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The Shropshire Examiner and all round the Wrekin advertiser. — 1876-02-25 (Wenlock, Shropshire, England)

SHOCKING SUICIDE AT WARWICK. ; strictures only served to show the necessity for j each a Commission, to which the Government Oa Monday morning, shortly after ten o'clock, were quite justified in referring the consideration ' a youth named Frederick Clarke, a clerk in the of the subject, in order that it might be calmly employ of the Warwick Brewery Company, corn. , introduced, and not dealt with under the influence milted suicide br blowing his brains out with a , of erroneous popular excitement. pistol. The deceased, who was about twenty.two Mr. Forster followed, warmly supporting the years of age, was the son of respectable parents, I resolutiom residing in Friar-street, and held a responsible The Attorney General entered upon a review position in connection with the Brewery Com- of the logal aspects of the case. The popular I pany. Latterly he has been living at Learnin, idea that a slave who got on Board a British ship ton. He shot himself through the heol, and was free was, he said, not in accordance with must have died instantly. The act of self- International law. Mr. Whitbread and Mr. For. destruction was committed on the 1;:anal side, be. ster were eppysed to the highest authorities on tween Warwick and Leamington. ; that law  TERRIBLE EXPLOSION IN A FAtTORY.  A terrible explosion has just occurred in a piper manufactory at Toulouse, the washing wheel having blown up, driving off its two heavy doors, and completely wrecking the building, which covered an area of over 300 square yards, the result being the loss of life to a workman, serious injury to three others, and wounds or contusions to eight other persons, among whom are the three proprietors of the establishment and the station-master, who was on business in their office at that moment. Among those injured were a woman and a boy, whose clothes were torn in shreds. The cause of the accident is unknown; ! the machinery had just been examined to ascertain that the pressure was not too great.
The Shropshire Examiner and all round the Wrekin advertiser. — 1876-02-25 (Wenlock, Shropshire, England)

REMARKABLE SUICIDE OF AN INDIAN GENERAL.  Mr. Hardwick-e, coroner for Central Middlesex, held, the other day, an inquest on the body of i Alexander P. Le Messurier, a retired Major. General, aged 77, of Inverness-place, Bayswater. Captain James Le Messurier, of 41, Eastbourne. terrace, identified the body as that of his uncle, who had been in the Indian army. Deceased was in good health and spirits a month since, but seemed to be afraid cif a relative who controlled all liis movements. On Thursday last, witness, on hearing of his death, went to the house, but was forbidden an entry to view the body, and he had never been able to gain a sight of deceased until that morning, when he went with the jury to identify the body. Ile could not say what property deceased died possessed of, but he knew that he had £l,OOO a year as a pension, and the produce of some other property. The wife of the witness corroborated her husband's statements, and said the relative alluded to attended the deceased and managed his affairs, keeping all the money and signing the cheques. Deceased never had a farthing in his possession to the best of her belief.—Mrs. Ellen Quilt, who had known the deceased, said that a doctor first visited him one day last week, but on his arrival there did not appear to be anything , the matter with the patient. The relative mentioned sent her for the doctor on Wednesday, and told her to ask for the stomach pump, as the deceased had taken poison. Thomas Lee Messurier, cousin of the deceased, stated that for the last twenty-two months he had managed the affairs of his relative, who had up till lately enjoyed good health. On his becoming ill he was attended by Mr. Ledham, whom witness paid. On , Wednesday the deceased rang the bell, and then' said, "Tom, I am dying ; this will tell you," throwing down a letter, in which deceased said he was dying, and that he had been most unhappy, and then went on to money affairs. Deceased added that he had taken four ounces of laudanum. Witness at once sent for a •meatical I man, and everything was done for the deceased. His mind had been giving waw. Witness always gave deceased money when he asked for it.,-The jury returned a verdiet of "Suicide whilst of tin. sound mind."  The annual meeting of the Patent Nat and Belt Company was held on Tueeday at the. Queen's Hotel, Birmingham, under the presidency of Mr. H. D Pochen. The report showed that the net profit of , last year, including the balance from the previcius year, wa4„t51.716 De. lid. The dirtactors proposed It is now in contemplation to give the Prince of . to pay a dividend of Ito per cent. for the past year, and Wales a great reception in London when he returns to place .t 20,000 to the rpserve fond, making it from India. The City Council have been e0n.€50,000, and to carry forwr‘rd a balance of .23.744. sidting on the matter, and more will, be heard of it The directors' report was adopted and the dividend in a day or two. recommended declared.
The Shropshire Examiner and all round the Wrekin advertiser. — 1876-06-02 (Wenlock, Shropshire, England)

SINGULAR GIFT.—Mrs. Craik, the author of "John Halifax, Gentleman," is erecting a drinking fountain under a railway arch near her residence in Kent, with this singular addition--a constant supply of penny loaves and a money-box, the idea being that" human nature, original sin notwithstanding, will pay for what it takes." The case of Twvoroak v. Grant an! "then, winch is an action brought against Mr. Albert Grant and Messrs. Clark, l'unchard, and Co., contractors, to recover money which the plaintiff had paid upon shares in the Lisbon Steam Tramways Company (Limited), was resumed on Monday in the Common. Pleas Division. Sommvery remarkable evidence was given as to the payment Of sums of money to gentle. men connected with the city editorial department of some of the London newspapers. Cardinal Manning, preaching at 134 Mary's, Chelsea, on Sunday evening, exhorted women to seek after a true dignity of poeition---a dignity which did not consist in clamouring for rights and in running a race in the intellectual culture of man. Man and woman had a diverse perfection, and the union of these perfections made one perfection, which was in. dissoluble. Women -had a dignity and perfection of their own, which no man could imitate with., lowering himself. An effeminate man was an abonnnation ; a masculine, self-asserting woman was a monster. Woman had her sovereignty. Her king. , dom was her own hearth, and the home over which she ruled.  Mr. George Smith, the Assyria.n excavator, is expected home very shortly from his third expedition to Mesopotamia.—A thesarues. The Prince of Wales has presented portraits of himself and her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales to the officers of the Serapis. In a fire at Cincinnati, the well-known picture of the French painter Dubufe, representing the " Prodigal Sun," has been destroyed.  A boy, ten years of age, named James Stone, of Bridport, oommitted suicide by hanging himself, on Saturday. A monument to Bartolome Chrintofali, the inventor of the piano, has been placed in the Church of Santa Croce at Florence.  The second portion of the Wynn Ellis collection of pictures was sold on Saturday last, at Messrs. Christie, Manson, and Woods', and realised upwards of £10,300.  Mr. Chadwick, member for Macclesfield, presented to the town, on Saturday, a Free Library, containing upwards of 5,000 volumes, at a cost of £5,000.
The Shropshire Examiner and all round the Wrekin advertiser. — 1875-12-10 (Wenlock, Shropshire, England)

CANNOCK.  SCHOOL BOA RD.—On 11110,day an ordinary monthly meeting of the members of the Cannock Sehool Board was held at the Clerk's Aim Mr. F. H. Gilpin presided. and tho other members present were the Rev. T. W. Pelle, and Messrs. Hall. Jon.. Sharpe, and Gwynne.—A claim which had been received from Mr. Fellows for .210 for unexhausted interest in a piece of land on the Walsall.road. Cannock, on whioh it is proposed to build a Board School, was again brought forward, and the Clerk was instructed to expend a slim not exceeding £lO. the Chairimui remarking that it was optional whether Mr. Fellows gave up the land until Lady-day. 1877.—The seal of the Board was .ordered to be affixed to a mortgage for the repayment of a loan of £8.311 Ms. 9d., to be advanced to the Board by the Public Works LOILII Commissioners for the emotion of the Winiblebury and Hodneoford Schools also to a lease from Lord Anglesey for the site of the Rawnsley School.—A discussion was evoked by the reading of some correspondence which had passed between Mr. Gilpin the Clerk. and Mr. Foden, the agent to Lord Hatherton, as to the terms of sale. by Ms Lordship to the Board, of the Walsall-road site at Cannock. At the meeting of the Board in October it was understood that his Lordship would pay his own costs, and a minute to that effect was made.— The Clerk was now instructed to write to Mr. Foden, explaining that the Board so understood the matter. and stating that a letter which Mr. Foden had referred to had been laid before the Board.—Some routine business was transacted, and the Board separated.  The two &errant girls who were ecently found lyi% in bed near Portsmoutlj. with their throats cut, and sufterering from the effects of poison, have recovered enough to be taken into custody charged with attempting to commit suicide. They pleaded guilty, and said it was the result of disappointed love.
The Shropshire Examiner and all round the Wrekin advertiser. — 1875-09-24 (Wenlock, Shropshire, England)

THE MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE OF A YOUNG WOMAN FROM BRIDGNORTH.  The Body of Charlotte Peters, the young woman whose strange disappearance from her home at Bridgnorth, on Sunday, the 12th inst, under circumstances detailed in our last issue, was found on Friday evening, by Richard Roberts, master of a barge, in shallow water, at Danesford Creek, in the river Severn. The deceased was last seen alive about 6 o'clock on the night named, by William Jarman, of the Eardington and Oldbury turnpike gate. She was then alone. Evidence of this having been given, and the body being identified by the mother of deceased, at the inquest on Saturday, Reginald Pilkington was sworn and said: I am clerk at Messrs. Cooper and Purton's Bank. About ten minutes past eight on Sunday night last deceased and I stood talking together at the bank, and afterwards started for a walk. We went down Listley-street, and over "The Yards," by Mrs. Newall's ; we turned to the right into the Ludlow-road; we went up the Hundred House Bank, took the first turn to the left, and crossed into the Conduit-lane. We came down the lane, and crossed Paul's Pool Meadow into the main road, and went on down Salopstreet. At the top of Pound-street I wished her good night, and left her. It was about a quarter past nine. Our conversation was about her brother, and when turning down the lane at the left of the top of the Hundred House Bank, I recollect asking her where she was going to. She said something to the effect, as far as I could understand, "Drown myself." I said, "What makes you talk like that .? " but she made no reply. I did not think it necessary to press her for an answer, nor did I think any further of the remarks she made. I have never taken her for a walk before. I have never heard that deceased had complained to her mother of my being in the sitting-room, although I have been in the habit of going there, where she generally war- Ido not go into the bank through that remit I wish to state that I never had any improper intercourse with the deceased. My object in going into the sitting-room was to see the Binning/lam Daily Post. I ebserved nothing unusual in the manner of deceased on that evening. It is my duty to go to the bank twioe every Saturday.—Dr..William Thurafield said he had examined the body, and found no marks of external violence, beyond what might be accounted from the body striking the rocks or stones in the river. My opinion is that the deceased died from drowning, and from the evidence, had probably committed suicide. When at the infirmary some years ago she was a girl of strong imputes and determination. She once remarked to use, as to the scar on her face, " I would sooner die than not be like anyone else." From my external examination I have no doubt she was not pregnant.—The jury returned a verdict "That the deceased threw herself into the river Severn, and was drowned whilst in a. state of temporary insanity."
The Shropshire Examiner and all round the Wrekin advertiser. — 1875-05-14 (Wenlock, Shropshire, England)

MELA, 'HOLY SUICIDE OF A MILITIA STAFF SERGEANT AT PONTEFRACT. On Sunday morning much excitement was caused in Pontefract by the report that .Scetgeant William White, on the permanent stall of the First West York Militia had been discovered dead in the "Park Pond," at Poi. tefraet. It seems that a little after six o'clock on Scinlay morning Mr. J. D. Smith, hairdresser, of Pontefract, was taking his customary walk in the park and saw what turned out to be the deceased, partly on the surface of the water in the pond only some twelve yards from the lodge house at the entrance. The deceased was attired in mvilian's clothes. His hat was pressed tightly on hie head, and on being searched he had .1:21. 10.1 d. in his pocket. From the position in which the body was found, it is evident that the deceased must have deliberately walked into the centre of the pond, and laid himself face downwards into the water, which is only come IBin. deep. Wh.te was a pen-inner from the 2Ptii Regiment now located in Ireland, and in which regiment lie has at present a son a sergeant. He had belonged to the First West York Militia- about eight 3 ears. Ile had been much service, and wore three medals. Since the loath of his wife, come six or eight months ago, his mind appears to have become unged, and he had often said he could not settle down with his family of three children. Ae,rdingly he sold imp his homestead and left Pontelvact fonr months ago, and went to reside at his native plane, Cam, in Cdoucestershire. Apparently again feeling unsettled, he returned to Pontefract two months ago, and his services were again readily Sc. oepted as colour, sergeant on the staa by Captain Adjutant Hewitt. ,On Saturday he returned to his lodgincs,.and asked whether his children had had tiny. thing to eat. He appeared to be very low in spirit,, and visited one sok' two pnblie-hoeses aulbsefinently.• It would W•tu that he entered the water after eleven that night, his ;vete!: has icr strcipcd at o ,inarter.past t'ist hour. lie was i 7 years of   ./111.%Mr7.
The Shropshire Examiner and all round the Wrekin advertiser. — 1875-04-03 (Wenlock, Shropshire, England)

DEAN STANLEY ON THE REAL SACRAMENTAL PRESENCE. On Sunday morning Westminster Abbey was crowded to the doors long before ten o'clo,k.. There was full choral service, and the anthem "Now is Christ risen, and become the first fruits of those that slept," and the well kuown "Easter Hymn," were beautifully sung. The sermon was preached by the Dean, who took for his text the seventh verse of the first chapter of the First I" pietle of St John—“ The blood of Jesus Christ." The whole tenour of the discourse was to show that the words the "body "and the f• blood" ot Christ in the sacramental service were not, and could not, be taken in their literal sense. Both words were used to express the same general truth, namely, the inward essence of the Redeemer's character and sp,rit whilst here on earth, the very foundation of which was charity or love in its universal sense, without which men were, to all intents and purposes, dead in the eight of God. But there was, perhaps, a more specific meaning or significance in the u,e of the word the " blood" than in that of the "body" of Christ. The physical blood of Christ was the emblem of that which was so often expressed in the ancient Jewish law, that the blood was the life of a living creature. And the blood of Christ meant the inward essence of His character, or the most inward essence of the Christian society which represented Him, the life blood of Christendom Love, generosity, magnanimity, kindness, toleration, forgiveness, and a ho-4 of kindred viitnes were things of which the blood was the emblem, and of which the Divine life and death were the supreme fulttment. This was indeed the true blood. More precious than any ever brought by pilgrim or crusader in golden vessels from costly shrines—the love or charity cf God to man, the love or charity of MOD to one another.  The Rev. Mr. Sabben, vicar of Maston Lordship. in Yorkshire, com misted suicide at Brighton on Monday, by hanging himself. The deceased had been in a desponding state of mind for some time.  An inquest was held on Monday at Cardiff, before Mr. E. B. Reece, upon the body of Mary Jane Richards, who was murdered by her husband while in bed on Saturday morning last. A verdict of " Wilful murder" was returned a ainat the husband, who now lies in the Infirmary with a prospect of recovering. A Gott:test
The Shropshire Examiner and all round the Wrekin advertiser. — 1875-04-03 (Wenlock, Shropshire, England)

MURDER AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE IN CARDIFF.  A crime of this, nature was discovered to have been perpetrated at 200, Bute street, Cardiff, on Saturday. The perpetrator of the deed was a man named Richards, the mate of a vessel, but who had been out of employment, it is believed, in consequence of the lock-out now causing almost universal misery and distress in South Wales. The victim was his wife who, with himself, was in bed at the time of the occurrence. Their apartments were on the third story of the house, a hich is occupied by several families, and the first indlcation of the committal of the frightful deed was in the knocking against the partition wall of the poor wife, which was heard by the girl who was sleeping in the next room. The girl opened the door where the deceased was in consequence of the noisea she heard, and saw her struggling on the bed with the husband, who Isfts on the top of her cutting her with a clasp knife. This girl, whose name is Moulstone, states that the time of the occurrence was seven o'clock, and that she "mmediately gave th a alarm. Her patents, who dwell in the house. thought she was mad or that she had been dreaming, and gave no credence to what she said with reference to the deplorable affair. Another woman oh the premises then gave the c.. 1 trm, and the police were sent for. The woman died at about eight o'clock, and the man, who had cut his own throat, was conveyed in a precarious condition to the Infiru.ai7. There is no reason assigned for the acti, n of the murthaw ond that which he gave himself to the doctor, to whom he remarked that be did it for poverty. The woman was found lying on the b d in her nightdress, eitering in blood. The gash in her neck ^as a frightful one. The main artery was se, 232(1.  The Rev. Dr. Moine% one of her Majesty's cha• loins, last week, fell from a stone on which he was standing, and dislocated his shoulder.
The Shropshire Examiner and all round the Wrekin advertiser. — 1875-05-28 (Wenlock, Shropshire, England)

SUICIDE OF  A BARMAID.  The Clvsfer Observer says -We have had lately a hoax (the matrimonial one which very nearly ended in a tragedy, and now we hear of a tragedy which has almost ended in a farce. It appears that a young woman of very prepossessine appearance was some days before the races engaged as barmaid at a well-known inn in this city. This, ac3ording to our information, was her first time "out." although not her fire engagement as barmaid. Her parents, who are highly respectable people, lie in Northwich, and while in that town the young woman formed the tveriaintance of a gentleman who condescends at present • to act as a clerk to a law surveyor in a Lancashire town. The ra-fe week at Chester is a highly favourable time for such "dead sets" by young women, we are informed, and the particular barmaid, with her flaxen hair and blue eyes, succeeded in captivating a gentleman whose to,us in -ow is in Chester, greatly to the indignation of the individual we have before mentioned. How he got to hear of the affair we do not know, but telegrams passed at all events on the subject A few days since the young woman left her situation and went to reside with some relations not far from Dee ianc. She was rathet melancholy, and perased her old love letters for want of any more serious occupation. The next day, however, it would apt). ar that she made up her mind to tle off this mortal coil," and in order that her departure should be effected in the proper way, she sent to a druggist in Foregate street for six pennyworth of laudanum, saying, through a messenger, that this " medicine " was for the to)thache. Immediately on receiving the " medi. sine" the young woman (about mid day on the same day) drank three parts of it at a draught in the privacy of her bedroom. She, of course, became very ill, and an aunt with whom she lived, baying some susfoicion, tient for a medical man. Two medical men were soon in attendance, and, although the lady relative had been some time in making up her mind to send for a doctor, he succeeded in pumping up the poisonous liquid. The young woman's father was immediately telegraphed for, and he duly arrived in Chester, accompanied by a filmed. The wcgild•be martyr tx CuV.l was at once conveyed in a cab to the Northgate railway station, and 't is to be hoped thtZt the fresh air of the Wyches will soon recovez her from the effects of the rash act.
The Shropshire Examiner and all round the Wrekin advertiser. — 1875-10-01 (Wenlock, Shropshire, England)

BHOCKING SUICIDE OF A WELL-KNOWN COKE MERCHANT.  The village of Gospel End, near SedgleY, was, on Saturday morninA4, thrown into a state of great alasan. by the said intelligence that Mr. David Hill, a gentleman extensively known in commercial circles throughout the Midland Counties, had conunitted self-destruction. On inquiry the shocking news was found to be too tree. lf r 7 ears that Mr. Ilill, who resided at gospel Bud, got up about eight o'clock, pn Saturday mortfing!, and having washed and dressed himself, came downstairs. When his groom, George Shaw, saw him he wished him good morning, and inquired after his health—Mr. Hill having been poorly several days—to which me Hill replied that he felt "middling." When breakfast was ready, Mr. Hill could not be found anywhere, although looked after and called in every direction. The groom was sent in search of him, and as he did net readily find him he went up into the maltroom, which is a little way detached from the residence of I the deceased, and there, in the corner of a disused kiln he washorrified at finding the body of his master lying in some Ara*, hind bleeding from a cut in his throat.. Nati to the body was a dagger. Mr. Walker, surgeon, of Upper Gorhall, was fetched immediately on the discovery, but on his arrival life was extinct. 1 Dr. Best, of Bilston, the family medical attendant, was also there directly after tfie occurrence. The wound in the throat was a clean cut of about four inches straight across, and deep under the chin, the windpipe being completely severed. Before committing the rash act, deceased had taken off his hat, collor, and necktie, and laid them down on the door of the kiln. The deceased has been more or Itss unwell for some time, and was in a melanchdly and desponding mood at the time. No reason can be assigned for the act, as he was in affluent cirtutnstances, and surrounded with everything to render life enjoyable. It is stated that he passed a restless night, and it is generally said that the death of his wife a few months ago has much depressed his spirits, and dist he has frequently been, found to mourn her loss. Mr. Hill was for many yeiits an attentive and useful guardian of the poem of Sedkley, and he also creditably tilled other offices.