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The Northern Daily Times. — 1857-05-06 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

MURDER AND SUICIDE.—A woman named Knight, residing near the parish church at Rotherhithe, has murder-d her son and committed suicide. A day or two ago the husband lost his senses, and, to prevent his laying violent hands upon either himself or his family, he was placed under restraint in the asylum, and his wife and child were taken to reside in the house of the uncle at Rotherhithe. Upon arriving there she seemed to be greatly depressed in mind, and complained bitterly of her state. Her friends, however, cheered her up as well as they were able, and at length c,nsidered that she had become reconciled to her fate, and advised her to go to bed with her child. The next morning (Thursday) the uncle got up between five end six o'clock—his usual hour to go to work —when he retired to the yard to wash his face, and in drawing the water from the butt he was horrified at seeing his relative, Mrs. Knight, rise to the top of the water. Not knowing whether she was dead or alive, he gave an immediate alarm, and sent for the aid of the police and others. In the course of a few minutes police constable No. 247 of the M division attended, as well as some of the neighbours, who suceeded in pulling the unfortunate woman out of the butt, when they found that life was extinct, and had been so for some time. In another water butt was found the body of the infant child. From the evidence at the inquest, it appeared that the unfortunate woman for some time had been predisposed to insanity, and, there being no doubt but that she drowned the child and also herself, the jury returned a verdict that " Susannah Knight destroyed the life of her son, George Frederick Knight, while in a state of insanity."  Ccninieretai filtclltorncr.
The Northern Daily Times. — 1857-01-23 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

STEAK PACKET SHIP VVRECK9.—The remarks of a cor. respondent, which we published yesterday, on losses in deep sea steamships, and the anxiety with which their departure is regarded at Southampton, give rise to serious reflections. The increased rapidity of communication between distant localities is doubtless a great gain, but it may be questioned whether too much ,has not been attempted. Excessive speed at sea is necessarily purchased by an augmentation of cost and risk of which the public entertain very inadequate ideas. We think we can discern indications of a return to more sober notions on this point, and the array of casualties to which we refer can but aid this revulsion. Since we are upon the subject we may correct one or two mistakes into which our correspondent has fallen—.a circumstance scarcely' to be wondered at, seeing that his statistics embrace such a wide range of time and space. In the case of the great Great Liverpool the loss of life, although the ship was very full, was confined to a lady, a child, and a servant. In the Pacha, one European passenger, and it is believed,. eight or ten Chinese were drowned ; and in the Tiber only two Spanish Gallegos were drowned. Something more than mere good fortune must have contributed to exempt the company to which these vessels belonged, to so great an extent, from fatal casualties.—Daily News.  A letter from Vienna, dated the 16th, says :—" Two suicides have taken place here within the last week. A similar event has occurred at Pesth, under tragic cicrumstances. A Hungarian lawyer and his wife had arrived in the city with their young daughter, aged twelve years, for the purpose of soliciting an appointment as judge. Their general appearance was elegant, and the lady had been much remarked at the theatres on account of the dazzling brilliancy of her complexion. One evening the entire family, dressed as for a fete, went to the banks of the Danube, and tied together by a cord, the child in the middle, leaped into the river in the midst of the pieces of ice which were drifting by. A piercing shriek escaped the mother, and with assistance the parents were dragged out, but the child had sunk. The father was dead ; and the mother, on regaining the shore, was found to be mad.''
Northern Times. — 1859-12-29 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

EXTENSIVE LAND, SLIP.—The inhabitants of the' village of Roche-Blanche (Pu.v-de-Donie) were alarmed a few days back. hy.a shaking of the earth,: .accompanied" by a Kumblirig noise like- thunder. The cause was soon ascertained -to be the fall of an enormous mass from the side. of the mountain against which the village is built. Ten cottages were destroyed, but no lives were lost. TWO persons occupying. a small dwelling hewn in the rock, were blocked up for several hours by the fallen rubbish, but were. at last extricated by theirneighbours unhurt. DISTRESS, Toßx. CHILD DESERTION THROUGH . —7on Monday morning last, a female infant child, only partially clothed, was found Upon the ice on the river Ouse, close by the city of York. The ,child was . alive, but in, a most exhausted. condition from exposure to the cold. It was ..at once conveyed to a house close by, where restoratives were administered, and subsequently to the Union Workhouse. Subsequent inquiries revealed the fact that a young woman, 'named Elizabeth Bridget Rainey, left her lodgings in York about six o'clock in the morning with her illegitimate child, arid that the child had not been seen since. Rainey was, therefore, apprehended, and she, then .stated that, the infant which had been found was hers, and that she had, from sheer distress and inability to provide for it, been induced to place it in the position in which it was discovered. She also stated that she contemplated suicide at the time.  THE CONDEMNED CONVICT AT WARWlCK'.—Kington, the unfortunate, man who had passed upon him, on Tuesday last, at Warwick, the extreme penalty of the law, has since manifested considerable penitence. Immediately .on the passing of the sentence, that firmness which is, unmistakeably his characteristic, signally failed him, and he was' obliged to be carried to his cell. He remained deeply affected• during the whole of the day, until the evening, when he- seemed to become more composed and resigned to his fate. The chaplain of the gaol states that with, the certain prospect of a speedy death before him, he manifests considerable penitence, and acknowledges the justice of the sentence which has been passed upon him. Should the law take its course, and the clemency of the crown not interfere with the punishment awarded, the execution will, in all probability, take place on Friday, the 30th instant, Friday being the day "which, from time immemorial, has been selected as the day of the week for executions in Warwick. The last execution which took place there was on Friday, the 14th of April, 1848, when Davis was hung for the murder of his wife at Birmingham. A
Northern Times. — 1859-12-13 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

POMIC,F. COURT, YES-TR/MAY. -Jane Schofield was brought up .on remand, charged with attempting to commit suicide by' jumping from the. ;Wirral ferry steamerswlsile that boat was lying at Wood-: side:Pier. The prisoner, now stated that her name was Moore, and not Scholieshl,:which was the name she gave 'when taken into custody: She appeared sorry for what she had done, and ashamed of herself, pleading drunkenness as an'exctlse. She esh., cautioned and discharged.— Ellen M'Munn was elees with having stolen some bed; clothes, the property ~ s 1 . parents. Mrs. M'lllurin said .her datghter was in the ',it of stealing small sums from the house, and about a wee:, ago she stole 3sS Od. efore nis- fora situation whichlrer parents had obtained for her. She left the situation after a few days, and .on retuning home, r committed the peesent theft. The case was remended till Thursday.--ll,snry Harris, a stout, healthy looking boy of about 14 years old, was charged with ! stealing some bread and cheese. The prisoner sfeeliag rather hungry, Walked into a provision shop near Sutton, and is:glared the price of a loaf. The .shopwoman • handed -him a threepenny one, and he next asked-for some cheese. Having .attained the two srinks, he walked eat of the shop, .c.t the same time telling the woman -that as he had no money he oould not pay. A -policeman soon ,Overfook the prisoner, and the articles he had bees: purloining Were epromptly recovered, minus, howev,er, the top of the loaf. The prisoner said he had -no friends in Englesul; and thinking he might get a living by going to sea, set out fromsLondan, without 'a penny in his pocket, with the intention erf walking to Liverpool. Ile had ereached Sutton, living in the meantime by begging, bill; every one he spoke.to in that quarter, threatened to give him into custody. The prisoner sigdshe must live, and if he couldn't Eire honestly—why he must live, that Was all. The bench considered the hardness of the poor :boy's case, and dlseharged him, giving him • instructions-as to where he shoes apply in Livesipool for a ship. LIVERPOOL, ,r2HD .
Northern Times. — 1859-07-29 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

THE LATE FIRE AT THE NORTH SHORE MILLS : ANOTHER DEATIL—Every day brings within our notice something of more or less consequence, regarding the late awful fire which took place at these ill-fated mills. Yesterday,. two men, named respectively William Gregson and Benjamin Mason, had their hands dressel at the Northern Hospital, having been severely burned while effecting their escape from the flames. These two persons, with many others, had been at work in an upper storey of the building-, when the fire broke out, and they ran. to the hoist, for the purpose of reaching a place of safety. The chain had become heated, as, indeed, was everything, in a few minutes, that was within reach of the destructive element ; and owing to that stste of matters in the descent 'to the ground, the skin and a portion of the flesh was torn from their hands. We regret to have to announce that Robert Derbyshire, one of the men who was injured at the fire, died yesterday morning at the Northern Hospital. SUICIDE OF AN OLD WOMAN IN LlVERPOOL.—Yesterday, au inquiry was held before Mr. AVybergh, deputy coroner, into the circumstances attending the death of an old woman named Elizabeth White, aged 86. It appeared from the evidence of Jane Lawton, the grand-daughter of the deceased, that the latter had resided with her and her husband during the last two years, in Cuthiniu-street, Toxteth Park, and for the last eighteen months had b. en confined to her bed. On Monday the deceased managed to get out of bed, although she had not been able to tern herself for several months, and got hold of a bottle with a quantity of poison in it,.marked "bug poison," and took a'portion of it. When Mrs. Lawton, the grand-daughter of the deceased, saw that the bottle had been removed from the drawers in deceased's bedroom, she asked deceased how it got there, 'on which she replied, " I got it ; I took two mouthfuls, and then I "to shorten my time." A verdict was took two mouthfuls more." On being asked what she took 'deceased took poison (corrosive sublimate) whilst labouring under temporary insanity.
Northern Times. — 1859-04-19 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

AND SUICIDE. On Thursday, a and about the same time a steamer supposed to be ll pt. 7. man, named Francis Hopwood, who was formerly an engine hence to Boston, &c. ; on the 15th, at ten a.n2 , I,,ior.ow]. driver,was taken before the borough magistrates at Ludlow, N, lon. 23 W, spoke the iron ship Jamaica. of ", mile° (6 , charged with attempting to murder his wife, and was com- and on the 17th, at 150 p.m., passed the Africa i mitted to the next Shropshire assizes on the capital charge. to New:York. ... It appears that about eight o'clock, on Sunday morning, ' The. poop-deck of a vessel was seen on the cries of murder were heard proceeding from a back lane floating. about 28 miles east of- Charleston Bar. in Lower Broad-street. On a man, named John Lewis, pro- From Now Orleans to the 6th April, we have' ceeding to the spot, he saw Hopwood stabbing his wife in .of a most disastrous fire, upwards of_ 40,000 1.),the throat. On being pursued, Hopwood ran into his being destroyed ; greater part of Bamberg's carg° ~E house, and inflicted a dreadful gash on his own throat. He Ship Mullhouse sunk, a-total loi's. sesk,' then ran, all bleeding as he was, to the bank of the river, The Yew : o Orleans Crescent of the 28th ult., in `,.-into which he jumped, and from which he was with difficulty ' of the detention of vessels at the Bar below that city' rescued. He still lies in .a very dangerous state; but the A g31:1 and. improved feelinc, exists on the , woman's wounds are not so serious. It annears that. th,) ..,1...:,__ c , .  April 6  29th 313 re  olifre  01 le3 1;  i:eTceio ,;(1 'bou and  -,,--- ....“, ••••, I au% lUp 111/111 Lae oar mat several vessels our ships pair frequently fell out, and, on this occasion, quarrelled l had crossed. Among the list are the followinr, otlatcg" about the money (only 2s 64 which her husband brought Anna, Linda, Star of Peace, Milton, Rockaway, °r°cl 1110'1 n a,home the previous night. Czar, Huntress, Forest Queen, J. MontgomerY, aTo to t
Northern Times. — 1859-09-28 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

EXTIMARDINARY SITICIDE.--,en Saturday afternoon, a young man, named Martin Scully, committed suicide by throwing himself into the !fyne, under the following rather- inexplicable circumstances t. -It appears that between three and four o'clock; he got into a quarrel with a militiaman, somewhere in the neighbourhood of Stockbridge, Newcastle.: The result was a ht, in which, according to the testimony of 'several eye witnesses, Scully got very severely handled. The combatants were at length separate& by the byestanders, when the militiaman, who appears to have struck his antagonist in the MCA savage inannei,.thought it expedient to take himself off. Scully remained for a few minutes near the, scene of the strugglo, apparently in' a state bordt•ing on stupefaction from the blows he had received and bleeding most proinsely from several severe cuts about the face. Rousing himself at length, the unfortunate man staggered down the Broad Chare, in the direction of the river. About half-way he was met by a man proceeding in an opposite direction, to whom he expressed his determination to 'go and-drown himself. The person thus addressed did not, however, pay any particular attention •to the threat, and the mfatuated man was allowed to make his way towards the Quayside. 'Arrived there, he pushed through the crowd, who were watching the departure of the five o'clock boat for Shields, and, before hwoaotke r, but one perceived his object,. threw himself into the *u He the waistcoat wasw aicsatucogahtt came ethe away,wa isantedoahte wifintinh eadiblotealtydisappeared beneath the water to rise no more in life. Grappling irons being procured, search was made for the body, which was brought up after anpromptly used to restore interval of ten to the dead-house, to await the coroner's inquest. DemaniinmuatetisOn, Ebvuetilwitehffoourtt effect, and the body was removed was Deceased, who was a fine young man about twenty-one years of age; had been for some time employed as an ao•ricaltural labourer by Mr. William Tweddle, farmer, *hickham.—Northern Daily Express.
Northern Times. — 1859-05-13 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

SPORTING EXTRAORDINARY.— A few days ago an indi- 1858. Now, this is the Merchant Shipping Act, for , disobedience of orders,vidual was amusing himself with a gun in the marshes of will pay, and which eg.,lect of duty, and for stealing some tobacco. Mr. Bluck the Ettrick on Dunsdalehaugh, when a snipe arose which and we have, sin add &fended. Captain Johnston, the master of the ship, seemed either to possess a charmed life, or by its gyrations rupt, made in his e: xelel from his lag, and proved the acts of to reflect little credit on the skill of the sportsman. Four that he must have b (Ke,obelience and neglect, but the charge of -stealing times was the "deadly tube" discharged,- with ohly the See tobacco fell through, as it could not be sustained. effect of the Irishman's volley, in making him "quit that his- partnership with omission of the debt On cross-examination of the captain by 3fr. Bluck, quick." At the fourth shot the snipe fiery right forward, the list submitted to Yee captain said he got tobacco in bond, for 13d a pound, , and striking the telegraph wire-in its rapid course, literally been cued sad it to the sailers at 2s ; he gotpipes at 3d a dozen, committed suicide by decapitating itself on the slender adverted to; the reason for omitting and sold them at 6d a dozen. He did not care how muchßlack " lightning wire !" On being picked up, still to increase incurred in either of The raen smoked, as it was all to his profit. Mr. the wonder, it was found that several drops of the shot had the whole sum is sta *an addressed the court in of punishment. Passed through and through the feathers of the wings, The lerisoner was sent to gaol for weeks, mitigationfour with hard without touching any of the bones. —Border Advertiser. was, the capital with ~ ness, in 1857. As t li Lorin
Northern Times. — 1859-10-24 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

FAILURE IN RUSSIA. The Times announces another large Thi-i.3ian failure of Al. Gutsebkoff, an'Ottensive manufacturer at Mhos= cow, and formerly mayor of 'that city. llis :liabilities amount to £240,000, and he is said to have committed suicide.  LIVERPOOL COTTON mARKEr.—OcToBT:n 22, A fair business has been transacted cotton to-clay, at firm ratcs, .Tht; sates—including 120 Bahia, at 7d. to 7-I,d. ; 150 Egyptian, Bd. to 9id. ; and 1,500 Surat, 4Ad. to 51(1.—are reported 8,000 bales, of which 2,000 are on speculation and for export.  ST. JOHN'S MARKET /1 s. d. -.—,, _OCTOBER 22. Deef vs ... . s. il. i S. d. S. d. 0 w 0 5e 0 8 I Fowls, ',61 couple 2 6 i 3 0 -..,,c0n Veal -„ 0 74 Rabbits, 40 c'ple 1 0„ 1 6 Lamb, fore qr „ 0 6„ 0 7 Pigeons, „ 0 4„ 0 6 „ hind qr „ 0 0„ 0 0 Grouse, V brace 2 6„ 3 6 Fresh Pork . „ 0 5„ 9 61 Partridges perbr.l 6 „ 2 0 Lobsters Turbot Bret Haddocks ... „ 0 3„ 0 6 Currants, r. &w. 0 0„ 0 0 Salmon Soles Cod Fish Fresh Butter „12„ 1 6 Geese each 46„ 6 0 Salt ditto ... „010 „ 1 2 Turkeys „ 30„ 6 0 Grapes, for. „16„ 2 0 Hares Do. Eng. „ 2 6„ 4 6 Cucumbers, each 0 0„ 0 0 Cherries „00„ 0 0 Apricots, Per doz.o 0„ 0 0 Damsons , 0 0„ 0 0 Peaches, each ~. 0 0„ 0 0 Eggs V 124 60„ 6 6 Nectarines d 0.... 00„ 0 0 Peas, ifi peck 0 0„ 0 0 Pines, for., each 0 0„ 0 0 Potatoes, V peck 0 8„ 1 2 Do. Eng.... ' .... , 6 0„ 8 0 Asparagus, 11 100 0 0„ 0 0 Filberts, per 113. 1 0„ 1 6
Northern Times. — 1859-09-06 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

SINGULAR ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE.—OR Saturday, Mr. _Mark -Lemon _attended at Guildhall Police-conrt, and produced two letters which had been left at the Punch office,' Fleet-street, in one of which the writer had :enclosed a Crimean medal, with two clasps, for the Russian campaign, and 30s. in gold, which he desired might be placed to the account of Punch, as a journal he much admired, and to which he left it as a legacy. He had determined to end his life, as he had so many enemies that he found it, impossible to keep ,any situation he got into. Mr. Mark Lemon said, as it was evident the writer intended to 'commit suicide, he felt it his duty to give information. This led to a visit from the police to the address in the letters—namely, 8, Griffin-street, York-roafil,. • Lambeth, . where, in an upper room, the constable found a man in"bed in a very exhausted state, and en the floor a recently-discharged pistol. On turning down the bedclothes he found the raan saturated with blood, and a wound over the left breast. He had been lodging there a few weeks, and was very reserved; no one knew his name even, which, from the letters, appeared to be Dennis Leahy. The officer called in Mr. Todd, surgeon, of the Westminster-road, by whose advice the man was removed to. Guy's Ilospita/, where he lies in a precarious state. .In the room was founcla letter stating that he had paid his landlady, and owed money to no. one ; that he had been previously injured and annoyed by some of the most_ worthless and contemptible. Tie wished he could forgive some of them, but he would leave them to their own. consciences, irthey had any, to .do .justice ,when: he was gone. It  was iigned,Li. L., and on the envelope•-was written "To be opened ,and read. My instruction§ -will Im found at 85, Fleet-street that hi,s.bodv was to la  Punch=officc  rhea•  given for disseeti  OUR SCREW' SiilT  cent tr  of an unexceptionable model ap power, sl.tould pot surpass thosc  good condition).
Northern Times. — 1859-04-18 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

LIVERPOOL ROYAL INFIRMARY.—RetiITII for tue ending April 16th, 1859. Admitted : in-patients, 34;4 patients, 23 ; surgical casualties, 28. Discharged: ctuijeids 17 ; relieved, and at own request, 14 ; made out-P3 180. 1 ; irregular, 3; dead, 2; remain in the horiutivbell For the ensuing week. Visitors : Messrs. J, P. '1,7;01/ and C. B. Robinson ; physician, Dr. Vose; Mr. Stubbs ; house surgeon, Mr. T. S. Walker ; rod, house surgeon, Mr. J. Allen ; chaplain, Rev. 11. * A.B. Robert Hutchison, treasurer. now " CASSELL'S ILLUSTRATED FAMILY BIBLE ready for delivery. No. 1, price One Penny, can be °birds'', of any bookseller. No. 2 will be published on Sat', al May 7, and the work wilt be continued afterwarnPorry numbers weekly. The First Monthly Part, price Fic[roite will be published with the Magazines for June. ;air ;sible, in the limits of an advertisement, torta-tiot „hug; like a fair idea of this most extraordinary It may with confidence be predicted that a larger t been be realised for the Bible in this form than has ever le,.< 1,0 attained.—London : CASSELL, FETTER, and 004" Belle Sauvage Yard, and all Booksellers. b fl' CORONER'S ' NatrEsT.---The Deputy-coroner held the -.ots on Saturday :---On the bodf:::0 J 7 ht years old. The child fell into a cellar ineited street, and died in consequence of the injuriesi,retco, -Verdict accordingly. On the body of Thomas l',Lrsert street. He carpenter, 38 s3kBillyeedarons Folfidaagye,bwylateocliidveendtaallty43. '-;", frig° a ship into the graving dock. Verdict accordirntitill the body of a child, named Gillerson, that was acc„l:,hilo,  lowing  body of derlt ffho was killed by tee! " Accidental dentLi:sooll'lo _MOUSE KEEPEK,--011 et, morning, a man named Walker, a beerbouse kee:000; Vauxhall-road, committed suicide, by bang 'r unhappy man had recently come. to- reside  suffocated in bed. Verdict same. On thc named Richard M'Mullan, the street by a dray. Verdict  SUICIDE OF  and had taken the beerhotbe opposite the Vaillu%." well, for which be 'paid a -um of money as " 00' Previously he had occupied a farm in *Y"orkshire2,.slo e however, he surrendered to assume the spigot" 83:106 vocation did not, however, turn out so profit •ud to anticipated, and this, it is said, preyed upon his 113,,,ei (161.{e caused him great unhappiness. On Friday he Pril'it's the place of his former residence, in Yorkshire,helliteero accompanying him. On Saturday morning bt", resew returned home by his desire, but scarcely had s'n;iseivof Liverpool when an account arrived that her -oil, 01 husband had committed suicide. The inquest the fe course, be held in Yorkshire at the scene of  _lol-of  catastrophe. MR.