Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1893-06-24 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

SERVANT'S ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.  At the South-Western Police-court, on Saturday, Louisa Flintham, aged 18, who is in service with the Rev. H. Morris Vancome, of Upper Tooting, was charged before Mr. Haden Corser with attempting suicide by taking a quantity of belladonna.— T Rev. H. M.Vancome said that on Friday morning he was coming out of his study when the girl , rushed downstairs half-dressed, and staggered. He followed her down to the kitchen, where she began turning on the taps and the gascocks. He then noticed that she was ill, and she confessed that she had taken something. Dr. Thompson was called and administered emetics.—Prisoner The reason I t ok the poison was because he accused me of being a thief--Mr. Vancome : Yes, she stole ss. belonging to a lady who was staying in my house.— Police-consa.ble Moore deposed to arresting the prisoner and finding on the chest of drawers in her room a letter addressed to her mother, in which she said : The reason I have committed suicide is because my master and his wretched beast of a lady-help went and told the master that I stole her purse with ss. in it, and, of course, I didn't take her purse, and the mistress wanted to say that I have stolen two good nightshirts, and must have sold them, or gave them away. You know that would be my last thought to think of such a thing. I know I have confessed to the truth, and now I am going to die. I thought it was no good for me to live, as Le had damaged my name. At last I shall be happy and at rest."—Mr. Corser remanded the prisoner.  DEATH AFTER A PUBLIC HOUSE BRAWL At the Mansion House Police-court, on Saturday, John Arthur Frailing, 29, a barman,of the Skinner's Arms public-house, Cannon-street, was brought before Mr. Alderman DitEsdale, charged with causng the death of Ernest Harry Baker, aged 29, a clerk, of St. John's Chambers, Westminster. Henry Taylor, of the City of London police, said that at a quarter-past 11 on Friday night he saw the deceased ejected from the Skinner's Arms publics house, Cannon-stret t. Ile was hustlati across the road by two barmen, and whilst standing on the curb in Cannon-street, apparently recovering himself, he was followed up by one of the barmen, who deliberately struck him a blow with his fist, which knocked him down on his back into the roadway. The witness ran to the assistance of the fall, n man, whom he found insensible. The two barmen disappeared. On conveying the man to the hospital he was told by the doctor that lie was dead.— In cress-examination, the witness said that he could not say positively that the prisoner was the man who followed the deceased up and struck him. The man was thrown out el the public-house, and he (witness) thought that less violence might have been used.—Actingsergeant (riddle deposed to going to the Skinner's Arms public-house soon after the occurrence, and to seeing the prisoner, whom he cautioned. Prisoner said, -I ejected the man; he came in and used filthy and abusive language. In putting him out he caught hold of my coat and spat in my face, and I pushed him, and he fell down." He took the prisoner into custody. The man made no reply to the charge. He (witness) knew the public-house as a very respectable and quiet one.—ln reply to the Court, the witness said that the inquest had not yet been held.—The case was adjourned, the prisoner being admitted to bail in two sureties of £5O, or one in £lOO.  Consequent upon an extensive strike of lumbermen or timber carriers in the district at Tonawanda, U.S.A., and the introduction of free labour, serious riots have broken out. The police have, BO tar, proved powerless, and in reply to an urgent demand for reinforcements the State Governor has ordered a large force of Federal troops to the Irene. It is feared that the strikers and soldiers will come into conflict.  Nocturnal attacks on tramcars are undoubtedly becoming of rather frequent occurrence in Paris. sotm. months ago one of these vehicles was boarded r by desperaaur. near the Trocadero. The other night, says the Daily rety raph Paris correspondent, a desperate attack was m 4,10 by tour masked men on a steam tram running between the Arc de Triomphe and the suburb of Courbevoie. The engine-driver and conductor were seriously injured endeavouring to defend themselves, but they made, nevertheless, so determinsd a stand that their I..4sailants ran away in the darkness wiihout being able to carry out their intention of stealing the money received during the final journeys to and • from Paris.