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The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1866-11-23 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

EXTRAORDINARY CIIAROR OF CRUD  MURDER.  Mr. Paine held an inquest on Friday, at the Cock Tavern, Clapham Old Town, on view of the skeleton of a child that was discovered underneath the boards nt a gentleman's mansion. Jane Clinker said that she was housemaid at Erin. hoses, Atkineroad,dlitehsta park; and th,tt on Friday morning, the Ditli nit. elm discovered the skeleton underneath the boards of the kitchen. It was folded up in a newspaptr and a part of is sheet. Witness nailed her sister, and the remains were then handed over to the police. NV,tnese had Len seven months in her present employment. There were four female servants employed at the house. When witness went to live at the mansion Acne Saar, the suvected person, was then there. When the skeleton was discovered she was out of the house. She cud that she wanted to guts her husband's funeral. When she returned Ow, ue,it day witnees spoke to her about the ohild, and she said it was not bero. After that the lady at the mansion requested the nook to leave, and she did as. (At the request of the coroner the witness did not mention the news of the owner of the mm. Mon.) When witness found the child she was near the dresser, and the body waa disoovered by heir underneath a loose board.  George Gritton, 185 W, said that the newspaper which the skeleton was wrapped in was "the Dimes, April 11, 1865." Witness arrested Anne Fleur, and she was taken to the polios station. The inspector there did not think that the evidence was sailioiest to take the accused before a rnasktrate. Witness bad arrested the accused on the 30th of October, but she had to be taken to Et. Thomas'e Hospital, as it was believed feat she had taken poieon for the purpose of committing suicide, on the sth inst. Witness removed her from the hospital to the police-station. Dr. Parrott said that he could not tell the sex of the akeletop. lie could not, of pourer), say what was tbe cause of death. It was a full...time well-developed child. Witness had attended Anne Saar for illness in 1866, but elle did pot tell hits she had given birth to a child. Anne Saar, the aecneed person, having been sworn, said t lam perfectly innocent. It Is not any child. I know nothing about it. I had no child at that time. I deny all knowledge of it. I do not know who put the child there. Can I speak to you alone, sir, quietly; not in the presence of all here The Coroner No; this is a court of justice. Witness Then, air, my illness was the result of a cold. The doctor!, at the hospital declined to tell the police whether the Roomed had taken poison or pot. The Coroner having summed up, the jury returned a verdict, 'That the deceased ohild was packed underneath the boards of a certain house, but whether it was born alive or not, and If so, the cause of Its death, the condition in which the body was found prevents; the jury being able to declare."
The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1866-11-23 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

XTBAORDINARY SUICIDE OF A WEALTHY JEWESS. _ _ .  Dr. Lankester held an inquest on Tuesday afternoon at the Gower Arms, Gower.street, on the body of Julia Levy, who oommitted suicide by jumping from the seoond-floor window of No. 37, Alfred.plaoe, Bedfordsquare. The unfortunate deceased was etiffering from a disease of the uterus, whioh excited her most fearfully at times, and afterwards left her entirely prostrated. Mr. Field, solicitor, appeared on behalf of the friends of the deceased, and endeavoured to show that she met with her death accidentally. Mr. Edward Joslen, of 49, Gordon.square, son•in.law of deceased, said she was 60 years of age. Her husband, Abraham Levy, had retired from business many yearn before his death. She had lately been suffering severely from a certain disease which caused her extwelve nervous excitement. She appeared very for. getful at times, and the fact of her having the disease preyed upon her mind. Catharine Chambers, who had acted as nurse to the deceased, said the deceased was sometimes mentally affected through her disease. On Monday morning last witness left deceased in the front bedroom, and shortly afterwards she heard screaming in the street and house, and was told that deceased had jumped out of the window. The latter had often after her fits gone to the window and opened it, because she was so hot. She did so on this occasion before witness left her. She had received instructions to watch her, but .sot too closely, as it distressed her. By Juror' : Deceased opened the window herself, but witness did not think she was going to commit suicide.  Farther evidence having been given WI to the illness of de varied, Thomae Walters, of 27, Judd.street, Euston-road, said he was paseing along Alfred-plaoe the previous morning, when he eaw deceased pat one leg out of the window, and immediately afterwards the other. She bung by her hands for a seoond, and then dropped into the area beneath. Ile raised a shout, lII* rushing across the road, jumped down the area, and with the assistance of another man carried her apetaire. She breathed ones or twice after be picked her op. Be did not think she could have fallen out of the window acoidentally, she came out so deliberately. Charles Edwards, a cabdriver, corroborated last witness. _ .  Dr. Et. Areedeckne Duncan said he was called to deceased early on Monday morning. He was told she had thrown herself from the seoond.floor window. He found her srm was fractured in several places near the elbow. There was a cot on her foot as if from glees. He believed her neck was broken, and her head wee fractured. She died from fracture of the skull. _ _ . . . . _  The Coroner haring summed up, the jary returned unsnimoui verdict of "Suicide whilst of unsound mind."
The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1866-07-06 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

LOVERS' QUARRELS.  - Matilda Naylor, s pretty, fair-haired girl, with great simplicity of manners, was brought before Mr. Paget, at the Thames-street Police-court, on Tuesday, charged with attempting to commit suicide in the waters of the Regent's Canal at Limehouse. A police constable of the K division stated that he was on duty at the top of Salmon's.lane last night, and heard that a female had plunged into the canal from the bridge. He found the prisoner on the bank. She had just been taken out of the water, and was nearly insensible. She said she had been quarrelling with her young man' and that ceased her to make the rash attempt on her life. Mr. Paget asked the prisoner if she had anything to say, and she replied in a simple and artless manner, "I quarrelled with the young man I have been keeping company with." Mr. Paget : And that caused you to rommit this wicked act?  • The prisoner : Yee, air. John Wallace, a youth, said he had been keeping company with the prisoner for three months. He left her at the corner of the Dog-row, Miieend, last night at a cinarter past ten o'clock. They had some words, and she would not let him see her home, and said she could go home by herself. The mother of the prisoner was desired to enter the witness-box, and she said, '1 know nothing shoat it at all. My daughter left home very oomfertably yesterday afternoon, at haltpast two o'clock." Mr. Paget remanded the prisoner for a week to the Clerkenwell House of Detention, where she would hsve the benefit of the spiritual advice and consolation of the worthy chaplain. Mr. Paget at the same time directed the mother of the girl to attend the court when her daughter was again brought up. The mother: Please, sir, can I see my daughter ? Let me see her. Mr. Paget : Tee, you can see her. Speak to the gaoler. The prisoner was removed from the court crying for her mother, with whom Roche, the gaoler, soon arranged an interview.  Poisoning by Arsenic.—A rather singular ease of poisoning has just occurred at Faversham. About noon on Friday, a respectable labourer's wife made, as she alleged, some magnesia, and, giving part of it to her two children, the woman took a close herself. Shortly afterwards the children were taken ill, and, although medical assistance was obtained, both died that evening, and exhibited all the symptoms of poisoning by Arsenio. Daring the evening the mother also fell ill, and died on Saturday morning. It is said that the previous tenant of the house had left a partly. used packet of Arsenic behind, and the supposition has been that the poor woman had taken the arsenic for magnesia. This is scarcely reconcilable with the statement made just before her death, that she had before drank magnesia taken from the same packet. An inquest was opened on Saturday, and adjourned for a fortnight. The stomach of the doomed has been sent to London to be analysed.
The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1866-09-07 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

MURDERS OF 1865.  The police returns date that 135 murder were com. mitred in England in the yesr eudiug at Michseiman, . .  1865; 128 plume were 'apprehended in the ealllo period charged with murder, SO men and 43 women. 66 of the men and 43 of the women wore committed for trial. No returns give the meaeg of further tree. log them. The criminal tables are, fur tha year ending with December, 1865, and they do not account f.ir any each number; they elate that only CO persons were committed for trial for murder in the year 1885, 37 men and 23 women. Against eight no bill was found; 11 proved insane; 21 were found not guilty; 20 were convicted mid sentenced to death, the towedt number upon record; 12 of them wero reprieved and the eentence commuted. The motives that brought these 17 men and three women under renitence of death cannot in every instance be traced; as usual, some of the murders were the doing of wild ungovernable men in a fury, and three occurred in drunken brawls. Two of the murder e were done for revenge, three from jealousy, two probably for the sake of money. One wee the murder of a child by its mother, driven to deepair by want. Five of the men murdered their wives—one from jealousy, two from drunkenness and habitual quarrelling, one (a man of weak underetanding) from fear of poverty (agreed with his wife that both should commit anicide), and the fifth was the ease of an idle, profligate man, who had abandoned his wife. There were seven men executed; another, who would otherwise have been executed, committed eelaide in prison. There were 19 executions in 186 t, 22 in 1863, 14 in 1862 (tho person who was to have been fifteenth committing 'suicide); the average ter the preceding 20 years was under 11.
The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1866-11-30 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

WIFE MURDER AND SUICIDE IN BIRMINGHAM.  A shocking ease of murder and subside centred in Birmingham on Friday morning. John Wallace Hampton, 39 years of age, an engraver, lived with his wife and four children at the back of Park.place, Nursery-terrace, Hunter's-lane, Handsworth. He and his wife had lived together most unhappily for some years. He suspected her of infidelity. The police have, during the last,three or four weeks, been ailed in to settle their quarrels. On Thursday night Hampton and his family retired to rest sensual—the four otaldren in one room and the father and mother in another. Nothing transpired till about haMpast six o'clock on Friday morning, when a heavy discharge of a firearm was beard. The eldest son (18 years of age) went into his parents' room, and there saw his mother lying dead on the bed, and his father beside her, with blood flowing from hie breast. A boy's cannon lay across the mother's body, and was pointed at the father's breast. The boy asked his father what he had done. The father pointed to • box in which were two letters, which are now in possession of the police, and which it is understood were addressed to the woman by the man of whom her husband was jealous. Hampton's own statement is that at about one o'clock in the morning he extracted from his wife a confession of her infidelity, and he at come strangled her by grasping her around the neck and pressing his fingers on her throat. She was a weak woman, and had been in delicate health slime her last oonfinement. Having committed this awful crime, the husband aid himself down by the dead body of his wife, and remained by her side till she was quite cold. The poignancy of his reflections during those momenta can never be deaoribed. That they were such as to do. ermine him to take away his own life is all we know. He rose from bed, wrote a letter to his ohildren con. easing what he had done, and wildly lamented that he maid not restore to animation the frame which had been shattered by him in that fearful paroxysm of pearion which encreeded the assured knowledge of his wife's infidelity. The letter he wrote to his children is in the hands of the police. Having completed it, he took a cannon which belonged to one of his boys—the kind of firearm that is often used on Guy Fawkes' day and loaded it with powder and a Minnie rifle-ball, which, as a volunteer, he had by him. He laid the cannon across his wife's body, aid himself down slot stride her, end planing the muzzle of the cannon as close to his heart as he could, he applied a lighted candle to the nipple, and the ball passed wholly through his body. Had it not been that hie heart was depressed by hie lying down, he would have been killed instantaneously. He was, as speedily as possible after being found, r °moved to the General Hospital in a deplorable state.
The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1866-11-30 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

WIFE MURDER AND BUICLDE IN  BIRMINGHAM. A shooking case of murder and suicide occurred 'n Birmingham on Friday morning. John Waßites Hampton, 39 yearn of age, an engraver, lived with his wife and four children at the back of Park.place, Nursery-terraoe, Hunter's-lane, Handeworth. He and his wife had lived together moat unhappily for some years. He suspected her of infidelity. The police have, daring the last three or four weeks, been ailed in to settle their quarrels. On Thursday night Hampton and his family retired to rest as izeual—the four children in one room and the father and mother in another. Nothing transpired till about halflasst six o'clock on Friday morning, when a heavy discharge of a firearm was heard. The eldest son (18 years of age) went into his parents' room, and there saw his mother lying dead on the bed, and his father beside her, with blood flowing from his breast. A boy's cannon lay across the mother's body, and was pointed at the father's breast. The boy asked his father what he had done. The father pointed tea box in which were two letters, which are now in possession of the polioe, and which it is understood were addressed to the woman by the man of whom her husband was jealous. Hampton's own statement is that at about one o'clock in the morning he extracted from his wife a confession of her infidelity, and he at once strangled her by grasping her around the neck and pressing his fingers on her throat. She was a weak woman, and had been in delicate health since her last confinement. Having committed this awful crime, the husband aid himself down by the dead body of his wife, and remained by her side till she was quite cold. The poignancy of his reflections daring those moments can never be deecribed. That they were each as to deermine him to take away his own life is all we know. He rose from bed, wrote a letter to his children con. easing what he had done, and wildly lamented that he could not restore to animation the frame which had been shattered by him in that fearful paroxysm of psesion which acureeded the assured knowledge of his wife's infidelity. The letter he wrote to his children is in the hands of the police. Having oompleted it, he took a cannon which belonged to one of his boys—the kind of firearm that is often used on Guy Fawkes' day and loaded it with powder and a Minnie rifloball, which, as a volunteer, he had by him. Ho laid the cannon across his was body, aid himself down alongside her, end placing the muzzle of the cannon as close to his heart as he could, he applied a lighted candle to the nipple, and the ball passed wholly through his body. Had it not been that his heart was depressed by his lying down, he would have been killed instantaneously. He was, as speedily as possible after being found, removed to the General Hospital in a deplorable state.
The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1871-12-15 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

CHELTENHAM. Con- her 75th year, having been born on the 16th March, an inquiry at the African Chief Tavern, Grundy&dere ble excitement has been cri used at Cheltenham 179teddeceasp:Intelardynnwdas marine n street, Poplar, respecting the death of James Ryan, b the murder a a young woman named Em ly Than aged 60, of John-street, Poplar. William John e drangh man to the Admiralty, and the late Royal e•ockwood, the mate of the ship Royal Alice, Paid °7m. The father a ocef traidner. aged 18, of 255, High street, and the celebrated ra the deceased was a shipkeeper, and had lately at tempted suicide of her lover, named Frederick Academician, Mr. Clarkson Stanfield, was one of Jones. The y'-nag man presented himself at the his pupils. Mr. J. T. Serves was the son of Dominic bad charge of the ship Royal Alice, lying in the station horse on Sunday night, and asserted that Serves, one of the first forty Royal Academicians West India Docks. On Monday last he ha I cbaige be bad murdered the girl, directing the pel.ce when incorporated by George 111., and Mrs. Ryves as usual and was on deck at 11. that night ; but the has received an annuity from the Academy for next morning he was found quite dead in tte where to find her body. They went to the spot, and found the girl quite dead, with her throat cut. many years. The mother of Mrs. Ryves was the ,‘ship's house" sitting before a charcoal fire. He '1 he man, when asked for any statement he had to lady known as the tt Princess Olive," alleged to be had no right to have had a fire of any description aboard ship in the night, but he evidently thought make, said, "She began it, and I ended it." He was bi ought up on Monday before the magistrates, the daughter of Henry Frederick, Duke of Cumberland, brother of George 111. Mrs. Ryves was he would not be found out. Witness believed he and, at the iequest of the police, remanded for a married to Anthony Thomas, son of Captain Ryves, was accidentally suffocated and had no intention of committing suicide. Dr. Pettybrain stated that week. His own wound is not dangerous. On the ,anfyoryneadrsultesrinycennodbtaanineeldtya. death spot whi re the murder tcok place there were odfivßnarenestoanniHensalal, ebtuatomr° b was caused by suffocation from the fumes of two HO of i charcoal, and the coroner 1 eying summed up, a nd eat one of a severe struggle, and on the face the deceased there are many gashes. , hSehrelloesaev.es U and three ihnatitara to mourn verdict of "Accidental Death' was recorded.
The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1871-01-06 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

REMARKABLE SUICIDE.  ANOTHER RAILWAY ACCIDENT.  A collision of a very alarming nature, but non'. tended, so far as is at present known, with fatal results, occurred en Tuesday morning on the sort h London Railway. The ordinary 746 a.m, train, made up of the engine, tender, two brakes, and ten passenger carriages, left Chalk Farm Station pun... tually to time, carrying about 60 passengers. It continued its journey at an average speed ot 20 miles an hour, stopping at the Camden Road Station. '1 here the passengers increased to nearly eighty, and again the train resumed its journey, the next stopping place being Barnsbury Station. Just before reaching that point, a terrific smash took place which had the effect of parting the engine and the tender from the train, smashing the first breakvan to splinters, pitching the unfortunate guard a considerable diance on to a heap of snow, and more or less shaking the passengers. The train, as before stated was travelling at its usual average epee] 01 20 miles an hour • but at the moment of the col. lision the speed had Leen reduced to about 15 miles, from the f act of the guard applying the brake with te view of stopping at Barnsbury. Upon nearing the old station in the Caledonian Road (which has been recently closed since the opening of t I e new station at Barnsbury) the train ran into a number of coal trucks, which it is said were standing on the line. The driver and stoker, seeing their approaching danger, jumped from the engine without, if we are correctly informed, turning off the steam, and a moment afterwards the collision took place. The concussion drove the coal trucks at a tremendous speed down the incline at that part of the road, and the engine and tender which broke hose from the guard's van continued at an increased speed down the same incline, until they overtook Lim trucks near Canonbury. Here a second cuhlisi, n occurred. Three or four of the trucks were sell flying into splinters over the line, and the engine was brought to a standstill without doing further damage. The concussion was, fortune; ely, sufficiently sharp to instantly detach the engine and the brake from the main body of the train; otherwise, the loss of life and limb must have been frightful. As it was, tho passenger portion of the trii,n came to a sudden standstill, causing a comparatively slight shaking to the occupants. This, at least, is the assumption, as no complain's were made by the passengers of having sustained any serious injuries. The guard was found sufficiently had to necessitate his immediate removal to the hospital. The line was blocked for four hours.