The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1875-07-06 00:00:00

WYKE REGIS.
DEATH FIZONI EXPthURE TO WET.

Mr. George Draytnn. coastguardsman. about a quarter
Past thrre on Saturday morning, when it had rained very
mitch, wts coming from the Chesil Beach up lien-lane,
when at the hotter: .rf the lane, not far from Mrs.
Fenwilhet's, and dose to the bemelt he found a man in •
dtting pnsture, and leaning azaibst the bank. Found he
was in such • state that he cottlrl not give an account of
himself, and assisted him to nee; lert as the man could
nnt walk, Mr. Drayton got assistance from the night
patrol, of cosstmiani. and conveyed him in • wheelbarrow
as s a 4 pmsible to the prlice-station. P.C. Roper was
fetched from the Perry-bridge. found the man was drunk
and ill, and he gave instructions that he should have some
mustard and water. and ir 1111 l ediately started off to
Weyinorttli for Dr. Rhodes, them being no doctor in the
village ut Wyke. Min. Roper immediately lighted a tire,
and the coadniardstnen rubbed the man, but could not
get :my warmth into him : he was also relied in woollen
rug,; but lerfore anything could be administered to the
man, he expired. having only been at the station a quarter-
of-an•lrmir. When P.C. Roper nut Dr. Rhodes arrived at
Wyke, they found him dead; but the doctor approved of
the treatment and said that all which could be done had
been done. It seems that a great quantity of mackerel
came in on Friday. and the men on the beach were hauling
ti4ll all night The man. when found. had taken otT
I the only woollen clothes he hail on,- his woollen shirt,
I such in them he had • quantity of mackerel. When
carried along to the station, he repeatedly sail " mind
I nie bat," :.n.I "1 can't go without inv fish." The mall
Term:M.4,l as Henry Mearloa, ..f Weymouth, some-
times called "Gunner /deaden," a painter and plumber,
who has worked for Mr. Moore. Ile was a good workman
when sober, but in the habit of frequently becoming
intoxicated, an.l it is reipmssed Gaut to this may Ire attri•
bitted his death. Great quantities of drink are taken
down in tlunns to the Beach, when the men are hauling
the nets, and it is supposed that Measlen, as usual, got
overcome with drink. partly stripped himself, and could
not get along. when he was found by the coastguard. It
is sabl deo, that he had suffered previously from painter's
cone.

THE INQUEST
Was held at the Fisherman's Arms, hefore Mr. Giles
Symonds, coroner for the county, and the following jury-
men Messrs. C. J. Edwards, Abraham Clerk, J. Y.
.ttkins, T. E. Mitchell, William Fallow, IL G. Ward,
William Way Bryant, James Winter. George Russell,
.11110e4 Burbiilge, John Talbot, and Mr. E. Wyatt, who was
chosen foreman.
George Drayton, chief boatman on the Wyke station of
coastiptaril. I came from duty on the beach at a quarter-
past thiee, soil saw deceased in a sitting posture at the
bittern of Red lane near the beach, this side of the water.
Went to him, and spoke to him, but could get no Intel:
liAble answer. Lifted him to his feet toil found he could
not stand. Kept him there scene minutes, In an upright
position, hut finding I mold not 4to anything with him
myself. I left him in charge of two fishermen, who had
conic down the lane. They toll 13.2 there were sonie or.
drunken men up the lane, and I walked up the lane,
, expectinz our coaxtguardsinen to come across the beach,
and f I another man sitting down, anil a little farther
up two more. I then went dawn the lane again to the
deceased, anil with the assistance of Albert Gamut and
John Dtheicomta, who were returning front duty, con-
veyed him to toe police station. The other men had
reinalnixt till I came again. I said no more to the moan;
but Is his hat would blow ott, he asktd for his hat,
11131(111% Us understand that ho could not go,tth at oe
it. tie had his inside atirt taken off, vu d
and some fish in it beside him. and he would not go on
without them, struggling and speaking of his fish. I
consider lie was under the influewe of drink, and one of
the others was also. Hail not teen the man before in the
night. or In the day before. It is broad daylight at half.
pest three, and I could nee him 50 yards off sitting up and
smiling. It was not pate an hour after I saw him first
that he was conveyed to the station, and he was alive
when I got him to the station. We carried him into the
rep, iftippeill him. rubbed him with towels, rolled him in
waillen rugs, and had a lire ligkted by direction of Mr.
Romer, To list hit to vomit. Last night it rained all night,
and deceased was Very wet I hal just left him to go and
rall my officer *hen he filed • f. 4.1 t two teen with him.
If.' as,Struitgling when I left, and' when come back he
teas
*veld think he wax engaged in thelarice
ity 3 .1,M.11 know of it mewl'.
4"Q+4114 kiimr
catelt of tidi n..,. deceased
Jam .
es Maids ; I live at •e,.. "s; essused4.-
f.,r five or ,it years past, IUIII WAS With ...
Mrs. Vine's before we went to the beach He Imo ,
of ale in my company. He helped 111 haul the nets ashore
with miwkerel. We caught about 9,000 yesterilny in our
twots, and they were carried over to the beach and put in
the trews. Both of us helped to do this, and It was
about ono or two o'clock when the fish were brought to
the shore. They are first taken to • trow, or flat-bottomed
boat, and then they were taken down to Passage Bridge,
then parked in baskets, and it wee between one and two
, when vs; cam ac e hark in the coastiruard's trow. There
were five of Us and a coastguardsman. As we came along
we hat no many fish MS SVC foUI.I carry, and we started
; to o ~,,, ; to Write: I and my lirether, and Meaden, and
two others. My brother William and I, awl a man
; named Ward, who is on the jury, --I Mr. Symonds Mill
I Want ought not to have been on the jury]—canie on; but
inv other hrother Sam and Menden lagged behind. My
brother William anti I were going back alter Main and
when the coastguardsman Drayton came up. I
cnnnot tell how far it is to the beach. I had no tape to
measure it.
, The Corona:: If you talk like that commit you.
That kind of language won't do for me. There Is nothing
particular hanging upon it; hut it ieenia strange what
they were doing between one or two o'clock and a quarter.

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pa.t three. • -
Further examined, the witness thought it was a mile All, all, the present esil teach:
from here to the beach, The reason they a•uhl not get Suffivient to. the day.
&UR and Mewlen along WM because they were too Our Savirms wanted His hewers to remember also that the
drink). : but he amid not toll where they got the drink ; i flowers though so bright and gay to-day may to-morrow
they might have had a couple of quart.. curb, If they Lod be cut down and withered, and that we too are like the
equal quantities, from 12 o eloek to 10 or II tart night. I gram that withereth and the flower that fwleth. It is a
WU 1.01.er no i our now, Sam and Minden were either sod lesson for ;beautiful flowers to teach , but one they
•Irunk or atiiiiiil. It was about a quarter of an hour or would all In well to lay to heart. Tbey were sadly forget,
ten minutes from when Iha I seen them last to when the ful of the frailty awl brevity of their life, although our-
corettguanlsman came up, awl the last I saw of him WAS rounded by solemn warnings. Most of those to whom he
when he wits In the wheelbarrow. We did not drink the was speaking were living in the midst of dangers. You go
beer all rompl : lint some drank oftener. He had a out to your work in the morning, and a fall from the path
st
•liMellty to travel at all, awl when he had his fish, he heating too quarry, the slipping of a stone, or the breaking
anal., nut get on; he kept constantly sitting down. This of the gear you have to use, may so hurt the poor feeble
is the way in which the fishing g• es on; the most work is body that your life is snatched W
away. Only loot ednesday
done when people are most drunk, one among you was thus suddenly called away from
The COTUINT: All Iran say is, if that Is the habit, it is a • this life. But those amongst them who had not to work
most discreditable habit. 1 suppose you email not get to quarries or in any = such dangerous occupation were
them to do the work without the drink. subject to the stroke of such
death and fah the . Oh,

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that all had wiedaus to lay the lesson to
remember that though their bodies pm-kited-7.mM to
souls would never die, and that GA ahe so chltett, titee
grass of the field which to-day is and to-tuomw
into the oven, will much more care (oral tho.e whu,, r-at
In Him, and that they will appear in the gloriou, ;.,t4ut
Christ's righteousness, the white raiment whieh
love and mercy hali provided for all wim trot
salvation. Let them sec to it that whatever ii
their ;poor frail bodies, their soul; kid that fti,"'"ii
dream, and then they would be safe. La,tly it ',lttly
observe that the flower:, had in them a ..pirit orn
production ; though they drooped and died, the
aiding life-bearing seed was scattered al,r,Pai.
spring up in ever fresh forms of be.auty. stjt,to
be with them Christia.ni whom the blood of 4.;04.',
had redeemed,. that though their bodies ,ge S',ll
mouldered in the silent dust of Cod's acre, yet th..,..!!!4
clothed upon with the robe washed and made ishr'',„ •
she blood of the Lamb, might bloom for ever
Paradise above. And even in this world the good .the
we think, the good words we utter, the goo& deu1".70114
In our lives live after us. He was reading au, 0ti,;',..d0
in "Vicissitudes of great families" that the wnter
to a village near Derby to get information about au -d;
family. Of their house he could find no trace, in the
there was no record, and at last he asked for inforinsti --
one of the oldest villagers. "The Findairns," ito
"no, there's none of them here, but I can show you
thing that once belonged to them -Findairn's f10wt.47:
and he led him to a field, where amid traces of the fouud.
tions of their former habitation, grew a bed of
" There," said he, "are the ',indium flower.; Sir Jeff '-
brought them from the Holy Land ,• and, do what as :Z
with them, they never die." And let them rememi
that the goad actions done in their daily lives would
after they had passed away and their names Periabed,
flourishing with undying energy.