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The Atherstone, Nuneaton, and Warwickshire Times. — 1889-06-22 (Atherstone, Warwickshire, England)

COUNDON.  SUICIDE OF A PUBLICAN AT  The Nugget" is a small beerhouse in the village of Conndon, about two miles and a half from Coventry, and situate on the highway leading from Barker Butts Lane to Brownshill Green. It is said that the name was given to the house by its late owner and landlord, Thomas Green, some thirty-five years ago, after returning from a vi-it to the Australian goldfields. It was at 'the Nugget" on Monday morning that the Coroner, Dr. C. W. fife, and a jury held an enquiry into the death of Thomas Green, the landlord mentioned, who committed suicide in a determined manner on the previous Saturday. The age of the deceased was 70 years next November, and according to the evidence of Elizabeth Green, his widow, he had been for the last two months very low and despondent, complaining of severe pains in the head. On Saturday morning the 15th inst., he got up a little brighter and better, having had his breakfast before rising. He went into the garden, where he told his wife that his head had been very bad. After a visit to the bedroom he came down stairs and his wife left him in the kitchen. While standing at the front of the house she heard a fall, and returning to the kitchen saw her husband on the ground with his head over the fender, bleeding from the neck. She lifted him up but he never spoke and died immediately. A large pocket-knife was picked up in the kitchen, covered with blood, and this was now produced for the inspection of the jury by Police-constable Dyer, the constable in charge of the inquest. The deceased had often been heard to complain of his past life, having, as his wife explained, been given to drink, and was passionate and abusive. He often used to say he thought something bad would happen to him,aad with increasing years this seemed to prey on his mind. Dr. Webb Fowler, who had attended the deceased for two months, visited him on Saturday morning, and found an incised wound in hie throat, about four inches wide, and very deep on the left hand side, from which he had bled to death in °bouts. minute. The medical gentlemaa in his previous visits had found Mr. Green suffering from great depression of mini. This condition had remained almost stationary, and in his opinion the act was committed while in a state of temporary insanity. The Coroner summed up the principal points of the evidence, showing the state of mind of the deceased, and the jury returned a verdict in accordance with the medical evidence. The Coroner expressed the sympathy of the jury with the aged widow.
The Atherstone, Nuneaton, and Warwickshire Times. — 1889-11-16 (Atherstone, Warwickshire, England)

TRAGIC SUICIDE AT KERSLEY.  Towards the close of last week the inhabitants of Keresley and district were shocked by the news that the body of a man with his throat cut had been found in a pit-hole in Whitmore Park Lane. It was afterwards found out that deceased was a Coventry man, who had lately returned from a journey to America. At an inquest held on Saturday morning by the Coroner (Dr. C. W. Iliffe) at the Old Shepherd and Shepherdess Inn, Keresley, the following rarticulars were brought to light.—The first witness was Mary Ann Bromley (wife of the deceased), who said that her husband's name was William Arthur Bromley. He was 29 years of age, and an elastio weaver by trade; he was the father of three children, and had lived at 36, Cox Street. She last saw him at home at about a quarter to nine on Wednesday mhrning, 6th inst., at which time he went out. He said he was going to the Library, to see if there were any advertisements relating to his trade, but she did not know if he went there. He had been depressed in spirits for BOMB time past, which she attributed to his work being short. He had recently returned from America, and since that time had been able to earn tolerable wages by working three or four days et week till the Saturday before his death, when he did not bring home so much as usual. This, she thought, seemed to prey on his mind, and though he did not complain, she did not think his health was very good. Elizabeth Bromley said she was the mother of the deceased. He had always been very reserved and low spirited. He had been an inmate of an asylum at Bridgport in America for four months, and she thought it was owing to his having left his wife and family in England that preyed upon his mind.  William Henry Masters said he was walking through Whitmore Park Lane in company with a friend on Thursday morning last, and on looking over the fence on the left-hand side of the road he saw the deceased in & pithole, apparently asleep. They shouted at him, and tried their best to attract his attention, bet he made no response. Thinking all was not right, they came again in the afternoon, accompanied by Alfred Dry, an elder brother of his friend. On looking over the palings, they saw the man in the same position, and climbing over, and going to his side, found that he was lying in pool of blood. They at once gave information to the police. Alfred Henry Dry said he was with the last witness when they found the body. There was a quantity of blood about, though the ground did not look as if there had been a struggle. The Coroner summed up. The jury, after a short consultation, returned a verdict to the effect that deceased committed suicide while in an unsound state of mind.
The Atherstone, Nuneaton, and Warwickshire Times. — 1889-09-07 (Atherstone, Warwickshire, England)

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1889.  THE WEEK.  So far as the Coroner's Court is concerned there is an end to the enquiry into the tragedy at Stratford-on-Avon. The jury found the only verdict which was possible, that the deceased wilfully murdered the woman and child, and then committed suicide. Without going to the furthest extent of charitable construction, they declined to say anything about the state of the man's mind at the time, though it is always a pretty safe assumption that people who do snch desperate deeds as those which were done by Gamsenfels cannot be in their right senses. The investigations of the police have had the effect of lifting the veil which at first surrounded the occurrence, and have revealed a very probable cause for it. As the Coroner observed in his summing up, it was not a strange termination to such a vicious life as Gamsenfels had been leading for years. The man had, it seems, had a sort of double existence. He had been married eleven years, and had divided his attentions between his wife and the woman who fell his victim. He was an imitator of the coach guard of Bath, who had a spouse at each end of the route which he worked, and who, the chronicler says, made a good husband to both until fate discovered his sin, and retribution came. So it was with Gamsenfels. His lawful wife says he lived happily with her, notwithstanding his frequent absences from home ; and all the evidence adduced tends to show that he was kindness itself to his victim. But the double pecuniary strain was too hard upon him; he had made a yoke which became too heavy for him to bear, an,l in a moment of frenzy, attributable to the difficulties in which his own conduct had placed him, he with rash importunity sacrificed two lives and rushed to his death. The Coroner said he did not feel called upon to moralise about the dreadful event. Nor do we. Ode might preach fen a year—for a lifetime, and there would siill be the same shameful intrigues and the same inevitable re,ultq. The world is very slow to take waning by trag.dies like this.  THE Warwickshire Agricultural Society will, on the whole, have no cause to regret their visit to Coventry on Tuesday and Wednesday last. The authorities of the ancient city were deeply gratified when their invitation was accepted by the society, and adopting thoroughness as their motto, they did every-thing which was possible to ensure a hearty welcome and a big success. The untoward physical conditions on the first day of the exhibition upset every calculation, and dwarfed the chances of a big gate; but on Wednesday the weather amended itself, and the attend• ance was so large as to militate in some degree against personal comfort. The receipts altogether exceeded ,CI,
The Atherstone, Nuneaton, and Warwickshire Times. — 1889-10-19 (Atherstone, Warwickshire, England)

SIMPSONS'  CASH DRAPERY AND HOUSE FURNISHING WAREHOUSE, 5,6, 7,8, 9, 10, 11 & 12, EARL ST., COVENTRY.  SENSATIONAL ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE.  The strange deeds of Arthur Pateman, who has generally been described as a butcher, have become somewhat familiar to the inhabitants of Coventry. The latest episode in his career created considerable consternation in the neighbourhood of Stoney Stanton Road on Friday morning. Pateman, it appears, had been indulging "not wisely, but too well," in beverages that have often been the cause of upsetting his mental equilibrium. It is asserted that on Monday night he created a disturbance at the house of his father at Whitley, his conduct leading his father to apply or a summons for assault. This was to be heard on Friday morning before the County Magistrates, and about half an hour before the sitting of the Court Pateman went to the Stoney Stanton Road, saw his father, and asked to be forgiven. His father replied that he had received forgiveness so often without result that this case could not be overlooked. Thereupon Pateman walked across the road on to a piece of unoccupied ground, and his strange conduct soon began to attract attention. Mr. Curtis, a shopkeeper at the corner of Eagle Street, saw him cross the road after his father had gone away, noticed him throwing his arms about wildly, and saw the glitter of a knife in his hand. In a moment Pateman fell to the ground, and Mr. Curtis and another man went at once to ascertain what had happened. They found that blood was issuing from his month, and it required very little observation to show that he had stabbed himself in the right breast on a level with the heart. Mr. Curtis went for further help, and finding Police-constable Abbott in the neighbourhood took him to the spot. Abbott sent for a cab, and Pateman, who had not lost consciousness, was taken to the Hospital, a pocket knife being picked up just after his removal. At the Hospital Dr. Hewlett found that the knife had penetrated the lungs, and that the wound was of a serious nature. Pateman was detained, and for several hours he was in charge of police officers. It is expected that he will be taken before the city magistrates when his condition will allow him to leave the Hospital with safety.
The Atherstone, Nuneaton, and Warwickshire Times. — 1889-10-19 (Atherstone, Warwickshire, England)

THE VISITING COMMITTEE.  This committee reported that H.M. prison had been visited weekly by members of the committee, but that they had had no complaints which required investigation. Since the last sessions there had been a case of suicide in the prison, but the enquiry held proved that there had been no want of vigilance nor any motive traceable to the prison discipline. From cases in the prison that had come under their notice the committee were of opinion that the Assize Relief Act, 1889, often entailed great hardship upon prisoners, and although H.M. judges ought perhaps in many instances to be properly relieved from cases triable at Quarter Sessions, care should be taken by Magistrates that the discretion vested in them should be so applied that s committed prisoner could not be kept an unusually long thicre without beintput upon his trial. The number of committals for the last quarter showed a marked decrease from the corresponding quarter of last year, and statistics showed that there was a steady diminution of crime throughout the county. From Midsummer to Michaelmas, 1888, the committals to Warwick prison were : Males, 230; females, 22 ; total, 252 ; in 1889 : Males, 194 ; females, 17 ; total, 211. The committals for vagrancy had somewhat increased, being 38 this quarter against 29 in 1888 Committals for drunkenness showed a satisfactory decrease, being 34 in 1889 against 62 in 1888. Lord Leigh remarked that the report was a very satisfactory one, and showed a marked decrease in the diminution of crime. He moved the adoption of the report. Lord Dormer, in seconding the resolution, referred to the hardship inflioted on four prisoners by the Assize Relief Act of 1889. They were committed in July, and although the Assizes were held some days after the judge of Assize could not try the cases, because the offences did not come within his jurisdiction. He contended that those prisoners ought not to have remained in gaol so long without trial, and he hoped the Magistrates of Warwickshire would take the same notice of it as the justices of Worcestershire had. He suggested that the learned chairman should draw up and forward to the proper quarter a resolution.  The Chairman said he should be obliged to rule out of order any resolution. He entirely disagreed iTith that portion of the report, and the remarks of Lord Dormer. Three of the four cases referred to by his lordship he knew something of, and he ventured to say, being possessed of certain information, that those three prisoners had received no injustice at all. The magistrates had ample discretion in all cases,and if they allowed prisoners out on bail a great deal that had been complained of by Lord Dormer would never happen. The report was then adopted.
The Atherstone, Nuneaton, and Warwickshire Times. — 1889-08-10 (Atherstone, Warwickshire, England)

BICTCLING AT LEICER TER.—A good race for the being locka ten miles professional bicycle championship Was previous MG held at the Aylestone Road Grounds, Leicester,on eleven, and on t. Saturday evening. The competitors were on the side of th Temple (America), Howell (Leicester), Robb cloths. There wa. (Leicester), Wood (South Shields), English (North on examining the t. Shields) Allard (Coventry), Lee (Beeston), James but none of the largt. (Birmingham), and Hawker (Leicester). Howell divided. He bandit, entered the last mile in front, and led until C deceased cauld not lie quarter of a mile from the finish, when English quickly. The immedia, assumed the command, but was soon passed by hemorrhage, consequent lig Temple and Robb, and, after a good finish, the The Coroner briefly sum. former won, English being third. and the jury returned a verch PARRGFT :"I wonder how the Ftomans happened committed suicide whilst in ag to bit on the ides of the arch ?" Wiggins "May be mind. they noticed how firmly a cat stands with her back up." HOLLOWAY'S PlLLS.—Factory 0, Paveict (to daughter about to marry) "Do YIP Workers in Manufactories.—The realise the sthep ye air about to take, me girrul r` remedies which havc been discovered al Bridget. "No, papa, Oi don't, fer 01'm not goin' te by Thomas Holloway, and which have tak' a single sthep. Af we don't go in • cab, P&P*, than forty years been successfully used be jabbers there'll be no widdin' the day." quarter of the globe, are especially usefuk Reroirrvit "I don't think there's any foan datti the manifold ailments which afflict those w. for that rumour of an accident on the X. Y. & Z reason of their occupations are confined for yt Road. The officers of the company will say nothing, or all their lives, in crowded buildings and woe exempt that they do not know anything about it. shops. Holloway's Pills and Ointment at Experienced editor (who knows railroad men) " Well, associated remedies, the former restoring the young man, what further corroboration of the report vital powers when diminished, and always acting could you desire?" as an efficient blood purifier, whilst the latter j TELEGRAPH CLERI (reading message) " What's relieves local maladies, checks inflammation, and hi, this'? Will marry you whenever you wish?'" Aged acts as a cleansing and healing agent in cases of prit Bpinster : "Yes; do you think it too forward ? It,' bad legs, had breasts ulcers and unhealthy sores Thor, my Int offer, and I'm afraid he'll get away." .of all kind/ brougl.
The Atherstone, Nuneaton, and Warwickshire Times. — 1884-05-31 (Atherstone, Warwickshire, England)

EXTRAORDINARY APPLICATION. A gentleman, giving the name of C. G. Ethics. ton, attended before Mr. Flowers at Bow-street Police C ant, London, on Saturday, to ask for a summons against the medical superintendent and officials of a ply:oe asylum, where he was confined in the year 1879. The applicant said that he could testly that by scientific methods the most severe toitures might ho inflicted with as much euffeting as was endured in former time. when patients were chained to the ground and flogged. He complained that iill the food tasted intensely bitter, so much so that he could with difficulty touch anything, lie eatables being heavily drugged. In tiddition to the loss of the natural functions of his body, his thi oat commenced to close att., The tli,l night he was overpowered by the fumes of chloroform, and he was removed to a room where the chimney had been blocked up and a fire lilite,l; and he was compelled to sleep in that sutlocat,ng atmosphere all night. Ile attributed this to a desire on the part of the superintendent to cause his death by coughing. At the end of the three days Le was on the verge of insanity, and suffered from an internal complaint, and in a week was nearly dead. At last the superintendent relented ; and it was significant that the dey before he (the applicant) had a Bible placed near him with a mark at the passage, " He shall not die, but live." During his couvab senee he complained that sulphurous fumes were passed into his room, and lid the effect of causing him great agony. One night the watchman canto t 3 the door ot his room and said, in akpulehral voice, " Have you got the footiblocks ready! " but he dared not ask mm hut fresh tortnre awaited him, as on a previous occasion he bad been told that " Dead men tell no taks." Ilis principal food was pork, and he was informed that the object of this was " to keep the lamp of life burning low." On the ince...ion of hie being sent to Eastbourne he untie, d at his lodgings a coil of rope with a black silk necktie placed upon it. In the room DCx! the window. abeet eight feet high, a large iron staple bad ben driven into the small and colouriid red, to make it conspicuous. He immediately realised that it wee to provoke him to commit suicide, iiiid if lie hail only touched the rope out of curiosity he wou!d have been seized and detained for Flowers said this was a matter beyond his juri-sintion, and referred the applioant to the Lunacy Commissioners.
The Atherstone, Nuneaton, and Warwickshire Times. — 1884-05-31 (Atherstone, Warwickshire, England)

SUICIDE OF THE DEAN OE BANGOR.  The Dean of Bangor, who has been on a visit to his brother, the Rev. W. Edwards, vicar of Ruabon, near Wrexham, c ,minitted suicide on Saturday. About six o'clock in the n.orning he was discovered hanging in his bedroom, and it is supped that the act had been coinmitte I, about two hours previously. Some time ago he had a very serious attack of rheumatic tever, to which it was feared lie would soccumb. Since hie partial recovery he had been subject to mental depres-ion and nervousness. Dating the early part of the present year he took a two months' cruise in the Meiliterrane in on the advice of his me heal attendants, but had since not been able to resume his labours. The Very Rev. Henry Thomas Edwards, was the eon of the Rev. William Edwards, vicar of Llangollen. He was born in 1837, and married first a daughter of Mr. David Davis, Mae4yffynon ; and secondly a daughter of Mr. John Jones, of Treanna. He was vicar oi Aberdare from 1866 to 1869, and of Carnarvon froin 1869 to 1876, when he wee appointed Dean of Bangor. He was the author of "The Victorious Life," " rite Church of the Cynary," "The Exile and Return," and other works, Until his recent illness he was a very active preacher, and was very popular in all parts of the Principality, being canei tered one of the most eloquent speakers connected with the Welsh Church--At Bangor Cathedral on Sunday no allusions were made to the sad death of the Dean, but suitable anthems were sung, aid the Dead March was played. In many of the Noncoliformist Chapels, special prayers were offered on behalf of the family of the deceased. The funeral took place on Tuesday, at Llangollen, where his father was rector.  Perforated Toilet Paper in rolls should be in every household; prevents stoppage of drains ; economical lad laast.-01 all Chemists, Stationers, Hairdressers. Is a safe, permanent and warranted C,11.1, 01 Pimples, Scrofula, Scurvy, had legs, Skin and Blood Diseases and Sores of all kinds, we can with confidence recommend Clarke's world-famed Blood Mixture Sold by Chemists everywhere. HOLLOW/XS Pmts.—Liver Complaints and Disorders of the Bowels.—lt is irnnossible to exaggerate the extraordinary virtue or this medicine its the treatment of all affictions of the liver or irregularies of the bowels. lu cases of depraved or superabundant bile these Pills, taken freely, have never been known to fail. In bowel complaints they are equally efficacious, though they should then he taken rather more sparingly for every medicine in the form of au aperient requires caution hen the bowels are disordered, although at the same time a gentler or more genial aperient th,ri them Pills in moderate doses has never yet been discovered. If taken EICCOi dil.g to the printed ristructions, they not only cure the complaint, but improve the whole system.
The Atherstone, Nuneaton, and Warwickshire Times. — 1884-05-10 (Atherstone, Warwickshire, England)

SUICIDE BY HANGING AT LEAMINGTON. _  A distressing case of suicide occurred in King street, early on Wednesday morning. Henry Heritage, a whitesmith, residing at 9, King— street.rose at six o'clock to light the fire as usual. About some two hours later he was found by his wife in the back part of the premises sus— pended by the neck, and quite dead. An inquest was hell on the body the same evening, at the Holly Bush Inn, King-street,before Mr.W. B. Sanderson, deputy-coroner.—Mrs. Caroline Heritage, wife of the deceased, said that her husband Was a whitesmith. He Was 36 years of age. She last saw him alive about 6 o'clock that morning. He got up about that time, and left the noon], then went downstairs. A little before 8 o'clock she went into the yard towards the workshop, and up a flight of stairs to the door. On opening the door she saw the body of deceased hanging from a beam. She sent for , her brother, who came in a few minutes, and ' went down the yard to the shop. The back of , deceased WPS hanging towards her, but she did I not go to the body to see whether her husband was dead or not.—Henry Clarke, whitesmith, 16, King-street, brother—in-law of the deceased, said I that he was called to the house of the deceased a little before eight o'clock. He went to the shop, where lie saw the body hanging. Be ; went up the steps and, cut the body down. He fell on his knees with the body of the 1 deceased. '1 here was a box lying on the floor of the shop, which would afford deceased the means of affixing the rope. The face was very white, and the eyes closed after he cut the body down. The body of deceased was warm at the time. A doctor was called in, and arrived in about ten minutes. There was no money found on deceased, but there was a razor in his pocket.—Mrs. Heritage, in reply to the Deputy. coroner, stated that her husband hail been very unsteady. When lie was out of work she had to get the living by taking in washing. She Wits assisted by her eldest daughter, aged 18 years. The deceased had given way to drinking. He seemed very much depressed. The deceased was drunk on Saturday and Sunday last.—Tire jury returned a verdict that deceased committed suicide by hanging, there being no evidence to show the state of his mind at the time.