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The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1893-01-14 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

CIVIL WAR IN ABYSSINIA.  According to dispatches from Massowah, a complete rupture now exists between Ras Mangacha and Ras Aloula. The former is a natural son of the late King John of Abyssinia, who was beaten and mortally wounded in the battle with the Dervishes at Meteinmeh. Before dying King John nominated Ras Mangacha as his successor, and recommended him to the protection of Ras Aloula, who had been his faithful general. After King Menelek claimed the throne of Ethopia, dissension arose between Mangacha and Aloula. The former, who is King of Tagre, desired to acknowledge himself a vassal of Menelek, but Ras Aloula always opposed this, and refused to recognise King Menelek's authority. Notwithstanding the efforts of the clergy and the Italian Resideht at Adowa to effect an arrangement, an open quarrel broke out between the two chiefs, and Ras Aloula, accompanied by only 40 followers, withdrew to a mountain, where at last acoguate he was being besieged by his former friend.  Mr. Cecil Rhodes, the Cape Premier, has arrived at Cairo. A sucoessful trial trip was run on Saturday on an electric overhead railway which runs for nearly seven miles along the Liverpool Docks, and has been constructed at a cost of over half a million sterling. The death has been reported to the Sheppy Board of Guardians of Eliza Humphries, who has been an inmate of Sheppy Union Workhouse Minster, Sheerness, for 92 years. The deceased was born in the establishment, and remained chargeable until her death, a somewhat weak intellect debarring her from earning her own living. She was known as the mother of the house. At Edinburgh Sheriff Court Thomas Macquade was sentenced to three weeks' imprisonment for bigamy. It appeared that he was married at 16, and lived with his wife for two years. They then separated, and the woman married another man. Both were convicted of bigamy at Glasgow. The accused, who is now 22 years of age, said he thought his wife's seoond marriage relieved him, and he then marrieei again. A man named Jacques Roche, with his wife and daughter, a girl of 12 years, were found in a state of insensibility in their lodgings in the Avenue d'ltalie, in Paris. A slow combustion stove had been alight all night in a kitchen communicating with their rooms, and the fumes it gave were the cause of death. The doctor who was called in brought Roche and his wile round somewhat, and then sent them to the hospital, where their state was pronounced to be hopeless. The girl never recovered consciousness, and what life was in her became extinct while she was in the doctor's hands. There was no reason why any of the three should have committed suicide.
The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1893-01-14 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

RETURNS.  The emigration returns for the month and the twelv months, ended on December 31 last, show ix each case a decline in the total number of departures from the ports of this country. For the year 1892 the total British emigration, amounting to 010,197, presents, as compared with the return of the previous year, a decrease of 8,316. The English and Irish returns of 133,981 and 52,840 show respective decreases of 3,900 and 5,596, while the Scotch at 23,370 presents on the other hand an addition of 1,186. The resultant decrease has been caused by the reduction in the totals returned as going to the United States and Australia. As regards these countries the respective total/ of 150,187 and 15,929 last year compare with 156,395 and 19,547 for the year 1891. The return of 23,303 as entered for Canada shows an increase of 1,725. With regard to the foreign emigration the reduction last year was 4,960, the total being 107,315 as against 112,275 during the previous year. The chief feature in this record is the great reduction in the number of emigrants to the United States. In 1891 the number who went thither amounted to 95,621, while last year the total was 85,179, a decrease of 10,442. Against this may be set the increase of 6,411 on a total of 18,585 who. went during the year to Canada.  A fire broke out at the Clough Works, Sheffield, through a foolish attempt on the part of two workpeople to thaw frozen oil by thrusting a red hot bar into the vessel containing it. The vapour at owoe ignited, and, the oil bubbling over, set fire to the workroom, which was completely burned out. John Garratt, the Registrar of Births and Deaths, at Barwell, near Hinckley, committed =icicle in his own house there on Saturday afternoon under shocking circumstances. He was in his usual health—which was by no means good—and transacting business until one o'clock. About an hour afterwards a report was heard in the room in which he had been left, and he was found to have committed suicide by blowing out his brains with a double-barrel gun which was lying near, and one barrel of which had been discharged.  ••-•—• At Croydon Borough Quarter Sessions Edward Terry, aged 53, was sentenced to three years' penal servitude for stealing 345. from the Alma public-house, Addiscombe. The money belonged to Albert Woodhouse. The accused pleaded guilty, and it was proved that the prisoner had been sentenced to terms of penal servitude amounting to 33 years.
The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1893-12-02 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

THE ARDLAMONT MYSTERY.  MONSON IN COURT.  In the Sheriff's-court, Edinburgh, on Saturday, before Sheriff Blair, Alfred John Monson was charged with endeavouring to drown Lieutenant Hambrotigh in Ardlamont Bay on August 9, and with murdering him by shooting him on the following day in a wood near Ardlemont House. The prisoner, who chatted cheerfully with his counsel before the proceedings commenced, appeared to be quite unconcerned, and when charged pleaded not guilty. The trial was then fixed for Tuesday, December 12. No objection was taken to the relevancy of the indictment, and the whole proceedings lasted only about two minutes. . .  At the.Sheriff's.court, Inverary, on Saturday, the pleading diet against Edward Sweeney, alias Edward Davies, alias Edward Soott, who is charged in conjunction with Alfred John Monson with having attempted to drawn Lieutenant Ham. brough on the night of August 9, and with having murdered him by shooting him on the following night, was called. The court-house was almost empty when Sheriff Shairp took his seat on the bench. The other officials present were Mr. Maclullioh, Procurator Fiscal ; Mr. Douglas, Sheriff's Clerk ; and their respective deputies. The accused was formally milled, and, there being no response, an execution of service of the indictment at Ardismont House, was produced by the Procurator Fiscal. A certificate remitting further proceedings to the High Court of Justiciary was signed by the Sheriff, and the Court then rose. It is stated that this is the first instance in Scotland since the pass. lug of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act of 1887 in which an accused person alleged to have tied from justice has been indicted. The present proceedings are taken with a view to declaring the accused an outlaw.  A woman named Reynolds was found drowned in the River Witham, at Lincoln. It is supposed to be a case of suicide.  A
The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1879-05-17 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

LOVE AND SUICIDE.  On Monday, Mr. Church, deputy.ooroner, held an inquiry at the Corn Exchange Inn, Eindbum on the body of Caroline Peters, eyed 19, daughter of Mr. William Peters, seed merchant, of that town. Mrs. Peters, the mother, stated that she last saw her daughter alive on Friday evening. She left home about seven, but never returned. She , had for some months been keeping corn. pany with a clerk, named Pelkington, but witness had only just been made acquainted with the fast. On Thursday night, while witness and her husband were away from home, demised Invited Pelkington into the house, whioh was against the father's roles. Upon going home witness's husband remonstrated with him, god told him he would not allow him to visit the house. On Friday the deceased said she would not stop at home. She had never threatened to commit suicide, and bad been swell. behaved girl. In answer to the mecum the witness said that the first discovered three weeks ago that dreamed was walking out with Pelking. tow, sad then she was told that if she oontinned to 4o so she would have to leave the house. A letter, written by the deceased, was handed in. It was as follow.:—" Dear Geoege,—They will not allow on to tome here to nee me, and, as we are to part, I am going to throw myself into Kr. Brad. let's pond. I hops you will not think of me after I am gone, for, without your oompany, lam better out of the way. I mean what I say. I should like to send you this letter, but you will soon know all about 4. Goodbye, farewelL—C. P." The letter was !band in her purse. She had emptied the mosey out of her pockets before leaving borne, and it was found on her bedroom table. The jury found that the deceased ram. [pitted suicide while in a Mato of temporary inaanityi
The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1894-02-17 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

SUICIDE IN A NEWSPAPER SIEFICE.  An inquest has be held on the body of Mr. William Page, 48, who committed suicide in hie room at tue Echo offioe, London. Deoessed was chief cashier at the Echo. Idle mind appears to have become unhinged through worry connected with his exeoutorehip of his mother's will, anti he had been observed for some days to be gloomy and dep d. Early the other afternoon he sent a young man named Howard to get a t2OO note exchanged at the bank for £lO notes, and he then gave the money to Howard, with £5O in gold, to deposit in his own name in the Birk. beck Bank. Deoessed was s. bachelor, and lodged with Howard's grandmother. He told Howard he thought he was gong to be ill, and the money would do to pay the dootor and other expenses. Shortly afterwards the °floe was alarmed by the sound of a ehot, and It was found that the door of deceased's room was locked. The door was burst open, and Mr. Page wee discovered dead on the dour, with his head in a Two' awl a revolvu vvoutta itt tl.e tu, f of his mouth, extending through the brain to the top of the skull. There was also a thin rope rouud the deceased's neck, attoohed to a brass hat.andooat hook, which had evidently been torn from the wall in an unsuccessful attempt by the deceased to hang himself. The deceased left four or live letters, in which he stated that overwork and worry had deprived him of sleep for the last three months. He also complained bitterly of the unfair treatment which he had received from big relations, and be left an informal will bequeath. log his property to the young man Howard.—Mr. Passmore Edwards, proprietor of the Echo, gave evidence that the deceased was not over.worked, and that he was an old and highly valued servant. His accounts were in perfect order, and when his private affairs had been arranged it would probably be found that he died worth some thousands of pounds. Mr. Edwards added that the deceased was a pre-eminently honest man, and at one time had a great deal of work to do, but of late years his position in the office was a comparatively easy one.—The jury returned a verdict of suicide while , temporarily insane.
The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1894-04-28 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

GIRL CHARGED WITH FORGERY.  Jane Clark, 15, servant, was charged at the North London Police-court with stealing between March 15 and 24 a money order for £1 6s. 9d., (also with forging and uttering the same), a lady's gold watch, a gold key, a gold locket, a gold brooch, some knives and forks, and 12 yards of linen, valued in all at £lO, the property of Miss Mary Paine, a governess, who was then residing in the house of the plisoner's mistress in Stannard-road, Daiston.—The prosecutrix said that from time to time during the dates mentioned she missed the articles enumerated in the charge from her boxes. On March 24 a letter was handed to her which had been tampered with. It should have contained a postal order for Ll 6s. 9J., but instead of the order was a slip of paper, on which was written, "The I order ham been taken by a poor widow. Please consider that it has gone in charity." Witness gave information to the police, and left the house. —Detective-sergeant Finucane said that through some handwriting of the prisoner's the note and signature to the postal order had been traced to her. She was arrested, and confessed that she had taken the articles. With the money thus obtained she went with other girls to Chingferd on Easter Monday and enjoyed herself.—The prisoner was remanded in custody.  A report an the inepeotioas of mines in the South Wales district, submitted to the Home Office by Her Majesty's Inspector of Mines, shows that the quantity of coal raised last year was nearly a million tons less than in 1892. The total number of fatal accidents in the year was 151, and the deaths resulting therefrom 229. John Knight was summoned to the Guildhall Police court, London, for having unlawfully used the diploma of a veterinary surgeon when giving evidence before one of the Alderman a short time ago. He wee fined £2O and oasts. A convict named Reid, undergoing five years' penal servitude at Peterhead Convict Prison, attempted to escape. He was employed in the Admiralty yard, and suddenly made off towards the gate and refused to "stand" when called upon by a warder, who thereupon fired three shots at him, but without effect. The runaway had almost reached the gate, when, seeing that a warder was waiting for him, he submitted quietly, and WM taken back to prison. About 18 months' ago Reid unsuccessfully attempted suicide in the sea immediately in front of the prison.
The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1894-04-28 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

SUICIDE THROUGH LOVE.  Mr. Carttar, coroner, on Saturday afternoon held an inquest at the Town Hall, Bermondsey, in oonneotion with the death of Mary Eliza Webb, aged 18, of Bermondsey, who had poisoned herself under sad oiroumstances.—Jane Webb, a widow, identified the dammed as her daughter. She last saw her alive in the morning, when she was at breakfast with her brother. Witness went out, and on returning at noon found her lying dead across the bed.—The Coroner: Had she any trouble on her mind I—Witness replied that she had recently had a few words with a young man she was keeping company with, and that had upset her considerably. Witness added that a bottle I which had contained oxalic acid was afterwards found in the weehhonse, the label of which had been discovered on the floor in pieces. —Emily Delderfield, sister to the deceased, also gave evidence—The Coroner: Can you account for the deceased taking poison I—Witness : Only through this quarrel with her young man. She had been grieving about the house in consequence, and had stayed indoors at night.—Martin Waldemar, a chemist, stated that he sold two pennyworth of oxalic acid in the bottle produced to a young woman, who said she wanted it for the purpose of °leaning brass and fireirons. It was not the deceased, whom he knew.—Dr. H. Reynolds deposed that death was due to oxalic: sold poisoning.—The Coroner then read the following letters which had been left by the deceased : "Don't blame my Teddie for this. I want you to be very friendly with him for my sake.—Maar " The 1 second lstter ran : "Darling Teddie,—l cannot wait for your answer. Good-bye. Think of me sometimes for the sake of the love you have taken away from your broken-hearted May. Keep all our secrets for the sake of both.— Your loving sweetheart.
The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1894-05-19 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

EXTRAORDINARY ATTEMPT AT  SUICIDE.  At the North London Police Court, on Monday, Henry Woodroffe, 27, carman, of Holloway, was charged with attempting to commit suicide.—Mrs. Florence Dashfield, who manages a confectioner's shop at Drayton Park, said that at mid-day on Sunday she saw the prisoner standing against a wall at Highbury. She thought he was in for he was black in the face and could not speak. But she noticed that he had a piece of string twisted round one hand, and the other eud was tied around his neck with a slip knot. He was pulling at the string and strangling himself. She (witness) said, "What are you doing? You will strangle yourself." He did not speak and she struggled with him and .took the string from his hand and neck. She then asked, "Will you do it again I" and he replied, "Yes. I will." She left him then to see to her business, but aeon fter she again, saw him, when he had ia .kulflo in his hand, and he said he was going to cut his throat. A young woman now came up, who afterwards proved to be the prisoner's wife, and she remarked, "Oh, let him do it. He I. my husband." The prisoner them ran sway, and the woman after him; and she (witness) saw no more of them.—The prisoner : I did it because I was miserable. She said I might do it if I liked. I have had sunstroke and ague in Ceylon, and have the fever on me now.—The Magistratm complimented Mrs.t Dashfielri on hue optima kipt the matter. A iolice-sergearit said fiusaW.thept‘ioner struggling with a woman, and took him into custody; when the prisoner remarked, "It is no use takiag me; I will do it when I come out." A document was foUnd upon the prisoner in which it was shown that he had been in communication with the War Office with a view to getting a pension; but he had not succeeded. On the back of this paper was writing setting forth that the prisoner intended to poison himself. It .transpired that the prisoner had only been married five weeks. —The prisoner now said he would not repeat the offence; but,he was- Itemamipd; itai milatedy lor a week. , ,  The recent arrests of Russian university stadenta were effected simultaneously. at St Petersburg, Moscow, Tier, and $a ç**...; At Moscow a secret printing previa was dittunVilnid. Forty students were taken into custody in St. Petersburg alone.
The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1894-05-19 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

SUPPOSED DOUBLE MURDER  AND SUICIDE.  At about half-past 2 o'clock on Tuesday afternoon a man walking through Trentham Park, the Staffordshire seat of the Duke of Sutherland, noticed the bodies of two children floating on the water of the lake. He ran to the duke's lodge, a quarter of a mile away, and gave information. Mr. P. Blair, the head gardener, and three of his assistants went to the spot, and found the bodies of a woman and two children. These were at once conveyed to the Trentham Hotel. From inquiries which have been instituted there remains very little doubt that the ease is one of double murder and suicide. The body of the woman has been identified as that of Hannah Edwards, the wile of a collier, living at Summer-street, Boothen, Stoke on-Trent, and the two children as Ernest, aged three years, and o.ive, aged 10 months, her son and daughter. A perambulator, in whida the children had been taken, was standing on the drive in the wood, about lb yards from the lake. The depth of the water where the bodies were found was only 2ft. deep. It is stated that the woman was at Hanley on the previous night to inquire after her husband, and was referred by the police to Stoke. She afterwards visited Stcke Police-station, where she told the authorities that her t usband had ill-treated her and threatened her life. They ultimately persuaded her to go home, and a neighbour sat with her, as she was afraid to be alone. The husband afterwards called at the Stoke Policeoffioe to inquire after his wife. The woman left home, it appears, at eight o'clock in the morning, but had previously asked a friend to take oars of her boy, and said she would pay for it. This was refused, and she went off with the perambulator, the children being in it. She gave the key to the next door neighbour. When found the bodies were warm, and could not have been in the lake long. A peculiar ooinoidenoe is that Polio.. sergeant Hughes was at the Longton-park ffites in the afternoon, and spoke to the deceased woman'e husband previously to being called to Trentham to investigate the oocurrenoe.
The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1894-04-14 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

CHARGE.  L James Doggrell, 40, carman, was indicted at the Central Criminal Court, before Justine Kennedy, for the wilful murder of his wife.—The parties lived In Steele-road, Willesden. They had been married about four years, but both were addicted to drink, and frequently quarrelled. On more than one occasion they had separated, and four or five days prior to December 26 ti e prisoner left his wife, but lodged with his friends next door. On the evening of December 28, however, the prisoner returned home, and finding his wife out he broke open the door. His wife returned home from the Junction Arms public-house, where she had spent the evening with some relations, about 11 o'clock, and she was quarrelling with the prisoner half-anhour later. tirisoner was heard to say, "Be quiet," and the deceased replied, "You shan't stay here, you —. I'll die here." Another disturbance took place about 3 o'clock in the morning, and at 5 o'clock the prisoner went upstairs to the room of the landlady (Mrs. Bell) and askee her to come down. When Mrs. Bell reached prisoner', room she found him lying on the floor with his throat out. The deceased was lying near the side of the bed. She was dead, her throat having been cat. The prisoner said his wife bad cut her throat with a razor, but only an ordinary knife, the one used by the prisoner, could be found, and the medical evidence weut to show that the woman's wound was of such a character that although it was possible the wound might have been self inflicted, it was so improbable that the doctors were able without hesitation to say that it was not. The appearances went to show that the deceased was lying on her back when the wound was inflicted. There were splashes of blood about the room and spots on the stairs up to Mrs. Bell's room. The prisoner, in a subsequent statement, repeated his story as to his wife having cut her own throat while sitting in a chair, and said that 'seeing what she had done he took up a knife and cut his own throat.—On the part of the defence It was contended that the case was one of suicide.—The jury, after an absence of 10 minutes acquitted the prisoner. The prisoner pleaded guilty to an attempt to commit suicide and was sentenced to a term of six ' weeks' hard labour. some - _  A Beethoven festival is to be held on 4,5, and 6 May at the great composer's native town, Bonn. The Cologne orchestra will perform all the nine symphonies under the baton of Dr. Witllner. The united choral unions of Cologne and Bonn take part in the ninth symphony. _ _ _ -- •  A young man named David Barnes, living at Chuddingly, near Lyad, took poison because he had been jilted by hie sweetheart. Shortly afterwards he was found lying dead behind a hedge. An extraordinary affair is reported from Darwen. A man passing the local cemetery early in the morning heard a noise inside, and on making investigation found s woman smashing the headstone above her dead husband's grave with a hammer. No motive is known for her strange freak.