The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1880-08-10 00:00:00

MR. BRADLAUGH ON THE AFGHA N SLAUGHTER

Speaking to nearly 30,000 miners at Durham on
Saturday, Mr. Bradlaugh asked his endless>, to bear with
him while he entered his solemn protest against the cry
for blood-vengeance which the standard and other
Conservative papers were now trying to raise If the
country wanted venpano. it should fall on Lord Beacons-
field the head, and Lord Lytton and Sir Bartle I•'rere, the
tool.; it should come on the late Government which heti
brought us into conflict with the Afghana her. was a
time when the Houses of Parliament Impeached the Earl
of Strafford, a grander man than any gingerbread earl, and
he now asked them to recosl the shams, horror, and
diagram which rested on a Government which the voice
of England had drives out, but which they had not
adequately punished.

SUICIDE OF A YOUNG GIRL.
An inquiry was held on Satuniay at the St. Martin's
Ves Charing-crou, as to the death of Minnie
Knowiden, 17, who was found dead in the Thames on
Thursday last. Mr. Joseph b:uowiden, the lather, deposed
that be last saw his daughter alive at nine o'clock on
Sunday morning, when she was in good health and spiriti.
She had lately bon in the habit of keeping very late
hours, for which witness was continually remonstrating
with her but notwithstanding this, her "young man
would keep bit out until two or three in the month:4.-
14s. Slisa Knowlden, wife of the previous witness,
deposed that at half-past six on Sunday evening the
deceased came home, and asked for something to eat.
Wither asked her where she had been, and she replied
that she had been out for the day with her young man,
and neither of them had had anything to eat. Witness
then gays her some bread and meat, and she 101 l the house,
taking the food with her. The deceased told witness on
the previous day that her young man had published the
banns of waning. between them.—Martha Johnson
stated that at 11k30 on Sunday night she met the deceased
in the Horseferry-road ; she was alone and crying.
Witness asked her what was the matter, and she replied,
" I have got trouble on my mind, and I don't want mother
to know." She then walked in the direction of the HOll/011
of Parliament, and told witness that if she would go and
fetch Jack she would not drown herself. She had
previously threatened to destroy herself.—Eliza Bull, who
stated that she had known the deceased for some time
psi t, said that she unit her near Lambeth•bridge Ada little
before lion the same night, when she said she mu going
to throw henelf into the river. Wither advised her not
to do that, but to go home to her mother, who was wait-
ing for her, and she replied, "Never mind mx mother. I
won't take this disgrace home to her.' They then
walked along the embankment, and the deceased twice
attempted to drown herself, but witness prevented her.
Witness left her to try and get a policeman, but before
she could find one the deceased uttered • scrota and
leaped off the parapet of Lembeth-bridge. The body was
not discovered until Thursday morning, when Constablo
I Howe, of the Thames police, found it floating under
Waterloo-bridge,—Th. jury returned • verdict of " Suicide
while in a state of unsound mind,'