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The Cannock Chase Examiner. — 1874-06-20 (Cannock, Staffordshire, England)

ROMANTIC SUICIDE OF A LEEDS COUPLE IN AMERICA.  Raw YORK, May 29th.—Some remarkable cases of suicide involvinu romantic details have recently come to light in this city. A few years ago a young man named Austin, belonging to a family of the highest respectability in Leeds. England, fell in love with an accomplished young lady and was about to marry her, when-her parents interfered and forbade the bans. Resolved not to have their plans interfered with, they ran away and came to America. arriving in this city some two years since. where they were married. After spending all I their money, Austin endeavoured to obtain employment, but he was misueceettful, and being driven to the wall he grew desperate, and it was not long before he found himself in State PrisOn on a five years' sentence for , highway robbery. Previous to his departure for gaol, the sheriff permitted his wife to visit him. On one occasion she appeared at the gate with • large fruit cake, which she wished to give to Austin. The officer examined the cake, and in the centre found a small steel saw, a steel knife blade, and a handcuff key. She was arrested for attempting to aid Austin's escape, and was sentenced to sin months' imprisonment. Upon the expiration of her term, she had an interview with her husband, and promised to remain true to her marriage vow until he served out his sentence. This she failed to do, which, coming to Austin's ears, so disheartened him that he committed suicide by cutting his throat with a shoemaker's knife Mrs. Austin was now the wreck of her former self, and in November last the remains of I woman were found near a brook alongside the Pennsylvania railroad. The only clue to its identity was a card on which was the name of "Maria Elisabeth Austin." The body was interred, and yesterday • letter was received from her parents asking for the fullest particulars of the sad fate of their lost daughter.
The Cannock Chase Examiner. — 1874-09-12 (Cannock, Staffordshire, England)

THIS LATE SIIICIDE.—MANIVESTATION OF FEELING AT THE FONERAL.—The burial of Mrs. Sadler, who last week committed suicide under the circumstances already reported, took place on Saturday, and was made the occasion of an extraordinary popular demonstration of feeling, mainly directed against the husband of the deceased. Some hundreds of persons—men, women, and children—gathered round, his house, the White Hart, Caldmore, most of them being dwellers in the neighbourhood, end excitedly discussed the incidents of the married life of the hapless woman, the circumstances of the suicide, and the coraduA of the inquest, in no friendly spirit towards any one of those concerned, excepting the deceased herself. As to the enquiry, it was declared to have been incomplete, or worse, and the jury to have failed in duty, inasmuch as they had not insisted upon an adjournment for the production of farther evidence. The coroner and the officers concerned ingetting up the evidence came in for a good share of the vituperations so freely dispensed, and the cries and threats of violence towards the bereaved husband were of sash a character that, acting upon advice, he judiciously refrained from following his wife's remains to their last resting place. Finding that he did not take his place , with the other mourners, the crowd rushed off to the cemetery by is short cut, not a few evidently expecting to find that Mr. Sadler had proceeded thither alone, and by another route than that taken by the funeral cortege ; but on ascrrtaining that such was net the case, many of the menjeft at once, some openly and audibly regretting that, after all, there was to be "no fum" The women remained in crowds, and into every willing ear vindicated her character from reproach. The burial service was read by the Rev. W. Allen, vicar, who afterwards addressed a few words of :Larks to the assembled throng. He referred to the account of the deceased's death as unmistakably ihowing the deceitfulness of sin, and the danger of people being led into great sins if they gave way in little things: If, therefore, any of them were given to drink, he begged them to abandon it at once. The reference to drink being evidently regarded as a reflection upon the deceased, it elicited a murmur of renionstrance from many of the women. Two of the deceased's female relatives walked behind the hearse containing the coffin, and after them came a mourning conch, containing her husband's father, and some of her own children. A wreath of flowers lay upon the coffin:.
The Cannock Chase Examiner. — 1874-10-31 (Cannock, Staffordshire, England)

THE ROY AL VISIT TO BIRMINGHAM. Great preparations are being made at Packington Hall, the seat of the Earl of Aylesford. for the reception of the Prince and Princess of Wales on Monday next. The Ro7al pair will, it is expected, arrive at Hampton station in the afternoon, and at once proceed to Packington. For their reception the front of the hall will be brilliantly illuminated with gas, and the trees near will be hung with variegated lamps. There will also be a grand pyrotechnic display. The guests invited to meet their Royal Highnesses are the Duke and Duchess of Manchester, Lord Westmorland, Madame Toletoy, the Marquis of Hartington, the Marquis of Blandf ord, Lord Clonmel, Col. Williams, Mr. Knollys, Capt. Montague, Mr. Cockerell, Mr. Delacour, and Mr. Ark aright. On Tuesday the prince and princess will visit Birmingham, where immense preparations in the way of street decorations and illuminations are being made for their reception On Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday the party will go out shooting in the park, and on Friday night tiers will be a grand ball, for which a magnificent room is being constructed adjoining the hall. On Saturday the prince will ride out with the Atherstone hounds. and in the afternoon the prince and princess will leave Packiegton and return to London. An escort of cavalry will be provided by the general commanding the district on the occasion of the visit to Birmingham.  HORRIBLE WIFE MURDER AND SUICIDE AT BACUp.  Shortly after six o'clock on Monday morning, a terrible wife murder, followed by the suicide of the murderer, took place in Plantation street, Bacup. The murderer was a man named John Holt, quarry man, 53 years of age. On entering the house a terrible scene was presented to the police. The body of the wife lay entirely nude on the bedroom floor, and her throat cut from ear to ear. The body of the husband lay near, with the throat hacked and gashed in a horrible manner. A tart, ing knife covered with blood was in his hand, and there is no doubt that he first murdered his wife and ten committed suicide. Holt leaves six children.
The Cannock Chase Examiner. — 1877-01-05 (Cannock, Staffordshire, England)

DETERMINED SUICIDE IN WALES.—A gentleman named Charles Miller Case committed suicide on Sunday afternoon at his lodgings, Seaview terrace, near% Holywell, under circumstances which showed a desperate determination to take away his life. The deceased was an invalid, and had recently been treated in Chester Infirmary for heart disease and dropsy. On Sunday afternoon he asked his landlady to give him a small black bag, which she did, and then left him propped up with pillows in bed and the bag beside him. Immediately after she had gone downstairs a report of firearms was heard, and on going to his room it was found that he had shot himself through the right ear with a six-chambered revolver, which he had taken from the bag. Five of the barrels were still loaded, and the bullet of the discharged chamber had lodged in the deceased's skull, above the right eye, death being instantaneous. It appeared that he had that morning said he would have placed himself on the metals • o time railway had it been near. The deceased ea. an aged gentleman of independent means, and a naturalised American citizen. His relations live in New York, and it ii understood that he has left his money to his daughter, and in case of certain events the whole of his fortune is bequeathed to the city treasurer of New York, to be applied for public purposes.  EXTRAORDINARY Sense AT _ A FI7NERAL.—A most extraordinary funeral scene, it appears, wee wit'. nested a few days since on the public road near the village of Carrington, a few miles froin Edinburgh. An old woman died suddenly at that village in the be, ginning of last week, and, as is the custom in such cases, a post-mortem examination was ordered by the county police authorities. According to instructions, a well-known medical gentleman, accompanied by his assistant and a sheriff's officer, proceeded to the house of the deceased for the purpose of examining the body with the view of ascertaining the cause of death. To their surprise, they were informed on arrival that the corpse was on its way to be buried, whereupon the functionaries forthwith hurried after the funeral company, overtook it before reaching the graveyard, and acquainted those present with the nature of their mission, suggesting that the corpse should be taken back to the house for the purpose mentioned. This proposal seemed repugnant to the persons in charge, and they made as if to continue their progress; but they had only gone a few paces when the sheriff's officer stopped the coffin, which was being carried in country fashion, and placed it on a roadside heap. The funeral company seemed disin. dined to have a disturbance on such an occasion, and having been given to understand that the law must take honouree they stood by and saw the coffin opened and the doctor make bin examination of the corpse. This over the coffin lid was refastened, when the funeral was duly proceeded with. —Scotsmen. "Do." MoNCN,
The Cannock Chase Examiner. — 1877-07-27 (Cannock, Staffordshire, England)

ATTEIII'TED SUICIDE OF DETECTIVE DRUSCOVICH.  It is reported that Inspector Druscovich, after his recent remand, and when conveyed to the House of Detention, attempted to commit suicide. When the accused had been placed in his cell he tore up his sheet and made it into a rope. Having done this he fastened it to the bar of the window in his coll. He next stood on his bed and fasten.d the noose round his neck. He then jumped off his bed and fell suspended within a few inchea of the ground. When the prison official came round he was much surprised at not hearing any response to his knocking at the door, and when he opened it he found the inspector hanging in the manner already described. The turnkey lost no time, but immediately cut Drusebvich down, and subsequently sent for the prison surgeon who was only enabled after considerable difficulty to restore Druscovich to consciousness. his stated that had the inspector not been discovered form few minmites longer life would have been extinct.  HOUSE OF LORDS, Murinay.—Earl Granville asked if the Government could afford the House any information as to certain rumours with reference to the movement of British troops to the Mediterranean. The Earl of Derby expressed satisfaction at being at once able to answer a question which was both natural and opportune. What had happened was this. The Mediterranean garrison were at present below their full complement, and it had been thought desirable, in the present uncertain and disturbed condition of Europe, that they should be strengthened to the extent rar about three thous Ind men. This was the sole foundation for the rumours which had appeared in the .newspapers. The Duke of Richmond, in reply to a question, said the recent outbreak orcattle plague in the metropolitan area was only a continuation of what was reported sorno time ago. Me explained the precautions that were being taken to prevent it from spreading. Some bills were advanced, and their Lordships adjourned at 5.35.
The Cannock Chase Examiner. — 1877-05-25 (Cannock, Staffordshire, England)

CLEIUMIAN.—On Monday an inquest was held at Witham, Essex, before Mr. W. Codd, coroner, touching the death of the Rev. ,T. F. Taylor, chaplain of the Billericay Union House, which occurred, under very shooting circumstances, at the William station of the Great Eastern Railway, on Saturday evening. It seems that the rev, gentleman, who was encumbered with a bag and an umbrella, attempted to en:er an up train as it was drawing into the station, when, to the horror of a crowd of passengers, mostly holiday makers, he tell between the carriages and the platform. Several wheels passed over his body, and he was dragged n di. :ince of 30 yards by the guards' van. His head and face were smashed almost beyond recognition, a leg and arm cut off, and the body shockingly mangled. The deceased was about 40 years of age.  PATtI, Finn IN LoNl.N.—Early on Monday morn. Mg a destructive fire broke out at the French Restaurant, Villiers street, Strand, by which one life was lost. The fire was discovered by a pausing cabman, and the alarm having been given engines and escapes were promptly in attendance. Two persons were at once rescued from the second floor, while two others jumped out of a back window and were seriously injured. They were taken to Charing Cr /1, Hospital. Eight other persons who were in the house escaped ny a trapdoor to the roof of the Princess of Wales Tavern. One person was still missing, and as soon as the fire was subdued search was made, and the body found burned to a cinder. The deceased was a Frenchman lodging in the house. His name is unknown, but. he had stated that he was over on business connected with the French Exhibition. A man committed suicide on Sunday in one of the police cells attached to the new Court House, Stratiraer. It appears that on the previous evening the police, suspecting that a man, represen. ing himself as blind and begging, was imposing on tie yubiic, tnOk hills to the surgery of a medical gentleman, who stated that the man could see perfectly well. They then lodged him in the police Mike. The Titan was visited at eleven o'clock, and replied to the constable. At two o'clock the comtable again called at his cell, and receiving no answer entered, and found him suspended :to the wall of the cell quite dead. He had taken the napkin from his neric and tied it to the gas-pipe of his cell, and succeeded in terminatiltg his ILE, by hangiio. His nanie is liubert Muirhead, 42 years of age. He • Irss a native of Lanarkshire. A b.mrd. which he carred on his breast, represented that he was "a poor , blind man, who had lost mis sighi at the Muirkirk Quarry."—Giaigwe Erenikr _Neu, Ao'-tt i.e By AN Act F.NI,ANT Kr A I_,Nonz
The Cannock Chase Examiner. — 1877-01-26 (Cannock, Staffordshire, England)

BURIAL SCANDAL NEAR BARNSLEY. STRANGE SCENE IN A GRAVEYARD. A somewhat strange scene has been enacted during this week at the village of Gawber, situate about a couple of miles from Barnaley. It appears that towards the u'ose of last week a working man named George Merrill, residing at Gawber, and employed at the Willow Bank Colliery, had the misfortune to lose his only chile, aged a little over eight mot tbs. The death was made known to the Vicar of the parith, the Rev. T. G. Metcalf, with a view to hi- interring the infant; but on his learning that it had not hes, beptised, he informed the parents that it °our° not have a buds: service either in the church or at the grave aide. The parents at first decided to take the child to Barnsky and inter it in the unconsecrated portion of the cemetery, but ultimately application was made to the Rev. J. F. T. Hal, lower. M.A., 'moor of the Barnsley Congregational Church, to conduct a service. That genHen.sp agreed to do go, and the loan of the United I Methodist Free Church place of worship, at Barnsley, having been obtained, • preliminary service was held there. The funeral cortege procee ed from the chapel to the ,hurch. The grave bad' been rug Grose to the east boundary wall. The whole of the mourners proceeded to the g, avey ord. whilst Mr. Hal. lowes coda friend took their placers outside the churchyard on a private road withiat couple of yards of the gra,. Here Mr. Hallow., proceeded to read the burial service, commencing, .• Man that is born of a omen,' but no sooner had he uttered the first word then to,, sexton info, med him that he most not read there. Mr. Hallower replied that he should read, and severely cautioned him against further interrtiotLik during the service. The srxtoo begs to fill up the grave hurriedly, and before the well-known words, "• Ashes to ashes PIA dust. to duet," had been spokes. the, grave was hart-ful: of earth. NB-. Hallowell having tiOshed the Burial be!si re, delivered • short address, Is, otteli he Haim."' the idea of these who would place an nobaprised mid harmless intsnt in the same category as those who commltte • suicide, and whilst pointing out tbr fallacy of the doctrine held, he cautioned the I sexton against ever interrupting such a service again.
The Cannock Chase Examiner. — 1877-06-01 (Cannock, Staffordshire, England)

IRISH WILL CASE.  An extraordinary will case was concluded before Judge Warren and a special jury on Saturday. The suit was brought to establish the will of the late Sir. Charles F. Ker, son of Mr. W. H. Ker, ex-M.P. for Downpatrick. The testator, by a will made on the 311th of June, 18711, bequeathed his Interest in £5OOO charged on the estate of his father to Mrs. Georgina Baker, the plaintiff in the suit. The will was disputed by a brother of the testator and by Miss Peres% who were named as legatees in an earlier will, on the grounds of undue influence, fraud, and want of testamentary capacity. It appeared that the testator, a young man of 7S years of age at the time of his death, which occurred in September last, was addicted to intemperate habits; that during the last two years of his life he had eight distinct attacks of delirium tremens ; and that en the Nth of September, two months and a half after he had executed the will now sought to be proved, he committed suicide by cutting his throat while labouring under one of these attacks. Mrs. Baker, the plaintiff, is a young widow of independent means, and, according to the statement of counsel, and from her own evidence In the witness-box, Mr. Ker had repeatedly asked her to Marry him. He professed to have a strong aljectisn for her, and frequently visited her at her house, while he himself had from the death of his stepmother in ltc:, taken up his residence in the house of Mr. Harper, an uncle of the plaintiff, and residing near her, on the 27th of June, 18711, the testator, white ill, made his will in Mn. Baker's favour. It further appeared that the night before the will was made he was labouring under a delusion that the room was full of people. In Sept. following he had an atteck of delirium It-emcee, the doctor was called in, and directed that tie should be carefully watched, and all dangerous weapons removed from within his reach, but on the following day he cut his throat, inflicting a mortal wound.—The jury, after nearly two hours' deliberation, were unable to agree to a verdict, and were discharged.
The Cannock Chase Examiner. — 1877-03-02 (Cannock, Staffordshire, England)

SEDUCTION AND SUICIDE.  Mr:Carter held an inquiry on Saturday, at Camberwell, London, relative to the death of Ellen Gluing. aged 10 years, a native of Offord, in Suffolk, and servant of Mr. Kennet, of the Cock Tavern, Camberwell—Mr. Harry Kennet deposed that he went to the deceased and found her apparently dying, and ascertabling that she had taken some vermin powder he at once sent for a doctor and a constable. He had heard that the deceased had been 'educed by the potruan, and upon taxing him with having done so he admitted that he had taken advantage of the poor girl.—A police-constable deposed that he was called to see the deceased, whom he found lying on the bed in the most frightful pain. Seeing acme papers on the table he asked her if she had taken anything, when she said 'ties, poison "; and upon his asking her why, she replied, "Oh, lam in such trouble. I have been ruined by the potman, and he has threatened to kill nei. I ant dying. I wish to die, for I ain in such frightful pain." Witness searched her dress, and found Some papers and powders labelled " Battle's vermin killer."—Dr. Massey said he was called in, butthe sufferer died five minutes afterwards from poisoning by strychnine.—Mrs. Caroline Gluing, • very respectable elderly woman, of OtTord, Suffolk, said that the deceased was her daughter, who regularly corresponded with witnes• and her aunt. Witness had a letter front Mrs. Kennet on Sunday last, in which she asked her to come to Camberwell, beoause "Ellen was fretting fearfully, and had told the laundress that she would make away with herself."—The Coroner: I don't think we need have the potman here, gentlemen of the jury, as he appears to have admitted his intimacy with the deceased.— Mrs. Gluing For God's sake, don't bring him where I am, gentlemen, I couldn't bear to took at him.—The jury returned a verdict of " Suicide whilet of unsound mind."
The Cannock Chase Examiner. — 1877-08-24 (Cannock, Staffordshire, England)

DOUBLE EXECITTION AT LIVERPOOL. detective department of the police at Soothed yeyfe" some watering place for the purpose of coin- A painful case of suicide has just occurred at forth from the chasm of jets of water, carried fouu • John Golding and Patrick McGovern have been to be eopplemented by the addition of two metreepa: i tetely restoring the health of Prince Albert Bettws-y-Coed. An old men, named John Rawson, I tam-like to an altitude higher than the stream above executed at Kirkdale Gaol, Liverpool, the former tan police megoaratee. for the murder of a man named Lloyd, by felling Lord Derby will, it is expected teke the prim 'tor. seventy years of age, was missed Mout a week since, the fall. He noticed also that vibrations or shocks Septembe nd a few days after, his body was found hanging shook at intervals the windows of the hotel in which him with a poker; and McGovern for the murder of ptrittein the opening of the new ducks at Fleetwood, Pal ' eo.oi a to t whin a hundred ards of the public John Campbell when he stabbed in the stomach. L &dare. The oyeening Mll Mm place witia owe I London Financial Association, which is ia- he was staying. He determined to inveatigate cc m ybo the in thoroughfare,it near the Swallowy Falls, in the Maes- Marwood wm the executioner. The men walked reon aut r 26. apparent coincidence, arid he obeerved that the the Alexandra Palace, is seeking to induce aree, nowyddion woods. A coroner's inquest was held on firmly to the scaffold, but McGovern, when the rope A sailor, named John Challons, has been remended e to become interested also by lending water fell at first in acorn pact mess, then it divided the body, when a verdict waa returned to the effect was being adjusted, had to be supported; the other e.t e eePeootlir Court, on. the charge Of MIN f into spray, and fell intu the chasm. It at once tuethttaTol/tarao; Mentures. Th debentures are offered that deceased had committed suicide while labour- man looked somewhat unconcerned. Both mid the foolish man raeheth ont to see the mob see i. .:T.13p011:110,Z 11a.pabliC.1401100, vel way, for, in addition to the online occurred to him that the water carried with it no Panted man lying vith 5 per cent, payable half yearly, ing under a fit of temporary insanity. , small proporticn of air, and that the falling weight revenges to the Roman Catholic Service fervently. .... After the drop fell their frames quivered, and they . are offered without any coupons at of water, imprisoning the air, must compress it until the lunge ; but ties wise men ling, he- cent., to be paid off at pm five