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Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1889-10-12 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

SUICIDE OF A MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT.  Brighton has been deprived of its junior member by a sad occurrence. Sir William Tindal Robertson, for some time past has been in a serious mental state. He has recently been residing at Broadstairs for the benefit of his health, and returned to his Brighton residence about five weeks since. Restored to his family circle, he appeared to improve, and the anxiety of his friends was in some measure removed. On Saturday night he retired to rest at his usual hour, nothing unusual being apparent in his condition, but when his attendant went to rouse him on Sunday morning, about a quarter to 8, he found him dead, with his throat cut and a razor lying close by. Medical aid was at once sought, and Dr. Lowe, who lives close by, was called, and was of opinion that death had ensued about an hour before the body was found. The deceased had been in a desponding state for some time past. Sir W. Tindal Robertson was the eldest son of the late Mr. Frederick Fowler Robertson, of Grantham, was born in 1825, educated at King Edward Vl.'s Grammar School, Grantham, and studied at University College Hospital with a view to entering the medical profession. In 1846 he matriculated at the London University, and, after serving as junior medical officer at the Middlesex Hospital, graduated as doctor of medicine at the University of Edinburgh. In 1873 he was chosen a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians. His connection with Brighton began in 1876. He was elected a member of the Town Council, and chairman of the Conservative and Constitutional Association, which post he continued to occupy until he was unanimously selected by the party for nomination as member for the borough. In 1886 he was elected to Parliament to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Alderman David Smith. Sir Tindal Robertson rendered signal service as a member of the Royal Commission on the Blind, the Deaf, and the Dumb, and it was in connection with the Commission that he received, in 1888, the honour of knighthood. The deceased gentleman was blind, the result of a disease which attacked him when in the prime of life. He WAS extremely popular at Brighton with all parties. An inquest was held on Monday as to the death of the hon. gentleman. The evidence showed that he had of late suffered from illness,depression of spirits, and bewilderment. The jury returned a verdict of suicide while of unsound mind.
Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1889-04-27 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

MARRYING A BROTHER'S WIDOW. 4AJIDATJA.,OO:OII=-ZI3.4C.R.DX._ The difficulty at the Festinog Union touohin— g the A murder and suicide has taken place at Gates. recent appointment of master and matron of the head, Mary Martin, 37, being murdered by Walter workhouse has assumed another phase. The eleotion Fairbanks, 4§, a rivetter, who afterwards eounnittee was made three months ago, but the Local Govern- suicide. The murdered woman was married, but 12 ment Board has declined to sanction the appointment, I months ago she obtained a separation order against upon the ground that the prties are not legally man her husband, who allowed her ss. a week. She and wife, the master having married his brother's occupied two upstair rooms in a house in Oakwell, and widow. The guardians then sought to get out of was frequently visited by Fairbanks. Fairbanks the difficulty by asking the department to make the who is a widower, lodged near Martin, and he appointment distinet,instead or joint; but at their last borrowed a razor from his landlord for the purpose, meeting a communication was received from the he said, of shaving. Shortly before 10 at night department; withholding its sahction to any such a constable heard screams proceeding from arrangement. It was agreed that a deputation should Martin's lodgings, and on going up he saw wait upon the President of the Local Government her with her head and shoulders out of the Board. window, and blood flowing down on the footpath from a wound in her neck. He went upstairs, forced open the door, and drew her back. She fell upon the floor and died almost immediately. The policeman entered the other room and saw Fairbanks lying on the floor with a 'deep gash in his throat and a razor lying beside him. He died 10 minutes after. wards. The bodies are now lying where they were found awaiting an inquest. The cause of the quarrel is not known. The deceased woman's husband keeps a publio-house close to the scene of the tragedy.
Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1889-09-21 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

VICTIM TO JEALOUSY. An inquest has been opened at Uppingham on the body of William Aris, aged 24, plumber and glazier, who committed suicide after having shot his sweetheart. Aria had conceived an affection for a domestic servant named Arnsby, in the service of the Rev. W. Campbell, one of the masters of Uppingham School, but she declined his attentions. Late the other night she was talking to another young man when Aris came up, and, in a fit of jealousy, drew a revolver and fired three shots at the young woman, two shots taking effect in her throat and a third in one of her shoulders. The girl fell on the ground, when Aris turned the revolver to his own head, and shot himself dead on the spot. The girl, who is aged 20, is not expected to recover.  A "Gruff," who reached India on a Sunday morning, got into a Bombay buggy and told the buggy.. wallah to "drive to the devil." ;The buggywallah drove him to church. It appears, says the St. Jamas Gazette, that oicivia is Hindustani for a place of worship. A man who has not yet been identified threw himself in front of a luggage train on the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway, near Sheffield, on Tuesday. The wheels passed over his neck, severing his head almost completely from his body. A card bearing the name of William Unwin was found upon the body.  As 13 horses belonging to Major Ricardo, Mutes of the Craven Hounds, were returning through the village of Kintbury, near Reading, to the kennels after their usual exercise, one of them, ridden by a groom named Bray, bolted, and on reaching the level crossing at the railway station, the second horse which Bray was leading,becomingfrightened,jumped at the gate. A projecting screw entered the chest of the animal,which died almost immediately. The horse had only recently been purchased for 100 guineas,
Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1889-11-23 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

WILLS AND BEQUESTS.  The will of the Dowager Countess of Newburgh, late of Wilton-crescent, Belgravia, has been proved, the value of the personal estate amounting to upwards of £26,000. The testatrix bequeaths £5OO to the Rev. Father Galway for charitable purposes, £5OO to the Rev. Mother Superior of the Roman Catholic Convent of the Sacred Heart at Roehampton, £l,OOO to the poor of the Roman Catholic parish of St. Mary, Cadogan-street, at the absolute discretion of the Rev. Canon Mac=lien, £2OO to the Roman Catholic Bishop of Southwark, £2OO to the Senior Priest of the Roman Catholic Church, Horseferryroad ; £4OO to the Convent of Poor Clares, Edmundterrace, Notting Hill. The will of Miss Sabina Robinson, late of :Darley Dale, Upper Norwood, has been proved, the value of the personal estate amounting to upwards of £55,000. The testatrix bequeaths £lOO each to the Home for Incurables, Putney; Earlswood Idiot Asylum, the Asylum for Fatherless Children, Reedhani ; the London Fever Hospital, Liverpool-road, Islington; the Worn-out Wesleyan Ministers' Fund, the London City Mission, and the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society; £5O to 10 poor persons of Chellaston, near Derby, as her executors shall think fit ; £250 to the weavers and workpeople who have been or are at the time of her death in the employ of J. and W. Robinson and Co. Among other wills recently proved are those of Mrs. Selina Mackinlay, late of Earneterrace, Kensington, the value of the personal estate amounting to over £38,000; of Admiral Richard Aldworth Oliver, late of Grove End-road, the personal estate amounting to over £25,000; of the Rev. William Luke Nichols, late of Woodlands, Somersetshire, the personal estate amounting to upwards of £21,000 ; of Mr. Thomas John Domville Taylor, late of Buckingham-road, Brighton, the personal estate exceeding £19,000 • of Dame Edwina Augusta Ferguson-Davie, late of dreedy-park, Devon, and Bittescombe Manor, Somersetshire, the personal estate amounting to over £13,000; and of Mr. John Blount Price, late of Highbury-hill, Islington, the personal estate amounting, to over £12,000.  On Friday morning a determined attempt at suicide was made on the railway a 'short distance from \Vey. mouth. A middle-aged man named Earl, a college gyp, at Oxford, who was travelling with his wife and sister, suddenly opened the carriage door and sprang on to the metals. The train was running at express speed. The man, who appeared to be suffering chiefly from scalp wounds was immediately removed to the Weymouth Hospitia. .  .t4,rfe
Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1889-05-04 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

DRIVEN MAD :BY REVIVALISM. At the Westminster Police-court, Bobcat .IL-Clark, 25, an engineer's draughtsman, of Peckham Rye, has been charged with attempting to commit suicide.— A police-constable stated that the other evening his attention was called to the defendant, who was in H a very strange and excited state, e spoke to witness of taking his life, and said that he could iu t live, as he had displeased the Almighty. Witnes endeavoured to calm him, but •he exclaimed, " denied the spirit of God this morning, and I have the devil in my mouth." He then run towards the river embankment at Pimlico, and witness followed him and saw him mount the parapet, run along a short distance, and then jump some 15ft. on to a barge, the tide being out at the time. Witness jumped after him, being much shaken in so doing, and seized him as he was about to throw himself in the water. They struggled together until they fell in the hold of the vessel. Eventindly defendant's legs were tied, and he was brought ashore.—Defendant said that he had some false teeth in his mouth, and they weie torn out. He was used very badly.—The constable said at the station the defendant tned to choke himself with his false teeth, and they had to be taken from him by force. His card was found on him, with the words, "Good-bye, mother dear," written in pencil on the back.—Mr. David Watson, engineer and surveyor to the Board of Trade, said he had known the defendant for some years, and he was a teetotaler and a man of unblemished character. He was a man of very nervous temperament, and no doubt his mind was temporarily unhinged through religious excitement.—Mrs. Agnes Clark, sister-in-law of defendant, said he had been attending revival meetings in connection with the Wesleyan body, and they had driven him out of his rnind.—The magistrate asked the accused what passed through his mind to make him think of suicide.—Defendant : I was striving with the spirit of God for the salvation of my own soul, and failed. That is what drove me mad.—Clark was remanded for the benefit of the chaplain's advice, and the magistrate commended the constable who rescued him.
Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1889-05-04 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

CHILD MARRIAGES IN INDIA.  The Dewan Ragunatha Rao,writing with reference to the recent charge of cruelty to a child-wife brought against Holkar's son-in-law, utters, says the Time: correspondent in Calcutta, an indignant protest against the existing state of the law, and asks the Government to exhibit sufficient moral courage, by passing remedial measures, and to rescue millions of Hindoo women from slavery. He says "British blood and money have flowed like water in efforts to stamp out slavery in other countries; yet in India the British Government sits by with folded hands while a father is permitted with impunity to sell in marriage an infant daughter of 8 years to a man of 47, already rendered notorious by his marital tyranny. This child-wife is then segregated from the companionship of her own sex, and is so persecuted and terrorized that, child as she is, she is driven to attempt suicide rather than continue to submit herself any longer to the capricious tyranny and odious intimacy of her socalled husband. And yet the British magistrate i is compelled to state n open court that the law gives him no power to restrain revolting oppression of this character, as it is justified by law. This protest, Asoming as it does from aprominent Hindoo, is significant of the advanced opinion entertained by a certain section of the Hindoo community as to the necessity for Government intervention to mitigate some of the worst abuses of the present system of child-marriage in India.  Rukhmabai, the Indian lady whose refusal to live with her husband, to whom she had been married when an infant, created so much interest last year and the year before in England and in India, has arrived in this country, with a view to entering the Women's Medical College, and pursuing a course of study there which will enable her to obtain the necessary qualifications to practise medicine. Before leaving India she addressed a farewell letter to the secretary of her defence committee explaining the circumstances under which she leaves that country for a time. After thanking the committee for its constant aid and expressing a hope that their joint success, though only partial at present, "will go a great way to lessen the miseries of such of my Icliztdoo sisters as may be unfortunately situated like myself," Ruklanabai states that through the exertions of a lady doctor in India, Mrs. Pechey-Phipson, she has obtained a home in this country from Mr. Wiaren, M.P., and Mrs. AlEaren, Who have undertaken to find the funds for her medical education.
Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1889-06-01 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

SWINDLING A SHIPOWNER.  At the Liverpool Assizes, before Mr. Justice Stephen, David Wiliiain Jesse has been tried fot having conspired with Ephraim Fry Angel and Stephen Fegan, two men not in custody, to deprive John Sydney Brown of the owners'aip of 33 64th shares in the barque Caribon, and of having made a false declaration as to the ownership of the vesse!. Mr. Brown, a shipowner in Glasgow, purchased the shares from Angel for £ioo, 2:..)00 of which was paid in cash, and the remainder in acceptances. Angel was shipbroker in Liverpool, Fegan had a stool in his office, and Jesse was Angel's confidential clerk. Mr. Brown duly met the acceptances, but he never got possession of the vessel, nor of his shares, and lost all the money, and the allegation for the prosecution was that the three men concerned, by means of a transfer of the shares from one to another of them, and by making a false declaration in regard to the ship's register, had succeeded in effectually swindling the prosecutor.—The defence was that Jesse had acted only as the clerk of Angel, and under his direction, but without any fraudulent knowledge or intention, and that the real offenders were the other two men, who had disappeared.—The jury acquitted the accused on the charge of conspiracy, but found him guilty of having made a false declaration, and he was sentenced to one month's imprisonment with hard labour.  A boy, aged 6 years, has —aiiempted to commiii suicide by throwing himself into the Danube Canal, Vienna. The child was saved, and taken to the Police-station, where he stated that he had committed the act to avoid impending correction.  A lady named Marion Muirhead, of Bath, aged 77 years, whilst travelling between Teignmouth and Newton Abbot, in company with her niece, died suddenly the train before medical assistance could be obtained.  BREAKING UP "A TERRIBLE BAND For some years past, telegraphs the Naples correspondent of the Daily News, there has existed in a remote district near Salerno an organised band of thieves and murderers, with a complete constitution and recognised chief like. the Camorra. They were ready at a moderate price to serve any one who needed them for any desperate exploit. To take a life cost only 20 francs. In the year 1884, the captain of this band, a man named Motto's, assisted by his lieutenant, Antonio Tardio, who has now emigrated to America, and disguised as friars, lay in wait near an old mill and killed an old man named Mandetta. The victim's son was suspected of the crime, and kept in prison for a year and a half. A year ago Mottola murdered his superior, the general of the band. But this time he was discovered; and now, ' after a trial, during which he maintained the utmost composure, has been condemned to death, together with his absent accomplice of the first crime, Antonio Tardio.
Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1889-07-06 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE.  Superintendent Robotham, of the Abingdon borough police, who went to Tasmania and arrested in Hobart a man named Arthur Latham, alias Edwards, alias Johnson, on a charge of larceny as a bailee of jewellery and plate, value kBOO, has returned to Plymouth in the Shaw Savill, and Albion Company's steamship Coptic, but without his prisoner, he having escaped or committed suicide. In December last Latham, under the name of Edwards, opened a shop in Abingdon, in Berkshire, for the sale of jewellery which he obtained on approval from various firms in Birmingham, London, and Sheffield. In three weeks Latham had closed his business and decamped with the goods. He was traced to Launceston, in Tasmania, and Superintendent Robotham embarked on board the Nice with his charge for England, but, as that vessel broke down, they were transferred to the Coptic. The accused was very despondent and low-spirited on the way home, and shewed signs of suicidal mania. On arrival at Rio de Janeiro the ship was coaled in mid stream. As the Coptic was being got ready to proceed on her voyage Robotham suddenly missed Latham, who, must have run up on the after-part of the hurricane deck, for his coat was afterwards found there. An alarm was raised, and the ship and lighters were thoroughly searched, but no trace could be found of Latham, who, in the opinion of Robotham, the officers of the ship, and the engineers, committed suicide by jumping overboard. Captain Burton refused to detain the ship whilst a search was made ashore, and Superintendent Robotham came on in the Coptic. He landed at Plymouth where the Customs authorities opened the boxes containing the recovered stolen property and detained a silver teaservice, pending an application to the Board in London for its restoration.  The tramways strike at Cardiff shews no sign of being settled. Several of the' cars were brought out on Monday morning,but the horses were unharnessed by the strikers and the windows of the care weje smashed. At length, with the aid of the police, bm, cars were despatched on their journey On Thursday two workmen went aown a sewn in Stamford-street, London, when they were suddenly overpowered by the fumesof accumulated sewer gas. Fortunately there were other workmen at hand,, and the two men were quickly brought to the mouth of the sewer and medically attended. They were un-: conscious, one of them remaining so for over half an hour. The funeral of the man George Thomas Gorin, better known by his professional name of Letine, who was fatally stabbed outside the Canterbury Music Hall by Nathaniel Currah, of Crayford, took place on Thursday at Nunhead Cemetery, where thousands of people had assembled. , The chief mourners were the widow, Mrs. Olga Gorin,and thy other membersof the deceased's troupe of 'Licyclists.
Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1889-07-06 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

SHOCKING SUICIDE OF A LOVER. An inquest has been held near Abermule, on the Cambrian Railway, on the body of William Hatton, 32, a commercial traveller, who committed suicide by deliberately stepping in front of the engine of a goods train on the Cambrian Railway.— Thomas Ashton,;engine-driver of the train, said that just before reaching Abermule henoticed the deceased coming down the side path of the line towards them. He had a paper in his hand. Witness touched the whistle, and immediately lost sight of the deceased. Ho then felt something underneath the engine. The train was stopped, and witness found the body of deceased fearfully mangled. He also found on the tine a periodical, on which were written the words, "Darling Poll,—l'm about to commit suicide, only through the doubts of your family." There was no signature. Alfred H. Hatton, of West Bromwich, painter, said he was brother of the deceased. The words on the paper produced were in his handwriting. They referred to Mary Phillips, West Bromwich, to whom the deceased was to be married in a few days. Witness did not know of any such "doubts" as were there referred to. All the arrangements for the wedding had been made. —John Phillips, of West Bromwich, said he was the brother of the young lady whowas engaged to be married to deceased. Witness last saw him alive at his sister's residence on Wednesday evening. He looked very ill. He was not aware of any obstacles to' the marriage, which was perfectly agreeable to Miss Phillips's family.—The jury returned, a verdict of suicide during temporary insanity,  ' At the London Court of Bankruptcy on Thursday morning the scheme of arrangement come to by the creditors of Viscount Mandeville, the eldest son of the Duke of Manchester, was duly approved. The scheme provided for the execution of mortgages and the payment of the debts in full, without interest, at the expiration of 12 months from the death of the Duke of Manchester.  A woman named Greer, wife of a saddler in Armagh, who was with the ill-fated excursion train, but did not receive any injuries, has been received into Armagh. Lunatic Asylum. On witnessing the results of the catastrophe, she experienced 80 great a shock that her mind became unhinged. and for sonic time before her removal to the asylum she had to be strapped to the bed. It is feared that in several ether cases similar consequences will follow.
Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1889-07-06 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

SAD SUICIDE OF A YOUNG WOMAN. An inquest has been held at Lindley, Huddersfield, on the body of Margaret Lees, 2,4 years of age, who was found drowned in the reserVoir of the mill of Messrs. B. Crossland and Sons. Deceased is a native of Greenfield, where her parents live, but for two years she had worked in Huddersfield. The other morning Charles North, of Lindley, at whose house she lodged, found a letter on the table stating that she would be found in Crossland's reservoir, and on going to the place the body was found and removed. The deceased had for three months, up to about five months ago, been keeping company with Albert Robinson, a joiner, of Birkby.— Robinson, in giving evidence, said the deceased broke off the engagement. A few mornings since he received a letter from her stating that he ought not to have asked her to meet him when his heart was with another girl; and if he had not done so he would have saved her an amount of needless pain and trouble. Love had been a tie which nothing but death could sever on her part. Robinson stated that he was never so surprised at anything in his life 1111 when he received that letter. Deceased sent him a letter to say she would see him for the last time, and he then gave her a letter and her photo back. Robinson's sister, who worked with deceased, also produced a letter she had had from her, in which she said she really could not live any longer when the one she had loved dearer than life had forsaken her. It was stated that lately the deceased had been of variable temperament.—The jury found that deceased had committed suicide whilst in a. state of temporary insanity.