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The Poole Telegram. — 1886-01-08 (Poole, Dorset, England)

THE MURDERER. _  George Herbert Thackray, alias King, the young man arrested by the Grimsby borough police on a charge of vagrancy, and who afterwards stated that he murdered a clerk named John Broome Tower, aged 20, in St. Mary's Walk, Islington, on New Year's Eve, 1884, has since made the following detailed confession :—"On New Year's Eve, 1884, I and a man named Mick Sullivan were drinking in the Three Nags Publichouse, Whitechapel-road, when a clerk came in and began talking about the amount of money ib his possession. Sullivan said we would have the money, so we dodged about until after midnight. He bade a companion good-bye under the trees in St. Mary's Park, Islington, and then we pounced upon him, put a handkerchief round his neck, and strangled him. We dragged him up the embankment and threw him into the reservoir, after robbing him of £5O. We took his watch, but afterwards lost it. After that I went to my lodgings at 72, Dun,tan's.row, Burdett-road. I got £2O, my share of the £5O. We dragged the body through a hedge before throwing it into the reservoir, and we eft the handkerchief around his neck." The tragedy caused considerable excitement at the thne,. just two years ago. It may be of interest to recapitulate the circumstances as then ascertained. On the morning of Wednesday, Janualy 2nd, 1884, a body was found in the New River Company's reservoir, Stoke Newington, which was identified as that of John Broome Tower, aed 20, a clerk in the Underwriting Department at Lloyd's. Subsequent inquiry revealed that Mr. Tower had been to a mid night service on ',lon:lay, and had parted with a friend near the Manor House, Stoke Newington, early cui Tuesday morning. Nothing more was heard of him until his body was found as above. On the Tuesday a nersen in the employ of the New River Company found a hat, shirt collar, pair of cuffs, and other articles MI the bank of the reservoir. The collar had apparently been wrenched off, and its button holes and those of the cuffs were torn. The police were communicated with, the reservoir was dragged, and Tower's body was recovered, with a handkerchief tied tightly round his neck, and knotted several times. A ring usually worn by the deceased, together with other articles, were missing, and there were numerous footmark* on the reservoir banks and other signs of a struggle. It was at once supposed that a murder had been committed, and some clue was at first thought to have been obtained by the discovery near the spot of a woman's earring and brooch, of common make. The police were unable to clear imp the mystery in any way, and mooted the theory of suicide, which did not, however, commend itself to the coroner's jury, who, after hearing the evidence, returned a verdict of wilful murder against mime person or persons unknown. There the matter has rested till the confession now made by Thackrayi
The Poole Telegram. — 1886-02-19 (Poole, Dorset, England)

MURDER AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE IN CLERKEN WELL.  On I r.day morning a woman named Knight, re .itli;i ; No. 14, Brunswick-close, St. ..lenh.,treetroad, Cler •enwel,, murdered her infant child by 3 Milli: It hroat, after which she made A determined atteni!A t dli herself by cutting her tl rod with the sane ~veapoi . It appears that she has been cohabiting with a man named Harris, tbey occupying the front room, aird having two children, one a el three years and the other only a few months old. She, it seems, has Iwo of late much given to excessive drinking. O leraly m 'ming her sister went into the room, and tindini low in bed with her two children, took the eldest did out of bed and dre.sed it, and after giving her si.te,, who did .not appear very well, some tea with some brandy in it, took the child out for a walk with her. Upon her return to the room about eleven o'clock, she was horrified to find that her sister with her infant child was lying in the bed in a pool of blood. Sh.• at once raised an alarm, and medical aid was sent for. The child was dead, but the woman was still living, and was removed to St. Bartholomew's hospital. She is in a very precarious condition, sad little hopes are entertained of her recovery.  A shocking, fatal accident occurred on Thursday at Marsh's Utiemical Works, Wiines. Mr. Douglas Dupdd Mathieson, on of Mr. Niel Mathieson, principal partner in the firm of Mathie.son and Co.. caustic manufacturers, who resides in Liverpool, was superintending the erection of an iron column, when the stake to which one of the roper was secured gave way, arid the derrick with its burden fell upon him. completely smashed the lower part of his body, and causing immediate death.  Mr. Frederick Cleaver, the proprietor of railway wag m works st INT,ittingham, recently failed, ana the trustees, in order to liquidate the estate, resolved t) sell his household furniture. The employes at the works, hearing of this, went in a body to one of the trustees and begged him to use his influence to prevent the sale. They further spontaneously offered to work for a week or a fortnight without any pay if by so. doing they could assist Mr. Cleaver to ruirieve liei posic,on. Their proposal is under consideration. &collect relations have always existed between Mr. Cleaver and his workmen.
The Poole Telegram. — 1886-04-02 (Poole, Dorset, England)

DOMESTIC TRAGEDY IN PARIS.  A startling attempt to murder, connected with which there Ire mysterious circumstances and a suicide, were committed on Monday night, in the Rue de BAC, at the highly respectable and (Met hotel, La Croix de Geneve, which is kept by a Madame Aker'mann. In the evening a lady and gentleman of good appearance, who had often previously lodged in the house for short periods, arrived there from FontaineMeant as they said, and asked for the set of rooms they habitually occupied. They had al ways passed fur husband and wife, and the husband inscribed himself in the guests' book as a manufacturer, travelling on his own account. After they were shown to their apartments, Madame Akermann herself went to t ike them candles, but as the door was fastened mode, she left them on the lobby table, and called oit to them to say that she had done so. Half an hour later she returned, and found the candles where she left them, and as they were in a Llmg draught and wasting, she knocked to apprise her lodgers of this fact. As she was knocking she heart) four reports, which rapidly followed each other. She rushed downstairs crying "Murder," and a Waiter ran to a policestation hard by. The sergens-de-ville armed with loaded pistols, and a locksmith were sent for. When they got in they traversed the sitting•room without seeing any untoward sight, but in the bedroom the body of the man was lying on the floor, and his wife, sighing and groaning, was on a seat near the window. Ellie was wounded in three place& Her companion was shot through the right temple; as the woman is wounded in the throat and cheat she is unable to  speak, and is too weak to write. She he just been able to scrawl, "Warn my husband," and "Can I be saved!" NS/len inquiries were made she was found to be the daughter of a M. Cadet, an exdeputy, and now Mayor of the Eleventh Arrondiseemeet. He is a man of considerable means. She was married, it appeared, through the agency of a matchmaking friend, as young French girls so often are, to a M. kisinouf, an art decorator and manufacturer of artistic wall paper, who has a business house in the Faubourg St. German. The person with whom she was at La Croix de Geneve is a pharmaceutical ehemist named Musait. Her relations with him were of old date, but nobody suspected them until about ten days ago, when, after a stormy altercation, M. R.,nouf turned his wife out of the house. But, as she had two children, she went back to look after thens ; and she has since slept every night in their room. M. Menet made her acquaintance soon after he wise  married, and his wife 'gave birth to a child eight months ago. The poor woman learned of the tragedy from a reporter, who on hearing of it went to interview her.  An ingenious man is said to be making a fortune in the prohibition States of America.by a very crafty sort of pump. Worked by barmen beer comes out ; but should an officer of the law take a hand at She pimp, the only moduct is water.  014 t • It, • ) I , c 47:.„  1. • 4
The Poole Telegram. — 1884-11-28 (Poole, Dorset, England)

MYSTERIOUS TRAGEDY.  Dr. Diplock, coroner for West Mi idlest); resume an inquiry on Teesday morning at Hayes, relative to the death of Mr. James Gibbous, aged 63, whew(' wife had represented teat he committed suicide on the night of the 15th instant by shooting himself three or tour times with a revolver. thi 10981,0] WM a co. tractor ii tne Great Western thdway Company for the creosoting of sleepers, and was &heap looked upon as a respectable man. When the inquiry was opened last week it transpired teat the bMy hit been rem )M1 from its original position, au] in tie aoseuce of the meuical mart who Wai called in aeon alter the occurrenoe, at adjournmeut Was considere 1 ueceesary, especially as there was no dietinct evidence al to the character of the wound.. Oa Viet oc ta, Mee, lliquieons stated that when her husband returned home from l'aunton on the night in question, she bad a few words with film in their bedroom, telling LAM thit as he had kuown his c ,U3lll Mary had intended meeting him at Taunton, ha might as well have taken her. He then, *be said, became enraged, and taking a six-chambered revolver froth 'laden' his pillow, where had weapon Ii it always bee kap-, fi mristied it about his heed. dle ran from ihe room, but returned on hearing the revolver discharge I three or four times, and touud decetse.l lyine on the floor. Leading up to this point her evineneo entirely uucorrob irate], there beteg no woe in tee house beside herself end the deceased ill the la' t q. was kal. She represented that the deceised was very excitable, anti eel suffered considerably from pains in the head, being utiaele ii sleep at night, and the • uspicioue circumstances about the C)9l were 11,) tar explained that' after the adjournment, the coroner prepared an order for the interment of the body after a p .Bt-mortein examinatioa. Subsequently, however, toe 0.00 seeumed • more serious complexion. After dialog 4 partial examination Mr. Perrott, surgeon, comeauoicated with WO coroner. The police authorities were represented at the inquest my Inspector joren of the Criminal laveaumation Department. Mfg. Gibbons as. been arreeted.
The Poole Telegram. — 1884-03-21 (Poole, Dorset, England)

SUICIDE OF A LADY. Patty, idle, rativelY d.mtndmi a steternent, and L, it liartiegton spoke, but he flatly refuse,' to give nesa, e dietr repine case of suicide is awaiting an I. quiry by informaticia. In conclusion, he declered with' an law the Brighten ccroner. For some weeks pasta lady named mistakeable mg suing that the Governitneet accepted the M Kenna, the wife of a London barrister, living in issue as a question ol confidence ; and that if tee house Snetfield-tEr lies, Kens ngton, ead been staying for the took this view of the Oppos ton i•il deciaien %ultra reek° benefit of her basal-% a. ali deine house near the West it impossible for thorn to cotelitct to aft ells of tee Pe r. hay jig e short Woo since given birth V, a chili. coentry. When the eiviri in teek place ,t 4, as felled Since her confinement the unf rt mate lady, who was first that Mr. Chamte rl in hid ri tuned from B.rming• only 23 years old, had she, ed signs of mental efflictlon, ham, and then that the wedge eled appeal t o the House alad a nurse had attended her from a nursing institution, had caught the Government whips " liaropiee. ' and tint On Sunday met ning the two went for a walk, and on their the Ministerial midi ray Was only 111 t" 91. The miernete I return Mrs. firKentia wa keit uestairs, then downstairs, had been cdnposed of COniurg, t.Vo all.l Parn,,lllt, Mil main upstairs, and beteg tired, the attendant failed memhers, with the addition of Sir Wilfrid Lewson, ,t fiest to fellow le r, but on obig almeet directly she Mr. Patisioinre Elwin cl i, Sir G. Campbell, Mr. Cowan, end I found ',be ea r too late, as shut heard a he, vy fail, and Mr. John Morley. The lesult of the division excited the found ?dm Al Karma helpless on the flame laying Home, and its r xcitement was height no) by eri iecident swallowed a quantity of carbolic acid. Medical assistance attetding it. Sir M. Rictus 'leach reported to the Speaker was obtained, but the poisen had do' cm it i work, and 11f3 that the liome Seerettry bad described Bom thing as a was soon extinct. The de e ised ~:y I t-ii ttcr ad,l,ensed " dile y trick." Speaking 'Allot," t., one of hie calleaguee, Sir to her husband in most affeetieu ate t erne. but complain- W ildarn Hareem t had raid so—" his dirty tick has cot ing of not being lett alone for it moment. aucceedtd..! The OppcsiOon tnelesed, throuah Sir
The Poole Telegram. — 1884-10-24 (Poole, Dorset, England)

HOW TO WAKE UP A MAN QUIETLY.  A guest at a Oleicage hotel, who had been awakened hundreds of timed when other doore were being pounded on, wanted to get up at five o'clock lan Monday morning. and he decided that he would not cause all the other guests to be annoyed, so he told tie clerk he was gang to hitch a rope on to his ankle when he retired, and throw the end of it over the transom. and wanted the porter instructed to pull on the rope at five o'clock until he get an answer, and not pound oe the door. Tee clerk said that would be a'l right, and tie man retired. The clerk told a party of young men boarders of the singular request of the guest, and they thought it vary original. Tatty went out to the theatre and got full of wine, and when they pissed the sleepiest guest'e room at one o'clock in the morning, and saw the rope haniing over the transom, they thought it would be no more than right to see how the new idea would work, 133 four of them took hold of the rope and began to pull. They heard a heavy body seem to be veraking over the foot board of the bed on its back, heard sheets rip and night-shirt tear, and they kea.t pulling, and a heavy body struck the floor, and a vcace began to swear and yell murder and fire, and they pulled away, until the heavy body seemed to be climbing up the door feet first on the inside, and the voice sai I all right, I am up, but they kept pulling maii one le; of a man came over the transom, and the other kg wee kicking the doer, and the voice was using language that nal not almissable, in polite sec'ety. The young nun then tied the rope to the door-knob and retired to their room, leaving the man hanging head down wlth One leg out in the hall. The man yelled until the watchman came, and he thought it was a case of suicide, and he cut the rope, and the heavy body fell to the door, avn n the clerks and manager of the henna, and several of the porters, were called, and they burst in the doer and found a ha ily uied up guest, grabbling at blankets and sheets to cover himself, and swearing his back was broken from sliding over the foot-boards An explanation was had, and it was generally believed the tipsy young men lead done the deed, but when they were called they were asleep, and the next morning they claimed they had retired as usual at nine o'clock in the evening, and they were innocent of anything on earth. The guest remained up until five o'clock, and need arnica and thing., gave the rope te the porter, and said after this they could pound on his door and wake the whole house if they wanted to. A young man and a female Once stepped at a country tavern. Their awkward appearaace excited the attention of one of the family, who commenced a conversation with the female, by inquiring how far she had travelled. Trevelled I exclaimed the stranger, somewhat indignantly ; we didn't travel, we rid I
The Poole Telegram. — 1884-10-03 (Poole, Dorset, England)

SUICIDE THROUGH DISAPPOINTMENT IN LOVE.  A sad instance ( f suici is through disnppointmont in love has ,ccurre I at Uppinghain, a young woman named A !a B sines having dro vned herself in • pond. For about three weeks she had ham very dull and low in spirits. She had been ergagel to be married to a votr.g man, who, aft 3r a time, I:ft Uppingtumn. Ile wee° to lat.r for a and then broke off the engagement. When she was found in the pond she had in her olcket a ph,,tl4raph of the y mug man, to ;ether w;th several letters written by him to her. At the inquest held by Mr. Shield, the coroner, eel lenee was given to the cif •ct that toe had wished her sisters good-bye the nigt.t 1)1ore she was found drowned, though she said nothing to them about having been disappointed in love. Charles E. Manton, apprenticed to Messrs. Swath, Bros., grocers, of Uppingham, .al I the decease I was in the employ of Mr. Sneath. Ab ut a motth ago she asked him if he knew a nice quiet pond where she °mild drown herself. He thought she was joking, The next evening she spoke its a similar train, suggesting R wkingham or St amf )rd as a nice quiet place where she could end her existence. He told her n,tt) t ilk snob rubbish. A third night she ep)ke to him in the same way. He asked her about a week after war is whether she had thought of it again, and she said No, the holing has gone off." She then tAd him t .st ales ins I a similar feeling about three years ago, and she then started to go to a pond at Ayston to drown herself, but she met somebody and turned back. About • fortnight ago, when witness went out for a week's holiday, she said to him, " Wel', goodbye ; I shin% see you 'LAW, for I shan't be here when you come back." It was state 1 that the pon I in which the younz woman drowned hers Alf w ,s about four feet deep, and that the body lay in about three feet of water. The jury returned a verdict of Snickle while A 1111801 ind stind,"  .• •• • • ' • '
The Poole Telegram. — 1884-05-30 (Poole, Dorset, England)

ABBAS. SUICIDE OF A MARKET GARDENER. An inquest was held in this parish on Friday 'set, before Dr. Comyns Leach, on the bpdy of Reubni Ryall, a market gardener, aged 72. T appeared fr an the evidence that the deceased had for some time been suffering from depression of spirits, and lately this depression had become so great that medical aid Was called in, and it was found that the deceased was suffering f:om a species of insanity turned melancholia. His delusions consisted chiefly of his being ruined and coming t want, and according to Ilie evidence of his son he had on more than one °cession thre‘tened to do for himself." He was c 'Betio& watched, but on the Wedn.nid ay previous he managed to elu le the vigilance of his wife and soa, and hanged, or rather strangled, himself in a most determined manner. At the ba‘dr of the house was a calve& Pen, and here fioding a rope with a slip kuot ha fasteued it arouod his neck, and, passing the rope over a plea of upright wood, which was fastened to the wall of the p,u, ho twisted the other end af the rope around 110 wai.t, and then failing into a half kneeling poonln was soon strangled, His son was the first to hod hira. but he was then almost, if not quits dead. The, medical evidence satisfied the j iry as to his state of mind, and they found a verdic•, after the summlng. tiP of the Coroner, of " *guide by strangulation whilst insane,"  Nati tud wal Co,  of th to I Hi liner diffei date  Ivel road, Ther bette necee  CI the Club went maki land The 1 wee r  Pal tive dly Deed meetii by ti El wa day latere, place.  THE deide Chain b 3 co Stockt wishes  of th 4 verft Bates d 138 w f  their thtir /34k, kt tit Pre 6411&
Irvine Express. — 1884-09-19 (Irvine, Strathclyde, Scotland)

THE PRIME MINISTER OF ENGLAND, WHOSE WATCY IS ALWAYS BEHIND TIME. ["The Nile has fallen again."—Daily pupae.] You are going to rescue Gordon, You are going to sate at last, Before the swine of your party That pearl so basely cast! Are the omens in your favour? Can you stop the march of Fate? When the Nile is falling, fa:ling, Won't the story end" Too Late?" Why are *ow the Imps sent forward And rafts and stores prepared? By the spectre of Dissolution Are you and your faction scared? It Is only to blind the people And their anger to abate? Bah? The Nile is falling, falling You are always just "Too Late!" 0 mean that the man, who trusted our honour and your faith, Was left for mouths nocared for, Exposed to constant smith ! Heaven grant that your "Only Genera. ole bulwark of the State !) Write not at the end of the story The sh•meful words "Too Late!"  A TFunnirs mncenn bag been oommitted in Edinburgh. A poor woman jumped upon the parapet of Dean.bridge, 'frantically waved her arms for semis. moments, and thee jumped from the giddy height into th water of Leith which 'lows below. This in the third suicide which hue octatrreti at this spot within the past fei, months,  IN reply to varions reprPsentations and •beotion niged in a memorial of the Indian Reform 'Assoc'sCon, the folkneing communipation has been received by the association Mtn the Incite Office "Sir —I am directed y. the 'E.irti of If habsrley to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 3ret ultimo, forwarding a mernerial from the Indian Rotorua Association on the: subject of the .Sengal Tenancy Bill. lam to request that you will receive due considerettion from his lordehip in council, when he has receiyed the Bengal Tenancy in the shape which it may finally assume after considesation he the commit of the Vbeeretor-Cieneral of India for neakin4 level and regulaileaa.—l am, sir, yorr obedient servant, 1!1 n
Irvine Express and North Ayrshire Post. — 1886-04-23 (Irvine, Strathclyde, Scotland)

MISCELLANEOUS.  ATCHTERARDER POTATO, 45YURD4r.—Tralle pretty steady. Regents nearly cleared off, best lots of champions scarce, 'meanies fair supplies. Prices as follow :—Champ. ions, :ins to 35s ; extra tine and picked, 365 to 375; magnums, 38s to 425 6.1 regents, 55s (al to 570 64; seed lots (pure), 605 all per ton; retail, Is 2.1 to Is 3,1 per bushel, and 5d to ad per imperial stone. FIFE POTATO, SATIrIiDAY.—The demand has been brisk last week—brisker than usual at this :olvanced stage of the season—but fsrmers, being engaged at seeding operations, and anxious to take full advantage of the favourable weather that has set in, Inure declined taking orders for immediate delivery. Prices have been a follows for the varieties namml:—Champions, from £2 to 4:2 2s CH. per -MI ; P ater. son's Victoria., and Prince Regents, from £3 7s 6.1. to 443 105 per ton : Dalmahoy dons, from £3 100 to 6.3 12s 60 per ton, and numb inquired later ; red bogs, forty.folds, pink eyes, and A mericlo *wiles, from +43 us to 4:4 per ton ; Snowflakes, Reading heroes and Reading russets, from £4 to £4 105 per ton; a few parcels of Walker's earlies had been passing off at £.3 5s per ton ; riddlings for cattle-feeding purposes, from gl to 2060 per ton; undressed roots as dug, hut with cut ones discarded, from gl 15s to gl 17s lid per ton (good sorts for table use). Retail prices of good varieties, from ald to 104 per peck of 2811.. Roots are still very abundant, with no demand for farina works, fiIhASDOW ellEESE.—Messrs A. & J. Allan in their I weekly report say :—Ths market has been quiet this week. Arrivals light, and the demand equally so, and prices stationary. Qin dat ions :—Dunlop, 42s to 50s per cwt. Cheddar, 44:: to 545 per cwt.  A cosvurr at Chatham has committed suicide by placing himarli across the steam tramway. IT is announced from Venus that the town of Stry has been destroyed by fire. Six hundred housts have been burned down and many persons injured. . . . .  race for the twenty•tniliti international hie. el, eteonpions'dp took 'place at Leicester on Saturday, when Howell, of Coventry ,won in lb. Omits. 46sec. There were eleven starters.  A sivonNe: sox that Was 1,1 courße of con,tructien in Uig. Lswis, has been maliciously ilestniyeil. awl the building materials se:Mei-tit aud rs uttered useleas. •