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Bridport, Beaminster, and Lyme Regis Telegram and Dorset, Somerset, and Devon Advertiser. — 1886-01-08 (Bridport, Dorset, England)

MURDER TWO 1 EARS AGO.  CONFESSION OF THE MURDERER. George Herbert Thackray, alias King, the young man arrested by the Grimsby borough police on a charge of vagrancy, and who afterwards stated that he murdered a clerk named John Broome Tower, aged 20, in St. Mary's Walk, Islington, on New Year's Eve, 1884, has since made the following detailed confession :—" On New Year's Eve, 1884, I and a man named Mick Sullivan were drinking in the Three Nags Publichouse, Whitechapel-road, wfA-Ca' clerk came in and began talking about the amount of money in his possession. Sullivan said we would have the money, so we dodged about until after midnight. He bade a companion good-bye under the trees in St. Mary's Park, Islington, and then we pounced upon him, put a handkerchief round his neck, and strangled him. We dragged him up the embankment and threw him into the reservoir, after robbing him of £5O. We took his watch, but ;Liter- , wards lost it. After that I went to my lodgings at 72, DunAan's-row, Burdett-road, I got iO, my share of the CiO. We dragged the body through a hedge before throwing it into the reservoir, and We eft the handkerchief around his neck." The tragedy caused considerable excitement at the time, just two years ago. It may lie of interest to recapitulate the circumstances as then ascertained. On the m ,ruing of Wednesday, January 2nd, 1884, a body wee found in the New River Company's reservoir, Stoke Newington, which was identified as that of .fe elm Broome Tower, aged 20, a clerk in the Underwriting Department at Lloyd's. Subsequent inquiry revealed that Mr. Tower had been to a mid night service on Monday, and had _parted with a friend Ilea:* the Manor House, Stoke Newington, early on Tuesday morning. Nothing more was heard of him until his body was found as above. On the Tuesday a leersen in the employ of the New River Company found a hat, shirt collar, pair m•f cuff., and other art;clescmi the.lank of the reservoir. The collar had 3PParently been wrenched off, and its button holes and those, of the cuffs were torn. The police were communieated with, the reservoir was dragged, mid Tower's body was recovered, wit,i a handkerchief tied tightly re mnd his neck, and knotted several times. A ring usually worn by the deceased, together with other articles; were missing, and there were numerous footmarks on the reservoir banks and other signs of a struggle. It was at once supposed that a murder had been committed, and some clue was at first thought to have been obtained by the discovery near the spot of a woman's earring and brooch, of common make. The police were unable to clear up the mystery in any way, and mooted the theory of suicide, which did not, however, commend itself to the coroner's jury, who, after hearing the evidence, returned a verdict of wilful murder against some persen or persons unkiviwn. There the matter has rested till the cmfession now made by Thackray.
Bridport, Beaminster, and Lyme Regis Telegram and Dorset, Somerset, and Devon Advertiser. — 1886-05-14 (Bridport, Dorset, England)

FRAUD AT WIMBORNI. Richard James Davis was CllArgeti with ohtainim six handkerchiefs, value 95., hi false pretence., from Messrs. T. Gray and Henry (,ray, tailors, itc.-- Nlr Thuitt prosecubml.—lt appeared prisoner said he wa sent for the handkerchiefs by his sister, Mins Davis, , deaf and dumb lady, at the Laing's Hotel. Enquirie were made, which proved the; the pretence wa entirely fraudulent. Jt was admitted that a deman, was made foe payment, and failing this he was give] into custody. He _tried to sell the handkerchief before arrested.—Miss Davis maid she never gay. pritoner any authority to use her name or credit, no did she go to Laings' Hotel.—The defence was ci entire innocence of fraud and the effects of drinjt. H was found guilty and admitted a previous convictim of stealing a boiler and some weights. There wen many minor convictions against him—Committed fo two montius. Edwin Abbott (18), init.:nor, Ernest Wilmot (20). lahoarer, and William Wilrnott (21), were indicted fo setting fire to certain furze at the "Birch," whiel immense Part of Lick Farm, the property of Thorns. rring, at Halatock.—They were bound over to coin,. up for judgment when called upon, the Judge severel3 censuring _prisoners for their wantonness. Henry Way (15), and Stephen Down (14), labourers, were also indicted for setting fire to certain furze thi. property of Benjamin Genge, at Wotton Fitzpaine.— They were sentenced to two days' hard labour. INSANE, John Walker (43), labourer, was charged with setting fire to a rick of wheat straw, the property ot Henry Ensor, at Sherborne, on the 10th of February. —The medical evidence of Dr. Good, Dorchester, showed that prisoner was insane; and it was stated that he attempted suicide whilst awaiting his k ial.— The Judge ordered him to be detained during Her Majesty's pleasure. —-- -
Bridport, Beaminster, and Lyme Regis Telegram and Dorset, Somerset, and Devon Advertiser. — 1886-04-02 (Bridport, Dorset, England)

MESTIC TRAGEDY AT BRIGHTON.  MURDER AND SUICIDE. George Henry Metcalfe, 32, landlord of the Lion ' St. James's-street, Brighton, has not been very ' with his wife, aged 26, to whom he had been id only three years. During the past few days had ceased to live in the house, and one day this lk the license of the inn was transferred to the J'a father, who took the business to keep a home his daughter. About three o'clock on Friday 'neon Metcalfe went to the house and sat for , little time in the bar parlour talking to the bard. At length he went upstairs. The next minute -'barmaid heard shots, and saw Metcalfe standing ~ Sight of stairs in the upper part of the house 'lg at his wife, who was on the landing. Two were fired in the barmaid's presence, and the Inate,woman dropped on the landing mortally el.Metcalfe then ran into the bedroom blew his own brains out by firing into his mouth. shot Passed through his head and into the ceiling. died almost instantaneously, but his wife lingered eat suffering for about an bone and aV " `!h° _Cad as was suffseinguilstbrea wounds Di 3.n• tbs. nook (In IA bulb* wss ‘6lbit=iel* the as. s Wand habit Two- lona WOO st onus simossed ; 1"14 hoNI OM now Ibit die gm vas SW  She repeatedly made incoherent ejaculations as to her sufferings, but was not able to give any account of the occurenoe. The revolver with which the deed was committed was a five-barrelled one, and wag purchased within the teat few days at a local pawnbroker's. Metcalfe had given it out that he was about tu emigrate, and it is rumoured that a breach of promise suit was pending against him.  teni lad tad Rid images eXCelr nsel titeinent, erth brquaii 'here ebletuan' Itrc ' ;tom r Lowrie, from the igereet, co d he • &tresses • 'Witt vide, tdt earned n the r etendani .y an„ Itopy armed e hae eek or hi, fternoon .me I id. bet ring hots hfortimm, (made!. d 1)1 I. is 6 'hen 4'
Bridport, Beaminster, and Lyme Regis Telegram and Dorset, Somerset, and Devon Advertiser. — 1878-03-15 (Bridport, Dorset, England)

BUICION BY A WOMAN.—An Inquest was held in the Council Chamber on Wednesday afternoon, before Mr. G. B. Aldridge, coroner, and a jury of which Mr. T. Winter was chosen foreman, on the body of Martha Ann Weeks, a widow, who kepi a small shop in Market-street, an i who committed suicide just m raing. The first witness was deceased's (laughter. tlartha Ann Weeks, who said her neither was 65 yeartof age. She was in the habit of sleeping with her mother, and they went to bed about auarter-p ell 10 ~'eleck lest night. Deceased got up about seven 'cluck that morning and went into the garret in her nighteireis. Sue got up about , eight o'clock, and Went downstairs, w here she rent sined about live minutes. On returnitig upstairs she found her mother had not come down trete tee garret. She dressed herself and went to the garret, where she saw a night dress hanging in the corner. Peeling alarm-ti she called Mrs. Grant, a neighbour. Her mother eienned very depressed yesterday. but she had rtei(er ueat d her speak of committing suicide. —Eizi Grant said she Woe calied by the last witues. about 90 termites pit eight that morning, and found tne deceased iisngtug how a bar in her garret. Ste saw her taken down met ieint firs demi., whir pronounced het dead. Lately deceweei had been low and deseenflinfl She saw her yesterday al ternuou, and on her enquiring after her health Abe said she was very low and very dull, and reinarkixi how wicked she was. Deceased had had  cvu par 41), Lie eldlZ,lrod.—E twat Ita Ntuud .u, lller, iiiiphew of the iait witness, spoke to Elo,lo,opanying his auut t Uui giirret and assisting in cutting 1 ,wn the deeea.ed He heard deceased complain a fewlY LO how very bad business we. and that she coukl at ant her [none), ie. She seemed very low at times. —P Kicks, who accoinp4nied chi last two witnesses t, the garret, give corroborative evidence.—Tno jury returned a verdict of "Suicide by hanging whilst In a state of temp wary inaauity."
Bridport, Beaminster, and Lyme Regis Telegram and Dorset, Somerset, and Devon Advertiser. — 1885-08-21 (Bridport, Dorset, England)

DISTRESSING SUICIDE OF A BUILDER.  On Monday Mr. Cartar, West Kent coroner, held an inquest at the Beehive, Pope-street, Eltham, on the body of Henry Fenn, aged 44, builder, of Southwood Cottage, Pope-street. On Saturday morning he rose between six and seven o'clock, and his wife, who saw him leave the bedroom, imagined he was going to catch the train for New-cross, where he was carrying on some building operations. about ten o'clock she went into a workshop at the rear of the house to feed some chickens, and ran against her husband, who was suspended by a sash-line to an iron damp fixed to two beams in the ceiling, She raised an alarm, and two men cut the body down, but the cord was not loosened from the throat until the arrival of Inspector Digby from Eltham Police Station. Dr. Jenkins arrived at the same time and pronounced life extinct.—John R. Willis, plumber, of Merchland-road, Pope-street, Eltham, said he was a good deal with the deceased, and had business transactions with him, He was with him on Friday, when he appeared very much flurried, and said he thought the job lie had at New Cross would drive him mad, as they would not advance him any more money. In reply to the coroner, the witness said by "they " the deceased meant the surveyor.— Catherine Maria Fenn, widow of deceased, said her husband had been worried of late.—The jury returned a verdict "That the deceased committed suicide by hanging whilst labouring under temporary mental detangement."  to till le OM Poe ... am* la Ilarrolig date tort.. their _II their brAtill_ tir benefit or x llllKethaist ousamie Wyss. were system hot notallesiores toreros. radt ___2„...1 „...t tar el= • • Mae/ "iTabot mot ."'"" to early IS .81 Vel . ....• EirairtarAlNtal ''''. •.. ' a
Bridport, Beaminster, and Lyme Regis Telegram and Dorset, Somerset, and Devon Advertiser. — 1885-02-20 (Bridport, Dorset, England)

BEFORE ARO AFFER. Just before starting on the 'wedding trip. Young Wire—l am afraid. Oar, that our trip to Cherbourg and Pariewill be very expansive. Young husband—lt may be a trifle expensive, but just think what a delightful time we will hays I Just ended the wedling trip. Young Wife—What a delightful time we have had dear ! Young Husband—Yes, we have had a pleasaht enough time, but just think what an awful expense it has been. A. 'dentist says that the reason kissing is so pleasant is because the teeth. Jew bines, and lips are full of nerves, and when the lips meet an electric currant ix generated. Ire should explain why it is the electric current does not work when he kisses his mother-in-law ta please his S3ience cannot upset our religious nations about  illseing. A men telegraphed from New York on Christmas Eve to friends in a New England town :—C Janet b 3 down till Saturday—foremen drunk. Wh3n he went down he was astonished by the hilarious meaner in which his friends received him. It CO.M9 out that the t ilegram when receive d real: Cannot c me down befoza Thursday forenoon—drunk. Referring to a case of attempted suicide at Sitting. bourne Deselect wittily describes the other Bourne that bourne where there is no sitting. What shall I talk to you about? said • clergyman to' some school children. About ten minutes, exclaimed a young girl. Do you drink 'aid • temperance reformer to a beggar who had implored alms of him. Yes, thank you, Mr, was the cOol reply, where shell we go A shabblls-dressed woman called upon a gentleman , for aid. claiming that she was in a starving condition. ' He looked upon her plethoric form, estimating the avoirdupois of the superfl ious flat, and answered—You do not look like a starving woman. I know it, she whiningly answered ; I am bloated with grief. An old lady who had several unmarried daeght ore fel them largely on • fish diet, because, as she ingeniously observed, fish is rich in phosphorus. and phosphoric is the essential thing in making matches. Sir Edward Darin. has returned to the whole of hie tenants 20 per cent or their rentals on seconnt of the bad year they have had. He could not have hit upon a boiler plan for en-Dering himself to his tenents.—Judy. A oritie dropped into a studio in Paris one day, stopped before the portrait of • lady on an easel, and remarked: It is very nicely painted; but why did you take such an ugly model 1 It is my mother, calmly replied the artist. Oh, pardon me a thousand times I said the critic, in great confusion. You are right; I ought to have perceived it : it resembles you erootly.
Bridport, Beaminster, and Lyme Regis Telegram and Dorset, Somerset, and Devon Advertiser. — 1885-08-28 (Bridport, Dorset, England)

SUICIDE IN TIIE TEMPLE.  About half-past seven on Friday morning a number of persons were observed running towards the lawn of the Middle Temple, London, on which the members of the tennis club play. It was supposed that a fire had broken out, but it was speedily discovered that a man had flung himself from one of the windows of the high building known as Temple Gardens. He was found lying on the edge of the grass plot absolutely nude with the exception of a pair of trousers. The body was horribly mutilated, the skull being fractured and the brains scattered over the grass. Death must have been instantaneous. Inquiries being made, it was found that the deceased was a young man named S. Henderson Williams, residing on the fifth floor of Middle Temple Gardens. He was not known as a barrister, and his name does not appear in the Law List. He had evidently opened the window of his chambers, and walked along the edge of the bay window below, from whence he sprang, fling more than eighty feet. His slippers , were left on the edge of the roof kom whence he jumped. The motive for the act is unknown, but it is. understood that he had been in bad health for some time, and was confined to his room recently with a severe attack of rheumatism.  KITABLISHID Nuns 50 Yssas.—Whites Celebrated Yoe Polo Trusses. Single Trusses. from 105. ; Double Trusses, from 183. t,ant fee from observation and poet free Werre's Mootiete Livia Tauss is the most effective invention for the Westmont of Hernia. The 11111111 of a steel sprinr, so hurtful in its ollosto, Ii avoided, a soli bondage being worn round tits body, elide ilto requisite redeilog power is supplied by*, Meedids Pad lee Potosi law, dicing with so WPM No 4U list ear nee be deleetod. Dead for disetiptive ellbteilimeideb rid Ow. to J, Mete osl 00. (lAstiadL Pletedlip. Loam De sot buy of =lobo dm lIIIPINIS Owe idee•ibto, J. Ohm m Apra
Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1893-12-09 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

DEFICIENCIES AT THE BANK OF ENGLAND.  Per some time past rumours have been current that the amount of the dellciencies that have been discovered in tie Chief Cashier's department of the Bank of England are much larger than was previously thought, but nothing of an authentic nature can be learnt on the subject. In our opinion, says the tflst../inster Ga.:ette, these rumours are exaggerated, but even if they were not—that is, if the Batik has lost anything between £lOO,OOO and £lso,Cee—that, in it elf, would not be a very serious matter to an institution which has a capital of £14,553,000, and a permanent reserve of over £3,000,000. Losses as large as those with which rumour is 90 busy have teen incurred before, but they did not cccasion a flutter in the City. The only point of importance is whether the transactions which have occasioned loss were under the cognisance of the di!ectors, or whether they were carried through se ithout either their knowledge by any one of the officials. If the latter be the case, some reorganisation is clearly necessary.  it lb statec -aua in au.atton to tne civiucuu oi as. in the f) paid in Apt il last it is Loped that a further dividend of about 4& in the R, imly be paid in three months time to the sufferers through the .hire of the concern known as Barkers' Bank.  The Ashford Bench on Monday efininitted for trial a num named ewafter en the charge of stabbing his brother. The brothers quarrelled, and during a fight the prisoner is alleged to have stabbed him three times in the hair, inflicting a serious wound.  At Greerwicla telice-ccurt, On Monday, Bert Friend,a lad aged A 3, was charged with attempting to commit suicide by cutting his throat. He made the attempt :r. consequence of the fact that Ins fat her was in a dying conditicn.-. He was eventudlly discharged.  At Telles Mr. BtierTv(l, a farmer, ant Mrs. Wroth, a farmer's wife, were driving to market when the horse r(ltekl. Both occupants of the -rh;ror, wnrn thrrwn cut, and Mrs. Wroth received t.i.;. nouo injuries that she died without regaining consciousness.  Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton lia.a remitted 60 per cint. of the rents payable hy his tenants in the Waltham Abbey district, consequent upon the deITessed state of agritulture. Sir Hereward Wake has made an abatement of 24 per cent, to his tenants in the same district.
Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1893-02-18 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

DISTRESSING SUICIDE AT WARING GREEN. FOUND HANUIN4 IN A SITED.  On Thursday morning quite a sensation was created in the neighbonrnood of Waring Oren on it becoming known that the dead body of Jesse Kershaw, 44 years of age, a stcne-dresser, of Elward•street, had been found hanging in a shed at Mount Quarry. He bad been ill and out of work for about 14 weeks, and left home at two a'olook on Wednesday afternoon, telling his wife that be was going for a walk. He did not return at night, and she 090113 to the conclusion that he hal gone to his brother's at Hove Edge, On the following morning, shortly before seven o'clock, a stone dresser named William Jones, employed at Mottut Quarry, on arriving at Hs work went into a shed and found Kershaw suspended by a rope from the roof. He at once out the body down, but life was extinct. He then informed the police, and the facts of the case have been reported to the coroner by P.S. Marshall. THE INQUEST was held yesterday morning at the Crown Hotel/ Light()liffe-road, before Mr. W. Barstow (district coroner). The following comprised the jury : Messrs. J. Remodels (foreman), A. Hirst, T. Drake, S. Abbey, A. Taylor, J. P611.11°13, E. Empsell, J. W. B. Clarkson, T. A. Bullock, W. Hartley, T. Willey, and T. Drake.  EMIL & K asstiew,widow of &vessel. oorroborated the above facts, sod added that her husband had • cough, but it left him a day or too before his death, at which time he seemed to change altogether. He bad been depressed for the last few weeks.  WILLIAM' JONES, st-one--cireas- er, -i:tt-tie Head, deposed to finding the body in the shed at Mount Quarry on the previous morning, and to cutting it down. He was quite dead. SERGEANT MARSHALL said Kershaw was last seen alive about five o'clock near his own home. HANNAH Titoms.s, Lightoliffe.road, laid out the body, but found no marks of injury thereon. A verdict of suicide whilst temporarily Insane was returned.  a 7: at Ili  6 6  CADBURY'S COCrIA.—" A Oooos possessing vain. able 11e3b-fortning guAlitiea, and imparting strength and staying power,"Reak.4.;  OR 0 OR • - KIDNEY
Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1883-04-07 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

PETZIGIGHZD SIIICIDIL—OrI Saturday afternoon all Inquest was held at Peckham touching the death of Mr. Edwin Robb Simpson, ;gad sixty-four years. • confectioner, lately residing at Peckham, who committed suicide by blowing his brains out with a double-barrelled gun on the 27th ult. The widow deposed that on Tuesday evening, in last week, she left the deceased sitting in front of the fire, and on her return home she found the front door locked. Bee son managed to enter the boom by a window, and on entering the back kitchen they struck a light, when she discovered the deceased sitting in front of the fire with a doublabarrelled Run between his legs, the right hand barrel having recently been discharged. The deceased's brains were scattered ab3ul the room, and • portion of his face was torn away by the force of the explosion and blown a distance of Bft. Deceased had been out of employment for some time. The jury returned a verdict of "Suicide while Bulletin/ from temporary insanity." A Barns is me Ara.—A very signior occurrence Is at the present moment, amming to a Frankfort paper, perplexing the wisest and most experienced ornithologists. In the environs of that town, • short time ago, the attention of pedestrians was attracted by a desperate battle which was being waged above their heads, the belligerents being a flock of rooks. There were three distinct army corps and the engagement was a prolonged and sanguinary affair, the combatant*, which attacked each other, methodically and in a spirited manner, being apparently under the command of rook generals Imbued with military genius. The result of the battle was that forty rooks were killed, their mangled remains being picked up by the spectators as they fell to the ground, and conveyed as evidence of the combat to the office of the paper which narrates the occurrence. Both sexes and all ages were represented in the list of those who fell fighting for some cause which must nesessarily remain a mystery. The victorious rooks, after the day bad been won, were observed to fly off in one direction, cawing triumphantly; whilst what remained of their adversaries meat off in an opposite way, in • dejected, disheartened Manner, as though ashamed of their defeat. Rook; It is a well-known fact, are not in the habit of fighting, and it is this which lends interest to the incident. —Evening Standard. CHICAGO Pics-Pacsnw.—This enormous business, carried out with the most elaborate mechanical con-triremes, shows from returns lately published to have greatly declassed in scale of late year.; for while in 1878-9 no less than 7,480,000 bogs were killed and 18814 only 5,700,000 were secured for the gidilkneet in s. 'Them figures are for winter packing only. The summer packing is somewhat less, the last returns showing only 3.225,000 as against 5,323,000 in 1880. As a natural result prices have fjooo up considerably. Tan B/II