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The Weekly Gazette for Middlesbrough, Stockton, Hartlepool and Cleveland District. — 1879-11-01 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

MEMORIAL TO HOWLAND HILL.—A number of City merchants and others met at the Cannon street Hotel, London, on Tuesday afternoon, under the presidency of Mr S. Morley, 21. P., to advance the project of raising a memorial to Sir Rowland Hill. It was resolved that a national subscription be raised. An executive committee was elected, and the receipt, within a short time, of six hundred pounds was announced. The Daily News says no comfort can be gleaped from the past week's receipts of national revenue, the payments into the Treasury from all sources falling short of the corresponding period last year by £lO,OOO The respective totals were £1,457,000 and £1,467,000 from the Excise, which might have been reasonably supposed, with trade revival, to have produced better results. The receipts have been only £703,000, compared with £745,000 last year, which is 6 per cent. less than at a time when sanguine views were not so strongly enunciated. SHOCKING ACCIDENT TO A SomiumnoLisr.—At the Sedgley Workhouse, early oa. Tuesday morning, an inmate named CaroMbe Tomlinson, aged seventy-eight years, got to the ventilator of a window, which is a distance of eight feet from the floor, and jumped through. She fell in all about eight yards, but was checked in the fall by lodging on a detached building. She is seriously injured. It is supposed she left her bed when asleep. SUICIDE THROUGH DISAPPOINTED Lovn.—A sad suicide has occurred near Bolton. Miss Alice Glover, 19, the daughter of a contractor, quarrelled with her sweetheart on Sunday, and after attempting in his presence to throw herself into the lake in Bolton Public Park, drowned herself in a mill reservoir. Her body was afterwards recovered and identified on Sunday. Banns for the marriage of the deceased and her sweetheart were to have been published on Sunday.
The Weekly Gazette for Middlesbrough, Stockton, Hartlepool and Cleveland District. — 1879-11-01 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

THE SUICIDE AT SALTBURN.—Last Saturday afternoon an inquest was held at the house of Mr Temple, the Ship Inn, Old Saltblue, by Mr Arthur Budrannan, District Coroner, on view of the body of Christiana Bell, 64 years of age. who was found drowned at Saltburn-by-the-Sea on Thursday night.— Mr Bell, a retired grocer, living at North Ormesby, husband of the deceased, and Mary Elizabeth Best, domestic servant with the family, stated that deceased had had a serious illness three and a half years ago, and had since been in an enfeebled state of health and lowness of spirits. Deceased, however, was of a peaceful disposition, and had not, to their knowledge, met with anything likely to lead her to commit suicide. Between one and two o'clock on Wednesday afternoon Bile left home, apparently in a more cheerful mood than usual, saying she wanted some drapery, and would call on a niece living in Middlesbrough and they would go shopping together.—George Lazenby, toll collector in the employ of the Saltburn-bythe-Sea Pier Company, deposed to admitting the deceased on to the pier about three o'clock on Wednesday aftprnoon, when he noticed she had a wild appearance. About four o'clock a gentleman named Frankland, who had gone on to thq, pier some time after the deceased, returned and told him of a shawl, satchel, and umbrella being on a seat and no person was on the pier. Search was made for the body, which was found on Thursday night, attached by means of the dress to one of the low cross bars between the piles supporting the pier. He did not think she could have fallen from the pier acJidentedly.—The jury returned a verdict to the effect that "The deceased had committed suicide by drowning whilst in an wound state of mind."  An outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease has occurred at Mr Maclaren's farm at Offerton, near Pensher, but, fortunately; it is confined to a few young heifers, which were purchased at Newcastle on the 21st ult.
The Weekly Gazette for Middlesbrough, Stockton, Hartlepool and Cleveland District. — 1879-09-20 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

DETERMINED SUICIDE IN THE  TEES.  On Friday week a middle-aged man named Georgs Bates committed suicide in the Tees between Stockton and Newport. It appears that the deceased (who formerly kept a public-house at Bank Top, but has latterly lived in Middlesbrough) was a passenger by the Royal Charlie steamboat from the Stockton Ferry Landing. As this was the 7-45 trip of the boat, she did not go farther down the river than Newport. The deceased, however, did not land there; and on the boat leaving for the return journey to Stockton the deceased jumped overboard. He was rescued, however, in the course of a few minutes and brought on to Stockton, where he was taken to the Police Station. The assistance of Dr. Oliver was promptly obtained, and every effort was used in the hope of bringing about the recovery of the unfortunate fellow. He died, however, at one o'clock last Saturday morning from the effects of the drenching he had received. On Saturday afternoon Mr Coroner Settle held an enquiry at the Stockton Borough Police Court into the circumstances attending the death of George Bates. The evidence showed that the deceased went from Stockton to Newport by the ferryboat Royal Charlie at a quarter to eight on the evening named. He re-entered the boat at Newport, and when about 300 yards on the way to Stockton be jumped over the side of the vessel. The 'engines of the boat were immediately reversed, and deceased was picked. up in the coarse of about ten minutes. On arrival at Stockton he was conveyed to the Police Station, where Dr. Oliver attended him. Notwithstanding the efforts of the doctor and the police, the unfortunate man expired about one o'clock.—A son of the deceased was called t give evidence in riference to the state of the deceased's mind of late. Deceased was by profession an engine and boiler inspector. Since his wife's death he had been somewhat irregular in his habits, and his son believed that drink had affected his father's mind.—The jury returned a verdict of " Suicide whilst temporarily insane."
The Weekly Gazette for Middlesbrough, Stockton, Hartlepool and Cleveland District. — 1879-01-11 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

ROMAN TIC SUICIDE.  At half-past four on Christmas morning (says a correspondent writing from Rome), Doctor Alessandra Dotorini committed suicide under romantic circumstances. He was a patriot and served in the revolutionary a:my as surgeon, and was highly esteemed. He established himself in Rome upon the entry of the Italians in 1870, and frequented fashionable society, living from hand to mouth, and occasionally receiving`pecuniary help from a rioh uncle in Perugia. Some time ago he conceived a tender passion for a lid , whom, owing to his position, he could not marry; and to cure himself of his amatory complaint took a voyage to the Indies. He returned to Rome, and was sent as an inspector of recruits to Sardinia, where he again fell in love. In the public promenade at Oristane he met the Countess Spauo, a widow with one child. The first day they looked at each other, the second day they exchanged salutations, and on the third day they shook hands and entered into mutual explanations, It was a case of love at first sight, and as both were free they decided to marry. The ensanoured couple, from some cause or other, thought Rome a more convenient place for their nuptials, and to Rome they came, travelling in a separate compartment of a first-class carriage. On their arrival at the station at Rome the Countess was the first to alight, and when she did so she found herself fair° to fac., with her uncle, an official in the Department of Grace and Justice. Behind the uncle stood six policemen. A few lively words passed between the uncle and the doctor, and then the niece, Countess Spano, turned, with an unaccountable coolness, to the doctor, and in brief terms informed him that what had passed was past, and that henceforth there would be nothing between them in common. The unfortunate doctor, thus heartlessly turned adrift by the fair widow, was utterly astounded at the inconsistency of the sex, and after trying to see one or two friends, repaired to a hoarding-house where he was in the habit of lodging, and poured the recital of his grids into the ear of his landlady. He then shut himself up in his bedroom, and wrote the following letter to the countess : "Countess Angiola, you may have thought that I extorted from you in a moment of weakness the promise which you are not willing to keep. I now restore to you your freedom without limit or reservation. You must know that you have broken my heart, destroyed my future, and compromised me with my friends. Yet I pardon you all this. When you receive this letter you may be quite certain that I cannot give you further annoyance. (Signed),
The Weekly Gazette for Middlesbrough, Stockton, Hartlepool and Cleveland District. — 1879-08-16 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

CHARGE AGAINST A FISHMONGER AT SOUTH STOUTON.  On Monday morning Mr ;John Foster, wholesale fishmonger, carrying on business in Mandele-road, South Stockton, appeared before the local Magistrates on a charge of selling eighteen fish which were unfit for human food. The case was one of considerable importance, inasmuch as the Bench had the power to impose a penalty of £360 if the charge had been proved. Mr Smith (from the office of Messrs Dodds and Co.) appeared to prosecute, and Mr Draper represented the defendant. On Tuesday, August sth, Mrs Woodhall, who keeps a general shop in Lyndhurst. street, purchased nine pennyworth of kippered herrings at the defendant's shop. The fish, however,. were afterwards found to be putrid and utterly unfit to be eaten. Mrs Woodhall took the fish back to the defendant's shop, and requested him:to take them back and return her the money she had paid for them. The defendant then denied that the woman bought the :fish at his shop, and refused to return the money. Mrs Woodhall thereupon took the fish to Mr Drake, who brought them under the notice of Mr Wm. Whitwell, J.P., and had the fish condemned as" unfit for the food of man." The fish had since been destroyed.—For the defence Mr Draper called Walter Scarlett and Edward Martin, both in the employ of the defendant. Both men swore most positively there were no kippers in the defendant's shop either on Monday or Tuesday, the 4th or sth of August; and Scarlett (who was in the shop on these two days) said that the woman certainly did not enter the shop on either day.—Mrs Woodhall, in cross-examination, admitted that she had often bought kippered herrings from men who came round to serve the little retail shops. —The Bench thought that Mrs Woodhall might perhaps have made a mistake as to where she obtained the herrings which proved to be bad, and they therefore gave he defendant the benefit of the doubt by dismissing the case.  On Tuesday a German clerk to a firm wine merchants in the city was found in the Thames, near Greenwich. He is supposed to have committed suicide in consequence of having been rejected by a young lady to whom he had proposed marriage.
The Weekly Gazette for Middlesbrough, Stockton, Hartlepool and Cleveland District. — 1879-03-15 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

SHOCKING SUICIDE OF A SCARBOROUGH LADY.  On Friday the import of firearms was heard proceeding from a third-class waiting. room at the St. Pancras Station, London. Several of the officials and a number of passengers rushed in to ascertain the cause, and a well-dressed female was seen lying on the floor with a revolver by her side. Medical aid was at once procured, and on being examined it was found that she was quite dead. She had placed the muzzle of the revolver behind her right ear, aad there was a corresponding wound on the other side, showing that the bullet had passed completely through the head. The deceased appeared to be a very handsome woman, about 35 years of age, and was elegantly dressed, with money and jewellery upon her person, and from documents found upon her it was deemed advisable to telegraph to Scarborough. In the meantime the body was conveyed to the St. Pancras mortuary. In the evening two gentlemen arrived there, and one of them at once identified her as his wife Mrs Blanche Hudson, wife of Harrington Hudson, Esq., of Westbourne Villa, Scarborough. Mr Hudson was 80 shocked and ex. cited at the sad occurrence that he was unable to give any narrative of the circumstances under which she came to London, but it is believed she was at the station with ilieo object of returning home with tith train ut to start.  ithiquest on Mrs Blanche Harrison HadsMl7-w.fro shot herself in the waiting-ream of St. Pancros Railway Terminus, was opened on Monday.—The husband of deceased stated that she left home on January 27th on a visit to her relatives. There was no difference between them, but she was in the habit of going sway on visits and writing to her children instead of to witness. He believed she lwas of unsound mind.—Mr Wm. Clough, banker, of York, deceased's brother, stated that deceased had been visiting him in Northamptonshire, ard left on Thursday morning to see her legal adviser, Mr Brooks, in reference to proceedings for separation from her husband and for custody of her children. There was no evidenN3 as to what occurred between her leaving and the time she was found dead.—Mr Brooks, solicitor, said he was consulted by deceased on the 27th ult. She appeared to have grounds for the prticeedings. She produced a pistol, and sat( she would destroy herself rather than go back ta her husband. Two letters left by deceased were read.—The jury found that deceased was of unsound mind, being influenced by the unhappy relotions with her husband, whom they censured for the manner in which he gave his evidence.  The New York Herald predicts a atorna between the 16th and 18th inst.
The Weekly Gazette for Middlesbrough, Stockton, Hartlepool and Cleveland District. — 1879-03-15 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

EXTRAORDINARY DEFENCE OF SUICIDE.  At Liverix ,I, on Saturday, an inquest was held on tne body of Elizabeth Drusilla Roberts, aged 21, daughter of a shipwright. On Thuisday evening the deceased went into the bar parlour of a public-house and called for a glass of port wine and a glass of water in separate tumblers. She was observed placing a white powder in the water, and Martha Thompson, who served her, remarked, "I hope you are not going to poison yourself." She laughed and replied, " No, nor any other person." She drank the mixture, which Mrs Thompso supposed to be a seidlitz powder. The '-ot e was labelled" Carbolic Acid." It appeared that after leaving the public-house the deceased went to a friend's house, where she became insensible and died the same evening. —The mother stated that the deceased had recently been in service at Norwich, and in February she received a letter from her stating that she was not comfortable, but she gave no intimation about leaving the place. In a letter addressed to a friend which was upon the deceased she -wrote:—' dare say you will be surprised when you rota this, and find lam no more numbered among the 14•-•ir but with the dead. Perhaps you will think /!9ave been very harsh in taking away my owA., life, but I have long made up my mind to do so, as I perfer to die rather than live, as life to me is not worth living for, and I have come to this conclusi n that I would rather meet my God, who is just and good and kind, who forgave Peace—and I really think He did' foigive that man ; I do not believe that any one could tell a lie knowing all we know, that he would meet the righteous Judge so soon— will in his goodness and merey forgive me." The jury returned a verdict to the effect that the ;deceased committed suicide under temporary mental derangement. •
The Weekly Gazette for Middlesbrough, Stockton, Hartlepool and Cleveland District. — 1879-02-08 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.  The Timss says—The anxieties of Peace's long battle against the world of honest men have been too much for his rugged foroe and , brutal endurance. Even had the charge of murder been never brought home to him he must have felt, when he was carried a prisoner to Sheffield, that the game was up. His mad leap from the train within sight of his former home at Darnall was not a foiled effort to escape, but a deliberate attempt at suicide; a miserable confession in very deed of the guilt and failure which the sentence of death has solemnly ratified. The Daily News says there will be no sense of dissatisfaction with the verdict of the jury, and if the sentence of death is ever to be pronounced without hesitation, this is probably the kind of case in which such confidence might be felt. The Daily Telegraph telegram says—There is nothing in the case so strange as the grotesquely hideous character of the criminal himself, who presents a combination of passion, craft, cruelty, greed, spite, and audacity such as is rarely to be found in any single human being. Charles Peace, in fact, can hardly be milled a man at all; he is a fiend, a monster, a foul blot upon the page of nature. Surely, even the most vehement opponent or capital punishment cannot object to the visitation of the death penalty on 60 unmitigated a villain.  The Standard says—Peace, the burglar and m orderer, was, a few hours ago, as interacting a character as was once the Wapping butcher who claimed the Tichborne estates. It would be cruel to say more than is absolutely necessary of a man so  miserable as to be lying under the sentence of death. But it sto be hoped that with his conviction the unwholesome interest which Peace has excited will pass away, and the Banner Cross murder will soon become as forgotten as any otherof those crimes with which the law is fro.n day to day called upon to deal. Dead already in the eye of the law, the wretched man will, it is hoped, cease to be any longer, for the few brief hours that are left him, an object of idle conjecture, ignorant gossip, and depraved ouriosity.
The Weekly Gazette for Middlesbrough, Stockton, Hartlepool and Cleveland District. — 1883-01-06 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

DISAPPEARANCE OF A BLUE RIBBON ARMY LEADER.  - EXTRAORDINARY STORY. A sensation has been caused in Leicester by the sudden thsappearance,and subsequent attempted suicide, of a "converted clown" named ered Eugenie, who has taken a most prominent part in the Blue Ribbon Army movement all over the country,but especially in the Midland and Northern counties. The person in question had announced a free Chnstnias breakfast for LOCO tramps and destitute persons at the Temperance Hall, Leicester, at his own expense. By some means, however, considerable subscriptions were raised, but when the morning announced arrived the " converted clown' could not be found, neither could he be traced, and the local Blue Ribbon Army has been burdened with all the cost. Some time ago it was announced that a large fortune had been left by a Newcastle gentleman to Eugenie to carry on temperance work, and large sums of money were also paid to him to conduct missions in all the large towns of England. He was also announced to conduct a mission in, Nottingham in a few days. Eugenie set up a I very considerable establishment at Castle Don- I ington, and he seemed on the highway, if not to fame, at least to fortune. There are many rumours afloat, but it is now believed that the story of a fortune ~being left him is unfounded. It is 'stated that an arrangement had been entered into for a marriage, in connection with which there are some extraordinary disclosures. A baronet is reported to be among those who espoused the cause of the clown and who have beeen duped. Every effort was made to traee Eugenie, but nothing transpired until Saturday, when information was received that he had been spending the week at the Half Moen Inn, Yeovil, spending money freely, and that he had been discovered in the yard of the public-house with his throat cut, having attempted to commit suicide.
The Weekly Gazette for Middlesbrough, Stockton, Hartlepool and Cleveland District. — 1883-01-27 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

DOUBLE MURDER IN SWITZERLANTL—AII atrocious double murder has just been con. nutted near Bale. The victims are two Jews, father and son, of the name of Meyer, from Mulheim, in the Grand Duchy of Baden. Thi two Meyers, men of considerable means, wee on their way to the fair of 'Kandern, whea • they passed through a a ood, they were attaekol! by several men armed with hatchets, sal brutally murdered. The object of the murderers was plunder, for as the Meyers were in the habit of nis.king considerable purchases at the fair, it was supposed they had with them a large sass of money. As it happened, however, they hel very little. One man suspected of complicit/ the crime has been arrested at Bile, and snow at Mulheim. SUICIDE OF A YOUtil.-011 nday night the dead body of a boy named Fred. Robing°, 15 years of age, the son of Geo. Robing's, engineer, Milton-street, Sheffield, was fon.• suspended with two handkerchiefs by theneel at the back of his father's house. The ivy ha lately been very unruly, and the week before last spent his wages before go•I home. Last week he appears to b. " acted in the same manner, and was Wax to return home. He remained out all Saturdsl night, but on Sunday evening was seen near big father's house, evidently, however, afraid to, enter. Not long afterwards he was too* hanging as already stated. Printed at the " Gazette" Steam PentiniilWo•4„,, Zetland-road, Middlesbrough, in the NOP" Siang of the County of York. Published 1 the same Place, and at 57, West-road. Lul: in the North Riding of the County of Vora; , at 17, High-street. Stockton; Westbross Buildings, Northgate, Darlington; 11 Frinocs, street, West Hartlepool; Old Town Hall, Esll Hartlepool; and 6, Albert Hill, Bishop MO land, all in the County of Durham; and 54 a Ludgate Hill (Benson's Chambers), Londos 8.C.. by H. G. B.EID, West Newlands. Mtdfloi brough
The Weekly Gazette for Middlesbrough, Stockton, Hartlepool and Cleveland District. — 1883-03-24 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

THE HE CZAR.  PLOT AGAIN OF Ti Recently it was-reported that a disoot been made of a plot to -assassinate The fact is now established beyond der the following are the details connected affair :—At the brginning of February. a of fine arts attempted to commit fund bath, but was discovered before he had accomplish his purpose. On being que as to his motive for the act, he coniesi it was owing to his connection wi Nihilists. He had been commanZ that body to assassinate the and had taken measures to do a at the critical moment his courage him, and with the knowledge as 49 wbat be his fate at the bands of the Nihilists having obeyed their injunctions, fie rein commit suicide. The attempt on the life was to have been made at the tune the regimental fite of the Finland Re was celebrated, the Czar having been on that occasion. The student mans some means to be present at the dinner guise of a waiter, and was armed with a revolver. He had intended to wait bis tunity, and when he found himself iminec facing the Czar to fire. This oppox duly arrived, but by this time courage had evaporated, and at the c juncture he stated that he became fused, and harried out of the room and st ' to the bath, where he made the attempt own life. It is obvious from his depositiox he was merely a tool in the hands of the Nil as he appears to know very little of the wo: of that body. The information which the have obtained from him, however, has ex them to make several arrests in connectio: the affair. This latest discovery is said tc produced a -profound impression on the M. Tolstoi requested the Czar to exercise g precautions, and to expose himself as lit possible, to which His Majesty replied— all the same to me, and I am prepared fox thing. I have escaped by the merest el and you and myself were alike ignorant c danger I was in."  who  five  resi His