SUICIDES, MURDERS, ETC.

Southland Times, Volume 3, Issue 102, 16 October 1863, Page 6

SUICIDES, MURDERS, ETC.

(From the Dublin Dispatch.) Two officers of the Confederate army, Grton Williams, and W. G. Peter, were recently hung at Nashville, on suspicion of being spies. A young girl has been murdered at Z\ T ew Orleans because — the evidence says — sin; insulted a drunken Zouave, by talking seditiously. The Zouave has been convicted of manslaughter only. A most painful story was told on Friday last in the Salford Sessions Court. • It seems that in January last a man named BroadbetH called at llie house of a MiThorpe, who lives in ihe neighborhood of Halifax, and on the pretence of desiring to do business with him, managed to ingratiate himself with the family. He proposed to Thorpe's daughter and was accepted, and soon contrived to obtain a "loan}" of Ll 2 from the girl, which he, of . course, never repaid. Broadbenfc said he intended to emigrate to America, and it was arranged that he and Miss Thorpe should be married at Liverpool just before starting for the New World on lhe : 2Bfch of Ma rch . Tl i ey st a r ted ostensi bly for Li verpool on the 2lst of March, and were accompanied by a man named Fox; who pretended t v »at he, too, was on his way to America. Instead of going to Liverpool, however, they all got out at Rochdale, and

(Subsequently came 6^ lothis v city^ whYre the girl was deserted— Fox and Brpadbent having robbed lier^of her money" and clothes. The poor-victim of this disgraceful fraud, heartbroken at the, position :iir which she now found herself; ..committed various acts- of, felony with the deliberatei intention of being sent 'to prison. She wasappiehended and sentenced to two months* imprison m en K Her friends wertf then communicated with, and "it -was found tbati,, Bioadbent, who proved^ to "be a married' man, was already' in gao t l for some 1 swindling transaction?. jFos was, soon afterwards seized by the police, and.hejwa3 sentenced to three years* .penal servitude. " 801 l Fight.— Another bull fight "has just taken place at Nismes(Gard), the torreadors on this occasion being Frenchmen! Numerous feats of address were displayed during the proceedings, and two of' the combatants received wounds, not, however; of a sufficient gravity to place their lives in danger. ' "* ' Murtjer by a Husband ai Liverpool* — George Gibson, a blacksmith, charged with the minder of his wife in Circus* street, Liverpool on the 25th June, was brought before the magistrates on Monday > and committed for trial on the charge- of wilful murder. The evidence wenttoslio'w that the prisoner was much* addicted to diink, and was in the hab t of using* most dieadful threats to his wife. Before con*. mittmg the violence which caused his. wife's death, he prepnied a Jong sharp chisel, and this instrument he forced, thiough the deceased's breast. "" J ' Suicide or a I'oLicK-orncEß Charged with Felony. — A short, time ago, JoJCn Lyons, an officer in the Irish constabulary for<:e, who had been stationed ■ in. the county of Mona«han, absconded; with about Ll5 of money, belonging 'to his comrades' mess. He was traced to Londonderry, and thence to Scotland, whfirs he took passage in a ship to Liverpool, Information of his whereahdiits' being communicated to the Monaghan police force, three officers were dispatched to Liverpool for the purpose of taking him into custody. They awaited the arrival of the steamer, and boarded her when she reached Liverpool last. week. Lyons was on deck at the time, and, on seeing the officers,, he jumped overboard. Notwithstanding every effort that was made to save him he was drowned. JvUssfAN Attbocipies it Wilna.— -The Czas of the Ist, makes known some .hew utrocilies on the part of Russia, fir the streets of Wiina some women,, whbse n>oumiu£ garments had been brutally tsm from them by tha soldiers of Mouravieff, were .defended by the crowd. The troops then charged the people with the bayonet, and 40 persons were killed. Some^women guilty of wearing mourning received as many as a hundred strokes of the knout, and were left insensible, weltering in their blood. Others are huddled together in the dungeons of the citadel. Several have died frim tenor and ill-treatment. Some have been found suffocated in their narrow cells; among them Mdlle. Marie Lapaswk, a member of an illustrious family in the district of Lida. The prisoners, whose number increase every day, have only two pounds of bread and a litre of water per day. A Painful Stiry.— A very painful cass was disposed of on Thursday, at the Clerkenwell police court. A young girl of are at personal attractions,- named Charlotte Leach, was placed at the bar charged withy; attempting suicide. Her story was a melancholy one Married early to ' a respectable professional man, she deserted him for some paramo or. Then her course was ramd downwards. Her paramour deserted htr, and step by step she sank unlil she 1 eoame an inmate of a low broihel in Somers-town. Disgusted with her mode of Jife, a week ago she took a large dose of poison. Fortunately remedial measures were taken before the poison operated, and her life was saved. Her friends were communicated with, ahd-de-claring herself penitent,she t was liberated to join a brother who promised to take care of her. One of her brothers is at present mayor of a county town. Inquests tn 1862. — The coroners' returns show that 20,591 inquests weie-held in England in the year 1862— a number slightly below the average— -1 4,193 on males and 0393 on females. There were 221 verdicts of murder, 207 of manslaughter, 1284 of suicide, 2249 of "found dead," 157 of death from want, cold, and fxpo ure. GOO 2 inquests were held on children under seven years 0.l age. 1,107 of the number on illegitimate children ; and there were 3239 inquests on infants not more than a year old, of whom 859 were illegitimate. This is the first year in which children of illegitimate birtli have I been distinguibhed in these returns ; ;siore than a si xth of the children on whom -h> quests weie held were illegitimate, more I titan a fourth of the infants- not above a I year old. 124 of the verdicts of. wilful I murder — more than half of all the verdicts I of wilful murder — related lo children not I more than ay ear old. I Alleged Attempted Suicide in High I Life through DisSAPPoiNTEb Love.— - I Intelligence was received in Bristol on I Wednesday afcerno'on. .that a "young -.lady, I highly connected, (hedaughteiyif a.K;CB., I residing at his mansion about three,milesl on the other side of West bur y, : and who I has distinguished himself both in naval! and military services, had ': attempted I suicide by cutting lier ' throat; s Onß Saturday morning, when" considerable ■ consternation Wiis manifestly; prevail •■ ing in the hon. knight's.; family, mef-l sengers were despatched in aU; .directionsl for* surgeons, and soon-' aftenyards the! neighborhood was greatly .agitated by the! statement that a young ladyi one of Sifl 's daughters, had been found with al deep and dangerous cut in :her £hroaf.l Four of the most eminent-sufgep.ns in t\im locality were speedily in attendance, and Jtl is needless to say that in. the emergenc;! they did all that science arid -skill couWl dictate. It h-as since transpired that thel unfortunate young lady was engaged tol be married (o a genlleraan— mdeed, thaw the wedding day had b*eeh ; .iixec)>:if,'in fact! the bridal trousseau, had not been prepartfl — when the match was abmptlj 'arid unex'l pectedly broken .on%-...Thif;;.%d/such ad effect upon the^y.onng lady's 7min ! d -that sbl was led to commit the rash. act; before xm ferred to. She has' been vatienl3e^ : mol kindly and affectionately iby-hei^frienfl and most ably by: her ■surgical /ajttendapj and we are p leased to heari that sjxe; is am progressing favorably. The> sad; affair 'M gi ven rise to co'ntiderable gossip in neighborhood. The': 1 facts ; arey i? howev« alto»ether so' painful^ severaj' rum tfi's pfl conflicting and contradictory y'^icliaracjj prevailing, that'in the meantime we vm forbear to publish iiaayeSi;> -^ *-v.v. T "

Road to Ambition. — The road'ambit' 1 travels is often too 'narrow forfriendsbi too crooked for love, . too; v rugged * honesty, and too dark for science. ' Loose Fit. — It is a paradox that l<*j habits stick closer to a man than any oV kind.