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The Bee-Hive : — 1869-01-16 (London, England)

JJ SHOCKING ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE BP A  LADY.  . ,Qn,the 11th inst. a shocking and determined attempt eppmit suicide was made at Ealing by f! young lady, named Lloyd, 23 years of age, by throwing her- Ng from the parapet of a bridge in front of an express ihsat Western train. It appears that Mass Lloyd, WAOhelongs to Devonshire, has recently lost by death her father, who. was a minister, and, also her mother; sad thplia bereavements had preyed upon her mind to an,ob. an extentas to render it necessary she should UT!) a consta.ntattendant. A change of scenery being advised, she came a few weeks ago to Ealirg, and Leek apartmenteat Ivy-lodge, on the Uxbridge-road, which immediately faces the railway. On the after.. in of the 11th. she and one of her nurses were out fox walk on Ealing-common, and they thence strolled al far as the Hanger Hill-bridge, which is over the railway. Just as the 12.25 p.m., express from Padding- ; ton was approaching, the unfortunate lady suddenly 40ape4 upon the parapet of the bridge, and sprang off OD, the London side, falling a depth of 30 feet. The express dashed upon her, and as she had fallen upon r one of the rails the- train cut off both her feetoubove the ankle, and otherwise frightfully mutilated her, as it scarried her forward several yards in the direction of Ealing :station. The nurse tried in vain to save the 1 poor lady from leaping from the bridge and seeing I what had occurred at once raised. an alarm Dr. George Cooper, one of the Middlesex magistrates, was driving past at the time, and at once rendered the necessary surgical aid, and had the sufferer removed to her lodgings. Mr. Goodchild and Summerhayes, local surgeons, were also in attendance; but, after consultation, they expressed their opinion that she had received too severe a shock to her nervous system to admit of the amputation of her fractured limbs, which was the only chance of saving her life. Later in the evening she was fast sinking, and it was feared she 'could not live many hours. 

Article type: Incident
The Industrial Review, Social and Political. — 1878-04-06 (London, England)

iitt)bSTRIAL  TRADE AND LABOUR NEWS.  LIVERPOOL. (From our Special Correspondent.)  THE half-Yearly Meeting of the United Shipping Trades Council was held last week. Mr. John Williams, shipsmith, was elected chairman; Mr. Robert Davidson, mast and block-maker, vice-chairman; Mr. Thomas Toby, shipwright, treasurer; and Mr. James Fitzpatrick, ship. joiner, secretary. An animated discussion concerning. the Liabilities of Employers for Injuries Bill ensued, when it was unanimously resolved— " That the secretary *rite to the btirough and eau* Meinheis, D. Maclver, Esq., M.P., and Samuel Plimsoll, Esq., M.P., requesting them to support the second reatruik hi the bill on the loth of April." The extension of the polling hours at Parliamentary eleciions to eight p.m. was considered by the council as urgently required to render the exercise of the franchise by the working classes a reality, as the present mode of closing the poll at four o'clock precluded a vast number of our workmen from recording their votes. Mr. Fitzpatrick was elected to give evidence before the Select Committee on this bill, and it is understood that evidence will be given in support of the bill by most of the trades councils and other societies from all parts of the country.  A dispute between Mr. Every, master tailor of BasnettiStreet, and his workmen has arisen, which has resulted in a lock-out.. In a notice addressed to the public, the men say that they have been striving to prevent the spread. of the " sweating " system, and to maintain the system of having all goods made up in .the workshops by competent workmen. They further state that the master wished to allow one price for all garments made from certain classes of materials, no matter what extra work was involved; to pay certain prices for all articles made up in the workshops; and to send out for making whatever suited him. The Men refusing to accept these terms, which mean half-employment, or a reduction of from 25 to 30 per cent. in their wages, have been locked out. Over twenty hands are thrown out of employ, and Will receive 555. per week from their amalgamation, and 15s. per week from local sources. Six " unionists " have remained in, but it is thought a little reflection will cause them to reconsider so suicidal a resolve. Negotiationi are taking place between the house .paiaters and their employers both at Liverpool and Birkenhead, with a vie* to an amicable settlement .of the men's .claims for an advance of wages. 

Article type: NotIncident
The Sun. — 1853-09-24 (London, England)

DETERMINED SUICIDE BY ARSENIC.-011 Thursday Mr. W. Payne held an inquest at the Ward School-room, Black Raven-court, Tower-street, on the body of William Curle, aged 45, who committed suicide under the following circumstances. It appeared from the evidence that the deceased and his wife lived at No. 16, Mincinglane, the latter taking care of chambers as housekeeper. In consequence of some disagreement between the deceased and his wife, they had for the last two years occupied separate apartments. On Tuesday night the deceased came home at about nine o'clock, and taking a glass of water with him, immediately went to bed. As he was not heard stirring for some time after his usual hour—that was about six o'clock—at half past eight o'clock his wife and the servant girl went and opened his room door, when they were horrified at finding him dead on the floor. A surgeon was sent for, who immediately attended, but he declared that life had been extinct for some time. It seemed that the deceased was much addicted to drinking, and had often remarked when he came home that that would be the last time, but, as this observation was frequently repeated, no notice was taken of it. Mr. Hughes, a surgeon, of Leadenhall-street, on entering the room, found the deceased dead, and on the drawers a tumbler, in which were the remains of some white liquid, and beside it a paper packet, containing about six ounces of white powder, the greater portion of which consisted of arsenic. The liquid in the glass was also strongly impregnated with arsenic. The paper in which it was contained was marked with the word ioi Poison." Thispacket of arsenic must have been n his possession fora considerable time, as it was perfectly white, whereas under the new act regulating the sale of arsenic, if it had been recently purchased, it would have borne some particular distinguishing colour. The jury returned a verdict of temporary insanity. POST-OFFICE NOTICE.---On and after the Ist October next, the postage upon letters addressed to St. Thomas, or any Dutch colony in the West Indies, may .be either paid in advance, or the letters may be posted unpaid, at tho option of tho Nacre. 

Article type: Incident
Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1890-05-24 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

SHOCKING T R AGEDY AT. LEE..  —.— The suburb of Lee, Bent. was on the night of the 16th instant the scene of a shocking tragedy, a married lady named Haley beiug nearly murdered. and her assailant committing suicide. Shortly before eleven o'clock on the night in question the report of firearms was beard, and immediately afterwards a woman, who was screaming frantically, was seen running towards the bridge at Grove.park Station. She was covered with blood, and said she had been shot by a man named Frederick Hannan, Assistance was summoned, and the lady was conveyed to her home, 74, burnt-ask-hill, Lee. It was found that Mrs. Haley had been struck by two bullets, one gracing her face, whilst the second entered the left side of the mouth, carrying away some of the teeth and a portion of the jaw. After a long search the police discovered Hannam's body in a pond eituated in a swampy piece of ground just off the Bromley-road. The body was taken out of the water, when it was seen that there were some severe gashes on each side of the neck. It would seem that Mrs. Haley left bee house on Friday evening, and proceeded to St. John's Station, where she was joined by Hatnam, and they wont by train to Orpington, where they spent several hours, returning by the last train, and it was whilst proceeding from the station to the house that the tragedy occurred. Mrs. Haley has so far recovered as to be able to make a statement of the circumstances under which shs was attacked by Hannan. Having described their visit to Orpington, Mrs. Haley states that on alighting at Grove-park they went towards their home, walking arm in arm. Hamm= suddenly asked her to look at the lishts, and when she turn,d her bead aside to see the lights of London he shot her in the temple. She screamed, but he held her round the neck, and pushing the revolver into her mouth fired again, exclaiming that he knew it was impossil,le he could ever win her, and therefore it was better they should die together. Then he knelt down by her aide and deliberately cut his throat. She told him he should have thought of her poor children before doing such a thing, and he asked her whether she was dying. She answered she believed abe was. At his request she took a hand. kerchief and staunched the b cod at his throat. Then fear overcame her, and she ran away. Marmara had taken her to dances and parties with her husband's knowledge and consent, bet on this occasion he was not aware they were together, as she was supposed to be dining with some friends It is thought that Hannam, after being left by Mrs. Haley, secreted himself in the thick hedgeway during the night, and there remained while the search by the police was going on, crawling across to a pond when they had gone and drowning himself.  Erorn THOUSAND pupils leave the elementary schools in Lludon annually at under 13 yews of age. VoLaeux is now 11 years 010, and it is asserted that 5,000,000 persons are able to use it. 

Article type: Incident
The Miner and Workman's Advocate. — 1865-05-20 (London, England)

.EXTENSIVE EMBY • 4LEME.NT AND bUICID.E. Great excitement was created on Monday by the news that Mr. William Whelon, of Lancaster, a gentleman of high position and reputation, had committed suicide in consequence of financial embarrassment, and through fear of being apprehended on the charge of having embezzled or forged scrip, cheques, &c., to a serious amount. Mr. Whelon, who originally was an office boy, about fifteen rare ago obtained the secretaryship of the Little North Western Railway; afterwards he was successful as a shipowner and trader; subsequently he joined a manufacturing firm at Preston; later he became a member of ,the Lancaster town Council, and then the mayor of the borough. Whilst chief magistrate of Lancaster he characterised his position by great liberality and hospititaity.. Subsequently he was appointed a member of the borough bench. In addition he was chairman of one of the literary societies of the town, vice-chairman of the now Wagon Company, churchwarden, and not only one of the head Conservatives in the town, but an able and en-. terprising leader in all public movements in the locality.. On Friday he was at Preston on business, and afterwards returned to his home af West Place, Lancaster. On Saturday it oozed out that he had been embezzling and forging-- and one rumour had it he was involved to the extent of £B,OOO or £12,000. Another report fixed the sum far higher—ao,ooo. On Saturday night . the police went to Mr. Whelon's house with a warrant for. his apprehension on the charge of stealing scrip to the amount of £lOO belonging to the Little North-Western Railway Company; but on reaching his residence it was stated that he was not at home. Next morning a police officer preceded to Preston, where some relatives of Mr. Whelon reside, but the officer could neither see nor bear anything of him. In the afternoon a telegram reached the policeman stating that Mr. Whelon was drowned. On Monday an inquest was held on the body of Mr. Whelon, at Fleetwood, before Mr. Myres, of Preston.. Frem the evidence given it seems that the deceased gentleman left home on Saturday evening, about seven o'clock. Ho stated tbat he was going up the street. Nothing peculiar was observed in his manner. He was apparently in his usual health and spirits. After leaving home he appears to have gone on the water 4ide, past Giessen Dock, and along the coast towards Fleetwood. On reaching a place called Knott End, opposite Fleetwood and 16 .or 18 miles from Lancaster, he got a boat, rowed out at midnight—for it was abbut that time when he got to the place named—and juraped into the water. He was somewhat in liquor, it is said, when at Knott End. Early on Sunday morning his dead body was observed floating in the water, off Fleetwood, by a seaman belonging to one of the steamers in the harbour, and it was picked up and brought ashore. The jury found a verdict of "Found Drowned." The deceased has left a widow and seven children. He was-about 43, ,yea.rs of age. 

Article type: Incident
The Miner and Workman's Advocate. — 1865-02-25 (London, England)

PARLIAMENTARY REFORM. To the Editor.  SlR,—Other towns appear awake to the importance of not allowing Parliament to meet, and perhaps dissolve, without an expression of opinion upon the important question of Reform. There is a tradition that Birmingham's place in this cause is in the fore front of the struggle for Parliamentary Reform. Are we degenerate sons of the great men who led the moral power of England to a great and glorious, because bloodless, victory in 1832?  By a moderate a amount of agitation now, the Whigs (they, like us, are content with their fathers' fame) may, perhaps be induced to bring out a measure of reform to go to the country upon, and if they think themselves strong enough to get back to Downing-street without some such bill, why then Mr. Bright might be called upon and supported in again presenting his "little bill" for the acceptance of the gentlemen of St. Stephen's; in that case the independent and Radical members wonld rally round him, and neither Whig nor Tory would be able to form a working Government till some substantial measure of Reform was passed. There was a "Reformer's Union" once, but it was said to be dead and buried; somebody said it committed suicide; after that there 6 was "The Reform League." • Has that passed into the limbo of abortions, of things born untimely, or it is dead and decently buried along with its older but less pretentious brother the " Union." If it is, I wish some wizard would come with magic wand to resuscitate their dry bones. "Earth, render back from out thy breast A remnant of the Spartan dead; Of tho three hundred, grant but three, We'll make a new Thermopylec." Mr. Editor, you have a desperate gift of stirring people up. Do, for goodness' sake, try your hand now. lam quite convinced that a good measure of reform may be obtained with half the trouble that it will require when one of the two aristocratic parties have safely reached the national saddle again years' ride.—l am, sir, yours foobrediaeuenttlyh,er seven A RADICAL. 

Article type: NotIncident
The Miner and Workman's Advocate. — 1865-05-13 (London, England)

ATTEMPTED MURDER AND SUICIDE.  On Tuesday ,morning, betwoen six and seven o'clock, the utmost ex.,iternent prevailed in the locality of the Hackney-road, London, owing to the circulation of a report that a man had murdered his wife and afterwards destroyed his own life. Then: was some truth in the matter, as the aftempt to murder and commit suicide had actuilly b 'en perpetrated. An Italian named Moratti, of 105, Hackney-road, carrying on business as a confectioner and ginger-beer maker, was married about four months since to an Englishwoman, both husband and wife being young. The marriage proved an unhappy one, producing constant quarrels, leadmg to the wife absenting herself and refusing to return to her own home. At length, however, Moratti, succeeded in his persuasion. and she again took up her abode with him. On Monday afternoon they had a severe quarrel, bringing a number of persons round the door. That quarrel a ppears to have oontinued, for on Tues. day morning a son of Mr. Wood, bookseller and news. Tender' residing next door, saw Mrs. Moratti in the cistern. As he left the house be called to his father, and on the latter going down stairs to render assistance he met Mrs. Morratti, who had extricated herself from the 'cistern, in a state of nudity, and her body covered with blood, which was profusely flowing from a wound in her throat. Medical assistance was immediately called in, Mr. Haycock first attending, followed by Mr. BurchelL Inspector Webster, of the N division,, accompanied by a constable, obtained access to the house with the view of finding Moratti. They had not to seanh far, for on proceeding up stairs to the front room, they found Moratti in a pool of blood on the floor, with his throat frightfully cut and insensible.. He was in his nightdress. A razor, with which it was believed he had cut his throat, was by his side, and not far. distant from him' and in a pool of blood was a large knife, used in his business, with which it was believed he had inflicted the wound in his wife's throat. The wounds were dressed by the medical man in attendance, when they were placed in separate cabs and conveyed to the London Hospital, where they both remain in a most pre•carious condition. Tne man was not expected to survive many hours. Tho house was taken possession of by the police,' and locked up, but, notwithstanding, groups of people assembled in front of the shop to discuss the circumstances of the frightful event. 

Article type: Incident
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1888-09-13 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

FAST RUINED BY PROTECTION.  The British Consul at Rio Grande d-o- --S-Ul, in Brazil, in his report on the trade of the great province of the same name for the past year described the extraordinary position of the commerce of the province owing to high tariffs and contraband traffic. The province, which is larger than Italy, is, Mr. Bennett says, being gradually ruined either by direct Imperial enactments or the want of Imperial solicitude for the commercial community. The duties on imports am: nearly all exports are excessive, and the consequence is that a thriving smuggling trade across the Uruguayan border has sprung up, with headquarters at 'Montevideo. The duties levied at the three Brazilian ports have constantly fallen off in value, while the volume of contraband trade from Uruguay has increased to such an extent that even the !situ are being stocked under the yery eyes of the Custom t use authorities with articles that rarely, if ever, paid anyduty, and that are making the Custom House itself an anomaly. The trade is not a smuggling trade pure and toniple, for the six or eight houses controlling it in Uriiguay pass their goods through the Custom Roust s wider " a most special tariff," which in ninny cases is only one-eighth of the usual tara Goods are in tom, ca., sold for mach less than the amount of the nominal duty, railway receipts have failen if, and the whole trade of lie province is distill bed and pary !ysed.  STRANGE SUICIDE OF AN ARTIST. The Westminster coroner has held an inquiry into the circumstances attending the death of Edward Montague Rashdall, aged 28, an artist, who committed suicide by shooting himself. The Rev. Egerton Rashdall, of University College, Durham, identified the body of the deceased as that of his brother, who had of late been depressed through being unsuccessful in his profession. His brother, who had suffered from sleeplessness, had come to town the day previous to his death from Aldborough, where he had been staying. He had never threatened to commit suicide.—James Hull, an attendant at the British Museum, stated that, with his wife, he bad charge of the house where Mr. Rashdall lived. At &quarter to 9 on the morning after his return he went to Mr. Rashdall's bedroom for the purpose of calling him. He knocked at the door twice, and getting no reply, pushed open the door, and saw deceased, as he supposed, in a sound sleep. He afterwards removed the bedclothes,and then found a revolver lying on the bed. He had heard no report during the night. —lt was stated that one chamber of the revolver had been discharged; the remaining five were loaded.— Dr. Gilbert Lynch, who examined the body, said there was a bullet wound in the right temple, and upon probing it, he extracted the bullet from under the akin of the left temple.—A verdict of suicide whilst temporarily insane was returned. 

Article type: Incident
The Kenilworth Advertiser. — 1891-07-04 (Kenilworth, Warwickshire, England)

Minworth.  Iccrevarrai. Ditowirrire.—On Monday an inquest was held at the house of Richard Reynolds, the Tyburn House-inn, filinwerth, before Dr. Mille, coroner, respecting the death of William Edridge (62), brass stamper, Clopton Villa, Arthur-road, Erdington, who was found drowned near Tyburn Looks (Birmingham and Fazeley Canal), Minworth, about 7.40 a.m. on Saturday, 27th June. The jury comprised Messrs. J. Williams (foreman), A. Hill, Eli Pearce, J. Reeves, E. F. °beaten, J. Rumble, all of Erdington ; Messrs. E. Langley, A. Bement, H. Burton, G. Dann, W. Pickering, Thos. Grove, all Minworth. The evidence was as follows :—Mary Edridge stated that the body she had just viewed was that of her husband. He was 62 years of age, and by trade a brass-stamper. He left home, in his usual health and spirits, about 1.30 p.m. en Wednesday, 24th Jane, to go to Plante-brook, Tyburn, to try Mid find part of a fishing rod he had loot there some short time previously, and she did not see him again alive. He was in a pod position and had nothing whatever to trouble, and she had no cause to think he would be likely to commit suicide—James Heaps, labourer, Curdworth, said about 7.40 cm. on Saturday, 27th ult., he RIM at work near Tyburn locks, Minworth, when he saw the body of deceased in the water, just 1 out of the looks, on the Minworth side of the canal, and, with assistance, he got the body out. He then went to Coleshill and informed the polies. Sergi. Walker went with him and took charge of the body. A cheque for n, cash to the amount of fe. 2d., a watch, and various other property was found in the pockets of deceased when searched by the sergeant —The jury returned a verdict of death from asphyxia, or accidentally drowned, and expressed, through the coroner, their sympathy with Mrs. Edridge and family. At the close ef the enquiry the jury, throngh *sir foreman, expressed to the coroner the pleasure of seeing him again restored to health, and commented on the very kind and courteous treatment all parties received from him at inquests. The coroner briefly acknowledged the compliment. 

Article type: NotIncident