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The Herald of Wales. — 1889-10-05 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

SWANSEA.  A MAN CUTS -BIS THROAT. On Friday evening it was reported that s man had out his throat, his iniuries being of such a serious charaoter that he died on Monday afternoon. The suicide's name is John Samuel, aged 88,. and he lived at Caersalem-road, Treboth. it appears that Samuels had been suffering from mental aberration for some time, and on the 28th inst. he prooeeded in the back garden, dug a smell hole, etood over it, and then out his throat, and let the blood flow into it. ne was presently seen by one of his frietubs,"and taken into the house, and Dr. Gabe, Morriston, was immediately sent for. The doctor soon discovered that the wounds inflicted were very serious, andhe at once attended to them, and prevented Samuels from bleeding to death. Since the 28th Samuels has, notwithstanding the greatest attention of the medical gentleman, been gradually sinking, and he died on Monday afternoon.  An inquest was held at the Eagle Inn, Treboth, an Tuesday, before the coroner' Mr. Edward Striek, touching thecircurnstaness attending the death of John Samuel, who died on September 30th at his -residence, Treboth. John Sam ael, son of the deceased, said that he lived with the deceased. His father bad been suffering from asthma and chronic btonchitis, and *sod at times to feel very depressed. He had :tot worked underground for some time. Last Thureday afternoon he ESW hie father in the back garden; he was bleeding from 'the throat. He had a razor in his pocket with some bleed on it. There was not much blood from the cut Deceased was taken in the home, and • doctor was unt fo:. Dr. John B. Gabe, of Marriston, said that he was the deceased's house, and he was cfled in on Thursday, and found Samuel lying on the bed with a linen bandage round his neck, which was. bloodstained. He-took the bandage off and examined deeeased'e neck, and on the left side he a clean cut wound ant through the skin ady_ about an inch in length. It was superlaud, and some clotted blood about it. The doctor stitched the wound. Deceased was also suffering from bronchitis. Death was not due to the cut, but he considered that it was due to bronchitis. A verdict of death from natural causes was eventually retuned.  formd
The Herald of Wales. — 1889-07-27 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

LYNCHING A "CATTLE QUEEN."  News bee just reached New York of a serious lynch. Log affair from the Southern States. The victims were a notorious woman named Bate Maxwell, commonly known as the "Cattle queen," and a man named James Avevill, both living at the little settlement of Sweet Water, Wyoming. For years past Avevill (who was the poptmaster),assisted by this woman ancla gang of thieves, made quite • fortune off the cattle' which they stole from neighbouring ranches. The gang being rather a formidable one the ranchinen for a long time were afraid to openly interfere, but they became so exasperated of late owing to an increase of depredations that a sudden descent was made on the postmaster's cabirt by a , howling mob, and he and his female partner were [carried to an adjoining wood where they were hung.  I escent  Joseph Harvey, 21, and Elizabeth Hates, 20, both residing at Lunt ley-green, near Oldbury, have been found drowned in the Canal Company's reservoir at Titford, under circumstances which chew that they had committed suicide together. A note which they left stated that they had determined to die together in consequence of mutual love affairs and grievances as lovers.  Two fires broke out at Manchester on Tuesday meaning, the firs* in a trinallware establishment, and 1 the second in a dryealter's warehouse. The latter was caused by a lighted match being dropped amonp.. quantity of inflammable goods. In both instances ' the fire brigade had to work for some considerable time before they could get the flames under. 'lle ;Remises wet* greatly damaged,l In a Cemetery.—" And so you hare seine to yen, doctor's funeral! That is as it should be; grateftiP patients are rare." "Oh, you mustn't praise me too much. I am th&nithj because it was the doctor who died."  A very lovely woman was talking polities recently kit Paris, and among her auditors was a member eIT the academy. "Am I not right, my dear sir ? " " Ah," said the non-committal academician, "I can. not look at yoo and listen to you at the same time." I A critic who has eviderrety never been a favourite , with the ladies says, Women cannot be satirical, any more than they can be humorous." They can% eh ? How is it when a man proposes after years of courtship, and the girl exclaims, ' Oh, George, this is so sudden 1"  "Ah, it fills my heart with joy," said a country minister as the last note of the organ died away, "to see so many trsagers among us this beautiful Sabbath morning. The Goad Book says: 'He WINI a stranger, and I took him in,' he collection will 00,7 pa taken Rso."
The Herald of Wales. — 1889-04-27 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

MANTIC SUICIDE,  /D3HEARTENED LOVER DROWNS HIMSELF. LSWEETHEART EMBRACES THA CORPSE. nquest was held at Great Cornard, §uffolk, a body of John Shave,. aged 21, who COM'. d suicide by drowning himself in the r Stour. Be had been courting a young an name Betty Bruce, who gave evidence. aid they had been engaged for 18 months, iad never had a cross word in all that time. lover suffered much with his back, having led it 15 months ago when lifting a piece in, and at times he was very quiet, but he cot take a very low-spirited view of the r. He was with her on Friday evening, Satarday night she received the following • from him, written in pencil:—" My ing,—When you read this letter I shall be neither land, far away. I have not the dance to meet you again an earth, so I done away with myself; but, my own girl, I do not want you to fret at all about or I sin not worth it. lam exceedingly to think I hurt your feelings last ; the Lord knows it. You asked to forgive you, but it was me wanted forgiveness, but I was ashamed k you. What few things you have of mine , and say nothing about them. The little )3, you have of mine spend on yourself. I you not to let this trouble you, for I do know what to do with myself, and this is . I have chosen. Love to mother, I can. ask you to iaccept my love, for I am not by of it. lity darling, I wish you good. and God bless you. you want to me, I shall be down by Lady's Bridge." Bruce continuing, said she dal not know , deceased meant in Ms letter by "hurting eeliugs. " Ile had complained about being 'ed by the daughter of the landlord of the where he lodged, but witness was not us of her, as she knew the deceased did not lc anything of the girl. The constable who clued the body said he found under a wide next to the shirt of the deceased, a portrait las Bruce. A verdict was returned that seed drowned binnislf whilst in a of insansity. A very affecting stesiinintrZa s in the yard at the rear of the inn where nquest was held, when Miss Bruce took a view of her dead lover. She embraced the se, and kissed it passionately.
The Herald of Wales. — 1889-03-02 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

HMI, SWEET 110112. Every Englishman should hail with delight any invention ealculated to improve his home provided he be not a Cinbable man. The Industries for February says: A German architectural journal pablialtes the results of experiments made to determine the efficacy of a pare Mu wash C.)r damp walla. These results are in the highest degree satisfactory, the protection afforded being in every cue complete. The wash conalats of solid praffin (paraffin wax) diswind in heavy coal tar oil, in the proportion of nue part of the former to two and a half to three parts of the latter. The wax iJ melted by the applicaticm of a gentle heat to the I and kept melted during use by placiog theyeaeel containing the compound in hot water.  Mr A. eniocr, the selected Liberal cendidate for the Monmouth boroughs, on Tuesday esening addreeeeed a large gathering of the different ward committees of the Newpoit Liberal Association at the Albert-hall, Newper,. On Monday eveniag Michael Deady, a mune bet of the crew of the as. Gamide, lying at the Alexandre Dock, Newport, was assisting to remove the heteh, wOen he /dipped an 4 fell into the hold of the vessel. The unfortunate man was immediately brought on deek, and medical aesistance summoned, but death ensued from a broken ueok before Dr Pratt could 'arrive. The deoeasod was 32 years of aze and a native ot Bristol. eAt Pitsmoor, near Sheffield, a family have . had a narrow escape of being burned to death. • Jemea Spalding. a moulder, with his wife and i two ehileiren, were aroused lby the cracking ob • ft imes in a bed room below, but their retreat to the steircise was cut el!. Spalding threw the bed out of the window, and dropped the ohildren on to it, he and his wife following. The children were half suffocated, and remained unconscious fon SOILO time. A man named Clarke, holding a good posi• tion as a cashier to a leading house nt Nee Orleans, has oemmitted suicide. Susricion hes • arisen as to his ReCOIIIIi*, and an icvestigatioe of hie books showed a considerable defieleocy. A sad feature of the care is that Clarke was ngageel to be married, end the ceremony bat aetually been Lied to take place on the day el hie death.
The Herald of Wales. — 1889-06-15 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

GLADSTONE'S WEST.. ERN TOUR.  Mr. Gladstone received two addresses in the open-air, oppcsite the George 111. statue, Weymouth, and in replying, said he felt that the contentions of political life were not the proper and natural methods of closing the term of human existence, yet the calls of public duty were so urgent and so clear that he intended with the help of the Almighty to remain yet awhile in the struggle in which they were engaged, and he did ao, relying on the support of the constituencies. Referring to the Unionists' contention that very little crime existed in Ire/and, he dwelt on the &mainly of the fact that a country where there was actually less crime than in Enghtiad was punished by a Crimes' Act passed by the latter kingdom, and the reason for the diminution of crime in Ireland he found in the better education of the people, who had refused to be driven to outrage, and in the action of the Nationalist members and the Catholic priests, of whom, notwithstanding, the Govern.  ment had put so Maly ha prison. In conch:whin, Mr. Gladstone pointed out how foreigncts often compared English treatment of Ireland to Russia's treatment of Poland, and he rlcalled upon the people to put an end to the possibility of each comparisons, and to put the English character right in the face of the world, las well as give a true, permanent, and indissolnable union between the various countries which comprehend, and ho hoped it would long comprehend the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Mi. and Mrs. Gladstone were, amid loud cheers, then driven to Portland, and there emlitirked on Mr. Eliot Ycekes yacht. - Mr. Gladstone arrived in Falmouth Harbour on Tuesday mid-clay, having started from Dartmouth at 4 a.m. The voyage was a pleasant one, although the weather was cold. Mr. Gladstone landed at three o'clock, and proceeded to to the market place,where a number of addresses were present.ed to him. About 6,000 persons gave him a very cordial reception. Later on Mr. Gladstone drove by road to Redruth, in the mining division. At St. Austell, on Wednesday, Mr. Gladstone had another tremendous reception. The meeting was held in the market Hall, and an audience of over 7,000 persons assembled. The right hon. gentleman, is the course of his speech, said that the Protectionists were atill at their old tricks. Bimetallism was one of the names given to pro- ' toction and the abolition of the sugar bounties was another.  Early on Thursday morning Richard Davies, farmer, of Liwyniwrch, near Blacirmill, committed suicide by jumping from the high bridge which crosses over the railway by Blacirmin. The poor fellow lived about two hot= in fright f 1 agony. A scene witnessed at the School Board an Twrarsday, when a a took place as to whether, it wonkl be ads allow the children fo be lecture/ n I effects of aloohol. It was L lecture should be gives.
The Herald of Wales. — 1889-10-19 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

SAD SUICIDES.  A terrible case of suicide has occurred near Wimborne Railway Station. Mr. H. R. Fuller, aged 52 years, was riding along the highway on a tricycle, accompanied by an attendant, when he suddenly left his tricycle.and,before the attendant oould stop him, rushed down an embankment and laid his bead on the rails in front of an approaching train. The engine-guard &track him, knocking him oft the line and breaking his neck. Deceased, who was a doctor, had been staying at Parkatone, near Bournemouth. A verdict of suicide whilst 'labouring under temporary mental derangement has been returned at an inquest on the body of W. H. T. Turnpenney, of 109, Dartmouth-road, Forestbill, who cut his throat with a pocket-knife, the evidence showing that for some time past deceased had been depressed about brisniess' matters. A middle.aged man has committed suicide in s house in the Passage D übesme by asphyxiating berneelf with charcoal-fumes, and while dying he recorded his last impressions- and sensations -on a sheet of notepaper. The first entry was —" My bead is heavy ! " and shortly afterwards appeared the words ' There are noises in my ears, caused no doubt by the bad charcoal supplied, which gives too much pain ! " This went on for one hour and a quarter, the last inscription being: "It is too much to suffer ! " The dead body and the lugubrious document were found by the man's eon, who came to visit him. The deceased was a olookmaker, and business had not prospered with him of late. *The body of a police-constable named Brice !has been taken out of the River Lea at Hertford. He went off duty at one o'clock on Sundsy morning, and as he did not report himself again enquiries were made, with tbe result that the river was dragged and the body found therein. It is supposed that be committed suicide. He bad been in the force for twelve years.
The Herald of Wales. — 1889-10-19 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

LAST MOMENTS OF A SUICIDE. A middle-aged man has committed suicide in a house in Paris by asphyxiating himself with charcoal fumes. While dying he recorded h Waal impressions and sensations on a sheet of notepaper. The first entry was, " My head is heavy !" and shortly after appeared the words, " There are noises in my ears caused, no doubt, by the bad charcoal supplied, which gives too much pain." This went on for on. hour and a quarter, the last inserip. Lion being, "It is too much to suffer !" The dead body and the lugubrious document were found by the man's son, who had come to visit him. The deceased WIM a olock-maker, and business had not prospered with him of late.  _ 'Why, my dear," said Koaggee, with a ghastly smile, "why would the world without woman, lovely woman, be like a blank sheet of paper?" Mrs. Kongo% who had just been giving her man " a piece of her mind," smiled, stld "couldn't think." "Why, becaute, don't you see, love," said the long-suffering one, "it wouldn't even be ruled." _  She had auburn hair, and he wanted to say something very cutting, so he observed, "In some parts I behove they light the streets with red-headed girls." "Humph I that never would no in your town," answered the girl. "Why not?" asked the young fellow. "Why, you'd be hugging the lampposts all days. well as half the night," was the crushing reply. Mr. Oldboy and the widow Jenkins were very old friends, and had not seen each other since youth. so ago naturally became the subjeot of conversation. "Ah, Mr. Oldboy," righted the widow, "I have had a great deal of trouble utzny time, ancel really am not as old as I look." "No,'' responded Mr. Oldboy, I gallantly, "I Am quite sure ef that, Mre, Jenkins." ,
The Herald of Wales. — 1889-08-03 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

CHINA. European scnvulaion or national disaster were an hour later else heard sereanm. and upon going 1 to occur. to Clay's bed room found her lying on the bed ` The Standard correspondent at Shanghai says mlffermg from violent conyaiione. The girl There is still oonsiue' rable tension between stated tout she had taken something, and thel Russian and Chinese entheetnee in e-ansailneaaa shortly afterwarks oceurred.—The of the action of Russia at Deer Island. The Russian fleet in Carom waters is now composed Larreathas gave her emetics, but without effect, I cook at the club stated that when she visited the of ten wee-nhiPei and is thus numerically deceased in the room she admitted having taken stronger than the Chinese squadron. 'vermin killer. Mary Binnersley, another eropleye at the club, said that owing to an intimation which she received that the page-boy had been familiar with the deceased, she informed the Mends of the young man who was courting the deceased. She was keeping company with a man named Harding residing in Stewart-street. —Percy Sinks, the page-boy at the club who was next called, said he was 16 years of age next December. He had been improperly intimate with the girl on one oomaion.—The Deputy-Coroner: I believe this preyed on your mind afterwards, did it net P—Witness: 12 did, Sir.—And in consequence did you tell Mary Binneraley something ? -Yes, I led her to understand what had occurred. I felt I must tell somebedy, it preyed so heavily on my mind.— Do you go to a Sunday school No, sir ;I go to St. James's Church.— Regularly P Yes' sir. —Sarah Macdonald, mother of the deceased, said she had questioned her daughter' when she heard rumours as to her bad conduct, but the girl denied that there waspoesnz truth in them.—Mr. Newton, surgeon, de to making an external examination, and from I the history of the came and from what he had seen he had come to the conclusion that death had resulted from strychnine poisoning. There was 23 per cent, of strychnine in the vermin killer. t Gosling deposed to searching the room and to finding a number of letters. Portraits of the girl Binnersley, the page, and others were found wrapped up, and there was a note appended, saying: "Return these to their lowners, my enemies.' —The Deputy-Coroner: That seems to show what was on her mind.— A letter from Harding to the deceased was read accusing the girl of miseoduct, and adding, "You have dashed the cup of happiness from ray lips, and replaced it with the bitterest call.' The Deputy-Coroner brieflyeaddressed the jury, who returned a verdict of 'Suicide whilst temporarily insane."  A Central News telegram from New York ani Thursday says that Mr. Blaine, in an int...mieo says that the Unibed States is merely enforcing the law in seizing the British &thing vessels.: Astsistant-seeretary lichonar says that the idea of the United States paying indemnity Witg absurd. The matter should be treated as one of treBPass.
The Herald of Wales. — 1889-08-03 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

MURDERED? A SENSATIONAL MYSTERY.  A prosperous kniesier, or legal functionary, whose chief duty congas in drawing up and serving writs and summonses, is missing from Paris since Friday last, and it is supposed that he has been made away with by a man who, in outward appearance, resembled himself. It is not quite a case Of a double or dual self, for the eupposed murderer was a much younger M2LII 'than the hui.Nsier who haa vanished; but the r circumstances of the disappearance 84 they have been set forth by the police are dramatic enough to inspire a sensational novelist with a tolerably strong situation. The miming man had an ap'pointment on Friday evening to meet a friend at his favourite cafe on the Boulevards. At half-past seven he left that place, saying that he was going to dine, not at home, but in a reeteurant, and that he had sent his daughters and his servant to dine also out of doors. There was no one, therefore, in the rooms of the Mustier—who is a widower—on Friday evening • at eight o'oloele. About that hour, however, on the • evening in question the concierge of the house saw a man going up , the stairs who, as regards dram, height, and build was exactly- like the liwieeier, and who ascended the stain', taking two steps at a time, just as was his loaves habit. In about half an hour or so the man eame don-n, and the concierge, stall thinking that he had to deal with his- lodger, went out to give the Feistier some lettere.' To the grestatupifaodon of the door-keeper, the person whom he met was a young man of thirty-live or thereabouts, whereas the." limb of the law" was of middle age. Accosting the stranger the concierge asked him by what tight he had gone upstairs, whereupon the fellow replied that he was one of the clerks of the'huisiiee, and, making a successful bolt for the door, escaped. This is all that is known at present of the mystery. The .misaing man has not been seen by his daughters since Friday, and there is no reason to suppose that be Lae committed suicide, as he was of a lively disposition, and was doing a good busiJaess in his looality„.., 1  imman Fritjay
The Herald of Wales. — 1889-04-13 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

THE MURDER OF AN  ACTRESS.  The inquest on the victims of the Gospel Oak tragedy has been completed in the Coroner's Court, St. Pancras. Mr. Bernard Abrahams, solicitor, appeared for the relatives of Miss Green, and Mr. Curtis, solicitor, of Lincoln's Inn, watched the case on behalf of Mrs. Hunt. The bodies having been identified; Charles Matthew Green, c.erk, brother of the deceased woman, deposed that he last saw his sister alive on Monclayr,v, reek..t,He wa4aware that she had been living with Hunt. She had formerly been in the theatrical prufesszion. Mrs. Eluth, landlady of the house in Mansfield-road where the tragedy took place, said that the couple called on 29th Wfarth, and she believing there to be respectable married people, let them her ground floor apartments. On Monday last, when she was preparing their lunch, they returned from a walk, and she heard them quarrelling. Shortly afterwards she heard a sound of firearms, and rushing to the dining-room she was horrified to find blood flowing from beneath the door. Mr. 'Muth said when he forced the door open Hunt was lying against it with a pistol in his right hand. He was then still breathing. Mr. James Curtis Lenan then produced a medical certificate to the effect that Mrs. Hunt was unable to attend. He said he knew Hunt as a gentleman otbidependent means, and last saw him about mlWays ago. Medical evidence having been given. Charles Green, recalled, said that his sister bad lived with Hunt upon previous occasions. Hunt frequen.tly struck her, and had often threatened to take her life. 'He told witness that he had a revolver, which he displayed, Ming " and Isluilluseit." Witness, however, not pay much attention to these threats. He knew nothing about Hunt's previous life or I character. Hunt was of a violent disposition, but he was not In the habit of drinking. The Coroner having summed up, the jury found " that Miss Green died from the effects ;of a revolver shot inflicted by Hunt, and that ; Hunt committed suicide whilst temporarily ; insane."