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The Warwickshire Herald. — 1899-09-07 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

MISS M. E. BRADDON,  Author of "La& Anileiv's Secret." "The Fatal • Three." "The Nil- Will Conie," "Lost for Love," "The Doctor's Wife." "Whose Was the Hand ? " "One Life. One Love," "Thou Art the Men, • "Bons of Fire," &e.  SYNOPSIS OF ritEviors CHAPTERS:—ArnoId Wentworth, who has taken the assumed name of Alfred Wildover, a man thirty years of age, is returning to England from South Africa. Aboard the steamship he meets Mary Freeland, whom he had known as a child in the days before he ran away from his home in England. He has made money at the diamond fields, and is returning to England on a visit. Slw, too, has left home against the wish of her aunt, with whom she had lived, and gone upon the stage. Her aunt has since died, and bequeathed to Mary Freeland her fortune. Wildover has received a letter in South Africa from a woman for whom, before leaving England, he had formed a sincere attachment. She has heard of his good fortune in the new country, and beseeches him to return to her. The story of their relationship is a sad one. When quite a girl Lisa Rayner had been led astray and deserted by a man many years her senior. This man is now supposed to be living In Vienna. He is a man of great wealth and position. Lisa Rayner had lived through the period which, followed her desertion without ailing into a life of vice, and had managed to support herself in a poor quarter of London. Whilst living thus she had made the acquaintance of Arnold Wentworth. He himself, having run away from home, had been reduced to great poverty, and it was only the intervention of Lisa Rayner which had saved him from a suicide's grave. From this there had sprung up a sincere affection between them, and they had lived together as man and wife. A life of poverty, however, had soon worn out Arnold's affection, and at length he had given Lisa what money he could obtain, and bade her good-bye, and gone out to seek his fortune in South Africa. This he had achieved, and he was now returning to England with anything but pleasant anticipationwof meeting the woman with whom he had at one time imagined himself to be in love. Aboard the ship, he falls in love with Mary Freeland, but, being conscious of the stain upon his past life, he refrains from telling her of his love. On reaching England, Mary Freeland at once returns to their native village of Mervynhall. A day later Arnold follows her, and has a secret interview with his mother. He cannot meet her openly because of the enmity of his father, who has never *given the boyish extravagance which had been the cause of their early quarrel. Next morning Arnold visits Mary Freeland, and whilst in her company he is greatly shocked by reading in the paper an account of a murder in London. The victim is no other than Lisa Rayner, the woman with whom he had at one time lived on terms of intimacy. She had been found dead in her London garret, having been shot through the heart by some person who must have followed her up the public stairway to her room and escaped before an alarm was given.
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1899-09-07 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

DROWNING FATALITIES.  A lamentable boat accident, involving the loss of three lives, occurred off Southsea, on Monday. Just before noon four young men, William John Gravett, lamplighter; Harry Bose, a visitor from London; Thomas Goodson, of Southsea; and John Hodges, of Granville-street, Battersea-park, hired a boat and put off to the Boyne Buoy. A heavy swell was on at the time, and before long the boat was capsized. Hodges, the only one of the party who could swim, obtained a Imid of the bottom of the boat but all th. three others sank. A party of coastguardmen, who had obserVed the accident from the shore, promptly put off in a boat to the spot. Hodges, who was clinging to the overturned 'boat, wu picked up by the coastguardmen, who made every effort to find his companions. Failing, they brought Hodges ashore, towing the boat which Ins friends had recently occupied. At the Coastguard Station a doctor saw Hodges, and iestoratives and dry clothing having been supplied to him, he was able to return to his lodgings. A serious boating accident occurred in the Walney Channel on Sunday afternoon. Two men named Jones and Probert, while out rowing, saw a boat capsize, and four men struggling in the water. Probert jumped in to their assistance, but one of the party sank fifteen yards from the shore, and the other three disappeared.  The Danish ironclad flerluf Trolle was launched on Saturday at Copenhagen in the presence of the King, the Princess of Wales, and the whole of the Royal Family.  Sir W. Laurier ends that he will be unable to vi,sit, ion of h Eniuegsitand to confer Alferwasitiha Mr. nC day a Chamberlain he had nodn the honed. Sir Louis H. Davies. however, will co. A fierce fire, which did great damage, has occurred at the works of R. Cundall and Sm., Limited, Shipley, manufacturers of gas and oil engines and book-folding machines. In a quarter of an hour the engine-making department, 100 yards long by 20 yards wide, was completely gutted, and a great stock of valuable patterns and machinery woe . The loss which was estimated roughly 000, is covered by inauraoce.  At Warwick, George Masters, late an attendant-IA the County Asylum, was fined IE2 10s. 6d. for assaulting • patient. The sudden death is announced of the Bev. A. Brown, M.A., vicar of Normanton, who expired While cycling with his wife.  Leah Williams, widow, committed suicide by jumping into the dam belonging to the Leeds Forge Co., New Farnley.
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1899-08-24 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

BLACK GAME SHOOTING. Black game shooting begail on Monday. The weather in the south of Seotland was most brilliant, and sportsmen were out in considerable numbers. Lord Henry and Lord Ernest Ham lton and party were on the Duke of Buccleuch's moors at Flatt. The black ,game all over the country are better than usual. They bred well, but some of the birds are by no means ready yet, and a good many will not be shot till later.  Timothy Donovan, said to have been at one time a prosperous tradesman, charged with begging at Bristol, was sent back to Cardiff, where he bad been in the workhouse. Arthur Ernest White landlord of the King's Arms, Marlborough, has been fined £5O and costs, by the Marlborough borough magistrates, for betting and gambling with his customers. The bench also ordered his licence to be endorsed. ~ The annual holidays commenced on Saturday at Rochdale, and thousands left for various parts. Over £50,000 has been distributed by the going-off clubs. The secretaries of two of them have absconded. 1 William Cockburn has been fined £25 at Kouth: ampton for smuggling tobacco and cigars. It war Stated that, as storekeeper of the Goth, about to talc, out troops to South Africa, he secreted the goods to sell to the soldiers. Defendant emphatically denied i any intention of smuggling, and pr ucviinvoices chewing that the goods had been bought at Hamburg.  Thomas Saville, aged Afty-foue, a shunter in ty,. employ of the Great Eastern Railway, was re sniitg the line just below Stru ford Market Station th et to his engine in the siding, when he was rtio over by a train, and literally smashed to pieces. At Liverpool a jury returned v,rlict Of Suicide', during temporary insanity i" ht. ease of a sailor named Thompson, who was fouo I .oead in a local park with only a bottle of carbolic acid and a faded photograph of a girl in his possession. Nothing Ii own of the man beyond his name.
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1899-02-09 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

ALLEGED ATTEMPTED SUICIDE AT SUTTON COLDFIEED.  On Wedne+clay. Leo James Rotnett, fifth on of Mr. Councillor Rabnett, Tudor Rill, was brought up at the l'oloe Court, before Mr. P. S. dowes, marged with an alleged attempt to take ins life by outting hi+ throat on the previous nignt. ,Ttie pnsaner +o injured himself that it neeesainae;cl a d. ctor being called and several stitches being put into the wound he had inflicted in his thrtat.—Tne irate rimanded.the prisoner to M.'erwick until Tuesday. .  7 have often sir.:sed myself, writes Roland Belfort in the with watching the patronising airs of the Porioians towards the provincials, In Paris and in the provirces. At the tone PlAlte the Parisian claims the best seat, talks the loudest, eats the most, and expectorates in his napkin with the gredest frequency. But his tips are the smallest, for he is as mean as he is greedy. In the army, the Parisian evades the fatigue duties by monkey tricks of all sorts. As a last resource he sneaks into the coal-cellar or the lavatory. He is the laziest, the mot indisciplined, the most whining soldier in the company. Everywhere he claims privileges as a Parisian. Heaven knows why! Strangely enough, the provincial accepts this estimate of his own inferiority, smiles, effaces himself apologetically, and grovels before these bounders of the boulevard, whose strength lies in their jaw. And with what lofty rondescension the Parisian journalist pats his "excellent confrere de province" on the bark! Sometimes he meets a Tartar, however. I was greatly amused in the Paris Café de la Pais one evening, when a smart lia.seillais strolled in, sat down at a table close to a dozen Deputies and journalists, and coolly roared to the waiter: "Garcon I eve me the journals of the locality."
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1899-07-20 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

REVOLTING SPECTACLE AT AN INDIAN EXECUTION.  William Going, alias Walla Tonka, a Choctaw Indian, was executed at Alikichi in the Indian Territory the other day. According to a correspondent the execution, which was conducted in Indian fashion, was a sickening sight. Going was led blindfolded into a public square, where a large crowd had assembled. The Choctaw sheriff hared the prisoner's bosom and painted a black spot over the region of the heart; then stepped back four paces, raised his rifle, and fired. The bullet entered the breast, but missed the intended spot. Going fell back moaning, but an hour elapsed before he expired. A rope was tied round his neck and water was poured down his throat several times to hasten death by strangulation. The crime for which Going was sentenced to death was the shooting of his uncle three years ago. The sentence WIIP pronounced by a tribal court. He was afterwards liberated on parole to play in a Choctaw baseball team. He returned voluntarily two weeks ago, according to his promise, to suffer the penalty. The United States court issued a writ of habeas carves to save Going's life, but the Indian officials prevented the marshal serving it.  SUICIDE IN AN HOTEL A mysterious suicide has taken place at Liverpool. A gentlemanly-looking man arrived at the Exchange Station Hotel on Wednesday night, and next day at breakfast seemed all right. About noon, however, a shot was heard in his bedroom, and he was found on the floor dead, with a revolver in his hand. The bullet had penetrated his heart. In his pocket was a return-half of a railway ticket to Glasgow. Be is believed to he a medical man.  A free light took plac. at the Democratic Sena. tonal Convention at igleveland, Ohio, the other night. One delegate was hurled from the platform, and was badly injured. Another was attacked with a knife, but managed to escape. Black eyes were plentiful, and Mr. Campbell, ex-Governor of Ohio, wus hustled off the platform. Over a ctozen deaths hie been reported in Sew York durinp the last few days from tetanus, the victims being schoolboys. The disease was set up by wounds from toy pistols, penknives, and are. works during the celebration of the .Fourth. In three cases anti-toxin serum was injected Into the brain, but two of the patients died, and the third ii is a critical condition.  David Sloan, the trother of Tod Sloan, was arrested in New York on • charge of assaulting a man with a chair at the race track, and knocking out some of his teeth.
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1899-06-08 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

KILLED BY A MOTOR-CAR.  Mr. Troutbeck, the Westminster coroner, has held an inquest as to the death of a lady, named Mrs. Swan Brookes, aged sixty, who was killed by being run over by an electric motor carriage. The evidence was to the effect that on Monday evening an electric motor dog-cart was being driven by its owner, Mr. Leitner, down Shaftesbury-avenue,when the deceased crossed the road in front of the vhicle, and was knocked down. The speed of the vehicle was stated to be a moderate one, and it was proved that Mr. Leitner, who :iimself drove the motor, sounded his "hooter" to warn the deceased when she started to go across the road. The old lady turned back, and then started again, with the result that the carriage struck her, although an attempt was made to turn the vehicle aside before it reached her. She was removed to Charing-cross Hospital, where she died from her injuries.—The jury returned a verdict of accidental LADY'S SUICIDE AT A LONDON HOTEL  Mr. John Troutbeck, the Westminster coroner, has held an inquiry into the circumstances attending the death of Miss Louise D'Arche, fortyseven years of age, who shot herself with a revolver at the Hotel Metropole.—Alice Kimber said she had known the deceased for six years as a trained nurse. She was a Canadian by birth and a naturalised American, 'and came to England from America six years ago. Witness last saw her at Trafalgar-square on Tuesday night last week. She was then going to the Hotel Metropole for the night prior to her departure next day for Now York. Witness had never heard her threaten to take her life, but in New York the deceased had suffered greatly from mental depression, brought about by anxiety and the responsibility of having charge, as matron, of a great nursing institution, where there were SOO patients a'nd 100 nurses under her care and control. Recently in London she had suffered from mental excitement, but had not been receiving medical advice. So far as witness knew, there was nothing more to account for the mental depression of the deceased. The deceased died at witness's house, in Bessborough-gardens. —ln reply to the coroner, Police-inspector Low said that a note, written by the deceased, was found, after she shot herself, in a dressing-bag at the hotel. The note was written in pencil, and simply contained the words : "Please have me buried on this side.—L. D'Ariens." After further evidence, a verdict of temporary insanity was returned.
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1899-08-10 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

THE FUNNY OLD MAN'S HOLIDAY.  Before the game begins papa writes down on a piece of paper the story of a funny old man spending a holiday at the seaside, in something like the following strain A funny old man one fine day went to the seaside for a boll 'ay. His ticket was No. 7, and the number of his carriage was also No. 70, and, strange to say, the number of his bedroom was also No. 17. Now, this funny old man went for a walk on one of the piers, when it began to rain just like it is doing now, and tiro of the pier men—or maybe three or flan., I don't just remember—started to pull down the flags, and one of them hit the funny old manufacturer on the head, &c. -  As many numbers as possible must be introduced into the story, arranging them as catchily as possible—forinstance, as above, seven, seventy, sevent.en.  The players sit round the table with a pencil and piece of paper, and each player is given a number —from one to ten, or as many as may be. Papa then reads out his story with gusto, ana every time a player bears his number he is to make a stroke on his paper. Should be make a stroke by mistake, which will often be the case if the numbers are catchy, he must not erase it. Every time the words "funny old man" are heard every player must make a stroke; but, if such catch phrases as "funny old manufacturer," "funny old Manchester," "funny old mantle," Sic., be used by the reader occasionally, many a time and often will tie whole of the players be "caught," and much fun will be caused.  When the story is finished, each player must count up his strokes. The reader has previously made an analysis on his paper, when writing the story, as to how many times each number occurs, and also the number of times the phrase "funny old man" occurs. The player who is most accurate in his numbers wins the game, though it is probable that, it the story is well connected, not one player will be right. Of course, forfeits or flues may be Imposed for all wrong marks.  An inquest was held on Saturday into the death of Thomas North, who committed suicide by cutting bin throat and jumping into the Thames. A verdict of suicide while temporarily insane was returned. • -  Klhief Inspector Conquest, who for the past cwenty-nine years has been serving in the London police, and had acted as the protector of the late Mr. Gladaton, , has resigned his position in the force.  "No, I never take to an interior." "But have you ever met one? "  "I am a self•made man." "When are you going to finish the job?"
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1885-07-04 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF AN OFFICER.  The trial of a manservant named Povalski and his paramour, for the murder last year of the Gendarmerie Captain Gishden in Odessa, terminated in an acquittal after an all-night sitting of the court. A noblewoman, residir.g in a house adjoining that occupied by the deceased officer, and one or two other witneeseu deposed to seeing a lady hurriedly leaving Captain Gishden's quarters between 6 and 7 o'clock on the morning of the murder, and immediately after the manservant gave the alarm that his master had been murdered. The female prisoner swore also to having seen this mysterious person leave the officer's rooms, but she failed to identify any id the portraits of suspected female Socialists and Nihilists shown to her by the police. A card, subsequently fund, bearing the words, "Long live the Russian Socialist party !" lends some colour to the first hypo. theeie that the deed was a political assassination. A singular statement was made by one of the witnesses, who was the intimate friend of the murdered officer. This witness, in testifying to the habits of the de. ceased and to his peculia- zeal in the service in which he was engaged, stated that Captain Gishden regularly paid visits to and tended the grave of Stu'. nikotf (a military judge shot by the Nihilists on the boulevard of Odessa some three years ago), and was accustomed to express hie desire to die in the service in a similar manner to Strelnikoff arid Sudeikin. When the murdered body of Captain Gietiden was discoveled in his bed a dagger was clutched in the right hand, the arm being extended and resting under the head. A secand dagger and a revolver, with (me chninber discharged, were lying im the floor by the bedside. The dagger in the hand of the corpse MO bloody. Gishden had been stabbed to the heart and shot through the temples. The heart had been penetrated by a powerful thrust, and the ball had passed with direct precision through both temples. Tile jury, being unable to elucidate the mystery of the "lady" who left Gieliden's chambers immediately after the murder, decided that the officer had committed suicide.
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1885-05-23 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF A SENTRY. Much excitement was occasioned in the garrison at Chatham, on Wednesday, by the mysierieus cumstances surrounding the death of a sentry, whilst on duty at the powder magazines at Upnor Castle. The deceased, named John Smithson, and who belonged to the Berkshire Regiment, went on guard shortly afti I four o'clock on Wednesday morning on the land side of the magazme, and two hours later was discovered dead, a bullet having passed thri ugh his lungs. Owingto the position and nature of the wound, medical opinion is opposed to the theory of suicide, and the puthorities, from the situation of the body and rifle, are disposed to regard the matter in a serious light. Various officeis are now engaged in making a searching investigation, and much reticence is shown. It is rumoured that the deceased's riff- was found undischarged, and that the wound was apparently from a revolver La let, The sentry stationed 300 yards off did not hear the report.  At asi tecial meeting of the Preston town conaiti I Wednesday, the mayor aimounced that the Prince of Wales would visit Preston on the Nth of July, on the occasion of the holding of the 'Loyal Aglicultaral Show, and that he would remain in the town fur two days. A hill, backed bi,the names of M. Stansteld, Mr. John Morley, and Professor Stuart, issued on Wednesday, provides for the shortening of the duration of future Parliamentec The number of years for which Parliament iliautd last isi• not specifi-sl in the bill, it oeing intended the+ t)ke blaok left for the purpose should he fined up after discussion in committee. „  The new railway. connecting• Swausge and Corte Castle with the main line from Waterton to Weymouth was opened on Wednesday. Swanage, whtun has hitherto been almost inaccessible, now bats ,f.t.ir to become a summer resort, and the lend has already risen enormously, in YALLut r :  - :
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1885-10-29 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

MURDERS BY INSANE MOTHERS. Mary Catherine Bicknell, 28, married, was aharged before Mr. Justice Lopes and a jury at the Central Criminal Court on Wednesday, with murdering two of her children at Elm.street, Stockwell, by smothering them, and afterwards putting them in a bath full of water.—Mr. Poland, who appeared for the prosecution, said the case was a most melancholy one. No doubt the prisoner was insane at the time she committed the terrible act, but at present the prison doctor was unable to say that she was not in a condition of mind to plead or to understand the proceeding.—Several medical men were called, who all deposed that in their opinion, prisoner was suffering from brain disease, and the jury subsequently found that the prisoner at the time she committed the act was not in a condition of mind to understand what she was doing. The learned judge ordered the prisoner to be detained during her Majesty's pleasure. At the same court on Wednesday, Martha Howard, 27, married, was brought up on an indictment for the wilful murder of her infant child, five months' old, Gertrude Minnie Howard, on the 2nd October last, at Forest Hill. The mother, who has long been strange in her manner, nearly cut off her child's head with a chopper, and immediately told her neighbours she had done so, saying," I have killed Daisy and I want to be hung out of the way." It appears that prisoner's uncle had committed suicide, and that two of her great aunts bad died in lunatic asylums. Mr. Poland, who appeared for the prosecution with Mr. Montagu Williams, said from medical evidence they had there could be no doubt that the unfortunate woman was insane, and therefore not in a fit state to plead or give instructions for her defence. It was therefore proposed to follow the usual course in such cases. Formal proofs having been adduced as to the prisoner's state of mind, the jury returned a verdict of insanity, and the learned judge ordered prisoner to be detained during her Majesty's pleasure.