Slit his throat

SAD CASE OF SUICIDE. - On Sunday evening the news spread that a painful case of suicide had taken place at the Bridge-end, Warwick, and it was found on making enquiries that John Underhill, whitesmith, residing at Bridge-end, had destroyed himself by cutting his throat with a razor. An inquest was held at the Court …

Howling like a wild beast

BOROUGH POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MONDAY: Before W. Smith and E. Dodd, Esqrs. A NOISY DRUNKARD. - John Underhill, a smith, residing in the Bridge-end, was charged with having been drunk and disorderly, in the Saltisford, at an early hour on Sunday morning. - Police-constable Woodward found the defendant in a passage, where he was helplessly drunk, …

Drowned herself in the River Avon

Context Note: And indeed also her son, John, in 1878. SUPPOSED SUICIDE AT WARWICK. - Yesterday (Friday), about mid-day, a woman named Mrs Martha Underhill, about 56 years of age, residing in Bridge-end, was found floating in the Avon just below the Castle bridge, and near St. Nicholas meadow. Several men saw the woman in …

Drowned in the River Avon

CORONER'S INQUEST: SAD DEATH OF A YOUNG MAN. - During the past fortnight the river has been continually dragged, in the neighbourhood of Warwick, for the body of a young man named John Underhill, who was missing from his home. It appears that on Sunday evening, the 10th inst., his father urged him to go …

Assaulted in the street – apparently

Context Note: Charles Barnett was cousin of the complainant's wife. His sister, Jane, had also married a Thomas Underhill. The Underhills and Barnetts of Bridge End, Warwick, were legion. BOROUGH POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MONDAY LAST. (Before T. B. Dale (mayor), W. Smith, E. Dodd, and W. Walker, Esqrs.) QUARRELSOME NEIGHBOURS. - Charles Barnett, plumber and glazier, …