The Miner and Workman's Advocate. — 1864-12-31 (London, England)

ATTEMPTED SUICIDES.  At Worship-street, John Gatland,. a young counkry looking man, evidently in much mental suffering, was charged with attempting self-murder. Mr. Peter Sair' a lodger at 52, Mansfield-street, Good.man's-fields, Whitechapel, said that on. Saturday last he heard a great disturbance below stairs. in an apartment occupied by Gatland and his. wife. On entering he found him in a condition of desperate excitement, consequent upon the discovery that his wife had eloped during his absence, ami stripped the place of nearly all it had contained, Witness endeavoured to sooth him; and placed him in a chair, where he covered his face with his hands, and sobbed like a child. Suddenly he sprang up, seized a razor from the mantel-shelf, and inflicted a wound in his throat, which must have been of a more serious : character had he (witness) not struck the razor from his hand. A police-constable was then sent for. Prisoner had always been a respectable person while living in the house, but occasionally had words with his wife, who assuredly had taken up with another man._ She had not any _  Prisoner, who heardthis sfatement without uttering one word, was remanded—bail refused. Patrick Kelly, a shoemaker, was brought up on remand, charged with a double attempt upon his life.  Prisoner called upon a brother workman some weeks since, and from some unexplained cause, but supposed to be jealousy, cut his throat in a fearful manner with two knives used in the trade. His life was despaired of, yet he now attended out of danger." Mr. Cooke remarked that he had determined upon sending this case for trial. So much penitence for the crime,, however, had been expressed to the chaplain of the House of Detention, and such a solemn assurance given never to repeat the attempt, that he might now be discharged. Prisoner appeared grateful.  One man in Chicopee, Massachusetts, manufactures three barrels of hair-pins in a day.---New York Paper. THE BHOOTAN EXPEDITION.—The British forces have entered the Bhootan territory, and commenced •operatons against the hostile chiefs by assaulting the fortress of Dalimkote, which they captured with slight loss. Unfortunately an accidental explosion of powder caused the death of three officers and seven men.'  DEATH OF MR. EDWARD WITITE.-Mr. Edward White, head of the eminent solicitors' firm of White, Broughton, and White, throughout a long professional career, was mixed wp with the aristocracy, political affairs, and the Royal Family, in the most delicate manner. He was the Queen's private solicitor, and also the Prince Consort's, and as such conducted the prosecution of the publisher, Strange, for pirating the Royal drawings. He was also solicitor to such families as the Earl of Lic:iflel.l. Lord Suffield, and Lord Vernon. He died on Friday, aged sixty-niue.—Post. MAJOR LiH&LEY, who was brought before the Lord Mayor the other day, on the charge of having challenged Mr. Desborough, an attorney, to fight a duel, appeared again before his lordship on Wednesday. The fact of the challenge, as detailed on a former day, was not denied; but the Major, who conducted his own defence, put a slightly different colour on the previous quarrel, and.endeavoured to show that he had been greatly provoked. The Lord Mayor said that was a question for the jury to consider, and committed the major for trial, but released him in the meantime on bail.  THE WIFE MURDER IN DURHAM The deputy coroner for North Durham concluded an inquest, on Tuesday, in the village of Spen, near Winlaton, into the circumstances under which Ellen- Atkinson, wife of Matthew Atkinson, pitman, came to her death on the 17th of December. The evidence disclosed a series of diabolical citeumstancds under -which the wretched woman had been murdered, by being beaten on the head and body with a pair of tongs until she was dead. The deceased woman Atkinson, there is every reason to believe, was dr.unk when she was murdered, for she was a very dissipated woman; and Atkinson, her husband, was in a similar condition when he took her lite. The jury returned a verdict of "Wilful Murder" against Atkinson, who was wordingly forthwith committed for trial. 

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