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The Shropshire Examiner and all round the Wrekin advertiser. — 1876-04-28 (Wenlock, Shropshire, England)

MURDER OF A DAUGHTER.  At Camerton, near B.dh, a man Lae been taken into nistody on suspicion of murdering his daughter. The prisoner, Charles Hale, is a miner, 40 years of age. Emily Hale, the deceased. was his daughter, aged between 15 and DI ye.,r3. Teo years ago the prisoner was sentenced to three months' hard labour for assaulting her, and last month he was again imprisoned for neglecting to maintain her. On his liberation he became an inmate of the same union in which deceased had been placed. After staying there smile time they left together on the 4h inst. On the same day they visited a brother of the deceased, a collier boy to whom. the prisoner said he had been compelled to bring the girl nwayfroin the workbouso against his will. Deceased complained of scanty clothing, and prisoner said he bad neither home, food, nor money, and that he did not know what to do with the g,rl. The son gave them sixpence. A relative gas, d coased shelter to. the night. The prisoner took th.tr away on the following morning, and at nine at tight he was seen with her near a point on the Somerset Coal Canal where her body was found on the bearing wounds and other marks of violence. Screams in a female voice were heard at a later period of the evening, and soon I after midnight the prisoner was noticed by a pit ,1 engine-driver returning from the direction from which 1 the cries of distress proceeded. The prisoner, who maintains a stolid demeanour, is very deaf. 0' hen apprehended he had on his person a scrap of paper bearing his name and age, and it is thonght that lie intended to commit suicide. The coroner has adjourned the Inquiry for a post-mortem examination to be made. Dur lig the fortnight that, elapsed between the disappearance of the girl and the discovery of her body several persons asked him about her, and he said he bad lost her at a hamlet a short distance from where the body was found.
The Shropshire Examiner and all round the Wrekin advertiser. — 1876-07-28 (Wenlock, Shropshire, England)

NOT TO RE PUT DOWN—What the reporters describe as "an extraordinary scene" occurred the other day at the meeting of the Wolverhampton Board of Guardians. Complaint was made that some starch and arrowroot sent in by the contractor, Mr. Wedge. were not equal to sample, and the goods were returned. Mr. Wedge is a gentleman of an enterprising spirit, and objects altogether to this kind of treatment. He attended at the meeting of the Board, and said he could prove that the goods were quite eqnal to sample. We regret to say that after this the discussion on the subject became rather warm, and some personalities were indulged in. Mr. Wedge asked if it was right for tailors and ironmasters to judge of the quality of starch or arroa root. They had Anlged in personauties behind his back, and talked of that which they knew nothing about. It was then moved by one of the Guardians, who did not aueear to relish the plain speaking of Mr. Wedge. that the contractor should leave the room: another speaker, aghast at the audacity of such candid statements, exclaimed" Here is a Guardian insulted !" The impressive spectacle of a "Guardian insulted' did not deter Mr. Wedge from saying, appropriately enough, "Here is a tradesman and an honest man. with a reputation at stake, insulted !" As it progressed, the discussion became even more stormy. and the personalities of a more pronounced character. Eventually, Mr. Wedge, after having thoroughly vindicated his position. left the room and we have no doubt that in future the Wolverhampton Guardianrecognising the sort of man they have to deal with. will be careful how they make disparaging statementas to the quality of goods supplied to them by their contractor. It seems to DA that Mr. Wedge behaved like a man of spirit. We all know how, when a certain class of gentlemen are invested with a little brief authority, and attain parochial dignities, they like t. show their power. and not uncommonly show their ignorance. In order that it may do no harm, su,,h ignorance ought to be promptly exposed.  The Warr;ngtan Guardian reports the death of John Ackersly, at Penketh, aged 91 years, who had served in the same ship as Lord Nelson.  A portion of the town of Gavray, near Cherbourg, has been burned down. 100 houses are destroyed, and 400 of the inhabitants are rendered homeless. Mr. C. B. Shaw, of Bath, commited suicide on Friday, by placing himself under a trim n running from Broad-street station, in the City of Lond,n, to the Alexandra Palace.  In the Custer massacre, the Sioux Indians are said to have lost 400 men, amongst whom was Sitting Ball, the chief of the tribe.  Sir Albert Sassoon has transferred his commission for the equestrian statue of the Prince of Wales for Bombay to Mr. Boehm, in consequence of the death of Mr. Noble. The statue will cost £2,000.
The Shropshire Examiner and all round the Wrekin advertiser. — 1876-05-19 (Wenlock, Shropshire, England)

THE EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF SUICIDE AT RUARDEAN.  On Wednesday, an inquest was held at the Jovial Colliers, Rnardean, before Mr. Cart.,r, the district coroner, on view of the body of John Hale, a youth 17 years of age, who committed suicide on the Bth instant, under circumstances detailed below in evidence. Elizabeth Janes was first called and said, I am a widow, and live next door to the deceased, I knew him very well, he was about 17 years of age, and a collier. On the 18th of May I saw him sitting in the garden on a stone. He appeared to , be in his usual health, although he has not been very well. I don't know what complaint he had been suffering from. I spoke to him that morning, ' and at about half-past nine the woman came with ' milk, he said to his sister, who was at the time going out, and was rather deaf, make baste, as he should want to go to work. She wsat on and deceased come and took the milk from the woman into the house. He was a quiet and steady young man. I never saw anything particular about him, only that he would look very bad at any one. A. Hale, mother of deceased, said deceased was in his 18th year. I saw him last alive on the morning of the 18th inst. About five minutes past seven o'clock, I got up and left him in bed. He, had something the matter with his head, and that it seemed to stifle his head up; he was in pain with it. Last weak he had the tooth ache as well as the pain I had just mentioned. He was not in the habit of attending church or chapel, I am sorry to say, because he could not make himself tidy. I never knew anything to make his mind uneasy after the death of his father, which took place about five months ago; he seemed to feel that very much. He and his brother maintained use.  Abiah Matthews said I knew deceased very well. On tae Bth inst., about one o'clock, in consequence of an outcry which was made, I went to the house of the deceased's mother, ' and found the deceased hanging to a cord from the rafters. I and a labouring man went, and at once cut the cord, but he was quite dead. There was a small , stool not far from where the deceased was hanging. I believe his feet were on or very near the ground. I never knew anything particular about his manner. .  After being addressed by the Coroner, the jury returned a verdict that death arose from suffoc.stion from hanging, the result of being at the time in a state of unsound mind.
The Shropshire Examiner and all round the Wrekin advertiser. — 1876-11-10 (Wenlock, Shropshire, England)

SFIIPPING DISASTERS AND LOSS OF LIFE.  Reports were received in Liverpool on Monday of a terrific cyclone having passed over Calcutta and the vicinity on Saturday. Great damage to shipping has resulted. The fine Liverpool ship, Prince Waldemar, It;US tons, which left Liverpool on the 22nd July for Calcutta, was caught by the hurricane and driven on shore at Sands Head, at the mouth of the Calcutta river. She became a total wreck, and only four out of a crew of thirty hands were saved. The captain's wife and his two children were on board. The names of the survivors have not yet been received. The Prince Waldemar was a new colonial-built ship, and this was her first voyage. She was owned by Messrs. Moran, Galloway, and Co., of Liverpool. Reports of serious damage to shipping generally have been received. The steamer Moulmein lost her funnel and foremast The British Statesman, from Liverpool, had her fore and main mast- and mizen topmssts carried away and her bulwarks considerably damaged. The Scottish Chieftain lost her fore and main topmasts and her mizen topgallant mast. The Liverpool ship Ghazeepore was totally disina.sted about 200 nines south of Saugor. A later despatch from Calcutta reports the ship Canon Harrison totally (Estimated, the Lady Octavia partially dismasted and with cabins and bulwarks damaged, and the Russia with topgallant masts gone. A telegram from Chittagong states that the Tidal wave, Oceans, and Edourd and George were all driven ashore there.  The West Indian and Pacific Steamship Company's steamship West Indian, which left Liverpool on Sunday for Barbadoes, &c, came into oollisicn yesterday morning off Holyhead with the outward-bound ship Delia 0. Yates, from Liverpool to Matanzas. The latter vessel was so severely damaged that she sank shortly afterwards. The crew were taken off by the West Indian and landed at Holyhead. The steamer sustained comparatively slight damage, only her upper bow plates being injured.  ..... __ A model of Dr. Rutherford's plan for raising the Vanguard is now on view in the Central Exchange Art Gallery, Nevreastle-on-Tyne.  Robert Carey, labourer, was, on Monday, charged on remand before the Norwich magistrates with wounding his wife in the throat with a razor, and with attempting to commit suicide. He was committed for trial.
The Shropshire Examiner and all round the Wrekin advertiser. — 1876-04-14 (Wenlock, Shropshire, England)

IBLE TR A GED Y AT LEAMINGTON. Thomas Addison Whittinghatu, a gentleman living at Leamington, shot his wife last week with a double-barrelled gun, and afterwards shot himself through the head, death being instantaneous. The lady was shot as she was climbing over the garden wall out of the reach of her husband. Deceased had been depressed in spirits, and had been drinkiog heavily. On April 7th, an inquest was opened at Leamington on the body of Mr. Whittinghand The ouly occupants of the house were Mr. and Mrs. Whittingharn and a servant. The wife had no idea of his intending to do her harm until she saw him with the gun in his hands. A number of shots have been extracted from her back, but many still remain, and it is feared some are lodged in a vital part, as the charge partly eh-tered the loins. As Mrs. Whittingham, when she was shot, fell over into an adjoining yard, it is presumed deceased thought she had beer killed He then went to his bedroom, and the set vant beard him say,"! thought it would come to this," and as she passed hint she begged him not to do her harm. lie was seen in the street carrying the gun two hours before the occurrence,and had been wandering about the house all night, and drinking, to which he was addicted: Deceased was in receipt of four hundred a year. and had lived much abroad. They had been married eight years. The coroner then adjourned the inquiry, is hich was conclod, don Saturday. It was shown that deceased had lived unhappily with his wife, who was much younger, and to whom he had been married eight years. Trio years ago, when living at Stafford, they separated, and he allowed her ten shillings weekly. He then threatened her life, struck her, and behaved like • raving madman. He repeatedly complained of severe pains in his head, on which he received a severe blow when returning from Australia, where he made his fortune during the gold fever and lost his first wife and only child. The wife returned after three months' absence, but they were at other brief periods separated prior to their removal to Leamington, eight months ago At Leamington deteased acquired intemp.rate habits, complained of his bead, and his wife and her sister considered him deranged at times. His will, made two years ago, left all his property to his sister, and his wife was not mentioned. The jury returued a verdict of "Suicide whilst temporarily insane."
The Shropshire Examiner and all round the Wrekin advertiser. — 1876-06-09 (Wenlock, Shropshire, England)

NNT1N,),1.1.. :Time 3.—The Porte has oflle'ally Ur, ion -4  PARIS, June s.—The news of the death of the exSultan is con finned by the fi•llowing t. iii notification issued by the Turkish Embassy A sad event has jilt painfully affected our august master and his Government. Abdul Azi. Khan, who for ROM time past had been showing signs of mental derangeruelt, having secluded himself this morning in his apartments at the Palace of Tcheragan, destroyed himself by opening the veins of his arms with a pair of scissors he had concealed on his person. The Imperial Government hastened to have the legal formalities proceeded with, and a detailed medical report has been drawn up, and will be published immediately. All the Ministers, the high civil dignitaries, and the military titithorities, will .assist at the funeral of his Majesty. The funeral is about to take place with the us ial pomp, and all the honours due to the deceased, whose body will be laid in the Mausoleum of Sultan Mahmoud." I need only add that the official version meets with great, incredulity. The Gatilnis says that the ex-Sultan was found lying on his bed with a dagger in his heart, and implies that the fatal blow was not self-inflicted. (From the Times.)  PAM', June 4.—A telegram from Constantinople, received this evening, announces the death of Abdul Am. The telegram is horrible in its brevity. It s4ys:- Sultan Abdul Aziz is dead. Stabbed himself with a dagger in • the region of the heart. Will be buried its mediate' y." Doctors of the English and other embassies testify that the deposed Sultan committed suicide by cuttmg the arteries of both arms with a pair of scissors. He died at the Ccheragan Palace at ten o'clock in the morning. He was buried at klahmoud the Second's tomb in the evening. It has been generally remarked this evening as strange that the Sultan, utio has always shown himself so feeble, should have suddenly displayed so much energy, and that, on the other hand, his death was of so Attie importance to any one that it seemed repugnant to attrimte it to others.
The Shropshire Examiner and all round the Wrekin advertiser. — 1876-10-20 (Wenlock, Shropshire, England)

HINDOO STUDENT.—An inqneet was held on Monday evening. at University College Hospital, relative to the death of Rattanji Varangi Demi, aged 21, a young Hindoo, who was studying at University College for matriculation at the London University. He had given way to despondency and shot himself. The bullet passed through the mouth into the vertebra; injuring the spinal cord. The coroner said it was strange to what extent suicides eopled each other. There had been three similar cases of students at the University College this year, and in Central Middlesex no less than six. It appeared as though the strain of study and " cram* was too much for the young men. The jury returned a verdict of suicide while of unsound mind.  I, EDMUND Sensszat.—After 1579 we may say that the Elizabethan literature rapidly attained to its full breadth, and depth, and force; the writers multiplied, Itheir power rose. Spenser's first book, "The Shop; herd's Calendar," associated with this date the promise ;that one of those great poets, who are rarely born into Ithe world, was about to speak the best thought of his , country. And he did. Spencer's great poem, tho Faerie Queen," is not, as some take it to be, a work If bright imagination seldom touching earth, a lovely 'pile of castles in the air ; he dealt in it, after his own manner, with the vital concerns of England in his time; religious, social, and political; his point of view being that of an Elizabethan Puritan, earnest as his successor, Milton, in a later day. He was, indeed, in ;more senses than one, the Elizabethan Milton. Milton was Lfterwards in a worthy sense what Dryden called him, " The poetical son of Spencer; Milton," Dryden added, "has confessed to me that Spenser was his original." Out of this sympathy with Spenser came Milton's emphatic reference to him in the " Areopa' shim" as the sage and serious Spenser, whom I , dare be known to think a better teacher than Scotus or Aquinas."—From " Library of Englidi Literalure," edite,l by Proji,,, Henry
The Shropshire Examiner and all round the Wrekin advertiser. — 1876-07-14 (Wenlock, Shropshire, England)

EXTRAORDINARY AFFAIR.  At the Kingston police court, a young man named • Ratliff was charged with attempting to commit suivide. Mrs. Catherine Hessen, roprietress of the Magdala public house, deposed that on Monday morning the pneoner called at the house at 7-80 and had tome reretiltnient. He then asked for a bed room has he had been fishing all night. He asked to be called at 3-30, p. ni About three o'clock she beard cries: and on proceeding to the room she found the prisoner lying ie a nude elate on the floor apparently in a fit. A doctor wan at mice sent for. There was a pool of blood on the floor, a small penknife, and a basin by the s'a of the bed containing a large quantity of blood. Dr. Daniel Biddle Bald be had been called on the day in question, and found the prisoner with his arm bound up. unbound it, and found about half au inch below the bend of the elbow of the left arm a transverse wound of about half an inch in width and a quarter of au inch in depth. The junction of the large veins had been severed, and the main artery was just missed by the instrument that inflicted the wound. Had the artery been touched death would have ensued. There was a basin near the bed containing about three pints of blood. There was also blood on the floor. The statement made by the prisoner was that, feeling sleepy, and hie 'sine felt to full of blood, he thought he would relieve them by opening one with his penknife. He brought the basin beside his bed, and let lilt arm hang into it. He then went to sleep, and, waking up, felt as if dying, and called out for air. He had been out rowing on the river. A gentleman said the prisoner was adopted eon. They had some words on the Sunday morning as the pneoner had not been behaving well of late. He went out to dine in the afternoon, and had not returned, he had walked, it would appeal'. from Clapham to Kingston. There was nothing to induce him to commit suicide. He admitted he had , comuutted a very foolish act. The magistrates, , believing the pneoner's story, discharged him with a caution, and he left the court wail his friends.
The Shropshire Examiner and all round the Wrekin advertiser. — 1876-04-07 (Wenlock, Shropshire, England)

THE MURDER IS ICELAND.  A Cork correspondent writes :—The affair near Mitehelstown t urns out to have been a regular pitched battle, shots being exchanged by both parties. There were on the car with Mr. Bridge his steward (31`Loughlin), the driver (Hyland), and two poll limes. The affair occurred at half-past five o'clock, two miles from lifitchelstown, on the road to Kilkenny. There are high feuces at each side of the road, and the assassins lay in wait, one on one side and two on the other side of the road. When the car cane abreast of them shots were tired from both sides of the road. One killed Hyland upon the spot, and another wounded Mr. Bridge slightly in the face, also Mr. M'Loughlin and one constable. The latter has three wounds, one slug having gone through the calf of his leg, and the other two being in the shoulder. The ear was struck in several places. A blur.derbuss and a gun are supposed to have been used. The police at once tired on the assassins. They captured one tis the spot, an old man, named Thomas Crowe. The other two tied. Crowe had the gun in his hand. A number of arrests have been made. Mr. Bridge is agent for Mr. Nathaniel Buckley. Thomas Crowe was committed for trial on Saturday for the murder of Hyland. The jury returned an open verdict. At the inquest on the remains of Hyland, some of the jurymen were of opinion that the shooting of Hyland was the result of an accident, as the prisoner did not mean to kill him. No further arrests have been made.  ATTEMPTED MURDER AND SUICIDE AT  On Saturday a shocking affair occurred in Roe lane, Southport. A man, named Richard Thompson, of Tarleton, encountered his wife, Clara Thompson, from whom he had been separated, as she was going with eggs and other fans product to Southport market. She was in company with Rhoda Wilkinson. Thong, on came up to his wife and said something toter, to which she replied, hut Mrs. Wilkinson did not hear what the words were, lie then thrust her against the bank ut the road side, and pulled out his knife. The poor woman held her head down and had her face to the bank. Mrs. Wilkinson screamed out as she saw blood flowing, from Mrs. Thompson's neck, and the husband went on cutting her until a man named Vicar came up. lie  pulled Thompson from his wife, and demanded the knife. Thompson replied that he had none, and before it could be taken from him he gashed his own throat with it. Further assistance coming up Thompson was sec rest, and the woman was taken into a cottage. Dr. M'Nicol was also sent for, and he had Mrs. Thompson placed in a cart and taken to the infirmary. On her arrival there the house-surgeon, Dr. Marray, evamimd her injuries, and found a large wound eight inches long, extending from the back of the left ear and going round it across to the lower part of the jaw nearly to the mouth, and cutting three arteries. Thompson was handed over to the police, and he has been remanded. Be it about 40 years of age. 110 was at the that, under recognisance to keep the peace towards his wife. The knife he used was a new pocket knife.
The Shropshire Examiner and all round the Wrekin advertiser. — 1876-09-22 (Wenlock, Shropshire, England)

SUICIDE OF PROFESSOR ROOERS' SON.  A painful suicide has occurred at Oxford, the victim being the eldest son cf Professor Rogers.. promising youth of 18, and captain of Westminster school, who hanged himself on the 12th instant. No motive of the act could be adduced at the coroner's inquisition, which took place on Sept. 13th. It appeared from the evidence of a witness that deceased pls3ed at cricket on the Monday, the day before the sad vent, and at cards at night, retiring to bed early. His brother, Bad. ing he did not come to breakfast on the Tuesday morning, knocked at his bedroom door, but receiving no reply, the door was with difficulty opened, when the decessed was diecovered suspended horn a hook behind It by a leather belt and a leather strip, the form* being tied round his neck and fastened by a .004.• lila feet touched the ground and his knees were bent. The deceased had written the some day to a schoolmate named J. A. Turner, son of the vicar of Deciding*, who said he was not aware of anything which ass likely to have induced the young man to destroy himself.—Mr. Symonds, surgeon, testified that the de ceased looked delicate when he Caw Ago on Monday; and Professor Rogers' housekeeper /kid deceased was very happy, and had not anything to trouble hie mind. He was, she paid, very fond of home, and was not dissppointed at not having gone away with his father and sister—The whole evidence failed to oho* the slightest cause for the commission of the wad act, and it is inferred it must have arisen from sudden impulse.—The jury found the following vordict:— " The deceased hanged himself on the 12th inst., but there was no evidence before them to show the state of his mind at the time he hanged himself."