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Alston Herald, and East Cumberland Advertiser. — 1875-08-28 (Alston, Cumbria, England)

SUICIDE AND LIFE ADSURENCE.—An able ristane of a little treatise by Dr. Eaogninghams, manager of a German life offiee,—the Gott a,—es to the practice of insurance oompaniea with reference to suicide, has recently been published. The German physicians who have made lunaoy their speoial study, have given it as their opinion that suicide is entirel the result of a diseased mind. This would imply that a man manot be said to commit ettioide if insane. Some of the German companies, however, repudiate claim 4 under suicide, even when the &soured is proved insane; mud generally speaktug, the Eaglish offices appear to be more liberal in their practice hereby than the German companies. But has not the risk of suicide been too loug the bugbear of our English life offices? It has been justly pointed oat that suicides on the Continent are more frequent than in this country. Suicides are abkorent to the English mind, and in this country at least, it may be safely held that suicide is always the result of a diseased mina. In 1868 a new rule,freeing policiea from the risk of being vitiated by suicide, was brought into force by the Mutual Life Assurance Society, of King-street, Cheapside, London. The experience of the society as to suicide, over five periods of six years each, is as follows :  1844-1849 ... Percentage of suicide to claims 11 1850-1815 19 " 10 1858-1861 ... )) " 2.3 18621867..:: 11 11. 1886—'1873 .. " It will be observed th.at the year 1888 is the commencement of the new regulations, and the figures are somewhat remarkable. It would be ed)surd to suppose the new rule prevented saieide ; yet it is clear that it has not stimulated it as a practice. The experienoe of the Mutual I.4UP 1111101.14 that the risk of an Englishman taking away hie own life in order that his family may reap the benefit a his assurance-money irte been hitherto overestimated, and that it is, in fact, so small as to be inappreciable. It looks, therefore, as if every Englialh life offiee might issue its policies at once tree from any con. dition whatever 88 to ssieide. Who can tell how maoh life assurance may have been hiudered by this obsolete vestige of a barbarous prejadiee. A cian "knows what he is, bat not what he shall be ;" and if he is haunted by an apprehension that under some dreadrul weight of misery and misfortune he might one day loAo the balance of reason, what is more 'likely to deter him from assuring his life than the stringent conditions as to suicide of some of our older eoeieti,.e ? However this may be, the liberality of the liutual is worthy of notice and imitation.
Alston Herald, and East Cumberland Advertiser. — 1875-04-24 (Alston, Cumbria, England)

ALIVE.—A' fatal a7cideut occurred on Tuesday morning on the new railway in course of construction at Kimblesworth, a small village about three miles from the city of Durham. 'Thomas Malone, 24 years of age, a labourer, was engaged excavating on the side of the railway. He had penetrated some distance into the soil, when suddenly tho earth abode gave way in such force and quantity that the young man was instantly buried in a considerable depth of soil. The fall speedily brought to the spot , a number of fellow workmen, who set to work to remove the soil. Considering the quantity that had fallen the work of removal was speedily accomplished. only; however, to reveal the sad fact that Malone was dead. Deceased was unmarried.  MYSTERIOUS SUICIDE AT Jettitow.—On Tuesday morning, Mr J. P. Wilson, manager of Messrs Palmer and Co's shipyard, Jarrow, and family were horrified to find that one of their domestics, namea. Catherine Owen, 30, a Welsh woman, had hung herself in the scullery. The num-maid was the first who made the discovery, and she ran screaming to her mistress. Mr Wilson and his brother-in-law, Mr A. Smith, cut Cie body down. It was quite stiff, and Dr Whanion t said it had been dead five hours.—At the inquest, held on Tuesday evening, before Mr Coroner Grallam, Mr Wilson said there was nothing at all unusual with deceased on Monday night. She was a faithful servant, and strictly moral. She had tied a towel over her face before she committed the rash act, as it was there when she was found.—The jury returned a verdict that deceased hung herself whilst in au unsound state of mind.  ATTEMPEED MURDER BY A MILITIAMAIi.—An attempt to murder oocarred on Saturday night at Stafford, where between two and three hundred recruits of the 2nd Staffordshire Militia have assembled. A number of them who were billetted at a public-house known as The Jolly Crafts were having supper, when two, named John Mulligan. aged 16, of Brain Street, Hanley, and John Kilburn, quarrelled respecting a herring. The landlord order- • ed them all to bed, but Mulligan said he wished first to go into the cleaning room. He did so, and returned with his bayonet, with whioh he rea upstairs. Kilburn WM just getting into bed, when Mulligan plunged the bayonet into his left breast below the heart. The injured man was removed to the militia hospital, where he remains in a precarious state. Mulligan is in custody on a charge of attempting to murder.  .f  fo_etry.
Alston Herald, and East Cumberland Advertiser. — 1875-05-01 (Alston, Cumbria, England)

SATURDAY, MAY 1.  SHOCKING SUICIDE AT WHITLOW, NEAR ALSTON.  On Sunday evening, the 25th ult., a young woman of the name of Sarah Parmley, about 36 years of age, who lived alone in a small cottage at Whitlow, near Alston, put an end to her existence by cutting her throat with a razor. Previous to committing the rash act, which was about seven u'clock in the evening, deceased had sent for a neighbouring woman, who on arriving at deceased's house found her absent, bat was horrified on looking into the parlour to find her weltering in a pool of blood. The woman giving the alarm, the farmer at Whitlow and other neighbours were soon upon the scene of the shocking tragedy, and a medical man was sent for, whose services, however, were not required as deoeased had not been heard to speak, but only uttered a faint moan, life being extinct before he arrived. The deceased was an orphan, and was brought up by and lived in the cottage where she terminated her existence with her uncle, Thomas White, for whom she othciat ed as housekeeper, and who died only a short time before. She had pre. vionsly been observed to be in a desponding state of mind brought on by the grief occasioned by the death of her uncle. The difficulty of procuring the necessaries of life and other causes, though the thought can scarcely be entertained that she died for want, as a few pounds of cash were found in the house after her death. An incinest on the body of deceased was held at the Castle Inn, Birkhaugh, on the 27th ult., before Mr Green, deputy coroner for South Northumberland. Evidence, proving the facts stated above, having been given, the jury returned a verdict that the deceased committed suicide renile in a temporary state of insanity.
Alston Herald, and East Cumberland Advertiser. — 1875-03-06 (Alston, Cumbria, England)

DOUBLE MURDER AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.  On Saturday morning a fearful tragedy was perpetrated in a cottage, near Arbroath, occupied by David Robb, cattleman, his wife, and six children David rose to go to the farm on which he is employed about half-past five o'clock. When he left his bed he heard some one close the cottage door. He asked who it was, but got no answer. On going to the kitchen in which was a bed on which his wife slept, with the two youngest children, both girls, one aged 3 years and the other two months, he observed that Mrs Robb was out. He went in search of her, and found her standing up to the waist in a burn which ran close past the cottage. Having taken her oat of the stream he had her removed to the cottage, and with the assistance of some neighbours her wet clothes were taken off, and she was put into the bed from which her husband had risen, so that the infants with whom she had slept might not be disturbed. Some time after the children were seen, and then the terrible nature of the tragedy was die closed. Both infants were found with their throats cut from ear to ear, a razor being found at the back of the bed. It is supposed that the fatal wounds had been inflicted when the infants were sound asleep, as their faces were placid, and there was no indication that either of them had a struggle. Both were stiff and cold, and it seemed as if they had been dead long before they were discovered. Mrs Robb had also made an attempt to cut her own throat, and the wound is so serious that she is not expected to recover. It is surmised that Mrs Robb had first cut the childrens' throats and then applied the razor to her own, and then had left the cottage for the purpose of drowning herself in the burn. No explanation of Mrs Robb's conduct can be given. The husband and wife have always lived happily together. Mrs Robb is 37 years, of weakly constitution, and subject to fits of agitation and excitement. The matter is being investigated by the authorities, but ulterior proceedings will depend upon the recovery of Mrs Robb.
Alston Herald, and East Cumberland Advertiser. — 1875-01-23 (Alston, Cumbria, England)

LONGEVITY IN THE SOCIETY OF FBIENDS.—From the carefully-kept records of the Society of Friends, it appears that, in the year ending in 1874, in Great Britain and Ireland, 299 Quakers died. Of this number, only 23 died below the age of five years; 6 died between the ages of 5 and 10; 6 between 10 and 15 ; 8 from 15 to 20; 21 between 20 and 30; 12 between 30 and 40; 10 between 40 and 50; 34 between 50 and 60; 62 between 60 and 70; 76 between 70 and 80 ; 31 between 80 and 90; and 5 above 90 years of age. The total is composed of 125 males and 174 females; and is slightly below the average of late years. The contrast between the high average of life—above 55 years—and low infantile mortality, of the members and the public' at large, is rather startling. A SAD Picrum—On the Bth of this month E. P. Christy, the original negro minstrel, attempted to commit suicide by jumping out of the second storey window of his residence, at New York. His history is a singular one. He made the first great success of the African opera. He was from Buffalo—a rough in that place, with a good voice; he got up a company of singers. He picked up a buy named George, to whom he gave his name, and he made it famous as George Christy. Succeeding BO well in Buffalo, Ned Christy determined to try a larger field, and came to New York. Here he was almost drowned with success. Crowds throng ,c 1 his place nightly, and hundreds were turned away beoanse there was no room. He coined money, and was enabled to sport diamond breastpins and rings worth 5,C00 dols. Women fell in love with him. lie was the rage. He bought houses—owned John Brougham's theatre —kept race horses—bought heavily in stocks—gave magnificent feeds—and this continuA for year. ' When the war broke out, be took it into his head that the rebels would land into the city, capture it, and deprive him of his property, in consequence of his endeavours to make the negro character of consequence. The result has been very distressing. In the midst of affluence, he thought of qhothing but his probable poverty, and he who has dktused millions to be convulsed with laughter, sat by his own fireside, day after day, a picture of the deepest woe. —Letter from New York.
Alston Herald, and East Cumberland Advertiser. — 1877-05-19 (Alston, Cumbria, England)

MURDER TRIAL IN FRANCE.  The Paris correspondent of the 7 iflleB telegraphs :—The trial of Victor Moyaux was Concluded on Tuesday. Eacept as to the motives for the murder, the facts were so clear as to be admitted by the prisoner. On the evening of the 9th January, he went to Bagneux, a village just outside Paris, took his little girl, four years of age, from the family who had charge of her, and threw her into a well, expecting her to be killed on the spot. The well was dry, however, and the carcase of a dog broke the fall. Moyanx remained there, listening to her cries till daylight, and then, fearing apprehension, decamped. The victim's groans were afterwards heard by a passer by, and she was taken out, but died in a few hours. Moyanx evaded the police, and on the 16th of February again went to Bagneux, and attempted to murder his wife in her father's house but she locked herself in the bed room, and, on his forcing the door, leaped from the window. Firing at those who sought to arrest him, Moyaux left, and was not arrested till the 9th of March, when he was recognised as he was walking down one of the streets of Paris. He alleged that he killed the child to prevent his wife from recovering her, and that he meant to commit suicide ; but the evidence pointed to the conclusion that a woman with whom he had been cohabiting had refused to be troubled with the , child, that his funds were exhausted, and that he , was afraid of his wife denouncing some petty forgeries by which he had been supporting himself. It also appeared that he connived at his wife's intimacy with another man. A majority of the , jury discovered extenuating circumstances, and Moyattx, who is 30 years of age, and a wheelwright by by trade, was sentenced to hard labour . for life.  A remarkable case of attempted suicide has been heard at the Lambeth Police Oman. A man wee found suspended by a handkerchief which was tied round his neck, to the knocker of the door of a house. - •  At the High Court of Justiciary in Edinburgh, James Maedonald has been charged with the murder of a fellow prisoner named Stevenson, by kicking him while they were confined in Edinburgh palm cells on the 30th March last. After several witnesses had been examined the prisoner confessed to being guilty of culpable homicide, and he was sentenced to Mae months' linprisenment with hard labour. EmBIZZLIKIINT BY •
Alston Herald, and East Cumberland Advertiser. — 1877-11-10 (Alston, Cumbria, England)

SUICIDE OF A FORGAR FBOM • STICAMEIL—On the arrival of the steamer Bear at Glasgow from London. derry, it was reported that a pametiger named Robert Matthew had committed suicide by jumping overboard while rounding the till of Cantyre. In the spring of Ms year Matthew committed • forgery in Aberdeenshire, involving about £5,000, with which he ab-conded to Canada. a here he was apprehended some weeks ago. A pacinge was taken home in an Allan Line steamer to Movville, and from thenoe to Grei nook by the steamer Bear. About one o'clock on Tuesday morning, while rounding the Mull, the prisoner complained M being sick, and was taken on deck in charge of • countable, who asked to go below and bring up glass of brandy as he felt ill. The officer complied with his reqnest. Tassing advantage of his nbeenoe Matthew jumped over. board and was drawned.  A YOUNG BElDEOllooll.—According to the Homeward Mail, agitation is observable in the public mind of Mediu became Lord Lytton has given his unction to the Maharajah of Mysore taking unto luniself a wife. The Maharajah is a nem boy, not quite 15, and perhaps they are not far wrong who my that the Government of India is incioemstent when it will not allow the Maharajah to rule his kingdom until be is 18, but allows him to attempt • mush more difficult task, namely that of rAing • wife. One paper indignantly says that surely Lord Lyton would give • son of his who seriously wanted to marry at 15 • sound drubbing and send him to school. This may be quite true, but nevertheless the Vioeroy's critic ought to remember that he is dealing not with hie own son, but with • native, whose countrymen hold very original view* on the subject of matrimony.
Alston Herald, and East Cumberland Advertiser. — 1877-04-14 (Alston, Cumbria, England)

CHILD STEALLNG.  At the Maidstone Quarter Sessions on Saturday, before Mr R. H. B. hiarsham, the Recorder, a woman giving the name of Martha Green, was indicted for stealing a child, aged four years. The prisoner a month ago was discharged from Winchester gaol, where she had been twice imprisoned, and went direot to an address in the Borough, which had been given to her by another conifict, formerly, it was stated, an officer's wife in good position. Here she represented herself to be the chief warder of the female prison, gave messages from the convict, whose daughters the family had befriended, and obtained a loan of money and several articles of dress. She then proceeded to Messrs Tarn's establishment, Newington Causeway. and ordered goods to the nmount of £6O, subsequently giving to a similar firm to a firm in Woolgich. At Woolwich she decoyed away and robbed • child, and in the present case she had taken a child from Maidstone to Chatham, pawned its boots, and left it barefooted in an eating house. She was sentenced to seven years' penal servitude.  A young woman, dressed in light clothes, cornmitted suicide at an early hour on Tuesday morning by throwing herself into the Thames from the Victoria Embankment.  Owing, it is believed, to the heavy rain, a new shaft, which was in course of erection at Messrs Merix's Brewery, Tottenham Court Road, London, fell to the ground on Tuesday morning. A number of men were buried beneath the ruins, and on being extricated were conveyed to the Middlesex and University College hospital,. "Joann! AND :HDI Burmese." —On Monday several bummonses were heard in the Sheffield Police Court on Monday in reference to the production in unlicensed premises, of a sacred drama, entitled "Joseph and his Brethren," which has been performed in that and other towns." The stipendifry magistrate (Yr Welby) decided that it was a stage play, and could not, therefore, be performed without a licence. It was stated that the Lord Chamber. lain refused to give the drama his sanotion, on the ground that it might lead to the introduction of sacred subjecte into ordinary playhouses. Nominal penalties were imposed upon those who caused and permitted the pefornialtee.
Alston Herald, and East Cumberland Advertiser. — 1877-03-24 (Alston, Cumbria, England)

SUICIDE OF A NEWCA.STLE COM MISSION- AGZNT.  An inia,st sru, on Tuesday evening, hold by I Mr J. T. Hoyle, coroner, at the house of Mr Caker, New Field House luu, Portland Road, Newcastle, on the body of Oharlea Turner, 31 years of age. The deceased was a commission agent, and -resided at 202, Portland Road. It appeared from the evidence that, a week put Sunday morning, he left his home to go to the poet- office to get his letters, and never returned. On the Monday following he sent his wife a note by a railway porter, stating that he had been in the wirt't, aad was then going to Sunderland, and she hard no more of him until Monday last, when abe received a telegram, stating that he was lying at the Golden Lion Hotel, South Shields; and she had to send and get him brought away hual2. She went down to the hotel with a brother, and found him lying, in bed very ill from the effects of drink. They got him up and dressed, and brought him home at five o'clock. He was put to bed, and about a quarter to nine o'clock on Tuesday morning his wife took a cup of tea and some tout to him. She then went down stairs into a front room where his brdther was. About five minutes afterwards she heard the report of a pistol, and on going upstairs found him lying in bed bleeding from a wound in the side, and a five-chambered revolver lying beside him. She immediately sent for a doctor, but the deceased died about five - minutes after.  lie had been drinking heavily for some time past, and several times. whilst suffering from delirium tremens, had threatened to do away with himself. The verdict of the jury was, "That the deceased died from injuries inflicted by himself, by a pistol shot, while of unsound mind, from the effects of excessive drinking."  The first rail of the Manchester and Salford tram. ways has been laid by the mayor. A trade oircular calls attention to the rapid detains in the consumptien of sherry in ngland. A large fossil tree. &boat 27 feet loss, ha* bean found in the Kelvinside Quarries, listyhill RNA, Glasgow. The death is announced of M. &oinked!, Professor of Russian History in Bt. Petersbargh University. yoong shark has been caught two or three miles of Berwick by fishermen.  Mr Pettie, R L., will exhibit at the forthcoming Royal Academy exhibition a powerfully painted picture entitled "The Duel." . .  • THE Late
Alston Herald, and East Cumberland Advertiser. — 1877-06-23 (Alston, Cumbria, England)

MURDER AND SUICIDE IN BRADFORD.  Late on Monday evening, a young man named John Outhwaite, twenty-eight years old, living in Bowling Back Lane, Bradford, murdered his sweetheart, a girl named Ruth Ingham, made a brutal assault on his father, and afterwards committed suicide. Outhwaite is of very respectable parentage, and was master tinner, carrying on business at 409, Bowling Bask Lane. For eight years he has paid attentions Ruth Ingham a power loom weaver, residing at Lilac Grove Street, and they have during that time passed as sweethearts. Since Cluistmas he has been addicted to drink to an extent that she did not like, and she accordingly told him she could not think of martying him unless he mended his ways. For the past three weeks they had been on unfriendly terms in consequence of this; but on Monday evening he sent for her to a Bible class at St Mark's school, which she regularly attended. She at once went to his father's house where she found him and his faster. His sister afterwards left them by themselves. The father had gone out for a walk and returned in a short time. He was just hanging up his hat on the rail, when he was struck a heavy blow by some unseen person. He ran into the back yard where he .was followed by his son, who struck him two more blows with a poker. This was taken from him by a person who was passing, and Outhwaite the younger than went back into the house. The father was carried into a neighbour's house, and a docter who was sent for sewed the wounds up. Two men then went to see what had become of the son, and after searching the house they found him and his sweetheart lying dead in pools of blood at the bottom of the steps leading to the workshop, which is a sort of a cellar. They were lying close together face upwards, and with their feet to the steps. He held in his hand a large carving knife, with which he had cut his throat from ear to ear. The right aide of her head was battered in. No definite reason has been assigned for the murder, but it is thought he was led to do it because she did not so warmly receive his advances as she had been wont to do. An inquest was afterwards held, when the jury found that Outhwite had wilfully murdered Ingham, and that he had subsequently committed suicide, while in a state of temporaly insanity.