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The Herald of Wales. — 1890-03-29 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

TERRIBLE DEATH ONISUICIDE OF A 'SWANTHE MUMBLES SEA BUILDER. RAILWAY. I MR. PIUMP TUCKER HANGS HIMSELF. Another pa info: suicide took place is Swansea on Friday afternoon, the news of which has thrown tho west end of the town into consternation. Mr. Phillip Tucker, who resides at ISO, St. Ilelen's Avenue, and who was well known as a builder in a large way of business, ha recently been engaged in erecting a row of honses just above Gorses/arm, and behind Rhyddinge Park Road. the houses are commoaicus, three-storied strontium, and occupying a very defies ble site. Borne of the houses have been completed, and the whole row would have been ready for tenants in a. very abort time. On Friday afternoon, Mr. Tucker was, as usual, superintending the operations of his won at these Leila, loge, and occupied hie:welt huffily all the time, appearing to follow tho work with his usual intelligence. During the morning, he came into contact with several of the workmen, but none of them seem to have thought that ho was other than in his urinal state of body and mind. As the hooters emended one o'clock the men left off work, but—and there was nothing remarkable in this occurrence— Mr. Tuckersonaissed behind. Ito wire not seen afterwards till two o'clock, when the men wore returning at the end of the dinner-hour. A plasterer, named Peters, in the deceased's employ, happened to look up at the front bedroom window of the esaind house from the bottom of the row of new buildings, and was horrified to see hi, master hanging by a rope from a beam. Half doubting the truth of what he saw, Peters hurriedly ran up the little ladder leading to the entrance, and therms by the staircase to the room where he Lai soon. Mr. Tacker. Arrived there, his worst fears were verified, for be saw but the lifeless body dangling by a rope. He at once cut the body down, unloosened the  A
The Herald of Wales. — 1890-03-29 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

SHOCKING DOMESTIC TRAGEDY.  On Tuesday ;it; an attempted murder and suicide 000urred South Shields. It apposes the. a workman named William Arrnstrorg Linde • desperate attempt to cake the life of his wife by stabbing her in the back twice in sucoemion, inflicting two danger.. •oundr. Ile arteries/21s at. tempted to out her throat. The cries of theirornan were beard, end she we, ultimately reecceril in a dying condition. Armstrong was afterward* found in a critical condition, having inflicted • frightful 11 wound almost from ear to ear, alm hawing aubtrdi himself in the left breast. Ho is not migrated I recover.  A srs cßptniia, just Mbere, was invited by sums gentlemen to go bunting. Alter the sport was o,ot he gave his friends dim pi,ticialar account of what pastime he had : "Our horses being completely as manned them, and the wind being at S.W., twenty of us hemp in company, away we went over the Downs. In the time of half • watch we spied • hare under • full gale; we Lacked and stood after her, coming up close, she tacked, and we tacked, upon which tack I had like to run aground,. but getting close of, I stood after her aaio, hut s 1 luck would have it, just abort to lay ben aboard., bearing too much wind, I and my lassie ennui% and Caine keel upwards."  - Flossy : "0, mancrna, re that man n heeling q baby mrria do ge I I n't flunk van should do thals• Mother : Flow MP, you must not talk so rootlet/18a You oil think differently when you grow up." A poor preacher was asoght in a.ho.er on his was to church. Ile rid "I shsll certainly take (Wait It Igo into the pulpit so wet." " no, you was the "you are always Ora cnctigh share/
The Herald of Wales. — 1890-03-29 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

INQUEST.  On Trtesday afternoTon an iroposet was held at the Hamad Arms, Pentre, touching the circumstances attending the death of Margaret Jenkins, whose body was found suspended from the balustrade at her residence, 68, Cwmroad, Pastry, on Monday evening. Mathias Jenkins and he was a woollen menuWhine, and the body which the jury had viewed was that of his wits Margaret Jenkins, Who was 68 years of age. He last Naar her alive about 8.45 on Monday evening, just before he went to the Hafod, and on returning oreued the door and saw him wife on the stain. Ile asked heed she Wlle going to bed. He received no reply, and he went up a step or two, and caught bold of tar by one of her bends; he found,that they were quite told. He then saw that she waii hanging. He got a lamp and saw the rope round his wife's neck. lie called to some of hiameighboura and in their presence lie cut the rope. His wife weal quite dead. She had been unwell for the past five mouths, and had only been out about three I times lately. She had been depressed in spirits. Her left lung was affected, and she daily comOamed, but would not have a doctor to we her. She had had a good deal of ilium this year and last year. By a Juror : She had never threatened to make away with herself. They had been living together happily, aid had no particular trouble lately. Satla Williams. • married woman, living near the deceased's house, mid Mr. Jenkins came to her house shortly after ten o'clock On Monday night, and asked her to come down to the house for a minute or two. She :asked Lim what wee the matter and be said that Hard garet was dead, sod while they were on the road, he told her that his wife had hanged herself. She amisted to cut the body down. She that saw Mrs. Jenkins alive about a month ago. She told witness that her side was very bad, and she appeared to be very depressed. The C ironer remarked that it was purely a ' case of suicide, and that deceased must have hanged herself whilst in a fit of temporary in. sanity.  Tl:e jury returned a verdict accordingly.  wari
The Herald of Wales. — 1890-02-22 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

OOO. The cause of the fratnrday morning. - is unknown.  The steamer, sighted near Queenstown, is the' overdue Persian Illonareh. _  Lord Sydney died peacefully at one'oelook on Friday morning. Sir Louis Mallett dad in Bath on Sunday, after a short illnesa, from Russian influenza A New York telegram states that Kdrain wao defeated at New Orleans on Monday, by Corbett, of San Franoiaco, in a boxing °oldest, The second man injured by accident at the Local Government Board °lice on Saturday died at the hospital on Monday morning. George Southwick, a shoemaker of Lees who had been unfortunate in business, cut his throat on Monday and then reeled out of his shop and fell dead at his wzfo'a feet.  Tito Ss mdai d Odessa correspondent intimates that on Monday tho whole of the learn. t plaoo at Simferopol, was burned out. The loss will be very great. The Doily News Cairoccrrespoudent writes Sir Francis Orenfell proceeds up the Nile on Tuesday, on a tour of inspection. Be will visit I Surma.  A telegram rece'ved in London on Tues lay morning announcee the death at Veloric° of Count Julius Andrew, late Austrian Fereir Minister, after a long and painful illneae. A Hew Fork Herald telegram from Paris says: We learn upon excellent authority that President Carnet has decided to pardrn the Due D'Orlecns who will be escorted to the frontier. A young man committed suicide at Jersey on Sunday by sheeting hiniself. He had been driven frantic with grief, owing to the death of his sweetheart three days before. The 21eas Durban correspondent says : Memorials are being signed tlunaghout the Transvaal Ropuhlte for the exclusion of all foreigners, a-prrially llullanders, from public offices  A telegram from Brussels says: The Appeil Court on Monday increased by a year the seutcoca on M. Corvilain for negligence in connection with the terrible explosion and fire at hie cartridge factory. The Grimsby fishing smack Secret reports having run into the Grinisby smock Gladiator last Thursday. The latter milk immediately. The crew clung to their boat,but it was swamped by s heavy *an, and four were drowned. A New lork telegram safe: —The Ex-Governor of Ohio atatee that during the recent excitement about the fialwries, the Government asked him and others how many troupe they could hurry to tho Canadian frontier. At the London Bankruptcy Court on Monday the official recorder appointed Mr. Arthur Cooper, accountant, special teenager of the busieeits ef Mvare. Atkin and Currie, merchants of St. Helens-place, Loudon, who have failed for £BO.
The Herald of Wales. — 1890-07-05 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

BLACK V. WHITE. c--WA seras negro uprising tuis soaturod in Amite Citw, (La), omwed, his alleged, by outrages on the pert of the whites upon Degas in. George Howard, a well-known 'edoured desperado, led the magmas. He, with 900 followers, role Into Amite City, armed with riflee and revolvers, and charged though ea main streets, firing um every white maw alOt. They .uooeeded in bning two man IsZ wounding three others before =dm were captared. Howard es. pear companions wire tam into aim. lady iffidillwinned. They were then bound ask flogged. 'The town is now plat.  Lody bradred Lyons, the dsaqrhier of tbelturi orl Btretlywore, was married et Mamie Castle, Barfandure, ov Tueedey, to Mr. Jesup, of Tor-7"1111.e Decree Nisi in the well losawaZienels. Brewster throne Sege wee on Timeday made absolute. _ _  - A-it:waived on Wednesday afternoon from st & ates that the Man ocannil at PASO= been asseasiontod. Details are not yet to hand. _ I _  Mr. Arthur Notoott, J.P., of the Park Donerale, Coanky Cork, committed suicide on Ifonday night by drowning himself. Ms relations it hiriensntry were friendly. d. seldom rine oocmwed at Cookstown, Tyrone, on Tuesday night arising from an affray between Oranganirm.and Nationahals. Several clime were injured by stones and constable,'  The World in its current issue says —lt ap gem !e...12e generally understood that Dr. Boyd Carpenter, who has become a groat favourite with the Qoeeo, it to be translated from Ripon to Winchester, which is worth £6,500 a year, whereas Ripon in worth only £4,200. The present Bishop of Winchester, -however, will be entitled to a life peneion of about £l,OOO a year. Ender the failure of Ernest Benson, the " Jubilee Plunger," the Official Receiver ham now issued his observations upon the statement of affairs The failure ;was due to betting, gambling, sad !extravagant living. Indebtedness includes sums of ten thousand in respect of borrowed motley, and fifteen hundred for jewellery. The debtor is now in receipts of 17 weekly from an tianttaohahle thud. He found that the gross liabilities amounted to £38,688.  The wife and four yonnne children of Mr. Jamas O'Connor, matter of theses@ of Umsea jr-eland, were poisoned At Seaport, near Dahlia, , on ?dander night. The 'children had been out and had gathered some mmaiels, which, on their return, we 'dewed, the faintly al/ eating mane of the dish. Soon afterwardd, symptoms of poisoning appeared, and despite all that medical skill could dci,Mrs. O'Connorand three children died. One child and the servant are recover,
The Herald of Wales. — 1890-10-25 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

ATTEMPT TO  MURDER A FAMILY. -A Baby's Head Battered, and five Otners Seriously Injured.  Suicide of the Father.  A dreadful afhdr occurred early on Prklay I morning in *suburb of Berlin, when a carpenter maraud. Schaff attemjcrul to murder his wife and fear children. Schaff is a well-to-do man, who apeculates in locres lied building pot. I Recently he got into fivancial difficulties I whieh eften gave m, to (inane it. between him and his wife. On Thrire-1 day evenin4 the faroily and a feinahe friend ; tcok their sitrper I.,},mther in the beet of spirits. and the -friend lett. At sir o'clock nczt ; reneniug the bid/sees boy, bringing the rolls for tuaudnet, rang several times without receiving ! an answer. Then the carpenter's apprentices arrived. They also were media to ranks theca. selve.herd, and fetched a policeman, who had.: the done opened. The baby, four months old, with it, be d battered and its 1.4 t oar out oft lay dead in ita cradle. A little girl of nix lay on, the ground bleeding front eeverel s °nudein the , heed, bat showing ,IITOII of life. A bay. none in bed, covered with blood and unoonschass. Bitting up in bud with a recant leek, no d just sesoverea fude a feinting fit, wee Mrs. Setheat, Maze :to bet lest a little girl, to ail appearnme In the sitting 1,101,1 lay rhea old at: daughter, surremeled with ideal and mi. , eanneious. rhe liusband's bed was empty, and he could not be found. Au aze.with which the : trine was ecinuritted lay sr :eared with blood on the fluor of the bedroom. All live of the seriowly injured pursons were removed to the luopitre, but the eases.of two a the children are hopelcat. endinaf bus disappeansl. cad it is oat impoesible that ha b.ee, cinit•ed suicide. t
The Herald of Wales. — 1890-06-28 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

ATTEMPTED MURDER AND SUICIDE.  William Stook, 22, a telegraph engineer, of 14 Caroline-etreet, Claptou, has been Leinrged heftre Mr. Haddon Comer, with attempOng to Murder Mary Ann Capper, by cutting her throat, and further charjfed with attempting to cut his own throat'. Ike prisoner appeared I very weak and ill and was allowed to be minted in the dock. The injured woman was too ill to appear and the house surgeon at the German Hospital raid she had a wound in her throat Biz , inches long, and of considerable depth. It appeared that the parties 'had lived together as man mad wife for the past six months, but the woman desired to put an ond to the relationship, and went with her father to Tottenham to seek a situation. Stook met them on their return and, apparently sorry for his conduct, walked down the bill with Mary Ann Capper; the latter's father sod brother followed about twenty yards behind. Near the Skinner's Company's Schools the accused was seen to put his arm round the girl's neck, as though attempting reconciliation, but she immediately afterwards turned round and exclaimed' Oh, father, be has cut my throat." The prisoner then drew a razor aerate his own throat and made off, dropping the razor as he ran. The brother of the woman went in pursuit, and came up with Stock at Grove-lane, where the latter sink exhausted to the ground. 'The police then mere upon tie scene, and found Stock sitting on the ground with 1313 back to the wall, and blood lowing from • wound in his throat. Prisoner, in answer to the magistrate mill it was done in the height of paesion.—M; Haden Comer remanded Stock for a week to the prison infirmary.  Mr. Balfour hee been invited to reply in the Nora joeoricon Itosiow to the article in the curreti Loma the journal in which Mr. Parnell criticises the Irish Land Purchase Bill. The Chief Seeretary, we understood, hes the propoeal under his consideration.
The Herald of Wales. — 1890-11-01 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

THE CHARGE OF FRAUDULENT CONCEALMENT. The "Matrimonial News" Case. The bearing of charges, on Wednesday I, againet Leslie Fraser Tomoan, of contravening the Debtors' Aot, was resumed at Bow-street on Wednesday. Mr. Brown, for the Treasury, announced that the ladies to whom defendant said he had made over £6,000 were entirely fictitious. The efforts to trace them hai of course been without result. On Monday Duncan told his solicitor be had deposited money at • public) safe 'deposit in the name of Mary Gordon, but she had loot the key. [The sum is imposed to be £6,000.] Duncan Wlte committed for trial as a fraudulent debtor.  The Stemiard Vienna correspondent telegraphing on Wednesday says Ex-King Milan arrived this afternoon In Vienna, and alighted at the noted Stvaher.  Tuesday night's bulletin states that. Lady Jersey continues to progrxis most favourably. It is stated that Lord Jersey will lea England for Sydney, to assume the Governorship of New South Wales, by the Inman mail route on November 21. A Central News telegram from New York says : A great fire has deetroyed coveral warehomes and dwellings three stories and other property at Mobile. The lees being calculated at 600,000 dole. Several sets of rooms in Clare College, Cain bridge, were burnt out on Tuesday morning by fire, caused, it is believed, through a student upsetting the light while reading in bed. The college hall was damaged by Are. A labourer named Hedges, of Hanworth, Middlesex, committed suicide on Tuesday morning, after nearly murdering his wife with a hammer. .  An interest:inf. dispute concerning the ownership of a FKaimut by Gainsborough, came before Mr. Justice Kay in the Chancery court. on Tuesday. Lady Howard de Walden seeks to recover from the Marquis of Bristol a portrait of Lord Harvey, grandfather of the plaintiff's husband, and brother of the defendant's grandfather. It seems that in 1645 the picture was either given, purchased, or loaned by Lord Howard de Walden to the then Marquis of Bristol, plaintiff allegtag it was lent. With reference to the rumour current in Lisbon that the Matabele had attaoked and killed 200 of the South Atria= Company's expeclition, the officiahi of the company declare the report to be unfounded. The latest news received by the company, dated the 25th, stated that all usa well. The °wintry being prospected is rich in gold and minerals.  The Durham Miners' Aissodation have decided to erect a statute to the late Mr. William Ci.awford, fiLF.,. who was colicaponding secretary to the association from its foundation to the time of hie death. The statute will occupy a place in front of the hall, and will be similar to that erected to the memory of the late bfr._Meodonald, at oresent in front of the halls
The Herald of Wales. — 1890-08-30 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

SAD CASE OF SUICIDE AT MELINCRYTHAN, NEATH.  Mr. Howe! Cuthbertaon, coroner for West Glamorgan, held an inquest on Monday last at Malincrythan, touching the death of Betsey Mort, aged 36 years, the wife of Samuel Mort, a Jar roller in the tinworks.. The following, was the evidence taken at the inquest : Samuel Mort, the huabaud of deceased, said he lived at No. 2, Bowen-street, Melincrythan, and was a bar roller in the tin works. The dammed was 36 years of age. Ho saw her last alive at six o'clock on Saturday morning, Ile did not see her alive after. He called dereased to come down and get water for him to wash, and he got no answer, lie was told by bee sister she was out at the back, Ito went to look for her. He found her up in the lumberroom. She Rai hanging, to a Dam. He cut her dewy, but sho was quite dead. She triLd to drown herself the week before. She was not nuaied more than two min also bef,:as she was searched for.  Dr. Pegg° said he attended deceased for years. About six Tsars ago bLe had Cu attack of pueripural mania, and she had had several night ones since. He saw the body. There wags mark round her neck, and from the con geared appearance of the face death was evidently due to hanging. Ile new her lest alive on Friday morning. She was working then, and appeared more cheerful and butter. Ile had attended her for the last two mouths for melancholia. There was a suic:dal tendency about her, lie teki her mother to watch her earthily, and not to let her alone. He ail not think it quite a ease to be sent to the asylum. The jury, after having heard the addreas by the coroner, returned a vet-diet of suicide by hanging witilat Man unsound state of mind.
The Herald of Wales. — 1890-08-30 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

MERTHYR.  That the work of repairing the broken winding gear at the Abercanaid Pit, Merthyr, has been proceeded with, and the night shift were able to descend the pit.. That David Reee, a collier, has been charged at Merthyr with attempting to commit suicide by cutting his throat with • rarer. After receiving a severe reprimanding from the magistrates he waa di,chargod. That an eccentric old man, Richard Jonee, is having the state of his mind enquired into at the Merthyr Workhouse. He stabbed hid wife Susan in the breast with a table-knife.  That the belmice at the bank in favour of the Merthyr Guardian's amounts from £2,200 to £4,698 a week. It was suggested that two rate. Instead of three should be made this year. That at the ordinary meeting of the Ystrady. , fodwg Local Board, Mr. W. Lax presiding, a letter from the Local Government Board wee read sanetioning the propoeal of the board to borrow £36,000 for works of sewerage. That the carelessness of colliery employee is likely to be visited with punishment 411 the case of the winding gear accident at Abereanaid l'it, , near Merthyr. Archibald Jones was supposed to be in charge of the winding engines, but he took an unbidden spril off duty, so the Ply. mouth mortgagees have applied for a summons against him at the Merthyr Poliee-csitirt. That a little &tic picnic on the canal bank at Quaker's Yard, near Merthyr, ha ended in something serious for Francis berth*, one of the gay boys. He had been with Alfred Honk and others, to see Alfred's brother tight, and afterwards knoeked Alfred down, fell on him, and stabbed him severely in the thigh. This kind of thing gooe to a_ jury, and au Derrick stands somnutted from Merthyr Folice.eourt to the quarter sessimas. That three men named John Davies, Idris Darter, and Jethro Ashton have been charged with ulawfully wounding Richard Martin, on the 16th last., at Penygraig.—lt appeared that the prosecutor, hearing a noise after he went to bed, rose and went outside of his house. The two Daviesee rushed towards him, John hitting him a blow on the Chin which knocked him Kohut the wall, and Idris a blow on his right cheek. By one or other blow his jaw was broken in two pierce, Ashton pause on and kicked him on the left leg, inflicting a bad , wound. He had given no kind of provocation. ' —His Worship east the defendants had mistaken prosecutor for another man against whom they had a grudge. It was a very bad mar.— The two Devisees were sent to prison for two , months' hard labour; Ashton fined 405., in default a month.