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Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1872-09-28 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

ESTIIIMED CONVICT CHARGED WITH HORSB-STEALMG ex Drensm.—On Monday, a young man named John Bennett, a returned convict, hailing from Monkwearnienth, was charged before the Durham Borough Magistrates -a ith having stolen a horse belonging to Robert Adams, horse dealer and fruiterer, SherburnI road, Durham, on the 15th inst. Evidence was given I to the effect that the prosecutor had several Lore.. I at the Durham September fair; that about five o'clock lin the evening he sent a youth named Smith home with the horse; that the prisoner took the animal from the lad, and after telling the lad that he would take it home, rode away with it in the direction of the prosecutor's house; and that nothing further was heard about the horse till Wednesday last, when it was found in the prisoner's possession at Sunderland. —ln defence, the prisoner asserted that he could call witnesses to prove that he W33.never out of Monkwearmouth on the day the horse was missed. lie was then remanded till Thursday next.  At Dublin on Thursday, Denis Dunne. a bookmaker, was fined i:,20 for keeping a betting-house. The Dublin Tramway Company have commenced to run workmen's cars, the fares being a halfpenny per mile. A party of 220 English emigrants to Paraguay consisting mostly of agriculturists and their families will leave England ter Buenos Ayres on the 30th Inst.  The Tichborne Claimant on Thursday night addressed a large and sympathetic audience at the Liverpool Amphitheatre. Mr °pillow, M.P., also spoke. Katherine Sheeriu, a prisoner undergoing a sentence of ten years' penal servitude for felony in Monntjoy Prison, committed suicide on Thursday by hanging herself in her cell. An inquest was held on Thursday on Mary Connelly, whose grandmother has been committed for trial for ill-treating her. A verdict was returned that the child died for want of proper care. At the Liverpool Police Court, two men have been been fined 40s and costs for handing indecent bills to people in the streets.  Egypt and Abyssinia have taken to diplomacy. The private secretary of the Padishah is on his way to Carlo in connection with the negotiations. An estate, which has been in bankruptcy since 1845, was wound up on Thursday by Mr Registrar Hazlitt. Through ths accumulation of realised assets at interest, it paid a dividend of eleven shillings in the pound._ •  Mr. love Jones-Parry, M.P., has been narrating to his conetitnents. in Welsh, the history of the past Session, ana congratulating them on the passage of the Ballot Bill, which he predicts will give the Liberals in Camarvonshire an overwhelming majority at next election.  The Gazzeita dell Emilia, a Bologna journal, relates that on Friday a priest threw. himself on the railroad, near the Porta Lemma, just as a train was coming up. 01 course, he was crushed to pieces. Neither his name nor the motives of the act are yet known.
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1872-01-20 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

LIFE-AND-DEATH CONTEST.  An exciting struggle between a would-be suicide and her rescuer occurred the other day at Point de Loup. A man and his wife having qua-relled, the latter rushed out of the house in a state of the wildest excitement, and directed her steps towards the river Sambre. She was observed by a lebtercartier named Somveau. and he, suspecting her invention, resolved to follow her. She was Byrne distance in advance of him, and succeeded in throwing herself into the river, appearing at the surface just as he reached the river's brink. Hastily throwing off his coat he plunged boldly in and swain towards the or..ttn, who saw him, and endeavoured to elude him. He, however, succeed• ed in reaching her, and got old of her by one of the arms, she resisted most violently, and at length managed to escape flow him. The position was growing exceedingly dangerous, the current carrying them rapidly towards a high weir, the descent of which would doubtiess have been death to both. The courageous fellow made another effort, and was successful in laying hold of her by the waist. Another. terrible struggle ensued, the woman succeeding, in getting her arms round Somveau's neck and striving to pull him under the water *ith her. The case being desperate, and Somveau losing his strength, by reason of the eo:d, he adopted the only course he saw ope i to him by striking her on the head as hard as lie could with one arm. This had the effect of stupefying her for the moment, and causing her to relax her hold of his neck. Seizing the opportunity, he caught her by the bait of the head, and struck out vigorously for the shor, which he happily reached with his burden. Both were so exhausted th.tt they fell down and fainted, and remained in that condition for some time, till they were discovered by some passers by, who rendered them the necessary assistance.
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1872-04-06 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

MANSLAUGHTER BY A CLERGYMAN'S SON. • At the Hereford Assizes, last week, Thomas Fairfax Fletcher Carlyle was charged with the manslaughter of Thomas Price, at Stansbatch, near Leo- . minster. This was a sad case. The accused had just completed his studies at Oxford, and was intended for the Church. It would appear that he had overworked himself, for he had become much excited, and had been in the habit of taking sedatives in order to procure sleep. On the 23rd Dece ober, he wan staying with his aunts the Misses Fletcher, of Stansbatch, and was observed to be wild and excited, and as they were aware that he had a gun in his room, they became somewhat alarmed. One of the ladies sat with him in his room in the hope of quieting him. Shortly after she had left the room the housekeeper entered for some purpose, and observed that Mr Carlyle had taken his gun flout the corner in which it had been standing, and had put it down near his feet at the fireplace. She became alarmed, and called up the into the (Price, the deceased), who hurried the room, followed by the Misses Fletcher. On Price entering, Mr Carlyle was seen standing near the fireplace, with the gun in his, hand, which he immediately raised, calling but at the same time, "Stand back, Price, or I will shoot you." The barrel of the gun, however, struck the bedpost, and it fell froni Mr Carlyle's hand. Price ettempted to seize it, but Mr Carlyle picked it up in a moment., and placing it to his shoulder fired. At that moment Price struck the gun (as it was pointed to his chest), and the contents were lodged in his thigh, causing his death. When the accused saw what he had done he seemed to recover his presence of mind, and expressed deep regret for what he had done. He said he had no idea why he used the gun. On the gun being afterwards examined, it , was found that the second barrel was loaded, and that a piece of ribbon, about 2 feet long, was `. attached to the trigger, with a loop at the end. , This was believed to have been intended by Mr : Carlyle to put his foot into, and that he was about t to commit suicide when the housekeeper entered r his room. There could be no doubt about the unsoundness of his mind. The prisoner was acquitted.
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1872-04-20 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

AWFUL TRAGEDY IN LONDON.  FOUR CHILDREN KILLED BY THEIR FATHER, SUICIDE OF THE MURDERER.  A fearful tragedy was enacted on Monday afternoon, in Paddington. A journeyman shoemaker named Nicholls murdered four of his children, and then committed suicide. The circumstances of the case are as follows :—At half-past five o'clock on Monday afternoon, Police constaiae Neal, of the D Division, was called to 16, Capland-street, Lisson Grove, by a girl named Selina Hills, residing next door, who told him that a murder had been committed at No. 16. The constable entered the house, and on the second storey be found in the front room three children lying on the floor with their throats cut, and in the back room another child and a mall, also with their thioats cut, and all apparently quite dead. Dr Benson Baker was immediately called in, and, on examination, he discovered that all five were dead, and remarked that, from the appearance of the place and the position of the man's body, there was no doubt he had first cut his children's throats and then his own. The instrument, a cobbler's knife, was close to his dead body. The names of the ileceased are :—James Nicholls, aged 45; Eliza Nicholls (a deaf mute), aged 9; Rosina Nicholls, aged 5; Louisa Nicholls, aged 3; and -fames Hemp Nicholls, aged 14 mouths. The man, as already stated, was a shoemaker, and occupied the rooms in which the bodies were found. It appears that his wife, who is a charwoman, left home for work on Monday morning, leaving six children with the father. About four o'clock' or half-past four, he sent out two of the elder girls, aged respectively eleven and eight, and then must have committed the quadruple murder. These two children, on their return, found the dead bodies, and at once sent for their mother. From the latter, who is hysterical and almost distracted, we learn her husband had lost his work a few days ago, and this circumstance greatly preyed upon his mind, but she anticipated nothing serious. The neighbours give the murderer a very good character as a respectable and hard-working man, ana a. most affectionate husband and father, and consider, as do thepolice, that the act was one of sudden frenzy. At any rate, Nicholls hitherto led an irreproactable life, and nothing was known against him at the Police Station. Nicholls was a Cornish man, and his wife a native of Plymouth. There is no doubt that the crime was entirely the act of the man, unaided and unknown to any one else.  Foreign InteWg
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1872-10-19 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

SUICIDE AT SUNDERLAND.  A singular case of suspected suicide at Sunder. land was brought to the knowledge of the authorities en Monday, sad its investigation has revealed a most depraved condition of life. The most promineut actor in the affair is a man named James Harrison, a tailor, residing in Dunning Street, Hishopweartnouth. whose wife died abont Whitsuntide last. Since that time Harrison has ceased to follow his avocation, giving himself up to a course of head: long dissipation. To obtain the means to satisfy his intense craving for intoxicating liquors, ho removed one by one the articles of furniture in the house, and turned them into money by selling them. Fits of madness, the result of his fearful dissipations, frequently seized him, and his conduct at these times was of the must violent character. Unfortunately he satisfied his morbid passion by ill-using his children and on one occasion it is stated that he obtained possession of a gun, and threatened to shoot them. On Monday morning, aboat half-past three, he left his house and four children, all of whem are girls, the oldest being 13 and the youngest about 7 years of age. To the oldest he gave a letter addressed to his sister, residing ' in Silver Street, in which he intimated that poverty , and the conduct of his neighbours had driven him to canimit suicide. " fhe very stones of the street," he wrote, " have risen lip again-d me since my wife's death." Nothing further is known positively as to his proceedings beyond the fact that about five o'clock on Tuesday morning, a man found a hat on the bridge, and in it was a piece of paper, upon which was written the words, " \Who ever finds this hat and those few lines, anti will take those to Mrs Mary Metcalf, No. 15 Dunning Street, Bishopwearmouth, for they belong to James Harrison, i and his body may be found in the river. Poverty I and drink have been the cause of the crime. Adieu to all on earth. James Harri=ern." The hat and ' missive w': re conveyed to the police station, bat „the information itt it to the effect that the body of 1 the writer had been committed to tire river has it as yet been confirmed, a fact which has given kse to the suspicion that Harrison had invented the scheme of stating he had committed self.destruttion merely as a (bray to cover hie desertion. Hartison has left four okildren in a most destitute and Elthy condition. Mr W. S. Fairhairn, relieving officer, visited the house and found it sciestitute of almost every article of furniture, and in a most filthy condition. Tbc children were removed, by Mr Fairbairn's direction, to the Workhouse, whore they properly tended- Harnison is a man about 34 years of age, and 6 feet 4i inches high. He has a large lxotrd and moustache of dark, ginger colour, and was attired in dark trousers and short grey, coat.
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1868-07-24 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

PAINFUL SUICIDE.—The Rev. Mr Robinson, of Tynagh, near Longhrea, in the county of Galway, has committed suicide by cutting his throat. Mr Robineou seems to have set about the act with extraordinary coolness and determination, and had evidently been long considering the easiest mode of destroying his life, for on his table was a book treating ot fatal wounds, and the page 'elating to injuries of the throat was marked. The wash-hand basin contained a quantby of blood, and the handle of the razor with which the fatal act was committed was wound round with a pocket-hankerchief, so as to make the blade fixed. Some time ago he became insane, and was sent for about two years to a lunatic asylum, sod at the close of that period was discharged well. Since that time he has continued to discharge his ministerial duties. He was under the belief that he had become security for several persons, and that he was so involved that ruin alone could result, the fact really being that he was in most comfortable circumstances. The deceased gentleman never married.  New Reading.—' Dennis, toy boy,' said a schoolmaster to his Hibernian pupil, I fear I shall make nothing of you—you've no application.'—' An', sure, enough, sir,' said the quick-witted lad, 'isn't it my.elt that's always been could there's no occasion for it? Don't I see every day in the newspapers that "No Irish need apply," at all, at all.' Expectancy.—Lord Norbury, while on circuit, being attacked with a fit of the gout, sent to the SolicitorGeneral to request the loan of a pair of slippers Take them,' said the Solicitor to his servant, • with my respects, as I hope soon to be in his lordship's shoes.' Not Going that Way.—' I say, Mr Pilot, ain't you going to start soon?' said a nervous traveller on a steamer lying-to during a fog. 'As soon as the fog clears up,' replied the captain. Well, it's atarlight now overhead.' said the man. 'Oh yea! But we are not going that way.' Possession and Pursuit —At a debating club the question was discussed whether there was more happiness in possession or pursuit of an object. Mr President,' said an orator, suppose I was eourtin' a girl, and she was to run away, and I was to run after her; wouldn't I be happier when I catehed her than when I was running after her ?'
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1868-07-03 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

LADIES' TRESSES.—A robbe.y of a novel kind was committed iu Paris on Tuesday. Several persona were occupied in looking at a toy shop in the Passage Joutfroy, aud amongst them a gentleman and lady with their daughter, aged ten years. To their surprise and horror as they moved to go away it way found that.an expert thief had cut a ri made off with the magnificent crop of golden hair worn by the young miss. It was half &metre long.  A CHURCEI or; FlRE.—Early on Saturday morning the belfry in the newly-ereeted tower of noyikhill Church, Maidenhead, was discovered to be on fire. On the alarm being raised the volunteer fire brigade at once turned out, and proceeded to the spot with their engine, but unfortunately the supply of water was very scanty. After considerable exertion the fire wee extinguished, although not before thtee of the eight bells had fallen, and the other five were so much damaged as to be useles3. The cause of the fire is unknown  The prosecutors, or persecutors, of eaGovernor Eyre have sustained another defeat, Mr Ju...tice Smith, in chambers, on Thursday last, having reftped an application to examine Mr Eyre on, 36 interrogaiories, in the scion brought against him by Mr Philips, of Jamaica, who ViaM one of the sufferera' by the insurrection. Similar applications had previously eau rejected because criminal proceedings against qr Eyre were pending, and one of the grounds of opposition to this one was I hit no undertaking had been given or offered that such proceedings might not again be taken. MELANCHOLY CASE OF ATTEMPTED SUICIDE TH ROUGH A CROSS IN LOTH: —A very melancholy affair  has just taken place at Lake Derwentwater, Cumberland. Between five and six o'clock on 'rues-lay morning week, a young woman, named Mary Richardson, nine. teen years of age, attempted to commit suicide by drowning herself in Derweutwater Lake, near the great landing. The young woman had left the house of Mrs Ann Banks, of Keswick, at ten o'cldck on Monday ni2ht, and was not seen again until a little after five °Work on the following morning, when she was discovered in the lake by a shoemaker, named Stanley, who took her out of the water in a very exhausted state. She was speechless for some time, and was conveyed to her residence, where she still lies very ill. The reason assigned by the young woman for attempting to take away her life is that she had been slighted by a young -man, named Tyson, with whom she had been keeping company. He had sent her very insulting letters. She will be brought before the magistrates as soon as she is sufficiently recovered.
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1868-07-03 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

RARE BIRDS IN LONDON.—For several years past a pair of zebra parroquets have haunted thegarden of Lincoln's Inn, w'mre they live on the most familiar terms with the sparrows, and are never seen except in company with them. During the winter months the parroquets disappear, but whither no one knows. On the return of spring they come back and rejoin their old friends. This year for some time only one was observed, hut now both are visible, with a brood of use young ones. If any one be curious to see them he has only to walk into the garden and disturb the flock of sparrows that will be seen feeding upon the grass, and on their taking wing the seven greenbacks will at once be distinguished. BANKRUPTCY REvELATIONS.—Sorne curious disclosures as to the manner in which the property of bankrupts is disposed of were made recently at the Birmingham Bankruptcy Court. An unusually conscientious assignee determined to pass no hills without investigation. From a snlietor's bill of £423 lOs 6rl he taxed off £221 16s 31, or more than one half. He found that an auctioneer had charged for selling goods by auction, whereas he had sold them by tender. A second bill of costs, amounting to £1 517 9s 51 was reduced, on taxation, by the sum of £224 10e, one item being a charge of £4O 10s for six days of th • solicitor's own time. It is to the interest of the profession that overcharges of this nature should not be attempted. To adopt such a plan is to pursue the very course calculated to give rise to new laws restricting what is now considered legitimate profits in bankruptcy proceedings. —Law Times.  A singular double suicide of a girl and her sweetheart was investigated by a coroner's inquisition on Monday. The sister of the girl said that her name wag Rachel Sweeny, and that she was only seventeen years of age. Site had kept company with a young man named Mode for eighteen months, but in the latter three months they had Quarrelled, and scarcely spoken together. On the previous Monday witness and her sister met Mode and another man named Toke. She and Toke walked together, and Rachel and Mode together. The whole party had two pots of beer, and on going home witness missed them, but thought nothing of it. Her sister did not come home that night, and the next day she and Mode were fosnd drowned in the Surrey Canal. They had both threatened to make away with themselves about each other, and the witn as believed that they agreed that night to drown themselves together. The fury returned an open verdict.
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1868-08-14 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

RUSSIAN NOBLEMAN AND MS SON DROWNED. —A letter from Isebl of the 3rd says: Prince Gagarin, marshal of the Moscow nobility, and his son, were drowned to-day near the water mill of Redtennach. The son, when fishing, slipped down the bank and fell into the stream. His father, in e:ideavourin4 to catch him, also overbalanced himself and was precipitated into the water. When the father was got out some short time after all effortsestore life were unavailing. The body of the young 4nan was not recovered until the evening.  The Surrey Standard gives an account of a singular suicide which has occurred in the parish 01 Preston. The deceased, Harriet Figs, .was the wife of a gardener employed at Patcham. She appears to have fastened a cord to the top of a bedpost, then put her head through the noose while kneeling on the bed, and while in that position it would seem that she opened a large vein in her arm with a razor. Having done so, she shut the raz ,r up, laid it on the ledge, and becoming so weak from loss of blood, fainted, fell forward, and was strangled by_ the cord.  The state of affairs in Spain seems to inspire the Government of that country with grave apprehenaiona, if we may judge by the circular just issued from the Ministry of the Interior to the governors of provinces, in which they are instructed to rely upon the support of the civil and rural guards, and distrust is expressed of the army. Meanwhile prompt and active measures are being taken to meet any insurrectionary movement; and the nature of the .• situation" may be guessed from the fact that the Government are stated to have borrowed money from the Bank of Spain to enable them to pay the salaries of the public officials.