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The Warwickshire Herald. — 1888-08-02 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

ATTEMPTED SUICIDES AT ASTON.  BRAVE LADS. MAGOMERIAL INAPPRECIATION. At the Aston Police Court, on Tuesday, before Messrs. A. Hill and R. P. Yates, Ellen Brittain, an elderly married woman, residing at 3 court, 10 house, Catherine-street, Aston, was charged on remand with attempting to commit suicide by jumping into the Birmingham and Fazeley Canal, on the 21st ult. The prisoner was before the Court on the previous Tuesday, when it was explained that en the evening of the date mentioned, Mr. Brittain was seen to run from her home to the side of the canal and jump in. Samuel Tucker (16), who also resides in Catherine-street, on winessing the occurrence, jumped into the water, although it was very deep, and with some difficulty rescued the woman. Mr. Hill (to Tucker): You are a very brave boy. Your action is very much to your credit, and I hope the Press will record it.-.—Prisoner, who promised to sign the pledge. was discharged with a caution. —Mr. Rowlands (addressing the boy Tucker) said : There is no fund out of which the Bench can give you anything for your brave deed, but the magistrates present you with half a sovereign for your courageous conduct.—(applause). Tucker (touching his forehead) : Much oblighed to you, gentlemen.— Mr. Hill : You're very welcome, you're a brave boy. On the same day, Lily 1) xld, domestic servant, lately employed at. the Woolpack Inn, Semmerlane. Birmingham. was charge in the Second Court, before Mr. F. S. Bolton, with attempting to commit suicide by jumping into the Binningham and Warwick Canal, at Saltley, on the 29th ult. An application was made that prisoner should be discharged, and handed over to Inspector Baker, of Birmingham, where she was wanted on R charge of stealing a sovereign from her employer. It seems that after leaving the Woolpack on Sunday, prisoner was seen going over Utley Bridge crying and shouting. Afterwards a lad named Samuel R,oddis hearing A splash rushed to the side of the canal, and there saw the prisoner struggling in the water. He stripped and jumped into the water and rescued the woman. Roldis, who is a cripple and who has to use crutches, experienced some difficulty in saving the woman.—Prisoner was handed over to the custody of the Birmingham police.—The presiding magistrate, either through inappreciation or forgetfulness, did not make any observation in regard to the bravery exhibited by Roddis, This omission appears particularly striking when considered in connection ' with the interesting event which took place about the same time in the first Court.  I A. NQT lIER `‘
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1888-02-02 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

AGRICULTURE IN IRELAND.  The Irish Registrar-General has issued to the LornLieutenant his annual report on agricultural statistics, shewing the acreage and produce of crops in Ireland. The acreage undetcrops last year compared with the preceding shews a decrease in wheat, 2,365 acres; oats, 6,928 ; barley, 19,429 ; potatoes, 2,908 ; while there is an increase in turnips, 800; in mangel wurzel, 4,320; in flax, 2,3t)4; in bay, 4,909. Compared with the average for the decade there is a decrease in all the chief crops except hay, which has increased 173,693 acres, and flax, 10,023. The produce last year as compared with the preceding year shews a decrease in oats, 3,229,194 cwt. ; barley, 700,929 cwt. ; while wheat has increased 11,896 cwt., potatoes increased 901,678 tons; while there was a very large decrease in turnips, 5,751 tons ; in flax, 8,273; and hay, 82J,547. The produce last year as compared with the acreage in the decade shews decreased—wheat, 651,039 cwt. ; oats, 3,195,066 cwt. ; barley, 1,064,993 cwt. There is an increase in potatoes of 93,734 tons; and a decrease in turnips of 999,594 tons ; mangel wurzel, 75,597 tons ; flax, 6,487; and hay, 460,010 tons. There is a large increase in bee culture.  ROBBERIES BY A JEWELLER'S CLERK,  George Stutclibury, lately a book-keeper to Mr. J. W. Benson, jeweller, Ike., Ludgate-hill, was committed for trial at the London Mansion House, on Friday, charged with stealing or embezzling a quantity of gold watches and chains from his employe:. By prisoner's own confession to the detective when arrested, he began in 1885 at the instance of a man named Russell, who has since committed suicide, to purloin watches and chains and hand them to Russell. On Russell's death, Stutchbury continued to do the same kind of thing on his own behalf, and he was only detected in consequence of the ingenious manner in which the fraud was carried out. It was the duty of the accused to check the invoices of goods received with the goods themselves,and make an entryof the same in the stock-book. He passed the invoices as correct, out did hot make the proper entries in the stock-book, and appropriated the goods. From something that took place the prisoner was spoken to,when he said he would explain immediately. He, however, absconded, and was arrested on a warrant at Bristol. Evidence was taken as to seven chains, of the value of £3O, and it was stated that the prosecutor would consider whether other charges should not be preferred, as the frauds amounted to several hundreds of pounds.  "
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1888-05-31 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

MAKING A MURDERER CONFESS.  About a fortnight 'go an old man was found hanging from a tree in a wood near Esbly, in France. He was a stranger to the place, and the local authorities concluding that he had committed suicide, had him quietly buried. A few days afterwards they read in the newspipers of the mysterious disappearance from his abode in Paris of a respectable workman named Oudin, who was supposed to have been inveigled into an expedition to their neighbourhood by Mathelin, an acquaintance, who had led him to believe that he had found him a situation at the Château of Montry, in the Department of Seine-et-Marne. Oudin's wife, who was beside herself with alarm, explained to the police that Mathelin had induced her husband to take £2O out of the savings-bank, as a guarantee was required, and that she was under the impression that the two men had gone off to the country together. It was speedily amertaired that Mathelin had returned to his dwelling in the metropolis, and for several days had been spending money in debauchery, although previously he had been without a sou. Meanwhile, the authorities at Esbly had communicated with the Paris police, and on the very day when Mathelin was arrested, the body of Oudin was disinterred. Mathelin having persisted in declaring that he knew nothing of the affair, it was decided that he should be taken to the wood, and that the corpse of the murdered man should be attached to the tree as it was found, it being hoped that the suspected assassin would be moved by the ghastly sight to make a complete avowal. Early in the morning Mathelin, who had previously been attired in the clothes which he wore at the time of his arrest, was taken from Mazes Prison to the Gare de l'Est, en route for Esbly. At the station he was recognised by one of the railway employes as the man who had travelled with Oudin on the fatal day, and ere Esbly was reached he confessed that he had strangled his victim in the wood with a rope concealed about his person and had afterwards hung hini to an acacia. The crime was thoroughly premeditated. Mathelin spoke with the utmost calmness, and he displayed no emotion when he was led up to the corpse, which was laid on a plank by the side of the grave in the cemetery. A doctor in his presence examined the body and pointed out the marks caused by the rope, but Mathelin maintained his careless attitude, merely repeating in an off-hand way his account of the crime.
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1888-05-31 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

PROSECUTED FOR BETTING.  Walter Swainson, licensed victualler, of the Lemon Tree public - house, Bedfordbury, was charged on a warrant at Bow - street police-court, on Monday, with allowing betting to take place on licensed premises. Thomas Roberts, a barman, Nicholas Flanigan, commission agent, William Templeton, professional swimmer, John Howes, commission agent, James Newbury, a clerk, Maurice O'Malley, a tailor, and Harry Westcott, a tailor, were charged with frequenting the above licensed premises for the purposes of betting. Inspector Conquest, of the Criminal Investigation Department, deposed that in consequence of complaints made to the Commissioners of Police, observation was kept on the Lemon Tree public-house, Bedfordbury. A warrant was issued, and in company with other officers the witness proceeded to the bodge on Saturday. There were about 50 persons in the bar and in a room at the back. Flanigan was in the private bar and Templeton was in the public bar. Both were well known as bookniakers. Swainson and Robs rts were serving behind the bar. The inspector said he must search the house, and the defendant accompanied him to the first floor front room. A box containing 87 pieces of paper was found. The names of horses and persons were written on the various papers, and appeared to represent 300 transactions. The witness mentioned the fact, and Swainson said, " You're quite right." A Raring Calendar and a book containing entries relating to races were also found showing payments and receipts. The names of 33 per. sons were taken who were present in the house.— In answer to the solicitor for the defendant, witness said the papers related to small bets. He did not see a card notifying that betting was prohibited in that house.—Two detectives gave evidence of visits paid to the house when betting was going on. The amount of the bets was from Is. to 10s., and the frequenters of the house were tradesmen and mechanics.—Francis Rolby and the detective who made bets with Templeton, said on the second day he was at the house from 1.15 to 2.20, during which time he saw ..$) bets made, many by people who had no refreshments in the house.—The accused were remanded.  A young woman in Park filled her small bedroom with flowers. and then committed suicide.
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1888-01-05 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

SINGULAR ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE.  Elia& Williams, aged 21, a domestic servant, was brought up at a London polioe-oourt charged with attempting to oommit suicide on the 22nd inst. From the statement of a constable it appeared that be was called to the hones on the day in question, and he found the prisoner very ill. She admitted having drunk half a pint of parafflit oil, and said she meant to kill herself. A doctor was called, who applied the usual restoratives, and she soon recovered. The prisoner had been • week In gaol, and the magistrate said he hoped the chaplain's advice) would have • good effect upon her. As she promised now not to repeat the offenoe she was discharged.  Tan Spanish Government proposes to oelekrate the fourth centenary of the discovery of the New World. All the European and Amerioan Governments and learned societies will be invited to send representatives to the ceremony. The idea has been warmly taken up by the United States. A VALUABLZ much cow was rubbing itself against a pump in a farmyard at Coddington near Chester, when the covering of the well gave w.y, and the animal was precipitated to the bottom. There is a depth of 24ft. of water in the well, and the poor creature kept itself afloat for live hours, when a rope was vitim%tely got around it, and it was being mooned when the rope broke and it again fell to bottom, this time breaking its neck against the well walls.  SIR AUGUSTE'S PAGIT, the British Ambassador at the Austrian Court, who has been on leave is this country for some days, visited the Foreign Office the other afternoon, and remained a considerable time, transacting business. Sir Augusta left London the same evening to resume his dutite at Vienna. It is said he is the bearer of important Information as to the British views of the condition el nflairs in Eastern Kamm
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1888-05-17 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

SUPPOSED MURDER AND SUICIDE. . .. . ..  which was read a first tine, to make certain amendments in the law consequential on tho passing of the National Debt Conversion Act. A letter from Mr. T. Hamilton, informing the Speaker that Mr. John Dillon had been sentenced to two concurrent terms of six monthe' imprisonment for taking part in the " Plan of Can,paign," and inciting other persons to take part in it, having been read from the Chair. Mr. T. Healy contended that no such offence as taking part in the Plan of Campaign "was known to the law ; and, describing the statement in the letter as a corrupt and wilful ,alsehood. intended to mislead the House, for which the writer should be compelled to appear at the bar and apologise, he moved that the letter was a breach of the privileges of the House and contained an untruthful statement. In the course of an animated discussion which ensiled. the Solicitor-General for Ireland, Sir J. thirst, and Mr. Darling argued that the letter, although not cinched in strict legal phraseology, disclosed the commission of an offence which had been declared  On Monday, Mr. Wynne E. Baxter, the Ease Middlesex coroner, issued his warrant for the holding of an inquest on the body of George Monte' Lale,aged 5 years, the son of parents living in Suho,whose body had been found floating in the river. It appears that the mother, who had been in a desponding state for some time, suddenly left her home, taking the child with her. Nothing further was heard of either her or the child till Saturday, when the body of the latter was found by a bargeinan. The mother is still missing, and it is supposed that she drowned the child and afterwards committed suicide.  by the courts of law to be an illegal conspiracy. Sir C. Russell inveighed against the administration of the Crimes Act, and warned the Government that every opportunity would be taken of bringing before the House atd the public the action of the resident magistrates. Mr. Parnell warmly protested against entrusting the liberties, and probably the lives, of political opponents of the present Government to magistrates who were obviously incapable of performing the simplest judicial functions. Mr. Gladstone insisted that it was a matter
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1888-08-09 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

POLICE INHUMANITY.  - The case of a young Welsh girl, charged at the Central Criminal Court with concealing the birth of her child, called forth from Mr. Justice Hawkins some severe comments on the treatment the prisoner has sustained at the hands of the police authorities. It appeared that the girl was in service in the North of London, and on Sunday, July Ist, she was confined of a child, whose body was subsequently found in a cask in the cellar. In the morning the girl's mistress accused her of having had a child, but she cl-nied it and left the house, proceeding to the residence of a relative. At midnight Detective-Sergeant Day, of the N division, went to this house, entered the room where she was in bed, arrested her, and took her to the police-station in a cab.- Day stated, in reply to the judge, that he was ordered to arrest her, because it was considered that she had escaped in the morning.—Mr. Justice Hawkins asked whether they could really say that this girl, lying in the house of her friends, had "escaped." He considered it was a cruel thing to arrest the girl in that way.—Dr. Jenkinson, N Division, said he examined Morgans at one o'clock in the morning, and she was then taken to Hamerton infirmary. Her child had been born and secretly disposed of the day she was arrested.—Mr. Jüstt Hawkins strongly commented on the inhumanity of taking a girl in that condition out of her bed at midnight and subjecting her to examination at 1 o'clock in the meaning, when none of her friends were present. —Dr. Jenkinson replied that there was a suspicion the girl might commit suicide.—Mr. Justice Hawkins said there was not a word of evidence to support that. Surely the arrest and examination might have been postponed until next morning. He added: " I consider that the treatment this poor girl has received amounts even to positive cruelty, and I trust that this is the last time I shall ever hear of such conduct."—The jury returned a verdict of not guilty.—Mr. Justice Hawkins informed them that even if their-duty had compelled them to find a different verdict, he would have considered the treatment she had received a sufficient punishment.—The foreman of the jury said the jury took the treatment into consideration in their vercEct.--The prisoner was then discharged.
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1888-05-10 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

DETERMINED ATTEMPT AT KW IDE BY AN ASTON GIRL.  Early on Saturday evening, a single girl named Fanny Cook (19) made a determined attempt upon her life by taking a quantity of poison. The girl ' herself lodged with a Miss Shipton at 56, Cliffordstreet, Aston, but her parents reside in Park-road, Aston. She is a polisher, and was employed by Messrs. Yates and Son, edge tool makers, Rockylane, Aston, bnt whose service she left on the - Saturday. She was engaged to be married to a young man named Harry Hunt, who resides with his parents next door but one to the house where : Cook lodged, and it appears that Mrs. Hunt, her prospective mother in-law, had detected her making a number of false statements, and was consequently somewhat incensed towards her. On Saturday afternoon she returned from her work, but dinner being it little delayed she went and saw Mrs. Runt, who reprimanded her over her conduct surd statements. However, the girl seemed in no way perturbed by the interview,and went and had her dinner, aftix which she appears to have dressed herself and gone out. During her absence from the house, she called at the shop of , Mr. Whittles, chemist., Wheeler-street, and purchased a small packet of vermin killer. On returning home a short time afterwards she went into the backyard, into which the Hunts' house also opened, and having swallowed the contents of the ' packet rnslied into the house to her sweetheart, showed him her tongue and holding out the papers which had contained the vermin killer requested him to give them to her mother. Mrs. Hunt, wino was at house, immediately grasped the situation, and, rushing into the girl's lodgings, : shouted out, She's poisoned herself." Miss Shipton, with great presence of mind, immediately made some soap suds, which the girl, who was ! evidently alarmed at what she had done, quickly swallowed, with the result that she immediately vomited. There is no doubt that the prompt action of Miss Shiiston saved the girl's life. Subsequently, Cook was taken to the I.4eneral Hospital where further emetics were administered and the stomach pump applied. The girl is progressing favourably, and as soon as she is enabled to leave the in4titution she will be handed over to the police, anti charged with attetnpting to commit suicide. She has been engaged to young Hunt, who is described as an indust Holes and respectable man, for about 15 months, and they were to have been married in a month or so. Cook left liensituation on Saturday, and it is supposed that this fact, together with Mrs. Hunt's displeasure, prompted her to attempt to take her life.  Peat Mais Litter, 1,4 per ton; Bice Meal, ti 15s. per ton; Linseed Cake, Cti lin. per ton' Cotton: Cakes, ft los. per tonl.—lDWann MILWAltnt 1, &tan Wed, Birmiugham.
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1888-07-26 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

THE INQUEST ON MR. MANDEVILLE. The inquest at Mitchelstown on the body of Mr. J. Mandeville was resuwed on Saturday when Daniel Goulding, an ex -waider in Tullamore Gaol, was the principal witness, and his evidence caused some sensation in court. He gave minute and painful details as to the manner in which Mr. Mandeville was deprived of his clothes on the evening of the 22nd November. The deceased had, lie said, been on punishment diet on nice different periods during his imprisonment, and lie was aware that Mr. Mandeville had punishments which were not recorded in the warders' book. In cross-examination, he said that he accompanied the warders to the cell on one occasion in older that, if Mr. Mandeville were killed, there should be a witness to tell the tale to the public. On Monday witnesses were called on behalf of the Prisons Board.—Mr. Pierce Joyce, Inspector of Prisons, said that he thought the diet allowed to the deceased was sufficient.—Captain Stopford, of the Home Office, stated that there was no difference in the treatment of persons confined in English and Irish prisons, except that in Ireland milk was allowed.—Dr. M'Calie said that he examined Me. Mandeville on the 15th November last, and that he then appeared to be in vigorous health. He disapproved of the treatment to which the deceased bad been subjected.—The inquiry was again adjourned.  _ A gre: sensation was caused at Fermoy on Friday h, the suicide of Dr. Ridley, prison surgeon, at Tullamore. He was found dead in bed in the morning with his throat cut. There were splashes of blood on the mirror and washstand, and it is assumed that the fatal act was committed as deceased was shaving. Dr. Ridley was expected to give evidence in the inquest on Mr. Mandeville, and during the inquiry it was noticed that he grew excited at the staten.ents of certain witnesses reflecting on the treatment of Mr. Mandeville while in Tullamore Gaol.  At the adjourned hearing on Tuesday, Chiefwarder Bartley, of Tullamore Gaol, stated that the deceased was on bread and water for eight days during his imprisonment. Ife assisted in forcibly stripping Mr. Mandeville of his ckthes. In crossexamination, the witness admitted that to Mr. Mandeville the punishment inflicted must have been very severe. It was stated by the governor of Cork Gaol that the removal of the deceased from that prison to Tullamore was carried out in contravention of the rules, no medical certificate of fitness having been obtained, owing to want of time.
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1888-05-03 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

AFTER FIFTEEN YEARS.  At Sandbach, Cheshire, on Monday, Samuel Shaw, a dwarf, was charged with attempting to noirder Mary Goodier, at Ho! e's Chapel, and also with attempting to commit suicide. The evidence chewed that the prosecutrix and the prisoner had been keeping company for 15 years. In July last she wished to terminate the engagement. She had some money left her, and Shaw had no work. Ile refused to break off the engagement, and, in a letter, said, " Revenge is sweet." He went to her place of service and asked Goodier if she Rtill wished to cut Ince. She said that she did. Shaw pulled a revolver from his pocket, and shot her in the side and arm. He then discharged another barrel in his own mouth, and for a time lay in a precarious condition. The prisoner questioned the prosecutrix as to whether she told him to discontinue his visits, and she said she wrote to him to that effect. —The prisoncr was committed for trial. ,  FUNERAL OF THE QUEEN'S COURIER On Monday morning the late Herr Keane, who for a period of 40 years had been courier to her Majesty, was interred at Brompton cemetery, in the presence of the Prince of %Vales and Sir H. Ponsonby, as representing her Majesty. About 11 o'clock the funeral procession, which was composed of a hearse, two mourning coaches, and four private carriages, left Dover-street, where the deceased had resided for many years when in England. The coffin was covered with costly wreaths, including one from her Majesty, another from the Prince of Wales, and a third from the Duke of Edinburgh. The chief mourners wete the four nephews of Herr Kanne, and those who attended as a last mark of respect to the deceased were Sir H. Ponsonby, Colonel Teesdale, Dr. V harems, and Mr. Theodore Lumley. The Prince of Wales drove from Marl horongh House, we:renown ied by Sir F. Knov, :emend Ellis, Colonel Clarke, and the Hon. Mr. Tyrwhitt Wilson. Upon the conelusion of the ceremony his Royal Highness raw allied to Marlborough I louse.