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The Northern News. — 1898-08-27 (Carlisle, Cumbria, England)

THE ACCUSED OMMITTED. Dr. Campbell, late Medical li.tendent of the Garlands Asylum, was beeaght betore the County Bench (Mr R. S. Fergusol presiding) on Friday afttrnoon on a charge of criminally utiaconducting himself with a female patient named Janet Mooney, on August 11th. Mr Allan Hodgson, clerk to the Visiting Committee, who was instructed by the Commissioners in Lunacy, prosecuted, Mr H. B. Lonsdale defended. The hearing lasted a considerable time and excited great interest, the attendance of the public being very large. From the statement of Mr Allan Hodgson and the evidence of the matron, Miss Maria Robinson, the junior medical assistant, Dr. Bell, the assistant medical superintendent, Dr. Farquharson, Jane Ritchie, Margaret Jane Henderson, and Jessie Little, laundresses, it appeared that the three last named saw Dr. Campbell, in a state of intoxication, pass through the laundry and enter No. 4 female ward. A few minutes later he came out again followed by the patient Janet Mooney, with whom he entered a coal cellar. Ritchie went to a window in the courtyard, and there saw what was transpiring. She called the other two, who also described in Court what they saw. The matter was reported to the matron, who reported it to Dr. Bell. Dr. Farquharson being absent at the time Dr. Bell at once went and conducted Dr. Camcbsill to his own house. On Dr. Farquharson's return he was informed of what had occurred, and next day be consulted with the Chairman of the Visiting Committee, Mr Horrocks, Eden Brow. While in Carlisle he met Dr. Campbell and told him of the allegations against him. Dr. Campbell replied that he had DO doubt acted foolishly under the influence of drink, but denied the graver offence. He added that • charge of this kind was almost enough to drive him to commit suicide. In consequence of this statement he placed two attendants in charge of Dr. Campbell, one at night and one 4n the day. On Monday the 15th, a public inquir) was held by tke Visiting Committee at Garlands, and the result was reported to the Commissioners in Lunacy, who telegraphed for Mr Allan Hodgson to meet them in London. He went there on Weenesday morning and received instructions to prosecute. Nf ne of the witnesses were croms-examined, and on prisoner being formally charged, Mr Lonsdale said the defence would be reserved.—The Bench then committed Dr. Campbell to take his trial at the next A,sizes, Nov. 2nd, bail being allowed, himself in £5OO, and a surety to a like amount.
The Northern News. — 1898-12-03 (Carlisle, Cumbria, England)

JBATIONAL AFFAIR AT BRADFORD.  SUICIDE OF A OOMPANY PROMOTER. A shocking discovery was made at the Midland Hotel, Bradford. shortly after noon on Monday. Between 10 and 11 o'clock on Sunday night, ,Jams Herbert Wilkinson, of Harrogate, who was awaitMg trial at the forthcoming Leeds Assizes, in connection with the company promoting case at Leeds, arrived at the hotel, and engaged a bedroom. Hi retired immediately, and nothing more was known until late next morning, when the chambermail found that Wilkinson's bedroom door was fast. The manager was informed, and he becanie suspicious. The police were communicated with, and Detectivesuperintendent Dobson went to the hotel and burst the bedroom door open. Wilkinson mas then found dead in bed. He was undressed, and the body W&A quite cold. Upon searching the room, a number of bottles were found, and although it is not stated definitely what they contained, there is said to be little doubt that Wilkinson poisoned himself. One bottle contained a mixture of pepperm.nt, and there as a dark brownish substance at the bottom of a tumbler glass which was in the room. A couple of letters were found in deceased's pockets—ono iddressed to his mother, at Harrogate, and the other to Mr. Ernest M'Coll, of Leeds. A singular fact in connection with the tragedy is that a clerk from Leeds arrived at the Midland Hotel in the morning with the object of serving a notice upon deceased in connection with some bankrttptcy proceedings, and it was this fact which caused Wilkinson's :ste stay in his bedroom to become suspicious. it mill be remembered that at the 'Wt. AillS/ZP. sued John Blakey, boot and boot protector manufacturer, of Leeds, for £7,000 commission, allevd to be due in respect of the formation of Blakey's boot protector business and a file cutting business, also of Blakey's, into a company. In the course -of the hearing it was contended for the defence that Wilkinson had conspired with other persons to dr,. fraud Blakey of ',as busir ess, and that B!akey ha been induced to sign certain documents by false etpresentations an 4 while under the influence r.f liquor. The jury found a verdict for Blakey, an i subsequently the Treasury took proceedings against Wilkinson and the two other persons concerned mith him in the alleged conspiracy. One of these was discharged, and Wilkinson and a man namel Beever% were committed to take their trial at the Leeds Assizes which commence on Monday next.  Soer, the Hampshire bowler, is to be siren a b.liefit in the mesterei nf UM
The Northern News. — 1898-12-03 (Carlisle, Cumbria, England)

LIBRARY TABLE.  "DL Bmacteno's Hoes" seem to have no difficulty in maintaining their record as containing the largest family in the world under the care of one man. Nearly five thousand boys and girls, &wording to the November issue of Night and Dag, are to-day in residence, all of these rescued from the direst oonditions of destitution and waifdom, and it seems that every twenty-four hours some eight or ten new oases find their way inside those hospitable doors in Stepney Causeway. But Dr. Barnard°. like many other charitable organisers, finds it a matter of great and increasing difficulty to teed and train his large army of young folks. Night and Day is well worth reading by all who keep an eye OD social matters. The editor details two interesting stories of rescue: "A romance of the slums "and •• Of the household of faith." "Personal Notes" as usual reveal a busy and varied life-work. We observe that' the Young Helpers' League froth, always a specially attractive function. is to take place on 14th January in the Royal Albert Hall. A Self-Denial Week for the benefit of the Homes is to be held from 24th to 30th November. Please write to Dr. Bernardo for a gratis and post free copy of the magazine, to 18 Stepney Causeway, London, E. THE Miserly; CYCLIST, by Burford Delaney.—" The Missing Cyclist," which gives the title to this volume, is only the first of some half-dozen stories which it contains. For those who like a sensational story, and they are many, Mr Delaney provides • capital shilling'a worth. He is evidently at home in the theatrical world; he is used to situations, and his tales lose none of their effect on that account. Perhaps the most striking exemplification of this is the story where a man, while professing to be the friend and benefactor of another •ho has wronged him, gets the latter a term of penal servitude. When that Is over, he follows it up by committing suicide in such a way that the ex-convict is hurig for his murder. But we must not indicate more of the contents of Mr Delaney's volume. Our readers must see it for themselves.
The Northern News. — 1898-01-01 (Carlisle, Cumbria, England)

GARRIGILL.  SAD OCCURRENCE AT GARRIGILL.  A sad occurrence took place in the village of Garrigill in the early hours of ,Monday morning, a person named Joseph Richardson attempted suicide by cutting his throat. Deceased, it appears, was formerly a miner, but has not worked any for 22 years, being in ailing health, and suffering from dropsy. He was 65 years of age. He has been attended by Dr. Short, who saw him last on 14th inst., and then told his relations that he was suffering from heart disease. Deceased did not complain of any pain. He resided with his nephew, Joseph Richardson. He took his food as usual on Sunday, and retired to bed at 5 o'clock, in a room on the ground floor, and was seen to bed by his nephew. About 6-30, his niece, Miss M. H. Richardson, went in and asked if he wanted the fire making up, and he said it would do, and made no complaint. At 12-30 a.m. (Monday morning) his nephew was awakened by the dog barking, and came down stairs, and went into the room where deceased slept. He found him lying on the floor undressed. He was then alive and quite conscious, but bleeding from a wound on the right side of the throat His nephew asked him what he had been doing, and he replied, "1 have cut my throat, Joseph." He then asked deceased what he had done that for, and he replied, "I do not know, and I did not intend to have been like this, and would like to have died." He did not speak again, and died in about 15 minutes, in the presence of his nephew. Sergt. Ferrer, Alston, was informed of the occurrence about 3-15 a.m, and at once prooeeded to the residence, where he found deceased on the floor in the room, and quite dead. He was undressed, and his face and hands were bespattered with blood. He found a razor blade and a large carving knife on the floor beside deceased. The coroner was informed of the occurrence, but as the doctor was able to certify that death was not due to the injuries, self-inflicted by deceased, it was not deemed necessary to hold an inquest.
The Northern News. — 1898-04-16 (Carlisle, Cumbria, England)

REMARK ABLE A.LLEGATION&  Three weeks ago a young Scotch girl, Annie Irving, belonging to Annan, was foully murdered in the house in which she was lodging at Elswick, Newcastle. The wife and daughter belonging to the house had gone out marketing, leaving the young woman alone, and they found her dead in the passage on their return three hours afterwards. The husband, Alexander Thompson, was not in the house, but he wee arrested on suspicion the same night. Hi clothes were blood-stained, sad subeequently both by the Ooroner and the magistrates he was committed for trial on the capital charge. The woman, it should be added, had been outraged. Thompson, who was 35 years of age, had been a soldier, and for A number of years earned his livelihood as a labourer in the Elswick Works. T:i gaol he Wad placed in an oheervation cell, where a warder oould see him on his rounds. At midnight on Friday Thompson warn seen to be in bed, but half an hour afterward. the warder saw sufficient to make him give an alarm. and on the cell being entered the prisoner was found to have strangled himself. He had used the prison towel and a poet-handkerohief. Tying these together, he had fastened one end to the ventilator and the other was twisted round his neck with a blip-knot. He had, in the most determined fashion, thrown his weight forward on the noose, and so reinrined in a semi-upright position until suffocated. The body was quite warm. Efforts were made to restore animation, but without avail. On Saturday two brothers of the prisoner -elled at the gaol to see him, only to learn of his tragic end. The widow also visited the prison. A Newcastle correspondent adds that the police authorities had been obtaining evidenoe which, they hoped, would bring.thome two other murders against Thompson. Some four years ago, and within a short time of each other, two "unfortunates" were found murdered on the Town Moor. For long afterwards a police watch was set on the district, but all to no purpose. It is now stated that in one case the police found that Thompson was the last man seen with one of the victims. He was under surveillance at the time, but they had no ervidence to show that he had been on the Moor. Since his arrest further evidence has been brought to light, and as it i. said that Thompson has left some writing behind him, light may be thrown upon the murders.  inqueet on Monday the jury returned a verdict of "Death from strangulation." The Coroner expressed the opinion that cell ventilators could be so altered u to remove the temptation to oommit suicide.
The Northern News. — 1898-04-09 (Carlisle, Cumbria, England)

SOCIALISM •ND THE FAMILY.-11:1 his evidence before the coroner, respecting the suicide of Karl Marx'. daughter, the reputed Mrs Aveling. Dr. Aveling, the well-known Socialist writer and lecturer, says that she was not his wife, though she had lived with him as tuch, and adopted his name. The circumstance is thoroughly in keeping with Socialist manners, an I in full consistency with the Socialist creed- Socialism, when followed up to its logical consequences in all that relates to its teneta about liberty and equality, must needs affect the family arrangement as established under the Christian system. Hence the disposition of Socialist communities to go to one extreme or the other as regards marriage. Hence the polygamy of the early Socialista who opposed Christianity. that of the middle-age Socialists and the Ahabaptista, and that of the followers of Munzer, as well as the disciples Metzler and of Stork. Hence, also, the frantic celibacy of the Shakers and the Rappitees, the Socialists of Zoar, and the Russian Commuuiste.  MR. TOWERS, postmaster at Cockermouth, and previously chief clerk at Kirkby Stephen, hs.s been promoted to the postmastership of St. Ives, Huntingdonshire.  Tim Wolverton team won the ambulance competition at Crewe on Friday in connection with the London and North-Western Railway directors' silver challenge shield. The Penrith team were sixth. Twelve teams competed. Tux TRAGEDIES IS NEwcasrLx.—At the Newcastle Police Court on Monday, before Mr John PhiUpson, Mr Wm. Angus, and Mr Robt. Knight, Daniel Fagan (49) was charged on remand with having caused the death of Annie Hand in a room of the house 8 Church Walk, Dog Bank. on the 26th alt. Mr E. Clark prosecuted, and Mr W. Strachan was for the prisoner. On the application of Mr Clark the case was further remanded for a week, pending the inquiry by the Coroner.—Alexander Thompson was charged on remand with the murder of Mary Jane Irving in the house 10 Cannon Street, on the 19th ult. Mr E. Clark appeared for the prosecution, and Mr Geo. Parsons for the defence. The imise was further remanded for a week.
The Northern News. — 1898-07-09 (Carlisle, Cumbria, England)

SUICIDE AT GARLANDS.  On Monday morning Mr J. B Lee, Coroner East Cumberland, held an inquest at the Garin Asylum on the body of a patient named Edo He‘eitt, who had committed suicide by cutting throat on Saturday morn!ngs-....ferz6 the evident appeared that Hewitt was admit December! 1897. He was suffering from melancholia, and suicidally inclined, and on March 19th attemj self injury by putting his head under a hot wl tap. On June 14th he was attacked by erysipe and placed along with another patient under the of an attendant named William Rome. Item he had very much improved, both physically mentally, and had been allowed out in the grout On Saturday morning, however, while sitting v Rome, the latter was called from him by a knoel the door. Immediately he was left alone dmes got up. crossed the lobby to Rome's bedroom, door of which had been left unlocked, and in a c board there, which was also unsecured, owing to lock being out of order, he got the knife which II( used for cutting the bread, and cut his throat v it. Rome heard him fall, and at once summoned doctors Deceased, whom he had dragged out the lobby, was breathing in gasps. He was put bed and rallied a little for a time, but died shoi before noon. In the course of the inquest it I stated that Rome was on duty from six am eight p.m., and one of the jurymen suwgested thal would have been safer to have two attends, even with the risk of erysipelas, than to have o one attendant to two such patients —Dr. I explained that the erysipelas was of a viruh nature, out of nine cases six persons had died, Dr Campbell added that it had been out of c sideration to the attendants that only one attend had been placed in charge of the erysipelas patier It also transpired that Rome had given notice leave, but he denied that his resignation had al thing to do with the present case, or with over-wo —ln reviewing the case the Coroner said that 1 Campbell and the responsible officials hat apparen done everything that could be done, hut if the were not satisfied with the explanations as to short attendance, they could add a rider to a verdict —The jury, after consulting private returned a verdict of " Suicide whilst insane," s in reply to Dr. Campbell the foreman said they not attach blame to any one —One of the juryn asked if there was any risk of intection in view] the dead body.—Dr. Campbell replied that Lb was, but it was not so great from a dead as fror living body.—The Coroner said that where no dol existed as to identity, viewing the body a`muld be necessary. He had made several repr a ntati, on the subject in the proper quarter, but no act had been taken.  To ensure a successful anniversary advertise the Northern _Veins.  A Parliamentary return just issued Ahqwe t 19-3 lit ences were refused last year There were appeals to Quarter Sessions, of which :32 se SU e vessi U I
The Northern News. — 1898-01-15 (Carlisle, Cumbria, England)

SUICIDE OF A CARLISLE ENGINEER. -mtytouched his shoulder and drew him into call her a Countess?" at the same time making a quick sign "Yes, the Countess Iva k' H noes i. Have you seen her A singular suicide occurred on Thursday last week t hand. The young man's honest blue before? _ Do you recognise her?" at Hayton Gate, Lanereost. A millwright named John s ground. and he shrank visibly from , "What! ripognise the dancing-girl, Marinette, in Barnes, employed by Messrs Stansfield and Son, s touch. the ex Russian Countess. What folly you are talking, vaestioned de L'Orme. was sent to Mr Thompeon's, Hayton Gate, to repair done. Would it were not," re- R •" id with a heavy sigh and mut"Nay, it is you who talk nonsense. Who on a thrashing machine. On his arrival at the house away. earth but yourself would ever dream of comparing a he found that Mr Thompson had gone to the station sere now let down, and the ; e dancing-girl with my beautiful Countess? .. with a cart to bring his tools and material. When ',e erect and noble figure of "Alt! who, indeed; and yet—and yet— Mr Thompson got back about half-pest twelve, he I stepped upon the three "There is a likeness, you would gay. Well, one noticed that the cover over the drain well in the ,—the casket which en- has heard of these things, these strange resemblances. garden was off, and a hat lying near. . Search with e•e, his beautiful, his Who was this Marinette?" grappling irons revealed the body of Barnes at the ",e was hastening with "A friend of mine, a— Come, Rex, you promised fll The communicated bottom o the we . e police were he paseion of a hus- to introduce me to your fair inamorata, so will you with. hidden in his vest, do so?"
The Northern News. — 1898-03-05 (Carlisle, Cumbria, England)

JOCKEY.—An inquest was held on Saturday at the Infirmary, before Mr J. H. Brown, City coroner, on the body of the jockey, Thomas Alcock, who committed suicide by taking poison at the Red Lion Hotel on Wednesday night, the 23rd ult. The body was identified by George Mulcaster, Sandsfield, Burgh-by-Sands, who employed deceased ten years ago 88 jockey and groom. He had only seen him once since, at Ayr, about five years ago. Deceased was married but separated from his wife while at Sandsfield. The medical evidence was to the effect that (bath was due to phosphorous poisoning, deceased having swallowed enough to poison a dozen men. The jury returned a verdict of suicide while of unsound mind. It has since been ascertained that deceased got three months imprisonment at Ayr in July last for house breaking.  A BAD Boy.—A boy, Thomas Grainger, 12 years of age, was charged at the Town Hall, Carlisle, on Monday, with stealing ls from another boy, Thomas Hutton. The latter had been sent out by his mother with a bag. A purse containing is was in the bag, and the boy Grainger went up and took the bag from Hutton, got the shilling out of the purse, and ran away. The Chief Constable said he had had the boy brought to him a week ago for stealing coal from the Maryport Goods Yard. The Attendance Officer, Mr Little, said he had this boy under his charge, and made an application for him to be sent to Ayr Industrial School. He was the ringleader of a number of boys in the neighbourhood. The Bench decided to grant the application. The father asked that he be sent to Dumfries School instead of Ayr, but this could not be done under the section.  Advertise Anvaurtsz I I ADVERTISE II I Nothing pays better. The Northern News is read all over the district.
The Northern News. — 1896-07-04 (Carlisle, Cumbria, England)

DISTRESSING SUICIDE.  An inquest was held on Tuesday at the Garlands Asylum before Mr J. B. Lee, coroner for East Cumberland, on the body of William Augustus Rowell. Deceased who was 39 years of age, was removed to the Asylum on Thursday, suffering from a self-inflicted wound in his throat, and died on Monday morning. Roi Vet came to Carlisle about two years ago from Newcastle where his father resides. He was a manufacturing chemist by trade and worked at Duncowfold, going there night and morning from 14 Aglionby-St. where he lodged with Miss Elizabeth Moses. According to the evidence of his father, deceased broke down in health some years ago in consequence of overwork and strain, and had since suffered from depression, and was subject to illusions. He was not aware that his son followed any profession at Carlisle. His landlady, however, did not see anything specially the matter with him till Saturday week. He was a teetotaller and very regular in his habits. On Monday be did not go to work. but on Tuesday and Wednesday he seemed better and brighter. On the Thursday morning he was bad to knock up, and when she took him his breakfast and bade him good morning, he nodded but did not speak. Five minutes later she heard a thud and on going into the room found him on the floor bleeding from a deep gash in the throat. Assistance was called in and Dr. Graham sent for. Measures were taken to stop the bleeding, and by Dr. Graham's advice deceased was removed the same evening to the Asylum where he received the most skilful attention. Although in a very weak state from loss of blood he struggled so violently to get at the wound that he had to be put in a canvas jacket, and an attendant remained with him constantly. He also refused to take food, and nourishment had to be forcibly administered. Despite all care, however, he gradually got weaker, and died at 2-20 on Monday morning. The jury returned a verdict of "Death from the effects of a self-inflicted wound whilst insane."