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Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1888-04-28 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

PUNISHED FOR PREACHING.  A certain Mussulman of Eski Zagra, Bulgaria, a member of the local administrative council, and a lawyer, having been suspected of influencing the Mussulmans of the province to submit to the existing institutions, has been arrested by the Turkish authorities. Another Musaulimn, a member of the Council of Kezanlik, in Eastern Bournelia, and engaged in the trade in essence of roses in partnership with a French firm, has been also imprisoned on suspicion of being favourable to the view that the Mussulmans should peacefully accept the rule of the present Government and take no part in agitation. The Bulgarian Envoy has addressed an energetic protest to the Porte concerning this treatment of Bulgarian citizens, against whom no fault is proved, and the Prince's Government insists on the liberation of these men, who are not guilty of any act coining under Turkish law.  HMV TO SAVE MONEY is a question all are interested in: too many save at a sacrifice of health and home comforts. The daily increasing demand for Horniman's Tea—strong, rich, delirious—proves beyond all else that the Public know that pure tea is the best and cheapest.  A SONEWIIAT extraordinary cue of suicide has occurred at the village of Stonely, Huntingdonshire. A man named Coils, a carpenter, aged 71, killed himself by strangulation. Lle was discovered dead in a sitting posture at the bottom of Ins own saw-pit. A string was round his neck, and fastened to the top of the framework. This string he had tightened by pulling against it until it strangled him. Ar the meeting of the Clif den Board of Guardians a resolution has been passed calling on the Local Government Board to obtain for them a loan of £3OOO, to which extent the Union is indebted to the contractors who supplied provisions under the late Relief of Distress Act. The contractors have I threatened to institute legal proceedings. I Ms.
Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1888-11-10 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

PROFITS AT MONTE CARLO.  The Casino at Monte Carlo is not (says a correspondent there) over prosperous just now. There were many long faces as the shareholders came from the annual .neeting held recently lathe private salon of rbt, Dieectorate. 1 am informed on reliable authority that the report for the past year showed a profit, after paying the enormous expenses of this gorgeous establishment, of a little over £250,000, as compared with nearly £300,000 last year. This is far below the results of a few years ago, when the profits averaged £500,000. The cashier has just resigned, it is said, through remorse. The people who frequent the gambling tables are growing wiser, and generally stake five francs now instead of louis and bank-notes. There is little of the high play of former days. There is also an ever-growing colony of people who reside at Monte Carlo for the sake of its natural beauties, and who enjoy all the privileges of the principality without paying the bitter penalty. There have been , 25 suicides during the year, as compared with 19 last year, the number of unfortunates generally being in proportion to the profits. A few days ago a young Russian lady lost all her fortune. She threw herself into the Mediterranean. As usual, nothing has since been heard of the body. The directors are just now making strenuous efforts to increase the fascinations of the place by an installation of electricity throughout the building. They are also considering a scheme for erecting a lift to obviate the necessity of climbing the existing long flight of steps, and to transport people direct from the station to the gardens of the Casino. Prince Charles is also coming in a fortnight to raise the drooping spirits of the gambling establishment. This is the first visit he has paid his dominions for four years, and a grand reception is being prepared. Meantime the Hereditary Prince continues his studies in the vivisection of deep-sea animals, though with what result to science it has not yet transpired.
Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1888-11-10 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

MURDERER . GUILLOTINED.  The execution of Mathelin, who had been condemned to death for the murder of Oudin, has taken place on the Place de la Roquette, in Paris. Mathelin, a workman was a friend of Oudin, and last February he induced the poor man to accompany him to Esbly on the pretext that he had found him a comfortable place in the neighbourhood. The only condition was that Oudin should pay down 820 as caution-money. Accordingly the unsuspecting victim, taking with him the sum out of his savings, travelled with Mathelin to Esbly, and as he was walking in his company through a small wood near the railway-station was strangled and robbed. It was at first thought that Oudin had committed suicide, but suspicion soon fell on Mathelin, who was tried and sentenced to death on Sept. 8. Mathelin was consumptive, and hoped that for this reason he would obtain a mitigation of the penalty. A week or two ago he declared that he was much worse, and refused to eat. The doctors, however, had ascertained that the disease had made no particular progress, and when Mathelin learned that his appeal would probably he rejected he announced that he would go to the scaffold with:as little concern as if he were starting for a walk. The date of the execution had been kept a secret, and there were comparatively few spectators of the ghastly scene. At six o'clock in the morning the Place de la Roquette was still enveloped in semi-obscurity. The Republican Guards and gendarmes posted around the guillotine could only just be distinguished, and not a single woman was to be seen among the crowd. Mathelin had been awakened by the noise of the preparations that were going on outside, and when the authorities, entering his cell, in!ormed him that his last hour had come, he displayed no emotion. "Very well," he said ; and when asked if he would like to see the Abbe Faure, he replied, "If you wish it." At twenty minutes past six the gate of the prison opened, and Mathelin appeared, ana all the bystanders removed their hats as the condemned man, bending forward, advanced with tottering steps towards the scaffold. Ile was supported by the Abbe. Matholin, however, in spite of his pallor and apparent weakness, comported himself with courage. On reaching the scaffold he twice embraced the Ablxi, who at once turned away. Then he was seized and his head placed in the " lunette " The next moment the knife descended and the convict had ceased to live. The behaviour of the crowd was very satisfactory throughout. There was no repetition of the shockingly disgraceful scenes witnessed at the execution of Pramini. No cries were heard, nor was there the slightest disturbance from first to last. Barely ten minutes had elapsed from the moment when the authorities entered the prisoner's cell.
Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1888-03-31 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

GAMBLING.  Canon Knox-Little, in the course of one of his London Lenten addresses at St. Paul's Cathedral, to a congregation of about 4000, said "My brothers, I have been told that the gravest sin of Englishmen is drunkenness. It is a grave sin, but I don't believe it is the worst. There are deeper sins than that. Young men, let me persuade you to think of that vice which, from my experience and from the testimony of others, is devastating your life—at least as seriously as drink —it is gambling. It is a sin wild enough. If Scripture says anything it says, 'What we have is the property of another! We are stewards, then. If Scripture says anything, it teaches the dignity of work. A good day's work for a good day's wage. Unless a man works, neither shall he eat. If Scripture tells anything, it tells this—that you and I are bound to realise, as men, as Christians, the social relations in which we stand. If the Scriptures add one thing more to the Christian's mind, they say covetousness—not wood and stone—covetousness is the idolatry of this age. My dear brothers, think of these four things. Gambling—you forget that you are the holders of what God gives you for His glory; gambling away your inoney, you forget that you are trying to get money without fulfilling the dignified condition of work; gambling, you forget that your success—if it goes to anything, at least, like large dimensions—is indeed social, for it means another's misery ; gamble, and what you do is this—you become the victim not only of the idolatry of covetousness, but of an infatuation, reinforced by excitement, which is superheated steam—by the intoxication of chance. Young men, I have seen ruined homes, ruined lives, ruined loves. Yes, and then the treachery and treason of the suicide. Come away from this increasing and debasing vice. For God's sake fight the world. For God's sake work earnestly. For God's sake gamble no more!"
Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1888-03-24 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

FEMALE FIEND.  At the Thames Police-court the other day, Teresa Bmith, aged 20, of 88, Catherine-buildings, Cartwright-street, Whitechapel, was charged with terrible cruelty to her illegitimate child Henry, aged five. The principal witness was a neighbour named Annie Edwards, and some of the cruelties which she deposed to having been perpetrated by the mother are unfit for publication. On Wednesday of last week the Witness stated the mother made the poker red-hot, and stripping the child applied it to the lower part of his back, and burning him severely. She then knocked the child down, kicked him, and jumped upon him. Further, she knocked the little one's head against the door in such a violent way as to bring in one of the neighbours, and the same day bit a piece ,of flesh from his arm. Witness confessed' she had area the prisoner assault the child every day since, , but she had been afraid to say anything about it. Mr. D. Macinish, surgeon, who bad examined the child, described it as weighing a stone less than it 'I ought to weigh. It only weighed 28.1 b. On the right side of the head there was a large blister, and to all appearances hair had been pulled out. On the left side thrge was another large sore, and the head was covered with smaller nears. There were sores on both ears; a large scar on the left shoulder, a cicatrix two inches long at the bottom of the spine; on both elbows large ulcerating sores; on the right hand a blister, and the legs and feet were covered with burns and sores. The poor child had to be carried into court. Its appearance was shocking, as it seemed starred. Mr. Saunders ordered the prisoner to be remanded.  KAI'S Coieroosn teeenoupt Linseed. Aniseed, &neg.., Squill, rota, dze., with Ohio no, kid., is. lid., Os 94., ABOUT two years ago a conductor of a street car in Philadelphia Was discharged. He had not a cent in his pocket, and had a wife add children to support. In this emergency he borrowed 10 dole. from a friend, made a bucket-shop Investment, and doubled his money. His luck has stuck to him ever since, and he is now worth 40,000 dols. He cleared 27,000 dols. last year. THOMAS BENNETT, manager of Messrs. IV. H. Smith and Sons' bookstall at Wellington, Salop, has committed suicide by throwing himself in front of a train on the Market Drayton line, near Wellington. The deceased was a married man. "Serodaut," or ...armed Soap, cheriehee the cuticle. ad., path*. Kay Bro'a Id, Stockport.  A scrx exceeding £1.500 has been collected with the object of setting up a life-size statue of the late Mr. W. E. Forster. It is intended to place the statue on the Thames Embankment, facing the School Board offices. ELIZA NORTHBRIDGE, wife of a painter, has been remanded at Sheffield on the charge of unlawfully wounding her sister. Early in the morning cries of " Murder " were heard proceeding from a house in Cemetery-road. The neighbours rushed in and found Northbridge hacking at her sister's throat with a carving-knife. Northbridge is believed to be mentally affected. The sister was not seriously wounded.
Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1888-06-23 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

FRENCH TRAGEDIES.  Great sensation was caused in Paris the other day by the announcement that M. Heriot, the proprietor of the Magasins du Louvre, had shot his wife and had attempted to commit suicide afterwards. The facts of the case, as published by an evening journal, which says it is well acquainted with all the particulars of this domestic drama, are the following After the death of M. Ileriot's first wife he fell in love with one of the young women employed in the shop. In the first instance he refused to marry her, but after the birth of two children he did so in 1887. M. Heriot seems to have been jealous of his young and beautiful wife; but when he fell ill, about a fortnight ago, she showed the greatest concern, and since that time nursed him with the most untiring devotion. The evening before last Mdme Heriot, worn out by nights spent by her husband's sick bed, went to her own loom to get a little much-needed rest. M. Heriot, noticing her absence, got out of bed, seized a revolver, and in a state of delirium went into his wife's room. Mdme. Heriot, who was lying down, rose on hearing some one enter, but she fell almost immediately seriously wounded by a bullet fired point blank at her by her husband. At the sight of his wife lying bleeding on the floor, M. Heriot turned his weapon against himself, and, firing a second time, wounded himself slightly in the left shoulder. The doctors regard Mdme. Heriot's condition as critical. The Soir, however, the other evening gave a modified version of the matter, and denies that M. Ileriot fired at his wife.— At Nismes a man 75 years of age the other day murdered his wife and son. He had six children, and to set them up in the world he had been some years ago prevailed on by his wife and children to sell a house. He soon regretted having done so, and gradually fell into a morbid state of mind. He dined with his wife and one of his BOW on Sunday, and showed a good deal of illwill towards them. Shortly after dinner the old man, whose name is Crespe, followed them, and, without saying a word, stabbed his wife to the heart with a knife. She fell dead on the spot. The son sprang opts interfere, but he, too, was struck down dead with a blow from the same weapon. This cold-blooded double murder committed, Crespe was arrested. Far from expressing sorrow or repentance, •-e told the Police Commissary he could not feel satisfied because he had only killed his wife and one of his children, and what he wanted was to kill all his family.
Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1888-09-15 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

THE POPLAR TRAGEDY.  Mr. George Collier, the deputy coroner for Southeast Middlesex, has concluded an inquiry at the Poplar Town Hall into the circumstances attending the death of Elizabeth Bartlett, aged 56, the wife of a general dealer, lately living at 258, Manchester-road, Cubitt Town, who is alleged to have been murdered by her husband, who afterwards attempted to commit suicide hy cutting his throat with a razor. The husband, zeho b still an inmate of the Poplar Hospital, is progressing favourably. On Sunday, the 19th ultimo, the deceased was discovered lying in bed with her head battered in, while her husband lay beside her bleeding from a self-inflicted wound in the neck. The instrument used to kill the woman was a blacksmiths hammer weighing about 121 b. Walter Still, aged fifteen, errand boy to Bartlett, said that on Sunday morning, the 195 h ult., he heard Bartlett groaning, and on going to his room found him sitting on a chair trying to tear his throat open. There was a wound in his throat, but he had no weapon in his hand. The witness went round the bed to wake Mrs. Bartlett up. and then found the blood was flowing from bet throat. Be raised an alarm, and a boy named Jones came into the room and then ran upstairs to inform the other lodgers. The witness then ran for Mrs. Maas. Mrs. Bartlett, the witness added, was a sober woman, but Bartlett used to drink very much. He was often drunk. The last time the witness sow him drunk was on the Saturday before the murder. Bartlett and his wife lived happily together except when Bartlett was in drink. He had heard Bartlett say more than once that he would cut his wife's head off and throw it in the road. Other evidence having been heard, and the coroner having summed up the case, the jury returned a verdict of "Wilful murder against Levi Richard Bartlett, who was committed for trial on the coroner's warrant.  ANOTHER open space ! Clerkenwell is to be favoured this time. The Vestries of Clerkenwell are about to apply to the Consistorial and EpiscoPst Court of London for a faculty authorising the improvement and laying-out of the St. James's churchyard and burial grounds, Clerkenwell, for thie Put' pose. They also ask to be allowed to move Ws tombstones.
Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1888-07-14 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

SUICIDE OF A GIRL. A painful story was told at an inquest held at Itotherhithe on the body of Mary Ann Elizabeth ash, a girl of 17, who had lived at 6, King-street, with her parents, but who unaccountably left her home about a fortnight ago. Iler body was found at the entrance of the Surrey Commercial Docks. Edith Thorn, of 2, King-street, was one of the two important witnesses. She said that the deceased and herself set out at four o'clock in the morning to seek work. They slept in a field at Shooter's-hill, and in the morning they walked to Gravesend, where they earned sixpence at pea-picking. They next went to Beckenham, where they slept in some bushes. Being unable to procure, any work, however, they returned to London, where she left the deceased outside her own door. She then seemed peculiar in her manner. The same evening she had remarked to witness, "I wish I had my long black scarf with me." Witness asked her what for, and she answered, "To tie ourselves together and drown ourselves." She had known deceased for about twelve months, during which time she had heard her threaten to commit suicide on snore than one occasion. She had told witness that her mother had been "jawing" her because she could not do some washing with a bad finger. Mrs. M. a. Ash. deceased's aunt (the other witness), stated that she saw her niece at the door of her mother's house. Witness told her that she ought to be ashamed of herself for leaving her father and mother. The girl replied, "1 will go and drown myself," and with that she ran away. At the time witness thought she looked very strange. She had threatened to commit suicide on several prior occasions. The jury returned a verdict of "Temporary insanity.'
Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1888-09-08 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

THE LOST LOVE LETTERS.  The Cologne Gazette tells an amusing story of the strange discovery a grenadier made during the recent rnanocuvres. He had been told off to reconnoitre for the enemy, and on his way through a field stumbled over a leather object which he picked up and brought to his corporal, who pronounced it to be a dress-improver. On closer inspection it turned out to contain a large number of billets-doux on tinted paper, written apparently by a student to a lady in the far north of Berlin. The corporal, who WM himself a student going through his "one year's service," tipped the man and kept the "improver." On his return to Berlin he called on "the lady," and had the good luck to find her alone; but to his surprise she was a school girl of tender years. Naturally, under the circumstances, he hesitated to give up his find, and hinted that the parents ought to be told ; but the fair one was no importunate in her entreaties that he finally softened. "Papa and mamma have no idea of Benson existence; please give it bask; you'll drive me to suicide," she said in the most piteous way. "I have no place to put his letters so safe as the improver,' but I lost it when walking with mamma and papa. You can't believe the anguish I have suffered from the thought that some nasty sneak, and not an honourable man, might find it! Please, please, do give me my 'improver.'" She was pretty, and the corporal could not refuse any longer, and gave in. She quite forgot his presence, kissed the letters madly, and put the improver "back in its old place, laughing and crying for very joy. She was too absorbed to thank the s Idler, who, however, was plentifully rewarded by getting a good story to tell at mess.  AN excursion train returning from the Belle Vue Gardens, Manchester, ran off the metals, the wheel of the engine having caught some points. The train ran against a light engine, and a number of persons were injured. Two of the wounded, Susan Eaton and Thomas Locket, both of Oldham, were removed to Manchester Infirmary, and were stated to be progressing favourably. The others injured were removed home.  KING Ileum, has visited Savignano, where he witnessed a brilliant engagement between the opposing army corps. Subsequently he proceeded to Rimini, where he had a most cordial reception.
Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1888-06-16 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

MONACO.  A terrible drama in re-al-life—has— just been enacted at Monaco. A young Brazilian, named Raoul Herques, who was living with his brother and sister-in-law at Villa Anita, shot them both dad, and then blew out his own brains. The crime must have been committed very quickly, for when the servants rushed into the dining-room, on hearing the pistol shots, they found themselves in the presence of nothing but the three corpses. The judicial inquiry has, it is said, proved that the murderer and suicide, Raoul Herques, VMS, some years ago, employed by his brother, who managed their father's house of business at New York. On the death of M. Herques, senior, M. Robustiano Herques, Raours brother, disposed of his father's business in a manner which did not meet with M. Raoul Herques's approval. Nevertheless, Baoul succeeded in dissimulating the mortal anger which he felt against his brother on account of his energetic protests being disregarded. Three months ago he arrived at Monte Carlo, and took a room in one of the best hotels. His brother and his wife were already installed at the Villa Anita, and Raoul went to dine with them almost every evening. On several occasions discussions arose in the evening between the two brothers relative to the manner their father's business had been disposed of, and at last M. Robustiano Herques told his brother plainly that if he wished to live on good terms with him, he must speak no more of the affair. It would seem it was this intimation which, by enraging Raoul, made him resolve to kill his brother and his wife. He went to dine, as usual, at Villa Anita, and it was remarked by the servants that he was less talkative than usual, and almost immediately the meal was over he rose, and, with a revolver in each hand, killed his brother and sister-in-law by firing point blank at them. That done, he pointed the two revolvers at his own head, and had sent both bullets through it before the servants occupied in clearing the table could reach the scene of this terrible crime. It appears quite certain that Raoul Herques had premeditated the crime, and that he meant to commit it even if he met with resistance, for in addition to the two revolvers found in his hands, there was another in his pocket, as well as two daggers.