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The Warwickshire Herald. — 1893-11-02 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE.  A great deal of excitement has been caused in the town of Sudbury. Suffolk, by the disappearance of Mr Henry C. Pratt, one ot the best known inh..bitants of the place. Mr. Pratt, who is a member of the West Suffolk County Council, Conservative agent for tbe Sudbury Pailiamentary Division, actuary of the Sudbury Savings Bank, kc., was last seen in the town on Monday. On the afternoon of that day he drove to Cokhester, and seems to have gone ou to Parkeston, where he took passage by the Great Eastern Railway Company's steamer Cambridel., to Rotterdam. lie occupied a deck cabin, and was seen several times and waite.l on by the steward. Before the boat reached is destination. however, he was missing, but a bag containing his watch and chain,his cardcase, with his name Ind address, some papers, and a passport were found in the cabin. A letter has been received from Mr. Pratt by his relatives, in which he stated that he intended to take one of the Continental steamers from Parkeston and throw himself overboard, as he “could not stand it any longer." The cause of his disappearance is entirely unknown, as an examinaton of his books does not reveal any serious discrepancy. A few weeks ago he was presented by the Cmservative Party of the district with a testimonial of £l5O, and the position of agent to the Party, ti which he was appointed only last week, is worth £l5O a year.  The suicide of Miss Daisy Garland has created • very painful feeling in Washington social circles, where she enjoyed considerahle popularity before the religio,s mania, which is responsible for her death, caused her to withdraw entirely from society. Her father, ex-Attorney-General Garland, is one of the "big men "of the capital c;ty, socially, legally and politically. A citizen of the southern State of Arkansas, he was, in 1861,a leading spirit in the Provisional Congress, and later a member of the Confederate Senate. After the war, in 1869, he was elected to tbe United States Senate, but, owing to the test oath then in force, could not take his seat. Some years later he was again elected as Senator and this time admit' ed, being re-elected in 1883. Two years later he entered President Cleveland's first Cabinet as AttorneyGeneral—Pali Mall Gazette.  At an inquest held at Chelmsford Infirmary, on Monday. by Mr. Lewis, touching the death of Thomas Frederick Tarrant, 17, of Sawbridgewortli, the jury returned a verdict of manslaughter against William Brown, an officer of Metropolitan Police. The deceased and a companion name Palmer were retiirnine home from Chelmsford on bicycles, when Brown pamed nein on horseback, riding furiously, according to Painur's statement. Directly ~it,rwards Brown galloped into a trap, breaking the shafts, with which the mare ran off. and meting the two cyclists knocked Tarrant over and fractured his left thigh. Brown, without speaking or offering assistance, proceeded on his way. The injured youth died from blood poisoning. the result of the injuries. The coroner eammitlied Brown for trial, accepting Emil.
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1893-05-04 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

SUICIDE IN A FLEET-STREET HOTEL  Dr. Lombard James Newman Tanner, brother ol Dr. Tanner, M.P., has committed suicide at Arelerton's Hotel in Fleet-street. It appears that a fortnight ago Dr. Tanner engaged a room at the hotel for an indefinite period On Wednesday, the fact that he neglected his meals drew him under observation. Apparently, the last Meal la, tOeit was on Wednesday morning. On Thursday night he retired early. In the forenoon of Friday toe chambermaid knocked at his door, when he called out, "All right! not coming down." This answer led the maid to think all was right, and as a result Dr. Tanner was not disturbed again that day. On Saturday morning the mald's knock elicited no response. Several times during the day the knock was repeated with the same result. At 5 o'clock in the evening the manager of the meet decided that sufficient time had elapsed to justify his breaking the door in. This was done, and Dr. Tanner was seen lying across tire bed in his night•shirt, dead. On a chair by the bedside was a work on pharmacy, open at a page in which the question of the quantity of morphia necessary to cause death under various conditions of constitu• ticn was discoursed upon. Beside the book was a quantity of morphia, and lying about the roam were several papers and two letters written with a perforating pencil. One of these letters contained instructions to the suicide's friends as to Mt disposal of certain articles of property. The other letter contained a statement, in which were the words: "I have to present my sincere apology tc the proprietor of the hotel for committing this act on his premises, and sincerely hope my doing se will not result in any injury to him. I had intended to commit suicide at Richmond or Hampton Court. but had to change my mind. I have injected 12 grains of morphia, which I know will be sufficient. When I was brought into the world I was not consulted. Why, then, should I consult anyone as to how or when I shall go out ol it 1" _  The body was removed to the City mortuary in Colden-lane, and on Tuesday an inquest was held, the deceased being identified by Dr. Charier Tattier, M.P., who said that he had not seen his brother for two years, when he bought him a piactice in the East End of London. Deceased held different opinions from witness as to politics and religion, and he believed he took his own life deliberately and not from insanity. His brother had left a letter which said, "Dear Charlie,—Goodbye. I shall be no more trouble to you,—LOMBARD Medical evidence as to the cause of death having been given, the jury returned a verdict of suicide during temporary insanity.
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1893-05-04 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

LADY'S SUICIDE.  A terrible sc—enis-Was witnessed on Saturday at the railway station of Nogent-sur Marne, on the Vincennes line. A lady, elegantly attired, threw herself on the line near the station just as the train from Joinville-le-Pout was approaching rho eagine-driver did his beet to stop, but his offoits were unavailing. The locomotive, tender, and three carriages passed over the lady's body, which soon became a shapeless magi. Some of the per.ons in the station who witnessed the shocking sight uttered cries of horror and several women fainted. The body, with the severed limb., was removed speedily from the line by the police and conveyed to the Morgue of Joinville-le-Pont. It was disc,vered that the person who had committed suicide in this terrible and determined manner was a Russian lady, Kcrsakoff, whose relatives occupy prominent positions in St. Petersburg, and one of whose cousins is well known in Paris. Mdlle. Korsakoff was under medical treatment at Nogent-sur-Marne, and usually went about in charge of an attendant, from whom she had escaped in order t, wary out her fearful plan of self-destruction.  When the hew Brunswick train arrived at Caribou (Maine) on Sunday it looked as if it had been caught in a cyclone, and a noise issued from it as ut a vast number of wild beasts who had broken out of their cages. It was only the river log drivers, wile, crazed with drink, were indulging in a free Airbt. The drivers fought, kicking, biting, clawing, and gouging as soon as the train left Arosteop duration. The women in the train fled for safety to the luggage van. When one Of the combatants fell to the floor his companions quickly obliterated all semblance to hum nits, by kicking lam in the face with their thick-soled boots. The shrieks of the victims drowned the roar of the train. Two were fatally ind d 7,T1 seriously Injured.... In the death of Mr. Robert Lubbock Bendy. Fellow of Oonville and Caius College, Lord Almoner's Reader in Arabic, Cambridge loses one of her best Hebrew scholars.  The Religious Tract Society have just issued number No. 69 of the Present Day Tracts, entitled "Modern Scepticism compared with Christian Faith,' by the Rev. M. Kaufmann, M.A.  Messrs. Effingham Wilson and Co have added tc their list of legal and useful handy boolm, "Investments in Rouses and Lands, with chapters or leases, mortgages, and building societies," by R. Denny Urn% barrister-at-law.
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1893-05-04 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

PERTINACIOUS LANDLORD.  "Isn't there sui.h a crime as conduct calculated to provoke a brea:h of the peace ?" asked a nervous-looking wait a a inagistrate yesterday morning. "Of course there is" responded the magistrate. "Then give me a warrant for my landlord," demanded the nervous nun. _ .  "What has lie done?" asked the magistrate, eyeing the suitor suspiciously. "He comes to my house when I've got company, and says he wants the four months' rent I owe him, and sits out on the front steps and howls for his money. If I should kick the spine out of him I'd be arrested, wouldn't I ?" "Yes, you would. Why don't you pay him?" "That isn't the question. He comes to my house at four o'clock in the morning and yells through the key hole, and then he goes up through the vacant house next door and gets on my roof and shouts down the chimney. He says he will have that money. If I should drop a fiat-iron on him, or blow him up with gunpowder, it would go hard with me, wouldn't it "Certainly. Can't you come to some understand. mg with him?' "It scenic not. Has he a right to climb over my paling and have fits in my.back-yard just because I owe him a little money ' "Does he do that?" . .  "01 course he does; and when we haul him into the house, he yells murder and draws a crowd. Have I got the right to instil the life of him with a club for that P" "I think not," responded the magistrate. "Why don't you move?" "That's got nothing to do with it. I want to know if he is ei.titled to slip up on the ice and fall Ow, ugh my basement window, and do two pounds' worth of damage to the els: Couldn't I knock the stuffing out of him for that " "Certainly not." "But when he lays down on the pavement and howls that his mother is dead and he can't bury her because I won't pay what I owe him; haven't I got any remedy?" "I don't know of any. I think you'd letter pay him.'  "But isn't it conduct calculated to provoke a breach of the peace when he comes round with a quart of laudanum and a pistol and threatens to lake 'ern both on the premises if I don't pay up Isn't it a crime when he hangs himself to a tree in front of ni house with a paper pinned on him that I drove him to suicide ? Has he got a right to make faces at my children when they are going to school? Won't the law touch him' or coining to my door at daylight as drunk as a lord and claiming he's me, and yelling that I want to get in and thrash my wife ?" "I don't think you can do anything but pay him or move. The man has a right to his money." "That's all I want to know," replied the nervous man, appeari g relieved. '• I: in lie landlord, and my tenant say, tell have me arrested for doiug these things. Now WM have to pay up or 11l fall off the top of the house and have the inquest in his parlour. A man can't live four months in my house r n,thing without going to some trouble." And the nervous man pranced off, glowing all over with grim deteimination.
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1893-07-06 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

RENTS.  It seems unwise of farmers to rely upon a reduction of rent alone to make agriculture prosperoui. although it is undoubtedly very necessary in, perhaps, the majority of instances. It is, however, impossible to lay down any general rule, as circumstances differ greatly in various parts ot the country. It seems from the official figures that the rental of the land of the United Kingdom's is now rather less than it wa during the ten years 1851-60, though not so low as it was in 1841-50. The rise was gradual until 1880, when rents were at their highest. Since then they have fallen 12k millions, being a decrease of 20-7 per cent. in England and Wales, arid 171 in the United Kingdom. During the past,l2 years the rental increase of the previous 20 years has disappeared. In England and Wales the rental in 1880 was nearly 52 millions, but now (that is, 1892) it is only 41 millions. Probably tim latter sums is above the mark, as the returns under the heading of Seim:lWe A do not give any account of the abatement ol 10, 15, or 20 per cent., which many landowners have made to their tenants. There may, of course, by natural means, be a further decrease in the rental, but it is at least interesting to note that some cnrim land could not be successfully cultivated rent m ree • tlinratore in those cases a further remedy is needed.  henry King, a carpenter, was charged at the South-Western Police-court with having attempted to commit suicide by throwing himself into the river from the parapet of Putney Bridge. It sva,r stated that the accused had been suffering from delirium tremens, and the magistrate grante,l a lemand in order that King's friend.. who re " be ,oninninicated wi-,11,
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1893-11-16 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

POOR LITTLE HERO.  In a house in the Coombe, says the Dublin Soria/ lit vies, lived a family consisting of a mother and four children, who had been well-to.do people, and were well connected, hut owing to the bankruptcy nd suicide of the father had been reduced to enury and obliged to live in one rcom,which thre other families also occupied. They were in rag,. aid almost starving. A little son of 12 was so di, tracteu at the sufferings of bis mother and sister that, in dcepair of being able to support them, b bought with the few shillings which he had earl.s.. sonic articl.s of clothing and papers entitling tb. buyer to insurance coupons. He then went ano drowned himself in order that his family might le helped cut of misery by his death. In his childish ienorance he did not know that his doing so would be considered a fraud, and bring no bench' to his dear ones. This is the letter which the poor chil wrote to his mother before be went to his death: “Dear Mother,—l spent the four and sixpence halfpenny for your benefit,and I hope the money it will bring you will help you to forgive my rash act Tell the police to search in the harbour at Portobello, and when they have found ire go them to write a description of my clothes and what I have in my pockets. They will find a cap that cost sixpence, and will entitle you to £2OO insurance money; pair of auspendere, 44-cl., with a coupon on them for £400; a belt, 6d., for £100; and papers, one entitling you to 21,000, and the others to £5OO each—in all 43,500. Don't spend too rime on my funeral, and mind the money, which wil' make you rich.—Your loving son,
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1893-11-16 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

AFTER MANY YEARS.  Here is a delightful "Romance of Grosvenorsquare." Two American ladies purchased one of the large houses in that square same months ago, and during last season dispensed large and generous hospitality. In one of the principal rooms, a large bedroom over the drawing-room, was what old servants of the last owner (Lord Donington) and decorators employed in the room insisted was a false door, and not a cupboard as the new owners thought. A few days ago feminine curiosity caused a locksmith to be sent for, and after hours of laboar a cupboard was discovered. When opened masses of dust revealed that it must have been closed for many years, and a torn scrap of an old Till2C3 chewed a date of 60 years ago. The contents proved vastly exciting, for, after some cld chintzes, evidently the summer dresses of an entire room, wee, removed, a large iron casket was found firmly fastened to the floor. When the lid was remov,d, a strange and touching collection of things were found. A Bible at the top soon shelved, by the inscription on the first page. the name of its owner, and letters, miniatures, locks of hair, and other relics of dead children and friends testified to the affection of someone now dead and gone. Toe courteous and generous owners of the house, and finders ef this treasure, after considerable trouble succeeded in finding out the now living members of the family to which the relics belonged, an.i banded them over their lawful property. For 60 years that door had remained closed, while four families owned and inhabited the house, none of hom had the curiosity to have the closet opened. Woman.  ;he liody of Captain liden, of the Star of the , an, which was run down about a month ago off North Foreland, was picked up near the pier at rradataira on Friday morning. ' " '  A sad ease of suicide as the result of destitution anis to light in New York city on Thursday afternoon, victim being Mr. Henry Vincent, who was editor at li' daily paper La Patra, published at Fans urn: General Boulan,ger'.: brief reign of popularity. ieneral Boulanger and tha deceased were on umAt Minato terms, but when the downfall came of the mneral, Mr. Vincent went over to New York, but ailed to obtain remunerative work. Latterly thugs ,mit from bad to worse, tie hid himself in rather amble lodgings, and on Thursday was loam] tied his room, baying shot himself with a revolver. “iristi Drums aim tun inn Religions will be the title of Mr. James; Bonwick's new volume to be issued immediate ly by Messrs, Griffith Ferran ana Co. It is an attempt to bring together in one volume all that is known of ancient and preChristian beliefs in Ireland, and it will deal with Cremes, the Bound Towers, Irish Superstition's ancient and mod,rn, arising cut of ancient pagan Ideas, so that the work may really be regarded as a mass of quotations rather than an original production. The author hopes, however, that it will be useful to studt nu; and others who are interested Ul folklore and kindred suirlesta.
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1893-03-02 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

BARKER. SENSATIONAL LETTERS. On Saturday, at Wandsworth, Mr. A. Braxton Hicks opened his inquiry into the circumstances attending the death of Mr. Hilton C. Barker, aged 45 years, a banker, late of 162, Lancaster-road, Notting-hill, who committed suicide by shooting himself in the head with a revolver while travelling in a first-class carriage on the District Railway. sear Putney, on Wednesday morning. Several letters were found in tho possession of the deceased. The first one was enclosed in an envelope addressed to "Mrs. Barker, care of Messrs. Aldridge and Co.. 31, Be iford-row, W.C.," and contained a farewell to the members of his family. The next letter, liko the foregoing, was written in copying-ink pencil, and was addressed, "G. S. Siierrington, Esq., Messrs. Aldridge and Company, 31, Bedford-row, W.C." It read thus: "My Dear Slierrington,—Ruined in pocket and health, the object of persecution (after nearly nine months), by which Wreford hop's to re-establish his tarnished reputation. As there is an Almighty in Heaven, I believe his misdeeds will yet be found out. I fed more and more the unequal fight and the impossibility with the limited means provided by our friends (notwithstanding the shameful statements made to our creditors as to the large amounts we have set aside) in obtaining esrtorari and something like a fair trial. I really cannot think that anyone who really knew me in the old days will believe me capable of the dishonesty alleged against me, besides the improbability of the object attained ruin to myself, my old father, and my own family. I feel it is useless repeating the facts, as you know them already so well. I am quite prepared to stand or fall by my answers at my public examination. Our deluded creditors will find out the mistake they have made in refusing our offer of Is. 6d. in the pound, and also the further error of placing themselves in the hands of their present advisers, about whom they might hear more from Mr. Ernest Cooper and Messrs. Helium. I thank you and Raw. linson, also Mr. Matthews, and all my friends, sincerely for all efforts on my behalf, and if vou can help my wife and childeen in the luture you will have the further gratitude of yours,
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1893-03-02 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

BILLS IN BABLIALIIINT.  A number of bills affecting agriculture have this session been introduced into Parliament. As ;nest , of these are in charge of private members, it is not probable that many of them will become recorded on the statute Book. The crowded state of the legislative programme, and the demands which the Government will undoubtedly make on the time at the disposal of Parliament, forbids the possibility of any important results from the efforts of private members. One which will, if passed,act detrimentally to farmers, is the Rating of Machinery Bill, which proposes to reduce the liability which at the present time is attached to machinery for local rates; in those unions where there is much machinery used it will increase the rates upon the agricultural land and other property. This would be the effect in many unions. The order for the second reading stands first on the paper for March Bth, and a strong effort will be made by agricultural members to defeat it. In regard to foreign meat, which is undoubtedly largely sold as British meat, there are two bills before Parliament: that of Mr. Disraeli provides that a label should be attached to all foreign or colonial meat offered for sale, and that every person dealing in such meat shall be required to take out a licence authorising him to do so, and to state that fact on his signboard. The bill of Mr. George Lambert deals with foreign meat only, but the definitiouaincludes colonial, and it provides that the meat shall be labelled as such, and that dealers in it shall give notice to Ihr local authority that they trade in the a:tide, and those authorities are required to keep a register of all such dealers in their district, 'rhose persons are also compelled to declare on th; ir signs that they deal in foreign meat. Aa the two bills are nearly identical, we may hope that one of them will become la  An Wiped la the bay of Mr. Hilton Cassenet Marker, who committed suicide in a carriage of Dm District Railway near Putney, was held by Mr. Braxton Hicks at Putney, on Saturday, 11131 resulted in a verdict of temporary insanity.  _ At the weekly meeting of the _ Barnstaple Board of Guardians it was reported that Richard Jones, a labourer' had just died at Parraconabe, NortlDevon, at the age of 102 years Jones had been foi many years on the books of the guardians as a reed went of outdoor relief.