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Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1883-03-17 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

NEWS. THE HORDESLEY RITUAL CASE. An extraordinary mom has occurred at Holy Trinity Church, Bonleaky,. Birtri:ngham, on the newly-appointed AT a meeting of the iodatene Board of Guar- vicar, the Res Va. 'H. Watts, attendieg to read himdime, it was stated that st As-NJ...int-overseer of the self in. Th . umgregation met on the previous night, to Golstone an t sae:Midge far : the mien had Me decide wha• puree they should adopt, and it was agreed econded. The clerk earl he ha.' i ect:3l the overseers of th it th timid attend church, but leave in a body the respective parishn t: taie or . h:: of the books, when Watts commenced to read. Resolu: and the guardians resol 4 ~ nAter to the I, or to repast .:, . also passed by the members, expressing Local Government lion, l - ret . the Bishop of Worcester had withAT Tunbridge Wells Mr. lioaL '•. ie of ti v the license of the Rev. R. W. EnKent County Coroners, has held an im- relative , : :flanking that gentleman for the steps he had the death of Sir. Ilenry Morgeu, a visit, • ' had hi - , .; in defence of their spiritual rights, and for some weeks staying in the town. The t: ttnee w expressing abhorrence at the Oct ef me. Wet, to show that the deceased wan in such a dmpom7 lsr. ..1 in accepting the: living under the eircumstanees. In 1 of mind that he harts surgeon and male amnia: ' ane anticipation of a disturbance a large force of or the other of whom always went cSt with hint. The , police was present in the neighbourhood of the church, deceased, however, in the absence of Irte atte• ' 'it i •ed constable, in plain cethes were distributed in various hanged himself with his pm: • hstelkerchief. _ ts of the editice. Shortly before ten o'cloek the new jury 3n once returned a reruns' -t the d, , Sr arrived, accompanied by his brother and the curate committed suicide while in a Mt:. tempor ; ~., George's, Edgb don. Very few persons were sanity." . ::, . t this time, :Ili the party passed into the church , Sin HlClfinn Cn,es hag dem-stet; arrang. , 4,-. h . it. he door, were thrown oi en at quarter of to addrese a public meeting at Wolverhatuihon 3 ti e ~.ra. inn, afters -awls, and the building was speedily Whitsm week. It is expected that LI, .-711 t :*,-1 crowded a "very part. At half-past teethe two chur.hgentleman will be accompanied by Colors,: n„,..11,... ' warden. 5 ,d, and they walked up the centre aisle to man, 31. P., and other leading members at t•.!,; Cowmen- the vestry, 'ng loudly cheered on their way thither. Live party. I On reaching the vestry they were ntet by the new
Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1883-03-24 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

SHOCKING TRAGEDY IN LIVERPOOL. A terrible tragedy has occurred in Liverpool, a brick. layer's labourer, named William M'lntyre, residing In Pack Salisbury-street, having attempted to murder his wife and afteruards committed suicide. It appears that algut 11., O'clock in the morning tine two persons had • quarrel in their room. The man was drinking, and urged he wife to give him money, which she refu•ed to do. A I. dger, named Catherine Crawford, abort this time heard ncreams for help, and on getting out of bed and running &sustain., new lil'lntvre in the net of kicking his mo, having ale° a poker In his hand. The lodger ran into the Street and brought a policeIran. kl'lntyre was then found lying against the front door of the house 'deeding profusely from • bullet wound in the temple and dying, while upstairs in a bedroom lay his wife, covered with bloat, but still alive. A doctor was called, who found the woman to be suFering from three terrible wounds on the head, apparently inflicted by the poker, and also a bullet wound in the breast, the not being in a fit sttte to be moved. The bullet was eventually extracted, and round to fit the revolver winch lay by the side of the dead man. The circurns:ances indicated that after go t with and assaulting his wife in the sitting-room, M•lntyre had pursued her upstairs and there shot her, and used the poker upon her bead, and then, thinking be had killed her, shot himself. A curious letter was found in the rivin's pocket. It add- "This is a tree account of my life. My father was a sergeantma or in the 17th Lancers, and had 2s. 6d. per day pension. My brother died lighting for his Queen and country, and you told that 1 was a Fenian. flow could i hen Fenian,having such good men belonging to me? This in not relic, for their namm are in the War (Kee, London. My father's name was liobert, and my brother's .ichn, and he was one of the gallant 600, what is known as tI•3 Light Brigade. So much for that: yen here driven me to it. Say nothing about the writing, for lam drunk?' On an ens elope found on the deceased was written, "Please coroner don't say that! am insane, for! em not." The deceased, it is elated, had not been working for several weeks, and was in the habit of taking drink. The couple had three children, who were taken charge of by a neighbour. Considerable excitement was caused in the neighbourhood, which is thickly occupied by a working-class population.
Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1883-03-24 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.  The death of Signor Fontana necessitates the appointment of • new architect to the Homan Apostolic Palaces. The salary is not large, being only three ho' dred francs a month ; but the position may he considered. so far as the salary is concerned. a aliment° ; fee the practice is that if any re;•air, or alterations in either of the Apostolic Palaces should require the superintendence of an architect, the latter erode in his ace root just ea if he had in retaining fee still. Twenty applications for the place have Leon male. and the people about the Vatican do n t fail to boast Ord mare of these persons are Idler:11s, who have profes,nl their readiness to abandon their political principlee if only the appointmere be wonted to them.  The Italian Government has decided on purchasing the huge Corsini Palace in the Longer°, on the Vatimu side uf the Tiber, together with the very extensive gardens behind it, which exteud up to the walls of Hume, for the purposes of a scientific institution, botanical gardens, or. Nothing authentic has yet been published to throw any light on the tragic death of M. Makolf, ex-Minister of the Rusaian harrier, but a commission has been appointed to inquire into the &an. ial arrangements of the s.inistry during the past ten years, and it is probable that a full explanation nut be forthcoming before very long. The attempted suicide of M. Pertiiied is generally supposed to be connected with that of M. MakotT, to w.min he was attach, d as adjuiiit during his tenure of Mike; but there is rmsoil to believe Om; this rumour, however natural, is at present based upon the merest gnesswork.  - The French Presidential Decree authorising the Minister of F.nance to inscrilw 1290 million francs (i 48,000,000 of Retee.sble Three-per-Cent Rent., on the Great Book of the Public Dolt, which h.na been issued In virtue of the l'inancial Law of 30th December, , 1882, has caused an unfavourable impression in both
Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1883-10-20 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

DISTRESSING SUICIDE IN VIENNA. A young girl named Gaisreiter has just committed suicide in Vienna under circumstanr which have given rise to a good deal of adverse crit cism of the police. Fr tulein Gaisreiter, who was a y, mg lady of singularly prepossessing appewance, was ca.hier at the Volksgarten Restaurant of Herr Srabos, and while serving in this capacity M. courted by the son of the proprietor. The young man's parents discovered this, and disapproving of the connection discharged the girl. The son, however, continued his suit, and supported Fmulein after she left her father's service, and in doing so, having no reso rues of his own, was forced to contract debts. His mother, finding this out, thereupon informed the police that the young girl, who was Bavarian by nationality, was living without any actual means of subsistence, and as this is en infraction of the Austrian law, she demanded that the girl should be expelled the country. The statement that the girl was without resources was not correct, as she appe as to have had some money of her own, and she was also living a most blameless life. The police, however. proceeded to her lodgings and arrested the girl, thrusting her into prison in company with women of the vilest character and habitual gaol-birds. The girl seems to have turtle up as long as she could, but finding that nothing was being done to secure her release she lost hope, and shot herself with a revolver she by Rome means had managed to conceal. This melancholy incident forms the subject of comment in all the newspapers, and much indignation be exprewed at the fact that a foreigner in Austria without money should bees entirely at the mercy of the police.  A nOW named Pon!ter, aged 1, has died at Whitby from injurlea received while trespassing on a gentleman's land. He, with some other lads, seeing the gardener coming, tried to make good their escape. Inceased, who was on a tree, fell a distance of 12ft, piercing himself through the jaw by a sprig growing from the stump of a tree. The stick pentrated the brain, ultimately causing death. _  A YOUNG MAN, named Charles Wall, was lately before the Borough Bench, at Luton, charged with forgery. It appeared that he was a clerk, recently discharged from the service of Messrs. A. Dorringtort and Co., engravers, London, but he came to a Luton firm and collected an account, receiving cheque payable to order for £2 6s. ad. He presented a cheque endorsed Honington and Co., to Mr. F. Smart, plait merchant, and got cash for it. He was remanded for a week that a witness from Messrs. Dorrington's might be present.
Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1883-01-13 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

DAVEY, Q.C., M.P., in delivering the prises Inert students in the Town Hail, Bournemouth, referred specially to the value of artistic knowledge to those engaged in the production of decorative work. Although art was in itself a pleasure and one of the highest pleasures which mankind could enjoy, to the artisan it combined both pleasure and profit. It might be that some sceptical and tmosthetic people who were called Philistines thought net not worth troubling about, but he by no means agreed with such notions. . . .  ' IT is understoodthat the new wrought-iron bridge to be erected acrma the river Poiret at Bridgwater at a cost of £3200 will be commenced at once, and it is anticipated that it will be completed at least a month before the Bath and We,t of England Society's exhibition in May next, when it is hoped his lOyal Highness the Prince of Walei will pay the town a vbit on the invitation of the Corporation. LORD Worannxi's visit to Wilton House, Salisbury, Las come to an end. The noble lord, on departing from the Sali,bury Station, was recognised by several on the platform, who respectfully raised their hats.  THERE IS STILL another rumour concerning the Salisbury petition that it will not be defended, and that probably the costs will be thrown on the rates. AT Sheffield an inquest has been held on the body of a clerk named Henry Pollard, who had committed suicide. A summons had been issued agaimt him by his employers for embeMentent. On the night it won made retimable he destroyed himself by taking laudanum. It transpired that he had previously been in trouble, and that the fear of now being neat into penal servitude mused him to take hie life.  AT the Quarter Sessions, Sheffield, two men, named Hall and Haywood, have been sent to prison for two years and one year respectively, for long firm swill& bog at Rotherham. A SoIIEWRAT serious stabbing affray, which occurred at Newport (Mon.) on Boxing Day, has been investigated by the local magistrates. Two men named Frederick Westlake and Joshua Pope, between whom a long standing dispute had existed as to the ownership of a nab it-net, met at the Carpenters' Arms, Maindee, on the 26th ult., quarrelled, and Westlake dabbed Pope in the thigh. Prisoner wao committed for trial. Tint triennial election for the Rochester School Board has taken place, and has resulted in the return of the whole of the Liberal candidates (five), one Independent Liberal, and three Conservatives. Of those elected one is a lady. The result was not known until after midnight, and the waiting crowds anuped themselves by throwing I ago of flour at the police and at prominent political partisans. MR. OSCAR WILDS has arrived at Liverpool, in the Cunard steamer Bothnia, from New York. A Liverpool evening paper states that the apostle of Eestheticism was in excellent health and spirits, and explained his views on the subject of the Atlantic Ocean, with regard to which, he said, he had been greatly misimderSteed.  ---Mn.
Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1883-01-20 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

EXAMINER-SATURDA.Y, JANUARY 20, 1883  SUICIDE OF A PUBLICAN.  - Sir John Humphreys has concluded his inquiry at the Eagle Tavern, Mile-end-road, London, into the circumstances connected with the death of Mr. Arthur Whitcomb Billinghurst, aged 34, the proprietor of the Old Red Cow Tavern, Mile-end-road, who was found dead, Mr. J. H. Aitken, 67, Mile-end-road, stated that he acted as manager to the deceased, who was also his uncle. For some days previous to his death the deceased appeared to be somewhat unwell ; and on the day of his thath begot up about six o'clock and wet t out, but returned about an hour later. He then told witness that he thought he should go away until the night as the house was sold. Deceased then went upstairs to his bedroom, and witnesi saw nothing more of him during the rest of the day. About nine o'clock, as he did not come down sta!rs, wituesi's mother went up, and knocked at the bedroom door, but she did not receive any answer. About a quarter to one in the morning witness went up and knocked at the door, but could not get any answer. He then called the sheriff's officer, who was in posse.sion, and they forced the door open. The deceased was lying dead on the bed; and he ales saw the card produced, on one side of which there were some words M the handwriting of the deceased. The words were " Mrs. Robinson, good-bye ! I have died naturally—not of poison. All the jewellery is yours, including this watch and Ong. On the other side were the lines—  " Go by, swift years, go by ! Silver the hair and dim the eye. Take all we have; but, till we die, Leave us, oh, leave us, memory."  Benjamin Nicholls stated that he was a sherifre officer, and was put in possession of the Red Cow Tavern. About nine eblock in the morning he was on the landing leading to the bedroom of the decramd, when the latter came upstairs and said "Good morning" to him, and the deceased walked into his bedroom. li'itne+s saw nothing more of him during the day. Mr. William Fordham, surgeon, Mile-end-road, stated that when he was called to the deceased he woe quite dead, and had been so for several hours. There were no marks of violence and no appearanon of any struggle. Prof...or Maymott Tidy ended that death soll, due to opium. After some consultation the jury retained a verdict" That deceased committed suicide whilst of unsound mind."
Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1883-09-15 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

BON. hill, new Dorking, when he found the body of a respectably-dressed man of middle age lying on the grass. A large and almost new travelling-hag, containing samples, was found beside the body, and the inference is that the deceased was a commercial traveller. The only article found on the clothing which would be likely to lead to identification, was an envelope addreseed "Mr. Boston, Woralhayes, Hampton-road, Forest-hill. SE," and the coroner's officer Is pursuing inquiries in that neighbourhood. The ease is believed by the police to be one of suicide by poisoning.  THE whaling-seboo—nar, Era, whi it recently arrived in the Bay of St. John's, Newfoundland, after 23 months' absence was locked in pack Ice for seventeen months, and only escaped a fortnight previously from her winter quarters. One hundred and fifty miles east of Cape Chodleigh, Labrador, the last ice was passed. Captain Clisby thinks that the past Arctic year has been the most severe within the memory of any person now  A nitiSINGEN newspaper publishes the following atatistice of the German Chancellor's weight, as taken during/the last few year at that watering-place In 1874, 2071 b. (Ceram); 1870, 210Ib.; 1877, 2301 b.; 1878, 2431b5.; 1870, 247 K; 1880, 207!!,.; 1882, 2321 b.; 1883, 202115, 8. Thus, widdn the last year:l'llmm filemarolt has lost considerably more than two stone. His general health, however, is said to be much improved by hie recent etay at Kissingen. Tern greatest flour mills in the world is at Minneapolis. US.—the Pillsbury Mill, which was built at a coot of £lBO,OOO, and turns out 8000 barrels of flour a day, shipping most of it direct to Europe. This mill is a marvel of the economical manufacture of floor. The railway cars come into the mill laden with wheat, are quickly eniptied,and immediately parked with flour barrels and marks for ehipment. The grinding is done by the roller process, ated machinery does everything from the first shovelling of the wheat out of the car, conducting it through all the parts of the manufacture, to the packing of the barrel or sack with the product. This mill stands in relation to the American' flour trade no Niagara does to waterfalls. haves In Minneapol s not long ago that a flour-mill exploded and killed eighteen men, and scientific investigation developed that there was an explosive force in the impalpable dust that flies about them mills as oowedul r dynamite
Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1883-09-29 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

SUICIDE OF ANTI-VACCINATOR.  Mr. Carter has held an inquiry at the Raymouth Tavern, Rotherhithe, London. relative to the death of Mr. William Emott, aged 48 years, a master boot and shoe maker, lately carrying on business at 298, Southwark-, ark-road, who was recently discovered dead, suspended by a piece of rope, in his washhouse. Mrs. Susannah Escott, the widow, said that she had been married to the deceased about eighteen months, he then being a widower and witness a widow. At that time deceased varied on busineas as a boot and shoe maker at 298, Southwark-park-road, and witness carried on the business of a baker at 281 in the same roalL'and since their marriage they had slept at their respective homes. For the last six months the deceased bad been unwell, and had been treated by the. Freston. lie had also appeared. very strange in hi,  manner daring that period, but had never threatened to commit suicide. Their business had not of Etc been FO prosperous as heretofore. Mr. Edward Welk coroner's oeicer, deposed to starching the deceased's clothes and finding some memoranda in the deceased's handwriting. two of which ran at follows "My cup is full. It will never do. and I know it bathe would have it, and I bad not got the nerve to tell him." "No good: all failure. Can't stand it any longer." There was also a letter found addressed to his flour merchant in Malkin., City, saving that he you broken-hearted, and asking them, inter dirt, to allow his dear wi'e and children to remain in the baker's shop, and fnishing up by saying that he hoped the Lord would have mercy on his soul. It further transpired that the deceased was a staunch antivaccinator, and some two years ago be lost his first wife and two of his children, who died from smallpox, .d he had repeatedly been summoned and fined for not having his children vaccinated, but rip to the time of his death had persistently refused. Further evidence having been adduced as to the deceased's state of mind of late, the jury returned a verdict that the deceased "Committed suicide by hanging, while in a state of temporary insanity."  IN consequence of the continued illness of the Bishop of Peterborough, no Diocesan Conference will be held this year.
Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1883-09-29 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

STERY. The young lady who was recently charged with attempting to commit suicide by chloroform whilst travelling by the night mail Wain from London to Brighton boa been again brought up at the Brighton Police-court. She was charged in the name of Dudley. On being placed in the dock, accompanied by a female warder from Lewes, the prisoner was asked by the magistrate's clerk (Mr. Verrall), "Will you give the magistrates your name?' In response she merely shook her head. The following additional evidence wan then token: Pie. R. J. Rogers, police surgeon, said he had examined tin prisoner as to her state of mind, and was of opinion that she was sound in mind and responsible for her actions. Mr. Bernard Scott, house surgeon to the Sussex County Hospital, said he was of the same opinion. The evidence before given as to the prisoner being found in a state of insemaility in a railway carriage, and that she had admitted having taken chloroform, having been read over and signed by the witnesses, Mr. Superintendent Carter, who had charge of the case, stated that he took the prisoner into custody at the hospital, and told her the charge. She made no reply, but on the way to the station she asked what would be done with her. Witness told her he could not say, but that in all probability she would be remanded for Inquirk. to be made. She then said, "Well, I will do it; and if no other means offer themselves, I will starve myself" The Deputy Stipendiary then said the Bench had no alternative but to commit the prisoner for trial; and, having cautioned her in the usual manner, asked her if she had anything to say. The prisoner merely shook her head, and she was then committed to the Borough Quarter Sessions. The police authorities have received numerous communications respecting miming females, many of whom descriptions tally almost entirely with that of the woman in custody. One woman ia wanted for robbing her lodgings at Chelsea. Rooms were taken, and on the day after (the day the woman in custody arrived in Brighton) the young woman was missing, together with two gold rings and a bronze statuette. Two rings, mid to be exactly similar to those loot, were worn by the prisoner, and if she is the same person, there in little doubt that her name is Lacy, or Lucella, Dudley, and that she is known at Hastings.