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Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1891-03-14 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

MELANCHOLY SUICIDE.  Mr. Troutbeck held an inquiry at the Board-room, Ebury-bridge, Westmineter, on the 9th inst., into the circumstances attending the death of Mr. Lionel Charles Drummond, banker' aged 37 years, of 455, Chester-square. Mr. John Hopwood, of Whitehall-place, solicitor to Mr. Drummond, mid that he last 131.5• him alive on the 20th ult. He had no pecuniary troubles, but he had had a controversy with a .gentleman he had known for a number of years, and he had been very unhappy and nervous about it, owing to there being a likelihood of lengthy litigation. He was very uneasy, and spoke of not having had any sleep for some time. He told witness that he was going to abandon the dispute, and witness replied that he thought it was a very wise course, as, although he was sure to win the case, peace of mind was of more importance than money. Amelia Tilbury, a lady's maid, said that about noon on Thursday of last week she saw Mr. Drummond go upstairs and enter his dress.. . . . „ .  r inc-room. About live minutes afterwards she heard a loud report, and upon opening the door of the dressing-room she saw Mr. Drummond lying dead on the floor with a gun between his legs. Dr. J. P. Bartlett, a surgeon, stated that he had attended Mr. Drummond on and off for 15 jean. He first saw him in his last illness on Sunday week, when he had a sharp attack of acute bronchitis. He was recovering from that, but he was very low and weak. He never threatened to commit suicide. Inspector Downie stated that he was called in to see Mr. Drummond, who was lying behind the door on his back with the double-barrelled gun produced between 1 his legs. Witness searched the clothing, and in the jacket pocket found the letter produced. The coroner said the epistle was addressed to Mrs. Drummond, and the contents were of a very painful nature. It would suffice if he read the following sentence : "Straggling against this, and I feel that madness is coming on." Witness, continuing, said that both barrels of the gun, an qrdinary sporting one, had been loaded, and the right-hand one discharged. It was possible to pull the trigger without the aid of string. Dr. Henry Dunn Waugh also described the position of the body, and said that Mr. Drummond had shot off the upper part of his skull on the left side. It was possible that the gun might have gone off by accident. The jury returned a verdict "That the deceased committed suicide while labouring under temporary insanity."
Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1891-05-16 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

OSTRICH FEATHERS.  The upward move of prices in ostrich feathers in Europe has stimulated the trade, which promises to develop itself rapidly, and soon to return to a state of prosperity which it has notenjoyed for many years. A consular report states that a short time ago fears were entertained as to the safety of some of the caravans returning from the interior of Africa, reports baring reached Tripoli of an impending attack by the Oulad Solernan tribe, but all cause for anxiety was soon removed, and this as well as the other tribe. inhabiting the desert are now said to be friendly to traders, and not likely to give them molestation. Merchants now find that as labour is cheap in Tripoli it pays better to have the feathers washed, cleansed, and sorted there, than sending them to Paris as they arrive from the interior, full of dirt and sand, which not only used to spoil their appearance, but add considerably to the weight of them.  CHARM'S DIC/UNIS salary as editor of the Daily Sews was £JOOO per sallow.  LONDON is said to require a daily supply of more than 150 million gallons of water. Of this 15 millions come from deep wells in the chalk, the rest from other sources, principally from the rivers Thames and Lea. The water from the chalk, though very free from organic impurities, is exceedingly hard, and, if not softened, costs the householder endlecs expense for cleaning boilers and obstructed pipes. A cosi:mates jury have returned a verdict of " Suicide while of unsound mind " in the case of Henry Prince, aged 40 years, who was found dead with a bullet wound in his chest, on a sent in Hyde_  Max Honosa, of Newark, New Jersey, was a victim of Cupid—and Bacchus ! But Martha Marawsky's parents objected to his Bacchanalian proclivities, ind thus Martha was compelled to refuse his offer to marry her. He at once fatally wounded her and ended hie CHM life.
Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1891-01-31 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

LOVE AND DEATH.  A young Austrian named Alexander Elsner has committed suicide in New York, under romantic circumstance.. It appears that Elsner is a cousin of H. Ratsersdorfer, a large Viennese jewellery exporter, whose house the young man represents in America. While on a visit to his home some time ago he met and became enamoured of a pretty young woman, Mrs. Reiss, the wife of an old and wealthy Austrian, who lived apart front her and made her an allowance. Elsner's affection for the lady seemed to be returned, and when he came back to America he was followed by Mrs. Reiss, according to an arrange. scent made by the young couple. Mrs. Reim was told that she could easily get a divorce from her hatband in the United States, and then Elsner was to marry her. By some means the family of Elsner learned that Mrs. Reiss had joined him in America, and they determined to break the connection with the young women. With that view they wrote to hint to return home at once, while his couain Herr Rataersdorfer recalled him from his position in America. Elsner determined not to p. as he knew that he would have to give tip Mrs. Rem, with whom he was still madly in love. He could not remain, however, in the face of his cousin's orders, as he would be without money. Therefore. he procured a quantity of prussic acid by some means. and sent for some oil for his lamp. Locking himself in his bedroom at night, he wrote a number of letters to his friends, inviting them to his funeral, and thee retired as usual, leaving the lamp Juirning. In the morning his dead body was found, and by his sale the empty bottle that had contained prussic acid. Mrs. Reiss is frantic at the death of her lover, and the family in Vienna have been cabled to with regard to their wisheso.o to the disposition of the remains.
Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1891-04-11 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

DOMESTIC TRAGEDIES.  A shocking wife murder has been perpetrated at Portsmouth. A naval pensioner named Edward Henry F. Watts, 38 years of age, who had been employed at soles gasworks in London, went to Portsmouth a few days ago for the purpose of seeing his wife, who had separated from him and was living with her mother, a Mrs. Mickley, at Jubilee House, Twyford-avenue. Shortly after four o'clock in the afternoon Watts proceeded to the house, and there, in the presence of their little boy, saw hiswife, with whom a discussion, if not a quarrel, ensued. While this was proceeding Watts suddenly produced a six-chambered revolver and fired at his wife, who was seated in a chair, inflicting no less than four wounds, three of them in the neck and the fourth in the chest. Death was instantaneous. The relatives of Mrs. Watts, who were in an adjoining apartment., ran in and secured Watts, who, either in attempting suicide or during ,he attempt to disarm him, sustained a bullet-wound I a the left arm. Watts, who it was stated had been drinking, was conveyed to the station. James Japp quarrelled with his wife at their lodging's, 79, Elderslie-street, Glasgow, and, it is alleged, kicked her violently. He left the house, and 'Men. Japp then told the landlady of the assault, but before a doctor could arrive the woman was dead. The police afterwards arrested Japp on a charge of killing his wife. The man Henry Cooper, who murdered his wife at his house at Moor-common, near Marlow, by cutting her throat, on the 3th ult., and against whom a coroner's jury found a verdict of "Wilful murder," died on the evening of the 4th inst., shortly before six o'clock. Cooper, after murdering his wife, cut his own throat, and stabbed himself several times in the abdomen, inflicting wounds which from the first were declared to be fatal.  Timm are not many metropolitan volunteer regiments having cadet battalions, but that of the 3rd Volunteer Battalion of the Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment), whose cadets were raised from the boys of the Red Cross Hall, Borough, is to be increased from four to sin companies. On the other hand, the Cadet Corps of the let Battalion of the Tower Hamlets Volunteers is to be disbanded. IT will not be possible for Lord Wantage's Corn- , mittee on Recruiting to complete its allotted task without probing to the quick the organisation of the Militia of the United Kingdom. Between 30 and 40 per cent, of the total number of line recruits come from the old Constitutional force, and, in the opinion of those best qualified to judge, a still larger number might, without much difficulty, be induced to transfer their services to the regular army. To effect this, however, the Militia requires placing on a different footing. At present it is nominally a more or less trained reserve, while practically it is used entirely as a branch of the Army Recruiting Department. It should be one thing or the other. In its endeavour to seat itself, according to order, on two stools it looks very much as if it might come to the ground.
Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1891-08-29 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

REMARKABLE LETTER.  Dr. Diplock has held an inquest at Hampton on the body of Edgar Herbert Dell, an electrician, of Chiswick, who committed suicide at Hampton Court. Deceased was seen in great agony at a pond where his sister committed suicide a week or two ago, and when the police arrived he was dead, having poisoned himself with prussic acid. On the body was found the following letter, addressed to the coroner "p Coroner,—lf you can do anything so as not to cause them people unnecessary pain and delay, you have the anticipated thanks of a fellow-being. It is a very old ordinary case, and calls for no questioning or circumlocution. The dear ones left fancy there is something dreadful in death, and I cannot convince them otherwise. Truly lam rather mixed—we all are. By way of refreshing my memory and testing my senses, I drove round the garden lest night in a hearse among nasturtiums and poppies. All was as usual, except that the candle was out—snuffed out perhaps by some careless person who did not know what it WAS there for. Well, it had lit two other candles, but they are not here. The wind blows, and careless persona are abundant. Would you believe it, dear coroner, during that drive in the hearse all the laughable and comical incidents that I had seen in life came upon me in full fury, and I smiled as the world has not seen one smile before. Then two other candles appeared and we all smiled together, and mid 'this is good; the world is beautiful.' Then one candle vanished, and an army of extinguishers hovered round tie. I said, Drive on, for I will not be one of them.' I looked back, and saw the two candles still shining in the distance. The army had disappeared, and the wind had lulled. I knew that the candles would light by themselves and burn to their sockets, and I was happy. I said, 'Drive after the other candles,' but Chey had gone for ever. The grief between two eternities was ended, and the candles and myself were but things of the imagination. Enough! The history of the world cannot be written on a sheet of , foolscap. Do you ask why men kill themselves? ' Then ask why, as one falls, why men mourn for the dead; why a North Pole attracts a emith ; why a man loves a woman; and why men live. If von must have something other than unsound mind, let the verdict be 'Death from inability to cope with the problems of life.' But perhaps it is not in the world's phrase-book." Evidence as to depression since the sister's suicide was given, and a verdict of " Buiside while of unsound mind "was returned.
Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1891-08-29 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

FOR BRAVERY.  sion from hole to hole. Of the alternating feelings of depression and elevation which sway the mind nothing is known. By slow degrees, in prose and in verse, the truth is oozing out, through the medium of printer's type, and x.s volume is added to volume, the outside world is being made acquainted with the mighty power of golf. What greater proof could there be of this power than the fact that woman, the universal tyrant, who moulds man to her will, is rapidly becoming the abject slave of his Golfie Majesty. From him she condescends to dig ignominiously in the deep sand of bunkers, and disdains to seek shelter from the storm or the alleviation of hunger and thirst, for King Golf has made terrible laws for the punishment of offenders under these heads, and these laws none, be they as beautiful as Venus or as bewitching as Circe, dare disobey. Oh ! he is a , tyrant is King Golf; and yet we, his subjects, never  The Committee of the Royal Humane Sociely have announced the results of the investigation of a large number of cases of saving or attempting to save life, under circumstances of great gallantry, which have been brought under their notice during the present month. They bane beetowed medals on F. J. Chaney, clerk in the Civil Service Supply .Assoliation, for plowing from the Thames Embankment on the afternoon of the 22nd of July and in a high tide, and saving a boy named Barrington who had fallen over the parapet; on Charles A. Symona, aged 13, for saving W. James, who, while ithing on the Surrey side of the Thames, was carried out into deep water at Putney, July 17; on John Gaieford, army pensioner, in the employ ot Messrs. Christie and Co., for plunging from a river steamer near Lambeth-bridge, and, in a good tide, saving H. Woolcott, who attempted suicide from the pier; and on Ernest Crockford, aged 13, kr plunging into the River Stour, Chartham, Canterbury, on July 20, and saving Hubert Ralph, aged 10.
Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1891-02-14 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

GIRL TERRIBLY MUTILATED.  Full particulars have been obtained in connection with the discovery on the Midland Railway, between West-end Station and Child's Hill, of the body of a young girl. When found late on Thursday night of last week it was lying in the four-footway, in a hollow between two sleepers. The head was completely smashed and beyond all recognition, the brains being outside the rails. After a search had been made by the officials at Child's Hill Station, the boot of the girl, containing a portion of the foot, was found about 20 yards distant. The remains were conveyed in an ambulance`to the West Hampstead Police-station, where, by marks on the underlinen, they were identified as the body of Kate Carter, aged 15, a domestic servant. It seems that the girl has been out of a place for some time, and has been living with her friends at No. 25, Netlierwood-street, West Hampstead. About seven o'clock on Thursday evening she called at the house of a former mistress respecting a character the lady was going to give her, and nothing more was seen or heard of her until she was discovered in the condition stated about eight o'clock. The police have discovered, by the imprints of her feet in the soil, that she climbed the fence alongside the railway, and crossed some gardens down on to the line, where, it is surmised, she committed suicide by placing herself in front of a train. At 7.50 the Scotsman, travelling about 40 miles an hour, is due to pass this point, and, presuming that she was run over by this, the dreadful mutilation was easily accounted for. At the police-station Dr. Hall examined the body, and expressed the opinion that the girl had committed suicide. There is no truth in the statement that there was a stab on the back of the girl.
Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1891-08-15 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

THE RAILWAY MYSTERY AT BEDFORD. A startling discovery was made at the Midlandstation, Bedford, on Friday morning of last week, soon after four o'clock. On the arrival of the express from Leicester the porters proceeded to examine the tickets of the passengers. Seated alone in a first-class compartment, they found a young lady, who appeared to be asleep. On a closer examination, they discovered that she was bleeding from a wound in the breast. The young lady roused herself when spoken to, and gave a name and address. She said she had friends on the Continent, and that the wound in her breast was caused by a pistol shot, which was fired by a young fellow about 30 years of age, with a light moustache, just before the train arrived at Leicester, where he got out. At the infirmary some of the medical staff were summoned, and the patient was Out under chloroform while the doctors operated. ! It was found that the bullet had gone in a slanting direction, and just missed the apex of the heart, but it could not be discovered. The patient now lies in a precarious condition. She is apparently a little over 20 years of age, well dressed, has a full face, with reddish brown hair, and is about Mt. 4in, in height. She had a first-class single ticket from Leeds to St. Pancras. On making inquiries on Sunday a correspondent was informed that she had passed a very bad night and was Ins precarious condition. The bullet had not been extracted. Yet it is believed that the name of the lady is known, but the police dean., to furnish it.  A discovery was made on Saturday morning by a platelayer which has thrown some light on the case, and rather tends to contradict the statement made by the injured woman that her assailant was a tall, fair young man, who shot her just before arriving at Leicester, where he left the train. The platelayer found a six-chambered revolver lying by the side of the line some distance on the Bedford side of Leicester, and up to the present it looks rather like a case of attempted suicide. Two barrels of the revolver had been discharged, but in the breast of the young lady there is only one wound. The girl had in her pocket a card case bearing the initials " LM.," but these do not correspond with the name she divulged to the police, though they are the initials of a name which has been mentioned to the police. On Sunday morning a gentleman from Leeds visited her and identified her, but he said that her name was not that which ehe had forsome unaccountable reason given to the police. They refuse to give the name to the Press, and maintain an air of great secrecy about the matter.
Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1891-06-27 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

REMARKABLE SUICIDE.  A man named Eugene St. Cyr committed suicide at a hotel at Ashbury-park, New Jersey, the other day. The chambermaid noticed that gas was escaping from a room which she supposed to be unoccupied. As the door was fastened, she summoned the proprietor of the hotel, and the door was forced open. The suicide bad apparently been dead several hours. All the chinks and crevices in the windows and transoms were pasted over, and the room was full of the fumes of gas. Near the deceased was a small black pocket-book, which on being opened was found to contain the following entry, intended, no doubt, to create a sensation. It was entitled, " A Farewell to Life," and directions were left that it should be sent to the morning papers: "I felt today like a girl dressing forher first ball. I would not disturb your pleasure, and do not take myself too seriously. I hope you will forgive. Fled are the hours of life. Smiling I will die, surrounded by music and sympathy. ram not allowed thus to live. As to the main cause, she will be grateful for the silence. To her I send farewell. Farewell my lily pale. Lovely nightingale. (Signed), Etroxxs." On the next page the suicide had expressed a wish that his body might be disposed of for scientific purposes. "Let no heartless priest," he went on, 'be troubled for my sake. I intended to shoot myself in the Garden Theatre, but changed my mind, as I thought of a better way." The suicide is apparently about 30 years of age, is of medium size, and has black hair and beard. He was last seen alive at a railway station watching a funeral train arrive. The physician to whom he left his body says he never knew the deceased, and declines to receive the legacy.
Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1888-12-15 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

SUPPOSED ARISTOCRATIC BIGAMIST.  At the Chester Assizes Mr. Justice Charles had before him a case of bigamy, in which the prisoner was a young man of gentlemanly appearance, de. scribed in the calendar as well-educated, who gave the name of Arthur Gordon Lennox, and who claims to be connected with an aristocratic family. Prisoner pleaded guilty to bigamy and to attempted suicide, but denied a thirdindictmentof false pretences, which was not proceeded with. It appeared from the open. lag statement of Mr. H. Lloyd that prisoner, who was 32 years of age, married on Sept. 5, 1886, a Miss Setlick at St. James's, Westminster, under the name of Arthur Gordon Lennox. After their child was born Mrs. Lennox, finding that her husband had no meant whatever, left him and returned to her relations. 9c., cused was next beard of at Clifton, Bristol, and married a Miss Emma Ford, on April 18 Last, under the name of Arthur Algernon Lennox, and she too bad to leave him because of his want of means. He next ' turned up at Congleton, Cheshire, where he was alleged to have obtained food and lodgings by false pretences, and arrested when he attempted to take his life. Mr. Marshall, for the defence, pleaded that the prisoner had been singularly unfortunate, and that he had been very kind to Miss Ford, who was called to corroborate this. Prisoner was sentenced to a fortnight's hard labour for the attempted suicide, and to nine months' hard labour for the bigamy, the seateness to run concurrently.  d'ANE BOX OF CLARKE'S B 41 PILLS is war/ ranted to cure all discharges from the Urinary Organs in either sex, acquired or constitutional Gravel and pains in the beck.—Sold in boxes, 4s. Bd., and by all Chemists sad Patent Medicine Vendors; or sent to any address for 60 stamps by the maker., Tax Lmcoix AND MIDLAND Couvr ore Dave