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The Warwickshire Herald. — 1895-06-27 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

FATAL ACCIDENT TO AN OFFICER.  Major Stuart Alexanier Menzies, of the 3rd (Militia) Battalion of the Royal Irish Rifles, met with a terrible death on Friday night, near Holywood encampment, County Down. While he was riding down Craigavad Hill on his bicycle be lost control of the machine and dashed into • van proceeding towards Bangor. The force of the collision was such that Major Menzies was thrown some yards from the machine, and when picked up he was dead, his neck having been broken. Captain and Hon. Major Menzies was formerly a captain in the Seaforth Highlanders. He served with the 92nd Highlanders in the Afghan war in 1879-80 and was present in the engavment at Charasiab on October &I, 1679, and subsequent pursuit of the enemy; in the operations around Cabul in December, 1879, including the investment of Sherpore, and in the engagement at Charasiab on April 25th, 1890; accompanied Sir Frederick Roberta in the march to Caadahar, and was present at the reconnaissance on August 31st, and in the battle of Candahar severely wounded. For his services he received a medal with three clasps and bronze decoration. The deceased officer also served with the 92nd Highlanders in the Boa War of 1881.  Advice' received by courier from Deming, in New Mexico, give particulars of a murderous attack made by the Yaqui Indians on white men. Eight Americans who were gold-mining in North Sonora were attacked and murdered by a band of Yaquis, who carried off all the property of their victims.  All the fish in the pond surrounding the Diana Fountain in Bushey Park have been discovered to hive been poisoned by the water being impregnated with prussic acid. A theory prevails that a young chemist from London, who committed suicide in the park by poison a short time ago, may have poured some of the t,meon into the pond as he passed it.  Scene: The interior of t crowded Omnibus.— Polite old lady (to heavy swell in very lies trousers, who is sitting almost on the top of her) "Will you accuse me, sir, jet auskin' you to move hinch or two; but I've got some eggs in the pocket you're a-sittin' on, and they seem to feel dampike."  A tressure.—Mrs. Johnson: "May Brown inis grown up to be a fine girl." Johnson: "Yes, indaid ! She's a great comfort to her father." Mrs. Jolmson "IS she P" Johnson: "Yea; :Ate end iler mother often disagree about nbat they went him to do, and Brown thoroughly enjoys the deadlock."
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1895-05-30 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

TEN YEARS FOR ATTEMPTED MURDER. At the Old Bailey, on Monday, before Mr. Justice Wills. Thomas Cummings, 58, was ind.cted fur feloniously wounding Frances Ellen Garrard, with intent to murder.—The prosecut.ix is a nair.iel woman, residing with her husband at Stamford-hill. She had teen married previously, but her domestic relations with her former husband were not ye. y happy. The prisoner, an army pensioner, who h.l received several medals for foreign service, made the acquaintance of the prosecutrix while she w.a: living with her former husband. He lodged ;it the same house, and formed an intimacy with the prosecutrix, who ultimatell, went to live with him. lire former husband died in 1893, and the comp'ainant went to live with her sister. The prisoner followed her about and threatened her, in consequence ot which she left her sister. In January, 1893 she married her present husband. She was elm:toyed by Messrs. Shoolired, and on the evening of April 24th, as she loft the premises of Messrs. Shoolbred, in the company of a fenale friend, the prisoner, who was waiting outside, followed her. As soon as the prosecutrix's companion let, ho went up to her, and placing his arm round I en. neck, drew a razor across her throat, and inflict, I he most serious injuries. Shouts of "Murder " drueglit several persons to the spot, and tire woman ...as conveyed at once to the University College Hospital, where the wound, which proved to be a very dangerous one, was attended to, and she ultimaely recovered. The prisoner had threatened that "lie would do for" the prosecutrix. After the allair Le attemi ted to commit suicide by cutting his own throat with the razor, which was picked up in the street.—The jury found the prisoner guilty.—His lordship said that the prisoner had only escaped the gallows by a hair's breadth. His offence was a moat serious one, and he must go to penal servitude for 10 years.  FACTS AND FANCIES  Coat-Tan
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1895-05-30 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE AT ASTON.  A GIRL SOON TIRES OF MARRIED LIFE.  At the Aston Police Court. before Messrs. HAI and Dean, a young married woman named Rachel Jones (18), of no occupation, of 88, Villa Street, was charged with attempting to commit suicide by taking poison. Police-constable Spencer said that on Thursday morning last week he was called to the prisoner's house where he saw her in great pain, evidently having swallowed some liniment from a broken bottle which was lying on the floor. He took her to the General Hospital where she receive,/ medical attention, and recovered.—Asked by the Magistrates Clerk why she had made an attempt on her life, she replied that on Sunday week her husband kicked her, and had threatened her that if sln went to see him at his mother's he would knife her. —Mr. Rowlands: How long have you been married': —Witness: Three months.—Mr. Rowlands : Is your husband here—Prisoner: Yes.—Mr. Rowlands: Then call him in.—On "Albert Jones- being called. an apparent youth stepped to the front of the dock and claimed the responsibility- of being the girl's husband.—The Magistrate's Clerk: Why, how old are you?—Husband Twenty in August next.—The Clerk: You were up the other day for pitch and toss were you not I—The Husband: Yes.—The Clerk: What do you work at?—Prisoner: He has done no work at all, and I have never had a penny off him since I have been married. In faot,l have been working to keep him as well as I could.—Mr. Rowlands: A girl of 18 marrying a boy 12 months older an' having to keep him. Rather a pleasant sort of, experience is it not? (to the husband): How lone is it since you have done any work?—Husband : 12 months in June.—Mr. Rowlands: Show the Magiotrates your hands.—On making an examination Mr. Rowlands said it was very little work he had done. —The prisoner asked for a separation order, hut was told that this could not be granted excepting on a summons for assault. Mr. Rowlands (to Jones):, sWirl.tTihse kmeenpai Hill a ni sgt r aytoe us Dean) discharged the prisoner on her protms.r ltlg_ n 0,1,1 to make any further attempt upon her life, M. ~1,141 suggesting that if she cared to take a suramll against her husband for assault she could dno o • (nmowesl—Jrs.ones: My and  I
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1895-05-30 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

JAPANESE INTERFERENCE WITH BRITISH SUBJECTS.  News has been received in London of certain highaanded acts on the part of the Japanese officers at New-chang towards the British residents of that port On the evening of March 10th the Japanese attempted to seize the Custom House of the Residences, but were informed that the building was the property of Sir Robert Hart, a British subject. The matter was referred to Japanese headquarters, but telegrams from the British Consul to official Juperiors asking for instructions on the matter were refused transmission. On the 24th, without preliminary notifications to the foreign Consuls, the Japanese sentries at the gates were ordered to stop all foreigners, and the following day the British Consul and the commander of H.M.S. Firebrand, both in uniform, were stopped whets, attempting to pass through the East Gate, though this is well within the British settlement A protest was at once lodged, and an order was issued that all officials in uniform should be allowed free passage. When the mail left all other foreigners were prisoners within the settlement, despite the circumstance that no !limitations of any kind were placed upon the movements of Chinese.  Mr. A. Comerford, a well-known gentleman jockey, owner of Woodcock and other steeple-chasers, has died, it is announced, from the effects of being thrown off a young horse while training it at Sealand, Chester. On Saturday the horse threw him out of the saddle on to his head, and he was picked up in an unconscious condition. Medical attendance was quickly procured, but Mr. Comerford never regained consciousness.  Ada Louise Gidden, wife of a Wimbledon carrier, was found dead in her bedroom. It was elicited that death was due to prifssic acid poisoning, a bottle of which was found by her side. She left a note to her husband informing him of her intention to commit suicide. At Castle Eden, Jane Logan, farmer's wife, South Helton, has been sentenced to three months' hard labour for cruelly ill-treating the child of a musichall artist entrusted to her care. One arm was broken, and the child's mouth was injured by a metal spoon being, thrust into it.
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1895-01-03 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

BANKING. ACCOUNT. On Saturday afternoon Mr. Joseph Ansell ldeputy coroner) and a jury held an inquest at the Bidington Arms, Gravelly Hill, touching the death of Elizabeth Jane Morrell, wife of the landlord of the ROAO and Crown Inn, Cliveland Street, Birmingham, whose body was recovered from the canal at Ateon on Thursday. She left home on the 21st inst. about 2.35 p.m., telling her husband the was going to a School Savings Bank in Newton to get £3O delimited there. Of that money £2O belonged to a sick club and £lO to themselves. He had told her to get the money, out the next day, and the £lO was wanted in connection with a shop they were going to open. He afterwards heard the money had been stolen from her, and he did not see her again until the body was recovered from the canal. He thought the logs of the money had caused her to commit suicide. The same afternoon, about *tree o'clock, she called at the house of George Oameron, Queen's Head, Deattmouth Street, and said she had drawn the £3O out of the Savings Bank, and that it had been pioked out of her polecat adding that she missed it first in the Bull Ring. She was crying and wringing her hands, and saying she was a ruined woman. Cameron parted from her at the corner of Aston Road and Dartmouth Street. Nothing more was beard of her, and the fact that money bad been stolen and that she was miming was reported to the police, who had the Aston Junction Canal dragged but without flUenoas On Thursday William Morrell, engineer, 55. Mill Streets Aston, brother-in-law to the deceased, found the. body whilst dragging the canal about 50 vards from the Cuckoo Bridge, and Police constable Baum had it removed to the Erdington Arms. On the body the officer found and a peak-handkerchief. Dr. Clarke, who had made a post-mortem exaimination of the body, gave it as his opinion that death had been due to drowning, and that the body had been in the water from four to eight daye—Questioneci as to the money, the husband of the deceased said he could not say whether it had been deposited in the Savings Bank. He had not seen the bank-book. She did not seem dietremeci when he asked her to get the money. He believed she had the money in the bank in her name. He left the week to her, as he was not a echolar. He. had not been to the Seidner* Bank to see if she had sot the money out.—The jury exert-rt.:tett a denire to know more about. the money.— The Coroner said if they wished he would adjourn the inquest to enable enquiries to be made in reference to the matter. He pointed out that althole+ part of the Case was unstaiefaotorv. there was no question SIA to the melte of death.—Ultimately the jury returned an open verdict of 'Toned drowned."
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1895-09-05 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

CRUELTY TO A SERVANT GIRL. At Newport (Mon.). Kathleen Young, a married lady residing in a fashionable quarter of the town, has been prosecuted for alleged cruelty to her servant maid. The case created considerable excitement. From the evidence it appeared that the girl had been in the employ of the accused for six months, her father being dead, while her mother was in prison. The child alleged that she had bean beaten with a poker, flat-iron, rolling-pin, and broom-stick. When an inspector called at the house the girl was sent out of the way. The medical evidence showed that the girl was admitted to the infirmary in a dangerous state and unable to answer questions. Four partly healed cuts were found on the forehead, marks of finger-nails on the neck, bruises on the front and back of the arms and legs, a wound on the back of the head reaching to the bone, beneath which coagulated blood formed a lump tho Biz,' of a lien's egg; the pulse was feeble and the temperature abnormal. It was possible that the girl might suffer from the wounds on the head all her life. The neighbours deposed to hearing groans emanating from someone in the accused's house. The girl stated that idle had been threatened if she complained to anyone. The prisoner pleaded guilty. Her solicitor said she gave way, unfortunately, to outbursts of temper, provoked by the girl breaking valuable articles. It was stated that the defendant had previously been fined £lO for a similar offence. The accused, who was accompanied in the dock by her sister, appeared very penitent, and cried and prayed en sentence being passed. She fainted and fell to the floor when the magistrate announced the maximum penalty of six months' imprisonment and a fine of £25. The sentence was applauded in court, and when the prisoner was being conveyed to Usk Gaol a crowd assembled and hooted her.  A swindling firm once advertised that it would send for the sum of 2s. 6d. a recipe which, if followed to the letter, would keep folks from growing old. Some credulous persons answered the advertisement, remitting the required fee, and received the following reply: "We would advise all such idiots as you to commit suicide at about the age of 25."  Excessive flattery. —A prince went to inspect a rare collection of books in a little town. The mayor accompanied him. To his great amazement the prince discovered that all the books were placed on the shelves the wrong way about. "What made you arrange them in that fashion ? " "I could not per. mit the volumes to turn their backs on your Highness."  One exceedingly warm day in July, a neighbour met an old man, and remarked that it - as very hot. "Yes," said Joe; "if it wasn't for one thing, I should say we were going to have a thaw." "What is that ?" inquired the friend. "There's nothing froze," said Joe.  Mistress (to ,:cok): "Your name, Mary, and my daughter's being the same, makes matters somewhat confusing. Now, how do you like. say, the name of Bridget P" Cook, "Sure, mum, its not me that's particular. I'm willing to call the young lady anything you like."
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1895-09-05 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

SOME STORIES ABOUT NIAGARA.  Mr. George Forbes giv3s in 'Packwood some remarkable statements about Niagara. 1. On April Ist, 1848, the Falls ran nearly dry owing to a stoppage by ice and a strong east wind on the lakes. 2. A drifting ship, drawing 181 t. of water, went over the deepest part of the lip of the Horse-shoe Fall. 3. A steamer callcd the Maid of the Mist, built at the Falls, traversed the Whirlpool Rapids in order to escape creditors, and reached Lake Ontario in safety. I cannot, however, vouch for the generally accepted statement that in doing so she turned a complete somersault. 4. At the Whirlpool there is a path descending to the water to a spot where they catch the bodies that float there. There is an average of one suicide a month, and they are invariably trapped by the Whirlpool. There is another true story which is rather startling. A hundred yards above the brink of the American Fall a rock of lOft. square projects for a foot above the water in mid-stream. One morning the inhabitants awoke and saw a man sitting on it. The noise of the Rapids prevented verbal communication. They did not, do not, and never will know how he got there. He stayed there 38 hours. The people telegraphed to Buffalo, and the railway company sent one excursion train after another for 38 hours to see the man on the rock. They painted signs and stuck them up for the man to read, saying: "We will save you." Two hundred yards above there is a bridee. From this, by ropes, they floated rafts with provisions to him. At the end of his stay a big one came for him to get on. What they were ping to do with him if they got him in this seethine rapid I know not. He tried and failed, and went over the Fall, and that is all!
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1895-10-10 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

CAPTURE OF AN ESCAPED LUNATIC. Emanuel Nor on, a patient at the Kent County Lunatic Asylum at Banning, near Maidstone, who escaped, was :ecaptured on Friday at Chatham, a7ter arm excith g base, tiy one of the workhouse who Glanced to meet and recognise him.  A glaring attt mpt at burglary was made early ol Friday nim mg at a jeweller's shop in Upper Norwood. The thief threw a grappling-iron with a light rope lad % r attached over the clock abutting f'rom the front f the premises, scaled the roof, and It down the miler fade with a similar ladder.  eulng the wit tlw raised, the assistant sleeping the shop juntoed tu!, Lut the burglar got away.  Wife: "1 telieve 111(1.85 & ourpar In me Husband: "Say nothing, but keep perfectly Quiet. He may leave a jsiumy I eland hint or something el,ci of value. We can't alforil to throw away any chance that offers to turn an honest penny." An'untia,sed opinion.—"Now, professor," said the ambiticus young man, "you have tried my voice. I want you to tell me frankly what it is best adapted to." And without a moment's hesitation the eminent musician ri..ponded: "Whispering."  - _ MiES Singleton: "Butt, il ale, dear, does a man get really angry. every ti:..e he comes home ani Ands dinner um't ready?" Mrs. flenedick (sweetly): "Yes; jut about as angry as A WOMMS gets every time she has it ready an he doesn't come home."  On Saturday, while Thomas Barton, zn, a performer at the Empire of India Exhibition, was faing off a firework detonator in one of the combat scenes it exploded, and be was seriouily burnt about the face. He was taken to the hospital. At the Thames Police-court a trader of Limehouse was fined 10s. for selling whiskey adulterated to the extent of 5.5 per cent. of water. A similar fine was imposed on a Poplar trader for selling gin containing 4.3 per cent, of water. - -  Lady Beaumont, the widow of Lord Beaumont, who accidentally shot himself on the 16th of last month, was safely delivered of a daughter on Friday. Lord Beaumont leaves no other child, and the hopes which were entertained for a direct continuity of tbe title are thus unfulfilled. George William Sanctuary, lb, a snoc-noy, the son of an engine-driver on the Dktrict Hallway, of Estcourt-road, Fulham, fell flown a sewer-shaft 20ft. deep. His cries attracted the attention of the night watchman in a hut, and lie immediately descended and brought him up. On the boy being tat:en to the hospital it was found that lie was severely injured.  - Pt Howley, on Saturday afternoon, a tradesman named Stuart Cole was charged with attempting to commit suicide. During the temporary absence of his wile pris3ner attempted to hang himself. He was found suspended by means of a rope, and was cut down, and apparently was dead. Artificial seepiration was resorted to, tut two days elapsed before he regained consciousness. He then said he had teen drinking, and did not rememter hanging himself. The accused was remanded.
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1899-08-31 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

MISS M. F. BEADDON,  Atitho- of "Laity A oitley's Secret." "The Fatal .Three," "The Day Will Come," "Lost for Love,* "The Doctor's Wife," "Whose Was the Mend?" "One Life, One LoYe," "Thou Art the Man,' "Sons of Fire," ke.  SYNOPSIS OF PREVIOUS CHAPTERS: Arnold Wentworth, who has taken the assumed name of Alfred Wildover, a man thirty years of age, is returning to England from South Africa. Aboard the steamship he meets Mary Freeland, whom he had known as a child in the days before he ran away from his home in England. He has made money at the diamond fields, and is returning to England on a visit. She, too, has left home against the wish of her acnt, with whom she had lived, and gone upon the stage. Her aunt has since died, and bequeathed to Mary Freeland lie fortune. Wildover has received a letter in Smith Africa from a woman for whom, before leaving England, he had formed a sincere attachment. She has heard of his good fortune in the new country, and beseeches him to return to her. The story of their relationship is a sad one. When quite a girl Lisa Napwr had been led astray and deserted by a man many years her senior. She had, however. lived through the period which followed without falling into a life of vice, and had managed to support herself in a poor quarter of London. Whilst living thus she had made the acquaintance of Arnold Wentworth. He himself, having run away from home. had been reduced to great poverty, aria it was only the intervention of Lisa Rayner which had saved him from a suicide's grave. From this there had sprung up a sincere affection between them, and they had lived together as man and wife. A life of poverty, however, had soon worn out Arnold's affection, and at length he had given Lisa what money he could obtain, and bade her good-bye, and gone out to seek Iris fortune in South Africa. This he had achieved, and he was now returning to England with anything but pleasant anticipations of meeting the woman with whom he had at one time imagined himself to be in love. Aboard the ship, he falls in love with Mary Freeland, but, being conscious of the stain upon his past life, he refrains from telling her of Iris love. On reaching England, Mary Freeland at 011 Ce returns to their native village of Merynhall. A day later Arnold follows her, and has a secret interview with his mother. He cannot meet her openly Is-cause of the enmity of his father, who has never forgiven him the boyish extravagance which had been the cause of thew early quarrel. Next morning Arnold visits Mary Freeland, amid whilst in her company he is greatly shocked by reading the account of a murder of some person with whom he had at rrie time been acquainted.