The Weekly Gazette for Middlesbrough, Stockton, Hartlepool and Cleveland District. — 1880-10-30 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

THAOIDT.—Ain inquest was opened on Tuesday on Jane Messenger, who was shot in Finsbury Park,London, last Friday by William Herbert, who afterwards attempted to commit suicide by shooting himself. The evidence was similar to that aleady published. Herbert, when in the Hospital, said to a relative, "There was a certain object I had in view. I wanted to speak to her about it; and I took a tram car to Finsbury Park with the full intention of doing what I have done if the interview was not satisfactory to me.' The jury returned a verdict of "Wilful murder" against Herbert, who is progressing favourably. ROMANTIC Suicing.—The police are endeavouring to trace the identity of a young man about 20 years of age who ohnmitted Bnicide at Woolwich last Thursday. He was seen to go to the head of the Town Pier, from which the London steamers depart, take off his coat and hat and throw them down, and then, after exclaiming "Good-bye, I die for her," plunged into the river. Ineffectual efforts were made to rescue him, and the body has not been re. covered. The pirtraite of himself and a young lady were found in the coat pocket, with a bunch of keys, a month-piece for cigarettes, and a paper oontaining the addresses of several firms in the City, from whom no information can be gleaned. Suiciess.—Ou Sunday afternoon Mr James Charles Stacey, of the firm of Stacey and Sons, ironfouuders and ironmongers, of xbi was found dead in his bedroom, having shot himself through the temple with a revolver. He slept alone in a house which was about to be occupied by his mother, and he went there in his usual spirits about 12 o'clock on Saturday night. As he was not again &en up to 1 o'clock on Sunday,one of the firm's employes forcibly entered the house, and found him lying on the floor of his ; bedroom in a pool of blood, a six-chambered revolver being near his right hand. Deceased, who was thirty-six years of age, was to have been married on Saturday next to a young lady residing in the town. It is thought that he was insane at the time he destroyed himself.—Mr Hart, a gentleman who had been residing a; Gerrard's-cross for some mouths, also committed suicide on Monday by shooting himself with a revolver. It is thought his mind had become affected by over-speculation in building. ate DEATH Of A Lovite.—A sad drowning case happened at bee, near Wigan, on Tuesday night. Richard Bennion , joiner, 23 years of age, and his sweetheart, a girl named Rutter, whom parents reside at Farmer's Rouse beerhouse, Inoe, after being at church together in the evening, decided to walk home along the canal bank. The night being rather foggy, and hearing two drunken men approaching, the girl advised that they should f tem rwoardm both go nearer the edge in order to allow the iwen to a fehallleli!ete the m e water. Their cries for assiatanoe attracted rlimhe,afOr sAhorwtlryon afterwards move the attention of some boatmen near, who managed to rescue the girl alive, but Bennion was drowned, his body not being recovered until three hours afterwards. The pair were to have been married in a very short time.