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The Atherstone, Nuneaton, and Warwickshire Times. — 1885-05-09 (Atherstone, Warwickshire, England)

WPM. Wild,. T. laws rolati, to the prev.tion of romance, mon. ...sem te the ez ot.g. cello vorates Pre.... rng tinle hail happened Wm search of game, at Chilvere Cdou, on the lat uf her 3of Which vides that any °soapier of Medi°. in the hale which prem.., an attractive manner. At Ike did n, corn. to Xreakfart at roamer. mol,l ebep, received at the meaty po..lice zer..0.z.u.h0n....a., . 1.,14„, the 8e.,. .H,aLl..to ea fhl.ls Ode by the Prime Milliliter May -Mr H. Brook Hera. of Nom.. h who gremlin. in the borough shall not remove or deport appeorence. Mist Lloyd an I Mro. Cockle were M the urinal bone and an no rep) could be heating thc difficulties 'Homer. for the defendant., appl., for nit ad. fon. that crime wan decree., in the borough to " any filth. dot, anh, co. robloinh produced upon charge of Ste A. moll, which woe conspicuous for obtained . repealed calls, the bedroom door cm ti . i 16 , T.'..... no j0w1..., sted Me ..- won occoritegM Mi.... hielndlan work, and the next wan presided over wan Pi, mnen, and Men it woo fonnal that ° °°...e."‘P'' '!'r U.. PP" MTA al.i."-' to Nutteation for Thrust, we:h.-Barney gy ~,,,4. Th at bye..., hi; Wort. said, by Alre. Homer, who bed at antis... Mi. Old- dem., It. been dead eon. loors. Deceased a remarkable extent. He 03er-ties felled to rte • irrevocable harm to , • Gordon, an IMelomeo, wet eltaripod with .iits had szt men nmerved, ond oniy me preyim. ha, B.E Gotten, hiren Penn. to• rnod Mre. lad taken a deso of cyanide of pots...tn. th at addition, °ohm mue woo .cc or,. ` ever a difficulty drunk ia Atheratone, eta Me 2, Mee-The co. afternoon the Saltinford wee literal feetvered with Monis Mire Paske end Mint Donal! h, charge , cestict . or " Suicide uffiile insane" wm alderman R. Gibbs promo, Mot% 'Corer. rinietmunnornamd mi. di. a, _fl ditto, Atherstono, was roll:mit that had Mon swept out of sh,, arod it of .Ite next otale end Mre. Crag. pa a,) „et..., dietriet rate e leek) .in tld p •ond 10. mode on o fight, he WOUld charged with ...Ong two Me ra,its, the pire wan blowing hem, there, and everywhere. the fourth. The El doer stall, which eras beneath ". hmser and 11.1. on I in.l for the current financial mop., of the Rev. Caleb George Horne, of Acmoliog to hie coin.. of the &Wes of the the moth gallery, wan very Matchally set out, and oording to the Caapel-end, on April 601.-The H. CG. Ho.. online, it would be their function to report to the was in hoggo of Mrs. Joe., Mtn. Lnwlyn, end
The Lancaster Herald, and Town and County Advertiser. — 1831-12-17 (Lancaster, Lancashire, England)

VLIR A NEW ACT OV PA RICA MEN T AS TO THE  SFIPFI.I( OF ROOMS FOR DISSECNON.  1. rhat from and after the —, the lu dies of all persons convicted of felony, and who in cOusequence of such conviction  shall die in any place of confinement in the United Kingdom, may be kOllll for dissection. The sale to be by public auction, the proceeds to be paid to the treasurer of the county in which the prison shall be, and applied in aid of the county rates. 2. So also the bodies of all under commitment for felony, if not claimed within hours after death.  3. So also the unclaimed bodies of those who die in hospitals and workhouses.  4. Suicides. a. Unclaimed bodies of permns found dead. 6. To legalize the sale by persons, while living, of their bodie. after death.  7. To secure the due delivery to the purchaser on demand. S. With certain exceptions, no dissections of the bodies of persons dying in Middlesex, or in certain parishes of Essex, Kent, and Surrey, to be permitted before the body shall have been exhibited at an appointed plare, with evidence of name, residence, cause of death, fke., satkfactory to a magistrate, assisted by a surgeon. 9. That the magistrate be one of the police magistrates in his turn, and that the attendance be every day at , except Sunday, and for so long a time as way be needful in respect to bodies brought in before that hour. IS. That the magistrate give a certificate of his satisfact. as to the death, and a permit for removal and dissection. 11. That the body permitted be branded, or otherwise walked indelibly, upon the skin of every part which is commonly purchased by students who have not occasion for the whole. 12. That a register be kept of the name, residence, and cause of death, and of every person whose body is produced. 13. That the only exceptions allowed to this course be the post modem examinations by dissection under the special directions of a coroner, or other magistrate, or which are performed in the dwelling of the deceased, with the knowledge and consent of the family. 14. That whoever shall dissect a body, or any part of • body, as a separate portion, not being duly marked, or shall be possessed of them, shall be subject to—. 13. That the forgery, or aiding or abetting, of the heated or mark, of the certificate or permit, shall subject the party to —. 16. That similar provisions be made for other parts of the kingdom. I have the honour to be, Sir, your very humble servant, J.
The Lancaster Herald, and Town and County Advertiser. — 1831-10-15 (Lancaster, Lancashire, England)

TAILORS' WORC.--By a recent statement from a tailor, in London, it appears that there are 25,243 stitches in a coat—viz., basting, 782 stitches; in the edges of the coat, 5,590 ditto; felling the edges, faces, &c., 7,414 ditto; out of sight in the pockets, &c., 1,982 ditto; in the collar alone, 3,056 ditto; seams, 5,969 ditto; holes, 1,450 ditto; the coat, he says, was made in two days, journeyman's hours.  The Rev. Dr. Shaw, who died a few weeks since at Chelsey, Somersetshire, at the advanoed age of 83, is said to have been the last surviving friend of Dr. Samuel Johnson.  ' REM A IIK•BLE DRAT!' s--On Wednesday week Mr. Webb, robe-maker to his Majesty, and his wife, expired nearly at the same time, at their residence the corner of Chancerylane. Their deaths were accelerated by their son having, a short time ago, committed suicide in a fit of insanity, which preyed very much on their minds. ,The following passage is taken from Lord Goderich's speech on the evening of Wednesday week.—c. Traffic in boroughs he believed, was first mentioned in a letter of Lord Chesterfield's, and not long after it had come strongly before the public, a law was passed against this traffic; and yet this very system, which was then declared to be illegal and unconstitutional, they heard now not only openly defluted, but applauded as a virtue. Why, good God! when the law denounced a certain course of conduct, and the people knew that, notwithstanding that denunciation, what the law pronounced to be a crime was openly practiled, it might be said that the people of' England were not judges of political questions. The people of England were no fools, and they would defy the most subtle casuist to reconcile what the law denounced as a crime Mid the practice of a large part of society proclaimed to be a virtue."  Couriers were dispatched on Saturday morning by all the Foreign Ambassadors to their respective Courts, with the result of the division in the Lords.  Lord HAsTiNas voted, contrary to expectation, with the Ministers on the Reform Bill.  We do not know that the Bishops can be said to have shewn the wisdom of the serpent," but we hear, if some of them have sliewn any wisdom, it is that. Some of them have completely disappointed, by their votes, the men who are at once friends to reform and to the church, and enemies of duplicity and treachery. The cry is, that they have committed political suicide.— Globe. , The Edinburgh Review says that the author of the two psimpblets called What will the Lords Do? which have been grerally attributed to a noble and learned personage, are the production of a military gentleman named Rich.
Lancaster Standard and County Advertiser. — 1905-01-06 (Lancaster, Lancashire, England)

LANCASTER WOMAN'S ATTEMPT ON HER LIFE.  THRIM  Isabella Walker (43), married wcman, of Lancaster, was indicted on a charge of attempting to commit suicide on November 7th. She pleaded guilty. Mr. Royals explained the circumstances. He stated that on November 7th prisoner went home in the early morning. She found her two daughters in the house, and said to one of them that they would not be seeing her there long. She then said something about writing a letter. Asked by her daughter to whom the letter Wa to be written she made no reply. She went to a cupboard where a rass,r was kept and went upstairs. Five minutes later one of the daughters called to her, anti receiving no answer he went upstairs. She found her mother with her throat cut, and beside her was a razor and a letter. The letter was to her children, and in it she expressed the hope that they would not take any harm. It went Im to state that their father did not rare whether they had any clothes of not, that he had been saying she spent a week's wages and did not get anything in the house, and that he had spent £9 en clothes and had not given them a pennyworth. The letter concluded, " Good-bye and God bless you." The woman was taken to the hospital, and was subsequently charged at the police court. To the officer who charged her she replied, " I would not have it only it was for the children. I had had drink. I will never have drink again." In the police court she "I am sorry for what I have done. I will never do it any more. It will be a lesson for me for the longest day I live." D.S. Johns n stated that prisoner had periodical bouts of drinking. When not drinking she was a very dean woman, and her house was kept beautifully clean. Since she was at the police court she had kept steady until Christmas, but had then broken out again, and had been drinking ever since. Her husband was a hard working man who got drink occasionally, but he had never been in trouble through it. This was not the first time prisoner had attempted to take her life, but it was the first time she had been proceeded against. Prisoner's husband was called, but could give no ravison for his wife making an attempt on her life. She was a very jealous woman.  Prisoner blamed her husband for the drink she had at Christmas. She stated that. he tempted her to have ta glass of wine, remarking that a drop of port would not harm her. She said her husband wanted her out of the way, and had told her he hoped she would get a year. Prisoner also charged her husband with attempting to lead al daughter, 17 years of age, astray. She said he took her into public-houses, and kept her there until 11 o'clock at night in the company of drunken men. Prisoner was sentenced to three months' imprisonment in the second division. On hearin4 the sentence ohs sobbed bitterly, and was removed from the dock in a state of eollapse.
Lancaster Standard and County Advertiser. — 1905-03-03 (Lancaster, Lancashire, England)

WIFE'S GRUESOME PIED,  DETERMINED SUICIDE IN LANCASTER.  REASON-OUT OF WORK.  "Ye, that's just it," was tho tearful answer given by Mrs. Johnson when asked by the Deputy Coroner (Mr. N. Holden) if the trouble of her husband, who was found lying on his bedroom floor with his throat rut, a blood-stained razor at his feet, au that he was out of work.  The circumstances surrounding the case appear to be of is very sad character. The victim of the suicide is James Johnson, who was 58 years of ago, a painter by trade, and who resided at 23, Alfred Street. Mrs. John! son stated at the inquest held in the Town , Hall. on Tuesday afternoon, that her husband had been depressed for a considerable time. "He would just sit by the fire, and you could not get a word out of him," slie continued. " He Used to sit silent, and sometimes sakl nobody wanted him, and that he was getting too old." Nevertheless, he had never given her the impression that. he would take his life. On Monday morning, at 10.30, she went out, and owning back in half-anhour found that he had gone upstairs. She thereupon went to nee if he would have a drink of tea, but when she got up she found him lying on the floor besides the bed. She KIM that there was a cut in his throat. Her husband was not unconscious, but he never spoke again. She went for a neighbour, and then they sent for a doctor and a policeman. The razor was one whieh had been in the house for years. Witness' husband had been out of work nine weeks since August, and had only five months' work last year. Evidence was also given by Mrs. Mount, the neighbour referred to, and P.C. Lee, the latter stating that he received information of the occurrence between 11.15 and 11.35 on Monday morning. He went to the house and found Johnson lying on his back cat the floor, and noticed a large wound in his throat extending from ear to ear. The wound was fairly deep, and in his opinion it would have cut the windpipe. Johnson was not dead or unconscious, but he was quite unable to speak. The razor produced was lying at his feet, and there were no marks of violence on the body. The jury returned a verdict to the effect that Johnson had committed suicide whilst of unsound mind.
Lancaster Standard and County Advertiser. — 1905-01-20 (Lancaster, Lancashire, England)

HOUSE. on Monday, when he found the deceased lying face downwards in the bathroom in is pool of blood. He was in his nightshirt. The bedroom was not disarranged. The body was stiff as though it kid been dead for some time. The wound ran from the back of the neck to the wool pipe and was two inches deep. The head was half severed from the body, and he had open a blood-stained razor in each hand. The ease of razors Wall produced, and Mrs. Shepherd, recalled, said she had seen it on his dressing table in his bedroom. P.C. Mitchell, in answer to is question by the Coroner an to whether he knew anything about deceased's habits, said that about three months ago Mr.s. Shepherd's daughter called him into Clayton House because deceased seemed "rather nasty," having had some drink He did not go into the room, but waited just by the door. Nothing, however, oceurred and he went away. The Coroner expresoed surprise that none of deceased's relatives were present ,whereupon P.C. Mitchell said deceased's brother had been over front Bingley the previous night, but returned saying he would come to the inquest if he could manage it. The Coroner (surprised): Manage it, le ought to have managed such an important matter. Addressing the jury, the Coroner said in all his experience he cad never known a eve in which a person had cut his thrott two razors. Deceased, who was aploreutly unknown and was a married num,. nod calmly and very deliberately committed suicide. His relations were duly informed by the police, and they came to Morecambe and went away knowing perfectly well that an inquest would be held and that the jury would rennire some information with regard to deceased's life and habits. Such conduct was nbecoming, unnatural, and absolutely cruel. if the jury wished he would adjourn the inquest and compel the relatives to attend. The jury deliberated for some time, and ,r,a, a verdict on the evidence given, that deceased committed suicide whilst temporarily insane. They thoroughly concurred with the remarks made by the Coroner onocerning the relatives.  The Her. E. Veal°, in a dissmssion on "How to make Preston a model town," and referring particularly to pnifanity, said soldiers were not the worst offenders. He Ind heard policemen in the strets ming the most filthy and disgusting language.
Lancaster Standard and County Advertiser. — 1905-06-30 (Lancaster, Lancashire, England)

ALLEGED ATTEMPTED SUICIDE. PRISONER DISCHARGED.  William Huddlostine (35), hotel manager, pleaded not guilty to attempting to commit suicide by throwing hinisiel into the canal at Yealand Conyers on May sth. Mr. Wingate-Saul, who prosecuted, said that on the date in question Mr. Kay, a lockkeeper ,who lived clone to the canal, saw the prisoner standing on the canal bridge looking into the canal. He did not think much about that, but when he had had his breakfast, half an hour later, prisoner was still in the same vosiion. Huddletstone then left the bridge, and went down to the wharf by the side j f the canal. Mr. Kay shouted to him, and asked what, he was doing there, prisoner replying that he was " just looking round." Kay told him to come out, and together they walked along the side cf the canal. Suddenly the prisoner darted behind Kay, and when the latter looked round he saw him going head first into the canal. Kay then rushed back to his house, seventy yards away, got a drag and fished prisoner out. In explanation of his conduct. prisoner stated that he had been drinking heavily and that he had not long to live. When charged at the police station he replied, "I ought to be ashamed of myself." William H. Kay and P.C. Flood gave evidence, the latter stating that whilst at. the police station prisoner was very violent and tried to knock his head against the wall. So violent was he that witness had to strap him down.  Dr. darksen stated that he examined the prisoner the same evening and found him in a very excited condition. When witntra examined him again the following morning Im found him morn excited still.—Croate examined, witness admitted that prisoner was suffering from a running at the ear, and hernia, the latter being a disease that caused considerable depreasivn. An absceen in the ear might CILLINO dizziness, and cause a man to stumble and fall.  Mr. Mclietwer, who defended, eubmitted that there was no evidence, but the aurt deckled that there wa,,, a ease for the jury.  The jury found the -prisoner not guilty, and he wan therefore discharged.
Lancaster Standard and County Advertiser. — 1905-08-11 (Lancaster, Lancashire, England)

GRIMSBY GIRL'S LOVE AFFAIR.  THE CORONER'S COMMENTS.  An ingtte,,t was held at Gritneby concerning the death of Violet Ethel Gutbridge (18), ot 150, Hope Street, whoco body was taken from the Alexandra Dock, G rimsby , on Monday.  In opening the inquiry, the Coroner stated that a man named Lill, whilst walking in the vicinity of the Corporation Bridge, over the Alexandra Dock Cutting, saw a woman rush past him. Shortly afterwards he heard a scream, followed by a splash. A young man n.aaned Arthur Butler jumped into the water, but there was no sign of the woman. The body was recovered on Monday. Tile mother of the deconeed stated that the girl had been keeping company for manly twelve months with a young man named Alfred Clay-hurn, who turned out to be a married man living apart from his wife. Hose May Moneastor, sister, stated that sho learnt that deceased had been keeping company with Clayburn for about a She believed that her sister had known for the last four months that the num was married, and during the whole of that time she had been low spirited. Witness had I pressed deceased to give Clayburn up, and she had said she would do so, saying, "But you don't know how it will hurt me."  The man, Alfred Clayburn, a finh merchant, was called. He admitted having kept company with &erased, and said that he had told her of Ur marriage after he had known her a month. The Coroner: You knew she wan fond of you?-1 think she Ira:,  Do you think it wan Al right thing, as a married man, to allow this girl to become attached to you P—l don't now. Addressing the jury ,the Coroner said that it was a contemptible and cowardly thing on the part of any man who was married to knowingly cause a. young girl to become attached to him.  The jury returned a verdict of " Suicide Willie of inmound mind," and desired the Coroner to compliment the man Butter, who jumped into the dock at midnight in the hope of aiding the girl.
Lancaster Standard and County Advertiser. — 1903-07-10 (Lancaster, Lancashire, England)

TOPICAL TALK.  Tie subject cf suicides. is not exactly an exhilarating one, but I refer to it here because the editorial remark i last week vceive striking confirmation in a volume recently published by a parson with the strange title. "The Mcrals of Suicide.- In the first place the Editor said figures were not before him as to the. number of suicides in any one yuar. Toe reverend author of this be.-ok says that Oz. number increases yearly. In 1900 it was 2.896. Divittpg them into S:XC3 it is seen that whereas 2,166 males did the deed only 730 females bad the courage to perform the happy despatch upm themselvc,. I say courage because I diFsent altogether from the view that it is a cowardly action to take one's own life. Somebody argues that anybody can die, but it requires the highest form of moral courage to face life. lam not F.O sure of this, and I make bold to declare that the literature of suicide bears me out. . . .  De Quineey and Edgar Allen Poe-- bah of whom had a love for the morbid—are the writers who deal most with the ethics of suicide. They take the view that it requires courage to sentence onself to death and then to carry the sentence out. If we were to lay bare our hearts 1 dare say that very few cf us could deny that at some time or other the thought ef suicide has been present to its. And what has kept it away! Has it been the sense of responsibility. has it been a fine idea of the ethics of a man's right to take his life Not is bit of it. In nineteen cases out of twenty I will go bail that it has been due to sheer fright and cowardice—fright to commit the decd. cowardice at the merest contemplation of what will ensue the moment the deed is done. The question of ethics I leave alone. Schcpenhauer. who could think harder than ever I can, claimed the right for any man to destroy himself if he thought fit. That's a matter for the philosophers and the theologians to argue out. My point, and the only point I wish to emphasise. is this—that it is not necessarily an act of cowardice to take one's life. Was Hector Macdonald a coward? It may be an act of disrespect to one's own body. it may be an insult to one's Creator. but it is certainly not the act cf a coward.