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The Industrial Review, Social and Political. — 1877-03-03 (London, England)

HEARTS OF OAK SOCIETY.  I am a member of the above society of some nineteen years' standing; therefore I trust you will do me the favour of publishing these few lines in the hope it may be the means of leading the way of getting the society out of its present dead lock. It must now be patent to the committee, after their two abortive attempts, that they do not possess the confidence of the members generally; therefore, the first suggestion I make on behalf of the Guildford branch is that they should take the secretary, or any other delegate who may be appointed, from each of the provincial medical agencies, which I see numbers about eighty-eight, with an equal number from the Metropolitan District to revise the rules—or, secondly, that the metropolitan district stand as the parent lodge, and the rest of us divided into district lodges similar to the Oddfellows or Foresters, with our committees of management for the admission of members and payment of sick, but to be in affiliation with the parent lodge. By so doing they could lessen the staff at head quarters, and each branch would have a better supervision of candidates for admission, which is much needed, for it is not long since they refused admittance to one of the best behaved men, although he sent up a clean sheet. Somewhere about the same time they admitted a man, a drunken fellow, against whom there were nine convictions before our borough justices; but none of them being for felony he still is a member. The committee also proposed to debar house-painters, which this branch considers savours strongly of selfishness. I have always understood the backbone of a society was to keep admitting young healthy members. They also proposed to abolish the examining of candidates by the surgeon. Why, in the name of Heaven, do they not ask us, as a society, to commit suicide at once. I could say much more could you afford me space, but enough for the present. EDWARD WlLLlAmsorr, 12,841, Twelfth Division.  REcitirr's PARIS BLUE.—The marked superiority of this Laundry Blue over all others, and the quick appreciation of its merits by the Public has been attended by the usual result, viz.: a flood of imitations; the merit of the latter mainly consists in the ingenuity exerted, not simply in imitating the square shape but making the general appearance of the wrappers resemble that of the genuine article. The Manufacturers beg therefore to caution all buyers to see " Reckitt's Paris Blue" on each packet. Sewing Machines only Thirty Shillings. TAYLOR'S NEW PATENT TWISTED OPL Sawrtra MACHINE, with all necessary apparatus, viz: Tucking Gauge, Self-Sewer, Hemmer, Braider, Oil Can, and Needles. It will Stitch, Hem, Fell, Braid, Bind, Quilt, Tuck and Gather, and do every kind of Domestic Work. The extraordinary cheapness of this Machine brings it within the reach of all. Wholesale and retail of the Manufacturers, Taylor's Patent Sewing Machine Company, Limited, Driffield, Yorkshire; and of 97, Cheapside, London.  111111 b.. 

Article type: NotIncident
The Sun. — 1870-04-14 (London, England)

WESTMINSTER.  James Ormand, a powerful young man, was charged with the following cowardly assault Ram Dennison, a weakly young man, whi) stated that he had given the defendant no offence of any description, said that last night he was passing into Regent-street on an errand, when the defendant came up stealthily behind hits, and, seizing him by the throat, struck him four or five violent blows in the face. Defendant said he had heard that complainant had threatened to strike his sister. Mr. Arnold—Had he struck your sister? Defendant— No, he had not. Mr. Arnold—lt would have been time enough to have interfered if you found he had ill-used your sister. He fined him 50a., and ordered him to find bail for three months.  THAMES.  Alice Jameson, an unfortunate woman, dressed in a good deal of tawdry finery, was charged with attempting to commit suicide. A police constable saw the prisoner at three o'clock this morning in great trouble, and crying and groaning, near the canal bridge, in the Mile-end-road. He asked her what was the matter with her, and she said she was tired of her life. He remonstrated with ber and advised her to go away, and to go home and forget her sorrows. She said she was determined to end her existence. At last he persuaded her to leave, and she went towards the canal. He intercepted her, and made her go the reverse way. He saw her go away from the canal. He remainei about the spot for some time, and the prisoner returned and got upon the parapet of the brilge. She was about to throw livr.,elf off into the water, when he seized her, and dragged her away from the spot. A woman in the court, with whom the prisoner had been living four pars, cffered to take her home ani look after her, as she had been drinking. The magistrate said the wretched women of the street, calling themselves unfortunates, were always drinking,to excess. The prison r, wha was in a deplorable condition, and labouring under delirium tremens, said she had no friends in London, and knew no rela►ive except an uncle at Backs in Suffolk. Remanded. • 

Article type: Incident
The Sun. — 1837-06-02 (London, England)

versal interest. From an article, entitled the " Indian Princess Begum Sumroo and her Court," we quote an extraordinary anecdote : " Young Howard was the gayest and most reckless of all the officers attached to the army of India. He was at the head of a small junta of debauched, dare-devil men, who, as the Hell-fire Club,' enjoyed a reputation for every species of profligacy. They were notorious as daring gamblers, libertines, and professed Atheists. We are told that some years since, in a wild frolic, smarting under a number of evils to which they were subjected in consequence of their blasted characters, Howard and two of his boon companions actually affixed their names in blood to a vile compact for depriving themselves of their wretched existence. It was arranged that the trio should drink themselves to death by swilling neat brandy ; but if one or all failed in the object, it was planned as a sine qua non, that whoever survived should commit suicide at once after the most approved fashion. The project was no sooner formed than executed. Howard alone outwitted his quondam associates in his libations. Finding them to all appearance dead at his feet, he madly seized a razor, and inflicted a frightful gash across his throat. He, however, it seems, recovered, as did his companions, who laughed at him for esteeming their drunken compact so immutable."  TAIT'S MAGAZINE. Simpkin and Marshall.  Tait has really surpassed himself this month. His articles are not only very numerous, but they are all the best of their kind. In an article of some seven pages we have the essence of Cottle's Recollections of Coleridge—and, as Lord Lyndhurst would phrase is, something more." It is unquestionably the most vigorous, and the most faithful sketch of " that divinely eloquent man" that has yet appeared in any form. " What Sort of a Grown Child are You ?" from the pen of Leigh Hunt, though written in the frolicsome light of a mere extravaganza, contains, like most of the graceful trifles of the same author, matter calculated to make a deep impression on reflecting minds. We hold with his theory of the consistency of human character from the cradle to the grave, and we never before saw it so happily illustrated. The " Dominie's Tale" is excellent—full of force and fancy and feeling. The " Literary Register" is conducted with that tact and ability which has always distinguished 'Fait's Notices of New Books. The whole is in keeping with, and well sustains, the high character of the ablest periodical on the Liberal. side of the question. 

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The St. Helens Examiner, and Prescot Weekly News. — 1905-11-25 (Saint Helens, Merseyside, England)

THE WARRINGTON SENSATION.  SISTERS CHARGED WITH MURDER.  At the Warrington police court on Tuesday, Beatrice Waterworth, single woman, (31), and Alicia Drury, widow, (35), both residing at 10, Russell-street, were charged with the wilfal murder of the infant child of Beatrice Waterworth, some time in October 1901. It will be rememherad that the prisoners were before the magistrates last week on a charge of concealing the birth of the child. Brieay recapitulated the facts then stated were that in September of this year IVaterworth gave birth to a child. The day following her confinement Mrs. Drury's husband committed suicide, in consequence it was stated at the inquest which was held, of certain allegations made against him b.v the neighbours. The suspicions of the police were aroused by the receipt by the Chief Constable, and the Coroner of anonymous letters,andon the 15th inst they visited 63,G raf ton-street, formerly occupied by the prisoners and Mr. Drury, and there after a brief search found the skeleton of a child buried in quick lime, under the pantry floor. At the proceedings on Tuesday Mr. Ilallaway, deputy town clerk, who appeared to prosecute said very extensive inquiries had been made into the circumstances of the case, and cart :tin new facts had come to light. In support of a charge of murder there ought to be the strongest possible evidence, and he regretted, that they had not got the strongest possible evidence, as the women stood in peril of their liberty--even their lives —on ratherslight evideace.But there was that evidence, though slight to consider. Another step had to be taken, as it was necessary that the circumstances should be reported to the Director of Public Prosecutions, in order that he might thoroughly investigate them. He, therefore, asked for a remand until next Tuesday. Mr. SteA, who appeared on behalf of the prisoners. said he had no objection to the remand. provided the Bench could see their way to grant these miserable women bail. They had been in castody for over a week, and seeing that it was admitted that the evidence was very weak, he thought they might be granted bail. The Deputy Town Clerk said he would not object to bail. 

Article type: Incident
The Forest of Dean Examiner : — 1877-06-08 (Blakeney, Gloucestershire, England)

A RECKLESS MINER.  At Rugeley Petty Sessions, yesterday, a miner named Hugh Everidge was charged with a breach of the Mines Act by removing a cartridge which had refused to go off, at the Hayes Colliery at Prereton, in March loot. On removing the charge it exploded, and burnt defendant so severely that he was laid up for six weeks. In consideration of his already having been punished, he was only fined 2s. 61. and costs.  A verdict of manelaughter wee returned by a coroner's jury, on Monday, against Ellen Ready, for haring caused the death of her sister, at Peckham, by striking her with a paraffin lamp.  Three men were thrown Into the Thames on Saturday, at Hammersmith, by the capsizing of a boat. Two swam ashore. The third, who was drowned, wae George Rickards, of the Star Coffee House, York road, Battersea, cabinet-maker, An Inquest was held on Moaday in the body of Mr. Wm. Coxbead, aged 45, manager of the National India Rubber Company. 44, Gresham street, London, who had shot himself with a pistol. It was stated that he had a draft for Xl.OOO-to pay, and had only ..Elao to meet it. A verdict of suicide while of unsound mind was returned.  How DI,EAMS is COMMUNICATED.—The Liverpool Mercury report. that a family named Lawrence, of Ellesmere, have lost their six children by diphtheria, the origin of which has been clearly traced. Some of the children being thirsty while they were out, a glass of water was procured for them from a cottage, and it turned out that In the house a child was at the time suffering from the disease. Mr. Leonard Edmunds' motion to set aside an award made in the suit between himself and the Treasury by Mr. Denman and Mr. Pollock (both now Judges of the High Court) as long ago as was on Monday dismissed with costs by Justices Mellor and Lush, in the Queen's Bench Division, as Mr. Edinunde Old not choose to bring It on until the Lord Chief Justice should be sitting in the division.  MINES DRAINAGE COMMISSION. 

Article type: Incident
The Blackpool Herald. — 1886-05-07 (Blackpool, Lancashire, England)

LYTHAM.  \PARTON SCHOOL—The annual examination of the scholars attending Warton School was hell on the 12th of April, and the schedules whieh have just been received show a percentage of passes of 94 The report is expected in a few days. LICENSING DAY AT LYTHAM. Monday was the annual licensing day at Lytham,for hackney carriages, carriage chairs. pleasure boats, mules and ass 5, &c., under the Lytham Improvement Commissioners. Mr. Reuben Pemberton, of Preston (the appointed inspector), examined the vehicles brought up tv be licensed. All were found to be in a god state. MAY DAY CELEBRATION. This year, the May Day celebration at Lytham was consideraldy shorn of its usual attractions. no. doubt owing to its falling on a Saturday, when those who have usual!), taken an active part in the ceremonies of the (I y were too much engsged with business. But very few outside decorations were seen, and the horses which were at all dressed out were few and far between.  LYTHAM IMPROVEMENT COMMISSIONERS : ELECTION OP CoSIWTD a CHAIRMEN.— On Monday afternoon the usual monthly committee meetings (the first since the election) were held in the Boardmom. Mr. Pearson was re-elected chairman of the Sanitary and Fire Brigade Committee, Mr. Butcher chairman of the Road. Beach and Market C mmittee, Mr. Storer reelected chairman of the Gas Committee; and Dr. .oearden ;ye-elected chairman of the Finance Committee. ArramPTED &NODE—Robert Heatley, who had been brought up last Thursday at Lytham, for attempting to commit suicide, was again charged at the Fleetwood Police Court, on Monday.— Mr. Addle, who appeared for the prisoner, said prisoner's friends were prepared to take charge of him. The fact was that the man had been out to Aust alia. and the hot climate together with a little drink that he had had, had taken effect upon hinn—Mr. Whiteside, cab proprietor, Lytham, had known prisoner all his life, and Lad always found him to be a good workman and fit to be at large. He was prepared to take prisoner back into his employ.—Prisoner was then discharged with a caution. 

Article type: Incident
Widnes Examiner. — 1903-04-03 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

"FIGHTING MAC'S" TRAGIC END.  The sudden tragic death of Sir Hector Macdonald, the great Scottish General, was received throughout the country with great sorrow, as for nearly a quarter of a century he has been one of the great heroes of the nation. The day before it had bze,-1 announced in a telegram from Colombo that 'certain serious charges—namele -s, yet not criminal under the code of that island—had been brought against him, and that a desire for a consultation with Lord Roberts. on, the subject had pronwted his sudden and mysterious voyage to England. Upon is advice, after a special audience with the King himself, Sir Hector Macdonald kit England again for Colombo, via Paris and Marseilles, to face the court-martial which circninstan ces had rendered it imperative to call. In Paris he,put up at the Hotel Regina in the Rue de Rivoli, and upon seeing the premature disclosure of his terrible position in the newspapers, he shot himself in his bedroom. The nature of the charges, the reasons for his suicide, and all the sadder aspects of the case it would be ungenerous and improper to enter into; but perhaps it would have been a wiser thing if his friends had not raised the question ot removing the remains to his native land. The less publicity given, the sooner all gossip dies down; and the country wishes, After it has got over the painful shock oV this sudden suicide, and tile strange circumstances surrounding it, to remember only the great soldiet in the pride Of his success. The body was brought back to England on Saturday, and at King's. Cross for Scotland on Sunday after'noon in the presence of a large and sorrowing crowd,  THE LATE SIR HECTOR  • . • (!fl-J 

Article type: Incident
Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1888-09-15 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

THE POPLAR TRAGEDY.  Mr. George Collier, the deputy coroner for Southeast Middlesex, has concluded an inquiry at the Poplar Town Hall into the circumstances attending the death of Elizabeth Bartlett, aged 56, the wife of a general dealer, lately living at 258, Manchester-road, Cubitt Town, who is alleged to have been murdered by her husband, who afterwards attempted to commit suicide hy cutting his throat with a razor. The husband, zeho b still an inmate of the Poplar Hospital, is progressing favourably. On Sunday, the 19th ultimo, the deceased was discovered lying in bed with her head battered in, while her husband lay beside her bleeding from a self-inflicted wound in the neck. The instrument used to kill the woman was a blacksmiths hammer weighing about 121 b. Walter Still, aged fifteen, errand boy to Bartlett, said that on Sunday morning, the 195 h ult., he heard Bartlett groaning, and on going to his room found him sitting on a chair trying to tear his throat open. There was a wound in his throat, but he had no weapon in his hand. The witness went round the bed to wake Mrs. Bartlett up. and then found the blood was flowing from bet throat. Be raised an alarm, and a boy named Jones came into the room and then ran upstairs to inform the other lodgers. The witness then ran for Mrs. Maas. Mrs. Bartlett, the witness added, was a sober woman, but Bartlett used to drink very much. He was often drunk. The last time the witness sow him drunk was on the Saturday before the murder. Bartlett and his wife lived happily together except when Bartlett was in drink. He had heard Bartlett say more than once that he would cut his wife's head off and throw it in the road. Other evidence having been heard, and the coroner having summed up the case, the jury returned a verdict of "Wilful murder against Levi Richard Bartlett, who was committed for trial on the coroner's warrant.  ANOTHER open space ! Clerkenwell is to be favoured this time. The Vestries of Clerkenwell are about to apply to the Consistorial and EpiscoPst Court of London for a faculty authorising the improvement and laying-out of the St. James's churchyard and burial grounds, Clerkenwell, for thie Put' pose. They also ask to be allowed to move Ws tombstones. 

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The Miner and Workman's Advocate. — 1864-04-23 (London, England)

MURDER, AND SUICIDE IN LOIDON.  On Monday morning, between eight and nine o'clock, Police-Constable Thomas O'Dell, .28 E, was called to 5, Leigh-street, Burton Crescent, occupied by Mr. Ashley, draper and tailor, who said that he and his family had seen blood trickling down the walls of the kitchen, which is below the back parlour, and thinking that something was -wrong he had tried to gain admittance, 'but failed ; nor coidd he make any one hear: Ho added, that the room-ens rented by a man and his wife. named Pearce. The policeman found that the key was inside, so that the look could not bo picked. He therefore went to the .bAck of the house, and haying obtained a ladder forced the back parlour window up and entered the room. A most fearful sight here presented itself. On the ground, lying side by-side were the bodies of lar. and Mrs. Pearce, in their blood, with their throats cut. By the side of the man was lying a long sheath knife, which was covered with blood, and it was veil' evident from its appearance that it had been recently sharpened. Mr. J. T. Paul, the police surgeon, made an -examination of the bodies, and gave it as his opinion that death had not long taken place. He made a cursory examination of the bodies, and found on the female a-tremendous cut on the top of the head, which Lad been most likely, inflicted by some blunt instrument. There was also an immense cut extending from the front of the neck down to the ppine. Her head was joined/to the body by a small piece of skin only. There wits another severe cut in the throat. The man had also a very deep cut, extending-half across thethroat, andseparating the windpipe. It was of such a severe character that death must have been instantaneous. From the position of the bodies and the wounds it is thought the man first murdered the woman and then committed suicide. Both bodies were fully dressed, and it seems as If the bed had been slept upon by two persons. No disturbance was heard during the night by others in the house. It is thought the couple must have arisen at about half-past five in the morning. The man was 'a labourer at St. Katharine's Docks, and he and his wife-are supposed to be-about 35 years of age. It is said that the husband was very jealous of his wife, but why, or whether his suspicious were just or not, is not known. 

Article type: Incident
The Miner and Workman's Advocate. — 1864-10-01 (London, England)

&WADER AND SUICIDE AT MIDDLEB•  BOROUGH  A shocking murder, followed by the suicide of the murderer, has been committed in Middlesborough. The perpetrator ia a German Jew, named Henry Kerne, residing in Vine-street, in tit, t town, and who, on Friday afternoon, about three o'clock, cut the throat of his son, a fine interesting boy, named Daniel Henry, about five years of age. It appears that the lad and ,his father were in the room together, the mother being absent in another part of the house, which is a tenanted one, when a female neighbour went up stairs and told Kerne that his wife, with whom she had had some conversation, was going to leave him on account of a quarrel which they had had that morning. On this the man, in a state of apparently great perplexity, came down stairs into the woman's apartment, and complained bitterly of the conduct of his wife, in stripping the place of its furniture. Having thus unburdened himself of his sad tale Kerne returned to his room, from which loud screams were soon heardissuing. Alarmed by the noise, Mrs. Kerne and the neighbour previously alluded to rushed tip into the apartment, in which a horrible scene presented itself. side by side on the floor lay the little boy and his father, with their throats cut from ear to ear, their heads being nearly severed from their bodies. The door was saturated with blood, but in the case of the unfortunate victims life was found to be extinct, the murderer and suicide holding in his right hand a razor, with which he had doubtless made the fatal attack on his helpless son, and afterwards, in a similar manner, put an end to his own existence. The poor man, who was thirty-six years of age, had for some time suffered from the loss of his eye-sight, and this, with the unhappy state of his domestic arrangements, is assigned as the notive of his rash and terrible deeds. 

Article type: Incident