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Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1890-09-06 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

TRAGEDY IN AUSTRIA.  Askanische's Hotel, at Gratz, Austria, has been the scene of a terrible tragedy. Among those staying at the hotel were a young married couple from Brunn, near Vienna. The husband, Siegmund Drummer, is stated to have been a dreadful spendthrift, and his extravagance led to frequent quarrels between him and his wife, a very pretty woman, expensively dressed. Early on Saturday morning a watchman who passed the hotel on his round had not gone far when he heard the report of firearms. The sound proceeded from the hotel, and retracing his steps the watchman burst open the front door and went inside to investigate the matter. In the room occupied by Drummer and his wife he found the latter lying on the bed in her nightdress, dead. She had been shot through the heart. There was no sign of the husband, but the window was open, and on the sill lay a recently discharged revolver. Alanyol by the pistol report and the bursting open of the door, the inmates of the hotel hurried to the scene of the tragedy, and the watchman at once despatched one of them, a man, to the nearest policestation. On his way the messenger fell over the dead body of Drummer, which lay in the street directly under the open window. After opening the window he had shot himself in the mouth and then jumped into the roadway. One hand of the dead woman clutched a torn scrap of paper bearing the words " we die together." They were in the husband's handwriting and were interpreted as shewing the unwillingness of his wife to consent t.) the double suicide which he probably proposed. It seems the two had quarrelled overnight. Drummer was heard to press his wife to drink imre wine than she would take and ax analysis of some found in their apartment proved it to be poisonous. Only 10 marks in money- were found in the pockets of the man's clothes.
Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1890-06-14 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

KILLED BY A SUICIDE.  Some days ago a printer, who was passing along Come to the front entrance of the Church of Notre Dame, Paris, received a blow on the head from the falling body of a woman who had thrown herself over the Tower platform of the Cathedral. The poor onan was taken to a hospital, where it was stated that he had suffered no injuries beyond a cut in the face caused by the shoe of the person who had committed suicide. He was s.ccordingly sent home, and appeared to be completely cured, when, as he was preparing to go to work, he felt unwell, and asked for a doctor. In a few hours the printer was a corpse, having suceitnibcd to the internal injuries winged by his peculiar accident.  STRANOv CHARGE OF FRAUD 1110' A strange case has been tried at the Paris Correctional Tribunal, the Marqnis Boyer d'Aiguille, aged £2, who married an American lady named Fanny Fuller, being brought up on a charge of fraudulently cashingseveral cheques at the Comptoir d'Escomptic The prosecutrix, a fruiterer, named Cluzot, deposed that the defendants had le.! her to suppose that they were heirs to a vast property left by one Mary Thom. ley, who died in 1801. No claim had been set up for the property, which is said to be situated in Lambeth, until 1873, when the Court of Chancery rejected the claim of a man named Thomley. According to other evidence it appeared that the real heirs to the property, which amounted in value to £490,000, were Benedict Chase Oliver Fuller, and William Fuller, who jointly sold the reversion for £160,000. The Marquis and Marquise were defended by Maitre Albert Betellle, and the court decide-1 that as the conditions of the b..quest were complicated the intent to defraud was not clearly sat a,Jlishe,f, and both prisoners were acquitted.
Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1890-07-19 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

SAD CASE OF SUICIDE AT BRIGHOUSE. On Thursday morning an inquiry was held at the George Hotel, by Mr. W. Barstow (district coroner), into the oirounistanoes attending the death of Albert Crowther (31).meohanio, Commeroial.street, who was found hanging in his bedroom on Monday afternoon, about six o'clock. Mr. Sam Brooke was appointed foreman of the jury. JOsEPEI CROWTHER, carrier, 18, Commercial. street, said he was father of deceased, Albert Crowther, aged 31 years, He was a mechanic, but had not worked for two years, in consequence of an Injury to his knee. He had gradually become worse, and did not go out of doors, as he could not walk without sticks. He had slept well until up to a few days ago. Witness last saw him alive on Sunday. Be remained in bed all day on Monday. which was quite unusual. Mrs. Crowther and the daughter were very ill in bed, and could not be present to give evidence. WILLIAM HENRY AvnioN, silkdresser, , Albert. square, Waterloo-road, who drives for Mr. Crowther, said that about 6.20 p.m., on Monday, Lucy Crowther, the daughter, came to him in the hay chamber and asked him to go into the house garret and "see what was up." Witness did so, and found deceased hanging by the neck by a cotton rope fastened to the beam. Witness at once out him down, and be was quite dead. He was not dressed, On Sunday night he last saw him alive, and then he spoke very cheerfully. The piece of rope was a piece that was attached to the beam for him to pull himself up by when he wanted to get out of bed. ELLEN STOTT, Upper Oxford-street, who assisted to lay out the body, gave evidence that there was no mark of violence or injury. The knee was very badly swollen. A verdict was returned to the effect that "He had committed suicide by hanging whilst in a state of temporary insanity, resulting from longcontinued illness.  A FMB, BrAIITIVOL SKlN.—Sulphol Ins Soap give the natural tint and peeoh-like Bloom of perfect pompiestion, makes the Shin smooth supple itgatity Isbisiss liTwiwinne
Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1890-01-25 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

PORTUGAL AND ENGLAND.  A Times telegram dated from Lisbon on Saturday says : The Duke of Palmella, who was once in the British Navy, has not only foolishly returned the Baltic medal to Mr. Petre, when it would have been sufficient not to wear it, but he has, we understand, dismissed all his English servants, as some commercial houses have given up their English trade con nections. The Duke of Palmella, who is wealthy as ultra-patriotic, is unpatriotic enough I am told to keep the bulk of his fortune in the British Funds. Even an English clown, who had an engagement at a circus here, has had it cancelled. One could never have believed, unless one witnessed it, such a display of petty rancour on the part of a nation which prides itself on its chivalry. It is truly a pitiable and a saddening spectacle for all friends of Portugal. It is pleasant amidst the din and rumour of battle and death—death to everything English—to see that the Portuguese journals can find space to advocate a pressingly charitable subscription to relieve the shocking destitution from which the lower classes in Lisbon are suffering. Queen Amalia is taking an active part in this good campaign, and has given a diamond brooch which she wore, in order that it might be converted into money, to relieve the crowds of miserable people who had assembled in the streets. The commerical war continues to increase in the same manner as one suicide provokes others. A Vigilance Committee is to be appointed to watch the Custom House returns, and to denounce any receivers of British goods,and the sharp Yankees cable their willingness to supply their commodities t,, take the place, doubtless, of English coals, while Mr, Blaine, in order to prove American friendshit. for Portugal, maintains is more aggressive attitudo than that of Great Britain on the Delagoa Bay railway claims. The Dia publishes an alleged declaration from a Mr. Macgregor respecting the crimes of the missionaries at Blantyre, which are so horrible that the Die shudders with rage and shame.  On Friday night an express train from Chicago for Cincinnati, ran into the rear of a train of mixed carriages near Cincinnati. Four persons were killed and a dozen injured, the engine of the express leaping over the rear carriages of the other train and smashing them to splinters. The wreckage afterwards caught fire and the Cincinnati fire brigade was hastily summoned to render aid, but before they arrived some of those who had been injured, and were lying in the debris were badly burned. The express train was not much damaged with the exception of the engine, but the conductor, baggage. man, and brakeman of train were killed, while the engineer and fireman were injured. Most of the s epj,:asoduodnyg. t :tylhoegumo, "you've ett hrpoeutiil lisleewrdsh ?e' them 3asualities were among tho-m travelling in the mixed train. eh easkedm they a an Irishman of a man who was passing with a pair satariao grew," was the ir dignant reply. "Then, be me Wear too soon." coofna.erilcieyt'nwcieino,e:rt
Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1890-11-01 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

THE WEEK.  THE SHIPPING SCARE.  THE curious statement which appeared in the Times the other day that the federated shipowners of Great Britain had in principle approved a plan "for resist ing the oppression of the Unions by laying up their ships in all ports of the Empire, has furnished the Spectator with an ingenious piece of speculation on what it calls "the threatened 'lockout' of commerce." The article is interesting, but as we are not really threatened with a lock-out of commerce, or with anything remotely resembling such a calamity, its interest is chiefly abstract. The statement of the Thnes, as the Spectator admits, was not exact. Probably it was very much less than not exact; though it does appear that, in one of those moments of mental aberration to which capital is peculiarly liable in these days, the shipowners did vainly entertain some dream of commercial suicide. Having dreamed, they awoke, and it may be conjectured that they have felt none too grateful to the Times for having printed their dream in black and white. The dream of laying up all ships in all ports is, perhaps, rather less capable of realisation than any vision that ever troubled the unprofitable slumbers of any class of capitalists ; and the Spectator itself hints brusquely at "some sort of epidemic of unreason." The shipowners are about as likely to lay up their vessels in all the ports of the Empire, as they are to embark in their vessels in a body, sail out of harbour, and burn their vessels and themselves in midocean. Still, it is not wise of the shipowners to dream these dreams, and still less wise is it to go and tell them to the Times. For it sets people talking, and gives a new weapon of reasoning to those who think that the power of capital is a very dangerous thing. The mere notion that one class of capitalists is not capable of doing a thing which (if it could by any possibility be done) would almost instantly bring about a general collapse of the country's credit, affords an argument a4ainst capital which its opponents will not ba slow to make use of.
Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1890-11-29 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

TRIAL OF MR. DUNCAN.  At the Old Bailey, on Monday, Mr. Horace Avory made an application to the Recorder in the case of Leslie Fraser Duncan,the ex-proprietor of the Matrimonial News, who is charged with an offence under the Debtors' Act. The learned counsel said the charge arose out of a notorious breach of promise case in which a young lady obtained a verdict and £lO,OOO damages. On the part of the defendant he applied that the trial might be adjourned until the next sessions, that his application for a new trial of that action might if possible be heard before the trial of the charges against him under the Debtors' Act.—The Recorder granted the application.  rn the Queen's Bench Di WiSi on on Saturday Mr. A. C. Bonham recovered £5O from the proprietor of Bartholomew's Turkish Baths, Leicester-square. as damages for injury to one of his feet in consequence of a piece of a tumbler being left at the bottom of the bath.  A serious accident is reported from Wronke. in Prussia, where the scaffolding of the central prison which was being reconstructed gave way, and 10 work men, nearly all married, were dangerously hurt, two of them succumbing to their injuries. Twenty. six others were more or less hurt.  A severe typhoon occurred in the middle of October in the China Sea, whereby a large number of votive craft was destroyed. The steamer Rosetta suffered, but weathered the gale. There is severe distress in the Yellow River district. Crops are bad and the outlook for the winter is serious.  Lieutenant G. S. Roupell, of the 7th Field Battery Royal Artillery, committed suicide at the officers' rness,Shorncliffe, on Sunday evening. The deceased was found dead by his man-servant, having shot himself with a revolv Cr. He had attended the garrison church parade in the morning.
Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1890-09-13 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

SHEEP DEVOURED BY BEARS.  An extraordinary circumstance in coanection with the wreck of tiw English steamer Idaho, which was stranded on the Island of Anticosti, is the fact that many of the sheep which were saved and landed were subsequently eaten by bears. There were altogether about 250 head of live stock on board. Of these 200 were landed at Gaspe, six were drowned, and a had gone wild and made off to the interior. There were 30 sheep landed, and of these 20 became the food of the bears, many of which it would appear-inhabit the Island of Anticosti. The cattle at latest account were in very fair condition and being well cared for. The Idaho herself was said to be fast breaking up. The water was flowing in and out of her as it ebbed and flowed. All of the cargo that was worth saving had been got out of the steamer.  DETERMINED SUICIDE IN PRISOI The charges at the Mansion House Police-court, London, iTuesday, included one of attempted suicide against a man named William Judge, aged 24, a tin plate worker, who had been sent to Holloway Gaol on remand. On the case being called on, Mr. Cecil Douglas, the chief clerk, stated that he had received a communication from the gaol which said that Judge committed suicide on the 4th inst. It appeared that a small washhind basin containing water had been left in the cell fir the purpose of the prisoner washing his face in. The warder on duty from time to time looked into the cell, and ultimately from a circumstance he noticed went and examined Judge, who was then lying in bed with the bedclothes over his body. The man was quite dead. He had placed the wash-hand basin in the bed and had lain with his face in the water. Pris.mer a week before his death had jumped from London Bridge into the Thames. He was rescued by a lighterman named Ford in an unconscious condition, but recovering himself leaped from the boat ad;ait. into the water, lie was then brought ashore by an officer named Ford, who used every effort to restore animation, but was not able to restore him to consciousness. Judge was then conveyed to the hospital, where he recovered sufficiently to be brought before the court.
Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1890-09-20 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

RAILWAY U/CPUNCTUALITY.  It would seem from the returns issued by the Board of Trade that the trains of the Great Eastern Railway are th.:‘ most punctual el all that run into the iietropolis. Over 74 per cent. are "to time," or not more than three minutes late, as compared with the Great Western, 64; Brighton, 63; London and North-Western, 63; London and South-Western, 60; Chatham and Dover, 45; and Midland, 41 per cent. Including London Bridge only the SouthEastern would head the list with 76 per cent., but for Cannon-street and Charing-Cross the figures are only 53 and 58 per cent. The suburban and local trains of the Great Northern attain to 69 and 73 per cent., whereas the long-distance trains fall to 32 per cent., and the Scotch trains to 7 per cent. In reality the figures are not c3mparative, the distances run and the various causes of lateness not being taken into account.  Another duel arising out of the disputes in regard to General Boulanger was fought on Monday. The combatants were M. Merrneix and M. Dumonteil, Deputy of the Aisne. The former was seriously wounded.  A German named Robert Raidel, who was committed for trial in New York on the charge of assaulting a number of school girls, on Sunday committed suicide in his cell. The accused was on his way to Germany when arrested. The United States Government has received a despatch from Sierra Leone, Senegambia, announcing the death of three American missionaries. They took the fever and refused the aid of a physician, believing they could be cured by faith.  A fatal accident took place on Monday on the railway near Corfe Castle. A carter named Trent, in the employ of Mr. Kent, of Murden Farm, was driving over a level crossing, when a goods train dashed past and cut the horse and driver to pieces.  A stalwart sailor, while walking along the Dee banks near Chester on Sunday, observed a pug dog apparently drowning in the river. Be stripped, plunged in, and reached the dog, which, receivir4 encouragement, swam ashore. The man, however, was seized with craino and was drowned.
Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1890-10-04 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

SUICIDE IN ST. PAUL'S CATIIEIDRAL. Worshippers at St. Paul's Cathedral on Sunday morning were horrified by a startling occurrence. The service had proceeded as usual during the earlier stages, but about five minutes to 1?, whilst the connregatiou was "•• • 71' ';`-••••••1 a report of firearms electrified rrebenuary liStening to a sermon from - edifice. The those who were within the sound proceeded from a seat in the 50u.... close to the door which leads up to the Whispering Gallery, and it created an immediate sensation in the vicinity. Women and men alike rose, and cries were heard from various parts of the church. Following close upon the first report there came a second, and the excitement was redoubled. The shots wen fired in full view of his neighbours by a middle-aged man of respectable appearance The first was fired by him with the I.vistDl pressed to his left breast over his heart; the second was discharged a few inches lower. An attempt was made to wrest the revolver from the man after the first shot, but it was ineffectual, and, according to the medical authorities, either shot would have proved fatal. The unhappy man occupied a position at the end of the row of seats, and though both shots passed through his body, they fortunately struck the wall without coming in contact with any other person. The preacher paused during this painful incident, but he resumed his discourse when the body of the man had been removed from the church by the nearest door. He was taken to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, where the medical authorities definitely ascertained that the wounds had proved fatal. A card was found upon the deceased bearing the name "William Easton." There were also found a number of newspaper illustrations and a library ticket. Later on the police found both bullets in a flattened condition near the wall of the Cathedral. In the afternoon Canon Scott Holland made reference to the occurrence.
Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1881-12-10 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

TAMING A WOLF.—A Bavarian landed proprietor has had to appear before the tribunals on a charge of having a wolf at large (says Land and Water). He had brought the animal from Poland last year, and had tamed it to such a degree that he was able to dispense with a chain, and used to let it pany him on his walla'. On some recent occas=he animal has, however, displayed some wolfish propensities, which led the inhabitants of the district tbringing the matter before the authorities. The Government Prosecutor urged that the animal was wild within the meaning of the law, and that under these circumstances it was illegal to have it going about unchained. For the defence it was urged that when tamed the wolf is a harmless animal, but the court sentenced the defendant to a nominal fine and to the payment of the costa of the proceedings. A MELANCHOLY Stacins.—ln London, on Monday, Mr. William Carter, Coroner for the Eastern Division of Surrey, held an inquest in Lambeth relative to the death of Mr. W. W. Martin, aged 26. Police-constakle Lawrence stated that at half-past ten o'clock on Thursday night, while he was on duty on Westminster Bridge, he noticed the man walking hurriedly on the south-west side. Immediately after he took off his overcoat, and before witness could reach him he placed his hands on the iron balustrade and vaulted into the Thames. The moon was shining brightly, and witness saw the man rise to the surface and then swim strongly towards the steps leading to the Albert Embankment, but before fie could reach the Embankment wall he seemed to lose strength and was drowned. Witness ran across the bridge and obtained a boat and drags. He and a water. man dragged for some time, but failed to recover the body, which was, however, subsequently found.—Miss Alice Martin, sister of the deceased, said that he was employed in the registered letter department of the General Post Office. He had medical advice from the establishment, and the doctor told, him that he was in a very bad state of health, which emoted her brother to be much depressed in spirits, and he said he had no desire to live. He however, had purchased a house, and was engaged to be married next March.—A young lady said that she saw the deceased (to whom she was engaged to be married qn the 23rd of March next) on Wednesday in last week. He spoke about their approaching marriage, and parted on the best of terms. Witness had ne idea that he would commit suicide. For some time past slie had noticed a strange look in his eyes.—The jury returned a verdict that the deoeased committed suicide whilst suffering from temporary insanity, and they added a rider commending the conduct of the constable Lavrrenoe. l B
Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1881-01-08 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

ROMANTIC SUICIDE.  On Saturday a man named Frederick Day, between fifty and sixty years of age, committed suicide in the New Swindon parish churchyard. He formerly lived in Swindon, and kept a beerhouse ; but, his wife having died last May, he disposed of his business and left the town. He was recently heard of as living in London, whtnce be wrote and informed a friend that he was going to spend his Christmas holidays in Swindon. No one appears to have seen him alive in Swindon; but about eight o'clock on Saturday morning, as a gravedigger went into the churchyard, he saw his body lying across one of the graves, quite dead, with part of his face blown away and the right hand tightly clutching a pistol. Day had lain down on his wife's grave and shot himself.  An inquest was held on Monday evening on the body. There was no doubt as to the identity of the deceased or that he premeditated the fatal act. A letter, apparently written not long before he shot himself, was found on him :—" New Swindon. lam tired of life and seek rest. My poor old girl (his wife] died here last April. I cannot live without her, and I thought of being a little bit nearer to her by doing this. I am quite aware that my head is not quite so clear as it might be; at the same time, I should like to be buried in the same grave as she is." He then proceeded to say that his life was insured, and gave the name of the person holding the policy, who, he said, would pay the funeral expenses, &c., " which need not be much. I may as well be buried as you find me (clothes I'm in.) I don't want a lot of old women to mess me about. The sexton," he said, "can identify me. Relations I have none that I acknowledge. Friends are scarce, very scarce. Now, don't make a great bother about this little affair. I shan't.—FazD