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Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1868-05-08 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

SHOCKING MURDER NEAR DURHAM.  ONE POLICEMAN SHOT BY ANOTHER. SUICIDE OF THE MURDERER.  On Friday the inhabitants of Durham were horrified by a mounted policeman going into the city with the startling intelligence that a policeman had been shot dead by another memher of the force, at Sherburn, about three miles from that city, and that the murderer had immediately shot himself. It appears that P.C. Paton, of Sherburn; P.C. Cruikshank, of Pittington ; and P.C. Maly, of Sherburn Hill, all belonging to the Durham County Constabulary, had been in Durham, and walked out together in company. On getting to Pittington-lane end, Paton said to Crnikshank that he might as well walk on to Sherburn with him, and he would give him an information as to a robbery that had to be looked after the following day. This was done, and on getting to Sherburn. Paton went into his house for the ostensible purpose of getting the document. WKay followed him, Cruilishank remaining outside. Afier a short time Paton went out, as M'Kay thought, with the "information," but almost immediately he heard a shot fired. He ran out, and saw Cruikehank making for refuge to Thompson's publichouse, and Paton with a revolver in his hand. Paton fired again and Cruikshank immediately fell, whereupon Paton put the pistol to hie ear and fired, falling likewise. Cruikshank died immediately, a ball having taken effect in his head. Mr Harrison, surgeon, was immediately on the spot, and Mr Shaw, surgeon, of Durham, went out and pronounced Paton to be dying also, the ball having lodged in his head. He was still alive, according to the latest accounts, but we understand there is not the slightest chance of his recovery. Whether there had been any previous quarrel is not known, but the circuo.stances which led to the deplorable occurrence will probably be stated at the inquest. Paton was known to have a six-chambered single. barrelled Colts revolver in his possession. and it was with this the horrible crime was perpetrated. Both men have wives and families
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1868-07-17 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

SELF-D ESTRUCTION. —On Wednesday last, se old man, 70 yeas of age, named Blcoat, residing in Norton, committed suicide by blowing out his brains. He had formerly been a farmer, and possessed come property at the time of his death. It appears thathe used a loaded eon, chip ged with ball. lie tied a string to the trigger, which was fastened to his lois. The muzzle of the gun was placed in his mouth, which, no exploding, blew off the top ohss head, scattering his brains about the room. An inquest is being hi-ld while we go to press. LORD ERN EST V AN E TemeßsT.—We are glad to say the accident that his lordship met with has not disqualified hiin from pursuing his canvass. After a week's suffering and confinement, he is again briskly following up his successful visits to the electors, and the renewals of confidence in his lordship's political principles are more numerous and satisfactory than before, and give increased assurance to his committee of ultimate success. We have all heard the fable of the "hare and Tortoise." It is not the frothy declamation of an ambitious lawyer, nor the shouts of hireling boys, that will win the day ; but the quiet, gentlemanly demeanour and untiring perseveranceof a candidate who has nothing to gain by becoming the member of the new borough;  punished. Since then a hitter feeling has existed between the two men, which culminate I in an attempt on the part of Alderson to take the life f Hardacre. It appears that the latter was in the vicinity of Alderson's house on Saturday nicht, whom he imme !lately recognised, and arming himself with a clasp knife, FOAhed out of the house and stabbed Hardacre in the heart and neck, and indicted several wounds on his person. Flardacre fell to the ground, and was immersed in a pool of blood. The services of Dr. Fra,cis were imnsedistely obtained, hut the faintest hopes are entertained of Hardacre's life. On Sunday afternoon, he was'ohserved to be sinking, and it WAB found necessary to take his depositions before a magistrate. Alderson was afterwards apprehended and lodged in the Low-street police station. He was partially in liquor at the time of the outraze, but not so bad as not to know what he was doing, when he used the knife so freely., Alderson is a married man, and is highly respectably connected. He is about fifty years of age. On Sunday night, Hardacre was in a very precarious state.
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1868-02-28 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

POPULL—A great deal of gossip has been occasioned in the village of Pensford, near Bristol, in comequence of an amusing episode that occurred in a place of worship in the neighbourhood the other Sunday evening. It appears that the minister of the chapel was holding forth to a respectable congregation, and being rather long in his sermon some of his hearers began to get impatient, when, to the great surprise of all present, an elderly matron sitting in the body of the chapel called out in a clear shrill voice, "Cut it short, Mr —; it only wants five minutes to eight." Great difficulty was experienced by those present in keeping their risible faculties in subjection, while the effect on the oratorical powers of the preacher was magical—in fact, it proved to be "quite a settler," for he immediately gave out the Doxology, and the meeting was brought to a speedy termination.  - A shocking suicide took place on Tuesday evening week at the Crystal Palace, a youth named Lee having thrown himself from the north tower, a height of 220 feet. The fatal act does not appear to have been witne'aed by any one, but the lifeless remains were found a shapele...s mass at the foot of the tower. It appeared at the inquest that the deceased win a draper's assistant, and had on Monday obtained an engagement at a shop in the Finchley-rnad. On writing to his references, however, his employer received a most unsatisfactory reply Upon this deceased exhibited great distre.s of mind, and, on being dLcharged, appeared to have conceived the idea of committing suicide, which he thus fatally carried out. He was a young man of really excellent character, and the person to whom he had referred, having had another person of drunken habits named Lee in his service, replied to the querist under the impression that it was this person of whom he was writing. The jury returned a verdict of" Temporary insanity."
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1868-05-01 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

HORRIBLE CONFESSION OF A MURDERER.— Details are published in the Russian journals concerning the murder of the Gemarine family at Tamhoff. The tutor named Gorski has confessed his guilt. He had gone' he says, to the residence of M. Gemarine on the Ist March last to give a lesson to the son, but without any intention of committing a crime on that day. While he was thus occupied the father went out. Gorski then determined to take advantage of the opportunity. He had carried a revolver and life-preserver about with him for a whole week. He at once struck his pupil over the head, and the latter dropped insensible to the ground. On seeing him fall Gorski was seized with remorse, and his first movement was to escape, but fearing to be discovered, he again beat the boy until life was extinct. There were three other persons in the house; the mistress, the cook, an 1 a man-servant. Ile first called the mother, saying that her son was bleeding at the nose, and when she entered the room he shot her dead with the pistol ; be next summoned the man into the dining, room and killed him in the same tna,uner ; lastly, lie fired twice at the cook, wounding her each time, and on her attempting to escape he deprived her of life with blows of the lifepreserver. He waited in the kitchen until the housekeeper returned, and on her arrival shot at her, but as the pistol did not go off, he killed her by a single Wow with lt log of wood. As the mechanism of-the revolver had become _disarranged, he went out to get the arm ¶epaired an Ain returning met the coachman aud the .noriteMaidi he might have killed them both, he said, iStit his hand refused to obey his will. He then suffered so much from remorse that he went home with the • intention of committing suicide. He put the barrel of the pistol to his mouth, but the instinct of life was too strong, and he could not carry out his intention. 'Gorski admits that his object was to rob Gernarine. He is only 19 years of age, but of a most energetic character. He belongs to a Catholic family, but declares that he has no religious belief.
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1868-10-02 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

ATTEMPTED MURDER AND SUICIDE AT  OLDHAM.  On Friday afternoon a desperate attempt to commit murder and suicide was made at the residence of the Rev. T. Ireland, vicar of Werneth, Oldham. It appeared that .on Monday last Mr and Mrs Ireland and family left Oldham on a visit to Blitekpool. They left the vicarage in charge of Margaret Jackson, a servant girl, and a young man named Joseph 'lreland. The latter, who was not related to the family, was employed in the capacity of cowman. He is said to have been of a very forbidaing character, and was regarded by many persons as not quite sane. On Friday Jackson and he had dinner together. After this they pro 'ceded to clean the house, and the girl was upon her knees washing a closet floor, when Ireland came behind her and gave her a severe blow upon the head with a hammer He struck her several times before she conld rise. Ultimately she succee ted in getting past him, and she ran into a bedroom, Ireland still following and striking at her. Iu order to call the attention of parties outside, the girl broke a pane of glass and screamed through the opening. Bne neat ran clown stairs and succeeded in getting out by the back door, where she was met by a gardener in the employ of Mr Ascrott, tiolicitor, to whose residence she was conveyed. Medical assistance was at once summoned, and it was iound that the poor girl had sustained no less than thirteen wounds about the head, one of which was tins. and another liin. in length. Mr Aseroft's gardener got the assistance of three or four other men, and, on searching Mr Ireland's house, they found Ireland with a gash in his throat extending almost from ear to ear. None of the leading arteries had been severed. A razor and carving knife, covered with blood, were picked up. the latter JO the kitchen, and the former in the cellar. The wound in Ireland's throat was stitched up, and he was left in charge of a police constable. The girl Jackson was able, after the lapse of some time, to give an account of the attack upon her. She atated that there had been no quarrel between herself and Ireland. nor bad anything occurred to lead her to suspect that he meant any harm towards ber. It is believed that both will recover.  --- -- The White Rose has arrived from Melbourne, She twinge £192001) in gold.
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1868-12-18 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

IRELAND. Lord Lieutenant. Earl Spencer The Duke of Abercorn Lord Chancellor. Mr Justice Oliagan Mr Brewster Attorney-General. Mr Lawson Dr. Ball Solicitor-General. Mr Serjeant Barry Mr °meshy  "The "Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland" has issued another manifesto on the subject of the proposed disestablishmeut of the Iri,h Church. The Act of Union and the Coronation Oath are brought into requisition, and the Orangemen assure her Majesty that should she be "placed in the trying and difficult position of being called upon to refuse her assent to any measure brought before her," they will " afford to her every aid and support in their power." Lord Enniskillen, the grand master, has also published an address of his own, in which he denounces the appointment of Mr O'Hagan—a Roman Catholic—to the Irish Chancellorship, as a "direct insult to the feelings of Protestants, too glaring to require any laboured animadversions."  A sad tragedy oeuerred on Friday in the Borough of Southwark. About three weeks ago a young man named Deighton, a cl.-rk in the National Bank, with his wife and one child, a little girl about two years old, took lodgings io the upper storey of a house in High-street. During Thursday Deighton did not attend to his duties at the bauk, and exhibited symptons of aberration of intellect. \Viva happened is a matter of conjecture, hut it is believed that the man a.tempted to commit suicide by throwing himself from the window, and that his wife, in trying to prevent him, was forced out along with him. They were seen to fall from the window into the street, and both were taken up dead. They were in their nightdresses, and the room was found in great disorder, tks if a fearful struggle had taken place. The poor orphan child was found unharmed in the bed.
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1868-11-27 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

ELECTION BET.—An Indiana paper records a wager between a lady and gentleman on the Presidential election. If Grant was elected, the young man was to marry the young lady; if Seymour, the young lady was to marry the young gentleman.  The eruption of Mount Vesuvius appears to be assuming very dangerous proportions. The lava entreat is reported to be 129 metres broad, and from 10 to 12 deep. It has set a chesnut forest on fire, has overwhelmed several farm houses and farm lands, and threatens the village of San Giorgio. The villagers are leaving their dwellings, and are reduced to a state of destitution.  A man has been charged at Westminster with attempting suicide. The prisoner's wife got very drunk, abused him, and threw a candlestick at him. He replied by hurling a china vase at her, cutting her so severely on the head that she fell down insensible. He could not restore her to consciousness, and, concluding she was dead, he cut his own throat with a dinner knife. They both recovered. This is another instance of the horrors which result from drink. Happily, these people are alive to profit by the lesson, if they will.  The poor Reform League is beaten everywhere. Its very head is without a seat. Its working men are literally nowhere in the polling returns ; so that after all its trouble to get a Reform Bill, it is not to be rewarded. Even pulling down the park railings has failed to win patronage for its candidates. This shows very clearly that those who anticipated that the new House of Commons would consist a a different class from its predecessors have been greatly mistaken. The "great governing families," as they are called, are not, even under household suffrage, without influence. The great popular leader himself had a word to say on behalf of the Cavendishes in his speech at Preston.  The Roman Catholics created a fearful riot in Drogheda. A number of agents of Sir A. M'Clintock, the Conservative candidate for the borough, arrived at the station, and were immediately attacked by a band of desperadoes, for whom troops of women carried stones by way of ammunition. Some of the agents were seriously injured, and as medical attendance could not be obtained they had to be taken back all the way to Dublin. The military ultimately were obliged to interfere, and one of the voters was kil!ed by their fire. At Sligo the influence of the priests has caused the houses of ten Roman Catholics, who refused their votes to the Radical candidate, to be gutted, the mob stealing the furniture, &c.
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1878-05-18 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

SUICIDE AT ACKLAM HALL.  A sad case of suicide was investigated on Monday afternoon by Mr J. T. Belk, the Middlesbrough coroner, and a jury, when an inquest was held on the body of Robert Piukney, aged 42 years, butler to W. T. Hustler, Ksq., of Acklam Hall, who hanged himself on Sunday morning. It appears that deceased had been ailing for the last few days, and on Friday he had a conversation with his master, asking him for leave to go to Harrogate, which was granted. Deceased also told Mr Hustler that he was about to leave his service and take possession of the Royal Hotel, Tledear. Mr Hustler tried to discourage this. am' of -red to give him any increase of salary that he reqiiPerd if he would continue his present service; t tds deceased replied that he would constilt li,. wife. He went to Harrogate on Sati:roo-, nruing in the evening. It was usual for loin wh-liever Mr Hustler was from home to sleep it the hall ; and accordingly on Saturday evening, after partaking of supper with his wit he went there to sleep. The housekeeper left him about 11.30 p.m., reading a newspaper, and he socn afterwards retired to rest. Nest morning he did not come down stairs at his usual time, and the housemaid wis sent to rouse him, but failed to obtain any reply. A joiner was sent for to burst open the door, and deceased was then found hanging by the neck to the top rail of the four-pest bedstead, quite dead. The bed presented, the appearance of having been slept in. Deceaseds clothes were neatly folded up on a chair. He appeared to have contemplated the rash act, because he had locked the bedroom door inside— an . unusual occurrence with him The jury were left to themselves for over an hour, but were unable to agree as to whether a verdict of felo-de-se or " temporary insanity" should be returned. The inquit y was adjourned till Tuesday morning, when Dr Hind, of Stockton, deposed that he saw the body of deceased at Acklam Hall on Sunday between eleven and twelve o'clock. Death had resatted from strangulation. He was of opinion that the deceased had suffered from epileptic tits. --Mrs Piukuey, Sarah Bell, and Hannah Hell, recalled, stated that the deceased had had two fits to their knowledge. One in January, 1877, and one last summer.---This was the whole of the evidence, and the jury returnel a verdict of suicide while in an unsound state of mind.
Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1847-12-15 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

SIURDER OF POUR CIIILDRE:4 BY TIIEIR MOTHER, .0114 D SUICIDE OF THE MURDERFR.—A most horrible tragedy took place in Bath, on Wednesday afternoon last, which has necessarily produced the deepest sensation, a wretched woman having cut the throats of four of her children, and then dispatched her own life by the same dreadful means. The unhappy creature is the wife of a jobbing brewer named Ridout, occupying a cottage adjacent to the Bradford canal-boat station. The husband, it appears, had been out the whole day, being at work, brewing in Et neighbouring public house. A fe male, named Sears, residing in an adjoining cottage, not having seen Mrs. Ridout or the children during the day, went to their dwelling for the purpose of making some enquiries abut them, but on attempting to open the door, found it was locked. She was then induced to look in at the window, when the horrible spectacle prevented to her eyes was the wretched woman lying on the floor steeped in her own blood. She instantly gave the alarm, and infortnation was forwarded to the police station. Cuptain Carroll, the superintendent of police, and a number of constables, hastened to the cottage with all speed, when the door was forced open. Passing the body of the dead woman, the throat being frightfully divided, and a razor lying by the side of the corpse, the next objects which met the view of the officer, within an adjoining room, were the lifeless bodies of four children, forming the family of the pour creature, Mrs. Ridout, deluged in blood. Their heads were nearly severed from their bodies. A tub was standing in the room almost full of blood, evidently chewing that the wretched mot' c , on making incisions in their throats, held their wounds over the tub to allow the blood to flow into it until life was extinct. The youngest child was an infante months old, and the eldest about 6 years of age. One of them was found with his legs partly hanging over the step 'leading to the bed-room, as if he had struggled to escape. Of course the only presumption is that the unhappy parent was in a state of frenzy when she did these dreadful acts. It appears that she had been subject to tits of insanity for some time past, and it is now only to be deplored that some means were not taken to retrain her. —The inquest on the five bodies was held on Thursday, when the Coroner stated that a surgeon had so recently as Sunday given his opinion that the woman was insane, and had advised that she should be placed under restraint; had his advice been observed, the horrible event might have been avoided. The jury, in the cases of the four children, returned verdicts of " Wilful Murder against Jane Ridout," and in that of the mother one of * Temporary insanity."
Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1847-10-27 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

AFFRAY WITH POACHERS.—A GAMEKEEPER SHOT.— On Monday, five gatnekeepers Si undetkeepers encountered a party of poachers, consisting of eight colliers, in the wood itt the vicinity of Dalhousie Castle. While the keepers were in the act of apprehending the colliers, two of the latter who were possessed of guns, fired upon the gainekeepers, who were unarmed. One of the shots took effect. Mr. Hume was dangerously wounded in the fleshy part of the thigh. A desperate conflict now ensued, in the midst of which, a fowling piece belonging to one of the colliers went off, and wounded himself in the allele. The remainder of the colliers having been all armed with large bludgeons, placed the gamekeepers at a serieus disadvantage. One of the poachers was secured on the spot, four brothers of the name of Vickers were apprehended at their residence in Gowsh ill. Mr. Hume was pronounced by the surgeon not out of danger. The strictest investigation is being made by the authorities into the whole atfair.—Glasgotv paper.  DISTRESSING Suicine.--On .Saturday week, a young woman of Riglibridge, named Hawkins, committed suicide under the following circumstances— On the previous day she was led to the alter by a person named Ripley, the owner of the estate on which her father rented, to whom she gave her hand without her heart. Her affections had been long englged by a young farmer, named Tuttoit, and she went through the ceremony with a desponding and aching heart. Returning with the bridegroom to the house of her brother, she was there left by him, lie having some affairs to arrange at home. On the following morning she gat down and commenced a letter to a friend. Whilst thus engaged in committing her sorrows to her bosom-companion, her feelings overcame her principles, and, acquainting her friend with her determination, she left the house, and precipitated herself into the canal. Iler body was soon afterwards found hut all attempts at resuscitation proved of no avail.—Bath !Jerald.