Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1862-06-13 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

HULL.— A shocking case of hanging occurred in Hull on Friday evening. About half-past six o'clock, Henry Tindall, a youth of 15 years of age, was left by his father, who was called out on business, in charge of the house, lie returned in about an hour, and, not finding his son in the kitchen, he proceeded upstairs, and on entering his bed chamber he found the boy hanging by a cord to the bed pole. He immediately cut the unfortunate lad down, but all attempts to restore animation were futile, as life was quite extinct. The unhappy boy, uhen his father left him in charge of the house, was in his usual state of mind, and nothing peculiar was noticeable in his aspect or conduct. The affair has caused a great sensation in the town.  THE INDISCRIM INATE DESTRUCTION OF SMALL Btacs.—A correspondent of the Times writes :—' The effect of the universal tendency to destroy the small birds will be yearly more disastrows unless active measures are taken to check the evil. At present these useful—nay, indispensable creatures, are at the mercy of every heartless and ignorant vagabond, and even of the half-educated; men shoot them, entrap them, and poison them ; boys are allowed by their parents to rob their nests, and thus destroy what, in the great scheme of nature is of more value than themselves. In my own neighbourhood, where (as I have observed) insects of the most pernicious kinds were never more abundant, a lady has, this spring, poisoned with strychnine, at one dressing of her grounds or gardens, no less than eoo birds of various kinds, and she was a few days since preparing for a second battue. A shocking suicide took place in a public street of the City, and in the broad daylight on Thursday forenoon. A person genteelly dressed was seen to step from the pavement of Fenchurch-street on to the carriage way, deliberately to kneel down, and place his head, face downwards, on the street, in immediate front of a heavily-loaded waggon drawn by four horses; and before any of thelhorrified spectators could interfere to prevent it his head was a flattened mass of blood and brain. Such a sickening spectacle was never before seen in the streets of London. It was ascertained that he was a clerk in a large establishment near the scene of the tragedy. No cause has been assigned for the deliberate act of self-slaughter, unless a list of the Derby race-horses found in his pocket had something to do with it. A dreadful scene was witnessed at Birmingham on Saturday. A Mrs Bullock had been driven from her home to the workhouse by the brutal conduct of ,her husband. Bullock declared, in the presence of several persons, on Thursday night, t!... it was his intention to "do for four," and on the tollowing day he purchased a revolver. On q .y he said he wished to bring his wife from workhouse, and induced a nephew of the poor woman's to drive him to the place. 11e saw his wife, and after an apparently affectionate greeting drew the revolver with which be had supplied himself, and pointed it at the nephew. The young man got out of the way, whereupon Bullock tired into his own mouth, causing instantaneous death. There seems to be no doubt that he had made up his mind to carry out the dreadful threat he uttered on Thursday night. CLASS OF PRISONERS IN TORKSHIRt