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The Potteries Examiner : — 1874-05-02 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

PARIS.--Tbe two persons who committed suicide last week in Paris have been recognised by in relative who arrived from Englatid on Saturday as Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hall, who, it will be remembered, attempted to commit suicide last summer at Ilfracombe, Lt, vonshire, They were residents of Bath. (in that oeca :an however, each of them had taken an overdose ef : .udanum, and on their recovery the husband BM set:e red to a term of imprisonment. A Paris correspoiint, who had visited the Morgue to view the boils,, thus describes the scene witnessed:— In such cams the bodies are invariably Comm off to the Morgue, where, as every English visitor to Paris well knows, they are stripped and laid on slabs, the naked corpses lying exposed to the ribald gam of the multitude, until none wayfarer can give the pollee ionte clue to Their identlty. 1 have just returned from that grim charnel-house, which was peopled with a dense crowd, who were cutting no gibes on the young couple. The horrors of the sad t •oot at the Morgue were made yet more horrible by the remarks of the mob. The spectators were far more sickening in their living UtteiT foul Pale poor rorsneo at wmiob she in known before her mill not thet m. would be laid there naked before a coarse o iltitude ; had her companion known the fate whielPawaiLd st woman whom he loved, wins had dusi with him and for him, both 'mold have Taken, perhapa, 6001 e other meale of selfdestruction. I turned from the heartrending sighs with all the horror which Dante %sentmoa to hiss who toads with naked foot upon a slimy snake. The beautiful dad girl lay there, lovely as if is full and lusty life. Decay -a effacing Hugeos had not as yet touched the lines where beauty lingers. tier countenance bore the bloom of and beauty. Her long black hair wan direfully and Pleated in which were laid over her m. Death teemed loth to touch such loveliness, but just below the left breast the streaks of commencing putrefaction were plain') visible. The poor Heide.: was eAe,,,,e. She died, bat not :done, and but for her rash are 11, bate I:eta bare lived a part and sinless child of shame_ The au. :cad a net., o-pect black loanl and linuipda: frit,...l thf. m.ac, oo wl:irh sat Luria:ly :=.111,41,,w5i. re _dac
The Potteries Examiner : — 1874-10-24 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

SATURDAY. (Before W. Cartwright, J. Paildou, and U. Morley. Seq..) HIGHWAY Roensur.—John Farrell and Thom.. Paton, re. eidents in Lower-street, W. 013 brought up, charged with baying, on the highway, mumultud and robbed William Bassi, Mbourer, hiring at Shutlaud Head, Newmetle—The prisoner. ',tire apprehended. Mid won now identified by Beech As hie asAailauta.—The men were remanded, pa that further evidence might be procured.  THB 111TRTERFOIJS DHATH Op A CttNTLIMEAN Is Lon oos.—Tbe inquest on the body of Cherie. Netter, whose body was found on the foreshore of the Thames, near Blackfriars Bridge, London, last Thursday, was resumed on Tuesday. The evidence showed that the story told by deoesaed as to his having been assaulted in • railway carriage between Cannon-street and Charing Cross was wholly unfounded, and that he had told • similes story as to his haying been imaanlted in Paris. A letter ants found on him addres,l to his parents, in which he mid he did not deserve to be regretted. This, it was stated, was a pure imagination on his part. The jury found that deceased committed suicide while nu. sound in mind.  TUN Stow TR.ll.—With • large attendance of ironmasters and manufacturers on 'Change on Thin-day, there was • brisk trade doing. as merchants have yet on hand many ordere to place. In face of the decided revival of trade, which has been the characteristic of the past few weeks, iron producer. evince a tendency to stiffen prices somewhat. No advanoes, however, were established, although the alight 0000001i01211 made by some firms last week were not obtainable, and orders bad ,to be given out at the full rates before quoted. Finished ' iron was again in active request, marked been standing at £ll. and upwards, according to quality and make. , Sheets were in brisk request, ordinary singles making £l3, and better descriptions fetching £l7, and even higher rates. Second-clus makers seemed to secure the bn& of the orders. Common bars were much wanted, and accordingly pricey were very firm. The ruling rates were £lO and £lO 10a. Hoops were well ordered at Cll 155., and up to £l2 10s. Common rods were mostly wanted on behalf of local firms, preen ranging from £lO 10s. to Ell and Ell 10s. eleentrip sold at iEIO to en, with • fair enquiry. The pig.irron market was also active. Hot-blast native all-mine was very Arm, at £6 6e. to 25 10s., with • good trade doing. Makers of Shropshire cold-blast reported a good trade, now that prima have come down. Medium pigs sold at £3 10e., and cinder at £3 6a. to £3 7s. 6d. These qualities were also firm m price, and no concessions could be obtained. Coalmasters report a rapidly-improving trade, best coal being in especial demand. Common qualities are, however, not so much wanted. Furnace oval, at lie. and 125., also finds plenty of purchasers,  Tan escorts
The Potteries Examiner : — 1874-10-31 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

SHOCKING ITTNYPT AT SOICIDN. —William Cashmere, potter, residing in Bleak-street, Burslem, was brought up charged with attempting to commit suicide on Friday I.t.— It appeared firpra tho eviilunco that on the night of the day mulled 6 daughter of the prisoner found him hanging by a rope to the kitchen ceiling. On raising an alarm, a young man named Wolliscroft came to the prisoner aud cut him down. Prisoner had previously told Wollisoroft that he had boil a disagreement with his wife. Before the attempt priironer had had a glass or two of ale—On this evidence, Supt. Longileu.ked fore remand, which was granted. TRAVELLING wrruour TlCKETEL—Sionmousee against two ohm nem. Glenn and Cobtlea, charging them with travelling from Stafford to Norton Bridge without tickets, worse withdrawn by Mr. A.. Tennant, who appeared for the North Snot. fordshire Railway Company, the eomplainants, mi payment by the defendants of the fore and the costs of the summons, amounting to Os. cash. FIGHTING IN THE Senor—Stephen Webb and Thomas Ashworth, colliers, were charged with being_ disorderly on Saturday eight, iu Market-pl.o, Burslem. The officer who pproboodol them .id he saw them stripped in the street ad fighting. Fined 2a. 6d. and coats. PLATING PITCH AND Toss.—Three youths named Thomas Knott,Thommißerton. and Thom. Rogers were charged with playing pitch and toss on Sunday week at Sneyd-street, Cobridge.—Sergt. McHarg said he saw defendants in the act of playing pitch aud toot cod he arrested them.—For the do. tenor two witnessed were called, ouo of whom said that he wo, present on the occasion, and "cot of fan" asked the boys /or change for a ehilling. They threw him the change. and the officer .eiug them throw the money charred them with playing at pitch and tosn.—The magistrates, 'however, crusiderod the case proved, and tined Knott 2s. 6.1. and costa, hod Burton and Rogers Is. each. • Putt:sal:toes Pkatorss.—Williani Baddeley and William Morison were brought up charged with fighting in the street at thnallihoene, on the 19th inst., and the tiaeo being proved defendants were each fined 5. and costs, in ail les. - •  *pprobeill Ind light  C 17.07 07 80010071150 1'10871777107.—Aun Coyne and Jane Moss ware brought up charged with soliciting prostitu. , thin M Glebe-street, Stoke, on Seturday night.—llviisehard, sou appeared On behalf of Aim Coyne.—The magistrates mverely reprimanded the prisoners'and discharged them. A
The Potteries Examiner : — 1877-01-06 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

ATTEMPTED MURDER OF A YOUNG GIRL AND REM FATHER.—At the Abingdon P..tty Sessions, on ( Monday Ritmo m, Benjamin Marshall (Idiot no emu. nation, was charge.' with having attempted to murder , FAisalv.th Beesley, a young woman for whom he pro- , teased an unrequited attachment. and also her father, a grocer at Drayton, who looked with disfavour upon prisoner's pretensions. From the evidence it appeared that prisoner went to prosecutor's house on Saturday , evening., when he engaged in conversation with the , family, who were sitting in is room behind the shop. A customer coming in, the mother left the room, and was , followed by her daughter, upon which prisoner fired two shots at her from a six-barrelled revolver, one of , which took effect in the back. The father coming to the rescue, prisoner fired the remaining barrel at him, but without any serious result, a heavy watch stopping one shot that would otherwise have proved fatal. The , prisoner had told the father previously that if he did , not have her no one else should; and it was stated that , the revolver was bought in Oxford on Saturday. PriSo- who pretended to be idiotic, was remanded until , Monday next. 4  ATTEMPTED MURDER AND SUICIDE BY A Day.— A most extraordinary- attempt at murder and suicide took place at Sheffield, on Monday. The wonld-be warier is a boo nine years of age, earned Frederick Booth, who lived with his mother, in a furnished house in a rather low part a the town. The woman was a widow, anal to earn her livillg had to be absent all day, and she used to leave the boy and his infant sister locked in the house. The boy's conduct has at times , been so strange that the attention of the neighbours has been directed to the house. On Monday morning , he attached a stoat cord to a hook in the ceiling, and making a noose deliberately suspended himself by the neck. The rope broke, however, and let him down, and he then seized a carving knife and ran at his sister with it. At that moment several of the neighbours rushed into the house, and the knife was taken from hen. Be POOR afterwards seized an opportunity of escaping, and has not since been seen. Only a week ago he stabbed his sister behind the our with a crotchet needle, and bat for timely assistance she would have bled to death. A
The Potteries Examiner : — 1877-04-14 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

STICIDE—An inquest was held at the Princess Xiiyal Inn, Sandon-road, on Saturday, before Yr. Nor gas, on the body of Ann Day, aged 48, who was found drowned on the night of the 6th inst., by Soudyford Bridge. From the evidence of Thomas Day, a machine operative, and Mary Ann Day, husband and daughter of the deceased, it appeared that since losing her little girl in December last, deceased had been very despond. mg, but had never threatened to destroy herself, though she had on more than one occasion expressed her belief that she would go mad. lu Thursday sight the family retired to heel as usual, the mother sleeping in her daughter's room. At half-past two in the morning the latter was awoke by hearing her mother pacing up and down the room, :Ind, on hearing her go down stairs, followed, but was unable to find deceased. She then became alarmed, and &led her father, who had also been disturbed by his wife's entering the rocm for a ',male. The body W It!) soon af tsrwardsfound in the middle , of the stream which runs by the Sandon road, and about nine yards from the Sandyford Bridge. Blood was running from the heal, and the husband conjectured that she must have jumped in from the bank, been stunned by the full, and drowned. She was quite dead when taken out —A verdict of "Suicide," while temporarly insane, was returned.  easeful candidates are, Joseph Alcock, pawnbroker and Clothier, Church-street, Tension, 568 votes; R. Blackhunt,• manufacturer, Woodlands, Lawton, 780 votes; E. Clarke.• manufacturer, Porthill, 550; R. Clive,• coalruaster, Lawton. 750 : W. Hasoock,• farmer, Goldenhill, 573. The unsuccessful candidates are: T. Lockett, J. Moulds, J. Procter, J. Wade, H. Worthington. In the South Ward, the gentlemen elected are: James Lswton, grocer and draper, London Road, Ches. terton, 658; George ahead,* farmer, Knutton, 892; William Whittingham, manefacturer, Wolstanton, 919. The nusucce.stul candidates are: G. Boulton' J. Walker, and Gwt ,o Wooliscroft.• The gentlemen wose names are marked with an a,terisk were members of the old Board.
The Potteries Examiner : — 1877-02-03 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

SUICIDE OF THE DOWAGER COUNTESS  HOWE.  Mr. Bedford held an inquest on Tuesday evenlng, at the RAH Room, Mount-street, Grosvenor-square, London, respecting the death of Harriett, Countess Howe, who committed suicide at the lion,o of her mother, Lady Catherine Start, at 10, Charles street, 11Prkley-square.—Major General St. George Foley. of 24. Boltan.street, said the deceased Harriett Mary, Countess Howe, was the mid or of the late George Curzon, Earl Howe, and she was shoot 52 years old. She generally enjoyed good health, but her misfortune in 10-ing her husband and her only daughter seemed to depress her spirits. He saw her for a few minutes on Sunday last, when she appeared depressed.—Mary Ann Davis said sic was lady's maid to the deceased. She had occodied that position for the last twelve m mths During that period deceased appeared depressed, and often r.• narked that life was a burden to her. On Sunday night, at half-past eleven, she saw deceased nodressed in her bed-room. Sae was then very quiet. Witness slept in an adjoining, room on the same floor, and about eight o'clock the neat month, ,hie could hear the decea-ed moving about. Soon afteq,ards she waa informed that the Countess was dead. Witness went into her room, and saw the 'window in the back room open, with a chair by the side of it. The ct.air was usually kept by the fireplace.—Mary Ann Baker said she was in the service of Lady Charlotte Start, the mother of the deceased lady, at No. 10. Chartes.street. On Monday morning, about half .past eight, she now the deceased lying on the kads on the level with the dining room. She gave an alarm, and went upstairs to the ante-room close to the bed-room of the deceased. That room would be immediately above the lead flat where the body was found.-I.lr. W. F. Butt, surgeon, said he had attended deceased. He last saw her some s:z weeks ago, when she was in good health, but somewhat depressed in consequence of her great trouble. On Monday morning he found the deceased lying where she had fallen on the lead flat. There MIA a complete fracture of the skull, and the lower jaw was broken in three or four places. The injuries would cause namediate death. Deceased must have fallen a distance of between twenty-five and thirty feet.—The jury, after a short consultation, returned a verdict of "Suicide while in a state of temporary insanity."
The Potteries Examiner : — 1877-10-20 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

HORIMILE SUICIDE IN WALES.—rDIe ,rOS, for Flintebire opened an inquest, on Saturday. .mon the body of a married woman, named Elizabeth Roberts, 53 years of age, whose body was found, on Friday lemming last week, lying at the bottom of a shift belonging to the Wens Colliery, Bagillt, near Holywell, in it terribly matilated condition. From the evidence aelanced.et the court, it appeared that the WOIMIAI was the e :fe of Henry Roberts, Pembont, Bagillt, and she bad b en in a desponding state for some time. On Thersday evening she retired to rest as usual, and about three o'clock on Friday morning her husband missed her from his stile. He and his two Sons went in search of her, but without avail. However, about live oleloek. a man Minted Robert Williams, a fireman at Wern Colliery, whilst attending to his duty, went to a femme at the bottom of Powell's elude, about let) vards deem and there found the woman lying in a pool of biome Her : head had been completely cut off, her arm was ;severed from her body, and her eye knocked out. The shaft is , fenced about eight feet high, and the (I(e:eased's bonnet and shawl Were hanging on the telltales ouLide the shaft. The jary returned a verdict" 'that the deceased committed suicide whilst labouring under temporary in. sanity." i DRINIZING POISON IN MISTAKE FOR WE ,s., AY . ' The Chester coroner (Mr. Taloa) heid an inem : t on Monday, touching the death of a woman, mulled Alice , Ann Aineworth, wife of a tavern keeper aml l cateime, living in The Groves, Chester, who died frees poises on Saturday night. The deceased vioo given to whiskey drinking, and her husband stated that she veserally took half a pint of that epirit daily. On Seturday canning she had been working hard ...I retired to rest about seven o'clock, saying she was tired. Before going she was seen to take a drink of somelhing on the stairs, and the tumbler out of which she drauk being afterwards fetched down by her son, it wes notieed that it smelled very strongly. Her husband at On, ran upstairs, foetid his wife in great pain and speeelde se rind at once went for a doctor. A bottle containing :embolic acid was fiamil on the sill of a little eindow on the' ateirs, which had been used for dieinfecting the house, end as the contents of the woman's stomach, ea well as the tumbler, smelled strongly of that peison, there was no doubt she drank some of it in the dark in mistake for whiskey. The jury returned a verdict to that effect.
The Potteries Examiner : — 1877-09-15 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

STICIDE. Shadrach Jones, wheel10s. and costa—Harvey Phillips, for being drank sot wright, Audley, was charged with attempted suicide on disorderly in the Market-place, on the same date, was Sunday. Prisoner Fat been before the Newcastle Gaol ss. .a costs.—Edward Cuff, for being drunk on Magirtrates on Monday, when it was found that he the let inst.. in Ileatheote-street, was fined 2s. el ;ind b. longed to Bunlem. On Sunday he was seen loitering tests--Patrick Durham, for being drunk and riotous 1 about the house in a strange manner. He took his knife on the 2nd inst. was fired ss. and costs.—John Con- from his pocket and said he would cut his throat. He nelly, for being trot., and riotous on the llra inst., was then knocked his head against the wall.—The Newcastle fined sr. and costs. Magistrates thought prisoner had no intention to harm Porno AND REFUSING TO QVlT.—Charles Derry himself. Ile had been a steady man and regularly at was charged with beingdrunk on licensed premises, and work until Saturday week, since which time he had been refusing to quit the muse, lie was further charged with tramping about the country.—ln reply -to questions assaulting the police in the eaecution of their duty.— from the Magistrate, prisoner made some incoherent Mr. I'. Beardmore. landlord of the Waterloo beerbouse, statement, which went a long way to show tint he was Stafford.street, said that on the evening of the oth inst., iu a deranged state of mind.—The police, who had had the defendant came to his house drunk. Witness re- charge of him during the night, stated that he had been fused to supply him with drink, and told him to go. He moot more troublesome and violent during the night retnsed to go. anti P.C. Evans was called in. Defendant than on Sunday.—He was remanded in order that he still refused to qnit. He was turned out, but refused might undergo a medical examination. to stand on lais legs.—P.C. Evans said be was called to eject the defendant. He found tbe defendant drunk. (Before E. Wedgwood and W. Woodall, Esqs.) He put him ont, as he refused to go. He became very Tut Canner or INDEOEXT Asseunr.—Richard violent. kicked him, and otherwise assaulted him. it, Buckles, fishmonger, Burstein. was charged on remand also kicked P.C. Quinn.—P.C. Quinn corroborat,d.— I with hiving indecently assaulted Mary and Selina Phil.
The Potteries Examiner : — 1877-07-14 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

LIVE. 'OW, TDESTRE DESTROYED BY FIRE.— Piwirtly heroes five o'clock on Monday morning, the , Rotunda Theatre was discovered to be on fire. The alarm was given by a policeman. and the nerupants of . the apartments in the southern portion of the building i Lad barely time to escape with their lives. The fire ! brigade was speedily oil the scene, but the flames never- I theless cortinned to spread rapidly, and abont six o'clock the roof gave way, and the large and handsome structure became a beep of ruins. The loss, not count. i.nz many valuable articles belonging to the proprietor stal the enmpisny, is estimated at from £25,000 to 1 .1,30,000, of which less than one-half is insured. SutetiK ar Butcgrool,.—Mr. Gilbertson coroner, told an inquest at the Beach Hotel, Blackpool, ori Tuesday, on the body of Mr. Everard J. Briggs. ot Weeste, near Manchester. The deceased arrived at the I.otel at eight o'clock on Mondey night, slid lifter being shown to his room went out for a short time. On his return he ordered breakfast for the following morning, void he wished to be called at 7.30, and retired shout ilf.tinst nine.. He then looked very pale, but his num. rer was pleasant. Reuben Cooper, the boots. called him on Tuesday morning at 6.45, when deceased asked lim what time it Was : but SS he did not appear, Cooper took his boots up at 7.25. and on knocking at the use woo again asked what time it was—Me. Hobert Gledhill, engineer. of Huddersfield. stated thnt between seven and eight o'clock he heard what he then thought was the explosion of a sodawater bottle.—Mr. Austin Taylor. manager of the hotel, said that as the deceased had not come downstairs at ten o'clock. he end Cooper went all to his room null knocked, and, ns they received no answer, they forced open the door. They then sisw the deceased lying on the door in a pool of blood, with a wound in his loft breast, and a singlebarrelled pistol lay beside him. Some enps and powder were found in the rosin and on the dressing table was an envelope addresses]. "Mr. E. J. Briggs. 24, Darweipstreet. IVeaste."—lr. John Stevens, of 132, caluor.str.,et, Manebester, salesman, said the deceased married ho Memlaughter. He Was about 28 years of ,ge, and was a clerk in the office of the National Boiler Insurance company. Ile had been in a low state of mind solve time, and absent from business about three weeks. His elreunistan,a were ether adverse. arising , front old debts.—The jury returned a verdict of "Suicide while in an usound state of