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The North Cumberland Reformer. — 1893-08-03 (Carlisle, Cumbria, England)

COVER-POINT.  EPPS'S COCOA. —GRATEFUL AND COMFORTING. B. a thorough knowledge of the natural laws which govern the operations of digestion and nutrition, and by a careful application of the fine properties of wellselection COCOA, Mr Epps has provided our breakfast tables with a delicately flavoured beverage which may save us many heavy doctors' bills. It is by the judicious use of such articles of diet that a constitution may be gradually built up until strong enough to resist every tendency to disease. , Hundreds of subtle maladies are floating around us ready to attack whereever there is a weak point. We may escape many a fatal shaft by keeping ourselves well fortified with pure blood and a properly nourished frame."—Cird .syr price Gazette. —Made simply with boiling water or milk. Sold only in packets, by grocers, labelled-" JAMES Errs& Co., Homceopathic Chemists, London. —Also makers of Epps's Coooaioe or Nib-Extract, Tea-like,  SCENE . A Northern Town. Inquisitive Stranger (to constable) : "I understand that measles broke out hear recently." Constable (proudly "Yes, but our head constable caught 'em."  CORONER : "You seem to be certain that the deceased accidentally fell into the water. How do you know that this is not a case of suicide ? " Witness : "He was a brither Scot, and had a wee bottle o' whisky on him wi' ne'er a nip ta'en Got." - •  A PARISH clerk apologised to a church dignitary who had been summoned to take a service at a small church. "I am sorry, sir, to have brought sudh a gentleman af you to this poor little place. A worse gentlemen would have done if we had only known where to find him."  SHE Had Her There. Maggie, scornfully: "Doesn't he seem important?" Bessie : "So he ought, dear; I've just accepted him."  MTRIDE : "Before we were married, you often wished there was some brave deed you could do for me to show your love." Mr. M.Bride "Yes, dear; and I would do it now." Mrs. : "Then, love, go down into the kitchen and discharge cook."
The North Cumberland Reformer. — 1894-10-06 (Carlisle, Cumbria, England)

TRAGIC OCCURRENCE AT BOOTLE.  On Friday a tragic affair occurred at Bootle, which created a wide-spread sensation in that usually quiet place. A farm labourer, named Thomas Harrison, left his home at seven o'clock in the morning to go to his work, his wife with two children being in bed at the time. On his return at night, not seeing the two children,he asked his wife where they were,and shereplied that they were in the water cask. On going to the spot he found such to be the case, the children were both there. He went for the police constable and a medical man, by whom the children were taken out. Both were dead. The elder child, a girl of five, had apparently been in the water the longest, as the body was quite stiff and rigid; while that of the younger, three months old, was limp. The inquest was held on Saturday afternoon. The evidence showed that the woman Harrison had been twice married, the elder child being to the first husband. Her husband said she had suffered from headache, but she had not seemed mentally affected in any way, nor had she threatened to do anything to the children, to whom she was always kind. Dr. Hudson, however, deposed that he had knowq Mrs Harrison for about 20 years, and that she had received a shock by the death of her first husband, who committed suicide by hanging, and was found by her. At that time, and subsequently at intervals, she had been strange in her manner. He had always suspected that she would do the eldest child an injury, although she did not illtreat it, but she was not so deranged that he could take any steps in the matter. The jury brought in a verdict of" Wilful murder" against the mother, Mary Harrison. She was brought before the magistrates on that charge, and remanded. The funeral of the children took place on Monday. It was attended by a large concourse of people, and was most affecting and impressive sight._ _ _  On Monday, Mrs Harrison, who seemed to be realising:her position more keenly, made a full confession of her guilt, and detailed the circumstances of the murder. It seems that almost immediately after her husband left, she set the step ladder against the watercask, brought the eldest child downstairs, and pushed her head foremost into the water, which was about 13 inches deep. The little girl struggled desperately as long as she could. The drowning of the baby followed directly afterwards. When a neighbour's girl called to accompany the elder child to school, she was told that she was not going that morning. Prisoner is a woman 45 years of age, the daughter of a farmer named Braithwaite, of Broad Oak, near Waberthwaite. He was killed by the sudden sinking of a large boulder which he was digging under to sink it out of the way of the plough. She afterwards went as housekeeper to Mr James, an aged and rather eccentric yeoman, who afterwards married her. He committed suicide by hanging himself on August 26th, 1890. By his will he left in the hands of his trustees £5O a year for the maintenance and education of his daughter, and other property on her coming of age.
The North Cumberland Reformer. — 1894-02-10 (Carlisle, Cumbria, England)

FEBRUARY 10, 1. 894  Crime in Carlisle in 1893.  The Chief Constable's annual statistical returns for the past year have been issued. A change has been made by Act of Parliament, the year having been altered from the year ending 29th September to the calendar year. In order, therefore, to maintain an unbroken record, it has been necessary to include the tables for the quarter ending 31st December, 1892. For the last three months of 1892 the indictable offences committed were 9, and two persons were apprehended. The offences were principally cases of petty larceny. The number of persons proceeded against summarily were 510 (395 males and 115 females), and 150 of these were cases of drunkenness. The estimated value of property stolen was £27 3s 7d, of which £l9 18s 5d was recovered. The number of accidents reported was 24, of which 11 were serious, and 5 fatal; and the number of inquests held was 10. Coming to the year 1893, the number of indictable offences reported was 120, for which 100 persons were arrested. This apparently is a large increase, but it includes offences formerly shown as disposed of summarily, the new forms showing all indictable offences under the same heading, whether tried summarily or not. Under former tables the number of persons apprehended for indictable offences would have appeared as 39 only, The estimated value of property stolen is estimated at £266 us 50, of which £2OB 4s 8d was recovered. The number of persons proceeded against summarily was 1913 (1432 males and 481 females), an increase of 28 compared with the year ending 28th September, 1892. The increase, however, is mainly in trivial offences under the City Bye-laws. For the offences of drunkenness and drunk and disorderly, 391 persons were proceeded against-311 males, and 80 females. As some of them appeared several times during the year, the total number of charges was 536, an increase of 22 over the previous year. It is noteworthy that while of those who have been but once convicted of the offence, the men outnumber the women by 284 to 40; of those who have been two or more times before the magistrates, the women outnumber the men by 40 to 27. Six licensed victuallers were summoned for permitting drunkenness, four of whom were convicted, and one licence endorsed. A comparative return of the persons apprehended for indictable offences cannot be given, as the tables differ from those formerly in use. Of those proceeded against summarily, the number for the past year, 1,913, is the largest for the last ten years, with the exception of 1889, when it was 1,992. The lowest during the decade was in 1886, 1,177. During the year 21 persons were arrested in the city for crimes and offences committed in other districts, and handed over. Tickets for admission were issued to 5,943 vagrants, or more than double the number issued in any previous year. The accidents reported during the year were 62, of which 15 were serious, and 26 fatal. Inquests were held in 43 cases, including one suicide.  AN
The North Cumberland Reformer. — 1894-05-19 (Carlisle, Cumbria, England)

TRAGEDY AT TRENTHAM.  At about half-past two o'clock on Tuesday afternoon a man walking through Trentham Park, the Staffordshire seat of the Duke of Sutherland, noticed the bodies of two children floating on the water of the lake. He ran to the Duke's lodge, a quarter of a mile away, and gave information. Mr. P. Blair, the head gardener, and three of his assistants went to the spot and found the bodies of a woman and two children. These were brought to the bank of the lake at once and conveyed to the Trentham Hotel. From inquiries which have been instituted there remains very little doubt that the case is one of double murder and suicide. The body of the woman has been identified as that of Hannah Edwards, the wife of a collier:living at Summer Street,Boothen, Stoke-on-Trout, and the two children as Ernest, aged three years, and Olive, aged 10 months, her son and daughter. A perambulator, in which the children had been taken, was standing on the drive in the wood, about 15 yards from the lake. The depth of the water where the bodies were found was only 21t. Further inquiries made tend to show that there had been a great deal of domestic infelicity, and it is stated that tha deceased woman was at Hanley on the previous night to inquire after her husband, and was referred by the police to Stoke. She subsequently visited Stoke police station, where she told the authorities that her husband had cruelly ill-treated her and threatened her life. She was ultimately persuaded to go home, and a neighbour sat with her, as she was afraid to be alone. Her husband subsequently called at the Stoke Police Office to inquire after his wife. The woman left home at eight o'clock in the morning,but previously asked a friend to take care of her boy, and said she would pay for it. This was refused, and she went off with the perambulator and the children in it, giving the key to the next-door neighbour. When found the bodies were warm,aucl could not have been in the lake long.
The North Cumberland Reformer. — 1891-03-19 (Carlisle, Cumbria, England)

THE TRAGEDY IN A HANSOM CAB  SENTENCE OF DEATH.  At Liverpool Assizes, before Mr. Justice Day, Arthur Tenfold, aged thirty, was put upon his trial for the murder of Margaret Stuart, alias Isabella Cowie, by stabbing her through the heart, in a cab at Liverpool, on December 17th.—The prisoner is a native of Hartfield, Sussex. After leaving the sth Lancers he became a grocer's porter at East Vainstead. In December last he came to Liverpool, and lived with the deceased for some days. The woman, it was alleged, was a native of Aberdeen, but had been a barmaid in Lerwick. The prisoner was drinking heavily, and when driving home with the deceased in a cab he stopped the vehicle and told the cabman to go for a policeman, as he had killed the woman. The police were brought, and the woman was found dead, having been fatally stabbed. A question as to prisoner's sanity was raised, and the prosecution said evidence would be called on that point. Evidence as to the facts of the murder having been given, a medical witness was called, wao said that, from examination and observation, he considered the prisoner quite sane at present. and could not find any evidence in support of the idea that he at the time of the murder was suffering frond epilepsy. Another medical witness said he knew prisoner's family. His mother died during an epileptic seizure, one brother showed great mental instability, and the children of both brothers were subject to epileptic attacks. Attacks of epilepsy led to mental disorder, causing suicide and homicide. One of the prisoner's cousins had attempted suicide, and another was mentally affected, while the prisoner had done many eccentric things. Ho had been invalided from the Lancers for heart disease.—The prisoner's counsel attempted to prove insanity, contending that there was an hereditary taint in the family. The prisoner, he said, twice tried to commit suicide, and was acquitted of theft at East Grinstead on the ground of insanity.—The jury found a verdict of guilty, and death sentence was passe d.
The North Cumberland Reformer. — 1891-08-20 (Carlisle, Cumbria, England)

NORTH WOOLIVICH SUICIDE.  Miss Lily Hauser, who was to have been a brideamaid at the wedding of Bombadier Lucy and Miss Purchase, has made the following statement I am 17 years of age. My aunt, Lulu, is 20, and we are like sisters. 1 was at home at my father's house, in Old Ford Road, on Friday afternon, when she came there with Charles Lucy. They came to fetch me to Plumstead for the wedding, and also fur the wedding cake, which my father had promised to provide. While in the train to North 'Woolwich they sat aide by side, Lulu with her right side next the window, and Lucy on her left. They were talking all the time, and I did not once interrupt them. In the tunnel near Silvertown I saw the flashes of the revolver, and heard two reports, but I thought Charley was only trying to frighten us. When we got into the light I saw him lying on the seat, not curled up, but as if he had fallen over. I did not see him breathe, and I think he was dead; but I did not notice him much, as I was attending to Lulu. She told me w heu she recovered a little that Lucy put his right arm round her, and then she felt the wound in her bosom. He must, therefore, have shot her with his left hand,but he was not a left-handed man. cannot imagine why he committed the deed, lie was a sober, respectable young man, and seemed to be in full possession of his senses on Friday. There was nothing whatever unusual about his appearance or behaviour during the time I saw him on Friday afternoon. They had no quarrel, and were, as usual, on affectionate terms." Mr. Andrews, gunsmith, of New Road, Woolwich, states that :in Artillery bombardier, whom he believes to have been Lucy, Cillllo to his shop about eleven o'clock on Friday morning and purchased a bull-dog revolver for its. He represented that it was required for dramatic purposes by the marager of toe Royal Artillery theatre. lie said they had pleuty of blank ammunition at the barracks, but took a few bill cal tridges, saying, with a smile. that he should like to "try a shut in the cellar." Rims also transpired that the deceased tried to borrow a revolver, which has been in use at the theatre, nit was told that it was locked in the manager's desk.
The North Cumberland Reformer. — 1891-08-20 (Carlisle, Cumbria, England)

TRAGEDY.  About noon, on Sunday, a shocking domestic tragedy was enacted at Twickenham, near London, resulting in the death of ono child, the attempted murder of another, and the suicide of the mother, under peculi!irly painful circumstances. Mrs. Beresford, wife of the steward of a local club, whilst her husband had gone to a uebtlibourin.," doctor's to fetch some mediciue, suddenly attacked her youngest son, aged about ten, and cut his throat from ear to ear. She then attacked her youngest sou, about two years older, but he succeeded in escaping from her, and rushed downstairs, pursued by his mother. Meanwhile the injured boy,despite his serious wound, managed to leave the house and run across the road to a sweetstuff shop opposite. His path was marked by a trail of blood, and arriving at the doorstep he fell exhausted, and died immediately. An alarm was at once given, and the husband, returning with the police and a doctor, was horrified to find his wife lying dead upon the stairs from a gash which she had inflicted in her throat. No cause can be assigned for the sad occurrence beyond the statement that her husband was under Indic° io leave his situation, and this is said to have preyed on her mind.  At Llandudno, on Siturday, Alfred Allen, a well known travelling minuitrel, was robbed of £lOO which he had placed in a trunk at his lodgings. To celebrate the release of Herbert Fielding,a 'bus conductor, who had served a term of imprisonment for intimidation at the late strike, a demonstration was held on Saturday,in London, under the auspice& of the London Trades Council.  itoften occurs to hielbantle to respond publicly for their wives; but at Sledmere Estate Foal Show it fell to Lady Sykes to acknowledge toe tozist of 4. The Ileath of Sir Talton Sykes," who was absent, and she made an excellent speech. In the course of it she stated that in the matter of breediug good stock Sir Tattou set an example to his tonaute,; he had, perhaps, more money invested in horsed than any other gentleman in England.
The North Cumberland Reformer. — 1891-08-13 (Carlisle, Cumbria, England)

SHADOWS OF COMING EVENTS.  WITH between £30,000 and £40,000, safely housed in Paris. every penny of which belongs to the evicted and distressed Irish tenants, it is hard lines that no more grants to these poor sufferers will for the present be made. There are two men in whose joint power this by no means despicable sum of money is invested. Two signatures only are required to the order for the withdrawal of part or the whole of the cash from its safe hiding-place. One of these trustees is Mr M'CARTHY, and he is a little more than willing to sign a draft by which the whole of the money may be placed to the relief account forthwith. The other signatory is Mr PARNELL, and he won't sign. Hence it follows that the money remains locked up, and the poor tenants for whose help it was subscribed may starve. Why won't Mr PARNELL sign? Because whom the gods doom to destruction they first make mad. Were Mr PARNELL deliberately bent on committing political as well as moral suicide, he could not possibly choose a more certain and expeditious course by which to gain his end than that which he has adopted, with the method that often attends madness, during the last few months. His latest action would seem to be the crowning one, and it will certainly accomplish the completion of his severance from the confidence of the Irish people. The fair and in every way safe proposal of Mr DILLON would have seemed to be one that even the suspicious and captious Mr PARNELL could find no fault with; but those who profess to know are assuring the public that the ex-leader will not accept Mr DiLLoN's proposal. What is the proposal? That a committee should be formed, consisting, say, of himself and Mr O'BRIEN on the one side, and any two men whom Mr PARNELL may choose to nominate on the other side; and that then a sum should be drawn from the fund located now in Paris, and placed at the disposal of that committee of four for the relief and protection of the evicted tenants without restriction, till such time as appeal could be made to the country to raise a further sum for their support. We do not see where the cloven foot comes in in this simple and straight-forward porposal. But Mr PARNELL professes to see a sinister scheme behind it to appropriate some part at any rate of the fund for use in the carrying on of the political campaign against himself. No matter that every argument, promise, and guarantee to the contrary has been offered. It cannot be that Mr PARNELL thinks his professed fear is shared by anyone else. It cannot be that he hopes by such blind obstinacy to recall the fast-fading confidence of the people of Ireland. It can only be that he purposes in his hopeless defeat to inflict where he can the last stroke of his vengeance. No good end is served. Misery and suffering are augmented among a people who have done him no harm, and who, so long as he was the Irish dictator, followed without question, and without hesitation his recognised lead. It is useless to talk of reasoning with a man who is mad. It is about as useless to think of reasoning with Mr
The North Cumberland Reformer. — 1891-08-13 (Carlisle, Cumbria, England)

SINGULAR CHARGE AGAINST YOUNG LADIES.  REQUEL TO A PRACTICAL JOKE.  At the Lewes Assizes, Miss Edith Spiller and Miss Brawe (the latter a governess in the family of the former's parents), were indicted for conspiring to bring about Miss Spiller's suicide. The case for the prosecution was that Miss Spitler had had a love affair of which her parents disapproved, and that owing to a conversation as to suicide overheard between the prisoners while in a pleasure brake, a Miss Goble watched them to a chemist's shop, where they purchased poison, and then communicated with the police.—Mr. Marshall Hall, for the defence, said that the two young ladies, observing that other ladies were listening to their private conversation, resolved to "play upon them" by taiking about poison, and, to carry out the joke, went and bought some laudanum, but without the slightest intention of its being taken.—Mr. Justice Hawkins said it was a very foolish thing on their parts; but was it worth while to persist in the prosecution %—Mr. Gill said he did nut feel justified in withdrawing from it.— Soon afterwards, however, the jury asked if his Lordship could not stop the prosecution, as it was a mere waste of time.—Mr. Justice Hawkins said he quite agreed with the jury, and thought it would be a waste of time to attempt to go on with the prosecution.—Mr. Gill thereupon said he felt justified in withdrawing the prosecution. Mr. Justice Hawkins, observing that he could not feel any sym. pathy with these young ladies, who had acted very foolishly, directed them to be acquitted and discharged.  A LADY CHARGED WITH DRUNKENNESS Lady do la Zouch, of Montague Street, Portma& Square, has been summoned at the Marlborough Street Police Court, London, for being drunk in a public place while in charge of a horse. A police constable and the gatekeeper at Stanhope Gate swore that defendant was drunk and fell off her pony. She was taken to an hospital on an ambulauce,where the surgeon said she was drunk, and applied a galvanic battery to her head. Captain Hill Trevor, who had that morning ridden in the park for two hours with her ladyship, deposed that she was sober, and so did her own medical man and three of her servants. The charge was dismissed.
The North Cumberland Reformer. — 1891-04-30 (Carlisle, Cumbria, England)

DARING ATTEMPT AT ROBBERY. The Central News states : On Saturday afternoon, just previous to the closing of the banking establishments, a daring attempt at robbery was made at the Lothbury branch of the London and Wes,minster Bank, London. It appears that during the pressure of business immediately before the hour for ()losing a customer who had just received a sum of £14.000 in notes, bonds, and other securities deposited them in a small black handbag, which he placed on the counter whilst he negotiated with the cashier respecting the cashing of several small cheques which he presented. Whilst he was conversing with the clerk a re spectably - dressed individual who stood near him coolly appropriated the bag and its contents and endeavoured to make off with his booty. Fortunately his attempt was noticed in time by some of the bptanders, who made a rush in the direction of the door, with the intention of capturing the thief. The latter, with the utmost sangfroid, dropped the bag, and mingling amongst the throng thus escaped detection.  The British Archeological Association will hold its annual meetings at York this year, commencing August 17th. The result of the Census in Nottingham was made known Monday, anl snows that the population in the borough is now 176,920, an increase since 1881 of 18,574. A murder was committed at Hordle,near Lyinington, on Monday,a young man. named Elwes, in a tit of passion, silo iting his 'clothe,. dead with a revolver. Elwes is in custody, and will b. brought before the county magistrates. An iuq. wat ims ueou liAd :it 6outhport on the bollY of William Graham J. 1711.6 Ba'aer Couell, editor of the Southport Standard, who was found dead under circumstances suggestive of suicide by means of prussic acid. Evidence as to the deceased being in severe financial difficulties was given, and a verdict of "Suicide whilst temporarily insane " was re. tamed.