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The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1893-04-01 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

SUDDEN DEATH OF THE DUKE OF  BEDFORD.  The Duke of Bedford has died suddenly at his London residence, Chesham.place. The late Duke had been under medical treatment for heart disease for several years. Ihe family Came to London a month ago for the season, and his Grace has been ailing throughout the whole of that period. On the day of his death he did not leave the house. Late in the afternoon he was found lying upon the floor in his library, where he usually sat, ne evidently having fallen whilst walking across the apartment. Messengers were instantly dispatched for medical aid, Dr. Maclagan, of 9, Cadogenplace, and Dr. Gibbons, of Cadogan square, being summoned. Dr. Maclagan was the first to arrive, but by that time his Grace had passed away. The doctor states that the death was a simple case of heart disease, and a certificate will be given to that effect. From further particulars to hand it appears that his Grace and the Duchess were engaged to dine at night with the Empress Frederick, at Buckingham Palace. The Duchess went out in the afternoon, leaving the Duke alone in his " den "or study. Here he was last seen alive at about 5 o'clock by his valet, who took him his cup of tea. He was then, in the valet's own words, "as well as usual, sad quite jolly." The valet left him, not expecting to be called again until he was ready to dress for dinner. It was his practice to shut himself up in this little study reading and amusing himEelf for hours together. The Duolsess returned home shortly after 6 o'clock, and on entering the roots saw his Grace's dead body lying on the oarpet. A message was sent to the Empress at the Palace, where the news (mused a painful surprise. The tragic, circumstances under which the father of the deceased died will be well remembered. In January, 1891, it was announced that the Duke of Bedford had died suddenly from congestion of the lungs, but two days later it became known that an inquest had been held upon the body, and that the greatest secrecy was observed with the objeot of concealing the real cause of death. Eventually it transpired that the Duke had committed suicide by shooting himself with a pistol.
The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1893-02-18 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

SIX MILES OVER THE ICE.  A curious incident is recorded from the iceblockaded pork-of Odessa. The other day, whilst a low-lying mist obscured all view of tue open water-line some six or seven miles seaward, the quarantine guard observed a moving and approaching object, coming apparently—as a Teuton would say—out of the dim and distant Ewigkeit. This apparition-like figure, tramping slowly and laboriously over the rugged ice, at last presented itself to the astonished guard, and manifested its corporeality as the c Twin of the Norwegian steamer Livingstone come to obtain pratique for his invisible vessel lying beyond the ice-line six miles away. After receiving pratique, this sturdy Norse mariner, apparently quite certain of his bearings, again vanished in the grey mist to find his ship and await the dispersion of the glacial barrier to the port entry.  Thirteen persons were killed by the collapse of several houses at Campolieto.  Of the Wesleyan chapels in England, 3,871, it is stated, have an income in excess of expenditure; 2,926 need imore liberal support to make income and expenditure balance. The Lord Chancellor intends to call attention to the subject of committal, under the Debtors Act, and to move for the appointment of a Select Committee to inquire fully into the subject. It is said by the London correspondent of the Manchester Courier that a wealthy American offered as much as £5O for a seat on Monday in the Speaker's Gallery. Mr. John F. M`Carthy, M.P. for MidTipperary, has died. He was returned for MidTipperary at the General Election as an AntiParnellite. At the Isle of Wight Petty Sessions on Saturday John Smith, a respectably dressed young man, who refused his address, was charged with obtaining food and lodgings at Sandown by means of false pretences, and also with attempting suicide. After being apprehended at Newport on the firstnamed charge, the prisoner, while being searched at the police station, suddenly drew a razor from his trousers pocket and made a gash at his throat, inflicting a wound, though not of a serious nature. He wail remanded.  .
The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1893-08-05 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

LOVE AND SUICIDE.  On Monday afternoon, at the Islington Coroner's Coast, Dr. Danford Thomas held an inquiry concerning the death of Antoine Verpilleux, aged 2. years, a French professor of languages, at 2, Rae de l'lndustrie, St. Etienne, Loire, lately residing at 10, Hunter-street, Brunswick-square, W.C., who committed suioide on Friday last.—Mr. Paul Scours°, a merchant, residing at Holloway, identified the deceased as a friend of his. He had known him for three years, and he always appeared to be in good circumstances. Deceased called at witness's house about 10 o'clock on Friday night when he seemed in his usual health. Witness knew he was in the habit of taking drugs.—Miss Jessie Burgivita, a young lady of 44, Davenant-road, Upper Holloway, said the deceased was a friend of the family. He was always of an eccentric nature. On Friday he called when witness did not expect him.—The Coroner : Were you engaged to him ?—No. He was desirous of engaging my attentions, but I did not wish it. Continuing, witness said after her mother had gone to bed the deceased caught hold of her. She requested him to desist, and he pulled out a small pot and said he would end his life. She was not frightened, as he had often used similar threats. Witness at once went and told her mother what had happened, and did not go down until the policeman was in the house. She then saw him lying on the sofa insensible.—Caroline Borgivits, mothik of 11 the last witness, said the deceased frequently I visited the family. Only recently she found out his affection for her daughter. He caned on Friday, and remained to see her daughter. After supper he asked to see "Jessie" alone, and witness went to bed, telling them not to be long. Soon after her daughter came to her, and on going down she found the deceased on the sofs. There was something like tar on his lips and fingers, and he could hardly speak. She at once called her husband. Afterwards she found the pot of poison on the loon—Dr. James Cooper, medical officer at the Great Northern Hospital, said that the deceased died on Saturday from the effects of opium poisoning. The amount of poison found in the stomach was enough to kill fifty people.—The jury returned &verdict of suicide whilst temporarily flume.
The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1893-02-25 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

BARKER'S BANK CASE. SUICIDE OF ONE OF THE PARTNERS.  Mr. Hilton Barker, one of the partners in the Arm of bankers against whom proceedings have been taken at the Mansion House Police-court, was found to have committed suicide on Wednesday morning in a District Railway Company's train, between Southfields and East Putney Station, by blowing out his brains. The bullet entered the mouth and penetrated the skull, going out behind the left ear. On the body was found a telegram addressed to an official of the Bankruptcy Court, saying, "Come and fetch your victim." The deceased travelled by the train which left Wimbledon at six minutes past 9, the train being due at the Mansion House Station at five minutes to 10. The body was re moved from the carriage at East Putney Station.  At the Mansion House, on Wednesday, before Mr. Alderman Tyler, Hilton Cassenet Barker and William Barker, lately carrying on business as bankers in Mark-lane, should have surrendered to their bail on charges oT obtaining certain sums of money under false pretences, as reported when the defendants were before the court on the last occasion.  Prior to the ease being called on Mr. William Barker entered the court evidently labouring under great emotion. On the Alderman taking his seat, Mr. Charles Mathews, who defended, said since the last hearing a tragic event had occurred—only that morning, in fact, one of the two accused who was before his Worship on that occasion having committed suicide. Under these circumstances, and looking at the painful position of his unhappy brother who now appeared, he thought it would not be desirable to proceed with the evidence now. If his worship desired formal proof of the suicide, it would be forthcoming, but apart from this he did not think it advisable to proceed. Alderman ryler said he was much distressed at bearing what had occurred. He quite agreed with Mr. Mathews that the best course to pursue was to adjounti the proceedings. Mr. Mathews said he would call proof of the suicide.  Mr. Beard, one of the Under Sheriffs, said that while at Putney that morning his attention was drawn to the body of a man lying in one of the waiting-rooms in charge of an officer. Be was bleeding profusely from a wound in the head, and 'A as quite dead. Be recognised the deceased as Mr. Hilton Barker. . _ _ .  Mr. Mathews: I have received most positive instructions from Mr William Barker to allow this case to proceed. The Bon. A. Lyttelton, who appeared with Mr. Talbot for the prosecution, said Of course I entirely concur with what has been stated, that it would be against humanity and decency to proceed with the case. Mr. William Barker: Oh, don't consider humanity. Alderman Tyler said he would adjourn the ease. The defendant was then admitted to theism. bail as before, two sureties in £.2.500 each.
The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1893-02-25 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

PRISONER BEFORE THE MAGISTRATES. SHE THREATENS TO COMMIT SUICIDE.  The prisoner appeared before the Bench at the Police Unlit on Wednesday, charged with drowning her child by throwing it into the river. Prisoner was conveyed to the police court in a cab from the workhouse, where she has been detained si,ice Monday. The priioner, a rather good looking and comely person. showed nnmistskable signs of being mentally deranged. The case was heard in the private room of the magistrates. and the prisoner was allowed to sit down, she being too weak to stand. Stint. Junes remarked thst he only wanted sufficient evidence taken to justify a remand, and asked that ihe plisoser be remanded for a fortnight, certain oircunistanties having arisen that justified this course. Dr Howard Davis,, Medical Moor of Health, said that he had attended the pii•oner since she had been taken to the workhouse Witness had examined her that day, and it was his opinion Viat she was deranged, and thi t she WAS in a homicidal and suicidal disposition. That morning prisoner told witness that she wanted to go where her little child was drowned. Witness had attended prisoner on a previous occasion at the workhouse. Prisoner had been confined about three montts ogi. Her mind became deranged also about twelve months ar, and she was then conveyed to a lunatic asylum. q hat took place shortly after she bad given birth to a child. The Stipendiary—Then she should have been looked after on this occasion. Dr Howard Davies resuming, stated that she had been confined in the workhouse for some time previons to her having given birth to the last child. Sting so anxious to get out of the workhouse, and her state being much better, she was liberated. She was very anxious about her children. Mr T. P. Jenkins—Why was the then taken to the workhouse? Witness—l think the police were anxious that she should be under proper supervision. Mr Jenki-is—ls she in poor circumstances? Superintendent Jones— Yea ; in very poor circumstance... Mr Jenkins—How long was she confined in the workhouse? Witness—About six months. She Was disoharged  and got all right. Soperintendent Jones remarked that is would be glad if the Bench could see their way clear to remand the accused for 14 days. The Stipendiary questioned whether they had jurisdiction to older her 0 be detained at the workhouse. Dr Howard Davies explained that the Bench bad power. The Stip ndiary ordered her to be detained u a lunatic. Dr Howald Davies—This morning she threatened to commit suic de. Prisoner. interposing in a low tone, I've drowned my child.' The Stipendiary—Do you want to drown yourself? Prisoner—l am the mother of the child. The Stipendiary—Would you like to go after the little child? Prisoner—Ye. Superintendent Jones—Would you like to go after the litle child into the water? Prisoner Yes, Sir. Dr Holm. I Davies—She attempted to strangle herself last night • The Bench then remanded defendant, and ordered her to be detained in the workhouse for a ' fortnight.
The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1893-11-18 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE OF A  BOY.  Details of a sad suicide of a boy of 12 in Dublin have been given in the Dublin Social Review. In a house in the Coombe lived a family consisting of a mother and four children, who had been well-todo people and were well connected, but owing to the bankruptcy and suicide of the father had been reduced to penury and obliged to live in one room, which three other families also occupied. They were in rags, and almost starving. A little son of 12 was., distracted at the sufferings of his mother and sisters that, in despair of being able to support them, be bought with the few shillings which he had earned some articles of clothing and papers entitling the buyer to insurance coupons. Ile then went and drowned himself in order that his family might be helped out of misery by his death. In his childish ignorance he did not know that his doing so would be considered a fraud, and bring no benefit whatever to his dear ones. 'this is the letter which the poor child wrote to his mother before he went to his death :—" Dear Motlaer,—l spent the four and sixpence halfpenny for your benefit, and I hope the money it will bring you will help you to forgive my rash aot. Tell the police to search in the harbour of Portobello, and when they have found me get them to write a description of my clothes and what I have in my pockets. They will find a cap that oost sixpence, and will entitle you to £2OO Insurance money; pair of suspenders, 41d., with a coupon on them for 1300 • a belt, 6d., for £100; and ' papers, one entitling you to £l,OOO, and the others to ENO each—in all 63,500. Don't spend too much on my funeral, and mind the money, which will make you rioh.—Your loving son, FIERDINAND FRZYNII RIZNZI u
The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1893-07-15 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

TRAGEDY AT POPLAR.  Ihe Poplar Corfner's Court was the scene of gre4; excitement on Tuesday. Robert Puller, of 61, Staiusby-place, Limehouse, after carrying on business as a shoemaker at that address for 29 years, committed suicide by taking oxalic acid. He was 62 years of age, and his son, George William, told the coroner that he last saw his father alive on Sunday week. On the following Saturday he heard that he had poisoned himself. Then George, who, in the chronicler's phrase, was "very exulted," went on to say that his father was not or temperate habits. He had had trouble with his wife, and had toli him that she had circulated a lot of sandal about him in the neighbourhood, adding that if she did not withdraw what she had said 11..? would kill himself. He had been married three times. Last Friday, it further transpired, Foliar the elder was locked up for being drunk and incapable, but liberated on bail. There being no question about the cauee of death, the jury returned a verdict of, " Suici le whilst temporarily insane," aria immediately after the inquest the son himself was arrested for attempting to shoot himself on Monday.  Alfred Pattle, manager of the HoPoway Cs.stle London, oommitted suicide by hanging. lie was seen going into the cellar and about an hour nfterwards was found hanging by a tope which wal at tached to a beam. The door of the cellar was ioo:an4l on the inside, and had to be forced open.  • So palmistry has at last lieen.declared illegal. At al events, Miss Mary Gaines, a lady of good p.,sit,co, who practises palmistry and gives (I.:ince...ions as " Marlius "at her residence, was convicted at Darlington on Monday as a rogue and a vapbond, and lined 103 and costs for using tnewe—to wit, palmistry—to deceive. While some masons were executing some repairs at Fort George Barracks, Inverness, on Monday, the scAtfolding gave way, and two men fell 301 t. One of them is dead and the other lies in a precarious condition.  Bishop Slaeepehanks, the new Bishop of Norwioh, we.s on Monday night, et a orowded ferewell meeting of his old congregetion et Liverpool, presented with • beautiful pastoral staff, designed in fine Gothio art.  The 'V ictorian Government has decided to impoee in inoome tax which is estimated to yield an annual rtvenne of 000,000.
The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1893-01-21 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

TROUBLES IN HAYTI.  FIGHTING IN THE STREETS.  The following telegram has been received by the New Yotk Herald from its corresponignt at Kingston, Jamaica : News has reached here from Hayti that a battle was fought in the streets of the village of Lansedepeau, near Port-au-Prince, between a detachment of President Hippolyte's troops and a body of insurgents. As soon as the news of a rising reached the capital, President Hippolyte at once ordered troops to proceed to the spot, and 300 soldiers, with 20 officers, were soon on the way. The reports received in the capital declared that the streets of the village were filled with armed men. While fighting was proceeding there, news was received at Port-au-Prince of another outbreak near St. Michael. The residents at that place are in a state of terror; all places of business are closed, and private residences are barricaded. More troops are under orders to leave with the object of suppressing the rising, and will be moved with all possible speed. President Hippolyte has issued a manifesto in which he declares that these insurrectionary movements are the work of his enemies, and that there is no organised rebellion or armed opposition to the Government. At the elections held on Saturday the President's friends and relatives were everywhere returned. Their success was due to the display of force at the polls and the intimidation of the voters, the troops ordering them at the point of the bayonet to cast their ballots for President Hippolyte's friend and partisans. Despite the confident terms of the manifesto the President is evidently apprehensive of a general insurrection. The guards at his residence have been doubled, and other precautions have been taken to ensure his personal safety. It is farther stated that the discontent against the President is spreading. Many of his former adherents in the North have relinquished their support of his cause, and similar desertions are reported from the South.  Theodor Monin, a Professor at the Technical Institute at Sofia, has committed suicide with a revolver, in his native town of Kohn, in Bohemia. He was a confirmed invalid.
The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1893-11-11 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

BRAVE RAILWAY GUARD.  Louisa }lnuit, 29, married, of South Bromley, was charged at North London Police-court, on Monday with attempting to commit suicide by throwing herself in flout of a railway train at Dalston Junction. On Saturday evening the pri eoner wes seen to juinp on to the metals just as the up Chalk Farm train was approaching. William Westley, a guard in the employ of the North London Railway, saw the aot, jumped after the woman, and was, fortunately, euccessful in drag• ging her on to lie 6't. way, when the train was hut two yards from them.—The prisoner ;ow said she bad no intention of oommitting suicide, but was mending at the edge of the platform and something impelled her to jump —Mr. Lane(to Westley): Did she appear to jump or fall ?—Westley : It was all b 0 sudden that I had no time to form an opinion, but she struggled a little when I was dragging her out of harm's way.—Mi. Lane: You don't think she felt herself over-balancing and jumped rather than fall ?—The witness: I cannot say.—The prisoner: The fact is, I war ted to get out at Haggerston, and got out at Dalston by mistake. I asked a porter to show me how to get to Haggerston, and he took me from one platform to another, and told me. He crossed the line, and I made a step towards him to ask something else, and a dreadful feeling came over me, and I fell.—The husband of the primmer was called, and said hie wife had no reason to destroy herself. She was a good wife and mother.—Mr. Lane: Had it not been for the great courage and promptitude of this officer she would probably never hove seen bar home or friends again, and the poisoner ought to be very thankful to him.—The primmer : I am very much obliged to him.—Mr. Lane was a most courageous act. The prisoner is discharged.