The Poole Telegram. — 1884-11-21 (Poole, Dorset, England)

SAD END.  An inquest was held at the Council Chamber on Friday and Sates-lay, before the 13 mough Coroner, Mr, G B. Aldridge, and a jury, of whom Mr. G. Andrews was foreman, on the body of a young girl named Jane Dare, 23, prostitute, vrho met her death by drowning on Tuesday night previous. Tne dweased, who was more famidarly known as " Ginnett," from the fact tad she came into the town with the circus of that name, was, according to a woman named Elizabeth Dawes. of Sall sbury-street, with whem she lived, a native of Maiden Newton. and she got her livelihood by prostitution. She formerly " kept company' with the young men James, who, it may perhaps he remembered, was stafthed by a Swedieh sailor, dying a few minute's alter the Indiction of the wound. Tula seems to have preyed upon her mind, and she has t sken to drinking he icily of late. On Tuesday evening she went into the house, and taking down James' likeness, kiased it and burst out crying. She then put it in her bus urn. Sir) also screamed out twice while in the street. She then lay down for a tine and afteruvsrle went out to the Po de Arms about ten ciabok. but Chilton, the landlord, seeing she haul had @WI t Mead to serve he:, 6 Id pushed ha out. Ahoht  20 minute., aft, Jan), Dear, the la ilor I of the Jolly Sailor, was n tile quay, near his et *hen he heard a splash in the water, and &Id° a c itiae of fatal's, and he could see the water bubbling. lie met a man named B ggs, who was a's concerned in the fight with the Danes, and he said he had heard the same. Upon tbat Dear remarked he ;hoes ,t HOMO one must have drowned himself, and coolly walked indoors to narrate what he had heard Mr. Dear afterwards, in comp triy with Biggs and "Uncle Brown," went across to the spot, and he then po!nted out where they would find the body if anyone was drowned.—The Coroner (severely): Yes, that was some satisfaction to you. You would get 10s. for the body, but nothing if you had saved a life. Why didn't you get the drags! Too much trouble, no doubt? —The woman's bonnet was rucked up by the side of the Q lay, and the body was after wards recovered by Thomas Pricker, a mariner.—Biggs, who had been ordered to attend, not being preeen , and it having been hinted that the deceased had given evidence against him during the hearing of the charge of murder, the Coroner adjourned the Court until the following day. On Saturday, William Alfred Biggs was examined. He said he was a fish hawker. He saw the deceased last alive on Tuesday night, between six and seven, at the Jolly Sailor. She was with another woman. She had a glass of porter, and stayed four or five minutes. She was not intoxicated, and did not complain. He came out of the Portsmouth Hoy, with Patrick Devine, a little after ten. Walking along the Quayttoad they heard a splash, but thought it was some one in a bat, and took no notice of it. Devine then left him, and Dear came up and asked him if he had heard it —Sarah Dear and Patrick Devine corroborated this.—lt should also be stated that Mary Ann B irtlett, the woman who examined the body, found no marks of injery upon it, except where the fish had eaten the face.—The Coroner having briefly summed up, the jury returned a verdict of 'Found drowned in the water of Poole Harbour." They also recommended that the Quay leaps should be placed nearer the edge of the water, at many deaths from drowning have taken plan through persons accidentally stepping overboard. Oaly a few days before a sailor in the darkness fell over. He was, however, a powerful swimmer, and was recovered, but with difficulty.