The Kenilworth Advertiser. — 1898-08-20 (Kenilworth, Warwickshire, England)

WOMAN'S SINGULAR CONDI/GM—On Sunday the attention of the police was called to a woman named Elizabeth Ferrier who was behaving in a strange way in the Pump Room gardens. was taken to the police station, where the police surgeon examined her, but her condition hardly warranted a certificate of insanity. She had money on her, and expressed a desire to travel to Edinburgh. It was afterwards ascertained that her conduct in the train on the northward journey was so strange and disorderly that it was necessary to put her under the care of two porters, and suleecpently she was placed in the hands of the Birmingham police. _ .  Swum:inn MArcims.—The Leamington Swimming Club gave an entertainment at the Pump Room Baths, on Saturday evening. There was a= attendanoe. The first event was a six-lengths handicap, which was won after a hard struggle by A B Mailin (66seo); P E Kens (62 sec) was seoond and H B Horswell (68seo) third. The team race between the Leamington Club and Birmingham Leander proved very exciting, first one side leading and then the other. In the end the Leander men won by about six inches. A polo match followed between Leander and Leamington, the match ending in a win for the Birmingham men by 9 goals to I. DROWNID IN TKO CAnAL.—Barly on Tuesday morning, the body of William Shotton, aged 67, a moulder, of 24, Clarence-street, was discovered floating In the canal. P.O. Cope had the body removed to the polioe mortuary to await inquiries. The old man was last seen alive on Monday night, when on going to bed he complained that the thunder greatly affected his head. He had been very unwell recently, and at one time was :under the care of Dr. West.—An inquest th was held on Wednesday before e coroner Mr. il Wmhurst). Deceased it appears had suffered paralytic strokes, and had been strange in his manner. The evidence showed that Shotton lame from bed in the early morning and jumped into the oanal.—A verdict of "Suicide whilst temporarily Insane" was returned. _  Discovitar.--On Wednesday evening the body of a man was discovered in the canal at Bedford &male, near Leamington, and the case is 'apposed to be one of determined suicide. A human head was first seen in the water by some canal boatman and several pedestrians along the Bedford-road, and when the body was hauled to the towing-path it was seen that the legs had been tied together by a pocket-hs.ndkerchief and the left hand bound to a waist-belt by means of a piece of tape. The body was tally dreeeed with the exception of hat and coat, which were found on the towing-path under the bridge. In the pockets were discovered a railway ticket from the Leamington Avenue-station to Milverton, and a bill from Hunt, Bdmunds, and Co. brewers of Banbury. Two letters were the means of identifyinAhthe deceased as Mr. IL. J. Butler, landlord of the cape-arms, Alth One letter, written in Pfroßstr:nel oorjelinnltrint; affectionate terms, was evidently from his wibiszierho has been staying at Ufton, and another was a written by the deceased himeelf. !Iy.is on the tow-path, near the coat, was a a lug a green powder and labelled blank appearance of the face is supposed to be Os effect of poison. It is gamin& that the hildi affected ihe man's brain. The bodyrkti apparently, had not been in the water charge of by the Bedford oonstable. This the second W 4 dieeovered in the canal this week.  "I have much gamer* in endosingilizzat mit and trousers. Maw mutter deserves for the capital work he has turned out. •li.tleat fair sample of the many voluntary .i received by Thomas Login., the oriclualsrnsy I. seen at his Tailoring listabliehment, Bagent-strisk, next Parade, Leamington.  ,y • k  •N