npedrazzini/19thc_murder_suicide_news huggingface dataset:
The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1883-08-07 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

BHOCKINO BUICIDE.  An inquest was hell at the Guildhall on Thursday morning. bofors G. Symonds, Esq., and • Jury, upon the body of an elderly woman named Anna Stone, living at 17. Frenchise-street, who committed suicide on the previous day by hanging. From the evidence it appeared that on Wednesday afternoon, about half-put two, the deceas3d went upstairs for the ostensible purpose of getting some cloth to repair some tr but, as she was gone a long time, the daughter, Elizabeth IlLyne, went to the foot of the stairs and called. As she di I notrecaiveany answer she went up and found the unfortunate woman on the first landing hanging from the banisters Just above. She tried to raise her, but am she was unable to do so went for assistance, going to the P dioe Station, and from thence to Dr. Ryan. P.C. Hansford went to the home and cot her down, when she was quite dead. Dr. Ryan, when he got there, found her beyond his aid. It appears the deceased had been ailing, and warn of very nervous temperament, and for some time peat had suffered from nervous debility, and the recent death of a grandson was a great shock to her. The jury returned a verdict of "Suicide whilst in • state of Temporary Insanity."  the Mayor remoras( that • won jelcylA•os meat be had never esetess. He spoke of gm as, no doubt, the fuel of the future, sod oongrattested the directors on hiayiug inaugurated the exhibition, sod Mrs. Berry on a• excellent =WON is which she bed prepared the various dishes. The Hey. J. H. SOorr expressed the wish that the exhibition might be • perfect 11400•Ogy sod mid that toe Weym,uth friends were always misty to go forward, but needed • lot of stirring up, and he trusted the gentlemen present would sia&t in that direction. if. owed be bad edyleed all bis lady friends to go to the exhibition and 000 king immures, and take their cooks with them, and suggested that others should do likewise. The rector added that all should, by spreading .informetioe, do what they amid ti promote tbe mblbitioe, for it would benefit the town as wall as the Gas Company. The party separated, being highly pleased with the manner in whith the lonoheoa was served. We may add that the arraurenteuto for It were under the direction of Mr. Cohe, of the Weymouth Restaurant.
The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1883-07-31 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

SUICIDE 074 DAUGHTER OP SIB SAMUEL BAIZE.  An inquest was held at Sandford OrLeigh Hones, the resideno• of Sir Samuel Baker, near Newton Abbot, on Friday evening, touehtng the death of Miss Klan °onetime* Baker, • daughter of Sir Samuel Baker, who died early on Friday morning. Mr. Hacker wag the ooronet, and the jury coneisted of gentlemen of the neighbourhood. The evidence showed that the deemed lady had been a Slater of Mercy in • waviest in London, and lied recently returned home on a visit. She had previously suffered from epileptic fits as well as from religious mania. On the lfitli inst, she attempted suicide by cutting the veins of her arm with a penknife, but failing in that attempt she went down into the hall and seized • Japanese dagger, with which she returned to hew bedroom, and then plunged it into her stomach, causing a terrible wound. Medical aid was called in, but the unfortunate lady repeatedly asked to be allowed to remain and die; and she succumbed to the effects of the wound in the stomach at two o'clock on Friday morning. Sir Samuel Baker stated that on Saturday, the 14th inst., about 8 am., Lady Baker, hearing a knock at the bedroom door, went acrose the landing to deceased's room, and called him to follow. Hie daughter was lying on the bed dhliizzd in blood, and having wound. in the throat, and arms. On the dressing-table were a penknife and scissors stained with blood. She exclaimed that she we. weary of lifeand wished to die. Dr. Ley was sent for to attend the deceased. For about a year and • half deceased had been in All Saints' 61.tarbood, London, and Kilburn Orphanage House. She had not been in good health since she came home, and was nervous and apparently mentally strained by work. Dr. Ley's evidence was to the effect that deceased told him she had inflicted the wounds on herself and that she wanted to die. Alter hearing the evident*, the jury returned a verdict to the effect that deceased came by her death through • wound sellinfficted whilst in an unsound state of mind.
The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1883-07-03 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

SHOCKING OCCURRMX AT DERBY.  A shocking occurrence took pleas at Derby on Tuesday morning, the well-kuuwo 111.1.1011 UL of the Midlaud Counties' EMALUILItIIit Jackson, having shut his wile, L J tannah ackeon, who resided with him at • small villa on the Barton-road, in Derby, and afterwards attempted to commit suicide. Tile cause of the occurrence is as yet enveloped in mystery. On the previous day Jackson ascended in his large balloon, The lkivehing Star, from Use grounds of the Derby AruorOUILII. the occasion being the annual festival of that resort, at which about 20,000 theism attended. The ascent took plme snout the usual hour, Jackson beiug accompanied by his daughter and a young gentleman. Soon suer the helloes had ascended & dreadful thunderstar:a came on, and Jackson thought it desirable to iesoend with his balloou as goon as lie poasibly could. This he did at • tirce near ktickleilown and returned will his balloon the same night, 11,, area all at that tune, and went to bed. He did not, rime until 11 o'clock on Tuesday morning. On coming downstairs, however, 110 Deemed in rather a carious state of iniudi, but did nothiug to excite either him wife's or daughter's suspicion. The hitter saw her father kiss Mrs. Jackeon, who went about her work in the house. whilst her father went into the sittliscrooin, Sons. time afterwards. whilst engaged in her work in the kitchen, the daughter heard two slight reports, but attributed them tu her father clapping his hands, which he did at times when he was pleased or excited. She therefore took no notice, but WWI considerable time afterward., a. she coul I not hear either of them ab•iut, she prococied to the 'Want-room, where she loon I her father lying on • °ouch with • bullet wound in hie head, lie we* quite unconscious. She then vreiit int., the panda fronting the public street, where she fowl I ber hid her lyilig dead across some chairs from a simllar hoLet woun.l in the head. The p dice and medical gentlemen were at OOP summoned to the spot, and the I latter at once declared that Mrs. Jackson hod n shot dead instantaneously, whilst the wound that Jack--n was suffering from was almost hoteless u regaid a hie ultimate recovery. No reason can be aciignel 1,,r the sad deed. The parties had always lived on the created terms of endearment. The affair hls created quite a senuUon in the town and neighbourhood, Jackion teing so very well-known.
The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1883-04-03 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

EXTRAORDINARY ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE.  At Glosmeter. on Friday, Th ma@ Taylor. ea old men, woo charged with mimosa/ to commit suicide on Thursday. TM primmer anchored two canoes of gun. po watt% and in the waning be went to hi. eon's boom in Philip-street. where ha had bran eleepingom he had no borne, and told hie daughter-in-law that soma man had elan him lOW rum. Yrs. Taylor noticed that im looked P 41.• "" itaoi GP • Mem of much box sad walked towards the Elbe them west into %Ito hatit Yard. but attuned into tat room as haul. 4. slight stPIGGim SGG 'mad the prisms tries *a the loon with smoke betting hoot his mos& sad Ma 'Wham baralagot smell of Can. powder vanadium UM 1.00• L MISS friddesed, she called la a seighboar. and Ail latter got some wear and round primer from it. laseasibWty. gat @abed Ida if I. kalif what be had dose, and he add "Ton. he woe tired of bis 111., and hia troubles had driven him to do the died.' Yr. A. K. Sydney Turner, @aromas. et aallad him sad found that he Ives in a partially 11011/6001 wadi. Yea, and meld only speak with the greatest dialculty. His lipe were very masa its in, a ha could .4116 the snide of the primates mouth was partly Weakened p. 44 raw. His dila and whiskrre went maraud. He *laddered hia to be quite ems P.B. Obricsiw_p_aissed that primmer was takes tato aradodr La August. I=. mad Marvel with attempt*, to manna suable by cattiag Us throat TM Pd• 04•• who presented • Wearable lIIPPOSMISOI, was aossralt‘ed for trial at Me Qaartor fias dons.  There fa poililas r  -.an more _ ___ nouristilagmaa warnting in esid wootbor tat.- • cup at really food but it. &acuity bet bees to obtain it rim mis muy hi swami se 5 oast of ••• h•llpet•P far • lane brookfast cup by =tan 0 tahuris 11••• with* Nei this. times as fer aa ths adult. rated and starchy eoinpotinds_ordinarUY lad.. lb. muddies mu t nuking harness orsielsol OM a Wool Ono&  LADY YLORENrg
The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1883-08-28 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

LODS2B. A Ders..missu Smarm —Thia uoutlly quiet parish was thrown into • stats of exeittiment cm Fbureday .vsal,g by the dies msey of a a mina sospended by • rue ir al the ceiling of a dwelling. The uaforturtate usau—J•lne, Crab..., a lib Aver, *boat 03 ',airs of age —had relently ises in • deep ittling state, by nelson of the result of pr 'treated illness an i • insequent poverty. The .- ft .ot wa a oli.ovlecA mild, which led too snob • pad fit at sf self-deetruotion. Deceased had been di ill b..•lb for I doe Lim , and about six or eight en ,nthi ago had an attack of rheumatic fevort which was foil eel by br.,syhtils. Tale waif llowsd by • strangdoses of no \WI -r and d o.ormaion, and hie ' talnd way evidently aff -hied. r/s Touradav Liao wife cake I hidt to go to Bat • wur. to cossult Dr. Evens, but his reply wee that Ise dol n it think it would be much us. file wife lel. him in die boom' from them awing, and during the af teruuou • baker'. lad called with b •sd. The door was opened for him by • wmt•no who was horrified ts see the corpse of Crabb hanging from the ceiliug. She " +creamed an alarm," and a neighbour, MG Thou's' Norman, came and cat him lowa. Tao body was quite cold, and life hat possibly Wen extinct ,ereral boars. On the body Wag examinod by P.O Custard no marks of violence were disrovared. An inqq,e,t was hl lat tits Loder's Arms ou Friday laslre C. O. N braes, Est., Deputy-Orme:ter, Mr. Eli RUS4Oii b,ing chosen foreman of the jury. The verdict wits—" That derwased oommitted suicide 1 by hanging himself whilet in an nusound state of mind." The jury kindly gave their fees to the widow, and the Deputy• Coroner also gave her • donation.
The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1883-09-11 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

MURDER OF A SCOTCH WOMAN IN NEW YORK.  SUICIDE OF TM E MULDER/A.  Information was received from Almon Thorad ay of a shocking tragedy. which oc qrr -al in New York on Vte 214 Auguet. N tremor, a wall-known Scotch pedeatrian, was we L king there al in.' with his elf.'. end accompanied by ho :rattier, a Men named Goons Hattie, when, from nioltv.ts of jealousy it In stated, Beattie attacked Noremaa wile, 'hating bar dead, and afterwards blew out his own brain.. lilloremse, whose proper name I. Cameron (the nous de plume being the rrrr of his real name) is au. in 14 lain, who was at One time employed as a lithographic printer In E Ijaburith. U. gar* up the trade wine y. are ago to adopt the profession of a pedestrian, In *limb h acquired e able repute. In the south of deo land he WS, very euccessful. and alwaye took • leading plac in Ettglieh contests Haying achieved a reputation at horn-, he left for America, accompanied by George Haiti'. Hero ha became landlord of an hotel, and took part in the race which was won by G. Hazel, of London, taking third place. In thin race he wee trained by Battle, who also prepared him for another canteen, which Wel won by Faz,reeald. N aremsc.being sec ind. Noremac's wife I. de icribed as a moat attractivealooking woman. Beattie, who umally travelled with them. appeared to be a man of quit manners ; he belonged ii Arbroath. Mrs. Neteume I el inged to Woodside, a suburb of Aberdeen, where I of her relatives reside. She was moot reepeetably connected ; her maiden name was Edwards. She is •od to bays lived with her husband on the best term.. The woman was 27 years of age Beattie was • man about 50 peace of age. He had been a soldier, and was for mall years abroad. It rattle accompanied Mrs. Norem c to Anoraks. u her guardian, some time after her husband left. Noreturic held him in high esteem, and refaced to believe anything that rumour &Bogert to coinproini.a bin wife. Sine, his drat departure, Boattie has stetted Scotland several times to collect Lis pension.
The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1883-12-18 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

SUICIDE ON THE METROPOLITAN RAILWAY.  A borride discovery w•i ma in in on, of th, t o poi.trn Rsilorry iruptny's C trriages et the li rtaluer smith /Rad, n on Friday morning. ii. tw en t-ra and eleven n'c'ock. Upon one of the train. von ch run from the Tower tr Ilrormersmita reaching the loiter sta.ron one of the company's gammen, upon lo ikaig in 0 a thirdclear carriage, dircovered in one of the compartments alone • well-drsesel gentleman, who the man at flrot tdrr crbe aeleep, but up ro Ifitwifla IOCI it war discrovi.red theta horrible euicide bad taken plot.'. Toe gentletua war lying on one mid, of the e.rtup,rtm awl on the Pe kt oppootte had brea cordolly pinned hi. umbrella in the corner an I hle hAt an I handkerchl.f 03 the net, iw a< that h. lint d -l.brrot y I.,rtrorod bloke-Ir. Upon the d rm. o! ti, C trrls<e war loin t a rag rr 11,31. • P.O Of MOOdlinni the errata omen's throat was cut from ear Co air. e W 44 not quit. desii when find fund, hut he was unable to utter • fvrivd, and upon the a oop.ctor being inform-d of the ocClll, Mae th• 01,0 we, I4k II tea harpitel in the neighbrorhlrxj. So severe was tin-, rwo and that he diet within a q tarter of an h ror fr ..a I e time that he was discorer.d la the e‘rririro. The men WAI well-dreteed, war apperently tr. t •.4-1 40 and 50 ye .ro o' •foe. Cal • Svntiffal latfne•rancar nod wore • goo t.oseol grey bond.  - -lIZMARKABLE DISAPPEARANCE! of 411 Di,i (tom .V-ryth,ll( By using HUDSON'S gX raker OF 8041'. REWARD II Purity, Health. Nothict Stlitraction Si Iti ret.dar moo. I. a Pare DRY SOAP in line Ponder, eel dieenvee inenialiately in Rotor Oold Water. "Ras.. Imitations-lunit upon Übe ' A.rm fb Dolly wade'
The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1880-01-06 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

CHAULTON ADAM. THE SAD SUICIDE OF A FARMER. An locraent was held on Frlday last, before Dr. Wybranta, coroner, on the body of George Jarvis, a farmer, aged 65 years, living at Charlton Adam. The following evidence.vHke taken : . _ .  Hockey said: The deceit's& was my uncle, and I saw him shout four months ago. He fell on my neck and kissed me, and said he would never come to Exeter again. Ho was not fit to be left, and I did not consider him right In his mind the last 12 months. The times were against him, and he could not pay his rent out of the crops. He said he would have to go to church for 1.. &I and • loaf. _  . Lucy Pitman said : I live at Charlton Adam, and knew the deceased, for whom I have worked. !saw him alive on last Tutted', evening, going into his house about four o'clock. On Wednesday, about 10 o'clock, I was fetched, and found bins in the chair with his throat cut. I saw him two or three times a day, and all hat summer he was very strange. He did not drink, and could not best the sight of It, and would never allow any on his Premises. Ho was low and melancholy. He was bad, frit not had enough to be placed in An asylum. Philip Bright said ha wag told by noel iy that the dec.ased had cut his thruit. H breathed several timer He saw bini on We !nudity Toombs, and he died about nine o'clock. lie wia not able to speak. The last month he bad.been low cad strange. .  The Jury returned a verdict "That the deceased coal mitled suicide by cutting his throat whilst in no umound state of mind."  -15-ace—aaW ;as a member of the Western Temperance Lessoc.
The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1880-09-21 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

ACOOUORENVIT OF QUERN CHRLITINA. —A crowd of State functionaries and grandees assembled in the antechamber to await the expected arrival ; and in the Royal chamber were the King, the Archduchess Isabella, the young Queen's mother, and an Austrian physician. Immediately after the birth the Grand Chamberlain announced the happy event to the assembled high officials; and subsequently the King, attended by the Ministers, brought out the heiress presumptive enveloped in cambric and lace on a golden tray. On the Prime Minister raising the coverings, the King presented the infant to the Diplomatic Corps and all the officials invited. The popular rejoicings were on a somewhat limited scale, an heir being desired. Talt BIHNOP OF WINOELISTIM ha + just refused his consent to the alienation of glebe land at Eling, near Southampton, for a cemetery. In a letter giving his re •sons for this refusal, the Bishop says he is v desirous for the future not to consecrate burial-grounds Immediately adjoining churchyards; and adds—" If the future burial-grounds are not to be Church burial-grounds, it does not seem that a part of the glel e should be given up for them." Anntirran 80101DX --OD Saturday week at the Park-station of the Great Eastern Railway, as the train from Hertford was running in, a well-dremied man wee DOM by a porter to come from behind the signal. box, and make a rapid movement towards the eiti which was approaching. He called to the man, as no notice was taken of the request to dem ack, the porter seized him juet as he had taken up a position right in front of the c ming train. A desperate struggle ensued. The man shrieked that he was tired of his life, and was determined to put himself under the carriages, which were now close upon the two. The porter forced him off the metals into the si x-foot-way , but be again got upon the lino, and placing his legs between those of the porter, endeavoured to throw him. He would probably have succeeded in his attempt had not another rushed to the spot. By the united efforts of the two porters, the MOW was thrust , frem the line and out of the gate by which the level ' crowing is reached, the gate being at once locked. He then tried to climb over the fence, but was Prevented- One of the porters followed the would:be suicide, to give him into custody, and, sea ruse to induce him to accompany him, told him that the Bruce-grove Anshan was better suited for the purpose he had in view. The man walked along quietly, still Intimating a fixed intention to die that nht. Reaching the police station, the porter said," This is Bruce-grove railway station," opened the door, and pushed the man before him, then be was charged with attempting to commit imiddit- A Wiwi" ticket from London, various park =d pture i. • small plume, retitled" The Snirtelnaide cover oerthe hook waswsre written"ound uPIII.. rim William Barber, with his mother's best love and kind wishes, Deo. 9th, 1875."  Thy
The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1880-11-23 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

HAZELBURT BILI&N. SAD CASE OF SUICIDE.  An inquest was held here on Tuesday bet. the 16th by J. C mann Leach, K.q , the coroner for the district, on the body of Coarlee Bennett, s well-known dozier and butcher, when the following evidence was taken : Mary Ann Bennett said the deceased was her husband. He was a dealer, and kept this bonbons,. He was 48 years of are last March. On Monday morning, • little after five o'clock, he got up and lit the lamp. She did not hen him get up, but saw him leave the bedroom. This be was often in the habit ef doing, but he usually returned to bed again in about a gutter of an hour. His circumstances have been very low of late, and 000•11i0Oally It. has been low-spirited frequently sighing, and 'Vie& "Oh deer r H. has not been about to fairs and markets ae he used to do: but that was accounted for by his not having the money to buy, and also he did not like to meet his customers. He was very quiet op the Sunday. He had been in the habit of drinking too much at times, but for the last three weeks he has been more temperate than he has been for years. Albert Warr said he was • carter, and on Monday morn. ing, *bout fin be ems going to his work, and when he got to the brook at ?Behead Neville be sew the deceased. He was then resting his foot on a rail beside the brook, end looking into the stream He salted him if he had seen his hone down Plumber-lane, which wee the way he had onne. He told him he had not, when he said the home bad got out in the night. ',mune having left open the gate (which was ndt the case), and tun be said be must go up to the top of Fifehead-hill, end if he did not see it there he should not se it anywhere. He (witneas) went on, leaving him standing in the middle of the rued. Thomas Bleathman said on Monday morning about seven o'clock, in consequence of 'something he beard, he went with two of the hones for exercise towards the brook, end when he got there saw a white smock fro* tied on by a blue neckerchief to a rail close t the straw, and a black Pro-crow bat oo the ground. He looked Over into the brook, and there saw a body tl sting, (so, downward& He at once told two men named Leaman and Rake, and rode on to Sturminster and told the police. Stony Lawrence said he was a miller, residing at Filthier' Mill, and on Monday morning, from information rtheind from the last saltines, he went down to thebehok, and saw • body in the strum, which through the lute estes was raawias we, end wee deeper than usuaL The body wee face downwards, and there wee • rope, stout three or four yards long, fastened around his leg, close to the foot, and the other sod futened to • haul bush growing betide the brook. When, with assistanoa. he had got out the body, he recognised it as that of Charles Bennett, The body was not quite cold. The water just at this poiht wee about NUM feet deep. The Coroner having summed up. the jury, ql 'sous the foreman was Kr. Edward Chapman. returned • verdict of "Suicide whilst in ~an unadind stabs of mind." "h. jury gave their fees to the widow, who is left with along family.
The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1880-04-06 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

SUICIDE BY DROWNING.  An inquest was held on Saturday evening last, at Preston, before G. Symonds, Esq., coroner, on the body of Emily Browning, aged about 40, who was found drowned In the sea on the previous Thursday.— Hall, chief officer of the coastguard, said on Toooday 44 he saw the deceased walking up and down for several hours to and fro betweeq the turnpike. gate and the coastguard station. She appeared to be very strange. On Thursday he saw her again walking up and down from 110 lock in the morning till five the afternoon. Just before five he pasted glom to her, and noticed she was looking very strange, but did not speak to her. He did not We her again, and be /wad one of his men where she was, and hs replied that he did not know. He then went and looked along the beach, but could not see her there, tail knowing she had been about there so recently, he looked over the water and there ahodt 10 yards out saw her body. He at once called assistance, and two of his men at the risk of their lives plunged into the water, swam to where the body was and brought her ashore. There were no signs of life in her. Dr. Smith was won at hand but of course was of no avail. She Witt laws walked through water up to her bums to get to the rock*, before she could get to deep water.... Mrs. Docker, with whom the deceased lodged for the last year and ten months proved that the deceased had been very strange in her manner for some time.—At the direction et the Coroner a rerffiet t.f " Round Drowned" warn returned, IsKa. The disappointment of Mr. Wylie's defeat his been keenly felt by all true Liberals. The battle was gallantly fought and almost won against tremendous odds.