The Poole Telegram. — 1884-03-14 (Poole, Dorset, England)

CHARGE OF THREATENING TO SHOOT A SWEETHEART. At the Woolwich Police-court on Tuesday John Walter Olive, the son of a boottnaker, in business at Hare-street. Woolwich. was charge l on remand with threatening to shoot Clara Elizabeth Canty, daughter of a tobacconist ra-siiiing near Woolwich Arsenal Station. The evidence showed that the MYSTERIOUS MURDER prisoner had been assistant for three yeers past at the A discovery was made on S inday afternoon in the shop of Mrs. Canty, mother ot the proseouttlx, but metropolis which indicates that what was probably a shocking murder has been committed during the previous night. and that Burt m Crescent hoe been the acme of was discharged in consequence of his att.e.ntionsctboatiehde daughter. On the day ttf his titsmissat no pu c , another trailic mystery. It appeara that a young woman a revolver and returned to the shop. Mre. Canty, named Annie Yeats has for some time oe 'Waled a b •ea seeing the revolver, asked him if he intended to shoot room on the first floor at No. 12, Burton Crescent. She went out as usual on Saturday night with another woman tried to take it from him, and he was secu.e I by named Bilis, who resides at the same address, but the police' whereupon he said that he ntended t parted from her in the streets at one o'clock on Sunday shoot the morning. Yeats was heard t a return to the house shortly after 2 a.m..and it is supposed that she was accompinied by a man; but, so lee as is at prisent her, when he replied—" Not you, but Clara." She io girl and then himself, end that he wee jealous because another young malt csme tti,, se ner. Twenty-five known, no one Fav he enter, B-tween two and uPon him, but the revolver wss not loaded. a • three o'clock other occupants of the house heard a noise Hughes, Who lI.IW appeared for the pr,sonar, said thlt in her room, Si it she wft9 in a hysterical tit, but with the consent of the Bench the case might be no notice Was taken of the matter, and nothing was seen of the young woman un'il a quarter to one in the afteraoon, when the person Ellis went to the room to streak to Yeats, and found the door partly open. arranged to the advantage of all parties, an oppoi• tunity having been found of Rending the prisoner at once to sea.—Mr. Ralgny :Re is only a silly boy, not She entered and found a lamp still burning on a chest of a man, and a good whipping would s trve him righbto. drawers. The latter had evid.ntly been opened and But he might do mischief, and I must have bail sacked, but otherwise the room did net appear to his good behavionr.— William Olive, the prisoner's have been much disturbee. Ellis looked towards the bed. father, offered to become so erty for him, and said that but cettld only see her competaion's hoots protruding from a relative who would take him to sea. he ha beneath the bed clothes. She lemoved the latter, and • then, to her horror, ititao,vered the holly of Yeats. with a I end firmly fastened lie wßoaulgl,dlys:end ehnimyooffn wto Sionw3 hothamapntoninat once.—Mr. Tb ill I d ' £2O for his ; behind the neck. Tnere was a terrible gash on the left good conduct for six months. I would advise you he towel tied tightly ever her mouth 1 side of the heed above the tar. and the face Wee covered box his ears and brint.f him to his senses before n with blood. Ellis raised an alarm, and a medical man goes.