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Bridlington and Quay Gazette. — 1882-04-22 (Bridlington, Humberside, England)

ILL., for the Paris Exhibition of 1855. The third, to inspect the Cherbourg fortifications in 1858. In 1879 the Queen stopped a night at l'aris en route for Baveno. In 1880 her hlajesty passed through the French capital on her way to Germany. Now, in 1882, the Royal holiday has once more been taken within the Gallia dominions. A New York journal calls attention to the fact that greater care is taken of young fish than of young children in that city ; for, while more than half the children die before the age of five, the Fish Committee say that only two per cent, of the spawn of shad or salmon are destroyed. Perhaps this may be owing to the fact that so many New Yorkers like shad or salmon better than they do children. Mr. Beverley, the eminent painter, has just finished a most elaborate work for the Alhambra Theatre, and is now engaged on an important work for Mr. Sims's new drama for the Princess's Theatre.  The Russian lady who attempted the life of Herr Salge at Geneva is called Alexandrine Mitchell. She is a governess, forty-one years old, and though of extreme opinions was not known as a Nihilist. Herr Salge closely resembles Peter Haoroff, for whom she mistook him. With respect to the cases of supposed poisoning through eating hot-cross buna at Inverness on Good Friday, Dr. Little)ohn, of Edinburgh, has analysed some buns troll the batch which were forwarded to him for the purpose, and reports that he has been unable to discover any trace* of metal lic poison. At the Manchester City Police Court, two youths, named Benjamin Roberts and Thomas hi•Laughlin, charged with wounding and stabbing another lad named Joseph Callaghan, on whom they had infficted ten wounds, have been sentenced to twelve months' and two months' imprisonment respectively. A young woman, apparently about 20 years of age, was observed to jump into a reservoir at ' Doffeocker, near Bolton. An hour elapsed before the body was recovered. The reservoir in known as " Lover's Lodge," from the number of suicides that have taken place there. The Daily Nears learns that Mr. Saul Solomon, M.L.A. for Capetown, who for more than a generation past has taken a leading part in the politics of the Cape Colony, and who is widely known as an , opponent of Sir Bartle Prere's policy, intends to 1 MA Ragland in August next. ISir Henry Cole, LC.Id ,lule Dio.se 01 IS. •nth Ker.,--eton Museum, died on Wedneerlay mornloan London, Kea 74.
Bridlington and Quay Gazette. — 1882-05-20 (Bridlington, Humberside, England)

TRIPLE MURDER AND SUICIDE.  A shocking occurrence took place on Friday is Hammersmith. A gardener named Gardiner, his wife Eliza, and three children, a little girl Ellen aged 4, and two boys, Robert and John respectively 2 years and 3 months old, occupied rooms over gateway at some mews. On returning home to dinner be was mot in the mews by his eldest eon, who asked him if he had seen his mother, as she was not at home. As soon as he got upstairs he saw the clothes of Robert lying on a table in the front room. He called Eliza several times and got no answer. He looked through the keyhole of the door of the back room, which was locked on the inside, and saw his wife raise herself up by means of the cot, unlock the door in a staggering condition, and fall on the bed. The husband went into the room and was horrified at the sight before him. Two of the children, both dead, were lying across ' the bed with the mother, their throats being cut in a fearful manner. The children were all undressed, and the baby, dead also, was lying with its throat cut in bed. The husband immediately went in search of a doctor, and meeting a police-sergeant on the way told him that his wife had murdered her children. The sergeant procured the assistance of a constable, who went with him to the place and found a carving knife, much worn, covered with blood. Another knife was found in the bed, also a bottle containg a liquid. Mrs. Gardiner died in the afternoon. No cause can be assigned for the shocking occurrence. The husband lived most happay with his wife, to whom he had been married about 12 years. The deceased woman was 35 years of age, and the neighbours speak very highly of her.
Bridlington and Quay Gazette. — 1913-01-10 (Bridlington, Humberside, England)

OKEHAMPTON.  INAUSPICIOUS BEGINNING FOR 1913.  Frederic Harrison says he believes 1918 to be unlucky—at any rate Okehampton made a bad start lam week, says the Western Daily Afircury.  A youth of seventeen, the only child, and a fine specimen of young manhood, attempted to commit suicide, and now liee at the workhouse in a very critical condition.  A young man under thirty, married, with one child, drowned himself, and the body remained in the etable of a public-house a day and a night, Okehampton having no mortuary. The infant school ha e to remain closed for another fortnight owing to an outbreak of measles.  Mr. Lawson was driving in the country, and before he could get into the trap the home bolteck Mr. Lawson managed to catch hold of the reine, however, and he was dragged some distance, the wheels of the trap going over hie feet. Hie head was cut and his clothce were torn to shreds.  Mr. Richard Fume, who is carrying out a big contract at the Okehampton Workhouse in connection with the drains, had the misfortune to have some earth fall on his feet. The injuries were very painful, but not serious.  On Sunday morning a bullock belonging to Mr. Richards died from anthrax, and the police burnt the body. The driver of the mail cart had a most unfortunate week. One morning when he wee on his usual round with the mails the axle of his trap broke. This was between four and Ave o'clock in the morning on a lonely Colintry road—cold, wet, .and dark. The driver made his way to the nearest house, roused the oast:pants, and asked for the loan of a trap. The occupier told him he could have a trap and welcome, but the trap was too small for the postman's home, so the driver had to make his way in the dark amidst mud and water, along a farm lane to the nearest farmhouse, where he succeeded in borrowing a cart. He had then to get his horse and harnees and change the mails from one cart [AS the other. Misfortune still dogged his steps, for on the return journey the same day the horse gave out and the driver missed the train, having to walk the horse four miles. He wired for a fsesh horse to be sent him. The next morning he started from Okehampton Station with another horse. He had gone but a few hundred yards, however, when by some means the horse had an unfortunate tall. Both shafts of the mail cart were snapped clean off, and the horse, which was a good one, cut his knees, head, and shoulders so badly that it was impossible for it to proceed. A fresh horse and conveyance were secured.
Bridlington and Quay Gazette. — 1913-10-10 (Bridlington, Humberside, England)

DEATH.  )IAJOR & NURSE IHE TOGETHER.  EXTRAORDINARY INFATUATION.  A remarkabie case of double suicide—a couple having tied their hands together and laid their heads on the railway when a train was approaching comes from Southend-onSea. When a train from Fenchurch-street Station, London, arrived at,, Shoeburyness on Friday night blood was discovered on the front of tire engine, and at a quiet part of the line, about a hundred yards from a wooden footbridge which spans the metals at Southchurch Halt, near Southend, the railwaymen Caine across a woman's hat and gloves, and a man's bowler hat. Then they found two bodies, which have since been identified as those of Major Charles Hamilton Murdoch, sixty-three, a retired quartermaster of the Army Service Corps, until recently an inmate of a nursing home at South Siae, Clapham Common r and Minnie Constance Maria Elsie Boa ks, twenty-two, until five weeks ago a probationer nurse in the same home, and the daughter of George Boaks, a jobbing gardener, of Plaistow Grove, Bromley, Kent. The couple had been killed about ball-past nice that night. The right hand of the girl aas tied to the man's left hand by a handkei chief.  Both Major Murdoch and his wife had been patients at the nursing home at Clapham Common since May last, and Mrs. Murdoch, who is paralysed, is still there. Miss Boaks had been in the home two years. In August last a strong friendship had grown up between the Major and Miss Boaks, and the matron thought it necessary to dismiss her. She left on August 24th. and the Major went away a few days- later. He returned after an interval of a week very ill, and it was supposed that he was suffering from the effects of a drinking bout. He was treated in the home for some days, and then he disappeared. Mrs. Murdoch recently received a letter addressed "To my wife, and signed "C. H. M." The body of the letter was in the writing of Miss Honks. No arklress was given, and no clue was afforded by the letter to the Major's whereabouts. About a fortnight ago Mrs. Murdoch received the following letter in answer to an inquiry she had made: "If you want to know who his secretary is, I can inform you that she is one who loves him dearly, and who can treat him better than you could ever do. He does not wish to return to you, as you can do nothing to him now." This was signed "From one who loves him." The boy who brought it, interrogated as to who had given it to him, gave a description of a woman who tallied exactly with that of Miss Boaks. The girl's father states that she was engaged to a very nice young fellow, but for some reason she gave him up some two months ago. On Saturday morning a note in the following terms Mime: " Thank you for sending me the linen I asked you for. You will not be troubled with me again. lam going to die with the man I love, His troubles are mine. Good-bye, dad." The postmark was Southend.
Bridlington and Quay Gazette. — 1877-10-27 (Bridlington, Humberside, England)

SHTP LAUNCH AT WILITHY.--On Tuesday a finely modelled vessel, named the Ciedmon, after the first Anglo-Saxon poet, once of St Hilda's Abbey, -was launched from the iron shipbuilding yard of Messrs. Turnbull & Son. The launch was a successful one, the ceremony of christening being performed by Mr. Edgar Turnbull, who acted as sponsor for Mrs. Hunton. The length of the vessel is 285 ft., breadth 82ft., depth 17ft.  • . Sir H. Selwin.lbbetson, Under Secretary of State for the Home Department, speaking on public affairs at a Conservative gathering in Essex, referred to the large amount of measures passed by the present Government which had for their object the comfort and welfare of the working classes. He contrasted the Factou Acts Amendment Act, the t -tisane' Dwellings Act, and similar enactmentswith the sensational measures passed by the late Government. SHOCKING Sown:oz.—A case of suicide of a shocking character has just occurred near Stockton. On Sunday morning a man went to the Stockton Police Office and complained to the inspector that "a number of Irishmen were following him about the country to kill him." In answer to the questions put to him, he said his name was Robert Todd, that he was recently employed at Messrs. Hawks & Crayshay's works at Gateshead, and that he belonged to that town. On Friday, he said, he was discharged I •om Durham Gaol after serving six months' imprisonment for steaßng a pair of boots at Gateshead. He slept in Stockton Workhouse on Friday night, and in a coal-house at a village near Stockton on Saturday. The inspector thought the be place for him was the workhouse' and the man promised to go there. A ticket was given to him, and he was directed which road to take. Nothing fuither was seen of him till his dead body was on Monday found lying in a cart under a shed at Layton, a village several miles from Stockton. There was a frightful gash in the throat, and the deceased's clothes and the body of the oai., were saturated with Mod. A broken tableknife, which appeared to have been recently sharpened, and with which the deed bad apparently been committed, was lying at his side. The police were communicated with, and the body was removed to the workhouse.
Bridlington and Quay Gazette. — 1877-03-03 (Bridlington, Humberside, England)

CHILD MURDER AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE IN LEEDS. On Thursday afternoon Mrs. Sarah Sanderson, residing in a yard off Briggate, poisoned her child, aged eleven months, and afterwards attempted to destroy her own life. About three o'clock two women, who live near, called at a house in Blakewell Ox-yard, near the Shambles —the scene of this domestic tragedy—and found Mrs. Sanderson lying as if in a fit, with her infant beside her, and apparently also suffering. Parmed by what they saw, the women made known the state of matters to their neighbours, and a crowd soon gathered. Without much delay Mr. Woodiiead, surgeon, Queen's-square, was sent for, and found that both mother and child were prostrate from the effects of poison. Meantime the presence of the crowd had attracted the attention of the police and some investigation was made, from which it would appear that the woman first gave her child what proved a fatal dose of oil of Ntiiol. Determined also to commit suicide, she appears to have doubted whether there was enough vitriol left for her purpose, and therefore first took a quantity of laudanum. The infant, a fine healthylooking little boy, lingered in life for an hour or two, expiring about half-past five o'clock. Dur"ig all this time the mother was unconscious, and she remained in a precarious state at a late hour on Thursday night. In the evening she was so far able to be roused from a long and heav sleep as to answer one or two questions; but it is st"l exceedingly doubtful whether she can survive. Her husband is by trade a joiner, IRA has been out of employment for some time. Having some musical taste, he accepted an engagement of several months to play the piano at a public-house in Charlestown, near Wakefield; and he was therefore absent at the time of the shocking occurrences of which his home was on Thursday the scene. A telegram was sent to the poor man telling him what had happened, and he will therefore immediately return to Leeds.
Bridlington and Quay Gazette. — 1877-03-03 (Bridlington, Humberside, England)

NEAR ABEERN. only 22.)—1n those days England was as innocent of foreign politics as before and after. Consequently On Monday afternoon an inquest was opened at when in 1850 Mr. Cobden addressed the meting the "Anne Arms," Sutton, near A.kern, in the township of Barghwallis, before D. Grabha.n, about the " Russian atrocities," tEnglishmen district coroner, touching the death of Thomas less immediately followed, about as much as of thought of a possible Crimean war, which nevertheCooper aged 46 years, a retired farmer at Sutton, ...,...."' had committed suicide on ~. riday night lest by landing 100.000 men in the moon. With the w g Crime in Loans. . . . It is a safe prophecy shootin himself in his bedroom. , From the that the secret machinery, here and in Russia, by evidence of the deceased's wife and daughter, it was shown that deceased was of very sober habits, but which all these loans have passed backwards and had latterly fretted much on account of having left forwards from contractor to contractor, will never his farm, Howell House,- and had suffered from a be known. If it could be, we need not doubt that pain in his knee. After the report of a gun was it would transcend the most startling romance, as much as truth is known commonly to transcend heard in the house, the deceased was found quite fiction. During the last twelvemonth, it is dead, and there was a double-ban Ilea gun by his notorious that the Russian Government has bben side. One of the barrels had been discharged, the "hat in hand" to every European centre, trying to other being loaded and capped. From the evidence scrape what loans it could, and it is not a of Dr. Hindle, of Askern, who had attended the little slgnificant and ominous that after borrowing deceased previously, it was shown that death had been instantaneous the gunshot having been £69,000,000 sterling during the last five years in discharged in his abdomen. The set had been done this country. while every investor mentally uncovered himself with awe before Russian prestige in the absence of deceased's wife, who staied that and Russian credit, the Russian Government should during the day he seemed to be in his usual health. The j , after some deliberation, returned a verdict now be craving a beggarly million sterling at 80 that " committed suicide by shooting from a 4 the Bourses in Eurepe. , But there is one circumstance more ominous still—it is that Berlin himself 'whilst in a state of temporary insanity." &yours the loan. Deceased leaves a wife and eight children.. , ------ .---- vesinvis  I  A ItOMANTTI3I3-
Bridlington and Quay Gazette. — 1877-03-17 (Bridlington, Humberside, England)

THE HUDDERSFIELD TRAGEDY.-111 the case of Emma Marshall, aged twenty-five years, married woman, who hung herself at Huddersfield, after attempting to murder her two children, a coroner's jury have found that she had committed suicide, but that the evidence failed to show her state of mind at the time. The youngest child is said to be very ill. Her Majesty the Queen has forwarded, though General Sir Thomas Biddulph, her usual annual subscription of X5O to the Royal National Lifeboat Institution. At a special meeting of the Committee of the institution on Thursday, £l5O was voted to the widow and children of a man who lost his life from the Buda lifeboat on Saturday night while attempting during a heavy gale to save a shipwrecked crew. In a Scotch trial for breach of promise, a few days ago, the defendant adduced as a proof that he was mentally incapsoitated, that he "could not tell a sixpence from a shilling, or a fourpenny from a sixpence." And yet the jury required further evidence Surely when a Sootchman has arrived at the pitch of being unable to distinguish between "a fourpenny and a sixpence," he has abdicated all that " canniness ' which we associate with the Caledonian character.—Yorick. A MODEL Husemin.—Edward George Carter, has been charged, at the Birkenhead policecourt, with cruelty to a parrot. The a3cused went home from work and found that his tea was not ready. In a fit of spleen he went to a parrot, which was a favourite of his wife, and, taking it from the cage, twisted its neck several times, and then threw it in the fire. He was perfectly sober at the time. He was fined 40s. and costs, or in default to be imprisoned for one month.  '  1 1  4 t 1 . ' ! ' I ' ' 11 , ' 1 '' • . ,i".. . 1 i ... 1 ' ( ' I , - Et . • f . , I , , } i I 1 1 . # i : I l 1 ; '.l  4. 1 , -„
Bridlington and Quay Gazette. — 1877-02-03 (Bridlington, Humberside, England)

THE SUICIDE OF A COUNTESS.  AS already briefly reported, on Tuesday evening Mr. Bedford held an inquest at ' the Board-room, Mount-street, Grosvenor-square, London, respecting the death of Harriet, Countess Howe, who committed suicide under the following circumstances : Major-General St. George Foley, of 24, Boltonstreet, said the deceased, Harriet Mary, Countess Howe, was the widow of the late George Curzon, Dud Howe, and she was about 52 years old. She generally enjoyed good health, but her misfortune in losing 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 Anna Davis said she was lady's maid to the deceased. She had occupied that position for the last twelve months. During that period deceased appeared depressed, and often remarked that life was a burden to her. On Sunday night, at half-past eleven, she saw the deceased undressed in her bedroom. She was then very quiet. Witness slept in an adjoining room on the same floor, and about eight o'clock the next morning could hear the deceased moving about. Soon afterwards she was 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 chair was usually kept by the flreplace.—Mary Ann Baker said she was in the service of Lady Charlotte Start, the mother of the deceased lady, at No. 10, Charles-street. On Monday morning, about half-past 8, she saw the deceased lying on the leads on the level with the dining-room. She gave an alarm, and went up-stairs to an ante-room close to the bedroom of the deceased. That room would be immediately above the lead flat where the body was found.—Mr. W. F. Butt, surgeon, said he had attended deceased. He last saw her some six 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 was a complete fiacture of the skull, and the lower jaw was broken in three or four places. The injuries would cause immediate death. Deceased must have fallen a distance of between 25 and 30 feet. The jury after a short consultation returned a verdict of " Suicide while in a state of temporary insanity."
Bridlington and Quay Gazette. — 1877-09-15 (Bridlington, Humberside, England)

MURDER AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE NEAR AYR.  On Wednesday an assault, which terminated fatally on Thursday morning, was perpetrated at Bute:kin.)Sawmills, neartAyr. The sawmills are situated on the public road from Ayr to Manchline, and about five miles from Ayr. They have been possessed for many years by Mr. M'Quater, who lives with his family in an adjoining cottage. Mr. M'Quater also farms a small piece of land, and keeps a number of cows. On Wednesday morning, between six and seven o'clock, the daughter of Mr. M'Quater, a girl about thirteen years of age, went to bring in the cows. Shortly afterwards the girl was found, about 200 yards from her own home, lying on the road in a state of unconsciousness, and with blood flowing from her head. On examination it was found that there were two or three deep-wounds in the back of her head, as if made with a hatchet or some other similar instrument. One of the arms of the girl had also marks of violence, the result evidently of a blow or a severe grip. The county police was at once communicated with, and medical aid was also soon on the spot—Dr. M'Crlll having airived from Coylton, and Dr. M'Kerrow from Ayr. On search being made, there was discovered near the spot a cleaver with blood spots on it, and there was no doubt that this was the instrument which had inflicted the injuries. As to the perpetrator of the crime nothing was clearly known, but suspicion fell upon a young man named John Bell, aged 28 years. Bell, it appears, has been in the employ. ment of Mr. M'Quater for some years, and on Wednesday morning, when sought for, was found to have absconded. He had been drinking on Saturday night last, but was sober on Tuesday and on the morning of the occurrence. A description of the man was immediately sent to the police authorities all round about, but up to Wednesday night he had not been captured. I It is said that Bell was seen entering a wood near the place shortly after the occurrence. The assault appears to have been committed by a person coming up unexpectedly behind the girl and violently striking her on the head with the chopper. As stated above, the girl M'Quater died on Thursday morning, and Bell, the supposed murderer, was fonnd on Thursday with his throat cut severely, but not fatally.  FATAL DUEL cii A.