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The Sun. — 1868-02-18 (London, England)

MURDERING A SWEETHEART. —The Court of Assizes of the Seine et Marne has just been engaged on an extraordinary trial for murder. The accused was a young man named Deldtain, aged 19, and the deceased, Alexandrine Rousselet, was aged 17 only. They blth resided in the commune of Verdelot, and appeared to have been on terms of improper intimacy. Del6tain had wished to marry her, but her parents, who were not aware that she had been seduced by the accused, opposed such a union, as Del4tain was not only somewhat beneath her in position, but was addicted to intemperance. On the 9th December last the two young people were both at the wedding ball of a neighbour ; the deceased departed with the accused at about:midnight, and was not seen again until the following day, when her body was found in a wood with a part of the skull blown away by a pistol shot. Delkain then came forward with a slight wound in his face, and pretended that, as there had been an obstacle to their marriage, they had agreed to commit suicide ; that the young girl had first fired the pistol at him as they were seated together at the foot of a tree, and had then blown out her own brains. This story was manifestly untrue. The pistol had been borrowed by Del6tain from the curs of the commune under some pretext, and both barrels were then loaded with powder and shot. Several points of circumstantial evidence showed that the pistol could only have been fired by the accused; that the young girl had been murdered, and that Deletain had inflicted upon himself a slight wound to support his fabrication. Jealousy was the motive of the crime. The jury returned a verdict of guilty, and the court condemned the prisoner to twenty years' hard labour.
The Sun. — 1868-02-18 (London, England)

MURDERING A SWEETHEART. —The Court of Assizes of the Seine et Marne has just been engaged on an extraordinary trial for murder. The accused was a young man named Deldtain, aged 19, and the deceased, Alexandrine Rousselet, was aged 17 only. They b )th resided in the commune of Verdelot, and appeared to have been on terms of improper intimacy. Deldtain had wished to marry her, but her parents, who were not aware that she had been seduced by the accused, opposed such a union, as Deldtain was not only somewhat beneath her in position, but was addicted to intemperance. On the 9th December last the two young people were both at the wedding ball of a neighbour ; the deceased departed with the accused at about:midnight, and was not seen again until the following day, when her body was found in a wood with a part of the skull blown away by a pistol shot. Deldtain then came forward with a slight Wound in his face, and pretended that, as there had been an obstacle to their marriage, they had agreed to commit suicide ; that the young girl had first fired the pistol at him as they were seated together at the foot of a tree, and had then blown out her own brains. This story was manifestly untrue. The pistol had been borrowed by Deldtain from the curd of the commune under some pretext, and both barrels were then loaded with powder and shot. Several points of circumstantial evidence showed that the pistol could only have been fired by the accused; that the young girl had been murdered, and that Deldtain had inflicted upon himself a slight wound to support his fabrication. Jealousy was the motive of the crime. The jury returned a verdict of guilty, and the court condemned the prisoner to twenty years' hard labour.
The Sun. — 1868-12-31 (London, England)

DEATH IN A POLICE CELL.  On Wednesday evening Mr. John Humphreys, coroner, held an inquest at !lackney, respecting the death of Mrs. Hannah Saunders, aged 55 years. The deceased was the wife of a cab proprietor, and her family alleged that her death had been caused by treatment which she had received while a prisoner in the Hackney Policestation. It appeared from the evidence that the deceased had not been very well for some time, And that she left her house at six o'clock on Saturday evening, after bidding her son, a boy aged 12, " good-by "in a way to excite his suspicion that she meant to commit suicide. Two hours afterwards John Robson, 67 N, heard a splash in the Regent's Canal. He procured drags, and in a short time the deceased was found in the water and taken out alive. She was taken to the Sir Walter Scott Tavern, where she was seen by Dr. Thornton, who said she was fit for removal. All her clothes, with the exception of a wet shift, were taken off, and with no other clothing she was put on a stretcher. Mrs. Jones, a fruiterer, however, covered her with a sack. Clothes were sent for at the station, and, after beingplaced before the fire for some time, she was removed to the cell and placed upon the woolen bench, where she again became dreadfully cold. Mrs. Tuppley, wife of a bootcioser, who was locked up in the same cell, said it was dreadfully cold and damp, and the deceased begged the police to give her an old coat, but they would not do so. During the night she rolled off the bench to the floor, uttering a groan. Mrs. Tuppley called the police, when a constable came in and turned on his light and found she was dead. The husband of the deceased had gone t 3 the police-station and offered bail, but the inspector refused to take it, on the ground that the deceased had attempted to commit suicide, which was not a bailable offence. Mr. W. H. Wright, police surgeon, said that he saw the deceased after death. A post mortem examination of her body had been made. She had died from the shock caused by the immersion in the water. Great care ought to have been used to prevent fatal results after the immersion. The police cell was not a fit place  for her to have been put in. She ought to have been removed to an hospital. The jury, after a long consultation, returned a verdict— "That the deceased expired from the effects of a shock caused by immersion in the water while she was of unsound mind, and they censure the police for not calling in the divisional surgeon, and leaving her in a cell the whole of a night, when she might have been taken to the German Hospital or to a workhouse infirmary, and they say that the police should in future call in the divisional surgeon of the force to see persons who have been rescued from drowning."
The Sun. — 1868-12-31 (London, England)

DEATH IN A POLICE CELL.  On Wednesday evening Mr. John Humphreys, coroner, held an inquest at Hackney, respecting the death ,of Mrs. Hannah Saunders; aka 55 yeAis.' The deceased -was the wife of' a ccb prdpriOTand her family all—e7gedT that her death had been caused by treatment which she had received While a prisoner-in the Hackney Policestation. It avpeared from the evidence that the deceased had not been very well for some time, and that she left her house ,akt six o'clock on Saturday evening, after bidding heesont a boy aged 12, " good-by" in a way to excite his suspicio'n that she meant to commit suicide. Two hours afterwards John Robson, 67 N, beard a splash in the Regent's Canal. He procured drags, and in a short time the de-ceased was found in the water. and taken out alive. She was taken to the Sir Walter Scott Tavern, where she was seen by Dr. Thornton, who said she was fit for removal. All her clothes, with the exception of a wet shift, were taken off, and with no other clothing she was put on a stretcher. Mrs. Jones, a fruiterer, however, covered her with a sack. 'Clothes were sent for at the station, and, after being placed before -the fire for some time, she was removed to the cell and placed upon the woolen bench, where she again became dreadfully cold. Mrs. Tuppley, wife of a bootcioser, who was locked up in the same cell, said it was dreadfully cold and damp, and the deceased begged the police to give her au old coat, but they would not do so. During the night she, rolled off the bench to the floor,-uttering a groan. Tuppley called the police, when a constable came in and turned on his light and found she was dead. The husband of the deceased bad gone t 3 the -police-station and Offered-bail, but the inspector refused to take it, ou the ground that the deceased had attempted to commit suicide, which was not a: bailable offence. Mr. Wright, police surgeon, said that he saw the -deceased after death. A post mortem examination of her body had been made. She had died from the shock caused by the immersion the. Water, Great care ought 0 have been used to' prevent fatal results after the infrhersion. The police cell was not' a fit place for her to have been put in. She ought to have been removed to an hospital. The fury, after a long consultation, returned a verdict-- "That the deceased expired from the effects of a shock caused by immersion in the water while she was of unsound mind, and they censure the police ,for not calling in the divisional surgeon, and leaving her in h cell the Whole of a night, when she might have been taken to the German llospital.or to a workhouse infirmary, and 'they say that the police should -in future call in the divisional surgeon of the force -to see persons who have been reseuedfrom drowning."  .
The Sun. — 1868-07-16 (London, England)

POLICE LV TELLIG ENCE.-THLS DAY.  MARLBORO UGH-STREET.  MURDEROUS ASSAULT OS A FEMALE.—Jam3S NrCarthy, a painter, was charged before Mr. Knox with violently assaulting a woman named Caroline 13.trker, residing in Porter-street, Newport-market.  The injured won-1m was not in attendance, and the following certificate was handed to Mr. Knox : " This is to certify that Caroline Barker is not in a fit state to attend the Police-court," and it was signed by Dr. Calthorpe, of the Charing-cross Hospital. Christina Barker, a girl about 12 years of age, and daughter of the injured woman, said that on the previous night prisoner, who was an acquaintance of her mother, came in and got into bed and kicked her mother. He afterwards got out of bed and put on his boots, and on her mother asking him what he was going to do he took up a poker. Her mother then got out of bed, when the prisoner struck her and threw her against the wall, and then took a knife off a plate, and also took up a candlestick. Upon that she (witness) ran down stairs, and directly afterwards her mother came running down stairs crying " Murder," and streaming with blood. Sergeant Shillingford, 4 C, said the woman was very much injured, having received two bad wounds on the head. The candlestick was broken in two. George Hamilton, 56 C, said that on being called by the last witness he saw the woman run down stairs, and she fell down in a pool of blood. Having secured the prisoner, he took the injured woman to the Charing-cross Hospital.  The prisoner, who had nothing to say, wag remanded.  Ann Fay, the wife of a painter, charged with suicide through distress, was brought before the magistrate and discharged, £2 received from " A. H." and " E. H. H." per the Rev. G. Hough, chaplain at the House of Detention, being handed to her, for which she expressed her gratitude.
The Sun. — 1868-07-16 (London, England)

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-7711S DAY.  MARLBOROUGII-STREET.  MURDEROUS ASSAULT ON A FEMALE.—James 11'Carthy, a painter, was charged before Mr. Knox with violently assaulting a woman named Caroline Barker, residing in Porter-street, Newport-market. The injured woman was not in attendanc; and the following certificate was handed to Mr. Knox : " This is to certify that Caroline Barker is not in a fit state to attend the Police-court," and it was signed by Dr. Calthorpe, of the Charing-cross Hospital. Christina Barker, a girl about 12 years of age, and daughter of the injured woman, said that on the previous night prisoner, who was an acquaintance of her mother, came in and got into bed and kicked her mother. He afterwards got out of bed and put on his boots, and on her mother asking him what he was going to do he took up a poker. Her mother then got out of bed, when the prisoner struck her and threw her against the wall, and then took a knife off a plate, and also took up a candlestick. Upon that she (witness) ran down stairs, and directly afterwards her mother came running down stairs crying " Murder," and streaming with blood. Sergeant Shillingford, 4 C, said the woman was very much injured, having received two^bad wounds on the head. The candlestick was broken in two. George Hamilton, 56 C, said that on being called by the last witness he saw the woman run down stairs, and she fell down in a pool of blood. Having secured the prisoner, he took the injured woman to the Charing-cross Hospital.  The prisoner, who had nothing to say, was remanded. Ann Fay, the wife of a painter, charged with suicide through distress, was brought before the magistrate and discharged, £2 received from " A. H." and 64 E. H. H." per the Rev. G. Hough, chaplain at the House of Detention, being handed to her, for which she expressed her gratitude.
The Sun. — 1868-02-28 (London, England)

OOO. Widows' Pensions, £157,000 ; decrease, £1,600.  Pensions for Wounds, £23,800 ; decrease, £1,400. Chelsea and Kilmainharn Hospitals (in pensions), £33,600; decrease £2,200. Out pensions, £1,184,600 ; decrease, 22,200. Superannuation Allowances, £135,200 ; decrease, .f.`,800. Militia, Yeomanry Cavalry, and Volunteer Corps, £20,700 ; decrease, £2,300.  Total of the effective services, £13,331,000 ; non-effective, £2,124,400. Total of both services, £15,455,400, as against 215,252,200 last year. The number of men in the army is this year 136,650, a decrease of 595 from the number last year. There are now 880 native Indian troops on service in China, and these were not in the estimate for 1867. Our cavalry consists of 13,000 horses (exclusive of officers' horses.) Our army in India numbers 64,466 of all ranks, as against 65,292 last year. The estimates, which are dated War Office, February 13, are signed by Sir John, Pakington.  The Brand testimonial dinner at Willis's Rooms, at which over 200 members of the Houses of Lords and Commons are likely to be present, will have for its chairman Mr. Gladstone. The day at present named is the ith March.  Deplorable accounts continue to reach •Paris of the sufferings of the native inhabitants of Algeria, who are dying by thousands from famine. Owing to two years of unexampled drought, and an invasion of locusts unparalleled since the settlement of the French colony, the harvest has aim, s'. everywhere totally failed, and sufficient forage can by no means be procured for the maintenance of the cattle.  The Liverpool coroner has held an inquest on  the body of a lad named Elkin, between 14 and 15 years of age, who, in consequence of being sharply reproved by his father, had committed suicide by hanging. The youth's habits were fearfully immoral for one of his years, and he had several times suffered seriously in health in consequence of his abandoned propensities. He had twice enlisted for a soldier, and had been on both c .:asions bought off by his parents,
The Sun. — 1868-02-25 (London, England)

SUICIDES BY CHILDREN. —Dr. Lankester has held di inquest at the Empress of Russia Tavern, Owen's-row, islington, upon the body of a boy named Victor Ver. beyst, aged 13 years, who came to his death by hanging. Mr. Joseph Verbeyst, the father of the deceased, said he was a Belgian, and had been in London only a few years. He lived at 11, Rydon-crescent, Islington. His son was a very good boy, and on Wednesday last was working by his side at his business of a pocket-book maker. He inquired of him when he should he allowed to go to school again, to which witness replied as coon as he could spare him. He went out of the workshop, and witness saw no more of him until he was called to open the door of the water closet, wherein he (deceased) was supposed to have fallen asleep. He discovered him hanging by a cord. He was in a sitting position, quite dead. The cord was fastened to the handle of the door. Deceased had been reading some of the cheap litcrature of the day—" The Boys of England," and other similar publications - and his (witness's) impression was that he had been " experimenting" and had killed himself accidentally. He could never ke p his son from the books he had spoken of. He was not very passionate, but slightly so. The Coroner said he had known many cases where children had been killed through " experimenting" at hanging. Dr. Goddard, who was called to the deceased, said he tried every proper remedy to restore him, but without avail. He spoke against the theory of death being the result of an accident. The jury returned a verdict of " Suicide whilst in a state of unsound mind," supposed through the reading of a certain class of literature.—On Sunday night, Edward Elkin, 15 years of age, son of a dairyman, living in Chisel'. hall-street, Liverpool, committed suicide by hanging himself. No cause can at present be assigned for the rash act, except that his father had spoken to him sharply about two hours Previously.
The Sun. — 1868-02-25 (London, England)

THE SINGULARITY IN TEE CALENDAR.—It has been remarked that in 1868 there are five Saturdays in February. By a rough guess, it would seem, it has been added that this has not taken place for a score of years, Exactly twenty-eight years, amounting to a solar cycle, have elapsed since the same thing occurred. During that period each day of the week has enjoyed the honour of appearing five times in February in its own leap year, The calendar of the present century contains twenty-four leap years, which may be arranged in seven classes : February has five Sundays in 1824, 1852, 1880 ; five Mondays in 1808, 1836, 1861, 1892 ; five Tuesdays in 1820, 1848, 1876 ; five Wednesdays in 1804, 1832, 1860, 1888 ; five Thursdays in 1818, 1844, 1872; five Fritlays in 1828, 1856, 1884 ; five Saturdays in 1812, 1840, 1868, 189 G. Perthshire Advertiser.  SUICIDES DY CifmnitErr.—Dr. Lankester has held n inquest at the Empress of Russia Tavern, Owen's-row, Islington, upon the body of a boy named Victor Verbeyst, aged 13 years, who came to his death by hanging. Mr. Joseph Vcrbeyst, the father of the deceased, said he was a Belgian, and had been in London only a few years. He lived at 11, Itydon-crescent, Islington. His sou was a very good boy, and on Wednesday last was working by his side at his business of a pocket-book maker. He inquired of him when he should be allowed to go to school again, to which witness replied as roan as he could spare him. He went out of the workshop, and witness saw no more of him until he was called to open the door of the water closet, wherein he (deceased) was supposed to have fallen asleep. He discovered him hanging by a cord. He was in a sitting position, quite dead. The cord wai fastened to the handle of the door. Deceased had been reading some of the cheap literature of the day—" The Boys of England," and other similar pub:ications - and his (witness's) impression was that he had been " experiis ie id innlveeaevsni ci.tanri leo)ar;ivi nsls(fts)andi no fknyraioitlern(ea cases eitli‘ns.}l) ;31i:ego:life chtly is ldren 1 hado. :8111,111ef:(1.k: been spoken He onnefe.kre killed allld d n through " experimenting" at hanging. Goddard, proper remedy was called to the deceased, said he tried every remedy to restore him, but without avail. He spoke against the theory of death being the result of an accident. The jury returned a verdict of " Suicide whilst in a state of unsound mind," supposed through the reading of a certain class of literature.--On Sunday night, Edward Elkin, 15 years of age, son of a dairyman, living in Chisenhall-street, Liverpool, committed suicide by hanging himself. No cause can at present be assigned for the rash act, except that his father had spoken to him sharply about two hours Previously,
The Sun. — 1868-05-26 (London, England)

ASSAULTING A WITNESS.—At the Middlesex Sessions, Henry King was indicted for inflicting grievous bodily harm on Thomas Welch. the prosecutor was witness against a friend of the prisoner's, who was sentenced to a long term of penal servitude, and the accused waylaid the prosecutor and violently assaulted him. The court passed a sentence of five years' penal servitude, as the assistant-judge remarked, "to mark the feeling of the court on offences of this kind." THE MARQUIS TOWNSIIEND'S PHILANTHRopy.—At the Thames Police-court the Marquis Townshend brought a boy before the magistrate who hat been turned out of the workhouse dressed in a canvas suit, with the words " Jack from the country," " a skulk," &c., painted on the trousers. It was stated that the labour master at (lc tcliff Union had been the cause of this being done. He e.-as called before the magistrate and severely reprimanded, and the Marquis said that he should lay the case before the Poor-law Board. After leaving the court, his 10rd.314 very kindly purchased the poor lad a suit of clothes.  A builder, named Mr. Hughes, has committed suicide in the most shocking and deliberate manner, by laying himself down upon the rails in front of an approaching train. The affair occurred close to the Per.ry Bar Station, Liverpool, and the man was seen by the engine-driver to stoop down and put himself across the m:ls, hut the trAin could not be stepped in time. The body was found cut in two and otherwise fearfully mutilated.  " Miles " sends the fellowinig extract from a private letter from Melbourne to the Times You know how excitable a people we are here, and will therefore not be surprised to hear it is estimated that over 0320,000 was spent by the Government, public bodies, :end private persons on the different festivities and entertainments. The whole crew of the Galatea (about 300) were supplied With fresh meat, poultry, milk, fruit, and vegetables for the six weeks she was here, and a ton of ice was sent on board every morning for their use."  A short time since two farm labourers were ,:harged before a bench of Wiltshire magistrates with improperly leaving their work, they having started for home on one occasion at four in the afternoon instead of at six. Their master claimed 4d. damages from each wretched defendant, and as he was a humane man, and did not wish to be hard upon them, they were let off with the forfeit of )ne day's wages and the payment of costs, with the alternative of ten days' imprisonment in default. This was done under the Master and Servants Act.