The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1882-11-14 00:00:00

A POSTMAN DROWNED.

On Tuesd‘y, a very active. hard-working and
obli.:ing pubic servant, Mr. Aoith, one f the shortest
..f the p .stuvn, bob who none the less stock man-
fully to the heavy weights which, under the book and
halfpenny post, bend our poor postmen's backs, was
miseh g from his doty. e och Fr him failed to
dixo.er the ikon. fel!ow on Tuesday ; but about ten
on %Veinesday in ,rnin, Tiztrd and Den-
man who were looking out, spied something in the
water of the Harbour, near the George Inn c ,rner.
Tizard at once judged it war the man for whom
they were ',arching, and th. Low hooks brought
the body ti. land. He hail not his bag with him,
mid his cip was off. Tizard believes the poatrnati's
cap WAS blown by the high wind into the Harbour,
and that in trying to roc oier it, our friend was
drowned. He was much liked by all who knew
him, and the sorrow at Lir untimely death ii deep
and sincere.
The inquest was 11-1,1 at the Guildhall on Wedneeday
afternoon before \boom Edo,, Lewis Lonn.nc,
Bothdt, G. W. Parkman, W. Hunt. J. J. Ru—ell. W.
Iligley, J. H. Temkina, W. It s'ey, Stu. Burch, W. 11.
Will•ame Robert Legg. mil K Mile.
E e ws, the coroner, and Mr. E. L.

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teg R chosen foreman. arch a. bearded lir three or fo it' con ...rational rillai.e of
ant fe elle es. to go out in rouch weather,
c3iiieh,e said; aw lodgers: at the Turk'l Heed, the stage. So we cross the Bridge, e here the Life.. ;et ie
Eaet-street, and have been there stout two in anths and harboured in front of T. laity church ; she Oa a tral boat
brought
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jets?, ten. uhs,:.
g round her, and her crew. lifebelts and
letters $ mistimes for me. Oa Monday night I ISM at the jerseys and all on, look gallant rateeloes. B ialud swarm
Turk's Head all the evening.
twoim about weeks.
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re carrier, t'and
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and the deceased came there, the great pe ,pie, come to this "Protestant' oslebration,
to the beet of my opinien. about 20 minutes past 10. He appropriately in f ro3t of the church. Here lithe craning*
came in alone, and the first time I sa • him in front of of the giant Chang, illouninaed with Chinese lanterns,
the bar, when th. landlord &eked him tt come round into and guarded by Johns Chleamen with banner et. from the
the bar-parl•mr and have • lot of broad-sad-cheese. F,owery Land. Chspeiry stein was a grand stand for
went round ; I wad in the hareparlour, and deceased had men and women, bye and girl., who were packed there
1131110 bread-and-cheese end one glees of beer. We eat tight enough to keep each other warm and fairly dry. For
there talking together for 10 or 15 minutes or 20, and the rain I:argent° drip, though nothing to speak of yet, and
thee decesoed got up to go home. The landlord asked had they hurried now, all had been well. But, while life-
him what time h • wee going on duty in the morning, guardsmen were pouting out from courts near Silver-
and he sal lab tut 20 or half-past five. bet lam not quite street, by the old town pump, and mustering on the Plain,
sure. Having said this, he took his orlaktn cape and cap while Chinese with name (woeful to behold, waved terrific
sue went t a the door. The landlady weather. belide me, swords, while Ohene's guard must 'red amend the Giant,
and the landlord and his daughter, elso a man named Carr who "swelled 'risibly afore yer weer, eyes," chile demons
—six altogether. D ceased went to the door, and I went Moked ready for anything. especially for tempting the
to the door with him; it opens out in Eye, while gr., officers dieplayel medals enough to Net
went out to see "'baths'. it rained, but it did not up • silversmith, while Red I udians waved their feathers
then. I walked down the street about 30 paces towards and shook their nose-rings—the aijo aliment wag Erie i.
the Harbour with the men, wished him good night, and The smallest devil shook his three-pronged pick and
returned to the Turk's Head. I was standing on the shivered, remarked the elicit, was cooler Vuto
steps at the Turk's Head, when I saw the man go he'd been used to, the bigger dements rushed
route' the Cistern House corner towards the Bridge. about gathering their attendant imps of darkness,
Ho left hand would go toward the water, and his right the girls relieved their minds by bombarding Totally
hand to the houses. When I left him, he was about 80 step' and Chapalry-steps with crackers, and as he
pares from the corner. people were packert like herrings in a barrel (if herring..
flit the Coroner : I went out to the door to 000 if it stand upright there) &good deal of equeezing and pushing
rimed, and chatted with him about the delivery of and goodhemoured attempts to make room helped to
letters in the morning. I did not which him down the he p them warm. A groat volt, yet squi)t. hissed and
street but steep el on the stepi to see him go ; I bad barged aa the comp mr of Digger minstrel. marche 1 on
r particuler reason, no mem at all, for !rapping to aet to tiPtAP•Ce near the Old Work ing Club(now the Sodaer star
him go round the corner. No other people were about Works) ant they rattled bones, secluded the loud
the street. The man was capable of taking cage of timbre! 0. r &type. .lark se*, arid danced iu wit
himself: 1 saw bite drink a part of a glass of beer ; masa% the band playel triumphant strains wound our
bu I don't thiok hire iutoxicatel :be might have bad White Ensign, thd right to fly which we have lately
some bofore. bought fir and won; Guy Fa .Iree's adverat wed signaled
The coroner edvise.l the witness to reflect he was on by the arrival of a company of convicts in grey and
hie mate, when be 'eel be was giving his 'eidetic, to broad-arrow at d hint and leg chains, and flat cape—a
the "host of his advantage." very creditable get-up, irate, showed their dirks and
Witness :He appearod quite ab'e t.ti take care of him- pisees and black de .th's hr ails and cros-b no-' ant
self; I don't i.e there wee any did. rum in the mines Ta ,s, nu while c,ul-scrittle bonnets snook fair locks at al
walk. 1111 was none the worse for 'Aloe according to loviogly addreseal the get •re Polrcemen W. it
rev opinion. Ailed in restorieg order, an admiral's court tiro.
By the C tron..r :He was not the letter for liqu er, of the lost eerier y ~/11111Ct,i re. hut rot
he was Nat slier al am now, lie was .linpy and s many an Cal halo Kerrelgo, '' My Metter arid
dogrdo ik ng. He Wi. o the ho•im a relater-1a oar er 1" corasiat. at of an WO boy can el rn e hark, tby hie ohleg
20 or n ites. I stood on the steps not only to watch kilns with r; this SWAN very clever, iii• b p leine r. a'ly the
bu• to pule the time away. w deer and the mo•I3, r an am .e.l ; C •pt. Baler, of the
dm not go 40 yards from the Turk's Rae& Manna% game in (rem Esypt. at,il {leery Sth
Heed. I) •g•ss-el walk"d straight. are" din all his glory ; the Weymouth and W 1 he hareta,
The Foreman reinerkod tithe witness thought deceased and \'o'unt.eranti Holy Trin'ty drums and fife. outielered,
was in drink, it would have bin bett. rto have brought Mephistoi 11,1 es was urged t curl his tail over his
hive a newer way than r rued the Q 114. shoulder but failed to eet a boy to be hoist"! on his pick,
The Coroner : But he seems to bare thought he was and fell into Captain E. Slasher Murley's No. 1 company,
capable of teking care of hinaself. It is not a •erm one among Cearles 14 and bit cavaliers. Cromwell watching
likes to hear employed, lee-sum it semi to imply he the King Capt. Wbetum had also his private Wedai•te,
mieht me have been ; hut there are many opinions as and was followed by the Admiral, My Mother and I,
to when s man le worse fir liquor or even the let er. Knight., Indian rajahs,Toro King and Clan le Duval, and
John Delman: I went down this morning to try and others ; Captain Corti% 3,1, had a lively I. t,
find the lonly, and I grappled, and I. it in 71t. of water engin. ere and others kept moving by, nigger'
near the George steps. I got it Into the loud; there was a playing and dancing ; Captain Case's was a minstrel
great quantity of crabs on it, and I laid it down in the troupe with Circaeeien. and Cuye . • but the b geest
b at, tent to the station for • stretcher, and it was taken wee thereat i tentic It, eenorteall bvOsptein 1.. tie with
there. The body
was -res'e.t as Usually; but had no hat. hie c orriet gang, inci earns Wainwright. Rush and Loire'',
The grabs were mostly about the face and hands, and two returned from the shades for tele ;cc .10.1 no 'twat said;
or three wee" let I° till we Cot the body In the boat. the Rifle hand had • menagerie, including a blue-tooled
, There were two or three eery lame 011,5. chimpanzee, Whittlegteris cat and other furry creatures,
Hebert : lam employed in the Weymouth Pest- a Cbinamtn blew • trumpet and a Moooliehtor beat a
office, and this poor man, John Swill, wage letter-carrier, drum. We can't name them ill; hut there were C
I lest taw hi.,, alive at 9'Z ion Monday night, at the Post- Princes, Cott .in Nesprrt SS Henry eighth Captain
office, when he had lust finished his evening delivery •it Robes.Habeas,a hadire lied other queer tenons in his comical
I WY • little later tiaa bombs of rain, rola. los ; Capdin-trotd7 gPlisaid Red iadlihwain
gam to hare himself booked MI thaw. Man Ms bag. sad taw sad wow. tomahawk, sad war point with biota