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The Blackpool Herald. — 1877-09-14 (Blackpool, Lancashire, England)

SUICIDE OF A GENTLEMAN.—Mr Gilbertson, corletter in a female's handwriting, dated from Will- oner, held an inquest at the Police-station, Lytham, nes, and intimating that the sovereign was "from en Monday, relative to the death of Mr. James Annie to mamma/ No other names were in the Heath Gardiner, of Cecil-street, Lytham, which letter, which was quite legible. A return steerage occurred on 'Sunday morning last under the circumticket, Belfast and Fleetwood, number 425, and stances disclosed in the following evidence :—JAcy portions of a ticket with " Liverpool " thereon, to- Ann Gardiner, widow of the deceased,, stated that .fether with a Catholic piety book a new pair of she left her husband in bed on Sunday morning, at lack kid gloves, a silver watch, 'black jet guard, about half-past nine o'clock. He was then in his knife, and, keys were found on the body, which was usual state of health. About half an hour after she dreseed in a black cloth suit and elastic-side boots, went downstairs she heard a noise as of som.ething His height is about 5 feet 10 inches, and he was falling upstairs, and the servant remarked that she middle-aged. The Belfast and Fleetwood steamers thought it was something falling outside. Almost pass through Ramsey Bay, and the deceased pro- directly afterwards her little boy, aged 10 years, ran bably fell overboard during the passage. On en- into the kitchen and said he heard his papa moanquiry at the steam packet office, Fleetwood, we ink Witness then went upstairs into her huslearn that the ticket Fleetwood to Belfast, No. band's room, and found it full of smoke. The de-425, was issued at Liverpool, on the 30th July, but ceased was lying on the bed, and appeared to be in the officials there know nothieg further, a fit. On looking close at him, witness saw some Tnu
The Blackpool Herald. — 1877-04-13 (Blackpool, Lancashire, England)

OUNPOWDEK.—AL the , Lambeth Police-court on Tuesday, William Smith, 62, said to be a schoolmaster, was charged on remand with attempting to commit suicide by igniting I a quantity of gunpowder at a coffee-house in the : Westminster-road. Prisoner had for a short time lodged at the coffee-house. Some three or four Iweeks back a loud explosion was heard, and upon , I people going to piisoner's room they found the cell. jug and root partly destroyed, windows blown out, t and the place full of smoke, with a strong smell of , gunpowder. Prisoner was seated in a chair, and :appeared to be in great agony from the injuries he had sustained. When spoken to, he said he wished, 'be bad blown his brains out. About the raom the police found a number of large beads, which the prisoner's granddaughter stated she had seen him ! mix with the gunpowder. Prisoner was so much , lisijured that he larad,..to be taken to the hospital. la the room a piece of paper was found, upan which was written very serious accusations against the ,father of the girl. Prisoner declared they were true, and that the writing was his. Upon ;the last' hearing Mr. Chance thought it much I better if the eons attended the court, especially the father of the girl. The case was, therefore, ' adjourned until Monday, when Charlotte Smith, a girl about 14 years of age, said the prisoner was her grandfather. She had lived with him for nearly two years. He used to beat her, and behave unkindly to her. Some months back he took her in a cab to a shop and bought about five pounds of gunpowder. He carried the powder afterwards about with him, loose in his breast pocket, covering it with a pocket-handkerchief. Be used to say if she told anyone he had the powder he would murder her. He used also to carry a spring-back long-blade knife about with him. She WAS very much afraid of him, but dared not complain. He never would let her go out alone. He used to put the coat containing the powder on the bed at night, and on one occasion, ,when he made use of threats,, be lighted a•match and said, "If you say a word I have only got to put this match to that powder and in a second we go I together." Prisoner, in answer to the charge, said her story was well minted with falsehoods. He admitted the charge against him, but declared that his ,son, the father of the child, whom he had treated kindly and not badly, ought to be in the dock by his side. Mr. Chance committed the prisoner for trial.
The Blackpool Herald. — 1889-04-19 (Blackpool, Lancashire, England)

JOURNAL.  FAUST, AND ITS RELIGIOUS TEACHINGS.This was the snhject which the Rev. A. B. Camm ......spelected for last Sunday evening, at the Unitariaa -Church. The rev. gentleman said the /went per- , formances of Faust at Blackpool drew their attention to the choice teaching of this unique tragedy of life. It was a statement of the problem of existence. Faust tried three solutions, but they all faded He tried to weep at universal knowledge, then he sought the secr-t of the universe in magic. After this he resolved to cut the Gordian knot, and with a view to suicide was raising the poison to his lips when he heard the music of Eister morn, and the song "Christ is risen" brought the association of child. ihood once more. But Tradition failed, for he felt the ph sirs! resurre.•tion WAS bound up with a miracle that to him was incredible. In this mood of despair Mephistophelea apneared and offered him another solution to the problem of existence, namely enji,ymetit, lu . with the condition that his soul must be forfeited when the life of pleasure closed. The preacher showed that the essence of Faust was the same AS the legend of the garden of Eden, and the temptation of Jesua. We at Blackpool had the gams soul's strug4le, the same problem to solve. With marvellous subtlety Goethe shows the phasee ol the soul's career. At the wine party the devils drii•k turned to fire. Sensual passion was shown in the witches' kitchen, and in the nersou of Marguerite, the sweetest and best gift of God—it lovely and virtuous woman—who allures the soul of man to heights of heavenly joy and purity, is turned into a weigot to drag him down to a hell of remoi se and soititual death. The first part of Faust seems to show the triumph ,if evil. The second part deem ittes his salvati in. Marguerite shrank in her lucid moments from fleeing wiih Faust, when Mephistopheles calls him to go forth again in pursuit of sinful pleasure. Then afterwards comes from within the voice of the dying woman calling the sinner who had ruined her to follow with her that path of parity that leads t God. The eternal womanhood led him on. May God helo ns to found our ji,y in righteousness, and our bliss in pure love.
The Blackpool Herald. — 1889-02-01 (Blackpool, Lancashire, England)

SUIOLDE AT BLACKPOOL. A MAN CUTS HIS THROAT AND THEN DROPS FROM THE ROOF. akin to a sensation was created in and immediate neighbourhood, last, when it became known that , of a horrible and ghastly character, bad been perpetrated. The facts of the case are briefly these. George Pilling, aged 44, a carter in the employ of Mr. J. Whittaker, coal merchant, and residing at 58, Coronation-street, with his wife and only eon, a bright little fellow of some 15 summers, has not, it appears, been very steady of late, the worry of his business having been regarded as the principal cause. On Thursday afternoon, last week, his wife noticed something very peculiar with regard to his manner, and he left his house without making any remarks as to where he was going. He seems to have gone on the spree, for late in the evening he fell into the hands of the police and WAS lodged in the lock-up. 10u Friday, he was brought before the magistrates and fined ss. 6d. and costa, being held in custody until noon, when the tine was paid by his wife. Pilling then went home, greatly dejected, and sent his son for some tobacco. The boy was absent about ten minutes, and just as he was entering the garden gate he saw his father fall from the roof. He at once fetched his mother and Dr. Richardson. The unfortunate man was carried into the kitchen, blood flowing freely from a terrible gash across the throat. He died in the presence of the doctor. A large carving knife WAS found in the kitchen, covered with blood, and the surroundings pointed to the fact that he bad committed the deed whilst sat in a chair, at the foot of which was a pool of blood. Tracks of blood then indicated that he had gone upstairs into the attic, whitre he had got on to a bed and then through a skylight OD to the roof, from whence he fell to the ground. Further particulars will be gleaned from the evidence given at the inquest. Great sympathy is felt for the bereaved widow and her son. So far as can be gathered from the details available, it would appear that the fact of his being locked up had greatly troubled deceased, whose mind, in consequence of drink and worry, was already somewhat unhinged,  Something . Coronation-street on Friday evening a case of suicide, r'
The Blackpool Herald. — 1889-08-30 (Blackpool, Lancashire, England)

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE OF A VISITOR.—On Friday a singular case of attempted suicide occurred at 58, Chapel-street, where a young man named Edward Duckworth had engaged lodgings the previous day. Early on Friday it was noticed that he was acting rather strangely, and in reply to enquiries as to the state of his health, he said that he was in trouble. About seven o'clock in the evening he left the house, to which he returned about ten, and, taking a glass, he poured into it some coloured liquid, which he immediately drank. Miss Shakespeare saw the man drink the liquid, but she did not interfere, as she thought it was whiskey. Upon the glass being examined it was found that he had partaken of laudanum, and Duckworth was at once questioned as to his reasons for doing so, to which he replied that he had taken it to make him sleep. Going to a table he commenced to write a letter, and Mies Shakespeare, getting suspicious, looked over his shoulder, when he had put his hand over what he had written, to prevent her from seeing it. The letter was as follows :—" Blackpool, August 23rd, 1889. Dear father and mother,—lt is with deep regret that I leave you, but I cannot come home I again. Give my best respects to all."--Having written ' this he went out,and Miss Shakespeare followed him shortly afterwards, but failed to find him. Whilst, coming along Chapel-street about half-Dast ten, ' however, Police-Constables Lothian and Wilson found Duckworth lying on the footpath, and learning that he had taken laudanum, they immediately applied restoratives, and kept the man continually walking about until two o'clock in the morning, when they succeeded in bringing him round. Dr. Richardson had meanwhile been sent for, and after the laudanum had been vomited, he arrived upon the scene, and upon learning the facts of the case, complimented the constables upon their prompt action, as they had, he said, saved the man's life. On Saturday morning Duckworth was brought up at the Blackpool Police Court, charged with attempting to commit suicide. John Duckworth, the defendant's father, from Rishton, near Blackburn, appeared and spoke to his son being parted from his wife twice since their marriage, which only took place on January 2nd of this year, and who would not return to him. The Bench suggested that he should go back home with his father, but the defendant refused, saying that he would not live in the same house as his wife. The Bench then declared that they would have to do something further with him, but this only elicited from the young man the reply that he did not care, and he could not help it. The charge was, however, dismissed, upon his father undertaking to take him home.  NEWSPAPERS, PERIODICALS, and MAGAZINES punctually delivered, witho”tettra charge.—E. ALDRZD, 14 Church-et. Blackpool, & 8, Dock-el.. Fleetwood
The Blackpool Herald. — 1889-09-13 (Blackpool, Lancashire, England)

HUDDERSFIELD CLERGYMAN  FOUND DROWNED.  Yesterday morning, about half-past five, as a man named William Dagger, living at 16, Victorstreet, was walking along the sands between the piers, when he came across the body of a man lying half buried in the sand about 250 yards from the hulking and 100 yards north of the South Pier. He immediately got assistance, and the body was at once examined, the head being found to be badly bruised. The body was attired in black clothes, with no hat, and upon the pockets being searched, a number of papers were found, from which it was ascertained that the deceased was the Rev. J. T. Stannard, of 77, Fitzwilliamstreet, Huddersfield, who has been missing for some days. Tee remains were removed to the mortuary by the police, who at once communicated with the Chief Constable of Huddersfield. From what we can gather, it appears that the deceased arrived in Blackpool, and took apartments at the South Shore Hydropathic Hotel on the 3rd inst., where he remained until 9 p.m. on Wednesday. During his stay at the hotel it was noticed that he appeared in very low spirits. 4id. was the only money found on deceased. How the rev, gentleman came by his death is not at present known, but the circumstances would appear to indicate suicide.  A physician, in writing about drinking water, says :—"lf, in any hotel or summer resort to which these midsummer lines may come, there should occur a single case of typhoid fever or diphtheria, test the drinking water or have it done at once. A few pence will buy an ounce of saturated solution of permanganate of potash at a chemists. If when a drop of this solution is added to a tumbler of water its colour changes to brown, it is unfit to drink; if it remains clear or slightly rose-coloured after an hour it is, broadly speaking, safe."  I was recently sitting in Mark Twain's home in Hartford, says a writer in the New York Grielikie, waiting for the humorist to return from his daily walk. Suddenly sounds of devotional singing came in through the open window from the direction of the outer conservatory. The singing was low, yet the sad tremor in the voice seemed to give it special carrying power. " You have quite a devotional domestic," I said to a membn of the family who came in shortly afterwards. "That is not a domestic who is singing,' was the answer. "Step to this window, look in the conservatory and see for yourself." I did so. There, sitting alone on one of the rustic benches in the flower house, was a small, elderly lady, Keeping time with the first finger of her right hand, as if with a baton, she was slightly swaying her frail body as she sang, softly yet sweetly, Charles Wesley's hymn, "Jesus, lover of my soul," and Sarah Flowel, Adams' "Nearer my God, to thee." But the singer was not a domestic. It was Harritt Beecher Stowe! There sat the once brilliant authoress like a child crooning a favourite air.
The Blackpool Herald. — 1886-03-19 (Blackpool, Lancashire, England)

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE ATGREENHALGH-WITH-THISTLE? TON.—At the Kirkham Police Court, on Thursday Raceme ei the foundation on which th-y are ' afternoon week,before W. H. Bowdler, Egg., a woman bent, righteousness and truth. (Cheers) lam wary named Ann Townsend was charged with attempting these primciples ha% e not a better emit nent, but there is (tee thing that strikes me forcibly, that although to commit suicide by cutting her throat with a knife, on the 11th ule—According to the evidence of P.C. I canwA n,ake any pretentious be oratory, such as our Mcßae, it appears that at 8-30 a.m. on the date chain:aim peeseeses, yet the cause is not dependent for its success upon such feeble instruments as myself. named, Mrs. Cartmell, wife of Mr. George Cartmell, , Yet I feel pi cod to have au opportunity of adding my farmer, Greenhalgh-with•Thistleton by whom the bauble quota to support the grand edifice of Liberal- prisoner was engaged, went into Townsend's bed. kern reared by the grand old man at the head of this room, and found her lying in bed bleeding from a wound in the neck. • Dr. F isher, of Great Eccleston, greet empire. (i beers.) When we review the history of the last 53 years, since the entry of Mr. Gladst ,ne was sent for, and found her suffering from an incised into Parliament, aril conside( the work which he has wound in the neck about 3m, in length. She was also aoN4mplished for the good of his fellow-men in all parts suffering from hemorrhage, and life WAS almost blood. Lying besidesher was a knife covered with of the world, the self-sacrifice which he has made on lo their le- half, the late hours the all-night sittnigs of .At the time the prisoner was in an excited mental condition and unable to be removed. Writing Parliament, &c. and the abuse to which he has been on wasthesTh bat.,at., Dr. Fisher stated that the prisoner's subjected by the Tory party. and, after ell, stillstills affected, and at times not responsible !riding on his way, w - are led to beliese that he is for her language Ile! 11 , Vlh or actious —P 'so . 0 appeared something more than an cadinary human being. One in a distressed state of mind, was discharged on her meotatioi. I will apply to him, although it may seem friends promising to keep a close watch over her. Neu the village Zillingdorf, in Lower Austria, lives a very high flown one, "His name shall endure for Maria Haas, an intelligent and industrious woman, whose ever, and men shall be blessed in his deeds." (Cheers.)
The Blackpool Herald. — 1886-08-20 (Blackpool, Lancashire, England)

FAILURE IN BUSINESS.  Some have started in business without having th capacity to manage it, and have lost the hard earnings of many years, all their careful savings, and even money belonging to others. For many years to come they will have to struggle and scrape, and save, in order to clear their debts.. Here is a young person who has wasted his health and strength; who has consulted quack doctors and become a yielding victim to their devices; now on the verge of the grave, and constantly tempted to commit suicide Why should this misery exist? Is there no remedy? The answer is plain and easily understood. Everyone possesses talents and has a mission to fulfil; and it is only by obtaining a knowledge of and by endeavouring to complete this mission that life can be made either happy or successful. It is not in accordance with natural laws that people should be corstantly suffering. It was never intended that man should suffer so keenly and continuously ; yet diseases and ailments are rampant everywhere. What is the remedy? Shun and abjure quack medicines, pills, drugs, Ito., &c.; find out the simplest and most natural methods of restoring health by consulting Herr Cohen, whose continued success merits your confidence, and who may be relied upon as able to give satisfaction to all. Herr Cohen may be consulted daily at the Phreno ogical Institute, Central Beach, from 10 a.m.  Southport, June 18th, 1886. It affords me very great pleasure to be enabled to give my unqualified testimony in favour of Herr Cohen as lecturer, Phrenologist, and Phsiologist. He examined my head and I can only say that I was more than surprised at his penetration, the knowledge he displayed of my character, and the undoubted abilities of which he is in possession. Those who have children should lose no time in consulting Herr Cohen with regard to their future welfare. I wish him every success in the career he has chosen.
The Blackpool Herald. — 1886-08-13 (Blackpool, Lancashire, England)

FAILURE IN BUSINESS. Some have started in business without having th capacity to manage it, and have lost the hard earnings of many years, all their careful savings, and even money belonging to others. For many years to come they will have to struggle and scrape, and save, in order to clear their debts. Here is a young person who has wasted his health and strength; who has consulted quack doctors and become a yielding victim to their devices; now on the verge of the grave, and constantly tempted to commit suicide Why should this misery exist? Is there no remedy T The answer is plain and easily understood. Everyone possesses talents and has a mission to fulfil ; and it is only by obtaining a knowledge of and by endeavouring to complete this mission that life can be made either happy or successful. It is not in accordance with natural laws that people should be corstantly suffering. It was never intended that man should suffer so keenly and continuously; yet diseases and ailments are rampant everywhere. What is theremedy */ Shun and abjure quack medicines, Pills, drugs, &c., &c.; find out the simplest and most natural methods of restoring health by consulting Herr Cohen, whose continued success merits your confidence, and who may be relied upon as able to give satisfaction to all. Herr Cohen may be consulted daily at the Phrenoogical Institute, Central Beach, from 10 a.m. Southport, June 18th, 1886. It affords me very great pleasure to be enabled to give imy unqualified testimony n favour of Herr Cohen as a lecturer, Phrenologist, and Phsiologist. He examined my head and I can only say that I was more than surprised at his penetration, the knowledge he displayed of my character, andthe undoubted abilities of which he is in possession. Those who have children should lose no time in consulting Herr Cohen with regard to their future welfare. I wish him every success in the career he has chosen.
The Blackpool Herald. — 1886-09-24 (Blackpool, Lancashire, England)

FAILURE IN BUSINESS. Some have started in business without ha;•ing th capacity to manage it, and have lost the hard earnings of many years, all their careful savings, and even money belonging to others. For many years to come they will have to struggle and scrape, and save, in order to clear their debts. Here is a young person who has wasted his health and strength; who has consulted quack doctors and become a yielding victim to their devices; now on the verge of the grave, and constantly tempted to commit suicide Why should this misery exist? Is there no remedy? The answer is plain and easily. understood. Everyone possesses talents and has a mission to fulfil • audit's only by obtaining a knowledge of and by endeavouring to complete this inissiou that life can be made either happy or successful. It is not in accordance with natural laws that people should be corstantly suffering. It was never intended that man should suffer so keenly and continuously_; Jet diseases and ailments are rampant everywhere. What is the remedy? Shun and abjure quack medicines, pills, drugs, &c. &c.; find out the simplest and most natural methods Of restoring health by consulting Herr Cohen, whose continued success merits your confidence, and who may be relied upon as able to give satisfaction te all. Herr Cohen may be consulted daily at the Phreno logical Institute, Central Beach,from 10 a.m. Southport, June 18th, 1886. It affords me very great pleasure to be enabled to give my unqualified testimony in favour of Herr Cohen as a lecturer, Phrenologist, and Plisiologist. He examined my head and I can only say that I was more than surprised at his penetration, the knowledge he displayed of my character, and the undoubted abilities of which he is in possession. Those who have children should lose no time in consulting Herr Cohen with regard to their future welfare. I wish him every success in the career be has chosen.