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Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1889-05-11 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

SUICIDE OF A DOCTOR AT BIRTLEY.  lOn Friday week at the Ranlen Rotel, Birtley, Coroner Graham held an inquest touchIlug the duath oi William Lowe Borland, aged 38 years, who dial on the 2nd inst. at the house of Dr. ‘Vilsou, Birtley, where he waa acting as I assistaut.—Flizabeth Tully and Catherine Lyn! con, servaig mai& with Dr. Wilson, deposed to I seeing deceased on the stairhead, near his room, I shortly after seven o'clock in the morning. Re I told 'rally cot to open the surgery door, as there were some people there he did not want to see come in. She had not heard tke bell ring, cor did sin see auyone about. Deceased came down staira, wound the clack up in the ennealting room, and went up stairs again. In a few minutes a thud %vas heard, as if he had fallen. The maids at o.ice called Dr. Wilson, and told him Mr Borland had taken a fit.—Dr. Wilson mid that he found deceased lying on the Boor of his room in violent couvulcons, and foaming at the mouth. Witness at once thought that he had taken some poison. amid did what he could, but deceased did not Lally, sill died in a few minutes. Witness afterwards found a bottle, which ho knew had eontainal about eight ounces of dilute prussic acid on the previous day. That bottle was then empty; deeeasod had swallowed it all. l).-eased hal bee-1 with wituess_ahont four rears, and was  a very useful man. Witness and he wci:e on very good term 3. They had bad a coavenat:on on Monday &boot deceased's co:idact during the previous week, when he had been drinking rather heavily. Deceased began the conversation by saying that be intended to take the pledge, its be was tempted to take drink, and did not know wnen to stop; and it made him ill. lie lead been very ill during the first two days of the week, bet appeared to be all right oa the Wednesday.—The verdict of the vary was Suicide daring temporary insanity."  i THE PROPOSED GLASS BOTTLE
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1889-04-13 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

MURDER OF AN ACTRESS.  INQUEST AND VERDICT.  Dr. Danford Thomas held an inquest on Wednesday afternoon on the bodies of William Gold- , smith Hunt, aged 28, and Emma Maria Green, 24, who were found shot at their lodgings, Mane- I field-road, Gospel Oak, on Monday. Mrs Hunt was too ill to attend, and was represented by a solicitor—Charles Id. Green, clerk, of Mona. terrace, Fulham, brother of Miss Green, stated that he saw hie sister alive on the let inst., when she looked pale and ill. She was an actress. He knew the conditions under which she was living ' with Mr Hunt. They bad cohabited ior a considerable time, but not on arnica! le terms. He had heard Hunt threaten his (witness's) sister's life. Hunt showed him a revolver once, and remarked, "1 shall use it." He had struck Mies Green to witnesa's knowledge. Hunt was a warm tempered and excitable man, and was in the habit of quarrelling with deceased.—Mrs landlady of the hones where the tragedy took place, said that the couple called on March 29th, and she, believing them to be rempectable married people, let them her ground floor apartmeats. On Monday last, when she was preparing their larch, they returned from a walk, and she heard them quarrelling. Shortly after she heard sound. of firearms, and, rushing to the dining-room, .he was horrified to find blood flowing from beneath the door.--Mr Muth said when he forced the door open Hoot was lying against it with a pistol in hie right hand. He was thou still breathiug.—Mr James Curtis Liman then produced a medical certificate to the effect that Mrs Gent was unable to attend. He said he knew Hunt as a gentleman of inde. pendent means,and last saw him about nine days 11.40.—Medical evidence having been given, the jury found that Miss Green died from the effects lof a revolver shot inflicted by Hunt, and that Hunk committed suicide whilst, temporarily MI sane.  TOWLX'S PENNYROYAL AND STEEL PILLS 701% linll/.1.,31 qulcAly correct all Irregularnuts and rolluve the dintrownag nymplonas so prevalent with the sex. Sores In lid aud In AL of all chendate. Sent anywhere for IS or 34 stamps by the Lntotwe
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1889-04-13 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

THE PECULIARITIES OF JOHN  CHINAMAN.  This is eartainly a moat extraordinary people, writes a traveller in China, and next to nothing of them is known at home. Here. for instance, are  a few stories that I have picked up. A foreign resident of Peking who speaks Chinese well was riding along the other day, and cams to an excited crowd. Drawing sear, he discovered a circle of people quietly watching a man desperately attempting to commit suicide by dashing his head against a wall. He dismounted, restrained the man, harangued the bystander., and learned that this was a coolie who clamed that his payment for a certain porter's job WWI short by ten cash— less than a penny—and as the employer reused to pay more, he was nroceeding to take reveage by killing himself on the snot, knowing by so doing he would get the other into considerable trouble. On another occasion a man threw himself into the canal, but was dragged out. So he simply sat down on the edge and starved himself to death, to be revengei against somebody who had cheated him. Again, one day a man was found murdered on a bridge near the British Legation. The law of China prescribes that a murdered body must noi he removed till the murderer is caught. Therefore it was covered with a mat and left. Days passed, and a month, and still the rotting body lay there, till at lout the Minister, oho had to passii every day, vigorously protested, and it was takeu off the bridge and placed a little further away, And a Chinese newspaper is responeibls for this story, which, indeed, has nothing whatever incredible about it. One day a sow belonging to a Mrs Fng happening to knock down and slightly injure the front door of a Mrs Wang, the latter at once proceeded to claim damages, which were refused. Whereupon a fieroe altercation ensued, which terminated in Mrs Wang's threatening to take her own life. Mrs Peng, upon hearing of this direful threat, resolved at once to take time by the forelock, and steal a march upon her enemy by taking her own life, and thus turn the tables upon her. She accordingly threw herself into the canal. And a friend with whom I rode a good deal in Peking told me that lb her day, hearing screams of laughter from Ii stable, he went to investigate. There be discovered that his groom and "boy " had caught a big isa, nailed its front paws to a board, soaked it in kerosine, set fire to it, and were enjoying the spectacle. But this is not so bad as one of the tricks of the professional kidnapper, who will catch a child in the street, carry it ofi to another town, blind it, and slum sell it for • professional beggar.  MARRIAGE& Eboator—BAntuainox.--Ou the th inst.. at gt. Paul's Church, Stockton-on-Tees. by she Rev, F. A. Born. \low, Mr James Her.ry Hardy to Miss Isabel ticnbeidge. both of titocktoa. /EA  'HS.  WA., at Norton. Jane t 11, Crou-strect, Stook  W 4.I.
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1889-03-30 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

MATRIMONIAL AGENCY  SWINDLE.  The chara.noristic Parisian swiudler ill matrimony has just lately been abroad. The moAt reeeut specimen of the set is a person called Venni, %rho sometimes called himself Vaunge, and at others evoked souvenirs of Swiss tours by introducing himself to customers as Von Iligi. He hal been a clerk in a large matrimonial warehowe in Paris, bnL, growing tired of a life of subordination and 81011.11 returns, he resolved to set up in business on his own aenonnt. His first step was to open a Hymeneal Bureau and to advertise. He announced in a newspaper that ho had on hand for the marriage market a young lady of twenty-tbree, with a trifle of .£lB,OOO as a d.d or dowry. It was stated further that the fair heiress, being rich, did not want money, but " position," and that she was a Protestant. Offers were received from You Rigi from nearly every European country. There were as suitors a Belgian captain of gendarmes. an Italian officer, a Justice of the Peace in Luxembourg, an Helvetian lawyer, and several Frenchmen, one of whom was a doctor at Atar,on. From each of these Von itlifi received contributions for his inforniation, which consisted principally in explaining the reason why the heiress adopted an abnormal method of finding it husband—this was because her father hao committed suicide. To all the suitors it was explanted, moreover, that the marria.:e would he adjourned until after the demise of the lisAy's grandma. The letters read in Court were of an amusing character. The Belgian captain re. marked that he was always inditing compositions in prose or poetry to Aan agini n try fair oe, and ho expressed an emiste the li hope that the young tri lady with e dui wool correspond and live up -to his ideal. The Italian officer, being a devout Catholic, hesitated before marrying a Protestant and a heretic, hoping, no doubt, to fmd somewhere else a more orthodox person to kiss, while a wealthy Collin distiller, considering the lady's lineaments, as set before him in a photograph, to Le those of a person rather advanced in years, forwarded fifty francs to Von Itigi for a fresh carte-de-visite. The distiller. however, had his suspicions, so had the Justice of the Peae ; and Von Rip was watched. It was incontrovertibly proved that the rich Protestant young orphan was a creation of hie fertile brein. He got off with a month's imprisonment.
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1886-04-03 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

GOSSIP.  MUSTARD AND CRESS.  (BY " DAGOMIT " IN THII " R/IFFABIi.")  The notorious Gore Pearl has just given her memoirs to the world. Gore was for years a famous (or infamous, if you prefer the word) demi-mondaine in Paris, and -lived in the most splendid guilt and the most guilty splendour during the palmy days of the Empire. After the fall of the Empire sho burst out again into notority owing to the attempted suicide of young Duval, who shot himself in her drawing-room, and, as she complained, "spoiled the carpet." For this Clors, was ordered out of France, and from that day she dropped rapidly down, and now she is poor and petal, and hopes to get a few bank-notes by the sale of her book.  The book is dull, and has no redeeming point. i It isn't even naughty—it is only brutal n the frankness with vvhioh the woman glories in the vast sums of money which she obtained from her admirers at the expense of their families. This money Cora squandered in the most reckless extravagance. Thousand upon thousands of pounds she would fling away during a fortnight's stay at a fashionable watering-place, and atm would spend over a hundred pounds on the flowers for table for a single dinner. The book is good reading as a moral lesson to the men who squander fortunes over worthless women of the Cora Pearl order. She boasts openly that she never cared a straw for one of them, and that while one "lover " wee mining himself and impoverishing his family to satisfy her extravagances she was playing the same game with h.alf a dozen others. 'Several letters frem her admirers are published, and some of them ars almost pathetio to A those who can read between the lines. They
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1858-10-30 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

EVATION OF THE GREAT WEN 7 MINSTER PEI L.011 Friday morurig the first sound of the 'great bell of Westminster was beard over tho metropelis. All the arr .ngenients packing and cradling having been compli ted, the bell was raised to the position in which it is to be permanently suspendsd. The suspension is of a temporary chaitteter, but quite sufficient to indicate what the result of the final step b.. As liooll as the bell was bung Mr. Quarm directed that a Royal salute of 2I "sounds" should be given, and this order having been comolie I wit'', the bed gave its first notice to London that it was ill its place and ready for work. Between each Wei e of the hammer the men gave three hearty cheers. Mr. Quarni designated the bell " St. Stephen, ' and by that name it will hereafter be known; '• Big Ben,' " Royal Victoria," and other names which have been speculated upon, having been at once and for ever abandoned. Love AND MUltDhat.—A deliberate murder is related in the Frankfort Journal as having been committed a few daps since at Munich, the victim being the ilaughter of a sculptor trained Saligniuetti. A young law student, named Fortier, had fallen in love %sit') her and, as he devalred of ever obtaining her hand, lie made an appointment with her iii a summer lonise in her father's garden, under pretence that lie uislied to bid her adieu before he left Munich. When he "net her he said that he had firmly decided to commit suicide, and asked whether she would consent to die with eat. This, however, she would not accede to, mid, after a time, she thought she had succeeded in dissuading him fruiu his since .1 lineations, and left him to return to her house. Sit • it'd not gone, however, more than a few )ards when he ran after her, tuid, discharging a Fisted point-lilank, killed her on the spot. Ile concealed !Muse I for a few hours in the fields, but afterwards went and surrendered himself to the authorities. DREADFUL Loss or Lira Kti
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1892-03-19 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

MIN ON PILE AND MAY BI FAXAMINED.  ASK YOUR FRIENDS AND NEIGHBOUR ABOUT IT.  SOLD BY ALL OFIEMIETP AND DINDICIN  PIMPNLET MAILED FREE ON AI'PLECATION TO II H. WARNER & CO. (LIMITED), IS, CIIKN WELL-ROAD, LONDON, E.C.  ever,  .. 301  2S  Nationaiisai  330  A Pitlsosen's• DwrraniNnii inquest was held on Tuesday ni the City Prison Holloway, on Daniel Bryant Cream, who imaged himself in his sell. The deceased was on remised ther., for ',waling it cheque yaks £42. On i'ridag evening he wee seen asleep, but at six next morning wan found hangiog from hie plank bed. He had coininitted suic:de with his own necktie, mid befare doirm so had written on his hat wi'.ll soap, "I am not guilty of the charge." The deceased had formerly been a valet, A verdict of "Suicide during temporary insanity " was ratans" I. ! TIM LanttirLoYND IN EAST LONDON —Ai • time when much thositit is being given to this matter, • practical suggestion may bs of eervice LOW year mom than 1.500,ti worth of foreign nialcbos wars purchased by inconsiderate con. Winters in tins country, to :be great itlSt7 Of our Own working people, so trait is it that 'evil is wrought by want of thonitei al well as went of heart," If all consumers weed purchase Driest and May's matches that Grin would be osanlel le pay 11.000 • week mere IS Cioi.n is Fonno in out-of So is geed Vieetelegitsie Stockton, Is • little oat of good Cheese these for C2wil Marriserfat Nee they are I Shea 'Nephew's lilted Med 11/- 'Ns does me goat"  . .  COUBILAN'II Lessio's rum Wawa —A 911 NAN ' kw by Parcels Pat tOr tted.mantala roo,ty.d (V an a aIDCo., LAsi Nottwicti. I  , nu.
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1892-08-13 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

LADLES. ias minsri nystagmus movaili, and thaterlenetey, limajdne. On the o moron, I am quits 000 t and ern. ,_._.-....... , suing these employed in coal mines is adhated, t'l, an lam alrell'll kerkled fee my lant i'mr•"' At the BrOinlef POLIO Court on Monday Leonard 'but on the queetien ef the muse of the dioesse and expect to ferry it through sonteettelly. Walter Scott, mushal director at Mitecles'eld =l., asher-aimn, Havelock - strut, 'opinions differ. In the Ophthalmological ftecti,,, ligemß irkin Theatre, spoke to the morose disposition of dm imt sn Common. .was oliehtr tea withteloalOugY I of the British }Lethal./ meeting at Nott:n,gharn la i ' l ioionsly shooting at Hilda Wood (.164 and I heetead at times, and their effort! to rouse bins oat ht,„ philbri,k ~4, with intent to murder, m week Dr. J. Court, of Btareley, gene the resell ..,! of this condition. On the night previess to his .7vhshst,_, thd'h. it.." beteekbrook Perm, Chiselhargs ' this investimatioas He began with fall bolt., death he missed two or three of his " ones" 1 hthe eo""hhil."'"wes•ferowheh, whilst acting, and one night levee the waiting. When he seemed lost in his is =will' C ' ht„;„„na*behrimeste`ea .ba see.twashneeha°Pianeedn'iwbb6shiotarwle' 7,..R... fawn:3er l'ltieh. P4lP°:lliri°•:wheothstibeDofria•t jathmille"tehhairnaue•adhtteudeawashy.""dlctrh'',' always pet his hand up to his heed. At his Wig, I hhh" buried in his hentialie. He ie. powerfully-bailt man mg. that nystegmes is the reser: loge vitro found two bottles which hod contained chlorodyne, which deceased took for dompleessiesa 1 "Peinnywitisaidtairedtha nehenaheine olir the 3rd instant he la the ltitilituci district there were cos . dire--eonstable the light with which the miner „, -The Jury returned a • erdiet that der.....md •-mm- • - hehthrit v- persons employed antlaw !round, and iii• • - ' twitted suicide whilst temporarily insane. I w•• takrima DY • man nanind • ig!tan her f al ' • • • , that a girl was lying moonscams in a held saw oer mlOOlB you in tors,: y I near Blackbrook Farm. He wens there and fonnil won over 30J,003. If, than:eons the pr. t... :. h Miss Philbr.ck lying in a pool ofblood. He lisS men su raring from that miners' nisei., ~ her conveyed on a hurdle to Viggen's Don'ts*, where anything hire what hi had found to eo, he saw Miss Woo/. dlui was ruinously ia,nred, an I Psr omit. in that Part of the rentrarli a ' i• tr.. bad-shot weenie en the Mit stile el Mr thee. 6he sionit enquiry into the surstect was re :u t e made a statement to him, and he afterwards in 1890-1 he loon,' that oat of obt men unit to arrested the prisoner on Higgs' Farm. Prisoner was lamps 164 had nyetegmus 127 night blindness gaud then remanded till Monday next. Mr Wood said his 61 ilhotoPleotass while among the 573 inee cteo _ __ 1 &Lighter would not be able, to attend for naked lions only 32 had nystagnins,l2night, La. inure than a Week.-Mr Bernard' Wilton, for mem, sal one PhotoPhohot, and of thee-132 elm 23
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1892-04-30 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

THE SENSATIONAL SUICIDE OF A  SUNDSRLAND MAN.  The coroner's enquiry into the tragedy at the Feathere Hotel, Liverpool, when Mr Henry Thompson, provision merchant, shot himself after attempting to kill the barmaid, Miss Gelliburn, wad resealed lsst Saturday. It had been adjourned at the re !nest of the jury for the attendance of Miss Geilibern, who had been shot in the head, and had to undergo an operation in the hospitab Miss Ueliiburn was present lent Saturday, and she appeared very ill ant weak, and was closely mud up. She was provided with a chair, and while giving her e.ideilCd was evidently desirous of avoiding the ga o of the crowded court. She said ski had known Thompson about twelve menthe before the tragedy. She for s nue time thought him a single man. She treated him the same as any other customer at the hotel. She did not remember eier beng out with bun He had neier threatened to commit suicide, and she had given him no cause to do O. Her mind was • total blank as to what took place on the day of the tr.igedy. She could remember whatever. She did not know that he hail a revolver, and did not know that he laid ever threatened her, and knew nothing of his state of mind. eplying to a juror, witness could not tell whether he was intoxicated or not on the day of the tragedy. She seemed to have been in a dream ever since.— Miss Geiliburn was thee asasted from Court by her relatives, anal the coroner summing up said he thought they had exhausted the evidence—The jury could not agree upon their verdict, but having retired they vturned into Court with a verdict that Thompson had met his death by a revolver shot fired by himself, but there was no evidence as to the state of liis mind at that tin*.
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1892-09-24 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

THE SENSATIONAL SUICIDE AT  DARLINGTON.  SCENE AT THE FUNERAL  The remains of the young woman, Isabella riesnison, Hank Top, Darlington, whose gen, sational end canned such a revolt to public feel ng last Tuesday, were interred at the ! West Cemetery on Thursday. The cortege did I not leave the residence until shortly after three I o'clock, but about 2.34) several hundreds of people, I principally women, had gathered round the door, I ant were discussing the details of the suicide with considerable &Mina:ion. There were five coaches and a hearso and as anon as the father of the deceui d appeared in the doorway the crowd set up a tremendous howl, inicgled with shouts of " Kick him outs" He hastily entered the first roach. and the erawd dosed in, stared through the windowa, which were stone. drawn up, &look their fists, and further indulged in shouts of "4'ruel old devil." Time ooriege proceeded in, the direction of Parkgate, and as soon an the first coarli arrived at the railway bridge a throng of women set up a howl from the walls • above. Many of the crowd followed tee procession through the town and into Weeks:tollgate, those left in the rear protnising R.:unison a warm re option on his rattly, At the cemetery a large crowd oi women Pale Unanimities in readies.., and ss tidos am, tfouniivin steppod out of the ouch they es% e e.g.s of basis's hatred. Time ceremony was allowed to proceed uninterrupted, but in the outsk,rts of the crowd onlookers were restless snit were overheard to remark, "I wish it ha I been him latest of her, poor girl," an 'He deserves Ipiching.” As they left the graveside much ' booing " was indulge 1 n. ani at Bsuk Top the pimple ra•heil out blocking up the gateway leading to Ilennison's house, and he had considerah e difficulty in forcing his way tairodgli the ' hostile crowd.