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The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1886-07-30 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

STRANGE SUICIDE OF A PHYSICIAN. The circumstances attending the death of Dr. Moxon have occasioned much comment, both at Highgate, where he resided, and in the City, where he had au extensive practice. Dr. Moxon, aooording to an announcement which was made a few slays ago, was discovered dead upon a couch in his study early on Thursday morning last, and it was gh en out that the deceased gentleman had died iron syncope. Although it was apparent that death had resulted suddenly, the police were not apprised of the fact, as is usual in such cases. Dr. Go dun Brown, who is one of the district medical office, s of the City of London, with the a.sistance ot another medical gentleman, made a post +sweei,!. examination, but declined to give any information as to the cause of death. The Coroner for the City, Mr. F. S. Longhorn, was informed of the death of Dr. Moxon, and considered that the case warranted an inquest being held. The body remained at the house of the deceased in Finsbury Circus. A Jury was has.ily summoned to attend an inquest. Immediately upon the conclusion of the inquest the body was removed to Highgate Cemetery for interment, the burial having taken place just over forty-eight hours after the discovery of death. It appears that on the morning of Wednesday Dr. Muxon, as was his custom, drove from his house in Broadlands Road, Highgate, to his surgery in Finsbury Circus, where he saw his patients. He then ordered his coachman to drive Lim to Finohley Cemetery, where he visited, and pluokedflowers from his mother's grave. He then returned to Finsbury Circus and dismissed the coachman, telling him he should not rtlnt him again that day. On entering the house he walked into his study and shut himself in. Hearing or seeing nothing of him, the domestics became anxious, and upon entering his roost he was found lying on a couch, apparently dead. Dr. Gordon Brown was immediately called in and pronouneed life to be extinct. On the table was discovered, in the handmiting of the deceased, a orrtificate to the effiot that death had resulted from disease of the kidneys, a complaint from which it was known ho had long antlered. These fite'S were given in evidence at the inquest, when It Was it'f4o stated that 'he deoelised had died from p., stoning by prussic acid. Upon these facts the Jury returned a verdict, being of opinion that the decea-ed committed suicide whilst of unsound mind temporarily.  LE fCESTERSHIRE
The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1886-04-09 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

SUICIDE OF HUSBAND AND WIFE. Mr. John Booth (coroner) held an inquest at the Copeland Alllll3 Hotel, Stoke-on-Trent, on Monday night, on the body of Mary Ann Salmon, which was taken from the canal in Wolfe Street, on Sunday evening.—The evidence showed that the deceased, who was forty. years of age, was the wife of a cab-driver, living In Wharf Street. Site and her husband had lived very unhappily together for some time past, the man being in the habit of beating. his wife, and the woman being addicted to habits of intemperance. On Saturday the deceased was beaten by her husband, who, after kn;:eked her down, kicked her and knocked her head on the floor, and then threw her out of the house. He also tuns° I her out of the house on Sunday scorning, and from that time nothing further was heard of her until between coven and eight o'clock in the evening, when she called at the house of an acquaintance, a Mrs. Lewis, of Welch Street. To this person she stated that alto , had left her husband, and added that rather than return to hint she would make away with i herself. On leaving this house she was watched by Mrs. Lewis's son, who saw her go in the directioa of Wolfe Street, and then lost sight of her. 'When Mrs. Lewis heard of this she gave information to the police that very likely Mrs. Salmon would drown herself; and on Pollee-constable Scott going ;o \ the canal be found the woman's body in the water about twenty yards away from and in view of a busy thoroughfare.—The jury found "That the deceased committed suicide while in a state of unsound mind, contributed to by the brutal treatment of her husband. At the request of the jury the Coroner severely censured the man.—Salmon appeared to feel the censure which was passed upon I him very keenly, and on Tuesday evening he t.;ok , it dose of poision, dying before aid could be ob-. ' I tamed.
The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1886-07-02 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

THE INQUEST.  On Sunday afternoon, a single lady named Mary Pyther, residing at Wick, committed suicide by drowning herself in a cistern. She was missed about two o'clock in the afternoon, and some hours afterwards her lifeless body was found in a c;stern at the back of the house where she resided.  Tag INQUIST WAS held on Tuesday evening, at the Post Office (where deceased resided in apartments), before Mr 'l'. Stockwood, coroner, when the following evidence was taken :7. Elizabeth Pyther, :another of deceased, said : I in a widow and lire at Wick. The deceased was ray daughter, and lived with me. We have lived in this house nearly seven years. My daughter had been in bad health for some months, and had been attended by Dr. Naunton Davies for nervous fever. It had taken a worse turn lately; her voice was sometimes lost, and her articulation affected. She used lately to be afraid she would become an idiot. She was sometimes very foolish, and sometime sane. She was very poorly last Sunday, and her mind was wandering. I left her about two o'clock, and went to lie on the bed as usual. I got up about three, and missed her. The people of the house had gone out. My daughter used to walk about the place alone, and I waited for her a while on Sunday, and then got alarmed and sent for a neighbour to go and search for her. He did not find her, but about seven o'clock her body was found in a cistern near the house. She was a years old and unmarried. Thomas Jenkins, labourer, living at Wick, proved finding the body in the cistern, which contained about four feet of water. Thomas Cooke, postmaster, also gave evidence. The Jury returned a verdict that deceased had drowned herself in the cistern whilst temporarily insane.
The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1886-08-06 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE OF PERJURY. William Thomas Trauter, 26, was on Tuesday indioted at the Central Criminal Court, London, for having oommtted wilful and corrupt pet jury. Mr. Poland and Mr. C. Mathews conducted the pr.tse tution.—The oironmetances under which this charge was preferred wrre ot a remarkable character. On the night of March Bth the prisons,. was looking at a fire in Aldersgate Street, when he seemed to suddenly discover that his watch had been stolen, and he gave a man named Cleary into custody for the supposed robbery. Cleary was committed to the sessions, and at the trial Tranter positively asserted that Cleary had robbed him. Cleary persisted in declaring that he was innooen , but the jury convicted him and he was sentenced to twelve months' hard labour. It was subsequently ascertained that the pretended robbery was an entire fiction, and that Tranter bad never been in possession, as he repretented, of a gold watch of the value of £2O. At the time of the robbery he was in an almoit penniless condition, and his statement as to the way in which he became possessed of the watch was utterly false. Treater also represented that his friends resided in Glamorganshire, and it was suggested that his object in making the false oharse wts to obtain the sum allowed by this court for expenses, £3 or £4. The accused was afterwards taken into ouitody for another offence, and sentenced to two years' hard labour, and upon the whole of the faits being brought to the knowledge of the Home Office, the present prowlention was instituted. Tranter would have been tried at the last sessions, but while awaiting his trial his contrived to make his escape from the warders who had him in charge. Cleary, the ' man rehrred to, was examined, and he swore in the most positive manner that there was not the el ghtest foundation for the charge of robbery which was made against him. He adrnitt4 however, that he had been charged with felony on a previous 000416011 and sentenced to imprisonment. The prisoner, in hie tatfence, made a louir statement to the edict that he actutt ly was robbed On the night in question, and that he had good ground for he'leving Cleary was the thiof.—The jury re. to tied a verd ot of gui ty.—Mr. Poland informed th Court that the pritoner on a previous monition had made a falee charge of robbery ag dust another person.—The recorder said the pr toner had been sonvioted of a very cruel (41 once, and he sentenced him to five years' penal set vitude. •  im early conference between M. de Freyointh and M. de Giers is in contemplation. tiamuel Storey, a schoolmaster, assistant overse A., and lay reader, ha q committed suicide in the vt ‘try of the parish church at North Kelsey, our B igg, by takivg landmium.  •cittotnan named Ann Swindlehurst, of More. cs nbe, while watching the departure of a steamer fr m the pier, fell into the wa sr, 20ft. deep. She .te got out, but her immersion caused sync*" Iran 'Adak She died in &boa ten tannin,.
The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1886-03-05 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

THE JERSEY B& 'K DIRECTORS. At the Jersey Polioe Court on Monday, Philip Duheame (chairman), Clement Nioolle, and William Lawrence de Gruchy, managing directors of the Jersey Banking Company, in liquidation, were charged with having, by fraudulent misrepresentations, ob; shied money from Edmund Francis Carrel, in shape of deposts, the bank being at the time in a state of insolvency. Phillip Genet, manager, and Charles Durrell Sorel, üb-manager, were included in the charge The three principals accused are judges of the Royal Court. Formal evidence was taken, and the amused were admitted to bail in ENO each, with the exception of Mr. Gos,et.  Alarm has been occasioned at Lewisham by the collapse of another large building. The authorities are determined to hold an enquiry. Colonel King-Harman, M.P.,continuea to improve in health, but there is still great prostration. He will probably go to the South of France for a prolonged stay as soon as he is onfiloientle reoovertklto be able to travel.  ATTEMPTED SUICIDE BY A LEAMINGTON I i viAN. _ _  At Leamington etr-Cout lor Horton, leather dealer, Oxford b reet, has been charged with attempted suicide. Oh ucJr-, of February prisoner became possessedef a razer, .w.th which he attemyed to cut his throat. A fcw weeks ago prisoner suddenly disappeared, and atnt to America. During his absence a jeihion in bankruptcy was if against him. liL er was a member of the Leamiegton School Beard, and up to Novenab.r last he had a seat in the Tewn Council. preseot position ,s attributed t the ac i.e inter. at he took in mud: Aral all .irs. He was at one time president of the Consenative Vs orking Men's Association, and two ) ears ago the owner of cohside:ab e property. In reapo se to an earnest appeal by his iriends, and the promise th: the u out. not repeat the offence, he was di.charged. Frisener now states that had he intended finishing Lime if, he had plenty cn trpportunity before the razor was wt enched wrom him.
The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1892-08-19 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

RUNIAN TYPERSTITION. —A traveller in Russia writs: One village through which we rs.sed was the embodiment of filth and squalor. A destruolive fire was raging at one end of it, and lound this all the inhabitants were gathered. One house TM entirely burnt down, a second W 1/3 one IWIAB Of flames, and the fire wag rapidly spreading to a third, yet not a band %as raised to at reel ite ruinous progress. Garbs, prayers, the welling ot women and whining of children tilled the air. " Why on earth don't you put out. the tire " ehouted my companion to one of lhe pot,alite, who approached with a servile and wistful I,olc, as if he ezrected au offering of money. " live you no buckets '?"—Surely your excellency &iglu; to know that it isn't buckets we need ! "—" Well, it isn't strong arms, either, I fancy. Why don't you go to work?" Your grace wouldn't have na to fly in the face of 'moven ! We've sins enough on our souls without adding that black crime to them. Was it not God's onu lightning that cot l'etroft's house on fire, a couple of hours ago ? And bad as we are, there's not a man in the village that would raise his hand to undo God's holy wirk." Aty friend raised his hand, waved it despairingly, and we drove on. "It'. a mere waste of time to lesson with them," he said. "They would as soon commit suicide in a body as put out a fire that God had kindl,d with His lightning."  A college for girls is to be opened next month at Budapseth, which is to be chiefly for the study of uiedicine and philosophy. Among bilds the swan lives to be the oldest, in extreme cases reaching 300 years; the falcon has been known to live over 162 years. Au imperial order has been i.wed for the closing on Sundays in Bemlin, and all other German cities,of the sweetmeat automatic boxes with the slot movement.  The Queen has been pleased to oonfer a Knight Commandership of the Order of the Indian E. upir3 upon Mr. Henry Seymour King, MX.
The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1892-10-28 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

SERIOUS RAILWAY ACCIDENTS IN AMERICA.  A disastrous accident occurred on Monday morn. lug on the Philadelphia and Reading Railway to the fast express leaving altamikin at five o'clock, and due at Philadelphia at half-past nine. Owing to the south-bound track being required for the use of other traffic the trim w sent along the line for north-bout: as d traffic, special orders being given to keep the road clear. Soon after nine o'clock, however, when just north-west of the Manayunk Tunnel,the exprtitts,travel ling at high speed,orashed into the rear of a coal trait', the driver of whioh had disobeyed the order given him to remain on siding at Pencoyd *ahem, at a short distanee south of the scene of the accident, until the fast train hai palsed. There was a frightful wreck, the coal-trucka and passenger-cars being jammed together in inextricable confusion. It was at first reported that the accident had occurred actually in the Mausyunk Tunnel, but this WM happily not the case. Even as it was, however„the ears ignited instantly, and the wreck was soon enveloped in flans. the local fire-engines were hastily summoned, but it was some time before the fire was extinguished. Seven persons were killed in the first shook of the accident, including two railway officials, a newsboy, and four passengers, two of the latter being ladies. The injured number twenty-one, and some are very seriously injured, although fortunately they were all extricated before the wreak became thoroughly ignited, and none of them were burned. The pecuiiarity is that a large proportion are suffering from broken, contused, or lacerated logs, thighs and ankles. Three passengers had both their legs broken. The conductors and enginedrivers of both trains are among the Injured. Six of the latter are women, including the daughter of one of the ladies who was killed. The engine driver of the goods train is strongly blamed for his disobedienos of orders, as had be remained at Pencoyd Station only a minute or two longer the express would have pa.ised, and the accident would have been averted. . _ _  News has just been reoeired of a fatal accident on the Milwaukee and Northern Railway. A goods train and a construction came into collision, two men being Killed and four injured.  CON FESS LON OF MU it D ER.  At West Ham Police Court, on Mouelay, Joan Hatriss, a steward, of 91, Bartholomew Close, was charged on his own confession with having caused the death of Polly Hughes, a married women, by hanging her with a rope in a room at 88, Lissom Grove, Mary lebone, on October 9th, 1883. The The prisoner met Constable Watkin in Silvertowo on Sunday, and, accompanying him to the polies station, steted that on the 9th of October, 1883, he was in a room at 88, Lisson Grove witu Polly Hughes, and had two pieces of rope with him. He put them round Hughes's neck and hang her on a clothes-peg. An inqn•st was duly held, and a var. diet of suicide returned. '['he prisoner was remanded.
The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1892-05-27 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

GENERAL NEWS.  After bearing further evidence as to the death. of the four boys who wore killed in the fire at Scott's Supper Rooms, the coroner again adjourned the inquest, in order that the workiug of the electric lighting installation with which the premises were fitted might be thoroughly investigated. It was announced at the meeting of the lustitute of Auctioneers that satisfactory progress, both in numbers and finances, had been made in the petit year. In the evening the members and their friends dined together at the Inns of Court Hotel. James Stephens, the Fenian organiser, who has recently returned to Ireland from America, was the other night presented with his home, a pretty villa near Sutton, Dublin, with an acre of land attached; Mr. Clancy, sub-sheriff, making the presentation on the part of the committee. The annual report of her Majesty's iuspectors of explosive' just issued show that there were fewer accidents than usual during 1891. The explosions at Dublin Castle, the "National Press 1' Office, Dublin, and at the Dawsholm Gasworks near Glasgow, were, in the opinion of the inspectors, all due to malice. • It is stated that information has been received that the railway companies connected with Belfast are satisfied of their ability to cope with the extra I traffic caused by the Convention without any *di j taration of the date of meeting. It is practically certain, therefore, that the Convention will take place on June 17th as origually intended. After the trial of Mr. Parker Deacon for shooting M. Abeille, which comes on at the present Nice i Assizes, the accused will appear as the defendant in I a civil action, in which the proprietress of the Hotel j Splendid° at cantles twee him for the damage she sustained by failure to let Mrs. Deacon's rooms after I the tragedy. • Whilst Mr. Gerald Derjorsey, aged eighteen, a j lieutenant in the Royal Guernsey Militia Artillery, was with some companions seeking guile' eggs on I the cliffs at Plienmout, which is the westernmost part of Guernsey Island, he fell from a height of j about a hundred feet to the rooks below, and was I killed on the spot. A daring robbery took place the other night at Crewe station. Captain R. H. Verney arrived at Crewe, for Bangor. He gave his bag, which contained £BO in notes and cash, to a porter, who placed it on the platform. It was afterward missed, and later it was found on the Manchester hue. All the cash had been abstracted. Mrs. Ludlow, matrsn of the Kingston Gaol, Portsmouth, hes attempted to commit suicide by cutting her threat with a dessert-kuire. She had been depressed by i series of domestic bereavements and the fallow of the Portecta Island Building Society, in which the woman had invested her say logs. Some McereNting uew aequisitious will shortly be exhibited hi the Department of VI iota and Drawings at the Di itish Museum. Amongst them will be • selection ef origill dr.twilige for "by the late °hallos lit- 1:•‘. Ilesidos it number of studies by Italian Lawton:, iueiutling Umtata BolliniAturtocio, sod others.
The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1892-01-08 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

SAD DROWNING CASE AT  BRIDGEND.  SUPPOSED SUICIDE.  THE INQUEST.  Mr E. B. Reece, coroner, held an inquest at the Police-station, Bridgend, on Wednesday, touching the death of Margaret John (15), of 14, Southstreet, Bridgend, whose body was found on the beach at Marcross on Sunday last, Mr John Davies was foreman of the jury. Mrs Ann John, mother of the daceased, stated that her daughter was in service with Mrs Emery, of Nolton-street. On Wednesday, the 30th of December, at about seven o'clock in the evening Mrs Emery sent for,her and she went to the house. She comp'ained that she could do nothing with the girl and showed her a pair of mittens belonging to the shop which she said she had found in her possession. Deceased was not to be found in the muse at the time, and Mrs Emery told her if she iound her at home to send her back. At nine o'clock she called at Mrs Emery's again, not having seen her daughter. Mrs Emery searched the house a second time, but she was not to be found. She did not see her alive afterwards. She had been with Mrs Emery about 18 or 19 months. She identified the body. Mrs Amelia Emery, draper, of Nolton-street, said the deceased had been in her employ as a general servant since May, 1890. She repeatedly had occasion to find fault with her, and on the morning in question she told her that she wouldn't keep her any longer, and that she must go home. She had several times given her notice before, but she invariably stayed on. At about six o'clock in the evening she brought down one of deceased's dresses for her to mend, and turning out the pockets she found a new pair of mittens belonging to the shop. She asked her where she got them, and she said she didn't know. Witness then said that she really must go, and told her she would send for her mother, and that she was not to go till her mother came. The girl did not appear to be frightened, and went on ironing. Witness believed that she thought she would be kept on. About half an hour afterwards she sent a little girl for her mother, and she arrived a few minutes later. As Mrs John came in at the front door deceased, who had put away the ironing, went out by the back. That was the last time she saw her alive. The street at the back of the house led to a pathway goiag down to the river Ogmore. She had never known deceased take things before. She was treated kindly at her house. Charles Woods, a groom in the employ of Mr Randall, of Glynogwr, said that at about half-past seven on the evening of the 30th of December, when he was in the stables, he heard a scream from the direction of the river, about 200 yards away. It appeared to come from a female '• he only heard it once. He thought someone had fallen into the river. It was a stormy night, and the river would be flooded. Mr D. T. Clarke Williams, of St. Donets' Vicarage, said he found the body on Sunday afternoon, between three and four o'clock, on the beach at Marcross. The body was lying on the cliff  rISBI3BBI