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The Warwickshire Herald. — 1885-03-28 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

DESPERATE FIGHT WITH A MADMAN. A desperate encounter has taken place in Limerick resulting in a number of persons being severely injured. The police were informed that William M'Cormack, aged 28, had retirid to his room, having provided himself with two ral.ON, and that he had threatened to take the life 0 his mother and of another person in the house, previous to committing suicide. Four constables proceeded to the premises, and found M'Corniack, who had lost a leg and an eye whilst living in America, in a posture of defence. He bade razor in each hand, the stumpof the amputated leg being placed on the bed in the room so as to steady himself. In this position he threatened to kill anyone who came near him. The police provided themselves with long sticks, and, by holding the door partiallyfopen, they endeavoured to knock the razors out of M.Cormack's hands, the man slashing at the policemen and some civilians who came to assist them. At length M'Cormack began to cut his own throat. The police then rushed on the man and endeavoured to disarm him. M'Coiniack was knocked to the ground, shouting savagely and brandishing the razors. A civilian named Manly received a irightfel gash on the side of theihead, and he had to be removed to Barrington's Hospital. Another man, named Kennedy, had a narrow escape, as M`Cormack with a raz ir cut the peak of his leather cap clean off. The constabulary at length disarmed M.Coirnech, but not before he had cut his throat in three places. The police had several cuts on their hands, and the room presented a shocking scene. M`Cormack is a man of extraordinary strength, and the doctor who attended to his wounds gave it as his opinion that he would recom While in America he served in the 'United States Holy.  MR.
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1885-11-12 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

COM. 3.4,411111..0. i, ...en V16..5112•1.91at 11.1 tflia..ry W. 0411.111 on toil "ec .510,1 to to" people of Canada, in which her Majisty expressed her hopes for the future success of a work of such value and linportance to the Empire. The Governor-General, Lord Lansdowne,also telegraphed his congratulations to the railway authorities. According to a Naples correspondent a meteor of unusual size and brilliancy recently passed over Vico Garganaro in the Capitanata. The lamps of the town were not yet lighted when the inhatrtants were alarmed by a sudden reddish glare, an odour of sulphur, and a noise like the passing of a cannon ball. The meteor moved at no great height in an almost horizontal direction, and five minutes after it had passed two loud explooions were heard that sensibly shook the ground. It is supposed that the meteor had then burst and fallen into the sea about 62 miles distant.  A somewhat singular scene was witnessed the other day in the Swansea assize court. A youth named Arthur Evans was indicted for maliciously wounding in a club at Cardiff. The jury returned a verdict of not guilty, which they persisted in, notwithstanding that Mr. Justice Manisty pointed out that the prisoner had admitted his guilt. Evans was then discharged, and with the observation that he had another stabbing ease to try, his lordship diti.cted the jury to leave the box. Later in the day the learned judge made some istroog remarks about the condition of Cardiff, which town he described as a hidbill of vice and depravity.  Replyingto a correspondent who called his attenth to an allegation that the present Government, by their action in regard to the issue of the recent Egyptian loan, has def milled the E2yptian people of a very large sum of money, the prime Minister nays: The issue of part of the Egyptian loan abroad was a necessary result of the most improvident c,ndua of the late Government in allowing the loan to be tinder a joint European guarantee, instead of an English guarantee, which was not quite as good. The Powers who guaranteed naturally declined to be excluded fr mall share in issuing the loan, and the lean could not be issued without their consent.  The death is announced from New York of Mr. John M'Cullough, the tragedian. A Paris correspondent reports that a horrible tragedy has occurred at R inietnelle, in the Department ot the Var. An ItaHAI family, consisting of a man, his wife, and h:s two children by a former marriage, had lived for some time in the place. The stepmother detested the children, and during her husband's absence in a field adjoinir.g the house, she took his gun, and, after shooting the younger MI, W 11.4 pointing the weapon at the Icier, when he rushed at her, and, turning the arm against her, fired, woundiny her severely. The father, hearing the firth; hurri.,l to the lions'', aud, rendered furious by the sight of this child's corpse, stabbed his unnatural wife repeatedly and tier,. kis thought that he must have committed suicide.
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1885-08-08 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

SINGULAR SUICIDE OF A DOCTOR.  Some excitemtnt has kaeti caused thoughout the East End of London by the death of Dr. Maurice O'Connor, the senior resident medical officer at S . George's-in-the-East Infirmary. It was observed at an inquity held before Mr. Woodhouse, the Local Government Board Inspector, on Monday morning, resjacting certain allegatii rot against Miss Ballard, the matron, that Dr. O'C, mon- was in a painfully excited condition. Great interest was manifested in the proctedings as ii was reported that Mr. Begley was going to subject Dr. O'Connor to a searching cross-exsmination. and also that Mr. J. G. Waters, the solicitor who had charge of the case on behalf of Miss Lollard, had strong evidence refuting that given by the senior mi dical officer. Dr. O'Connor having left the side of his counsel, Mr. Richards took his place in readiness to be CIOBS examined by Mr. Begley, but that gentleman empl atically declined to put a single question to him. 14. O'Connor then rose and left the room, as though lie bad suddenly thought ,A something. From the Id .ard-roorn he went to his own home, where he was noticed by Miss Pttherington, a young lady who acts as companion to Mrs. O'Connor, alio is a continued invalid, to go up to his bedrtom. Thinking there was something grange in his manner she followed him, and on entering the bedroom saw the doctor with a small phial in his hand. She said to him, "What have you taken ?•' and he replied "I have taken poison." He immediately fell to the ground in great agony, whereupon Miss Petherington ran down to the Board-room in search of Dr. Deacon, the assistant medical officer, but that gentleman was not in, having obtained the inspector's permission to attend an army medical examination. Messengers were then despatched in search of other doctors, and within the 'pace of a few minutes Dr. Beattie attended. Seeing that Dr. O'Connor was eel. dently suffering from &strong irritant poison, ho used the stomach pump, but without effect, and in a few minutes life was pronounced to be extinct. It was stated that the doctor had taken no less than 12 grains of strychnine. Dr. O'Connor was 62 years of age, and prior to being appointed me heal officer at the infirmary had an extensive private practice for upwards of 18 years in Mile End-road. It is believed that owing to this sad event the inquiry will not be further proceeded with.
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1885-09-17 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

SAD SUICIDE OF AN ASTON TRADESMAN. On Friday evening last Mr. Joseph Ansell (deputy-coroner for Central Warwickshire) held an inquest at the Acorn TitVert', Vheeler-street, touching the death of Charles Froggat (33), draper, carrying on business It 179, Wheelerstreet.  Mrs. Froggat, wife of the deceased, said she last saw her husband alive shortly after one o'clock on Thursday afternoon. Having missed him she went to search for him, and between half-past one and twenty minutes to two she found the deceased hanging from the beam of the brewhouse window quite dead. She at once went for assistance, and when she returned found her husband lying on the floor.—The Deputy-Coroner: Can you assign any reason which would cause the deceased to commit this rash act ?—Witness: The only reason I can give is the depression in trade. I know he has suffered some severe losses, and this seems to have preyed upon his mind.—The Deputy-Coroner: Has he ever made a similar attempt upon his life? —Witness: Never that I am aware of.  _ . A man named Fulford, living at 334, Wheelerstreet, said that on Thursday as he was going to work a man called to him and asked him to go inside Froggat's house. On doing so he found the deceased hanging from a beam near the window in the brewhouse. He cut the body down, and the other man went to look for a medical man. He believed the deceased was dead when he cut the body down. P.S. Amphlett said he was sent for to 179, Wheeler-street, on Thursday, about a quarter to two in the afternoon. The deceased was lying on his back in the brewhouse, and had a mark round his neck. He searched the body, and found a razor in deceased's trousers pocket. Dr. Bridges said he was called in, and found that death had resulted from asphyxia the result of hanging. Life had only been extinct a few minutes.  ... The Deputy-Coroner, in summing up, said that that was one of those unfortunate cases in which had the deceased only had a little more courage he might have tided over the difficulty. The jury returned a verdict of "Suicide whilst temporarily in.ane."
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1885-08-15 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

UNLICKED CUB. voice authorities was read containing a request from Mr. Gladstone that proceedings should not be taken A youth named Richardson,who jumped into a pond ; against the prisoner, and also a letter from Boydell's at Norwood was rescued by two men and given into mother to the judge who conducted the preliminary custody, when he said, "I went into the wee, r on inquiry praying for her son's release. purpose to drown myself. I intended to destroy my life either by shooting or drowning, and thought drowning was easiest." On being brought before the! MR., A. ARNOLD oN LAND REFORM Croydon magistrates he stated that he was miserable I at home. He wanted to go to aea,and his parents would ! Lecturing in Mile-end on "The Land and the Dot let him. A letter from the Rev. J. Horsley, People," Mr. Arthur Arnold said the foundation of Chaplain of Clerkenwell Pri,on, put a different corn- all land reform must be simplicity of title and of plexion on the matter, for the writer said of the • transfer. We wanted conveyonce by registration of accused: "He is a veritable uulicked cub, as bad- . title. He would not be content till England was, tempered as he can be, and with no sense of shame. , in regard to cm l veyance and distribution of land, in He attempted suicide only to frighten his father into the libation of Saxe-Coburg. There nine-amthe of all obedience; and Ido not, think he should be allowed landed property were in ths hands of occupying to be master of the situation." After perusing the owners, and one-tenth in those of tenants. Entry of contents of this epistle Mr. All noun Grundy the name of a proprietor in the register constituted remanded the prisoner to the House of Lotention. an indefeasible title. In England an insurance fund of one half-penny in the pound on transfer of land would be far more than sufficient to insure the State against loss in this guarantee of all regietered titles. Our land was more tertibe yet the number of cows kept in France in proportion to the population was as nearly as possible three to one as compared with the number in England. Small fainting, uzider proper conditions, was the best parent of thrift. The south of England was a paradise for the rich and pauper warren for the poor. Tee leasehold system in towns was also doomed. We should probably put an end to the system by a law something like that of Italy, which provided that any tenant might obton the freehold by paying 20 times the omouut of the yearly ground rent.
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1885-06-27 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

DEMONSTRATION BY HARVESTMEN. There was an extraordinary exodus of harvestmen from Dublin on Friday for Lancashire, Yorkshire, and the Midlands. The City of Dublin Company ran the Longford, Meath, and Leitrim steamers to Liverpool. every one of them full of harvestmen; and, in addition to their ordinary services, the London and North-Western Company were obliged to run a special boat to Holyhead to accommodate the harvestmen. During the day six special trains arrived at the North Wall with harvestmen, and altogether about %WO of these went from the North Wall to England that evening. Between 9 and 10 o'clock, however, nearly 500 men found themselves left behind; and, marching in a body to the Mansion Home, they said they wanted money wherewith to obtain food and lodgingfor the night. The Lord Mayor sent down to College-street police-station to have some men sant up to disperse the mob, and Inspector O'Keeffe with a few constables proceeded to the Mansion House. When asked to move, the men said they wanted to see the Mayor, in order to obtain relief from him ; but on it being explained to them that their desire could not be accomplished, except at the risk of their obtaining quarters in a police station, they dispersed quietly. Most of them slept out in the fields and sheds, and proceeded to England on Saturday morning.  At Thursday's meeting of the Landon Uo. poration, 100 guineas were v .ted to the Mansion House Hospital Sunday Fund. The New Zealand Budget shows an inc tine tot the past year exc eding expenditure. The Colonial Treasurer stated that, whilst not committing the State to Protection, the Government were not unmindful of the services the Customs tariff might render to local proiuction. After losing all he bad at Monte Carlo and obtaining no assistance from his Consul, a young American who had settled in England committed suicide at Nice, by absorbing morphine. Between thirty and forty thousand pounds' worth of damsels has been done by • fire at the liollint Paper Mills, Darwen. The tire occurred at the top of a thresstorey building, known as the sorting, packing, and preparatma room, whielt was totally demelielled, al wed as • building used fdr ',tering material,.
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1885-09-03 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

DEATH OF A SCOTCH POET. Hugh Brown, the Ayrshire poet, has just died in Glasgow, at the age of 85 years. The deceased, whose first prrductions appeared 60 years ago, was best known as the author of "The Covenanters." He was a hand-loom weaver when the Scots Magazine pu'3l;shed, in 1825, his noticeable poem to the memory of Lord Byron, who had died in the previous year. Brown became a rustic schoolmaster in 1828, a calling which he pursued for upwards of 40 years. He gradually declined in circumstances, until towards the end he was dependent upon the bounty of friends for support. The Christian Leader of Glasgow states that a few months ago a brother poet, Mr. A. B, Todd, ventured to bring Brown's claims under the notice of Mr. Gladstone, who generously responded by forwarding a cheque for 4:50.  SUICIDE THROUGH WANT OF WORK:  _ An inquest has been held at Esher on the body of James Hott, a carpenter, of Long Ditton. From the evidence of several witttesses it appeared that the deceased had been out of employment for many months. Ho had searched in vain for something to do, and his wife and seven children, who were dependent upon him, were reduced to very wretched circumstances. His lack of success in ol taming employment preyed so heavily upon his mind that he became very depressed, refused to eat anything, and was very strange in his behasiour. A few days ago he was seen wandering about Esher-common in an aimless manner, and in the evening he walked over to the South-Western Esilway Station, where he threw himself upon the metals in ftont of a train and was killed. The jury, to several of whom the deceased had been known for years as a respectable man, returned a verdict of suicide while in an unsound state of mind, and they handed over their fees to the widow.
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1885-09-03 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

POLICE DUTIES ON THE THAMES.  The annual report of Mr. Superintendent Steed, of the Thames Division of Metropolitan Police, just Issued, contains somesinteresting statements as to the amount of crime committed and detected on the River Thames, as well as other items in which the commercial and general public are concerned. .Mr. Steed states that the amount of crime WAS very small, 130 larcenies being reported, the value of the property stolen being £1,073, and that recovered 4493. The number of apprehensions for larceny was 60. Many of these easesswcurred in the various docks, where the metropolitan police do no regular duty, the amount of crime on the river itself being very much less than the numbers given above. One of the most important lercenies was that of eoven ivory tusks. valued st. 0009 stolen from a barge in the Victoria 1 focks After a long inquiry by the inspector and his staff of the Criminal Investigation Department, four of the tusks were at length found (value £200), and the thief was sentenced to five years' penal servitude. Nineteen persons committed suicide by drowning and 23 others attempted to do so, but were preven' ed, 11 by police and 12 by private persons ; 47 persons wee acciilentally drowned, the bodies being afterwards recovered, as well as 33 others whose drowning could not be accounted for, making the total of dead bodies iscovered 89. Eighteen fires were attended during the year, 15 at waterside premises and three on board vessels The total of all ranks engaged 10 police duties on the Thames is set down in the report as 165.  Some months ago the reformatory ship Clarence, moored in the Mersey near Rock Ferry, wa eot on Ere by some boys undergomg detention on board, and was destroyed. An old wood di man-of-war, the Royal William, has been provided in place f the Clarence, and after being fitted, will be anchored 1111 the same station.  A policeman named Dmikins, while removing an effigy which the people of lialiewell were attempting to burn, was set upon by the tre,b and tarred al: oiver. The vicar, the Rev. H. Andrews, arrived in time to prevent more serioud injurie3. The cenataule's eyes were much hurt, aud he ia under medical Care.  Printed and Published by Fittnit. A. Courrox for the Proprietors at their Offices, 85i, Ifigh Street, Birmingham Thursday, Sept. 3, 1885.
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1896-12-17 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

FALSE TRADE DESCRIPTIONS. At Westminster, on Saturday, Mr. be Rutzen gave lds decision in a case which had occupied several days in bearing before him during the past few weeks. It was a prosecution of Mr. George Nicholls, wholeFale provision merchant, of *Wood-street, Westminster, for selling American lard with an alleged false trade description. The case for the prosecution was that Mr. Nicholls had offered for sale American lard refined in Bs 'fast labelled as "pure" and "guaranteed pure," which had, in fact, been solidified by the admixture of about 10 per cent, of beef stearine.—The magistrate held that the case had been clearly made out, and, while there was no sort of imputation on Mr. Nicholls as a trader, he had, in selling the lard from Belfast, been negligent in not seeing that it was accurately described. He imposed a nominal penalty of 405., and ordered that the defendant, should pay 30 guineas towards the costs, which were heavy.  An old man named George Dray, aged 77, coin. hated suicide on Sunday night at Cobham, near Rochester. The deceased, who was the warden of Cobham College, on Lord Darnley's estate, was found dead in his bedroom, with a gash in his throat and a razor by his side, At Tithe farmhouse, near Kempston, Bedfordshire, a somewhat singular discovery has just been made. The building, \Odell ii of the old lath and plaster stamp, was undergoig repairs, when a large quantity of honey, in splendid condition; was found deposited in one of the walls. It is believed the honey has been there several years; it is over 20 yeara since bees first made their appearance at the tones.  —T-ahocking accident weaned at Bristol Joint Railway Station. A platelayer, named William Carroll, 24, was at work on the line, and in trying to get out of the way of a train he was knocked down by the engine. The wheels passed over his body, completely severing one of his legs. The unfortunate man died within a few minutes after reaching the hospital. Charles Parker Wa9 remanded at Sheffield on a charge of stealing a quaMity of silver plate, the property of his einplovers, .'slossrs. Harrison and Eno, with "limn In hall been for 20 years. Several articles had ven %Iv; lie I.
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1896-04-30 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

TERRIBLE TRAGEDY IN AMERICA.  FIVE PERSONS MURDERED.  A fearful tragedy has occurred new Rockville, Indiana. A young man named Petal Egbert suddenly appeared at the house of a Mrs. Haack% and with a gun he was carrying killed her and her boy and girl, the former a_ed eigh and the letter 10. The murderer then warned off Sheriff Mull and Devuty. Sheriff Sween, and for the moment disappeared. The two men, however, proceeded to consult as to the best means of effecting his capture, when Egbert suddenly appeared and killed both of them. Then he fled, but was pursued by a furious mob wha repeatedly tired on him, and one bullet at length hit him in the heel. Perceiving that his capture was Eghert committed suicide. The news of the tragedy was conveyed to the murderer's sister, who was very ill with typhoid fever, and the ahock proved fatal. Egbert was once insane, and had been confined in an asylum, whence he was discharged as cured.  A HORROR OF THE SLAVE TRADE A horrible story of cruelty to a slave, named MuDah, comes from Pemba, by way of Zanzibar. The details alt, old strengthen the demand of the Brithl and F reign Anti-Slavery Society, that slavery should be absolutely abolished .n the British Protectorate. Muftali was one of a number of slaves'who ran away from an Arab named Ali bin Abdullah. He was restored to his master, bow and by whom is not stated. He was put into irons, which were welded on his flesh near the ankles, and the irons were attached by a bar to a clove tree. Fos seven months the slave was left in this posilion, enduring all the miseries of changing weather, noonday heat and evening chill, the torture of insect plagues, and the sufferings of semi-starvation. A cocoanut every night and morning was his only food and drink. Dr. O'Sullivan, her Majesty's ViceConsul at Pemba, at last came to know of this unhatpy slave's horrible plight. Of course he headed a iescue party. The Vice-Consul's intentions were anticipated, and when he got to the spot the slave was vile and the clove tree with him. In order to at him away the tree had had to be cut down. Muf,ah was found locked in a shed; his irons were so embedded in his dealt that their removal was impossible; and the Vice-Consul had to send him on to Zanzibar. On his arrival at the Biitish Agency .the prostrate figure of the man, in the last stage of emaciation and starvation" excited feelings of deep horror.