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Beverley and East Riding Telegraph. — 1895-06-22 (Beverley, Humberside, England)

EXTRAORDINARY LOVE AFFAIR.  About 10 months ago some sensation was caused by a young man named Arthur Roland Harrington Hill, of Ilford, Essex, attempting to murder his sweetheart, Miss Emily Spooner, whose parents are farmers at Orsett, near Grays. On that occasion he wounded the young lady in the neck and then took laudanum, and after wanderfng about for some time both lay in a ditch. Hill was tried at the Essex assizes and acquitted of the charge of attempted murder, and sentenced to a month's hard labour for attempted suicide. On Monday he was again charged, this time at Hatfield, with attempting to murder the same yowl°.° lady and also with attempted suicide at Hatfield on June 10. From the evidence it appeared that since the last occasion Miss Spooner has been engaged in a tobacconist's shop at Tottenham, and left there in March last and went home to her parents. On the Monday Hill telegraphed to her stating that he had got a holiday, and asking her to meet him at Grays Station. She did SO, and they journeyed to London together, and after partaking of lunch went on to Welwyn. There they strolled about until night time, when Miss Spooner asked to go home, but Hill calmly told her he had no money, and said they could not go home that night. They sat down by the road-side, and Hill then said he meant to kill her, and, palling a razor out of his pocket, drew it across her throat. She struggled and fainted, and when she came to she saw that Hill had cut his own throat and was sitting by her side. They next morning went on to Hatfield, where Hill offered a watch for sale to a police constable in plain clothes. The latter notice blood on the man's collar, and as he could not satisfactorily account for it he took Hill into custody. Both parties had their injuries attended to, and are now out of danger. Hill was committed for trial at the Herts. ARRi7....
Beverley and East Riding Telegraph. — 1895-05-04 (Beverley, Humberside, England)

THE GREEK ELECTIONS.  It is reported from Athens that M. Tricoupi has been defeated at Nlissolonghi by 115 votes. His supporters have lost all along the line, and it is thought that they can hardly count upon 10 seats in the new Clamber. Of 44 results known 30 are favourable to the Delyannists, who have so far received three-fifths of the votes recorded. An electoral riot occurred on Sunday at Purgos, • but was speedily supprewied. An evening paper states that according to the most moderate calculations, D. Delyannis supporters in the new Chamber wilrnumber 160.  Lance-sergeant Merton, West Riding Regiment, committed suicide by shooting himself at Dover.  At the male by &net ion of high-class pictures, held in New York on Saturday under the auspices of the American Art Association, the most notable feature was the spirited competition for a Vandvck---" Portraits of the Marchese Spinola and Daughter" --which realised 50,000d015. The name of the purchaser has not transpired, but it is known that Paris is the destination of the picture. In the City of London Court on Saturday, before Mr. Commissioner Kerr, the case of Hamer v. Thompson was hem-41. in which the plaintiff, of Waverley-mad, Tottenham, sought to enforce payment of £lO due from Mr. W. Thompson, drill instructor, Christ's Hospital, Newgate-street. The latter, who said he was earning 355. per week, urged that he could not pay the debt because he had five children to support, and he paid 128. 6d. per week in rent. Mr. Commissioner Kerr said that if people could get out of paying their debts by having children nobody would ever be paid anything because everybody would take good care to have children. The defendant, who added that he was a pensioner from the Royal Artilleray, was ordered to pay the plaintiff 10s. per month.„„
Beverley and East Riding Telegraph. — 1895-06-01 (Beverley, Humberside, England)

SUICIDE AT HOLLOWAY.  INQUEST AND VERDICT.  At the Islington Coroner's Court, on Monday, Dr. G. Danford Thomas held an inquest concerning the death of William George, aged 68 years, a labourer, lately residing in Andover-road, Holloway, who attempted to murder his wife Lydia George, aged 56 years, by stabbing her in the head with a knife, and then stabbed himself in the heart. Mrs. George, who is now an in-patient at the Great Northern Central Hospital, Hollowayroad, is stated to be progressing favourably towards recovery.--John George, a builder's labourer, identified the body as that of his father. He used to drink a little too much now and again, and when in that state became excitable and quarrelsome. At the time of his death he had been out of work a fortnight. —By the Coroner: His father and mother did not live at all happily together. The deceased had broken up five homes in two years through the drink, and he had several times threatened to take his own and his wife's life. The witness went on to say that his father was of a very jealous disposition, and had once attacked his wife with a chisel—Alfred Williams, a coal-porter, living at the same address, stated that he returned from work at a quarter to seven on Thursday evening. The deceased and his wife were having a few words on the first floor. Witness heard Mrs. George call out "Murder," and she came on to the landing and shouted to his wife, "Come down; my husband is murdering me." Witness saw the deceased in the front-room, and remonstrated with him, whereupon he went and lay down by the fireplace. His wife had gone downstairs, and when witness returned to the room he saw blood on the floor near where the deceased was lying. Witness saw that Mrs. George was injured, and he sent for a doctor and a constable.—Other evidence was given, and the Jury returned a verdict of "Suicide while of unsound mind."
Beverley and East Riding Telegraph. — 1895-08-24 (Beverley, Humberside, England)

THE LONDON WATER COMPANIES.  The Daily Chronicle says : —We cannot congratulate either the company or Mr. Chaplin on the position nor can we pretend that the outlook is hopeful. London is beginning to reap the bitter fruit of a political reaction. So much was to be expected. Why it should have pleased the Dictator to place the vast intereste of London administration in the hands of a man who knows and cares so little about them as Mr. Chaplin, we do not pretend to know. Is it too late to hope that we may have at least some parliamenary Under Secretary who is less exclusively rural in his interests than the great apostle of agricultural protection? With Mr. CHAPLIN himself we have no quarrel. But the problems of London are so vast and complex that even those who by long apprenticeship have become experts in the business find them a grievous burden. We cannot, and we do not expect Mr. Chaplin to know them by intuition. It has long been obvious that there ought to be someone at the Local Government Board specially charged with London business and specially qualified for it by knowledge and interest and experience. Is it not possible to make such an arrangement now.  A horse attached to a painter's delivery van it, Birmingham bolted, and after smashing the van to pieces against a railway goods waggon, dashed through a crowded thoroughfare. In New-street an old man of 78 was knocked with such force against a lamp-post that his skull was fractured, and he died two hours later.  Mr. Jacques Schorr, of 44, Fore-street, London, has committed suicide by shooting himself with a revolver on the esplanade near the sea, at Boulogne. From a written statement left by him it appears that he was in pecuniary difficulties, and had gone to Boulogne in the hope of retrieving his fortunes at the tables but having lost the 500 fr. he possessed, decided to put an end to his life. He had been staying at an hotel there since 27 July under the name of Worth.  A Bermondsey policeman named Taylor was gulled some short time back by the report that he had inherited a fortune of £120,000, together with some estates in Berkshire and Surrey. On the strength of the intelligence he resigned the force in which he had served for 14 years, and it was only when he had exhausted his savings in endeavouring to trace his " property " that he learned that the whole story was a cruel hoax. The Chief Commissioner, upon the strength of representations made to him, has reinstated Taylor in his old position. The report of a Select Committee recommends that the metrical system of weights and measures be at once legalised for all purposes, that after a lapse of two years the metrical system be rendered compulsory by Act of Parliament, and that the metrical system be taught in all public elementary schools as a necessary and integral part of arithmetic, and that decimals be introduced at an earlier period of the school curriculum. The committee believe that the adoption of the metrical system by England would greatly tend to render the system umversal.
Beverley and East Riding Telegraph. — 1895-09-14 (Beverley, Humberside, England)

SUICIDE OF A BOY.  EFFIXT OF " PENNY DREADFULS."  On Monday night an inquiry was held on the death of Thomas Richards Nash, 15, who died from carbolic acid poisoning, self-adininistered.—The Coroner said that, as there were some allegations that the father had given the boy a thrashing for some reason and threatened him with another, and in consequence of that the boy had drunk the acid, he would take the father's evidence last.— Jesse Steers, aged seven, stated that the deceased asked him to go into his kitchen. When they entered deceased picked up a blue bottle from the table and drank seine of the contents.—lnspector Whateley said when deceased recovered consciousness in the hospital he was unable to speak, but wrote on a piece of paper, "I wish you to know the reason I did it is because I could not work."— P.c. Honeywell said the boy had a good character. The father had a good character given him by his employer, who mentioned the trouble he had with his son. In deceased's box the witness found a number of penny books of the sensational kind— "Tip-Top Tales," "Broadway Billy's French Game," and the "Halfpenny .Surprise, or Montgomery's Doom."—The Coroner read extracts from the latter which he said was a sensational story of tragedies and poisons, decapitations and guillotine, describing death by poisons, the illustrations being most sensational; people knocked down with pewter pots and guillotined.—Dr. John George Pardoe, house-phisician at the West London Hospital, said death took place on Friday from collapse from carbolic acid poison.—The father, having been cautioned, denied that he had ill-treated his son, but admitted that on the Wednesday he boxed the boy's ears for not doing as he was told.—The Coroner said he did not think there was any foundation for the allegations againkt the father. In summing up he referred to the sensational literature found in the pJasession of the boy. He described it as "literary offal," and said the illustrations were so ghastly that, together with the sensational writing, they would greatly excite the boy, who, no doubt, brooded over things, and having the impression that he was unjustly treated, thought he might act in a sensational way. It was a great pity the law did not interfere and prevent the production of such pernicious and scurrilous literature.—The Jury: Hear, hear. —A verdict of "Suicide while temporarily insane" was returned.
Beverley and East Riding Telegraph. — 1895-05-11 (Beverley, Humberside, England)

GUARDSMAN'S CONFESSION OF  MURDER.  At Bow-street Police-court, London, Frederick Wright, 24, a private in the Grenadier Guards, was charged on his own confession with murder.—lnspector Walter West stated that about 3 o'clock that morning the prisoner came into Bow-street Police-station, without his cap, and said he wished to make a statement. He said he was walking along the Embankment after the public-houses were closed, and when near Westminster Bridge a woman came up and accosted him. He punched her, and then he heard something fall into the water, and believed that she had fallen over. He described her as a short dark woman, 23 or 24 years of age, and said that she told him that her name was Rose Miles. Prisoner was recovering from the effects of drink when he came to the station. No information respecting the woman has yet been obtained.—Prisoner was remanded.  Captain Cauvet, of the First Zouaves, has committed suicide in Algeria. At the Leeds Assizes on Tuesday Leonard Whitaker, aged 20, pleaded guilty to stealing a letter at Leeds. It being suspected that letters were missing, a letter was given to the prisoner to deliver which was addressed to a person at an empty house. Finding the empty house, the prisoner's duty was to bring back the letter to the post-office, but he failed to do so. The prisoner was committed for 12 months with hard labour.  At the Axminstcr Petty Sessions on Tuesday, a sad case was heard. Annie Guclge, aged 16 years, a servant, was charged with attempting to murder her master's son, aged about three years, by cutting his throat with a carving knife, inflicting a wound four inches in length. The child is in a very precarious state, and the girl, who seemed to have entirely lost her intellect., was remanded for medical examination. .  On Sunday evening a serious collision occurred in the Bey of Biscay, the three-masted sailing ship Saha, of Bordeaux, being run down and punk by the English steamer Woodlands. Five men were drowned, hut the remainder of the crew were rescued. The Woodlands sustained serious damage to her bows, and could not proceed.  I
Beverley and East Riding Telegraph. — 1896-01-04 (Beverley, Humberside, England)

PUN. 1-lull; and all chemists. LOTEN BROTHERS, Cnr,i, ' "' -AL Grosvenor View,  4L  As Alderman Thomas Wallis, a Northamptonshire county magistrate, was playing golf on the Kettering links he was struck violently on the top of the head by a ball driven by one of the party- He was removed home in a serious conditions.  December 27th, at The Cottage, Seaton, Maria, widow of the late William Bateson, in her 94th year. December 28th, at North-gate, Market Weighton, John Mosman Haddon, ex-sergeant, E.R.C., aged 67 years. December 29th, at Pocklington, Arthur H., only surviving son of the late 'Wm. Hatfield, master, Pocklington. ' On Saturday, the 28th ult., at her residence, 41, Spring-street, Hull, at the age of 47, Rose Hannah Jackson, the beloved sister of Mrs. Warters, of Harper-street, Drilheld. The interment took place on Wednesday, at 2.45, in the Spring Bank Cemetery, Hull. _  _ , December 28, at Beverley, Frances, widow of Robert Huddleston, retired farmer, aged 78 years. December 30, at Beverley. Susan, daughter of Robert Thirsk, railway clerk, aged 2 years. January 2, at Bishop Burton, Mary, wife of Robert Curtis, farm labourer, aged 78 years.  /  r = -.ice, 41, Rose Hannah . -srer of Mrs. Warters, of , -rirtield. The interment took place . „onesday, at 2.45, in the Spring Bank cemetery, Hull. December 28, at Beverley, Frances, widow of -rurew a motion of Robert Huddleston, retired farmer, aged 78 years. ..OLICO relative to the planting December 30, at Beverley. Susan, daughter of - rue Outfall Works, in the streets, Robert Thirsk, railway clerk, aged 2 years. assurance of Alderman Appleton (chairman of January 2, at Bishop Burton, Mary, wife of - on ... our the Beck, Highway, and Drainage Committee) that Robert Curtis, farm labourer, aged 78 years. .- rest, the matter should receive attention. This concluded the business of the meeting. - tt-14 ably undertook the duties of _.,. at the church last Sunday. Mr. Lawrence, A.R.C.0., will take up the position to- At the tidoucester city police-court on Monday. ro Is. 6d. morrow. Mr. Lawrence was formerly organist at Ellen Price, a young woman, who looked very ill, , _ is. Rather light the Hook Memorial Church, Leeds. was charged with attempting to cominit suicide by
Beverley and East Riding Telegraph. — 1896-05-23 (Beverley, Humberside, England)

EPITOME OF NEWS.  Mrs. Harrison, well-known to novel readers m " Lucas Malet," has just returned from a tour in India. Jean Volders the founder of the great Socialist movement in Belgium, has died in a lunatic asylum. Mrs. Eliza Putman, aged 4% was brought on Monday from Chelsea Infirmary to Westminster Police-court, London, to answer a charge of attempted suicide by jumping off Battersea btidge on April 29. She had been jealous, but was released on her husband's recognisances. A seaman on board the Ostend steamer, La Flandre, died on the voyage to Dover on Monday morning. Death is attributed to heart disease. Lieutenant John Burnett, of Rowsley, near Chati.4 orth, was found on Morday lying dead under his trap near the old High Peak railway. The deceased was returning home from shooting when the accident occurred. The Empress of Russia has been appointed honorary colonel of the Second Regiment of Prussiam Dragoon Guards. The regiment will in future be called "The Empress Alexandra of Russia's Second Regiment of Dragoon Guards." The Mayor of Southampton, on Monday, after paying an official visit to the American training ship Essex, was struck by gunpowder while the salute in his honour was being fired, and slightly iittfured. At Wigan on Monday, an elderly man, named John Vaughan, was committed for trial charged with the wilful murder of his brother-in-law, John Green, by striking him on the head on the 2nd inst. The Friemds of Russian Freedom had a social gathering in Westminster Town Hall, London, on Monday. Several members of Parliament were present, and in the speeches reference was made to the coronation festivities at Moscow.  On James Bray being charged at Bromley Petty Sessions yesterday with being drunk, disorderly, and assaulting a policeman, he struck the particular policeman a violent blow in the eye, knocking him down. He was sentenced to five weeks hard
Beverley and East Riding Telegraph. — 1896-04-11 (Beverley, Humberside, England)

SHOT IN THE HEAD.  George William Johnson, 25, a barman, giving an address at Hampstead Heath, was charged at the London Guildhall, on Tuesday. on remand, with attempting to commit suicide.—On the 6th of March the defendant shot himself twice in the head in a first class carriage on the Metropolitan railway. He was found at Bishopegate Station, and conveyed to St. Bartholomew's Hospital. He was detained till last Saturday, but the bullets, which, it was stated, innst have been very small ones, could not be traced.—The prisoner expressed his regret fm what he had done, saying that unfortunately he had given way to drink, and did not know what he was doing.—His father, Mr. James Johnson, of Newcastle-on• Tyne, said that he believed there was a girl in the case. If discharged he would take his son home with him.—The Alderman bound the prisoner over in his father's recognisances to be of good behaviour for 12 months.  Count Mattel, the discoverer of a system of medicine which is stated to be a development of hotmeopathy, and which has numbered among its adherents many well-known persons, has died at Bologna. His formula has been left to his adopted son,. Mario Venturoli 'Mat tei.  The inquest on Chap;;llioran, the professional pugilist who died from injuries sustained during a match with a man named Maurer, was held at Sheffield on Tuesday. It transpired that during the match Moran slipped with Maurer on top of him, and received terrible internal injuries. The jury found that the cause of death was accidental. George Turner, landlord of the Cock inn, Mugginton, near Derby, met with his death as a result of injuries sustained whilst "schooling" a thoroughbred as a steeplechaser. The horse became unmanageable, and after jumping into a ditch, dashed at the wall of the inn, killing itself instantly, whilst Turner, who was riding the animal, sustained concussion of the brain, which proved fetal.  FOLLOW Goon EXAMPLES and act by good precepts. Hundreds are taking BOYLES' BRANDY SUBSTITUTE in place of Brandy, for Fainting, Cramp, Spasms, &c., and highly commend it. is. Bottles.—HOYLES, Chemist Holderness-rd., Hull. Post free for 15 stampii,
Beverley and East Riding Telegraph. — 1896-06-20 (Beverley, Humberside, England)

EPITOME OF NEWS.  The highest inhabited building in Europe is the Alpine Clubhouse, on Mount Rosa-12,000ft. above the sea level. Three hundred feet of the Northern Pacific roadway sunk in Ilinnars Lake, near Atkin, Minnesota, just after a train had passed. The Sultan ol Morocco is sending a special commissioner to England, deputed to make important purchases. . . . . .  The Lower House of the Austrian Heichsrath on Monday decided by 130 against 82 votes to enter upon the discussion of the clauses of the Sugar Tax. A little girl, ten years old, at an industrial school in New York, has committed suicide by poison, because the matron cut off her golden hair.  A Chelsfield publican, who was fined on Monday for adulteration, pleaded that if a little water was added to all the beer sold the Magistrates would not have so many offenders before them after • Bank Holiday. The Brussels Chronique states that Great Britain has abandoned its claim to appeal against the decision of the Bma Court in the case of Major Lothaire.  The First international Congreea of P,blishers was opened in Paris on Monday morning by the Minister of Commerce. M. Nia.sen %,68 elected president, and among the vice-presidents were Messrs...,Mar,.ton and Aturray, Great Britain.  Intolligebec has been receivrd at Sin'la of the return to Jeddah of Ultima Khan, the Pathan chief who fought against the British in Chit' al last year. Umra 'Khan bad been on a pilgrimage to Mecca, and left Jeddah on Saturday for Bombay. A verdict of accidental death was ret urned at an inquest hail at the Sussex County Hospital, Brighton, on Monday, on the body of Ernest Skinner, aged 44, a carpenter, who died from the effects of a 1411 off a scaffold upon which he was at Work.