of Mr. Holloway, and immediately cut her down, when she was found quite dead. He bad been informed by one of his lodgers that, about one o'clock the same morning, she was awoke by hearing a stifled cry of " Dick, Dick, save me, save me." Mr. Henry Holloway, the deceased's uncle, said his niece had lived with him for •the last nine months, and had enjoyed the best of health and spirits until a fortnight back, when a young man with whom she had been acquainted in Northampton called upon her. He slept in the house that night, and left on the following morning. Since then he had noticed a great change in her, and her mind wandered so much at times that she was not conscious of what she was doing. She was often in tears, and complained very much of her head. The same morning that she parted from the young man she was overheard asking him " if he intended to marry her," to which he replied, " No, I do not." He Then you shall never see me more," was the rejoinder. and got into thethe oun (witness) saw her last alive a few minutes before twelve herbe7daY night, after the house was closed, going towards -room. She must have partially retraced her steps, out of a gig; her her right arm 11-rolici skittle-ground by a side door. Eighteen months backdeceased and her father were both thrown a broken heart, Om was killed on the spot, and she had and she then became dependent on a Six months after her mother died of brother, but in consequence and the young man f a misunderstanding between him with him. His opinionw alluded to, she left and came to reside that the deceased destroyed herself through the refusal oafst young man to marry her, of dotingly fond. whom she was Other evidence of a similar nature having been given, the jury returned a verdict of " Temporary insanity."
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1841-12-31 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

PROPORTIONS OF DEATHS.—We extract the following from the third annual report of the registrar-general of births, marriages and deaths :—" In the northern counties, 16 in 10,000 males die violent deaths annually ; in Staffordshire, Warwickshire, and the other western counties, 14 ; in Lancashire and Cheshire, 13 ; in Cornwall and the other southwestern counties, 11 ; in the metropolis, 8 ; in Easex, Suffolk, and Norfolk, 7. The deaths of females by violence are most numerous in Cheshire, Lancashire, the western counties, and Yorkshire, where they are employed in factories, and are exposed to accidents by machinery. In Kent and the other south-eastern counties, 3 females in 10,000 died violent deaths ; in Lancashire and Cheshire, 5 in 10,000 annually. Mr. Farr gives an abstract of 5,519 cases of violent deaths, showing the ages of the persons. From the table it appears, that of that number two-thirds of the males were aged 20 and upwards, while less than half of the females were of that age. Under 20 the number of males was 1,311; the females, 853. At the age of 20 and upwards the males were 2,650; the females, 705. Nearly half (5,315) of the violent deaths in the country happen to men above 20 years of age; 44 per cent. are 20 and under 60 ; so that, exclusive of suicides and the deaths at sea, 4,367 men in the prime of life are cut off every year in England by injuries and accidents of various kinds. 86 sailors, watermen, or fishermen died violent deaths. 21 engineers, stokers, and firemen were killed in one year in the metropolis, and that chiefly in the steamvessels on the Thames. It is supposed that 1,000 lives are annually lost in sailing vessels alone by shipwreck. It will be found that 2,451 persons are drowned every year is England.
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1841-03-26 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

SINGULAR SUICIDE OF A COMMERCIAL TRAVELLER.— On Saturday night last a double attempt at suicide, which proved unfortunately successful, was made by Mr. J. S. Rutland, aged 56, for many years a commercial traveller and commission agent. The deceased, who was in the employ of Mrs, Lyons, floorcloth manufacturer, Old Kent-road, arrived at the George and Commercial Inn, Market-place, Sheffield, on Wednesday last, where he was in the habit of putting up. On last Tuesday an inquest was held on the body, and from the evidence aaduced it appeared that on the morning in question, the deceased not rising at his usual hour occasioned the chambermaid, on passing his room, to call him, when the deceased said he was getting up, and would be down stairs shortly. Some time after the same female again passed the door, but thinking he had fallen asleep, passed on. About two o'clock, finding that he had not made his appearance in the travellers' room, she went up and peeped through the keyhole, when she saw the deceased leaning with his back against the wall with his throat dreadSully cut and the wound bleeding profusely. She instantly alarmed the inmates, when the door was burst open, and the deceased was found to be alive and partly sensible. A medical gentleman was immediately called in, who rendered every assistance which professional skill could suggest, but the deceased sunk under the attempt he had made. While he was living he was repeatedly questioned as to the cause of committing the rash act, but he would give no other answer than that he wished to die, and repeatedly requested to be allowed to die. The deceased had stated, that on the night previous to his cutting his throat he had taken as much as three ounces of laudanum to produce death, but which was ineffectual. The medical gentleman who had been called in stated that the death of the deceased was more to be attributed to the effects of the poison than the wound in the neck •, that he had attempted to insert the stomach pump, but which the unfortunate gentleman resisted. It was also proVed that the deceased, who was a hard drinker, used to labour under delirium tremens, and that since his arrival at the houie drank very hard. After a long investigation the jury returned a verdict, that the deceased destroyed himself whilst labouring under temporary insanity.—Times of yesterday.
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1841-03-26 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

SINGULAR SUICIDE OF A COMMERCIAL TRAVELLER.— On Saturday night last a double attempt at suicide, which proved unfortunately successful, was made by Mr. J. S. Rutland, aged 56, for many years a commercial traveller and commission agent. The deceased, who was in the employ of Mrs. Lyons, floorcloth manufacturer, Old Kent-road, arrived at the. George and Commercial Inn, Market-place, Sheffield, on Wednesday last, where he was in the habit of putting up. On last Tuesday an inquest was held on the body, and from the evidence adduced it appeared that on the morning in question, the deceased not rising at his usual hour occasioned the chambermaid, on passing his room, to call him, when the deceased said he was getting up, and would be down stairs shortly. Some time after the same female again passed the door, but thinking he had fallen asleep, passed on. About two o'clock, finding that be had not made his appearance in the travellers' room, she went up and peeped through the keyhole, when she saw the deceased leaning with his back against the wall with his throat dreadfully cut and the wound bleeding profusely. She instantly alarmed the inmates, when the door was burst open, and the deceased was found to be alive and partly sensible. A medical gentleman was immediately called in, who rendered every assistance which professional skill could suggest, but the deceased sunk under the attempt he had made. While he was living he was repeatedly questioned as to the cause of committing the rash act, but he would give no other answer than that he wished to die, and repeatedly requested to be allowed to die. The deceased had stated, that on the night previous to his cutting his throat he had taken as much as three ounces of laudanum to produce death, but which was ineffectual. The medical gentleman who had been called in stated that the death of the deceased was more to be attributed to the effects of the poison than the wound in the neck ; that he had attempted to insert the stomach pump, but which the unfortunate gentleman resisted. It was also proved that the deceased, who was a hard drinker, used to labour under delirium tremens, and that since his arrival at the house drank very hard. After a long investigation the jury returned a verdict, that the deceased destroyed himself whilst labouring under temporary insanity.—Times of yesterday.
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1841-04-16 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

MENTABLE OCCURRENCE.—A most distressing case of suicide occurred in Dundee on Tuesday night last, arising out of the following circumstances :—A young man, belonging to Forfarshire who had been for several years labouring under consumption, had been persuaded to come to Edinburgh for medical advice, which he did. A consulting physician here heard and examined his case, and we are informed, gave him to understand that it was hopeless. Of this, the young man wrote to his friends, and requested a brother to come forand conduct him home, but, without waiting for his arrival, took the coach to Dundee on Tuesday; and on the evening of the same day, in an hotel in that town, seemingly unable to hear the sentence hanging over him, shot himself through the head, and died instantly. So determined had the unfortunate youth been to effect his purpose, that he had put no fewer than three bullets into the pistol. His brother came to Edinburgh, as requested, but had passed him on the road unknowingly ; and on Wednesday forenoon was made acquainted, by his mutual friend, of the melancholy and fatal catastrophe.—Scottish Standard.  The Rev. William Cockburn, D.D., late Dean of York, who has been deprived of his deanery for simony, was formerly of St. Johns College, and was twelfth wrangler in 1795. He proceeded to the degrees of M.A. in 1798, and D.D. in 1823. He was the first-elected Christian Advocate, to which office he was appointed in 1803. Dr. Cockburn is the third son of the late Sir James Cockburn, of Langton, Berwickshire, brother of the present baronet, and of ViceAdmiral Sir George Cockburn, M.P. He married, in 1805, Elizabeth, second daughter of the late Sir Robert Peel, and sister of the present baronet. This lady died in 1828. Dr. Cockburn succeeded Dean Markham in 1822. The value of this preferment is about £1,250 per annum.—Cambridge Advertiser.—[Mr. H. W. Bull, soiHtor to the dean, has announced that proceedings are in progress for the reversion of the sentence of deprivation, and arc delayed only by the closing of the courts before which the case will be brought.]
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1841-04-16 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

LAMENTABLE OCCURRENCE.—A most distressing case of suicide occurred in Dundee on Tuesday night last, arising out of the following circumstances :—A young man, belonging to Forfarshire who had been for several years labouring under consumption, had been persuaded to come to Edinburgh for medical advice, which he did. A consulting physician here heard and examined his case, and we are informed, gave him to understand that it was hopeless. Of this, the young man wrote to his friends, and requested a brother to come forand conduct him home, but, without waiting for his arrival, took the coach to Dundee on Tuesday; and on the evening of the same day, in an hotel in that town, seemingly unable to hear the sentence hanging over him, shot himself through the head, and died instantly. So determined bad the unfortunate youth been to effect his purpose, that he had put no fewer than three bullets into the pistol. His brother came to Edinburgh, as requested, but had passed him on the road unknowingly ; and on Wednesday forenoon was made acquainted, by his mutual friend, of the melancholy and fatal catastrophe.—Scottish Standard. The Rev. William Cockburn, D.D., late Dean of York, who has been deprived of his deanery for simony, was formerly of St. John's College, and was twelfth wrangler in 1795. He proceeded to the degrees of M.A. in 1798, and D.D. in 1823. He was the first-elected Christian Advocate, to which office he was appointed in 1803. Dr. Cockburn is the third son of the late Sir James Cockburn, of Langton, Berwickshire, brother of the present baronet, and of ViceAdmiral Sir George Cockburn, M.P. He married, in 1805, Elizabeth, second daughter of the late Sir Robert Peel, and sister of the present baronet. This lady died in 1828. Dr. Cockburn succeeded Dean Markham in 1822. The value of this preferment is about £1,250 per annum.—Cambridge Advertiser.—[Mr. H. W. Bull, solicitor to the dean, has announced that proceedings are in progress for the reversion of the sentence of deprivation, and are delayed only by the closing of the courts before which the case will be brought.]
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1841-07-20 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

SUICIDE.—On Thursday, and by adjournment on Friday, an inquest was held before the borough coroner, on the body of Anne Rowe, a married woman, who died in consequence of having swallowed a quantity of arsenic. A number of witnesses were examined on the inquest. From the evidence it appeared, that the deceased had been married about seven years to a man of the name of Henry Rowe, and that they lived very unhappily together, as he was in the habit of leaving her without any means of support. They had five children, three of whom only are living. The eldest of the children living is six years old. The deceased, for sometime back had been very uneasy in her mind, and was much distressed in consequence of the neglectful conduct of her husband. On Monday morning she proceeded to the shop of Mr. John Parry, chemist and druggist, in Springfield-street, in company with a little girl and asked for a pennyworth or two of arsenic, in order, as she said, to destroy rats which went into her cupboard. Mr. Parry very properly refused to serve her, as he was unacquainted with either of the parties, but told her she should have it for the purpose alleged, provided she brought a proper witness with her. She then went out of the shop and returned in company with a woman of the name of Flanagan, and Mr. Parry then served her with nearly half an ounce of arsenic, cautioning her at tke same time to be very careful in the use of it, folding it in paper, and marking it " arsenic—poison." She then returned to her dwelling, where she mixed the arsenic in a cup with some water, and drank off the contents. Shortly afterwards she wrote a letter to her father, telling him she wished to be buried in the same grave with her children, and that the ill conduct of her husband had driven her to commit suicide. She then became exceedingly ill, and two surgeons, who had been sent for, applied the stomach-pump, and administered emetics, which recovered her a little, but after a time she got worse again, and died at six o'clock in the morning. Mr. Cheeseborough, surgeon, made a post mortem examination of the body, and discovered about three inches of dark inflammation near to the lower orifice of the stotnack, which had evidently been occasioned by some poisonous matter. He then made an analysation of the stomach and its content:, and found that it contained arsenic. The jury returned a verdict to the effect that death had ensued from the deceased having taken a quantity of arsenic while in a state of insanity. We beg to draw attention to Mr. Davis the optician's address, inserted elsewhere ; we can recommend him to the notice of strangers and visiters in Liverpool SHIrMASTER'S
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1841-07-20 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

EXMOUTH.—EXTAAORDINARY SUICIDE.—This town was thrown into great consternation on Friday last, by a report that a private in the party of the 9th Lancers, quartered here during the election in Exeter, had destroyed himself in the most deliberate manner by blowing his brains out with a pistol. The report proved unfortunately too true, and the following are the circumstances of the case :—The deceased, whose name was Terence Shields, was billetted with several of his comrades at Bastin's Globe Inn. They slept in rooms at the top of the house. In the morning the deceased had been out on parade, and had returned to his sleeping-room for the purpose of shifting his parade-dress. This was about half-past eight o'clock. One of his comrades was with him for the same purpose, but, having changed his dress before the deceased, left the room and went to the stables. About five minutes afterwards the report of fire-arms was heard in the room, and, an alarm being given, the unfortunate man was found extended on the floor quite dead, half of his face being blown off. An inquest was held on the body by Mr. 4benlein on Saturday last, when evidence was given eliciting the above facts. It appeared that the pistol with which this dreadful deed was committed belonged to the deceased ; and so determined had he been in his purpose, that he had actually loaded it with four rounds of ball cartridge. The balls were found lodged in the ceiling, with a portion of the scalp of his head. The deceased had betrayed no symptoms of insanity, excepting a slight melancholy, previous to destroying himself; and one of his comrades deposed, that five minutes before his death he was perfectly cool and collected. He was somewhat given to drinking, and had been intoxicated two days previously, which circumstance seemed to have preyed on his mind. His sergeant gave him a good character, describing him as a quiet and inoffensive man. He was 24 years of age, and not married. After deliberating upwards of four hours, the jury returned a verdict offelo de se, and the body was buried privately the same evening, no funeral service being read over it.—West of England Conservative.