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Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1892-01-23 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

ROMANTIC SUICIDE.  A romantic suicide, writes the Paris correspondent of the Daily Telegraph, is that of a fair young Parisienne, who was friendly with an Englishman, the son of a noted horse -dealer and livery-stable keeper. The girl had been in America for about 18 months with her lover. They returned a few days ago to Paris, and the lady went to live with her mother, in the Avenue Trudaine. In the meantime the young man was ordered by his father to break off his liaison, and when he announced his intention of obeying the paternal injunction to the girl, she seems to have been beside herself with grief. She was seen wandering dejectedly about the Champs Elysees on Friday. At length she hailed a cab near the Palais de l'lndustrie, and directed the driver to take her to the residence of her lover. There she asked for the young man, but saw his father instead, and, according to some, the girl used the words, "Vous etes un miserable ! in going away. She next drove home, procured a revolver, reentered the cab, and went to a café in the Boulevard Haussmann, where she wrote a letter to the liverystable keeper asking pardon for the scene which she had had with him, and begging him to give his son permission to accompany her to her last home. This was at 9 o'clock in the evening,and the epistle being finished, the girl took it with her and drove to the , Rue Jean-Goujon, where her friend's father lives. She gave the letter to her coachman, telling him to take it upstairs to the person for whom it was intended. While the cabman was performing this service for his fare the young lady took out her revolver, and fired a bullet through her right temple. She was dead when the driver came back.
Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1892-01-23 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

REWARDS FOR BRAVERY.  As a recognition of commendable bravery, the Royal Humane Society has bestowed its silver medal upon a mere child, aged 8 years—Frank Lines, of Hatfield, who, at the imminent risk et his life, saved a boy named Cochran, aged 10, from drowning. On December 28th a number of lads were playing on the ice, when Cochran broke through in deep water. He managed to cling to the frozen surface, though up to his chin in water, and called loudly for help. The others, with the exception of Lines, ran away, presumably with the intention of summoning assistance. Meantime the little fellow Lines, quite 45 yards from the nearest bank, went to the rescue,crawling on all fours to the hole where Cochran was immersed, and with the aid of a stick, and by breaking the ice as he proceeded, reached him, and, by remarkable bravery in one so young, got him safely to the bank. By this time other assistance was at hand, but the plucky little hero at once got Cochran home, evidencing in all his proceedings the tact of a person of matfue years. Other recipients of the medal are: Gunner Gurloff, mate of a ship, for, with the assistance of John G. Collam,coastguard, saving T. Hughes, at Portslade, during a heavy gale; Private John Kelly, 3rd Hussars, for plunging into deep water, fully accoutred, and saving Private John Church, King's Royal Rifles,in Southampton Basin; Police-constable George Wilson,for saving T. Daniels,who attempted to commit suicide in the canal at West Bromwich; Thomas Richards, acting-sergeant of police, for saving Maggie Hitchings, aged 10, in the river Taff, Ferndale, Glamorganshire, the rescuer plunging in the swollen stream in his uniform; Walter Hargreaves, for saving a boy named Pearson, in the canal at Attercliffe, near Sheffield; on Sergeant Lawrence Hollywood, Royal Irish Constabulary, for, with the assistance of James M'Grivern, saving Bernard Kane in the river Rostrevor, co. Down; and Timothy J. Sullivan, of her Majesty's ship Cleopatra, for saving J. King, R.M., who was in danger of drowning in 20ft. of water at Ensenada, Buenos Ayres. Other rewards were conferred on Edward Brown, signaller, of the Indian Telegraph Department; Colour-sergeant E. Wilson, 4th Battalion South Wales Borderers; W. Hunter and J Delaney, Royal Irish Constabulary; W. Stebbings, and Alfred Payne.
Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1892-09-03 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

VOTING BY MACHINERY.  While we have got no nearer to a mechanical returning officer than an occasional letter to the newspapers from an enthusiast to say he has solved the problem, the "voting machine," says the Daily Chronicle, is actually at work across the Atlantic. It consists of an iron and steel booth sft. square and 7ft. high. Against the name of each candidate is a knob, which, when pressed, registers a number to Hie same name on the opposite side of the machine. Each voter is allowed one minute to register hie vote. Ch,ating is impossible, for as soon as one handle is touched all the others are automatically locked until th 3 voter has come out and the returning officer releases them all again. When the voting period has expired, the back of the machine is opened and all the votes cast stand opposite the candidates' names. Both the State Senate and Assembly of New York have authorised the use of the machine at elections, and it was used for the first time the other day at Lockport, when the first vote cast was by one of the candidates for himself !  THE NORTH SEA AND BALTIC CANAL We learn from a lengthy report of the American Consul at Hamburg that the great North Sea and Baltic Ship Canal is likely to be finished and open for traffic early in 1895. Consi,lering the magnitude of this work, which, as the Consul properly says, 'will prove to be commercially and strategically one of the events of the century," it is remarkable what little we know of its progress. The British Consul at Stettin, we observe, in a recent report, expresses some doubt whether our own east coast ports will benefit much from the new waterway. But there can be no question that this short cut to the Baltic, laid out as it is on such an extensive scale, must sooner or later have a direct effect on both politics and trade in North-Western Europe. Besides telling us that 7,000 men are constantly employed on the works, the American Consul adds the interesting piece of information that the Russian Government paid down £2,500,000 sterling before operations commenced, the balance of the £7,800,000 required being found by Germany. Meanwhile, of course, the Danes view the scheme with anything but favour, as the deviation from the Sound route cannot but injure the transit trade of Copenhagen.— Daily Chronicle.  Henry Edwards, wno ror 15 years hag' been town crier and collector of market tolls for the Stratfordon-Avon Corporation, has committed suicide by placing the barrel of a revolver in his mouth, and blowing out his brains. He left a letter, asking his son and an accountant, whom he named, to go through his accounts. "I cannot bear it any longer," he added, "Love to all; will meet you in Heaven." He was a bill-poster and newsagent in a large way of business. He had been very depressed of late, but it had been attributed to family troubles,
Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1892-06-04 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE.  Marie Laloi, ths 17-year old daughter of a r( tired colonel in the French army has conitnitted su;cide at Algiers under the most extraordinary circumstances. She had for some time been engaged to a young man of excellent family, mine d Eugne Lafont, and on Thursday they quarrelled. On Thursday night the girl, after .returning from a dance, chatted with her father for awhile, heisted upon filling his pipe, and then, kissing him good night, asked him, appal., ntly in a jesting way, how ho thought he could get along without her. The colonel made some affectionate reply. She then said, "Well, you had better make up your mind; you may soon have to do SO"; and then blowing a kiss to her father—which the latter responded to with a playful shake of his finger—the young girl retir4 d to her room. She was never seen alive again. It is assunu d that she undressed herself, put on her n:eledress, and Oen deliberately cut up the sheets. making them into a kind el rope. She then attached one end of the improvised rope to the balcony, and • formed the other into a 1100se which she tightened round her reds. r-,she must then have thrown herself out of the window. On Friday morning, at an early hour, scree passers-by mere horrified to notice the body or the young girl, ettired in nothing but a thin nightdress dangling between the first and second storeys ie front of the house. They immediately gave the alarm. The body was immediately cut down in the presence of the father, whose wild grief evoked expressions of the deepest sympathy. The medical men who were called in express the belief that the body must have been hanging from the window for at least five hours before it was discovered.
Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1892-06-04 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

ATTEMPTED MURDER AND SUICIDE.  Early on Friday morning, Frederick Marrs, a shoemaker, of Strood, Kent, attempted to murder his wife by striking her with a hammer whilst she lay in bed. Her cheek-bones were smashed in, and she received other serious injuries about the head and body, and her life is despaired of. AU or the woman had become insensible the man made an attack with a hammer upon his son, aged 15, who, however, managed to escape by jumping from the top to the bottom of a staircase,after which he gave information to the police of what had occurred. Marrs was arrested and taken to the police station, where he subsequently attempted to commit suicide by strangling himself with his necktie. When discovered he was unconscious, and blood was flowirg from his ears. reason for Marrs's attack upon his wife and son has not been ascertained.  Actvices from 6liang,tiat state mat much: excitement has been caused there by the murder of an American seaman nainel Lemon, who is alleged to have been shot by an official of the United States Consulate in a dispute over money matters. During a series of sailing matches on the Scheldt, near Antwerp, on Sunday afternoon, a small steam launch, the Admiral de Ruyter, with five persons on board, suddenly capsized and sank. Three of the occupants were saved, but a lawyer named Hoefnagels and a boatman were drowned.  A notorious outlaw in North Carolina has been killed by a Baptist minister's daughter. He entered the minister's house a few days ago, and at the point of a pistol ordered the girl to cook him a dinner, which he ate. But as the outlaw was leaving the house the girl shot him in the back with a shot-gun. It is said that Lherot the bearer of a dangerous renown as the discoverer of Ravachol, has taken refuge in the prison of Melun, where he has obtained a place as sub-keeper. Ravachol was confronted on Sunday with his mistress in the course of them. quiry now going on at St. Etienne, and some int. portent information was elicited.  At the reception held at Nassau by the Governor,' Sir Ambrose Shea, on the occasion of the Queen'S birthday, Mr. Yelverton, the Chief Justice' refused to take his Excellency's proffered hand. The in. cident is, Reuter says, the outcome of the action ot the Chief Justice in committing a local editor for contempt of court, and the subsequent release of the prisoner by order of the Governor.
Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1892-06-18 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

MURDER OF A POSTMASTER'S WIFE.  The murderer of the wife of the Postmaster Manzel has been arrested at Berlin. The crime, which excited peculiar horror, occurred on May 3rd. The victim, a middle-aged woman, who bore a good character, was found by her husband on his return from work lying dead in her outdoor dress. The body was hacked to pieces. The murder was supposed to be a case of infidelity, but that supposition, obvious as it was, has now been shown to be groundless. A workman named Neukamm, who was arrested on Friday on a charge of thefts volunteered in the course of the evening to give information about the Manzel murder. He said that he was not the murderer, but that he knew who was, and denounced a boy of 18 named Wagenschuetz. After the confession had been made, Neukamm and four police officers drove direct to Wagenschuetz's home and arrested him. When he was asked if he knew Frau Mantel he turned pale and admitted that he did. After further carching questions had been put lie broke down, entirely and confessed everything. He said that Manzel had been in the habit of visiting his parents, at whose house lie had learned that Frau Manzel had money. He and Neukamm were in urgent need of funds, and Neukamm suggested that they should call on Manzel and secule the money at any cost. On the way Neukamm significantly ask 'd whether Wagenschuetz had a knife. They went to Manzel's rooms, and Neukamm stayed downstairs while Wagenschuetz knocked. The door was opened by Frau Manzel. Wagenschuetz stepped inside and begged for a loan of two shillings. Frau Manzel opened her purse with the intention of complying with his request and accidentally let it fall. Thereupon Wagenschuetz stabbed her with the knife which he had concealed up his sleeve. Frau Manzel fell back upon the bed in an insensible condition. Wagenschuetz began to search the room, and when his victim shewed signs of returning consciousness ha took the fire shovel and beat her about the head until life was extinct. Wagenschuetz then retired and joined Neukamm. After he had washed the blood off his hands and clothes they divided the booty. They then separated, and when drunk bragged of their deed, but none of their associates divulged the horrible secret. Both were sons of respectable parents. Wagenschuetz's mother was apprised that her s n had made a full confession of his crime, and was so terribly affected by the news that she attempted to commit suicide.
Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1892-06-18 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

NOVEL ICE BOATS.  At the International Sport and Fisheries Exhibition at Scheveningen, several descriptions of ice boats are shown with their sails fully set, the area of them being very large. Sledges of all sorts are on view, and skates ranging from the old bone ones of the ancients that are found in tumuli, to the modern razor-edged Norwegian. These bone ones are apparently formed from a sheep's thigh-bone; that is, ground flat on one side, with a hole bored at each end for the fastening to be passed through. There are also other bones, about 3in. long, that are supposed to have been used in a somewhat similar fashion to curling stones. Ice sails, with skates 18in. long, that are uscd with them, the skates of Prince Frederick, and those on which the most prominent Dutch amateurs have won their races, together with a large show of the medals they have obtained, art other prominent features. The Orange Cup, that was won in England last winter by J. J. Eden, of Ilaarlem,is also exhibited, and a collection of old programmes of skating contests in the early part of the century. Some of these at Friesland towns contain the names of over 150 persons who have entered for them, and there are races for women as well as men. The Amsterdam Ice Club exhibits snso curious old paintings of skating races, and specimens of the implements with which they prepaie the excellent curses on which their championship race s are held.— Field.  Tile boy Rains, who some days ago was charged with being concerned with a younger brother and a child of five in stealing a horse and cart, was again before Mr. Shell at Westminster Police-court, on Saturday, when it transpired that, in company with another boy, he had escaped from the workhouse in Buckingham Palace-road, to which he had been temporarily sent. He was ordered to be further remanded, when the young incorrigible remarked to a policeman that since he had been taken back to the workhouse he had not had a fair chance, as his "togs" had been taken from him to keep him in bed. - - - - .  An extraordinary murder and suicide is reported by the Daily Teleyraph correspondent in Paris. A Belgian miner named Florent Debrusche, having fallen out of work, at Bethune, resolved to return to his rative country, and asked Alphons Tombean, with whom he had been living some time,to accomPany him. The girl refused, and accordingly Dehrusche procured a dynamite cartridge, and having placed it between them caused it to explode. The effect was terrific. Every Dane of glass in the house was smashed and a partition wall was completely destroyed. A shocking sight was witnessed by the neighbours who hurried to the spot. The bodies, or rather what was left of them, were mutilated beyond recognition, and fragments were scattered all over the room.  A
Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1887-03-19 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

STRANGLING IN A POLICE CELL.  Ellen Long, a respectable looking married woman, of middle-age, was brought up at the Westminster police-court on Tuesday, charged with having been drunk and disorderly, and also with attempting to commit suicide while in a cell at the police-station. When a policeman went to the cell in which the prisoner had been placed, he found her lying in the corner with a garter tied tightly round her neck. She was unconscious, and turning black in the face, and her neck was very much swollen. The constable untied the garter, and after a little time the woman recovered consciousness. The prisoner's husband, a very respectable man, said that his wife was a confirmed drunkard, and he could do nothing with her. •Prior to being locked up she burnt about a sovereign's worth of cbthing. She had been in a home for inebriates, but ran away after a few months' detention. She had sold up his home several times and pawned everything for drink. Her parents had tried to wean her from the drink, but their efforts in this direction were of no avail.— Prisoner denied that she was a confirmed drunkard, but said she was driven to drink by her husband.— The magistrate remanded her for a week, with a view to seeing whether anything could be done for Itee.  " at Is the origin Of motion r asizea a celebrated lecturer. Well, there are many origins. A call to dinner will bring men to their feet in a second, and a spider down a girl's neck is the origin of some of the liveliest motions the world ever saw."  Swell No. 1 (pretending to mistake for an usher a rival whom he sees standing in evening dress at the cloakroom door of the theatre) „ :Ah ! have you a )rogramme?" Swell No. 2 (equal to the occasion): " Thanks, my man, got one from the other fellow."  Miss Ethel "Impossible, Mr. de Suitor, impossible ; but I will always be your sister." Mr. de Suitor; " I fear you will not long accord me even that comfort, Miss Ethel." Miss Ethel : " Oh, have no fear! I have just engaged myself to your elder brother." "Is your master at home, Paddy ? " "No, your honour." "Why, I saw him go in five minutes ago." "Faith, your honour, he's not eKactly at home, he's only there in the backyard a-shooting rats with cannon, your hovur, for his devarsion."
Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1887-12-17 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

CHARITABLE BEQUESTS.  Mrs. Mary Ellis, late of Cadogan-place, W., whose will has just been proved, the personal estate amounting to about £BB,OOO, leaves nearly the whole of her wealth to various religious and charitable institutions. She bequeaths legacies to her executors and friends, and also to servants ; and leaves upon trust the residue of her estate to be divided as bar trustees shall think proper amongst various religious and charitable societies, including the following: the, British and Foreign Bible Society, the Church Missionary Society, the Lord's Day Observance Society, the Church Pastoral Aid Society, the Church of England Scripture Readers' Association, the London City Mission,the Societies for Promoting Christianity amongst the Jews, the Irish Church Missions to the Roman Catholics, the Foreign Aid Society, the Bishop of London's Fund, the Royal Free Hospital, the Indigent Blind School, the Deaf and Dumb Asylum, the Earlswood Idiot Asylum, the Brompton Hospital for Consumption, the Cancer Hospital, the Governesses*Benevolent Institution, the Royal Humane Society, the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, Dr. Barnardo's Homes, the Cabdrivers' Benevolent Association, and the Metropolitan Drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough Association. The will of Mr. Henry Quinn, late of Richmond, has been proved, the value of the personal estate exceeding £240,000. The testator bequeaths £50,000, upon trust, for such benevolent, humane, and charitable instituions in London as his executer, in his absolute discretion, shall think fit; £5,000 to the Unitarian Sustentation Fund in connection with the meeting-house at Combo; and numerous other legacies. The residue of his estate he leaves, upon trust, to establish a Society in Newry, to be called the "Quinn Charity," for the maintenance and support of indigent persons who may have been of a better class of life.  At the ninth annual meeting of the Church o England Burial Reform Association, presided over by the Bishop of Bedtord, it was resolved that the Archbishop of Canterbury should be asked to appegat Sunday on which this matter of funeral reform should be urged upon the congregations throughout the country.  In a train at Guildford, which had come from Horsham, the dead body of a gentleman, shot through the heart, was found in a first-olass carriage. On the seat oppost.lis lay a four-chambered revolver. The body was identified as that of Captain George Richard Wykeham Archer, and he is supposed So have committed suicide.
Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1887-04-30 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

VICTOR HUGO'S EINGLI6II PROPERTY. Probate has just been granted in London of the will of Victor Hugo, the value of whose personal estate in England is declared at £92,126. The testator states, according to the official translation of the document: " This is my will. I must leave, as sole beils, first, my daughter Adele Hugo, now in a private. hospital in consequence of her mental condition ; secondly, my two grandchildren, Georges and Jeanne, born of the marriage of my son Charles, deceased." The greater part of his fortune, with the exception of his books, being invested in foreign pers9nal securities, the testator directs the realisa. tion of all these, excepting such as may be in ite English Government Funds, and their investment, in French Rentes or shares of the Bank of France, and bequeaths in trust for his two grandchildren before named all his disposable property (including two estates in Guernsey and the furniture. of the large house there), in conformity with Article 915 of the Civil Code. With respect to his published works, the testator states that the disposition of them is for the most part engaged ; but as to. those which have not been published, or are in manu script, his will is the master as to their disposition, and having regard to the interest of 11.11 legatees in them for 50 years as property, and " iii the interest of the work itself, to secure the method of examination, the superintendence, the s.olicitude, and the labour of the publications in a manner consistent with my dignity as a writer and the .idea of the work," he would make during his lifetime arrangements which are to be " scruptilous,ly respected and vigorously maintained by his assigns ; and if either of his residuary legatees should attempt, to alter them, the interest in his disposable property of such legatee is to be forfeited. Provision is made for an annuity of 10,000 fr. for her life for Madame Charles Hugo. The will is not in the testator's own writing, but, as he states, "dicte par raoi, et slyne apres lecture."  The Rev. Arthur Gregory Jackson, chaplain of the Philanthropic Farm School, Redidll, has conmatteti suicide by hanainst.