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The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1881-06-10 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

LOVE AND SUICIDE.  On Saturday afternoon Mr. Henry Baker, coroner for East Herta, held an inquest on the body of Eliza Patnaore, aged 21, a cook in the service of Messrs. Brickwell, surgeons, Sawbridgeworth. Mr. E. A. 13rickwell said deceased had been in their service about a year, and had frequently complained of pains in the head. On Tuesday Mrs. Brickwell gave her a bottle of aconite liniment, labelled "Poison," and she was cautioned as to its nature. Deceased slept in a room by herself, over one occupied by witness and his wife, and about one o'clock on Thursday morning, hearing deceased making a hysterical -noise, he and Mrs. Brickwell proceeded to her bedroom. They found deceased on her hands and knees on the floor, and she died almost directly. The empty bottle produced, which was found in her bedroom, smelt of aconite. It was a threeounce bottle. The quantity taken by deceased was equal to about 2,400 drops. Aconite was one of the deadliest poisons 'clown. Ile could find no record of a person having taken so much before. A medical man had experimented with tincture of aconite, which was not nearly so strong as the lintment. He took 80 drops, in doses of 10 drops, at intervals of several hours, and that proved fatal. I Caroline Warrick, a fellow-servant, said deceased had been heard to wish she was dead when the pains came in her head. Witness found the two letters produced in the handwriting of deceased. The letters were read. One, addressed to the witness, contained the following :—" I have done this for the love of one who always deceived me, and has made me care not to live; but I hope the Lord will receive me in heaven. Bays mercy on my soul, for I am a most miserable sinner! . . . Oh! have mercy on me, o Lord. Amen." The other, written in a similar strain, was dated June!, and addressed to " Miu E. Cannon, care of Mrs. Tucker, Cemetery Road, Bishop Stortford." She signed herself "Poor Eliza. I shall soon be forgotten." Her request was "Please let me have in my coffin, when I am buried, one portrait, and that is my own Harry. You will find it in my box." The jury returned a verdict that deceased had committed suicide while in a Mate of temporary insanity.
The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1881-04-29 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

ART AND LITERATURE. -r-.  TOE article its the Magazine of Art for May COaseell, Patter, Galpin & Co.) which is sure to attract most attn. tion is the One entitled, "The Streets as Art Gal leriee," accompanied by engravings of Fred. Walker's " Woman in White" and Hubert Herkomer's "Design for a Poster." The original design, in size 111 t. iiin. by Wt., is owned by the publishers of the marazine, and the objects aimed at by its production are explained at length in this article. Mr. Hubert Herkonier, following up the idea of Frederick NA ether, is strongly of opMion that pictorial advertisements afford a grand opportunity for displaying art to the populue, and it is this opinion which has tuov,d him to produce the superb desiga for a pe,stet, of which an account as well as an .ngraving is given in the new number of the Maga:in!! of Art.  RoBERT HERBERT STORY'S account of the "Health Haunts of the Riviera and South-West of France (Paisley : Alexander Gardner)" should prove ierriceable as a guide to all who have a faecy to visit the French shores of the Mediterranean. Tne many people who are familiar enough with the ranies of Cannes, Nice, Monte Carlo, Mentone, Pan, Lourdes, Biarritz, and Archachon, but who know little more about them, will derive much information from this hook, which is written in a graceful, pleasant, and sparkling style. Dr. Story seebis to cast off the ecclesiastic garb when he is on his travels; at least he }is's done to when writing this very entertaining book. Tee account which he gives of the gambling at Monte Carlo makes it satisfactoty to learn that an effort is being made to get the tables overturned. The sooner the bettor, as the suicides by gamblers last season were quite appalling in number. Die same publisher has issued a short study of the life and writings of "Thomas Carlyle, the Iconoclast of Modern Shams," by the Rev. John Wilson, M.A., Abernyhe. With the exeeption of an invocation to Fortune, written by Carlyle at the beginning of an old Greek volume when be was a student tit Edinburgh University, there is nothing absolutely now produced in connection with the departed Chelsea cage, though the author has the advants,te of being well acquainted with that district ot Annandale in which lie Faclefechan and Oraigenputted—a village and a farm that may now be considered classic, though the Celtic names are not easily pronounceable by English lips. Mr. Wilson reproduces letters of Carlyle which are already familiar to the public, and gives numerous extracta from his works. So ardent an admirer of Carlyle is he that his own style looks at times like Carlylette, and although the "Reminiscences" were published while be was at work upon this book, they do not in the least affect the estimate he had previously formed of his hero's character and lofty place in the world a letters. There is vigorous writing in the volume, but the aut her has "Carlyle on the brain,"
The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1881-09-09 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

SAD DEATH OF A GENTLEMAN AT  TREFERIG.  Treferig, near Pontypridd, is the residence of Mr. J. J. Harris, a Glatuorgansbire county magistrate. With him has resided his brother, Mr. David Harris. Owing to their wealth and influential family connexions, both gentlemen were well known On Saturday the intelligence got abroad that Mr David Harris had dit.4l under most distressing circumstances. Deceased was, it seems, last seen alive by his brother at about eleven o'clock on Thursday night. He was then going to bed. Mr Harris states that when he got up at about eleven o'clock next morning, be knocked at deceased's bedroom door, but received no answer. Mr Harris called again at one o'clock in the afternoon—two hours later—but again bad no reply. Mr Harris supposed that his brother was sleeping, as he sometimes did sleep to that hour. At Mr Harris's request, Morgan John, labourer, at Treferig, broke through the winclaw at about three o'clock in the afternoon, deceased's door being locked. John found the deceased lying forward on his face, dead. His face was in a small pool of blood by the side of his bed. He had token his shirt off, and was apparently about to put on his night-shirt. Deceased had a large wound on the right eyebrow, and a small one under the same eye. The medical theory as to cause of death is suffocation. Deceased, like his brother, was unmarried. His age was about 22 or 23.  At the inquest hold before Mr Reece (coroner), Evan Rowland, Lawn-farm; Margaret Evans, the cook; Mr J. M. J. Harris, Mr Morgan John, and Dr. H. Maunton Davies of Porth, gave evidence. According to the testimony of the latter there was nothing in the room to indicate that deceased could have committed suicide. The Coroner thought a post-mortem examination of the body ought to be made, as it was a very strange death. The jury desired to have the room to themselves, and on the return of the coroner the following verdict was handed to him by the foreman :—We are unanimously of opinion that the deceased got up and fell forward on his face, his feet being entangled; that he received a blow on the forehead, which stunned him, and that he died from suffocation."  It was stated after the inquest that a groom, named Truelove, and deceased were on Wednesday, engaged in pulling dewn an old shed, andthe deceased requested Truelove to take hold of him round the middle from behind while he pulled, by a prop of the shed, and that while both were pulling the prop gave way and struck deceased a fearful blow on the forehead, both falling to the ground.
The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1874-03-20 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

BURGLAR4.—At the Mansion Eloise,' London, last week, Joseph Taylor, 2/, hibriurer, was charged -alth 'robbery. . Pol•celSergeant Gillies. of th•• E diviiton;' said that ,on the.moining of the oth inst., between three and : roil o'clock, be was on dnty in Gray's inn toid, near Eing's'crosa. and saw the prisoner sitting 'on a doorstep. Re told him to go *way, upon which he said " Locieme-sp,.for.l can do burglaries or any. thing of that sort," and he took from his po ket new meerschaum pipe, and put it in his mouth. On being taken to the police-station and charged with the nnlii,w/al po.sessibli of the pipe, three others; it •cigirrease, Find nigarette tube were found upon-him.. Prisoner. explainedthat he hall broken a window of a. cigar-shop opposite the Cad. non street Station. and he sho*ed that hi- hand was cut. The goods proved •to belong lo Mr. John ' Chandler, a tobacconist in the eourtyard of the station, and they were worth £2. 15s. A Plategla.s window, half anitch thick, and of the value of .22. 10s. bad been•broken. The prisoner was only relemed from Coldbath fields on the 7th, at the expiration .of a Sentence of six months' bard labour, for attempting to commit suicide. He bad • I been five times, previ ugly convicted for, 888.86.1t8, land had been -drummed oat ,of the aenikw..rfor • desertion. Tke prisoner-nleaded guilty, and Aid. Sir Sydney Waterloo sentenced hint to four months' hard labour.  Berlin is a.bert to follow the enunrle of Vienna in the erection of s theatre for comic opera specially.  Mr. J. Arthur Phillip' s is continuing with great care his examination of the waters of the deep mines of Cornwall.  It has been decided that the corpse of M. Michelet shall not be brought to Paris, as was at one time proposed.  A fourth -and considerably enlarged edition of Professor Fawcett's "Manual of Political Economy" will be ready shortly. We regret to announce the death of the Countess Brunnow, wife of the Russian Ambassador, after a lingering illness of several months. The Clough Coal Mires in Kilkenny have been opened out recently, and a number of miners have been brought from England to aesist in working them. _
The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1874-05-22 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

DIAESTEG INTELLIGENCE.  buicinE.—John Williams, a single man, aged 24 years, residing at Cavan-row, who had been for long time suffering from ill health, and latterly appeared to be very desponding and melancholy, was discovered by his mother early on Sunday morning lying dead on the bed, with a deep wound in his throat, which he had inflicted with a razor. A verdict of "Suicide whilst in a state of temporary insanity" was returned at the inquest. Tasns.—The colliers are going on working, and appear to be reconciled to the present state of as represented by the employers in a meeting at Cardiff last week, but there has been no work at the forges and mills for some days. This is owing to the refusal of the puddlers to resume work, not on account of the reduction, which has been regarded as inevitable, but to their being required to work short time. This conduct, on the part of the men, is much to be deprecated, as it enforces idleness on all the other operatives in the forges and mills. Taking &common sense view of the matter it must be potent to all that the company in keeping a portion only of their works in operation have valid reasons for doing so, and which doubtless the present aspect of the iron trade justifies. It is to be hoped that the men will reconsider their determination and put up with an inconvenience which may be but of brief duration. At the Oakwood collieries the men have been allowed to resume operations at the old prices for the space of a fortnight, pending the decision to be arrived at at other collieries. In the dispute between the tin-plate workers and their employers, we regret to state that we have no change to record. .  TYND6I COAL Wouss.—ln our last week's report we referred to a new vein that had been struck in the above works. On enquiring with Mr. Leyshon, the overman, we find it is the vein of coal popularly known by the name of " WythMn Wen (white seam). The ashes from this coal is of a light grey colour, hence the name white seam. The crop of the vein may be seen on top of Garnwen mountain dipping to north about 1 in 9. The ordinary thickness of this coal is about five feet, and is noted for its heat, and freedom from all gases. For this reason it is highly appreciated by all iron workers. A new level is now being opened, and it is said that ere long employment will be afforded to fresh hands
The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1874-08-21 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

KICZPING • CORMS IN A ORLLAR FOR THRER WISER:I.—At an inquest on the body of a child, held in London, last week, the mother, Margaret Burns, a married woman, said that the deceased was born three weeks ago, but died on the following day. No medical man was called to see the child. The undertaker came to her house at night, aid took the body away, and she paid him fet. to bury it —Joseph Blunden, undertaker, said that he told the father he would h me to get a certificate as to the cause of death; but the father found that he could not, and thsrefore witness was unable to bury it —The jury fcund a verdict that there was no evidence to show the cause of death of the I child; and, at their recommendation, the coroner 11 strongly censured the mother for not seeing that the child was properly interred after it was given Ito the undertaker. The jury also thought that the undertaker was deserving of censure for keeping the body in the cellar so long.  SAVZD FROM DROWNINQ BY 4 POO:At One Of the London police courts, on Saturday, a woman named Ellen Taylor waa charged with attempting to con.mit suicide by throwing herself from the canal bridge at Old Ford. A police-constable said that the preTious evening ha waaosiduty on the towing path at Old Ford, when his attention was called to the prisoner and another woman, who were silting on the bank with their hands clasped to their beads as if crying. He told them they must move away, as it was private ground. The pr'soner answered by saying, "You don't know what our troubles are." They then went away, but suspecting there was something wrong, he followed them. They walked on to the Whitmore road bridge which crosses the Regent's Canal, and when in the middle the prisoner jumped off into the water, and the other woman jumped after her, calling out " Police " at the top of her voice. A gentleman stood on the bank at the time who had a large retriever dog with him, and he sent him into the water. The dog swam to the prisoner, and epized bold of her and dragged -her, eafely to the bank, and the constable took her in charge. She was remanded.
The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1874-11-06 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

NEW QUEEN'S COUNSEL. Monday being the SAD END OF AN OMNIBUS Dawstr..—Mr. C.opening day of the ISE haelmaa Law Term, the Aspiaall, the Liverpool coroner, on Saturday held following gentlemen who had attained the dignity an inquest on the body of I homes Moore Smith. of Queen's Counsel, were called to the inner bar in The deceased was an omnibus driver, and lived in the Court of Exchequer ,—Messrs. Henniker (of Ensor street. He was an habitual drunkard, and the Chancery Bar), Talfourd eater, Morgan on the 27th ult. he was attacked with delirium Howard, Ambrose, and John Edwards ,the two tremens, and three days afterwards he died. The latter of the Northern Circuit, and well known as jury returned a verdict to the effect that death practitioners in Liverpool and Manchester), and was the result of excessive drinking. Mr. Serjeant Rob;nson. who had obtained a patent o oPEAMER ASHORE: A CARGO OF APPLES ADRIFT, of precedence us serjeant at-law. The Bishop of Ely, addressing an education A Lloyd's telegram states that the steamer Marie :Allan had been ashore on the South Carr Rock, meeting at Cambridge on Monday, said the Church, Fife Ness, but got off after throwing her deck cargo In strugg ing for denou.inat;onal education, was ot app:ea overboard. A North Berwick correspondent her position as leader of education in the dent writes that immense quantities of apples were country. The Hon. E. C. Yorke, M.P., supported washed ashore there. The inhabitants turned out the voluntary system, and the formation of night wi h bags and baskets, and were busily engaged schools for the agricultural classes. Mr. Hunt. r picking up the fruit until darkness set in. The Rodweil, H.P. advocated the maintenance of re- I whole coast from the harbour and as far east as ligious education, and was glad to see clergy and Tantallon Castle was strewn. laity co-operating in the work. APIEEPTLD SUICIDE IN k
The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1874-10-23 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

ARCHIEOLOGISTS AT EXETER. FACETI2E. The arclreologists who visited Eimter thv.vr Head Lights -Bright eyes. be ore 1a.4 were RO heartily welcomed and A taking paper—The sheriff's warrant pitally e dertained by the citizens, that in acknowledgment of their appreciation they resolved to It is said that a man with glass eyes can't (real present the mayor and corporation with a gold goo) anything. chain, to be worn by the mayor. The prei-entation When may a chair be said to dislike you? When I ceremony took place on Saturday, and in the evening it can't bear you. 1 there was a banquet, at which Earl Devon, Lord Why is a kiss like a rumour? Because it goes Coleridge, and Sir Stafford Northcot, were pre-1 from mouth to mouth. tent Lord Coleridge, speaking at the banquet, said both the great parties which divided. and What is that of which the common quality is I would continue to divide the _State, wonld be best? Common sense.  equally nuisances and alike m i :schievous f the one ,forot for a moment to take into consideration the temper of the present age, and if the other ever forgot to have a proper severence for history. It was becauee he WWI thoroughly convinced of the patriotism of both, that without concealing his own political opMions, he loollvd with profound and serene equanimity on the changes of popular opinion which had happened before, and depend on it would happen often again. Sir L. Palk and Earl Devon also spoke. Sir Stafford Nortbcote made some remarks at the ceremony of presentation in the morning.  When does a vessel become an equestrian? When it rides at anchor. Why is a bee-hive like a spectator? Because it is a bee-holder (beholder). Which travels fastest, heat or cold? Heat does, because you can catch cold. How is bread the first necessary of life? Because it is always kneaded 'needed). . Why are conundrums like monkeys? Because they are far-fetched and troublesome. ILove without money has been compared to a - pair of shiny leather boots without soles. THE SUICIDE OF A CLERGYMAN IN A Why is blind man's buff like sympathy? BeLUNATIC
The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1874-08-07 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

DEPLORABLE SUICIDE IN DUBLIN. A shocking occurrence has taken place on the premises of the English and Scottish Law Life Assurance Company, Lower Sackville.street, Dublin. An official of the company went upstairs, and on the lobby of one of the upper storeys he found the dead body of James Kartland, caretaker of the premises, lying in a pool of blood, with his throat cat from ear to ear. When the police were called in, they found a razor on the stairs, but there was no other evidence to throw light on the occurrence. A subsequent search revealed a letter in his handwriting, identified by the clerks of the house, found on the table in his room, with his hat carefully placed over it. In this he states that he found himself going mad, and had determined to destroy himself, and prays God to forgive him. A closed razw clotted with blood was found on a chest supporting his looking-glass, and it is now evident that he cut his throat while standing fully dressed before the glass. The incision did not sever the larger vessels, and the unfortunate man probably repented and endeavoured to staunch the blood. While doing so he must have divested himself of his clothes, and applied all the linen about the place to the wound. As a last effort he crawled downstairs to get assistance, but died where he was found. His wife, to whom he was married seven months ago, did not live with him, being employed as housekeeper in a business house. Kartland's rooms were not only out of sight of the street, but even beyond reach of the noise of the traffic. Nothing but the sky can be seen from them, and it is supposed that the terrible solitude of his evenings and nights drove hlm mad.
The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1874-08-07 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

SHOCKING CASE OF CHILD MURDER. At the Middlesex Sessions, Caroline Ellis, 24. a married woman, was charged with the wilful marder of her child, Alfred George Ellis, nine months old. It appeared that the accused was a married woman, and resided with her husband in 'London, but she had suffered from puerperal fever after the birth of the child in question, and her condition was such that the medical man had advised that she should be constantly watched, as it was evident that she was likely to commit some act of violence either upon herself or others. This was done, and the prisoner appeared to be getting better, and in the beginning .of June she was sent with her child to the residence of a married sister at 'Kingston. The sad occurrence took place on the afternoon of the 15th of June, and it apptared that she was left alone with the child, and was seen walking in the garden carrying the child in her arms. A few minutes afterwards the prisoner was seen in the road near the house running in a vi lld and distracted manner; and, upon meeting her sister, she said, "I have murdered the baby; you will find it in the water-butt; make haste, and perhaps you will be able to save it." The sister immediately ran to the back yard of the house, and to the water. butt, and the first thing she saw was a pan with a pail placed on the top of it, and, upon these being removed, the body of the child, with its head downwards and completely covered, bi the water; was Mit.; covered. It was quite dead, and the surgeon, who was called in, was of opinion that it had been dead about 20 minutes. It appeared that while the prisoner was in the garden with the child, she saw a boy named Chappell standing in an adjoining garden, and she, told him to go away, and the moment he left she rushed to the water-butt and destroyed the life of the child in the way above stated. After the prisoner had been taken to the police-stagon, she told the sergeant on duty that she had murdered her child., and she wished to be hung for it at onoe. It waie. elicited by Mr. Straight in the course of the case that previous to the period of the melancholy occurreneer the prisoner had always appeared to be very kind and affectionate to the child, and that her conduct on several occasions had been most wild and extraordinary, and that she hadonce attempted to destroy her own life by taking poison. It was also proved that the medical man who had attended her had , advised that she should be put under restraint, and that an uncle of the prisoner had been confined in a lunatic asylum, where he committed suicide by cutting his throat. In addition to this, it appeared that after the prisoner made the attempt to poison herself she endeavoured upon one occasion to strangle her husband. The jury, without troubling the learned judge to sum up, acquitted the prisoner on the ground of insanity, and she was ordered to be detained in safe custody during her Majesty's pleasure.  wa• 1  A