The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1883-09-25 00:00:00

BOURNEMOUTH.
ATTEMPTED BUICIOE FROM THE BOURNE-
MOUTH PIER.

Oa Friday, et cepocisi pe.ty session, held in the hovel.
ro on of the Town II ow...mouth, b .forei Kr. it.
Step-iota. J•l11 II 0 orre B ..cti we brought up on
r.m end charged with h .ving :etterripted to commit
euicide on Monday, tae 17,11 inst. The prisoner resided
In Oxf ord-rio I. B .urnetno ith, with Ma wife, but has
since b•on reduce' to e stew ut great deprivatioe.—
rorge fivrnor, boatman, stet that on Monday sitar-
noon about helf-ptat two he wrn• to the steps of the
landing etre to tako three blob., and a gentleman into
his boat. Jtut sa the iedies were about to step in, he
saw the prieoner deliberately junp from the uppor deck
of the pier into tho era. Witness law another roan
with • boat nearer to bin, and called out to him to
remite the mao. Hs Boccie let in doing so —Jueph
Rockford, another boatmen, rid b. saw the pleoner
jump or fall from the upp.r dock .of the Mil% lout teo
yule from the landing unite. Wan,ee was at ending
on the beer at the time. He rushrd into the water.
and se he was empire othing the ruin he saw • men
named Mundy coming through from the other side of
the pier. Witaess called out to Mandy, and Ow latter
palled the primmer Into the bat. Witness afterwards took
him in his arms, carried him ashore, and loid him
on the sands. Witmer asked prisoner 'whether he hiel
had a fit " and he replied " no fit at all, I did it inten-
tionally." Witmer afterwards took him up to On, of the
bows, and p-lsoner then limit: " I should like to see
• policeman; I want to be taken care of' Witness said
to Mos : " I think • drop of brandy would do you more
good than • policeman Joel now, and sent for some,
which prisoner drank. Afterwards, he said that if.
policeman was not sent for he should go and do it again.
He had not had anything to eat (he added) for four days, and
he had been tensed out of his lodgings that ammo, b,
his landlady, who had ben very unkind to him. wit..o
thou took Mm to the c tbmen's shelter, and ordered some
coffee end bread and meat for him. He then again asked
him if he wanted to sae • policemen, end as he still
meteald idiot
utheahac
—ndeß;i
thihme
porivserontio. Amyirget:i whhom he
ove sell
that be had hsd no "moat' for four days:but he understood
him to eay "nothing to eat."—Sorgt Ayres stated that
inunedlately he went to the cebrosn's shelter prison,r
hands I him • pmer, c attaining the following: " Mrs. J.
G. Beech. 9, Burlisld.street. Hammersmith : Mr it.,
wife.. aims.e.. Through starvation and the terercution
of my landlady I hoes committed suicide. Witmer mid him it .Me vary seriona offence, and took him into
custody. After allowing him to finish iii. food las he
appeared to be in an rzhauated stem), he called a cab
ant tam him to the police-dation. Ott the way be said
ho had had no food Sr two days.. Subsequently at the
policeatetion ii.i. in money was found on him also an
unsettled bill from his landlady for th. SI. Prisoner
stated that he had • shilling given him In the
morning, and that the Ilia. was the change
out of It. —On being Irmo, mimed.
end
asked if he had any statement to make, the prisoner at
first said that he hod. lintordietaip aitarmanta
becoming aware that he would be onimitted to the
sessions) he got very excited, declared that it we. a gross
cruelty, that he was half starved, and that he hati
only
111 In the world and his wife nothing to take her home,
and that it was " barbarous treetment." At this point
he eat down, violently and then, turning to his wife
(ielio was sired labial), helenne still more excited than
boron.. and—pointing to her—saked" what wait, become
eofvehn'rt; Lihkoe whaler tolck.."t!'"Tisri hrest°r—lingh.hhadls honalCiurothais.f."wahonuris: he a.mtinord, in • rapid and rxlited manner to condemn
the "cruelty •• of the course about to 13. adopted, and
having again deolarei it'' harbuout," exclaimed
t 00l that :41 such on vestries were swept off the
bench I" Too polr,men taus supported the prisoner out
of oourt.—He askod that be might be allowed to kies kis
wife, but was informed that he wonkl be MISIre4 tO re
her at the polloretatice.