The Warwickshire Herald. — 1886-04-22 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

SHOCKING SUICIDE AT THE MANSION HOUSE STATION.—Mr. Baxter, deputy-coroner for the City of London, was informed of the death of Henry Redmond, aged 55. late of 10, Chetwynde-road, Highgate. The 7.40 p.m. train was running into Ow station on Friday. when deceased deliberately threw himself on to the metals. The excitement and commotion which his action caused among the passengers was intense, and a lady ran away screaming loudly. Immediately the train Was stopped it was found that both legs had been severed from the body. The body and the severed legs were placed on one of Messrs. W. H. Smith & Son's shutters, and taken to St. Bartholomew's Hositital. AT the Jersey Royal Court, on Saturday, Philip Dubeaane, Clement Nicolle, and William Lawrence De Gruchy, three Judges of the Royal Court, managing directors of the Jersey Banking Company, were committed for trial at the July Criminal Assizes, charged with preparing and issuing false yearly balance-sheets. Munn the .down express from London to • Plymouth, on Friday, had passed Kingsbridge-road Station on the Great Western Railway. the body of a young lady named Croaker, well•known in the district, was found lying across the rails. The bead was severed from the body, which presented a shocking spectacle. ELLEN DAVIES, the young woman who was found on the railway between Chester and Manchester on Wednesday morning last, dreadfully injured, died on Saturday morning, at Chester Infirmary. The poor girl passed away without recovering consciousness, and, consequently, without affording the authorities any clue why she jumped from the express, as it is clear she must have done. A MELANCHOLY occurrence is reported from Albi, in France. Au infant in a cradle, left alone in a room, was found dead, with its face completely eaten away by a ferret kept by the child's father for rabbit hunting, and which had escaped from its cage. WILLIAM DITCHFIELD, 24, spinner, is in the custody of the Blaekburn Borough police, for causing the death of his father, George Ditchfield, 68, formerly a spinner. The father was in a neighbour's house until Saturday at midnight, waiting for his son to return home. When the son returned the father went towards the house, when a neighbour heard a scream. She ran to her door, and saw the prisoner dragging his father into the house, where he struck him on the head. The old man cried out, "lam killed," and died soon after. . . .  ON Saturday afternoon a , convict at Chatham extension works, said to be one of the Irish prisoners, when leaving work for the day, placed himself across the steam tramway, and was fatally injured. A MADRID correspondent telegraphs that that city was yesterday thrown into a state of excitement by the attempted assassination of the bishop. As the prelate was alighting from his carriage, near one of the entrances to the cathedral, a priest standing at the top of the steps aimed a revolver at him, and tired three shots. One shot struck him in the abdomen, the second lodged in his side, and the third wounded the bishop in the thigh. His assailant was immediately arrested and lodged in prison; and to the bishop, who showed little sign of retaiNing life, the last Sacraments were administered. Revenge is the only apparent motive for the crime.