Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1891-05-09 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

SUICIDE OF LORD JAMES DOUGLAS. Lord James Edward Sholto Douglas, brother of the Marquis of Queensberry, and twin brother of Lady Florence Dixie, committed suicide on Tuesday morning at the Euston Hotel, where he had arrived on the previous night. His lordship had been spending a few days in Ireland, and travelled on Monday night from Dublin to Holyhead. At Dublin his manner was so strange as to attract the attention of the railway company's officials, and an inspector in the company's service was instructed to accompany him to England. On arriving in London his lordship retired to rest in the west wing of the hotel, and nothing further was heard of him until about half-past 10 o'clock on Tuesday morning, when a servant went to his room with a telegram. Lord James was then found dead with his throat cut. He was born in 1855, and was, therefore, in his 36th year. It will be remembered that his name was recently before the public in connection with some extraordinary entries made upon his census paper. The body of Lord James Douglas ha, been removed to the St. Pancras mortuary.  Mr. Justice Grantham, in charging the grand jury at Liverpool Assizes on Monday, said that the publicans who served drunken people ought to be punished by being fined the expenses to which they put the county in prosecuting persons with regard to whom it was proved they had had drink in these houses, although it might not be actually proved that I buy were made drunk in them. If that were done, he believed one half of the crime in Liverpool would be abolished.  At the Liverpool Assizes, on Monday, Michael °inlay was convicted of robbing with violence from Richard Brisban. Mr. Justice Grantham said the accused was a worthless member of society, having been 26 times convicted of assaults, and also of robbery with violence. Leniency had been tried with him, and he must now go to gaol for three months and receive 20 lashes with the "cat." The prisoner, on receiving sentence, said, "Thank you, my lord. God bless you!"  At the National'Asylum in Vienna, on Sunday, an insane patient climbed to the top of a high tree, and, going out to the end of a bough, cried out piteously that his pursuers were upon him. After finding that nothing would induce the man to come down, the assistance of the fire brigade was asked for. One of the firemen crept up to the madman by the ladder, threw a rope round his body, tied his legs to the branches on which he was lying, sawed the branch off, and lowered him to the ground.  The Edinburgh police are making inquiries into an extraordinary case which has just come under their notice. The other day a parcel was delivered by the parcels post, bearing the London postmark, at a house in the West-end, for a ladies' nurse. She happened to be absent in the country. The parcel was taken in by a neighbour, but as it began to smell and the neighbour thought it was some fish sent by London friends, he opened the parcel, and was horrified to find the dead body of an infant.  On Monday afternoon a gentleman—said to be related to a composer of some celebrity—shot him. self in a cab before the police-station of the Faubourg Montmartre, whither he had asked to be conducted. In his pocket was discovered a letter addressed to the Police Commissary of the district. The document fully shewed that the writer was deranged. The exact fare owing to the cabman was also wrapped up in a piece of paper in the nurse of the deceased.