Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1884-12-13 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

TRIPLE MURDER AND SUICIDE.  A woman named Ann Mason, wife of a bleacher, raiding in Melton-street, Elton Bury, Lancashire, has murdered her three children, aged four and three years and eight month, respectively, by cutting their throats, and afterward. committed suicide by cutting her own throat. The wife had been suffering from melancholia for about a week, and had an idea that she had an incurable complaint, but she bad shown no symptoms of dongeroOs mania. On returning to dinner the husband found the doors bolted and the blinds drawn. The back room was forced open, and Mason finding It empty, went upstaire, where he was horrified to find the bedroom door one pool of blood, and his wife and three children lying dead with their throats cut. All the little ones were In their nightgowns, but wearing their stocking. and clogs. The state of the room proved that the children hail been deliberately murdered one after the other, and their throats held over a pan into which the blood had poured. The murderees must then have laid the little bodies in scow on the floor, and proceeded to cut her own throat. The boy Thomas, aged four years, appears to have struggled for his life, aa his arms were drawn up, and there were marks of his fingers on the walls, but the neighbours state that they heard no sound. The following letter front the woman to her husband was Bend, "Dear John, You most forgive me for doing this. 1 have been a good wile to you. ton most bury all of 09 with George (a deceased eon). I cannot leave my children to be knocked about. The Lord will forgive me. I watched them die, and ant happy. Yon have been a good huthand to mO. Good-bye, John. Do not invite many to the funeral,"  00AGITL1141.—The boat Cum.! for Broken Articles, M., Is.; p 000,24. Kay Boot., Stockport. Sold everywaere. THE Pesos Society and the International Arbitration and Peace Association have each appointed a deputation of live members from their respective cont. Ao Amp/ atts -no) cAnskter,amnseste enletoP ha‘e been made with a view to the amalgamation of these two societies.  Ay the Borough Police-court, Northampton, Ale.atider Milne, a well-known architect, was recently charged by the gas comp my with improperly using g la, and (redolently preventing the meter from registering the whole supply. He had connected the service pipe of the meter with the out/et. The offence was admitted, and the accused was ordered to pay nine guineas, including costs.  iIIatIIEILT WILLIAM CONEY, 1030 said he was an American eurgeon, hen decamped from Sheffield and sailed for America. A few weeks since he was charged before the Sheffield magistrates with illegal practices, and after s Mainz of over live hours the cam was ad oumed, the prieoner being remanded on hail, himself in L2O, and tiro nineties of £2OO. He suddenly disappeared, however, saying he teas going to London to sell some of his stock-In-trade, but news has reached Sheffield that he Is likely to land in New York.  Mn. APLAriaar, M.P., recently introduced to the Home Secretary, at the Home of Commons, a deputation from the committee of manufacturer. of explosives and mine owners, who preeented their memorandum of suggestions aa to the measures which they would be willing to adopt for the better protection of ruagwines stored with dynamite and other explosives. 'the interview eves private, but it is understood that although Sir William Harcourt could not assent to the expenw of watching ruagswines in disturbed districts being charged to the public, he gave a generally levourable reception to the other suggeetions made Mr. C. Tennant, M P., Mr. A. P. Vivian, M.P., and other mernters of Parliament were present.  rAwit, deputy town clerk of Liverpool. bee been elected town clerk of Bull, at a salary of £10.0) per annum. There were two other candidates— Mr. Carter, assistant town clerk of Birmingham, and Mr F. B. Mims. Hull.  HAY'S COMPOUND fOr Colas sod CouthS, 94., js. 1 pOstage.3d. Kay Bros., Stoesp....rl. and .11 Ch.. tnigts _ _  A- DEPUTATION, .00mpiising Lord Salisbury, Lord Cowper, Baron Dimedale, and the Mayor and town clerk of Hertford, as repreaenting the inhabitant, of the Bottom Division of Hertfordshire, has had an interview with the Lord Chancellor oo the surgeeied removal of the :Mai,. front Hertford to St. Alban',. 'I he Lord Chancellor wild he hod promised the St. Albans people to bring the matter before meeting of the judges, to he held ehorlly, and the representations of the residents of the Eastern Division ehould be laid before them at the same Jima