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Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1893-05-27 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

TERRIBLE TRAGEDY AT HACKNEY.  ATTEMPTED SUICIDE OF THE MURDERER.  About half-past 1 on Tuesday morning a terrible tragedy was enacted at a coffee-house, No. 17, Amherst-road, Hackney. It appears that the house was occupied by a man named Thomas Morgan, his wife, and stepson. Morgan, who has been in illhealth lately, was out with his wife en Monday and returned home about 10 p.m. Some unpleasantness was believed to have occurred, and Morgan almost immediately retired to bed. His ife and stepson followed him some time later. About 1.30 a.m. the servants were aroused by the ringing of bells and went downstairs. They knocked at the son's door,and getting no answer opened it and looked in. Across the bed was lying the dead body of the lad with a bullet wound in the head. He had evidently been shot while asleep. An alarm was raised and a policeman fetched. The constable went into the back room, and there found the body of Mrs. Morgan lying on the floor in a pool of blood with bullet wounds in the neck. She was quite dead, though the body was warm. On the other side of the bed lay Morgan groaning in terrible agony. Dr. White, the divisional surgeon, was called, and with Chief Inspector Bond examined the place. Morgan was discovered to have shot himself in the abdomen. His condition was so critical that he was at once taken to the German Hospital, but no hopes are held out as to his recovery. Near the spot where the man was found the police discovered a six-chambered revolver, four chambers having b( en emptied. The names of the deceased are Emma Morgan, aged 48 years, and Arthur Jennings, aged 15 years. . . .  A correspondent says : It appears that last July Morgan had a paralytic strok,,, and lost the use of his right limbs, as well as his voice. Since that time he has had periodical outbursts of passionate fits of temper, in one of which a short time back he stabbed his wife in the waist. She was then advised to have him placed under restraint, but was loth to do so, as she hoped he would recover the full possession of his faculties. In this she was partially advised by the doctor who attended Morgan • but latterly it seems that a change of medical advice had been taken, with the result that the necessary papers had been filled up for his removal to an asylum, with the exception of a magistrate's signature. It was not an unusual occurrence for Morgan to chase his wife out into the street with a knife in his hand, and the customers in the shop would hurriedly make their exit when he was in one of his dangerous moods.
Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1893-05-27 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

MURDER, SUICIDE.  An uncontrollable passim for betting has been the cause of a terrible drama in Paris. M. Coupe, a wine-sh-ip keeper in the Rue de la Glaciere, had within the last 18 months indulged in betting on horse races at the Mutual Betting establishments. Having spent all his savings, and on Sunday week, being on the brink of ruin, he coil ected all the money he coull to put it on a horse he had been told was sure to win. It was his last chance. and , he lost it. The horse on which he had risked everything was not even placed. M. Coupe on the Monday morning told one of his frietids it was probably the last, time he would see either him or his wife. During the week he repeated the same threat to several persons, and on Saturday morning the concierge noticed that at 8 o'clock his wineshop was not open. A report of firearms in M. Coupe's establishment was heard, and as the Police Commissary forced open the door another shot was fired. M. Coupe was found lying on the door with a bullet in his head. He was not dead, but expired some hours after he had been conveyed to the hospital. Madame Coupe had been killed by a pistol shot in the head. In a bedroom two children were found dead, each with a bullet in its head; the youngest child had been wounded, but was not dead, and the doctors at the hospital hope to be able save her life.  At Kingston-on-Thames Frederick Hamilton, a young labourer, has been fined 40s. or 14 days for stealing swans' eggs from a nest on the river Mole.  Cbarles and Joseph Gill, builders, have each had to pay £26 6s. at Thames, with 31 guineas costs, for using in the construction of buildings in Whitechapel mortar not made in conformity with the Metropolitan Building Act.  Foxes are so numerous in the Cumberland mountains that the shepherds have been burning lamps in the fields at night to scare them, and even then many lambs have been snatched up. The foxhounds have been out doing their best, and the Bleucathra pack killed their 43rd fx last week. An interesting personage has died in the East End in the Rev. Jacob Reinowite, who is declared by the Jewish Chronicle to have been the original of "Reb Shemuel," one of the finest of the charactere created by Mr. Zangaill. The rev, gentleman was a member of the Beth Din, and was popularly known as "Reb Yankele." During his residence in the East End for 17 years he was very popular, and was venerated as a man of great erudition. The merry twinkle in his eye betokened the possession of rich humour, and the old-fashioned Moshols which he was wont to relate, received additional charm fiom the manner of their telling.—Gioke.  L
Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1893-07-22 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

PARIS TRAGEDY.  A determined attempt at murder, followed by the suicide of the intending murderer, occurred the other day at 59, Rue de Saintong,e, Paris, in a shop occupied by a baker named Boureille. Early in the morning Madame Boureille was called away to Etrechy, near Etampes, by a telegram announcing the serious illness of her mother living there. In the afternoon, at a moment when Boureille was alone in the shop, a stranger walked in, asked for two pounds of bread, and, while the baker had his back turned, stabbed him in the neck with a bowie knife of the Catalonian type. As Boureille staggered and turned round, he repeated the attack, inflicting a terrible wound in another part of the neck. Though bleeding profusely. Boureille mustered up strength enough to jump over the counter and make for the door, shouting "Murder!" and was there stabbed for the third time, full in the chest. When the neighbours rushed in to the rescue he had swooned from the loss of blood. They carried him to a neighbouring chemist's, who bandaged up the wounds pending the arrival of an ambulance wagon, which had been tel !graphed for by the police. In the meanwhile, the police were searching for the murderer, who was known not to have left the shop. They discovered his body in the dining-room, where he had stabbed himself to death. Boureille sufficiently recovered at the Saint Louis Hospital to inform the magistrate who examined him that his assailant was unknown to him, and he could not conceive a motive on the part of anyone for such an attack. Madame Boureille, who returned the neat day from Etrechy, after the death of her incther was so prostrated by the news of the occurr, lice that she had to forego seeing her husband in the hospitil, and refused to attend at the Morgue to view the body of the stranger, whose identity has not yet been established.  vansioersoie sensation nas Ewen causeu in Leipzig, by the conduct of Prince Maxmilian, son of Prince George, brother of the King of Saxony. Some days ago the young Prince sucleiNely quitted military service, and without any escort left Oschatz, where he was quartered with the garrison, and proceeded to the religious establishment at Eichstadt for the purpose of entering the cloister. It is thought that Bishop Wahl, of Dresden, exercised much influence upon the Prince in the matter.
Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1893-10-14 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

WEST LONDON TRAGEDY.  On Friday Dr. W. B. Gordon Hogg held an inquiry, at the Municipal-buildings, Ealing, respecting the deaths of James Benjamin Scotcher, aged 55, a horse dealer, lately residing at the Uxbridge-road Dairy, Ealing Dean, and Annie Elizabeth Moorby, aged 7 years, of the same address, the fo-kner of whom committed s ticide, after cutting the throat of the latter with a razor, on Wednesday morning.—Agnes Moorby, of the Uxbridge-road Dairy, said she was the mother of the deceased child, and the deceased man, who was witness's uncle, was the father of the child. She last saw her girl in bed shortly before 8 o'clock on Wednesday morning. It was in the same room as the deceased man. Scotcher had made no remarks that morning to her, and he was not excited or depressed. Witness knew her uncle had to go to Brentford the next morning as a witness in a summons, and that seemed to worry him. He was in no monetary difficulties to witness's knowledge, although the rent was a little behind. Witness went out shopping. Upon her return she went upstairs, but could open the bedroom door only a little way, and she then saw the deceased man lying a i pool of blood on the floor, his head being near the door. She called for assistance, and two men who came in called for the doctor and the police. The deceased man had never threatened to take his own life or that of the child.—Sergeant Coston deposed to being called to the house shortly after 8 o'clock on Wednesday morning, having been informed that a man had committed suicide. He went to the bedroom on the first floor and found Scotcher on the floor. A razor covered with blood was lying on a blood-bespattered bed. The little girl was lying dead, but warm, on another bed in the room. She had a serious wound in her throat. Written on the edge of an evening paper, dated October 3rd, were the words "Goodbye; God will forgive me. I cannot leave my child behind. I cannot meet my expenses; that has caused me to do all this. You take all I leave. —
Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1893-10-21 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

THE CHOLERA AT GREENWICH WORK HOUSE.  INQUEST ON AN INMATE.  At the Lambeth Coroner's Court, on Monday, Mr. Braxton Hicks held an inqurst on the body of Harriet Carr, 74, an inmate cf Greenwich Workhouse, who died under sudden and mysterious circumstances while visiting some friends at Lambeth, on the 11th inst.—Dr. Keats, assistant medical superintendent of Greenwich Infirmary, and Mr. Jordan, workhouse master, were present at the inquiry.—The evidence shewed that Carr was one of a number of the inmates who were suddenly taken ill in time early part of the present month, and all of whom displayed choleraic symptoms. She recovered sufficiently, however, to leave the workhouse on Tuesday last, and she met her niece in Westminster Bridge-road. The old lady then complained of feeling very unwell, and remarked to her relative, "I am struck for dead." She was taken to her niece's linuse, where she received every attention. She succumbed there after several attacks of severe diarrleva —Mr. Jordan deposed that when the woman left the workhouse she was very feeble, but she appearei anxious to see her friends.—Dr. Keats said he had seen the deceased o the 10th, and she was then ill. He was not aware that she was going cut. There had been a great many cases of a similar character —2lO in all, he believel—and eight had terminated fatally. Meals of frozen mutton had been served to the inmates, and there might have been a diseased sheep's carcase cooked, but, on the other hand, the deaths might have been due to bad drainage or a variety of causes. The cases had been treated as of choleraic origin,—The Coroner reminded the jury that inquiries were pending in Greenwich in regard to similar cases, and suggested that the present investigation should be adjourned in order to allow of an analytical examination of the viscera. —This course was agreed to, and the inquest was adjourned for live weeks.  lbere were 92 failures gazetted in England and Wales last week. The 'lumber in the corresponding period of 1892 was 84. The foundation stone of the Canon Hole Memorial Church, at Richmond, was on Saturday laid by the Duchess of Teck, in the presence of a large number of spectators. The suicide of a man named Cardwell, on whom an inquest was held at Bournemouth on Saturday, was attributed to losses he sustained by the recent bank failures in Australia.  The grocers in the district of Poole, near Bournemouth,have formed a compact to abolish Christmasboxes. Any grocer who breaks the agreement is to pay £2O to the local hospital. Lieutenant-Colonel G. A. W. Forest, formerly of the Hampshire Regiment, has been selected to succet d the late Colonel Fitzgerald as commandant of the Duke of York's school at Chelsea.
Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1893-06-10 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

RUSSIAN OFFICIALS AND NIHILISPS  LETTERS.  A czjous %V important ease has just been decided bY the Paris Appeal Court. In March last a medical student of Polish origin, named Louis Sawicki, committed suicide in a little furnished lodging he had hired in Rue Bunn. In a letter he left on his table he declared he had poisoned himself because he would not survive the shame thrown on him publicly by a denunciation which he, nevertheless, affirmed was incorrect. He was a Nihilist, and some of his fellow-Nihilists had accused him of having betrayed the Revolutionary cause. The seals were placed on the student's effects. Sawicki, in a sort of last will and testament, had, however, requested that a packet of letters carefully stowed away in a cupli3ard should handed to acf rtain person, who was to burn them after reading them. The deceased man's grandmother, living at Warsaw, demanded that his last wishes should be respected, but the Russian Consul in Paris had, in virtue of the Convention signed in Paris on April Ist, 1872, claimed the right to be alone present at the breaking of the seals. The affair was then brought before a Judge in Chambers, who decided that the seals should be broken by order of the Russian Consul, but in presence of the deceased student's natural keir ; and the two packets of letters bearing the words a /wafer were to be placed in the keeping of the Justice of the Peace till the tribunal should have decided. The Russian Consul appealed against this decision. He demanded that Sawicki's heirs should be excluded from any participation in the making out of the inventory of the deceased student's property, and that all his documents should be given to him k the Consul). The Appeal Court has now reversed entirely the decision of the Judge in Chambers, as it ordered that the Russian Consul should alone be present at the breaking of the seals, and that the two packets of letters should be given to him. As Louis Sawicki was a Nihilist, and corresponded with no one but Nihilists, it is believed that the documents in question will lead to important disc3veries.
Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1893-06-10 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

TUE WILHAT SUPPLY.  According to statistics it seems that there has in the world's wheat market been an annual surplus of eight million bushels on the average of the last 10 years, and that this quantity has been stored for future use. It is therefore thought that the recent low value is owing to this circumstance. Recently the Times has obtaine I reports from all the chief wheat-growing countries of the world as to the prospects of the present year's crop. From these it is gathered that the world's crop will be considerably bel3w an average, not only in the leading wheat exporting countries, but also in the impprting countries. This will mean larger requirements and smaller supplies, and, bearing in mind the surplus of previous years, the leading journal is probably justified in asserting that there is the promise of an appreciable rise in the value of wheat in the next cereal year.  vy imsruw, near Aioeriey tage, cnestnre, on Sunday, a married woman and her unmarried daughter, aged 18, were discovered by the husband with their throats cut and quite dead. They were both lying in the daughter's bedroom. It is believed that the daughter was in some trouble,and that both mother and daughter in their mental distress committed suicide.  Mr. William Saunders, M.P., has ceased to take part in the divisions on the Home Rule Bill, on the ground that the present House of Commons is incompetent to give Ireland a new Constitution, and that the bill before the House contains some 40 clauses, each clause establishing & new principle, the whole being equivalent to a number of distinct bills. Mr. Saunders is of opinion that the present measure should be withdrawn, and that a Comtnittee of experts should be appointed to prepares echeme of Home Rule. On Sunday afternoon, owing to a sudden squall, two small yachts were driven against the pier at Southend, and the sails becoming entangled in the tronwork,the occupants were compelled to scramble on to the deck of the pier. Another yacht, belonging to Dr. Kerr, of London, when near the pierhead, was driven with great violence against the piles, and was in imminent danger of being dashed to pieces. Four boatmen, however, qucceeded ia towing her off and landed her occupants, two ladies and a gentleman.  1
Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1893-08-12 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

FAMILY TRAGEDY.  A rural tragedy of no ordinary kind is reported from Elleville, near Mantes, in the Department of the Seine et Oise. M. and Madame litigant, who occupied a small agricultural holding in the locality, suffocated themselves and their four children by means of charcoal fumes. The causes of this sinister resolution on the part of the litigants had, says the Paris correspondent of the Daily Telegraph, a rather trivial basis. The peasantfarmer and his wife, like most members of their class, were of a thrifty character, and had amassed a considerable amount of savings. Madame litigant had a dispute with a neighbour, and accused him of having burned down a small house which she owned many years ago. The neighbour, a sturdy farmer, retorted that he would make her prove her words in a court of justice, and that the result of the action might be financially disastrous to herself and her husband. The woman brooded moodily over the menace, and conjured up doleful visions of the sale of hr house, and furniture, and the ruin of her family. She accordingly prevailed on her husband, who appears to have been a weak-minded person, to accomplish the terrible tragi dy which took place on Friday evening. Madame llegant lighted a charcoal fire in a stove, placed the latter in her bedroom, and then shut herself up with her husband and the four small children—two boys and two girls. Next morning the six were found dead by the neighbours. All were lying pell-mell in the same bed—the mother and children undressed, winle the father had seine scant clothing on. The mavor of the place was informed el the occurrence, and atter the cuatomary investigation, which takes the place of an inquest, orders were given for the burial of the bodies. The funeral took place without any religious service,as the parish priest refused to receive the bodies into the chinch owing to the fact that the Re_ants had committed suicide. The interment was an exceptionally doleful affair, as crowds of wailing womcii—friends and sympathisers of the deceased persons—followed the bodies to the grave.
Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1893-08-12 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

THE POTATO CROP.  The potato crop has seldom presented such a promising appearance in the United Kingdom at the beginning of August as is ths case this year, and there is full justification for anticipating a heavy yield, considerably above the average in quality. The returns received from our correspondents in various parts of the United Kingdom shew that the first and second early vaiities suffered severely from the drought, more particularly in the eastern, southern, and western counties,with the result that toe crops were light and the tubers comparatively small. We find also that in the early districts, where the second early crops have been allowed to remain in the ground, supertuberation has been general, but not to a sufficient extent to seriously affect the value of the produce. On hot, dry soils in the south of England mid-season and late kinds have in some instances shewn signs of supertuberation, but in no case has the second growth made much progress. Turning to the reports from the midland and northern counties ot England, and from Scotland, we have abundant proof that the early kinds have produced good crops of excellent quality, and that the late kinds are in an eminently satisfactory condition. We have recently had an opportunity of inspecting the late crops in the lowiands of Scotland, and in Yorkshire, Lincolrshire, and other of the principal p3tato-growing districts in England, and everywhere found the haulm in a vigorous and otherwise healthy condition, and the tubers swelling freely. Several of our Irish correspondents report the presence of disease, but in no case has the attack been so severe as to cause grave apprehensions as to the ultimate result. Much depends upon the weather we shall have during the next few weeks, but so far as oan be determined from present appearances the late crop will be one of the best lifted of late years.— Gardeners' Magazine.  George Pollard, belonging to Barnsley, was found dead under shocking circumstances. He had evidently gone to sleep under a. metal tank used for melting glass at Messrs. Redfearn's Dearne Glass Works. Death was owing to suffocation, and the body was very badly roasted and charred. _  The Duke of York intimates that he would be most pleased if the money subscribed by the seamen and Marines of the Navy for a wedding gift,and in commemoration of his marriage, were to be devoted to the Victoria Relief Fund. His Royal Highness also expresses the wish that that money may be invested In such a way as to allow of its being used as far as possible for the relief of the widows of other naval men who may lose their lives in their :ountry's service.  ALLEGED SUICIDE OF A VARIEry
Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1893-05-13 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

ABSURD ACTION.  THE breach of promise action may be said to ha-re reached the climax of absurdity in the case of the imbecile old gentleman of sixty-five who was sued by a domestic servant. When the defendant was put, or rather helped, into the witness-box, hi was quite unable to give a coherent answer to any of the questions, and it was only too plain that he did not in the least understand Lis singular position. What the jury thought of the case was shewn by the verdict of one Earthing for the plaintiff without costs. Had the old gentleman with the scattered wits been married by this adventurous young woman, no protest could have made the marriage null and void. It is the privilege of a lady to get legal possession of a man's affections by any means in her power. That all is fair in love is a maxim recognised by the law in so far as it applies to the natural vocation of women for matrimony. Possibly it was over-confidence in this fact which led to a somewhat ill-advised action for breach of promise; but it is interesting to mankind to know that there is a point beyond which they cannot be pursued by the avenging sex. Juries have been in the habit of awarding damages for breach of promise on the assumption that the defendants are always in their right minds. It is rather an arbitrary assumption, for a man who proposes is often non conzpos at the time, and recovers his sanity only to find that he must pay the price of his folly either at the altar or in the law-courts. Not long ago a gentleman in this strait committed suicide, and the lady brought her action against his executors. This bold stroke was not rewarded with success, but it shews that women are by no means the down-trodden serfs that tome of their champions represent them to be. They have a law for their exclusive benefit which declares that breach of promise to marry is a breach of contract punishable by damages; and it oannot be said that the law is laxly administered or that its beneficiaries do not strain it to the utmost.