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The Tamworth Examiner and Working Men's Journal. — 1875-03-06 (Tamworth, Staffordshire, England)

SINGULAR CASE OF SUICIDE AT WOLVERHAMPTON.  An inquest was held on Tuesday, at the Coach and Horses Inn, Bilston Street, Wolverhampton, touching the death of Mrs. Rebecca Siddons, wife of Thos. Siddons. moulder. whose body was found in the Birmingham Canal, on Sunday afternoon. The evidence disclosed circumstances of a painful and somewhat peculiar nature. It appeared that information had been given at the police station, on Sunday, that deceased was Missing, and Police-constable Ray, with assistance, dragged the canal, and found the body near the Monmore Green Bridge, in the water nearest to the deceased's house. About nineteen weeks since the deceased stumbled over some brick-work adjacent to a liquor vaults in course of alteration, dislocating her shoulder. She had over since been very low spirited, and had so far evinced a dispositian to self-destruction—" Because," as she had said, "she should be better out of the way, having a useless arm "—that she had been carefully watched, and when about going out on the pretence of seeing some of her friends, had been brought back to her home. She and her husband lived alone, and on Friday night she wished to remain downstairs, hut lig,...prtvailed upon her to go to , bed : but owing ia-Lef FeTsllifiness, neither had any sleep. On Saturday night, she again insisted on remaining downstairs, and he at last so far yielded to her entreaties to "try and get a little sleep," that he went to lie down, but without intention of sleeping. He came down stairs again at one o'clock, when she seemed comfortable and rational, being then seated in an easy chair before a good fire, and the door being locked. She persisted in remaining downstairs, and he again lay down, but overcome with fatigue, he fell into a doze. He. however, went downstairs before two o'clock, when he found the door open and his wife missing. He ran in his night shirt into his own and the neighbouring backways, but failed to find her, and he then went to Bilston and on to West Bromwich to her friends and relatives, and as he gained no tidings he returned, and information was given to tho police, with the result already stated. _ .  Ample evidence was given as to the care and attention bestowed on the deceat.ed since the accident to her arm, and during her period of mental depression she had been attended to by six surgeons, while the huaband, as ho had stated, had almost entirely neglect his work since Christmas, in order to keep watch upon her movements. The deceased had been engaged for 32 years at the vaults of Mr. Price, Bilston, whence her husband married her about 27 yew. since. 'rhe jury immediately returned a verdict of "Suicide during temporary insanity." Several jurors adding their personal testimony as to the care which had been bestowed upon the deceased.
The Tamworth Examiner and Working Men's Journal. — 1875-03-06 (Tamworth, Staffordshire, England)

PROM -E CASE. sentences, "Man that is born of a woman" ec., and the dean mo-t impressively commuted the George Henry Wildes, now bankrupt described body to the earth. After the last utterances the as of Lowndes square, London, gentleman, was choir chanted '' I heard a voice from Heaven, and " formerly captain in the ead Cheshire Militia. He finally Handel 's noble funeral anthem. "His body wait the defendant in enaction brought by eliss Nut- is buried in peace, but his soul liveth evermoree" tall for brea,h of promise of marriag a tried at tbe After the b nediction, and as the mourners retired, Liverpool Asaizes in Augu,t last, in which damages Mr. Tune, who presided at the organ, played the for aetono were found. Previonely to the trial ... ae,el mai heasa l o the defendant re-married his divorced wife, and In the Abbe on Suunda afternoon, Dean Stanley took lip his residence in Brussels. The plaintiff in , ched an yeloquent syermon upon Sir Charles the action, unable to obtain the fruits of her judg- trveell, who he said, was the first to establish, on 8 meat, instituted proceedings in bankruptcy, which ' foundation, . the principles of geology. remitted, after considerable litigation and expense, sure , in an adierlication. The first meeting of creditors was held in London a fortnight ago when the 'rho President of the Franklin Ins'itute (Ne The Standard says a large number of official inotaer of the b inkrupt tenclerea a pro°, of debt Yorkl reports the discovery of mica in considerable documents have been destroyed by fire at the for ealooo, boing for money she alleited she had paid to tradesmen on account of her son, at qnantes, and of good quality, on the coast ol Ministry of Commerce, Vienna. Labrador. SUICIDE OF AN OXFORD UNDER,RADITATE his request, and for interest thereon. She i A coroner's jury on Monday returned a verdict of was examined as to whether her payments ;
The Tamworth Examiner and Working Men's Journal. — 1874-07-04 (Tamworth, Staffordshire, England)

LIVERPOOL OPERATIVES AND THE  AGRICULTURAL LOCK-OUT.  On Tuesday a meeting of the Liverpool relief committee was held at the committee rooms, 17, Christianstreet ; Mr. Edmund Jones presiding. Mr. J. W. Julian, hon. Secretary, read reports from the lockedout districts, which go to show that a crisis has almost arrived in the dispute in question, and sanguine expectations are held that the ;den will be victorious. A very animated discussion arose on the reading of an appeal from the Federal Union, wherein it was stated that out of the thousands of pounds forwarded to Leamington, only 11s. 3d had been awarded to the Federal lock-out, although the expenses of the Federal Union amount to £5OO per week. It was strongly urged that the general public never intended that the subscriptions should be absorbed in so partial a manner, and that the conduct of the National party in so doing was selfish and unjust. Much regret was also expressed that Mr. Arch and others should continue in so suicidal a policy as to refuse to co-Oerate with Federal delegates for the general good. It had been held that the overthrow of the Federal organisation would prove also fatal to that of the National. It was eventually agreed that the sum of -260 be forwarded this week to the Federal's. The secretary was also entrusted to communicate with the National Executive, and urge upon that body the necessity of reoonsidering their present policy. A discussion then arose as to the best means of augmenting the funds, and eventually a sub-committee was formed to consider the question. A member of the Mersey Shipwrights' Association called attention to the misprint in the press relative to the amount subscribed by his society, the sum in question being £so,and not £BO as erroneously reported.  The Parisians, who would die of envui if they had not some new sensation at least every forty-eight hours, are gossiping about two rather romantic suicides. A retired judge shot himself at St. Germain on Wednesday morning; and on the previous night, as he left a Paris club in which he had lost at cards more than he could ever pay, the aide.de-camp of a general high in office blew his brains out.  The monument to be erected by the French govern. ment on Swiss territory, in recognition of the generous reception given to General Bourbaki's army in the last war is to consist of a granite column, the frieze of the pedestal having 22 enamelled escutcheons representing the arms of the Swiss cantons. The column will bear the inscription—" 1870.71, the grateful French Republic to the Helvetic Republic ;" and there will he two bronze groups—the first, called "the Arrival," will represent a French soldier exhausted with cold, hunger and fatigue, falling into the arms of a Swiss peasant and his wife; while the second, "the Departure," will show the same soldier bidding adieu to his kindly hosts.
The Tamworth Examiner and Working Men's Journal. — 1874-12-05 (Tamworth, Staffordshire, England)

REMARKABLE DISATH OF A SOMNAMBULIST.— An extraordinary case of suicide has lately occurred in Paris. In England a nice legal point migh4 occur as to whether it was a suicide at all. At all evefits, the remarkable circure.tancee of the case are to be investigated by 'be Academy of Sciences in Paris. They are as follow i---A young man of the name of Goupil, living with his wife and mother, kept a jeweller's shop in the Ette Langier, where they all lived comfortably and prosperously together. Six months ago /11. Goupil lost his young wife, to whom he was tenderly attached. Her death, it is supposed, affected his brain; at all events, for the first time in his life, he took to sleep walking. He was in the habit of putting round his neck a gold link necklace of which his wife was very fond. Every day he declared that this necklace became smaller and smaller, and that eventually it would strangle him—a consummation he devoutly wished. No one regarded these forebodings, as they were could. red merely the offspring of a mind diseesed. He used, however, under the in'luence of somnanibulisrn, to rise in the middle of the night and go to his worktable. There he cut off one of the links of the chain and rejoined those that were separated, and was seen doing so by his mother, who, from superstitious-fears. did not like to interfere. In the daytime H. Goupil naturally found that the necklace was narrower, and, ignorant of his nocturnal workmanship, imagined it was owing to supernatural influence. The other morning he was found dead in his room. He had cut off so many links that lit could only buckle the chain round his throat by unnaturally compressing it. When the throat rettiraed to its normal size the chain strangled him.
The Tamworth Examiner and Working Men's Journal. — 1874-12-05 (Tamworth, Staffordshire, England)

SHOCKING SUICIDE OF AN " UI4 FORTUNATE" IN BRISTOL. On Monday afternoon, the city coroner, Mr. H. S. Wasbrough, held an inquest at the Royal Infirmary touching the death of a girl, 22 years of age, named Margaret Miles, who lived in a house of ill-fame in Church-lane, St. Michael's, and died on Saturday morning, at the above institution, from the effects of laudanum, which she administered to herself on the previous evening. The jury having been sworn and the body viewed, the first witness called was William Miles, father of the deceased, who stated that the deceased was his daughter, and had left home about two years. Belinda Danton, of 6, Upper Church-lane, deposed that the deceased lived in the same house. She had resided there about ten months. On Friday night last, between twelve and one o'clock, she heard some one in witness's room overhead. She went upstairs, and found the deceased there in a very excited state. Deceased told her that she had taken some staff. Witness called Miss Betty up. They went into the deceased's room, and asked her what she had taken. In reply to their question, deceased said she had taken some laudanum. Witness asked her how much, and she said a bottleful. Witness asked her where the bottle was, and she said in the fire-grate, and they found it there. They dined at quarter-past five o'clock together, and wituess oh-erved nothing particular in deceased's manner at that time. Witness sent for two medical men, but both were out, and deceased was then sent to the Infirmary. Dveased gave no reason whatever for taking the laudanum.  The Coroner having summed up the evidence, the jury returned a verdict "That the deceased committed suicide by taking laudanum whilst in a state of temporary insanity."  Mr. Elliott, publisher of the "London Lantern," was on Monday committed for trial on a charge of criminal libel upon Mr. Welby Pugin, architect. Bail was accepte  (Zogisnered for transmiadon) abroad.
The Tamworth Examiner and Working Men's Journal. — 1874-05-02 (Tamworth, Staffordshire, England)

ATTEMPTED MURDER AND SUICIDE.  At Warrington a few days since, a butcher named Lowe attempted to murder his wife, and afterwards committed suicide by cutting his throat. Lowe and his wife had not lived comfortably of late. On various occasions Lowe had assaulted his wife in a brutal manner. About twelve months ago he broke a saucepan on her bead, for which outrage he was sent to prison for six months; and at the time of his latest exhibition of brutality he was under recognisances to keep the peace towa ds his wife. It appeared that on returning home about eleven o'clock on Friday last week he found that his wife was not in, and he sent his daughter in search of her. The girl went to the house of her mother's brother, in a court in a low part of the town, and she was followed by Lowe. An altercation took place at this house between Lowe and his wife, and the two were ordered out. The woman was about leaving, when Lowe threw his arm r3und her neck, drew a clasp knife, .and plunged the blade into er throat, drawing it along about six inches. Mrs. Lowe's brother, Kenwright by name, rushed to the rescue, when the would-be murderer stabbed him in the back and side. A policeman happened to be at hand, and on hearing what had occurred he went inpursuit of Lowe, and followed him home. 1 In the meantime Lowe had roshed upstairs and cut his own throat. He came down in time to meet the policeman at the door, but he died a few minutes afterwalils. A medical man was soon in attendance upoeirrs. Lowe, and it was found that !wither the jugular vein nor the windpipe had been severed, but she remains in a very precarious conditi n.
The Tamworth Examiner and Working Men's Journal. — 1874-05-23 (Tamworth, Staffordshire, England)

AND SCICLDE BY A WOMAN. to the countess, who had sued her husband for a At the Worship street Police Count, London, bet divorce, alleging cruelty, and there was also a week, Emma Kneller, of respectable appearance, charge of adultery against the count. The appeal was charged with attempting to murder Ann was heard before the Right Hon Sir James Hannen, Cleves, and further with attempting to commit the Judge Ordinary of the Divorce Court, Sir J. suicide. The prisoner, who seeme I very weak and , Colvile, Sir B. Peacock, Sir H. Smith, and Sir R. ill, was allowed a seat in the dock..-The proseou- , Collier. After the hearing, which occupied several tria said she had been acting Rs nurse to the vie , days, their lordships took time to consider their soner during her husband's absence, the prisoner , judgment, and it was now pronounced. The parties having for some time been suffering from nervous (Italians) were married in 1830, and lived together and mental ailment, rendering it unsafe for her to till Feb., 1569, when the countess, in the absence of be left. On the afternoon of Monday, the 2nd of the countleft her home with her eld estdau ghter, and March, witness was staying with the prisoner, had not since returned. By a wise regulation at and she had oomplaine,l greatly of the Malta (which might be introduced in this country) pains in her head and general sufferings, no suit for a separation could be instituted between She was advised to lie down (she was in married persons without an attempt, under the bed), and consented to do so if witness would lie authority of the Court, at a reconciliation. In this down with her. She did. so, and fell asleep. In case the attempt failed. The Court of First about half an hour she was awakened by being Instance ordered a separation, and made an order attacked by the prieoner, who had then by some as to property. On an appeal at Malta the per. means possessed herself of a carving knife, with sonal separation was confirmed, and a different which he struck at her several times. Witness order made as to the property and also as to the __--.___ _ caught up a chair and struck the prisoner with it i care of the children. There were five children, the
The Tamworth Examiner and Working Men's Journal. — 1874-12-19 (Tamworth, Staffordshire, England)

FENIAN LEADER CONVICTED 01, ATTEMPTED ; MUILOBR.—At the. Durham Patric!: Kelly, a workman at Palmer's shipbuilairg yard. at Jarrow, who was said to he a leader among the Fenians, was put on his trial for shooting a fellow. countryman named Devanny with intent to murder him. The evidence showed that the prosecutor, whilst going with some relatives towards a public house, was struck by the prisoner, who was assisted in the attack by some other Irislimn, The proseoutor, who was an anti e. pow• eel fellow, struck back; and he was then surreunded and thrown an the ground. He got up, however, and the prisoner rushed at his, sayi .g that he must die, and, presenting a revs' nor, fired deliberately upon him. The shot missed, and the prisoner then gripped bold of the prosecutor and, with the assistance of otters. held him fast whilst he again fired at him. The shot took effect this time, a bullet entering the men's left jaw and coming out about two inches lower. Since then the proseeutor's left arm has teen useless. Re was for some time in a dangerous state The Jury found the prisoner guilty. In sentencing the prisoner to twenty years' penal servitude, Mr. Baron Cleasby, referring to a statement that it was "rather , common for Irishmen to carry offensive weapons." said he hoped t at such was not the case. If such a thing were general we should be living in a society of assassins. No motive was apparent in this rose, but the prisoner must have harboured hatred against the prosecutor for some re'ison or other.  By order of the Earl of Dudley, who has taken a new lease of the far-famed Black Mount Deer Forest, and the fishings connected therewith, inclined passages have been cut in the rock focusing the Falls of the Oreby for the free rue of salmon.  At the Barnsley Town Hall, on Monday, a miner named John Keeley, living at New Wombwell, was committed to ?prison for sii mouths, three separate charges of brutally assaulting his wife having been proved against him. The case was the more painful from the fact that the man's ill usage had led his wife to attempt suicide, and upon that charge she was remanded in custody.
The Tamworth Examiner and Working Men's Journal. — 1874-06-20 (Tamworth, Staffordshire, England)

ROMANTIC SUICIDE OF A LEEDS COUPLE IN AMERICA.  Nsw Yong, May 29th.—Some remarkable eases of suicide involving romantic details have recently come to light in this city. A few years ago a young man named Austin, belonging to a family of the highest respectability in Leeds, England, fell in love with an accomplished young lady and was about to marry her, when her parents interfered and forbade the bans. Resolved not to have their plans interfered with, they ran away and came to America, arriving in this city some two years since, where they were married. After spending all i their money, Austin endeavoured to obtain era- I ployment, but he was unsuccessful, and being ! driven to the wall he grew desperate, and it was not long before he found himself in State Prisdn on a five years' sentence for highway robbery. Previous to his departure for gaol, the sheriff permitted his wife to Visit him. On one occasion she appeared at the gate with a large fruit cake, which she wished to give to Austin. The officer examined the cake, and in the centre found a small steel saw, a steel knife blade, and a handcuff key. She was arrested for attempting to aid Austin's escape, and was sentenced to six months' imprisonment. Upon the expiration of her term, eha had an interview with her husband, and promised to remain true to her marriage vow until he served out his sentence. This she failed to do, which, coming to Austin's ears, so disheartened him that he committed suicide by cutting his throat with a shoemaker's knife. Mrs. Austin was now the wreck of her former self, and in November last the remains of a woman were found near a brook alongside the Pennsylvania railroad. '.l-he only vine to its identity was a card on which was the name of •• Maria Elizabeth Austin." The body was interred, and yesterday a letter was received from her parents asking for the fullest particulars of the sad fate of their lost daughter.
The Tamworth Examiner and Working Men's Journal. — 1874-09-12 (Tamworth, Staffordshire, England)

FEELING AT THE FUNBEAL.—The burial of Mn. Sadler, who last week comm,tted suicide under the circumstances already reported, took place on Saturday, and was made the occasiou of an extraordinary popular demonstration of feeling, mainly directed against the husband of the deceased. Some hundreds of persona—men, women, and ehildren—othered round Ins house, the White Cithlmore, nioat of them being dwellers in the neighbourhood, end excitedly discassed the incidents of the married life of the hapless woman, the circumstances of the suicide, and the conditA of the inquest, in no friendly spirit towards any one of iliose concerned, excepting the deceased herself. As to the enquiry, it was declared to have been incomplete, or worse and thejury to have failed isa duty, inasmuch as,they had not insisted upon an adjournment for the production of further evidence. The coroner and the officers concerned ingling up the evidence came in for a good share of the viluper rations so freely dispensed, and the cries and threats of violence towards the bereaved husband were of, such a char.:l..' that, acting upon advice, be judiciously refrained from following his wife's remains to their last resting place. Finding that he did not take his place with the other mourners, the crowd rushed off to the cemetery by a short cut, not a few evidently expecting to find that Mr. Sadler had proceeded thither alone, and by another route than that taken by the funeral cortege ; but on ascrrtaining that such was. not the ease, many of the men left at once, some openly and andibly regretting that, after ail, there was to be "no fun." The women remained in crowds, and into every willing ear vindicated her character from-repreach. The burial service was read by the Her. W. Allen, vicar, who afterwards addressed a few words of advice to the assembled throng. He referred to the account of the deceased's death as unmistakably showing the deceitfulness of sin, and the danger of people being led into great sins if they gave way in little things. If, therefore, any of them Were given to drink, be begged them to abandon it at once. The reference to driuk being evidently regarded as a reflection upon the deceased, it elicited a murmur of remonstrance from many of the women. Two of the deceased's female relatives walked behind the hearse containing the coffin, and after thee"' came a mourning coach, containing her husband's father, and some of her own children. A wreath of flowers lay upon the coffin.