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The Warwickshire Herald. — 1895-12-05 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

THIEF.  The career of a determined criminal has been brought to its dose by eelitil in Portland Prison. Jantes White, the convict, was in his day one of the mc.-it notorious pickpockets in London. He frequented race-courses, while he did not disdain to pursue his nefarious occupaticn even in the heart of the City. His last conviction was for a theft effected at the Birkbeck Bank. An old gentleman hid withdrawn a number of banknotes, placed them n an inner pocket of his coat, and vi alked away. In the meantime, h.A4 ever, they had been deftly stolen by White, who was apprehended by Detectivesergeants Peddar and M'Carthy, and sentenced to a term of penabservitude. His sentence had almost expired when he died at Portland. He was never in robust health, and it is supposed that death was due to consumption. White was as well known on the Continent as he was in England, and had undergone various terms of imprisonmeirt there. When at liberty he was a regular visitor at mode Carlo  ANOTHER MONTE CARLO TRAGEbY. Details of Ow suicide of a gentleman named Arthur Mayer, said to be a native of Warsaw, who shot himself at the Hotel Berne, in Nice, have just come to hand. He appears to have engaged freely in roulette at the Monte Carlo Canino, and to have lost not only the proceeds of a substantial litter of credit, but money which he obtained by pawning jewellery and other personal property. From papers found on the body he seemed to have made futile appeals to his family for further funds, and his only possessions comprised pawntickets and a (tiiro card. He left a letter in which he requested that a watch containing a miniature of his deceased wife might he buried with him.  At Sussex Assizes Charles Head, a vocalist, was sen cured to four months' imprisonment for an offence undi r the Criminal Law Amendamit Act, at Hastings. The prisoner is a married man, and the facts disclosed were of a shocking character.  At Liverpool Assizes, on Friday, Robert Jones was found guilty of the murder at Liveri.ool of his twoveiir-olid son by cutting his throat. lie uas, towever, chi lar.td to be insane, and ordered to b• itlipri,oned during her Majesty's pleasure. .titiong a number of summonses at West London airamst patents for the maintenance of children in hr. iricl cliools was one in which the father, on chady man, Aided that he lost all his money in tie Lilerittor. Mr. Rose declined to make any mite noon the defendant.
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1895-04-25 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

OLD FOLKS' ATTEMPTS AT SUICIDE. Before Mr. Lane, Q.C., at North Lootlon caurt,on Tuesday,a man, name &pa addrem refused, was charged with attempting to commit suicide iby throwirig himself into the Lea Cut—Constible Mille said he came upon the prisoner in the midst of a crowd of persons on the banks of the Les. Me, was very wet and exhausted, ant the information was that be had thrown him,elf into the river, and been pulled out again. Ile was an old man., over 70 years of age, who had filled his pockets with lame stones-18 in all, weighing about 18lb.—with the determination of drowning himself. Though the old man would not give his name and address, he said lie was in receipt of 3e. 9d. a week pension from the Shipwrights' Union. He (witness) took the old man to the police-station, and thence to the workhouse infirmary. and the doctor said the patient , would not be dt to go out again until Fridlty.—He was accordingly remanded. Margaret Lee, an old widow, 72 years of age, living at Battersea, was charged, CP a warrant, at the South Western Police-court, with having attempted to commit suicide.—Thomas Allen, coachman in the employ of the Wandsworth and Clapham Guardians, stated that on February 7th he was sent to the prisoner's home to remove her to the workhouse. He entered the room and found her lying on the bed with blood flowing from her throat She was unconscious. He sent for the doctor, and as she was unfit to be moved he went away.—Polim-constable Stevens stated that she said she cut her throat because her daughter, who lived with her, wished to get rid of her, and told the Mwhial authorities to take her to the workhouse. daughter had disappeared and could not be found.—Dr. Oakham stated that the prisoner had lost a great amount of blood from the wound in the threat She strongly objected to being cured, and for some, days lay in a critical condition.—lnepector Haines said that that morning ahe told him she at first hated the ides of entering the workhouse, but now ebe had bow mob so comfortable sad tbs Infirmary that Om wished to ti bor stay libillat Close dissloupd ,so tbaS al* oul4 Imedt tbs LATINO'S,.  Imam Oilliadaedstaward of tha Cork stnamer Dottssid, was at Southampton on Holiday with smugsling of tobacco, which was artfully cocoestiorfiussith his cabin flow. He said he only intended to take a pcamd. bila as the ,psaaltY was Um same for a quantity, be might aa we be be hanged for a damp as a lamb. Ho was fined seven guineas and cods.
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1895-02-21 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

SURRENDER OF THE CHINESE FLEET.  SUICIDE OF ADMIRAL TING.  I Details have now been received as to the we' render of Wei-hai-wei, which was completed on Wednesday list. Admiral Ting and two other Chinese officers committed suicide on the previous night, after having sent a letter from the flagship announcing their acceptance of the Japanese terms, Admiral McClure, who was left in command of the Chinese warships, continued the negotiations with Admiral Ito, and asked for a guarantee that the garrisons and sailors should be set free as moon as the forts and ships had been handed over. Admiral Ito replied that no guarantee was necessary beyond his word, and refused to give any. The surrender was then carried out, and the Chinsais troops and sailors were escorted beyond the Japanese lines and liberated. One of the foreigners at Wei-itai-wei, an American named Howie, has been detained by the Japanese. llt is rumoured at Shanghai that Great Britala and Russia have offered to mediate between China and Japan. The foreign Ministers in Pekin have ordered guards from Tientsin tor the protection of the Legations.  A Chinese force of over 15,000 attacked the Japanese position at Hai-tclumg, but after three hours' lighting was repulred with some loss. Li Hung Clang proceeds to Pekin on the 214 inst in order to confer with the Emperor, returning to Tientsin in about two weeks' time.  The Chinese Emperor is said to be so incensed at the loss of Wei-hai-wei that he has taken the unusual course of authorising the Governor of the Shantung Province to behead all fugitives without previously reporting to the Throne.  HANNECINN WANTS Ms MoNrr.  Advice* from Pekin state that Captain You flannecken is endeavouring to obtain from the Imperial Government the repayment of the large sums of money which he claims to have spent in connection with the preparations for the defence of the capital. The German Minister has had several interviews on the subject with the Tsung-li-Yamtn, and has urged the claims of his countryman, but without success up to the present, as the Government dispute his authority to interfere in such • matter.
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1895-06-20 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

FIVE BULLETS IN HIS HEAD.  It hra just transpired that an attempt at suicide was made by a German corresponding clerk named Arthur Frederick Edward Simons on hfonlay last week. It seems that for some months Simonds hail occupied apartments at 327, City-road, London. On tturday week last, for some reason which is not yet known, he was discharged from his situation in the City, and this evidently preyed upon his minds great deal. as he was beard walking about his room all thmulh the Sunday night. On the Monday he called his landlady up from the kitchen, and on her going into the front-doo- passage she was horrified to notice that blood was streaming from several bullw., wounds in his head, while he still gralaed a revolver in his right hood. He appeared quite C dm, and on being asked why he had shot himself he replied: "To prevent something worse happening." Another lodger managed to take the revolvei from him, and a constable wa.3 called in. Although he was found to have five bullets embedded in different parts of his head, he walked with the constable to a cab which had been aen: for, and hough his condition is said to be extremely critical he is still alive in St. Bartholomew's Hospital. Two of the bullets have been extracted, but three Will remain in his head. The would-be su cide is 34 years of age, and his friends are said to be persons of affluence in Germany.  TRBOAT IRRITATION AIM Coonu.--Soutiness and tickling and irritation, inducing sonVund V15::174 the voice. For these symptoms ass 's glycerine Jujubes. In contact with the lila pt Not they are excited by the act of sucking. 'emn the.. logriosable ceinfertions becomes old only in tom, TO.. tins "Jamie EPPS & Co.. Ltd., Ilommo_— 6 London." Dr. Moore, in his work on "Nom and 'Moat Disunite as "The Glycerine Jujubes prepared by James Epps and are of undoubted service as • curative or palliative spent," while Dr. Gordon Holmes. RelliOr Physician to the Municipal Throat and Fur Infirmtry. write.: "Alter an extesine trial. I have brood year Glycerine Jujubes of annsidsrahle basset in Anna all ferias of ewe* dlessee.” Motet Med Medicines ten oil br &wine. Gmy% woe.
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1895-12-12 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

TIANDSWORTH DISTRICT COUNCIL.  A meeting of the llandsmorth trlaut Council was held on Wednesday evening, Mr. I).tvirl BOSO presiding.—The Medical Officer's monthly report record's.' 80 births and 45 iliath,—ratrs respectively of 24.6 and 13.5 per thomianii. Fop- ,C.I oases of :trlet fever and three of typhoid had been notitied.—The Finance Committee's report deoi: at 601110 length with the aliplieation of Mrs. Carsiairs with reietence to the return of ~.ter-paid rates. The Local (foo eminent Hoard had divided that the 5-0111. cation could not be acceded to. and :t was pointe.i nub that in a similar ease in Birmingham the .e,olt had been the same.—Mr. J. Hughes, (+airmail cf the Highways Committee. reported the receipt of correspondence front Messrs. Duignan and Eliot, oolicitors. of Walsall, minting out the undesirability of granting an extension of time for the use of steam power on the South Staffordshire Tramways Ca-n-pany's system. and stating that they were acquainted with persons who were willing to undertake the extension ei the ruble system over the compuiT'ri Bow.. The co 1111111111 l recommended that the clerk be instrueted to write to the Board of Trade stmngly urging that body to refuse any further extensioa of time tmlegs the Tramways Company were +le ta satis4 them that arrangemynts were being 'wide for Unmanly the traction on their lines.—Mr. Bughos Ylipted out that three or four extensions had already Is-en grant i d and still the company bad not made the desired improvements. Only a firm step suali as that of Wiping any further extension after mad next _would bring the Tramways rompa iv to comply with their wishes. If the company email not, afford to make the improvements isit own prekets they should accept the offers of other persons to ilo the work.—The report was adoptedIt was deeided to write to Lieutenant-Colonel Wilkinson tendering the hearty thanks of the C. eyed to himself :Ma his •).• •ift ii snips to tie erected at the liamstead Rood -ntraaeo of tl.e wok.  SUPPOSED SUICIDE OF AN ASTON 'MAN AT
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1895-09-19 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

NEWS NOTES FROM INDIA. A case of determined usi e has occurred at Bangalore among the 19th Hu,sirs, Sergeant P. Welch shooting himself in barracks with his carbine while under trial by cnuit-martial for offering violence to his superior officer on duty. At the inquest it transpired that Welch's father had also committed suicide while in a state of temporary insanity. This is the second case of suicide of sergeants in this regiment in 12 months. In some places of Ceylon, at any rate, veteraa planters appear to be preparing fJr the day when the present handsome tea dividends will disappear, by planting up cocoanut and fruit gardeni. The cocoanuts are expected to pay even better than the tea has done.  It is reported that an exploring party consisting of 12 Europeans with 0:0 pack animals has been stopped by the Tibetans at a place (wile I Yangpachen, two.marelics to the north of Lhassa. It is not often, says Um 11,eran lle ;,et, that any. body in Hyderabad awakes to cu Himself in El Dorado, revelling amid pilea o. silver, nor is it often that anyboly 111,P!fi •sat!i a si,ilrall such as Dr. Dyce, the medical attrtitiant to Nawab Fakr-ulMulk, hal come in for, or ralier (mot:tots to COM in for. We have had the pleasure to witness a genuine document by which Dr. Dyce is entitled to inherit £601,000 in England and R 5.2,00,000 in India.  A correm mident at South-East IVynaad writes to the l that that part or the country is a1!501u,....y overrun with tigors. rberc are, he says, many en:pty bungalows belonging to detuirt gold companies now in the 1,303 of the Rajahs of Nellyalam and Nilainl.ur who would gladly give pormis,ion to iportSmen to occupy them temporarily for the purpose of riddinz the country of toe wild be, ,ts are becoming a scourge to the poor l 1 the mi.;llbourir,od who are losing numer,m,, liend of cattle.  One the most ciirio:l3 featuri.,.. of the Chitral .iti the extraordinary prevalence Of tooth. ac!, aien-t the otti,ters. The matter is receiving fir attention id the Medical authorities, that banie very interesting statds ical ga 'tied front the careful investigation n w tahlitg p.ar,. The epidemic first t ; appearanet after tlie active operations wr, tio• varicee; regiment; had received ••: • , i,tfat for the simmer, and reached its ;,.„ • if c the ding expected CelO-it, ic country had arrived. .• :y of the ‘Vesleyan Missions at ee..-I,,iin it • ,art I,efore the district judge of P.Oii••• oopose a apjii ition tiy a woman of ri,-i for tile ol an orphan girl now I , the eaie ot the The woman claimed  t•:;!,1. • a the superintendent •her •t, r; • . :H. the girl fur unlawful /
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1899-05-18 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

SPECIAL NO TICE.—MR. W. J. WATSON'S SISIMSOMAIA AWNS'S IS J., COI-Z-.P 0 R_A_TIOINT STREET, titrit door 511....• .1n 100 BOUM • till 7 ; allitordAis till I  rouna Levern,ne roirm, ana anew inat the tree. traders had had the best of the night's work. But The MUM (v Annum lett Rome lasi, week en route they did not see the little file of men crossing the for Scandinavia, which will be the first stage on his t marshes, th and when, later in e day, the latter urney to the North Pole. It is calculated that the returned to the village in ones and twos hem oumey will cost 3,000,000fr.' ot which one-fourth various points of the compass. their reappearance provided by King Humbert. All the members of was allowed to pass as entirely due to the departure the Italian Royal family were present to bid the of the Prince George. For the frigate had also set sail in the early hours For explorer farewell. At an inquest at Walsall, it was sliewn that of daylight, carrying with her Captain Benjamin jeseph Thacker had committed suicide attar Pulcher. That worthy officer, however, eventually sufluenza, succeeded in proving his identity to the commander's At an inquest on James Heith, killed at a colliery satisfaction, and, after many apologies for his sin- accident at Walsall, a verdict of ac idental delft warrantable detention, he was sent ashore at returned. Harwich. The young lieutenant thought it best to say nothing of Old Tom's story, and both the cam. John Butterworth, who had been missing sit from e home. at Rochdale, was found i minder and Captain Pulcher agreed that the mistake weeks fom was due to the latter's effectual disguise, drowned n the reservoir. Whether the Captain had any suspicion of the real cause of his being kidnapped it is impossible tot'''. Anyhow. he never mentioned the subject in Blytherwick. When questioned about his absence from home on the night of the running of the Jacques Rainaut's cargo, he merely remarked that he was engaged on the King's service. [Tax Elm.]  . A f,..f ii./ v,4,
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1899-05-18 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

LADY'S - SENSATIONAL. SUICIDE. Mr Troutbeck, the Westminster vernier, has held an inquiry in o the death of a French lady named Maria M. Renati, aged twenty-four years, who committed suicide by shooting herwif at 169, New Bond-street. Miss 'Henan, who had occupied a suite of rooms in Maddox-street, where she was about to start in business with a Miss Gordon, is stab,' to have left her home about five o'clock on Friday and proceeded to New Itond-stnst, where she partook of tea with Mr, Marris. the ,4111 of the !MOH gorOSS Of "Mrs. Ilarris, Limited." At tlw conclusion of the meal the deceased suddenly rose from her seat, and taking a revolver frau her bodice, fired at her head. -Mr. Leonard llarris, managing director of "Mrs. Maui,. Limited," said he had heen engaged to the deceased ler two years. No date had been fixed for the mairiage, as there was SOMI, difficulty with regard to money matters. Miss Renan had several ,s recently pressed the witness to marry her ; but as no settletnent of the difficulties had been arrived at, witness thought it prudent not to get married. The deceased came to his shop on Friday afternoon, anti asked him why he had not been to see hot that day. He was sitting at tea alone with the deceased w'ken she said: "When are you going to marry ine ?" lb replied that he could only give the smile answer as he had given all along, and that was that, lw was willing to marry her as soon as the money affairs were settled. She then put the revolver to her temple and fired. It was a momentary • act, and he had no opport "ty of stopping her.— The jury yeturned a verdict of suicide whilst temporarily insane.
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1899-03-23 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

SUICIDE'S STRANGE WISH.  Miss Helen Bickford, a lady of middle age, committed suicide in her residence in the 111,y-road, (xi ird, by sulfm•ating herself with gas fumes in her bedroom. When her body was found a gas stove was burni, g, and it ws eel sent that the deceased had been dead some days. Several letters were tying about, and one addressed to her brother was produced at the inquest. In it -he complained that he had neglected her. She would prefer,she her body being handed over to a hospital. in return for which she required to be dissected.—The brother, who lives at Richmond, said he h d sent the deceased money from time to time, bu they were not good friends.—The ju. y found that tl,e deceased commiLted suicide while temporarily means,  Mr. Irwin Cox. rhief minuetr of the Field and the (peeve new,mwers. has tre it rted by the airrow Conservative and Cs i inist As:l3, isi inns' di legates as their andidate at the lortlicoming contest.  The French Criminal Chant'•er e the Court of Cassation we. unable to sit on Saturday owing to the number of juitLea at-sent throu It Mile., principally ii lluenz,,. A riu rum could I,ot be I rmed. Ct mander C.,wp r, of her Majesty',.. ship Plover, Its trie t mediate between tne Filipinos and the Americans. Tie former dm bared their willingness to negotiate for a bads of [twice thrOu4h one of Gm rowers, preferably Great Pritain. baron de Idohrenheim, the late Russian Amha-Rotor in France, indignantly denies the report that he has I cm exiled from his country. or thst he had anc hand in the miserable Dreyfus imbroglio.  .. In the Dublin Law Courts a solicitor. niunel William Fordo, of Navan, co. Meath. was struck off the ro Is icr un roles Must co duct in failing to refund the sun. of £.3 7s. 61., collicted by him fr m a debtor on kebab of a Bii'fast firm of solicitors. Counsel for Die In-orporated Law Society, who initiated the actitn said this was the first case Under the SAicitors Act of 1898.  ice al sof .4 man have been was ed ashrre at Fsliiio.'r e need end parts of the body are mienme; I it from the clothing there ta leatiOlito believe _ that the rrinsi, a are tlmse of the engto era' steward of the -t am coll.er Arno, wh. h trio wrecked on
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1899-05-25 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

LIBERAL PARTY. twenty - I*" a stove cook, was chaege the with Speaking at .a dinner held in London of the -empeittg_to Intr unit suicide by jump into e "Knights Impenal of the Primrose League, Lord er feeth Weitminster Bridge. He rescued Salisbury referred te some recent criticisms passed roil wiltaehy Police-constable Wheatley.—Mr. in the League hY Sir H. Campbell-Bannerman, Lv dciA t have you to ea* • ner : oivetit esgpcially hip. alhilon to " profuse And egradnut de' three Iteiii T• In egi**. . 'turn°. Miley "it cone ~ die diiy.. I was • tot pf rng orga Liinseesent SoadOeesed their to MSc , It's no T ; er y ."—Sr. did e Naien (Chief Clerk): Have yo to f P--Pri- the. En inezeit Boner: Only a sister In Novi Scotis.—He was member/ tof , • iii I remanded. held sot by the-km*o isity o Mimi eiders who were opposed to there. They prescribed very different remedies. Lord Rosebery said there would never be a good Liberal party until they went back to the state of things existing prior to 18118. He (Lord Salisbury) did not follow that forecaat of the future with much confidence. The put was never reproduced. He did not say there would net be a Liberal party again, but if there was it would resemble in no essential degree the party which existed in 1886, and WiliChr was largely composed of men in a transitional state of feeling. If they looked at the history of the Liberal party during the put century, they saw that their great successes had been entirely upon questions which concerned Parliamentary representation. Now, however, there was no more posedbility of treating the representation of the people as • subject of Parliamentary agitating' or as o cause of Parliamentary success. Lord Salisbury also ridiculed the idea that Home Rule, the question of the House of Lords, or disestablishment of the Welsh Church would help the Liberal party. The next great attack, he said, would be upon property. As to this, unless those in favour of the present state of things united, they were lost.