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Widnes Examiner. — 1881-06-25 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

SIIICIDE IN BANN PARK, WARRINGTON.—At the Coopers' Arms, Bewsey-street, Mr. T. W. Barker, deputy coroner, held an inquest on Tuesday, on the body of Thos. Lea, 71 years of age, whe committed suicide on Sunday last. It appeared from the evidence that the deceased lodged at 42, Dailam-lane. Three years ago he lost his wife, and had since been very strange and melancholy. At a quarter-past twelve on Sunday, he was at his daughter's house, when be seemed very low, and left without saying where he was going. P.C. Seed was on duty in the park in the afternoon, and the deceased inquired of him the time about 20 minutes past five. He was afterwards seen sitting on a form near the pond by a girl named Elizabeth Ann Page, who next noticed him in the water. Her screams attracted the attention of William Wilcock, who tried to reach the deceased with the walking stick he had left on the bank, and told him to get hold of it, but deceased took no notice. P.C. Seed then came up, and they succeeded in getting the deceased to the aide by means of the life buoy. He was then insensible, but they tried to bring him round, and succeeded in getting a good deal of water out of him. He was taken to the Infirmary, but on arrival there was found to be dead. In the possession of the deceased was found a pocket book, razor, &a. The pocket book contained the following entry :—" I hope you will put me in my own grave. This is my last day in this world. God bless everybody. I walked the market-place four nights. My son-in-law and my daughter you must pay ray daughter my club money £10" There were also other entries by the deceased sating that he was distracted hi body and soul, and had no comfort anywhere, and that he should drown himself in the park pond, where they would find him. The jury returned a verdict to the effect that deceased committed shicide during temporary insanity.  Ask for HARGERISON'S Registered Waite Windsor 84JAP Preston, 414. wawa. Court Jour;tal says "It is unrivalled for eli househuld purpasee." The Bazaar says, "A very_ good and economical seep; we asul strongly recommend it."—Sarspla box of our Blegant Toilet Soap, 8 stamps post free.—ADvc.  Tirs ANNIVERSARY SERMONS were preached at Hill Cliffs chapel, on Sunday afternoon and evening last oy the Rev. John Haslam, of Gildersome, and the collections in aid of the church and school funds realised £35. Stamm CIRCUIT OF TEE Jonozs.—The following are the dates fixed by the judges for holding the summer assizes :—Lord Chief Justice Coleridge and Mr. Justice Lopes, Lancaster, Saturday, July 9: Manchester, Wednesday, July 13; Liverpool, Tuesday, July 26. Lord Juetice Baggaley, Chester, Saturday, July 23.  , PLautto-Pturtmoma.—The Clerk of the Peace for Lancashire reports that pleurolpneumonia has broken out on the farm of Mr. Tattersall, Rawtenstall, and on the farm of Mr. John Platt, of B3rdsley, near Ashton-under-Lyne. The cattle have been slaughtered. There are 2 farms affected in Lancashire.
Widnes Examiner. — 1881-06-25 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

OCCIII- estate. The male defendants were fined 5.5 each, the rence took place at half past six on Saturday morning and amount being paid, and the case against the woman was , terminated fatally. The rev. gentleman, who was in his withdrawn. I 48th year, came to Warrington about 10 years ago, and was in charge of the Catholic portion of Latchford, which is in At the Michaelstown Sessions, yesterday, fourteen mess the diocese ef Shrewsbury, having been sent to the mission were charged with having taken part in the riots in that after serving several Years in Chester. Father Mulvaney, town en the 27th May. Seven were committed for trial, who was much respected, was constant in his ministry and five acquitted, in tending the sick and poor, and his death is deeply regretted. In accordance with the deceased's special request rnsanceS• hi remains were conveyed to Pentasaph, near Elolywell, and Mr. J. Woodland Phillips, author of Memoirs of the Ciro/ interred on Monday with the Francisian fathers. At the War in Wales, and the Marches, has been appointed by the funeral there were some sixteen priests present from the diocese of Liverpool and Shrewsbury. The officiating ,ormed under recent statute. ' Queen a magistrate for West Hamlet, a new police distriot i priest was Canon Bukuet, of Chester, and the preacher was Canon Cholmondeley, who paid a warm tribute of respect to Gideon Mulvey, of Maryborough, who was recently sentenced .to five years' penal servitude for cattle stealiag the memory of the deceased. We understand thrt a successor to the late Father Mulvaney has already been apcommitted suicide in Maryborough gaol yesterday, by pointed he the person of Father Williams, who will take charge of the mission to-morrow (Sunday). strangling himself with his towel. An inquest was held ia the afternoon, the jury returning a verdict of strangulatios effected by his own hands. THE INvEn.waxiosur. Ifenprn
Widnes Examiner. — 1881-10-08 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

SAX> SITICIDZ AT WARRINGTON. —An inquiry Wha held at the Unicorn Inn, on Thursday, before Mr. C. E. Driffield, touching the death of Thomas Boardman (29), of 53, Pinner's-brow.—Eliztheth Boardman said deceased was her husband and had been employed as a warehouserd'an at Mr. Howson's, tine asd spirit merchant. On Tuesday afternoon, her hushawl went home about half-past four, aid as it was an unusual time, she asked his reason. lie said his employer did not knew he had done s.r. He then went upstairs, and she followed, asking "Are you going back to your %i (irk?" and he replied "No, I am going to bed," at the same time pulling off his coat. He requested her te leave the room. She did so, and heard him fasten the doer. Directly afterwards, and before she had descended the s•epri, she heard the report of a gun, and gave the alarm. The father of the deceased broke open the door and entered the room. Her husband lay on the door and appeared to be dead. There was a wound in his side. She had not seen him take anything upstairs, and he mentioned nothing of his intentions, lie had had a gun in the room about a week, and was in the habit of shooting in the morning. When he took the gun home he warned her that it was loaded, hut Bald that he would draw the charge. She was sure be had never done so. In reply to the Coroner, Witness said her husband had carried on a provision shop in addition to his ordinary business. The shop business had been going wrong for some time, but he had not known it until a few days before his death. He was very much troubled, and got excited at the least thing.—At this point witness was taken from II e room in a fainting condition' and was not again examined. —George Boardman, of the Wheat Sheaf, Vrford-lane, said the deceased was his son. He saw his son on 'Monday night, when he acted in his usual manner, and be did not see him again until Tuesday afternoon- 11,4 was then tont for by the wife of deceased who said "the gun has gone off." He burst open the bedroom door and found deceased laid by tho side of the bed dead. He was shot if) the life breast and death must have been instantaneous. Deceastd had threatened to take his life years a:eo, and he had taken a gun away from him once. He was very fiery temperer', and would have his own way. The business had been goit,g wrong, and the wife, who managed it, laid never told him. —Dr. Bride said he saw deceased about a quarter pas five on Tuesday. He had been dead about a touter of an hour. There was a large wound on the cheat. The grin must have been placed near the apex of the heart, which was shattered, the shot also haying penetrated the lung. The sixth rib was fractured in two places. The wound was aboat :••• [inch in diameter.—The jury returned a verdict of mitted suicide whilst in a state of temporary insanity."
Widnes Examiner. — 1881-03-12 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

COCE•AND-SULL STORY BY NAPOLEON.—NapoIeon I would not allow VilenenYe to approach Paris after his defeat at Trafalgar, and this is his account of the end of the admiral At Rennes, on the 26th of April, 1806, on his wav from England, Villlenenve put an end to himself! When taken prisoner, and conveyed to England, he was so mach grieved at his defeat that he studied anatomy in order to destroy himself. For this purpose, he bought some . Anatomical plates of the heart, arid compared them with his own body, in order to ascertain the exact situation of that organ. On his arrival in France, I ordered that he should I remain at Rennes, and not proceed to Paris. Villeneuve, I afraid of being tried by a court-martial, determined to destroy himself, and accordingly took his plates of the heart, and compared them with his breast. Exactly in the centre of the plate he made a mark with a large pin, then fixed the pin, as near as he could judge, in the same spot in his own breast, shoved it in to the head, penetrated his heart, and expired. He need not have done it, as he was a brave man, though possessed of no talent." This story is altogether too absurd. A man accustomed to battles and death was under no necessity to study anatomv in order to destroy himself. • A pistol bnllet through his head was a much likelier means • of suicide than a pin and all this adaptation. Accordingly, the public, bearing in mind the deaths of Pichegnt and ;Captain Wright, formed its own conclusions about the • matter.—Cassell's Illustrated History of Englaud." "Uelish for tea—Hartley's New garrealade, 21b. jars." HOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT AND PlLLs.—Diseasea of the skin ring-Worm, scurvy, jaundice, scrofula or king's evil, sore heads and the most inveterate skin disease to which the human frame Is subject, cannot be treated with a more safe and certain remedy than Holloway's Ointment andPriitlisth, wehtielohoda,ctthasot peculiarly on the constitution and so Puy these diseases are at once eradicated from the system, and a Lating cure obtained. They are equally. efficacious in the ours of tumours, burns, scalds, glandular swellings, ulcerous wounds. rheumatism, contracted and stiff jointg. These mefficines operate mildly and surely. 'the cures effected by them are not [ temporary or appareot only, but complete and bermane,t. I —Maier.
Widnes Examiner. — 1881-12-31 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

LATEST NEWS.  Yesterday, William Griffiths was charged at Wrexham—, with attempting to murder his mother. He was remanded I Yesterday, the Birmingham Watch Committee decided not to encourage military applicants for the office of Chiefconstable.  _ --Yesterday, at Ushaw Moor Colliery, neat Dunham, the miners were being evicted from their homes. They had a dispute, and gave ;mice in a body.  List night, barns and stables on a farm belonging to a Mil named lluggim., living near Neale, were burnt down. The cattle were injured, but one animal escaped through the open doorway.  Jane Johnson was charged at Bradford yesterday with being drunk. She was eighty-three years of age, and had been before the magistrates on one hundred and sixty-nine occasions.  On Thursday a discovery was mule in a house in Chorl. toa-o:-Medlock, which leads to the belief that a shocking tragedy has been committed. A girl named Harcourt, 10 years of age, was found dead in bed, and lying on the Boor was the dead body of a man named Lestrange. Poison was discovered in the room, and appearances seem to indicate that Lestrange has poisoned the girl and then committed suicide.  The Lord Mayor has received from the Earl of Courtown, as the President of the Property Defence Association (Ireland), particulars as to the object and past work of the Association, from which it appears that since the commencement of the organization in December last year, 357 writs and notices had been served, 629 sheriff's sales of farms attended, and 79 sales of cattle, 410 caretakers had been supplied for farms, other agricultural services to landlords and tenants had been rendered, and the efforts of the ' association had been directed to seeing that the rights of all classes were fully and fearlessly manifested. The expenses of the work had been heavy and almost exhausting, but the committee felt that they had no choice but to perform it. Over five hundred cattle, the property of grasiers who have taken boycotted farms, near Boyle, were last night turned off the land, and have not since been hear u of. Threatening and prohibitory notices have been posted in the district.
Widnes Examiner. — 1881-02-05 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

SINNERS AND SUNDAYS. Sir,—Mr. Samuel Rigby, as chairman of the Wycliffe tea meetingmave utterances to some statements to which I feel bound to take exception. I gather from your report of that meeting that the chairman is of the opinion that a person who takes the very sensible course of availing himself of the weekly holiday to walk into the country on the only day on which it is possible for him to do it, is on the highway to ruin, rags, and reprobation. Mr. Rigby says he has seen it. I also have observed it, with sorrow; but the conclusions we came to were widely different. I thought if that Iran had continued his Sunday morning walks further into the country, and not stopped at the first public-house he found outside the three mile limit, this hatelimental declension would never have come to him. No, sir; I respectfully submit to Mr. Rigby that it may net be the Sunday walk, but the Sunday drinking, that has brought him so low. I ' know men who make a constant practise of this—the walk, not the drink--who consistently and conscientiously refrain frarn attending either church or chapel, and y4t are good citizens and decently clothed, and to whom I shall be glad to introduce Mr. Rigby, and give him a chance of "following them home." lam of the opinion, sir, that the mode of passing the day of rest suited to, and enjoyed by, a pastoral people is utterly unsuited to a population like ours, pursuing a confined and sedentary occupation. If suicide be a crime, surely that slow but sure form of it, which consists in neglecting to seize every available opportunity of healthful relaxation must be a kindred wickedness. And then, setting aside higher inducements to visit these places of worship, what example has the simple workingman set him to leave off his walks, in which he takes a real and wholesome delight, in order to attend the ministration of my friend the 124 v. Aminadab Jackletext, while expounding the  Difference there might be 'Tvrixt tweedle dum and tweedie deo. Example! Yes he will see people rolling to church in carriages and know that some one must have had unnecessary °Sunday labour through that. While, inside the " sacred edifice," he may see people, who are calling themselves miserable sinners,dressed in the laet extravagance of the latest mode. Seeing this, and being a hf.ter of hypocrisy in all its forms, he prefers, as a simple man, to tender the simple worship of sincere admiration in that grand temple unbuilt by hands' where robes and ritual are alike unknown. lam sorry to differ from the opinions of a gentleman for whom I have so much respect, but must beg to ask Mr. Rigby if it might not be drink and not the Sunday constitutional which had reduced his friend to the aforesaid stockingless condition? In common with Mr. Rigby, I deplore this state of things, with which all the churches in the world are unable to cope without recosrse .o more common sense methods.—l am, sir, yours
Widnes Examiner. — 1881-04-02 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

THE CENSUS OF 1881.  On Tuesday fourteen or fifteen men were injured, eight of them seriously, through the breakdown of a crane at the Tyne Engine Works Ousebourne. It is stated on authority that Mr. Edward 'E. Kay, Q.C., has been offered and has accepted the judgeship vacant by the resignation of Vice-Chancellor Malins. A woman named Jeanes, the wife of a ,labourer living at Pulham, has committed suicide by hanging, from the effects of a religious mania. Some rioting occurred at Basingstoke on Sunday in connection with the S dvation Army proceedings. The Mayor read the Riot Act, and the military speedily cleared the streets. A coroner's jury, at Sudbury, have returned a verdict of wilful murder against Suatanah Bowers, wife of a labourer, who, on Saturday, cut the threats of her two children, despite the efforts of an elder girl, aged twelve, to prevent her. The unfortunate woman afterwards cut her own throat.  On Monday a meeting of Manchester merchants interested in foreign trade, and particularly in that with the East, unanimously adopted a memorial to Lord Hartington in favour of representatives of the Imperial and Indian Governments being deputed to take part in the forthcoming International Monetary Conference at Paris. At the Carmarthen Nice Court, a youth named NPCann, charged with fraudutent enlistment, was remanded because the' magisterial text-book regarding offences was not in court, and the d puty justices' clerk could not advise the Bench how to act. After some hours delay the prisoner was again brought 'up and fined £l. Sir William Knollys has written to the Committee of the National Eisteddfod of Wales stating that the Prince of Wales cannot comply with their wish that His Royal Highness should be a president of the institution. The Controller of • the Household of the Duke of Edinburgh, to whom a similar request was addressed, has made a like I reply. At the half-yearly meeting of the Caledonian Railway Company, the Chairman said they had been exposed to the severest competition, which had impoverished all engaged in it. They had, however, carr,ied more passangers, merchandise, and minerals, and earned more revenue than in any corresponding half year. A dividend of 24 per cent was declared. The Chancellor of the Exchequer has informed the Tobacco Trade Association that he is absolutely precluded from entertaining at present any proposal for repealing the extra tobacco clutz imposed by the late Government. The right bon. gentleman points out that the immediate loss to the revenue would be such as he has no means of meeting in the present state of our revenue and expenditure. A serious riot occurred at Reading on Sunday afternoon in connection with the Salvation Army, which has commenced holding its services in a large boathouse. The morning service was broken up, and in the afternoon the mob attacked the two leaders, and ill-treated them in a brutal manner. Thty were compelled to seek shelter in a neighbouring house, which the mob.sarrounded for several hours.
Widnes Examiner. — 1881-04-02 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

OOO. The mansion, which has many historical associations, is intended as a country residence for Prince Leopold. The landslip at Bogart Hole Clough, near Manchester, is daily incr-Ming, and has reached to within ten yards of 9. row of houses, two of which have been abandoned by the tenants in consequence The Boston Post says "New Yorkers pay higher salaries to clergymen than does any other city. But then it's a heap more work to save a New Yosker than any other man."  Not every one can reason as closely about the marriage relation as the negro who said, "I got an old muader, an' if don' buy shoes an' stockings for her she won't have none. Nov, if I get married I would have to buy dem tings for my' wife, and that would look like takin' de shoes and stoCkings right out of my poor ole mudder's" mouf, don' you see?" At Middleton, a shocking case of death from destitution was before the county coroner, Mr. Molesworth. The evidence showed that deceased, John Haywood, 67 years of age, was found by.the police in an uno...cupied house. He was in a dreadful condition, his bones protruding through his skin, and being Covered with wounds. He was carried into another house, bat died in a few mintitee. & verdict of "Death from want, cold, and exposure," was returned.. ~A man may be terribly sarcastic and not know it. A prq-fessor lecturing on chemistry to a class of young men askdd Mr. Jones if prussic acid was at all 'dangerous. Mr. Jon replied that it was rather powerful, and if taken in.sufficie t quantity would destroy life. "Rather powerful ?" sneer the professor.- "Why, Mr. Jones, if I should put a sing 'e drop of it on your tongue it would kill a dor ' Sit Sedgley, James Bodenham, 22, was remanded on a charge of attempting to murder his sweetheart, Lizme Williams, and tor attempted suicide. It is alleged that on Sunday Miss Williams upbraided the accused for his inconstancy; and this so annoyed him that upon separating he said,"You shall never see me again." A succession off revolver shots followed, causing Williams to be stunned an Bodenham to be injured on the head. ' At the Birmingham Police Court, on Tuesday, James Lewin, builder, late of Nottingham, and Kate Lewin, his wife, were committed for trial on several charges of obtaining large quantities of furniture, .clothing, Jte., by false pretences from Birmingham tradespeople. The prosecuting solicitor stated that the prisoners- bad been victimising people all over the.countryl among the townS Air Whiph they had conducted,thek operations being' ManCt*, Salford, Preston, Leects, Chea,terfield, Nottingham, Rtqlo4, . . . ont e n t.
Widnes Examiner. — 1881-06-18 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

ELOPEMENT AND ATTEMPTED SMCIDE.—At the Nant- when he stated that the work had not been done as it might have been, and he premised to send his men to have it repaired. On the 29th January, MO, the plaintiff was paid Lamb Hotel, Audlem, was charged with having attempted £2B lOs. sd. for doing the work in the first instance, and in to commit suicide. From the evidence it appeared that acknowledging the receipt of the money the plaintiff sent in Jones, who is considered a respectable man, and who had a claim of .f 6 3s. 7d., the amount now sued for for doing the been in his situation for fifteen years, ryas some weeks ago repairs, which the defendant ignored, smuch as the plain. found in his house in Sandy-lane lying on his back insen- tiff had not peformed the work in accordance with the consible, in a pool of blood. The windpipe was partially tract and the specifications of Messrs. Shelmerdine. The severed, and a razor was found lying on a table covered evidence for the plaintiff was to the effect that the asphalte with blood. He remained uncniscious for eighteen hours, had been used, and that water had been put on it too soon. but under the care of Dr. Townsend Newman (who stated Mr. Lee gave evidence to show that he had not used the that he believed the , prisoner was not accountable for his asphalte for nearly a month, and that no water had been put actions when he committed the rash act), he ultimately upon it during the same period. Mr. Edward Shelmerdine recovered. The prisoner's master, Mr. Mear, gave him an was called on behalf the defendant, and he stated that the e,xcellent character. As to the cause which led to the asphalt was too soft, and there had not been sufficient pitch attempt, it was stated that a person said to be a sea captain put into it, and that irrespective of water the asphalte had had lodged at prisoner's house and his wife eloped with him, been improperly done, and not in compliance with the taking the eldest child and leaving five more behind. The specification. The learned Judge stated that the adm,ssions pair also took part of the furniture. They have been traced made by the plaintiff were very strong that the work had to Liverpool, and are believed to be still there.—The Beech not been properly done, and directed a verdict to be entered bound the prisoner over in his own recognier, ces to come up for the defendant, and on the application of Mr. Lowe again if called upon. directed the plaintiff to pay the costs.