The Cork Examiner, 11 February 1913
DETERMINED SUICIDE.
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HANGED HIMSELF IN HIS KITCHEN.
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Kilrush, Monday.   
   A determined case of suicide is reported to have occurred on Saturday between ten and eleven o'clock a.m. at a place near Knockalough Lake, near the village of Kilmihill. The man's name was Pat Halpin, the occupier of a labourer's cottage, and he was an ex-summons server. He hanged himself from the rafters in the kitchen of the dwelling house. The unfortunate man, who was in perfect health, and not labouring under any worries or poverty, at the hour mentioned sent out his two younger children—a boy and a girl—ostensibly for the purpose of getting them out of the way for some tar and sugar, and then committed the rash act. When they returned they found the entrance door bolted, and on looking through the window saw that their father was suspended from the ceiling.
   An alarm was given immediately, and Halpin's body was cut down, but death had supervened. The deceased was about 60 years of age, and leaves a wife and family, the most of the members of which are grown up. The Kilmihill police have communicated with Mr. Thomas Lillis, J.P., Coroner of West Clare, Churchtown. An inquest was subsequently held at which a verdict of suicide while temporarily insane, was returned by the jury.
   The greatest sympathy is felt for his wife and children. He is said to have been a hard-working and industrious man, and respected by his neighbours.
IRISH SUFFRAGISTS
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CONCESSION TO PRISONERS.
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Dublin, Monday Night.   
   The Lord Lieutenant has granted concessions demanded on behalf of the suffragist prisoners in Tullamore gaol undergoing sentence for breaking the Dublin Castle windows—that is the same treatment accorded to male political prisoners.
   Mrs. Sheehy Skeffington, addressing a meeting in Tullamore, emphatically proclaimed that the women would not be much longer without the vote. They had been smashing and hitting out and suffering for the faith that was in them. The Duke of Wellington, on the occasion of the Reform Bill had to put up iron shutters on the windows of the House to prevent men who demanded the vote from smashing them. They might have to resort to the same expedient at Dublin Castle.
   Mrs. Hoskins, suffragist, who was released from Tullamore Gaol on Saturday through the collapse following a hunger strike, was to-day in a critical condition. The remaining three prisoners have abandoned the hunger strike on the promise that political prisoners' privileges would be accorded them.
REMARKABLE CENTENARIAN.
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Thurles, Monday.   
   To-day the remains of an old man named Michael Duggan of Caher, Thurles, who was said to have reached the age of 110 years, were interred at Twomileborris, Thurles. The old man was of an extremely hale and hearty constitution, and retained his full mental faculties to the last. Up to a few weeks ago he was able to be about and to attend to his little garden. He always attributed his long and healthy life to his [?] habits and his frugal dietary.
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The Cork Examiner, 12 February 1913
THE VICTIMS.
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CAPT ROBERT FALCON SCOTT, R.N., C.V.O., F.R.G.S.
Born on June 6, 1868, and began his career in the Navy in 1886 under Captain Noel (now Sir G. Noel) in H.M.S. Rover. In 1899 he was torpedo lieutenant of the Majestic under Prince Louis of Battenberg, when he was appointed to command of the Antactic Expedition of 1900. His ship, the Discovery, sailed in 1901, and the great achievement of the voyage was the discovery of “King Edward VII Land.” In 1905 he was made Hon. D.Sc. of Cambridge and Manchester Universities, and his geographical work was recognised by all the geographical societies of Europe and America.
DR. EDWARD ADRIAN WILSON, B.A., M.B., F.Z.S.
Dr. Wilson took his M.B. degree at Cambridge in 1900, and devoted himself to scientific research. He was the surgeon of the Discovery Antarctic Expedition, 1901-4. He served on the Grouse Commission, and has written “Some Reports on the Scientific Results of the Discovery Expedition” and on “The Distribution of Antarctic Seals and Birds.” His water-colour sketches were a feature of the 1901 Antarctic Expedition. In 1910 he was appointed head of the scientific staff of Captain Scott's Expedition. Dr. Wilson's home is in Cheltenham.
CAPT. L. E. G. OATES.
Captain Lawrence Edward Grace Oates holds a commission in the 6th (Inniskilling) Dragoons. He served in the South African War in 1901-2 and was severely wounded. He was mentioned in despatches and has the Queen's Medal with five clasps. He joined Captain Scott's expedition in 1910, being in charge of the ponies and mules.
LIEUT. R. H. BOWERS.
Before the Expedition in the Royal Indian Marine. He was in charge of the commissariat.
PETTY OFFICER EVANS.
Has seen service in the Royal Navy. He was in charge of the sledges and the sledge equipment.
LIVES GIVEN FOR SCIENCE.
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   The Central News last evening received by telegraph from Interlaken the following message from Mr. H. G. Ponting, the official photographer to the British Antarctic Expedition, who returned from the South with the first party last year :—“I am completely overwhelmed by the news of the terrible disaster which has overtaken my late chief and comrades. They have given their lives for science, but the splendid work they have done will live for ever in Polar annals.”
ACTION OF THE NEWCASTLE GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY.
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Newcastle, Tuesday.    
   At a meeting to-day in Newcastle of the members of the Newcastle Geographical Society reference was made to the late Captain Scott, and it was resolved to send a telegram of sympathy to the parent society in London, and to forward a letter expressing the desire to support a national movement in aid of the relatives of those members of the exploring party who had lost their lives.
IRISHMEN ON THE TERRA NOVA.
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Queenstown, Tuesday.    
   There are at least six Irishmen amongst the crew of volunteers on the Terra Nova, one of whom is Mr. Robert Forde, petty officer, brother to Miss Forde, of Harbour Row, Queenstown. The other is Mr. Keohane, of West Cork, also a petty officer. Those two fine specimens of Irish manhood were attached to the Black Prince at Queenstown for some time, and were subsequently on the cruiser Talbot, where their splendid seamanship and vigorous health greatly impressed Lieutenant Evans, who is also of the expedition party, and who selected Mr. Forde and Mr. Keohane from amongst the many volunteers who offered to go the whole journey.
   Lieutenant Evans had immense confidence in the two Irishmen named, and so had Captain Scott, and not without good reason, for from what has come to hand they were never affected by even a trace of fear, and were only too glad when called on to push forward with the advance party, and the further they were allowed to go the better they liked the task, but fate decreed that Mr. Forde was not to reach the height of his ambition, and though selected to go with the final selection of the party right to the Pole itself, and having got well to the end of the journey, frost- bite affected him—some of his fingers having got badly bitten—he was sent back, much to his regret, and was thereby saved. This brilliant sailor has many feats to his credit. Nothing is known here of Mr. Keohane.
RUFFORD PIT DISASTER.
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Nottingham, Tuesday.    
   A Mansfield message says—During the night the man Paddon, who was seriously injured in the Rufford pit disaster, died in Mansfield Hospital. This brings the number of deaths up to fourteen. The other injured are recovering.
CHALLENGE TO A DUEL.
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Paris, Tuesday.    
   Seconds have been exchanged between the dramatists, M. Kistemaeckers and M. Abel Hermant, as a result of a newspaper quarrel.—Reuter.
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