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The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1874-02-14 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

OOO. It appear-d that for some time before the making of the will the deceased had been much depressed in spirits in consequence of the house in which he had carried on businees in Glerkenwell being required for some metropolitan improvements, and hie lease having expired he was obliged to leave it without compensation. A night or two before the will was made he had thrown himself out of the bedroom a indow, and inflicted some severe injuries on himself. He afterwards repeated his attempts at suicide, and he WRB eventually removed to : a lunatic asylum, and died in confinement on the 2nd of February, 1873. According to the plaintiffs case the deceased's mind was perfectly sound, with the ex ep. tion of the depreseion caused by the idea that he should be ruined by the removal from his place of business In Curkenweli, and he woe perfectly able to understand the effect of his will, which was in sccordance with his previously expressed intentions. The will war propounded by the brother-in-law of the deceased, 14r. White, as executor. One of the deceased brothers contested the validity of the will, and his case was that the attempts to commit suicide were inconsistent with testamentary capaeby, and th .t he had not recovered from the effects of his fall from the window when the will was exscuted. . .  Sir J, liannen, in summing up, remarked that • man's mind could not bi- said to be unsound merely because he took a deepouding view of his affairs; but if his spirits sunk to so low a point that life became • burden which he could no logger support awl be attempted to commit suicide, there could be little dcubt thst at the moment, at ant rate, when the attempt Wl6B committed, the mind must he unsound. After advert. ing to the evidence as to the attempt made by the deceased to commit sui ide some time before and some tune after the execution of the will, and as to the circumstances under which the will WAS signed, his Lordship left it to the jury to eay, first, whether at the time when the will was executed the deceased was in the enjoyment of a lucid inter sal. It they came to the conclusion that he was not, but was under the in. flueuce of actual delusions as to matters of fact, be should ask them whether those delusions were such as in any way to interfere with his capacity to form an opinion upon the claims of those about him, and Will/11l it had foruaelly been his intention to btaiefit. The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff. The Court pronounced for the will, but made no order as to costs.
The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1874-11-21 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

ODD DEFUCITION.-The proprietor of a 1r better and safer for being in another State, with the o I thout t have so,f,,,am.ge,neral, they brat %dr:al:tit:the sender) shall puesiln without its mostrlieeratse adjunct, beefsteak lion qrs. the estimated wants of the nation being information respecting the soundness of societies, and 1 deceased off the bridge earlier in the morning, . her movements led him to that she contenilaa! house in Scotland, hayial on 114 min"b"rd, sweet-flowing Ohio between. A pretty little Ken-eight, possibly up to niae million qrs. At that of the other information pertaining to the complete remedy against tlseernieiliy was once an ingenious Anteriasn' who discovered that ted The nialli aeverdict of Pelo de se name, the letters, " lat.v.F.R.S., a phyr tacky girl was loved by two brothers. She was not societies' welfare were deposited in some,local centre, The suicide. e jury returned • • • which undertakes the final delivery of los goodr, if a round piece of fat bacon rolled in flour and sugar, this rate of weekly arrivals by the end of January five monthswill have brought us the largest e coroner said the behaviour of the two officials hweaspresa t'allmtfeto i youon inn-keeper, ft t:: have ea,t. pe:.r,t,, Royal :letters wI 8 have° chitteot Y.,,i.8 s a :d. k ' elile to decide between them, and left the question responsibility for their lose or damage cannot Li' and sprinkled with gum arable made the best p A ' tO which access would be obtained, it would facilitate with themselves to settle. They met one day on the liaise asked im ' ° ' half of our requirements, leaving seven months to dtitt..inctly charged to any of those that had the pre- Bible oyster in the universe, and far surpassing any very much the ascertaining the character of the weie .connectede_ with the bridge was deserving of commends-impudent fellow?" replied the hang way to the house of the lady, and commenced clam ever grown. We have not yet, it is true, come supply the three to four million !ire. remaining. With ton. Mr. B. Coles, secretary of the Bridge Corn- ties. That was the object the Government had in view. custody of them. s me. " I mean, sir," said the me the argument of which was the best man in the old winter to face we have the comfortable assurance of Kentucky style of "off with your coat and at __ to artificial oysters; but sinless some lucky change There were a considerable number of persons resident suggestions or sepntettselnutilngg tch.eloirnteq.uifriyornto treheceitv-telisay in many parts of the kingdom anxious to know what they receiving abundant supplies already bought and well it," While they were diseussing their relative merits,
The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1874-10-24 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

SINGULAR AFFAIR.  In London, on Tuesday, Mr. Carter, the Coroner for East Surrey, held an inquest upon the body of Mr. Charles Netter, aged 17, a native of Paris, at the "Prince of Brunswick " Tavern, Brunswick-street, Stamford-street. The case appeared to excite considerable interest, the deceased being the same person who last week complained to the authorities of the South-Eastern Railway of having been assaulted and robbed in one of the company's carriages while travel. lin* between Charing-cross and Waterloo stations, and a circumstantial account of which alipeared in several of the daily papers, but for which there now appears to have been no foundation. William Jones, a waterside labourer, said that on Thursday morning in last week, about seven o'clock, he found the body of the deceased lying in the mud of the River Thames. off Sexton's Wharf. There were no marks of violence on the body, and the clothes of the deceased were undisturbed. He called the police, and the body was removed to the dead house. Thomas Boucher, beadle, said he received the body of the deceased at the mortuary. He searched the clothes, and found three sovereigns in the pockets with some loose silver, and also a pocket-book with several letters referring to the alleged outrage on the railway. Mr. Faulkner said he was manager to Charles Nether and Co., merchants, of Bush-lane, City. He had known the deceased about three months. The deceased was 17 years of age, and the son of Mr. Nether, a physician at l'aris. Ile identified the handwriting in the letters found upon him as that of the deceased. He believed the deceased was not in his right mind from what had occurred within the last few days, and he had do doubt he had thrown himself into the water. The deceased had informed him that he I had been the victim of an outrage in a railway carriage; I but from all these circumstances he doubted whether such an outrage had occurred. He believed it to be a delusion on the part of the deceased. The watch and several other articles of which the deceased said he had been robbed in the railway carriage were afterwards found in his room. The deceased lived with witness, and he left home at 7.30. on Wednesday evening in last week, saying he had an appointment with a sergeant of police in reference to the outrage in the railway carriage. He had not since seen the deceased alive. He felt sure his mind was affected. Mr. John Hutchings said he was a friend of the deJeased. Subsequently to the alleged outrage he was continually reading the paragraphs and letters which had appeared in the papers respecting it, and took a childish delight in reading them. He had no doubt he had become of unsound mind and had destroyed his , own life. , Some other evidence to the above effect was given. I The coroner's officer said he had carefully examined ' the body, and there were no marks of violence upon it. The jury found that the deceased had committed suicide while of unsound mind.
The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1874-01-10 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

SUICIDE OF A BARRISTER.  An inquest has been held in London at Serjeants'inn, Chancery-lane, on the body of Mr. Gil to me Evans. aged forty.four, barrister-at-law and the Registrar of her Majesty's Commission on Railways, who was found dead in bed, shot through the brain. Mr. GJodman, solicitor, having identified the body, Mrs. Wright, the housekeeper of 3, Serjeante-inr, deposed that the deceased bad been in ill.health for some weeks Fast, but on Thursday evening a4peared more cheerful than usual, when she tiok him his dinner at a qua ter-past six. The next morning she went upstairs to call laini about eight o'clock, but getting no answer to her repeated knocks at the door, and being fearful that he might have become ill, the sent for Mr. Hall, the locksmith, of Fetter-lane, who brokeoperi the door. Witness then went into the bed-room, arid discovered Mr. Evans lying dead in bed, with a small revolver grasped in his left hand, and a large pool of blood upon the floor, which had flowed from a wound in his head. She at once sent for a doctor and the police, but the services of the former were of course unavailing, for the poor gentleman had been dead for rime six or seven hours. Mr. Hall, the locksmith, and the Police-constable having given confirmatory evidence, Mr. Macnamara, barrister, mentioned thst Evans had recently been appointed Registrar to the Rail way C.thmiesion, at a salary of i!800 per annum. Su convinced were the commissioners of his qualificas tions for the office, that he was not required to undergo any examination whatever. As he had been complaining of illness, witness advised him to go to the country for a short time, but he objected to leave town. lie always seemed anxious to shirk every kind of personal responeibility. On one occasion, he spoke of blowing his brains out, the folly of which witness pointed out to him. He was a man of high character. Mr. Phillips, barrister, who had long known the deceased, stated that latterly he Buffered from nervous agitation and morbid fears. Ile also manifested an anxiety to evade the company of his friends and relatives. For some time past he had not been working so hard as formerly. Mr. Jenkins, another barrister, who had chambers on the same floor, also spoke of the change of manner noticeable in the deceased, and mentioned that on Christmas Eve he went to his chambers and invited him to dinner for next day, but he declined the offer on the ground of indisposition. After hearing the evidence, the jury returned a verdict " That the deceased had committed suicide whilst of unsound mind."
The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1874-09-05 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

AMERICA. Brooklyn Argue says that a mama for seem to float in the elk,. No dtty • dawns without its record of murder and Imicides.f But in Brooklyn, which is at present a national 00m-centre, little heed is tnken of tk,-_ deadly featureglof the times. An Italian is motif mysteriously ioralered sh wean* burgh, with his money and other' effects left upon his person ; a man commits suicide by chloroform at the Ashland House, New York; a drunken man blows out his trrainsin (anal-street a Gertaineshonts hint' self because a r-1 hpol -jilted h i;. a retired cakpenner shoots his wife because she h ill cooked his nines, and then killslimself ;a w an in Elizabeth port; after trying to-leut her throat, throws Iferself under a 'passing locomotive; me fommerkiße aneither,,en-Yefln. sylvania, for killing his dog; an old man of Ithaca is stabbed because be will:not surrender his daughter to her newly-married husbland ; one Hazel shoots a girl, mistaking her for his own daughter; and.a man in Memphis is literally disembowelled in a quarrel over a -email tight.  THE LOITERY OF MARRIAt:E.—MalTiage in France is a lottery in a general sense (says the Court Jourual); to make it tolerably so, a certain youthful swain, relying upon his personal attractions mainly, a,:tually put himself up as the one grand prize in a lottery of ten thousand tickets of ten francs each. The tickets, we are told, were all sold, and a larking girl, who " for the fun of the thing took a ticket," on the honourable youth offering her half without himself, or the whole with himself, fell sweetly in love with him on the spot and married him. This is an old story made new, we think, or else it is getting to be a national custom. .  MR.
The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1870-12-10 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

ATTEMPTED MURDER AND SUICIDE.  A most deplorable event happened near to the village of Mitford, Northumberland, and within a mile and a half of Morpeth, on Saturday. Mr. Thomas Blair, farmer, Dean. bottle, Mitford, and local steward on the Mitford estate, while on his way to Morpeth in the middle of the day, was shot at. It appears that Mr. Blair had been in the habit of goiug regularlyto Mon. peth on business matters in the forenoonon Saturdays, arid on Saturday last he was firol at frona behind the wall on the south side of the road, about a hundred yards east of Middle Ford or Abbey Mill Bridge. On the west side of the bridge he had met and conversed with Mr. Thomson, traveller for Mr. J. Jobling, spirit merchant, and Mr. J. Swan, Morpetb. After he parsed, and hearing the report of a gun, they turned round to see the object of the shot, and to thelr surprise they saw Mr. Blair without his hat, his horse plunging, and finally wheeling round and making for home. Suspecting something wrong they went toward Mr. Blair, whom they found bleeding profusely from the head. Ile told them he had teen shot at from behind the wall. On going baok for Mr. Blair's hat Mr. Thompson saw a man with a gun in his hand running up the field, whom he called upon to stop and charging him with having shot Mr. Blair. Be paid no attention, but ran on, and, laying the gun on the bank, threw himself into the mill dam of the Abbey Mills. Mr. Thompson assisted Mr. Illairlotue, while Mr. Swan hastened to Morpeth for Dr. Rae. Mr. Herd. man, who had also been II spoctator of the scene, rained an alarm, which drew the attention of two roadmen and the Messrs. Ashton, of the woollen factory. After a delay of about half an hour, they succeeded in finding the body of the would-be assassin, but life was pronounced to be extinct by Dr. Paton, of Morpeth, happened to be passing at the time. It wall found to bo that of Samuel Smith, about 70 years of age, who formerly had boon in Mr. Blair's service, and through his influence. as steward, had been at one time a labourer on the Mitford estate, occupying a cottage int far from Mitford Church. It is said that two years ago he lost his employment on the estate, hut continued to reside in the cottage, and that in November last he reoeived notice to quit it. The body was re. moved to the Abbey Mali to await an inquesr. Oa an examination, Dr. Bose found that Mr. B'air hail been shot on the right side of the face and head, the breast and right arm, about 13 pellets beirg lodged in these parts of his body. Mr. Bliair's condition was not regarded as dangerous, and the medical report of him on Sunday was that he was going on favourably. It appears that the deceased man had purchased the gun that morning, little more than an hour and a half before the melancholy occurrence, at the shop of Mr. King, Morpeth, to whom he paid 1:3 10s. for it. and that begot by requi st a quantity of powder, No. 4 shot and pervussion caps into the bargain.
The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1870-06-11 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

PARTS.--Le Figaro publishes the following hat of offences reprted on Friday to the po!ice of Paris, as having ben corns niitted in that capital :-4 suicides, 4 intent evesaults, 18 simple thefts, 6 borjaries, 14 cases of drunkeunt S 4. 18 of vagabondage, 11 of breach of police regulstions, 2 of furtive removal of furniture, two of unlawful entering houses, 4 of cheating, 6 assaults upon the polico, 11 cases of quarrelling and fighting, 1 of rape, and 3 of offering indecent publications for sale.  Trig BIBLE IN Roe..te.— Under the head "The Bible in Itamia," the Eastcrn Budytt of Wednesday says : A separate department has been estahlithed In the Exhibition at St. Peternburg for the sale of cheap Bites. Toil innovation has been introduced at the instance of the Holy Synod, to imitation, apparently, of the English Ellie Socinty, whose success has of late caused some envy in myna,' clerical circles. None of the Elides are to be distributed oral is, as it is found that people will net attach any value to a hook which they can get for nothing. The number of Blb!es exposed for sale in the Exhibition Is 6i,000. Etch c .py, containing 280 pages, is sold for Are kopect (I ), or theist a fourth of the cost price. Na more than tire copies are to be sold to the same person.  TBIS "Dssur."—fne result of the Derby was tel graphed to India by the Ludo-European route, va Teheran and the Persian Golf. The race was run at 321 pin., Greenwich time, ant the tehgram announcing the first, aecond, and third horsoi reached Bombay at 5.57, and Calcutta at 6 25 p.m.. Greoriwich time, thus travelling from the Grand Stand at Epsom to Bombay in two hours and thirty-four minut:-.3, and to Calcutta in three hours two minutes.  A STATE SlLEAKFAST.—Preparations are being made at Windsor Castle for the grand State breakfast which will be given by Her Majesty the Queen after the return of the Court from Scotland. A number of marquees and tents are being supplied from the Ordnance Departmeot and by Meosrs. E igington, and the ea will be erected upon the lawn in front of the East Terrac, and commanding some lovely views of he Castle slopes, the vale of the Thames, the park, and Frogmore grounds. The marquees for refreshments will be placed Lear the Royal photographic house which is cb se to the terrace. It is understood that nearly 1,000 guests will have the honour of being incited, and the preparations for tteir entertainment are consequently on a grand and extensive scale.
The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1870-05-07 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

USEFUL HINT.  The coroner's jury have found that the death of Miss Marian Dandridge was due to the neglect of the guard in not locking the door of the carriage from which she fell, and the guard, we are sorry to hear, has been no affected by the sad occurrence that he has committed suicide (remarks the Daily News). It seems that the poor child most have leaned aaainst the door on the I if-side of the carriage, and, the door being neither shut nor locked, her wei.iht forced it open and she fell out upon the metals. We c ntainly want some better system of rani enti g railway doors than that which is at present in use. In France, beside the ordinary handle, there is a bolt upon the outeide of each door, constructed upon exactly the seine principle as the ordinary bed-room safety bolt, in which a strong horizontal bar lets down into a simple catch. This is far better than the English railway lock, which the passenger cannot unfasten, and with which it is impossible to tell whether a door is locked or not without the actual experiment of tugging at the 4aandlit. Why should we not have such a bolt fixed upon the inside of our railway doors? If a passenger fell out of a compartment fitted with such a safeguard the accident would be entirely his own fault. As for the present plan of locking the da ra from the outside but little can be said in its favour. If an accident occurs the paeseugers may be crushed or even roasted bolero the guard can liberate teem. It may be said that if the doors were not thus locked the payment of the fare would be of ten evaded. This we doubt very much. At any rate, if the companies are to be protected, the public must be protei toil also ; and a lock on the inside of each door would prevent people from falling out, and would also protect the occupants of the compartment faom an evilly-disposed intiuder in the midst of a long journey. It is no very difficult matter to shut a door as it ought to be ehut, and a little common sense could surely devise 'nine system which should protect the public from accidents and robbery, or even violence, and the railway companies from fraud.
The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1870-11-05 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

TOREIGN, AND COLONLAL.  THE ALLEGED SIIICODE OF COUNT BISMARCK'S SON—Several weeke since • paragraph appeared in several of the London papers stating that one of the eons of Count Bismarck, an officer in the Prussian navy, Nerving on board the Danube, had committed suicide at San Francisco, by swallowing pruseic acid. Chia paragraph was copied into the Mr/bourne Argue, and Mr. Brahe, Consul of the North German Confederation at Melbourne, write, to that journal, of September 10 (which arrived in London on Monday), a correction of the statement He say. t The story has arisen in the following way - "A son of Count Baud, of Austrbuicelebrity, who cereal on board the Austrian frigate Donett (Dannip), died lately of fever at Honolulu, where the Donau touched to refit after encountering a terrific cyclone In the Pacific A French paper published the information, merely substituting a mn of the great Prussian statesman for the name of the deceased, and now the poor young nobleman is said to have committed • suicide. Count Bismarck Mu two sons, who both were students at the University of Bonn client four months ago, and are now probably fighting for their country. The Prussian navy has no vessel called the Danube or Donau." THE Truces OF LONDON, Mr. Bennett, the eminent watch and clock maker, of Cheap/tide, has lately been the victim of an ingenious thief, by whom he has lost upwards of one hundred and thirty p,unds worth of jewellery. An elegantly.dressed lady drove up to his shop and gave him a card bearing the naine.,pf a gentleman with whom he was acquainted. She al° banded Mr. Bennett a het of articles supposed to have been ordered by his friend, and who re (nested that some specimens should be sent by a trustworthy person, who was to accompany the lady to that gentleman's residence. Mr. Bennett at once consented to send a member of his establishment with the article* On reaching Swann and Elea?* a large mantle establishment in Piccadilly, the lady left the cab and took the jewellery into the shop with her. There is another entrance in Regent-street, by which the lady made her exit, leaving the shopman to wait for her return. Tired of waiting the messenger went into the shop to inquire for her, but only found how his master had been "sold."