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The Cotton Factory Times. — 1888-09-07 (Manchester, Greater Manchester, England)

Atte=ptod, Murder an Suicide by a Magistrate.  A terrible tragedy was enacted in a fashionable suburb of Wrexham on Sunday, when Mr. A. Wilson Edwards, a justice of the peace, attempted to murder one of his servants, and afterwards shot himself. The first intimation of the occurrence was given about seven o'clock by a female servant, who, scrambling over the spiked entrance gate to High Grove, a residence overlooking the park in which the Eisteddfod pavilion has been erected, rushed along Grove and Grosvenor-roads to the residence of Dr. Davies, shouting out that her master had shot the cook. After obtaining such particulars as the horrified girl could give, Dr. Davies sent her to the County Buildings for a policeman, and Mr. Wilde, deputy chief constable, and Police-constable Roberts accompanied him to Mr. Edwards's house. Arriving there they found the front entrance gate locked. Climbing over this, Mr. Wilde and Mr. Davies made their way into the house, and to Mr. Edwards's bedroom, where they found that gentleman lying insensible on the floor with a bullet wound in his right temple. Lying near him Mr. Wilde found a six-chambered revolver, on examining which he ascertained that three chambers had recently been emptied, the other three being still loaded. Mr. Davies did what was possible for the unconscious man. Mr. Wilde proceeded to the servants' bedroom, where he discovered a woman named Mary Stevens, aged about 40, lying apparently lifeless on the floor. She was placed in bed and efforts made to restore consciousness, with a certain amount of success, but pain and fright combined rendered her delirious, and her contortions rendered it impossible for the doctor to ascertain the precise nature of her injuries. From the statement of the housemaid, Annie Smith, who gave the alarm, it appears that about half-past six o'clock this morning Mr. Edwards went into the bedroom where she and Stevens were sleeping, carrying a revolver in his hand. Stevens sat up in bed and asked, "What's the matter, master ?" when he fired two shots at her, both of which struck her in the body. He then vvent out of the room, and Smith, who had the bedclothes over her head when she saw the revolver, jumped out of bed when she heard him leave. Hastily dressing herself, she escaped from the house, and ran, as already described, for the doctor and police. Mrs. Edwards, a lady of 70, who had been ailing for some time, states that she noticed her husband come into her bedroom early that morning with a revolver, and on her speaking to him he placed the revolver against his temple and fired. A bullet pierced the skull. No adequate cause for this awful tragedy seems to have existed. 

Article type: Incident
Lancaster Standard and County Advertiser. — 1898-04-07 (Lancaster, Lancashire, England)

enots,h to keep the island, and the is too I proud to yield to its demand to be given up. , And here comes in the United States Gov- I mullein., with a demand for peace in Cuba, I and a request to Spain to stop the suicidal strife. It is the answer to this which will decide the question of war or peeve. At present appearances point to war. The war party in both countries are demanding ! war. The Spaniards are heating themselves to white-hot heat, and are snapping their fingers at the Americans. They, for their part, claim to have exhausted all methods of conciliation, and regret, etc., eta, that , they are fermi into war. The Pope is I talked of as a mediator. It would be a fitting end to his noble life if he could make his name for ever immortal by the proventire of such a disaster as this threatened war would bring upon the world. Meanwhile, the warlike talk and preparations go on. The Americans are leaving Cuba : the American Minister is expecting his recall from Madrid; Spa.nia.rds are leaving United States territory, and SO en. In a word, we are on the verge of war, and the stroke of a pen today, at Washington or Madrid, may plunge the two nations into it The prospect is appalling to other twilit, besides Spaniards and Americans. It will dislocate trans-Atlantic traffic: will interfere .with trade and commerce; will paralyse American markets; may even interfere with the cable service between America and Europe; will create unrest and uneasiness all round the Atlantic , Ocean, said finally, may act as the torch to , light into lurid flame the warlike passions of even other Powers. Is it too much to hope even yet, though tho eleventh hour has long turned, that counsels of peace may prevail and prevent so unhappy a strife? 

Article type: NotIncident
The Haslingden Gazette. — 1910-02-12 (Haslingden, Lancashire, England)

The Campaign Point by Point  POWDER AND SHOT.  Free Trade means—Labour Exchanges! What a ghastly mockery to the starving unemployed. Perhaps the only useful purpose these bureaus serve is to show to what. straits our suicidal policy of " Free Imports" has brought the British worker. They asked for the bread of Tariff Reform, and received—labour exchanges! „Meanwhile capital is pouring out of the country to establish more factories for foreign labour to compete against our own tottering industries. Sir Henry Norman, the moving spirit of that blow-bag organisation, the Budget League, has ll,en unburdening himself with some feeling before an audience of motorists.  The 'ejected of South -Wolverhampton certainly spAca with authority when he referred to certain political journeys which had had " an inglorious ending." There is many a true word spoken in jest, and no one can gainsay that Sir Henry Norman hit the nail on the head when he made the confession that " in politics, as in automobilism, the success of the trip depended largely on the quality of the gas." Why is it that. so many defeated Radical candidates seem constitutionally incapable of taking their beating with good humour? Her, for instance, is Mr. Chiorra Money, the gentleman of Italian extraction who took the precaution to be naturalised before he stood in 1906 as a Parliamentary candidate He prates about "loaded dice" and the rest of it.  Similarly there is a certain Mr. Charles Augustus Vansittart Conybeare, who sat at one time in the House of Commons for a Cornish constituency, and was generally known at Westminster as "the Camborne Calamity." The other day Mr. Cony. beam stood for Horncastle, and was sent to the right-about by a substantial majority of 870. Mr. Conybeare, like Mr. Chin= Money, is in a whining and whimpering mood: so much so, indeed, that a prominent Horncastle Liberal, Mr. John Day, corn merchant, who appeared on Mr. Conybeare's platform during the s lect ion, finds it necessary to wash his hands of the ex-candidate and his methods.  Mr. Conybsare's notion of political repartee is to screech "unprincipled liars, tariff-mongers, pubcrawlers," and so forth. Mr. Day has written to this volcanic gentleman, dissociating himself from his mode of warfare. "I decline," writes Mr. Day, 'to sit down quietly and hear a great body of ladies and gentlemen, some of them my personal friends, thus described. You would have left a much more favourable impression of yourself in the Horneastle division if you had taken your defeat in a more gentlemanly spirit." 

Article type: NotIncident
The Ripon Observer. — 1893-08-31 (Ripon, North Yorkshire, England)

Al! OLD DIAN DMA 1N THN CELLS.  DEATH SOUGHT AND FOUND.  About half-past nine on Saturday night • policeman detected Isaac Ackroyd, 81. years of age, in the act of drowning himself in the Aire at the back of the Calls. The old man, who was • tailor by trade, and lived in Lloyd-street, Kirkstall-road, Leeds, Ives locked up on a charge of attempting to commit suicide, and had been in the cells two or three hours when he died, it is supposed, from the shock. The inquest on the body of the deceased was held at the Leeds Town Hall to-day, before Mr. Coroner Malcom.  The Muter of the deceased was called and stated that he lived with her at 1, reterhead-sirecit. He was in his 80th year, and a tailor by trade. He left home at six o'clock on Saturday night in a queer state, leaving his watch behind him. Suspecting that there was something wrong she followed him. When in the town he asked her to go home, saying he wou!d follow in an hour. 'You will be home theu in an hour?" she asked. " Yea— perhapa," he replied. She thought it would have been better had they taken him to the Infirmary. Robert Axe saw the deceased lingering about the river, and remarked that he evidently intended to "go overboard." Then the old man rolled himself is. Witness procured a boat-hook with which he brought him to the surface and Hr. Scott and another man came up and got him out. They rolled the old man about • little and then sent for • policeman. Dr. Heald, police anrgeon, deposed that he wag called to attend the deceased, whom he found in the sick room wrapped well op in rugs. He was suffering from shock, but not had enough to prevent him giving an explanation of his conduct. He said he WAS 80 years of age, that he was only able to earn about 3s. a week and felt he was nut wanted, and was sorry he had been brought out of the water. Witness thought it undesirable to remove him to the Infirmary as he was beiug well tended where he was, and it was much safer not to more him. The cause of. death was shock attendant on the immersion.  The jury returnerl a verdict to the effect that Deceased committed euicide while of unseuud mind." 

Article type: Incident
The Northern Guardian. — 1895-08-09 (Hartlepool, Cleveland, England)

THE MYSTERIOUS DROWNING  CASE.  INQUEST THIS DAY.  This afternoon Mr Coroner Settle held an inquest at the West Hartlepool Police Court into the circumstances attending the death of Amelia Johnson, whose body was foiled in the Coal Dock, West Hartlepool, yesterday morning, as already reported in the Guardian. Inspector Greenwood watched the proceedings on behalf of the N.H.R. Company. The first witness e filled was Mrs Johnson, of 14, Bentley Street, West Hartlepool, mother of deceased, who identified the dead body as that of her daughter. The deceased was 25 years of age and was a single woman. She was healthy and ' strong in mind and body. Witness never thought ishe would have committed suicide. Sometimes the deceased looked depressed, and did not 'talk as much as usual. The deceased had been in service at Mrs Craig's, in York Street, since iFebruary last. The Coroner: Did the deceased leave anything in writing to account for her death? Witness: No, Sir. The Coroner: Supposing she has committed suicide, had she any reason for doing so? Witness: No, Sir. The Coroner: Had she a sweetheart?  Witness : Not to toy knowledge. The Coroner: Had she any trouble that you know of?  Witness : No, sir. Witness, who appeared very much affected, continuing, said she last saw her daughter alive on Wednesday evening, at her house. She then appeared all right, and had supper with witness. Eliza Johnson, sister of the deceased, said she saw the deceased alive at a quarter to 10 on Wednesday night. Deceased had to go about a quarter of a mile to her situation. She had not to go in the direction of the coal dock. Witness had no fear when deceased said "Good night " and witness said the same. The deceased was quite alone when witness went home, her mother being at her brother's house. The deceased never told them why she was depressed. During the last six mouths the deceased had been very quiet, and would not join in any conversation. The Coroner: Have you any fear or cause to , think anyone has done any injury to the deceased? Witness: No Sir. _ _ .  Inspector : Do you suspect foul play at all? Witness : No, Sir. Mary Simpson as the next witness called, and said she had been housekeeper for Mrs Craig during her absence from home. Mrs Craig had been from home five weeks. The deceased was general servant. Witness last saw her alive shortly after six, and she was then getting ready to go out. She never said where she was going, and appeared to be then very quiet. Deceased was very reserved, and always appeared to be studying. Witness once asked her if she had a young man, but deceased never answered her.  The Coroner: We know nothing about any young man, and we must now give that up. Verdict : "Found drowned."  THE ACCIDENT AT THE A !IMO URY. The injured man Kane continues to make favour. able progress. 

Article type: Incident
The Bee-Hive. — 1874-09-12 (London, England)

The Carlists in and out of Spain are undoing by overdoing. Their batteries at Gaetano, on the northern coast, have had thegross temerity, while bombarding the town, to fire upon the two German gunboats keeping watch in the offing. The Nautilus and the Albatross returned the fire, and then proceeded towards Santander. Anticipating what might he the decision of the Cabinet of Berlin in receiving intelligence of the fade, the Paris Monizeur is of opinion that Prince Bismarck intends drawing Europe into collective intervention against the Carlists. Simultaneously we bear of the arrival of the German and Austrian Ambassadors in Madrid, and that .Marshal Serrano is about to take chief command of the Government Army in the North, Meanwhile, the Marshal President of Spain has been made the subject of so extravagant an attack by the Ultramontane M. Veuillot, in the Paris Univers, that, at the requisition of the Duke Deems, as Minister for Foreign Affairs, the Ministers of Marshal MaeMahon have sane-tioned the suspension of that newspaper for a fortnight. We all know the futility of such interferences with the press; but this consideration does not lessen the madness of such methods of attack as the suspended journal had recourse to. It is easy to conceive what might be said about Serrano and Queen Isabella. When the offensive article came out, the Spanish Ambassador, though in Paris, had. not yet presented his credentials; but he was preparing an indignant protest, when Duke Decazes anticipated him in the way stated. The article is condemeed in the decree of suspension as inciting to contempt of the established Government of France by insult& beyond description upon a friendly Power, tending to compromise her in her foreign relations, and to lower the dignity of the French press. While these occurrences were passing, the Grand Duke Constantine of Russia was in Paris, conjecturally upon a political errand, namely, to find out, by consultation with Austrian and French statesmen the shortest and surest way to order in Europe, and how, at once, to keep in elm* 1 the growth of German influence and the tendency to revolutionary movement. After ngrand dinner at the Russian Embassy, the Grand Duke and the Count of Paris wereobserved to withdraw for private conversation into a small saloon. The Count of Chambord is understood to be out of patience with Marshal MaeMahon since his tour through Brittany; and, indeed, there are aeveralsigns that the priest party are on the verge of ono of their suicidal outbreaks. NO only have the Cellists fired upon the German gunboats; but they have put themselves yet further ill. 

Article type: NotIncident
The Sun. — 1870-06-14 (London, England)

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.--(Tins DAY.)  DISORDERLY FOREIGNERS.—PhiIibert Mathieu, a shoemaker, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt, at the Marlborough-street Police-court, with being drunk and also assaulting the' police, and Alphonse Letoilleux, artist, was charged with being drunk and behavingin a disorderly manner and attempting to rescue Mathieu. From the evidence of Constable Evans it appeared that the two prisoners had a dispute at an oyster stall in Wardourstreet, and the foreigners eventually knocked some of them off the stall. A row ensued, and when the defendants were taken into custody Letoilleux assaulted the constable. A witness was called, named Jolly, but as he appeared somewhat confused in his account of the matter, owing to the amount of refreshment he had taken, the magistrate fined Letoilleux 10s., and Mathieu 20s. SUICIDE BRIDGES.—Ann Leary. aged 26 years, was charged by Mr. Rose, inspector of the K division of police, at the Thames Police-court, with attempting to commit suicide at the Old Gravel-lane swivel bridge of the London Dock, where so many unfortunates have committed suicide. The prisoner was intoxicated when she made the rash attempt on her life. Inspector Rose said the many attempts of wretched and erring creatures to rid themselves of life from the Old and New Gravel-lane bridges had put the police to- great inconvenience and trouble. The prisoner was remanded for a week. Ellen Cross, a married woman, was also brought up, on remand, charged with an attempt at self-destruction at the New Gravellane swivel bridge of the London Dock, which has gained the same unenviable notoriety as the other bridge for the many suicides committed there ; but she was discharged, after being admonished by the magistrate. CHARGE AGAINST A JOCKEY.—A jockey, who gave the name of Charles Jones, was charged before Mr. Arnold, at the Westminster Police Court, with two assaults and wilfully destroying a coat. Arthur Coe, footman to Baron Bruce, and Wm. Aylett, coachman to Sir Win. Mansfield, gave evidence, and stated that while standing quietly at the corner of Eaton-lane last night, A youth dressed as a jockey came up and annoyed Aylett by walking round him twice, and then running his spurs into him. He took no notice of this, and then the lad came and struck him in the stomach. He ordered him off on that occasion, but a third time the lad came up and annoyed and struck him, and then Aylett, incensed at the annoyance, seized the lad and threw him into the road. The defendant then rushed up and, joined by half a dozen others, made a general onslaught upon both Coe and Aylett, striking them several times and tearing Coe's coat all to pieces.' Defendant utterly denied the intention to annoy the complainants ; said he merely went to the assistance of the lad, who was being ill-treated, and who had put on his jockey's clothes for sport. 

Article type: Incident
The Sun. — 1854-01-02 (London, England)

SWEDEN AND DENMARK  The late outrageous " post-convention" enacted or submitted to by England has almost stopped all English newspaper reading. Since the ukase appeared nine-tenths of the British journals have been given up as a matter of necessity. The German Bund, at the formal request of Prussia and Austria, have solemnly agreed to grant pensions to invalid Schleswig-Holstein officers, and their widows and orphan children. They will do this in the shape of a " free contribution" from each state. This is in addition to the immense BUMS raised privately, and to the appointments given many of these men in various parts of Germany. So it ifs clear that rebellion is a better trade than loyalty, when it is used for getting the German empire new provinces. The last news received from the East has strengthened the hands of the Russian party. They justly observe that England merely plays the double of Russia, which has all along acted with energy and consistency, and that it is merely suicidal to be the ally of Great Britain, especially when Russia is in the way. There is to be a great Industrial Exhibition in Christiania next summer, to which all Norway will contribute specimens of its produce. The Norwegian Government has sent two of its high officers, Lieutenant-Colonel Wergeland and First-Lieutenant Nielsen, to Stockholm, to confer on a uniform plan for telegraph lines in the two countries. A part of Stockholm was lit with gas, on trial, on the 19th. The effect was very fine. The whole was to be opened in a few days. A new and elegant translation of Sir W. Scott's novels is appearing in Stockholm. Each volume contains a whole romance, and costs only 2s. The best English romances appear immediately iu Sweden, well translated. 

Article type: NotIncident
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. 

Article type: Incident
Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1891-11-21 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

A  TRIPLE MURDER AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.  A frightful tragedy took place at Titchfield, in Hampshire, on Monday morning. Alice Hinton, the wife of a harness maker living in West-street, in that village, had a short time since undergone three months' imprisonment for neglect of the children of her husband by a former wife, and having been summoned by the National Society for further cruelty, she was to have appeared before the justices at Fareham on Monday. During the morning, however, the unhappy woman murdered the two step-children and her own child, and then made an attempt to cut her own throat. John Hinton, the husband, went out to purchase a pair of shoes for his son Frederick John, 11 years of age. During his absence screams were heard by the neighbours, and IVilliam Hinton, the second son, 9 years of age, was seen coming from the house with a deep wound in his neck. He fell down, and was taken into the house of a neighbour, where he died about noon. On the police being called they found in the house of the Hintons the lifeless body of a little girl, Augusta Hudson, 8 years of age, the daughter of Mrs. Hinton by a former husband, the child's head being nearly severed from her body. Police-constable Harfield met Mrs. Hinton descending the stairs with her throat cut, and, in answer to his inquiry as to who had done this, she replied "I did." She was at once secured, and on the police going upstairs they found the boy Frederick John Hinton lying dead with a carving knife beside him. The woman was attended to by Dr. Hoare and then conveyed to Fareham, where she was taken before the justices, who, on the evidence of Dr. Hoare that she was undoubtedly insane, directed her removal to the County Lunatic Asylum. 

Article type: Incident