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Beverley and East Riding Telegraph. — 1896-04-04 (Beverley, Humberside, England)

ROE DROWNING CASE.  On Monday an inquest was held at Clitheroe on the body of Eleanor Coulthard, a domestic servant, of Chatburn, whose body was found in the Ribble. Deceased had been in service for a few weeks with Mrs. Clewlton, The Rookeries, Chatburn. A commercial traveller, named Henry Bertram Starr, of Workington, is charged with causing deceased's death.—Mr. A. W. Musson, surgeon for the police fol•ce, testified, as the result of a post-mortem examination, that there were no external marks of violence and the position of the arms was consistent wit h accidental drowning.—Mrs. Elizabeth Chorlton, deceased's late employer, deposed that last week the latter asked permission to meet a friend at the station. The girl never returned. On the evening of the same day the prisoner called at tht house and inquired for Miss Coulthard. On bei•ig told she was not in he left.—A local painter spoke to seeing Starr and Coulthard on the ni,ght in question. He saw them two or thr. e times, and then met prisoner alone about midnight, dripping with water, coming from the river. lit reply to witness's question prisoner explained that he had fallen over the bridge into the river. Prisoner further admitted to witness that he had been drinking all day and had been with a young lady from Carlisle, who was a servant at Chatburn. On the the Tuesday afternoon witness assisted in removing the body. On searching her clothing witness found her purse, empty.—P.s. Beaumont said he found Starr at a lodging-house, and, in reply to questions, the man said he met , Miss Coulthard, by appointment, at the railway station the night before. They quarrelled, and prisener left deceased on a footpath near Clitheroe. On telling prisoner of Miss Coulthard's death he replied that deceased had said something about committing suicide. Deceased's love letters (produced) contained threats to do something desperate to herself. 'rhere were no evidences of struggling at the riverside.—The Coroner, in summing-up, said that there was no evidence on which to return • verdict against Starr or anyone else. Starr was morally responsible for her death, but the evidence Was not sufficient to return any other verdict than "Foam! drowned."—After 50 minutes' deliberation, the jury returned a verdict that Starr was guilty of wilful murder.
Beverley and East Riding Telegraph. — 1896-09-12 (Beverley, Humberside, England)

TERRIBLE TRAGEDY IN HULL.  WIFE MURDER AND SUICIDE.  On Tuesday night a woman named Hester Ann Duinkirk was murdered at Hull, by her husband, John van Hooten Duinkirk, who afterwards took his own life. The man was a checker working at the docks, but formerly he was in a regiment of Hussars. His drinking habits embittered his married life, but Mrs. Duinkirk, who had received a fair education, had kept their home together by teaching music and receiving lodgers until a few months ago, when she left her husband and went to reside with her brother, Mr. J. W. Grasshy, newsagent and stationer, 41, Heckel-road, while Duinkirk went to live with a married sister named Meek, in Caroline-place, Charles-street. On Tuesday night, between 8-30 and 9 o'clock, Duinkirk went to the house in Ifedon-road and asked his wife to return and live with him, saying that if she would not he would compel her. The wife replied that she could not do so, and Duinkirk, ! being under the influence of drink, became exasperated, and produced a revolver, which he pointed in his wife's face. The trigger clicked, but the weapon was not fired, and, thinking that the firearm was simply a revolver with which he had previously tried to frighten her, Mrs. Duitakirk did not move away, nor did her brother, who on hearing the quarrelling had entered the shop. A moment later, however, the drunken man pulled the trigger a second time and then the revolver worked, a bullet being lodged in the poor women's forehead. She fell to the floor apparently dead. Her brother and Mr. John Grassby, her father, seized Duinkirk, with whom a violent struggle took place, but he eventually freed himself and ran into the back-yard, where three shots were heard. It was then found that the ntati had shot himself twice in the head and was dead. Dr. Lilley was sent for, but Mrs. Duinkirk was past help, and died in a few minutes. The two corpses were subsequently removed to the mortuary to await the inquest, which was held yestsoday afternoon, before Mr. A. Thorney, the deputy coroner. In the man's possession was found a letter in which he referred to his acquaintanceship with a young lady as being the cause of the breaking up of his home. He had tried his best to make amends, but on account of his wife's parents his efforts were futile. He invoked curses on their head for the wrong they had done him. He also intimated that before the letter was read he and his wife would be no longer alive to this world. The jury returned a verdict of "Murder" against Duinkirk, and found that the latter had committed suicide while in an unsound state of mind.
Beverley and East Riding Telegraph. — 1896-03-28 (Beverley, Humberside, England)

PRESTON.  SAD CABE OF SUICIDE—An inquest was held at the Bell Inn, Preston, on Wednesday afternoon, by Mr. H. Birks, coroner, on the body of Thomas , Edmund Crumpton, a gardener, of Preston, who was found hanging in a shed in Reedmar, between Preston and Hedon, on Tuesday morning.—Mary Tate, a widow, identified the body as that of her , brother, who was 56 years of age, and lived next door to her. On Thursday last they visited their , father, who was an inmate of the Sculcoates I Union. He was very ill, and deceased appeared to be considerably upset on that account. On Friday the deceased received a letter from the Governor of the Workhouse, informing him of his father's death, which appeared to affect him greatly. She did not see deceased on Saturday or Sunday, but 1 on Sunday night she discovered the back door of his house open. The thought of his father dying in the Union seemed to have upset him, but witness had no idea that he contemplated taking his life. On Monday morning she went to deceased's house, and found two envelopes lying on the table. One ! was addressed to his son at Etton, and the other to his brother at Hyde, near Manchester. Neither contained any letter. The first intimation of the death of her brother was conveyed to her by a neighbour.—George Brunton, postman, Hcdon, saw deceased on Saturday morning, when he told him he was going to Hedon, and when witness offered him a ride he said he was not going.-Arthur Tomlinson, butcher, deposed finding deceased in a shed in a field in his occupation. He was dead, and hanging from a beam by a rope.-No other evidence was considered necessary, and the jury returned a verdict that deceased committed suicide while in an unsound state of mind.
Beverley and East Riding Telegraph. — 1896-01-11 (Beverley, Humberside, England)

TEMPERANCE ENTERTAINMENT. - The usual monthly meeting of the Withernwick United Temperance Meeting gave way to an entertainment on Monday evening last. Mr. J. Harley, of Skirlaugh, presided, and explained that a programme had been arranged which would have proved the best on record, but unfortunately, six of the artistes had been compelled to stay away through sickness. Mr. Plant, of Hull, gave a short address, and the chairman and Mrs. Anderson and Master Plant provided a very enjoyable evening's entertainment with solos, songs, and recitations.  The physicians at Charing-cross Hospital, wnere Major Galloway has been a patient since his supposed attempt to commit suicide, state that his condition has not, up to the present, improved sufficiently for them to form an opinion as to when he will be strong enough to leave the hospital to appear before a magistrate. He is, however, stated to be progressing favourably, and no alarming symptoms have presented themselves. At the West Kent Quarter Sessions on Saturday Annie Hunt was sentenced to one month's hard labour for deserting her child, aged three months, at Dartford Heath. The woman had been tratnping and after leaving the casual ward of the Dartford Workhouse she put her baby on a doorstep, pinning a ticket to the clothes, on which was written, ' "Please take care of the baby for me; the Lord vt;11 reward you." In the week ending January 4th there were 125 bills of sale registered in England and Wales, an increase of 1 as compared with the corresponding period last ycar. The receiving orders gazetted number 41, showing a decrease of 5, and the number of registered deeds of arrangement was 46, a decrease of 6. At the Tynemouth County Sessions on Monday, Jonathan Dodds, coal trimmer, and a Magistrate for the borough of Tynemouth, was convicted of assaulting Robert Wood and Isabella Angus, while in an express train travelling between North Shields and Newcastle, on Christmas Eve. Dodds was fined £5, or one month's imprisonment, in each case. . .  It is intimated from Vienna that a new Ministry will be created in Austria for State Railways, and General Guttenberg, a member of the Austrian general staff, will be appointed Minister of Railways. The latter where hitherto under the management of the Minister of Commerce, but since the North-Western with all its branches has been nationalised, all the principal lines, except the Norabahn and the South Austrian, are in the Imelda of the Government.
The East Riding Telegraph. — 1903-07-11 (Beverley, Humberside, England)

SUICIDE OF A SOLDIER. Dr. G. Danford Thomas held an inquest at Hempstead Dispensary, London, on the body of JAIDM Jones Illumeyard, aged 31, bachelor, an ex. sergeant in the 7th Dragoon Gutrds, who served during the BJuth African War, and was found dead on Hampetead Heath from the effects of a revolver shot.—According to the mother of the deceased, who resides at Exeter, her eon returned from South Africa in June, 1902, and took part with his regiment in the King's Coronation proceesion. He left Exeter for Lindon in search of work, which he failed to find. He was an active man and chafed under hie enforced idleness. The lion. Robert Wtr:l, brother of the Etc! of Dudley, and the decessod's former officer, had maintained her son in Lm.lon, and did his beet to secure him employment. The decearmil grieved to be a burden to anyone.—Thomas Dixlil, valet to the Hon. R. Ward, stated that Hs master was on General Broadwood's stair. and took great interest in the deceased, both in South Africa and since his return to Flagland. Witness was out in South Africa. Mr. Ward did his beet to get deceased work and paid hie expenses—Police-constable William Carr, 212, 8., liatl that at 7.30 a.m. oil Sunday he discovered the leceased 'rug deed in some hnsbee near Pooley's Firm, N wth-end, Hampstead Heath. Beside him who the six ohambtred revolver produced, three chambers of whicti were discharged. In his posieeeion wee found an open litter, in which he bad written :—" I have not, up to the present, received my medals, which were hardly woo. My most sincere regret for the trouble and worry I have caused to the Hoe. H. Ward, to say nothing of oonsiderable expense, which I hoped to cut short before to-night is over, for which I hope he will forgive me. I came to London &brut eight months ago, quite willing to work for my living, and I have not dons anything since, and I do not see any prospect of getting any thiog. I have been thinking of this way out of it for some time. . . . I have had some trouble dragging on for some time. It would have been better 111 had never come to London. Well, such things will happen, and I hope that whosoever finds my miserable carcase will forgive me for any trouble I may put them to. God help my poor parents.—J. J. H."—Dr. Payne deposed that death was due to a revolver shot through the right temple.—The Jury returned • verdict of "Suicide while of unsound mind."  Twenty.foor ouee of small.po: have boo trued lot man who went to Poplar from Beth.
The East Riding Telegraph. — 1903-03-14 (Beverley, Humberside, England)

PASSMORE SENTENCED.  The accused was put on his trial at York Assizes on Wednesday, before Mr. Justice Ridley. The case for the prosecution was conducted by Mr. Kemp, and Mr. Cautley, M.P., was for the defence.  Mr. Kemp opened the case at length, and afterwards submitted the evidence as reported at length above, with the addition that an officer of the Court stated the prisoner's wife could not appear, as she was shortly expected to be confined.  At the conclusion of her evidence, the prosecutrix fainted, and had to he carried out of Court.  For the defence, Mr. Cautley submitted that, the banns not having been published, it was a sham marriage, and the girl Kirby knew it was, and therefore it was not bigamy. Subsequently, however, he said he had come to the conclusion that the point was untenable, and on his advice prisoner would withdraw his plea of guilty.  The accused was then put in the witness box, and stated that be had always told the prosecutrix that he was married. He told her last March that he was married. When the cook tcld him that Miss liirby had fallen in love with him, he had replied, " It's a bad job; I am a married man, and have a child." He had met her in York, but not of his own free will. He had frequently passed the girl with his wife in order to " shake her off." Plaintiff had told him the real reason of her illness was that she was fretting for him. When he told her that he could not marry her, she fainted, and threatened to destroy herself. It was because he believed that ! she would commit suicide if he did not go, that impelled him to go to Hayton on October 18th. Prosecutrix asked him to turn up on Saturday. but he told her that he had not published the banns. He was drawn into the marriage by • trick, the girl threatening to destroy herself. They rushed him through the marriage, although he told the vicar that the banns had not been published. The vicar replied that he had been in the parish three Sundays and that would do as well. The reason witness went through the form of marriage was that he thought. at the time it would have no effect, and lie could no; back out of it then.  I,4ked why he went through the marriage ceremony, the accused said he could not for sery shame do otherwise when the matter had gone .0 far.  Kate Anderson, cook to Mr. Bushell, Mount House, York, said she told prosecutrix prior to the marriage that she had an idea that the prisoner was a married man. She knew that. Ethel Kirby was very much in lore with the prisoner. His Lordship said the case was a very bad one, even supposing that the girl had been the prisoner's accomplice. If they looked at it in another light and admitted that the girl had been warned that he was married, there was still no excuse for the prisoner, and no gratification for him marrying her. He went through the form of marriage apparently to get possession , of the girl, and having achieved this purpose he left her. "You ought to be ashamed of yourself," his lordship added, addressing the prisoner, " tuld you will be sent to gaol for twelve months' hard labour."
The East Riding Telegraph. — 1903-04-11 (Beverley, Humberside, England)

SUICIDE OF A COTTINGHAM YOUNG  MAN.  Dr. Thomas held an inquest on Austen Caten Humble, 23, formerly assistant manager of thel Empire Theatre of Varieties, Cambrillge. The deceased, whose parents reside at Cottingham, was, his brother said, a teetotaller. He had been in the post office, and in December becamel assistant manager at the Theatre of Varieties, Cambridge. He then had to deposit E.lO as security, and the arrangement was that, after he had held his position a month, this was to be returned to him by instalments of LI a week. His wages were 335. a week. Witness understood that the company was a failure, and that his brother had lost his savings in the venture. The Coroner: A letter, addressed by the deceased to his mother, was found in the former's possession. In this he refers to the fact that a man owed him £.23, and had left him in the lurch—a man connected with the theatrical enterprise. He speaks of meeting this man at Cambridge Railway station, and accusing him of " playing him false." The man went on to London, and deceased followed him. Humble wrote a letter from the public library in High Holborn on Wednesday last. He says:—" I have not a single penny in my pocket, and I have pawned my watch for half-a-crown. I have had nothing to eat all day. lam tired of this, and cannot go on any longer. I urn fairly sick of it. I cannot get work, though I have tried. I have not a farthing now .All my hopes are dashed to the ground. I don't know which way to turn for the best. I have nothing left to pawn. I have had enough of walking about the streets at night, and all day long. So I will now say ' Good-bye.'" In a letter to his sweetheart he says:—" All my hopes are dashed to the ground. I hope you will forgive me, dearest, for what I am doing." Mr. Humble, deceased's father, stated that his son had a good home to come to, and had actually iC4O in the bank. His mind must have been deranged by his theatrical reverses. Other evidence showed that the deceased was discovered lying on the rails at Gospel Oak, terribly injured and almost &radiated. Verdict, " Suicide while of on:mind mind."
The East Riding Telegraph. — 1903-09-12 (Beverley, Humberside, England)

EMIGRATION STATISTICS.  THROWN FROM WINDOW.  The evidence of s police constable at the inquest held on Monday on the three victims of the Wailham Green window tragedy showed that the mother followed her two sous from the third-floor window so quickly that all three seemed to be in the air at the same time. All three fell into the area, although the area was not exactly under Death the window. The sons were thrown out sideways, and not in a direct line. If they had simply fallen by accident they would have dropped into the street, and not into the area. Mrs. Bargees etruck the iron rail:ngs round the second-fl tor window in her fall, and carried part of them away with her. The husband and father told sad story of domeetio trouble, accounting in some measure for his wife's distressed condition. He is an insurance agent, but has not been doing very well in his business lately. In addition to this his wife had been distressed about her own health and the health of the ekildren. She had been to the hospital for treatment. She could not sleep, and was very weak. His son Percy had suffered from diphtheria. He alma swallowed two farthings, and had to go into the hospital. A fortnight ago his wife went into hysterics becaule Percy was thought to be lost. He was found in s cupb yard. The boys had been playing hide-and-seek.—Other witnesses gave de. tails of the tragedy, eh iwing that the mother, Mrs. Florence May Burgess, whose ago was 33, threw her two sons from the window in spite of their struggles, and then jumped after them. The boys' names and ages were :—Harold Victor, aged six, and Arthur Percy, aged tour. All three were found suffidng from Ira-Aured skulls and other shocking injuries, from which they died later.—The jury found verdicts of " Wilfully lourdared" in the ease of the boys, and of "Suicide while of unsound mind" in the case of the mother.
The East Riding Telegraph. — 1903-10-24 (Beverley, Humberside, England)

WOMEN MOBBED AT BEVERLEY.  EXTRAORDINARY SEQUEL TO A SUICIDE'S FUNERAL.  A most extraordinary occurrence took place at Beverley on Thursday afternoon, in connection with the interment of the late Herbert Dayes, fishmonger, wbo coraknitted suicide by hanging himself on  Tuesday. The funeral took place at Beverley cemetery, and was witnessed by a large crowd. After the mourners had left the cemetery, and had driven off in the 4 carriages, the crowd immediately surrounded three women—all sisters, one married—and commenced hissing and I 1 hooting. The T women managed to make their 1 I escape from the cemetery and ran down 1 New-walk. They were pursued by the crowd, which was swelling in numbers I every minute, who beat them with sticks and umbrellas, and pelted them with all kinds of missiles. The women then ran up into the Market Place, where the crowd ! was swelled considerably, numbering about three hundred, and including several well-known and respectable residents. The women ran through the streets, crying, and turning into Register-square, ran into the Town Hall for protection. The mob, however, still continued to await them, and when at last they were let out through a side-entrance, the mob again gave chase, and again beat them with umbrellas. In spite of the endeavours of the police to protect them, the women ultimately had to seek refuge in a house near the Minster. The crowd had by this time increased to such dimensions that Minster-Square was packed, and as they were becoming more excited and demonstrative, some fears were entertained that they would endeavour to rush the house. The Rev Canon Nolloth at length appeared on the scene and appealed to them to disperse, but in spite of this they remained. In the meanwhile the police had received reinforcement, and it was found necessary to send the women home under police escort. Several participants in the mobbing completely smashed their umbrellas by striking the women. The occurence caused much excitement in the town.
The East Riding Telegraph. — 1903-10-31 (Beverley, Humberside, England)

VERDICT OF " ACCIDENTAL DEATH."  Mr Luke White, M.P., coroner for the East Riding, held an inquest on Friday on the body of Thomas Dukes, labourer, of Beverley, who was knocked down and killed on the railway between Beverley and Arram, on Thursday. The inquiry was held in Arram station, and the North Eastern Railway Company was represented by Mr William Lazenby, traffic inspector ; Mr Herbert Walker, inspector of engineers' department; and Mr Bell, of the locomotive department, Hull. The first witness called vo as Jane Cross, single woman, residing in Walkergate, Beverley, who stated that she had lived with the deceased as his housekeeper for about eight years. She was unable to , identify the body owing to its mutilated condition, but she recognised the truss and pawntickets produced as being Duke's property. She last saw deceased alive about three o'clock on Monday morning, when he left Beverley to walk to Scorborough, near Arram. She did not expect him to return on Wednesday. Thomas Brewer, foreman with Mr Prescott, farmer, of Scorborough, stated that deceased had been working at the farm about ten days. On Wednesday night he told him he intended to walk to Beverley and to return by the last train. He identified the clothes as being the same as those worn by Dukes. William Bubner, platelayer, deposed to finding the body. It was lying in the four-foot way. The remains were conveyed to the station in sacks. Both up and down trains passed Arrani at about 7 p.m. In answer to the Coroner, witness said that the nearest way from Arram to Beverley was down the line. It transpired that the engine which knocked the deceased down could not be traced.  The Coroner said there could be no doubt as to the identification of the man. Apparently he had been walking to Beverley down the line, and by stepping out of the way of the down train had been knocked down by the train running in the direction of Beverley. That, of course, was conjecture, but it was clear that it was a case of accidental death and not of suicide.  The jury returned a verdict to tnat effect.  There were 3,234 sheep and lambs penned at Driffield Cattle Market on Wednesday, and between 300 and 400 head of cattle.  'Fliere are 28,856,637 acres under potato culture in Europe, and it is estimated that the total yield is 2,339,211,560 cwt.