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From: Sunelia Heath <>
Subject: [ZA-EC] Queenstown Free Press (May 1894)
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2011 09:44:58 -0700 (PDT)

Hallo :-) Tuesday, May 1, 1894 Married,- At Wesley Church, Queenstown, on the 23rd inst., by the Rev. A.H. HODGES, Charles Edward LISTER, of Yorkshire, England, to Emilie May WARD, of Queenstown. Died,- At Queenstown, on Sunday the 29th April, John Alison, the beloved son of Alison and Annie TYSON, aged 1 year and 3 months. Friday, May 4, 1894 Marriage.- FISHER-STILWELL.- At Mountain Glen, near Queenstown, on 30th April, Arthur Bentley FISHER to Mimmie, second daughter of Ablorrt STILLWELL, Esq.- No Cards. Tuesday, May 8, 1894 Died,- At Queenstown, Saturday, 5th May, 1894, Arthur Herman, the fifth and beloved son of John and Lily AUSTEN, aged 3 years and 11 months. Friday, May 11, 1894 ROBERTS-COTTERELL.- Married in the Roman Catholic Church, Queenstown, on the 8th inst., by the Rev. Dr. ALLAN, assisted by Rev. Father VAN BAER, Crawford E. ROBERTS to Winnifred, only daughter of the late E. COTTERELL. Birth,- At Queenstown, May 8th, the wife of W.A. HILDER, of a Daughter. Birth,- At Oak Lodge, Aliwal North on April 6th, the wife of Dr. WATSON, acting District Surgeon, of a Daughter. Tuesday, May 15, 1894 Married, - At Xuka, Xalanga, on May 9th, by the Rev. T. OLDMAN, J.W.C. HOLDING, Esq., M.D., to Katharine, eldest daughter of W.H. WIDDICOMBE, J.P. Birth,- At Queenstown, May 8th, the wife of W.A. HILDER, of a Daughter. Died,- At Clapton, district Cathcart, on the 4th May, George FULLER, aged 78 years. Deceased came out with the Settlers of 1820. Died,- At “Glendower,” near Maraiesburg, May 6th, 1894, Owen Stubbs PARKER, from inflammation of the lungs, aged 38 years and 8 months, youngest son of the late James PARKER, of Kington, Herefordshire, England. Friday, May 18, 1894 Died,- At Queenstown, Tuesday, 8th May, 1894, Herbert G., the sixth and beloved son of John and Lily AUSTEN, aged 2 years and 9 months. Tuesday, May 22, 1894 Birth,- At King Williamstown, on the 14th May, the wife of Mr. Reuben LLOYD, of Ncuncuri, of a son. Birth,- At Queenstown, on May 21st, the wife of Robt. H. IMPEY, of a Daughter. The Death of Mr JACKSON of St. Marks. It will be remembered that last month we announced the death of Mr. JACKSON under mysterious circumstances at Johannesburg. The case is being subjected to strict enquiry by the officials of the Transvaal. The Critic Says. A case, similar to the Andrews Lind mystery, occurred at the Driefontein Hotel, out Germiston way, which stands in a fair way of being smothered, unless some steps be at once, taken by the authorities to elicit the full particulars. It appears that on the 14th February, an overseer at Glencairn mine was found dead in his bedroom at the hotel named, the result of a revolver shot. The revolver lay some distance away, and had apparently been placed where it was discovered. The Field-cornet, the now famous J.G. MEYER of Rachmann notoriety, gave a certificate for the burial without mentioning the cause of death. The certificate was written by a policean (MEYER, on his own showing, whilst on oath in the RACHMAMN case, “can only write a bit”). Dr. Benjamin W. HALL, M.R.C., S.E., L.M.L., certified that the deceased “had shot himself through the head and was dead” when he arrived, “the deed having been only just committed” On the Friday following the body was buried: but, owing to some agitation on the part of the friends of the deceased, who suspected foul play, it was exhumed on the next day, before the District Surgeon of Boksburg, Dr. ZIERVOGEL, a Sergeant of police and Detective POOLE from Johannesburg. Neither the Field-cornet nor the Public Prosecuter of the district attended and no evidence was led. It is surmised, with some show of reason, that JACKSON was murdered; but no definite statement, one way or the other, can be got from the officials, by the deceased’s relatives, who reside in the Cape Colony. Whether the case can be one of murder or of suicide, a strict investigation should be held in the matter, as much for the sake of the proprietor of the hotel, where the tragedy occurred, one COOPER, as in the interests of the public in general. The Standard and Diggers News, says, Some weeks ago a man named JACKSON employed as overseer, or in some such sort of capacity, at the Glencairn GM Co., was found shot through the head with a revolver in a private room attached to a canteen at Elandsfontein. The tragedy is supposed to have been enacted about eight or ten in the morning. In the telegraphic despatch from Germiston we published at the time reporting the affair, the occurrence was described as a suicide, and in that light it was generally interpreted. Subsequently, however, information reached us that it had not been proved from the circumstances of the incident that the deceased had positively taken his own life, and that there was much in the matter that cried for a searching investigation. To set our vague doubts at rest, and to assist a surviving relative who lent no credence to public explanations of the death, a representative was prompted to go down to Boksburg yesterday to interview the local Authorities in relation to the late Mr. JACKSON’s death. In the course of a conversation with Mr Glynn ROTH, the Boksburg Public Prosecutor, he found that the Authorities shared in the doubts furtively expressed. From various documents courteously disclosed to us, it appeared that Dr ZIERVOGEL, Boksburg District Surgeon, had held an inquest upon the remains, but had preferred to defer his judgement until some points and features of the affair, which at present bear a sinister complexion, had been satisfactorily cleared up. Mr GLYNN-ROTH went the length of writing to the Acting State-Attorney and openly expressing the suspicions he entertained, and still entertains, and asked for instructions as to what course of action to pursue with regards to a man named COOPER, whose revolver was found lying close by the body of the deceased JACKSON, and between whom and JACKSON a bitter commercial quarrel was alleged to be raging. For some unaccountable reason Dr. Schagen van Leeuwen, Chief of the Criminal Department in the State Attorney’s Office (in whose hands Mr. GLYNN- Both’s communications presumably falls for treatment) had up to date neglected to reply. And there that matter rests at the present time. Detectives DONOVAN and POOLE were sent by Chief Detective FERGUSON to assist the Boksburg Authorities in pursuing enquiries but the results of their investigations appear to have been nil. JACKSON was formerly associated in business with COOPER, and COOPER owed JACKSON a considerable sum of money, it is said they quarrelled; COOPER lived on the premises where JACKSON met his heath; a revolver, said to be COOPER’s, was found by the corpse, These data and information have been furnished us officially.... Friday, May 25, 1894 Drowned at Sea Point Sad death of a Lady A sad drowning accident happened at Sea Point on Saturday afternoon last. It appears (says the “Cape Times”) that early in the afternoon Miss SOMERS, the elder of two sisters who kept the Alphen House Hotel, left home with the object of taking a walk along the beach. When leaving Miss SOMERS said that she would not require any lunch, as she was going to make a call upon some friends. The lady took with her a volume of Thackeray... About four o’clock in the afternoon two young men, Ross and Spyker, who had been fishing in a small boat about half a mile off Three Anchor Bay, noticed the body of a lady in the water. The body was fully dressed, except that it was without boots. The body was taken to land, and was identified by a man named BENNETT as that of Miss SOMERS. Mr BENNETT was acquainted with the lady, as he had assisted in furnishing the hotel and had seen her as late as the previous night... All the circumstances of the case point to the view that the lady fell into the water whilst in a faint and was drowned. Some months ago the Misses SOMERS came to Capetown in the Union steamer “Greek” from Teneriffe. Soon after landing they purchased the Alphen House Hotel, and the deceased lady has been expecially energetic in making the place what it now is. She was not very strong, being subject to fits of headache and dizziness which led to faints... Tuesday, May 29, 1894 Died,- At Aliwal North, on 24th inst. Elfreda May, infant daughter of Dr. And Mrs. WATSON. Died,- At Queenstown, on Friday, 25th, Georgina Margaret, beloved wife of John MEADE, and only daughter of the late J.G. BREMNER, aged 40 years 10 months and 7 days. In loving memory of Sophia, the beloved wife of E.M. TURVEY, Queenstown, who died on the 25th inst., aged 77 years. Obituary It is our mournful duty to have to record the demise of Mrs TURVEY wife of Mr E.M. TURVEY, a lady than whom no one was more respected and esteemed in Queenstown. Mrs TURVEY came to this country with her parents in 1821, when only three years of age. For many years she resided in Grahamstown where also she married Mr E.M. TURVEY. Later she lived with her husband on Table Farm, on the Klaassmits River and old travellers still gratefully remember her hospitality at a time when accommodation houses were scarce and railways unknown in this country. For the last 35 years she lived with her husband in Queenstown. About a year ago she was seized with a paralletic stroke and she was never herself again after that but gradually declined, and passed away peacefully on Friday last. She leaves 7 children, forty grand-children and nineteen great grandchildren to mourn their loss. The funeral took place on Sunday afternoon and was largely attended... Kind regards Sunelia Heath :-)