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The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1868-07-31 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

MURDER OF A SWEETHEART AND SUICIDE OF THE MURDERER. _ _  On Wednesday night, a dreadful tragedy was perpetrated near Drumhead, in the neighbourhood of Preston, resulting in the death of a young woman named Elizabeth Brindle, a mill worker, 19 years of age. The deceased, who resided at Shuttlingtield Farm, worked in Mr. Bourne's cotton factory, in Brindle. In the same establishment a young man named Hamer we/ employed, and for some time back the deceased and he had been keeping company. It is supposed a coolness bad latterly arisen between the parties, in consequence of a disinclination on the pal t of the young woman to have anything mole to do with him. On Wednesday the murderer wrote to the yourig woman, asking her to meet him in the fields between Bourne's cotton mill and Shuttlingneld Faint, and shortly before six o'clock Hamer went to a blacksmith's shop at the mill, where he sharpened a packet knife. After that hoar nothing further is clearly known as to what transpired between the parties, but it is certain that towards seven o'clock a man, who was passing through one of the fields through which the footpath runs, found the body of the deceased lying on the ground near the road. He recognised her, and asked her what he was to do, whereupon she pointed apparently in the direction in which the murderer had gone, and stated that Hamer had stabbed her because she would not keep company with him. The man immediately raised an alarm, and Mr. W. H. Spencer, surgeon, Church-street, Preston, was sent for. He quickly arrived on the spot, but by this time, however, the young woman was quite dead. The jugular vein had been completely cut through, and there were other severe wounds on the body, which showed that the murderer bad determined to spare no effort to effect his purpose. About seven o'clock Hamer was met in Gregson-lane, near Alma-row, and his appearance betokened great excitement, and on being asked what was the matter, he replied that a man from Moon's Mill had been punching him. On being asked who the man was, he did not answer, but walked away hurriedly. Subsequently he was seen making in the direction of Blackburn, by way of Hoghtoe, and it is reported that he had expressed his intention of committing suicide or perpetrating another murder. At noon, on Thursday, information reached the autherities at Preston that the man Hamer had committed suicide on the previous night in Brindle. He was found suspended from a tree quite dead. The affair has caused the greatest excitement in the district An inquest vim held on Friday afternoon at Waltonle-Dale, on the bodies of Elizabeth Brindle and her murderer, Charles Hamer. The murder and suicide having happened in two different districts, two coroners' courts were held. In the case of the murder, a verdict of wilful murder was returned, and in that of the suicide one of felo cis se. The body of Hamer was baried at night by torchlight
The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1868-12-24 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

PEOPLE'S UNION.—At a meeting of the People's Union which has been held in Edinburgh, the following resolutions were carried :—'That the committee remit to the executive council to prepare a Trades Union Bill for Scotland, which shall be founded upon the following principles : 1. That trades unions shall sue and be sued by an officer or officers appointed by themselves. 2. That their funds be vested in trustees appointed by them, and shall be property in their persons. 3. That all crimes or offences committed for trades union purposes shall be left to the ordinary criminal lam of the land."  dually the survivors of Waterloo are passing away from among us. The remains of John Corker, one of those heroes, has just been interred in St. Mary's Churchyard, Sheffield. The deceased wee a drummer in the 2nd Battalion Grenadier Guards on the 18th June, 1815. In private life he was esteemed for his integrity. He was a warden of the Rockingham Lodge Friendly Society from its formation, and in that capacity had attended annually for thirty.three years at Wentworth House to receive the subscription of Earl Fitzwilliam to the lodge.  -ON THURSDAY AFTERNOON, about half- past three, a fearful suicide was committed at the corner of Crimscott-street, Bermondsey. It seems that a man named John Bourohier, apparently about 35 years of age, had been given into custody by his friends for a previous attempt at self-destrucUon. As the constable was conveying him to the police-station, he darted from his side, and before the constable could overtake him, he had drawn a large knife, which he had concealed beneath his coat, and inflicted a terrible gash in his throat. So severe was the wound that he died almost immediately. _  MI/I,LE. SCHNEIDER is going to Egypt! Not fewer than 7,000 fellahs are engaged in building a theatre on the Esbekich, opposite to Shepherd's Hotel, at Cairo. The temple will soon be reared, and Mile. Schneider will then sally forth to resume Clespatra'm sceptre. She is to receive £2,000 for fifteen representations, a subvention of £B,OOO, and a cartalancht for the engagement of a troupe. kfdlles. Leonide Leblanc, Silly, Blanche d'Antigny, Julie Baron, and other hones, have all suddenly seceded to Malsomedanism, and the poor dear klussulwomen are all clamouring for engagements.—Galignani.  A
The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1868-07-03 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

SUICIDE OF A CLASSICAL TUTOR.—An inques, has been held at the University College Hospital respecting the death of William Haggerston Hubbard, aged 38 years. The deceased, a Cambridge man, was a classical tutor, and had suffered considerably of late from depression of spirits. On Saturday morning his brother called upon him, and, entering the bedroom, found him Tying dead in the bed. It was proved by post-mortem examination that death had resulted from cyatrde of potassium. The jury found that deceased had committed "suicide whilst of unsound mind."  AT the Birmingham City Police-court, in a case wherein a wife was charged with stabbing her husband between the lower part of the back and the hipbone, the husband, in making light of the injury, assured his worship it was of no consequence, and added that he and his wife had been married- 12 years, and she had never taken such a " liberty " before. The surgeon at the Royal Infirmary said the wound was somewhat severe, being an inch and a-half in length by three-quarters of an inch deep. The stipendiary magistrate ordered a remand for a week. DURING SATURDAY NIGHT a placard hearing the heading, "I. R. Message from the Supreme Council of the Irish Republic to the Irish people," was posted in various parts of Preston. The placards, which have been pasted over or torn down since, contained a long exposition of the wrongs and sufferings of the Irish people, and wound up in an inflammatory exhortation for them to unite and work together for the furtherance of the work of freeing Ireland. The placard was subscribed, "By order of the Executive Council, Dublin, 1868. God save Ireland." THE axrLortEus of the Oaks Mine have now got fairly into Clegg's board, and the body of James flawcroft Frost, getter, of Barnsley, was found on Saturday morning. The head of another body was also found, and it is supposed to be that of either Edward Evans or Charles Clegg, both getters. The chin is perfect, but beyond this it is impossible to identify the body by the features. The hair on the head is undisturbed, and also the whiskers underneath the chin, so that it would seem that the deceased had escaped the blast.
The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1868-05-08 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

TELN.ORAM FROM CAIRO, dated 2nd inst., published in the Paris papers, announces the rupture of the negotiations relative to the loan of £10,000,000 previously announced as ha% ing been conclude 1 with the Credit Fonder, the Societe Generale, and the Ottoman Bank, in consequence of difficulties which arose at the moment of signing the contract A CURIOUS ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE was made last week in the cabinet parikulier of a Paris restaurant. A young gentleman, with more money than brains, after supping with what is called "a lady of the lake," stabbed himself with a carving knife. When asked why he had done it, he said it was because he felt ashamed of himself.  _ A nittETING of the Central Chamber of Agriculture was held on Tuesday morning at the Salisbury hotel; Mr. Jasper More, M.P., ia the chair. Among those present were :.—The Earl of Lichfield, Lord Kesteven, Sir Massey Lopes, M.P., Mr. E. Heneage, M.P., Mr. Wyld, M.P., Mr. C. S. Read, M.P., Sir Moriaunt Wells, &a.  , -THE COURT has sanctionel the proposal of the liquidators of the English Joint Stock Hank (Limited)— Messrs. C. F. Kemp and Henry Chatteris—to issue promissory notes payable on the 10th July and 10th January next, in discharge of the remaining 45. In the Pound due to the creditors, thereby saving a very large sum to the ahareholders. int 11/UEILN RW3 written the following reply to the address of the House of Commons : "I receive With deep satisfaction your sympathetic address. The attempt upon the life of my son the Duke of Edinburgh has, I feel sure, only further aroused the loyalty of my Australian subjects, 80 heartily displayed in his reception. lam very sensible of the Divine protection afforded him, and in my anxiety still trust in It; while in this, as in all trials, I derive consolation and support from the affectionate attachment of my Parliament and people."
The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1868-07-10 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE.  An inquest has been held on the body of a young woman named Louisa Davis, aged 27, which was taken out of the Grand Junction Canal partially undressed. It appeared that the deceased was in service as cook in the family of a Portuguese lady, Mrs. Capitula Maria Pereira, of No. 9, Portland-road, Bayswater, where the sister of deceased's young man was housemaid. William Pretty, to whom the deceased was engaged to be married, went to Talbot-road on Saturday evening to see her, and on leaving she desired to walk with him to the omnibus. The housemaid objected, as it was then ten o'clock, when words ensued, and Pretty went away alone. The young women quarrelled, and the next morning deceased left the hoists at six o'clock. She called on a friend at Notting hill, and then went to her uncle at Edmonton. On Monday night, at nine o'clock, she went to her mistress's house for her boxes, which were not to be given up till the following morning. At ten o'clock that night a young man named George Morris saw her in the Grand Junction Canal, near the Flora tea gardens. A barge had passed over her. He plunged into the water and swam with her to the shore. She was partly dressed, and her crinoline and upper garments were found on the bank. A doctor was sent for, and on his arrival he attempted to resuscitate the deceased, but unfortunately with mt avail. She had only been a month in her situation, and having obtained another, she applied to a lady with whom she bad previously lived five yearn for a character, whiels was to be granted, but when she went on the Monday afternoon it was refused, as the lady had been informed of something with which she was displeased. The jury were of opinion that this affected the mind of the deceased, and led to self.destrw•tinn.
The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1868-07-10 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

THE CENTRAL GLAMORGAN GAZETTE-FRIDAY, JULY 10, 1868.  SOME PEOPLE at Greenwich, "leading Liberals" they are called, are endeavouring to return Mr. Gladstone for that borough without any expense to himself. Their efforts, they say, need not interfere with the right honourable gentleman's candidature for South Lancashire.  THE SOCIETY OF FRIENDS, through its executive, has issued an Encyclical, lamenting the increasing departure in that body from true Christian simplicity. In the same document attention is called to the fact of millions of men being trained for arms in the various countries of Europe, and its utter incompatibility" with those fruits of the Spirit which Christians are to bring forth, and with the great purposes of the Redeemer's coming and reign." AN APPLICATION was made to the Recorder at the Central Criminal Court on Monday to allow the recognisances of the Earl of Shaftesbury and of his steward, Mr. Robert Short Waters, to be discharged, as the prosecution wished to abandon the charge of embezzlement. The Recorder appeared surprised at the application, and would not consent to the discharge of the recognisances without receiving some further is. formation.  CAPTAIN MACFIFLL was so satisfied that the result of the Grand Prize at Alexandra-park was "all wrong" that be offered to match The Knight of the Garter against Orion, same weights and distance, for £2,000 a side, to run at Newmarket, in October, but Mr. Beadman declined.  THE PONTIFICAL MILITARY ALMANACK has just been distributed to the diplomatic body at Rome. In the Papal army there are 8 generals, 24 chaplains, and 704 °dicers, thus divided as to nationalities-464 Italians, 129 French, 59 Swiss, 19 Germans, 20 Belgians, 9 Dutchmen, and 4 English. IN REPLY to a memorial advocating the admission of natives of India into the higher ranks of the Indian Civil Service, presented by the Bombay (Native) Association to Sir Stafford Northcote, the right hon. baronet has expressed his readiness to further the objects of the memorialists. AN INQUEST has been held on the body of a music-hall singer and dancer named Bryant, who committed suicide by jumping through a window in one of the upper wards of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, where he had been taken to be treated for an illness brought on by intemperance and the excitement of his life.
The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1868-02-07 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

THE CHILDREN OF THE LATE TOM' SAYERS.  In the Chancery Chambers, on Monday, the case of Sayers v. Stoat was beard. This was an application made by Mr. Edward John. son, of Clifford's-inn, for an issue to be directed to a court of law to try who are the legitimate children of Tom Sayers, living at the time of his death. Mr. Gay, from the office of Mr. Dale, appeared on the other side—two children and the trustees in the suit. About £3,000 was collected shortly after the fight with Heenan, and settled on Tom Sayers for his life, and at his death the fund was to be divided amongst his children then living. Mr. Edward Johnson now appeared for three children born after the marriage with his wife, and there were other children born of the wife before her marriage with Tom Sayers. • The Chief Clerk perused an affidavit of the facts, and intimated his intention to refer the matter to the Master of the Rolls.  _ Mr. Gay said he had no objection to the course proposed. The question would be whether there should be an issue of common law or In Chancery. Mr. Edward Johnson said the Master of the Rolls would decide whether it should be with or without a jury. The matter was accordingly referred to the court.  ON SATURDAY, an inquest was held at the Lord Nelson, Holloway-road, on Elizabeth Sarah Turnbull, a maiden lady of 41 years of age, who wag found drowned in the New River. On Thursday evening she left the house of her brother-In-law, in Cliff-road, Canon. bury, where she was temporarily staying, and weir not mimed till the following morning. She had exhibited symptoms of derangement. A post-mortem examination showed that there was a fibrous tumour in the uterus as large as an hen's egg. The coroner said that this had probably caused all the mischief. Verdict—" Suicide under Temporary Insanity,"
The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1868-07-17 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

DROWNING BY A DOG.—A few days ago a young lad, a son of Mr. Dunlop, of Aughanloo, went to the River Roe to bathe. He got carried beyond his depth, and, be:ng unable to swim, sank to the bottom, and would have been drowned but for a Newfoundland dog, who jumped into the water, dived, and, catching him, by the hair of the head, succeeded in bringing him to the bank. SOME HOUSEWIVES of Wandsworth made their appearance the other day before Mr. Ingham at the police•coart, carrying certain shoulders of mutton, of the bouquet of which they did not exactly approte. They wanted justice on their butchers; but the magistrate, who seemed unwilling to take upon himself the onerous duties of a meat inspector, gave them some good advice and sent thenu away. AN INQUEST has been held by Mr. Humphreys on the body of a servant girl named Ellen Macnatnara, employed at a public-house in Poplar, who committed suicide by jumping out of a second floor window. She complained of having been badly treated by her employers, but there was no evidence of this produced before the jury, and they found that she was of unsound mind.  A CVRIOIIB THING is the attempt to revive "Americanism," or 4 Know-Notbingism," in Massachusetts (where it took its rise in 1855). New " KnowNothing " societies, pledged to keep naturalised citizens from office, have been formed; the old system of secret oaths, and mambo-jumbo pass words, skulls and coffins, is modified to make union with the "order" a matter of leas difficulty than formerly.  IT IS STATED that the concession for the privilege of laying a cable between France and America, reported to have been adjudicated to Baron Emile D'Erlanger and Mr. Julius Reuter, by the French Government, has been given in contravention of a previous concession granted by the Minister of the Interior, on the 17th Of June last, to Mr. Eugene Dellessert and Mr. William Blackmore,
The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1868-08-28 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

RIP.— Weekly Register. _  THE SWIMMING C HAMPIONSHIP OF THE THAMES —On Saturday morning.the five-mile champion. ship of the Thames was swum for, the competitors being W. Goodwin, who " hails " from Barclay's Brewery, and Charles Whyte, the swimming.master of the Camden Town Baths. This was the second trial of natatal power between these two men. Whyte won, having done the distance in lb. 3min. 38sec.  —.-. --THE CHARGE OF FORGERY AgAINST AN OFFlCER.—Lieutenant F. H. Goold has been committed to take his trial at the August criminal sessions in Calcutta on three distinct counts of forging and three counts of uttering a forged document, with intent to cheat the Delhi and London Bank. He was remanded to the Calcutta gaol. Permission to remain in the police lock-up was denied. His defence has been reserved.— Cakutta Englishman. DIN THOUSAND TREES are required to build ship of the line of 74 guns, and when we consider that the maritime powers of Europe possessed in 1848 over two thousand of these ships, and four hundred thousand of smaller dimensions, without counting the merchant marine, it can easily be imagined that without the use of iron in ship-building, the Old World would soon have destroyed all its trees.7.4merican paper.  "THE DUKE DE PERSMNY,77 -says the Opinion Nationale, "has sent us a telegraphic dispatch request. Ing us to contradict the statement that he had received a letter from the Emperor relative to the passage of the Queen of England through Paris. This paragraph relates to a ridiculous statement which appeared in some journals d sensation to the effect that his Majesty bad written to the noble duke complaining that Queen Vic, Oda had not returned the Empress's visit.  TUE WIDOW OF A RAILWAY EMPLOYE, named Kaiser, committed suicide in Vienna a few days back by swallowing cyanide of potassium; and she also put to death by the same means her young children' Rudolph, aged 9; Gustave, 7 ; Hildegard°, 2; and her aged mother, 70. One of her little boys, Armin, 6 years of age, refused to take a cup of tea containing the poison, and BO escaped. The motive which drove the woman to this terrible act was the deepest poverty.
The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1868-09-25 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

SUICIDIL—On Saturday, a woman, apparently about 30 years of age, was seen walking over London. bridge towards the Borough. She suddenly mounted the stone parapet, and then leaped into the river Thames. As the unfortunate creature sprang over she cried out, "Gone for ever." Assistance was almost immediately at hand, but too late.  AT A RECENT MEETING of the Metropolitan Association for Promoting of Cheap and Regular Train Accommodation for the Working Classes, resolutions were carried in favour of an application to Parliament for a bill providing that trains should be run at a distance of ten miles from the metropolis at a penny for each Journey.  THE AUTHORITIES OF JASZDERENY, it Hungarian town have jest had the following notice published to the sound of the drum :—"Seeing that oaths and blasphemies are the real causes of earthquakes, every one, no matter who, is forbidden to swear or use bad language, under penalty of receiving 25 stripes with a rod and paying a fine of 25 dorirs," las LAST Joss.—ln an essay on " practica jokes" in Chant/lane.; Journal there is a good story of a French auditor of accounts who was a great practical joker all his life, and even played a trick alter he had bet the power of enjoying it. He left four large candles to be carried at his funeral, and they had not been burning fifteen minutes before they went off as fireworks MAIOFCFIAL MACHATION, Governor-General ot _  Algeria, attributes the misfortunes of that colony to the press, which he says he ought to have suppressed from the beginning. The Slide compares the marshal's regret to that of Richelieu when a prisoner escaped— "nh ! it is my fault; I ought to have cut off his head." _  ANOTHER ACCIDENT TO THE IRlsri On Saturday the points of a siding near Chester were Inadvertently left open, when the mail ran in, and came into collision with a goods train standing there. The mail train was fortunately " slowing " tnr the station, and the damage was confined to the breakage of one or two of the wagons. The engine of the mail train got off the rails, but no persons were injured.