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Penistone, Stocksbridge and Hoyland Express, etc. — 1915-06-05 (Penistone, South Yorkshire, England)

SUICIDE CORNER."  The following interesting letter from Pte. .7 Burgin, whose borne is in Allott street, Elseea.r, has been received by Coun. T. Totnlinson, the secretary of the Elsecar Main branch of the Y.M.A., at which colliery, before enlisting, Pte. Burgin was engaged as a trammer:—  "1 daresay that you will he glad to receive a line direct from the front. No doubt you will he a little surprised at my writing to you, but as we have had to take cover in our dug-outs on account of the Germans shelling us. I thought I would drop you a line to let you and my pals at lilsecar know that so far am Al. At present, my word, we are not halt' getting it hot, but happily we are getting ; very few casualties. a fact for which we are I very thankful. We feel quite safe in the trenches; the worst of it is the changing. I When we come out we many times drop flat on the ground because of the German ballets coming so fast, and it is just the same going in. That's the only thing that troubles the men. At one certain earner it is so dangerous that it has been christened 'Suicide Corner.' because linnets come from all sides, hut so far WP have had no one hit there. I can't imagine chaps being so afraid of coming out here. Of course. I admit that the first time going under fire makes the heat of men feel a hit 'creepy,' but when in the trenches all that leaves you. Von should lust hear the chaps singing and shouting to the Germans We have actually heard them singing 'God SA CP the King.' The Germans I are only about 350 ;Ards away from us, and I in some places they are only 90 yards away, I hut they won't show themselves, that's the worst of it. I for one never longed so before as I do now for blood, and when I have a chance, don't forget it, I take it. We shan't he long before we are all home again."
Penistone, Stocksbridge and Hoyland Express, etc. — 1915-07-31 (Penistone, South Yorkshire, England)

SUICIDE AFTER ILLNESS.  !SAD DEATH OF A HIGH GREEN MINER.. The inquest was held on Saturday last, at the ilortomley Schoolroom, on the body p: George Boswell, aged 36, a miner of Wortley road, High Green, whose body was recovere'd on Friday from the Westwood Reservoir_ The Coroner who held the inquiry was Mr. Kenyon Parker.  Henry Edward Boswell, brother of the ceased, stated that deceased left home on Friday morning, shortly before eight o'clock. He had not returned at 9-30 a.m., so witness went to look for him_ When passing the Westwc.od Reservoir he was attracted by a quantity of clothing which belonged to his brother, and at once reported the affair. He had last seen his brother alive the previous night. Deceased had been off wort since October last, suffering from nystagmus. fl.. had frequently complained of severe pains and had become depressed. Police-constable Sellars (.722) said the water was dragged and the body recovered at 124.10 p.m. 'The jury returned a verdict of "Suicide by drownin; whilst of unsound mind through depression caused by nystagrous." The interment took place en Monday at the Burn Cros.s Cemetery, the Rev. Wm. Surtees (Vicar) conducting the funeral service. An avangements were carried out by Mr. J. J. ...ayes, of Alortomley. The bearers were Messrs. G. liincheliffe, J. Fisher, A. Nuttall, W. Shaw, W. Yeardley, T. Batty, .H. Knibhs, and M. Fisher.  _ The principal mourners were Mrs. G. Boswell (widow), Mr. Leonard Boswell (son), Mr. and Mrs. J. Boswell, Mr. and Mrs. E. Norman, Mr. and Mrs. S. Granger, Mr. and Mrs. E. Boswell, Mr. and Mrs. G. Merritt (brothers and sisters). Mr. and Mrs. A. Grant, Mr. and Mn. T. Crawford, Mr. and Mrs. W. Grant (Sheffield), Mrs. Moorhouse, Mrs. D. Windle, Mr. and Mrs. J. Sanderson, Mr. and Mrs. IL Johnson, Mr. C. Fisher, Mr. 0. Wilton, and other relatives and Ifriends. There were several floral tributes, including one prom the Floral and Horticul• ; tura! Society, of which he was an sans member.
Penistone, Stocksbridge and Hoyland Express, etc. — 1915-04-03 (Penistone, South Yorkshire, England)

PARISH MEETING AT EGCLESFIELD.  The Efficiency of the Fire Brigade.  4- --a 11  at 140. aad 142. WestLar, Sheffisid.  14, le, ail i Bridgszat:, Rotherham.  The girl had been missing from her home since January sth, and nothing was fdiscovered until the body was taken from the dam, in a very decomposed condition. The sister, Ernestine Braman, said the last the family saw of deceased was when she eft home on January sth to take her father's dinner to Henry Street, Sheffield. She left about noon. and 901Xte time later left the diaper in Henry Street. At about one o'clock an aunt saw her opposite Wadsley Chapel, which was five minutes walk from her home. They did not exchange any conversation. Replying to the Coroner, witness said her sister had not been moody nor despondent. Their mother had been ill, and they had sineds thought that perhaps she troubled about it. The Coroner: You cannot account for it? Was she in any trouble?—Witness: No, sir. Witness further stated that it was unusual for the deceased to go for long walk* by herself and by the reservoir. A farmer named Samuel Oheckley, of the Yew Tree Farm. Bradfield Dale, told the Coroner that he saw the girl on January .sth. It was about 2-90 or three o'clock, and she was coming down the Damflaak reaervoir to Stacey Bank Road, in the direction of Sheffield. As he drew near she suddenly turned round and went towards Bradfield. He passed her, and she seemed to be hesitating and loitering on the road. He proceeded to Holdworth, and on his way back, half an hour later, met her walking briskly towards Sheffield. He did not gee her again. There was a hedge fence between the road and the dam, and the distance from the road to the reservoir was 10 or 12 yards.  Thomas C'ousins, reservoir keeper, deposed to finding the body. It was floating on the south side of the dam, opposite the Dung. worth Road bottom. it was close to the edge, and dee.ased's hair was firmly en. tagled in the blackberry hushes. The body had been in the water a long time, and it was fto decomposed that it was impossible to pee if there were any marks on it. The spot where he tomui it was a short distance from his house. and he passed it fairly often. but the girl might have been there some time without him noticing it, as it was under the bank side.  The Coroner remarked that it was one of thoee unsatisfactory capes. a mystery that could not he cleared up. There wile no very clear evidence, and none to show that she had committed suicide. The only thing the jury could do was to bring in an open verdict. A verdict of "Found dmirrit,l" was returned. and that there was no evidence to show how deceased came to he in the water.
The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1893-10-28 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

TRAGEDY NEAR ACCRINGTON.  A terrible tragedy was committed at Clayton-leMoors, near Aoorington, on Saturday afternoon. John Greenwood, cioaohman, enraged by jealouiy, attempted to murder his wife and then drowned himself in a pond. Greenwood was a man of about 60 years, and had a numerous family, two of the children being married, lie left his wife at the end of last year, and had sinus lodged with the gardener of Spartle House, his wife and children continuing to live in Victoria-street. Rumours of his wife's infidelity had greatly upset Greenwood of late, and about a fortnight ago he declared that he would rather drown himself than live with her aotin. The report also reached the ears of Mrs. Green. wood, who on Sunday afternoon went to meet her husband as he left work, for the purpose of having certain allegations proved, taking her youngest boy. She met her husband in the main road not far from Spartle House. He attacked her like a savage, kicking her face and head so violently that she WEI 3 picked up unconscious and her life was despaired et. Believing his a ife dead, Greenwood pulled off his watch and chain and gave them to the little boy, and then bolted across the fields. The police followed, but he got clear away. It was generally believed that he would carry oat his threat to drown himself, and the surmise proved correct, for later in the day his deal body was found in a pond over a mile away. Meanwhile, his wife had been removed home, and Dr. Clegg summoned. She was uffering from an -agly wound above the eve, and her face and head were much battered. She bore other evidences of having been badly used ; indeed it seemed a marvel that she lived at all. She remained unconscious for a long time, and in a very precarious state. _ _  it‘the inquest on Monday a verdict of suicide whilst temporarily insane was returned.
The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1893-10-28 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

THE LEEDS TRAGEDY.  SOLUTION OF TRY MYSTERY.  The mystery surrounding the disappearance of Grainge Thompson, the son of the old couple found murdered in the house attached to Joppa Tannery, at Leeds, on the 12th inst., was salved the other day, when Thompson's body was found in the Aire and Calder Canal, at Kirkstall, near the scene of the tragedy. There were a number of stones in the pockets besides 9s. in money. The body had apparently been in the water a week, and at the inquest later on the jury found that Grainge Thompson had wilfully murdered his father and motler and committed suicide while of sound mind. One witness said Grainge had complained of disagreements with his father, and about a week before the deed said the latter had deprived him of his last shilling. Both men indulged in betting. By his mother's will Grainge would have taken a legacy of £5O. He seemed to think that his father was using his mother's money for betting.  George Eroot Milne, a London publican, committed suicide in bed on Saturday by ahootiag himself with • revolver. At the inquest on Mon. day Mrs. Mary Wilson, • sister•in-law, said that he was • jovial sort of man, but lately had been depressed owing to his wife's illness. He oomplaized of pains in the head. He was not in any financial difficulty. The jury returned • verdict of "Suicide whilst of unsound mind."  A singular fatality to • soldier has occurred at Tort Southwick, on Portsdown Hill, wkere a company of the 24th Carneronians, whioh joined the Portsmouth garrison is quartered. Private Landon, a young soldier, who was detailed for patrol duty the other evening, was missed at roll•call, and his dead body was found in a fosse surrounding the fort. It is supposed that in the darkness he walked over the edge of the ditch and was killed ía the fall.  As a train reached the platform at Willesdengreen Station, London, on Saturday morning, a man was observed to get on to the reimanent way and turn hid back to the engine. Before the train °Quid be stopped it had knocked the man down, and he was dragged about 60 yards. His injuries, however, were no more serious than a shattered elbow and some cuts on the face. A determined suicide took place at D)ver 021 Saturday. A k ervant girl, natneri Emma Brazier, drank a large quantity of carbolic acid. Having ascertained of a lad in the house that her mistress had gone out, she went upstairs where a bottle of carbolic acid for disinfectant purpos. e was kept. Almost immediately afterwards the youth noticed a strong smell of the acid, and going upstairs found the girl in a chair dead. She bad taken about 63z, of the liquid, two or three drachms of which would be sufficient to destroy life. The girl was dreadfully disfigured.
The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1893-05-27 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE OF A  BOY.  A remarkable case of suicide by • boy was investigated by the coroner at Gurnard, Isle of Wight, on Tuesday. The boy, • son of a musio teacher named Stanford, hanged himself behind his bed room door on Sunday evening, for no assignable reason. He was discovered by his father dead, and on being cut down he was found to be wearing his mother's long jacket closely buttoned, and one of her petticoats. He had also put on his father's rings and muffler, and had placed • looking-glass in such a position that he could see himself whilst hanging. The jury returned a verdiot of temporary insanity.  ' deaf" ,Ilb•-if  On Saturday evening three clerks from Dundee, William Thompson, David Soott, and David Lowe went for a cruise up the river Tay. On their way home, immediately to the east of the Tay Bridge, a sudden gust of wind capsized the boat. The accident was observed by an officer on board the training ship, who dispatched a crew of lads to the spot. Thompson, who was hanging to the boat, mush exhausted, was rescued and soon recovered, but Scott and Lowe were drowned. A terrible railway accident has occurred near Ilmenau, Germany. It was caused by the explosion of a looomotive boiler, five people were killed on the .pot and eight fatally injured. No farther particulars have been reoeived so far. The Southern express ran off the rails at Paseo. Twenty-live passengers were in the train, and they had a providential escape, only one of the employees of the sleeping oar, who attempted to jump off the train, being hurt. Two serious mutilate are reported from Nicaragua between the Government troops and the revolt'. tionista. The latter are represented as full of enthusiasm.
The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1893-05-27 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

SUICIDE OF AN OFFICIAL.  Mr. T. Chesi erfield, the secretary of the Hull district of the Dockers' Union, on Tuesday morning attempted suicide by cutting his throat with a pocket knife, He is progressing satisfactorily, though he cannot be said to be out of danger. His onerous duties in :.onnection with the late strike had caused his health to break down, and on Monday he threatened to commit suicide. Early cri Tuesday morning he was discovered in the back yard with a jagged wound in his throat, three inches long. After his wounds had been dressed he wrote on a piece of paper asking the doctor his opinion and seemed relieved when told there was a fair chance of his recovery. He afterwards wrote the following statement:—" I did this myself. I cannot f ice the misery I see before the men through the action of the Shipping Federation. They don't intend to perform their part of the agreement, but mean to crush our men to the very le.st. Why don't they send their blacklegs away and open the docks to our men." Mr. Chesterfield had been in delicate health and the result of the strike had evidently had a depressing effect on his mind.  The unionists returned to work on Tuesday morning, but it is estimated that only about 1,000 of the men who have been on strike were able to find employment, but as time goes on, and the free labourers gradually disappear, more work will, of course, open up for local labourers. The free labourers are now concentrated at the Albert Dock and Alexandra Dock, the other five town docks being now open to the local men. At the Albert and Alexandra Docks some unionists gangs were engaged at the entrance, and put on working the vessels there hard by where the free labourer were working. There had not been any serious Motion, though it was plain to see that excitement ran high. At the Victoria Dock, the scene of the fire, the deal carriers and general labourers resumed work earty. Most of the old hands were reinstated, and work proceeded very quietly. The sailors and firemen assembled in large numbers outside the shipping offices, but work was scarce, the berths of the regular hands in the weekly boats having been filled by good men, whom the employers do not intend to supersede. Nevertheless, many of the inferior hands that have been engaged during the strike have been dismissed, and the old hands, where possible, taken back. The lightermen, dissatisfied that the employers will not reinstate them in a body in their old positions, showed a great reluctance to return to work, and only a few took orders. The employers during the strike have instituted the new rule of having only two regular hands, employing the rest casually, and this alteration from the old rule under which all were regularly employed, tends to accentuate dissatisfaction,
The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1893-08-26 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

SINGULAR SUICIDE OF A LAD.  Mr. C. C. Lewis, Essex Coroner, held an inquest at Mountnessing, near Brentwood, on Tuesday, concerning the death of Edmund Peasey, aged 16 years, who committed suicide by laying his neck on the railway metals on the Great Eastern line near Ingatestene. The deceased had been engaged for the past two years as pot-boy for Mr. John Hawkins, innkeeper and baker, at Mountnessing. Charles Philpott, journeyman baker, employed by Mr. Hawkins, stated that he had shared the deceased's bed for the past two years. On Sunday night, after witness had got into bed, Mr. and Mrs. Hawkins came into the room, aroused the deczased, and accused him of stealing money from the parlour cupboard. The deceased made no reply, but at Mr. Hawkins' request he handed him his purse. Mr. and Mrs. Hawkins then left the room, the former saying, "1 shall have you locked up in the morning." Shortly afterwards deceased undressed and got into bed with wit. fleas, but he rose again after a few minutes, pagtially dressed himself, and left the room. Witneril went to sleep, and did not again see the deceased alive. John Hawkins said that the purse whioh he obtained from the deceased on Sunday night contained 355. 6d., and the sum he had missed was 30s. 6m. He had lost money on previous 0008hi0118. The deceased's father observed that if his sun had been suspected of theft on previous occasions i... was strange that nothing hit t been mentioned to him (deceased's father) about the matter, he was in the village three times a weak. A jurymen: The buy would have been alive now if they had waited, and sent for the police in the morning. The jury found that deceased committed su;cide whilst temporally insane, and at their regnant the Coroner censured Mr. and Mrs. Hawkins for having accused the lad of the theft without taking proper steps to confirm their suspicions.
The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1893-07-22 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

TRAGEDY IN LONDON.  On Sunday intense ercitement was caused in the neighbourhood of King's-cross, London, on its becoming known that a terrible tragedy had taken place in Gray's inn-road, a woman having murdered her•child and then attempted to commit suicide. Julia Attewell, the wife of a tobacconist's assistant, resided with her husband and their infant child, Julia, aged one year and six months, in Gray's-innroad, and for some considerable time past she had been very strange in her manner, whilst at times she had delusions that persons were following her about to injure her and her child. She had on more than one occasion threatened her own life and that ef her infant, but nothing serious was thought of it. On Thursday night she told her husband that she was going to her mother's at Kings-road, Camden Town, for a few days, and she left, taking the infant with her, but instead of going there it seems she went to her married sister, Mrs. Wootten, who with her family occupy the kitchens in a house near Gray's-inn-road. The sister noticed that her behaviour was very strange, and though she threatened to out her own and the baby's throats before lger no notice was taken of the matter. Late on Saturday night Mrs. Attewell prevailed on her sister to go to Camden Town to fetch their mother, as she was ill. Mrs. Wootton returned from Camden Town about 3 o'clock on Sunday morning, and on going into the front kitchen was horrified to find pools of blood about the floor, while in a corner of the room she saw her sister, Julia Attewell, and her child lying bleeding profusely from wounds in the throat. Both mother and child had lost a considei able tuantit, of blood, and were apparently in an insensible condition. They were removed to a hospital where it was found that the child was dead. The woman recovered consciousness, and made a statement to the effeot that she had done it all herself, and that she wished to see her baby die first; she thought they would take the child away from her. She loved her baby, and hoped God would forgive her for what she had done.  On Tuesday at the inquest the jury returned a verdict of wilful murder against the mother, who had inflicted severe injuries upon herself.
The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1893-10-14 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

LONDON SHOOTING TRAGEDY.  INQUEST AND VERDICT.  At the St. Pancras Coroner's Court, London, on Saturday, Dr. Danford Thomas held an inquiry into the circumstances attending the death of Frederick William Whitehead, aged 34, described as a warehouseman out of work, who died at the Itcyal Free Hospital from the effects of self-inflicted bullet wounds. The first witness called was Catherine Whitehead, a fashionably-dressed young woman, who identified the body as that of her husband, who followed no regular occupation, but had latterly kept a lodging-house in some part of London. She last saw her husband a fortnight ago, when he invited her to accompany him to Collins's Music Hall, Islington. He-also asked her to again oohabit with him, but the witness declined. Some time ago he was a witness in the trial of several men who had fired houses for the sake of the insurance, since which time he had purchased a revolver, as he seemed to have an idea that the friends of the men, who had been sentenced to terms of imprisonment, would molest him. The dead man was always very peculiar in his manlier, and the witness once heard him remark that if, in self-defence, he shot any person, he would kill himself rather than appear in a police-court. The witness was aware that her husband was keeping the woman Daisy Sinclair.—Levi Ridgeway, of 44, Gray's-inn-road, deposed that he witnessed the tragedy. The woman, after she was shot, remarked to a policeconstable who had arrived, "Never mind my name or where I live; look after him. Is he dead ?"—Edward Vinell, a clerk, living at 24, Claremont-square, deposed to having heard the report of firearms on the night in question. On running across the square the witness saw the man and woman lying in a pool of blood on the pavement. He heard the woman say, " Fred, if you can hear me, I forgive you your sins, and ask God to forgive you." The man appeared to be lifeless. —Police-inspector Radley deposed to having visited the woman at the Royal Free Hospital. She gave her name as Daisy Sinclair, and stated that she had been living for some time with the deceased man under the names of Mr. and Mrs. Leslie, but that, in consequence of some little disagreement, they had parted, and Whitehead had gone to reside at Haverstock-street, City-road. She told the story of having gone with Whitehead to Collins's Music. Hall on the fatal evening. On leaving the hall the deceased asked her to walk Into Claremont square. When passing by the reservoir the man suddenly pulled a revolver from his breast-pocket and shot her in the head tst ice.— Dr. John Wood, house surgeon at the Royal Free Hospital, deposed that the skin was blackened round the wound, showing that when fired the revolver must have been held close to the head. The woman had received two abuts in the head, but was doing welt, and likely to recover.—The jury returned a verdict that the deceased committed suicide while temporarily insane.