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The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1893-09-16 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE TO AVOID  ARREST.  Detective-sergeants Gentle and Divall, belonging to the Southwark police, went to a house in Glenthorpe-road, Walthamstow, for the purpose of arresting a cashier named Gibley, on a charge of embezeing £2OO, the property of his employers, a south London firm of corn-dealers. The door was opened by a young woman who said she was ,Mrs. Gibley, but when questioned by Gentle declared that her husband had left the house some 20 minutes previously. This statement the officers gave no credence to, having watched the house for some time. While questioning her further they were startled by hearing the report of firearms. Under the impression that the report oame from an upper room the two officers rushed upstairs, but their search revealed nothing. While proceeding downstairs they heard another report, and they then rushed to a coal cellar, but found the door locked. Bursting it open, they were just in time to see Gibley, who was lying on the floor, fire a third time, the revolver being pointed at his head. Gentle and Divall at once seized his hand and wrenched the weapon from him. Dr. Archer, the divisional surgeon, was called, and under his direction Gibley was removed to the Glerman Hospital, Dalston, where he lies in • dangerous condition, there being three bullets in his head.  A job has been found for the French feet. Torpedo-boats are putting out from Marseilles to blow up the porpoises which are such a nuisance to Mediterranean fishermen. Hitherto they have been trying to kill the porpoises by throwing out baits containing india-rubber tubes in which two strong needles were inserted. If the porpoise could be persuaded to swallow this engine he died before bag of peritonitis. English infanta sometimes try to catch birds in similar fashion, by putting solo upon their tails. And with similar 311000811.
The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1893-02-11 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

SOLUTION OF A RAILWAY "MYSTERY."  A ROMANTIC FISHMONGER. The Basingstoke police have succeeded in solving a so-called railway mystery on the South-Western Use. It now appears that upon the triail train from Portsmouth pulling up at Basingstoke Station at a few minutes past 2 in the morning a young man was seen to hurriedly throw open the door of a third-class compartment and jump on to the platform. He quickly moved towards the sub. way, but returned and made some inquiries from a local policeman as to where he could put up for the night. The officer suggested the railway hotel, and there that traveller secured a bed for the night. In the meantime, the night inspector of the railway company had noticed upon the rack of the carriage which the young man had just vacated a brown leather bag. He took it across to the hotel, but the passenger declared that the bag was not his, and that he knew nothing about it. Subsequently it was opened by the police and found to contain a six-shooting revolver, with three chambers loaded, while one had evidently been recently discharged. There were slight blood stains on the weapon as well as upon some books and letters. The young man was again taxed with being the owner of the bag. This he strenuously denied, gave what turned out to be a false name and address, and was at last arrested. By communicating with Portsmouth the police found that the name of the mysterious person was Charles Enrridge, a fish merchant, of Portsmouth. Being taxed with this the prisoner, who is described as thick-set, short, and stout, and of anything but a romantic appearance, proceeeded to make a clean breast of matters. He owned that the bag was his and went on to explain that his conduct had been inspired by • desire to create the impression that he had committed suicide. He told of a love affair which, owing to pecuniary reasons, he saw no way of bringing to a happy issue, and said he thought that if he got clean away, leaving his luggage behind him in the train, the young lady to whom he was attached, as well as his relatives, would regard him B 9 dead. The police having satisfied themselves that there had been no tragedy telegraphed about noon to the young man's friends at Portsmouth. At three o'clock his father and sister arrived, and in their company he returned home.  and
The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1893-06-10 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

ALLEGED ATTEMPTED CHILD  MURDERS. TERRIBLE STORIES.  At the Marylebone Police-court, London, on Monday, William Thomas Iliff, 27, an oilman's assistant, of 4, Eton-street, Regent's-park, was charged with having attempted to murder Frederick William and Henry Vernon 'tiff, aged five aud one year reisper tively, by cutting their throats with a pen-knife.—P. c. Gralton said he was going home off duty at 20 iniautes to 7 o'clock that morning, and wai called to 4, Eton street. In consequence of what he was told, he went up to the second floor, and on the landing saw the prisoner, who, before anything was said to him, remarked, "All right, I will surrender." He and the prisoner went lute the front room, and on a bed he saw one of the children with his throat out. The prisoner was taken into the back room and detained. Having been told he would be arrested and charged, the prisoner said, " All right, I have done it." Inspector Plied said he went to the house and in the second floor back room found the prisoner and the two children with their throats cut. One was sitting on a chair, and the other was in the lap of the landlady. Dr. Trenfield, of Albert-terrace, had by that time arrived, and by his directions the children were removed to the London Temperance Hospital, Hampstead-road. —On the application of the inspector the magistrate remanded the prisoner. At the West London Police court on the same day Minnie Frances Belcher, aged 30 years, who was dressed in deep mourning, was brought from St. Mary's Hospital charged with attempting to murder her two children by cutting their throats. She was further charged with attempting to commit suicide.—Dr. A. M. Griffiths, said on the 21st of May he was called to the house where he found the prisoner lying on the bed with her throat cut, the wound being six inches in length. She was in • state of collapse. The bay (Frederick), four months old, was in the cut crying. He examined the child and found his throat also cut. The little I girl (Minnie), three years old, had a slight wound In the throat. He carefully superintended the removal of the prisoner and her children to the hospital. He found a table knife covered with blood lying on the mantelshelf. Another knife covered with blood was lying by the side of the prisoner.—Sergeant Atkinson informed the magistrate that the children were in no danger. One child had left the hospital.—The Magistrate remanded the prisoner.
The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1893-06-10 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

OOO. attempted to commit suicide a week after receiving order was made, and is still in a ous condition. A romantic+ incident in connection with the of the Sultan of Johore has given rise to I comment at Carlsbad. The Sultana nephew,. aeoompanied him on his visit to Europe, fell love during his previous visit to Carlsbad t years ago, after the death of his wife, with , daughter of a local locksmith, who was Wadi the district for her beauty. The nephew week introduced the locksmith's daughter lu Sultan, who consented to their betrothel. At their marriage the yoang coupe will relays  India. At the Liverpool Police-court on Monday, Admiral Gough, C 8., Captain Arthur Olesi Henry James Wimshuret were charged on r with casting or attempting to oast ew steamship Glendarrooh, on the 15th March . St. Patrick's Causeway, Cardigan By. prisoners were committed for trial. On Monday afternoon a collision, attended loss of life, occurred off Beachy Seed. steamer Ogmore, of Dundee, b,und for ran down the fishing lugger Albert and Eastbourne, which had five men on hoard. Cummings, one of the crew, was drows rest being saved, though one of then wee . exhausted. Cumminge was a widower  family. Mr. William Saunders, M.P., is report stated with reference to his absence filo division lobby, that he does not intend to VW votes in favour of the Home Rule Bil, so lo contains the property qualification forth. Upper House in Ireland. He does not iiks self not to vote against certain features oh and in particular he is, like Mr. T. B. Opposed to the ninth olause as it now standar hopes and expects that it will be modified.. Jerry Laughlin and Thomas Kueebolt,' viots in the Michigan State prison, have their escape. They had been let out of doll assist in bringing in the suppers of the ' and at a convenient moment darted gas the walls. They were out of biOt thu wood in a few Minutes. Both Ws sentences for robbery. A loath-hound " C Innon Ball" train, Mountain Railway has been wrecked in (Jawed by a switch near Poplar Bluff misplaced. Seven passengers were "Cannon Ball" train ran into a sto the enginemen on both locoo:otives saved their lives. The carriages are • rums. A hundred valuable cattle We I The damage is eatimwe I at 75,000101 n I Seventy Cincinnati furniture f, closed on Monday owing to the dl' have arisen with their employees. hands have been thrown idle.   , - . A founder d------ur doeonft, tshtuhene dafale a,: hs: ninent on a chalv Nice ch.arii..eml iatpopeu as, lbstat PONTYPRIDD DISTRICT HERALD, Saturday, June 10. 1893 tlpfaFriemlicejoiuernia6l 3i journalism, EPIT 0 M I, OF NE V& of TatheealEinngglaissoohmanf. u, oJtaem freoamßerNnard Lean,aiimnPoringc'etrike.'vatrywß;oyw:, e 'A S IN.
The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1893-09-23 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

FATAL ACCIDENT TO A STEVE DO RE.  An inquest was helcirr;-iaturday at the London Hospital on the body of James Turner, aged 44, a stevedore. It appeared from the evidence of James Hartigan that on the 6th inst. he was at work on the steamship Isis, moored at the West India dock buoys, discharging esparto grass. It being necessary to bring the barge nearer the ship, a hook was made feat to the band of a bale of grass in the barge, and a slight strain put upon it. Jest afterwards the m;sen topmast broke, and in falling struck Turner in the back. All the gear used belonged to the steamship company. Turner, after lingering a week, died in the hospital. Captain John Johnson, marine superintendent to the Mogul Steamship Company, stated that the mast ought tohave withstood a strain of about 30cw t., but a strain of only about 4owt. was put upon it. Witness found it had been made out of an old spar that had been used as a mast on some other ship. A large sheave hole had been made in the centre of the mast, thus diminishing its strength by about half. This had bten blocked up by two graving pieces, so that when the stay broke there was **thing to bold up the mast. Mr. Wynne E. Bea. ter, the coroner, said it was to be regretted the ship had gone away. The verdict of the jury was "that the deceased died from congestion of the lungs, supervening on fractured leg, ribs, and other injuries (mused by the topmast breaking away and falling on the deceased, in consequence of the rotten condition of the stay and mast."  Andrew Darling, a traveller for Mesirs. Hall. and Company, of Aidermanbury, London, committed suicide at Scarborough by shooting himself through the head with • revolver.  The Philadelphia Mint, where bullion ia stored, reports the discovery of a loss of SAO ounces of sold from a vault which has been pealed since lOC
The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1893-09-30 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

BATTERSEA TRAGEDY.  At the Star and Garter, Battersea, on Monday, Mr. A. Braxton Hicks, the Mid-Surrey Coroner, held an inquiry touching the death of Robert May Prhie, a bookseller's assist tnt, aged 60 years, living at 146, Elsley-road, Battersea, who nommitted suicide by cutting his throat on Saturday last.—Arthur May Price, a china dealer'. assistant, identified the body as that of hie father. He was worried a great deal in connection with his work, but otherwise had nothing to trouble him. There was a delusion in his mind that the people on the Shaftesbury Estate wanted to get rid of him. On the 22nd last, he left a letter at a Mrs. Taylor's who lived next door, as follows :—" 146, Eleleyroad, Battersea. Madam,—Please accept my apologies for any annoyance I may have caused you. Let me assure you that it will always be my study to avoid future cause of complaint. Being an old man, I hope you will forgive me.—B. id. PRICII " Witness had spoken to Mrs. Taylor about the letter, and she professed her entire ignorance of the deceased's meaning. On Saturday morning last the deceased got up at 8 o'clock, and at once went up to his room to work. Finding he did not come down as usual the witness went upstairs and found his father lying on the door with his throat cut.—The Coroner remarked that it was a sad case, as the dressed man bore a very good character.—The jury returned a verdict of suicide during temporary insanity. number  A remarkable di oovery was made by • of workmen engaged in cleraing some ground Whitechapel, on Monday morning. A number houses bad been pulled down, and the were being dug out for a large new About six feet from the surface of the ground immense quantity of human bones, computed weigh about two tons, was disoovered. remains of coffins of any kind were found. houses which formerly stood on the spot were old, and the bones seem as though they had in the earth a considerable time.  foundations  warehouse.  :very  bees  I
The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1893-05-13 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

INQUEST .AND VERDICT.  On Saturday the adjaurnt d ihquest on the body of George S-,eilard, who rr ar•lered Mrs. Whittde, wife of Mr. Whittle, a gentleman living at Chorley. Lancashire, and then allot himself, at Hollyfields, Gresford (North Wales), was resu.ned at that place. At the inquest previon-'y on Mrs. Whittle a verdict wea returned that Shellard murdered her, and the inquiry was mainly adjJurned with a view to ascertain the state of his mind.—Mary Ann Bhellard (widow of the murderer), who was attired in deep mourning, said she resided at 10, Parson's Brow,Chorley,Lancashire. She lastsaw her husband alive on May day morning, when lie left the house without saying where he was going. He had I always enjoyed good health, but on April 29 and 30 he wea very low•spirited. She did not know what was the cause of the depression. She never knew him to have fits. She was aware he was in the I habit of visiting Mrs. Whittle, and said she owed him money. Sue had not noticed anything psculiar , about him beyond his being in a low, desponding 1 state of mind when he cams home on Saturday. He had said sometime when leaving home that he should not come back, but she thought this was only nonsense. He asked her on Monday before he left to shake hands and kiss him, but the I declined. On Sunday he wrote a letter to Mrt I Whittle' which witness and her little girl posted. He told her he had said in the letter he should come to fetch the money and watch she had robbed him of. He did not seem angry, hut upset. He did not use any threats. Mrs. Whittle and P. dence Taylor had come to visit her husband when witness was at home. Har husband WU in Liverpool with Mrs. Whittle. He was away from home for several days. A watch, which had already been alluded to, formerly belonged to Mn, Whittle's mether, and Mrs. Vila' Is gave it to her husband. When he left home for Liverpool he was wearing the watch and had £l5 in gold. When he left home on the Saturday he had neither watch nor money. There had been dreadful goings on between the two for about four or five months to her knowledge. She did not know how much longer.—Prudence Taylor, recalled, said she was in Mrs. Whittle's and Shellar.'s company on the day of the tragedy frr five or six hours. A letter found On his body, in which he foreshadowed the ; orime, must have been written before he arrived at t Gresfird. She saw no signs of the revolver until he presented it at her in the bedroom. She I believed Shellard owed Mrs. Whittle a good deal t of money. They seemed to be frieody on Monday. —Other evidence having beeu given, the jury returned a verdict of felo de se.  ,  'Q °Z. • ,/  i'd -c I' i A--. , -:- ,s- i ~,,i,/,, 1 -1 1 0/ ---'' iir V \:,, ( ‘ 'll. \ ‘\'' . ', 1,.r ,\ \ \,,\ . if \il ' , ' \\'` f: ,\. , . \;,, : , \ ' \ \ 1,0,, :,, ~\ i „;,,,1 ! „, , ~ l , )111 IA 1 \ 1;1 \ -- - . its tti:...* '
The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1893-06-17 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

THE ROCHFORD MURDER.  The inquest on Mrs. Hunt was resumed. —lnspector Chase, continuing his evidenoe, said he had noticed blood on the front of Hazell's clothing.—By the Coroner: Witness did not search Hazen, although he saw blood on him. He did not obtain prisoner's clothes until two days after the tragedy, when they were obtained from his mother. When witness arrested the prisoner, his mother said "I shall never believe my son is guilty unless he confesses." He had known prisoner nearly four years. Razors were found in prisoner's home, but not bloodstained. H 3 had circulated no information, as he at first considered the case one of suicide. He had made no inquiries as to whether Hazel! hadbought • knife orras3r. —Walter Hunt, of 13, Stanley-street, Clapham, commercial traveller to Messrs. Hill and Jones, wholesale confectioners, was the next witness. He was cautioned by the Coroner, who, however, said that there was at present no suggestion that he knew anything of the traged).—Witness gave evidence that he was in Woolwich at the time the crime was committed. Deceased used frequently to write to him in affectionate terms. He had iestroyed all the letters, but he knew deceased had not threatened to commit suicide. Witness had been married, but had separated from his wife 14 years ago. He had received a letter from deceased asking him to see her Sunday or Monday. He did not answer it.—Mrs. Sophia Thorogood, shopkeeper, said Hazell came to her about tl5 on the evening of the crime with blood on his hands. Her daughter remarked, "It won't wash off, mother, for 'murdered blood' never does." Hazell said, "I am all over blood." —The little boy Wakeling, who, it has been stated, taw the murder committed, was called, hut he was  only five years old, and the Coroner considered he Wlllll WO young to take the oath. Mrs. Wakeling, however, Baia her son told her it was not Hazen who committed the murder, but a "dirty old man."—The inquest was further adjourned. On Saturday Hazell was further examined at the police-court, and in the end was committed for trial.
The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1893-04-08 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

MYSTERIOUS SUICIDE IN LONDON.  Dr. Wynn Westeott held an inquest on Monday at Islington Coroner's Court on the body of Harriet Harold, aged 26, spinster, a machinist, lately residing at 38, Farit6eld•street, Liverpoolroad, who was discovered drowned in the New River, at Cationbury. Mrs. Harold, mother of the deceased, widow of a silversmith, stated that for the last six months her daughter had resided at home and worked out as a machinist. Prior to this she was a domestic servant, and had only had three different situations during fourteen years. A few nights previously she left home at eight without saying where she was going, and never returned. Witness believed that her daughter had been "keeping company" with a ships steward who had gone abroad, but she was not aware that the deceased was troubled in any way whatever. Witness was wholly unable to account for the manner of her daughter's death. George Godfrey, a waterman in the employ of the New River Company, deposed that he discovered the deceased in the river near Canonbury-road-bridge. She was only partially dressed. Her jacket, overall, hat, and umbrella were found carefully placed together on the bank of the river, which was part of an enclosed garden in the rear of a house, access to which was through a gate. The premises were private, and the deceased, in going there, would be trespassing. There was no evidence of a struggle at the riverside. Dr. F. J. Buckell, police surgeon, deposed that the deceased had evidently not been long in the, water when he examined the body. He observed no marks of violence, and there could be no doubt that death was due to suffocation from drowning. The Coroner remarked that the careful piling of part of deceased's clothing on the river bank seemed to negative any theory of accident. At the same time, no one seemed to know any cause impelling the deceased to end her life. The jury found a verdict of suicide while of unsound mind.
The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1893-12-30 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

ESP.—There are thonsinols of busy people who the every year for waut of sleep. Sleeplessness hoc es n disease, and is the precursor of insanity. We /peak of sleep an the imago of death, and our waking ideas as the image of life. Sleep is not like death ; for it is the 1.01 01 in which the wets° of the system ceases, or is reduced to its minimum. Sloe') repairs the waste which waking hours have mule. It, rebuilds the system. The night is the repair eliop of the body. Every part of the system is silently overhauled, an I all the organs, tssuus, and setbetatices are replenielied. Waking consumes and exhausts ; sleep replaces and repairs. A man who would he a good worker must be a good alseper. A matt has its much force in him as he line provided for in sleep. The quality of meetal activity depends upon the quality of sleep. Men need on iii. average eight hours of sleep in a day. A lymphatic tempeialltelit may require nine ; a nervous Lemiutrament, six or seven. A 'ylllolBl ie 10011 is sluggish, moves and sleeps slowly. But a nervous matt acts quickly it. everything. lie does more in an hour than a sluggish man in two hours ; and so in his sleep. Every man must sleep according to his temperament ; but eight hours is the average. Whoever by work, pleasure, sorrow, or by any other cause, is regtihirly diminishing his sleep, is destroyiug his life. A man may hold out for a long time, but the crash will ‘9llllO, end he will die. The is a great deal of illtelillittleitee besides that of tobacco, opium, Or Men are dissipated who overtax their eyetente all day, and tuidersleep every night. A man who dies of delirium tremens IS no more a drunkard and a suicide than the minister, the lawyer, the merchant, the editor, or the printer, that works excessively all day, and sleeps but little all night. TataTMSNT OF