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The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1876-01-01 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

SUICIDE THROUGH LOVE OF AN ACTOR.  Winifred Wales, aged 2-2, a dressmaker at South Hornsey, has poisoned herself with opium because of her hopeless passion for an actor. At the inquest a letter from the gentleman in question, found on the person of the deceased, was handed to the coroner. It was simply : "Dear madame, I am married." Respecting this affair, gr. Edgar Newbound, stage manager of the Britannia Theatre, loxton, London, writes as follows:—" My atten tion having been called to a paragraph in your issue of Friday respecting the suicide of a young person, Winifred Wales, in which, to my great astonishment and greater annoyance, I find my name and profession figuring prominently, I am under the necessity of earnestly requesting you to publish this in your next : —.Some four months ago, as far as my memory serves, I received at the theatre a letter of a most fervid and amatory nature, bearing no signature. After expressing unbounded adnitration, my unknown correspondent informed me she was an heiress, ready to lay herself and fortune at my feet, Sz,c. ; and entreated me to reply, if only in a fevi words, stating whether I was married or single, the note to be addressed to (initials forgotten), Post-office, Stoke, Newington. I showed the letter I had received to several of my friends, and treated the matter as a joke, for I doubted its sincerity; and after scribbling the following—' Dear Madame, I am married,' I tore up my anonymous epistle, and the matter was forgotten. I have not the slightest knowledge of the unfortunate girl who has so rashly put an end to her life, and I am naturally grieved to find my name used in an affair of which, until Friday's paper was handed to me, I was totally ignorant."
The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1876-10-11 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

NEWMARKET RACES.  On Monday, the Royal Stakes were won by Allumette ; the October Post Produce Stakes, by Morgiana ; the Cesarewitch Trial Handicap, by La Coureuse ; the Scurry Nursery Handicap, by Kitty Sprightly; the:First Welter Handicap, by Sommolency ; and the Burwell Stakes, by Brune.  The new railway pier at Queenborough, built for the accommodation of continental traffic was on Monday, for the first time, applied to military purposes. The 78th Highlanders arrived in two special trains from Dover, and from the pier were easily and quickly transferred to H.M.'s troopship Assistance, which will convey the regiment to Leith.  At noon, on Monday, a charter-master, named Hill, of the Hinley road, fell down the pit he was engaged in working with such force that he broke through the bars which cover up the sump or water drain. His body was found in about three-quarters of an hour. The condition of the Marquis of Tweeddale gives rise to serious apprehension. Some weeks ago his lordship, who is in his 90th year, sustained a severe burn by falling into the fire in his dressing-room in Oxenford Castle. Alexander Martin, a young surgeon, who has been acting for some time past as assistant to Dr. Craig, Pathhead, near Edinburgh, committed suicide early on Monday morning by cutting the leading a.tery in the inside of the right thigh. The undermentioned appointments have been made at St. John's College, Cambridge: Sizars—Adams, H. J., Atkins, Butler, Clarke, F. W., Dale, T. Grifflnhoofe, Gunning, Kenny, Lane, J. 0., atonche, Neale, Price, Seward, Taylor, White, J. H., Woods, A.G. Enibitioners—Lupton and Hebbletwaite. ' Percy Shadbolt and Lionel Shadbolt, of Beechcro ft, Chislehurst, Bromley, were on Monday, summoned for assaulting Mr.- R. C. Berens, county magistrate, and trespassing on his land at Kevington. The magistrates fined one of the defendants £5 for the assault and 10s. for the trespass, and the other .£3 for  trespase. Although the weather at Buxton remains -pry unsettled the number of visitors is large.— _ll of Mr. Samuel Turner, the Duke of Devonshire's stew rd, try_k place on Monday in the presenoe of a ktrge concourse of people.
The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1876-11-08 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

MURDER AND SUICIDE.  A distressing case was brought to light on Saturday at No. 14, Coldbatla-square, Clerkenwell, London. A. married woman named Sarah Jane Langley, and her daughter, Hannah Florence Langley, were on the previous evening found dead by the head of the family, Mr. Geo. Langley, who is a silver polisher. In the pursuit of his trade Mr. Langley uses cynaide of potassium, and under the bed was found a bottle, and on the chair beside the bed a glass, both containing small portions of the liquid. A second child lay tuanjured in a cot close by. In the adjoining room a piece of paper was found, on which the following was written :-Dear George,—l cannot bear to meet you, as I have pawned all you have got. ' Dr. Dyer, who was called in, siid the mother and child had been some hours dead. It appeared th tt the deceased, a very respectable, well-conducted, sober woman, has been ailing some time, and that her iliness took such a turn that her medical attendant desire I she should be watched, but so apparently eane was she that this precaution was not deem'sd necessary by her friends The Langley family lived in a comfortable way, and it is stated that the deceased woman pawned only one article of her husband's clothing in the course of last week which she knew he would require on Sunday, and this, it is felt, preyed upon her mind. Husband and wife lived, it is stated by the neighbours, on the happiest terms, and both were devoted to the'r children. Mrs. Langley was 27 years, and her daughter, Hannah Florence, five months old.  In a case before the City of London Court last week, the awl of Leven and Melville appeared as j dnt plaintiff with another as owners of the brewery in Lambeth, c aide: under the style of " Neville, Reid, and CO."
The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1876-09-27 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

MYSTERIOUS DEATH.  Notwithstanding the utmost endeavours on the part of Sergeant Broadbridge, of the Croydon police, to trace the identity of a gentleman who was found dead in the Brighton-road, Caterham, every effort has proved abortive. The deceased was found at 2.30 on Wednesday morning last, by a police-zonstable, lying at the side of the road quite dead with a bullet wound in his temple, from which blood was still flowing. Between his legs lay his umbrella and a small single barrelled pistol recently discharged, and in one of his pockets were some caps and gunpowder, indicating the probability that the deceased committed suicide. The body was at once conveyed to the Caterham Junction Hotel to await an inquest, which was opened by Mr. Carter, the Coroner for East Surrey, at the above hotel on Saturday evening. James Knight, a constable, said that he discovered the dead body of the deceased at half-past two on Wednesday morning lying at the side of the path in Brightonroad, Coulston, but he could not form an opinion as to how long he had been dead. He appeared to have shot himself in the face above the left eye, with a pistol which lay at his feet, and which had been evidently recently discharged. Witness believed ic to be a case of suicide. S trgeant Broadbridge said the deceased was a man between sixty and seventy years of ago, and Mt. siin. in height, with grey hair and whiskers. He was nearly bald, and wore 11 brown wig. Deceased was dressed in a dust walking coat, grey tweed under coat, fancy silk vest, brown tweed trousers, white shirt, collar, stockings, and handkerchief marked "J. S." Deceased wore a truss, and in his pockets were found a gold watch, No. 10,862, made by Gordon, of Bromley, and gold chain, a pair of tortoiseshell spectacles, pocket knife, and other articles, together with .£1 ss. 9d. in money. The inquiry was adjourned for further evidence. Since the holding of the inquest, Sergeant Broadbridge has had the body inclosed in an elm coffin with a pane of glass at the head, to enable persons to see the body without inconvenience, and it now lies at the Caterham Junction Hotel awaiting identificaci,n.
The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1876-05-11 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

THE SITE FOR THE NEW WORKHOUSE. Mr. Cox move I that the site for which they had been nogotiating, at Roose, be purchased. The Chairman explained that the inspectors would not agree to the purchase of the land by the old guardians. Mr. Cox said, according to a minute which was read, there had been no instruction given to Mr. Sykes to send to the Local Government Board.  The Chairman: But it implies that be should write.  Some discussion arose regarding the articles supplied by one of the tradesmen to the house, which ended in an understanding that, if he did not supply the articles according to tender, another tradesm ,n who had sent in a tender should receive the order.  A letter was read from Dr. Settle, the newlyappointed medical officer of the Board, thanking them for the appointment, and promising to discharge his duties faithfulli and conscientiously. This was all the public business.  THE WiNnson, the Scarf of trie Season; all patterns to select from, at Dewranc's Shirt, Collar, and Tie Warehouse, Paxton-Terrace, Duke street.  James Walmsley, a lad 14 years of age, has been sentenced to one month's imprisonment with hard labour for assaulting a woman named Priscilla Healey, at Bury. John Allen, a cabman, committed suicide on Saturday morning by throwing himself on the loop line of the South-Western Railway, near Hounslow. He is supposed to hare been insane. At Salford, Ann Hambleton, charged on remand with causing the death of Matthew Kemp, a brewer, by striking him on the head with a wooden instrument on the 15th ult., was committed for trial.  It was reported at the synod of the English Presbyterian Church, that by the operation of the Sustentation Fund the equal dividend among the ministers has been raised from £155 to £2OO during the year. A boiler in the Leal Works of Mr. Hare, St. Philips, Bristol, exploded on Monday. The upper part was blown through the roof, and fell in an adjoining square, but the only person hart was a little girl, upon whose head soon bricks f 11 " More persons die from bad food and drink than famine." Intelligent purchasers know full well that " chrap " and unwholesome articles of consumption always prove injurious to health, asil ruinous to the pocket; also, if really good value is desited, a fair price must be given. The hest value is always obtained by purchasing Horniman's Pure Tea, direct from their Agents; it is guaranteed to be pure, wholesome, and nutritious, and y elds a strong dark liquor, with a full rich flavour. Agents are appointed for this locality, and are advertised in our columns of this day.
The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1879-08-02 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

THE PARDON TO EDMUND GALLEY.—The Times says that if the arguments of the Home Secretary, on Friday night, were allowed to prevail, it would he ;.mpossible to form any opinion upon the disputed question of historic fact different from the opinion left us by our forefathers.—The Standard says that the House of Commons has given Galley exactly what he does not want. A pardon, which not only conveys no expression of his innocence, but is given avowedly as an act of mercy, is valueless to him, nor does it meet the real justice of the case. COLLISION AT Wioan.—On Saturday afternoon, whilst the passenger train for Rainford Junction was stopping at Wigan station of the Lancashire Thrkshire Railway, it was run into by the . .  At a meeting of the Glasgow B tkers' Association, held in the Trades Hall on Saturday night, it was agreed to raise the price of the ele. loaf a halfpenny. THREATENED STRIKE OF CLYDE Seleoas —A few seamen at present in Glasgow, dissatisfied with the low rate of wac es paid both for foreign and coasting voyages, struck on Saturday. Saturday being the trades' holiday in Edinburgh, about 30,000 people left the city by railway alone on pleasure trips. The annual meeting of the National Chamber of Trade was held in London on Monday. The Civo Service Co-operative movement was severely condemned. The annual assembly of the United Methodist Free Churches commenced its sittings at Sunderland on Tuesday. The Rev. T. W. Townend, of Oldham, was elected president for the year. Lord Beaconsfield has advised the Queen to confer the honour of an earldom on Lord Lytton, in return for his services in the Afghan war. and in recognition of his surmounting many difficulties and bringing the war to a successful. A Liberal demonstration was held at Bath on Monday, and proved an unqualified success. Mr. W. P. Adam, the Liberal whip, delivered a long speech, in which he counselled unity among the party. Mr. Braesey, M.P., Sir A. Hayter, M.P., and Mr. Wodehouse, Liberal candidate at the forthcoming election, were also among the speakers. SINGULAR CHARGE OF MURDER —Mrs. Harding, ho with her husband attempted to commit suicide about a fortnight ago in the river Medway, near Maidstone, was on Tuesday committee by the magistrates of Maidstone on a charge of wilt& murder. The husband was drowned, and the woman was rescued with difficulty by the police. Both had been drinking previously.
The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1879-05-31 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

THE SWIMMING CONTEST.—The six days' swimming contest at the Lambeth Baths, London, finished on Saturday night, at eleven minutes past ten, as follows :—Webb. 74 miles; Fearne, 62 miles 15 !ape ; Beckwith, 42 miles 7 lips; Taylor, 26 miles 4 laps. Au old man named Mayne, who was a share. holder in the West of England and South Wales Bank, has committed suicide at Exeter. He had invested the savings of a lifetime in the bank, and was about to retire and live on the interest when thd bank stopped. An accident of a shocking character has oecuried at Eastbourne. A boy, aged three years, clambering out of a window of his father's residence, fell on the iron railings in the street below with such force as to cause one of the iron spikes to penetrate his lung. He died instantaneously. Westminster Industrial Exhibition was opened by the Speaker of the House of Commons on Saturday. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, the First Lord of the Admiralty, Lord Hai herley, Sir Henry James, M.P., Dr. Lyon Playfair, M.P., and Canon Farrar also took part in the proceedings. An extraordinary general meeting of the shareholders of Messrs. Hopkins, °likes, and Co., Middlesbrough, was held on Saturday, and a resolution wee passed in favour of voluntary liquidation. A commi,tee 1 shareholders was appointed to co-operate with V I opointed by the creditors. A resolution ex, e—ive 0 sympathy with the late directors was also adopt,..d. Eleven rows. valu-d at over £2OO, have died at Alsaear, a village in Cheshire, forming a suburb of the Staffordshire potteries, under the most peculiar circumstances. The proprietor of the farm, a Mr. James Barker, He had them opened, and in the inside of each a heavy weight of hairpins, shot, and other metals have been found, and were evidently the mum of death. Tile thing had been going on for some time, and it is supposed to be the result of an outrage.
The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1879-07-12 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

THE RICHMOND MURDER.  HE  VERDICT.  The Richmond murder trial terminated on Tuesday evening in a verdi‘ t of wilful murder against the woman Webster. The summing-up of Mr. Justice Denman lasted more than four hours, and emphasised the strong points of the prosecution. The prisoner heard the verdict unmoved, and afterwards acquitted Porter and Church of any complicity in the murder; declared that alto herself was innocent of it; and ascribed it to a man who "was not in the case at all, and never had been in it." The prisoner added. I have cherished him to the last, my lord; but I don't see why I should suffer for the scoundrel who led me into it." His lord ship, in passing sentence of death upon the prisoner, said that even in the absence of what she had just told them he should have called the evidence against her irresistible. The prisoner, after the sentence, pleaded pregnancy as a re is in for the postponement of the death pmalty ; but a jury of matrons, after hesring medical evidence, found that the plea of the woman was not sustainable.  A-Central News telegram says that Kate Webster, after having been convicted on Tuesday nighty at the Old Bailey, of the murder of Mrs. Thomas, and making the statement that Church and Porter were innocent, but the father of her child, who has tot been arrested, was the instigator of the crime, brake completely down on being taken to the condemned cell. She cried bitterly, and frequently exclaimed, "I am innocent." She partook of scarcely any food. The governor accompanied her to the cell, and left her for the night in charge of two warders. On Wednesday- morning she was removed from Newgate to the Surrey County Gaol at Wandsworth. Oa account of the passage of the Prisons' Act, Horsemongev-lane Gaol has been closed, and executions will hereafter be carried out at Wandsworth Gaol. No day has yet been fixed for Webster's execution; but as the rule is to allow three clear Sundays between sentence and execution, it is likely Kate Webster will be hanged on Monday fortnight.  Henry Bediogfield, a married man, murdered a widow named Eliza Rudd, at Ipswich, on Tuesday, and afterwards attempted to commit suicide. A murder was committed near Alton on Tuesday, James Laancelot Rock cutting the throat of his sweetheart, Jessie Warwick. The girl's mother was severely injured in going to her daughter's &Islet-ince. The murderer has been arrested.
The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1879-06-24 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

FOREIGN IT 14: NI S.  Phsa Bhash4icav-awo-ngee-, an -e-a.voy from the King of Siam has arrived in London.  A- Russian man-of-war has left Odessa for the island of Saghalien with 700 Nihilist prisoners on board.  The Italian Senate has rejected the bill voted by the Chamber of Denudes for the abolition of the grist tax. Signor Depretis, it is stated, will make the passage of the bill a Cabinet question. • The representatives of the Powers at Constantinople have presented an identical note to the Porte, urging the appointment of a commission to conduct the negotiations with Greece for the settlement of the frontier question. The Spanish consul in San Domingo has been authorised to summon some war vessels frern Havana to support his protest against the execution of the two generals who were seized on board the Spanish vessel Msnuela by authority of the Government of the Republic. General Merten, ex. Minister of War in France, who disappeared eight months ago, being supposed to have commit: ed suicide or to have been murdered, has just rejoined his family as suddenly as he left it. The death of his son so preyed upon him that he went into a Trappist monastery, and there stayed till he recovered his mental equilibrium. In mentioning 'that nothing is known there of the difficulties which are alleged to have arisen between Italy and Austria, Renter's Roma correspondent says—The Austrian Government has delegated General Thu n t o attend the inauguration of the monument erected in memory of the men who fell at the battle of Custozza. The appointment of the general for this mission was communicated to the Italian Government in the most amicable terms.  After a review at Madrid on Thursday, as the cavalry were marching past the King and the Austrian Prince Rodolfo, a loud explosion caused a panic among the crowd along ths principal streets around the Puerta del Sol. An amunition wagon had exploded opposite the Home Office at the mouth of Alcall-street, killing one soldier and wounding four others. Four women were also injured. The panic was increased by the belief that a bomb had exploded.
The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1879-03-29 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

BEQUESTS.—OiI Monday an inquest was held by Mr. R. Taylor, coroner for Bolton, touehmg the death of John Anderson Sykes, aged twenty-five year., of John Taylor-street, Bolton, who committed suicide under the following circumstances beeea ed, who worked in the timber yard of Mr. Councillor Norris, was thrown out of employment last week, and this, pimpled with the fact that about the same time he was rejected by the object of his affections—a servant eng iged at a public-house in Bolton—had a most depressing effect upon him. On Friday evening, he called it a beerhouso and expessed his determinaion to drown himself. He also said that he had a penny, and as that would be the la-t drop of beer he should have on earth, he would have a penny gill with it. The landlord sympathetically remarked to deceased that if he was going to make such "straight wor's " of himself, he should have a pint of beer for the penny, and at once supplied him with it. Deceased invited the company to drink with him, and is IH3 was shout to leave the house he was asked to leave something by way of legacy. He then emptied his pockets of their contents. which he distributed amongst the comp my, giving to one a knife, and to another his pipe. The landlord expressed a desire to have a lock of his hair, but deceased, appeared reluctant to grant that request. end gave hitu a brass button which had come off his eiletlnS This the landlord nailed up in the taproom as a memento, and then advised Sykes, as the weather was so very cold, to find a warm water I Age in which to drown himself. Deceased xtl‘tlh6itt,rA::lol:ll, :siilldi.ne,,f3ndl,hat,ai mnNe,d;h.rs 0.1 do: niict fan,n,tedh:cacmhpwrip) aeanoatreerars. re yttorienhe lodgetsa:vneowi ftghyoe.mn:eee sastnrhede, body was subsequently recovered.—The jury with Indigestion, Headache. Heartburn. Ciiii,tipation, Distress after Eating, Poor lictiory. Ls,- Spirits, Pain in the Back, Great Wsakusso, Dad Breath, or any other symptom of that hrril imiielmtiiU disease, Dyspepsia It eiie pot! to the well.know Thks3q.ue, yst,hccrrevinausties. ansi invigorate. They overcome effects of ,I;l•l:ll7,')ill'ilikY,iifY;,;;lil."e‘tuilgtaetti.olenhours. They strengthen Sao Prevent miasmatic and intermittent They purify the breath and aceidity of the st,web. Tiley cure Dyspepsia and Constipatb at 'Rey curs Liver Complaint and Nervous Hendaclo. effeet is felt at once upon maldng the firs. clump, of diet is necessary. Follow our I you will soon feel well, StTO xioeeursHaagetnrelysn.tJiltdt Bk 3. Filit ao, I],' • and etch. Mr. E. Sausom is Furness. [1.55;:#  sy,t,.l"  tUr. Tottletfo Announcenunt%.  CHARLES LOWDEN  GENERAL AUCTIONEER,  BARROW d;