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The Denton, Haughton, & District Weekly News. — 1874-02-20 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

DOUBLE MURDER AND SUICIDE IN  PARIS.  _ A horrible crime has been discovered in the Rile Montyon. at Paris. At No. 8, in that street, resided a married couple narned Cozonat, with their daughter Anna, aged 21. The husband was a stoker to the water Company and in receipt of  _ good wages, whilst the daughter earned 4f. a day ;is a dressmaker. About three weeks ago the house porter remarked that he had seen nothing of the Cozonat's for some days, but he took no steps to ascertain the cause of their disappearance. For the past week and unpleasant smell had been remarked to proceed from their apartment, and at length it became so offensive Um', the concierge gave notice to the Commissary of Police in order to have the rooms opened. Au entry having been effected, tho bodies of the three persons were found in a state of putrefaction. The husband was sitting i a a phair, and on the ground near. him- play a revolver, three barrels of which had be 'discharged. The wife and the daughter were side by side on the bed, and all thi-ee had wounds, showing that they had met with a violent death. The decomposition was such that the corpses ,were -black and tumefied, and when an attmp ws ins:de-to  remove that of the, young woman the arm dropped  away from the body. It is supposed that the man bad first shot hi s Wife, and then gone to fetch hie.daughte;:fr.pin the stop at which she worked, 'll.d.ati to miirder her also, aii the last time any of the family hid been seen alive was one afternoon, when those two were seen to return together. The two crimes consummated, he had shot himself. The reports of the firing appear not to have been heard, and what seems more extraordinary is that no inquiry should have been made as to the cause of the absence of the father and daughter from their places of employment. • . . .  '-------------- . HOLLOWAY'S PlLL.—Disorders of the Kidneys, knowii by the deep:yseated pain in the back and scanty secretion of water, can be arrested in their distressing and rapid course and rebnygtthheesneinreggpurloaptienrgti properties plirse.venTthetihrehii;hiily.ov,etroinshic. ment of the blood and the derangement of circulation, characteth tic of kidney disease, and often ending in partial or general dropsy. Experience haS, proved the almost unvaried :,nccess obtained When Holloway's Pills are taken in the earlier stages, and the ease they afford when the complaint is more advanced: ' They relax the hot an I parched skin, Overcome the attendent costiveness, induce a copious secretion by the kidneys which are the harbingers of disease departing apd health retn ruing. "The unparailed success of ,Wood & Co's Packet :Tea points, to that, aud to that alone as the tea for the people, . —Quality excellent—flavour, rich and Mellow, may be had of W., 11. Knowles M.arket St. Denton & wholesale only of Wood & Co .146 Market Hall Halifax—Agents Wanted—". [Advt.] .
Denton & Haughton Weekly News, and Audenshaw, Hooley Hill, and Dukinfield Advertiser. — 1875-07-23 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

SIX MURDERERS EXECUTED.  American papers report the execution of six murderers on the 25th ultimo. Two of them, Wagner and Gordon, were hanged at Thomaston, Maine. Before rie execution Gordon attempted to commit suicide by stabbing himself in the chest with the blade of a sheep knife. Wagner protested his innocence on the scaffold. He was a Prussian Sailor, and was convicted of having attacked the family of a fisherman named Houtvet, on one of the Isles of Shoals, on the night of the sth March, 1873, and murdered two of them, a woman and a girl. Mrs lioutvet barely escaped by fleeing to the rocks. The object of the murder was plunder, and he secured about £2,000. Gordon bQing jealous of his brother and his brother's wife, on account of their preferment in his father's will, entered their room at Thorndike, on th 3 night of June 15th, 1873, and chopped them to pieces, killing their little child, and seriously injuring a boy. He attempted to cover his crime by setting fire to the house, but the neighbours extinguished the flames. Two coloured murderers, named Bunch and Hardee, were hanged at Charleston, South Carolina. Bunch had murdered a policeman, and Hardee another coloured man at a " frolic "on the 4th Jul', 1874. Their execution was public. It was witnessed by several tiaousands of coloured people, and, we are told, "there was no disorder beyond great demonstration of religious enthusiasm." James Henry Costley was hanged at Dedham, Massachusetts, for the murder of Julia Hawkes. In order to become intimate with Julia Hawkes he had murdered his housekeeper, Mrs Congdon; and, in order to marry Miss Cushing, he murdered Miss Hawkes. It was for the latter crime that he was hanged. Purefoy, a coloured murderer, was banged at Atlanta, Georgia.  “
Denton Examiner, Audenshaw, Hooley Hill and Dukinfield Advertiser. — 1876-06-24 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

CHARGE OF STEALING £2,000.  At the Mansion House,on Tuesday afternoon, Robert Summersby, 26, a clerk, was brought before Alderman Sir Robert Carden on a charge of having stolen a banker's cheque for £2.000, and forged the endorsement to it of Mr. Richard Banner Oakley, the proprietor of the Co-operative Credit Bank Limited. .  The circumstances were but briefly gone into, but it was elicited that the prisoner tiad been in the service of ~r. Oakley, as corresponding clerk, down to. about November last, when he left, and that during the recent examination of the books aid accounts it was found by the reciver (Mr. Maclean) that a certain cheque for £2,000, drawn upon Messrs. Drumnionds by Mr. Edward Stuart Cole, and forwarded as a deposit to the bank, had not passed to its credit. Mr. Cole had, however, received a formal acknowledgment, but the counterfoil was blank. The cheque was returned paid, but with an endorsment not that of Mr. Banner Oakley. The prisoner subsequently opened an account at the Birkbeck Bank with a large sum of mooey in the fictitious name of "Alfred Laweon.' When arrested on 'l5l. esday, afternoon he admitted that he had had the money, saying that it had been given to him by the late Mr. Kemp, the manager," to hold his noise;" but he denied the forgery. Sir Robert Carden remanded him for a week.  The New York Commercial Advertiser ventures the assertion that nine men out of every ten who calls duty " jewty," also wear their hair parted in the middle.  "It doesn't take much for me to make up my mind. I can tell you!" said a conceited fop. "It's always so, where the stock of material to make Up is small," quietly remarked a young lady. Short man to tall man: "Now then, look alive, Harry! How is it you're always the last?" Tall man "Because I'm the longest!"  A commission agent named Hanson was charged at Liverpool on Wednesday, with attempting to commit suicide. It appeared he had become greatly depressed, owing to financial embarrassments and separation from his wife, and on the.previous day he out his wrist in two plaoes and was found lying in a pool of blood The main artery, however had not been reached, and the flow of blood was stopped. In furtherance of the sciteme which has been started in Liverpool for providing cocoa and coffee rooins, in opposition to the existing beer and gin shops, another establishment was opened on Wednesday by the" Liverpool Workman's Cocoa and Coffee Company," and this will shortly be followed by others.
Denton Examiner, Audenshaw, Hooley Hill and Dukinfield Advertiser. — 1876-10-21 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

ARCTIC EXPLORERS IN WINTER QUARTERS.— The explorers in these latitudes seek winter quarters shout October; and as soon as they are secured, dismantle their vessel, and house the deck over with wood-work like the roof eta house, or with canvas, rig up the heating apparatus, meld a certain amount of the provisions ashore, in case of an accident .happening to the vessel, and if they be of a scientific character, erect an observatory for magnetical or astronomical observations. Want of exercise is the bane of the Arctia wintsger. There is no stimulus to move about, and accordingly there is frequently little , inclination to do so merely for health's sake. • Scurvy soon seizes them, and its ravages have ever ' cbntributed to the mortality of Arctic exploration. Salt meat is usually pointed out as the great cause of this disease; this is, no doubt, true, but salt provision ; does not alone cause it. In South Greenland it is not unfrequeut, among the Danes. In that section of the " land of desolation" the sea rarely freezes over , during the winter. Storms of snow and sleet are, Vowever, very common. Out-door exercise is all but I impossible; and the healthy Winter seal-hunting of I North Greenland, owing to the absence of sea-ice. can  jKWLI  be but little practised. Seal-meat and reindeer are the common articles of food, so that salt cannot be the predisposing cause of the disease, which I am, therefore inclined to attribute to the want of exercise, combined with the depressing influence of theweather. In North Greenland during the dark winter, suicide is rather common amongst the Danes. Whatever may be the pleasure of an Arctic winter, the sojourners in Hyperberea hail the return of the sun with delight7hc Countries of the World,' by Dr. Robert Rri.ou•  Tire, BOYHOOD Or
Denton Examiner, Audenshaw, Hooley Hill and Dukinfield Advertiser. — 1876-06-10 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

EAST.  There is a cloud in the East, and it is a thundercloud. Never since the months that preceded the outbreak,of the Crimean war has the horizon in that quarter of the earth worn amore threatening aspect. From Constantinople, from St. Petersburg, from Vienna, from Berlin, and from Pat is, there is a constant succession of rumours, and these rumours aro always undergoing superficial changes while remaining much the same in substance. The death of the ex-Sultan of Turkey, whether by suicide or by assassination, has only added another mystery to the many dark mysteries of Oriental annals; it has not altered in any appreciable degree the situation of affairs that was brought about by his disposition. To Europe and the world Abdul Aziz had yintually become dead when ho was ejected /roc. his palace and ferried across tne water to the old Seraglio at Stamboul. It was the mere fact of his deposition that possessed impor tanee by presenting the Eastern question in a new phase, and by showing that, though the dethroned Sultan might have been for years a ruinous incubus upon Turkey, there was still vital energy lef among the governing class to bring about a change of sovereignty and of policy whioh may give a longer lease of life to the Ottoman Empire in Europe. The party now in power, strongly Mahometan in spirit, saw with growing apprehension that the late Sultan, desirous of securing luxurious ease at any price, was likely to yield to the new demands contained in the Berlin Memorandum of the three Powers, and as they felt that such a display of fatuous weakness would inevitably lead to the disintegration of the Empire, they resolved on getting rid of Abdul Aziz , and of preventing a defiant front to the menacing attitude of the Triple Alliance. There is just a possibility that the declinature of the British Governmant.to take part with the other Powers in the presentation of the Berlin Memorandum to the. Porte may have helped the Softas to come to a speedier decision; but there is not the slightest foundation for the statements, which have emanated from St Petersburgh, that our Foreigo Office had any hand in briaging to pass the Sudden revolution in Turkey which is probably pregnant with greater changes yet to come.
Denton Examiner, Audenshaw, Hooley Hill and Dukinfield Advertiser. — 1876-06-10 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

REWARDS FOR SAVE% LIFE.  On the recommendation of the Commander-in-Chief„ the bronze medallion of the Royal Humane Society has just been awarded to Lance-Corporal johnson, of the 56th Regiment, for the following gallant net: While several men of the Rcyal Artillery and 56th Regiment were waiting for the ferry boat on the landing stage at Kotree, Scinde, one of them, Corporal Browne, Royal Artillery, accidentally fell in the River I Indus, receiving in his fall a cut in the forehead which rendered him insensible, and, of course, powerless to help himself. Seeing this, Corporal Johnson ' hastily threw off a portion of his clothing and jumped in to the rescue of the drowning man. The river was much flooded, and running with great rapidity at the ' time. After diving several times, Johnson succeeded in grasping Browne and bringing him to the surface, but, in consequence of continued exertions in battling against the current, he became exhausted, fainted, and relaxed his hold. The under-current repeatedly drew both men under the water, and Browne was drowned. But for the exertions of two native boatmen, Johnson would also have perished. The bronze medallion was also given to C. H. Smith, quartermaster of her Majesty's ship Seamew, for saving Alexander M'Kinnon, who, being intoxicated, attempted suicide in Portsmouth Harbour on the 2nd of April (this makes the fourth occasion on which Smith has been instrumental in saving life); to Henry Beere, for saving Edward Nichols and Henry Fisher, who were capsized from a boat into the sea off Bawdsey, Suffolk, on the lst of April last; to William Hare Maunsell, navigating lieutenant RN., for saving Alfred Russell, who accidentally fell into the River Thames, near Crossness, on the 26th of April, the difficulty of saving the lad being much enhanced by Mr. Maunsoll having broken one of his arms. Testimonials inscribed on vellum and on parchment, recording the services rendered, were also presented to James Hanson, for saving John •Dranton, who fell head-foremost into 12ft. of water in the River Trent, at West Butterwick, Bawdry, Yorkshire, on the 15th of March last; to Esau Rollands, for saving John Parton, who sank while bathing: in the canal at Bradley, Bilston, Staffordshire, on the 7th of April last; to F. H. Crates, for saving Ellen Larkham, who fell from a boat i into the Arboretum Lake, Walsall, Staffordshire, on ' the 17th of April; to John C. Fildew, for saving William Sheatee, who fell into the canal at King'sroad, Camden Town, on the 26th of April; to J. J. Hill, for saving Edith S. Davey, who fell into the River Kennel, at Reading, on the 4th ult. ; and to , Edward Cunningham, for saving Richard Burton, who attempted suicide by jumping into the River Midway, at Sheerness, on the 20t of April. Pecuniary rewards were also given to Police-sergeant Edward Blewett, for saving Edward Crick, and to James • Norley, a labourer, for saving a girl, named West, t who fell into the Grand Junction Canal ,Harrow-road, Paddington.
Denton Examiner, Audenshaw, Hooley Hill and Dukinfield Advertiser. — 1876-12-23 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

ATNABY CASK.  kt-lfarylebone co-court, London, Walter J. • Wads, 58 f 5, St. Mary'a-villas, Richmond, late Sig st lerne, Kent, and said to be an sot se.floyal Artillery, Wlttl brought before Mr anaa.fl, us Om charge of endeavouring to obiaiii rash*, irom Sir R. Beckett, Bart. QC., 'by meaus of false representations. Mr. Geo. Lewis, jun., prosecuted. He stated that the prisoner wrote a I..,teetic letter to Sir B. Beckett, mentioning Mr:area during the writer's married life cal..l..ted to excite sympathy, and describing his .deetltuti) condition. At that very time he was engaged as tutor at Herne, receiving his board and /offeing, and living in every comfort. In 1865 the prisoner was brought before Mr. Flowers, at Bow - street, charged with attempting to commit suicide by pretending to throw himself over Waterloobridge. During the remand that was granted subscriptions were sent for him, but when he was brought up the magistrate refused to hand hint the amounts, as a solicitor appeared to make a statement as to the misconduct of the prisontr. The latter would probably have remained as tutor in the house of the gentleman at Rome until the present time had it not been discovered that he wrote an affectionate letter to the cook, addressing her as "Dear Sally," and concluding with "Yours affectionately, Walter." When the facts were made known to the Charity Organisation Society, they obtained a warrant for his arrest, and when he was taken a cheque for a and 4s in silver, were found upon him. In his room were also found nine begging letters addressed to members of Parliament, and thirteen sunder ones unaddressed. The prisoner pretended to be a very religious person. Sir B. Beckett, Bart., QC., proved receiving the letter referred to. and, as he had no means of investigating the truth or the falsehood of the statements in it, he took it to the Charity. Organisation Society. Detective-sergeant Lansdowne, of Scotland-yard, said that he had long been acquainted with the prisoner's name. He apprehended him at Richmond on Friday, and found in his sitting-room a large number of letters similar to that addressed to Sir R. Beckett. The prisoner said that the letter he wrote to the cook was written as a joke while he was under the influence of whisky and water. Mr. Joachim Curbs said that in August, 1873, he saw the prisoner with reference to two letters he had written, and the prisoner admitted he wtote them. The letters produced were in the handwriting of the prisoner. On Wednesday last witness went to Herne, and found that at the time the neismeer wrote to Sir E. Beckett he was not destitute rived of the necessaries of life. The accused 'mended.  /
Denton Examiner, Audenshaw, Hooley Hill and Dukinfield Advertiser. — 1876-08-12 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

MELANCHOLY CASES OF SIIICIDE.—Dr. Hardwicke. the Coroner for Central Middlesex, held inquests upon two persons who bad in their lifetime been in good circumstances, and who had terminated their existence by committing suicide. The first case was held at the Paddington Coroner's Court:upon the body of Charles Adcock, aged 61, of 16, Drand-stroe'. Blandford-square. The evidence of Caroline Adloek. of 45, Parliament-street, went to show that the deceased had been a bookseller and stationer in a largo way of business, and with his savings, aided by an annuity from the Goldsmiths' Company. he had tired from business. Thedeceased had given way to dirt habits, and in consequence of that his landlord had taken steps before a magistrate to have him ejected from his apartments. This preyed upon his mind. and he sought the advice of his friends, who told hen to look out for other rooms. Still he was anxious about the matter, and expressed a fear of having to go into the workhouse. On Sunday last he was seen in a street in St. John's-wood by a police constable cutting his throat with a razor. He was arrested and conveyed to St. Mary's Hospital, where he died on Wednesday. The second case was held at the King's Heitil, Bloomsbury, upon Edward Newman, of Compton-mews. Counttou-street. The deceased had been a large owner of cabs, and possessed a large sum of money. A few years since his wife went out of her mind, and *as removed to a lunatic asylum. From that date he had experienced a reverse of fortune, nnd had by degrees lost all he possessed. Cab driving was at last resorted to, but in this he did badly, and seemed much depressed in spirits. Being missed since Monday last, a search was made on Wednesday, when his body woo found suspended from a beam in a loft. Verdicts of Suicide while of unsound mind" were returned in each case.
Denton Examiner, Audenshaw, Hooley Hill and Dukinfield Advertiser. — 1876-01-22 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

PLAYING AT " WAINWRIGHT." No nee than three separate instances of lives having been nearly boat in consequence of individuels being hanged in play have recently ocaurred. The Edinburgh Daily Review states that while some boys were amusing themselves at Dykehead the other day one of them proposed that they should 'have a game at Wainwright." This was agreed to; and the boys having erected a scaffold, which was done by piliug some stone. or bricks against a pole, a rope was attached to the top of a pole and fixed round a boy's neck. The stones were thee knooked from under his feet, and he was left struggling. As soon as his companions discovered the state he was in they ran away. Fortunately their proceedings were observed from some neighbouring houses, whence timely aid was rendered the boy, who, when taken down, was in an exhausted condition. One Samuel Collins, apparently between 35 and 40 years of ago, a labourer, was brought no on remand before the Durham county magistrates, on a charge of having attempted to commit suicide on the previous Saturday night, at Mount Pleasant, near Spennymoor. The wouldbe suicide Wlts found late on Saturday night, the Bth instant, by two men who were passing, ha-ging by the neck on a tree by the roadside. From the statement of the prisoner, it appeared that he had been drinking, and that he Suspended himself from the tree aimply to frighten the two men who were coming mimic the road. The third ease touk place at Bedworth, a mining village in Warwickshire, where, while some youths were play. leg, one of their nnmber suggested a Wainwright execution. A strap was accordingly axed to a lamp post, the culprit being lifted on to one of his cont. panion's shoulders, and his head encircled in &noose. At a given signal the supports were removed, whereupon the wonld.be Wainwright was seen struggling in the air. His companions hastened away, but fortunately the weight of the boy caused the strap to break, and be fell, thereby escaping from what would otherwise have been death.  MR. GLADSTONE'S lEISH
Denton Examiner, Audenshaw, Hooley Hill and Dukinfield Advertiser. — 1876-01-22 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

REMARKABLE LUNACY. The Carlisle Patriot eays Mr. Samuel Warren, Maker in Lunacy, held a oourt of inquiry regarding the mental competency of Mr. John Dudgeon, an eminent shipbuilder, formerly of Roshorville, Kent, and now an inmate of Morningside Asylum, Edin. burgh. A barrister appeared to conduct the ease on behalf of the Court of Chancery, and it was mentiosed that the proceedings were instituted in eon. sequence of some arrangement of Mr. Dudgeon's affairs. It appeared he had been in a most erten. sive way of bneinese. Some time ago he built a large ironclad, called tho Independencia, for the Brazilian Government. It cost half a million of money. In launching it, however, there waa a mishap, which preyed upon his mind ; and his disorder was heightened by some anbaequent embesrassments, and still more by the death of his brother. He gook into melancholy, and his friends on several occasione discovered him concealing razors and other instruments of intended self violence. It was at last found necessary to send him to an asylum where there were means of fishing proper care of him, and on the 25th of lest September he was received at Morningside. The doctor, who gave evidence, eaid the ease was one of sante suicidal melancholia. The patient waa still under an hallucination about abstaining from food. At one time it was necessary to feed him with a spoon; but now a stomach pump had to be need for the purpose, his idea being that he had no stomach. Not long ego he attempted to commit suicide by throe lug himself from one of the windows, which, of sourer, was guarded. Dr. Clonston added that Mr. Dudgeon la now quite lost to the world, and hie ease seemed hopeleas. The jury found that the patient was of unsound mind and unfit to manage his affaire, which will now fall under the administration of Chancery. Mr. Dudgeon is sixty years of age, and it was mentioned that at one time he was worth half a million sterling, after paying all his debts.