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The Poole Telegram. — 1882-03-03 (Poole, Dorset, England)

MORE MURDERS.  A murder, which is directly attributed to the Fenian or ganisation, was committed in Dublin late on Saturday night. A constable, bearing groans in Skipperstalley, a squalid thoroughfare near Cookstreet, went thither and found a man lying on the pavement bleeding from severe wounds in the head. He was removed to the hospital, but died on the way. A medical examination showed that he had been shot through the brain, a second shot having fractured his chetk bone. He was subsequently identified as a labourer, named Bernard Bailey, aged 35, who gave the police information regarding the storage of arms by Fenians, the murder being in revenge, At Ballyhaunis, on Saturday, Martin Cunnane, secretary of the Lake Behan Land League, his son Patrick Cunnane, Patrick Finn, and three brothers named Brennan, were arrested in connection with the murder of Joseph Fraeby. Other arrests are expected. The murder was perpetrated at a place called Balydrehod. The victim's father was a member of the local branch of the late Land League, and a popular man in the neighbourhood, until it became known that he had paid his rent. The fate wh;ch has met the un • loitunate young man was apparently not intended for him, as the party broke in the door, and, it is said, shouted for the "Traitor who paid his rent !" They then weat into the room where the young man was sleeping with two young brothels, and, not finding the father, they seized the son, dragged 11 him outside, and eut•jected him to the vilest usage. He then made his escape into a house, where he was followed, and once more dragged out, when two shots were heard, which must have instantly put an end to the life struggle, f• r the Bev. J. Kennedy, C.C., who was promptly on the scene, found him lifeless, with a large wound in his right breast. The neighbourhood has hitherto been remarkable for tranquillity.  It is stated that the Government are in possession of information which leads to the belief that a conspiracy of a serious character has been In ouoht to light in the district of Tulle. Fourteen arrests for treason-felony have already been mode, and it is stated that an informer has supplied the Government with full information as to the doing of the alleged conspirators. More arrests are exptc'ed to follow. In view of an anticir a'ed attack on the county Lime' ick gaol, the military guard stationed there haS been increasad. Within the prison and also outs ide, by stay and night, military sentinels are on duty, and i the whole prison s closely watched by the military. The constabulary are actively engaged in different districts of Limerick and Clare searching for arise, but up to the present their labours have not been attended with any result. Private information has been given to the Government that an immense quantity of aims are accreted in places named ; but whether it is that the information is a hoax, or that the suspected ' perscns were apprised before the advent a thy wnatabuiary, vAMU can In found.
The Poole Telegram. — 1882-03-24 (Poole, Dorset, England)

THE MURDER IN FINCHLEY WOODS.  ARREST OF THE SUPPOSED MURDERER. ,  The murdered man was on Friday morning positively identified es a person named &loch Clarke; au inhabitant ofthe Korough, a companion of thieves. and supposed to be connected with one of the most deeperate gangs of burglars in or near London. As soon as the identification of the body was established, inquiries under the special direction of the Chief of the Criminal Investigation Department were rapidly pushed forward, and on Friday afternoon luspector Dodd and luspector Fox, with some constables in private clothes, surrouni'ed a house in the B trough, and arreated a man wh Roes by various aliases, but whose real name is John Baker. He is a strong, powerful man, twenty-two years of age, and he gives his trade as that of a carpenter. As aeon its the inspectors had secured hiin they at once charged him with the wilful murder of Mooch Clarke, his companion and confederate in the burglary at St. Allen's House. however, made no neistance. and he was then at once taken to the station, where the charge was road over to him. It is said ihatthereisaverystioligchuiaof evidence against hid, and probably the discoveries made will bring other eel cursive burglaries tolight The man Clarke has been missing since the time of the murder, and that at that time it was known that he and the accused wire away in the country Coln -where on a "burglary job." Tne accused man Biker leturned to the Mint alone with a quantity of plunder, and stated that Clarice, the deceased, had been captured. Hs clothes were observed to be stained with blood, and he was questioned relative to it, but he replied that he sal pursued by a mount-d patrol, who overtook him, and teat to defend himself he broke a bottle of port wine over his head, and that the stains on his clothes were those of the wine and the blood of the patroL These clothes hog ave a day or t vo after -vards to a man known as Mufliii Jack, wh o on Friday finding that Baker had been tikan into custody, confessed te the police that he aasisted Baker to remove a quantity of plunder from Finchley Wood to his lodging in the Mint, and informed them of the wher-abouta of the clothe+, which he had sold at a rae shop lir a few ponce. These ere now in the possession of the p dice, and have distinct hole id marks neon them. In-p o'er Fox, of the Criminal Investigation Department, has taken charge of them. Another person in the Mint has Riven up a pair of boots, which he says were given him by the accused, and which are belieVad to he a portion of the stolen property. A large number of the articles have been fount at several pawnbrokers in the district, and there appears very little doubt that the accused is the guilty party. It hes also transpired that Biker, the accused, has only recently undertone a term of imprisonment, and that during his incarceration Clarke, the dec -asi-d, had been living with his wife. It is thought that Baker's discovery of thia may have routed his and been a motive for the horrible crime. aker's wife was also arrested, and charged with being an accessory after the fact.
The Poole Telegram. — 1882-01-20 (Poole, Dorset, England)

THE WIMBLEDON POISONING CASE.  The adjmrned inquest on the body of Percy Malcolm John wee resumed on Friday. before Mr. G. H. Hull, coroner, at the Drill Hall, Wimbledon, which i 4 almo,t immediately opposite the scene of the poisoning. Mr. St. John Wontner was present on behalf of the Public Prosecutor; Mr. Gladstone appeared for Dr. Lamson.  Dr. Stephenson was the first witness called. He said he received on the 9th of December from Dr. Bond pill 4, powders, and the contents of the stomach of the deceased for analysis. The cake, sherry, awl capsules, with the medicinal wafers sent to him by Dr. DuptiS, were free from poison, as were also some quinine pale. He found aconitine in three of the quinine powders. Ile believed as the result of his examination of the viscera, exc.. of the deceased that death was probably caused by the action of the aconitine. Aconitia caused death by paralysing the heart. One-sixteenth of a grain was sufficient to cause death.  Dr. Dupr6, who assisted Dr. Stephenson in the analysis, confirmed that gentleman's evidence. The amount of aconitine found was, he had no doubt, censiderably more than sufficient to cause death. A tenth of a grain was usually considered a fatal dose, but the witness was of opinion that the deceased must have taken considerably more than a grain of aconitia. In answer to a juryman, Dr. Dupr é said in one of the p waders they found sufficient for eight fatal doses. The coroner said his Bumming up would be very short. He should point out that Dr. Lamson would obtain money by the death of the deceased through his wife. It was clear that he had attempted to take the life of the deceased by pills and powders, and, finding they had no effect, he must have gone down himself, evidently intending to see that the poor boy did take the poison. It was proved that he bought two grains of aconite, that he did go down to Willis bledon, and that he gave to the deceased a capsule containing sugar and undoubtedly aconite as well, because very soon afterwards the boy was taken aetiousiy ill, and died with symptoms which the medical men desc Med as those of aconite poisoning. All the evidence pointed to one man, and to one man alone. If they believed Dr. Lamson did put aconite in the capsule on the 3rd December, they had but one verdict to return, namely, that he wilfully and maliciously murdered Percy Malcolm John. The jury returned the following verdict :--We find a verdict of wilful murder against George Henry Lawson, and we wish to express our sympathy with Mr. Bedbrook, and we regret that such a sad event eyelid have occurred in the establishment which he has o long and so honqurably conducted. The coroner handed his warrant for the committal of Dr. Lamson to take his trial:at thel Central Criminal Court to the superintendent of police, and the proceed. gs closed.
The Poole Telegram. — 1882-11-24 (Poole, Dorset, England)

SHOCKING MURDER AT GRAVESEND.  The terrible assault committed on Sunday night at the Pavilion Subscription Grounds, Gravesend, upon the person of Mr. Thomas Eves, the proprietor of the Gardens, has, as was from the first anticipated by the surgeons, resulted fatally, an I a lad named William Clarke, aged between 16 and 17 years, who had been In the empl yule t of the deceased for the pat three or four mouths, as ostler and messenger, is in custody on the charge of wilful murder. Mr. Eves never recovered consciousness after his adroie-tion to the local Infirmary on Sunday ori;ht. anti died at 6 a.m. on ruerday. The operation of trephining was ineff, etually perfortned, ond revealed a ter, ibis fracture of the arra, extending horizontally tor nine inches. The lad Clarke is a native of alanitoba, and has been In the sortie° of the murdered man since his arrival In England. Ho lived at the house of Mr. Eves in Pelham-road, and at half p tst six on Sunday evening he was sent with his master's tea to the office at the Pavilion, where Mr. Eves had been staying throughout the day. At 10 o'clock Clarke returned home, apparently very much agitated, and told Mrs. Eves that he could not find her husband. He, however, accompanied Mr. Eves, jun., arid P.C. Easton to search for the nisidng man in the Pavilion grounds, where, in an outhou-e, grievously bruised, and bleeding profusely from several wounds in the head, the poor man was discovered speechless, and in a chard condition, being quite unable to give aey account of the manner in which he had received his injuries. Clarke was arrested on Wednesday morning. On examination being made of the clothes tie had worn on Sunday, a number of spots and oplasht s of bloo I (as though from a spurting wound) were found on his cot-sleeve, shirt-sleeves, and other garments, and he himself has a recent swelling on tire hatarl. The blood-stains have been washed in an attempt to remove their traces. A close dc-utiuy of the scene of the murder was made on I,Verlneslay by Superiritendent Berry alai the police under hie, and disclosed the fact that a prolonged struggle took plies between the deceased and his assailard, for tilt re ate tract sofa violent enc ttinter In at hest two plac.s five yards apart. Mr. Eves was a slight y-built man. the recovery o his hat—.\ hard felt—deeply indebted at the tr..rk, iodicates that he Must have been struck from b-hint with great force with some heavy iustrument, &lawn th no such weapon has as yet c .uurs to light. Clarke, it is stated, had in the hearing of a fellow-servant, once threa.eited to "do for the old man," who had scolded him on several occasions, Traces of nailed boot., such as wet e worn by the prisoner, h tate ben found in the vicinity of the etruggle.—Clarke, who is a power furl lad for his years, will be brought up this morning before the borough magistrates, and the inquest will be opened at two this aftertro in, before Mr. W. G, Penman, the Gravesend coroner.
The Poole Telegram. — 1882-05-12 (Poole, Dorset, England)

TERDICT AND SENTENCE.  On Wednesday. amsrw;;;;;;;;u---m-e-41-.. Prior to continuing the trial of Brand. Richard Rycreft, 19. the second hand on Brand's fishing-smack, was put to the bar. charged with doing grievous bodily harm to William Pepper. He pleaded guilty to a common assault, and Mr. Weddy accepted that plea on behalf of the Crown. The Judge directed the jury to acquit Rycrof I on the other charge. The sentence upon him was three months' hard labour. The proceedings in 0. Brand's case were then resunied with the examination of one of the craw named Blackburn. He admitted that sometimes prisoner had ihown kindness to deceased. He said the crosstreas were 13 feet ebove the deck, and the lad would have been hoisted that height if the trees had not broken. The prisoner kept hitting deceased with a thick stick all the while he was being hosted out of the dill-hole. David Gates, two yr ars an apprentice to Brand, was the next witness, and began by deposing to the rope-beating oaf Spurn Island, and said from that day to Friday before Christmas Day the prisoner thrashed deceased more or less every day. On one occasion Brand thrashed the lad ten or fifteen minutes, and then threw 20 buckets of water over him. One day he put the jib tackle rope round Pepper's neck, saying, "I'll finish you," and drew both ends tight. Mr. Kershaw said the deceased had, according to the usual discipline, been punished for disobedience, no doubt ; but the skipper had no idea that the boy wee so extremely weak, and he suspected him of shamming. The learned cmin-el strongly insisted that a verdict of manslaughter would amply meet the justice of the case. The Judge, in his summing up, remarked that it was a simple case, but one the gravity and solemnity of which were enough to prevent the jury from giving way to prejudice. He doubted whether there was any alternative but an acquittal or murder, for it was difficult to see that the deceased had done anything calling for correction. His lordship said he would not distress the jury by going over the dotails of the cruelty; nor would he trust himself to speak about any of the more flagrant and inhuman deeds of which they had heard. He put it to the jury whether they could come to any other c inclusion than that the prisoner abused, and El) excessively Injured , this lad that be took sway his life in a way which made him responsible for it, and so as to make him guilty of the high crime of murder. His lordship, however, mentioned with emphasis, in order to assist the jury in finding out a motive, that when the lad appeared to be in artieulo faunae, and Blackburn recommended that brandy should be given to him, the prisoner said he would not broach a bottle of brandy for an,rhselhuray 63r:tired for ten minutes. PIA then returned a verdict of Guilty. The prisoner, on being called upon, said, "I am not guilty of wilful murder, your worship." The Judge said the crime was the most atrocious he ever heard of, and the evidence must have carried conviction to all who heard it. Sentence of death was then passed in the usual tom, his lordship holding out no hope of mercy.
The Poole Telegram. — 1882-05-12 (Poole, Dorset, England)

THI ASSASSINATIONS IN IZELAND.—For many a long year Poole has never exue ienc,d such a shock as It did on Sunday, when the news reached here of the fiendish murder. of Lord Frederick Cavendish sod Mr. Burke. A deep depression seemed to pervade everyone so. if indeed a near relative hod been one of the vicl line. Lord Cavendish, the short time he was in Poole, when advocatin4 Mr Waring's candidature, seems to have won the kindly appreciation of all by his genial and gentlemanly bearing. Of course, there were people of the class, which the late Lord Chief Justice Cockburn r udered famona for ever In his charge to the Tichborne jury, who "put it down" to Gladstone. What will not these individuals lay at the door of the Premier? I should not be surprised if some of them did n 1 regard the eclipse of the sun on the 17th—that is if they get up early enough to see it --e• a Providential manifestation against the Liberal MAQISTRATIs I--At the petty sessions last week there were three cases for hearing, one a nerione one, but they could not be dealt with, because only one magistrate was present. As we have some 26 justices on the list, this seems hardly excusable. It would appear to point the moral that the elevation of gentlemen engaged in business to the benoh is a mi— take. At the same time probably the unprejudiced observer will have noticed that when there is anything at all " epicey " on the boards there is no lack of learned administrators of the law.  But we are not worse off in thi4 respect than in the county. On the same day the Cranbrrne Petty Semitic@ were—or rather ought to have been—held. There were 17 summonses to to be dealt with. Not " a worThip " was be had for love or money, until, after about two hours polies-ferreting, one wet un-earthed—an appropriate expreadon locking at the state at the gentleman 'e boots—and all the cases were adjourned for a month. Now, the greater part of the summonses had been taken out by the School 13Jard, and some of the poor people had come seven miles to appear to them. It seems simply abominable that the attendant hardships of a School Board should 13,, multiplied by gentlemen neglecting duties they have undertaken.  On the following day, at Wimborne, the magistrates took their seats at halfpast one. The appointed hour is twelve. The oba man apologised to the only legal gentleman present for their unpunctuality, and explained they had been engaged at the Highway Board. But how about those who had business before them. Surely they might be considered. We cannot expect magistrates like Sir Miles Roche's famous bird to be in two places at once, hut they might arrange their fixtures so that they do not clash.  BRAnuiroa.—l understand a petition in favour of Mr. Bradlaugh taking his seat in the House has just been sent away from here. Mr. New had " the Ettting of it up," and he obtained over 300 signatures. Those who put their names to it were men capable of thinking, not the mere boys and girls who go in for the Sunday Closing Movement.  S kIIBAT A RI A
The Poole Telegram. — 1882-04-21 (Poole, Dorset, England)

APRIL 21. Mt  ebbs anb eels.  Videod.—The ultimate fate of the wretched Lamson naturally excites a considerable tr• _ interest in Poole and its neighbourhow' -oonnt of there is much to be said both fc- No doubt and against the •convict, who, if—and there is '0" In most case he was responsible for his • oetiOns at the time, has beeu 4ighteously found guilty of one of the most dastardly ..deeds +' Ale annals of criminal litemture can show- we "..:os, on the one hand, the damning facts that Lar:oon was driven to the verge of despair for motley, and the dealt of the poor lad, Malcolm John, Would ultimately bring him in a sum—paltry to a man who had been in the habit of keeping four servants, and mixing in the best society that Bournemouth could a/ford—of about £1,500. On the other, there is the outrageously Imbecile administration of the poison—for that is not now disputed. Had Lamson called in the schoolmaster and said—" I ate about to give your pupil two grains of as rulent drug—the one-sixteenth of grain of which is sufficient to cause death—in order that after a deal of legal delay and expense, my wife may become possessed of the £1,500, which at present stand to his credit at the bank," he would net have acted in a more brainless, irreconcilable with ordinary common sena°, manner than he did when he paid that fatal visit to Wimbledon.  attif  The only fear that all tight.think'ng or reflective persons must experience is that perhaps the Home Secretary may allow himself to be badgered into a decision which, if no outside "Jingo" pressure were brought to bear upon him, he would not arrive at. The two respites of the criminal are made capital of by Tory newspapers, as evidencing a timid desire on Sir William Hereon' t's part to be on good terms with America. This, of course, is preposterous. All that has been done in this matter of life and death is what is done every day by magistrates in adjudicating upon the most trumpery of assault cases. The decision has been adjourned to enable the accused to call that ei idence in his behalf, which ho was unable to produoe at the time of trial.  That such a fear does exists we know, but, I believe, it is groundless. The Home Secretary is a man of too 'much stamina to be led to do an act which, perhaps, he might regret to the end of his life. That Lamson will have fair treatment at his hands I am perfectly convinced, in spite of the blood-thirsty howls of those who would strangle the semi-idiot in order to show cousin Jonathan that we are not to be dictated to. Believing that, I shall be terribly surpilsed if the services of the paid murderer of the State—the Hull shoemaker—are called into requisition. It would be the height of cruelty if they were, and in no civilised country could such a result be achieved save in— atria, In England.  Twit
The Poole Telegram. — 1882-06-16 (Poole, Dorset, England)

MYSTERIOUS TRAGEDY.  On Sunday ',ltem( on, a shocking tragedy was perpetrated at the village of Crosby, near Liverpool. Arthur Golding, an estate agent, gave himself up to the police, stating that he had accidentally shot dead his servant, Mary Craven, aged 20. Upon the police arriving at Golding's house, they found the deceased lying on the kitchen floor with a bullet wound in the centre of the forehead, and the brains scattered about the place, death having apparently been instantaneous. Golding's statement was that he loaded a revolver in the morning, but for what purpose has not transpired. It would apdear that the prisoner and deceased were alone in the kitchen, and that Mrs. Golding, hearings report, ran downstairs and met her husband, who told her he had shot the girl and Was going to the Police. station. On Monday, at the Magistrates' Court, Liverpool, Arthur adding was chargc d with the wilful murder of Mary Craven, who had been in his service as domestic servant. ttidipt. Welsh said that on the previous afternoon the prisoner went to the police-station at Crosby, baying in his possession the revolver produced, which wit, lmoded in five chambers. The sixth chamber had evidently been recently discharged. He said to the sergeant who was on duty there—'l was standing at the scullery-door conversing with my servant, Mary Craven, waiting for my shoes to be cleaned, when she said to me What would you do if they went to shoot you first?' I put my hand to my hip-pocket and pulled out my revolver, which I purchased, and which I had a licence to carry for selfprotection, from my next-door neighbour; and presenting it towards her, not thinking at the time it was loaded, I raised the hammer and fired, killing her on the spot. I immediately went upstairs and told my wife I had shut Mary, and that she wrs dead. It was quite an accident, as I would not have laid my hands on her for anything." In consequence of this statement the sergeant took him into custody, and at once proceeded to the house. He found the deceased lying on the scullery floor dead. The sergeant shortly afterwards charged the prisons r, and he said in reply—" I must reserve my defence ; it was purely accidental." Subsequently to that the prisoner made another and Important statement, which needed enquiry into, and, if true, showed a motive for the murder. It would be shown that Le loaded the revolver on the previous day for the puri,ose, as he alleged after the murder, of shooting a dog. After hearing formal evidence, the magistrate remanded the prisoner. The inquest was c_pened at Crosby on Tuesday. Superintendent Walsh dtposed that the prisoner stated at the police-station that he bought a revolver to defend himself against two neighbours. Witness found in deceased's box seven letters from Mrs. GoldMg bearing strongly on the case, and the enquiry was adjourned until Tuesday next to admit of their reproduction.