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The Express. — 1848-09-13 (London, England)

CHARTISM AT BRADTOLIA—Un Monday last three men armed Benjamin Lam* Francis Carmody, end Paul Holdswertb, and a woman named Kuria Holmes, were brought haute the seaguerates at Bradford charged with assault an I robbery. The complaint aro-e out of the emsnivel of the nine persons to York oastle for seditious cos. sinewy. mentioned in this paper of Una, ay. It seems that when fisher Emmett, the duel miters against them pri. weer, was going t his resiilenee iu Victoria-street, Silo bridge-lane, about tea o'clock, he eueountered a large now lx r of his neighbours who were &r ambled for the purpose of giving him• warm rerptien iaeonsarenee ot his haviagemed the port of what they termed a "spy," and having “seeeived blood money." Emmett had so gorier appeared in ue street than be was attacked by several of the meta He freer with mese of his madame, midst load threats spier his life, and it wee only when he declared he would draws a person, whom he held by the hair of the head be. soul the water at tee bottom of Victors-Wiest, where he had takes refuge from his assailante, that the crowd ceeseu to attack him, although the mars violent were urged to kill him, on the plea tin. be weeld know -cameo/ them, and they would be palliated on a subsequent mansion. In the Week, • sharp instrument was applied to Ilinmett's penes, and he was the deprived of hie prier, coot.ining Ile. 4d., sad severely wouseled in the abdomen. The prisoners were apprehesded on Suicide, aiterneen, and yesterday Emmett identified them am having taken& principal part is the agnate end robbery. Ttry were all emu muted to York Castle tor trial at the Bert maims. Several other partite are " wanted ;" bet dues Saturday Vidaliastreet, which is • stronghold of ehartiern, hes been deserted by re male inhabi:ants, no fewer than 36 parsons heeler absconded.—When this case had been &speed of, three women, named Sarah Linden, Ana Cantwell, anti Reams& Pow, r (wives of well. known charier, and tweet whore Miranda were committed en Friday), and a yeti* man mimed Joseph Layooek, were also brought up, tharged with thhateniog the late of Ass Emmett, el& of Hubert Bomar, es the same occasion. They were ...gyred to triter Leo eared a for their gee.d behaviour, rind were rsz.:‘eed to the eel's In default of bad. Die rtiioe rentl7l.2 limns itt's goods on Saturday evening, and he Is atm living in soother par: of the town. He is to be reaped to Manetestur, for there is at present neither peace tor safety for bier in Bradt:rd. ANOTHIS CIIARTIIfr
The Express. — 1848-01-10 (London, England)

FRANCE.—STATISTICS OF CRIME IN FRANCE.. In the course of the year 1847 the Court of Assize of France pronounced 67 sentences of death; during the year 1846 there were but 57. Of these 67 sentences of death, 43 were for assassination, 8 for robberies and murder, 5 for poisoning. 4 for parricide, 3 for infanticide, 3 for wilful conflagration, and 1 for assault and battery. The courts-martial established in France and Algeria havepronouncedduringtheyear 1847, 102 sentences of death, classed in the following manner : 82 for having struck superior officer, 12 for assassination, and 8 for desertion. The average of crimes committed 'yearly against persons and property varies from 5 to 6,000; ' the number of accused perivins from 7to 8,000, of whom one-third are generally acquitted. The affairs of correctional police were much more numerous. During the year 1847, 77,000 affairs of this nature were brought before the Tribunal di Premiere Instance, comprising 98,000 accused, of whom 23.000 were dismissed without prosecution. During the same year the magistrates have bad to bring in a verdict of 7,400 accidental deaths; 3,000 by drowning; 600 accidents by carriage ; 400 caused by the falling in of ground ; 200 by the immoderate use of spirits; 80 by lightning ; 14 by railway accidents, &c. Suicides were shoo very numerous. In 1847 they amounted to 3,000 ; men always form at least the two-thirds of the number of suicides which take place every year. The business of the cultivator, or the daily workman, generally furnishes one-third of the number ; in 1845, upon the number of suicides, 1,000 were of this class, while there were but 2 artists, 4 wood-cutter, and 6 chiffonier, who had recourse to such violent means to put an end to their nfferings. The greatest number of suicides are caused by strangulation, submersion and asphyxia, very few by poison. It has been observed that May, June, and July are the months which i offer the greatest number of suicides.
The Express. — 1848-02-09 (London, England)

THE CONVICT ESTABLISHMENT AT WOOLWICH.— ALL POE LOVE!—A day or two since a convict belonging to' the Justitia convict bulk at Woolwich, named Warren, who had been removed from Millbank Penitentiary about a fortnight since, attempted to perform a feat which bears some analogy to that of Leander, of classic memory, on the Hellespont. A number of female co,.victs had been brought down from Millbank prison, for removal en board the Eliza and Ilenry, a hired transport-ship, lying off the Royal Arsenal, and amongst them was a female with whom Warren had formerly cohabited. The prospect of thirteen thousand miles between him and has " Hero " was too much for the poor fellow, and after one or two lingering longing looks at the vessel, he sprang from the deck of the Junkie, a height of between 30 and 40 feet, and plunged into the stream. From his powers as a swimmer, there is no doubt he would have reached the Elk& and Henry, lot a boat rowed by another convict, named Fletcher, pursued him, and he was brought hack to the hulk, to endure a separation which must last either ten or seven years, the period for which his ladye love and himself are respectively sentenced.—On Monday morning a savage attack was wade on a guard of the Justitia named Daniel Frazer, by a half-witted convict named Joseph Craig. The cause of the outrage has not transpired, but the guard was struck and knocked down by the prisoner, who afterwards kicked and jumped upon him; and had it not been for the assistance of some prisoners standing by the consequences might have been SkTIOUS.—A convict named William Wrenshaw, who was placed in solitary confinement for an assault on Quarter. master Knowles, attempted to commit suicide on Sunday by strangulation. He had tied one end of his handkerchief to his arm and the tither round his throat, and it was with some difficulty that Mr. Blyth, the assistant-surgeon, succeeded in restoring animation.
The Express. — 1851-06-11 (London, England)

EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE. —On Friday last an inquest was held at Black Nutley, by William Codd, Esq., stoner, on the body of William Wynn, a small farmer, and constable of that place, who had committed suicide by cutting his throat. The case was attended by circumstances of an awful nature. The wound in the throat was so large that a man's double fist might be placed in it; but it appears that after indicting it on himself he actually walked a dietaupe of 17 or 18 rods. The widow of the deceased stated that she first noticed indications of insanity in her husband on the previous Saturday, and on Wednesday last the out.. break leek plus, which terminated in his self-destruction. She reesuated the particulars of a long and futile struggle whisk the bad on that day with the madman, for LL. of p••••••• 61•6 lirarip••••••1•••• 'of boa knives which was in the house. Finding she was =able to do so, she ran for assistance, but before tie and& obtain any her husband inflicted several dreadful wade Via his throat.—James Cud proved that i Mn. Wym jr sereming to the barn, and on running to the yar be hod the demised in • posture, forcing the balk late his throat with both handstoopings. When witness got SIM be mind the knife and snatched it from Ind gong le tin den dens it in • but when nnamed Is kiathe Omni be had pet miaow knife in his Mai This was talus Inn 111 art mother labourer Genies up, winos via fir the .-14. N. Dixon, nogosa et Brenta's, andd I found the deceased in a pasture aser his hone, d gees to a pond, hen which it was stated be lad jest bees taken. His throat wen sad he was quite deeiL The Ibsen was amino* ant sad at the l put there wise Sea as wend be gredevier uosd by repealed of a knife. The mini were each as have heat made bisesier but I believe it to have ben Inspemible kg Paw widths k a wound, to have walked teen He yawl* the pia& where he was found, the windpipe. illas Mary, end Je von, being etesgistedy bar nun I sheen brigs% ban sale the whoa close to the mg. Jelin Swallow, Vilagreses, nays led cane to Cards aleistenes, said—After Card sea in Oa inn, I saw the deceased sharpening a knife apse a pion of the. I went towards hint, and within three pans ef him, but I was afraid to fie near hiss, and I dna beeinued ny saran Collard, wise was in the MA, sad be sass as else Ma Adman, bat nen et us went very sass bin. , Ina venni test towards a peed, etas Dab lielesse frees dr bow* with a nib la Ms right bank end en ell this felletrellio.bet did imitgoneenriebintlina lin Myer& Vim be set le the peat be lesi MEW is. I thee lea the •does mime sad a rake. lea a rake. red as plig er Ile pad. wide vas Ave ce six hot ie depth, we livid set an Ws. bet sea raked bin ep. H. Md. ssieS The Oman seed war He seam% Ws the etreensteetee of the ad dist et" Tereptrerym int"--Aboos Area  2g7 12 20 20  II 14 tt
The Express. — 1851-10-17 (London, England)

LAMBETH.  Mr. Edward John Lee, of Elizabeth-place. Wyndhamroad, Camberwell, a compositor in the printing establishmeat of Mr. Hansard, and who has behaved with the utmost .kioduess and humanity towards the widow and mutilated child of the late unfortunate suicide, Fawe tt, waited on Mr. Norton, to solicit his worship to place hi, name at the head of a list of subscribers to a fund to be raised for the future education and support of the poor child who had so narrowly escaped destruction at the hands of her unfortunate parent. Mr. Norton remarked that the case appeared to be a distressing, as well as a very shocking one, and asked what family had been left ? Mr. Lee replied three daughters. The oldest, a girl of eighteen, was earning her own living and likely to do so by dresemaking ; and the second, a girl of fourteen, was also in service as a nursery girl, and at present making her own living; but the third, a child of eight years of age, was wholly unprovided for ; and it was for her that the committee was anxious to raise such a fund as would provide means of subsistence. The poor child had received such serious injuries on her hands while struggling for her life with her maniac father that it was doubtful whether she would be enabled to use them freely; at all events, it would be a long time before she could do so ; and, therefore, she the more required that assistance which it was the wish of the committee to place within her reach. Mr. Norton—The object seems highly desirable, and does the committee much credit ; but what Is it you wish me to do? Mr. Lee—lf your worship would kindly place your name upon the head of the list of subscribers the committee will feel much obliged, as they confidently hope that your worship's doing so will be the means of inducing many other benevolent gentlemen to follow your example. Mr. Nortos—The ere is of so distressing • nature that It for and I have no doubt it will be very genewith. I have no objection to order two peork-v=ilk poor box to be paid to the committee swards the feed, and shall enter It at the head of your esimespeles Um. Yr. Lee, who was accompanied by Mr. Lewis, a muter baker is the seid, who has actively sedated la Masi Mr. Leak k of charity upland his taroks so las sighleste >br lib IJaawu ea 4 wankel sad begin
The Express. — 1851-05-24 (London, England)

SVICIDE.—This forenoon, a painful degree of exeitement prevailed among the occupant, of the Saracen's Head Hotel, Skinner-street, Snow-hill, in consequence of  the suicide of Mr. James Bristow, a gentleman very highly connected, and surposed to be lately residing at Henley, in the county of Middlesex. The deceased gentleman had taken apartments for a few days at the hotel, and appeared 11 in very excellent health and spirits. Deceased went out yesterday morning, returning in the evening, and after taking some refreshment got in conversation with several gentlemen who had been to the Great Exhibition, in Ilydepark, and when ho had taken supper he retired to rest about one o'clock this morning. Nothing more was heard of him until one of the ostlers had his attention drawn to a pool of blood on the floor of a coach-house underneath deceased's bedroom. One of the female servants went up and found the door closed ; she raised an alarm, and when she entered the apartment the deceased was lying on the floor with his head nearly shattered to pieces. The deceased had been dead some time, and by his side was discovered a six-barrel pistol, which, from the position of the deceased had been discharged The police were called, and when two letters were found, one mouth. The of Half Moon-street, Piccadilly, iahitdisds:eckhdeittsnhtolew"):dirmereeeased mentions something relative to the late Derby races and other matters. The letters had been stamped with a shilling, and were taken charge of by the police constables. Mr. Payne, the coroner, has received information of the distressing case, but the inquest is not yet fixed, as the relatives have not been made acquainted with the death.—[The foregoing is given on the authority of a casual reporter ; but it may be observed that the fact of no report of fire-arms being stated to have been heard, gives some reason to doubt its being correct in every particular, though there seems none as to ita being substantially true.]
The Express. — 1851-03-18 (London, England)

CICILSTA.—Mr. John Other meetings of the committee have since taken place, and the Town Council have taken up the question, in conjunction with a second case, equally bad, if not worse, and the details of which I now proceed to narrate. A young woman named Jauc Rogers, the daughter of pour but respectable parents, resident in the city (the ather, lam told, worked in one place for forty years, a sufficient proof of his industry and respectability), recently drowned herself, mid her bo was found a few days after Mr. Kenrick's refusal to bury Mr. Parsons. it coroner's inquest was held on the body, and a verdict of "Temporary insanity " was returned; indeed, the melancholy fact of insanity being a family disease was established, and a brother of the deceased young woman committed suicide a few years ago. In defiance of the verdict of the jury, however, this same immaculate Mr. Kenrick refused to bury this unfortunate girl. "No," he said, " they might put her in the ground if they liked, but he would nut read the funeral service over her ;" alleging as his only reason for this additional outrage that she had put an end to her own existence. The decomposed state of the' remains required immediate interment, and they were so "put into the ground" the same evening, without the least ceremony, not even a rope being provided to lower them into the grave. These.eventa have excitod much sensation in the city of Chichester; even Mr. Keariek's colleagues in the church think he is wrong, and regret the course he has pursued. The town council, as above mentioned, have taken up the question, and instructed the town clerk to apply to Dr. Hay• ford and Mr. Peacock, for their opinions as to whether any and what steps can betaken in the matter. These opinions are now in that functionary's hands, and are to be submitted to a meeting of the council on Tuesday evening. Mr. Kenrick has since called upon Mr. Thomas Clarke, a magistrate of the city (of unitarian sentiments in religion), sad placed in his hands a letter he has addressed to the dissenters, offering to purchase, at his owe expense, an acre of ground its a place called " The Hornet," and to give it he the dissenters u a burial-ground, as, he aye, other cases may, perhaps, occur, and they will then be enabled to bury their friends in their own way. His offer has nut yet been either accepted or refused—all action hosing been suspended until the legal opinions, and the council's decisiou thereon, are known; and another meeting of the committee is to be held during this or next week. This suspension of action will accuuut fur the fact that these matters have scarcely been made public outside the walls of the city, though they have crested so profound a sensation within. It is worthy of notice, as illustrative of the general condemnation of Mr. Kenrick'ii conduct, that a majority of the town council are churchmen.
The Express. — 1851-02-20 (London, England)

ADMIRALTY, FEB. 19. APPoMmENTs.—Chief  Engineer : John Snell, to the Alert. Master's Assistants : David Moore to the Wetilicim Charles M. Palmer and Frederick H. Buist to the Alert, and W. 11. Cummings to the Banshee. Assistant-Engineers : A. Brebner, W. 11. Bides, and K. J. Serjeant, to the Akre. DETERMINED SUlClDE.—Yegerthlyllll inquest was held before Mr. Baker, coroner, and a jury, at the Prince of Wales Tavern, Stepney, on the body of Mr. James Bevan, aged 67 years, lately residing in Fairfield-place, Stepney. The deceased was formerly in the service of the Hon. East India Company, and for many years was in the receipt of a pension of 60/. a year. He was also the owner of several houses. For some time past he had been in a very desponding state of mind, caused by injuries which he had received, and he sought consolation in a strict performance of his religious duties, and was constantly reading his Bible. His depression had lately increased, and he often complained of pain, in the head. On Saturday last a noise was heard in his roam, and his servant, on proceeding there, found her master with his throat cut, and a razor with which he had committed the act lying by his side. The wound was bleeding profusely, and the deceased expired early on Sunday morning. It was stated that the deceased once received a severe blow on the head from a marling spike, which seriously injured him, and that there could bi; no doubt whatever he was, insane when he committed the act which deprived him of life. The jury returned a verdict of " Temporary insanity." SUICIDE FROM EXCESSIVE ANXlETY.—Yesterday, Mr. William rapt:: held an inquest at the White Hart Tavern, Ahchurch-lane, King William-street, City, on view of the body of Mr. G. Eaton, aged 58, fishing-tackle manufacturer, Nos. 6 and 7, Crooked-lane. George Dyson, late in the service of deceased, said he hail known him 20 years. On the previous morning, about half-past 9 o'clock, he saw him in the counting house. Near 10 o'clock lie heard his daughter scream. She had found her father in his bedroom suspended by a rope from the bedpost. Witness went then immediately, and removed the body. Life was then extinct. Mr. W. Walters, No. I, Arthur-street-west, stated that he had known deceased 40 years. He saw him on Monday afternoon, when he was very low spirited. He remarked that he had a great deal of trouble, and that he was fearful he should die in the workhouse. This was a ! delusion on his part, as there was not the slightest cause for such an apprehension. The deceased was a trustee to some property, which caused attacks anxiety. Ile was suffering from a severe bilious and was very nervous. Verdict, " Temporary insanity."
The Express. — 1851-04-25 (London, England)

LOVE AND SUICIDE.-00. the 18th inst. an inquest was held on the body of William Creason Quiball Hall. at the Swan Inn, Sneinton. Deceased was a miller and cornfactor, and lived at the Sneinton Hermitage Mill. Elisabeth Hall, housekeeper to the deceased, said that on Tuesday morning last her master complained very much of a pain in hie head; during the morning his brother came and staid with him a short time, and When he was gone he lay down upon the sofa for a time, and shortly afterwards came into the kitchen, and said, " I've got a little errand for 'you to do," and gave her a letter to take to the post-office which he placed in her basket, and she put it into the office without looking at it. On her return she went up stairs and found the deceased lying upon the door with his face covered with blood. She immediately ran out for assistance, and was followed by Mr. Goodson and Mr. Burrows, surgeon, of Sneinton, who said he was quite dead. On examination he found • pistol shot wound. He had 'pistol in his right band, and another in his left. He had been very lowspirited for some time, , and frequently moaned in the night. When his house; keeper asked him the cause of his depression of spirits, he • said, " It is a disappointment, a cruel disappointment ;" and at times sbe pressed him to tell her what the disappointment was, when he told her that the lady he had a sincere regard for was married. This disappointment she felt confident had affected his mental faculties so as to render him of unsmuid mind. Mr. Goodson, of the Hermitage Steam Mill, had also observed a very material alteration in his manners and spirits for some time, and was aware he was labouring under a disappointment in consequence of a female to wham he was attached getting married. Deceased had often told him he had felt the disappointment, and he had frequently talked to him, and tried to calm his mind. One of the pistols had been recently dia. charged, and the other was loaded with ball.—Verdict, " That the deceased shot himself during a fit of insanity." Notts. Mercury.
The Express. — 1851-02-21 (London, England)

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.  THIS DAY.  BOW-STREET.  ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE BY A CLYRGTYAN'a Wire. Eliza EUis, the wife of a clergyman of the church of England, was charged with attempting to commit self-destruction by swallowing a quantity of laudanum. Sergeant Ashburt, of the division, stated that about 11 o'clock lard night he found the prisontr sitting upon the step of a door in Surrey-street, Strand, crying viry, bitterly, and on asking her the rause of her distre-s, the replied that she had taken poison. He found a bottle by her side, quite empty, and it evidently had contained laudanum. He removed her to King's College Hospital, where the usual remedies were applied, and she soon afterwards recovered. The landlady where accused lodged stated that the prisoner had lived with her about four months, and had conducted herself with every propriety. She believed that the prisoner had been induced to attempt the rash act in consequence of the privations she had suffered, and bad treatment of her husband, who was a clergyman, and upwards of 70 years of years of age. They had been separated some time, and it was entirely through ill-usage. He allowed her nothing for her support, and she obtained a very scanty living by her needle. She had a son, who was 13 years of age, and he received Ss. per week from a medical gentleman, near Tottenham-court-road, in whose service he was as errand boy. Latterly the prisoner's work had failed her, and the Ss. her son received was all they had to live upon. Her husband was in the habit of calling upon her when in a state of intoxication, and insulting her in every possible manner. Mr. Jardine soul if the landlady would promise to take care of the prisoner, until something could be done for her, he would advance her some money for her temporary wants. Ile did not like to send her to prison. This was agreed to, and the prisoner, who appeared overwhelmed with grief, then left the court.