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Northern Times. — 1859-05-05 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

MURDER AND SUICIDE.—An extraordinary affair is related in the journals of the Haute Saone : Three years back a young man named Moine, of Chantes, married a young woman named Javelet, of dvanches, but in consequence of the meddling of her parents, they were unable to agree; and in September last, finding that it was insupportable to be together, they separated. Four days ago the young woman's father went to the house of a friend at Chantes, and sending for Moine, proposed a reconciliation between him and his wife. Moine made no objection, and they drank together in an amicable manner. Afterwards Moine set out with his father-in-law, at the latter's request, to accompany him part of the way home. Shortly after, a person coming through a forest by which they had to pass, found Moine lying dead, with two pistol-shot wounds in his head. The gendarmerie immediately. arrested Javelet, whom they found in his own house in bed; and on being closely interrogated by the local. magistrates, he admitted that it was he who had murdered the young man, but he assigned no reason for the crime. He was placed in a cart to be conveyed to the prison at Vesoul, and on the way fell into a state of great prostration and even vomited ; but it was thought that that was only owing to his having, after his arrest, not taken any food. On, however, reaching Scev-sur-Saone he was observed to be in a bad state, and a medical man was sent for ; but just as the latter arrived the prisoner was seized with convulsions, and expired. • •On examination of his stomach it.was found to contttin a quantity of arsenic. From facts which came to the knowledge of the authorities, they caused his wife and davaghter to be arrested, and at investigation into the case has been commenced.
Northern Times. — 1859-03-15 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

ENIPTOYER. AKD EMPLOYED.—We learn that Messrs. Spencer and Moore, spinners and manufacturers, Burnley, made . special arrangements by which they gave to the whole of their workpeople, numbering fifteen hundred, a treat on Saturday last, viz.: a railway trip to Manchester and back, and a visit to the Fairy Fountain and dissolvineviews. The directors of the Mechanic's Institution, to facilitate this kindly project, arranged to admit this large body in two battalions, viz : half at 11.30 a.m., and the other half at 4.30 p.m. This plan is worthy of extension. —Bury Times. SUPPOSED SUICIDE OF Two SlSTERS.—Considerable excitement has been, during the past weak, created in the neighbourhood of Camberwell, in consequence of the discovery of the bodies of two females in the Grand Surrey Canal, under most extraordinary circumstances. oAoedi_rotnninanqi:u:tetehsdte, was held on Saturday morning by Mr Carter, coroner for the eastern division of Surrey, in the boardroom of Camberwell Workhouse, and from the evidence adduced it. appeared that both the bodies were discovered floating in the water by a, policeconstable, named Collins, by whom they. were secured, and conveyed to the dead-house of the parish. Shortly afterwards the same officer observed a basket in the canal, and upon draging it to the bank he found that it contained the body of a large black cat. Although Mr. coroner's officer, made every inquiry, the unfortunate women were not identified, and the inquiry was adjourned. Iritehne Elizabeth afternoon, however, a female, most respectably reeogni,ed both of them as her nieces, Sarah arnrdil wereeirfohrmisteorrlyy Buckle, aged respectively 34 and 36 years, is strange, and not without interest. They what is termed "fancy ironers," and by their exertions hall-rooms, obtained a most excellent living.ceased A roo relation, however, left to them a legacy of 1,040 t., and they ma,waonrak,sluirch places guapeeosn that, sum, frequenting theatres, , until the whole was speedily expended. They were afterNr, ards unable to obtain work,: and no doubt their extreme 'poverty, as shown in their wretched clothing,i led them to terminate their- existence. The moste , wsi h sin uatrhepatrt oeko f thewith affair is, that the sisters had a pet at them wherever they went, and which no doubt wyas the one found' by the constable in the basket. The inquiry will be r.e.sunied,to.to-morrow (Wednesday).
Northern Times. — 1859-07-02 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

DOUBLE . SUICIDE.  Within,: the past few 'days the little "watering; ~place .of Aldborough; on the YOrkshire coast, ltas been startled andshocked by a painful evestti It seems that some time ago a young •woman, whose maiden name was Ann- Elizabeth Johnson, native of Burton Pidsea, but who passed in :Aldborougliby the name of Sutton,' came to the south of 'England' to nurse her aunt, who was the second wife- of Mr. Tomlinson; He acted as bind and -manager on• a farm at 'East-Newton, the property of Ithe Rev. Mr. Cra.ven, vicar of the place: Some five or six-weeks ago, Mrs. Tomlinson died, and the husband, within‘a fortnight or so,' removed to, Sutton, near this town. TOnilinson had a son by his former wifb of the name of Webster, who was apprenticed in the village as a shoemaker, with .Mr. Thomas Harrison. Report says that the lad and his father were not on the best terms - that, in short, the fdimer hid been treated with marked unkindness. However. that may be, it is quite certain-that Webster Tomlinson entertained great affection for his stepmother, and that this was in. a great measure returned; for-she supplied him with- most ofhis little necessities, as lie lived with his master, and altogether behaved to him in the kindest manner. Webstees visits to his father's house naturally brought him in contact with- his stepmother'S•nurse, and there seems no reason •to doubt that a warm affection sprang up between them. They.were in the habit of repeatedly walking together, and after it had transpired that the young woman had contradicted the marriage that was at first spoken of, they were looked .upoivas lovers. After the death of the second Mrs:. Tomlinson, the airl Johnson went to reside with her cousin,_ at Great .Cowden, another village near Aldborough. Webster Tomlinson was 18 years of age, and Anne Johnson- was either 17 or 18. Some friends of the yuuth had attempted to persuade him that his ' connection with the' young Woman- would never bring happiness to either of them, but the acquaintance was kept up with the customary devotion, repeatedly drawing _down the remonstrance of the youth's  master. On Friday last, both of them, were seen together in the evening!' Webster was. a lad of shy and reserved manners, but he was not observed to be more so than usual on this particular day. On the other hand, the girl was less chatty to her friends, but no observation was made until afterwards. There is no doubt they passed the•evening together. Between eight and nine o'clock they passed the shop of •Mr. Thompson, grocer, and the girl bought half an ounce of tobacco, while Tomlinson remained outside. From thence they proceeded a little way to the north of the village of Aldborough. Somewhere about half-past nine o'clock the foreman at a farmhouse saw them, and we believe between eleven and twelve the farmer himself was disturbed by 'the • loud• harking of his dogs: as though some persons  were loitering about  r, nothing more was heard of then  morning, as an old man' named, Nightingale was proceeding to the sea§kle to folloW his avocation of gettitiggravel and
Northern Times. — 1859-01-14 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

COOL AND DELIBERATE ACT OF THROAT-CUTTING.—A day or two since, a case that excited more than an ordinary degree of interest, prevailed in the locality of gale-street, consequent on a rumour to the effect that a man's throat had been cut ! The rumour proved quite correct, for a man's throat was really cut. However, surgical operations in Liverpool are managed with a degree of scientific skill—and they cut throats, not for the purpose of taking life, but rather for the purpose ofsaving it. The person whose throat was said to have been separated is a well known individual, who, in the course of his professional experience, has cut the heads of several thousand subjects of Queen Victoria, and has drawn blood from some parts of the "human face divine" oftener, perhaps, than the owners of the "face's" desired. The patient had got a tumour on the front of his neck —just at the spot that is commonly called "Adam's apple," but known to anatomists as the " pomma Ademi" and it became necessary to remove this tumour. The surgeon who was called in, in this emergency, happens to be one of the most eminent Caledonians (and• who can surpass them in surgery ?) in Liverpool, and he, vtith a degree of scientific knowledge, and a delicate hand, able to carry out any operation, soon removed the excrescence, to the great ;light of the patient, who, in the exuberance of his relief, cried out, "My throat is cut—my throat is cut !" It was true that it was cut, but it saved his life ! His gratitude to the worthy operator was unbounded, and it was rather remarkable to find the supposed dead man running about the street in great glee, crying out, " my throat is cut ! my throat is cut ! ! "—and this accounts for the rumour of either a murder or a suicide, for the affair was reported both ways. The gratitude of the patient exhibited itself in three feet long, for he presented the operator with no less than a yard long of new patent soap, that is said to possess OW fagulty of shayin without a razor!
Northern Times. — 1859-01-14 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

LADIES BEWARE.— A coquette residing near Dancyville, Pa., caused a young man named Jones to commit suicide, on Sunday the 12th instant.. She had promised her hand to two young men, of whom Jones was one, and had appointed the 16th inst. in each case as the day for the wedding. This state of affairs became known to the two lovers, one of whom relinquished his claim to his rival, Jones. Whether Jones was aware of this turn of affairs is not known, but on the 12th instant he went to his room, attired himself in a suit of clothes that he had obtained for the wedding, and shot himself through the head.—Anicrican paper.  Is AN ATTORNEY EXEMPT FROM SERVING TILE OFFICE or MAYOR ?—This question having recently come before . the town council of Newcastle-under-Lyme, the town clerk, by the direction of the council, prepared a case, embodying that known as Gerad's case, reported in 2, W. . Blackstone, p. 1,123, wherein a lawyer residing in the county of Middlesex was ballotted to serve in the militia, but claimed exemption on the ground that he was in full practice. It was, however, held in this case that exemption could not be so claimed, as it was possible for the defendant to have commuted the service by payment of a fine of £lO to provide a substitute, and he conseqUently lost his case. The case was submitted to W. N. Welsby, Esq., and at the meeting of the town council on Tuesday evening the opinion of that gentleman was read. The learned cotmsel expressed his concurrence in the view of the law as laid down in Gerad's case, which lie considered •to be analagous to the one before him, and hence that. Mr. Udall was liable to pay the fine. Alderman Dickson proposed that proceedings be taken for the recovery of the penalty of £5O. Alderman Hallum seconded the potion, whicli, OW some discussion, was carried.
Northern Times. — 1857-07-11 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

SMITH. If L'ANGELIER died on the 23rd of March, he was ill on the 19th ; and there is nothing to show that Miss SMITH then had poison in her possession, or that she had an opportunity of giving it to him. There was an absence of proof about the 22nd of February ; and for the 22nd of March, the evidence not only failed to establish  —it contradicted the probability of a meeting. The main condition on which she would admit him to the house was wanting, viz--the absence of her parents. Looking at the question in this way, and taking into account the fact that he had before threatened suicide, on occasions of less disappointment, it was but natural that the jury should hesitate, where such grave and serious doubts were raised, and thus give to the unfortunate young lady the full benefit of that doubt, and thereby give her a safe deliverance from the charge made against her. With the verdict we fully concur, and congratulate Miss:Small upon her acquittal, believing that she has been the victim of a dishonourable and designing man, who wrought her ruin, regardless of the consequences.  We trust that this sad romance may not be lost upon that portion of the fair sex who are forming matrimonial engagements. Miss SMITH loved with a fondness bordering upon dotage. She did not estimate the moral character of her practised seducer, and hence the fearful results which have ensued. Had she been less loving, her character would not have been blasted as it has been, by the letters read in Court, nor would her parents have had cause to mourn over the downfall of an erring daughter, who was at one time the object of tenderest solicitude—a pride and an ornament to the family circle to which she belonged.  ON Wednesday last, there was another of those displays of ill-breeding, impudence, and self-conceit, in the Board-room of the West Derby Workhouse, which have rendered the meetings of the Guardians of that Union somewhat notorious. We happen to have incurred the fearful displeasure of Mr. SaAw, in consequence of our having, in the discharge of a public duty, animadverted upon his conduct towards Dr.
Northern Times. — 1857-07-22 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

POISONING OF A STOCK BROKER BY  PRUSSIC ACID.  On Saturday evening Mr. W. Carter, coroner for East Surrey, instituted an ieg,iry at the Albany Arms Tavern, Albany-road, Camberwell, relative to the death of Mr. James Sebastian Yeates, aged 62, a stockbroker, residing in the Crescer t, Albany-road. • Mr: George Edward Yeates, the deceased's son, on Thursday morning last found his father lying in bed dead He then went for Mr. Gower, a surgeon, who attende3. About twelve the same day witness again went to his father's room, and there perceived on the dressing-room table a small bottle, not labelled ; but there was a cork, which, however, did not quire St. He took up the bottle, and found it smelt very strongly of amends. When wieness first entered the room in the morning there was no such smell pervading the room, and Mr. Gower, the surgeon, did not notice the bottle. Mrs. Letitia Yeates, the wife of the deceased, who was dreadfully agitated, proved that she had never seen the bottle produced, and that when she went into the room after her son George arrived see did cot smell anything peculiar. Mr. Thomas Griffith, surgeon, of High-street, Peckham, said he found the deceased dead in bed. While in the room he noticed a phial on the dressing table, which ha took up, and at once detected a powerfel smell of prussic acid. He went to the body of Mr. Yeatee, and pressing on the chest placed his nose to the mouth, but could not smell anything. He took possession of tho phial, Ewhich contained about half an ounce. He had made a post morfenz examination, and when he opened the body the smell of prussic acid was very powerful. He had not the slightest doubt that the deceased died from the effects of that poison. The witness added that he went down stairs and, addressing ore of M r. Yeates's daughters asked her if she could give. the slightest clue to the cause of her father's death, and she said, " Have you seen the bottle?" The whole of the family declared that they had never seen the bottle containing the poison before it was found on the dressing-table The coroner said the last statement made by Mr. Griffith was of a most important character, and he (the coroner) would not he doing his duty if he allowed such a case to pass without the fullest investigation, as the circumstance of the bottle not being found in the morning, and no one detecting the smell of the poison, including a medical gentleman, was most strange. He should therefore adjourn the case for a few days, to examine the young lady who made the statement to Mr. Griffith relative to the bottle containing the poison.—On Tuesday, Mr. Carter resumed, and coneuded an inquiry into the above case, and some further evidence having been adduced, from which it appeared that the deceased gentleman had been in embarrassed circumstance,, and that there was little doubt be had committed suicide,  the ilry retlrned a verdict that deceased had destroyed himself whilst labouring under temporary insanity.
Northern Times. — 1857-09-24 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

JESUS." As a further proof that MARIA CLARKE had been brought up piously, we find her making a confession of perjury, and thin, in the midst of her despair, crying oat, "CHRIST save me !"  This is a case which, more than any that has been previously recorded, imperatively calls for some change in the management of our Union Workhouses. In the first place, it is alleged, neither mother or child were properly treated or cared for. Although the latter was illegitimate, there is nothing in the case to show that orphans whose parents are dead, and which circumstance necessitates their being Union paupers, are subjected to any better treatment ; and if so, is it not a most painful thing to think that such unfortunate creatures should be placed in such a position as to render death more desirable to them than life. We know that all Union Workhouses are not the same, and that there are many where treatment of such a kind as takes place in the hackney would not be tolerated. But there must be something very bad with the administration of our poor-laws where it is possible for such treatment to occur.  Lastly, we think that some means could be adopted for bringing such characters to a sense of their duty, and recovering their lost position. Ilad there been any piously disposed and sympathising female at hand, who would have given her wise and solemn counsels, the daughter would have still been alive, and the mother would not have attempted suicide, nor be obliged to stand in the felon's dock, accuse I of being the murderess of her own offspring The poor wretch is to be pitied, and the inhuman laws which instigated the crime to be reprobated by the good and the wise of every class in the community.
Northern Times. — 1857-07-31 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

DETERMINED ATTEMPT TO COMMIT SUICIDE.—CARLOW, JULY 23.—0 a ycsterd iy evening a young woman named llaugliney, residing in Graigue, in the borough of Carlow, attempted to destroy herself by strangulation, under very extraordinary eireunastances. From the facts elicited it appears that the girl in question and her mother, who is a widow, lived together in the same house. The mother, who is a buxom jolly person, conceived the idea of again entering the matrimonial state, and having thrown her amorous eyes on a sprightly swain named Price, the succeeded in securing his affections. A day was named for celebrating the :auntie' tie. Knowledge of the circumstance having boen conveyed to the daughter, her indignation knew no bounds. She taxed her mother for being carried away by such girlish notions, and demanded that the suite should be abandoned, and the lover discarded. The elder Llaughney was obdurate to the appeals and threats of the daughter, and no very complimentary epithets passed between them. For several days matters continued in this condition, which were brought to a climax last night by the younger Haughney declaring that if her mother did not give up the idea of getting " spliced " she would hang herself. The mother laughed scornfully at the threat, and enc Araged the girl to carry it into execution, which she immediately did, by retiring into the garden at the end of the house, where, having procured a rope, and selecting the strong arm of a tree, she adjus'ed the noose by placing it round her neck, and was soon suspended mid earth and heaven. The curiosity of the mother was excited by the long absence of the girl, and having followed her to ascertaih if she really intended to carry out what she stated, she was horrified to find her daughter in the awful position she was in. Assistance having been procure,'( the unfortunate girl was cut down, when life was found not to be quite extinct. After the application of several rem %dies she slowly recovered, when she was taken by the ,Viice before a magistrate, who ordered her to find bail for har future good conduct. The mother, it is stated, was so ejected by the melancholy catastrophe Acl her intention of that she has rennin entering the bonds of Hymen for the presoo,—Sgunders,
Northern Times. — 1857-12-23 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

ALLEGED CRUELTY AT SEA, AND SUICIDE  OF A BOY.  On Saturday, Captain Robert M'Eachim, the master of the brig Heather hell, apps ired be:ore Me. Yard ey, at the Taames Policecourt, to answer a charge of assaulting a boy named John William Norris. Mr. Charles Young, solicitor. ceridncted the prn-ec'ition ; Mr. Wa'ter Pelham, clerk to Mr. Fletcher, solicit or, appeared for the defence. The falter of the deeeased boy applied for a warrant against the prisoner on Monday evening last, and it was greeted. Howland, 89 11. was directed to execute it immediately, and he went , down to Gravesend and ascertained that the ship had sailed for Barbadoes, and was likely to remain in the Downs for several days. 'The captain hearing that a warrant was issued left his ship in the Downs, and came to London to answer the charge. The father of the deceased, on applying for the warrant, alleged that his son had been ill-treated on the voyage by Captain APEachim, and that, while labouring under fear of more severe punishment, he was threatened by the prisoner, and jumped overboard and wa' drowned. At the same time, Mr. Norris produced a letter from Captain M'Eachim, stating that the boy fed overboard on the 30th of October, while reefing the tore op-sail, " and it being a dark, stormy night. with thunder and lightning, he was lost sight of." The second mate of the ship, who wcompanied the father of the deceased when he applied for the warrant, et ted teat Captain AP.Eathina had given a false account of the boy's death, and chat the boy had committed suicide. Mr. Young state.] that he believed he could establish a case of great cruelty against the defendant, and called a seaman named Stewart, who said the voyage of the Heather Bell recently terminated was the first on which the deceased boy bed ventured to sea. The boy was apprenticed by the Marine Society. The Heather Hell made a voyage to the West Indio and back. A few days alter leaving Encland the captain commenced ill-using the boy, and scarcely a day elapsed without the captain beating the lad with a rope's-end in a most brutal manner. One day the boy was at the wheel, and the captain strock him with his fist and knei:ked hi a down. This was repeated upon other occasions, and upon one of them the boy's eye was blackened. The boy had often said in the fo-ecastle that tho captain, by hi; continual bad t eatment, had made him stupid. The day the bay was lost the witness was at the helm, and he sow the captain take hold of the boy's tyro t with one heed, and compress it until the deceased was block in the face, and with his other heed, which was clenched, he struck the bay on the face. The deceased appeared to stiffer a great deal of pain, and the same day was lest. Mr., Yardley : How did ho go overboard ? I can't tell how he went overboard. Mr Walter Pelham said the captain had came up from the Downs to meet the charge, and he hoped bail would be taken. Mr. Yardley said he would allow the defendant to be a: large upon entering into his own recognisances is the sum of £5O.