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The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1871-09-09 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

CLEM:MGM—On Monday morning, a painful impression was created by a report that one of the visitors at the Grand Hotel, Scarborough, had committed suicide. It appears that among the visitors staying at the hotel was the Rev. T. Hall, of Pontefract, a middle-aged gentleman, who was sojourning alone. On Sunday night he retired to rest, apparently in his ordinary state of health. Not having arisen at the usual time, someone went to call him, and, as no response was made, a suspicion arose that something was amiss. Accordingly, about ten o'clock, the door was burst Topen,_ when a horrible spectacle presented itself. The reverend gentleman was lying upon the floor of his bedroom in a pool of blood, which had flowed from a frightful gash in his throat. He was attired only in his nightdress, and was quite dead, while near the body lay a razor, with which the unfortunate gentleman had apparently cor.._mitted the rash act. Upon the floor of the room were the remains of a letter, supposed to have been written by the deceased, which had been torn to pieces and thrown away. It was too hopelessly destroyed to be deciphered, but in one of the remnants reference is made to "my difficulty."  A son of Mr. Baines, M.P., and a son of Mr. C. Reed, M.P., narrowly escaped drowning near Coleraine on Monday. Mr. Walter Montgomery, the tragedian, under a fit of insanity, committed suicide in London on Friday. He had only been two days' married. At Kidderminster, on Saturday, Mr. J. B. Edge, a volunteer, firing at a 500 yards range, made 325 points in 100 consecutive shots. He wagered that he would score an average of centres, and won with 25 to the good.  At the Northern Divisional Police Court, Dublin, on Monday, Michael Murphy charged with throwstones at the police during a riot in Queen-street, on Sunday, was sentenced to two months' imprisonment. Richard Hagan, P. Shelley, and J. Boyle were sentenced to three months' imprisonment; James Fitzgerald, Kerr Keogh, and a boy named Allen, to two months'; Patrick Brady, who was identified as having thrown a heavy iron bar at a policeman, was sentenced to six ntonths' imprisonment, and James Guekley, for striking a constable with a stick to two months' imprisonment.
The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1871-02-25 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

SUSPECTED MURDER AND SUICIDE. On Wednesday last, an inquest was opened at Twickenham, on the bodies of Elizabeth Bass, 27, and Lionel Bass, her son, aged two years and ten months, which were discovered by some workmen in the river Cran, near Kneller Hall, in the pariah of Twickenham.— Fanny Thompson stated that she had lodged with the deceased woman for about live months. She knew the little lioy was illegitimate, and had seen the father, who was an officer in the army, and knew also that the deceased received money from him towards the support of the boy. She had heard the deceased say she had received money from him while in India.—A letter was now produced, which was found in the deceased's box, which ran as follows:—' To Elizabeth have just sent you £33 to help to keep you while I am away, and will give you some more money when you want it. If the child lives I will look after it. —Yours affectionately." [The signature is omitted.) About three weeks ago the deceased obtained a situation, leaving the deceased boy in witness's care. The father of the child came at the same time, and said he would be responsible for the payment for taking care of it. Deceased had been to see her child two or three times since she had gone to service, and seemed very food of it. On Saturday, when she came she said she was not comfortable in her place, and should give notice at the end of the month. On Monday evening she came about half-past six, and wanted to take her little boy out with her. On witness offering to wash his face before he went, deceased remarked, "It does not matter about that to.night." She took the little boy in her arms and left, and, thinking she had only taken him to her situation for a little change, witness sat up very late expecting her to return.— Henry Robert Campbell Litchfield, surgeon, said he knew the deceased, and had attended her when confined of the little boy. In December last she called on him, stating that she had met an old sweetheart, and had forgotten herself, while the father of her boy was in
The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1871-02-25 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

AND EUICIDE.—A shocking tragedy has been enacted at the village of Stallingburough, a few miles from Grimsby, in Lincolnshire. In this , village there lived a brickmaker named Christopher Lecdham, his wife, and seven or eight children,out of a family of ten. Leedham had been previously married, and the murderer, George I,eedhain, aged about 42, was the eldest son by the first marriage. I Shortly after noon on Saturday last the husband, 1 wife, -George Leedhani, and some of the younger members of the family, were at dinner, when George suddenly jumped up, and seizing a large carving or butcher's knife which was lying on the tablp, stabbed his stepnicther with it in the lower part of the front of the neck. He then rushed out, and in attempting to jump over a very high edge, stumbled and fell into a ditch at the other side. He then appears to have gone directly to a pond about 100 yards from the house, and attempted to commit suicide by jumping in, but one of his brother*, and the foreman of the brickyard came up, and, rushing into the water up to their middles, succeeded in bringing him to the bank. Here he was left in charge of Jackson, the foreman, whilst the brother went to attend to his mother. The murderer was a very stout and active man, and made a second attempt to commit suicide. Ile was too much for Jackson, and pulled him into the water with him as far as he (Jackson) dare venture, and he was obliged to let go his hold. ',Dedham then drowned himself by holding his head under water. Meanwhile the woman had staggered out of her house on to the door-step of the next one, where she expired. There was not the slightest provocation for the attack on Mrs. Leedham, as she was ever a kind and affectionate wife and mother, but the man had for some time shown signs of insanity. SUICIDE or A
The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1871-12-16 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

BIGAMY IN  CHESTER.  Edwin Jones, 36 years of ago, was indicted at the Ch,cter Assizes on Monday, for feloniously 'marrying, at th, parish church of St. John, Chester, On October 16, 1871, one Sarah Wright, and also for feloniously marrying, at a Preibyterian cl.apel, in Chester, on July 6,, 1866, one Sarah Jones, his former wife, whom he married at St. Asaph, on May 4th, 1860, being thou alive- Sarah Wright, 31 years, was also indicted for feloniously intermarrying William Nelson, at St. John Church, Chester, on March 11, 1866; also for feloniously marrying, at the same church, in October last, with Edwin Jones, her husband whom she married on December 30, 1861, at Ashton Hayes, being then alive. Ths prisoners were tried separately. Sarah Wright, it may be remembered, was , brought before the magistrates in the early , part of October, charged with bigamy, and , Edwin Jones was produced as a witness against her. It was then fraind that he also had committed hizarity, and he was taken into custody. Eliza Jones appLared on a subsequent occasion as a witness agaihst Edwin Jones, and she was also taken into custody on a charge of bigamy. It win stated upon the last-mentioned occasion that there was reason to believe that each one of the three persons charged had been guilty of twice feloniously marry.ox ; that there had been, in fact, nine marriages between the three of them, and that each of the contracting parties to these marriages were alive. Subsequently Edwin Jones and. Sarah Wright were each committed for trial on the indictments mentioned, and Sarah Junes was discharged. The prisoner, Edwin Jones, was now found guilty of feloniously marrying Sarah Jones, and the prisoner Sarah Wright of feloniously intermarrying with Edwin Jones. The ether charges were not prcceeded with, and each prisoner was sentenced to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for three months.  A GIRL ACCIDENTALLY saur AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE BY am
The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1890-08-09 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

DETERMINED SC WIDE AT MI LD /M.  On Thursday morning last 'week an inquest was held at the Royal Hotel, Newtown. 31illom, before Dr. P. B. Stoney (district coroner), on view of the body of Timothy Lewthwaite, a stove-keeper at the Ironworks, who was found in the morning dead, having hanged himself in a shed at Millom Park— a wood some short distance from the town—by means of a rope which it is supposed he took with him. About twelve months ago deceased met with an accident at the Ironworks. He fell from some height on his head when he was on the night shift, and since then, in conversation, there was something strange about him in his manner.—Wm. Thompson was examined, and said he lived at Park Head, Mißom, and found the deceased in a shed in Mißom Park about half-past nine o'clock that morning. He did not know deceased had hung himself until he noticed a piece of rope round his neck and his mouth frothy. They unfastened the rope and saw another piece on the beam. Deceased, when hanging, would be about a foot from the ground.—Fanny Smith said she lived in deceased's home, and saw him on Wednesday morning. The rope produced witness identified the same as that at home. Witness thought deceased's wife had complained to Sergeant Young. She took the knife from deceased on Tuesday afternoon last. He then told her that he would do something to himself, but not to his wife or children.—The Coroner having summed up, the jury returned a verdict that deceased committed suicide whilst in a state of unsound mind.  On Tuesday at Sheffield Mr. Hobert Colver, of the firm of Messrs Jonas and Colver, steel manufacturers, was elected Master Cutler for the ensuing year. He will assume the duties of his office on the first Thursday in September, when the Cutlers' Feast will be given.  At the Holborn Restaurant on Wednesday night Mr. W. O'Brien, M.P., and Mrs. O'Brien were entertaimsl at a banquet in celebration of their marriage. The dinner was intended as a tribute of respect from the Irishmen of London to the hon. member • for Northeast Cork and his bride,
The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1890-08-09 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

SUICIDE IN BARROW.  A VICTIM ()F INSANITY.  Last Monday morning the body of a man named Henry Briggs was found in the Devonshire - Doek. The deceased had been missing from his home since July 2nd, awl bills had been issued to discover his whereabouts. For some time before his disappearance he evidenced unmistakable signs of insanity, and entertained hallucinations that people wished to. do him harm. The deceased was a joiner at the shipyard, and he had made several remarks to his mates which led them to  question his sanity. There is no doubt whilst thus - afflicted he committed •suicide, The Aug. mall's home WilA in Marsh - street. —On Wednesday, Mr. John Poole held an inquest at the Barrow Police Court on the body of Henry 1981=—Vattiul:riava31 - • Briggs, who was found in the -Devonshire Dock on 12—Tuesday the previous Monday. Mr, .1. Beck was foreman of 13—Wednesday the jury. There had been a delay of an hour in • 14—Thursday the bolding of the inquest, and the coroner explained that it was owing to a stoppage in the train arrangements at HaverthWaite. The lakeside train was delayed at that station for some time; and missed the Barrow connection at Clverston..—Emily Briggs said she was the wife of Henry Briggs (the deceased), and. lived in Marsh-street. Ile was a joiner. She last saw him on Tuesday, .July 2nd, and missed him out of bed on Wednesday morning at. half-past two. When she missed him she went downstairs and found all the doors open. Witness and her sister searched for him, and gave information that he Was missing. He had been in a low nervous way for about a month, and gradually got worse.--Dr. Settle said that he saw the deceased on the afternoon of the 27th June. lie was in a depressed and nervous state, but was not what he would call insane at that time. He left him better, as he thought. —.Police-sergeant Raynor said that he fottfil the deceased in the Devonshire Dock on the 'nothing of the 4th. There were no marks of violence on the body.—The .Coroner, in slimming up, said there was no doubt this man was insane, and really did not ',vow the nature of the thing he was doing. The evidence appeared to him to point that the Man was not in his right mind, and therefore he (the Coroner) would Ivo:minuend to them that the deceased drowned_ himself .whilst of unsound mind.—The jury returned a verdict to that effect
The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1890-05-10 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE IN BARROW.  A JUMP INTO THE DOCKS.  A deliberate attempt to commit suicide took place at the Barrow docks on Wednesday. It appears that at twenty minutes past one, a man named Henry Walsh, who is employed at the plate mill at the Steel Works, and resides at 26, Emlynstreet, WM going, in company with Thomas Groucutts, of 49, [ Howe-street, to see a man on board a vessel lying under the 100 ton crane. They got through the Shipyard gate, and were going down through the yard to the vessel, when, within ten or twelve yards from the dock side Walsh took a run and plunged into the water. There is little doubt he would have been drowned but for the prompt assistance of a young man named Hugh Davis. of 25, Harrison-street, who threw off his hat and jacket and jumped in after him. A man named John Jenkins got a rope, which he threw to Davis and the latter fastened the rope round body. By this means the would-be suicide was dragged out of the water, and he was sulp‘equently taken home by two men. Policeconstable Vickers, on receiving information of what had occurred, came upon the scene, and in the first instance was informed by Groucutts, and a youth named Robert Martin, that Walsh had accidentally fallen off the gangway of the vessel, but further enquiries showed, as both Groucutts and Martin afterwards admitted, that this statement was a faLse one, and made to save Walsh from being apprehended. It appears that in October last, Walsh was before the Barrow magistrates, and committed by them to the Sessions upon a charge of attempting to poison himself at the back of Mr. Loxliana's shop in Cavendish-street. He was discharged at the Quarter Sessions. We understand that the police do not at present intend to make a charge against Walsh in connection with his renewed attempt to take his life. It appears that the man's mind has been unhinged through his wife having deserted him and his two children.
The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1890-03-18 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

BARROW CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.  GENERAL NEWS.  A New York telegram of Saturday reports a landslip on the West Virginia Central Railroad, by  which three men were md. The Hamburg Steamship Liner Slavonia has arrived at New York, and reports having during the voyage been struck by a huge waterspout. Mr. Robert William Soutar, a Banff solicitor, committed suicide in a railway carriage on Sunday morning by firing a revolver into his mouth. The Halifax ironmoulders' strike has terminated, the masters having consented to give a shilling advance now and another shilling in two months time. The outbreak of influenza among the labourers of Bent during the last four or five weeks has cost the Labourers' Union in sick pay at the rate of £6OO a week. On Saturday Sir Edward Green, the member for Wakefield, laid the corner-stone of a new Art and Science School in that city. The school, it is estimated, will cost £5,500. At Marlborough-street Police Court, London, on Saturday, Jacob Regner was fined £lOO, with three months' imprisonment in default, for permitting betting at the Continental Club, Soho. A new express engine on the North Ea.stern Railway, for the service between Newcastle and Edinburgh. has developed a travelling speed of 90 miles an hour, the highest recorded by several miles. Heavy rains have fallen during the past few days in New South Wales, causing serious floods, chiefly in the coast districts. Enormous damage has been done, and many casualties are reported. The Secretary of State for War has declined to sanction payments to army pensioners being made monthly instead of quarterly, a proposed alteration which the Stockport Board of Guardians asked him to consider. Early on Sunday morning, at Aberystwith, the London and Provincial Grocery Stores, St. James's and a large irvmaongery warehouse, Were destroyed by fire. The damage is estimated at over £12.000: According to an official statement, there are at present 4,000 houses in Rome, with dwelling room for at least 20,000 persons standing unoccupied. Only twenty new houses have been built within the past three years. A boiler exploded on Monday morning on the premises 01 Mr. Levi Usher, rope maturfucturer, Great Crosby. Six persons—four girls and two young men—were badly injured, and had to be
The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1890-07-05 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

KIRKBY IR EIYT H.  TRE RECENT SEICIDE.—On Thursday evening. Mr. John Poole. coroner, held an inquest at the Punch Bowl Inn, Beckside, Kirkby Ireleth, before a jury of which Mr. T. Ashburner was foreman, on view of the body of Isaac Parker, who committed suicide by hanging on June 25th.—Margaret . Atkinson stated that deceased was her husband. He was 65 years old, and was a quarryman. He had been drinking heavily, and threatened to make an end of them. She had not been at home since Sunday saw him on Tuesday, and told him she intended to salmon him.—By a Juryman : Did not notice whether he was drunk or sober, as he had not replied to her.—William Atkinson said he went on Wednesday warning to tell Parker (his uncle) to come to his mother's house to breakfast. Saw him banging, and ran home to tell hi mother.,Jane Atkinson slid that Parker was her brotherand since SundaV he had had his meals at her • house. On Monday he was very drunk, but was calm and quiet on Tuesday. He acted her husband to come home with him, as he was norvous, but her husband had not gone. Parker said he would take the life of himself and a neighbour before morning. He had promised her 'lotto say such like things. and would go to work. Had lived very unhappily with his wife, and was jealous of hen—William Holmes had been told by the Atkins.n's to 'en to the home, :Ind saw Parker hanging by a siik neckerchief, which W:l6 round Its neck, the other end being fastene,l to a las& in the twat', beneath the ceiling. Was hanging behind the front door of the The deor Mel evidently. not been locked all night. The hody w:ts quite dcl iii coll. It was about seven in the morning when lw cut him down.— After- the OWOll,l' I :141 surlllileti up, the jury returned a verdict Of 'Suicide while temporarily insane."
The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1890-08-30 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

SUICIDE THROUGH DISAPPOINTED LOVE.  An inquest was held at Hull, before Mr. A. Thorney, the deputy borough coroner, touching the death of Miss Amy Cullen, aged 33 years, residing in All Saints-street. Miss Cullen, who resided alone, was found dead in bed on Wednesday morning, having poisoned herself with "vermin killer." The evidence revealed some romantic circumstances. It appears that deceased had been engaged to be married to a clerk named John Aston, residing at No. 2, May-street, Hull.—Mr. Aston stated that he had known deceased many years. He was engaged to be married to her, and that engagement took place within the last fortnight. On vl onday night he had requested her by letter to break off the engagement. He had seen her on Sunday last, but said nothing to her about breaking off the engagement. On Tuesday morning he received a letter from her. It was dated August 19th, and was as follows :  Dear Jack,—You have done right in letting me know the truth in time, instead of leaving me to find it out, when it was too late. I think I can give you a motive. You could not matry one woman while loving another; but no woman will ever love you as I did. Perhaps you hardly realised how dear you were to me. You cannot guage the depth or intensity of that love which you carelessly fling away as a thing not worth keeping. Pride would forbid my saying this to you if I had not made up my mind not to live, but what I could not have said living I can say dying, for oh, my darling, I cannot live without you. After the one glimpse of heaven that you have shown me I dare not face life with the prospect of never seeing you again. By the time you have received this I shall be no more; but don't reproach yourself, dear. It was to be, and you could not have acted otherwise than you did. Goodbye, Tack. If there is a God, may He bless and keep you, my darling, and make sou happy.—
The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1881-01-08 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

IJLVERSTON BURIAL BOARD.—Yesterday morning the monthly meeting of the members of the above Board was held—the Chairman, Mr. T. Ashburner. presiding. The business was simply routine. The Clerk read a report of the number of interments during the past year, from which it appeared that at the Parish Church there had been 14 ; Holy Trinity Church, 9; Friends' Meeting House, 1; Cemetery, 162; total, 186. _ _  SUPPOSED SUICIDE AT ULvsueroN.-On Sunday morning, a young man, a fitter by trade, named Henry Holmes, living at Dubois Cottages, was found dead, hanging to the bed-post in his room. Deceased had been employed at the Canal Head Foundry as au expert workman in the construction of a new machine patented by Messrs. Hosking and Blackwell, and by some means got his hand accidentably fixed in the machinery and was unable to get extricated for nearly half-in-hour, in the meantime suffering intense pain. It is thought that this must have affected his nervous system to such an extent that he came to this sad end in a fit of temporary insanity caused thereby. Much osirr ipnal.:ll3,i is ftesltofforythe e fmamanilydoifj:lceasresedecwho. are ULvEnsroxManzirr,Tllllß3DAY.-WKeat,pper 280Ibs, 265. Od. to 298. 6d.; oats, per 2601 b, 225. Od. to 265. Od. oats, new, 17s. Od. to 195. 6d ; French and Spanish flour, per 280tbs.' 41s. Od. to 445. Gd. ; meal, 2'241b, 265. Od. to, 329.0 d. ; beef, per lb., sd. to 10d.; beef steak per lb., 18.0 d. to Is. id.; mutton, per lb.„ Bd. to ldid.; veal, 9d. to 10d. ; lamb, per lb., 81. to lOid. ; pork (carcass), per lb., bid. to 6d.; young pigs, 18s. to 268. Od.; fowls, per couple, 4s. 04. too 4s. 6d.; chickens, 38. 2d. to 4s. Od.; ducks, per couple, 48. 6d. to ss. Od. ; butter, per lb, Is. sd. to Is. 6id. ; eggs, 8 to 10 for is.; potatoes, per stone, sd. ; honey, per lb. Is. 2d. to Is. 6d.; geese, per lb. 9d. to 10d. ; onions, per stone, Is. 6d. to 2e.; sole, per lb., Is. 6d. ; turbot, per lb., Is. 4d. ; brill, per lb. is.; apples, per stone, Is. Bd. to 2s. 6d.; rabbits, per couple, 28. 9d. to 3s.