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The Kenilworth Advertiser. — 1876-07-29 (Kenilworth, Warwickshire, England)

THB LAST 11013118 OF HAYDN, TEM PLINTEII.—The loss of rest at night was about the worst sign about him. I have heard him say he could face any misfortune if he got his sleep. But be could not support the irritability arising from disturbed rest. The action of his brain became morbid and unhealthy. On Sunday, this 21st of June, he walked out with one of the family to dine with his friend, Commissioner Evans, at Hampstead. On the way through the Regent's Park he complained very much of the intense heat, and said the night before, when lying awake, he had understood how it was people committed suicide; that he had dwelt with pleasure on the idea of throwing himself off the monument and dashing his head to pieces. He was begged not to dwell on such thoughts, and after a time he grew much more calm. He spoke of his embarrassments and appeared to show the greatest repugnance to having to go through again all the degradation and miseries of imprisonment and ruin. They parted at the Avenue-road Bridge, and on parting he said, "Tell your mother not to be anxious about me," and went on his way. About five p.m. he returned home. He said he was not in sufficient good spirits to stay at Hampstead. At dinner he got up from his chair and turned a glazed picture to the wall; he looked very flushed and haggared, and passed a silent and abstracted evening. That night he was heard walking about his room nearly the whole night, aparently in great agitation. It was in those wakeful hours that he settled his resolve. He was dressed and out of his room early the next morning (22nd June), and walked down before breakfast, to Riviere, a gunmaker in Oxford-street, near Regentstreet. Here he bought one of a pair of pistols. He came home about 9 a.m., and breakfasted alone, then went to his painting room, and probably wrote the letter to his children, his will and his "last thoughts." As my mother and sister passed the painting room door on the way to their rooms, about 10.30 cm., they tried the door—it was locked —and he called out very fiercely, " Who is there?" A few minutes after, as if regretting the tone in which he had spoken, he came up to my mother's room, kissed her affectionately, and lingered about the room as if he had something to say. But he said little, but except to ask her to call that day on an old friend (one of the executors he had just named in his will), and returning to his painting room, deliberately wrote in hie journal— " God forgive me, Amen I" "Stretch me no longer on this tough world"-Lear. and in a few moments had destroyed himself.— Menwir of Benj. Robert Haydn.  ,Tarrrn Awn you want truth to go round e world you must hire an express train to pull it; °nt if you want a lie to go round the world it will fly; it is light as a feather, and a breath will carry it.
The Kenilworth Advertiser. — 1876-04-15 (Kenilworth, Warwickshire, England)

HORRIBLE TRAGEDY AT LEAMINGTON. Thomas Addison Whittingham, a gentleman living at Leamington, shot his wife last week with a double-barrelled gun, and afterwards shot himself through the head, death being instantaneous. The lady was shot as she was climbing over the garden wall out of the reach of her husband. Deceased had been depressed in spirits, and had been drinking heavily. On April 7th, an inquest was opened at Leamington on the body of Mr. Whittingham. The only occupants of the house were Mr. and Mrs. Whittingham and a servant. The wife had no idea of his intending to do her harm until she saw him with the gun in his hands. A number of shots have been extracted from her back, but many still remain, and it is feared some are lodged In a vital part, as the charge partly entered the loins. As Mrs. Whittingham, when she was shot, fell over into an adjoining yard, it is presumed deceased thought she had bee, killed He then went to his bedroom, and the servant heard him say, "I thought it would come to this," and as she passed him she begged him not to do her harm. He was seen in the street carrying the gun two hours before the occurrenoe, and had been wandering about the house all night, and drinking, to which he was addicted. Deceased was in receipt of four hundred a year. and had lived much abroad. They bad been married eight years. The coroner then adjourned the inquiry, which was coneluded on Saturday. It was shown that deceased bad lived unhappily with his wife, who was much younger, and to whom he had been married eight years. Two years ago, when living at Stafford, they separated, and be allowed her ten shillings weekly. He then threatened her life, struck her, and behaved like a raving madman. He repeatedly complained of severe pains in his head, on which he received a severe blow when returning from Australia, where he made his fortune during the gold fever and lost his first wife and only child. The wife returned after three months' absence, but they were at other brief periods separated prior to their removal to Leamington, eight months ego. At Leamington deceased acquired intemperate habits, complained of his head, and his wife and her sister considered him deranged at times. His will, made two years ago, left all his property to his sister, and his wife was not mentioned. The jury returned averdictof "Suicide whilst temporarily insane."
The Kenilworth Advertiser. — 1876-10-21 (Kenilworth, Warwickshire, England)

THE VISIT OF THE PRINCE & PRINCESS ' ATTEMPTED DOUBLE MURDER AND OF WALES TO GLASGOW. SUICIDE IN BIRMINGHAM. prisoner absented himself hem home The Prince and Princess of Wales and two of the On Friday evening, about five o'clock, :and rewhtuilsrntedinocnusF"ridYi.iy 'ILI:: Royal chidren, arrived in Glasgow on Monday Night, hawker, named James Lone, alias Hexer, CaatmllepbnefrilewanSataatiodisn.tinTghtuesyhwederecormeeepanivedy. oHfiteThherascu-stdrehstur, itilVer hiEsmn % and suhieqfsotearetednabtloytuhstataat bimbedh eonptrilhisi:on Provost Cumming. It expressed a hearty welcome aboTytfh7in'larcoflrnooceevwlke, immediately an d were presented Municipal cat laddressßuildings b 9 to the Prince and Princess to a burgh from which he noon in a state of intoxication. He wrent npstai:s took the title of Baron Renfrew, and in which there I into one of the rooms, armed with a tish-knife sea was long a Royal residence. The Prince of Wales I commenced a savage attack upon Mrs. Hitehon, who said—" I beg to thank you very cordially for your I was making the beds. He caught hold of her as kind words and good wishes towards me and the • attempted to cut her throat with the weapon, hat it Princess, and for the hearty welcome accorded to na was too blunt to effect his purpose. He, however, on the occasion of our visit." Their Royal Highnesses intlicted a gash on her shoulder near the neck, and drove them to Blythswood. A ball took place in the three other wounds in her back. The woman Town Hall,attended by a large company, including endeavoured to eseope, and screamed "-Murder members of the suite. The Corporation held • while the blood flowed from her wounds and ,t,i banquet, and drank, with acclamation, the health of rated her garments. Her daughter Emma. sem 1.,the Baron and Baroness of Renfrew. hearing her cries, and the noise of the -tram.' rushed upstairs, and tried to pall Lane away from her mother. The drunken and infuriated man then turned upon the dalighter, and stabbed her several times in the side and back; bat she at length see. ceeded in pushing him from the landing to the bottom of the stairs. Line then got up and ran iuto toe street, followed by a number of youths, some of whom got before him and impeded his tuore. ments. P.C. Gardiner, being informed of thy occurrence, went in pursuit of the priscner, ami captured him in Lichfield-street. He was taken to the police-station in Moor-street, and whilst the charge was being made out, he suddenly drew a small penknife from his pocket, an 1 seibbed him. self twice in the breast, but not senously. taken to the General Hospital, and afterwards leek to the lock-up, where be was charged with the fire offence, and also with attempting suicide. my. Hitchen and her i'. itighter went to the Geeeral Ho.t. pital soon after the occurrence, and receiNed surgical treatment, but were not detained iii the institution. The prisoner wilt brought before the magistratt, oi, Saturday.
The Kenilworth Advertiser. — 1876-12-09 (Kenilworth, Warwickshire, England)

SHOCKING TRAGEDY AT ASHBOTJRNE. I On Tuesday morning, between three and four o'clock, a terrible tragedy was perpetrated at Ashbourne, a man named George 011erenshaw having cut his wife's throat, and then attempted to commit suicide by cutting his own throat. He lived with his wife and grown-up daughter in Pack-lane, Ashbourne, and had recently been a labourer in the employ of the late Mr. Marple, of Ashbourne, but has lately been without any occupation. He went to bed on the previous night, with his wife, about nine o'clock, after locking the front door, as usual, and took the key with him upstairs, he having entertained a feeling of jealousy with regard to the old woman. On Tuesday morning, about three o'clock, loud screams of murder were heard in the house, and the daughter, who slept in an adjoining room, went to see what was the matter. On going to her I parents' bedroom, she saw by the light of a lamp which 011erenshaw always kept burning in his bedroom her father kneeling upon the body of her mother (who was lying upon the floor), and in the act of cutting her throat. The daughter rushed downstairs and jumped through the window. Her father followed her downstairs, and at the same time a man named Edwin Goodwin, a neighbour, came up to the window through which the woman had escaped, and saw 011erenshaw covered with blood, holding the razor in his hand. 011erenshaw asked who had gone through the window, and Goodwin then managed to get into the house. 011erenshaw then ran upstairs, and by the time Goodwin got to him, he had out his own throat. He asked Goodwin to stand out of the way while he went into his daughter's room to quiet her child; but Goodwin pushed 011erenshaw into the bedroom in which was lying the murdered woman, and locked the door. On opening the door again when assistance had arrived, a dreadful picture presented itself, the wife lying on the floor in a pool of blood, quite dead; the husband lying at her feet, bleeding profusely from a wound in the throat he had himself inflicted. Dr. Goodwin, of Ashboume, was soon in attendance, and pronounced life to be quite extinct in the case of the old woman; the wound in the husband's throat was stitched up, but he was at noon considered to be in a very precarious condition. There seems to be little doubt but that the murderer was the victim of insanity, for since the death of his former master, Mr. Marples, he has been a a patient at Mickleover Asylum, and was at the time of the tragedy an ont.patient of the Derby Infirmary, which he had visited on Monday. He has hitherto borne a very good character, and no traces of in' sanity were observable until after the death of Mr. Marples. It seems that fears were entertained of 011erenglow, for his razors vrcre always watched, gnd on Monday, when he visited Derby, it was found that the weapons were gone. 011erenshaw is at present unable to leave the house, and is left in charge of the police.  Thic result Of the London School Board election is that the supporters of the policy of the old Board have been successful in every division.
The Kenilworth Advertiser. — 1876-03-18 (Kenilworth, Warwickshire, England)

SHOCKING SUICIDE OF A COVENTRY  TRADESMAN.  Last evening an inquest was held at the Anchor Inn, West-orchard, by T. Dewes, Esq., coroner, on the body of George liennicg Thompson, a carpenter and window blind maker, carrying on business in West-orchard. Deceased was sixty years of age, and was wellknown in the town, having a considerable business connection among the tradespeople. Mrs. Thompson, the widow, identified the body as that of her husband. She said he had been very much drepressed in spirits of late owing to some pecuniary difficulty he was in. Yesterday morning he got up about five &clock, and went to business, leaving witness in bet She had his breakfast ready, and expected him home at eight o'clock, his usual time. Deceased did not come, and at a quarter past ten o'clock witness went to the shop to see where he had gone. A man was working below, and he said he had seen nothing of deceased that morning. Witness was going upstairs to see if everything was right, and the man preceded her. He went upstairs, and found what he said. Witness went back again. _ _ _  Miss N. R. Thompson, daughter of deceased, said her father had appeared very much depressed in spirits lately. Thomas Benton, postman, said he was delivering letters that morning, and saw deceased standing in his doorway between half-past seven and eight. He asked witness if he had a letter for him, and he replied in the negative. He did not then notice anything unusual in his manner, but he knew him very well, and thought he had been a little depressed in spirits within the last two months.  Joseph Clarke, a carpenter, in the employ of deceased, said he went to work at a quarter-past nine o'clock, and did not see deceased there. He went on with his work till Mrs. Thompson came, and he said he had seen nothing of bin.. At her request ,he went upstairs, and there saw deceased hanging with a window sash line around his neck, and suspended from a staple fastened in the beam. Witness said he was so terrified that he could not cat him down. Mrs. Thompson told him to go for a doctor, and he went for Dr. Egar Overton. It would be a quarter of an hoar before he got back. Dr. Overton out deceased down.  The Coroner expressed his surprise that he did not cut him down immediately he saw him. Dr. Edgar Overton spoke to being called by the last witness. He went immediately and cut him down. Deceased had been dead about an hoar, and the cause of death was strangulation The witness said he had known deceased for some time, and he was one of the last men he should have thought would have committed such a thing . _ . .  The jury returned a verdict of suicide while in a state of temporary insanity.
The Kenilworth Advertiser. — 1876-03-25 (Kenilworth, Warwickshire, England)

HENRY (HAPLIN V. WILLIAM CHAPLIN.-THE SHEEP WORRYING CASE AT FOLESIIILL.  This case was brought on two months ago and at the last moment, the defendant's sou, William Chaplin, swore that the dogs belonged to him, and not to his father. As defendant did not avail him. self of the new County, Court law, and give notice of the defence to the plaintiff, the case was dismissed pro ,fornut at the expense of the defendant. Accordingly, at the next Court day, the case was proceeded against the father, and in consequence of a technicality of the law, was again adjourned. The case was now brought forward on an amended principle, Mr. Wilks appearing for plaintiff, and Mr. Biel(ley, of Birmingham, for defendant, and a special jury to decide. The claim was for £6, the worth of three lambs, worried to death by defendant's dogs.—lt appears that on the day in question (6th of December last), two dogs of defendant entered complainant's field, and worried to death two lambs, and injured another to such an extent that it had to be destroyed next day. Several witnesses saw the dogs in the act of worrying the sheep, and hunted them. They (the dogs) tool the direction of defendant's house, but instead of going home, made their estape along the canal path. There one of the dogs was captured, and shot by some unknown person, several of the pursuers having guns in their possession. The other dog committed suicide by jumping into the canal and making away with itself. M this period of the proceedings defendant came up and owned the dogs. —The above facts were continued by Arthur Orton, George Lomas, and P.C. Wilson.—The jury returned a verdict for plaintiff, with the full amount claimed.  The John Dull hears that the Duke of Sutherland, who has arrived home from India, says that the proposed new Royal title is very popular there. Mr. George Honey, who appears to have been very well received in the West, will leave New York for England towards the end of June. Mr. Barry Sullivan is now in California, and he will also start for England on June 10th. Mr. &them returns in
The Kenilworth Advertiser. — 1876-03-25 (Kenilworth, Warwickshire, England)

ATHERSTONE.  SUICIDE OF A POLICE-INSPECTOR ALLEGED HARSH TREATMENT.  Mr. Thomas Bowes, Coroner, held an inquest on Saturday, at the Police Station, Atherstone, on the body of James Burgher, for eighteen years policeinspector in that town (and formerly of the Birmingham Police Force), who, on the previous day, destroyed himself by hanging. The evidence showed that the deceased received orders from the Chief-constable two days previously to remove on the following Monday to the Solihull district. The suddenness of this order, without any reason being assigned for it, caused him much grief, and greatly excited him. In a conversation which took place between the deceased and Mr. Fielders, assistant clerk to the Atherstoue Magistrates, upon the subject of the former' s removal, deceased said he had seen the Chief-constable only a few days prior to the receiving of the notice. He was hardly dealt with, and he was afraid he should never bear up against the trouble. The next morning, after getting up, deceased's wife left him in bed, and in her absence he got up, went into the attic, and hung himself to a beam, life being quite extinct when he was discovered. A verdict was returned to the effect that deceased destroyed himself by hanging, he being at the time in an unsound state of mind.  The funeral took place on Wednesday, at the Cemetery, Atherstone. The body was borne from deceased's residence to the grave by a detachment of police. Among those present were Superintendent Ward, of the Leicestershire Constabulary, Superintendent Gallawa:r (Aston), Superintendent Austin (Nuneaton), Superintendents Moth and Lapwerth (Kenilworth); Insneetor Welch (Solihull), who succeeds the deceasod at Atherstone, Inspector Walker (Sonthiun), Inspector Rawlings (Rinetonl, and Inspector Simmons (Co!WW1) ; four sergeants, and sixteen constables. Many of the tradesmen closed their shops during the funeral obsequies, and the private residents generally drew their blinds, as a mark of respect to the deceased Inspector. The Cemetery chapel was crowded, and a large concourse of people assembled in the burial ground and along the route the funeral corge would take. The greatest order and decorum prevailed from first to last, and all appeared to feel that they had lost a friend.  At the Athers tone Petty Sessions, on Tuesday, Mr. G. J. Sale, on behalf of the Bench, said: I and my brother magistrates cannot allow this occasion to pass by without expressing our regret at the death of Inspector Harsher. During a period of upwards of eighteen year he has discharged the responsible duties of his office conscientiously and diligently; he has shown moderation and firmness, and by his judicious conduct we think he has contributed much to the peace and order of he town. We feel that in him the county has lost • a valuable servant. We must also express our sympathy with Mrs. Hursher in her bereavement.
The Kenilworth Advertiser. — 1876-09-30 (Kenilworth, Warwickshire, England)

ANNUAL MEETING OF THE COVENTRY  PARK ASSOCIATION.  On Tuesday evening, the annual meeting of the Coventry Park Association was held at the Hare and Squirrel Inn, Cow-lane, Mr. James Browett presiding, and there was a laces number of members were present. An excellent dinner was laid upon the table by the landlord, Mr. Broom, and thoroughly enjoyed. After the cloth was cleared, the Chairman gave the toast of "The Queen," which was followed by that of "The Prince and Princess of Wales."—Mr. J. Blundell, the secretary, read the 29th report of the Association for the past year as follows . -There were five depredations committed during the year, all of which were dealt with by the magistrates. The committee were happy to report that the fruit and flower show held on the 24th July last was a complete success, and, after voting £6 193.50. to the general fund of the association, they have invested the sum of £55 in the Coventry Savings Bank as a nucleus for the show in 1877. The committee also mentioned the resignation and death of the late policeman, and the appointment of Edward Stanton, of the City Police Force, to the post. A collection has been commenced on behalf of the widow of William Bevins, of which Mr. Brown was treasurer. The balance carried forward was ss. 10d.—The following members were elected to fill the vacancies on the committee: Messrs. A. Smith, J. Browett, G. Lloyd, Butler, and J. Kendrick.—On the question of making a collection on behalf of the widow of the late policeman, Mr. Lloyd proposed that a small committee be appointed to canvas the members of the association on behalf of subscriptions.—This was seconded by Mr. W. Whitehead and carried, and Dr. Millerehip and Messrs. Browett and Hough were appointed.—On the motion of Mr. J. Kenkrick, Messrs. T. Rickard and J. Baker were elected auditors.—Several suggestions were put forth as to the neat show, but the matter was left in the hands of the committee.—The remainder of the evening was spent in a pleasant manner, several members introducing their vocal power with good effect.  A balloon, which will eontain aoacommodation for fifty persons, is to be constructed for the Paris Universal Exhibition of le7B. Prince Leopold is prevented by indisposition from visiting Mr. Skew, of Pitlour, Fileshire, as intended, but hopes to be present at the meeting of St. Andrews Gof Club.  William ii.ll-e-o-p-p,-the member of the &bin Hood flie Volunteer Corp. who shot limaelf at Nottingham, haii died m great agony. He wee twenty-two years of age, and in respectable circumstantiate, and the mime of his aoratuitting suicide was • quarrel with his sweetheart.