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Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1864-11-18 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

DLESHROUG  MELANCHOLY SUICHDE.—M)OIIt eight o'clock on Tues !ay morning the people resident in Albert View were alarmed by a report having been spread that a woman of the name of Agnes Burns, wife of Peter Burns, boiler smith. 26 years of age, had committed suicide by cutting her throat with a knife. A woman named Mary Welsh, residing in the same house with deceased, heard the children screaming very loudly in the room where deceased was, and in consequeace she went there, and Oil trying the door found it was fits' ened. She at once burst it open. when a most fearful spectacle was presented to her. The woman Burns was lying on the floor, with her free dowowards, near the fire-place, in a pool of blood and with a frightful gash in her throat. She had got out of bed to commit the fearful act, and was dressed in her night-clothes, which were completely saturated with blood.  Life was extinct. The children of the deceased, four in number, were close to the body, and were crying most bitterly. An alarm was immediately raised, and Sergeant filawer went to the house, when he found the deceased lving on the floor as described, with the instrninent of death, a common table knife, lying by her right side. A medical man was at (awe sent for, hut was, of course. unable to render any se.vice. Deceased hail evidently stabbed herself in a standing attitude, and had then folk] down. Pecuniary difficulties and ill-treatment from her husband are the .illezed causes of the perpetration of this rash act. D.ceaseil Was very backward with her rent, and this preyed heavily on her mind. On the previous day, to she had soma differenee with her husband, nod this is said to have very much affected her. Deceased was eenerally known ss a rather eccentric, but withlfl is well-disposed and well-conducted person. - .
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1864-07-15 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

SUICIDE AT WYLAM.— On Saturday last, Stephen Reed. Esq., coroner for the southern division of the county, held an inquest at Wylam Hall, on the body of William Nicholson. The deceased, who was 45 years of age, was butler to G. C. Atkinson, Esq., J. P., of Wy lam Hall ; and on the Thursday night previous he retired to his bed room, and was at that time appal ently in distress of mind. On the following morning, about a quarter to eight o'clock, Sarah Sanders,m, the cook, went to his room to call him, and, after having knocked in vain for some time. °petted the door and went in. She found deceased lying on the bed; believing him to be dead, she immediately informed Mr Atkinson and some of her fellow-servants. It was found that the poor fellow was bleeding from a wound in the heed, and that he held a pistol in his right He was quite dead ; but from the fact of the body being warm, it was conleetured that life had not been long extinct. The thiekness of the walls of the room, ana the posit' of the room in regard to other parts if the house, accounted for the report of the pistol, which deceased had employed in the act of self-destruction, not having been heard by the other members of the household. Mr Atkinson, who was one of the witnesses at the inquest, said there had been a great many diagreements amonst his servants lately, and, as he attributed their occurrence to the deceased, he gave him notice on Wednositty to quit his service at the ensuing term. He believed deeeased was mortified at having to leave his place, and he had no doubt that it had had some effect on his mind. He was, apart from his bad disposition, a very steady man. After having he*.tl the evidence, the jury returned a verdict to the effcet that the deceased had shot Wins& with a pieta, being of unsound mind at Ike time be did so.
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1889-08-31 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

SHOCKING SUICIDE AT STOCKTON.  THE INQUEST.  An inquest was held last Saturday by Mr Coroner Settle at the Police Court, Stockton, on the body of 'William Alderson, a driller, living at No. 10, Thomas street. who committed suicide under circumstances detailed below.—Mary Ann Rivhal Alderson, widow of deceased, said her husband was a driller at Messrs Slate and Co.'s engine works. He had been a healthy man until a few weeks ago. lie felt in a weak state and went to see Dr. Foss, and afterwards Dr. Wilson. who was his club doctor. He got into Vito a low way, and took the impression that he would not be able to keep up to his work. He contained working regularly till Monday week. Ile complained of nothing but weakness, and took his food pretty well. Ho was a very temperate man. On the previous evening he wont to bed about nine o'clock. About five o'clock last fie.toirilay morning she awoke and missed him. She got up and went down, when she heard him moaning in the yard. On going there she found her husband in the closet, bending forward, and holding his head in his hands. Ile was bleeding from the throat, which was cut in front. She found two knises on the seat beside him, both stained with blood. One was his own pocket-knife, and the other was a table-knife. She had had no suspicion previously that he would do himself any injury. Her husband died at 7.30 sin. I Frederick Turk. fitter, said he lived next door to deceased. A little after five o'clock that morning he was called, and wont into the yard of deceased's house, where he found Alderson lying with his throat cut. Witness brought him into the kitchen laid him on the sofa. and Dr. Andrews was called in. As Boon as the doctor I came witness went for Dr. Wilson, who afterwards arrived.—The jury returned a verdict that the deceased committed suicide whilst in a state of temporary insanity. Deceased has been , married four and a-half years, and leaves one child.
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1889-06-22 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

BAD SUICIDE AT DURHAM.  On Thursday a young woman, agel 18 yea, I committed suicide in the Wear, at the Pretaid s Bridge, Durham, by leaping from the parapet of ' that structure into the stream below, al.out 70 Ifeet. Deceased, who was the daughter of a ; miner, was in service in Durham, *AI was seen standing in the doorway of her employer's house at half-pant eve o'clock. She was next ; seen walktm; about on the Prebend's Bridge. After promenadin for some time, it is alleged, • she took a handkerchief from her pocket., bound IL round her eyes, climbed on to the parapet of the bridge, and precipitated herself into the stream beneath, in which the water at this time is very low, there being only some three or four feet of water at that place. Those who saw the deed were toe far distant to render assistance. A person who resides near the snot heard the splairi in the water, and on runniag to the bridge he found • female's bonnet, which lie at once carried to the Police Station in Claypatb, where he secured the services of Sergeant Gros; set and Sergeant Pearson. On those officers proceeding to the waterside they saw the eceasod lying in the water, and, having procured a boat, they recovered the body, arid had it conveyed to the house of Mr B. A. Oliver, the Castle Hotel, in Silver-street. On examining the dress of the unfortunate girl, the officers found Lie following letter :—" Sorry to leave you, mother dear. Please send sister Annie word of this deed. as 131.11 was the only one I cared for. You mast not break your heart over use, mother dear, as yon have more besides me. I cannot write this very well, as lam so shaky, as I know quite well what I intend d ling. Not olen you hear of • girl of 18 doing sail a thing like this. I have not seen much of the i world, but I wish to see lees From a helpless I girl."
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1889-04-20 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

CAUGHT AND BROUGHT BACK. There landed at Liverpool from the Atlantic steatnerAlas Xs. onWednrs day Detective-Inspector Jarvis, of Scotland Yard, having in custody Thomas Barton, a mill owner, of Macclesfield, who was arrested by Jarvis at Philadelphia, and subsequehaly extradited on a charge of forging the signature of a co-trustee, and selling fraudnlently r. thousand pounds' 'worth of London and North-Western ltailway stocks. After the offence Barton was traced to America, and was followed in November by Jarvis.  'Henry Strong, under remand for attempted wife murder, bas committed suicide at Reading by Jumping from • high landing. On Wednesday the steamer liestormal and a Norwegian barque collided in Belfast Lough. both vessels being so badly injured that they had lobe beached, - No lives were lost. _  Late on Sunday, during a quarrel among the residents iii Newshain-street, Liverpool, a man named McTighe was stabbed in the neck by another man named McKeown' and died in a few minutes. McKeown afterwards disappeared. The new torpedo cruiser Barone, was floated out of dock at Portsmouth onTaesday.The dimensions of the new vessel are :—Length between perpendiculars, 220 feet ; breadth. 35 feet ; die. placement, 1,580 tons ; ,tican draught. 14 feet ; speed, 16,1 knots. Her armaments will consist of six quick-Sting guns, two Nordenfelt guns, and two torpedo tubes. The Hangman ol Berlin is reported to have kicked his assistant to death. The two have h.,.d a quarrel, and this is what it has come to. Ac cording to the law of the land this hangman is the person who is appointed to hang criminals I doomed to death. When convicted, therefore, he I is the person appointed by law to hang himeelf. ' In the event, would It be suicide? Mr J. If. Blookburne, who still holds the proud position of leading payer at the International Chess Tournament, now being held in an unassuming building in Union-square, New York, is, among the many and various chose champions there gathered, about as little like what one pictures an enthusiast at the ancient game as can be. Ills appearance at the board, behind his constant companion, his pipe, which is for over in his mouth while playing, is suggestive rather of the typical British workman enjoying his otinni rum tkplitate than that of a master of problematical chess.
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1889-10-26 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

THE SHOCKING SUI E OF TWO  BUOTHEUS.  THE INQUEST. On Friday last week an inquest was held at the Londonderry Arms, at Longnewten, by Mr Coroner Settle on the bodies of James Reed (47), and John Reed till, brothers, one of whom was found hanged in his own house, and the other drowned in a pool about half • mile from the • on Wednesday morning. —The first witness was the brother of the deceased men. Thomas Reed, a labourer, of Sedgefield, who said his brothers, who were shoemaker*, lived together, lie went to see them about five weeks ago, and found them well, and in good work. They appeared to be on good terms, and he did not know that they bill had any quarrel, or that they wero in any finaucial difficulties. Their parents were dead, but previous to their mother's death she, through dinette, had to be removed to an asylum, where she remained about five months, and then returned to Long. newton, where she died.—Matthew Hornsby, labourer, deposed that he last saw James Reed nave on Mouday afternoon, the P:th inst. Reed 11184 trying to unlock Ins door, which was next to that of witness, and failing to do so himself, asked witness to do it, and this was all the conversation that passed. His uncle, Anthony Reed, IMO lying dead at the time, and the deceased seemed to be very nervous.—Jolin Honeyman, joiner, said he had known the deceased men for about twenty-six years, and he last saw John Reed alive on Sunday morning. the 13th, about nine o'clock, going in the direction of Grange Farm, where be was afterwards found. Ile stopped. and they conversed about some cattle, deceased being in his usual health and white, and betraying no symptom of mental aberration. On Wednesday morning witeess and a friend, thinking it strange neither of the brothers had been seen, entered the house by the back, and there found James Reed, banging by the neck by a hair rope deueled, suspended from the kitchen ceiling, with h:e feet touching the ground, his kuees beet, and his arms straight down by his sides, with but hie shirt and stockings on. Witness at once informed the vilia.o police. man, P.C. Knight, and they went to cut him down, but be wan dead. hearing that the other brother had made away wail himself, they instituted a search for him, and at lam found him laid dead on his face in a pond of water eighteen inches deep, near the Grange Farm, in which direction he was last seen to go. The house had been diligently searched, but nothing was found to give any reason whatever ler the rash act. After the jury had consulted privately, a verdict of "Suicide whilst in • state of temporary insanity" wee returned in both easel.
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1889-05-11 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

HORRIBLE MURDER AND SUICIDE.  A horrible murder, followed by the 'suicide of the murderer, was committed at a place called Tanyhont, near Tredegar, Monmouthshire, last Saturday evening. It appears that a cokes n pours l;eorge Higgins, alms Jones and Day, between 28 said JO years of ace, had been cohabiting with a seamed woman named Bridget Daley, 'god &boot 4tlt whose husband is supposed to be living in America. be haying deserted his wife and children some years ago. The murderer had been living with the woman about two years. It seems that last Satarday evening Mrs Daly was drinking at the Red Lion Inn with a man named John Evans, who was also a coker. They left there shortly after seven o'clock, and proceeded to the Red Lion t milts, where they were followed by the woman's paramour. Some words ensued, and Higgins struck the woman three or four times. She left the house about a quarterpast seven in company with Evans, and procc:.! to her home. She was then evidently under the inie of drink. They hal been in ; toe house scarcely five miurtes when Iliegins I made his appearance. aud turned the man Evaus and the woman's children one of doors. He then locked the door, and soon afterwards a neighbour named George Yates heard the woman scream loudly. Finding the door fast, he forced open the window, and then was horrorstricken to find the woman lying on the door weltering in her blood, apparently dead, sad her murderer in the act of falling. Medical aid was at once obtained, but it was found that in Loth cases life was extinct. The crime was committed with an ordinary pocket knife. The murderer had stabbed the woman behind the ear, severing a main artery, and took his life in the same way.
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1886-03-13 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

SITNDERLAND.  On Tuesday 4fiettiovi Mr Coroner Maynard held an ü4us4 tt Cue Sunderland Infirmary on the boay of a man named Thomas Lee (40), who :Lied in that institution on Sunday night.— Livinia.Lee stated that deceased was her husband, and they resided together at Penn'ssquare, Sunderland. He was engaged as a carpenter at the Lambton Drops. He left his work on Thursday afternoon week, and witness asked him if he was done already, when he replied, "I will never do another stroke there." Later in the afternoon his mates came to ask him if he would return to work on Friday, and this he promised to do. Shortly afterwards, however, he went out of the house, and never returned till Sunday morning. On being questioned as to where he had been, he said, " Nowhere ; just on the country side.— He seemed to have no idea where he had been. He bad never acted so before. Witness was .preparing dinner at the time, and asked him he wanted any. He said, "Oh, dear, I do feel so queer." He then took up a pail and went to 'the bedroom. She heard a noise like someone vomiting, and went into the room, where she found deceased lying on the floor in a pool of blood with his throat out. A blood-stained knife was on the bed.—Dr. Horan said he found the deceased's throat was almost cut from ear to ear. Witness got the madto go to bed, and on attempting to examine the wound he jumped out of bed, got a piece of onalk, and wrote on the floor, "Judas spilt innocent blood." He then returned th bed.--kly the Coroner: He was quite able to speak and walk about, which to witness was a most remarkable thing, as his throat was severed as far as the gullet. When asked if he would consent to be removed to the Infirmary he became very violent, again left the bed, and went into the kitchen grasping the large poker, and returning to bed with it. Witness then went and got the assistance of a constable, and had deceased removed to the Infirmary in a cab.—After corroborative evidence had been given, the jury returned a verdict of "Suicide whilst In a temporary state of insanity."
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1886-03-13 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

THE LATEST FROM MONACO.  GRAND RELIGIOUS FUNCTION."  From Monaco a correspondent writes :—The weather has been fairly good here. Up to within a week or two there were not many visitors, now the place is crammed. The fashionable hotel is the Grand Hotel. The Hotel de France has lost its prestige, owing to bad rationing. There has not been any very heavy play. Bonio days ago, when there was 40,000 francs upon the rouge et noir table, the croupier let fall two cards at once. One would have made the rouge win, the other the +tole. It would seem that this case had not been provided for in the rules, so after a long consultation it was decidod that both rouge and noir should be paid. We have had a grand religious "function," at which the Archbishop distributed blessings right and left. , Most of the gamblers went to be blessed, under the curious impression that this would bring them luck at the tables. At Nico there is very little gambling just HOW, owing to there having been so many cases of ch( sting and "lame ducks at the clubs last year. I read with interest M. Blowitz's announcements of suicides in the Times. They are entirely imaginative; no one has killed himself here this winter. A gambler is a very sanguine person; he feels that while there is life there HI hope, and he therefore prefers to beg, borrow, or steal a napoleon—being always fully convinced that he is sere to win thousands with it—to committing suicide. No one here seems to dread the suppression of the gambling by either France or Italy. Monaco is a sovereign State. It has entered into a customs union with France, but in everything else it is as absolutely independent of France as is England. The only difference between Monto Carlo and a French watering-place, as regards gambling, is that at the former the bank is held by a company, and the play is "on the square." Whilst at the latter the bank at the " Etablissemolt " is put up every day to public auction, and there is a good deal of cheating. It is a case of pot and kettle. I speak entirely without prejudice, for I never play at either, and am here simply because I like wandering about the gardens, basking in the sun, and enjoying the prettiest scenery on the Riviera. If people are so silly as to provide me with gardens and an excellent band by losing their money at play, I trust most sincerely that no one will step in to hinder them. Most of them are fools, who would—if they were not allowed to gamble— part with their money in some equally foolish manner, whilst I should reap no benefit from their folly.—Truth.
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1886-08-21 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

ALCOHOL AND ALCOHOLISM.  In the last ntnnber of the Revue Beientifique appears a remarkable paper on Alcohol and Alcoholism, which presents statistics and conclusions of a very startling nature. The author, M. Fournier de Flair, affirms that the outcry against alcohol is utterly unmerited, as it does more good than harm. To demonstrate this M. de Flair furnishes tubular statements to show that not only in the French departments, but in all other countries the birth rate is lower and the death rate higher wherever the consumption of alcohol is small. It is further argued from these figures that neither criminality nor suicide is in proportion to alcoholic consumption. For instance, in the Seirts-et-Oise the consumption is jast about half what it is in the Seine Inferieure, yet the suicide rate is double in the former. In England, again, more alcohol is consumed than in France, and yet in France the birth rate, the death rate, the statistics of crime and suicide are leas favourable than in England. The comparisons for Italy, Spain, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Russia, Austria, and Germany show analogous results. M. de Flair's conclusion is that it is the nations with , the most vital powers, the greatest wealth, and the best morals who consume the most alcohol. AlcohoL he maintains to be an alimentary element, whose consumption should depend directly upon the requirements of the climate. Our late Prime Minister, among others, is cited by M. de Flair in support of his thesis. He says: "Mr Gladstone takes every day two glasses of claret at lunch and two at dinner, with a glass of port wine. His alcoholic consumption has been estimated by his son at seven gallons a year, which would be three and a half times the average consumption per head in England, and four and a half times the average in Europe."
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1886-09-04 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

ROMANTIC CASE.—A romantic case harpsichord and smash it if the composer did came before the Mary-port magistrate, last not change his style. "Let me know when you , week, when Mary Jane Hope was charged with will do dat," said the German, "and I trill adverattempting to commit suicide. The young dies it. lam sure more beople will come woman, some months ago, fell in love with a see you shump den till come to hear you sing.. man thirty years her senior, a gardener at the Thrice happy is he who acquires the habit of house where she was servant. The feeling looking everywhere for excellences and not for being apparently reciprocated, they agreed to faults, whether in art or in nature, whether in a get married. On being informed of the state of pictuie, a poem, or a character. Like the bee drain, the woman's mother vetoed the proposed in his flight, he extracts the sweet and not the marriage. On being informed of this by his bitter wherever he goes, till his mind becomes* sweetheart the man said, "It is now done for dwelling place for all that is beautiful, recall' ever; there must be nothing more of it." Some ing, as it were, by instinct what is congenial to Lime afterwards the woman was found insensible itself, and rejecting everything else almost OA on the drawing-room sofa, having taken poison. unconsciously as if it was not there. In her pocket were found three letters. One was to her lover, in which she said, "Good-bye VALUABLE Dlscov or talent O. for ever; I cannot live longer without you. Kee If your hair 'Tana wiAr white, or WEE,„ 01, your portrait and mine close together for ever.' Ti will Tivfly rn,„,Zre eFreV rr She wrote to her mother—" lam very ill. lam hair to its original colour, without leaving the ew DISCOVERY FOR TILE going to die. My time has come. Bury me agreeable smell of most "Restorers." It make*Y2 near my graarliatner, and ask the one to the hair charmingly beautiful, as well as preineeta funeral whom I dearly love." Her life wee in the growth of the l!t. on bald spots, teat peat danger for some days. She told the Bench glandsma.thareeHm°t d air strtmrriv 61,21 g ',maw* sok boli that she was in such trouble that she did not w-6.llt;faulii col;o4iiiirOlL." price is °147 know she had taken poison, and, having ex- dealers. Wholesale depot, 33, Farring`i°4l-r., pressed regret, was discharged. London.