The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1884-12-16 00:00:00

Weymouth, December uth. 144.

.30.

SHOCKING SUICIDE OF A YOUNG
LADY AT WEYMOU
A very melancholy death took place on :War I.ty.
and when the tams became kuowo the ,re lour .w
was expros.ed for the clecewed, an.l pruistluil
eynapethy
..ith the posaily.., The untolonato yru:

to 'who.* death we 'allure was tt
Bennett, the daneht-r of the w,l'-ktrown sod Iti,hly
°dawned landlord of Vie Crown Hotel, sod Vie ..:re
sad circumttanee• tan her which hr detth uncured

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have cast quite a gloom over the Men.
it appear., was 33 year. of are. and Inui for r• real
yearn peat been snbj Med, a and on, t • gis of dee.
pmdeucy, sue rring fnm religion, in .tie. Ab ost Cis
years ago her conditwo mind w.ie such tbst she
attempted self• feet rscti al by means of chloral, and on
recovering fr on the elf-c • Ir., by the alvice of her
me 'Mal attendants, placed in an a-ylum at Fiebp
Briatol. After remaining there ti- abut silt month.,
else was able to return home, but since that time An-
hui nottaidonally suffered from • disordered mini. Un
Friday night she Use MIAMI I. and on St ir lay morn-
ing she IVAN disc Avenel to • bedroom et the hot-I

lying on the floor nun mac' tn.. and with a glass coo-
tabling chlorodyne near her. Everything toulic • kt.l
could duke was done, but the unlortut.ate young
lady gra litany paved away.
An Inquest was held on the body on Monday at the
Guildhall, before IL. iyinonds. E q., Deputyte trona.
and the f snowing jory :—Mu.se. C. G. Tailcoat
(foremast), G. N. Wat,rinso, 1 Miltedge, Thomas
Hawke., F. Fairey, William Hunt, J. A Jodson.
B. Parsons, James Richards, A. W. Batesu,
and 11. Reynolds.
After the viewing of the holy the following evidence
was taken :
Agnes Go 1 said : I live at le, Gloucester-terract.
The decoued wu staying with me lad week. She
slept there Thursday night. On Friday, at balfttpaat
9 stm.,l asw her, she having breakfasted with me. She
than seemed very well. She bad been staying with
us three weeks up to Thursday. and had been
depressed the whole time. She had an impression
that she was "lost" I found that she wa. g Ino .t 11
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o'clock, and was informed that elm would not return irnexeliately, and wa. teld tog,, °polars te No. 23,
Till {And Or TIM TOWN. until the evening, unless she retureed to dinner. She where I found the deceweal lyiee raii her beck totally
Mr. ROntern hod n ties. the pop •r—" WM- did not return to dinner. At nine o'clock I went t • •Inceneci •ue, pale and mews chat eel '• The pupil. of
eider the desirability 1.1 cc monnoing the inc is, • and the Crown Hotel to enquire fe• her. I saw decemed'a the eve. were widely dilat el, and her reopiratio 8 a
expenditure of the borough wiih • vie to mode ran mother, and we marched the romns—myself and the minete inetead of 20; the pubs were very 'mall and
teullibrium by. 'en th eptiMAt ant expenatture, deceased's sister. Eliza. We went into every bedroom quick. I attempted to gith her muse broody and
and to ascertain whet are the 8 satin; &ht, ler which with a gentile, but could not find her. This took no wider, but cite could not owallow it. I ordered an
no provision has yet been male, awl leaen to, what up to 10 o'clock. I returned home with deceased's emetic of het ceffee en 1 brandy, en I a hot ea or
event the rateu mar be 'roomed by raising a I .sn " sister. The deceased did not retina hem, that night. Fantle ler her feet. I left t apt I myringe, en.
He wants I, be said, to ascertain the am ant of .n 'era, Toe next as irniug. at 11.30. I went to the Crown, and stair. I met Mrs. Bm iett, who told um th at !Sr.
,sot who: bed • ccurred burin:, the pa.t hoe to then heard what had taken place. I have km MU the teeth, their usu al medical attend eit, bad been •ent f
r.
enhance the Wee. end whether there we. rinythi ot in deceased all My life. I believed she we. thor sughly I went to his hones, an Ihe not being at heine I went
the future likely to re Inc. them Ile WAX tier they depressed in mind ever since ab nit six years ago. Si, to Dr. Meorhead I should have mentioned that I
all wanted to de the beet for the to en, me herb light had cinstantly expreosed + wish to die, but she never wa, shown a tumbler, which from the smell I ca-
they should wcerton their position b. f they told me so. Neatly three week, ego she *towered eluded bad concaved nhl ....Aye,. I return° I eri•h
Muerte d further Sabi icy. Theth were sorer. in,. very depressed, and I had to search fur her. I (mad Dr. NI eines I, awl found Dr. Payee, who had as'.
'Movements be should like Ii a,, carried 1,,t. -for ber at the Crown Hotel st•ndine on the stale:me been met for, there. We aliwniderod trim. r by
bounce, that einggegtel by Pr. Child,—but herb ueht looking very etreinee. She wee sirk the following lojectlng it into the arm, and we toted nitrate id
they ohouhl, betel.e they endete,,,,h anythieg, *tear morning. I cbmged her witb having taken sinethine. I amyl as an lehtlent. We rem:weed with her ftr
tale their financial posit' an. For any cot A •! nary but she denied it. Ae far as I keew, the deceased bag ab •ut three querters of an ii or, during which
tame
thing he mould boll his hand mainat lay ergo n hiture not been unhappy Dem any other cause than religious the pule/ =preyed ie •loleace and algo the review
If it enhanced the rate.. When the lat . were demi lion. She had been under the impreteion that lion. I went away, leaving Dr. Ryan, and returned
male he was auforturately oboe t Permute II •haelth, she hod committed ao u pardonable sin. She was 33 In about three wieners ef an beta, when I 'pp ill a
bet he (mod thet • rate to have met the then existing year. stage tut birthday. gale ode battery. We then di•c mann •I, and
debt weuld have been 2s. Ida in the 1, If mem were Elise Bennett said I live at the Cr ,wn Hotel, and fuel that the he iction was linorniiag
weer. let thmn know what they were e, the they the deceased was my giater. Ab net 12 o'clock on feebler, gal the retpiration rant ,hall-,w. Litt, might knew exactly how they were going on. wet Friday .he came to the betel, awl came to me in my entree' •Lertly after two, mai I tad him what or
whit they would have to meet the next half y ear, Ile bedroom it the to of the house, reaminine there treatment had been, and be outgo d-rt thee we nou'd
concluded by proposing that the mtimedeo should in about 10 minneat. I did not see her *gain that day. elation, it, which w• .Ibl up to the tine ef her teeth,
fun to Mosey. be entered la the minute !seek, ant She appear d p•rticularly well the: morning. Ab tut &beet roarer t, three. My opinion lethal the cans.
that a ceternittee he ego:a-Intel t go list, the er. otter. half past nine or ten in the evimitag Miss Goo I came of &nth was chloro lye..
Mr. Hotment add • ommittes wee eleiedeted to our house and mkel if I bad sem the dammed. A jurymen : Chien-Dna would pelves people!
about 13 esohths ago to go into the 'netter. Tee e.m. We weht over the hones to watch f r her. We looked Wiwi.: Yee; it (seething prtuwic •cidam wphic be.
mitt, did not meet, en &cermet of at aft mi.', that into every be Iretam and tied. r every bet, but c iold The Cern., : And except taken in small deem
had fallen on Mr. Weill., wid he suegested that tee not find her. I wee very inch alarmed. I then we:Aback would preface death?
game cemmlttee be celled nether,
bto Mi.. Good, with her, but could net bear any alit yr Wastes.: Yee.
ht Mar 'a sail that connsittee had ceased to b., of the deceated. I returned t i the h• tI. and did The Foremen Don't you think It ought ti be
and it we. -pee to Mr. H 'hens to n• 11311 on-. nothing more that night. My brother went ti Dr- tab-lied pekoes.
Mr. CHARLES sugge.ted that Mr. Brow,, ehwill be cheater awl other pincer ti oearch for her. Abut 10 Wither : That is for the authorities+. I have nothing
'n the es ennittee, as he had taken some interett In
ool'ettits..,,,rvaangtzsErteri
uparibmt,
pthe..hiorani.weesing.mto,rnminegboorr- to do mth that. I h aye an Anatole of Coll e Browne is
mar dee. th„,j.wy would 1 bet' bear it. —Thejery
the question.
Mr. BROW, sail it bad been stated that theft: troneh room (No. 19) and told me that she beard groaning in call they oh mid.
and Dr. Tetril mil in a do.. of
Rate wee the same In 1884 as it was in 1991, t if No. 2s. I went downstairs and listened, When I heard abont 10 deems it cnd aa, 4tram. of chl •reform,
seyone look, d inte the eccuente WAD: 'h lel e Won whet I thought my sister LOOAtliliti. I went awl till it di • dram of tinctur •of capticum. three minim. 'ill
they would fied that the r de. on the 14' oral rani my mother, lithe at once sent tor • doctor, 3lim of intrip•renint, eight grain, hydre ehlor ate of in ophia,
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had incresoad about 30 per cent-, and were for treater Drew het just arrived, awl I toll her whet I hod 20 nilniale perch! .ric all, 13 minim, p wok:
In 1834 than they were three year. ago. Re w,. beard, and she went into the room. I h and the glues nci I. tincture of In ban heme ene dram, an I nee
ea•iafied that the teen got 30 par cent, more for tbeir produced in N .2:1 on Saterder morning. There Was dram el treacle—About six 'ewes ago tweet 134
Money new than they ohl three or four years ago, lut nothing ia it. At) ,Ilt WX years .41, the iieceseed We. I ettendwi the d cemed, when elle had teem three ! Mole the y oatfsfie Ito pay a 2,, rote! He helm., iIIn X eery low state, and ha. ceinpleine I very much of "tinned .4 churl ;it 1.'44 a peiwnesuo done but I saw
the ratan.ayers were if Day get •pr 'war Mem f.f her heel since • fall oho 11 al, 2.1•••0 yeas ado. awl treated her In time. On her recovery elm was
their m Iney, hut he contended they did not, as there J weph E twin Bennett: lam deragme.l.• brother, swot to illn itayintel at Inthpoted.. Bride'. I heard
was an eztravagent and reekletg xiseaditure. He On Friday nieit &lout tee ~"e1 ck I WA, that .he remained there from ale to seven M 'nth..
alba had to the wsee, of the w elzmn, and gall he that my sister had been lo.t. I wtht to Mew Gee i's, At the tine I WAR satisfied that she was Moan.,
should like to gee the Surrey' r limited as te the hut deceased was not there. I then weal to the suffering from deiugione and religi :oasis.
amount to be paid away by bin, and he aloe thought Railway•station Ii me if ohe reternel from Dorchm. Dr. Leth soil: I h attewle I the decease lat
all orden should be signed by the c .tritnittee, ter by the late train.. I cull nit find her. aoi I interval, for upwards of six years. In Joie., 1878,
The propolti ea Woo MAX 1. the committee went to D ircheeter, but could not hem anything she we. in a depres.ed cienditim, and le June last I
all Matti cengieting of the Mayor. Mr, Bohm.. Mr. • her there. I then went hi the ol I Sandsto at Caudle noticed a change in her; she was neglieent it. her
B own, Mr. Howard, 3/j, Huthe, Me, Ayleabery, Mr and Bincleame. me I wale:chisel th at the demaged dross, and in c ItIOWI,IIHICX of inf venation I received I
Charles, awl Mr. Wellio, had referred he thee Waco.. I c odd not fin I any saw Mr.. Bennett on the matter, I hod a, iotereie The next metier cis ti rwider advitability trace of her there. I rotee.,,ey to, my own boitte, and with the d.ceased, end at that time cotwldered her
,•( p.yine the of the 11. n v Rico, in the m Toles; I hear t that the dm
"Snhir.erhienf hlrtsr"nn "tthaaltdli .41nrni4hatil re arelli;r4.ll,iutiomu te.eteiVgt
font
the sun 'I ffl.ooo noure lon tg a, • I the ien 1. Nfr oi t•r always ettei m
Was-lege and Herb •ur 1it,.,,,, and, after a dioeue.ien, inotrurneatal in gating her„—Tee Coroner: What the tieing much work, cal I strongly adyiewl •
Mr. CHARLES Proposed, Mr, Maas Nee .11,101. and it you mean ?—Wetnem : This was not the first at temp'. none of mane. I saw her occa 'heal y d 'we to the
was carried that the £1,0(.40 Le invested In EaLhequey She attempted to take her life six years ago.—How 21st of November. Lately she had been is • ater•
Bond.,—By olalcsal,—Sho was this confined and Noe to M refigfone depeinefoe, .a.. thaw; oomplaiawl of