The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1877-01-16 00:00:00

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Ali inquest we tiel4 at the Cdunty Prison on Friday
on the Joaeph Davis, win, hal enininiaind aufrian.
It sea, hyld before Mr. .tblenuan Loek (deputy-contour),
and Mr. J. R. Taylor WAS the foreman of the jury. who
J. P. !annuity. H. ionic J. Harrington, H.
T. Kendall. W. i:arland. 11. W. Rider, T. Hawker.
T. Rogers, C. Parsons, nod It. Hunt. tin twin.: sworn a
jurrinan ebiecteil that he MA4 eligible on the ground that
not a housieholder. The coroner :inked hint if he
f age, awl a reddent of Dorchester. Ileing answered
in the adirutstive, be 141 hi,, that Ira; quite sufficient.
The bale .4 thy r.yoi presented a very plaeiil
The tidied WWI rowel, lest at was apparent
be had been half starved .

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non .4 deceased, a lats ewer, of Itampinhum. omed
hi., father hal be, n living in that parish toy himself
melt, th.• seine roof, lett in a setctratc apartment. He
hal lived there :J. nit -men or eight years. :aid he hal
witties,sl nothing peenliar .n I ' iintil within the last
fortnight or three weeks, when could see there was
a .littooice. lie scenesl in a low ....litho% and ow,
aryieisitsol Me. Payne, tile relieving officer, with it. On
the previous Thursday .1. eased 101.1 hi i son lie should
ii .t live hmg lent they pail no tttention In, this, an they
.161 not know he hal anything about him with which to
comma suicide. Beet-wed ho I be,, twiceconfined in the
Asylum, and lied also been in the lteaminster workhouse.
He hal iereiveil help froin Inn brother, and also from the
union : but that, sai.l the witness, it was "took up"—he
woo obliged to go to th, " pol.li L" to get his food, and
some saidat was to get drink, and that wan the reason it
was "took up." He WAS 61 years of age. On the Friday
, morning the, deetued commenced beating the door
which separated the bedrooms of himself and his ann,
who cent up for hi brother as he thriaght there was
something different."' Before, however, be arrived the
decrasedeame out of the house with his throat cut, and
! fell down. His son sesisted him, And carried him into
, their own dwelling awl then Dr. Clapcott was sent for.
He wasl4..aarally distracted in his conversation.
In reply to the Foreman the eon said he never would
have anyone to do for him ; be ne.ew had nothing ,00ked.
He helped him whet lay in his power; hat he had a
f unify, and there was a girt deal of sickness in the
place. He had often "iittnai in his roma for two or three
days at a tire. The relieving officer knew a: wen as he
did what state lie was it,, awl over offered to relieve
him. He was 'demi to 2., il•t., the " refuted
to sn
rlapeitt, h, hi- • '11.1e., the ileowased had a
iwiwt fi ightful ...mut in Ms throat--the windpipe and the
indict% is ;eah largely open. Pre poured a little
water into tLe duces-, whi, It SUe mt again ihr Imh the
wouni in the throat "14.6 broken pitcher." He sewed
it up and dremed it. He vbe, ;eit on a miserable
door lbw bed was composed of rhea. duet. Mere
WS, no change of linen. He (the doctor) wariaiey
from the win and a pillow, hut there ,1•,,1 none to
had only one suit .tf clothes, very dirty, and
n, chan,te of linen. He cave him 0011110 leanlyand
water, and in the evaniou ow him again. Idi that
morning he sent a messenger to rrowombe to 110010Sint
the ealseviag allow with the state he was 13.- He did,
not ..hlm after Wards until the neat morning, when hg,