The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1869-06-15 00:00:00

THE DORSET COUNTY EXPRESS, TUESDAY, JUNE 15, 1869.

ANOTHER DRE iDFUL SUIOIDR AT
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The suicidal mania appears to be Wageless In this
luality, and we have now to record the fourth deeth
lately in the district produced by delirium tremens, and
also the [earth Weld*, If that at the poor woman
'Mulcting. in Ouolineplace, be reekceed se one,
although it does not belong to the group of gaieddee from
drink. On Thursday last, • man was observed loiter.
in the neighboarhood of the Portland Railway, near
the Ferry Bridge. Towards the end of the afternoon
be sew the 4.15 train from Portland atterneeklati sod
ran with arms stretched out on to the line of rails, and
stood erect in front of the mains. Had he not run very
fast, the train would have teased the pleat Won be
could have got there, and, as it was the engine wan
almost immediately upon hint, though the driver adopted
every means to lei him know the danger, and to check
the train. The halter plank streak him, the en gin
went over kim. and when the train was stopped, and
the affrighted spestaters went to the spot, they found a
men with his forehead battered in, and his brains seat-
tared over sleeper and WI. After being satisfied that
he was gaits dead, the plate-layers near carried him on
• trolly-board to an outhouse of the Royal Victoria Inn.
It was found that his forehead was beeten In, one arm
and owe leg were broken, him boots torn off, and some
of the toes severed from the fut. He vu next day
idectified so a shoemaker named Joseph Hill, who had
been for 13 years in the employ of Messrs. Rolls, of fit
Mary-street, as • " weenies-man," or maker of ladies'
boots and shoes. He lived at Quiet-place, Rest-strut,
' and wee very intelligent and even allover in his work;
but has often given way to Intemperance, It %years
that no little as half-a-Mat would affect his brain, and
when be began he woad generally Satoh with a driak•
lag bout. The last three weeks be had not been at work,
bat indulging In drink. and Dashed brought on an attack
of delirium tremens, of which he had a severe St the night
before. The affair happened jut before the point . here
the Portland Railway emerges from between beaks to
the open ground before craning the Fleet. Here part
of the brains of the poor fellow WWII 0001116111(1 beneath
a small heap of shingle on the line, and two or three
great stains of blood marked the path by which the
body was carried towards the Ina. Ohne to the spot
where it happened is a notice board warning persons not
to titmouse on the line ; but this seemed quite to be dis-
regarded, u • footpath led up to the rule on one aide,
and from them or the other, plainly showing that many
persons are used at least to cram the use at this pmitt,
In feat the line is frequently used as • occemee foot
road between Weymouth and Portland. The inquest
WU held on Friday afternoon, at the Royal Victoria
Inn, Ferrybridge, before B. Lock, Esq., deputy eoroaer,
and • jury of whom Mr. William tiarbidge wee foreman.
The body was littered on the head, arms, leis, and feet,
and some of the toes were cut off.—Mr. Arnold, station-
master for tbe South-W.)4cm at Weymouth, and Mr.
Targett, station-muter at Fortlend, weryjiresent, satin.spector Mori ben represented the Great astern Railway
ompany. Thomas Caudwell, driver of the enene which
struck down deceased, said he drove the engine from Part •
laid to Weymouth for the South-Western Railway Com-
pany. Yesterday afternoon he left Portland shout
4.15, and when be dad goes over the railway bridge
aloes by (overthe mouth of the Fleet water), be saw a
men tame down the beak, and place 'limos'( in the
middle of the "foot-foot" of the line the engine woe
panting over. Witness woe about 40 yetis from biro,
and he opened the whistle, shut off the steam sed
untied the break, as quickly as he possible could.
Deceased took no nodes whatever, but merely turned
his head rotted, and hang it down. Be was needing
sideways towards the engine, and the middle of the front
buffer plank struck him, and threw him *eau wonder-
ed,* distends, knocking him down oa the HOB. The
engine went over him and mangled him very much.
Witness suoceeded in pulling up the brain about 200
yards, and pet back till he come near hint, when the
guard and one or two of the paasengers gob out. They
found the maequite dead, being bruised principally In
the head, and his boots torn off. His body was brobed
all over very meth. Witness was quite satialled that
deceased intended to kill himself. From the deter mined
way In which be hurried down the beak and plated bins.
self on the lies, there was every proof be intended self.
destruction. Corollas Hill, said that the night before last,
her husband was very ill, and saw all sorts of men and
women round him. He was delirious and could not
sleep. He said he did not think he should be able to
oork again, for he was in a vary low weak state; bet
he said nothing about destroying himself. He unsalted
Mr. Watford, chemist, St. Alban's-row, who gave him
a draught and some pills. That day he had not been
drinking; but he had for three weeks before, and be
came into this low state after he had been drinking. He
was with Feeney, the man who destroyed himself, on
the Nothe, the day before Pommy committed suicide;
but that did not seen to have hod any effect on him.
—A labourer on the line named Frampton, was called to
souk as to the lodine of deceased, kc. ; bat the jury
did not require hie evidence, and immediately returned
a verdict to the effect that deceased destroyed lima(
while in an unused state of mind.