The Potteries Examiner : — 1880-05-15 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

SUSPECTED MURDER OF A BANK CLERK.  The Middlesex coroner has holden an inquiry in London into the death of Walter Sheppard Hatcher, clerk in the London and County Bank. Ths deceased, although but 21, was proved to have kept a mistress at a house of questionable repute in Clap. ton, and to have become responsible for several large sums of money. He was accustomed also to frequent low music halls with persons of dubious character. On the evening of the 14th April he was closeted some time in his bedroom with a person unknown, and writing and other materials were used. Nest day a forged cheque was presented at the bank, but , detected, and that evening the deceased set out to meet the person he had passed the previous evening with as described, and never was again seen alive. A fortnight later his body was found floating in the river Lea. It was shown that deceased could always obtain help from his uncle, and was most unlikely to have committed suicide. As the evidence was now exhausted, the jury returned a verdict of "Found drowned," leaving the .matter in the hands of the police.  It is said that, in Berlin, politicians are openly discussing, as if it were near at hand, the disruption of the Ottoman Empire. At a mass meeting of coasting seamen held in Aberdeen it has been resolved to demand an imme. &ate advance in wages of 10s. per month. Brighton can boast of having had a lower death. rate in 1870 than any but ono of the twenty large towns ef which record is kept by the Registrars General.  A now tainting telegmph has been invented by Herr Divite, of Bremen.  The Mount Vitamins Railway has been inspected dedared " all right."  A.-angel:Bents hove Leon wade for the dep,trture of Prince Leopold for Canada.  The buildings of the great National Exhibition at LI! ussols axe nwr imnpletoi.  A largely attended meeting in connection with the Social Science Association was held on Monday night at the Caledonian Hotel, London, Mr. Joseph Brown, Q.C., in the chair, when Mrs. Garrett Anderson, M.D., read a paper on Educational Pressure:' Declining to express any opinion on boys' schools, and confining her remarks to the methods of education adopted in secondary schools for girls, lies. Garrett Anderson urged the following practical points as a remedy for the complaints made as to overwork in such schools—i. To get the elements of knowledge well and thoroughly taught at an early age, and not to urge the child to make up for early neglect by taking a very extensive range of subjects as menus she goes to a good school. 2. To accept two and a half or three hours of class work as long enough at one time for almost all children, and to provide two or three short intervals of rest--e.g., fire or ten minutes in each hour--during even this time. 3. To insist upon every girls' school having a playground. 4. To aim at greatly reducing the amount of writing in the home work. 5. To reduce the number of examinations, and especially to make them as unstimulating as possible, and to apply them with great reserve to the children most likely to shine in them. 6. Not to aim at completing the education by the age of eighteen. The omits purpose of Girton and Newnham Colleges is to encourage young women to continue their education in an organised manner after they cease to need the restraints imposed upon school-girls, and the existence of these colleges renders it more than ever unnecessary to attempt to teach girls everything they ought to know in early adolescence.