The Hamilton Spectator, Wednesday, November 1, 1865.
I discovered the following stories in the Hamilton (Ontario)Spectator published on Wednesday, 1 November 1865.
The Hamilton Spectator was first published on July 15, 1846, as The Hamilton Spectator and Journal of Commerce.
An Extraordinary Event at Cracow
An extraordinary event is reported at cracow. On the 13th inst., a surgeon, after performing an operation, went mad at the sight of blood and murdered the patient instantly. Two physicians, who were present perceiving that he was mad, attempted to secure him; but he was so unmanageable that it was necessary to procure the assistance of three strong men to put him in a cab and drive him home.
A Most Deliberate and Savage Murder
A most deliberate and savage murder was committed in a public-house at Glasgow. A man named Jamieson had become jealous of a Mrs Gallacher with whom he had formed an improper connection, and finding her drinking with two men on Saturday night, he went to his lodgings, got a razor, and returning to the public-house cut her throat in the presence of her two male companions. He was at once arrested.
Horrible Murder
Baltimore, Oct 29- A horrible murder and robbery were committed to-day, about noon,in the photographic establishment of A.B. Grove, Baltimore Street, adjoining the Sun office. The proprietor was found about one o’clock lying on the floor of his operating room dead, with a pistol shot in the back of his head. His person had been robbed of his watch and other valuables. Parties in the adjoining building testify to hearing the report of a pistol about noon. No clue has yet been obtained of the murderer. The murdered man came here from Carlisle, Pennsylvania. It is supposed the murderer shot his victim while the latter was preparing to take his picture.
Shocking Child Murder
A woman named Hannah Colthorpe was apprehended lately at Ipswich, on a charge of having murdered her illegitimate child, Edward Patrick Kelley Colthorpe, by drowning him in a ditch at Sproughton, near Ipswich. The child was nearly ten years old, and its father is stated to be a soldier in India.
The prisoner is in an advanced state of pregnancy. She is 27 years of age, and was until lately a domestic servant. Difficulties as to the maintenance of the child are supposed to have led to the commission of the crime with which the poor creature stands charged.
Imprisoned in Church
A young Lady went on Sunday afternoon to the Presbyterian Church, corner of Atlantic and Bond Streets, Brooklyn, after the Sunday School exercises she went to her seat on the gallery.
The minister having to leave town to attend the synod, no service was held in the afternoon, and the sexton, supposing the congregation had retired, closed up the church, locking the young lady in the building alone. She says she tried to get out, but the doors resisted her efforts to force them open the windows were beyond her reach, and she was unable to make herself heard outside.
Here she remained a close prisoner in the church until Wednesday afternoon, when the sexton went in to prepare for the usual evening prayer meeting, and discovered the missing lady, who was in a very exhausted state for want of food, having been fasting in solitary confinement for seventy hours.
© Mark Young 2025
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