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The Telegram. — 1896-04-07 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

LITTZII.  - - - --A letter, undated, from the prisoner to the deceased was produced. It ran as follows : Will, my darling, you need not get the polio. or anyone else to look after your house. Ycu are perfectly safe, my dear. You know, my darling, I will never molest you or do you any harm. Nor I won't come near you without you ask me, my dear. It is very hard lines for me, but I must try and put up with it. Do you want to gel married, dear, again? Don't, my lovie. I will stay away away trom you without that, and I will never speak to any woman as long as I live. Why do you say I an. insane, dear ? I am quite well now, dear, the doctor told me so. Don't never write to my colonel, dear, whatever you do; it would do me so much harm. Axil please, darling, don't enter an action against me. Will you agree to this, lay dear, for me to stay away from you while I an, in the army, and when I have finished my time then come and join you, dear? Will you agree to that—because I have not dons you any harm, dear! lam very sorry for whet I have done, dear. Don't send my things till after I know my punishment, dear, but I don't suppose I shall be sent to the cells; at least I hope not. aU my own silly fault, and lam suffering for it, God knows. Don't forget to send me a photo of your darling face, so I can see you sometimes. I shall have to kiss your photo, dear, and fancy it's my dear wile, one that's been good and kind to me, and I have not served her as I ought, and now I ana Can out—calet out. Is it for ever, dear ; and will my Nell have • little pity on me and I shall be her's if lain a good boy wheal have finished soldiering ?" The letter was on the letter-paper of Albany Street Barracks, and was signed "You. lovingly, nharlie." _  Alice Cox said that the husband often visited his wife. On the 23rd there was a little quarreling between them—the first that witness had hear-I. Palice-Conatable Forner,of the Windsor Borough Force, gave evidence that about 9.2000 Sunday, Wooldridgo came to him in Peascod Street, and said, "Take me ; I have killed my wife." Witness cautioned him, and he said, " I've killed her right enough—l've cut her throat with a raz,ir. I expect she's dead by this time." Bin bands were covered with blood. Witness took him into custody, and on the way to the station he said if he hadn't dropped the razor he would have cut his own throat too. He raid that hie wife had been "carrying on tine games," and that she had "a young lawyer in tow." He told wiliness that in the parlour of 21, Alma Terrace be would find a paper. Police-oonstable Miles produced Wooldridge's letter given above, of which the Coroner read &portion to the jury. Miles stated that he found it in a box in the house with another written 'oy the deceased to Wooldridge's colonel complaining of hie violence. It had not teen posted ; but it was evident from Wooldridge'e letter that he knew she had contemplated making such a complaint. The jix, returned a verdict of "Wilful murder" against Wooldridge,
The Telegram. — 1896-09-01 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

FIXTURES.  BUSINESS ANNOUNCEMENTS.  tile Celggram  (*odium star, WEYMOUTH, DORCHESTER, & YEOVIL TOVIDAY, Sin.rimpint 1, 1896.  LtBERALISM AT WEYMOUTHLast week we called attention to an announcement of a great Liberal bazaar and ' fancy fair, and a Masi meeting of Liberals, which are to be held in the spaciousUubilee 1 Hall on the 14th, 15th, and 16th of September. We hope next week to be able to give further details, which we trust may rally the party, not only at Weymouth belt also at Portland, Dorchester, and dther parts of South Dorset. Liberals may be quite certain that PO long as there is a Tory Government in power, and 'the Brummagen Apostate from Radicalism and hishenchmea. are ready to do their bidding, there will be plenty of need to defend the liberties. we have gained against fresh encroachments. The audacious attempt to sthrve the best elementary schools in the country, and that in face of the superior education which enables foreigners, and especially the Germans, to compete so successfilly with us—has been frustrated for the time. But the battle may be renewed in another session, and it behoves all who are opposed to handing over the edric!ation of our children to the control of the priest to put on their armour and prepare for the conflict The thin end of the wedge of Protection has already been inserted in the Cattle Diseases Bill, or, as it has been more correctly described, the Dear Meat Bill, the object of which was to raise the price of meat by forbidding the importation of all foreign live cattle into this country. Having regard to the utterances of the Brummagem Retiegade before referred to, we shall not be surprised .if a measure be introduced next session in favour of a 5s duty on foreign corn. Wc venture to predict, however, tilat in the event of the Government" trying it on," they will cause an agitation from one end of the kingdom to the other before which that on their Education Bill will sink into utter insignificance. As mere political partizans, we could desire nothing* better than such a proposal; but as patriots and lovers of peaceful progress we hope the Government will not be so fatuous as to make it.  As to foreign policy, if the wanton invasion of the Soudan and the wholesale slaughter•of its unoffending people should turn out to be successful, it Must ever be a blot on the escutcheon of England ; whilst disaster or failure woulsi write " Ichabod " on the boasted superiority of Lord Salisbury's foreign policy. The crime of the Jameson Raid, with its terrible sequel murder and slaughter, has not pat been  adequately punished, and never will be until the arch-oonspirator of Cape Town has been made to " face the music " in a court of justice. lithe conscience of England is not scared by Jingoism, it will demand that no man shall be permitted to bring.dishonour upon the country and drag its flag in the ; mire with impunity.
The Herald of Wales and Monmouthshire Recorder. — 1883-10-06 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

ADVIINTUBE WITH A CANNIBAL.  While Franklin was on his journey, in search of assistance, terrible scenes were enacted in the encampment of Dr. Richardson and his friends. Two of the men died but an addition was made to the party by the arrival of one Michel, an Iroquois Indian, who hid started if with Franklin, but had fallen back, being, as he said, unal le to proceed. He was one of four (as it subsequently became known) who had been left on the mad but the other three were tie.. er heard of again. When Michel arrived he brought with him some pieces of flesh, which he said were parts of a wolf be had killed on his journey. He soon became gloomy and sullen and his manner excited suspicion,for it was observed that while others were fading away from starvation, he was strong and robust, and capable of hunting. He refused to assist in collecting tripe-de-mat, or in searching for food, and as poor Hood was lying in the tent unable to move, and apparently nearto death, the doctor and Hepburn were bound to go out themselves to try and obtain some supplies. One day.when they were so occupied, they were startled by the sound of a gun fired in the tent, and rushing in, they found their brave, noble comrade lying dead, and killed by a bullet through the head. Michel, 'the Iroquois, was at the tent when the gun was discharged; a d then seeing the faces of his companions, said incautiously, "Do you suppose I murdered him ?" Neither Riche' dein nor Hepburn dared to utter a word,but they both felt their worst suspicions confirmed. They were satisfied that the fifth Michel had brought with him was not wolf's, but human flesh, parts of the bodies of those who had fallen in Franklin's party ; they felt sure that Hood had been murdered by Michel, for the bullet had entered at the back of the head, and they did not übt that they wee • reserved for the same fate. A situatien more terrible can scarcely be conceived. Three days after the murder of Hood, the three survivor., Richardson, Ilepbutn, and Michel, started off ostensibly to make their way towards Fort Enterprise, but the two doomed men felt mora.ly certaiu that they would never reach that place—they knew that with the daninatory evidence of guilt they had, Michel would never allow that. On the first day of their march Michel stvyed behind for a little while on the pretext of gathering sotne tripe.de-roehr. Richardson's suspicion's were at once exceed. He resolved in a moment on the course he would mime. Michel was approaching. Richardsou turned to meet him, and taking fnen his bosom a loaded pistol fired its contents into the head of the fiend in human guise, who fell dead at his feet. It was a step not taken one moment too Bien, for they found th,a shirhel had not gathered any tripc-dc-rochr, but he had loaded his gun. The two then set forward together on their journey, and atter a terrible march at last arrite iit, Fort Enterprise.—Hernes of Britain in Prace ltal War.
The Herald of Wales and Monmouthshire Recorder. — 1883-01-27 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

THE DUBLIN ARRESTS.  REPORTED PLOT TO ASSASSINIAII  MR. FORSTER.  EXTRAMIDINARY STATEMENT.  Some remarkable statements are made by the Dublin correspondent of the Bostow (U.S.) Herald, who telegraphs as follows to that paper: Boma of the moat extraordinary evidence on record may be expected during the trials of the prisoners who were arrested in Dublin on the 12th. I have been carefully searching the basis on which those arrests were under. taken, and I have succeeded in getting more remarkable material than I had imagined was in existence. Now, beyond doubt, some member of the secret ergo. .nisstion has gone back on his firmer associatee' for motives either of gain or terror, and is doing his best to bring them to prison. No other theory can explain the information now held by the police. Cs stately it is a fact that a greet organieation exists for the purpose of harassing the Government by any means. I have reason to know absolutely that evidence will be procured during the trial chewing two attempts on Mr. Forster's life, each of which failed owing to a very slight hitch in passing the signals among the assassins. Mr. Forster came I out of the Castle to , take an evening drive in the I Pl.cenix Park. A man opposite the door wiped his face with a handkerchief. Another man a hundred yards away did the name thing. A third at an equal distance repeated the face wiping, and 83 on for fully a mile and a half to the Park gate. A sentinel at this point was off duty for a moment, and neglected to pass the signal inside, wiple a car with the murderers was weiting.HenceMr. Foster escaped. The same failure occurred the other time with another portion of the chain of sentinels, The police have reason to believe that the patties who were waiting to kill Mr. Forster were the 8812118 who killed Lord Cavendish. The evidence is growing that Delaney is the traitor who has given the information leading to these arrests. The Government have offered £5,000 and a free pardon to whoever be.. trays the parties implicated. Delaney has just been sentenced to 10 years' penal servitude. It is thought he hopes for pardon and to escape with the reward.' Whelan, whose house was searched first, and where the first raid wag made, has since been wrested. He is now in gaol. The police think that the attack upon Mr. Field Was not made by the same persons who murdered L ,rd Cavendish, but that it was planned by the same heed. 'lhey think they have the right men in custody. The opposition party still think nothin4 serious has been divulged. Their notion is that the whole has been got up to Influence the Mallow election, where the hottest contest for five years is now progressing. The prisoners, they say, have been brought up shortly before the voting takes place. The evidence for the prosecution has been taken, and no cppfatunity for rebuttal is given until after the election is over. This suggestion is plausible, but it hardly explains the extraordinary confidence of the police.
The Herald of Wales and Monmouthshire Recorder. — 1883-07-14 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

TESTIMONY.  "If it was natural to expect that the number of able Protestant ministers would have been but small for some years after the sudden enfox cement of Protestantism by an Act of Parliament upon a popish nation, yet an improvement might have been reasonably expected in Coll, se of time; but history proves the contrary. Dr. William Hughes, Bishop of St. Asaph, was accused, in the year 1587, of misgoverning his diocese, and of tolerating the most disgraceful abuse. When the case was inquired into. it 1/11.4 found that the bishop himself held 16 itch livings in ' commendam ' ; that most of the great livings were in the possession of persons who lived out of the country; that one pet sun, who had two of the greatest livings in the diocese, boarded in an ale-house; and that only three preachers resided upon their livings ; viz., Dr. David rowell, of Ruabon, Dr. William Morgan of Llanrhiadr-y-Mochnant, and the parson of Llanvechan, an aged man about B,t : years old. The testimony of our pious, earnest, and martyred countryman John Penry, fully conerms these glaring facts. Wales is said to be in a tolerable condition, for it hath many preachers of a long time. The more the shame, then, for them that it hath no more teaching. This I dare affirm and stand to, that if a view of all the registries in Wales be taken, the name of that shire, that town, or of that parish, cannot be found, where, for the space of six years together, within these 29 years, a godly and learned minister bath executed the duty of a faithful teacher, and approved his ministry in any mean sort. And what, then, shou7d you tell me of abbey lubbeis, who take no pains, though they be able ? If I utter an untruth, let me be reproved, and suffer as a slanderer; if a truth, why shall I not be allowed ? I know very well that to speak anything at all in these days against clergymen is to speak in Bethel with poor Amos to prophesy in the king's court, and so to be busy in matters of state. Miserable days ! Into what times are we fallen, that tides es and murders of souls, the very patterns and patrons of all COVetOliSnl as, proud and more t an Pope-like tyrants, the very defeaters of God's truth, unlearned dolts, blind guides, unsea,obett and unsavoury salt, drunkat ds, adulterers, foxes and wolves, mire and puddle, to be bricf, the very swim-sty of all uncleanness, and the very ignomiLy and reproach of the r d cannot be spoken agaimat, but this will be straightways made a matter against the state. And, thou-fore, all the misery, all the il.,mortince, all the profaneness in life and conversation, bath been, for the most part, by means our bishops and our other blind guides; yet may not a man affirm so much with any safety, lest be be said to be a mutinous and factious fellow, and one that troubleth the state." These are grand words—grand after the lapse  • Londou : J. tinov and Co.
The Herald of Wales and Monmouthshire Recorder. — 1883-12-22 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

TWO MEN STABBED, ONE FATALLY. A fatal tight took place in Cardiff on Swart:ay night. Two seamen, named retipeetivrly Anderson tuid McGee, who had been drinking together at. the Bete Cone public house, left there at I h.:yen o'eleck and proceeded to their lodgings at a boat ding house in Christina-street, kept by a marri, d woman named Peden. When close to their balgings they were attracted by the voice of their latid!,dy, and on arriving there they found in the bense two seamen named Edward and David O'lb km, These MOll had no apparent puipos in going to the boarding house. They, nevi rtheless. walked about the , house as though they lived there, and the land, lady was endeavouring to eject the O'Briens front her premises. Me'Dee and Anderson asked what was the matter, and Mrs. Pedal told them, whereupon they remonstrated with the interlopers, who at once turned on the lodgers, and a fight commenced. In the course of the scuffle all the men got into the staeet, where the fight was. renewed. Andersen was attacked by both the O'Briens, one of whom, tetcording to a statement of Mrs. Pedeb's boy, who saw the , occurrence, stabbed Anderson with a knife. ! Both men afterwards attacked Mu-Gee. Mrs. Pedell's daughter fetched her mother a stick, and with this st.e belaboured David O'Brien ' across the head. Ile however, took the stick from her, and bat both her and daughter with it. A desperate tight now ensued, in which Edward O'Brien got McGee down, and stabbed him. The lad before imntioned kicked the : knife from O'Bri n's hand, but Le reined it again. and with it inflicted a dreadful wound with it in 11: eGee's abdomen. By this time 1 Anderson had been taken to the inthinary. Metiee managed to crawl up to bed, but when the ectious nature of his injuries were atatsrtaMed he was dispatched to the infirmary in a cab. Andersen was found to be suffering frena four or five &eau stabs in the bad:, but was , not considered to be in a critical condition. McGee Lad a wound on the shoulder as well as another in the abdomen, and from the first, his case was looked upon tom hopeless. So serious was hiaeondition on Sunday morning that it was found necessary to take his depositions. The unfortunate man continued to sink until about ball:past three o'clock on Sunday afternoon when he died. The O'Briens sueceeded in getting away on Saturday night, but on the pollee being informed of the occurrence a vigorous search for the men was made, ending in their apprehension on Sunday morning. Three other men have also been arrested, on suspicion of having taken part in the affray, their names being- John Crawley, John Wetcheit and Peter Gorman. So little did the prisoners feel their terrible position that on Sunday they amused themstlets by singing and laughing. The O'Briens are brothers, and are said to hail from Gloucester. The murdered man was 28 years of age, and a native of New York. Anderson's injuries are not of a serious nature, and. his speedy recovery is expected.
The Herald of Wales and Monmouthshire Recorder. — 1883-09-22 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

ROYANCS OF THZ CATSKILL MOUNTAINS.  Ti 1706 Francis Salisbiry built a fine house— still standing--on his share of the land bought by Dutch and English gentlemen from Mahak-Nem Maw and his six hftdruea,representatives of an Indian tribe who had been for years in possession of the Catskills. After Salisbury's occupation there lived in this house a man whose life included a romance which . Hawthorne would have illumined with _ _ _  his weirdest faneies. He was a person of Mange and arbitrary temper, and so in used a slave or bound girl in his Benin's that she fled from the old house, Aided, it was supposed, by her lover, a young Dutch settler. Infuriated by her escape, her master rude up the mountains in search of her, discovering the girl at mghtfalL He tied her to the tail of his horse and started furiously back to CatskilL As might be expected, the bores dashed the unfortunate girl to pieces on the cocks; and 'slight as was the law of the land it foand means to arrest the murderer and put him on pnblic trial. His family united political power with great wealth, and when the man was justly condemned to death they obtained a respite of the mintenoe. But herein lies the CliriOUN part of the story. The decree of the magistrates was that he els wild be publicly hung in his ninety-ninth year, and meanwhile he was condemned to wear about his neck a _ .  halter that all might know him to be a murderer d.oned to death. From this time forth the criminal lived in a strange and gloomy seclusion, rawly coming into the village of Catalan, isolating himself from his fellow-creatures, but doggedly wearing his h:Jter, which on certain occasions had to be shewn in public. Until quite recently there lived in Catskill aged people who could remember having seen this strange recluse wearing his halter, and, singular as it seciuti, be actually lived to complete his hundredth year! But times had changed. King George's rule gone, the new order of things seems to have swept into oblivion the curiousdecree of that colonial magistrate, owl the unhappy owner of the Salisbury house was left t, die in his 14.; but his singular story affected the heighlxstrhood, as might be expected, with a belief that tlw in use was haunted, and strange tales used to be told 14' :1 spectral horse and rider, with the shrieltit.g, fi !tire of a girl flung from it. One old lady told n, that when a child she used to live in terror of the peaceful spot where the Salisbury house stands, t.evly believing that its ghostly occupant, with a , der snout his shrivelled neck, could at any moment Mohthly.  A. minister once asked a condemned criminal in a P I, " 'll It kind of a conscience have you ?" " good as new," teplied the prisoner, " for I have never timid ' tat, l'roNerb : The moment a man is satisfied with
The Herald of Wales and Monmouthshire Recorder. — 1883-05-05 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

THURSDLY-o.l(litlitry lets, 1251. • 2nds 955. ; 3rds, 765.; 4ths, 513 a. Kegs, 4the, 49e. Mild cured firkins, fine, mild, 130 s. • fine, 1075.; 'kegs, fine mild, 1308. In market, 1,173 firkins, 16 kegs, 24 mild  The funeral ( f the late Lord Vernon is to take place on Saturday afternoon next, at Sudbury, near Derby. _  _ The prisoners ebarged with the dynamite conspiracy were again brought up at Bow street on Thursday. The depositions were read over, whic% occupied a considerable time. It is stated from Paris that a scheme is being Trepa-ed for the establishment of a pneumatie pit, that is, pr etal communication chiefly by pre sure of the air, in the French capltal I A telegram fi om Petersburg, dated May 2, states :—Just nine days ago an affray tcok place between the mill har,ds in Jirard's factory, near Warsaw, and the troops. It SaCMII that the discontent of the wca kmen was caused by a reduction in their wages, and die action of the soldiery, resulting in three men being killed and two wounded, was neces-itated by a desperate attempt to rescue ten of the strikers who had been arrested for disobeying the order of the police to disperse. The troops first used blank / cartridge to frighten the mob; but finding this , trick of no avail, they then fired ball cartiidga, with fatal effect. '  The National Rite Association have entered into a contract for the laying down of ac electric railway at Wimbledon during the July meeting. It will be a mile in length.  aa The "Times " says :—" The banquet held at the Westminster Aquarium on Welnesday night must have b.:en entirely satisfactory to its originators. The National Liberal Club differs mainly from earlier attempts to organize party opinion in the magnitude of the scale and the breadth of the basis adopted. There is no reason ti doubt that it will serve the purposes for which it is intended. It will multiply the roints of contract between Liberal politicians in Parham ant, and the Liberal party in the constimen is : and will ke.,p party feeling in a , tta o of general warmth.' A "Standard" telt wum from Sierra Leone cm Wecinet.al ty alp :—"News has been re' c -iced from tho ucting 1.1 namandant of Sberbo, . that the chief Oral ow and his warriors have invaded the British territory and captured the town of Ramjsh, near Camalay, on Boot river. I They murdered many inhabitants, and those that have not escaped into the coast have been sent iato the interior to be sold as slaves. Gabon. I has strongly fortified the town, and has built a I war fense, and is pillagi..g the adjacent towns. I The deputy Governor and staff, with 150 constabulary, armed with guilders, and two six pounders, have left for Bongub, and a tough tight is expected. How Marvellously are the Deadly Diseases— Dropsy, Wind, Asthma. Palpitation of Heart,. Scantiness of Water, Swellings, etc., cured when taking Hughes' Patent Dropsy Pills. W. advise all enterers to give them a trial sea everywhere at la. ltd., Xe. ltd., said 4a. dd.