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The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1872-01-27 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

SHOCKING DEATH.  A very painful sensation has been created in York by the death of Mr. Lilbum, who practised as a solicitor in that city, and who was the clerk to the Pocklington Poor Law Union, in which latter town he had resided for many years. The circumstances attending his death were most shocking, as will be seen by the following report The Scarborough branch of the North-Eastern Railway passes close to the York County Asylum, adjoining which is a footpath which crosses the line on the level. About half a mile from this footpath the Bull Railway vi 4 Beverley brandies off, and on Monday evening the train which leaves York for 11011 at five minutes past seven o'clock arrived within a short distance of the footpath, when the engine-driver saw a man (who, it turned out, was Mr. Lilburn) standing , between the up and down liars. When within slew yards of the train the unfortunate deceased stepped forward, and he was knocked down and ruu over. The train not being far from the residences of several men in the employ of the railway company, the engine-driver gave information of what had occurred, and it was found that the body of the deceased had been dragged about eight yards from the place where he had fallen. The head was completely severed from the body, and the face and head were horribly crushed and mutilated ; but no other part of the deceased's person had suffered any material injury. There is no doubt that death was instautaneous, and the facts connected with it led to the belief that it was premeditated. The body was removed to the workhouse, and the letters found in tile deceased's possession sufficiently indicated his identity. It appears, however, that there was nothing to show that he intended to commit suicide, but he had lost one of his children by death, and on Monday evening another was on the point of death, and actually died about the same time that he met with his tragical end. It is thought that these and other circumstances had preyed on his Mind, and led him to meditate self-destruction.
The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1872-07-13 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

SUICIDE OF A FENIAN.  One of the prominent leaders of the late Fenian movement haa put an end to his life under peculiarly melancholy circumstances.  Martin Hanley Carey, the deceased, was tried at the special commission of 1864, and sentenced to ten years' penal servitude. His mind gave way while he was confined in Pentonville, but having been released some three or four years ago he recovered, and subsequently joined the Irish Ambulance Corps, probably with the object of aiding the French more actively than by merely assuaging the sufferings of the wounded, for he soon joined the army of Bourbaki, and so distinguished himself that he received a lieutenant's commission and a decoration. After his return here he was employed in some mercantile capacity, but he could not abstain from scenes of political turmoil, and in the affray last August in the Phtenix-park he received some severe injuries. It appears that he had been much ill-Iturbed of late, and had to be closely watched. He left his residence in Sackville-place,lClublin, at an early hour last Saturday morning, accompanied by his wife, who took all the care she could of him. When walking along the quays in the vicinity of Essex-bridge, he took a sudden start and jumped into the river. Mr. Seacome Mason audit Mr. Mherrard bravely plunged into the water to rescue the unfortunate man, when they succeeded in keeping his head above water until a boat was procured. He was brought to the quay by the slip rind placed on an outside car, and driven without a in menes delay to Jervis-street Hospital, where he Was promptly attended by Dr. Dalton, who prunoiluced life to be extinct.  Martin Hanley Carey was buried on Tuesday morning. His funeral was a great Fenian pageant. His coffin was borne on men's shoulders, and On it were placed his cap and the Cross al the Legion of Honour, which he had won when serving with Bourbaki. After the coffin marched some four thousand men in military array, all of them wearing green favours and laurel leaves in their coats. The cortege passed through the principal streets of the city to Glasnevin Cemetery, where spseches were delivered over the grave.
The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1872-10-05 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

STRANGE SUICIDE.—On the 21th of July (says a Melbourne paper) one George Edward Massey committed suicide m Adelaide, The deceased was a member of an old Inch family, being the son of the Hon. Mr. Massey, and the grandson of the late Lord Clarina. Some years ago he resided in Victoria, but he returned home and remained in Ireland until a few months ago, when he again visited Victoria, having acquired some property. On his return here he renewed his intimacy with the Dean of Melbourne, wholoon perceived that Massey was labouring under the delusion that there was a conspiracy to murder him. Massey went to Adelaide, to hide himself, as he said, from his pursuers, and after residing there come three weeks, abet himself at the door of Dean Russell, of Adelaide, to whom he had prevhimly written announcing his intention to commit self-deetruction. Letters were found in the room inhabited by the deceased addreaseil to the Dean of Melbourne, and also a will dieposaug of I-100 and other praperty. An inquest was held, and a verdict was arrived at that the decesael shut himself while in an uneound etate of mind. A PLEASANT DoC M ENT !—" I have taken off," nail Mr. IsOwel the other day at Glasgow, "£'J,OOOlOllO of taxes, and yet the Revenue for the present half-yeale which ends in a few day 14, amount to C 1,200,000 more than it was in ISfiB, when these 29,000,000 of taxes were in existence." The half-year referred to ended on alondayeatel we (The Times) publish the fl,4llrefl which justify the Chancellor of the Exchequer's' Congratulations. A pleasant document it is, showing the nation in the full tide of prosperity, making money feet, and " consuming" in an equal or even greater ratio. We are not a very eating people, all clatesee live well, and our workpeople especially live on a scale of expenditure which, aa they have been lately tol.l, is equalled by no European country' and not much ex °ceded in the 'United States,. The la:venue, in SOM*3 of its most important departments, °wee lunch to the lave of plenty, of comfort and Roam", which dietinguiehes the million. It is the index, not of what the nation heal earned, but of what it deems itself juetifivel in parting with out of ite earnings, and therefore is an even truer representation of the security mad confidence of the masses. A E Ulm
The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1872-08-17 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

THZ TEMPLE OP DIANA. —The largest and most important of the fragments of the carved column dug up by Mr. Wood at a depth of 23ft. on the supposedsite of the Temple of Diana at Ephesus, has been set up in the Grieco-Roman morn- at the British Museum. It measures about 6ft, in height, and 18ifa in circumference, and is supposed to have formed portion of the first drum of one of the 36 lonic carved columns, which with 91 others supported and adorned the edifice. Portions of Use base and capital of the column were also found close by. On the side of the drum, which has sustained comparatively slight injury, there are five figures of considerable beauty, but all more or less mutilated. Of only two of these can the identity be determined—namely the figmes of Mercury and Victory. Ile former ie perfect with the exception of the face (which is slightly muti'ated), and is regarded as a work of considerable merit.  S uICIDE BY ST&KVAI Tile Biala James Flynn, who was sentenced to death at the last Man. chester Assizes for the wilful murder of Johanna Nairn at Oldham, in April last, with great brutality, has committed suicide in the county prison at Manchester under very peculiar circumstances. He has from the first refused to take any food whatever, and has been persistent in his refusal up to the time of his death, which occurred from exhaustiost at a quarter to three o'clock on Monday afternoon. On the morning of the third day of his imprisonment since he was sentenced to death the surgeon, seeing that all attempts to persuade the man to eat were futile, determined to bring into use the stomachpump. When he appeared at the door of the cell in which the man was cantined. Flynn seized a stool and threatened to knock the brains out of the first who entered. He was secured and the instrument inserted in his throat, but he wriggled his head so much that the interior of his throat was lacerated to such an extent that the surgeon decided not to again attempt the use of the pump. The governor (Captain Mitchell), the Roman Catholic chaplain, and all the officers of the prison had endeavoured to get the man to eat, but he bad refused, and when tea and bread and butter were procured for him merely moistened his lips.
The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1872-12-28 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

EARTH•EATING.  AN AMERICAN ROMANCE.  THE AVERTED SUICIDE.  POOR FELLOW 1  Under the signature of " renean In the Wilderness,. a ' bachelor thus eleazibes in the Daily New, how lonely a man may be in the greatest city in the world : I have been deeply affected by a letter in the Daily News signed "An Odd Man Ont." May Ibe allowed a word in my humble turn? I too am a solitary bachelor and live in the wilds of Pimlico, a stranger in London without friends and without even the consolation of a club. If Christmas-day be, as there is every reason to expect it will be, like Christmas-day last year, what a purgatory is in store for us vagabonds! It poured in torrents from misty morn to foggy eve, and I sate gloomily in the parlour reading a "Christmas number," and listening to the vicious rattling of the rain on the skylight in the pasaage. At one o'clock precisely I went to the Victoria Station in search of the conventional fare, but the waiters were eager to be off to their friends, a hint was dropped that early closing was the order of the , day, and I had to hurry over an insufficient meal, and tramp back through the rain to my empty lodgings and "Chrietmas number." Towards evening, being provoked by much insensate laughter on the ground floor, where a rough sort of merry-making seemed to be in progress, I rushed desperately out into the rain, and took a solitary ramble past Grosvenor Mansions into Piccadilly, where I met literally nobody, except a policeman in the sulks, a female in rags, and a drunken man, who was seated on the pavement, and in spite of the pelting storm seemed very comfortable. I was to hopes of finding a -restaurant pen, for I had not yet had my beef and pudding. All doors, however, were most inhospitably shut till! arrived in Leiceeter-equare I In the neigh. hourhood of the Alhambra? found a resting place for the very damp sole of my foot, and at the invitation of a foreign attendant, who WM pacing desperately up and down a Frenchitied apartment, I partmli of mutton cutlets and a bottle of very thin claret. I had likewise the satisfaction of having a full view of two round-faced Belgian ladies who watched with heavy curiosity the efforts of a gentleman friend to set " blow pudding . on tire in the orthodox English style. My cutlet and claret over, I once moan returned *rough the rain to my lodgings and " Christmas number." After this recital fmy miseries you will perhaps not be surprised to hear that I look forward to the coming "(entice season' with dread.
The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1872-12-14 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

MURDER AND SUICIDE AT NAPLES.  A Neapolitan correspondent, writing to the Pall Mall Gazette on the 3rd inst., says :- - -  "Yesterday, at about eleven a.m., the whole quarter of the Riviera di Chiaja was thrown into violent corn. motion, owing to • tragical affair which occurred in the Villa Nazionale, reeulting in the death of Miss Ada Schimmel and of Mr. J. H. Gordon. Mr. J. H. Gordon, formerly of the British Indian Civil Service, had been for some mouths living at the Pension Anglaise, 114, Riviera di Chisja, kept by Madame Schiasai. Among the four daughters of Madame Schiassi were Ada and Louisa (twins). Some time ago Mr. Gordon became attached to Ada, and proposed to marry her, but the offer was refused by the mother, as the young lady was already engaged to a naval officer. Since then Mr. Gordon (who was about 50 years of age, and a widower) thought fit to annoy Mbla Schiand with his attentions to such an extent that the mother was obliged to request him to change his quarters as anon as possible. This seems to have grieved Mr. Gordon very much, and to have caused him to commit the crime of which you have heard. Yesterday morning, about 1045. the twins, Louisa and Ada Schiassi, went to the gardens of the Villa Nazionale for their usual morning walk, when they were met by Mr. Gordon, who accosted Louisa and asked her why they wished to get rid of him, and also the reason why her sister Ada refused to entertain his suit. On her refusing to listen to him he left her, and, approaching Ada, commenced upbraiding her, and finished by commanding her to follow him, which she naturally refused to do ; upon which he, stepping back a couple of pact*, pulled a revolver from his pocket, and firing two shots at ‘vhich entered her back, turned the revolver upon 'red two other shuts, and fell down a corpse. To authorities and a great crowd were Mi. mediate*, on the spot, but all efforts were useless, as both the assessing and his victim were dead. At the inquest this morning Ada was found to have been shot through the heart. In Gordon's case death was caused by one of the shots having completely severed the aorta. On Gordon were found • gold watch, an Albert chain, with a email gold whistle, and a locket containing a portrait, supposed to be that of his late wife; on the little finger of his right hand, an onyx signet ring, with his initials, J. H. G., and inside the p-ild of the ring were the words 'Sophie, Oct. 1866;' a puma containing 375 f. in aper, three sous in bronze, and one silver sixpence. Gordon had taken the irecantion to destroy all the papers which might lead to his identification, and it was only through his bankers that the authorities have been able to tind out anything about him."  vmself, ,t police
The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1872-11-02 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

DOUBLE SUICIDE IN LONDON.  On Monday, the Coroner iestirnM t4t. .Tames's Workhouse, Poland-street, the inquiry respeLtith• the death of the two unknown perstns who were found dead at No. IS, Golden square.  Mr. Superiptendant Dunlop stated that every effort had been made to sild tht cabman who conveyed the luggage of the deceased to Golden squa*e, but without success.  Dr. Blisht said he had made an analysis of the coo tents of tne stofoachs of both the deceased. He found a great quantity of strychninr in both stomachs. It was a very large quantity indeed. ae Ka not the least doubt as to the cause of death. The man trus about 60 years of age. He thought the man and woman had belonged to a highly respectable class. The Coroner, in summing up, said it would have been satisfactoili the bodies had been identified and the previous history of ths deemed known. Considering the activity which the police and his officers had displayed, and the publicity given to the case, he was of opinion that the deceased parties had arrived from the Continent, and were without friends in London, therefore it would be better to treat them as unknown. The name Duncan did not seem to him to be a German one. He assumed the jury were satidied that death had been caused by strychnine • it would be for the inry to decide whether the man and woman had taken it in a sdund or unsound state of mind. If in an unsound state of mind they could exctise the felony. If they had any doubt on the subject it wold be better to return an open verdict. He next alluded to the paper written in pencil, "Our last will, size.," and concluding with one of the most pathetic passages in the Bible, "Yea, though we walk in the valley of the shadow of death Thy rod and Thy staff shall comfort us." The paper written at Bow by the man, as follows, "A. Duncan and lady," did not appear to be in the same handwriting as the paper headed "The last will."  -- --A ihror suggested that this Dave had been written by the woman. After some deliberation the jury returned the following verdict :—" That the deceased man unknown, apparently aged about 50, and the deceased woman, apparently aged about 50, came by their deaths from strychnlPe, bPt how or under what circumstances it came into their stamit to there wan not sufficient evidence to show."
The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1872-04-27 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

ATTEMPT TO COMMIT SUICIDE.  At the Southwark police-court, in Dmidon, a respectablelooking young w,mau, about the age of twenty one, was charged with swallowing a quantity of laudanum, with intent to commit suicide, on the platform ef the Ldalou, Brighton, and South Coast Railway Terminus, London Bridge. _  It appeared from the evidence of a police-constable that on Saturday morning the 13th, he was on duty, when one of the porters of London, Brighten, and South Coast Railway called him Mt) the station, where he found the prisoner partially insensible with a bottle labelled laudanum by her side. He immediately conveyed her to Guy's Hospital, where the stomach pump was used and other means applied to restore her to consciousness. On her recovery she said, "Oh, dear! Had he spoken to me I sir uld not have done it." She remained in the hospital two days, and as soon OS she was able to leave he took her into custody. The magistrate asked what she had to do at the railway station. The superintendent of the company's police who was in attendence, said that he had been informed that she had kept company with one of the junior ticketcollectors, and came after him at the station where he had to perform his duties, and he had told her she must not come there again. Some other misunderstanding, he believed, had occurred between them. She was seen to enter the station on the morning in question and call to the eollector, but no notice was taken of her until one of the porters heard a scream, and on looking round saw her fall on the platform, with the empty bottle by her side. A constable was sent for, and she was-conveyed to Guy's Hospital.  The Constable informed his worship th.it as soon as she recovered she said it was Al through Geroge.  The Magi.trate a,ked if auy of the pri;onet'a fiienda  were in court.  The Brother, a very respectable young man, here came forward, and said if his woniiiip would discharge her he would take care of her, as she had promised not to think of the ticket-collector any inure. her sister also said that she would take care of her.  The Magistrate asked the prisoner what she had to say in answer to the charge.  The prisoner replied that ahe was very sorry for what sho had done, and if his worship would let her go home with her sister she promised never to make such an attempt again. The Magistrate, after suitably admonishing her on her attempt on her life, and her iuture conduct, ordered her to be given up to her biother and sister.
The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1872-01-13 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

MANSLAUGHTER BY AN OXFORD GRADUATE.  On Saturday, an inquest on Thomas Price. for many years coachman in the service of the Mimes Fletcher, ladies of wealth, residing at Stansbatch, near Leominster, Herefordshire, was brought to a close. It appeared from the evidence that thew ladies had staying with them a nephew named Thomas Fairfax Fletcher Carlyle, the son of a Shropshire clergyman, and an Oxford grailuatet who had resorted to the use of hydrate of choloral, opium. and other opiates, for the purpose of procuring sleep. Between twelve and one o'clock on the night of Saturday, the 23rd December, the attention of the Misses Fletcher was drawn to the excited state of young Carlyle, who was alone in his bedroom. Knowing that he had • double-barrel breech.  loader gun with him, his aunt, Miss Eliza Fletcher, went into his apartment, and noticing that his mind appeared to heM a wild andiunsettled state, and that the breech-loader waalying on the Hem near him, she directed the housekeeper to call upthe coachman, Thomas Price, who had been aroused by their screams, with the view of taking the weapon from him. Price, who had previously been on good terms with young Carlyle, hurriedly dressed himself and rushed to his room, followed by the ladies and several domestics. As he entered the place (.7arlyle, who was by that time standing near the fireplace, with the fowling-piece in his hand, said, "Stand back, Price, or I will shoot you." He then brought up the gun to his shoulder, but in doing so it struck the bedpost and fell from his hand to the floor. Price tried to secure it, but in another second Mr. Carlyle had it again to his shoulder, and as he pulled the trigger Price struck the barrel with his hand, by which the muzzle was depressed, and the charge, Mete at of going into his chest WAS lodged in the upper part of his right thigh, which it completely perforated and lacerated in a dreadful manner. After some days' treatment mortification set in, and the unfortunate man died from the wound on Wednesday, in last week. After the gun had been fired, it was found that to the trig-4,T of the right ban-el was attached a black silken ribbon, about two feet limo., with a foot-loop at the other end, indicating that the accused had (previous to Price entering the room) contemplated suicide. The jury returned a verdict of " Manslaughter," and the accused (who was not at any time in custody, though the imptest was opened on Thursday and completed on Saturday 1.u4) was committed for trial at the next assizes for the county of Hereford. He was admitted to bail, himself in X5OO, and two sureties (his father and his aunt) in £250 each.