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The Shropshire Examiner and all round the Wrekin advertiser. — 1877-04-06 (Wenlock, Shropshire, England)

BAKER, DAFT.— We have to announce the death of Sir Edward Baker Baker, of Ranston, Dorsetshire, which occurred on the 29th ult, at his residence in Upper Brook street, London, in his 71st year. The Gardeners' Chronicle understands that there is a probability of the growers for Coven t•garden Market having a grand field day in the Royni Horticultural Society's gardens, Booth Kensington, shortly. The idea is to have an exhibition of Covent-garden produce, i.e., plant., cut flowers, fruits, and vegetable., shown in exactly the same manner as they are sent to market. A remarkable instanoe of fecundity in the cow occurred last month at Gen...nit., near Zeit., in Saxony. The animal in question dropped four calves at a birth, and supplemented this effort bye fifth on the 101 l wing day. The calves were all born dead, but are sa,d to have been perfectly formed, although, as might well be expected, of somewhat smaller size than 'strati.— The I-armor,  SHOCKING AFFAIR AT Devoepoica—Last evenine the report of a ride was heard at the commissariat store, Devonport, and on the guard turning out it was found that Private Johns, 30th Regiment, was lying dead with the top of his head shot off. It is presuuged he had committed suicide, but possibly he may have been experimenting with his rifle, when it accidentally went off. Johns was a man of good character curl ten years' service. The German Fishery Society held their general meeting at Berlin on the 2.oth Noveuiaer, under the presidency of the Crown Prince. There were 111 nceessiiins to its ranks during the course of Met year, and the society now nvirabers. It was unanimously aereed that much remains to be done before Germany can be considered ineependent of foreign countries for her fish supply. At present the imports of fish exceod the exports in value by 30,000,000 marks yearly.— lle Farmer.
The Shropshire Examiner and all round the Wrekin advertiser. — 1877-03-09 (Wenlock, Shropshire, England)

SUICIDE OF A COAL MERCHANT IN WAKEFIELD PRISON.  On Wednesday an inquest was held at the Wake. field House of Correction on the body of a prisoner named Booth Greenwood, a coal merchant. of &matey, who died in the prison about a parer past two o'clock on Tuesday morning, in copse. oneness of having cut his throat a week ago. The deceased, who was till years of age and a widower was committed for trial by the West Biding maws. trates at Bradford on the Bth ult., and he was to have token fits trial at the West Itiding Assizes which were owned at Leeds, on Tuesday, for feloniously shooting with intent to murder at Calverley, near Bradford. Not having been convicted, his friends were allowed lc provide him with food, and his meols were regularly sent to him in gaol. On the let instant his dinner was taken to the prison from a place in the town, as usual, a knife and fork being along with it for his use. Shortly after dinner one of the officers found Been. wood with his head hanging over his closet in a cell, where he was confined. He had a fearful gash in his throat, was bleening profusely, and was in a very weak state from the loss of blood. The prison surgeon was summoned, and the man was at once removed to the hospital in the prison. On examining the prisoner. Mr. H. Clark, the prison surgeon, found that he had cut his throat, and it was evident that he had committed the deed with the knife ii•mt to him along with his dinner. The man was in a very critical state for several days, but hopes were entertained that he, would recover from the effects of his rash act. Be progressed favourably for some days, and then an unfavourable change took place, and he died on Tuesday morning as already stated.
The Shropshire Examiner and all round the Wrekin advertiser. — 1877-09-14 (Wenlock, Shropshire, England)

SAD DEATH FROM POISONING AT WALSALL. .  On Saturday an inquest was held by Mr. A. A. Fletcher, the Borough Coroner, at the Wheat Sheaf Inn, Birmingham-road, Walsall, on the body of Mr. Frank Stubbs Duignan, of Suttonroad, aged 24, son of Mr. W. H. Duignan, solicitor, of that town, It was shown that the deceased had been an invalid and unable to walk since he was seven years of age, and he had not the proper use of his arms, but his mental powers were good and he was fond of study. He rang for his attendant between seven and eight o'clock on Thursday morning, and was supplied with his medicine chest and some books. From the former lie selected a stoppered bottle, stating that he had a bad headache and would smell the contents to induce sleep. He told the attendant not to disturb him for an hour and a half. After the lapse of that time the attendant went again, and found him dead. The bottle, still grasped in his hand, contained:prussic acid. Dr. A. J. Harrison deposed that he was called to see deceased immediately after his death, and found a phial containing a small quantity of diluted prussic acid in his hand. The stopper was ;vi the bottle. He believed that as deceased lay in bed smelling the acid, some of it, owing to the weakness of his hands, was spilled upon his lips. Deceased was greatly malformed about the chest. The smallest possible portion of prosaic acid would cause death in such a case. He would not have been surprised at death ensuing precisely as it had done without the poison. He did not think the poison had been taken wilfully, the stopper havirg been replaced in the bottle. He would not swer r that the prussic acid was the cause of death, though that probably acclerated it. Mr. W. H. Duignan stated that deceased had an income of about 470 or £2BO a year, and lived in a house of his own from choice. He had nothing whatever to trouble him but his illness, and had on the day before his death been talking of things to be done in the future. Deceased studied medicine, and was a man of sound and clear intellect. .  The Coroner having summed up, pointing out that there was no evidence at all pointing to a suicide, the jury returned a verdict that "Death was caused or accelerated by prussic acid, but whether that was administered intentionally or accidentally there was not sufficient evidence to show." The inquiry lasted about three hours.  -•
The Shropshire Examiner and all round the Wrekin advertiser. — 1877-08-10 (Wenlock, Shropshire, England)

EDNES BU BY.  For some time a boot and shoo maker, named William Partridge (50), of Lea Brook Road, Weduesbury, has peen addicted to drinking and spending his earnings, the consequence being that he has not been able to pay his debts, the chief item being that for rent. The landlord of the house in which Partridge resided waited upon him last week, and requested him to pay part of the rent that was owing, but as he refused the landlord employed bailiffs to seize the goods. This having been done, Partridge said to his neigh. bours that he did not know where his children would sleep, for he had not anything for them to sleep upon. Accommodation was ultimately ' found for the children by the neighbours, and Partridge remarked to one Ann Hickman, whilst in is bewildered state, " that it was bad enough now, but it would be worse to-morrow." UP°u Partridges youngest son, a boy of 13 years of age, going into the house on Saturday morning, he was horrified by finding that his father lay in I pool of blood, his lead nearly severed from the body, the latter being in a bag, whilot the shoulders were covered with two or three old coats. The head lay on two bricks, which were covered with a piece of linen. At the side of deceased lay a razor covered with blood, and in one of the pockets were found a razor and a sharp shoemaker's knif, llnformation was given to the police, house was closed, the children being cared tor by the neighbours. Deceased was a widower. On Monday afternoon Mr. Edwin Hooper, Di. i triet Coroner, held an enquiry at the Cottage , Spring Inn, Ocker Hill, touching the death of William Partridge. After evidence showing that deceased had been addicted to drink, the jury atter a short consultation, returned a verdict " That deceased committed suicide whilst in a state of temporary insanity." and the  The Bill brought in by the Local Government Board, roust itutin4 one united drainage district tor Birmingham and the neighbourhood, WAS read a third time and passed in the House of Commons on Saturday.
Widnes Examiner. — 1893-10-28 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

MISCELLAN EOITS. ,! The total offences disposed of summarily during the I year Is: Indictable 109, non-indictable 1,965, and quasi. criminal 219, in all 2,143. Six convicts on license have reported to the police. 4 have left for other towns, 1 : license expired, and 1 still resides in the borough. Nine supervisers have also reported, 7 have left for other towns, 1 died, and 1 was sentenced te 12 months for fraud. 'Ph,: number of chitiren detained in Reformatory and Industrial Schools is 43, for whose part maintenance the sum of £B7 83. 6d. has been paid by parents duriog the year, Seventy pedlars' and 6 chimney sweepers' certificates have beer: granted during the year. amounting to £l6 153. Seventy three persons have been brought in on suspicion, but allowed to go for want of evidence, and 70 other persons have been apprehended by or received from the police of other districts. Six persons have been summoned for keeping dogs without licences, 5 being convicted and 1 dismissed. Of sudden, violent, and unnatural deaths 120 were reported to the coroner through the police, inquest& being held on 51 cases, 65 referred to the registrar, and 4 certified by the doctors. The verdicts were: 24 accidental, 10 natural causes, 6 open, 5 suicide during temporary insanity, 1 small-pox, 1 syncope 1 bronchitis, 1 marasnius, and 1 poisoning (accidenal;. Nine fires took place in the borough, damage being done probably to the amount of £4,500, mostly covered by insurance. Toe care 15 can ww,rs, and 71 cab and 'bus drivers, 10 marine store dealers, 6 gunpowder dealers, and 34 small fireworks dealers. Lost children to the number cit 65 were found and restored to their parents, 56 horses, cattle and sheep found straying were taken to the pinfold until owned. One hundred and ninety-five shops, warehouses, and houses were found insecure by the police on night duty, the owners not having fastened all the doors ald windows. The population by census of 1891 is 52,743; ratable value, £168,894 ss. ; acreage, 2,004 ; inhabited houses, 9,631. Gross total cost of police £4,900 18r. fld. ; the value of the police superannuation fund being £8,677 Bs. lid., with a charge of about 193. 6.1. per week upon it. The sum of £2B 183. for services of police, including £1 103. from the coroner for use of Parade Room, was paid in due course b the B >rough Treasurer, and placed by him to the credit of the police superannuation fund. The borough contains 87 licensed victuallers, 45 beerhouse keepers, 60 off-license holders,and 5 refreshment houses with wine licenses; total, 206.
Widnes Examiner. — 1893-10-07 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

THE SUICIDE OF A WA [MOUTON TAILOR.—AO inquest was held on Friday afternoon, at Warburton, concerning the death of John Johnson, a Warburton tailor, the circumstances of which have already been reported in the Examiner. Mr. H. C. Yates, county coroner, conducted the inquiry.—Evidence was given by deceased's brother, who stated that he was a tailor carrying on business at Warburton, and the deceased had assisted him in his work.—The man Davies gave evidence as to the finding of the body in a field behind the hedge.—Mrs. Barff, Saracen's Head, stated that the deceased had called at i her house for some whiskey on the day n question.— Mrs. Bell, at whose house the deceased had lodged, gave further evidence, and P.C. Bebbington spoke to dressing the man's throat and cohveying him to his lodgings.—A verdict of " Suicide whilst temporarily insane" was returned by the jury. Local. Boaap.—The monthly meeting of the Lymm Local Board was held at the Board's Offices on Tuesday evening, when there were present—Mr. J. Gregson (chairman), Messrs. Appleton, Perrin, Mclntyre, Whitelegge, Brazendale, Harrison, Holt, and E. flolt. Mr. Ridgway (law clerk), Mr. Mullard (clerk), Mr. J. Mort (surveyor), Mr. W. Severs (gas manager), and Mr. E. Rouse (fire engine captain).—A letter was read by the Law Clerk from the churchwardens of Sion Chapel, calling the Board's attention to the insufficient lighting of Cherry-lane, especially in front of the chapel. The attention of the Board was also called to the fact that lamps were put in front of all other chapels in the village. The Chairman said the Gas Committee had had the matter under consideration, and strongly recommended the erection of a lamp in front of the Sion Chapel.—Mr. Brazendale moved, Mr. Appleton seconded, and it was carried that the matter be attended to.—The Fire Brigade captain submitted his annual report, in which he stated the brigade had had 21 drills. The damage by fires had amounted to £4O, and the expenses of the Fire Brigade were £8 7s. 7d. The report was adopted.  Mr. Alfred de Rothschild possesses a lion cub, which he has trained to follow him about his house and grounds. Its food consists of rice and boiled mutton, oaf which latter article it readily consumes upwards of 51bs. per day.
Widnes Examiner. — 1893-02-11 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

MOLESTING A GIRL ON RUNCORN HILL. EXTRAORDINARY DEFENCE. Yesterday at Runcorn Police Court, before Mr. Henry Reynolds,a young man named Henry Greenway, aged 20, labourer on the Ship Canal, living at Brick Kiln Houses, was charged with indecently assaulting Mary Pulford, aged 16 years, domestic servant to Mr. J. E. Meredith, Stanley Villas.—The girl stated that her parents lived at Weston, and on Thursday night about seven o'clock she W 39 en her way to see them, when near the Battery on Runcorn Heath, she saw the prisoner leaning against a gate. She bade him " Good night" and he respondad. She then said " Are you Dodd from Mrs. Moran's at Weston," and tie replied "No." She started to walk sharply, and he walked up to her side, and then she crossed over the road to avoid him, when he went behind her and assaulted her. She fell on her knees and screamed, and the prisoner ran away. A man named George Dodd and P.C. Benfield had heard the screams and the latter seeing the prisoner running away apprehended him. In answer to the charge he said" I don't know what made me do it. I never did such a thing before." Yesterday he made the following statement to the magistrate : "I got properly wet through yesterday and it new to my head. I started to go to Weston but altered my mind. When I stopped against a wall, my head was that had that I did not know where I was for about half-an-hour. When this girl came up I was thinking of committing suicide, my head was so had. It came on all at once. I followed the girl along the fields and she spoke to me and then all of a moment with my head being so bad, I flew up against her, and she then started screaming and Iran back." The prisoner was committed for trial to the Quartet Sessions.
Widnes Examiner. — 1893-06-10 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

VIII.'s victims—Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, and Sir Thomas Aline, thelatter trophy being carried off by the stratagem andelds brave daughter. Garnet, the Giippowder-PlotJesult, also contributed to the ghastly i triumphs of justice. Several celebrated painters, including Ilesarth, lived at one time or another on the bridge, and Swift and Pope used to frequent the shop of a witty bookseller, who lived under the northern gate. One or two celebrated suicides have taken place at London Bridge, and among these we may mention that of Sir William Templ.'s son, who was Secretary of War, and Eustace Budgell, a broken-down author, who left behind him as an apology the following sophism : What Cato dal and, Addison approved of cannot hi rong. Pleasanter is it to remember the anecdote of the brave apprentice, who leaped into the Thames from the window of a house on the bridge to save his master's infant daughter; wimm a careless nurse hid stropped into the river: When the girl grew up, many noble suitors came,. but the generous father was obdurate. ‘ No," said the honest citizen ; " Osborne saved her, and Osborne shahl have her." And so he had ; and Osborne's great-grandson throve, and became the first Duke of Leeds. The frequent loss of lives in shooting the arc!ses of the old bridge, where the fall was at time five feet, led at last to a cry for a new bridge, and one was commenced in 1824. Rennie designed it, and in 1831 William IV. and Queen Adelaide opened it. One hundred and • twenty thousand tons of stone went to its formation. The oil bridge was not entirely removed till 1832, when the' bones of the builder, Pious Peter of Colechurch, were found in the crypt of the central chapel, where tradition had declared they lay. The iron of the piles of the old bridge was bought by a cutler in the Strand, and produced steel of the highest quality. Part of the old stone was purchased by Alderman Harmer, to build his house, Ingress Abbey, near Greenkithe.
Widnes Examiner. — 1893-12-23 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

SUICIDE OF AN EARLESTOWN TRADESMAN. On Friday morning last, much excitement was occasioned in Earlestown, on the circumstances of a rumour that Mr. W. Hemmons, pork butcher, of Cross-lane, Earlestown, had committed suicide by poisoning himself. Inquiry showed that the rumour was only too true. It appears Mr. Hemmons, who was well known in the town, had for some few months past been in rather low spirits, from some cause which has not transpired. Formerly he occupied an old established pork butchers' shop, in Market-Bt., the busiest thoroughfare in the town, but for some reason he had to quit there, and was forced to take a new shop lately erected in Crosslane, which is quite out of the way of the majority of the purchasers. Whtther this has had anything to do with the depression of spirits, we cannot say. On Thursday, he intended attending Warrington County Court, where he was plaintiff in one or two cases. He at ant t catch his train, but was unfortunate in missing it, and he then drove over in his trap. When he reached the Court, he found the eases had been struck out, and he returned home under the impression that he had lost the cases altogether. During the day he purchases sixpenny-worth of laudanum from Mr. Peak's ' chemist, and soon after nine o'clock at night, he sent a , girl named Elizabeth Clarke,for another sixpenny-worth. It is said that when he returned from Warrington, he quarrelled with his wife, but this she denies. At any rate she left home and went to her sister's at Newton, and Mr. Hemmons followed. He reached home abait midnight, and about two o'clock in the morning,the servant, Emma Vernon,found him lying unconscious at the bottom of the stairs. She sent for Dr. Patterson, who applied the usual remedies, and restored the deceased to consciousness, and left instructions with those in the house how to deal with him. About nine o'clock on Friday morning he was sent for again, and he found Hemmons again unconscious, and all efforts at restoration were fruitless, and he died about 11.30. It is a curious coincidence that the man who ozcupied the shop in Market-st., before Mr. Hemmons, was also a pork butcher, and he after leaving it, committed suicide by hanging himself.
Widnes Examiner. — 1893-05-13 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

ITER HANGS HIMSELF AT WARRINGTON. AN UNPUNCTUAL JURYMAN.  Mr. S. Brighouse, county coroner, held an inquest at the Warrington Infirmary on Tuesday, on the body of Wm. Norman aged 52 years, who corn initt.d suicide by hanging himself on Monday at 17. Dixon-street. The inquest was fixed for 12 o'cinek, but Mr. Albinson, a juryman did not arrive until 1220, and the inquest WAR delayed in consequence. When Mr. Allinson arrived, the coroner asked him how it was that he was so late to which he replied that he had been very busy and could not get away —Mr. Brighouse " Here are eleven of the jury and myself who have been waiting twenty minutes. I find that the total amount of time lost by us all is 240 minutes or four hours. I never like to be unfair, but I do think that punctuality w.uld be advisable."  The inquest was then begun.—Mrs. Marshall said that deceased was her brother, and lodged with her at DIXOTIat. He was a earth'. She last saw h'm alive at about eleven o'clock on Sunday night when he went to bed. She was informed of the suicide of her brother by her daughter next morning. The police were informed. Deceased had been drinking very heavily for some time, hut she never thought he would take away his life. He was unmarried. On Sunday he could not hold his hands still. He had beers discharged from work on Friday night, hut he was taken on again on Sunday.—Sarah Alice Buckley, a young girl, said that deceased was her uncle. She last saw him alive on Sunday night. On Monday morning she got up at seven o'clock, and found deceased's dinner in the kitchen. She called for him, but got no answer. She then saw the closet door closed and went to open it, when she saw a man's hand. She then went for the police, who cut deceased down. ()wen Sherida, Said that he lodged with Mrs. Marshall. On Monday morning he got up at 5.20, and deceased was also downstairs. Witness said to him "It's a nice morning "to which deceased replied in a very low tone " It's very fns." Deceased then went out at the back, and witness went out at the front door, anti went to Lymm. Deceased did not appear to be any worse than usual. He had taken more drink than usual the last fortnight. He had never expressed an intentim to take away his life, and witness never expected him to do such Ething.—P.C. Jones said that the witneis Sarah Alice Buckley cane to him about 7.40 a.m. on Monday and told him there was a man in the closet. Witness went there and found eceased hanging by a rope from a beam in the ceiling. His feet touched the flonr, lie was quite dead. Witness cut him down.—The jury returned a verdict, to the effect that deceased had committed suicide whilst in an unsound state of mind.