Blandford, Wimborne and Poole Telegram. — 1876-02-11 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

CAMBRIDGESHIRE. o little exeitement prevails iiitiongst the members of the Cambridgeshire Hunt, owing to the wholesale destruc:ton. of hounds iitid foxes this season by poison in one .partmular part of the hunt, viz., in the neighbourhood of Longstowe, a parish situated close to Caxton, the kennels •of the Cambridgeshire Hunt. It is stated that during the past season no fewer than nine hounds, two foxes. a cat, .and two jackdaws have been known to h ivc died from poison. One of the dogs was cxaiu.iuul Ind tested for poison, and strychnine in rabbit's awl bullock's liver fresh .swallowed was found. tine fox was :inalyzed, and found to have died from arsenic, and the fox was proved to have died from strychnine in freshly swallowed rabbit. The worst case was, by the fortuniaci suspicion of a woman, prevented from poisoning a family. A working man picked up a fresh rabbit near his house, and desired his wife to cook it, but she refused to do so, as it might be a bait for poisoning. Some of the rabbit was given to the cat, and to two tame jackdaws, all of whom died from the effect. No certain knowledge is possessed it who the miscreant is that has done these dastardly and dangerous arts; but circumstances lead to very strong suspicions being entertained against the .keeper of a certain gentleman in that neighbourhood, who last Reason made a threat to the secretary of the Hunt that there should be no foxes there.  STOKES AND THE WHITECHAPEL MURDE/€3, At the meeting of the Psychological Society onThuriday night—Mr. Serjeant Cox presiding—the secretary, Mr. F. K. Munton, read the report of an interview which he had with the man Stokes, for the purpose of sifting the evidence as to the voices which Stokes said had informed him of the murder of Harriet Lane. He found the witness to be intelligent, and by no means so illiterate as the public reports of his evidence would indicate, He stated that he himself was the author of his published letter, which was thought to be beyond his powers of diction—he intended it to be private, and did not know how or why the goal authorities permitted its publication. From Stokes' narrative it appeared that he fancied himself possessed of a kind of "semnd sight," as the Scotch call it: he imagined that whenever he dreamed of his deceased mother, trouble of some kind followed. On the night before the eventful Saturday when Wainwright was taken into custotly, he had a vivid dream of conversing with his mother; he was consequently depressed, and in the course of the day told his wife that he was out of sorts, had no appetite, and was sure that something unpleasant was going to happen. Later in the day, when he looked at the horrible parcel, he he seemed to hear a distinct voice by his side say three times—" Open that parcel!" lie could have sworn that somebody behind him uttered the words, and turned round to look, but could see no one, and tried to dismiss the thing as absurd. Thevoice startled hint again with the same words, lie opened the parcel, and could never forget the horrible feeling that crept over him when he saw its contents, He closed it up, and Wainwright noticed his confusion, saying, "What's the matter 1 You haven't touched that parcel, have your To this he replied, "I don't feel well, and have hail no tea." Wainwright said, " M'hy, it isn't time yet," and he (Stokes) replied, " Ah, but I didn't get my dinner either." Stokes adds that he did not attempt to explain to the Court several things, because if he made the slightest mistake the lawyers badgered him so that he was afraid to say anything.