Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1878-06-08 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

HOE. died. The body r 1876, he executed a deed of gift, be which he made ' was, according to the custom, shrouded and laid out Ic over to the defendant all the furniture then in the the parlour of the institution. The good sisters, who ' house. In March the plaintiff had a sale of the furnihad watched by the bedside so faithfully, were hire at a house of his in Wmtbourne-park-villes, but gathered by the side of the corpse at midnight when , excepted or reserved from that sale the goods now the clock struck twelve. The sisters did not grow I claimed arid pat them into the house in Holland-road. weary in their faithful watch over the dead sister, I In April, 1876, the plaintiff left England for Australia, Suddenly, as they looked upon her face kill in leaving instructions to his solicitors to pay the dedeath, the sunken eyes appeared to flush, the blood *dant an allowance of £lOO a month. At ibis time ' mune back to the faded cheek, and, as though the plaintiff had made repeated proposals of marriage imbued with superhuman energy, the dead body to the defendant, but she had always refund him.' Iso. rose up from its resting place, which was draped with 1877 the plaintiff returned from Australia, and in Octo- . black pall, emblematic of mourning, and spoke to the ber of that year differencesarenebetween the trio, in affrighted watchers, saying, "I am not dead yet, but I sequence of which the defendant, on November 14, was will die soon." The old lady then deuced around the given notice to quit the hewn in Holland-road. On room, sung, and shouted in a loud, ringing voice. The the 17th the defendant was told by letter from the inmates of the hospital were thunderstruck and pant- plaintiff's solicitors that she must absolutely give up lined. As soon as the nurses recovered from their possession on the 20ch. She remained in the houee fright, they placed the old lady in bed, where she until the 21st, and was proceeding on that day to se. lingered until about nine o'clock, when she again ap- move her furniture when the landlord of the house parently died. The affair has created the most intense put in a distress for rent, and the defendant had to excitement, and thousands of persons have visited the pay him .f:29 to save her goods from being taken hospital." under the distress. This .C 29 was the subject of the counter- claim. The defendant had also been served with a demand on behalf of the plaintiff tor the goods now claimed, and had not given them ap. The plaintiff in his evidence denied that he had ever made over the property in the geode to the defendant.  TESTAMENTARY ThawTioge.—At the Sitting_ bourns Pol:ce.court, William Holding, a young man. who gave the address of Geddington, near Kettering, Northamptonshire, was charged with attempting to commit suicide by drowning himself at lidinster• in.Sheppy. Police - Superintsndent Mayne was driving through Sheppy a few days since, and passed the prisoner, who was sitting by the side of the road on the bark of a ditch, and who had a book and pencil in his hand. On his return ' Superintendent Blayne was stopped by a cottager living in the locality, who said that a young man was in her house who bad attempted to commit suicide by drowning himself in the ditch. The superintendent found the prisoner dripping wet from head to foot, sod he admitted that what the woman had stated was correct. He had a book entitled "Father Phin " in his possession, and in that book was enclosed a letter, in which he gave various directions. He wished to have a white deal coffin, and that all his relatives should attend the funeral, and wear mourning for him for two years. He also dt sired that a solemn funeral sermon" should be preached in" the chapel " by Mr. Eladeby, warning young men to let his fate be a lesson to them, and that mourning cards should be printed. He further gave directions how his clothes and belongings were to be disposed of, and named the persons who should act as bearers at the funeral. A letter was also found upon prisoner from the Rev. C. H. Spurgeon, containing an unfavourable reply to a begging appeal. The magistrates directed that the priooner should be handed over to his friends.