Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1882-08-19 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

DOUBLE SUICIDE IN LONDON.  A few days ago the bodies of a young man and a young woman, tied together with rope, were dragged oat of the Serpentine, London, near the bridge. The divisional surgeon of police said that they must have been in the water several days. The clothes indicated that the dead per. sons had been in a respectable position of life. In the man', pockets were three half-pence in bronze, and four pawntickets relating to jewellery ; and in the woman's pockets were a pair of gloom, and several pawntickets. Souse of the things had been pawned with Mr. Page, of Eastbourne, in the names of George and Matilda Dickinson, and the address given was 14, Bourne-terrace, Eastbourne. When the bodies were discovered the man's arms were round the woman, and his hands were tightly tied at the wrists with twine. An umbrella was attached to the bodies, which were removed to the marMary at Mount-street Workhouse. Late in the day they were identified as those of Matilda May and Georg Dick. inson, who had proposed getting married, but the match was disapproved by some of the lady's relatives. They had gone to Eastbourne, but nothing has, as yet, been ascertained concerning their mode of living since their disappearance. It appears that the suicides had been reduced to poverty, and it is surmised that after pawning all they could, and being too proud to write home for money, they resolved on drowning themselves. Both of them were thirty years of age. The uncle of the lady Informs the police that a few days since a letter from Mine Dickinson was placed in his box over night. In the letter she expressed her intention of committing suicide in the Serpentine.  ABOUT 150 FISHING DOAT3 hailing from Lowestoft, Yarmouth, Penzance, Shields, Hartlepool, and other places arrived at Whitby a day or two ago with splendid catches of herrings. The takes averaged from a few thousand to 15,000 per boat, and there was a ready demand for them, one merchant purchasing as many as 70,000. In the early part of the morning the prices were 4s. to ss. per 100; later on, however, sales were effected at fie. to 2s. Oil. per 100. So enormous was the azgregate catch that the North-Eastem Railway Compattv had to put on special trains, and this was done with such expedition and promptitude that the whole was despatched in excellent time for the market,. AN INguitsx has been held at Leicester on the body of Job m Warburton. Ile had been engaged to a widow named Wadsworth, at Uttomter, but instead of getting married on Bank Holiday he went home to Chmterfield. He said Mrs. Wadsworth would never forgive him, but by his mother's advice he left Chesterfield with the view of having the wedding two days after. Ile, however, went to Leicester, rid Nottingham, and swallow.d poison in a large coffee tavern. He threw up his hands and exclaimed, "I'm a dead elan; I've taken oxalic acid." Ile died on the way to the infirmary. In his pos.emion were found directions to the finder of his corpse, and also a request that certain property might be Ave.; to the woman who should have been his wife. He also dechred that he had got his death by going to Chesrer:ichl instead of getting married. The jury returned a verdict of "Suicide whilst temporary inane." A YIWNO NAN, named John Turner Richmond, was charg,dat Stockton-on-Tees with stealing a quantity of jewel:ery from the shop of his father. Watches, alb r e, brooches, and necklaces were traced as having been pawned by persons whom the prisoner had sent, and after a long hearing Richmond I deeded guilty, and was sentenced to throe months' imprisonment with hard labour.  --4llit ATTENTION Of the Dover Borough Bench of magistrates has been occupied for a considerable time in a coon of default ufbler the Pilotage Acts, the prosecation being instituted by the Trinity House. The captain of the barque Adria, a Norwegian vessel, was summoned by Mr. Harrison, a Trinity pilot belonging to Dell, for refusing to take a qualified pilot for Dover. The vesml arrived off the harbour on Wednesday, and was approached by the No. 2 Cinque Forth pilot cutter, but the captain refused to take the pilot, and shortly afterwards took the services of an unqualified man. The case create I considerable interest, and the captain was fined £3 17s. and costs.  A NAN named Arthur Foam has met with a shocking death on the Midland Railway near Derby. lie was walking along the line when, on account of a alight fog which prevailed, a train approached unperceived and struck him down. Death was almost initantaneous.