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Lancaster Standard and County Advertiser. — 1902-12-12 (Lancaster, Lancashire, England)

MORECAMBE MYSTERY CLEARED UP. —The Boldford police on Friday received a communication to the effect that a man had committed suicide a £101:1t Ila 11110011 WhO 31166V.•11. exactly to the description it Mr. James cued.), of Hanover-square, Biedford, trailing as a stationer, under the ,tyle at Sugden Bros. A relative at once prcereded to Southampton. It will be remembered that Mr. Sugden disappeared aliout six week, ago, and that on November let his hat, keys, and other articles were found on the ohl stone pier at Morecambe, with a note signed "S." stating that the owner of the keys had " sought refuge from Mishit, worries in the a-aters." No trace of body was disoovereil, and it was hot until Friday that any ''orther information, was forthcoming. On November 10th a receiving order in bankruptcy wise made against Mr. Sugden. SEQUEL TO HDCOMINGI SURF7rY.—At the Preston Bankruptey Court, en Friday, Mary Ann lAllitaker, wife of Samuel Willey Whitaker, carrying sin business apart from her husband at 65, VITe.A End-road, Morecambe, as a bearding-house keeper, appeared for her public examinsition.—The etateinent of affairs showed liabalities expected to rank .0271 14s. 9d., and a deficiency of .0198 19s. 9d. The debtor alleged "becoming surety for my son to the extent of .000. Her eon's business never paid, and two that she started busmeic, as a boarding,hou,e keeper 14 year, ago with £3O capital and furniture worth urtoiot .040 or £5O. Three years ago she became guarantor for her sons Thos. Whitaker, grocer, Morecambe, to the eatent lif .0300. Her son's business never paid, and two months ago he executes! a deed of soisignment, and she had been pressed to discharge her illdebtednes, as guarantor. She first &wavered her insolvency three weeks before the receiving order was mode. She had never kept any bookg of account. Except for the judgment for .0205 made against her she was suthfied she could pay her creditors in fu11..--The examination was adjourned until January 18th.
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1893-05-25 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

TERRIBLE TRAGEDY AT HACKNEY. ATTEMPTED SUICIDE OF TIIE MURDERER.  About half-past 1 on Tuesday morning a terril Is tragedy was enacted at a coffee-house. No. r. Amherst-road, Hackney. It appeirs that the lime. was occupied by a man named Thomas Mergan, lea wife, and stepson. Morgan, who has been in health lately, was out with his wife an Monday and returned home about 10 p.m. Some unpleasantness wail believed to have occurred, and Morgan atm, t. immediately retired to bed. His e ife and atepten followed him some time later. About 1.30 a.i... the servants were aroused by the tinging of belle and went downstairs. Thei khocked at tie eon's ! door,and getting no answer opened it and looked M. Across the bed was lying the dead body of the Lrl with a bullet wound in the bead, lie had eviden!.y been shot while asleep. An alarm was raised anl a policeman fetched. The constable went into the back roow, and there found the body of Mrs. Morgan lying on the floor in a pool of bleed with bullet wounds in tire neck. She was quite deal, though the body was warm. On the other side el the bed lay Morgan groaning in terrible agony. Dr. White, the divisional surgeon, was called, and with Chief Insrwcter Rand exannual the place. Morgan was discovered to have shot himself in the attionien. His Condition was so critical that lie was at once taken to the German Hospital, but no hopes are held out as to his recovery. Near the spot where the mart was found the police discovered a six-chambered revolver. lour chambers havieg 11, en emptied. this names of the deceased are Eninia Mogan, aged 48 years, and Arthur Jennings, aged 15 years. A correspondent says: I 1 appears that last July Morgan had a paralytic stroke, and lost the use of his right limbs, as well an his voice. Since that time he has had periodical outbursts of passionate fits of temper, in one of which a short time hack he stabbed his wife in the waist. Sim was then advised to have him placed under restraint, but was loth to do so, as she hoped he would recover the full possession of his iaculties. In this she was partially advised by the doctor who a:tended Morgan; but latterly it seems that a change of medical advice had been taken, with the result that the necessary papers had been filled up fer his roinoval to an asylum, with the exception of a magistrate's signature. It was not an untemal occurreace for Morgan to chase his wife out into the street with a knife in his hand, and the customers in Inc shop would hurriedly make their exit la urn ire was in one of his dangerous moods.
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1893-04-20 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

THE TRIAL OF BEN TILLETT.  The trial et Benjamin Tillett, an Alderman or the London Cou.e.y Council, and the Secretary of the Dockers' UniJn, on an indictment charging him with inciting workmen to riot at Bristol on the occasion of a labour dispute at the latter end of last year, was concluded on Saturday at the Centril Criminal Court. The Jury found that the language used by Mr. Twat was calculated to lead to riotous conduct, but that he had no intention of provoking Lit hearers to violence. Mr. Justice Cave hold that this finding amounted to a verdict of not guilty. and the de!endant was discharged.  'The Pet,t Parisie,i and P.:reß ql2tte Fea,:lo;se diof vent versions of Co circumstances which ault.ced Colonel Daily to ilizappear front his house sO sudnenly, remut ten days ago, as to give rise, to !he report that he had committed suicide. It i., iinwv.ver, now certain that' the Colonel &jingly left bib none Cu account of dun.t.cic disagreements. Frederick ?riser, a labourer in the employment ti,. Inverne,s Corporation, was killod, and a tompaiiion, tamed aleaandor McKay, was dangerously wounded through an accident at the t'..rporatmn Oafworks on Monday morning. ThA loon had tro,o, engaged in taking down a large iron t ,na when a portion of the structure gave way Fraser, who was iostantly killed, leaves a widow and two children  The Board of Trade have awarded their bronr• medal for saving life at sea and a sum of £1 • t'atrick McGraw and Barnard McGraw, besclisin-n • • Dundrum, county Down, for rescuing Redmond, WiIOSP host was capsized on the bar Dundrum on the 28th ult.  A new fort to strengthen the defen,s of th. Thames and Kersey has now been completed *: Barton's Point, off Sheerness. The fort will lie armed with two nine-inch and two six-inc,ll breech loading guns, which will command the channel: leading from the North Sea into both rivers.  ler
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1894-03-22 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

SALT AB • M• 11111112. salt is not much thought of as a manure, but in certain instances some wonderful results have followed its application, particularly with mangolds. This may be due to a certain power which salt and lime hays to react upon one another in the presence (as a ecientific writer points out) of porous bodies, and to form an easily soluble alkali such as soda or carbonate of soda. In this way, ufbes salt is applied to lims. stone soil, there may really be given to the land • dressing of carbonate of sods; and of the use of this substance to promote the decay of humus and the disintegration of the soil this. can be no question, he remarks. It is possible, then, that there may be some soils the fertility of which is promoted in this way. It is known; that small quantities of alkaline cutout* of soda may be beneficial both to plaits and soils, and it seems possible that this substance must sometimes conduce to fertility even when it has been formed naturally. , One merit of it is that it can dissolve to an ,1 appreciable extent phosphate of iron such as exists in the soil.  Sentence of death was passed by Mr. Woo Pollock, at Birmingham Wires, on Saturday, uPou Frederick William Fenton. 32, for the murder of his sweetheart, Florence 1111brough, The girl was • barmaid, and was engaged to be married to Fenton, who had tikes • house. He visited her on December 12th, and shot three bullets from • revolver at her, and then attempted to commit suicide. The girl died in a hospital • few days law.  A fire broke; out in the attics of a house at Forth, and William Christie, town crier, was burned to death. Superintendent Buist, of the City Felice, made several brave attempts to rescue Christie, but was driven back by the smoke and Shags.  At on Saturday. the National 170 imam Trophy, whioh was won Mat year by thi Waft ourn, was formally elles th theSi TIOVIMA at Edinburgh at the Mums d Iltionno awl AO In that city. The trophy was ainied in procanisa by members of the teaa, esonted by a annber of VONSur enflm, and II the assehnisn at the asannony the ossm and Mae Sane WINO nitnetniarl at limn Scotland addeven ntehairy en in. Donley masa lint rAz b9smilAmanki ei paha lengbusd, the mores 1,114; 1445 and non. .
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1894-03-29 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

ATTEMPTED MURDER AND SUICIDE.  At • late hoar Co Saturday night • Marble crime was admitted by a men named Elliot in Kennington-lane. • 'operation had taken place between husband and wife, and the latter some three weer"' ago took a tobaceonlet's shop in Lower Kenningtan-lans. On Saturday evening harem half-past 8 and 9 o'clock the locality was disturbed by two load reports. Almost immediately piercing screams of "Help" sad "Murder " were heard from the shop. • crowd quickly assembled, but kept at a distance, nese daring to enter the shop, where • man was beard shouting loudly. • man named Locke, employed at a greengrocer's shop near, ran across the road, but Elliot promptly closed the shop door, the shutter of which had been put up. Locke after some difficulty suaraded in smashing in the shop door, and then had a narrow escape of losing his life. No soarer had be obtained an entry and placed one foot across the threshold of the door than a bullet, whistling past his ear, crashed through the plate-glass window of the door. Locke then amid intense excitement attempted to capture the man who was standing by the counter, but he wheeled quickly round, and, deliberately placing the made of the revolver in his mouth, fired the remaining charge of his four-chamber revolver. The side door had by this time been forced, and Mrs. Elliot was found lying on the floor bleeding from a wound in the breast. The police were at once summoned and medical aid seat far. Dr. Ferris and Dr. Langford examined the woman, and she was without delag eat to St. 'rbanirs's Hospital in an ambulance. The body of the assailant was then examined. Although Ullbvesh. ing the man expired in a few lamas after the arrival of the doctors, and the remains were removed to the Lambeth Mortuary. It seems that Elliot some years ago was a clerk in the employ of a local vestry, and earned • substantial .salary. He was, however, given to drisk, arid WO, be is. said to bays takers to betting. fib inerrant were the quarrels in the house that three years ago there was, as has been mentioned, a sepsratimi owing to Elliot's atereptto murder his. wife. „Pik Oat le had to man leo • term of prisamillet.
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1894-09-06 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

HILL. Please pay Mr. todlie 10s. that I owe him. It is not right that he should suffer, and he needs the =Shy.' William Curtis, a fernier of Mardike Farm, between Dagenham and Rainham, said that on Sunday evening, August 26th, he saw the prisoner and Miss Spooner in his yard. He said: "You are In a pitiable condition, can I help you ? " and the prisoner said, "Bring us some water to wash with." His trousers were wet and drabbled and slightly muddy. They both appeared dad; the girl's eyes were blood-shot and prominent, and her hair was down her back. He noticed that Hill had a wound oft his throat and that the girl had a wound which he could see near the left collar bone. Witness said to them. "You have been attempting to destroy yourselves; you had better tell me all about it. Hill said: "My name is Rowland Hill. I am a chartered accountant, and live at Ilford. I and this young lady came to Dagenham on Saturday with eight-pennyworth cf laudanum with the intention of destroying ourselves. But, at; we divided the dose, it was not sufficient We then used a knife, but found it too horrible." Witness "talked to them as seriously as he could," and asked what induced thug to it. Prisoner. said he had been unfortunate abed .11 friends had been unkind to him. Witness asked what assurances they would give that they would not inure themselves again; and Hill said they were in a different frame of mind now and would go home. He asked for a hat for Miss Spooner, who was without one. Witness gave him onenuid elan a neckerthief for his neck. When they had pee be saw thad they loitered about, and thought it his duty to give information to the police. Dr. Alexander Mackenzie said not one egidli4BB wounds was dufgesous. They were not deep enough. By Mr. Atifinsion t Miss Boomer was now going on all right. Be found 'no perforations on her clothing. All the wounds were on the left side and might have been self-inflicted. Mr. Atkinson, &Sang the Bench, said it would lan insult to sag,. to send the case for trial as o 0 of attempted m er. Them was no evidence o attempted Midden. It Was attempted suicide pure and simple and nothing else. Colonel Howard: They are unquestionably tan young fools masquerading about, but the question is whethdr I technital Szitne has been committed. We Will utile to consider it After a few moments • the magistrates returned, and Colonel Howard maid: We quite agree with you that the proper course would have been to put bqth into the dock for the attempted suicide. Bin we have no °ldiom now but to send him for trial. A Whinier •nuU lever sent beiere a juty. It was &Hided dud the ease should go to the Essex AsOzes. The Chairman mentioned the question of bail, but Mr. Atkinson said he T7BB not Instructed to ask for it. Si -id 111APAPER
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1894-06-28 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

PAINFUL SUICIDE AT HANDSWORTH. Several suicides have occurred lately in Handsworth, but one whkh took place on Saturday morning is of a painfully distressing character. Mrs. Celia Smith, wife of Mr. George Smith, residing at Norwood Grove, Hamstead Road, took her life in a most deliberate mauler sometime during Saturday morning. The deoeased lady, who is welt known and highly respected in the neighbourhood has been for some time past in ill-health, and has been under the medical treatinent of Dr. Shillitoe. of Lozells Road. She was better, however, lasts week, and hopes were entertained that she would soon fully recover. Deceased had exhibited traits of despondency during her illness, awl she was always of a highly sensitive over-wrought nature, but no one suspected that the unfortunate lady had any suicidal tendencies. There are four in the family, and one of the married daughters lives only a few yards from deceased's home. On Saturday morning Mr. Smith started for business as URUfti. and did not observe anything unusual in hie wife's behaviour; indeed, she expressed herself as feeling much better. Shortly afterwards the daughter who. , lives near called upon her mother, and found her I busy about her domestic duties. In reply to * question as to her health, deceased said she felt so much better that she should not go to the doctor's that morning. The daughter returned to her home, and again called at her mother's house about 11 o'clock, but finding the door looked, she conjectured that her mother had gone out to do some shopping. A further visit was paid between 12 and 1 o clock, and the daughter finding the door still locked. opened Mao she had ofteu'been in the habil of doing, with her own house-key. A terrible spectcle met her gaze on opening the door, for there in the passage. between the kitchen and the artillery, lay deceased in a pool of blood, with a nasty wound in the, throat. Deceased was lyiug on her right side, and near by was a tin bowl, containing a quantity of blood, and a yard or so away lay a razor bloodstained. The placing of the tin bowl to catch the blood was a feature quite characteristic of deceased. who was of most careful and cleanly habits, and indeed WSW one who was most attentive to her domestic, arrangements. Dr. Mbberly, of Soho. Hill, was at once sent for, and was soon on the spot, but he could render no assistance, as life was quite extinct. The body had been lying so for two hours, according to the medical man's statement. Although the friends of deceased state that there can be no other cause for such a fearful occuience except the ill-health of deceased, it is a fact that her grandfather committed quieide while insane. and her father had to be confined during several periods of mental aberration, so it is pretty clear that ths teagis affair to dna to hereditary insanity. Deceaaed's domestic relations had always been of the happiest character, and her death in this manner has caused the greatest sorrow not only to those nearly related but to the numerous persons with whom. she was acquainted, and who knew her goodness and kindness.
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1894-02-15 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

SPRING. PRICE LIST AND TESTIMONIALS ON APPLICATION! lIIBTABLISEIND 837. LICENSEE FOR MANUFACTURING ZOIEDONEI  Teacher: "A marsupial le an animal that carrion a pouch. Give me an example." Bright boy: '• man who smokes a pipe." What is the difference between a church bell and a church organ? The bell goes when it is tolled, but the organ "will be blowed" first. , Johnny's reason.—"l wish I was a comb," cried little Johnny as he went to the dentist. "Why ?" "Because its teeth never ache." "Age comes to every man," but fate Is kind to woman fair, For when she reaches twenty-eight She stops right then and there. "G) you really believe all this?" asked someone nf a woinan who had been telling ghost stories. "Ind,:el I do," she replied; "and I'm not an inmginary woman either!" An Irishman once eloquently ended a speech in these words: "And hear the cry of the callow VOllllg clamouring for food which should have bees brought to them by their murdered parental" COMOLaTION. Half the ills flesh is heir to Wouldn't reaUy be so bad, If we did not always thereto Add the ills it never had. The account published in the French newspaper La Petrie of an intervie.w between Mr. Gladatcne and H. Henri Deloncle, is declared to be wholly imaginary. No such interview took place. The body of one Joseph Anselm was recently found in a vat of boiling water in a leather house in Indianapolis, where he was employed. Be was mentally deranged, and chose that method of committing suicide. Herren Wendt and Brandt, the editor and subeditor, and Herr Werner, the printer of the Berlin Anarchist journal Der Socialist, have been sentenced to six months' imprisonment for publishing articles inciting persons to commit outrages. A volume that will be found of much interest to students of hypnotism is Mr. B. Harry Vincent's "Elements of Hypootimn," published by Megan Paul, Trench, Tight:tor and Co. The book is free from technical language, is lucid and well written, and contains an admirable statement of tbe history, principles, and results of this strange psychological science. Mg. Vincent is a firm believer in hypnotism himself, but his book is very fairly and impartially written, and there are some useful explanatory illustrations.  .r.er r.•••• • os.ss .011. 4 •
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1891-02-19 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

KINGS HEATH.  DELIBERATE SUICIDE AT BILLESLEV. On Tmslay morning Mr. A. H. Hehbert (deputy coroner fr Nerth•East Woreestershire) held ma inquest at the Bitlesley Arms, King'a Heath. tench log the death of Genre itradnoek (61), whilemnith. -A brother il.m•ilied the bwly. He knew nothing of how dec..ased met with his death. He had net seen much of him for tn. nty years. -E lith Bream, living at Tfillesley Comm na. sal she saw &cease 1 about half.past six on Saturday evening, going in the direction of Billealef. He was ht.oxicited, and staggqing about the road. - Pace-c.mstabls Franklin, of the Warwickshire Constabulary, said that about 8 39 4,a Saturday niwht Its was informed that a hat and coat had bsen found near Moseley. peel by Mr. St mbar), Eardley. He west to the pool, and found that the hat and coat had been eamavet t the bathin shed. Mr. Eardley pointed out to witness where he first taw the arlidesipamod. Witness took the hat and coat to Superintendent Y.,rdley, at Aeock's Green, on Satutday night. He did not search the pool that ffitht. On Sunday morning he got a boat and ee mailed the pool, where he discnvered debeased's body in the water, and recovered it. Deceased wan dressed, excepting his coat and hat, and when searched had in his pesseseine !some coppers, two knives, some tobacco, and a pipe. -Palice.sergt.ltudwick, Balsa!! Heath, said that on Friday a warrant was taken out by a woman named Ann Beasley against deceased for assault. He went in search of deceased, but found that he ha 1 left his lodgings the previous day.-Police. constable Franklin, in answer to the Deputy Coroner, said that the pool was fenced, secured, and deceased could not wander into it. The gate leading into the field was also fastened. Deceased would either have to get through the hedge or climb the gate-The Deputy Coroner : How did Mr. Eardley get in ° Witness: I suppose he got over the gate.-The Deputy Coroner said that was the evidence, and the jury had to decide how deceased came by his death. He did not think they would have much difficulty in coming to a verdict. -The Foreman, having consultad with the jury, the Deputy Coroner said: Well, gentlemen, are you agreed on the verdict ! The Foreman: Yes; suicide.-The Deputy Coroner: Do you find anything about the state of his mind ! The Fore:nan No.-The Deputy Coroner There was insanity -you think he was teutporarily insane. The Foreman: No, I don't.-Al Jury:non: So far a, I see, he destroyed life by his own hand, and in a deliberate way.-The Deputy Coroner: What do you say, gentlemen ° Several Jurymen : We all say the saine.-The Deputy Coo Jer (ic. Felice-constable Franklin) : How far from the side was the body when you found it? %Witness : About tan yards. -The Deputy (7..rnnw : Was there any current in the pool that :night have carried it out further? Witness No, sir; it was standing water.-The Deputy Coroner: DAM the bottom gradually shelve down? Witness : Yes, sir.-The Deputy Coroner : YOU all agree that he deliberately committed suicide? Tne Jury: Yes.-The Deputy Coroner: And that is the verdict of you all? The Jury: Yee, sir.