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Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1892-04-09 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

STATEMENT.  A LONDON DRESSMAKER'S STORY.  The Globe (London) on Thersday contained the following :—The theory that Deeming committed two or mere of "Jack the Riprer " murdcrs in WhiLechapel is to-day strengthened by an extraordinary statement which has reached us. It appears that • rsepectable girl, a dri-ssinaker, resident in the Fast End, identified a portral published in a weakly paper last Sun• day as that of a man she knew by the name of Lawson in 1388. tibe states that she kept , company with himin the ansumn of that year. and I on the ,eveniug of riept. 29 they went for a walk. L Soon after eleven p.m. they parted at PortIsuid-road Railway Station, and she returned home by train. On the foilowing morning shortly before one the body of Elirabeth Stride was discovered with her throat cut outside the International and Educational, in D•rner steeet, Aldgate,- and an hour later • constable found the mutilate] body of Mrs liiPowes in Mitre-vinare. The same afternoon the girl, who desired her name . to he suppressed for the present, met the man Lawson by appointment, and went for a walk with him. His conversation was I mostly of the murders, and she says he spoke with intimate knowledge of the details of the tragedies. During their walk Lawson purchased • newspaper, in which it was stated that the murders were probatily perpetrated soon after midnight. This plumage he pointed out to her exclaiming, "Look at the times; I couldn't have committed them. couM 1 ?" This remark the girl declares she remembered distinctly, it being made quite voluntarily, but at that time it did not occur to her that the circumstances were suspicious. She says Lawson oil that afternoon was greatly a,itated, and betrayed an earnest desire .to ruaai the newspaper comments upon the lermines. A few days later, however, he disappeared, and they have not since met. Some little time afterwards she thought over ths cireumstanoes,and although she considered them as extraordinary she refrained from communicating with the ponce. It was not until she saw the portrait of Deeming she resolved to make the statement, for she has no doubt whatever the Irian she luiew LB Lawson was the original of the published portrait. His general bearing coincided exactly with that of Deeming. He always made ostentatious display of rings, and spoke of his travels I abrosAL  At Aston, Birmingham, on Wedneaday Matthew Lane, an elderly man, W.lll remanded on a charge of attempted suicide. He gave himself up to the police, stating that ha had been carefully reachnz the reports of the Rainh:ll murders, the horrible details of which so preyed on hist mind that he felt if he did not destroy himself he should surely murder his wife and children. He accordingly threw himself into the canal: bet, after he had Bunk twice, he heard a. voice bilding him to gut out of the water, and he did so. Illness and loss o/ work are supposed to bare unhinged his mind.
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1887-06-11 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

SHOCKING TRAGEDIES.  On Saturday night the town of Colne, near Burnley, was the scene of a terrible triple murder. It appears that en Saturday afternoon a weaver named Rushton, living at Waterside, Cohn, went with his wife, Harriet, and his three children, aged seven, file, and two and a half, for • walk. He left them shortly before four o'clock to go to his club, the wife returning home. At six o'clock Mrs Rushton went to her sister's in Skipton•road, Colne, and told her she had sent all her children to Heaven. The two sisters went back to the house, and on a bed lay the three children, dead, and laid out. A small rope, part of a clothes line, was found near, with which she had strangled them. Mrs Rushton is about 35 years old. The excitement in the town was very great, and the authorities were obliged Ito take her to the police station. Most people put down the murder to insanity, and it is said that two near relatives committed suicide. She was brought before the magistrates on Monday, and remanded.  On Tuesday afternoon Mary Ellen Anthony, the wife of a seaman, in the employ of the Cunard Company, and living in Wyatt-street, iiirkdale, Liverpool, murdered three of her children. It is stated that for some time past she has been suffering from depression of spirits, though there was nothing to give special cameo for alarm. On Tuesday afternoon twn of the older children of Mrs Anthony, hearing a peculiar noise in one of the bedrooms, went up stairs, and there found their mother in the act of cutting the throat of their little brother Alfred, aged three years. They rushed at her, and tried to stop her, but she turned upon them, and threatened them with a knife which she had in her hand, and which was covered with blood. They [-ran out. and arous.3d the neighbours, aud two women at once entered the house and threw themselves upon the wretched woman. r After a severe struggle, during which she made frequent attempts to cut her own throat, they succeeded in disarming her, and other neighbours coining, she was secured. It was then found that another child, Mary Ellen, aged two years, was lying in the room quite dead, with her throat fearfully cut; while on a bed in the same room was the body of an infant son, ten months old, who had been smothered to death. The elder boy when found was still alive, and was taken to the Stanley Hospital, but he was so mutilated about the throat that his case was hopeless, and he died soon after admission. The woman was taken to the Police Office, and a knife and hatchet, with which the murders had apparently been committed, were taken charge of by the police. Mrs Anthony, it is stated, has been ' twice married, and has bad eleven children, the victims being the three youngest. She was brought before the magistrates on Wednesday and formally remanded.  TIM PROFITS or
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1887-05-07 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

FORTY HALF-QUARTERNS A DAY.  A SAD CASE.  Dr. Danford Thomas, Coroner for Central Middlesex, held an inquest last Friday, at the Clerkenwell Coroner's Court, on the body of Alfred Halloos, aged 43, an umbrella restorer and seller, living at 9, Bishop's-court, Clerkenwell-green. Mary Ann Italian, the widow, stated that the deceased was addicted to habits of intemperance, and, in fact, was very seldom sober. Some time ago he attempted to cut his throat, and since then he had threatened to drink some acid that he need in his business. On Tuesday they were drinking together in Aylesbury-street, and returned home between five and six o'clock, both the worse for liquor. He compelled her to go to bed, and then said he had drunk some of the "fake."—By the Coroner: He meant by this nitric acid and quicksilver, with which he rubbed up the brass work and made it look like silver. She woke up at eight o'clock. and found him at the side of her dead.—Henry Stuart, a dealer in umbrellas, stated that he was with the deceased on the Monday previous, and he was then very drunk, and had a fight with another man, getting his eye cut.—By the Coroner: His , favourite drink was rum, and he could do thirty 'or forty half-quarterns day. (Sensation.)—The ' Coroner thought umbrella restoring must be a very lucrative business.—Dr. Smethwick, of 139, St. John-stieet, stated that when he was called in he found the deceased on the floor dead, and a post-mortem examination showed that death was from corrosive poison eating away the coatings of the stomach. He found a bottle containing nitric acid and quicksilver, and no doubt this was the same kind of poison that had caused death.— The jury returned a verdict of suicide when of unsound mind through continued habits of in temperance.
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1887-03-19 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

HORRIBLE DISCOVERY AT  DURHAM.  ' Shortly before half-past eleven on Thursday night the police broke into the shop of Mr Longley, eating-house keeper, Silver-street, Durham. It appears that Mr Longley had been in monetary difficulties, and had not lived on good terms with his wife for some time past. A few mouths ago he attempted to commit suicide by poisoning himself. The affair, however, though reported to the police, was kept quiet in the interests of Mr Longley, whose occupation as an eating-house keeper would certainly have been seriously, if not irretrievably, injured by the news being spread abroad among the citizens and visitors to Durham. MrLongley and his wife, in that case, agreed to live together, and appear to have done so on somewhat better terms than hitherto. During the past week, however, all attack of insanity apparently had seized Mr Longley, who for a week or two past had been drinking heavily. His wife, in consequence of this attack, , left bile some time last week. Since then she bas been staying with her friends, and Mr Longley, finding himself left alone, became utterly depressed. On Tuesday evening he was seen to go into the shop and lock the door at an early hour, and no signs of anybody living in the place were visible. Accordingly, P.C. Houlds and P.C. Mahon and an auctioneer named Bowden forcibly entered the premires last night, and proceeded to search the house for the occupant. After going through several of the rooms in the house they discovered that Longley had committed suicide. He appears to have effected this by hanging, having secured a rope, and taken:a chair, upon wnich he stood, and placed his neck into a noose of the rope, which was fastened to a hook in the roof, and afterwards kicked away the chair. The affair, which had got noised about, caused considerable sensation among the townspeople, many of whom loitered on Framwellgate Bridge to see what steps the police would take.  SOMETHING LIKE AN ADVERTIsING
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1887-08-20 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

SUICIDE ON THE EVE OF  MARRIAGE.  Dr. W. Wynn Woetoott, the Deputy Coroner for Central Middlesex, held an enquiry at St. Pancras on Tuesday afternoon into the circumstances attending the death of George Yeale, aged 23 years, a clerk, lately residing at York, who committed Bain& by hanging himself on Friday week at No. 134, Judd-striet, Ruston-road. —William Veale, • mason, residing at Guaton. • South Devon, identified the body of the deceased as that of his brother, who was a clerk in business at York, and he generally enjoyed good health and spirits, and upon no occasion had be thiea.teried to take his his. The deceased, who was single, was engaged to be married, and should have been married on Saturday last. Witness received information that the deceased had been found banging in his room.— Inspector Robert Rudnick, of the E Division, produced several letters and money found in the room which the 'deceased occupied, and one of the letters was addressed to his mother, who resides at St. Columb, Cornwall, whilst another was addressed to the lady to wham the deceased was to be married on tiao next day, and in these he postponed the marriage, and showed that he was depressed in mind in consequence.—Dr. John Powderill, of 16), Euston-read, stated that on Monday week the deceased came to him and complained of want of sleep and depression, and that he had come up to London for the purpose of seeing Dr. Bradford, who had cured hint of that disease . before. . Witness prescribed for him. The deceased came to him the next day and on Wednesday. He complained of great depression, tfhd had some idea that he was not at all fitted to be married. Witness advised the deceased to go homo to York, but .this he refused to do. Tho deceased on Thursday asked hint whether he could tell him of a place where he could go for a time to be cared for till he got over the depressed condition that he wss in. Witness, from a conversation that he had with the deceased, was of opinion that the beat thing that the deceased could do was to get married, and strongly &drifted him to return home, but he would not—The jury returned a verdict that the deceased committed suicide whilst of unsound mind.
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1887-08-20 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE OF A CLEVE LAND GAMEKEEPER.  On Tuesday at the Guisborongh Petty Sessions Ralph Alderson, gamekeeper for Captain Duncan:l-be, Westerdale, near Guisborotigh, was charged with attempting to commit suicide at that place on the 10th inst.—The prisoner, who appeared in a somewhat weak state of health, pleaded rally, and was accommodated with a seat. It appeared that at an early hour on the morning in question the prisoner, in the absence of his family, administered to himself a quantity of strychnine. Shortly after a farmer named Booth called at the house, and the prisoner, who was then suffering from the effects of the administration, told him to break open his bed-room door, as he had taken poison. He did so, and, finding such to be the case, at once sent for a doctor.—Mr John Alexander, a practitionor in medicine, said on receiving the message he saddled his horse and rode to prisoner's house, where be arrived at about seven o'clock, finding defendant in convulsions, evidently due to poisoning. He successfully applied the stomach pump, and also gave defendant some salt, which , acted as an emetic. After the operation prisoner became calm, and expressed his sorrow tot taking the poison: Witness believed prisoner had prepared two grains of strychnine, and had taken the greater portion of it in some tea. Had , the whole of the strychnine, which was in a solid , form, been administered death mast have ensued. Witness found a small bottle containing att./eh'nine and some letters in the dressing-table drawer. The letters were addressed by prisoner to his family.—Prisoner assured the Bench that nothing would induce him to make any attempt at self-destruction in the future. He had had a vast amount of trouble on his mind during the last four months.—The Chairman (Mr Whitwell) : We understand you have been placed in unhappy circumstances of late. The Bench will adjourn the case for a fortnight, and require you to oome up forjudgment when called upon.
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1887-10-29 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

THE EFFECTS OF CHRISTIANITY.  The effects of the work of Christ are, even to the unbeliever, indisputable and. historiiml. It expelled cruelly; it curbed Passien ; it branded suicide; it punished and repressed an execrable infanticide it drove the shameless impurities of heathendom into a: Congenial darkness. Thera. was hardly a class whose wrongs it did not remedy. It rescued the gladiator ; it freed the slave; It protected the captive; it nursed the sick; it sheltered the orphan; it elevated the woman; it shrouded as with a halo of sacred innocence. the tender years of the child. In every region of life its ameliorating influence was felt. It changed pity from a vice into a virtue. It elevated poverty from a curse into a beatitude. It ennobled labour frolic a vulgarity into a dignity and a duty. It sanctified marriage from little more than a burdensome oonvention into little less than a blessed sacrament. It revealed for the tinst.time the angelic beauty of a purity of which men had despaired, and of a meekness at which they had utterly scoffed. It created the very concaption of charity, and broadened the limits of its obligation from the narrow circle of a• neighbourhood to the widest horizons of the race. And while it thus involved the idea of humanity as a common brotherhood, even where its tidings were not believed—all over the world, wherever its tidings were believed, it cleansed the life and elevated the soul of each individual man. And in all lands where it has moulded the characters of ite true believers it has created hearts so pure, and lives so peaceful, and homes so sweet that it might seem as though those angels who had heralded its advent had also whispered to every depressed and despairing sufferer among the sons of men, "Though you have lien . among the pots, ye shall be as wings of dove, that is covered with silver wings, and her feathers like gold." —ARCHDEACON FARRAS
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1887-08-13 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

SAD SUICIDE AT SHILDON.  On Tuesday evening Ur Coroner Dean held an inquest at the Surtees Arms, Shildon, on the body of Thos. Richardson (34), a minor, who was found drowned in the reservoir at Adelaide Colliery on Sunday afternoon. Mr Bell, the Government Inspector of Mines, was present.— I Wm. Richardson, a brother of the deceased, residing at Byers Green, was first ealed, and said that the deceased visited him on Friday night, I and stopped at witness's house until Saturday morning. Deceased was in a very depressed state of mind, would eat little, and could not be coaxed into conversation. When deceased left Byers Green on Saturday morning he told witness's wife that he was only going for a walk. 'He had neither collar nor tie on, and had not even had his breakfast. Deceased had been very much addicted to drink for the last twenty years—Mr Bell: Had he ever talked about committing suicide ?-,--Witness replied that deceased had so spoken, both to his sister and father, on two occasions. Once deceased seized a " gully " 1 and threatened to put it through himself, and lon one occasion his sister had a long struggle with him. His sister had told witness that once, when she was cutting bacon, deceased leaned over the table and eyed the knife. She took the knife up and turned away, and commenced to weep. Deceased followed her 1 into the yard, and also burst into tears, without I asking his sister her reason for weeping. That was about three weeks or a month ago. Deceased had thrown himself out of employment, and had even gone to his employer and asked for his discharge.—Mr Bell (to witness): Could you assign any cause ?—Witness: I would not like to say the cause: Deceased had got connected with a girl who lived servant with him; in my opinion it was through her influence that he had becu persuaded to leave home. Witness went on to say that when deceased called at his house at Byers Green on the previous Monday he said to witness's son that" it was a bad job that he had ever seen the girl."— James Bleukin said he saw deceased on Sunday morning going towards Adelaide Colliery, and on returning from work he found a coat hanging on some railings. Suspecting that someone had thrown himself into the pond he got it dragged, and the body of the deceased was recovered.—Mr Bell asked P.C. Lougstaff about the state of the pond, and it was stated that it was unsatisfactory. —Mr Linday, for the Colliery, said there had been a fence round the pond, but he believed it had been broken down by boys.—Mr Bell strongly commented on the unsatisfactory gat° of the ponds at this colliery. He added that lie did not consider, however, that it was the faulty state of the ponds which had led to the death of the deceased, as he believed he had committed suicide, otherwise the manager of the colliery would have been placed in a very serious position.—The jury retained a verdict that "Deceased committed suicide whilst in an unsound state of mind," and recommended that the peed should be properly fenced in.
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1887-04-30 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

DIPUDENT IMPOSTURE BY A SUNDERLAND MILLINER.  At the Westminster Police Court on Saturday Susan ()River, otherwise Armstrong, a tall, welldressed woman, of lady-like address, was charged on remand with obtaining charitable contributions by false representations and fraud—The prisoner went to a number of persons in different parts of Westminster, and representing herself as a district visitor from St. Margaret's Church, obtained money, which she said was to enable the clergy to assist a poor widow with six children, whose husband, a cabman, had committed suicide. In some cases she varied the story by stating that sufficient was required to purchase a mangle for the poor woman, and from little shopkeepers she took contributions of 6d and entered the amount in a book. At one shop two workmen contributed 3d sach.—The Rev. Robt. Ashington &Wen, 8.A., senior curate of St. Margaret's, Westminster, said he had never seen the prisoner. She was not authorised to collect for any church charity, and Archdeacon Farrar knew nothing of such a ease as she had mentioned.—Police-Inspector Belton said he had known the prisoner for a number of years. She was the widow of a gentleman named Armstrong, and her friends were of good social position, and well off. For four years and a-half she was in business as a milliner and dressmaker at Sunderland, and she failed about twelve months ago. Since then her friends had lost sight of her.—Coltman, an officer of the Mendicity Society, proved a conviction of one month's hard 'labour against her. at Hammersmith Police Conti in January last.—Prisoner said she had no money, and she did not like to write to her friends.—Mr Partridge sentenced her to six weeks' hard labour, and told her that if she offended again she would be sent to the Sessions to be dealt with as an incorrigible.
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1887-09-24 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

SAD DEATH OF AN AUCKLAND RESIDENT. —On Friday week an inquest touching the death of Thomas FAles (74) was held before Mr Coroner Dean at the Talbot Hotel, Bishop Auckland. The deceased was the father of Mr Ellis, watchmaker, Bondgate, with whom he lived, and on the previous night, as he was coming down stairs carrying a violin case and some loose music, he lost his balance and fell to the bottom of the landing. 'lho only person in the house at the time was Miss Ellis, a granddaughter of the deceased, who at once went to his assistance. The deceased, however, died about ton minutes after the accident, and before the services of a medical man could be secured.—The jury returned a verdict of "Accidental death." The deceased was much respected by those who knew him and enjoyed his friendship. EXTRAORDINARY ATTFMPTE n On Monday afternoon information was obtained respecting a shocking case of attempted suicide which occurred at Grosvenor Pier, Pimlito. It appears that a labouring man named John White, aged 73, living at liessboroegh-place, Vauxhall Bridge, purchased an ounce of Laudanum. Proceeding to the Pimlico Embankment, he drank the poison, and then commenced to cut his throat with a pocketknife. Seeing that he %as observed, he ran to the pier, and, elimhing the railings, jumped into the Thames. He was rescued by • fninnan, and taken to the Westminster Hospital, where he now lies in a  I daporou  _ 30 Years Vierld-wide Reputation. mTARRIOR'S ANTIBILIOUS PILLS, the best preventive and cure existing for Indigestion, Bilious and Liver Complaints, Nervous Diseases, Sick Headache, Giddiness, and as a blood plainer are invaluable. Sold by all Chemiete in boles kid, is lid, and ki 9d wick. As a proof of their May. DU of the pills will be forwarded gratis on receipt of addressed stamped envelope. Paoriturrae, lisears-ViAlt.B.LOll, Chemists. lierthallerWa.