The Stockton Examiner, and South Durham and North Yorkshire Herald. — 1879-04-26 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

DISTRESSING SUICIDE.  gow. A Photograph was received on Monday, which Thnmas Patterson. aged 44. residing at 47 Chatha, been identified as that of Fontenay, who will, , therefore, i han Street, liatter,ea Park Hood, has committed for , in all lkeliheod, be brought to Scotland suicide under very distmssing circumstances. It ap- ""` ion—Glo.lo.e rip' pears that the deceased, who was a shoemaker and auxiliary letter-carrier, had undergone great privations during the past winter, and his geode wem Fifteen of the crew of the London barque St. Hilda distrained upon for rent, amounting Iss. This and have arrived at Liverpool, and report the foundering Ith'f"tune deeply affeete'l 'lm' and he left home of their essel wheat on aveva,e trona Brist.d to St. purchased a pennyworth of oxalic acid at a chemist's v in the Culvert lead, Battersea. Ile went into the New Brun,wi,,, rfic r„sd lit finale! inballast, and after being four days out was dismisted, Haberdashers' Arms, opposite, and called for a glass and had to put into Queemtown. Th, repair- being of warm water, which he took into the tap-room, and, compiettd she again sailed for her ihstinatien, and according to the statement of an eye-witness, mixed for three week encountered encountered a succe,sion of heavy the acid in the water, and. before he could be prow, tad, drank it e,direly up. Ho then returned home, gales with strong 8,3. Ted he vessel was so strain iat she sprang a lab, and for two days and two and, kissing his wife' said " done it at last," and lay upon the bed, dying before medical assistance nights the crew kept at the pumps, but the inrush of .ielul be obtained. 'he water was so great that the vessel (...uld not be freed. tea nhitdren totallyiti'nprpovlr na ieidfn leaven wits or.. Fortunately when the St. Hilda was days out she was fallen in with by the Norwegian barmy Andres Reis, which bore down to the assistance of the crew. There was a very heavy Be 3 running at the time, but the men got safely away from the St. Ililda. The rescue was most timely, as the yessel had not been abandoned above an hour and a half before she foundered, going down head foremost with a heel report. The crew, It in number, were cons,pie .tly landed at Sligo, from which place they RP, brought to Liv. r' pool. The St. Hilda was a ve,-el of yell tons, built at Bath, U.S., in 1550, and was owiusl by le. Lidgett, of London. The men were taken care of by the Shipwrecked Merin, re' Society  NARROW EsCAPE AT SEA,  THE RIcIIMOND 31111 DER,  The man Weston, who wan employed to remove the furniture from the house of the murdered woman to Church's house, has made a stitement which mainly corroborates that previously made by Church. lie says that he had four men with him, and Church had had one or two assisting him. It was while they were loading the large van, and while the second van was standing a little way in a street below, that Miss Ices, the landlady. who lived next door. came out and interfered. While he was standing at the door, not knowing what to do, Church came up to him and said, 'There is something wrong here. There is a month's rent or something owing, and the landlady wants the money." Ile replied "Oh, you could very soon settle that if it is only a month's rent owing, by paying it; but I am afraid there is somdthing worse than a month's rent owing---I expect that there is a bill of sale on the goods, and if there is, I want to know that all is clear and fair before I remove the goods for anybody." Church then said, "Oh, there must be something wrong—l'll have nothing more to do with things at all." Whitt; they W,, getting the last things out of the van to put back in the house, the woman Webster came and threw three or four dresses soda box, something like a bonnet-box, into the van. When Weston got the vans to his house, one of the men called hie attention to thew dresses and the hen, which he lied not previously noticed, and after they had put the vans away they carried the dresses and box up to Church's house. Church said, 'Take the—things out; I don't want them here ;" but Weston left them, and refused to remove them.