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The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1869-04-02 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

SUICIDE OF A FEMALE MISER.—Mr. Richards, the deputy coroner for Middlesex, held an inquest at the King's Head Taves!), Bow, respecting the suicide of Mrs. Harriet Gray, aged 81 years, a widow lady, who committed suicide by cutting her throat. The deceased poesessed property of the value of more than £40,000, but was nevertheless in the habit of denying herself the common necessaries of life. She kept one candle in the house, and whenever her nephew called upon her to see her she made it a rule to light it, but when he was going away she blew it out, as it was her habit to sit in the dark. The house in which she lived was in a filthy condition. The jury returned a verdict of "Suicide while 'as state of temporary insanity."  WARTS Wostir.—The following advertisement lately appeared in a contemporary: The advertiser, who has been a railway and general contra.tor for years, and has now very little to do, is led to believe that his slackness is entirely owing to its being contrary to his practical to fee the chairman, managing director, directors, engineers, .storekeepers, or the numerous other ollioials of the various public compsoies with whom he formerly did business. Ile, however, finds that to get orders, he must rlo as other peop!e do, end go with the stream, so he intends now "to go the whole hog." lie therefore begs reepectfudy to Infirm officials, and all who have the least interest to pre care olden, ihat he is filly prepared to treat Well them on the ns at liberal terms, and at the semo lime in the in, st p.lvata manner po,sible ; in fact to fur outdo Clic bar iatherte bean done by other par:its, who hive by auch mauls filled themselves with orders, while he is, as It were, starving.—Address, pro. paid, R. 1, Poet-dice, Bi-mingham.  r In
The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1869-06-18 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

PROFESSOR HUXLEY ON P HYSICA L G ICOGRAPHY.—At a recent lecture by this gentleman he said a volcano was not, as was generally supposed, a mountain, but a hole in the earth. The cone was simply the pile of ashes which had been cast up from the depths of the earth. The origin of the inflammable matter was probably due to the immense masa of molten matter seated at a depth of thirty miles in the earth. Earthquakes and landslips were due to the same cause as that which regulated the motion of ice under pressure on the surface of a pond. If the whole earth experienced a sensation of motion equal to that of the pulse of the wrist such a consequence would follow as to surpass anything that had happened up to the present time. The pillars of the Temple of Sampis in Sicily, and the root of the submerged forests on the coast of North Devonshire, and the successive strata of the London Basin were each distinct proofs of the action of the sea on the land.  THE FAILURE which has hitherto attended nautical expeditions to the Arctic regions has induced two Frenchmen, Messieurs Tissandier and de FouviCile, to undertake the daring enterprise of reaching the north pole in a balloon. The machine in which they are to embark on their perilous journey, appropriately named Le Pale Nord," is being completed in the Cuamp de Mars. This monster balloon, beside which the Geant would seem a mere toy, will contain over 10,000 cubic metres of gas, and is composed entirely of a cloth manufactured from caoutchouc which well allow Of great expansion in the rarefied nt,ata of the atmosphere. The seams uniting the different pieces form a total length of three English miles. The car, a marvel of strength and lightness, is constructed to carry ten passengers, 4,000 pounds of ballast, and provisions for 11 month. ANOTHER CoNnesroN OF MUnDER.—A confession of murder is reported from HulL Thirty.three years ago an old woman named Lister disappeared mysteriously from Stockton.on-Tees, and some months afterwards her dead body was disco,:ered in a hedge. Her only son, who bore a bad character, was suspected of having murdered his mother, the suspicion arising mainly from the circumet ince that on the Morning before her disappearance the old woman said her eon was pursuing her to murder her and to rob her of two pounds. At the coroner's inquest an open verdict was returned, the jury inclining to the opinion that the deceased had committed suicide, from the fact that a razor was found lying beside the body. The sm died a few days ago at Hull, and confessed on his death-bed that thirty.three years ago he murdered his mother in a plantation at Elton, near Stockton-on-Tees.
The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1869-06-18 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

ATTEMPTED MURDER AND SUIWDE. An inquest was held last week at Leicester, on Thomas Carvell, a coachman, aged 36, who shot himself in that town on the previous Saturday niter having attempted to take the life of his wit). The affair created considerable excitement, a report being current that the deceased, suspecting his wife of infidelity, entered the house in her absence and secreted himself. In a short time the wife came in accompanied by a man, and when they had been in the house a brief space, deceased emerged from his concealment, fired a pistol at his wife, and then tuned the pistol upon himself. While the inquest was proceeding a large crowd of persons of both sexes surrounded the inn where the inquiry was beiog conducted, and created a great disturbance by hooting, yelling, &c. When the widow left the inn it was found to be necessary to escort her to her home, and a strong body of police, told off for this duty, had considerable difficulty in shielding her from the fury of the mob. In her evidence before the coroner Mrs. Carvell positively denied • the truth of the report which had been circulated. She stated that her husband had been in the service of Lord Earners, of Closall, for four years, and left his situation last Saturday week. He bad been drinking heavily since that time, and on Saturday afternoon, as he was going up stake, she followed him, and on arriving at the landing he presented a pistol at her head. She leaped down•ataire and ran out of the house. After remaining at a neighbour's some time the went to the police station and gave information of what had occurred. In the meantime a report of firearms having been heard in the house, a doctor was sent for, and on the parties enteliug the house again they found deceased lying quite dead on the bed, with the pistol in his right hand. Se Lai slut h m.elf in the mouth, the pistol having • been loaded with shot. Mrs. Carvell was closely questioned as to whether her husband had not accused her of unfaithfulness but she emphatioally denied that he bad ever mentioned such a thing to her. The jury re. hurried a verdict to th, effect that deceased committed suicide whilst in ma unsound state of mind,
The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1873-08-01 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

YOUNG AND HIS WIVES.  A young woman named Sarah Rowley, wife of a farmer at Tunstall, Staffordshire, murdered her child, a fine boy 16 months old, on Saturday, and then committed suicide. Sho rose at her usual hour, and assisted in milking the cows, but not appearing at breakfast, a search was made for her. She and her infant were found in her bed room with their throats cut from ear to ear, the blood rushing out from the opou wounds in streams. A doctor was at once called in, but both mother and child died in an hour and a half. The only cause assignable for the catastrophe was, that on Friday night there was a dispute between the husband and wife on account of her drinking habits, upon which he had remonstrated with her before. In the hope of frightening her out of the habit, be threatenel to leave her; and followed up his threats by going away, intending to stay away only for a day or so. This seems to have affected her mind, and caused her to commit the double crime of murder and suicide. _ .  A telegram from Salt Lake City, Utah, dated the 16th inst., and published in the New York papers of the 17th inst., says:—" A great sensation was caused here to-day by an announcement in the Jon rnal that Ann Eliza Webb Young, the seventeenth wife of Brigham Young, had for ever left him, carrying off her furniture and personal effects. Brigham will endeavour to replevin the goods. Mr. Young is at the Walker House, and three leading lawyers are about to institute a suit for divorce and alimony is a large sum. Great revelations are expected concerning the inner domestic life of the Prophet. Mrs. Young is enjoying the sympathy of the Gentile ladies, and polygamous Mormons area good deal disturbed."  lay in patches several inches deep, collecting in hollows until it found vent through the natural surface channels, meanwhile soaking into the peaty substratum until the soil became thoroughly satu_ . _
The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1873-04-11 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

THE CENTRAL GLAMORGAN GAZETTE--FRIDAY, APRIL 1873.  ATTEMPTED DOUBLE MURDER AND SUICIDE IN BIRMINGHAM.  On Monday morning a dreadful crime was ' attempted in Birmingham. A man named Robert George Schofield, .50 years of age, had lived for some time unhappily with his wife, owing to her having some property under the will of a former husband, which he wished to deal with, but was unable to obtain possession of. Latterly Schofield and his wife have lived apart. Yesterday morning about ten o'clock he was seen by a little girl to be loitering about the corner of Hyde rcad, Ladywood, where his wife lived with her daughter, and to conceal under his coat a pair of small revolvers. Presently Mrs. Schofield, accompanied by her son, started out on her weekly errand of collecting the rents of her property. As she came near her husband, he took a revolver from under his coat, and fired three shots rapidly, one at his stepson, one at his wife, and one at himself. The young man and his mother were both shot in the face; their assailant shot himself in the head, fracturing his skull. The three were conveyed to the Queen's Hospital, and it was found that Schofield had in his pocket a revolver loaded in three barrels, besides the revolver with which he had fired, which had been leaded in all six chambers. At the Hospital Mrs. Schofield was found to have the bones of her face smashed, and the bullet could not be found. Her son had his jaw broken and sweral teeth destroyed; the bullet was found and extracted. On the assassin the operation of trephining was performed, a piece of the skull having been driven into the brain. His case was considered hopeless, and he was understood to be dying when our parcel left.  AN
The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1873-08-29 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

METHODIST MINISTERS FINED FOR OBSTRUCTING THOROUGHFARES. At the Darwen Police Court, t .e Rev. James Crompton and the Rev. John Hawmth, Primitive Methodist ministers at Darwen, were summoned for obstructing the footpath on the Sunday afternoon previously, when they held open air services. They were each fined, and in default of payment were ordered to be imprisoned for seven days. Both chose to go to gaol till their friends paid the fines. It was afterwards resolved to makes public demon. stration against "the persecution" to which the preachers had been subjected. This demonstration took place on Saturday evening in the Co.operative Hall, Darwen. Mr. John Walmsley presided. The Rev. J. Vaughan, of Blackburn, moved:—" That this meeting, regarding open-air preaching to be a divine appointment, records its thanks to Almighty God for the great success with which He hit.i been pleased to bless the delivery ce His Word in the open air in this and other countries, ever since the introduction of Christianity up to the present time." —The Rev. M. S. Ellis (Wesleyan minister), seconded the motion, which was enthusiastically carried.—The Rev. J. Travis, of Bolton, moved t " That in the opinion of this meeting, taking into consideration the drunkenness and its attendant en i s—Sabbath•breaking and non.attendance at divine worship by a great mass of our countrymen, there is much need for a continuation of open-air preaching, and of active efforts to bring sinners to Christ."—This was secondet by the Rev. It. Lyon and carried.—The next resolution was, That in the opinion of this meeting it is the duty of the magistracy of this country, as well as of all good citizens, to protect and foster open•air preaching, seeing that such efforts are calculated to lessen vice and misery, save the country lunch expense, and the officers of the peace much trouble. t Righteousness exalteth a nation. lint sin is a reproach to any people.' "—The llev.l.lr. Crompton then gave an account of his experienci whi st in custody. His collar and tie, penknife, &e... were taken from him first, and he was out into the cell; before entering which, however, he asked them if they would want his shirt. On being put into his cell, minus the articles taken from him, he sang with great fervour "Praise God from whom all blessings flow:'—itlr. Haworth said that as he was being taken through the streets handcuffed to a navvy, he (Mr. Haworth) spoke to him about his conversion. The navvy told him it he did not "shut up" he would break his arm. The gaolers were very kind.  An interruption to communication by Atlantic cable has taken place near Newfoundland. ATTEMPTED SUICIDE BY A CUILD oi
The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1873-12-12 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

DISTRESSING SUICIDE OF A WESLEYAN MINISTER'S WIFE.  The wife of the Rev. William Hugh Evans, a Wesleyan minister, resident a Dolgelly, and formerly of Llangollen, committed suicide under very distressing circumstances on Saturday night. She was subject to melancholia, and within the lasttwo years she had twice been an inmate of the Denbigh Lunatic Asylum, from which she was discharged about three months ago. Fearing a relapse, she had since that time been constantly w.atched by her sister. About ten o'clock on Saturday night, during her husband's absence at Aberdorey, where he had gone to preach on the Sunday, she went upstairs into a bedroom, telling her sister that she was going to look for some articles of clothing for the children to wear on the morrow. When she had been absent about five minutes her sister called to her, and she replied that she would come downstairs in a minute or two. She was then heard to go into the watercloset and shut the door. In a few minutes the sister, hearing a fall, rushed upstairs and found Mrs. Evans lying on the floor with her head almost severed from her body, and a wound on her left side in the region of her heart. Dr. Jones was at once called in, but death must have been instantaneous. filer preparations bad been of a most determined and deliberate character. She had secreted a large carving knife, and had carried into the water-closet a bucket of water and a cushion, on which her head was found resting. She was a native of Holywell, and has left a family of nine young children. The inquest was held at Dolgelly before Mr. Griffith Jones Williams, the county coroner, and a verdict of "Committed suicide when in a state of temporary insanity" was returned.
The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1873-08-08 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

SUICIDE OF AN ABSCONDING CLERK NEAR BRIDGEND. On Tuesday evening last, Police-constable Prothero arrested a man named .Thomas Rees, in a field at Penyrallt, near Bridgend, on a charge of embezzlement. The officer had scarcely taken the prisoner into custody when the latter took a knife out of his pocket, and, drawing it across his throat, inflicted a severe wound; and was in the act of making another gash when he was prevented. Other officers haa been on the look out for Rees, and after a short time Prather° received assistance, and the knife was taken from the unfortunate man, but even then he made frantic efforts to get his hands inside the wound which he had made, and widen it. He was eventuallytaken to Bridgend, and medical aid being procured, his wound was attended to. On Thursday morning, on an officer arriving from Liverpool in reply to communications which had been made, it was thought the prisoner was well enough to accompany the officer, and he was accordingly despatched. It seems that about seven weeks ago Rees, who had until then been occupying a respectable position as a clerk in the offices of the Messrs. Barring, cotton manufacturers, of Liverpool, took advantage of the facilities which his situation afforded him to collect moneys to the amount of £l3, the property of the firm. With this he absconded, and coming into this district, has since been working in a meaner capacity in the employ of the Llynvi, Tondu, and Ogesore Coal and Iron Co. By this means lie hoped to evade the law, but the police authorities in Bridgend having received information of his whereabouts, the search was made, with the result indicated iabove. We understand that as soon as he has recovered Rees will take his trial in Liverpool on the charge of embezzlement.  One of the most wonderful escapes in the die aster was that of Miss Louisa Elizabeth Ann Anson and Miss Elizabeth Georgina Arson, daughters of the ill-fated Sir John. Beyond a severe fright neither lady sustained any harm, although their father, in the same compartment, had one side of his head smashed in, and their maid, Miss Arlett, and the baronet's valet, James , I`,lo, also sustained fatal injuries. The n„ baronet, who bore no marks of injury except on the face and head, by which he was dreadfully disfigured, was found lying jammed beneath a carriage on the platform, and was dragged out by Dr. Jackson. Sir John was insensible at the tim ‘, and remained in a state of unconsciousness up to his death.
The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1873-02-28 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

SUPPOSED SUICIDE AT MAESTEG.  On Sunday morning the body of Charles Hasencratz was found in the Llynvi-pool, in an upright position quite dead. The deceased who was a travelling clock and watch maker, Etc., was well known in this district, more particularly by the name of Matt, he having been connected with a firm trading under the title of "Matt and Co." Deceased had of late years been unfortunate in his business relations, and was greatly addicted to intemperate habits, and of late had got rather destitute. His circumstances preyed upon his mind, and coupled with the habitual use of ardent spirits, his brain had become softened, and there is reason to fear that the melancholy incident which terminated his , existence was a premeditated act. There was no money found on the person of deceased. When the body was discovered it was conveyed to the Oddfellows' Arms, where an inquest was held on Tuesday before Rowel Cuthbertson, Esq., (coroner). The first witness called was the wife of the deceased. She said that she lived at Pontypool; the deceased was her husband; he was about 37 years of age. The last time that she saw him was about two and a half years ago. Alfred Devonald, fireman, Maesteg, said that he knew deceased by sight. Witness was going by the Llyuvi-pond on Sunday morning, and went to the edge to see how much water was in it, and found the body of deceased in a standing position in the water. The body was covered by the water with the exception of part of the head. The eyes and nose were under water, but the hat of deceased was out of the water by the side of the pond. The body was almost five yards from the edge; the depth of water was about live feet. Witness helped to get the body out ; the deceased had all his clothes on. There were no marks on the edge of his having fallen  in. Ann Anthony, landlady of the Talbot-arms, 'I said deceased was in her house on Saturday night, and had two pints of beer to drink; he left about half-past ten o'clock; he was quite sober then.. He did not say that he would destroy himself ; neither was there anything strange about him. Deceased told witness he was tired, and he did not look well. No one went out with deceased from her house. The pond was abont half-a-mile from there, in the direction of The Garn, where deceased told her he lodged. Bernard Basencratz, brother of the deceased, said that the mind of his brother appeared to be giving way for the last two years. He drank freely. / The jury returned a verdict of "Found Dt ea," on the recommendation of the Coroner.
The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1873-12-26 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

LATE 11.1.1L1V AY COLLISION AT ITORD. SUICIDE OF THE SIGNALMAN.  A very painful feeling was excited in Retford on Monday, by the report that the signalman at the tower signal station at Retford had committed suicide in consequence of a belief that he was in some way or other connected with the fearful collision between a fish train and a passenger train at Retford Station some months ago. The name of the unfortunate man was Ch eel: Whitehead, and he was in many respects elnsiderably above the average of railway servants in point of intelligence and good conduct. He has been twenty-two years in the railway service, and was a trusted official. For some time past the deceased has been in a very sponding state of mind, and has on more than one occasion declared his intention to make away with himself. Some short time ago he saw Dr. Asbury, who took a good deal of interest in the caw, and who was at the time of the unfortunate occurrence endeavouring to procure interest with the railway company to have the deceased removed from Retford—in the hope that change of scene might cure his despondency. Whitehead went to the Parish Church on Sunday evening, and was then cool and collec ed. lie was very quiet in his demeanour after service, and went soon to bed on Sunday eveniug. He had, however, secreted a pistol beneath the pillow, or in some equally obseu& place, for immediately after breakfast on Monday, in the temporary absence of his wife, the unfortunate man shot himself. Mrs. Whitehead heard a shot, and instantly rushing in, she saw her husband on the bed weltering in blood. He had placed the pistol in his mouth, and deliberately fired, the shot taking effect in the roof of the mouth, and the brain was carried away. Dr. Asbury was at once sent for, but the deceased was dead. It appears that ever since the fatal collision the deceased has been in a very disturbed state of mind. At the Board of Trade inquiry Colonel Rich put some very searching questions to him as to why be did not threw the fish train on to the curve at the goods sheds rather than allow it to run into the Sheffield passenger train; and he was a good deal put about. He has since mid more than once that when he saw the fish train I come dashing on, and knew the inevitable conse queue% he would rather have been in the passenger train and in the smash than in his box aloft. I Since the accident at the station he has grown I much thinner—he was before a tall, stout, snd well-conditioned man. The deceased went to Mr. West, gunsmith, a day or two ago, and purchased ' a pistol, unknown to any one, and it was with this weapon that he committed the fatal act.