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Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1882-11-11 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

SAD STORY.  The Daily News of Wednesday gives the following, sent by its Vienna Correspondent : Among the thousands who on All Saints' Day visited the graves of the poor victims of the Ring Theatre catastrophe, a lady in deep mourning was remarked, who for hours knelt beside a grave which 'she had decked with wree.ths of flowers. This poor lady was found -dead in ner room in an hotel on .the day following, and papers found In her desk proved that she had committed suicide, and explained the reason why she had done so. About a year and a half ago the widowed mother sent her only son, a lad of eighteen, to Vienna to study medicine. He wrote home so regularly that when the news of the Ring Theatre fire reached Gutim, the city where the mother lived, and no letter came to reassure her, she immediately travelled to Vienna, and all her worst fears were confirmed, for she found her boy among the dead whom it was possible to identify. Her companion during this melancholy journey was a daughter of seventeen, her only child after the death of her son. This girl's affection for her brother was so strong that she fell into a decline after his death, and two months ago the mother knelt at a fresh grave which had closed over her daughter. It is not probable that the bereaved mother came here with the intention of committing suicide, for she bought several articles immediately after her arrival, which she would not have felt the want of had she meditated death. But on returning from the churchyard at night she gave the chambermaid five &sins, and, when the latter refused to accept them, said she should not want the money any more, and pressed it upon the reluctant girl. An open letter to the Mayor of Vienna explained that she did not think life worth living without her children, and that the money found in her bag should be devoted to the expenses of her burial. She begged that ehe might be interred beside her eon. The Mayor yesterday gave orders that she should be buried in the same grave as her son. The deceased was not quite fifty years old, and was the widow of a merchant.  By order of the Mayor of Vienna a gigantic wreath of palm-branches and rare flowers was deposited on All Souls' Day upon the large common grave of the victims of the Ring Thlttre fire who could not be identified by relations or friends. A catafalque was erected upon the grave, surrounded by shrubs and flowers, and by a hundred large wax- lights in chandeliers. The catafalque bora the inscription, "Bth December, 1881," which was read by thousands who surrounded the grave on the let and 2nd of November. In the evening of both those days it is the custom for the Viennese to visit the theatres, which one and all give the same piece, "The Miller and his Child," a tale of love, superstition, and death, during which tears flow abundantly, &Ed the aufliAce deceives itself into the belief that by crying on this particular day it honours its dead.
Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1882-12-02 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

SHOCKING SUICIDE.—A stoker named WmClegg, committed suicide in a most horrible man ner at Low Moor Ironworks last Monday morning' The deceased who was single and 28 years of age; was employed at what is known as the New Works, Low Moor, but is now stated to have been in a depressed state of mind for some time past. He resided close to the works, and having finished his work on the night shift on Sunday, went home and retired to rest early on Monday morning. His brother, who is also employed at Low Moor, left him in bed just before six o'clock, but about twenty minutes to seven he was seen by two men named Joseph Crowther and Abraham Collins to enter the works, and ascend the long flight of steps leading to the blast furnace. Fearing that something was amiss with the deceased they called to his brother, but before assistance could come to hand the poor fellow had jumped into the furnace and disappeared. A few minutes prior to this the furnace had been charged with iron oro and coke, and by at once stopping the blast it was hoped that at least the body might be recovered, but although the whole operation only occupied a couple of minutes all efforts were of no avail, and the only remain of the deceased obtained as the result of a diligent search with the long furnace shovels and rakes was a piece of bone, thus showing that death and incineration of the body had been the work of a very few moments. It was subs,!quently discovered that before ascending the steps the deceased had taken off his boots. An inquiry into the circumstances of his death was held on Wednesday, when a verdict of suicide through temporary insanity was returned.  KEATINGS COUGH LOZENGES cure
Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1882-12-02 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

SHOCKING SUICIDE.—A stoker named WmClegg, committed suicide in a most horrible man, ner at Low Moor Ironworks last Monday morning The deceased who was single and 28 years of age' was employed at what is known as the New Works Low Moor, but is now stated to have been in a depressed state of mind for some time past. He resided close to the works, and having finished his work on the night shift on Sunday, went home and retired to rest early on Monday morning. His brother, who is also employed at Low Moor, left him in bed just before six o'clock, but about twenty minutes to seven he was seen by two men named Joseph Crowther and Abraham Collins to enter the works, and ascend the long flight of steps leading to the blast furnace. Fearing that something was amiss with the deceased they called to his brother, but before assistance could come to hand the poor fellow had jumped into the furnace and disappeared. A few minutes prior to this the furnace had been charged with iron ore and coke, and by at once stopping the blast it was hoped that at least the body might be recovered, but although the whole operation only occupied a couple of minutes all efforts were of no avail, and the only remain of the deceased obtained as the result of a diligent search with the long furnace shovels and rakes was a piece of bone, thus showing that death and incineration of the body had been the work of a very few moments. It was subsequently discovered that before ascending the steps the deceased had taken off his boots. An inquiry into the circumstances of his death was held on Wednesday, when a verdict of suicide through temporary insanity was returned.
Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1889-05-18 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

THE SUICIDE AT FIXITY.  INQII EST.  An inquest was held before the distriet coroner, Mr. Wm. Barstow, at the Black Bull Inn, Elland Upper Edge, on Saturday morning last, to inquire into the circumstances attending the death of Henry Lindley, a farm labourer, in the employ of Mr. Levi Calverley, of Ridge House, Moor Hey, Fixhy. The following comprised tbe jury: —Messrs. John M. Beaumont (foreman), Robert Jagger, James Farrar, Ynoch Williamson, Joseph Rangley, Joe Spencer. Joseph Beaumont, John Walker, Abrabam 'Whitley, Elias Kaye, Hiram Chadwick, and Friend Dyson. THOMAS LINDLEY, said he was a farmer, and lived at Ainley Top. The deceased waa his brother, and at the time of ilia death was 38 years of age. He (witness) was a farm labourer, in the employ of Mr. Levi Calverley, at Ridge House, Fixby. He had seen the body, and identified it as that of his brother. He last saw him alive on Monday the 6th of May, when he seemed rather more quiet than usual. He could only account for the suicide by the fact that he had been thrown out of a conveyance a few months ago, and had sustained injury to his head, he had not complained to him about any pain, at any rate not recently. 1481 GOLDTEIOEPS, said he was a farm labourer, at Ridge House Farm, Irixby, ane was in the employ of the same master as the deceased. He last saw him alive about 5-30 un Wednesday morning, last week, when he saw him go out to his work. '1 he next time he saw him was about 6.45 the same morning, when be discovered him flanging to a beam in barn, with a piece of thin cart rote round his neck. ()RACE KAYE, said she was a married woman, the wife ot Elias Kaye, and lived near to Ridge House Farm. She had laid out the body of deceased, on which was no mark of violence except the deep mark of the cord round his neck, and a alight abra• sion caused by the fall of the body when out down by Mr. Kaye. The jury returned a verdict of "Suicide whilst of unsound mind."
Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1889-08-17 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

THE KILBURN SHOOTING CASE.  Leonard Bowles Handford, 34, a clerk, has been charged, at Hampstead Police-court, with shooting Sarah Elizabeth Handford, his wife, and Elizabeth DevesOn, her mother, with intent to murder. He was also charged with attempting to commit suicide by shooting himself.—Matthew Henry Marsh, a greengrocer, said that on Sunday, the 28th of July, he met a friend named Truscott in Iverson-road, and stopped to speak to him. At that moment he saw Mrs. Deveson and her daughter, Mrs. Handford, going along on the opposite side of the road. They were close together. As they passed No. 26, where the prisoner was lodging, the prisoner came out of the house, and walked towards his wife and motherHandford then went up to his wife, drew a revolver from his pocket, and shot her, his aim being at her head. After that he shot Mrs. Deveson. The lady screamed, but did not fall. Then he put the revolver to his own forehead and shot himself, and he fell to the ground.—Dr. Alfred Tilly, who was sent for to attend to the ladies, described their injuries. Mrs. Handford had a bullet wound in the right cheek, about an inch in front of the ear. The wound penetrated through the teeth, and the bullet, having struck the lower jaw, lodged in the back of the soft palate. In searching for the bullet it fell from-its position and the patient swallowed it. She was now going on satisfactorily. Mrs. Deveson's case was much more serious. The wound began in the left cheek on a level with the angle of the mouth. The bullet passed through the region of the tongue snd emerged on the right side of the neck just behind and below the angle of the jaw. He could not say that Mrs. Deveson was out of danger.—The prisoner was remanded.
Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1889-11-09 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

ECHO OF THE DOCKERS' STRIKE. At the Mansion House Justice Room, on Saturday, William Cockiey was charged with assaulting and beating Frederick Bilbrough.—The prisoner was engaged in loading a vessel lying at Fresh Wharf, and on going on shore for his dinner he met the prosecutor and others in a neighbouring publichouse. There was some conversation relative to the late strike, and a heated discussion took place, in the course of which there was a bandying of charges about blacklegs,&c. The prisoner ultimately struck the prosecutor, ran away, and got on board his vessel, where he was arrested by a constable in the coal bunkers.—Alderman Sir J. C. Lawrence sentenced the prisoner to one month's hard labour.  The Austrian Minister of Justice has issued a report upon unclaimed property in that country. No less a sum than 645,600,000 florins is awaiting lawful claimants, nearly half being registered for Vienna and Lower Austria, and 1,300,000 florMs worth of this property consists of jewellery and plate. Lord Tennyson hs,s,left Haslemere for Freshwater, Isle of Wight, where he intends to pass the winter months. The Poet Laureate is enjoying excellent. health. At Newcastle-on-Tyne, on Saturday, a cooper attempted to murder his wife, and afterwards committed suicide. About 7 o'clock his wife was awakened by a blow on her side. She found her husband stand. ing over her with a large knife in his hand. Tha bedclothes had apparently prevented the blow from doing ,ier any harm, and she wrenched the knife from his grasp before he could strike again. The woman fled in her nightdress, and with ber three young children, into the street. On the house being entered the man was found lying dead on the floor with hie throat cut. His wife said he had been a kind husband. but had lately suffered from pains in his head; Lord Tennyson has left Haslemere for Freshwater Isle of Wight, where he intends to Pass the winter months.. The'rofisLitureate is en:Alibi; exoellentr: health.
Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1889-02-16 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

ATROCIOUS MURDER OF A WIFE MUTILATION OF THE BODY.  In Dundee great excitement prevails in connection with what appears a most atrocious wife murder. On Sunday a sawdust merchant named William Henry Bury, belonging to the East End of London, gave himself up to the police of Dundee on a charge of taking his wife's life. He stated that on the previous Monday he and his wife had been drinking heavilyl and were so vituch overcome by liquor that he did not remember when they went to 2ed. The next mornmg, when he awoke, he was astonished to see his wife lying on the floor with a rope round her neck. Seized hy a sudden mad impulse, he lifted &knife and thrust it into his wife's body repeatedly. Then, becoming alarmed at what he had done, he doubled up the corpse iind crushed it into a small wooden box, packing it closely with books, papers, and clothing. In the Centre of the floor of ohe of the rooms he left tl.e lox during the whole week, whilst he went in and out. But On Sunday he became so frightened that he resolved to inform the police. This he did, and officers immediately visited the house, accompanied by doctors. They found that the man's statement was accurate. The box was too small to permit the body being put full length intolt, but the legs and arms were so twisted, broken and crushed together that the case was made to hold the whole. When it was removed from the box, the trunk presented a ghastly sight. Later on, the body was examine:l by medical men, and its appearance contradicts the statement of the prisoner in several details. It is believed that the woman was attacked and strangled, and that, after death; the , body was cut open with a knife. The police, on searching the prisoner, found upon i' im a bank-book shewing £8 to his credit, 20s. in Iron and a quantity of jewellery. On Monday, ury, who is rather a good-looking young mau of ark complexion and respectably dressed, was brought up before the Dundee magistrates and was remitted to the sheriff.  During the hearing of a charge of attempted suicide against Jane Edwards, at the Birmingham Police-court, a remarkable story has been disclosed. Many years ago her husband was sentenced to a long ,term of penal servitude. In the belief that he was dead she married a local publican, with whom she has lwed seven years, and by whoin she has a familv. Recently the first husband turned up, and then followed plassionate scenes. The pobiican-turned her and her children into the street. Reduced to a shocking state of destitution, she atteinpted to poison herself.
Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1889-02-16 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

CROWN PRINQE RUDOLPH.  MORE ROMANTIC STORIES.  The Brussels correspondent of the Daily Chronicle says that he has received from Vienna the. following further details respecting the last moments of the Crown Prince Rudolph. It is, of course, true (the correspondent says) that the Crown Prince committed suicide, the version that. he met his death at the hands of a gamekeeper at Meyerling being pure fiction. But unhappily that is only a portion of the truth, the crime which deprived the Imperial House of Hapsburg of its-most promising member having been a dquble one—namely, musdee and suicide. The other victim was a Baroness Marie von (for obvious obvious reasons I suppress the full name), a young lady of 21, and one of the beauties of Austrian society. The acquaintance between her and the Crown Prince had ripened into ardent love; with the result not unusual when impassioned youth loves not wisely but too well. This no doubt still further increased the estrangement between Prince Rudolph and the Crown Princess Stephanie, and the Prince scarcely made a secret of his determination to obtain a divorce. In this he counted confidently upon receiving the assistance of the Emperor, if for no other reason than on account of the disappointment experienced by his Majesty when the doctors certified that the Crown Princess could' have no further issue. To the Crown Prince's Surprise and disappointment, however, the Emperor Point - blank refused to countenance anything of the kind. His Majesty professed himself —as he undoubtedly is —very attached to the Crown Princess, and rated his son for his unmarital conduct. This was only one of many scenes that took place between father and son on the same subject, the Emperor continually defending the Crown Princess, and upbraiding his son for his mode of life. He threatened, indeed, a  very few weeks before the sad end of the Crown Prince, to send him to Bosnia as the governor of that province. The last scene of the kind, an exceptionally violent one, took place on the Monday that the Crown Prince left Vienna for Meyerling, and two days, therefcre, before the suicide.
Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1889-02-16 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

THEY RESOLVED TO DIE TOGETHER.  On returning home the mother found another letter from her daughter, dated Meyerling, in which the youthful Baroness announced that she and the Crown Prince had resolved to commit suicide together. The Prince had promised her marriage as soon as he obtained his divorce from the Crown Princess, and when he informed her that this was now impossible, owing to the Emperor's refusal to consent to the divorce, they resolved to commit suicide. This they did on the Wednesday morning in the bedroom of the Crown Prince. When Loschek, the valet of the Crown Prince, entered the bedroom in the morning after having vainly knocked for admittance, he found the bodies of both lovers lying on the bed. Before calling anyone, he carried that of the Baroness int 3 an adjoining room, so that when Prince Philipp of Coburg and Count Hoyos, on being summoned by Loschek, entered the bedroom they only saw the body of the Crown Prince, and naturally concluded that it was a simple case of suicide, as was reported to the Emperor. On being informed of his son's death the Emperor at once suspected the truth, and exclaimed, "I would rather have lost a province than this disgrace should have befallen me." It only remains to be said that the body of the unfortunate Baroness was buried at Heiligenkreuz, near Meyerling—and not sent to Bohemia, as my first information on the subject stated—last Saturday morning. The Pans correspondent of the same paper telegraphs that two letters have been published which go to confirm the version of the double suicidal tragedy at Meyerling. The first of these is a short note to the Duke of Braganza, which is as follows: "Dear Friend,—l must die. I cannot do otherwise. Keep well and happy.—Servus, Thy Rudolph." The other letter is from the Baroness Verscera to her mother, and says: "Dear Mother,l die with Rudolph. We love one another too much. Forgive me, and farewell.— Thy unhappy Marie.' P.S. Bratfisch whistled admirably last night." The portrait of Mdlle.Verscera, whose title of baroness appears to be doubtful, is already exhibited in Paris. Her beauty is of the Hungarian type, but the general expression is not intelligent. Her mother is now in Paris. The statement that she was aware of the liaison is indictnantly denied by her.
Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1889-10-12 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

ACCUSED OF PATRICIDE.  At Heanor, Derbyshire, Joseph Jacques, a collier, of Claycross, about 25 years of age, has again been brought up, charged with the murder of his father, James Jacques, at Horsley Woodhouse. The deceased was a framework knitter, 69 years of age, and, being somewhat penurious in his habite, had acquired a good deal of property for a man in his class of life. For the past four years he had lived alone in one of his own cottages at Horsley Woodhouse, his two sons living together at Claycross. A few days ago the father was found lying dead in his house with his throat cut, and a small sharp knife stained with blood in his hand. William Jacques came forward and accused his brother of murder, and the police, on his information, took Joseph into custody. The foundation for the charge was that Joseph some time since proposed to William that they should murder their father, in order that they might obtain his money. William rebuked his brother for the suggestion, and nothing further was said about it. On the night when the murder, if such it was, took place, Joseph was out, and did not come home until about 3 o'clock in the morning. William, who was sitting up for him, noticed thathe appeared pale and agitated, but there was no trace of blood on him. He was rather the worse for liquor, and said he had been drinking at Chesterfield; but the police had not been able to discover anyone who saw him there ; neither did anybody see him in the neighbourhood of Horsley, so far as has been ascertained. The medical man who first examined the body regarded it as a case of suicide; but Dr. Woolley, of Eleanor, who made a careful examination after suspicions were aroused, declared it to be impossible , for deceased to have inflicted the wound with the knife found in his hand, which, moreover, was turned away from hie neck, and it was suggested that the murderer placed it there. The coroner's jury returned a verdict of murder against some person or persons unknown, and added that there was strong suspicion against Joseph Jacques; but the coroner would not accept that as part of the verdict. At the Petty Sessions at Heanor, it was stated that the Public Prosecutor had been communicated with, and William Jacques wished to withdraw his information, requesting the police to take the case in hand until it should be taken up by the Public Prosecutor. The prisoner was thereupon remanded.