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Nelson Chronicle, Colne Observer, and Clitheroe Division News. — 1900-10-26 (Nelson, Lancashire, England)

UNREQUITED LOVE.  A SUICIDE'S PATHETIC LETTER.  A sad tragedy was unfolded before Mr. Bodvel Roberts, the Carnarvonshire coroner, at Trefriw, on Monday. A week ago Alice Overton, laundry. maid at the Belle Vile Hotel, mysteriously die. appeared, and on Saturday her body was found in the river Conway. From the evidence, it appeared that several years ago deceased gave birth to a child, and the father, a miner, named Richard Jones, continued to court her. Some weeks ag., deceased asked Jones to marry her, and he isiil he ivieild consider it. Shortly after. wards he went to Lancashire, and she wrote for a final answer, but lie did not receive her letter,, and she became despondent. Before her disap. pearance a week ago Jellies returned to Trefrisv and found two letters awaiting him. One of them ran : " %Vlll,lll receive this I shall he gone. I have not told a mud anything. I hope, Dick, you will send money for little Alice. . . I am sorry now I did not go in the first instance before things came to such an end. I hope you will think of your little child sometimes. Now good-bye; I am tired I,l' living such a life of continual unhappiness through putting too great • faith in Men. I hope you will not let anyone know why I went, for my sake, as well As your own. That is all I ask. I shall not trouble. All will be over.-Yours almost broken-hearted, Alice. Take great care of little Al o.', Cod will reward you in some way or other. I hope and pray she may never know how tier mother died." The letter caused • great sensation in court. Jones emphatically denied that he promised to marry deceased. The jury returned a verdict of "Suicide whilst temporarily insane."
Nelson Chronicle, Colne Observer, and Clitheroe Division News. — 1900-08-03 (Nelson, Lancashire, England)

AVOIDS  ARREST BY SUICIDE.  A sensational story gained currency on Monday, according to which extensive defalcations had been discovered in one of the most important departments of Somerset House. It was further stated that a warrant for the arrest of an official, then staying at Brighton, had been issued; but that the police officer entrusted with its execution found on his arrival at that place that the man was dead. ' A solution of the mystery is to be found in the evidence given at an inquest held at Worthing on Monday night on the body of George Henry Hillman, of the Cancel Office, at Somerset House. Mr. Hillman, who lived at Harcourt Road, Wallington, and was 46 years of age, had been staying at Brighton with his wife and family for two , months. He left on Friday morning, presumably for Somerset House, but turned up unexpectedly at his mother's house at Worthing. The next morning he was found to have committed suicide in • most determined manner, having tied two handkerchiefs round his neck and strangled himself by tightening them by means of a clothes brush. Three empty poison bottles were also found in the bedroom. The relatives could offer no suggestion beyond constantly recurring headaches of a violent character to account for the suicide.  Quite a different light was, however, cast on the occurrence when the widow, in the prevail& of the coroner, opened a letter-card addressed to her by the deceased. In this he said he had been accused of altering some of the accounts at Somerset House ; and after stating that he could bear his trouble no longer, and that he Felt his mind giving way, pathetically added : Try and think of me as you have known me. I have done my best to be a good husband and rather." A more sensational element was now introduced, for a police-officer in attendance produced & telegram from Scotland Yard that the deceased was wanted on a warrant for forgery. The jury, after &liberating in private, found that Hillman committed suicide whilst temporarily insane.
Nelson Chronicle, Colne Observer, and Clitheroe Division News. — 1900-08-03 (Nelson, Lancashire, England)

CONFLICTING NEWS.  An influential banker of Pekin who has arrived at Shanghai, having left the capital on July 7th, states that the Legations were then de.. strayed and the whole of the foreigners had disappeared, though he could not say positively they were all dead. Another Chinese bank official has reached Newchwang, and he adds the statement that the Ministers killed their families at the last moment, and that Sir R. Bart committed suicide rather than fall into the hand + of the assailants. Notwithstanding this further evidence 101 to the fate of the foreigners, the Chinese persist in saying that the Ministers are safe, and now declare that they are being kept ss hostages.  Primo* Hotohito of Japan ia returning to Japan in consequence of the situation In China.  _ An exchange says that the only Jokes women like to read of are those which reflect ridicule on men, and asserts in proof that on taking up a paper a woman invariably turns to the marriage column. Ilia is a high-menial charge against the fair sex. A man who was ignorant of music, and of social ways as well, took his son, Tom, to a concert. Said be, during the performance of a duet : " D'ye see, Tom, now it's getting late, they're singing two at a time, so R 4 to get dune sooner."  Mrs. Grace : They say that men think only of themselves, but it imet so. I'm sure Charles is most unselfish of mortals. Mrs. Blaze: As for example? Mire. Grace: Why, he says be is never happy but when he is with me, and he stays out evening after ironing. There, isn't that self-denial for you? "I am inexpressibly sorry, Mr. Smithers," she said, " to learn that when you called the other day Tiger bit you." "Oh, that's all right," he said, with a forced effort to be cheerful. "No, it isn't," Oho sobbed. "The clear little fellow has been ill liner since."
Nelson Chronicle, Colne Observer, and Clitheroe Division News. — 1900-06-08 (Nelson, Lancashire, England)

MAP. A Sailor• Barrister " 8.. P."  Warington Baden-Powell, Q.C., the elder brother of the hero of Mafeking, is a well-known barrister practising in the Admiralty Court. He is unmarried, and lives with his mother and sister at the town residence of the BadenPowells, 8 St. George's Place, Hyde Park. On leaving school he entered the navy, and served on several ships in various parts of ile t world until 1873, when he abandoned the sea and adopted the legal profession, in which be has steadily risen until able to put. the coveted letters Q.C. after hie name. He, however, still retains his rank of lieutenant in the naval reserve. He has travelled through many of the waste places of the earth, and can tell of several tight corners that he himself has becii placed in, but, having the usual luck of the Baden-Powells, his stories invariably have a happy ending. Like most men who have seen life throughout the world, however, it is exceedingly difficult to get him to talk about his own personal experiences.  Don Perosi, the composer of The Passion of Christ" and other works, in producing a new cantata to.be called "Moses." The impoisition of the new °arm duties in Spain has caused renewed rioting. The Town Hall at Algonodonares has been sacked and the municipal and judicial archives burned.  Temporary insanity W 8,4 the verdict respecting the suicide of Manumit'lto Kinnear, au Ottord undergraduate. After threatening to shoot two persons, he turned the revolver on himself. The hooorary freedom of the city of Belfast has been conferred upon the Marquis of Dufferin and Arm and the Marquis of Londonderry, PostmasterCieneral.  A new workhouwe hnepital, whielt has been bnilt at ‘Varrington nt omit of £3111.100, ban beets oven(' by Sir J. T. 'fibbed, chairman of the Laoeashire County Conned.  By the acceptance by the men of a farthing (making 714.) per hour advance on June 2nd, and a further advance ma Septeii:hor 301 th, the Macclesfield building dispute luts been sett Ind. Charlesll, who has just died at Whitntiehl, near Mamehester. served with the Ist Drny,,,,,es is the East fintiss frion Infit to Issa, and foudlit at laulsys, Inkermasi, and Sobastop9l
Nelson Chronicle, Colne Observer, and Clitheroe Division News. — 1900-06-08 (Nelson, Lancashire, England)

AMIENS SENSATION.  Great mystery overhangs a recently discovered case of sequestration at Amiens. At first it was believed that a young woman named Angelo Thiel'Het had been merely locked up for several years in a secluded house by her lover, a commercial traveller named Victor Sarot, who is now in custody. A further search, however, has led to the discovery of certain drugs and implements, tending to show that, the prisoner, who is an expert. in hypnotism and somnambulism, made experiments with his victim. It is alleged that one if not two infanticides have been committed luy Sarot and an accomplice, who is on the point of being arrested. Angelo Thieullet is slowly recovering her souses ; but the doctors state that she will be almost totally blind.  Sarot is a political personage of some local importance. He was municipal councillor of Albert, a small t 0.., near Amiens, and a candidate for the Chamber of Deputies.  The Gennan Emporer on Monday received in audience Lieutenant-Colonel Waters, the newly. appointed British Military Attachd in Berlin.  Dridking paraffin in mistake for beer resulted in he death of John Johnson, a Judd Street, Ruston Road. Loudon.  It is oilicillv announced that the 136th, 137th, 13:4th, and 13;ttli Batteries of Royal Field Artillery were formed atWoolerich on May 28th. Thirteen conseeutive " at 200, 300, and 500 vards, were scored by Qnarterniaster Best, of the Suffolk Hussars, at the training at Yarmouth.  A Belfast farmer, named Mcßvide,struck his 12 year old daughter with a whip for neglecting to itt:lk a cow. and she committed suicide by throwing herself down a well. A Naples policeman has received a legacy of £lOO from an uncle, who fled to America in 1861, after committing a murder, and who died there recently.  The authorities of the National Gallery have deeided not to grant the request of the Ea rly Cliug Association to make Thursday • " free' dny.  000*******44441401616*.elk • PIMPLES  • are an outward and pusitive sign 144 that the blood is impure. The im• • purities which the kidneys should • remove from it remain. It the kid- t. • neys were doing then duty perleette • pimples would not exist; the blood 7n-4 would circulate freely and strongly Z. • in the veins, and drowsiness, nervous• • ness, headaches, and want of energy 7; • would be iriike impossible. Dodd's Kidney Pills cleanse, heal • and strengthen the kin3ner, enabling 11: • them to throw out the overheating • • and waste material left in the blood, ik" • and at the some time the blood is • naturally cooled and ptritied, lot IV word, health is restored by the flue o;  Dodd's i Kidney 1 Pills. t  ▪ Sold by all Chemists at ?a 9.1. per * box, or six boxes for I3s. MI.; or sent 111 fII, by row rn ree,ipt of priee liy the • aleilieine Co., 23, Fairingtion• • avenue, London, E.C. • See that yon get D-o-d-em's• • 11114041.09,0090•111•00,011
Nelson Chronicle, Colne Observer, and Clitheroe Division News. — 1900-03-30 (Nelson, Lancashire, England)

COLNE JOTTINGS.  The event of the week at Cane has been the Wesleyan bazaar. It is pleasing to be able to congratulate the organiser, of the bazaar on the RUCCOI39 of the opening oeremony. If there was one thine' which ought to have been done which was left undone, it was some special and emphatic reference to the way the bazaar has been ta.ken up by the ladies of the circuit. This , was, no doubt, lost night of on Wedne,day, owing to the excitement of the psychological moment. As a rule, bazaars are conceived, organised, and entirely under the direction el Mien. In connection with bazaars, men sink into more porters and labourers to carry out the wishes of those who command. On Thursday, Ald. Oatlow referred to the work of the 1 ladies in terms which would tend to make them still more energetic in their efforts.  In our report (A the bazaar, we have omitteai to state that the electric lighting of the bazaar was supp.ied by Mr. Harold Smith, of (Ohio.  A woman armed. Ellen Williamson was charged at Caine on Thursday, with the attempted murder of her daughter, and with afterwards attempting to commit suicide. Se far no evidence has been produced to shew that she threw the °had into the canal. SO that at present the charge of attempted murder rests on pure assumption. It is a greatpity that this poor unfortunate has no solicitor or friends ready to come forward and help in her defence.  The esteemed vicar of Christ Church, Rev. R. W. Gordon, is at present, so we are informed, on the horns of a dilemma. Of course, nothing is settled yet., but it is a fact that diplomatic overtures have been made to ,Ir. Gordon in the hopee of removing him to Fareworth, near Bolton.  Should Mr. Gordon leave Oolne, there will necessarily be a vacancy on the School Board, and the poqiibilities of such a vacancy are many. In his own parish Mr. Gordon is very popular indeed, and a very wide circle of people at Colne admire Mr. Gordon very much. Although nearly everyone would like to keen Mr. Gordon at Celne, still everyone is pleased tat hear that Mr. Gordon is thought so well of ea far from home as to be invited to a better living. •• • •  lne Jubilloo Outage Hospital will 1.10 apesed on Saturday. April 21st by the Earl of Derby. After the opening ceremony a meeting will be held at the Cloth Hall when it. is expected addresses will be given by Sir U. KayShuttleworth, Mr. W. P. Hartley, Mr. J. O. S. Thnrsby, J.P., and Mr. J. B. Dewhurst, and others. Dverything that can be, to stir up enthusiasm in eonneition with this institution, will bo done by the likaeutve Committee.
Nelson Chronicle, Colne Observer, and Clitheroe Division News. — 1900-08-10 (Nelson, Lancashire, England)

MONDAY'S MISCELLANY.—Arthur Stead, labourer, was summoned for being drunk on August 6th.—P.C. (Jordon stated that the defendant was helplessly drunk in Turney Crook. —Fined 2s. fid. and costs.—A warrant was issued for Hartley Ellis, charged with assaulting his wife. He did not appear in answer to a summons taken out by his wife.—Harry Hoyle, greengrocer, was summoned for not having a light on a cart on July 28th.—P.C. Hodgson stated the case. The defendant's cart was found on the Saturday night named, about 11 o'clock, in Cotton Tree Lane, without a light.—Defendant stated that he could not get a candle where he was.—Fined 2s. 6d. and costs.—W. Blackburn, farmer, of Trawden, a as summoned for not having control of a cart on July 28th.—P.C. Gordon stated the case. The defendant's horse was passing up Market.. street, Colne, with nobody in charge.—Defendant stated that he was not in a shop more than a minute, and his horse moved off.—Fined the costs.—John Walker, Horsfield, was charged on a warrant for being drunk and disorderly on June 9th.—P.C. Thornton stated that on Saturday night, June 9th, in Railwaystreet, he saw the prisoner, who was drunk. He had been annoying a woman. R. failed to answer his summons.—ln March defendant attempted to commit suicide, and promised to keep off drink.—Fined ss. and costs.—Wm. Helm, an old man, a stranger, was charged with being drunk and disorderly on Saturday night.—P.C. Hodgson stated that the prisoner was very drunk, with his clothes disarranged, on Keighley-road.—Fined 2s. Gd. and costs, or seven days.—Smith Harrison, on bail for a similar offence, was fined ss. and costs. P.C. Thornton found the defendant at a late hour in Skipton-road. On being spoken to, the defendant struck the officer on the right hand. He was handcuffed by force on the way to the station, as he became very violent.—The defendant asked for an adjournment, and that not being allowed he said that on Saturday night he was at the Swan back. A gentleman was in with another fellow. In Marketstreet the other man said, "Don't do it on me again," and then struck him. He did not deny being a bit fresh.—Two previous convictions were proved.
Nelson Chronicle, Colne Observer, and Clitheroe Division News. — 1895-06-21 (Nelson, Lancashire, England)

DRINK OMR& TEA.  and then begged for a drink of water. humanity prevailed with police emistahle Hutchinson, who left the suffering prisoner in the cell for an instant to bring hack the water, but that instant enabled the wretched man to poison himself.  FROM the moment the police knew what had been done, under Dr. MILLAR they strove hard to save the man's life, Sergeant McVEv especially distinguishing himself by his alertness and promptitude. But it was not to be. The man died on his way to the hospital, and the jury subsequently found that no one was to blame but himself. We quite agree with them, for we believe that however stringent an officer may be in not losing sight of a prisoner for a moment after such has been placed under his charge, those who are really tired of life will always find a way of eluding the vigilance of the people about them. Suicide, however, it should always be remembered, is moral cowardice. And when a verdict of felo de se is returned, as in this case, the offence is sometimes punished by the rite of christian burial being refused.  Mn. J. W. BRADLEY, our late borough engineer and surveyor, has this week left Nelson for his new sphere of labour—Wolverhampton, and a few days ago, Mr. H. SAGAR, the deputy town clerk, did the same thing, transferring his services to Lancaster. Nelson has thus lost two good men who can truly say they have left the borough better than they found it. Though of course they have not had everything to do with this, it , must be admitted that having given the very : best of their high intelligence and skilful labours to the community they ever strove so hard and honestly to serve they have to a certain extent left their intellectual impress upon the town and its affairs.  THEY lived and I.boureil as it were with a single eye to the duties of th?ir offices, and as both of them evinced singular and almost exclusive devotion to the Council, committes and Town Clerk they have consequently left a high standard of duty for their respective successors to follow. We are sure that the municipal authorities at Nelson wish them both a prosperous and successful future. and trusts that they will do equally well for the municipalities they have gone to, and that both Mr. BRADLEY at Wolverhampton, and Mr. IL SAGAR at Lannister will receive the hearty co-operation of their colleagues, the confidence of their chiefs, committees, and councils, and the esteem of the public of both towns.  THE Association of Lancashire NonCounty Boroughs have just presented their devoted and worthy hon-secretary, Mr.
Nelson Chronicle, Colne Observer, and Clitheroe Division News. — 1895-10-18 (Nelson, Lancashire, England)

FATHER SMITH AND THE CEMETERY QUESTION. To the Editor of the Nilson Chronicle.  Sir,—lu your last week's impression the Rev. R. Smith quotes a statement to the effect that the Roman State had provided a cemetery at Rome for Protestants, and erected a mortuary chapel for them. He also asks if the Nelson Cemetery Committee could not be as considerate to Catholics and Church of England people. Can Mr. Smith tell us whether or not this act of the Roman civil power has the approval of the Vatican? Or is Mr. Smith claiming credit for what the Vatican would denounce as it denounced Garibaldi? Can Mr. Smith tell us how it comes to pass that the Protestants at Rome require to have a cemetery to themselves? Is it that they refuse to have their dead buried in Catholic cemeteries, or is it that the Catholic authorities thrust out dead Protestants as unworthy to be joined in burial with the Catholic dead? That this question is not needless may be inferred from a passage in Young's "Night Thoughts." He speaks of "the crest ungodliness of zeal," "nursed in blind Infallibility's embrace," and which " Denied the charity of dust, to spread O'er dust, a charity their dogs enjoy." A note tells us that these lines owe their origin to the fact that when Dr. Young's daughter died at Montpelier, " the priests refused the doctor leave to bury his daughter in one of their churchyards. He was obliged, with the assistance of his servant, to dig a grave in a field near Montpelier, where they deposited the body without the help of any of the inhabitants, who consider Protestants in the same light as they do brutes." I have no personal knowledge of Rome, and none of Mr. Smith. But I know that his class has been and is very largely dominated by a spirit of exclusiveness. The children cannot pass through our schools, and the dead cannot be laid to rest without priestly exclusiveness coming to the front. I know also that Mr. Smith pleads for kindred spirit Anglicans, many of whom chase our dead with their anathemas, and remit them, so far as they have power, to the suicides' corner. lam one of those who think that the ' Nelson cemetery authorities have done themselves honour by refusing to sacrifice at the shrine of priestly exclusiveness at the cost of the ratepayers. There are many priests, Anglican and otherwise, to whom regard for the bereaved, or Christian kindness, counts for nothing where , priestly prerogatives are in question. Nelson would have been helping to bring this generation of priestly exclusives to the front had it yielded to these claims for more wretched distinctions L in the grounds of the great leveller.—Yours ; truly, E.
Nelson Chronicle, Colne Observer, and Clitheroe Division News. — 1895-07-05 (Nelson, Lancashire, England)

CHURCEL—The laying of the foundation stone of the new church of St. Athens, In Todmordeu road, was performed on Saturday, by Mr. W. A. Lindsay, the Conservative candidate for the borough. ATTEMPTED SUICIDE tO DROwNING : FLUrRy REScuE.—At the Burnley Borough Police Court, on Monday, Mary E. Pomfret (25) was charged with attempting to commit sulcide.—P.C. Heeds stated that at about one o'clock on Sunday morning he was at the junction of Plokupeitreet and Yorkshire. street. when he saw the prisoner, who was drunk. He heard her say to herself, " jump into the -- cut." He subsequently saw her on the canal bank, sod heard her say, "I want to die." He was running up to her when she jumped into the water. He went in after her. She struggled, but be got hold of her and brought her to the side. Pr;soner said, "I was drunk, and didn't know aeethieg &beta "—lnspector Williams said that was the prisoner's 55. h apprarance.—Committed to the Quarter Sessions for trial. SHoc EiN“ DEATH OP A BoY A GARDINER COMMITTED FIR MANsLAU,HTER —Oa Tuesday afternoon Mr. Coroner Robinson held an inquest at the Aima Lou, A,cr!llgton-rOad, relative to the death of Samuel Heap, aged 13, the see of John and Mary Hap, living to the Wood Top distriot. It Was alleged that the ooy had on Sunday gone, along with another, 11.0 a garden at Ightenifill, to take two canes which he maw, aud that he was caught by a man naeied Jel:n Rafe' Loa, a gardener. The Mill shut Lim up in an outhouse, and shortly afterwards, finding that the lad Was getting through the window, he Lou, a chain round hie neck and left him in a sittirg position. He fasteued the chain to a capie in a balk, Or some. thing of that kind, bellied him, and a few hours efierwards the boy was found to be dead. Several thousands slm.hereci in the street during the !wove and L e was loudly hooted, Tncre wee a some. e hat peiciu s.:ene during the course of the inquir) when the mother, after giving her evidence, in leaving the room turned to Lee and said, "I hope the Lord will deal wlth him as he has dealt with my child." Leegthy evidence having been Oven, the jury returned a verdict of manslaughter against ; Los, who was let cut on ball until Ills trial.