Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1883-12-01 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

DOUBLE MURDER AND SUICIDE.  At the village of Kirkfield Bank, near Lanark, a young man named Wm. Brown has murdered two young women, and then committed suicide. The names of the murdered women are Charlotte Speirs, aged 35, and Catherine Hamilton, 16. The crime was committed bet, een ten and eleven o'clock at night, when the villagers had for the most part retired to rest. The first Intimation of the tragedy was from a postilion named George Kay, of the Station Hotel, Lanark, who hod been at Kirkfield Bank with a party, and he observed something like a person lying on the roadside. On returning he stopped, and found that it was the lifeless body of a woman with her throat out. He raised the alarm, and the neighbours turned out, when it was found that the dead body was that of Miss Speins. At the same time it was found that the servant girl, Catherine Hamilton, was lying in a dying state at the door of the house of George Elder, wheelwright, where she had been knocking for about half an hone. The inmates heard a faint tapping, bat as no one spoke they did not open the door. The postilion hastened to Newark, and gave the police information of the affair. Catherine Hamilton was found to be still alive, and was removed into Mr. Elder's house. She was unable to speak, and she wrote with a pencil the words, "Willie killed us both." The unfortenate girl died the next morning. On examining Brownville House the body of the murderer was found on the lower Bat of the house, node eharp-pointed new knife was found near it. He was a medical student, and it is thought the knife was used in a surgery. A pool of blood was found inside the outer door of the house. The girl's hand was much cut, as if in warding off the fatal thrusts. No motive whatever van be aasigned for the deed. It is said the murderer Brown woe suffering from insanity. He bad been seen lately walking in the garden, speaking and laughing to himself. The event has caused great excitement in the village and neighbourhood.  AN examination for seholarshipq will be held by the London School Board on Tuetafay, Dec. 18, and following days. At present there are four scholarships for award on the results of this examination, tic., the Clothworkers' Company's (No. 9) Scholarship and the Fax Scholarship for boys ; the Clothworkers' Company's, flitchin's Trust No. 9) scholarship for girls, and the Clothworkere Ccenpany's Technical Scholarship (No. 1) for a boy or a girl. The technical scholarship is of the average annual value of £3O, tenable for two years, and intended to provide a preliminary course of science teaching at a school of a higher grade than a public elementary school, with a view to the scholar being admitted at the clo-e of the preliminary course as a free student at the Finsbury Technical College. The remaining scholarships are all of the average annual value of £3O, and tenable for four years. Candidates for electhat must be of good character, who will be under 13 on the last day of June, 1884, and who most during each of the three years immediately preceding the last day of November have attended for not less than 250 times in each of the said three years a public eleinentary school or schools within the limits of the metropolis. The forms of application from all intending candidates must be. returned, duly filled up, on or before Wednesday, December 5. Forms of application may be obtained on application to the clerk of the Board, School Board Mikes, Victoria Embankment, W.C.  Tug Hon. and Rev. Francis Godolphin Pelham, a younger eon of the Earl of Chichester, rector of Hales Owen, Worcestershire, Ron. Canon of Bangor and Chaplain to the Bishop of Bangor, has been appointed to the rectory of Lambeth, London, by his Grace the Archbishop of Cast-chary, patron of the living, the Rev. J. F. Lingham having resigned the position he has for so many years held on account of ill-health. True Sunderland Fe/so states, with respect to the detention of vessels for twenty days in quarantine in Vonrla Bay by the Turkish authorities, that Lord Granville has informed Mr. Storey, M.P., that—in response to representations made by him personally—her Majesty's Ambassador at C,onstantinople has been instructed by telegraph to insist strongly that such vessels as the City of Newcastle, which do not desire to communicate with the shore, should be allowed to pass through the Dardanelles in quarantine without detention.  Annul, three o'clock in the morning a destructive fire, the cause of which is unknown, broke out recently on the premises of Mr. George Morton, publican and bay dealer, at Sarmtt, near Rickmansworth. The outbuildings, containing about twenty quarters of corn, were entirely consumed, and several pigs, as well as a calf, were burned to death, two horses being also badly singed. The town's Volunteer Fire Brigade, which was the only brigade in attendance, were quickly on the spot and succeeded in finally extinguishing the fire.  DAvioAnsu, aged 22. of 9, .31aisborough•road, Kerh,ington, was lately taken to the University llo,pital, London, Buttering from injuries to the head, lie k a fireman in the employ of the District Railway Company :tad while on an engine travelling between Baker ateet and Portland-road, net his head over the side of the engbie, when it came into contact with the hreastwork. lie was: ,tunned, bat,: the driver managed to prevent him falling off, and on the arrival of the train at the station he WU nut to the hospital