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The Warwickshire Herald. — 1890-02-27 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

VAE SUICIDE OF A GOVERNEDC.  Atdhe Star and Gaiter* Battersea, on Friday... Ur. A. Boaxton Hicks resaimed,the inquiry into thscir. cumetanose attendiag the death ofJesaie Roger,eged 24, • governess, lately seeding at Era Mesa, Surreyslane, Battersea, who committed suicide by drinking a quantity of laudanum on nil 12th , —The fleet witness called was Arthur James Oakman, an officer in the siereaulile service, who do posed that he had been ed to deceased about 12 montheobut had known her since April, 1884. (Vito... had quarrelled with her.on the Wednesday previous totter suicide about her speaking to Mr. Willis, whom she had accompanied to the theatre. Deceased had spoken of Mr. Mali. as a friend of her sister, and had told witness that last July Mr. Willie had knocked her down at the shop in (sower Belgeave-street. Desmond did not say whether this was accidental. On smother occasion deceased told swears that at the death of her father she lathed herself, a room in orderto keep Mr. Willie away from has. On Saturday, the Bth, witness quarrelled again with the doomed, owing to her mentioning Mr. Willis's same. He saw deceased again on the following Tuesday, and on the following evening he sot her, about 7 o'clock, near Batteraea-bridge. When deceased came to him she was rolling from one side of the path to the other. Witness twanged tist of having been drinking, which she denied, adding that the had been to see Mr. Willis and her sister, and that she had been drinking laudanum. Deceased became gradually more drowsy and ele•py, and witness told her that he should have to take her home, which he did. As soon as she got home a : doctor was sent for. She said she bail taken an ounce of laudanum.—Mrs. Roger, mother of the deceased, said since the last occasion ! she had looked through all the deceased's , papers and could find nothing that would ' account for her committing this rash act. Continuing, witness said she had no reason to suspect her daughter's condition. At times deceased appeared to be under the influence of drink. On one or two occasions when deceased was away from home, she understood she was staying with her siater.—Florence Roger, said Mr. Willis was her friend, and she introduced him to her sister. Her sister when away from home always sirpt with her at Blandford-street. D•cettead bad given way to taking spirits for the past two years, and this bad the effect of making her excitable and at other times denreesed. The letter produced was from Mr. Willis to herself.— Two chemists having given evidence of the deceased having purchased laudanum, William Willis, dentist, of Park-street, West, recalled, said when she deceased last came to him she did not complain to him, neither did she hint-at taking laudanum.— Dr. F. C. Hempster deposed to making a poet. igortem examipation of the deceased. Death WIWI due to asphyxia consequent upon congestion of the lungs, caused by opium poisoning. He fgund that the deceased was suffering hop a Writile disease.— The Coroner having summed up, the jury returned *verdict of suicide whilst of unsound mind.
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1890-04-17 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

PLOTS AGAINST THE CZAR.  DISCOVERY OF BOMBS.  The DaffsTTdejeaph---c-orre;pon-cl;;;; St. Peterr burg telegraphs as follows: For several days past vague but disquieting rumours have been circulating in the city respecting the discovery of mines ad Claechina And the apprehensions of the police for the Emperor's safety causing his Majesty's compulsory stay in the capital. I hare been to Gatobina and having spoken on the subject with two officials, learned that no discovery of the kind referred to had been made in the Palace or the grounds of °Lachine—indeed, that no search had been or could he made there without an express order from General Hesse, the Palace Governor, who is directly responsible to the Emperor for his Majesty's safety, and is perfectly satisfied that the precautionary measures taken last Deceniber leave nothing to be desired. No search of any kind has been made since then, nor will any be made until a day or two before his Majesty's return. The origin of the above-mentioned rumours probably consisted in the conviction of the police. that the naval officer who lately committed suicide on the Vassili Ostroff, was not the only person deputed to give effect to the murderous intent of the small group of regicides who have been spreading such terror in the Court circles of the cspital. There were grounds, too, for believing that two other. were biding their time, and that one or both of them had selected Gatchina as the most suitable place for the next attempt. As General Hesse was sure of the Palace grounds and buildings, the clue was followed up not by him but by the police, and it was their rather clumsy investigations and unskilful questioning of the inhabitants of Gatchina that gave rise to the rumours alluded to above. On Thursday evening, however, they were rewarded by a discovery which seems to phew that their information was,in the main, correct. Inquiries about the previous career of a young man who had lived in Gatchina since the end of December tended to show that the police were mistaken in supposing his name, business, and previous history to be be well-known to them. On the day mentioned he left his lodgings to go to St. Petersburg, and during his absence his room. were searched thoroughly. In one of the drawers of a piece of furniture an innocent-looking box was discovered. It was securely locked, but when opened it was found to contain two explosive ball.sheped masses of very portable dimensions securely kept in their places by closely-fitting frames, so that no amount of jolting could loosen them or endanger an explosion. These were no paper., no chemicals, no letters—nothing but this box. The young man's name is now be. lieved to be a false one, and his passport is said to boa forgery, as he has been personating someone else. The pnliras still believe that there is a third conspirator in at. Petersburg or Gatchina; but they have no clue to his uhereshouts.
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1890-02-06 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

HOW A " STRAD " VIOLIN WAS MADE. In the Court of Session. Edinburgh,Lord Hyllachy bas given judgment in an action regarding the genuineness of a violin. represented to be • Stradivarius of 1701. The action was brought by Mr. James Johnston., Pollokshields, Glasgow, against Mr, David Lawrie, dealer in Italian and other stringed instrumeate, Glasgow. In October, MX Johnstone bought from Lawrie what w 5 represented to be • yjolin made by Antonio Sti,divaritilb at Cremona, in 1701, and in payment gave £2OO in nub and • Peter Guarnerius and • Lupot violin,valued at £260. Johnstone had recently ascertained that the violin he received was not *genuine Stradivarius, but he believed it had been pieced together from parts of other violins. The defendant now explained that he purchased from a London firm two violins, the belly of one of which was made by Stra. divarius, and all the part. of the other, with the exception of the belly,were the work of this celebrated maker. He sent both violins to Paris, where the second violin was again roads • complete Stradivarius. He therefore contended that be had fulfilled hie warranty. While acquitting the defendant of wilful misrepresentation, the judge gave judgment for the plaintiff, with costs.  SUICIDE THROUGH UNJUST SUSPICION • tragical suicide took place in Vienna on Saturday. The clerk of • beer agent on the previou• Monday cashed at the Vienna Clearing-house 37,600 florins for his master, putting them into • black pocket-book. As he passed out of the bank he felt faint, and suddenly swooned. When he came to he missed the black pocket-book, and supposed' 110D1001:111 must have taken it out of his hand. Suspicion fell on the clerk, whose mune is Leiner, and who was formerly • major. His employer, however, declared to the police that be could not possibly suspect Leiner of having committed the theft. On Saturday morning Leiner published an advertisement saying that if the permon who had found the pocket-book returned 30,000 florins to him anonymously he might keep the other 7,600. After writing several letters he went in an omnibus to the Central Cemetery, and, standing on the grave of his first wife, he shot himself dead with • revolver. Early in the afternoon hie employer received an unpaid letter, which when opened was found to contain the 30,0003. Th• address was printed nod cut from one of the advertisements published in the morning. Had the poor fellow waited • few hours before committing suicide the proof of his innocence would have been seen from the letter.
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1890-01-02 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

RAE TO DEATH.  One of the most romantic suicides in the River Thames for many years past has just been brought to light. As Inspector Long and boat's-crew of the river police were rowing past Charing-cross landingpier, their attention was drawn to &dark object suddenly rising to the surface of the water. The men rowed to the spot, when they found that it was the body of • young woman, apparently about 20. The lifeless remairis were made fast to a line and towed to the landing-stairs at Lambeth-bridge. A shell was speedily procured, and the body was placed therein and conveyed to the mortuary at Lambeth. The coroner', officer for Lambeth was sent for, and on making inquiries be succeeded in obtaining the identification of the deceased as Miss Margaret Hodgson, aged 19 year,. It would appear that the other night the deceased met a party of friends consisting of young women and men at Lambeth. They thoroughly enjoyed themselves in singing, and became merry, when the deceased suddenly excited, and exclaimed "Now I will commit suicide in the River Thames." Her friends took no notice of the threat, and thought it a joke, when the deceased rose from her seat and ran into the street, followed by about 20 young men and girls. The chase was exciting, but the unfortunate suicide we, soon lost to view. Whether she leaped into the Thames from the Embankment or Westminster Bridge is not known.  SHOT BY A LrNATIC.  An 'extraordinary shooting case has conned at Bristol. A chimney.sweep named John Adcock and his wife have recently &hewn signs of insanity, and on Christmas Day they put in their window a notice that anyone but the police in uniform en. tering their premises would be shot. Next day Rowe, the relieving officer, obtained an order for a doctor to visit and report. lie had to be /seeom. ponied by the police, and was only admitted on assuring the couple that he was a true believer in God. The doctor reported both to be dangerous, and warrants were issued to bring them before the magistrates. Rowe, accompanied by Constables James , and Padfield, attended to execute the warrants, when ! John .Adcock fired five shots from • revolver before he was disarmed. Rowe was shot in the neck, and bullets struck the boot of James and went through the leg of Padfield's trousers. Rowe was taken to the hospital, where the bullet was extracted, and he is doing well. The man and his wife are in custody.
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1889-07-04 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

SAD SUICIDE OF A YOUNG WOMAN. An inquest has been held at Lindley, Huddersfield, on the body of Margaret Lees, 24 years of age, who was found drowned in the reservoir of the mill of Messrs. B. Crossland and Sons. Deceased is a native of Greenfield, where her parents live, but for two years she had worked in Huddersfield. The other morning Charles North, of Lindley, at whose house she lodged, found a letter on the table stating that she would be found in Crossland's reservoir, and on going to the place the body was found and removed. The deceased had for three months, up to about five months ago, been keeping company with Albert Robinson, a joiner, of Birkby.— Robinson, in giving evidence, said the deceased broke off the engagement. A few mornings since he received a letter from her stating that he ought not to have asked her to meet him when his heart was with another girl; and if he had not done so he would have saved her an amount of needless pain and trouble. Love had been a tie which nothing but death could sever on her part. Robinson stated that he was never so surprised at anything in his life as when he received that letter. Deceased sent him a letter to say she would see him for the last time, and he then gave her a letter and her photo back. Robinson's sister, who worked with deceased, also produced a letter she had had from her, in which she said she really could not live any longer when the one she had loved dearer than life had forsaken her. It was stated that lately the deceased had been of variable temperament.--The jury found that deceased had committed suicide whilst in a state of temporary insanity.
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1889-07-11 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

DETERMINED ATTEMPTED SUICIDE AT ASTON BY A SMALL HEATH MAN. About ten o'clock on Tuesday morning a determined attempt at suicide was made by a man named Henry Appleby, aged 48, of Templefialdstreet, Small Heath. Appleby is a broker by trade, and has done business in a small way with Mr. \V. Morris, metal dealer, of Whitehead-road, Aston. At the hour named he visited Mr. Morris' place of business and walked to the rear of his premises in the direction of the casting shop, where are three large melting furnaces. Knowing that Appleby could have no business in this shop, Mr. Morris watched him, and saw him attempt to dive into one of the furnaces which were at a white heat at the time. Mr. Morris ran to and pulled him away from the furnace, but had no sooner loosed hold of him than he rushed to the second furnace, and made a similar attempt to throw himself into that. This second action was done so quickly that Mr. Morris had scarcely time to realise Alia Appleby was about, before the latter's head had entirely disappeared down the fire-hole. Mr. Morris instantly threw himself on Appleby. taking hold of him by the middle and dragged him away. Subsequently Appleby pulled a clasp knife from out of his pocket and cut his throat with it. With some difficulty the knife was wrenched from his grasp, and during the instant that his hands were at liberty Appleby endeavoured to thrust his fingers into the wound he had already made in his throat and rips it open. His arms were held until the further assistance was got, when he was taken to the General Hospital in a cab, by Police-constables Talbot and Eales, where he now lies in a critical condition. There is only one reason at present why Appleby should have attempted to destroy his life, which is that he became ia arrears with his rent to the amount of £2O, and on Tuesday the landlord, Mr. Rinks, had a portion of his goods sold by auction. Appleby has a wife and four little children.
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1889-05-02 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

CHILD MARRIAGES IN INDIA.  The Dewan Ragunatha Rao, writing with reference to the recent charge of cruelty to a child-wife brought against Holkar's son-in-law, utters, says the Times correspondent in Calcutta, an indignant protest against the existing state of the law, and asks the Government to exhibit sufficient moral courage, by passing remedial measures, and to rescue millions of Hindoo women from slavery. He says: "British blood and money have flowed like water in efforts to stamp out. slavery in other countries; yet in India the British Government sits by with folded hands while a father is permitted with impunity to sell in marriage an infant daughter of 8 years ,to a man of 47, already rendered notorious by his marital tyranny. This child-wife is then seicregated from the companionship of her own sex, and is so persecuted and terrorized that, child as she is, she is driven to attempt suicide rather than continue to submit herself any longer to the capricious tyranny and odious intimacy of her socalled husband. And yet the British magistrate is compelled to state in open court that the law gives him no power to restrain revolting tippression of this character, as it is justified by law." This protest, coming as it does from a prominent Hindoo, is significant of the advanced opinion entertained by a certain section of the Hindoo community as to the necessity for Government intervention to mitigate some of the worst abuses of the present system of child-marriage in India.  Rukbmabai, the Indian lady whose refusal to live with her husband, to whom she had been married when an infant, created so much interest last year and the year before in England and in India. has arrived in this country, with a view to entering the Women's Medical College, and pursuing a couriie of study there which will enable her to obtain the necessary qualifications to practise medicine. Before leaving India she addressed a farewell letter to the secretary of her defence committee explaining the circumstances under which she leaves that country for a time. After thanking the committee for its constant aid and expressing a hope that their joint success, though only partial at present, "will go a great way to lessen the miseries of such of my Hindoo sisters as may be unfortunately situated like myself," Rukhmabai states that through the exertions of a lady doctor in India, Mrs. Pechey-Phipson, she has obtained a home in this country from Mr. M`Laren, M.P., and Mrs. M`Laren, who have undertaken to find the funds for her medical education.
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1889-05-02 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

SINGULAR CONDUCT OF A SERVANT. At the Wandsworth Police-court on Saturday Jane Wright, a domestic servant, was charged with attempting to commit suicide by. strangulation.—Mies Susetta Davis, residing at Wandsworth Common, said that the accused was her housemaid, and had been in her employ since Christmas. On the previous day she missed her, and found her lying on the floor of her aunt's bedroom, with her duster tied tightly round her throat. She pulled her arm and called to het, but, failing to obtain an answer, she went downstairs for assistance.—Mr. Plowden (the magistrate) : Did you remove the duster?—Witness; No.—Mr. Plowden (with surprise) : I should have thought that was the first thing you would ha% e done. What were her appearances ?Did she look as though she had been strangled ?—Witness: She looked as though she was aleep.—Mr. Plowden : What conclusion did you come to?—Witness: I thought she was dead.—Mr. Bird, the chief clerk: Did she speak 11—Witness: No.— Mr. Plowden: Was she insensible? Did she shew any signs of life? Surely you could tell by her eyes.— Witness: She did not appear insensible.—Robert Meadows, a milkman, said he VIM called in, and removed the duster from the prisoner's throat. He could not say whether or not she was unconscious.—Mr. Plawden : Why did you not shake her or kick her, or do something to wake her up? Why on earth she was allowed to remain on the floor I (tempt understand.—A lady wbo resided next door, and who was also called in, expressed an opinion that the girl .was shamming. She (the lady) pulled her up bodily, and then she remained in a sitting position.— A constable informed the maeistrate that Wright attempted to throw herself off Westminster Bridge in 1687, and a lady who knew her antecedents said she was not in full possession of her faculties; she, nevertheless, could not be considered insane.—The accused, on being asked if she had anything to say in defence, abruptly replied, .No."—Mr. Plowden did not believe she had any serious intention to commit suicide, but her conduct was due, no doubt, to a morbid disease of vanity from which she evidently suffered. Nothing she had done was heroic, but extremely silly and foolish. As he believed she had no intention to commit suicide, he allowed her to be dins charred.  inaiing:43klistetee brine:X*7z --ateels * =PT p n re. Neither dau ter tO make a base,. 4e C ._ e elijnont and im , though . instead of going to ri• itp 44 went tirfhi . be " ise twat* -•- • sterling ha 9 been P—nt and him' ' with her. Digh on refusAUlt Pi"
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1889-08-01 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

SUICIDE AT CANNON HILL PARK. —At the Kings Heath Folic° court on Monday morning, before Mr. J. Baldwin, :Nlary Hickman, described as a japanncr, living at 15, Sherlockstreet, Birmingham, was charged with attempting to commit suicide by drowning herself at Cannonhill Park on Saturday.--The prisoner, a tall, slim girl, informed the Bench that she was thirteen years of age.—Mr. Ballwin: What made you make the attempt? Have you anything to say about it ?—Prisoner : No, sir.—A wom in who was in Court, said her name was Jane Granger, and she was a widow. The prisoner and her father lived with her, and had done se for the past six years.—Mr. Baldwin: Then you are not the girl's step-mother, as reported ?—Wittiess : No, sir.—An elderly woman named Catherine Hickman said she was the moth% of the prisoner. Her husband had left her, and gone to live with Mrs. Granger. Witness married prisoner's father twenty-seven years ago, and during the whole of that time she had not had as many months' comfort with him. -- Prisoner cried out "Don't let her (the mother) come near me."—Edith Day deposed to seeing the prisoner jump into the water. Witness rescued her. When prisoner was in the water she said she wanted to die.—Police sergeant Beale deposed to seeing the prisoner soon after she had been got out of the water, and she then said "It's all through my step mother."—Prisoner (interrupting and bursting into tears): She ain't no beauty.— Mrs. Granger: Why, what have I done to you, my child? —Mr. Baldwin (to Mrs. Hickman) : Have you any objection to your daughter being remanded ? —Mrs. Hickman: No, sir. I can tell you something if you will let me.—Prisoner was remanded until Friday.—Mr. Baldwin complimented Miss Day upon her conduct in rescuing the prisoner.