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Nantwich, Sandbach & Crewe Star — 1891-05-29 ()

PROFESSIONAL SINGER "  TROUBLE AT SUMACH,  ATTEMPTS TO COMMIT SUICIDE IN THE POLICE CELL.  At the Sandhi.eh Police Court, 'on Friday, before Messrs. F. H. R. Wilbraham and W. L. Chew, Maud Mellor, who described herself as a professional singer, and who is the wife of a watchmaker, residing in Hawkstreet, was charged on remand with stealing 19s. 9d. from the shop of William Lee, grocer, Middlewichroad, Sandbach, on the 15th May.—The prisonrr pleaded not gailty.—Mrs. Lee stated that about eight o'clock on Fr:day night, the 15th May, she was upstairs when she heard somebody come into the shop. She went downstairs, and saw the prisoner standing between the door and the counter. Witness at once missed the jar containing her money, and on seeing her astonishment, the prisoner said, " Oh, Missis, what is the matter with you ? " Witness replied that someone had been in her drawer, and had taken a jar containing her money. Prisoner said,—" Oh, don't put yourself out of the way, you will be sure to And it. You cannot say it's me, as you saw me come into the shop." Witness replied that she did not see her come into the.,shop. She then served the prisoner with some tea, and when she had received it, she said, "Look round on that shelf, Missis, you will be sure to find it." Witness looked round, but the prisoner slipped out whilst her hack was turned.—ln answer to the Bench, witness said prisoner appeared to have had drink. She was so confused that she did not sond after the prisoner. Her husband was in Manchester at the time. No one had entered the shop since she last counted the money.—The prisoner then made a , statement to the magistrates. She said that on Friday night she intended to go to Crewe, but as it was stormy she did not go, and had never been near Middlewichroad. She called at a public-house to sing, but was told that she was too early. She subsequently met a gentleman, who had heard her sing previously, and he took her into the Red Lion. She sat there for a few minutes, and as the landlord refused to let her sing, she went to another public-house. She sat there until eight o'clock, when she went out. Her husband met byr, and was very cross that she had not been to Crewe. He sent her straight home. About twelve o'clock the same night she was arrested. Prisoner said that when she was brought before Mrs. Lee for identification, the latter said, "Yes, I think that is the woman." Prisoner said she had no occasion to go into the shop, as she had plenty of tea in the house. She was so agitated at being locked up that she took the bottle and smashed it, and tried to cut her throat. —The magistrates retired to consider their decision, and on returning, committed the prisoner to gaol for a month with hard labour for the theft. The charge of attempting to commit suicide was dismissed.
Nantwich, Sandbach & Crewe Star — 1888-11-17 ()

ANOTHER INCREASE IN SALARY.  The chairman said another recommendation of the Salaries Committee was that the salary of Mr. Griffiths, as School Attendance Officer for the Wrenbury die. triet should be increased from £lO to £l5 per annum. He believed it was very generally admitted by the committee that Ur. Griffiths' application for an increase of salary should be granted.  Mr. T. W. PickfOrd said that the amount of remnneration Mr Griffiths received was sadly out of proportion with the work done. Mr. Griffiths never sought the office—it was thrust upon him, and he accepted it very reluctantly and under protest ; the sum he received did not ply his expenses. Mr. S. Acton seconded the proposition. He said that Mr. Griffiths' district was a very wide one, and he had to travel in all kinds of weather. He had always borne an irreproachable character, and a more efficient officer was not in the service of the Union.  Mr, J. 11, liellyse supported the proposed increase, bui Mr. 11. R. Dutton argued that, as the work of a br.,ther officer would soon be lessened, they might reduce his salary £5, and so place Mr. Griffiths on a more equal footing.—Mr. Pickford, however, objected to this levelling down, and pointed out that Mr. Griffiths' i work would be n no way affected by the change.—Mr. Goodall having supp .rted the recommendation, it was put to the meeting, and unanimously carried.  The new Drill Hall of the 2na Caty ot tondon Rifles has been opened .by the Duke of Cambridge, who expressed an opinion that the volunteers had arrived at it Antn of olhetency as htd at any man emdd 'v's at all tim nnximim to phew iT,.!•:,tan o,! i!.!  1,,;  "Di nth in the bottle" is a phrase nsually aE elated with alcoholic beverages. Carbolic acid in. 11wcver, not an alcoholic beverage. It is supposed to be a disinfectant; but during the past few week, has been brought into notoriety by several COMA Of suicide. The victims in each case had effected selfdestruction by drinking carbolic acid. If, instead of drinkin,,-: that, they had partaken of a draught of Jeyes' Fluid, they would have escaped death. The Fluid is also a more effective disinfectant than the acid, and is recommended by such eminent authorities as Sir Robert Pawlinson, CE., Dr. Attfields Profeepor of Practical Chemistry to the rharzna. e,utical Society of Great Britain, Drs. Von Esmarcks Eil,nburg, and other eminent savants mid sea. tarians,  1n.11111...1.. - .w.-- -,
Nantwich, Sandbach & Crewe Star — 1888-11-17 ()

EXECUTION OF AN AGED MURDERER. Levi Richard Bartlett was excented on Tuesday in Newgate Prison for the wilful murder of his wife. The convict was 66 years of age. He and his wife kept a small general shop at Poplar. lie hsd been drinking heavily, and asked his wife to give him money to get more drink, which she refused to do. This irritated bun, and he threatened that he would kill her before the day was over. He got a hammer weighing eight pounds out of the coal cellar, attacked the unfortunate weman while she was lying in bed, and literally beat out her brains. He then tried to cui her throat, and made a desperate attempt to commit suicide. At Ihe trial an attempt was made to set up a plea of insanity, but it was evident that his condition wa-s solely owing to drink. A memorial was sent to the llome Office, asking for a commutation of the capital sentence on the ground of Bartlett's age and his mental condition, but without avail. The under-sherifl:4 arrived at the prison shortly before 8 o'clock. Bartlett v7a.s asked whether he desired to say anything, and he replied that he only wished his love to be given to his relatives. He at the same time thanked the officials for the kind manner in which they had behaved to him. Berry, the executioner, was then introduced, and the man was pinioned. He walked to the scaffold without any assistance. He had slept soundly for several hours during the night, and appeared to be refreshed. A rather shorter drop than usual was given to him, but he appeared to die instantly. Upon subsequent examination, it was discovered that the rope had only very slightly torn open the wound he had inflicted on his throat.
Nantwich, Sandbach & Crewe Star — 1888-10-13 ()

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE AT CREWE. TRYING TO FRIGHTEN HIS MOTHER.  At the Crewe Borough Police Court, on Saturday, before Mr. J. Ainsworth (chairman), and Alderman A. G. Hill, John Barron, a young man residing in Barnfield, Crewe, was charged with attempting to commit suicide by cutting his throat on the previous night. Inspector Oldham watched the case on behalf of the police. Mary Harrington, a girl, who had resided with the prisoner's mother for several weeks, said that Friday evening the prisoner came home from his work shortly after half-past five o'clock, and some words passed between him and his mother, to whom he paid 255. per week. The disturbanue arose on household affairs. The prisoner's mother went out of the house, and returned in a short time. Again she went out, and returned about nine o'clock, when she appeared to be drunk, and fell down in the house. The disturbance was then renewed, and some more words were exchanged between the prisoner and his mother. Witness went to the door for the purpose of leaving the house, Nr;vhiathe prisoner called her back. She returned, and savM knife on the table. He asked her to wipe something, and she noticed blood on his neck While the prisoner and his mother were having words witness did not hear him say he would do anything to himself. She noticed a cut on the prisoner's throat. During the quarrel the prisoner's mother attempted to strike him with her hand.—P.C. Mullineaux said the prisoner told him he had no intention to commit suicide. The prisoner, addressing the Bench, said : "I did it to frighten my mother more than anything else." The Bench advised prisoner not to behave in a similar manner again, and bound him over in £2O to appear for judgment when called upon..  INTENDING EMIGRANTS TO CANADA, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand can obtain pamphlets and other information free of cost from HENRY TAYLOR Auctioneer, High-street and Heath-street Crewe, who has the Agency for no less than NINE Atla:Etic Steamship Lines, besides the principal lines to other parts.— Advt.
Nantwich, Sandbach & Crewe Star — 1888-09-01 ()

ALLEN'S FLIGHT UPSETS POOR MRS.  ALLEN:. AND HIS WIFE ATTEMPTS SUICIDE.  We are sorry to have to record a sad sequel to the absconding of Allen. After he had taken his flight, and his dishonesty was the talk of the town, Mrs. Allen called in Mr. Taylor, auctioneer, and her furniture was sold up. But before this could be done, a gentleman walked in and disputed Mrs. Allen's right to do it. Then, whilst they were talking over matters, a representative of the Guardian Guarantee Society appeared, and claimed the money realized by the sale of the household goods, as he had become surety to Allen for £J 00, upon Allen becoming secretary of the Starr-Bowkett Society. Mrs. Allen, now reduced to sad Straits, went to some friends at Manchester. Her grief, however, was so poignant that on Friday morning last she attempted suicide by taking some vermin killer. She was atones taken to the Royal Infirmary, and the stomach pump, brought into immediate requisition,  SAVED HER LIFE by a few moments. On Tuesday she was brought before the magistrates at Manchester, and charged with attempting tro commit suicide. Mrs. Allen's sister, who lives in Ackers-street, Oxford-road, Chorlton-on-Medlock, Manchester, at whose house Mrs. Allen had been staying, told the court in deep distress, that Mrs. Allen's husband had deserted her about a month ago, and this had  ENTIRELY UNHIWIED lIER MIND  The doctor who attended Mrs. Allen at the Infirmary said that she had had a 'very now escape of her life, and that, a few minutes of delay might have been iatali The magistrates, thinking that her mind was "Seriously affected, ordered her to be removed in the care of her friends.  On Monday evening next another meeting of the Starr-Bowkest 'Society will be held, this time to receive thereport of a sub-committee appointed to enquire into Allen's defalcations. It turns out that they are more serious than have been imagined, and that they commenced as far back as 1888. The indignation at the painfully evident lax management of the officials has therefore  GONE UP SEVERAL DEGREES, the mercury may rise to blood heat on Monday night, They must not have had very keen perception or they would have been rather suspicious as to how Allen managed to keep up his Dukeries in Wistaston-road. It seems that Allen has, all in all, transfered about £7OO from the banking account of the society to his own pocket.
Nantwich, Sandbach & Crewe Star — 1890-08-02 ()

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE OF A DAIRY MAID.  At Northwich Police Court, on Friday morning, before Colonel Fox, a young woman named Catherine Latham was charged with attempting to commit suicide, at Bostock, on July 14th, by cutting her throat. Mrs Smith, housekeeper at Bostock Hall, deposed to Miss Latham having been engaged at the hall, in the still room, for several years, and on Juno 17th,swent awayifor a short holiday.. Oa July 14th, early in the morning, she was going about her work, but appeared to be very dull, and put the hleakfast things away in an unusual place. At eleven o'clock witness went into her bedroom, and found her lying on the floor with a wound in her throat. On the dressing table was the knife now produced by P.C. Latham (it was a large sharp pointed carving khife) ;, there were three spots of blood on the looking glass, and her dress was saturated with blood. Witness, having called for assistance, placed a wet towel, and st-nt for Dr Leibstein and Dr McJannett, the young woman went to sleep on the date she committed the act, and slept almost from then up.to the following Saturday.. In the course of conversations with witness she said she had had most severe pains in her head, and did not remember anything about cutting her throat.—Dr McJannett, of Middlewich, spoke t• finding, on his arrival at Bostock Hall, Catherine Latham on the floor, in front of the dressing table. She had a longitudinal wound in her throat, about two inches in extent. The windpipe was cut. After dressing the wound he left. The windpipe was severed. The wound showed that it had been caused by a stab; it was a very unusual thing to be like that.—P.o. Latham stated that he took the woman into custody that morning, on her being. discharged from the infirmary. He charged her with having cut her throat with a knife, and she replied that she had no recollection of doing so.—William Latham, of 58, Regentroad, Bootle, public-house manager, brnther to the young woman, expressed his willingness to take care of her, and enter into a recognisance of £lO that she should come up for judgment whenever called upon, and in the meantime that she should be of good behaviaur.—Under these circumstances she was discharged.
Nantwich, Sandbach & Crewe Star — 1890-04-19 ()

MANAGING CLEVE: CONVICTED. proceeded towards New Tipperary. The military were At the London ,Sessions, Newington, on Wednesday confined to barracks, and, though an extra force of . :,'rederick Ernest Blatch, :59, manager, pleaded guilty constabulary was drafted into the town, the authori- t-) embezzling various sums-of money, amounting in the ties made no attempt whatever at interfering with . ~, . a,..gt enter to £209, to falsifying his accounts, and stealWhenithe demonstration, which passed off most peaceably.. the platform n front of the mart was reached, iii' a mat-making machine, the moneys and property Canon Cahill, P.P., Tipperary, was moved to the ~c Mr. W. P. Treloar.-- Mr. Besley prosecuted, and Mr. chair, and addresses to the English visitors were Ferrest Fulton, M.P., defended.—Prisoner was engaged read from the Tipperary Town Commissioners and i)v Mr. Treloar as a managing clerk at their manufactory the Tenants' Defence Committee. Mr. Picton, M.P., ~, Hellaud-street, Blackfriars' and anpeared to have returned thanks. Lady Se ieliturst and the Lord , .eee *me-aged in extensive defalcations for some time Mayor of Dublin also addressed the meeting. Mr. ;,-,st. His sslary was £3.30 a year, and an imDavitt, . who was loudly cheered, said the first care , .„; :ant element in the case was that after he left of the evicted tenants had been to provide for their 'l, :, employers received letters from him admitting poorer brethren, and that action would redound to , guilt, stating that he contemplated suicide and the honour of the Irish name and the advantage ' begging for mercy; but it was also stated that he intended of the . national cause: Mr. O'Brien, who ~i.arting in a buslness which would be in opposition to received a great ovation, said he was delighted I lii employers, and that the machine had been taken to find himself once more in the thick of the fight.. Int' the purpose. When taken into Custody by Detectives He had come back to Ireland fuller than ever of Gentle and Otway he at once admitted what he had Admiration for the matchless people of TiPPerArY. done.—Mr. Fulton urged, in mitigtition of punishment, The Whole Irish race was roused over Tipperary's fight, that prisoner had hitherto borne a most exemplary chaand to-day all Mr. Smith-Barry had in their town was racter, and said he could Ph ew that he never intended houses to let. When this fight for Ireland was over, to in _ _ . jnre his master in any way.—Sir P: H. Edlin sen it would be their proudest thought, as Tipperary men, that they had risked their homes, property, liberties, and lives for justice. Mr. O'Brien concluded by deolaring the mart open.—Other speakers also addrPssed the meeting. _ _  tenced him to two months'' imprisonment on each indictment for embezzlement, six months for the falsification of accounts, and two months for stealing the machine, Or 14 months' bard labour in all.  In the evening -a banquet took place at the new arcade, which was specially decorated for the occasion.
Nantwich, Sandbach & Crewe Star — 1890-04-19 ()

PLOTS AGAINST THE CZAR.  DISCOVERY OF BOMBS.  The Daily Telegraph correspondent at St. Petersburg telegraphs as follows: For several days past vague but , disquieting rumours have been circulating in the city respecting the discovery of mines at Gatchina and the apprehensions of the police for the Emperor's rsafety causing his Majesty's compulsory stay in the capital. I have been to Gatchina and having spoken on the subject with two officials, learned that no discovery .of the kind referred to had been made in the Palace or the grounds of Gatchina—indeed, that no search had been or could be made there without an Apress order from General Hesse, the Palace Governor, who is directly responsible to the Emperor for his Majesty's safety, and is perfectly satisfied that the precautionary measures taken last December leave nothing to be desired. No search of any \kind has been made since then, nor will any be made until a day or two before his Majesty's return. The origin of the abovementioned rumours • probably consisted in the conviction of the police that the naval officer who lately •committed suicide on the Vassili Ostroff, was not the only person deputed to give effect to the murderous intent of the small group of regicides who have been spreading such terror in the Court circles of the capital. !There were grounds, too, for. believing that two others were biding their time, and that one or both of them, had selected Gatchina as the most suitable place for the next attempt. As General Hesse was sure of the Palace grounds and buildings, the clue was followed up not by him but by the police, and it was their rather clumsy investigations and unskilful questioning of the inhabitants of Gatchina that gave rise to the rumours alluded to above. On Thursday evening, however, they were rewarded by a discovery which seems to shew that their information was,in the main, , correct. Inquiries about the previous career of a young man who had lived in Gatcbina since the end of December tended to skew that the police were mistaken in supposi.ng his name, business, and pfevioua history to be be well-known td them. On the day mentioned he left his lodgings to go to St. Petersburg, and during his absence his rooms were searched thoroughly. In one of the drawers of a piece of furniture an innocent-looking /box was discovered. It was securely locked, but when dpened it was found to contain two explosive ball-shaped masses of very portable dimensions securely kept in their places by closelyfitting frames, So that no amount of jolting could looseü them or endanger an explosion.' There were no papers, no chemicals, no letters—nothing but this box. The young. man's name is now believed to be a false one, and his passport is said to be a forgery, as he has been personating someone else. The police still believe that there is a third conspirator in St. Petersburg or Gatchina; but they have no clue to his whereabouts.
Nantwich, Sandbach & Crewe Star — 1890-01-18 ()

PER LB.  RENRY HEATH,  WIIOLEA E FAMILY GROCER,  High Street, Crewe.  -Parcels deliyered promptly in town and country  IF YOU want to Buy, Sell, or Exchange any conceivable article, Advertise in the Sin, 20 word 6d. ; 3 insertions I.s. Od.  - That is a curious and grim conclusion which some of the American Anarchists have come to that as this world will not be converted to their ways they and their families had best slip off the mortal coil, and leave a stiff-necked generation to the wickedness that will not consent to a general overturning of everthing. This is the explanation that a New York detective gives of the numerous suicides and family murders which haie taken place in that city and Brooklyn, sce.the discouragement which the desciples of Topsy Tutvey received at Chicago. It is impossible not to pity these folk, for there is much that requires overturning, but discrimination 'in the selection of time and object should be exercised. The Anarchists are much too impapatient and extreme  - The hesitating Conservatives of the Crewe division have at last decided upen their candidate. Mr Horace Chat terton has been looked upon by some as a warming pan for a richer man; but at the Conservative gathering on Tuesday night, Mr Chattertou was formally adopted as the candidate who is to run Mr McLaren out of Cheshire, i.e., if Mr McLaren will  run after Mr Chatterton, when he is driven by Liberal votes to get his head out of the political chancery here, and to retire for good to his chambers in Chancery Lane. It is impossible not to admire the courage of the local Tories in fighting such a forlorn hope.  In spite of the patronage of Dr Atkinson, Baron Schroder, Major Kennedy, Mr Wallace Lumb, and Mr Webb, Mr Chatterton has not the ghost of a chance. Political intimidation is being scotched in Crewe, and left to their own uncontrolled opinions, the people of the railway town are overwhelmingly Liberal.  The question of compensation for subsidence .n the 'aft district is waiting for the annnal