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The Sun. — 1854-08-09 (London, England)

THE ESHER MURDER.  TRIAL OF THE MURDERESS.—(THIS DAY.) GUILDFORD, Wednesday. This morning, at the assizes held here for the county of Surrey, Mary Ann Brough, aged 43, was indicted in the Crown Court, be' fore Mr. Justice Erle, upon six several indictments, for the wilful murder of her children, Georgiana Brough, Caroline Brough, William Brough, Henry and Harriet Brough, twins, and George Brough, at Esher, in az° county, upon the 10th of June.  The prisoner was brought down from Horaemonger" lane, in the custody of Mr. Keen, the governor, by t.ll train which left London at 7 o'clock, prior to the trise commencing. She was placed in a room at the rear- 0 the court ; she was respectably attired in good eel mourning. She did not seem to take much notice °A any one around her, beyond occasionally looking roan': with a troubled and somewhat wild expression of soon tenance. .The court, which is not over large, was 'l2°9 inconveniently crowded. Precisely at 9 o'clock, Mr. Justice Erle took his "it and. the prisoner was placed at the bar. Upon .the several indictments being read, she, with a firm 1/431Ce' pleaded not guilty; and having done: so to each of the indictments, she sat down in the dock apparently not at all affected.  She is a woman of a dark and sallow eompleli°7 about the middle height, and not of a very preposs!s ing appearance,  Mi. Bodkin and Mr. Robinson appeared for the prci' secution, and Mr. Edwin James and Mr. Hawkins wet° for the defence. Mr. Bodkin, in his opening address to *the jurY, de; tailed the circumstances under which the murders Wert committed by the prisoner. The defence he knew :1.h140 was about to be set up was not a denial of any cu "facts, but that the unfortunate creature was, at the ti!: of committing the act, in a state of insanity. A1).71,4 that, they (the prosecutors) had no evidence. She Jilt seen upon the afternoon preceding the dreadful mger at the cottage, and there was nothing in her maim then that seemed strange. It appeared that shet to children to bed, and also wound up the clock in ,ea evening. It seemed likewise that she contemplavh, suicide, as she had written a letter to her eldest daug'% ter, who was in place, leaving her some things in a / in which the letter was found. She denied in that letterr the improper conduct imputed to her, and said that 111, husband intended to get money out of the man v",„ whom she was accused of having an improper intiteacL; The learned counsel having explained the law of lunew in criminal cases, concluded his address. Henry Woolgar, examined by Mr. Robinson, corrcr borated the statement of the learned counsel. The evidence, with which all our readers are familiar, having been concluded,  Mr: Edwin James rose to address the jury for ,tll° prisoner. _. _  The verdict will be given in our third edition.
The Sun. — 1854-06-24 (London, England)

CIIMBERLAND.—MeacIow ha 21 123 to 51 5s ; clover ditto, 31 lOs to 61 Os; and straw, 1116 s to 2/ 23 per load. Supply tolerably good, and trade rather dull. and straw. 1116 s to 21 23 per load. WaITECHAPZL.—Meadow hay, 2110 s to 51 N; clovero ditto, 3/ lOs to 6/ Os ;. Both hay and straw moved off elowlr, at our quotations.  '."""---"..."-----------EXTRAORDINARY Sulcinn. 67 Wednesday Mr. VVakley held an inquest ylebone on Stephen Hurst, himselfr to death under the ibnl.:d ra a tailor, aged 60, who from melancholia, left his sister-in. following circumstances :—Deceased, who for ulnae yearslaw hpoa.usste,stiffqod remarking to her that she would never see She took no notice of the observation, him again alive.. she considered it merely the result of despondency, asn n vet- for a moment suspected he intended to destroy his life, although a few years since it was stated he attempted suicide by hanging. *Upon leaving his sister. in.litw's, ho wont home and retired to rest. The following morning suspicion was aroused at his nonappearance, and, on his room being entered, the ue. fortunate man was discovered lying on the floor in a large pool of blood, which had flowed from a small wounit made with a razor in the side of the neck. Dr. Josephs, who was instantly called in, found him dead. A basin, half full of blood, also stood on a chair near the deceased, and Dr. Josephs, upon a subsequent exarnink• tion, discovered that the act was a most deliberate one, the wretched man having stood over the basin and made a small incision in the jugular vein, from which blood rapidly flowed, causing exhaustion and death. The post mortein, examination showed sufficient disease to prove that the deceased suffered from a_ morbid imagine. etur tion, and the jury unheEitatiogly rued a Yerdi rct of ' ' a Ini laity,', _ _.—
The Sun. — 1854-09-07 (London, England)

THE FATAL ACCIDENT ♦T SHOEBURYNESS.—In the account which appeared yesterday of the melancholy accident at Shoeburyness by the bursting of a 56-pounder gun, 11 feet long, (and weighing 98 cwt., it was stated that colour-sergeant Rose and Repository-sergeant Lee had both died on the afternoon of the same day on which the accident occurred, owing to the severe injuries they bad sustained. Pay Company•sergeant Williams bore the injuries be sustained with such courage that it was at first hoped he would recover, although it was known that his right thigh was broken and would have to be amputated. Unfortunately on his removal on a shutter to the hospital to have the operation performed, it was found that his left [arm had been shattered, and it was apprehended that, if it was indispensable to amputate the arm also, there could be but slight hopes of his recovery. The contents of a letter, received from Shoeburyness yesterday, communicate the intelligence that he died on Tuesday, the day after the accident took place. The three sergeants were all remarkably finelooking and well-conducted men ; they had all been martied and had families, and two of them have left widows to mourn their loss. Colour-sergeant Rose has left a family but no mother to take care of his now orphan children, as he buried his wife about a fortnight ago, she having died of cholera.  DISTRESSING SUlClDE.—Yesterday morning a man named Thomas Bowes committed suicide at No. 140, Lambeth-walk, under the following circumstances : It seems that the deceased was in the service of Mr. George Webb, butter and bacon merchant, of Highstreet, Shoreditch, who recently opened a shop in Lambeth-walk, and of which deceased had the sole management. Webb's affairs becoming embarrassed, be was declared bankrupt about a fortnight back, the deceased, who occupied apartments in the house, being left in charge of the property until the appointment of assignees. The deceased endeavoured to obtain another situation, but failing to do so he yielded to despondency. On Monday night he gave his wife all the money he had, telling her to take care of it. The next morning he went down to the cellar where the butter and bacon were kept. His wife, alarmed by his long absence, followed, but finding the door locked she called another lodger, when, on forcing open the door, they found the man lying on the floor in a pool of blood, which flowed from a terrific gash in the throat, inflicted by a knife, which lay by his side. Life wail not wholly extinct, but before medical aid couid be procured he had expired. The deceased, who was about forty years old, iwas considered to be a most trustworthy servant. The wife and six young children are thus rendered wholly destitute. The police have taken charge of the property on the premises until transferred to the custody of Webb's assig
The Sun. — 1854-08-18 (London, England)

THE CO.NDRIINED MURDERESS AT CHESTER.—SinCe the departure of Mr. Baron Martin from Chester, who before he left declined signing the warrant for the execution of Sarah Featherston, convicted at the last assizes of the murder of her child, no communication with reference thereto has been received' from the Secretary of State. Soon after her conviction she admitted her guilt to the chaplain, *ho has been exceeding kind and attentive to her, and made a stateem thatthe aboutu r , se nurse, not statement n t timeto theshe following took away eff et cht e child. not knowing what to do with it, she turned to her Bible for consolation. She accidentally opened upon a Sfie from says chapter in Deuteronomy where it is said—"A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord ;"her uninstructed mind applying the words to her own case, became more deeply affected, and as she sauntered along with the child she was compelled occasionally to sit stbieed the bricks up in at last formed the down and relieve herself a flood of tears. More sensibletal rtehsanolvce overfomf her degradation, it, adationC and its dress as related in the evidence. She then placed it in the pond, and it floated a little and afterwards sunk. Becoming conscious of the awful crime she was committing, she seized a willow branch which lay beside her, raC G and attempted to drag the child back to the shore, but RAILWAYAfe ndshe haeAlt n trainlA s it was now out of her reach.—C7teBter Courant. SUICIDEd a. —t theO n Lincolnthe station r r i a l of tiiem anclNhes on Thursday afternoon, at 3.30, on opening, a firstclass carriage the officials were horrified at finding in it a gentle Man quite -dead, and a bnttleLof,poison by the side His name is unknown. The body awaits an inquest.
The Sun. — 1854-10-11 (London, England)

SUICIDE OF A MERCHANTS CLERK. PAINFUL CAbE.  Yesterday morning an inquest was heldobeefboroedyMerf. W. Carter, coroner for East Surreer, i? Mr. William Bailey, jun., aged 19, merchant, of of Mr. Hardcastle, colonial m employment a clerk° in the emEastcheap. dinepreessceodrainpamnyinodf deposed be saw his son alive on Thursday 13 • th Mr. William Bailey, the .father of theevdeencienasa,eda,boduethbials half past and when he first came home, said, Well, father, you etren oH'cleoctkh,ewn haepnpehaereledftvheirr;„ , have not met me as Mural," and appeared ill. After a grematadtalthoe followinglpressingbysttlaietecmoernot :—I coroner and jury, possible, but I cannot in do so ju • stice to the memory of my son, His feelings shield the Bailey ycharacter of my wife if have been fearfully worked upon in consequence of the conduct of his mother. (The witness was here very C a ieweit te cliaeei et hocia engrdwi theetmohny eevf, tie and every sidtat uromrt of cahldtei oes, much affected, and fsaswhcoeten,e, neglected ehige: .11)iner paerwvoiadcyuenrweceitdhsrlitntaikltlig; however trifling, to indulge in her propensity. I have endeavoured to prevent her from drinking by becoming a total abstainer myself, but without effect, and my son was a young man of sober, kind, and steady habits. On Thursday lest, when I left the &ceased with his mother in the parlour she was fearfully intoxicated,' and a short time afterwards she cried out that her son was going to leave her. When I went into the parlour again the deceased was greatly affected, and ran out of the house, saying that he cculd not bear it any longer. I never sew my child again alive. The great dread of my son was that his mother would, hi one of her fits of drunkenne3s, go to his place of business and disgrace him. I have no doubt that his mind being wrought to a pitch of madness he committed suicide. The Coroner sail that the case was one of the most affecting he had ever heard, and he hoped that Mr. Bailey would, if possible, get the rector, or ono of the curates of the parish of St. Mary, Newington, to point out, to the mother of the poor youth the fearful consequences of her depravity. Me. Bailey said he would do so, but he felt the death of his only child was a dreadful price to pay for the reformation of his wife. After a short consultation, the jury returned a ver. diet of " Temporary insanity."  in the action on the Alma, the colours of the Scotch Fusilier Guards had 2G !Alas through them. The.staff of the colours was broken ; but Mr. Lindsay held fast, as cool as a cucumber, and esoaped without a wound.
The Sun. — 1861-05-16 (London, England)

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The Sun. — 1861-05-25 (London, England)

MURDER AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE IN FLINT- Mid. Bradford Prefer-50 Pen. & Oriental Steam all 70 72 Midland 94 96 e suIRE.-An extraordinary tragedy, writes a correspondent, once Stock lOO 50 DO. New 3O 12 13 h Nevernarkt Bury Ex. 155 a E Counts. i 413 20 Red Sea&ln.Tel.g.4lp.c all 17 18 174 e as been enacted at Summer Hill, Holywell. An aged gua. 5 percent -- •" E. Iron all 164 171 4 a couple, named Edwards, retired to rest on Tuesday even. Northn.&Eastn. sp. c. all Do.. 55 57 - 50 RhymneY 15 Do. NeW all 11 5 DO' 6 p a il Steam 46 3 47 i a jog, and on the following morning, on a neighbour entering Do. Fixed 5 p all a b'oo.. - - 100 Royal Ma Inv. Lim.) 1006 d their house, both were found with their throats cut. The North Wxestern • c•-. all Midland 151 16 st. !Scot. Austin. . f_ _all 127 130 25 ;South Australtanernd BB .14 husband, Thomas Edwards, who was 80 years of age, was Preston and Wyre, all A L.Yk. j - - 1 ISubraarit,te 'F,I.: .se , p all 2 dual ,- ; 1-... t 1:,:::, wifc, whc, i- 7,7; 3,%':,,,.,, ki, ..j.:, \vat: alive, and 2,0: i Shstres . . ... .A. all Do. - I Do. do- 'Ac`'l6llc.' ...: all 5 L 3 likely .1) •shi.-tiLteii. .. Shep 100 Gt. North `l3O l'3'2 10 Do. ney of 1 raarka ely to recover, Little is known respecting this re- Shrewsbry& Ifereford Do. 100 T.Brassey 117 122 10 Trust and Age 1 Austrlasia (Alien) Ist is. 4 1. do. 1 Do. 14 1/ an. 5 - s haB blo occurrence ; but it is stated that the o'd woman S.-Staffordshire all M'Clean... 101 11 14 20 Tr.& Ln.Co. of Upr•C ht confessed that she murdered her husband, and then Wilts and Somerset,,s U. K'dom Tel. Co. (lien.) Itdip -4 attena 100 Gt West. 89 91 ell 1.4011(1 v. 24 9"e Pted to destroy herself, i Vilinbletlon dicroyft. au Laorgth 81 91 100 Y 51114041 -
The Sun. — 1861-08-03 (London, England)

THE MURDER AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE AT HOLYWELL.  Sarah Edwards, 77, was charged with the witi'ul murder of her husband, Thomas Edwards, aged 80, at Holywell, on the 224 of May last. Mr. Swetenbam and Mr. Vaughan Williams prosecuted; Mr. Morgan Lloyd defended the prisoner. The prisoner was accommodated with a seat in the dock, and the cool and collected manner in which she demeaned herself during the proceedings was. most remarkable. When asked to plead she said in a firm voice, " Not Guilty." The court throughout the hearing of the case was inconveniently crowded. The facts of the else were short and very plain. .It appeared that the husband of the prisoner was an old man, and had been ill about four months previous to the 22i of May last. The prisoner end tier husband had always been on good terms; they ,had had no quarrels, but, on the contrary, so far:as was known, had lived comfortably together. Latterly they became in indigent circumstances, and received relief from the parish. On the 20th of May they were seen by a person named Ann Matthews, a rteighbour ; deceased was in bed ill, and the prisoner conversed with Matthews about sonig washing, which she (Matthews) was in the habit. of doing for prisoner and her heshsnd. On the following day Mrs. Matthews went to the house but was not admitted, the prisoner saying her husband and herself wished to be ,quiet, speaking to her through the doorway. On the 22d of May Mrs. Matthews went again to prisoner's house, and found the door locked ; the window was open, and seeing the door kev inside, Matthews took it, unlocked the door, and went into the house. On going upstairs she noticed the old man lying on the bed with his throat cut; he, was not then dead; he pet up his, hands and died immediately after; she also saw that the prisoner's throat was cut. Mrs. Matthews ran oat and gave the alarm, and a razor was found with blood upon it. A defence of insanity on the part of the prisoner was eet up. .  His lordship summed up, and thejtify,'after five minutes' deliberation, returned a verdict of guilty, recommending the prisoner to mercy on account of her great age, which 'was followed by murmurs from several in court.  Sentence of death was passed in the'usual form. The prisoner, who remained unmoved during the whole trial, was removed from the dock.
The Sun. — 1829-01-17 (London, England)

WEST-PORT MURDERS.  It was mentioned in our last, that the Lord Advocate had resumed the .inquiry into the West-Port atrocities, and we repeat that there is yet some chance that the 'homicide, Hare, may expire by the !lairds ;of the common. executioner. On Saturday last,.he was precognosced in his cell, for at least two hours, by three official gentlemen, but the -facts elicited or the result 'is known only to theMselves. A strange rumour has got into circulation that the mother of dalt Jamie intends to step forward as the proses'utor of Hare, and that she has retrined rin advocate as senior counsel, who has certainly ever been ready to start at the call of justice and hurnanity. To say the least, the story is apocryphal. •If the Lord Advocate, with- all his anxiety, knowledge, power, and resources, cannot furnish evidence .sufficient for the conviction of a jury, it is, not ,likely that this consummation, highly desirable as it is, will be achieved by sn, other means. We have already mentioned that Hare maintains a dogged. silence, but. sin Saturday there has been a slight change it his conduct. Yesterday he walked. a good deal its the ward; he spoke at times to the other prisoners, and even at times' " grinned horribly a gli4stly smile" at their gesticulations; When he 1.7a5 in the chapel on Sunday, his conduct was strictly watched both by the debtors aid the other prisoners who had him in view. }le was particularly remarked during the time that the Rev. Mr. Robertson, was praying fervently for his coadjutor in murder, Burke ; and while the minister lamented that such hideous crimes should have been perpetrated in this our age, and itr the bosom of ourenlightened city.; while- he prayed that his repentence might be deep, sincere, and in some degree proportionate to the atrocity of 4115life—Hare stood, as if hk face as well as  tar. t had been ossified, and .neither coloured, nor moved a muscle of his haggard countenance.  Little more will be said of lurke till his days are ended on the scaffold. It •-ras already men tioned that he had declined :he visits of the Rev. Mr. Min:hall, and he. dd not appear in the chapel on Sunday last. Some people ,are of opinion that he will end his infamous life by suicide, and escape the gallows, bUt the governor of the jail has made such judicious arrangement, as renders this all but impossilie. A person is constantly with him in his celi, and should he make the attempt, his guardinn can almost instantly command the assistance of two men. But there are no grounds for believing that he harbours the least hope or t4tight of escaping the painful and ignominious death he so well deserves.— Scoisnzan.
The Sun. — 1829-07-29 (London, England)

CATHOLIC CHURCH DISCIPLINE. learn by recent accounts from Rome, that a measure +lO, been effected vesting the future recommendation of caj didates for vacant sees in Ireland in the parish priest+, lye canons of the vacant diocess, under the directions of t Bishops of the province. Several of the hotydays joined to be kept by the church are to be abolished."' Dublin Evening Post. The dreadful state of the Strand calls loud!! for the interference of the police. It is almost impossill even at mid-day, to pass unmolested, but in the eveliti'A the crowd of prostitutes and pickpockets is dreadfuL gentleman passing yesterday evening, about eight o'cl°co,l was plundered of his pocket-book and handkerchief, ° narrowly escaped losing his watch.—Morning Paper' Harvest has already commenced in favourabite situations in this county. On Monday a field of 0410' of the best quality, belonging to Mr. ROBERT GRIOOI ty, cut near East Looe. On Wednesday a bushel (tv‘einiieli four gallons) of new barley, in prime order, and W' se weighed 1701b'., was sold at Truro, by Mr. •Tl''ltjl MARTIN, of Railton, 'Lower St. Columb.—Faint°Packet. The THE LATE SUICIDE AT LIAIERICIC, suicide of Mr. W. H. PULLEY, in Limerick, the deta""ect, which were made public yesterday morning, was a °AA of much conversation on the Royal Exchange and the P-oie Exchange yesterday. The unfortunate young man ige ft' youngest son of H. PULLEY, Esq., an old and m°501,0 spectable member of the Stock Exchange, and ,aO, is well known to a very numerous circle of o'er- al tile men and others in the city. The circunot'.°ol under which this appalling suicide was cocnotl have excited the strongest sympathy in behalf 00,0 numerous family to which the unhappy yowl i$ belonged. From the statements in circulatitoltitio, would appear, that the deceased has for some absented himself from his friends, and every possible boo, quiry was made to ascertain in what direction he the taken flight. Losses arising out of speculations funds are said to have been the cause of his leaving via, don. The family of the unfortunate young man, °"pictit highly respected by all who knew him, bad not the Ai, distant knowledge of the route be had taken until tll.OO, . flietin news of his untimely death was conveyed t° "'Olt don through' the medium of the public press. It is b° tti possible to describe the agony of the family on learningrof sad end of their relative, and in the course of yeste many of the intimate friends of H. Pura.e.v, Esq. P ceeded to his house to condole with him on the sad fad the deceased.-.. Morning Paper.