npedrazzini/19thc_murder_suicide_news huggingface dataset:
The Atherstone, Nuneaton, and Warwickshire Times. — 1887-05-14 (Atherstone, Warwickshire, England)

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.  In the House of Lordi, on Monday. Earl eadogan, Ia reply to Lord Fitzgerald, w;naented to paetpone the cOmmittee stage of the Irish Lead Bill until Towslay nest. The Smoke NIIISNIIee , Abatement tMetropolim Bill Ivan remi a setronil time. Lord Bilfour informed Lord Monkiwell that the Local Government Board had no power to make inquiry moo the conduct id the recent local Board election at Chatham—into allegations that a wholetale forgery of signatures to voting paper, took phute. In the House of Common, on Monday, Mr. A. O'Conno. explainml that owing to circutustancen connected watt) the circulation of the charge. against the Parnellites, he had decided no lonzrer to serve on the Royal Connote-dun inquiring into If,. mlministration of the Civil servicot. The House went into Committee on Of.. Coercion Bill, and a number of amendments were disposed of.  In the House of Lords. on Tneeday, the proposal of the Archhiehop of York that an sildreee should be presented to the queen praying her to withhold her consent from a schetueof the Charity , C ...... nissioners for the management od the Heins, worth Grammar School, was rejected. Lord Salisbury informed Lord Forbes that a return of the number of cremations that had taken place in England could not be suppliesl. In the Hoene a Comnions, the sitting which begun on Monday afternoon was not adjourned until nearly six o'clock err Toesday morning. The The closure having been twice applied, r. H. Smith moved that the words down to the word “enactments,” the second wool of sulosection he now put. The Chairman of Committee, how. ever. refused to put the me . and further debate took place. The first mah.section was eventually agreed to. Discussion followed on the Oaths Bill, and after two divisions Mr. Ilradlaugh accepted a motion for adjournment —The House met again at four o'clock. Mr. Molloy stated that in consuence of the charges againd the Irish ntembers he had resigned his position as a member of Me Royal Cotninission on Education. The Coereion Brif woe again under consideration  4"I-Za7-1-1.--ouse. of Commons: on Wednesday., the Coercion Ittll was again considered in Con ttttt Moe, and further amendments were divosesl. of. Towards the close of the sitting the closure wag applied, with the result that sulo.see ion 2 and the first word or two of nulYseetiort 3 were agreed  - -•— SOICIP6 111000011 Flaw—D. litra bet I an iiioneei at Wixterley, near Atherrtom, on Tdoreday evening. on the body of a roan named Rate, who bad committed outride by banes,. —lt an-pirei that the dem-seed had a, rtaiiied that he rem abeut to be proaecuied for rehiring to quit a puttlicilioitie, and the re preyed on id. mind I rhat he committed se f dewy-action. —A rerriket of " Suicide Irbil-, in an uneaued @tete of mind'' Imo  11!
The Atherstone, Nuneaton, and Warwickshire Times. — 1887-08-27 (Atherstone, Warwickshire, England)

BAD SU/CIDIS AT FOLISHILL.  An inqnent was held at the Navigation Into, Foleshill, on Monday idternoen, befote Dr. C. W. Iliffe, Coroner, ea to the death of John Harris, aged 41, • watchliniaher, living at Courthousegreen, Foieshill. —Emma Harms, wife of the deceased, said that her husband had been in a very desponding state for a long time, in consequeoce of his having had no work. Ile was a fairly good workman, but slow. He had lately said that if he did net get work soon he could not say what he might not do. He bad slept badly. He went away from home on Thurs lay morning shout nine o'clock to fetch some work and said he should be back about halfpast twelve or one &Moe,. He did not return home uutil Friday night, having slept et his sister's in Coventry. On Friday she went to Coventry to look for the deceased. She save him but he did not come home then, because he would not return with her. He was in the Tramway Inn, in Silver street, and came out to speak to her, but she did oot think he had had much beer, or that there was any difference in his maoner. When she asked him why he did not come home he said there was nothing to return home for. She, however, said that there was tea and bread in the house She did not go home that night but on Saturday morning at half-poet ten o'clock, she went back. The deceased wiry not then at home, but the bed looked as if it had been slept in. She returned to Coventry later, but could not find the deceased, -0 she again went home. When she event upstairs on the Saturday morning cite found a clothe, line on the bedroom floor which deceased had evidently taken irons the pantry. She did not bear of the diecowery of deceiteed's body in the water till about 7 o'clock on Saturday night, when she was in Coventry. In reply to questions by the jury, witness said she and her husband had had or, quarrel at all. —James Elliott, gardener, living at Court House.green. Foloshill. said that nn Saturday afternoon, about twenty minutes past one. he saw the deceased going towards Canip's pi, He did not speak to hint. but he though woe very a range in his manner. He had known the deceased for many ii4.,,Ln.ot,rnotaicegohyimirtnrtigeualrlkorf2iait.ee Folesloll, said that on Saturday afternoon last, he was looking in the water in the pit for pike, in company with another boy, when he saw the body of the deceased. The water at the spot would only be about 2ft. deep. He recognised the deceased. There were no marks of a struggle at the spot where deceased was in the water. —Police. constable Dorton having given evidence no to the recovery of the leoly, and the Coroner having enm reed up the evidence, the Jury returned a verdict that the deeeased conimited suicide whilst of unsound mind.
The Atherstone, Nuneaton, and Warwickshire Times. — 1887-05-28 (Atherstone, Warwickshire, England)

WORKHOUSE MASTER IN  FOLE3HILL.  &MOOT. Boeso.—A menial meeting of the Poles. hill School Board war held on Monday night. There Imre present Mr. J. Knight rcharman), Mr. WE. Smfford (vice,cheirin in) - the Rem. C. J. . Eliot and W. D. Riblgard ; desert, J. Randle, S. Asquith. and J. Heetherley ; and Mr. J. Aehley, olerk.—The Clerk read • communication which be had received from the Clerk to the London School Board, in which the Fcleahill Board war asked to yen in an address to the Queen c.mgratulating her Majesty on the progresa which had been made in , the work of public elementary education durieg her Majearya reign. A draft attirere wan enclosed. , —Mr. J. Randle asked whether any expenee would ' be involved, and the Clerk replied that there could not be, so the Board wee only seined to sign the ' addresa—The Bev. C. J. Eliot .aid that nothing had made more progrens during her Majeety s reign than education, and he would move that the , address be signed.—Several mernkere expressed a ' desire to hear the address read, and after the Clerk had read the document Mr. Heetherley mconded the proposition that the addrees be eigued.—The proposition was carried. and the Chairmen on ho. knit of the Board appended he eignature to m.— The Chairman introduced the question of providing further accommodation for the children, and Mated that her Majesty's Inspecmr had examined the Britirde Schools, which the Board propoeed to utilise, and had made. number of euggestioes for slight alteration. and re-arrangements.—Alter a short discuedon the Clerk war. instructed to trend to the Education Department • sketCh plan of the Britieh School premietr, and an intimation that the Board, with the Department's coneent, proposed to wilier, tte ochools, rather then build new ones, the Edgewick Schools being overcrowded.—Several other small met Mrs were disposed of, and, aber the Attendance Officer's report had been received and dealt with, the Board went into committee and prooeeded to open Madera for etoree and echool requisite.. A SENSATIONAL MATIELL —On Sunday morning a carrier. named George Shaw, of Courthouse Green, disappeared mysterioualy from ho home. Later in the clay a coat was found in a field in the neighbourhood belonging to Mr. Jones, farmer, end wee recognised by Mrs. Shaw m that . of her miming hueband. There being a deep pit M the field it was auspected that he had mmmitted suicide. The water wee accordingly dragged, bet without remit. Shaw was widely known, end hie dieappearance created a mneation in Me neigh, bourhood, which wee inMnaified when he returned home on Monday afternoon.
The Atherstone, Nuneaton, and Warwickshire Times. — 1887-10-15 (Atherstone, Warwickshire, England)

COLESBILL. PETTY SESSIONS, sth Ocrober.—Preaent—Lord Norton and firm. H. A. Ailderley.—Wrll.m Smbh, eilversmith, Caleshill,sras charged by Thomas Bashi an, gamekeeper, of Coleshill Pool, with game tres.ples in the daytime on September 7th snal Orb, St Colenhill. Defendant, who had pleaded guilty, did sot appear, and the cases being proved-a fine Of sa. and costs in each case was impoeed. William Dogge. farmer, Nether Whitacre, was rummoned by Walter Silk, ratemollector, tor 31. lid.. arrears of pooorete. On dismessed, plaintiff to pay costs, 7s. Owen Lockering and Edward Richards, labourers, both of Cordworth, were charged by the polim with being drunk and disorderly oath, highway, at Minworth, on Ms 25ch Saptember. Both pleaded guilty and were orderwl to pay costa, 7. each. William Brookes, Coleshill, w. charged by the police with attempting to commit suicide on Saturday, lst October. Being too ill to be brought op, the cam woe adjourned till Wednesday nest. William Mawby, brick. maker, Coi lev was charged by the police With being trunk and disorderly at Fillongley, on Sept. 10th and On Sept 2208. Pined to and lee. fid. ' - -s  costs in wen cave. ATDEMPEED Somme.—At a special sitting of the Colesshifi Bench, on Monslay, William Brookes, of Coleshill, farrier, was charged with attempting to commit suicide at Coloshill on the let inst.— From the evidence it appeared that pri-oner was wen on the morning in queetion ware hayrick in hie field. He wee holdfng a knife in his hand, and blood wee &MED', from a word in his throat. With considerable difficulty he wee secured and taken to his house. He resisted very stubbornly, and tried to extend the wound by putting Ins fingers! in it and tsaring at it. After his wound had been dressed he was taken to the General Hospital, Birmingham, where he remained until Mondays—The prisoner eras discharged, upon hie relatives promising to guard him, and to pay the ---- f
The Atherstone, Nuneaton, and Warwickshire Times. — 1887-11-12 (Atherstone, Warwickshire, England)

FAILURE.— A. petition has been Wel by Chariot Ralph, of Pool Farm, Coughton, farmer. Benno. on Porsonitio.—An inqueet wae held at the Bowling Green Hotel. on Wednesday, before Mr F. It. Moore. coroner, on the body of John Henry Gardner. of 38. Bowling Green.street, who commdtert suicide on Thursday by po.sonlng himself.—James Kelsey mid the damned wee his mnenelaw and lived with hire at the tune of his death. He ems 24 Mara of age. He wm married to wirer... daughter. bat they had not been living together. Deceased went out to work at six o'cloeic on Tueeday morning, but returned home again &bon ten o'clock. He beard deceased groaning iu the attic, and on going •pstaim fond him lying on hie back. Witnese's wife went to the aide of the bed. end damaged "Mother, I have paieoned named." He eve•t end fetched Dr. Bullock.—ll ery Ann Kelsey, wife of the previous w Roe, ant that when deceased returned home at ten o'clock cm Tueeday mlmn,nr he told her that the men were going meogohl elsaning. *ad be had got nothing to clean them with. She told him to take • strong knife, and handed him on, which he *aid he would take to 'Fallen', to grind. Ho went out, but returned in about net minces, and walked upstaire. Her had:rand cams M, and on going to the eteire door heard deceased groaning. They went nostairs,and be told her he had poieoned himself. He seemed in great agony and diet about a quarter to eleven.— Inepector Hall deposed that ne searehed the roam in which decened died, but could find no trace of poiton. Rho had also made enquiries at the different chemists. Mops bot could not find that dement had bought any in the toern.—Police. constable Stemma also deposed to searching the body and finding enteral lettere to deceased from his wife and hit diecharge from the lnd Leicester Regiment in January Int.—Dr. Gethrie Rankin mid he had tondos poet miring examination of the body. He fon i the whole of the internal organ I cemented. There was aim sxmnsive chance of the heart and the condition of the liver indicated In. temperate habim. The stomach contained a qaantrty of pasty lmoking grey euMtinem, mixed with a considerable ara eon of what seemed to be ' • greenoth powder. The coating of the @Mutter Ina enflamed, and there In. some eoftening of the theme. From the appearance of the elismaoh it W. not unlikely that death wee due to irritant poieon.—The jury returned • verdirt that deosaeed committed eulcide India temporarily Insane.
The Atherstone, Nuneaton, and Warwickshire Times. — 1887-12-31 (Atherstone, Warwickshire, England)

REMARKABLE PREVENTION OF A MURDER AND SUICIDE.  At the Birmingham Police Court, on Friday, Thomas William Robinson (37). engineer, was I charged with threatening to murder los wife, who is at present in custody at Winson Green Gaol on a charge of theft. Shortly befoie two o'clock on Saturday afternoon, Mr. Parsons manager to Messrs Bland, gunmakers, of Whittall-street, called at the Detective Office, and reported that a min had purchased a revolver and fifty cartridges for 9.. 6d. After-Oiling the revolver Mr Parson& thought there was somethinn about the man's appearance which he did not like,and, accordingly he resolved to inform the police. Immediately on the receipt of this information the detective department instituted enquiries, and learnt that a nom had been heard to threaten that lie would gp to %Vinson Green Gaol and murder his wife. This information wav conveyed to the governor of the prison, and a strict watch was kept. On Friday morning detectives Cook and Taylor were sent to watch at the gaol, and shortly after ten o clock man named Robinson. whose wife is awaiting , Dial at the Sevsions tor the theft of a perambulator and other tutieles, asked for permission to are , his wife. He was admitted, but arrested and I searched, when them was then found in his poAses.ion a revolver, all the chambers of which were loaded, and the hat,,nnral full cock. He I admitted that it had been his intention to shoot his wife the moment lie was admitted into her prer,oce, and then to shoot himself. He gave as his reason that hin wife had been so frequently in Sl!rme' teht Vtit'me ,wa'ridah7:reanlAreAttlerreo".?"l:7e. lie said he u-ouid most certainly have shot her had he not been prevented Prisoner did not cleny what he had done, nor that he contemplated murder. He stated that he had no lined place of residence. His wife is twenty-nine years of age, and by trade a penworker. She is said to be , disreputable character, and has several times , been in prison, and was committed on the 26th of I October on .everal charges. It has been her habit Ito hire mrivitibruotTirse,trli theli„tosnellwtolimblinvlt stieeeeTee' ded in Yds object had he notbeen secured by the police. Much praise is due to Mr Parsons for conveying his suspicions to the police that the prisoner own sMtements of what he meant to do were the chief key to the authorities in preventing the commission of the crime. Flis wife, when rOMMitteri for trial, gave her address as 4 Court 5 house, Smith.street.—A remand for a week was applied for and granted.
The Atherstone, Nuneaton, and Warwickshire Times. — 1887-02-26 (Atherstone, Warwickshire, England)

THEFT OF MELINITE.  General Boulanger, the French War Minister. haa instituted aearching enquiry into a robbery of about a kilogramme of the new explosive, melinite. The robbery Witi, it iR sta.!, committed during the night of the 3rd of February at the powder magazine of Sevran, where the new explmive is kept in a special magazine. The workmen employed in the manufacture of melinite are subject to the strictest of rules, and are carefully searched before loosing their workshops, which Mgether with the mag.inm, are surroonded Iby a wall three metrm in height. Niotwithstanding all the precautions which have been taken, a gnard employml inside the mag.ine to svatch the stoves in which the powder prepared during the day is dried at night thought he now two men slinking out of the magazine. Instead of running after then, the man on duty in the magazine warned the guard outside. The soldiera and the gendarmes from Livry t once beat the country all round the magazine, in or near which no one w. diseoverml ; but the following morning it was pereeived that the dmr of the special magazine in which the melinite is kept hail been opened, and that alomt a kilogram,no of that explosive had been stolen.  A CA 11 n. —To all was are suffering from the ; trvors and indiser lions of vow fl nervou• weals. , nese, esrly, decay, exhausted vitality, lasso? vigour, nervous ttebolity, &e., I will send a prescription that will curs you free of chsrge. This ore'mt remedy was dicitveted by • M i.sionsry .n 01.1 Mexico. Send an ad Wessel stamped envelope to Bus Rev. Jossen HOLM, B oionsbury ttomsburs London, W C. To MEND Srovr.s. —lt is claimed that cracks in east iron stoves may be effectually closed up and cemented by the use of a niixture compesed of want ashes (passed through a sieve). ttnelY. powdered clay, and a little common salt. These tngredients are worked up with some water, and applied to the stove when cold. The cement hardens on being heated, and, it is said, will neither split nor crack. CI: MOUS 81,CION —A labourer, named Martin Doyle, residing in Shaw street, Dublin, committed suicide on Friday evening in a most extraordinnrY manner, cutting and stabbing himself in the head, chest, arms, legs, mid other p.n.s with pieces of broken glass and tenpenny nada The femoral artery was divided, and twenty wounds were in flicted on his head. Altogether over thirty wounds, several mortal, were on the duly. SllticgMni
The Atherstone, Nuneaton, and Warwickshire Times. — 1887-07-30 (Atherstone, Warwickshire, England)

TRAGIC OCCURRENCE AT SOUTHAMPTON.  A shocking ease of murder and suicide reported from Southampton. It appertra that between eleven and twelve and o'clock on Thursday night a young man named Dalton littcharditen, aced twenty-three. a enrk in the Royal Mad Companyle office. who lived wait Ina widowed mother end two testers in Laura Place. not to the Royal Posy to ileum to the hand. He returned home about balfnt the •I'lS''etwknek ::„doytn, da'lhtiliftrUgni t'eh-abdolbeeder: told by his mother that if he was tot, by eleven o'clock the door would be locked. Ooe of his . Meters. who had gone open', came down and let him in. and remonstrated with hhn for beiotc go late, when he flew into a neaten. Hoerent Into a room where hie mincer was laid. commenced to knock the things about, and d.lared thet he wool,' murder all in the hoot,. He followed tha up by going upetaia, getting two revolvete, and making • rush for to. mother, who succeeded to I.ktoo hareelf in her ben room. His eisteu Emma, of whom it a eetti be wee very fond, vdeot OP to protect her mother. and he fired an her, tbe shot ',king effect in the brerset. He thee attacked hie other eine, Florence, who ruehed to the drawing room window sod =reamed for help, mid while elm no stabs window he .hot her to the neck. TIM reports of the revolver we a heard by Rona young tnen who were peening and by Police-constable Boggle.. They burst open the door and entered. when they foe. the sister Ronne lying juet ineole the tiratving•rootn door, and Floreoce in the same room in • eittiog poeition. The fromer wits in a dyiog Mate, bat the latter wee cooecioue. Medical cod was at once sent for. het Emma eoon died. When the murderer was eeised it eras found abet he had shot lainat.elf In the roof of the menalb. He had • revolver in hie hand. and there wee another on the fl.r. He dieil whoot twenty-five min.ee to one. His sister Florence is 511.0 dead.  -In driving through a Melt at the Merthyr Vale Coliinryi he mon etruck a huge blower of gee, which has been diverted into pmeei mod brought to the top of the pit, a didance of about a mile and a quarter. A light we. then applied to the gas, which burn, with such brilliancy d to illuminate the whole district. The quantity of gee emceeing from the blower is ectiniated to be 2,000 feet per unroofe. Stein ere now being taken to purify the gas no asl to Mill. It for domeetic purpose, Herne's
The Atherstone, Nuneaton, and Warwickshire Times. — 1885-03-07 (Atherstone, Warwickshire, England)

INQUESTS.  FATAL Fmg, At Sc. MART', COU•oll.—Dennis Manning, of Friary Court, Warwick, who fell ' Cede the scaffol ling ai St. Mary's Chinch, on Frislay, the 2oth Fears:Ay, died from the effmte of his iumri. at the Warnaferd Hospital early on Thursday ,c.,rct,tg. The unlortunam m,n had only been ...reed &sour a fortnight at the Arne of the nualorp. As the whole of the men engage ion the work at M. Mary's are i,,,ctel ageeet aeeident, the friends dig',. drummed will receive an amount of mouey equal to ono year's wag. An ingumt so to rhe mum of death was held at the A errieford II acne!, on Fris!ay morning, before ?Ir. W. B. Sender-on. deputy coroner. The th. called wee Henry Mahn, foreman scaffoldman in tho employ of Mr. G. F. Smith, contractor, who multht.t lie ansl deceased wese at work tog.-ther at Si. Mary's Chui cli, on Friday meoMug...2oth February. Tee deceased w. wording on t,ie scaffold about IV 1. le.h. The seaffolt tett korona plate at the time, the deceasirl war M the ant of pu.ting on a Main, when he fell from the tren-om to the ground. As he was going round the build. leg, he heard a noise, aa of some, ne fallingryal on gong iound he found Mainline 14 in 2 on the ground. He noticed that the chaet twat hanging down. He omit oeli of the men Oct a doctor. Ile assisted in marrying deem.ed to the Hmpital mid on the ro id he te,cl that the chain broke. He had since exandowl the chain, and found it broken s —Thomnis Elltott, foram sn stone...on, explasna. , that derma ci win tissng the chain to the scaffold pole, and a ti iking A tis, heavily snapped one of the be., musing 11 (0 got sway,and prommtahog him to the grountl.—Thoui. Elliott elated that he was informed of the accident, and on going round to the north side of the Church he found the deceased lymg on the grouud unconscious., with Mahn and another man attending to h.. He alAmeares weon up to the scaffold tntd there cat. ladder restsne against the wall. If. saw s lenee ehain hanging from the scaffold btoken.—Fanny Mooning, ime that deceseal was her huaband and Iris 24 years of age. She had only been married • fortnight at the time of the accident.—Dr. house surgeon tail that when admitted deceased wne suffering fr. rn fracture of the opine with vocal plebe timely-Us of the lower extramitiess—Th Jury returns' verdict of accidental deMh. SAD DROWNING Farstecc.-0,1 Thursday mom leg the body of a youth named Juslge (16), wa• , found in the Warwick and Napton.C•nal, Leantington. The deceased, who name from Bush., near Wolverhampton. wow page in the employ of Mr. Vernon, of Comyn House, Nevelso'd-r-rnsce, Leamington. On the Mb of February Met he • left the House for the purpc. of going to Heathterraoe, Miiveston. Nothing more was hoard of him till Thursday. It is beliarwl that he committed suicide.—An ingot. sem held at the George High.street, ymierdsy (Friday) before Mr. W. B. Sanderson, dernitymoroom.