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The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1847-11-30 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

SIIOCICING SUICIDE BY A •LADY.—On Friday, an inquest was held before the borough coroner, on view of the body of Mrs. Regina Victoria Davis, a young lady about 24 years of age, who caused her death at the Queen's Hotel, Haymarket, under the following melancholy circumstances :—lt appeared that she was a German Jewess, and that her maiden name was Dungrave. She was married on the 10th of October last, at St. Thomas's Church, London, and shortly after she seems to have taken apartments at the Queen's Hotel, in this town. Her husband did not live with her, and so far as the evidence went, it showed that he was in London. The deceased was evidently a well-educated lady, and she was described as being a fine handsome young woman of most respectable parentage and education. The husband was said to be a gentleman moving in a respectable sphere of life; but little or no light was thrown upon the reasons which induced them to separate so shortly after their marriage—in fact before the honeymoon could be supposed to have more than commenced. About five or six weeks since, she took lodgings at the Queen's Hotel, and conducted herself with the greatest propriety until her bill was presented to her, and she was solicited for payment of it. She then made some excuse, alleged that remittances from her husband were expected, but had not been received, and she fell into a state of great despondency. At times she would laugh heartily, and at others she would cry bitterly ; and from her general manner after the application for payment had been made, it became apparent enough that something was weighing upon her spirits of a strange and unaccountable nature. She continued in this state some days. On Tuesday night, between ten and eleven o'clock, she was seen up to bed by the chamber-maid, whom she requestdd to call her at half-past eight in the morning, and as she was in the habit of rising rather early, the request was not thought extraordinary. The chamber-maid went to call her :accordingly, and the door being found fast, it was shortly after broken open, when deceased was found lying across the bed, in her night dress, quite dead. It further appeared that she had purchased, at two different times, a quantity of oxalic acid at a druggist's shop, in Castle-street, stating that it was for cleaning bonnets, and that she had swallowed it. The jury returned a verdict that she had died from the effects of the acid, but how taken or administered there was no evidence to show. It was said that a German passport was found amongst her papers. The inquest was postponed front Wednesday (when the body was viewed), until Friday, in order that deceased's husband might be present, if he thought proper, but he did not appear on the latter, and the inquest was consequently proceeded with. A certificate of the marriage of the deceased was received from the church above named.
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1847-07-20 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

MURDER AND SUICIDE.---On Tuesday afternoon last, stitutions, inured to the climate, of brave spirit, discreet, a man named Henry Parker, aged 21, murdered a young and shrewd. You want trading managers capable of ac- girl, aged 19, named Matilda Griffin, and afterwards decommodating their manners to the wayward dealings of a stroyed himself in an upper room of her father's house, rude people, and able to estimate the value of produce No. 6, Hickman's-folly, Bermondsey, London. They little known. You want crews mostly of African blood, had been engaged for some time past, but during the last and at all events of snfficient stamina to bear the climate. few days Parker had accused the deceased of loving some It is obvious that efficiency of navigation, the power to one else, and threatened that' he would lay violent hands move rapidly, and tact in dealing with the natives, are on her. The poor girl laughed' at his threats, and only requisites far more important than mere armed force. a short time before, a neighbourinquiring after her health, Ivory, vegetable tallow, peppers, indigo, cotton wool, palm she replied, " she was quite well, only going to have her' oil, a sort of caravances or haricot beans, dye woods, throat cut ;" and was heard singing, as she went up into timber woods, skin's, and a great variety of produce that the room where the deed was committed, " There is na is but slightly known, invite the trader. - The sole desi- luck about the house, there is na luck at a'."—Guardian, deratum is thorough efficiency in the means of navigating [lt is to be hoped, for the sake of humanity, that the the river; and it is evident that a commerce of indefinite , man laboured under temporary insanity.] extension will repay any sums laid out in thoroughly es-
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1847-04-13 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

CAUTION TO NIGHTMEN.—On Wednesday, several persons, who are not employed by Mr. Richard Pickering, contractor to the Corporation, were summoned, and fined 40s. and costs, for illegally removing soil from ash-pits. The splendid steam-ship Sarah Sands sailed for New York on Tuesday, with 150 passengers, a full cargo, and £200,000 in specie. She ran from the Rock to the Lightship in an hour. The body of a male child apparently between 12 and 14 months old was found on Monday morning, whilst some men were digging clay in a field between Hopwood-street and Vauxhall-road. At Liverpool alone, within the month just closed, and chiefly towards its close, besides 186,184 bushels of peas and beans, upwards of 127,000,000 lbs. of bread stuffs were imported from foreign countries. On Saturday the dead body of a supposed inhabitant of Liverpool was found in a ditch near Manchester. He was dressed in a blue cloth body coat, with bright buttons, and the body is at the Swan public-house, Pendleton. On Monday, an inquest was held upon the body of a man named Patrick Quinn, who had died in consequence of injuries received in blasting for an excavation at the new north docks.  On Tuesday evening, George Neill committed suicide FY cutting his throat with a knife. He had been confined in gaol, and his punishment had such an effect on him as to turn his brain. The morning train from London to Liverpool will shortly be so arranged as to its time of starting, and so accelerated in speed, as to ensure the delivery of the ,London morning papers in Liverpool about noon on the day on which they are published. Madame Vestris has presented Mr. M. H. Simpson, lessee of the Theatres-royal Liverpool and Birmingham, with a fine portrait of herself. In the inscription attached to the portrait, which is in the donor's handwriting, it purports to be presented " with thanks for his uniform kindness for many years." On Thursday, a woman named Margaret Doyle died in the Borough Gaol. It appeared she was under sentence of imprisonment for four months, for felony, and had been in the hospital, under medical treatment, for a lingering disease, which disease was the cause of death. Verdict accordingly.
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1849-03-20 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

WILLIAM J. DUNCAN, Scotland, seconded the Motion. The Motion having been put, and reference made to that part of Art. 7 of the Laws as proposed to be amended, which provides for forfeiture in case a member, "being of sane mind, shall commit suicide," it was suggested that, as it seemed to be considered very doubtful whether a person who did commit suicide could be, or would be held by a jury to be, of sound mind, it would be better to avoid any ground for question by doing away with the forfeiture altogether. The CHAIRMAN said that the clause, as put by the Committee who had prepared the amendments, stood originally thus— "or shall, within six months from the date of the Policy., corn. mit suicide." This form met the views of a great majority of the Directors, but it had been altered as it now stood to secure  Manager of the National Bank of  , do Ll'Cie seemen reany to ne little practical difference between the two. The Meeting unanimously adopted this suggestion, and resolved that the rule should stand thus —" or shall, within six months from the date of the Policy, commit suicide." The amended Laws and Regulations, as reported on, were then read seriatim, and approved of, and Mr. Chambers' motion adopted unanimously. The Lord PROVOST then proposed a vote of thanks to the Directors for their arduous and most successful labours during the past year, which was seconded by JAMES PEDDLE, Esq., W.S., and carried unanimously. A vote of thanks was, in like manner, given to the Board of Directors, and to the Board at Manchester; to the Auditors and Trustees; and the Manager, Medical Officers, and other Office-bearers of the Society.  The Management for t' swing Gentlemen :  e ensuing year was vested in the fol
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1849-08-21 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

HORRIBLE TRAGEDY.—The Paris papers give the following details of a fearful tragedy recently enacted in the town of Berthoud, in Switzerland :—Jacob Moser, of Gondisweil, in the district of Kuhn (Argovia), was 45 years of age. He had long inhabited the town of Berthoud, where he was generally beloved and esteemed. He was a widower, and the father of five children ; his conduct was regular, and he supported his family by exercising his talents as a musician at public balls, and as a teacher of the art. The eldest child was a girl 18 years of age, who at six displayed so much talent for music that she was already famous as a concert performer ; she had latterly resided in French Switzerland, where she earned her livelihood by teaching. Besides supporting his family, Moser had to maintain his aged parents. All these burdens caused him to contract debts which he was unable to liquidate. These burdens, an unfortunate attachment, the wretched condition of his children, despair, blighted affection, and the prospect of debtors' dungeon in the distance, proved too much for the poor man's fortitude. The four children residing with Moser consisted of two sons, aged 17 and 13, and two daughters, of 15 and 7 years of age, all idiots and three of them dumb. The boy who escaped was 10 years of age. The family slept in two contiguous chambers. In one lay Moser, one of the girls, and one of the boys ; the other three slept in the adjoining apartment. The surviving son deposed, that at about 2 o'clock on the terrible night in question, he was awoke by his sisters, and perceived that his father had arisen. The father on being called, replied that he was writing in the next room. On returning, he knelt down by the side of the bed, prayed aloud, and gave the children to understand, in a few broken sentences, that he was going to Berne. Young Moser soon afterwards went into the adjacent room, and found the four children lying dead. They had all been strangled with a small rope, found around the neck of one of the girls. A letter in the handwriting of Moser, senior, was discovered, announcing his design. He wrote—" I ask pardon, in the name of God. I can no longer endure existence, and I cannot resolve to leave behind me, abandoned to their fate, the poor children who are not yet brought up. Those who know me will be convinced that I could not. Once more I supplicate for mercy and pardon, for I am not actuated by vengeance o f ferocity, but by despair." The following additional lines, written after the perpetration of the unfortunate act, indicate the regret of Moser at its accomplishment, but betray no doubt of the forgiveness of God :—" Now," wrote the poor wretch, " now I have done all; but were the deed not done, I could not do it. May God in heaven be merciful, and grant me pardon !" Moser consummated the tragedy by blowing out his own brains. The body was discovered under the bridge of the Emme ; it appeared to have been so placed as to fall into the river after the commission of the suicide.
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1849-10-23 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

ISLE OF MAN.—The herring fishery came to a close on Tuesday ; the boats are all gone home, and being stripped for the winter season. A more successful season has not occurred for many years, with regard to the quantity taken ; but prices have been unurecedentedly low.  The" Lord" Mayor of London, Sir James Duke. M.P., entertained the members of the Town Council of Edinburgh, on Monday last, at a splendid dinner in the Mansion-house ; his lordship's guests having travelled four hundred miles to partake of his hospitality. The large arrivals from Denmark during the past two weeks have trebled the ordinary number of horned cattle usually brought from all parts of the continent, and their continuance gives an earnest of a consequent increase in the ordinary supplies from abroad to a very important extent.  A new Roman Catholic Church, to be dedicated to St. George, the patron of England, "is about to be erected at York. This church is intended to be one of two or three which it is proposed to erect in that city. It will be in the style of the decorated period, and is to accommodate about 700 persons. Last week, a young female named Scarfe, living at Halstead, Essex, who had been married only about three months, committed suicide by hanging herself, in consequence of some playful remarks respecting a pudding made by her husband, and of some taunting observations made by the friends of her husband's former wife. A soldier of the Grenadier Guards, while on sentry at Windsor Castle, a few days since, fired his musket for the purpose of mutilating his left hand so as to render himself unfit for military service, but only blew off the middle finger, so that he will probably have failed tq attain his end. He was immediately arrested, and will be tried by a court-martial. The Leeds Mercury mentions, that on Sunday week, the trunk, legs, and one arm of a man were found lying on the flue of a flint kiln in the Old Pottery, at Hunslet, the head and one arm having been entirely destroyed by the heat of the fire. The remains have since been identified as those of an old pauper, named Dufton. of intemperate habits, who is supposed to have gone to sleep at the kiln, and to have been suffocated by the smoke. A
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1849-04-17 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

WILLIAM J. DUNCAN, Manager of the National Bank of Scotland, seconded the Motion. The Motion having been put, and reference made to that part of Art. 7 of the Laws as proposed to be amended, which provides for forfeiture in case a member, "being of esnemind, shall commit suicide," it was suggested that, as it seemed to be considered very doubtful whether a person who did commit suicide could be, or would be held by a jury to be, of sound mind, it would be better to avoid any ground for question by doing away with the forfeiture altogether. The CHAIRMAN said that the clause, as put by the Committee who had prepared the amendments, stocd originally thus— "or shall, within six months from the date of the Policy, commit suicide." This form met the views of a great majority of the Directors, but it had been altered as it now stood to secure unanimity, as there seemed really to be little practical difference between the two. The Meeting unanimously adopted this sugcestion, and resolved that the rule should stand thus —" or ball, within six months from the date of the Policy, CommTE suicide."  Lded Laws and Regulation  then read seriatim, and approved of motion adopted unaniumusly. The Lord PROVOST then proposed a vote of thanks to th Directors for their arduous and most successful labours during the past year, which was seconded by JAMES PEDDLE, Esq., W.S., and carried unanimously.  as reported on, were and Mr. Chambers'  A vote of thanks was, in likemanner, given to the Board of Directors, and to the Board at Manchester; to the Auditors and Trustees; and the Manager, Medical. Officers, and other „...  Office-bearers of the Society  The Management for the ensuing year was vested in the f
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1849-08-28 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

THE COMMERCE OF LIVERPOOL.—Last week there were at this port upwards of 900 vessels. On Tuesday there was not a single foreign arrival.  Mr. Tomlins, the senior landing surveyor at Southampton, has been appointed landing surveyor at Liverpool. _ _  On Sunday week, a seaman named Samuel George Ward, belonging to the ship Cornelia. met with his death from injuries received by a fall at the Prince's Dock. On Sunday night, Ann Ward, aged 34, who resided in a court in Banastre.street, died from injuries received on her left arm and side through her clothes taking fire. The report that measures are contemplated to remove the Royal Mail Steam-packets from Liverpool to one of the Irish western ports has been officially contradicted. On Monday, John Hayborn, 40 years of age, who lived in Birkett-row, Pepper-street, whilst intoxicated, fell down the garret stairs, which caused death in ten minutes.  Sir Jarries Duke, Lord Mayor of London, is to dine ith the Mayor of Manchester next month. lie will probably also come to Liverpool, and dine with our worthy Mayor.  Capt. Sturdie, late commander of the royal mail steamship Forth, has been presented with a silver salver by some of the passengers at the time of the wreck of that vessel on the Alacranes rocks.  A Council meeting will be held to-morrow, to considet., the report of the special committee on the water question:lP' Mr. Holt will move that the authority given by the Council, to extend the works at Green-lane, be rescinded.  On the evening of the 12th instant, a man named Richard Ingram, thirty-three years of age, committed suicide by cutting his throat with a razor. The deceased resided in Mersey-street, Bootle, and was subject to fits of insanity. On Monday. a female named Ann Hogg, 33 years of age, who resided with her mother, in Lower Mann-street, whilst in a state of intoxication, fell backward into a cellar, and received a severe wound on the head ; she died on the following day. The requisition to the Mayor, requesting him to convene a public meeting, for the purpose of expressing sympathy with the Hunsarians, was presented on Wednesday. His Worship respectfully declined, in his official capacity, to comply with the prayer of the requisitionists. On Tuesday about 800 of the elder scholars and teachers connected with the Wesleyan Methodist Association Sunday School, Baillie-street, Rochdale, accompa❑ied by their ministers, had the pleasure of an excursion to Liverpool, Birkenhead Park, and the Rock Lighthouse, &c.
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1849-09-25 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

GAMBLING.—This vice has been practised by the most civilised and enlightened people, as well as by the most barbarous and ignorant. The coronetted legislator of the foremost nation in refinement has been known to sacrifice a princely income to this passion. No station is free from its degrading influence. The brutal bull-baiter, and the most profound thinker have alike met ruin in its vortex. An instance of the latter occurred in the case of an author of European celebrity, who, in one of his works, said, " The gamester, if he dies a martyr to his pursuit, is doubly ruined ; he adds his soul to every other loss, and by the act of suicide renounces earth to forfeit heaven !" The man who wrote that sentence was himself a gambler, and ultimatety a suicide ! Such is the result of this demoralizing habit, commenced perhaps in a state of dissipated ennui, and continued through a vitiated state of the digestive organs, entailing a morose, peevish, and discontented a state of mind, the whole of which might have been prevented by the occasional use of that mild aperient, Frampton's Pill of Health. AFRICAN JUGGLING FEATS WHICH BEAT THE SCOTCH WizAans.—After the feast came music, dancing, and a variety of juggling feats. The dancing girls were beautiful and very graceful in their movements, and the conjuring tricks were novel and performed with great skill. Some of them were truly wonderful, as, for instance, turning a man into a tree bearing fruit, and with monkeys skipping about in the branches ; and another case, where the chief juggler apparently swallowed five men, ten boys, and a jackass, threw them all up again, turned himself inside out, blew himself up like a balloon, and exploding with a loud report, disappeared in a puff of lurt.inous vapour. My companions declared that we had got into a country of enchanters, and I could not but admire the skill with which the tricks were performed, although I was too much of a Yankee to be much astonished at anything in the hey! presto ! line.—Kaloolah, or Journeyings to the Djael Kumri. A
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1849-11-13 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

SUICIDE UNDER DERANGEMEINT.—Yesterday, an inquest was held on view of the body of Mary M`Millan, widow, aged 40. The deceased was well known as the daughter of the-late Etty Taylor, fruiterer, &c., in. St.. John's Market, to whose business she succeeded some few years ago. About half-past eight o'clock on Saturday morning she left her house, in St. Vincent-street, to the market, and then appeared in a thinking way spoke very little. She returned home in about an hour* and went into the parlour for a bill, for which she searched amongst some papers in a box. She then went into the kitchen with several bills or papers in her hand, and sent her servant girl for a threepenny receipt stamp. When the girl returned deceased' told her it would not do, as it was only for £lO, and she wanted one for £6O, giving her ls. 6d. ba pay for it. It was brought and given to her. She then sent witness to the market to., ask her (deceased's) father to remain at the standing until she came down, as she had some particular business to attend to which must be settled by eleven o'clock, or it would ruin her for ever. On the girl leaving deceased, gave her a key,.saying, " take this, as I shall be goin out." The girl thought it was the key of the door, and''e she returned withat in a quarter of an hour, and tried to open the lock, but the key was too large. She knocked twice, and heard deceased call out her name. She then looked through the key-hole and saw a shadow on the kitchen floor. She called to her mistress, and saw her feet beta een the stairs and the front door. She (deceased) was walking backwards and forwards in and out of the kitchen. Another female came up, and peeping through, saw der standing at the kitchen door, flapping her arms at her sides, and she then observed blood upon her elothing. The woman ran to the market for her father,, and he got in by the parlour window, the house being otherwise secured back and front. She was then found with her throat cut, and quite dead. A bloody razor was found near her. The girl had observed her for two or three months to be much agitated, and in very low spirits, and could not cheer her. George Taylor, whose step-daughter she was, and who resided in Chester, said he had seen her on Friday night and Saturday morning, when she appeared to be dejected. On her asking her what was the matter, she replied, " Nothing." He did not know or think that she was at all in difficulties. Several other parties had also observed her to be low spirited, and not like herself in transacting business. Her brother, George Taylor, who had been her partner for two or three years, had also observed her to be in a melancholy way on Friday, but had not noticed it before.—The jury returned a verdict to the effect, that she had destroyed herself during a temporary fit of insanity