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The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1915-05-22 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

JUMPED THROUGH THE WINDOW.  Depression Causes Suicide.  The Borough Coroner (sir. Cecil, Holden) on Wednesday held an inquest on the body. of Margairet Am,n Luston, aged 4.43,„ of 180, Cleveland-etreet. Birkenhead. Florence lauston, daughter of the deceased, add that her mother had been de-Lelfor some time owing to two of oadne beimg in the Navy. About 1.0 am. that morning the witness went into the back kitchen (they lived above a shop), and the deceased was then sitting by the window, which was open. When she returned shortly afterwards she saw her mother disappearing through the window. The distance to the ground wee about 20 feet. Qtrl Julius Jenson said that be was in ' the kitchen just before the occurrence and: the deceased was sitting on a chair by the , window. She said, "I am tired of life. I !fame nothing to live for any longer, and I have a rood mind to commit anicisle." I Witness eesd "Better to to your bed 1451 don't talk silly. Think of your children.' The deceased opened the window and mid "I would like more fresh air before I go Ito bed." The vritneess then left the room, and a few minutes later the daughter , railed him into the yard where he found the deceased lying, The ambulance was eemt for, and the deceased was conveyed to the Borough Hospital. I. Weightman said the woman was dead when she was brought into the hospital. There was a swelling under the left eye, and death was due to fracture of the beim of the ekull.  —The iTreturmwd a verchat in accordwith the medical evidence, and stated that there was insufficient evidence to thaw the state the rola&  We are gore aat .the Sympathy of all readers wall so out to the family, and sietronall7 to Mrs. -Lffleoton's two gallant assior sore. One of there is eerring in the pardmeitlea and the other is home for a few dere laree—and a sad howiermailag is for him—efise =oaths apes* in the hazardous work of mine-sweeping in the North Sea.
The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1915-09-04 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

TRAGEDY. ilt , o•rio fo4ert) Befit. who was Posted • - . as mining on Julie lath, after the Battle Inquest and Verdict. of Givenehy, has been killed in action. Tles Borough Coroner, Ir. Cecil golden, yesterday resumed' hie inquiry as to the death of Edith Gallagher, aged 36, 'wife of Charles Gallagher, of 28, Claiiehill-avenue, , Park-road North. As previously reported, the luebend, on returning home about 7.20 pan. -on Thursday, .August 26th, from his duties as a clerk at Messrs. Comberbach and Co.'s, found all the doors and windows closed, and the air impregnated with gas, and on searching he discovered his wife in the back kitchen, lying on her-side stretched along the "draining board" in I the back kitchen,- with her head resting! on a pillow placed on the gas stove at the end of the board, and the gas at both , rings turned full on. A piece of cloth was! over her head. She appeared- to be dead, but the husband turned the gas off and ran for Dr. Owen, Park-road North. In his evidence the husband said that some years ago hie wife was somewhat depressed, and a doctor advised her to get, out More. For the last two mouths she had seemed rather depressed and lowspirited, and witness suggested her going away for a week or two, but she said She would wait 'for hie holiday in September. When he left home after dinner on the 26th she seemed quite all right. There was no. trouble, and no disagreement had occurred. He knew of nothing which would be likely to .cause her to take her life. She did not visit relatives, or receive visits from them. • • Hannah Gardiner, Churchill-avenue, said deceased was an unusually reserved person, but seemed to live very happily with her husband. Dr. A. W. G. Owen deposed that when he arrived at the house life was extinct and the body was stiff. The cause of deathwas asphyxia consequent on carbon-monoxide poisoning. The jury returned a verdict of "Suicide." and considered the evidence insufficient to show deceased's state of mind. A.S.C. Mans Death.  • ::037;077782H1.RE
The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1915-03-31 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

SAD BIRKENHEAD <IASI.. Margaret Ann Dennis, a young domestic servant, employed at a refreshment home in Ivy-street. Birkenhead, was charged at Birkenhead Police Court on Monday with attempting to commit suicide on the previous Thursday by taking salts of lemon. Matilda Sherlock. an assistant in Mr. Mc(lush's refreshment house. Ivy-street, where prisoner was also employed, said that in the evening nrisoner came to her and said: "I have done it now. Witness asked what he had done. Prisoner replied: "I shan't be long." She then went upstairs with prisoner who there oo'lapeed on the bed. Witness then obtained assistanoe, and prisoner was taken to the hospital. Prisoner gave her a paper which she said had contained salts of lemon. Clarence Newcombe, an aasistant to Mr, Rowlands (chemist) eaid that at mid-day on March 25tii. prisoner entered the shop and asked for some salts of lemon to clean a bat. Witt asked her if she knew it was poison, and she replied that she did. Witnein warned her to be careful when he had served her. P.C. Harwood said he was called to the refreshment house and saw prisoner, who was in a oollapsad state. He gave her an emetic and took her to the hospital. That morning- he chazged her, and she said in reply: I have a brother at the front and he. is reported killed. That has upset me. I don't know what came over use." Prisoner's mother said her daughter was a good girl and she had never had trouble 'with her. She did not know what had led her daughter to do such a thing. Sbe had been two years in service. Witness( had a eon at the front and he was reported minsinVrisoner repeated her statement to the magietratee and expreieed her sorrow. On promising not to attempt to do seoli a thing again, primmer was discharged with a caution.
The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1915-06-09 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

BOTH COMMITTING SUICIDE.  And she had never agreed to such a thing. At a 'later stage, and in further reference to the Woodchurch affair, the girl said that the prisoner threw a stick (produced) away just before he fired the shot. Mr. Holly:' Did be ever tell you why he couldn't marry youF—Yes, under the. circumstances. He was only getting e. a week, and that wasn't enough to keep us both on. • . . . .  : save you had any letter from Mm since• the remand?—Yes. (The letter was produced, and the Clerk read A pri— rattly to the magistrates.) . . •Did you •go. to Walton and see. 111,0-Test _ _ _  your ther so?--Tee. ..Did•Harry-...sp?7—Yes, but they, would not &delft him •oey two. Do you know whither that is his handwriting? (sandihg. her a pOnbed account with something written on the back).-I can't 51w. S9pt • Ennioh that .his.writing below in itik:P=Tes. . Sir. • Sony (to the Superilibendteit).: What iilthis,:?(iodioating• the, segoolt)...-4t was foetid in 'Milieu. . • • • Mr, Holden (balers e raise zami n : I am • going' to* submit - that there can -be no ease to' anther. SurelyTthe:tiest thing filo let them' • - . . 00 AND .BE MOWED asAhey.want to. . . Sollt,• I don't •• know .whether they want to. There is something .in the letter that hes not been reed out. .(To witneas).l Will you tell us whet sea the subject at the conversation you had at the . prison?— He. just said thoit,be was sorry that sucks thins had happened. ftd he explaisi it at all thess?He'•esid, he Was a6try he did not,keso Drown in his pocket. 'Haled it (the, put .0 two months, ant it had no/or ' been-oist of . his'hox till' lost Sunday. • • . Dia he. my • anything albeit the Bhichwooll Ml'. •Holden commenced to cross-examine thi•Tittiess. • Mr. &fly Ito witness): Who was it objected to year marriage was he that objected. Bs •seed be maid not under the oiropnistamoes. •My mother and fat.her spoke to.kbn, and told him he wowto. Mc.' Bolden: ~..are you wilting to him now' Ye.. I am Say_ You say. you! mother .bad never objected to your marriage—No, Mr. Ate Mt.d Di :sairbim Ailant.,th?,,-3, • R&d.•• : And-- if SYS qwita willi.thst, teenroisher.-• take plebe at the *hest nosithße tunity?—Yes. Sergt.,Kennenler front th, C:E:siotrice in 'II. e edirty bonne of gbh . the way 'tetheooun. jirisoner • said.; cf4to • T'elutla= The had Tawriousty! •=atl tended to Cio:it. __,l-wantici'M•malie`aLtswi' of it. There's aletvto'eonhaot; b•ft• aides. : die .mtler j" . meat out to Woodah at 5 p.m. the same ds,y, and examined the spot, Tam he • Now, . '  marry 4  -Itina!ta-1  Fgark QF A 014 • .
The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1876-09-02 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

CHARGE OF MURDER IN THE BRAVO CASE.  The Times has done -rather a venturesome thing (save the London correspondent of the Liverpool Mercury) in publishing a letter from Mr. lioyes Bell. Mr. Bell says, in language which there can he no mistaking, that Mr. Bravo was murdered, and that Mrs. Cox was the murderess. He attempts to disprove the theory of suicide, but not, I think, with success. Certainly, so far as I have been able to gather, that theory is the one usually adopted, and is the only one consistent with the evidence. There is one thing to be said for Mr. Bell—he has at least the courage of his opinions. He says plainly whom he means when be talks of murder, although he may be called upon to make good his statement in a c&urt of law. The coroner's jury .was under no such obligation, yet it brought In a verdict of murder without having the fairness to say which of the three possible criminals it meant to accuse. We have now to see what course Mrs. Cox will take in order to clear herself from the terrible charge which is so definitely made against her.  COLLIERY OWNING BY UNIONISTS  The :ittempt of the South Yorkshire miners to be themselves colliery owners is resulting most disastrously. The association purchased a few years ago 1 colliery with the intention that the profits should go towards the funds of the association. The purchase capital was between £70,000 and £BO,OOO, more than half of which raised in debentures. For some time past the association has been working the pit at a loss, and so serious has its position become that a conference between the directors and debenture holders was fouvi necessary. This took place tot Tuesday at Derby, and lasted several hours. A report which was laid before the meeting showed that the colliery had never paw slice it came into the hands of the MOcjation, and that it was being worked at a large weekly loss. It was decided to discharge the whole of the colliers without delay, and it is therefore probable that the colliery will be closed, at all events for a time. Mr. J'. Holmes, the manager, was requested to see the officials of the association, with the view of obtaining a weekly levy from each member, in order to assist in paying the colliery expenses. It is stated that the presence of water in the pit, and the neglect of the association to pay their share of the purchase capital, are amongst the chief causes of the pr i sent unfortunate position of the undertaiiing.  • • •. • • • • • • • • • • • •, • a _ r 3 Ii of S. 1 of es ' 'Y. he be ew IS7 . to 3' by ott. aye the 3nt Lted lbs on its, ohs. Jess AI
The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1879-01-25 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

LOW FURN  SAD SUICIDE AT BAIIDSTIA.—On Monday het, J. Poole Esq., cerenrr, to Id an inquest at Mr. George Itt binsen's, the Ship Inn, Bardsea' on the body of Jane, wife of Mr. GeorseTeece, Berdset, who committed suicide on S. day m •Iniug. The jury was composed as foil, ws :—M Joha Martin (tort twat), John Clayton, William' Pi or, Matthew Elliott, James Ihicis, John Walk. r, Jotnes Barnett, Jobn Griz dale, Jas. Hutton, ratio Penningten, E. Sumpton,: and Robert Watson.— ' The first witness canal was G,torg Lt. .e, husund of the cleansed, who s iiti :—I am oineloyed a Mrs Petty's gardens. Th- deceit-eh wit, my elf., and 61 years of age. On Sundt,y mornirg, left the house at 8 30. She got up with 'zit, at o'clock. She made real:fast. I went to look t the greenhouse fires. I left my wif, alive iii heuse. For some time past ~he hts beene-e ecasionaily very cheerful, an I at other times , try low in spirits. On Sanctity morning she ; 'emed much be:ter, and was cheerful aed lively. vr,s absent about an hoar and a qty:rt.at. The I 'Aim door was shut, not I-eked, when I came -k. I found mx,,attf:t lying on the kitelem floor, than op-n r.ist6i beside her. The r tzor bad been in, the kitchen in a recess in the wall. Her pat was cat. I sent immediately for Dr. T a)lor. , ould not say how nittay minute. she livi, as ' tuld not fraV to see liar. I rein tined as long 't could with her.—Aargaret Stables d..posed : wmy sister List on Sa urday. She has not  • I very well lately, and had a :wimp Ituk tt,tout eyes. I We with her al day on Saturday, she s.,med stanze about noon. I left her e on Saturday evettiog tr..m six to seven. I no idea she meditated suieid-.—P.C. Haulm: s called to deceased's house at 9 31), an•l found . yieg it .r the kiteh,u door. The arteries of ; Leek had been severed, and cut tilt:melt to the. . There were several slight cuts on do inside tt left arm, about the veins. They tad no 9 mech. She lived about a tiu ie.er 01. it It cttv I sent She wsemed culci tci, blit, could eak. She wag a woman of v€l, •y peentiar and 10 'cruper. tliOveflOt notie.r4 .alythite.: very :r about her cently..—rne Cora,ey reca. ed and said :hat doubtless WaB ~,,it.tedJury in un-tuad !M - ud.- retuv,ad. a verdlet of whit The lab.turiatg ur.;:s.;cr teznlharY Lbt  E AT.
The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1879-03-08 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

SUSPICIOUS SUICIDE AT BARROW. ' By Mr. Loxham : There was no one else :tbdut, the Barrow police on Wednesday night. Ibappears , except dock-gatemen. A sad case of suicide came to the knowledge of that Mr. Soulby, deputy dock-gate master, ob. dark !dothes. ! was dreEsed, but he seemed to have a round hat and By Mr. Ainsworth : I don't know how the man served the body of a young woman floating in the Idy Mr. Noylor :He was not dressed as a workentrance basin of the Devonshire Dock at about i„g man, lett,. seernel mpectably dress3d. half-past nine o'clock on Wednesday night. He Urs. Waiting., r,eaded, said no one had come to obtained assistance in getting the body out ~f the see the deceased •,ii,ce Christmas, but she tnought water, and on its removal to the public mortuary ..,. oneomi mime before. lit was ascertained to be that cf Jane Brocklebank; ""tly Mr. Page: She has not been out visiting any-1 servant in the employ of Mr. tieorge Wahl ,g, winue since Christmas, bitt sometimes she went out beerhouss keeper, Bucclettch-street. The inquest the evenings. was held yesterday evening, at the Magistrates' .. Ily Mr. Naylor : No cue came regularly to .see Court, Mr. It. Lowes being foreman. her. Dr. Murray was the first witness. He said he The father of the deceased was re-called, and made the pest-mortem examination of the body at said 1.,:: could not understand the words i:: the G. pni on the previous day. He found no ex- I.,;tc-r that eLe did not know what would become of ternal marks on the body, except three abrasicns 1.91 y, as the child was living with Ann Breckle. on the forehead, near the line of hair. The body b ilc, and they thought a deal about it. presented the usual signs of death from drowning The witness ;:ev.vis was re-called and swore that —frothing at the mouth and blue in the face. Ni tile white had produced, belonging to deceased,great violence would he needed to cause the marks um i similar to the one worn by the woman he saw on the forehead, as they sv,re very slight. He on the dock side. opened the body, and found she was pregnant, and ;<, Tim Coroner, in surnmiog up, said the w, mm. had been so for about SIX weeks. There were 1,0 mast have g.,Le M t direct line from her hcine to .... , . . . - . . . .  th !is wr, body -was found. -he evid.diJy int(-_,ed to semi the letter by post, but Ce le was 110 d Ite (Q 1 it. he e.0i14 net F o from. the  CVi I.eto t:t. 1: h. ~ (71. ;!ey fold. vo rl.3llbt r.).•ri, A( IT 1..'011101.1 atilt; yteh hats :es the 41. tie w, ;Id:LIC 41:-.1 it .1.11.;!. !, :I .; 1.11: " ii;  • iJ  • f, •.!  0  1 •  , • „• , z()11:  .  .!!! ! 1' 1,  •.1. It  on ; ;:t.  tt t r  1;
The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1869-03-13 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

SUICIDE OR AN EDITOR—The English Churchman says :—Wo regret to announce the death, by his own hand, of Mr. George Henry Townsend, a gentleman well known in the London literary world. Successively editor of the Morning Herald and the Trees, and during last year a constant tontributor to the English Churchman, Mr. Towesend was known and esteemed as an able political writer. He was a strong Conservative, and a sober moderato churchman. The hard work and anxiety attendant on special work in connection with the late elections were the immediate cause of the insanity which led to his melancholy act. BOARDS OP ARBITRATION IN THE IRON Tustee. —The adjourned conference of the masters and men took place at Darlington, on. Monday. The cornmate) of five masters and five men presented rules for the formation and guidance of a court of arbitration and conciliation, on the principle of Mr. Mundella, for the regulation of all disputes occurring in the trade. Most of the works in the North of England were represented by the masters and by delegates on the part of the men, and the discussions were of a harmonious and promising character. The meeting, which occupied several hours, discussed the rules, a code being ultimately adopted. It wee decided that the board of arbitration should consist of one operative and one employer from each firm, the operatives to select their representative by bullet; that a president and vice-president, one from the operatives and one from the employers, be elected annually; that the board meet once a quarter at Darlington, Stockton, Newcastle, and Middlesboro' alternatively. The question of an advance of wages was again raised by the men, who pressed their claims, and said the ironworkers were almost ready to strike in seine districts. The meeting decided that the board of arbitration should meet on the 22nd instant, to consider the demand.
The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1869-04-10 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

LATE,T FOLLY. —Tho excitement occasioned in various parts of the kingdom by the revival of an im,asived form a the old velocipodo manifests no symptom cf decline, but is rather on thoincrease The employment cf this vehicle for th purposes if leemotion will however, 1107. r become, general : but in all pr .bability tit i uaemia sill subside Just as quickly 43 it spraux into existence, and in a short time the h cycle will be used poly as a means of temporary walla:merit, or be kept as r lie of the pit .t. With the prnsent state of fooling in reference to this in ale of locomotion, the publication of a few facts coocerning the bicyolo and its nsrs in ty not be with at interest So great is the excitrtneat i ; :slew York will reference to these vehicles, that a monthly publication devoted to toe advocacy of their emteoemod, and to the record of races teol other has been originate!. A Ice of lo,cycl., noodles ran a race between Chester and Bock Ferry on Saturday last, for a prize offered, of course, by a maiier of velocipedes. The race was won by a man named Eaton, who traversed the distance, 13 miles, in one hour and 27 rnieutes. Ile was so callous ed at the conchpion of the contest as to have to tie carried into a garden and supplied with brandy. The grest advantage of these contests over donkey races on istri in the fart that the hip, ds act the part of h uth qu td,upeds and riders. Dating last week 53 wrecks were reported, making for tile present year a tots! of 810. Dr. Greg, the Bishop of Cork, who was reported to have said at a public meeting in that city, "They had heard of bills and bills, bat Bill Gladstone might go to the devil with his bill," denies the accuracy o the st-no..tetph It's and gives as ho version ie the sentence the slightly more apostolic reading, t•They had heard talk of bills and hi ls, and Mr. tal oust .nte'a bill might go to thi wad ."  On Saturctiv, Lord„ Cloneurry eommitted suicide by throwing himaelf from the wintow of hi. bedroom at hie rend •nco a, 1.0.034, County Kildaro. r iship ,1 been n nler reArti 4 for noun, iiane, lint inan3gel on the dry menti ,ned to elude bin attenoants.  COLLI —Lose OF
The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1869-11-20 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

ANOTHER DREADFCL SURIDE IN FOOL—About half-past seven Thursday morning, a man named P• - . 26 years of age, residing at street, committed suicide by cutunz with a razor. His daughter and a t _ Robert Tucker were in the house a•  The latter, hearing deceased's da _ ing, ran down stairs, and found th_ man kneeling over the sinkstan3 in • kitchen, bleeding profusely from a a the neck. Dr. Lupton, NS eA Derby r immediately called in, when he pr life extinct ACCIDINT TO A LIVERPOOL MAIL —The steamship Calabar, from Li% Sierra Leone on the 30th October, had : . .  shore on a bank not marked on the Sherbro river, seven days, but wai ; ! by the steamship Macgregor Laird wt.'. damage to ship or machinery, a:: 7 thrown part of her cargo (salt ucer .r: bale and case goods were safely tr a hired vessel, and the Calabar w cargo and proceed on the aist u, master (Hamilton) had been seri... by the breaking of a hawser. GREAT FLOODS AT PRESTON AND 1,:, : —The river Ribble, at Preston. ros, t ing height oa Sunday, but the inh the houses near the banks had tak.:.: precautions by removing their V V : blockading the lower parts of their ha A quantity of earth adjoining N: , Bridge was washed away, and aI : V: the road leading from it t the several places been considerably dal, one time the water ran at about tea hour. The marsh on the western . . . ,  . _ Preston was flooded, so was the but river in Hutton and the lower part of i tham ; whilst in the neighbourhood the river overflowed its banks in ,y • During Sunday morning, and a: throughout the day, the trunks of sewr trees were floated down the Ribble.
The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1869-04-03 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

AND &MIDS.—A very sad Case of suicide has been brought befors the notice of Mr. W. Carter, coroner for East Surrey. On the Light of Sunday, March 14, a respectable young:woman named Emma Chilvers, was seen on a bridge that crosses the river Mole at Mulesey with a man named Ellis, of Esher, a prolessio nil cricketer. They were passed by a young man, who about two minutes afterwards heard a cry of "Help." Re ran back and met Ellis, who said that the young woman had jumped into the water, but he did not try to get her out because he could not swim. Eilis was examined as a witness, having first. been cautioned in the usual way. He said he met the deceased by appointment, and after they had been for a walk they stood still on the bridge as they returned to Molesey. The girl asked him if he thought the water was deep enough to drown any one. He replied he thought it was. She then got under the rail of the bridge and tried the depth with her umbrella. He asked her if it was deep enough ; the deceased answered that it would do and, taking off her bonnet, she jumped into the water:saying "Good bye, Ellis ; I'm off." In reply to the coroner, Ellis wad he had no apprehension that deceased would have done such. a thing; she was a romantic girl, and he thought she plumbed the water for curiosity's sake. He admitted having had an improper intimacy with the deceased, but denied having promised to marry her. The jury deliberated for some time, and ultimately returned a verdict if temporary insanity. The coroner then called Ellis before him, and said that although the jury did net find a guilty knowledge on his part, yet tie stood in a most unenviable position, and his own admissions had proved him to be anything but a man.  SE-..1