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Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1891-09-19 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

SUICIDE IN THE STREET.  part hi"  - - At Battersea, on Saturday, Mr. Braxton Hicks held an Inquiry touching the death of Augustus Robert Hamur, aged 32, a sugar confectioner, of ! Holloway,who committed suicide by shooting himtell ith a ievolver early on the morning of the 9th inst.—Frank Hamm, a silversmith, said the ilecetie.l was his brother. Deceased had been out of work for a week, and this distressed him. Be had said he should put an end to himself if matters did uot improve. When 17 years of age deceased fell down a flight of stairs, and sustained concussion of tie brain, which made him subject to fits of lanctioly. On the Bth inst, deceased left home early in the morning, and as he never returned his x as searched, and it was found that he had taken his revolver with him.—George Coles,_ a it-Lister confectioner, devised that while the deo..ast d was in his employ he was of a mlrbid me tire, readiug “penny borribles," and always rein ing to his head as the proper place to kill a peison. Witness had bad his suspicion that the deceased and another lad destroyed his goods. He kept watch, and afterwards be taxed the deceased with having done so, deceased replying in the afF.!trative. Witness discharged him, but placed no eb.,,tacle in the way of his obtaining another situation, l',.;ice-censtable Mack deposed to hearing the report of firearms early on the morning of 9th inst. Upon trreeeding to the spot he found the deceased in a Fitting position against a shop in the York-road. Peet ased had a bullet-wound throngh his head. The sew-Aver produced was lying on the left side of the deceased. • doctor was sent for. Nothing was und upon the deceased except two rounds of cartridges.—Dr. Richardson said there were two wounds in the head. Death, which was due to laceration of the brain, was instantaneous.—The jmy returned a verdict of suicidn, whilst temporarip I insane.  .  fANIC ON AN
Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1891-10-03 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

SUICIDE OF A PRIMA DONNA.  On Thursday evening Marie Wilt, the famous singer, committed suicide by jumping from the fourth storey of a house near St. Stephen's Cathedral, Vienna, where she was staying with her daughter. By the time the doctors of the Free Aid Society arrived she was dead. Marie Wilt was 57 years of age, and in her time was the most admired prima donna in Germany and Austria. In 1866 she appeared as Norma at Covent Garden Theatre with great success. She was the last representative of what the Italian school calls bet canto, and her voice was recognised as superior to all but Patti's. Her obesity was a sore trial to her vanity, and she left the opera in 1878. Being of an economical turn of mind, and making much money by her European tours, she amassed a fortune, which became the source of her later troubles. Differences arose with her relatives, by whom, after she had made a gift of 100,0008. for poor students at the Universities of Vienna and Graz, she was declared insane. She was detained in a private asylum for several months, but, again getting free, she lived in her villa near Salzburg. In order to shew her sanity she sang in the Salzburg Theatre two months ago, on the occasion of the Mozart Jubilee, before an audience consisting mostly of Viennese. The public, however, was shocked by the change that had come over her, both in voice and person. She felt that the applause was unreal, and her mind then became really unhinged. It was reported that she was again to he placed in an asylum, and to avoid this she :tommitted suicide. She went to the house near St. Stephen's, where there is a passage to another street,and walked up and down in front of the little shop, whose owners knew her, with a fair young man. After bidding him good-bye she went iuto the house and up the stairs. At the staircase window she deliberately took off her bonnet, mantle, and gloves, opened the window, and flung herself into the courtyard without a cry. She leaves a daughter, who is married.
Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1891-10-03 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

DETERMINED TO KILL HIMSELF.  Seldom has more determination been displayed under difficulties than that just eXhibited by a draughtsman of Paris, who, having resolved on 'shuffling off this mortal coil," set to work to tarry out his fell design with an amount of energy which if utilised in a better cause might have led him on to competence, and possibly to fame. Having made up his mind to put an end to his days, be selected hanging as the most practical mode of executing his programme. Accordingly, attaching a rope to a peg in the wall of his bedroom, he suspended himself thereto. The rope, however, was the worse for wear, and it broke ere he had breathed his last. This experience rathet cooled his ardour, but he returned to the charge with a pan of charcoal. Here, again, his plan was frustrated owing to the accidental fracture of a pane Of glass. A police official, to whom the circumstances of these two attempts at self-destruction had been reported. sent for the draughtsman and earnestly implored him to accept the omen and to abandon his sinister project. But he refused to be guided by tbese kind counsels, and declared that he would be more successful on the next occasion, and that a couple of stabs in the regioa of the heart would soon settle the question for good. He kept his word, at least in part, for a few days after wards he was taken to the Hotel Dieu apparently, in a dying state. Singular to relate, the man re•covered rapidly, and in a fortnight he was once more at home, again revolving in his mind the best method of killing himself. Having tried, hanging, suffocation, and the knife without any definite result, the would-be suicide next turned his attention to poison. He swallowed a quantity of phosehorus, but the :prompt appearance on the scene of a chemist, who administered a strong antidote, again saved him. The draughtsman, bowever, would not yield, so deeply rooted was his letormillatioo to Make away with himself, and oder having been baffled four times be 'succeeded at the filth attempt with a preparation of chloroform and bichloride of mercury, and expired in -*Weibull suffering.
Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1891-08-15 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

THE MILLARD CASE.  The clamour which has been raised against tic police in connection with the Millard case ii entitled, in the opinion of the Saturday Reritta, to no sort of excuse. A moment's thought would have shewn any honestly disposed man that there was no question here of a frivolous charge, and no occasion for declamation about police misconduct. Even if an individual constable had misbehaved, it would have been equally ridicu.ous to abuse the whole force. But there is a class of journalists whose love of virtue takes the form of abuse of the police. With these persons it is a rule to take it for granted that a constable is necessarily corrupt and malignant. Cases of the Cass or Millard class for reascns on which it is unnecessary to dilate, have particular attractions for them. No sooner does one of them occur than an outcry is raised over the tyranny which subjects a "virtuous woman " to outrageous charges. To ask whether a "virtuous woman," in any but the technical sense, would be found behaving in a way which makes her suspected of disorderly conduct is, in the ethics of these authorities, another outrage. We will not say whether it occurs to them to ask whether the police are not also entitled to some consideration. Prob..bly it does not; but that is because they have all eady decided that the force is to be attacked witenever a shadow of a pretext can be found for the attack. Tenderness for the interest of those who are unjustly accused is the excuse for all this malignant gabble, which fine feeling is never ki:own to modify in the least the virulence of the cl.arges brought against a body of men who do work which is always difficult, and often dangerous, in an admirable manner.  The Hungarian paper Lupta states. that Mdile. Helena Vaccarescu, who has been in attendance on the Queen of Roumania in Venice, tried to commit suicide a few days ago. The Queen, adds this account, snatched the dagger from the would-be suicide's hand and prevented her from carrying out her intention. A telegram from Berlin states that a sailor has passed through the great Rhine whirlpool at Kleinlaufenburg clinging to a small raft, consisting of two trunks of trees. He was carried away two tpiles,,and finally rescued alive. This is the first Ulna within the knowledge of the inhabitants that anything has passed this dangerous whirlpool and cataract without being dashed to pieces on the Inks.  A
Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1891-05-30 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

ARREST OF THE INVENTOR OP MELINITE.  M. Turpin, the inventor of the French explosive melinite, having a grievance against the War Office, published on Saturday a book entitled "How Blelinite was Sold." In this book several grave charges are made against a M. Tripone, a retired captain in the army. M. Tripone is accused of baying sold copies of a large number of confidential documents stolen from the War Office, On Sunday Tripone and M. Turpin were rrested and 1,500 copies of the book were seized, not, however, before 6,000 copies had been sold. M. Turpirr's purpose in publishing his book was firstly to expose the conditet of M. Tripone, and secondly because he expected to be paid £160,000 by the War Office for his melinite patents. fter endless difficulty he obtained £lO,OOO in return for the use of his patents for4o months, at the end of which he might be free to dispose of them. In page 96 of the inventory hook a paragraph hints in the clearest manner that the famous smokeless powder of the Lebel rifle is simply melinite without a difference. This passage, too important to be overlooked, is as follows: "In 1887 it was reported that melinite was made up of picric acid and collodion. I had said so myself in my patents and in pamphlets, in order to throw people on a wrong scent. Shortly afterwards I learned that the English Government was making enormous purchases of gun cotton and ether, the object of which can be easily guessed. The French Government entreated me to say nothing that would put people on the track, nor to reveal that melinite was simply pure picric acid melted down, for to reveal the secret of this was also to Reveal the secret of the smokeless powder."  An inquest was new in tvoreester on :Monday, touching the suicide of Kate Hughes, a girl aged 12 years. The evidence ahewed that she undressed herself undet a bridge, climbed up an embankment On to the railway lint, and laid herself down very deberately on the metals in front of the express tram from Hereford to Worcester. Be, head was severed from her body. A verdict of suicide was returned, there being no evidence to &hew Cho skald of the shad's mind.
Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1891-01-03 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

THE DEATH OF MR. LANT CARPENTER. Dr. Diplock, coroner for West Middlsex, held an inquest on Friday on the body of the late Mr. William Lant Carpenter, manager of the School of Electrical Engineering, Hanover-square, London, at Craven Park, Harlesden, the residence of deceased, who was found dead in bed on Tuesday morning, shot through the heaa.—Mr. J. E. Carpenter, brother of the deceased,said the latter was 49 years of age. He had suffered from mental aberration since February last, and was subject to delusions. On several occasions he had wandered away from home for two or three days together. Under medical advice deceased was taken on a voyage to Australia and New Zealand. On arrival there he became much worse, and the doctors advised that he should be brought home. He arrived in England in September last, and was under the care of Dr. Savage and Dr. Andes on until the time of his death. The patient's improvement became so marked that Dr.. Savage ' sanctioned his spending Christmas with his family. An incident which occurred in Australia shewed that he was inclined to destroy himself. The day before his suicide he was with his family and quite cheerful.—Henry Court Harold Carpenter, aged 15, son of deceased, said he last saw his father alive on Monday evening. He seemed well and cheerful. On going to deceased's room next morning witness saw blood flowing from his mouth as he lay in bed. *itness had previously seen a revolver in an attic upstairs.—Dr. J. A. Anderson deposed that he had been in personal attendance on Mr. Carpenter for the last three months. On Tuesday morning, after the last witness had been to deceased's room' witness went there and found him dead in bed. There was a revolver in his right hand, and he had shot himself in the month. He never heard him threaten ta destroy himself. He had suffered from fits of depression, but latterly they had away. Prior to finding the body witness hearcilarneOlise as of a pistol shot, but imagined that something in the ball had fallen.—Dr. Burgess, Harlesden, wtto had attended deceased before he was taken to Australis, said he was summoned to the house after the occur. mace. Mr. Carpenter was in- bed. He had shot himself through the roof of the mouth with a revolver, which 43, near him. The bullet pm* trated the brain. The body was warfn, _but doomed was quite dead.—The jury retutuod verdict of Suicide whilst of unsou4d mind.
Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1891-10-10 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

SUICIDE OF A CHORUS GIRL. A LORD AS A WITNESS.  On Friday Mr. Troutbeck, the coroner for WestMinster, held an inquiry into the death of a young woman described as Lydia Manton, but whose real name is Miller, who committed suicide under mysterious and rather romantic circumstances. It appears that the young woman, who was about 23 years of age, had for some considerable period been performing at the tiaiety theatre in the successful burlesques of "Faust up to Date," "Ruy Bias," and "Carmen up to Data.' She took no prominent part, but acted in the chorus; and, after expressing her dissatisfaction that she was not getting on, she declined to engage to perform in "Joan of Arc." The young lady was a member of the Gaiety company which went touring in America. Her relatives are all highly respectable—her father, besides carrying on a large business in London, occupying a representative position in the locality in which he resides. Whilst at the Gaiety the deceased young lady made the acquaintance of Lord Charles Montagu, who, it is alleged, took rooms for her at Burlington-mansions, Cork-street, Piccadilly. Here she appeared to be well supplied with money, as she lived in considerable style. At the inquest the evidence went to shew that on Thursday evening Miss Manton, apparently in a state of great mental excitement, took a considerable quantity of carbolic acid, which caused an agonising death not long after. It was suggested that the motive for this act was that Lord Charles Montagu had failed to keep an appointment to call upon the deceased that day. It would appear, however, that there were other alleged circumstances which would make an equally strong, if not stronger, motive. Lord Charles Montagu gave evidence as to his knowledge of the deceased, and some five or six Other witnesses were called.—ln the end, the jury returned a verdict of suicide whilst in a state of unsound mind.—Careful inquiries have revealed but little more than the above.—The witnesses who were called decline to state what transpired at the inquest, and the coroner, on being applied, to, refused to allow the depositions to be seen.  Another account says that Lord Charles Montagu, when called as a witness, stated that he was an intimate friend of Miss Manton, and had been engaged to lunch with her on the previous day. Be was late in keeping his appointment, and the deceased appeared much annoyed at this. He went away in the afternoon, and had no idea that she was contemplating suicide. He never saw her again alive. The deceased was a remarkably handsome woman, with a very fine head of hair,and her portraits were prominent among the photographs of fashionable beauties a few years ago. At the time of her death she was wearing a diamond bracelet and some very costly finger-rings. Lord Charles Montagu, who is a brother of the Duke of Blanchester, was born in 1860, and is a stockbroker.  A
Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1888-07-28 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

TIMES " SERVER.—Mr. O'Donnell.  Mon Eel."( ix a virtue to be admired, but it should not lead us to self-depreciation. If we were contemplating suicide, we should not make away with ourselves with vermin killer.  PROFESSIONAL PRlDE.—Doctor's Boy : " My governor's cleverer than yourn. 'An f his medicines is pison if they ain't properly mixed."—Butcher's Boy: " Garn ! We makes sossiges I"  HE GOT CRUSTY, Too.—Host : "Now, this port, my boy, is genuine '47."—Guest: "'47, eh ? Let's see, 475. the dozen-3s. 11d, the bottle. Well, we pay 3s. Gd. ; but I must own this drinks a little better." IT is a curious fact that, although the women and girls recently on strike from Messrs. 13ryant and May's factory have helped to make good matches, only a very small percentage of the number are themselves married.  HUNGRY HUSBAND (just home from business): "How is it, my dear, you have flavoured the stew so much? It quite burns my tbrost.."—Young Wife (who isn't eating any) : "Why, dear, the meat wasn't quite sweet, so I thought it better to make it tasty." [Husband proposes an adjournment.] DRIVER (to quiet stranger on suburban road) : "Hi ! mister, jest hold that there horse's head for a minute while I get down, will yer ? "—Stranger (nervously): " Wh. wh-which one? "—Driver: "Why, the off 'un to be sure."—Stranger : "My good man, I am totally unacquainted with horses, and it is (pits impossible for me to tell which of your animals is an orphan."  Misraxss (to new domestic from the Sister Isle) : "Have you boiled the tea-kettle, Bridget?"— Bridget (with evident symptoms of astonishment) : "Sure and I haven't, mum. —Mistress : "Please do. so at once, then."—Bridget: "And plaze, mum, where will I bind a pot large enough to hould the kittle ? "—[Mistress is more careful of her colloquialisms in future.]
Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1888-11-10 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

RELIEF FOR IRISH LANDLORDS.  The committee of the Irish Landlords' Convention have, it is stated, received from the Government a communication, from which they infer the recognition of the justice of their claims as embodied in the statement submitted to Lord Salisbury. Pending legislation on the subject, they considered that the Government should lessen the pressure on the landlords for arrears of interest on public works, loans, and other charges, which they have been unable to meet in consequence of reduction of rents and depreciation of property.. A bill has been prepared for introduction into Parliament early next session for relief in respect of the redemption of incunibrances, tithe-rent charges, church perpetuities, and Board of Works loans, which it is proposed to pay off by annuities of 3} per cent., payable for 65i years. Payment of the whole of the poor rates on holdings valued at and under £4 has been hitherto levied on landlords, who now propose that the occupiers should be assessed instead.  Rininiann, tne man who shot at rrince Bismarck in 1874, after finishing his 14 years' term of penal servitude the other day, was at once taken to the prison of Amberg, in Bavaria, where he will have to remain seven years longer for mutinous conduct while in the Penitentiary. A. tragic incident has occurred in connection with air theft of a quantity of silver plate in Yorkshire. The booty was thrown by the burglar into a river, and Sergeant Norwood, of the West Riding Constabulary, went out in a boat to recover it. He eucceeded in his quest, but the boat was swept by the strong current over a dam and capsized. Norwood was unfortunately drowned, and the plate again sank 1,, the river bottom.  "Death in the bottle" is a phrase usually associated with alcoholic beverages. Carbolic acid is, however, not an alcoholic beverage. It is supposed to be a disinfectant; but during the past few weeks has been brought into notoriety by several cases of suicide. The victims in each case had effected selfdestruction try drinking carbolic acid. If, instead of drinking *at, they had partaken of a draught of Jeyes' Fluid, they would have escaped death. The Fluid is also a more effective disinfectant than the acid, and is recommended by such eminent authorities as Sir Robert Rawlinson, C.E., Dr. Attfield, Professor of Practical Chemistry to the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, Drs. Von Esmarck, Eisenburg, and other eminent savants and sanitarium
Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1888-04-14 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

STRANGE SUICIDE OF A SERVANT. A singular case of suicide has formed the subject of an inquest before the coroner at Lynn. Sarah Pack, 16, whose parents live at Grimston, and Susann,h Rout, 17, of North Wootton Marsh, were fellow servants in the employ of Miss Couperthwaite, sister and housekeeper to her brothers, ironmongers of the town. A few days ago both girls were in good health and cheerful spirits, and they went to bed shortly after 10 o'clock. An hour and half later Rout alarmed the household, and upon the two Messrs. Couperthwaite going to her they found Pack in bed very ill and evidently suffering from the effect of poison. A surgeon was summoned, and Pack made an allegation to the effect that both she and Rout had decided to commit suicide. They I found a bottle containing a poisonouroliquid in a drawer in the dining-room, and they took it upstairs. Rout poured half of it into a cup and gave it to Pack, and told her that she would drink her share out of the bottle. An hour afterwards Pack was suffering very iiT•eh, and wondering that Rout did not suffer as int, nsely she spoke to her. All this Rout denied at the inquest. Pack died in the hospital, and it was found that she had succumbed to an irritant poison. The jury, after a long deliberation, decided that deceased took the poison, but the evidence was not sufficient to shew under what circumstances she did so.  Two cities have been before the magistrate at Marlborongh-street, in which the Shop gours' Regulation Committee prosecuted tradesmen for employing "young persons '—that is under 18 years of age —for a hanger period than 74 hours in a week. Small fines were inflicted,abd the Magistrate observed that the Act ivotild probably prejudice the people it was intended to benefit, inasmuch as employers would hesitate about eicJaging youths oi 17.  ~  INVIT*TION TO LORD WOLSELEY, e It is stated that the whole of the Anstra iasian Colonies, including- New Zealand and Tasmania, have addressed to General Viscount Wolseley a very flattering invitation to pay them a visit with a view to obtaining from him counsel on the question of i,heir &fences. As yet the Adjutant-General has not been able to accept the invitation, and in any case he c-iuld not,in view of possible European complications, start on his voyage before the end of the summer. It is thought that the tour of inspection and inquiry would occupy about six months, and during the whole of this time his lordship would be the guest of the colonies. No doubt provision could be made for 'theifulfillment of his present duties during his absence.  ELEcrIUNS IN