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Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1890-10-18 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

SENSATIONAL SUICIDES.  A Vienna paper publishes a telegram from St. Petersburg, according to wi.iich Dr. Koucharsky, a young professor of medicine, committed suicide in the presence of his class of students. He had just ended a lecture on acids, when he poured sonic drops from a phial into a glass. "Attention, young men!" he said, "in two minutes you will see a man die. Good-bye to you all !'' fie drank the liquid, drew out his watch, and counted the seconds until he fell to the ground a corpse The students were speechless and motionless; when they at last tried to apply antidotes it was too late. Professor Koucharsky was dead. _ . _  On Monday evening a shocking case of suicide occurred in the Waterloo-road, S.E. An elderly man, of respectable appearance, entered a gun shop and asked for a revolver. Having completed his purchase, and been instructed as to the use of the weapon, he immediately turned it upon himself and discharged the contents at his head. He fell and when nicked 11D he was found to be dead. The deceased has not yet been identified. A respectably-dressed man committed suicide, on Monday morning, in a third-class compartment of a train corning from Cambridge, and due at Liverpool-street at 11.45. There were two other men in the carriage at the time, but so suddenly did the unfortunate man draw the revolver and fire that they had no time to prevent the tragedy; they at once signalled to the guard, and the train was stopped at Hackney Junction. The man, however, was dead, and his body was taken from the train and conveyed to a mortuary.  A -hypodermic blush is the latest variety of that occasionally pleasing article. It is obtained, says the Daily News, by inserting colouring matter beneath the skin with the point of a syringe. The effect is described as marvellous. The blush lasts two hours. The owner of it is indescribably beautiful for that period. Afterwards she becomes of a greenish yellow complexion, and cannot wear her blush too often because the syringe marks the skin with an ugly little scar. Madame Marie Roze will, writes a 47fanclaster Courier correspondent, retire from the stage and the concert-room next summer, and will close her public career with a tour, when she will appear in one of her best parts, Carmen, and in other operas. Madame Marie Roze will probably leave England, which may be called her adopted country, and where she has been since her debut in 1872, at Drury. lane, a most popular favourite, and take up her residence in Paris, her native city, where she made her first appearance on the stage of the Opera Comiq,ue in 1885. She was during her career on the French stage an immense favourite with the people, who did not allow the fact to be forgotten that she had during the Franco-Prussian war ot 1870-71 served for a considerable time in the French Ambulance Corps.
Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1890-04-19 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

PLOTS AGAINST THE CZAR.  DISCOVERY OF BOMBS. The Daily Tclegraph correspondent at St. Petenr burg telegraphs as follows: For several days past vague but disquieting rumours have been circulating in the city respecting the discovery of mines at Gatchina and the apprehensions of the police for the Emperor's safety causing his Majesty's compulsory stay in the capital. I have been to Gatchina and having spoken on the subject with two officials, learned that no discovery of the kind referred to had been made in the Palace er the grounds of Gatchina—indeed, that no search had been or could be made there without an express order from General nesse, 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 December 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 polices 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 capital. There were grounds, too, for believing that two others 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 Deese 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 shew 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 shew 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 rooms 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-shaped 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. There were no papers, no chemicals, no letters—nothing but this box. The young man's name is now believed to be a false one, and his passport is said to be a forgery, as he has been personating someone else. The police still believe that there is a third conspirator in St. Petersburg or Gatchina; but they I have no clue to his whereabouts.
Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1890-03-01 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

THE FINSBURY PARK MURDER. ARREST AND SUICIDE.  A man who gave the name of Richard Barrett has been arrested in NewYork,at the instance of the Scotland Yard authorities, for being concerned in the murder of a young man namid Edward Thomas Williams, at Finsbury Park, on January 18th last year. Wi Ili ems, who Was a butcher, lodged in Cl iftonterrace, Finsbury Park, and in the same house was a young woman named Elizabeth Barnett. with whom Williams was on intimate terms. Some quarrel arose between this woman and the people who kept the house, and on Friday night, January 18, a row took place. Turner, the man who kept the 'loose, is alleged to have threatened to 'put Williams's light out," and it was sworn before the magistrate that he called a man, whoie name was not known, into the house, and that when both of them were armed with pistols they made an attack on Williams. He was shot in the abdomen and died on the Sunday following. Turner was arrested, but the deceased before he died declared that Turner did not fire this fatal shot. The other man escaped, but the police have been constantly on the look out, and Barrett was arested in New York on Saturday. 1M Sunday night, while in prison, he made a fearful wound in his throat, from the effects of which ho died. Though at first the prisoner was supposed to have stabbed himself with a nail, an examination of the-body shews that the instrument used was a brace buckle, and the prisoner appears to have afterwards torn open the wound with his fingers. Th, prisoner, who was aged 35, was, the police state, known by the names of Styles and Reeks,and appears to have been a desperate character. Ho was in custody for stabbing in November, isezi, but was discharged. He has also been convicted of burglary at Chelmsford and other places.
Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1890-03-29 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

THE WEEK.  MADAME TSTIEBRIKOVA AND THE  CZAR.  THE Russian Government do not general!, trouble themselves about foreign criticism. They are as indifferent as the Turks to Euro. n censure on acts of tyranny and barbarity. ut lately there has been quite a commotion at I Petersburg about the foreign comments on 1.4 the tseatment of Siberian exiles. Both in England and A tiw rica, public indignation has been stirred by the peculiarly revolting cruelty practised by the authorities of Yakutsk on the prisoners who petitioned fox some alleviation of their treatment in the journey to the mines. Public opinion in America has been educated in these matters by Mr. George Kennan, whose articles on Siberia in the Century magazine have raised the curtain which has so long concealed that Land of suffering. The story of Yakutsk is probably no worse than countless incidents of Russian :lininistration, but it has been made especially prominent by the arrest of Madame Tshebrikova. This lady devoted her life to the edu.7ation of women in Russia. Instead of being encouraged by the authorities, she was thwarted at every turn. She tried to form University classes of women for the study of medicine, and these were dissolved by the Government. After a quarter of a century of wasted effort, Madame Tshebrikova came to the conclusion that her native country was relapsing into an administrative barbarism worse than the days of Nicholas. The incident at Yakutsk prompted her to address a letter to the Czar. She also wrote a pamphlet which was plinted in Switzerland. It is needless to say that ' oth these compositions were treasonable in th eyes of the Russian officials. To address the Czar at all is an offence ; to remonstrate with him is a crime. Moreover, in her pamphlet Madame Tshebrikova had the audacity to quote some comments from the Times on the Yakutsk affair; and this, of course, was an unpardonable outrage. The lady was arrested, and she is now imprisoned at St. Petersburg, if she is not already on her way to Siberia. Horrible to relate, the Czar found a copy of the pamphlet on his study-table. He looked at it, and apparently it made some impression on him. He even went-so far as to suggest to the Minister of the Interior that the author should be liberated. The Minister was very properly shocked. What! Release the woman who had written a pamphlet which the Czar bad actually read! The idea was monstrous,and the Minister seems to have brought his Imperial master to see that this benevolent suggestion was weak and foolish. "Eventually," says the Vienna correspondent of the Times, "his Majesty was dissuaded from his merciful purpose.'' So Madame T-shebrikova will spend the rest of her life in Siberia. She will probably be flogged to death, if she does not commit suicide. And this is to be the end of a brave and faithful woman who tried to advance the cause of education amongst her countrywomen; and who, indignant at the resolve of the Government to crush u,it all intellectual life In Russia, had the temerity to try to awaken the Czar to a sense of his responsibilities as a ruler.
Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1890-03-29 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

SUICIDE AT HIPPERHOLME RAILWAY STATION. INQUEST AT THE TRAVELLERS' REST.  On Wednesday afternoon, Mr. Wm, Barstow (district coroner), held at the Inure, R-st Inn, Hipperholme, an inquiry into the circumstances attending tile death of Join Thomas Taylor, commercial treveiler, aged thirty-six, who was killed at ilippeth Awe Beltway Station on tie preview' day. The following comprised the jury Messrs. j. W. Bluefield (foreman), J. Sikes, F. Wilkinson, B. S&P:, Jas. Lindley. H. Sharp, G. Rushton, J. Carter. B. Schofield, T. Constantine, I, Bottomley, and A. Taylor. The first witness examined was Jamas Prrayla TAYLOR, Grosvenor Place, Leeds, commercial traveller, who stated that he was brother of decease-1, who was egad 36 years. was unmarried, and lodged at Prescott Platte, Halifax. He was engaged as commercial traveller by Messrs. James Lee and Sons, tanners and leather merchants, Hipperbolme. Witness last saw his brother alive a mouth or BIZ weeks ago, Mr. Taylor after giving his evidence remained in the room. Joint Lae, a member of the firm of Waters. Ise. Lee & Sons. stated that be saw deceased at the °aloe on the previous Monday, shout 940 a.m., when he seemed rather unwell: be had not been well for more than a week. He said that he had been away from business as be hal been drinking too much, end hoped they would excess him. Wit. sees told him he should pass over the matter. At this stage of the inquiry the Coroner read a letter handed him b 3 Mr. Lee, and received through the post on Monday morning. The nr ta, which was marked "Private and confidential " and" not to be used for any other purpose than it was written," referred to the deceased giving way tointempersnoe, and stated-that he bad made a resolution to abstain from intoxicants in future, except SP medicine, He also uked for an advance of V, When witness Raw him be appeared very shaky. A JUuou remarked that he knew deemed to be a creature of imputes, WILLIAM LISTER, cashier at Messrs. Lee and Elon's works, hat seen aeoessed In the office about II•50 on the previous day, and spoke a few words to him. He said be was very well, and spoke very cheerfully. A minute or two after, deceased went Into the warehouse, as witness thought, to speak to some of the men about samples. He came back directly afterwards, and rushed out hurriedly as if to catch a train. Another traveller coining into the office almost immediately, said that deceased was standing et the corner, which very much astonished the witness, as he had gone out in such a hurry. In answer to the Coroner, witness said that other. wise be bad not noticed anything peculiar about him. In answer to qaesdons, he also said that on Monday deceased seemed quiet and studying, and did not look very well, Mr. Jamas P. TAYLOR asked witness if he had given the advance mentioned in the letter, and if deceased's money matters were satisfactory 7—Wit. nese said that all his money arrangements with the firm were satisfactory so far as he knew; their.) bad been no tiilplsasantoev on that ground.
Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1890-03-29 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

EXTRA ORDINARY SUICIDE.  A Marseilles telegram announces the suicide of M. Paul Michel Levy, a gentleman well-known on the Paris Bourse,who left five months ago for `South America, and has shot himself on the return journey on board the steamer Provence. M. Levy, who had quarrelled with his brothers with whom he was in partnership, entered upon various speculative operations which failed, and consequently resolved to seek his fortune in South America. He sold his furniture and picture gallery ii October last, and embarked with his wife and two children for Buenos Ayres. Together with his legitimate wife he took out with him a demi-mondaine of whom he was passionately enamoured. But perhaps the most singular feature in this menage was the presence of a gentleman to whom the demi-momlaine was attached, and whose travelling expenses she paid out of the money furnished by M. Levy. The whole party arrived at Buenos Ayres, and stayed at the same hotel, but shortly after their arrival, Maclaine Levy, resenting the position in which her husband placed her, left the hotel to live alone with her children. As M. Levy did not succeed in his business schemes, he abandoned his sick wife and her two children, and re-embarked for France, accompanied by his mistress and her friend. On board ship, frequent quarrels occurred between them, and life became unbearable to him. On Sunday, while the ship was passing the Straits of Gibraltar, M. Levy locked himself in his cabin and shot himself in the temple with a revolver. The body was thrown overboard.  La iVature contains copies of two instantaneous photographs illustrating the difference between a volley fired with ordinary powder and with smokeless powder. The pictures were taken at the moment when the commander gave tho order "Fire." In the first, a thick black cloud of smoke is represented, through which the gunners are barely preceptible. In the second photograph oily a thin haze is observable, which evidently would totally disappoar in a second or two, and which probably would not be seen at all from a short distance. The gunners stand out in the background clearly and sharply defined.
Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1890-02-22 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

DEITH OF SIR LOUIS MALLET.  Sir Louis Mallet died in Bath on Sunday from influenza, after a short illness. Sir Louis Mallet was born in 1t423, and commenced his career as clerk in the Audit Office and in the Board of Trade. He soon rose to be private secretary to the president of the Board of Trade, then Mr. Labourhere (afterwards Lord Taunton 1, and afterwards acted in a similar capacity to Lord Stanley of Alderley. Mr. Mallet was Assistant Commissioner in Paris in lmio, under Mr. Cobden, who signed the Commercial Treaty with France in that year. It was Mr. Mallet who drew up the tariff for the Treaty, and after Cobden's death he was one of the highest authorities on treaties of commerce. In 1865 he was a member of the Mixed Commission which net at Vienna to examine into an Austrian tariff. In 1868 he was knighted, and in 1572 was nominated to the Indian Council. After two years' service there he was appointed Permanent Under-Secretary of State for India. In Is 3 he became a member of the Privy Council.  STRANGE SUICIDE OF A ooVERNESS.  Mr. Hicks held an inquiry at Battersea, on Saturday, touching the death of Jessie Roger, a governess. aged 24, who committed suicide the previous Wednesday evening. It appeared from the evidence of Mrs. Elizabeth Roger, mother of the deceased, that she left home at 9 o'clock to go to Hyde Park-square, where she WAS engaged as governess, and returned at 7. Noticing her agitation, the witness asked her what was the matter, to which the deceased replied, " I will tell you: I have been walking about, and now I am going to do it." Before the witness could stop she produced a bottle and drank the contents. alterwards rushing from the house. Twenty minutes later she was brought home insensible. Dr. Kempster was sent for, but deceased expired early on the following inorning.—Other evidence was to the effect that the deceased had received a letter from her employer, stating that her I engagement had better terminate at once: and this I had apparently preyed upon her mind. She visited a dentist whom she knew, sliewed him the letter and asked him to draft a reply, which he did. He also wrote to a governess agency in Harley-street, but she appeared strange in her manner and left abruptly. He did not see her again. The medical evidence was not taken, although it transpired that the post-mortem examination made by Dr. Felix Kempster revealed some important facts. The inquest was adjourned.
Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1890-07-05 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

SAD CASE OF ATTEMPTED SUICIDE. Sarah Green, 40, a respectably-dressed woman, of Woodland-villas, Leytonstone, was charged before Mr. Haden Corner, at North London Police-court, on Friday, with attempting to commit suicide by jumping into the river Lea. Police-constable 247 J deposed that on Thursday afternoon he saw the prisoner on the banks of the Lea, she having just been rescued from the water by two young men named Drew and Crossley. She was sober, and said nothing; and as she was drenched with water witness took her to the workhouse.—Jonas Crossley said he saw the prisoner five or six yards in the middle of the stream and plunged in and held her up until assisted by Edward Drew. When asked if she had anything to ask these witnesses, the prisoner replied, "Nothing, except to thank them.- The constable handed a letter to the magistrate, which he said he had found in the prisoner's pocket, and in this she said she was tired of her life, but blamed nobody. She had for some time intended this. She had no strength to fight the world, and hoped some kind lady would adopt the baby. Her boys she left to God. After stating how she would like several little articles of jewellery distributed amongst her children, the prisoner wrote: "It now 1 o'clock, and pouring with rain, and I don't know where to find a (here it broke off). I have been to Woodford, but can't find the Eagle Pond. I have been without food all day, and I think I shall drop before I fulfil my purpose." The conclusion of this letter contained a hope that if her husband married again he would be kind to the children. The husband was now called, and, amid a good deal of crying, said he had been rather badly off, and perhaps had been rather ill - tempered to his wife. But his wife had been very weak and ill for some time. In reply to the magistrate the husband said he would take his wife home and look after her.— Mr. Holmes,pol ice-court missionary from the Church of England Temperance Society, said he would arrange to give the accused a month's residence at the seaside in order to recruit her health, and on this the magistrate discharged her withan admonition ts to her future conduct
Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1890-08-23 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

AIITCIDE THROUGH POVERTY.  Another suicide from want has been committed in the Montmartre quarter of Paris, which in some respects resembles that in the Ric d'Avron, which recently excited so much sympathy. Madsme Vandresse, a widow, aged 33, occupied two rooms .n the Rue de Torcy, with her four children— three boys and a girl—the eldest of whom was 11 and the youngest three years of age. Some months ago she lost her husband, who had been employed in a mercantile house, but had fallen into bad health, and was for some time in an asylum. Ile left it before he had recovered, and died suddenly at his home, leaving his wife without any means. ihe found employment as a charwoman and in washing, but she had an attack of illness and was conailed to bed. The family then lived by selling the articles of furniture left in the house. A Poor neighbour, who lived by frying potatoes in the street, was the only person who came to their assistance. Application for help was made to the Public Relief, but, says a Times correspondent, there was no reply for a week. At the end of that time the following printed letter was received, which was found open near the bed of the deceased : " The Administration of the Public Relief regrets to inform you that it cannot comply with the application for help you have made to it." On reueiving this letter Mine. Vandresse sent George— her eldest child—to buy sixpeney-worth of charcoal. She took all her children into one of the two rooms and waited there till they went to sleep. Then she carefully closed all the apertures of the other room and lighted the charcoal in a pan. Next morning, when the door of the inner room was opened, it was found that Madame Vandresse had been suffocated by the carbonic acid gas. On the mantelpiece was found this note : "My .ihildren not wishing to accompany mime, I hope the Public Relief will take care of them." In the meantime the children are under the care of a police commissary, who will look after them until the Administration of Public Relief has decided what is to be done.  A destructive fire is reported from Pennsylvania, a large portion of the town of Austin having been eonsimied. The fire originated in the commercial part of the town, and spread with such rapidity that no less than 42 business houses were burned to the ground. The damage is estimated at half a million dollars. Fortnpataily, as ,the conflagration brok out in the aaytime,the people in the buildings had ample sime to escape. and nobody was injured