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The Northern Guardian. — 1892-09-23 (Hartlepool, Cleveland, England)

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.  FOOTBALLS.—Large omsignments on Saturday, 24th.—G. C. LAI/nuns, Whitby Street, West Hartlepool.—Advt. JUST ARRIVED, splendid new season's Irish rolled bacon at GEo. HALL'S, Stockton Street, West Hartle. pool. Have you tried HALL'S Fruit Coffee ?—Advt. WA'PCRES thoroughly cleaned, is 6d; new mainspring, is 6d; brooch pins, 2d. All work guaranteed 12 months.—J. M. CROZIER, 76, Lynn Street, West IHartlepool.—Adet When she sings in " Traviata," Madame Patti wears £50,000 worth of diamonds. She employs four private detectives to take charge of them when she is on tour.  A steam launch entirely built of aluminium has just been constructed at Zurich. It is said to be 25 per cent, lighter than if constructed of any other possible material. A feather dealer in London lately received 6,000 birds of paradise, 360,000 birds of various kinds from the East Indies, and 40,000 humming-birds , for trade purposes. The hammer with which Mrs Potter Palmer will drive the last nail into the Women's Building of the World's Fair has a head of solid silver and an inscription in gold. One in every nine of the population in Bengal is either a widow or a widower, and of these four in every five are widows. More than 50,000 widows are under ten years of age. Yesterday was the autumnal equinox—the day when the sun, in his apparent annual course among the stars, crosses the equator, making the days and nights equal all the world over. Professor Dohrn, of Naples, proposes, if he can collect the money, to build a large steamer to be fitted up as a floating laboratory for the study of natural history on the ocean itself. The Paris Gatdois says :—A few of General Boulanger's late adherents have decided to pay homage to the deceased by visiting his tomb on the anniversary of his suicide, which will be next Friday. Some years ago the daughters of 'ldr Wilson Barrett started as lady dressmakers in London. Their business name is Mita et Cie. They are said to be very clever girls, and are making a wonderful success.  This morning, at Hartlepool Police Court, William Paw (60), of 3, Johnson's Square, was remanded for a week on a charge of stealing two metal firebars, value ss, the property of the N.E.R. Co., on the 17th inst. John Bunstead (19), a native of Lyndhurst, Hants, and a private in the Ist Yorkshire Regiment, stationed at Jersey, was gathering blackberries at Greve de Lecq, on Wednesday, when he fell a hundred feet down a cliff, and was killed instantly. How is rr DoNO—M. Sven Wiren, a Copenhagen journalist, has undertaken to accomplish a tour round the world without spending a single farthing. He does not propose to beg, but will endeavour to work his way by engaging in such travelling occupations as may facilitate his progress. He has already "worked his passage to London on board a Danish vessel.
The Northern Guardian. — 1892-09-30 (Hartlepool, Cleveland, England)

AND THE  DOCTOR.  REM ARK ABLE LETTERS.  The inquest on Dr. Heron, who committed suicide at the Craven Hotel, Strand, was opened yesterday. Mrs Williams, at whose house deceased lived with the lady known as Ruby Russell, said the parties appeared to live happily together. Witness gave evidence at the inquest on Miss , Russell. Baxter, the night porter at the hotel, who found the body of the deceased, and Dr. Jamieson, divisional surgeon, gave evidence as already reported, the statement of the latter being to the effect that death was caused by the wound in the throat. Dr. Danford Thomas, who held the inquest on Marion Sharpe, alias Ruby Russell, produced a letter which he had received by post on Monday, in which deceased said he should go to rejoin Miss as quickly as possible. "Existence," he said, "would not be worth having if through myself my promised bride took her own life. Apart from this, however, owing to the unfortunate circumstances attending the death of my wife in Jamaica, suspicion must attach itself to me. In this last terrible bereavement it is not worth while to stay and fight out the whole probable course of the affair, so I go. I shall take an overdose of morphia as soon as certain matters have been settled." In a letter addressed to Mr Stewart, written after taking the morphia, deceased said : " How dreadful for it to be believed that I gave my darling anything. Oh, for a man to have such power over a girl as I had over my darling." He also wrote that he had taken large quantities of morphia before. The jury, after long deliberation, returned a verdict that deceased committed suicide, not being of sound mind when he cut his throat. The coroner stated that 13 out of the 17 jurors were of opinion he was not of sound mind.
The Northern Guardian. — 1892-11-21 (Hartlepool, Cleveland, England)

THE DOUBLE MURDER AT PETERTAVY.  INQUEST AND VERDICT.  The inquest on Emma H. Doidge and William Rowe, who were shot at Petertavy, near Tayistock, was concluded on Saturday. The interests of Williams, the accused, were watched by Mr Pearce, solicitor, of Plymouth. Evidence was given proving that Williams had an altercation with Miss Doidge after church on Sunday in the presence of her brother and her sweetheart. Williams left them, but after they had walked some distance shots were heard, and Miss Doidge and Mr Rowe were subsequently found lying in a lane, and a six. chambered revolver wasdiscovered notfar off. It was also shown that Williams presented himself at the house of a friend some time later in a shocking state, and bleeding profusely. He was then without coat or hat. A coat and black felt hat worn by the prisoner on the day mentioned were found in the river Tavy, and were now produced in court. It was further stated that a week prior to the murder, Williams purchased at Tavistock a revolver ad a supply of cartridges. Dr. Brodrick, a Tavi. stock surgeon, who had made a post-mortem examination of the bodies, stated that death was due to bullet wounds in the head in each case. In answer to the coroner, this witness stated that a bullet had been successfully extracted from Williams's neck, and that, at his present rate of progress, he might be removed from the hospital in about a week. After an exhaustive inquiry, the jury returned a verdict of "Wilful murder" in each case against Williams, and he was committed for trial. At the service, attended by friends and relatives of the murdered young man and woman, at Petertavy yesterday, the Rector, Dr. Bryant, read a letter from the Bishop of Exeter, who said he could not hear of so terrible a tragedy without writing to express his deep sympathy with the rector, as their pastor, in the murder of two members of his flock, and also in the attempted suicide of the young man charged with this deed of blood. The Bishop expresses his tenderest sympathy, as their father in God, with the relatives of the deceased, !and remarks that it must be a consolation that almost their last act was joining in public:worship.
The Northern Guardian. — 1892-09-08 (Hartlepool, Cleveland, England)

UNREQUITED LOVE.  FEARFUL LEAP OVER A CLIFF.  The circumstances GE a fearful death, the outcome of unrequited love, were investigated at Dover yesterday by the CartflleP (Mr S. Payn). The inquiry, which created considerable interest in the town, was held at the Hotel de Par is, and was upon the body of a young woman, 22 years of age, named Margaret Dawtrcy Doig, an artists' model, who had been, up to the time of her death, staying at the Mortimer Hotel, Craven Street, Strand. The lady, it appears, had been keeping company with a gentleman, who recently left for South Africa, which caused her great distress of mind, as appears from two letters she wrote to the gentleman's brother. The father of the deceased, a baker, living at 74, Red Lion Street, Holborn, identified the body as that of his daughter, and also identified her handwriting. The deceased was an artists' model. He had not seen her for years, but she wrote to him eighteen months ago. Her proper name was Margaret Doig, Dawtrey being an assumed name. In answer to Mr Mowll, solicitor, the witness stated that one of his daughters was in an asylum. The part of the cliff where the young woman threw herself over is about 300 feet high, the cliffs being almost perpendicular at this point, which is close to the Cornhill Coast guard Station. between St. Margaret's and Dover. According to the evidence of the county coastable, whose attention had been called by the co tguard, he found the body only 15 yards from the base of the cliff on Sunday night, but he had to wait till the tide had receded before he could get at it. The body was fearfully bruised, and lay wedged between two rocks, which had prevented the tide carrying it to sea. Amongst the articles found on the body was a cloakroom ticket, with which the police obtained the deceased's portmanteau from the London and Chatham Harbour Station. It would appear that the deceabe,l arrived at Dover last Wednesday evening. During the inquiry the deceased's sister arrived from Hastings, having seen the intelligence of her sister's death in a newspaper cutting. Miss Doig was very ranch affected at her sister's death. A verdict of suicide whilst temporarily insane was returned.  Tonneoommirs C4)
The Northern Guardian. — 1892-11-19 (Hartlepool, Cleveland, England)

LETTERS.  BETTING AND GAMBLING.  To the Editor of The Northens Guardirm.  is proposed to establish a branch of the "National Anti-Gambling League" for the Hartlepools, and I should feei much obliged if you would kindly bring the subject under the consideration of your readers. The enormous evil of betting and gambling is apparent even in our own midst whatever disguise it may assume. We have many societies for promoting the cause of total abstinence. I have found that gambling and drinking usually run together, and where a total abstainer has broken his obligation it has been that gambling was the cause of his doing so. The object of the above society is to offer a strenuous and uncompmmising opposition to every fcrm of betting and gambling, and to diffuse among young men and others useful information on the subject. Pledge forms have been sent to me as a member, and I shall be glad to hear from anyone deeirous of forming a branch of the league in this disttict.  The Rev. J. W. Horsley. M.A., as a vice-president of this league, says of betting: "My experience as a prison chaplain showed me that amongst those of a hitherto good character (as distinct from members of the criminal class) it Wrt9 as a cause of crime and ruin only second to intemperance." The Rev. 11. W. Webb-Peploe says, "It has caused the ruin of almost innumerable souis, and is wrecking the hopes which were held of large numbers in our churches." The Chaplain of Stafford Gaol-says: "Ware able to fill one of the spacious corridors in this prison with young men of the Clerk and Ace .untant class, whose ages vary mostly. from sixteen to twi my-three, and who receive salar,es varying frain LIO to £7O. And in what I am now saying I am but re-echoing their their own statements: It is betting and gambling of which these young men are the victims." The Dean of Rochester says: "It seems to me that no true nobleman, no true gentleman should pay large slims of money and have nothing to show for it: money with which he might have relieved want, and encouraged industry, and might have obtained the blessing if him who is ready to perish, or have made the widow's heart to sing for joy." Dr. Thain Davidson says "Gambling, when indulged, grows into a demoralising passion, before which everything must be sacrificed. The vice creeps on, acquiring more power every day, till it swallows up every good and generous instinct of the heart. No lust carries its subject to such fearful extremities. It arouses all the devil that is in a man. It kindles the fires of hell within his breast. It nurses rage, developes jealousy, and engenders strife or, on the other hand, it turns the heart to atone. Forgery, murder, and suicide are in its train."—Yours, &c., , S.
The Northern Guardian. — 1892-07-25 (Hartlepool, Cleveland, England)

THE LABOUR BATTLE IN AMERICA. -MR CARNEGIE'S MANAGER SHOT.  PIRTSBVIIG, Saturday:.  Mr H. C. Frick, manager of the Carnegie was to-day shot by a workman, said to be a Jew. The man had been waiting near the office asking to see Mr Frick, and was after some delay admitted. Suddenly three revolver shots were fired, and it is believed the assassin was also armed with a knife, as there are three bullet wounds and one apparently inflicted with a sharp instrument. Mr Frick's secretary rushed in, and the man turned on him, but was finally overpowered. The prisoner stated that his name is Alexander Bergmann, a painter by trade, and that he had come to Pittsburg to kill Mr Frick, whom he considered an enemy to working men. He had concealed in his mouth two small cartridges with the view to commit suicide, but by a desperate struggle these were taken away. Mr Frick is considered out of danger, and the bullets have been extracted. He was able to dictate a telegram to Mr Carnegie in Scotland. Some of the strikers say Mr Frick only got his deserts, and it is thought that if prisoner could have escaped from the office he would have been spirited away, but the more responsible leaders I denounce the crime.  NEW YORK, Saturday. Drivers of freight trains on the railway near Homestead have been warned that if they carry one pound of steel from the Carnegie works they will be shot.  PITTSBURG, Sunda:  by. Mr Frick is much easier this morning, and no doubt is now entertained of his recovery. He is suffering from two bullet wounds and four slashes with a dagger. The prisoner has given his name as Alex. Berkman, and says he is a printer in the employ of a New York paper, the name of which he refus.cs to furnish.  At Homestead last night the Advisor Board 'of the Amalgamated Association adopted a resolution sympathising with Mr Frick.
The Northern Guardian. — 1892-08-25 (Hartlepool, Cleveland, England)

DESPERATE CASE OF SUICIDE.  A WEST HARTLEPOOL MAN CUTS HIS THROAT.  A TERRIBLE STRUGGLE.  Yesterday afternoon the Manchester DeputyCoroner held an inquiry touching the death of John 'Bottoms, aged 42, a boilersmith, who had lived in Anson Street, West Hartlepool. For some time prior to his death the deceased had suffered from a nervous complaint, and, acting on the advice of his medical man, he went to Manchester on Monday for a change. He was accompanied by his wife, and they went to stay with relations in Robert Street, Newton Heath. On Tuesday morning the deceased had breakfast as usual with his wife, and directly afterwards went into the kitchen with the intention of washing himself. A few minutes afterwards his wife heard him groaning, and found him in the closet bleeding from a wound on the top of his head. He refused to go into the house, and after a violent struggle, his brother-in-law, James Shepherd, succeeded in removing him. There was an axe lying in the kitchen, near to which was a pool of blood, and the supposition is that the deceased struck himself on the head with that weapon. After being brought from out of the yard, the deceased was placed in a chair, and again became very violent. He succeeded in breaking away from the custody of Mr Shepherd, snatched up a table knife, and inflicted a terrible wound in his throat, the force of the thrust breaking the knife. Over half an inch of the steel was afterwards found embedded in his throat. After the knife had been taken from him he tried to tear the wound open with his fingers. The unfortunate man was eventually secured, and after his injuries had been attended to by a medical man, he was conveyed to the Royal Infirmtry, but was found to be dead on admittance. The jury returned a verdict that the deceased committed suicide whilst insane.
The Northern Guardian. — 1892-09-19 (Hartlepool, Cleveland, England)

VICAR'S SUICIDE.  PAINFUL TRAGEDY AT RYAL.  SENSATIONAL DISCLOSURES.  Some painful incidents have come to light with regard to the suicide of the Rev. Joseph Weedon, of Morton Vicarage, Bingley, which was committed at a Ryal hotel on Friday evening. It appears that deceased went to Ryal a fortnight ago accompanied by a female, and the couple entered their names in the visitors' book as the " Rev. Mr and Mrs Weedon." Nothing unusual happened until last Friday, when Mr Weedon came to pay his hotel bill, amounting to £lB. He had not the required sum, and was told to wait until the proprietor arrived. Shortly afterwards Mrs Weedon rushed into the bar, and exclaimed that her husband had cut his throat. Several Iservants proceeded to a small retiring room, where deceased was found in a sitting posture with blood slowly trickling from his mouth, but exhibiting no other sign of injury. Close beside the body was a five-chambered revolver, three chambers of which had been recently discharged. It transpired that deceased had shot himself and severed his spinal cord, causing instant death. The female informed the police that she was not Mr Weedon's wife but had been employed by him as cook. When he left home he induced her to accompany him, telling her that he intended to get divorced from Mrs Weedon, and would marry her. An inquest was held on the body on Saturday afternoon, when Mary Beatrice Broadbent, of Leeds, a good-looking young woman, 26 years of age, gave evidence. She said she had been cook in Mr Weedon's employ, and came to Ryal with him at his request. They lived together as man and wife at the Westminster Hotel. On Friday she went to a lavatory and found Mr Weedon dead, with a revolver in his hand. Deceased had received a letter from his mother informing him that his wife knew of his going away with the cook, and this letter greatly distressed him. He told witness that he would obtain a divorce, and would marry her. On Friday morning he gave her his watch and purse, saying he was going to have a bath. , She met him in the street the worse for drink, and induced him to return to the hotel for lunch. His hotel bill came to £lB, and he had no money to meet it.  Corroborative evidence was given, and the jury ultimately found that deceased fatally shot himself while temporarily insane.
The Northern Guardian. — 1892-10-19 (Hartlepool, Cleveland, England)

ANOTHER ROMANTIC SUICIDK  THE DOCTOR AND THE DESTITUTE GIRL.  An inquest was held last evening before Mr Wyatt, coroner for South London, at the Antelope Tavern, Lorn Road, Brixton, into the circumstances attending the death of the young woman who died on Friday morning last at No. 10, Stock. well Park Crescent, where she had been living with a gentleman named Ricketts. The first witness was William Simmonds Percival Ricketts, who said he belonged to the Indies medical service. He knew deceased as Edith Maebean or Hamilton, who was 22 or 23 years old. Her father, who was now dead, once practised as a doctor at Sydenhatn. He first met her at Brighton on June 6th. She said she had gone there to find employment. She said she was unsuccessful, and was starving, and asked witness fo give her a meal. Witness did so, aud then she asked him to take her back to London, as she had no money. Wittier took her back, and they spent the night at the Alexandra Hotel, near the Victoria Station. The next day he found her rooms at Anselm Road, Fulham, where she passed as his sister. A week later he went to Kent. While there he supplied her with necessaries, and when'he returned on July 13th deceased suggested that they should live together. On the 13th July he took apartments at Stockwell Park Crescent. Deceased did not appear to be a lady, and he did not credit her story. He last saw her alive on September 16th. On that day he went to Bedford, whence he wrote to deceased stating that in the interests of them both it would be better for him not to return. She seemed upset, and once or twice threatened to put an end to her life.  Mrs Lucy Smith, the landlady, said deceased grieved very much that Mr Ricketts did not take her to Bedford. She found deceased seriously ill on Thursday morning, and, although the doctors stayed with her, she died on Friday morning at nine o'clock.  Dr. O'Donnell said he found deceased insensible. Her tongue, lips, and chin were burnt with carbolic acid, and she had also swallowed chlorodyne just before her death. He understood her to say she took the acid and chlorodyne. A trained nurse gave similar evidence, and the jury returned a verdict of suicide while mentallY deranged.  TOMACCONISTS Commenmso.—llld. Ginnie, 51, "Bow to Co menee." Tobaoconiets Out 3tting Co. (Itegd.)lB6 Euator. Rea. Loadou.
The Northern Guardian. — 1892-09-14 (Hartlepool, Cleveland, England)

DESPERATE ATTEMPT AT MURDER.  A POSTMAN CUTS HIS WIFE 'S THROAT,  AND ATTEMPTS SUICIDE.  Yesterday afternoon the inhabitants of the quie. little village of Startforth were thrown into a state of excitement by the report that a man named Thomas cooper, a postman, had attempted to murder his wife, 'Mary, and afterwards to commit suicide. The report, unfortunately, proved too true. Cooper, who is a man between 45 and 50, is of a very quiet disposition, and very steady and industrious. He is not a man of very robust health, and during the past eight weeks has been unable to follow his employment of rural postman. He suffered from nervous debility during that time, and became in a low way. Cooper, however, sufficiently recovered to coinmence his duties on Monday morning, and all went well until yesterday afternoon, when he went home prior to taking the collection at Startforth. He shortly afterwards went out of the house into a cowshed some distance away, and remaining there a long time, his wife, Mary Cooper, went in search of him. She found him in the shed, and he handed her two studs and said he had lost sixpence amongst. some straw. She stooped to help him to find it, when he without any warning attacked her with an old rusty sickle, which was afterwards found covered with blood and hair. She screamed out, and her father, an old man named Robert Donald, came to her rescue. He endeavoured to pull Cooper off his wife, and having done so went out to seek assistance. The woman's cries were also heard by two men named Hoggett and Hunter, employed by Mr Watson, of High Startforth Hall, who at once proceeded in the direction of Donald. When they came to the barn a fearful sight met their gaze. Mrs Cooper was standing with her throat cut, and covered with blood. Hoggett caught hold of Cooper, who, when they arrived, had his hands in his wife's hair. Mrs Cooper was taken to the house by Hunter, who tied a wet towel lightly around her throat. Drs. Sevier and Balfour were soon in attendance, and Cooper was removed to the house suffering from a very severe gash in his throat. Mrs Cooper's wounds are not so serious as was at first anticipated, but those of her husband are very dangerous, and little hope is entertained of his recovery. The affair has caused much excitement in Barnaid Castle and Startforth, where Cooper is well known. No motive can be ascribed for the outrage except that Cooper's late illness has affected his mind.