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Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1882-06-10 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

SUICIDE THROUGH RELIGIOUS  MAMA.  On Saturday morning Dr. Danford Thomas held an inquest at Finchley, concerning the death of Sarah Harriet Golding, aged 22, of 20, Tweedy-road, Bromley, Kent, who committed suicide by drowning herself in the waters of the loat, Squire's-lane, Finchley, on Wednesday. The brother of the deceased, a gardener, stated that she was a domestic servant, and for some time past had been in a low and desponding state of mind, owing to the death of her father, and she hat' become more so since she had joined the Bible Christians. His sister, he , understood upon one occasion, had threatened to commit suicide. On Wednesday she left her situation, and was to have visited him, hut she did not do so, and he heard the same afternoon that she had been found drowned in them Moat. He believed that she came to visit t'ffe grave of her father. His sister had strona delusions that, if once she found Jesus and committed murder or Ruh:tide, that she would, on leaving this world, enter heaven. Mr A. Macktude, of 20, Tweedy-road, Bromley, Kent, stated that the deceased was in his service, and her thoughts were all upon religious matters. On Wednesday she left the house without giving any notice whatever, and she left a paper on which was written. "I am driven to this through failing health. I am unable to do my work to-day. I hope to be forgiven by all who know me." On another sheet was written the following " Please do not mourn for me. I have been most unhappy. I think my failing strength has driven me to this. My dying love to all. It is not death to die ; to leave this weary road; amidst the brotherhood on high to live at home with God.' I have died with no stain upon my moral character, but my spiritual one has not been as perfect/as it mightlhave been. I wish you, all a most loving and affectionate good-bye. I ask toy dear brother Albert to kiss my dear mother for me. I have no doubt but that I shall be thought cruel, but do all of you think for the best. Good bye, and many, many thanks for your great kindness to me. Albert, my dear brother, will you trust is Jesus?" The jury returned a verdiot that the deceased committed suicide whilst of unsound mind.
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1882-06-17 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

OVER THE GARDEN WALL."— On Sunday afternoon, while a company of young men somewhat under the influence of drink were loitering on the Tees Bridge at that part which overlooks the garden attached to the Blue Bell Inn, one of them conceived a desire for some green hint , hanging on one of the trees below. Failing in his own attempts to reach it, he requested one of his friends to give him a " lift." The request was granted, but in such a manner as to precipitate the young man from the parapet into the garden below. The fall, which might have proved serious in its consequences, fortunately, and most remarkably, resulted in nothing worse than a severe shaking. The young fellow who gave the " push," evidently appreciating the peniliarity of his friend's situation and state of feeling, thoughtfully hurled the liquor bottle after him.  TERRIBLE TRAGEDY NEAR MANCHEbTER.  On Friday week, at Radcliffe, a miner named Robert Booth murdered two of his children, and then committed suicide. About seven o'clock Booth, who resides at No. 6, Walker•street, Chapel-field, strongly nrs,ed his wife to go to the market, and 84id he would stop at home and mind the chiJdien. His wife did as he requested. She had not been gone many minutes before Booth called to one of his children who was playing in the street near the Louse to come in. At the same time he told a little girl named Sandford, who was nursing his youngest child, to go home, and he would nurse the child. After the little girl had gone Booth appears to have Iceked the door. He put the elder buy (aged live years) into a washtub full of water, and the youngest (aged foot months) into anothee tub full on the slopatone in the kitchen, anti afterwards cut his own throat, almost severing his head from his body. Mrs Booth returned from the market at half-past eight, when she found the door fastened. Bile told BOllle neighbours, who got a ladder, and one of them entered the house through the bedI.( con window, and on going downstairs found Booth lying dead on his back, and the children in the back kitchen, drowned. Booth was 32 years of age, and had four children. One was playing at Radcliffe Bridge, and the otahreurwworth o. For about n a ovisittoietlsergernanadeepas be' hailaret.tist F been Oct of employment, and had got into a low state of mind.  The Reverend Lord Archibald Douglas left Roglaa,d on Saturday for Canada with a large number of poor boys, who are to be placed with farmers near Ottawa. Ilia is the initial step in a system of boy emigration for which Cardinal Manning has provided the funds. COMPULdOBY
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1882-04-08 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

SAD SUICIDE OF A FARMER.  Mr Coroner Settle held an enquiry on Tuesday afternoon at the Three Horse Shoes Inn, Fishburn, near Sedgefield, into the circumstances of the death of Mr Juo. burn Tuustid, who was found hanging by the neck in his bedroom on Saturday evening Ilkft deceased was a farmer, .id iivcd at,the Horse Shoe Cottage, Fishburn. During the past four years he has been subject to fits of depression, but it was not anticipated L;at he would destroy himself, nor had he threatened to do so. 1...;,t sl.turaay morning Mrs Tnnstill went to Middlesbrotigh market, leaving the deceased and children at home. The eldest child, a little girl, aged about eight years, saw the deceased fumbling with a piece of rope duliug the day. In the afternoon Le went upstairs, and the followed and sat beside him. He came down ag- •-‘. but returned between five and six o'clock in the evening, and when the child went upstairs ',elf an boor afterwards to seek him she was horrified to find ,him hanging by the neck to the bed-post with a piece of rope simi!ar to that which she had seen him take out of his pocket during an earlier period of the day. She brought Mr Carter, the landlord of the inn, and that gentleman cut the deceased down. In one of the deceased's pockets was found a piece of paper bearing the fo:lowing I words:—  " April 1, 1882..  , '1 intend to drowned ray own self all for the sake of Nancy the girl I love dear her daughter all koing fond so my—(beverat words undecipherable) ID. "J. B. TrNBTILL."  Mrs Tanstili's Christian name is Nancy.  _ The jury found that the deceased committed suioide whilst he was sufferiug from hasahity.  On Monday night a destructive Ere necured at Ashton-under•Lyne. by which the Glaustt-uo Mills, containing al-out 10 000 spindh4s, were rit..troyed, the preinises being entirely gutted. Other rn.1:.1 in the neighbourhood were only saved by great exertion. A strong easterly wind was blowing at the time. The damage is estimatA at £lOO,
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1882-12-30 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

SUICIDE AT AUCKLAND. A desperate case of suicide occurred at South Church, near Bishop Auckland, on Thursday afternoon. An old man, named Michael Jackson, has been for a considerable time in rather low circumstances. For a good many I years be prospered in business, and built some houses at Eldon Lane, near Auckland, and had besides other means, the result of his thrift. Thinking he could make better use of his capital in America, he turned it into cash and went to that country. The tide of fortune, however, went against him, and he has returned to his native village in needy circumstances. On Thursday he called at the house of Mr Peverill, of South Church, a member of the Bishop Auckland Guardians, clean and respectable, and got an order from that gentleman for the Workhouse. Instead, however, of going to the Workhouse, he turned towards Eldon, evidently intending to go to the house of his son and daughter at that place. But he never reached their home alive, for he turned into a cow-byre on the road, and finding a thick rope in the place he at once hung himself. The determination of the old man to commie the deed is seen in the fact that the height of the beam required itim to bend his knees to accomplish his purpose. He was 71 years of age, and much respected.  It is stated that the Rev. Rowland Ellis, Vicar of Mold, will be appointed Bishop of Llandaff, in succession to the late Dr. 011ivant. MURDER AND ROBBERY IN A FRENCH BLEEPING Cain—A gentleman travelling in a sleeping car from rime to Marseilles has been strangled at St. Thomas. His pocket was emptied by the murderer, who has got away. His watch and a valuable diamond ring have also disappeared.
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1882-04-29 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

SUICIDE OF A BRIDEGROOM AT YORK.—Oti Saturday afternoon an inquest was held at the King's Arms Hotel, York, on the body of Joseph Wilson, aged 27, who committed suicide on Friday afternoGn by hanging himself. Deceased was a labourer employed  by the North-Eastern Railway Com.pany, and resided in Dale's Court,_Fosssate. He  _ was to have been married to Emma Wood, a woman who lived with him, on Monday last, tint owing to the absence of the parson the wedding was postponed. Deoeasei was subject to pains in his back and head, and lately had behaved in a peculiar manner. On Friday morning he did not go to work, and whilst the woman Wood was out be  _ hanged himself with a piece of rope to the bannisters. A verdict of suicide whilst in a  state of temporary insanity was returned. SUBSIDENCE OF LAND AT CoNsETT.— Another subsidence of land of an alarming character occurred shortly after nine o'clock on Monday morning in the Neighbourhood of Consett, caused by the underground workings. The foundations of three dwellinghouses at Templeton (the property of Messrs Rippon, Charlton, and Telford) have sank nearly two feet, and present from the exterior a complete wreck, whilst the others adjoieing have been slightly damaged. Inside the house portions of the ceiling have fallen in, the walls are cracked in all directions and giving way from the roofs, the floors upstairs split, the panes smashed, and the windows and doors dislocated, and cannot be opened or shut. At one of the houses & massive stone, about one foot thick, has been cracked in two. It is steted that the Cousett Iron Company have not worked underneath this property for some years, being unable to get to the spot in consequence of the numerous pitfalls. A " FIsHY "
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1882-01-07 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

THE SUICIDE AT SCARBOI. EXTRAORDINARY LETTI An inquest was held on Tuesday Suarborough on the body of Richard son, who shot himself through the Sunday night. The Coroner read lowing letters, which had been found deceased's bedroom, addressed to a. yoi lady, whose name, for obvious reasons, omit : " Oh, somebody thank --- for me all his kindness to me. He is & noble is He had denied himself a great deal pleasure to try and get me out, so that means of fresh air and exercise I might well and strong. Verily, I say, he shall lose his reward. And now good-bye all. hope to meet you all again to 113aven. "Read this. Ist January, 1882. "Oh, somebody give this to —, Sca. boro' ; my spirit will sot rest if this is nc given to her. "Dear—,—l have put an end to myself because I know that you have ceased to love me—yes, me, who love you more than words can express. I would have been burnt alive to have saved your life. I have heard what you Lave said &Lout me. It has broltea my heart, my darling girl, but all you have said agaiust me is forgiven you by me. I have never said anything against you. I would not for all the money in the world. I have had a beautiful dream of you. I dreamt that I had you on my knee in a lovely laud, and you were telling me how much you loved we. lam sorry I could not chat to you much. It was because I had been very mach out of health the last six or seven years. Sometimes' could scarcely speak, but when I had no pain when I spoke I was very talkative, I hope that dream will come true,in fact, I know it will, Rod I know that I shall never forget that beautiful face that I love, and that I newt to love to kiss. My heart burns to see you. I should like to have bidden you a last farewell before I died. I came out on Saturday, the 31st December, 'to see if I could find you. Be a good girl, ,my darling, Oh, bow I long as I write that I could throw my arms round your sweet [neck and give you a last kiss. I know that , God intends you and I to be married ' sometime. Give my love to your sister and to Miss —. I know that if I had lived I should have been made most miserable by the cutting thought that you had forsaken we. I should Ilse my family to give you a present to keep in temembrance of Richard Hewitson, who loved you next to God, and I ask one request of you, that is, that you will give your pnoto to my mother to keep in her large album with the photographs of my family. Oh, 1 tell you the most happy time in my life was that night 1 took you for a walk by yourself. I never shall forget that kiss that you gave me when we parted. Ah, you loved me then.—l remain your true lover—l wish I could be your guardian angel,
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1882-02-25 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

LORD JOIN MANNERS AT LEICESTER.  Lord John Manners, speaking at a Con- I servative meeting at Leicester on Tuesday I night, described the political position as being of a serious character, and the position I of the Ministry as desperate. The Govern- I ment not only sought to gag the House of Commons in order to force measures upon I a reluctant Parliament, bet oleo sought to intimidate the House of Lords. The Conservative party would use all their force to oppose Mr Gladstone's unprecedented resolution and prevent needless confusion between the two Houses of the Legislature. It seemed to him Mr Gladstone was riding for a fall, and his belief was the Premier would meet with a nasty cropper.  The suicwar mania in-Prt--Wi—dia continues, and during the last fortnight as many as 28 suicides have been officially announced. On Tuesday Henry Angell, a Norwegian seaman, was fined at Ha:l £2OB. being treble value and duty of 2581ba. of tobacco, which he had ingeniously concealed in the fore-hold of the steamer Argo, on which he was employed. Mr Walter H. Norris, of Castle Hill, Bletohington, geetlereau, was charged before the Ox'ord Magistrates on Tuesday with assaulting the police. From the evidence it appeared that the defendant was in oompany with some undergraduates, laughing and shouting, at an early hour, opposite to a church on Sunlay morning, and when the I police inspector arrived be was pushed I about. The Magistrates inflicted a fine of 10a and costs. The farmers in Cardiganshire have begun an agitation for the reduttion of rents. A handbill, printed in Welsh, and distributed throughout the county, says :—" You tenants greening under heavy burdens, ask your landlord to reduce your rents. If a refusal is made, give notice to quit, and if others take your farm we will proclaim through the country, and not give the new tenaLts quietness until they leave the farm." On Monday night at Bradford there was a row after the funeral of a wan named
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1882-11-18 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

CONJUGAL FELICITY.—A man named Aaron Mundy J:ibson, was placed in the dock at the Middlesbrough Police Court on Wednesday morning, for having used threats to his wife, Mary Jobson. Complainant said she had been married to her lireand for eight year., and had six children. During this year she had not lived with him, owing to his drunken and cruel conduct, and on Monday he went to her mother's house, where she was staying, and threatened to shoot her, and commit suicide himself. Defendant was bound in the sum of £l5, and one surety in the same amount, to keep the peace for six months. JACK AsHous. Last Wednesday morning, at the Middlesbrough Police Court, Mary Fenteman and George Thompson, aZiaa Henderson, were charged, the former with stealing £7 15s, and the latter with receiving part of the money, the property of Robert Berrell, a seaman. Prosecutor said he was discharged from the i.e. Norah, his pay amounting to about £B. At ten o'clock on Tuesday morning he went to the Eagle Tavern, and the female followed him in. and asked him for "half a ram." She asked him to go to a quiet public-house, and he went to one, proceeding into the bar. She had a glass of beer, whilst complainant indulged in a ginger ale. At that time he had £7 15 in his pocket, and the woman came and sat on his knee. He felt her hand about his pocket, and in a minute or two she got up and went out, saying she would return in a few minutes. The woman, however, did not again turn up, and the sailor, coming to the conclusion that the appearances were decidedly suspicious, felt in his pocket and to his surprise discovered the purse had gone. The discharge and purse produced were his property.—Frances Pearson, wife of the landlord of the Lord Byron beerhouse, Bridge. street, remembered the prosecutor and the woman coming into the house and having some drink. The woman went- out.—The woman with whom the prisoners had lodged said they had done no work whilst at her house.— Detective-Superintendent Thorp and P.C.Fisher apprehended the prisoners in an eating-house in West-street, and on being removed to the Police Station, Inspector Ash found in a dress, which the woman hiil in a bundle, the discharge and purse produced. On the man was found 14s lid and a quantity of new clothing. Prisoners were ordered to take their trial at the Sessions on JanuaryPrd at Northallerton.  Lbers  The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop ofi
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1882-11-18 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

THE MURDER OF A FISHERLAD. SENTENCE OF DEATH. _  Mr Justice Hawkins on Friday week, at York Castle, resumed the trial of the Hull seaman, Edward Wheatfell (33), for the murder of a fisher-boy named Peter Hughes (16), in the North Sea, on the 24th of February. After a speech by Mr (lane for the prosecution, Mr Mellor, on behalf of the prisoner, submitted that there was no evidence to show that murder had actually been committed, inasmuch as the body had not been found, and next he suggested that the lad might have committed suicide. The jury, after a deliberation of an hour and a half, found a verdict of guilty. The Clerk of Arraigns then put the usual question to prisoner as to why the Court should not pass sentence upon him, but the prisoner did not reply. The learned Judge then assumed the black cap, and said (addressing the prisoner): Edward Wheatiell, you have been found guilty, after a most anxious and patient investigation by the jury that have tried you, and after every exertion. which could be made on your behalf by the learned counsel who so kindly defended you, of the crime of wilful murder—a murder committed under circumstances so 'cruel, so barbarous, and so revolting that I will not trust myself to endeavour to recapitulate the details of that sad and melancholy affair. The poor lad, away from his friends and home, at sea with you—with the captain, who ought to have protected him, but did not—for a long period df time was subjected to BO much cruelty, so much barbarity, that one shuddered when one heard the relations of those cruelties fronLthe mouth of the witntsses. All this terminated-as the jury now find—in your throwing him overboard on the 24th of February with the view of terminating his life. I do not desire, myself, to keep you long before the public gaze or to harrow up your feelings at this moment by further alluding to your dreadful crime—the crime of which you have been found guilty, one which the law punishes with but one sentence, and that is the punishment of death. It is my duty to pass that sentence upon you, s,nd I pray you to make use of the few remaining days that are left to you on this earth to make your peace with that God whose law you have so cruelly broken.—llis lordship then passed sentence of death in the usual terms.  -The prisoner, who did not appear to be at all moved by the sentence, was then removed in custody. The finding of the jury in this case, on it becoming known in Hun on Friday evening, created some amount of surprise, the opinion of many persons being that the accused would, receive the benefit of the doubt which in their minds existed in the case so far as Wheatfell being guilty of throwing Hughes overboard. Wheatfell, it may be stated, is unmarried, and at the time of his arrest lodged with a sister in Redbourne-strect, Boulevard.
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1877-07-28 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

TERRIBLE SCENE- IN A RAILWAY CARRIAGE. ATTEMPTED MURDER AND SUICIDE.  As the Scotch mail drew up at Brakord Station on Monday morning, shortly before seven o'clock, attention was drawn to the appearance of a thirdclass carriage, and a shocking spectacle presented itself on a further examination being made. The compartment was found to be covered with blood,and the two men within it were in a terrible condition. One of them, who was dressed like an artisan or labourer, had his throat cut, the other, who was better dressed, was bleeding from a number of wounds in different parts of the body. Amongst other injuries, his thumb was nearly cut off. The man with the appearance of an artisan was rapidly becoming insensible from his wounds. The carriage was shunted from the train, which was then allowed to proceed to London, and very shortly afterwards the worst dressed man of the two died. From inqufries subsequently instituted, it appeared that the last-mentioned person was named Donnelly, and was travelling from Glasgow to St. Pancras in charge of Governor Laing, of the Glasgow Union, the intention being to take him to St. Lff.:e's Union, London. Near Bedford he attempted to commit suicide, and Mr Laing received his injuries in endeavouring to prevent him doing so; but Donnelly succeeded in cutting his throat so severely that, as above stated, he subsequently died. An inquest was held at Bedford in the afternoon on the body of Thomas Donnelly, who, as already reported, was found with his throat cut in a third-class compartment of the &itch. Express on its arrival at Bedford. The evidence showed that the deceased was a pauper, and was being conveyed from Glasgow to his settlement in St. Luke's, London, in charge of Mr C. W. Laing, master of Glasgow poor-kouse, under a Sheriff's order. When near lug Bedfcrd Donnelly took something out of his pocket which proved to be a razor, and in a few moments blood was flowing from his throat. Mr Laing sprang on the man, and after a struggle, in which he was severely wounded on the han I and the shoulder, succeeded in wresting the razor from him, and threw it out of the window. When the train reached Bedford, Donnelly was lying on the bottom of the carriage covered with blood, and was quite exhausted. .He expired shortly afterware, and his body was removed to the Midland Hotel. At the inquest it was shown that the deceased had for many years suffered from epileptic fits, and a verdict of "Suicide while of unsound mind" was returned.  A