The Warwickshire Herald. — 1895-06-13 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

VILLAGE TRAGEDY IN ESSEX. On Saturday evening the coroner for South Essen held an inquiry at Roydon with reference to the death of Edward Green, 40, a cowman, lately residing at Roydon-street —Sarah Green said that her husband's behaviour had been very strange. He would pull his eyes about, and pull the lashes out; he would rave and stamp about the rooms, pick up knives, and threaten to rip people open. The witness had frequently ran out of the house in fear of her life. Many times he had threatened to kill her and the children. A sister of his was now in Brentwood Asylum.—The Coroner: Was he not Jealous of you, and auspec ed you of going with other men?—Witness: Yes, he had said so; and he also said that some day he ar. uld bring a new wife home. There were no grounds for either his accusations or suspicions. Witness, continuing, said that recently he tried to do away with himself, and wished some of the children good-bye, and cut himself about with a kn;fe:—Elizabetli Green, a domestic servant, eldest daughter of the deceased, stated that she was at home on May 31st, when the deceased shook hands with her and said: "Good-bye, Lizzie; I shall not see you any more," and left the house. On the Saturday morning the deceased said he had been down on the line, but it did not quite do for him, it only cut his finger No one asked him what he meant —Henry Maley, driver of a goods train on the Great Eastern Railway, deposed that about 4.40 on Friday morning he was driving train from Norwich to Roydon, and when near Roydon be noticed the body lying across the metals of the up-road, the body being cut right in half and horribly mutilated.—The jury returned a verdict rd Suicide whilst of unsound mind.  At the County of London Sesbions one Featherstone was sentenced on Saturday to three months' hard labour for theft from the house of a doctor, who had engaged him to act as beam tenens, in spite of the fact that he was not a qualified medical practitioner.  The International Rifle match took place at Darnley ranges on Saturday, and for the sixth time as succession resulted in a victory for Scotland. The scores mere—Scotland, 1,752; England, 1,877; Ireland, 1,608: giving Scotland &majority over England ot 75 and over Ireland of 144.  It is notified that the Corps of Armours?s has been incorporated in the Ordname Store Corp., and will hereafter be known aa the "Armourer Section, Ordnance Store Corp.." The depot of the late Corps of Armourere, which was at Birmineharn, has been moved to Woolwich, a, i form part of the depot of ths Ordnance Sto, The fish wouldn't bite.—The following story is told of a celebratod novelist and a well-known critic. The critic had written a bitter attack on the novelist's work; but the latter, being a good-natured man, instead of overwhelming him with vituperation in any periodical he could find sufficiently accommodating to publish it, requested a mutual friend to bring the critic to his house to dinner some evening. When he received the invitation, this was the critic's reply: "I certainly shall not go. He simply wants to heap coals of Are on my head; and do you suppose I am fool enough to bold the scuttle for hint P"