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The Poole Telegram. — 1882-12-22 (Poole, Dorset, England)

COWARDLY ASSAULT ON POLICEMEN.  At the County Police-court, on Saturday, before J. M. P. Montsgu and S. W. Whsthsm, Etqs., two young farm labourers, named Robert WI ixen, of Poor ton, Po werstrick, and Charles I.,sag, of North Poorton, were charged I. custody with being drunk and riot me on the previous night, and further with assaulting P.O. Brown in the execution of his duty. Prisoners pleaded sot gui;ty. P.C. Brown said he was on duty at Powerstock about 8.30 last evening, when prisoners were holloaing and swearing at the top of their vices. Be asked them to go home quietly, and he Wee then assaulted. P.C. Custard depo.el being with last witnms. and corroborated his statement. Both p,i.oners were "staggering drunk." For the defence prisoners said they were not so drunk as the witnesses made them out to be. Prt•oners were. th!n charged with tho assault.  _ P.C. Brown said that when he advised prisoners to go honie qoietly Wrixen acid "Who are you talking to( Me In and witness said "Yes." Wrixen then said "I will give you quiet, you - " and struck at him with • plough-coultar. which he hl In his hand. Witness caught the weapon (produced), which skinned portsons of his hand, hut Wrixen pulled it out of witn-Sl'd hand again, mid struck at his face three times a ith his list. He took him into cu-tidy, when ho oft ?red very desperate iesistonce. a sculls took place,,_and Legg came t toe assisten e of the other prisoner and attempted to thiow P.C.,Custont over a wall. He advised Legg to go away, but be took bold of P.C. Custard and the other prisoner. Witness took out his staff and struck him PCl*o3i the arm to snake him let go. Wrixen was handcuffed and taken to witness's home, where he Imo ked about the furniture and brace a chair. Legg came down to the house, so witness apprehended him, but he bee sme violent and kicked and bit the constable. Witness got a conveyance and brought thorn to Bridport. L igg threatened witness all the way, and Wrixen threatened to put • knife into witness as soon as he was at liberty. By the Bench : "It was Wrizen who need the coulter." P.C. Custard then gave evidence fully bearing out that given by the previous witness. In reply to the Bench, prisoners said they hid nothing to say in defence. The Chairman said that for being drunk and riotous, prisoners would eaoh have two weaks' hard labsur, but the assault on the police was a much more serious affair, and espicially as be was in the execution of his duty. Taey would take into their considerat on that Wrixen had no doubt the coulter was in his hand in the execution of big busine-s as an agriculthral labourer, but he might have killed the constable, and have been sent for trial for murder. Wrixan would have two months bard labour. Legg, who had attempted a mete and bitten the policeman, would have six weeks hard labou r, making • total of eight weeks for Legg and ten weeks for Wrixen.  --ihisiii-;ii.were removed in custody, looking Jig if they bad dot bersained spending Christmas at Dorchester. Palace.
The Poole Telegram. — 1882-09-22 (Poole, Dorset, England)

PETTY SESSIONS.  YESTERDAY. Before the Mayor (It Aldridge, Esq ), and E. Pere, N. Wt stern IT. Guth, and H. Farmer. Eine. W"liara Baker w.a bummooed tor ri 11881/Ult upon Rob, rt Saunders.  The complainant stated that on Tuesiaty hat defendant began to interrupt him as he was loading coil on the Qirry, and beat a sack about him, which he frPowed up with a blow in the fa that covered him with blood. Defendant eras-examined the complainant to show that be had previously threat rued to cut his head off with his whit). arid further struck him across the head with the 'lock, but the complainant denied this. ' Robert Edwards c trroborated Saunders' version, and "-a answer to the defend • it, eaid be saw him strike with the whip. George Coward, gave the 8%1118 desctiption of the affair. Baker's defence was that Saunders &it threatene l him and then hit him actoss the head with toe whip stock. Upon this he told him he should give him one when he came out of the waggon, and so he did, but only one. They each gave the other one. Charles 113..iere, for the defence, said he hoard the parties quarrelling about some beer, and defendant h t the complainant across the legs with a bag, as he thought, in fun, but upon that complainant hit him across the head w:th the whip and knocked him silly. Defendant then told him when he got out of the waggon he would give him one. and so he did whioh was quite right! George Baker, father of the defendant, described the affair in the same manner, end said if Saunders had gone on when he had filled his waggon, nothing would have oceurrtd, but he got down in defence. Saunders said he was bound to get down to get his rens. Defendant said his head was cut open, and he reminded the Bench that it had been said, • iftany man spills another mays blood his blood shall be spilt also I I" _ _ . . _ .  The Bench inflicted a fine of 14. and 18s. 61. ixats, or 14 days' Defendant left the Court threatening to "pitch" the complainant. Joseph Taylor, of the R.M.Y.C., was summoned by his wife, Emma Taylor. for an assault. She i•tatscl that last Friday, after Le had been away six months with the Naval Reserve, he came home and knocked her about and threatened to murder her. He struck her about the head. She wai afraid to live with him. She had tried to make his hume comfortable, but he was always knocking her at out, and she wished to bestparated from him. She had been obliged to summons him twice before. . • . . . . .  -7-I;a—newer t.) the defendant, she said she had not run him in debt. She did not threaten to stab him, and the mark on his use wee not made by her with a knife. Dsfendarrt asked for an adjoirrnment for a wank, which was gr ntrd.
The Poole Telegram. — 1882-06-02 (Poole, Dorset, England)

THE THREAT TO SHOOT THE QUEEN.  HEAVY SENTENCE.  On Friday, at the Central Criminal Court, before Mr. Justice Loms, Albert Young, 17, clerk, was charged with maliciously sending, knowing the contents thereof, a Letter to General Sir Henry P,nsonby, threatening to murder her Majesty the Queen, Prince Leopold, and other Persons. A further count in the indictmemt charged the prisoner with demanding money with menaces from Sir Henry Ponionby. The prisoner looks at least five or seven years older than he is described in the indictment, and has a largo scar extending over his left eye. The Attorney-Genetal, in opening the case, said the prisoner at the bar was until a few weeks before a teleiraph clerk in the service of the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire 11,ilway C mpany, whose offices were at Exthorp, close to Doncaster. Oa the morning of the 24'h of April a letter was delivered in the ordinary manner throu,th the pelt into the hands of Sir Henry Ponsonby, private secretary to her Majesty the Queen. That letter contained matter of a very disgraceful description, containing as it did a threat to murder the Queen and other members of her family. There would be no other question for the jury to decide in this case excvt the principal and primary one as to whether the prisoner at the bar was the person who wrote that letter or not. The Attorney.Geueral then read the letter, which was as Wows:  April 23.  fdadam.74 am a Ronan Catholic priest, and I have fifty. men in the parish who have been evicted by lands lords. These men have banded themselves together for your destruction, as they blame you for being the cause of their misery. They, however, promise to leave the country on receipt of £4O per man t) defray expenses for selves and families. This amount must be in the hands of my dup.,, through whom you will receive this, in three weeks from now, or they will conlmence operations aga,net your life. I know this is treason ; that is why I shall make use of a person of stsnding and character in England for the dupe to transmit your reply to me here in Ireland. I strongly a vise you to send me the m ,ney, as the men are desperate enough, and they will make • series of itteropta against your lire and those or your eons end daughtars, which must encoded in more than one respect. Assuredly you will not he,iitate to send what will be but a moiety out of each p Icket, if all the member.' of the Royal family subscribe among themielvts for the required amount, 'slier than endanger en teeny precious lives. Ask Prince L iopold how be wou'd like a bullet out through him on kit wedding day, of which I wish him many happy returns, and die • linzering death like Garfield. I may add that if no notice is taken of this I shall absolve them of all their misdeedsinstead of as now holding them in check by threata of excommunication. (Signed) A
The Poole Telegram. — 1886-01-01 (Poole, Dorset, England)

NOTEB FROM AMERICA.  South Dorset has not gone unnoticed by the American papers. The New York Inlay Tribune, commenting on the situation, say.:—" Henry Parkman Sturgis has succeeded in winning a seat for the Liberals in the Tory stronghold of Dorsetshire. Mr. Sturgis is a Bostonian, having been born in that city in 1847, and recently married a daughter of Viscount Hampden, late speaker of the House of Commons. Six months ago he was unlcnowp in tbe constituency he now represents, and having. defeated the local ' squire ' the rage and mortification of the Tories are i ntense. "  --the-i-World moves. -Four children of Newark, New Jersey, who have been bitten by a aupposed mad dog have been sent to Paris for treatment by the now cerebrated Dr. Pasteur. Suppose such an idea had been suggested ten years ago! The youngest of the quartette is five years old, and his mother has gone along with them as general nurse. The entire expense of this experimental trip across the ocean for inoculation for hydrophobia has been borne by voluntary contributions. America, not to say the whole world, was electrified by the intelligence of the awfully sudden death of the richest individual in the world—William H. Vanderbilt. Mr. Vanderbilt's wealth amounted to not lees than 200,000,004 or when reduced to English currency rather more than £0,000,000. "Billy, the Czar," and "The Railway Ring" were the popular titles of Mr. Vanderbilt. So vast was his fortune that he would lose and gain-millions in a day through the fluctuations of the Stock Exchange. In his will he has not been unmindful to the public, for he has bequeathed a million dollars t various charitable and other institutions. To each of his eight children he leaves ten millions apiece; his wife receives 200,000 annually for life, and also the Vanderbilt "palace" on Fifth Avenue, with all its furniture and appurtenances. The great bulk of the property goes to his eldest son, Cornelius. . .  One of the most revolting murder cases in the annals of crime is now being tried at Rome in this State. The prisoners are an Italian butoher named Tozzi, his wife, son, and daughter. The victim was a rival butcher named Poggi. The motives of ,the murder were trade jealousy and family disputes. Poggi was first entrapped into Tozzi's cellar, where he was stunned by a blow on his head, then his throat was cut, and while he was dying he was held over a tub, into which his blood flowed. Tozzi and his son then carved the body into small pieces, and the fragments were scattered in a suburban forest, the whole family assisting in the work. The murdered man's blood was afterwards boiled into black-puddings, which were sold in Tozzi's shop. All the prisoners will probably be hanged, if not lynched beforehand ; but it is pretty safe to say that black-pudding will not meet with a very ready sale in the neighbourhood of Rome for some time to come. -- _ -  H.P.M.
The Poole Telegram. — 1886-02-26 (Poole, Dorset, England)

SUPPOSED MURDER IN WARWICKSHIRE.  Police-constable Hine, a member of the Warwickshire o,nstabulary, has disappeared under circumstances which point to the perpetration of a brutal murder. Hine was last seen on duty at teno'clocit on Monday night at Fenny Compton, a —secluded Warwickshire hamlet. About devils o'clock the same night a Mrs. Emmett, who lives near the spot where the murder is supposed to have been committed, distinctly heard loud cries for assistance. The following day Hine was missed, and on Wednesday a search was instituted, which brought to light circumstances which only too conclusively show the committal of a murder. In • field adjoining the main road was found the policeman's helmet battered in and lying in a pool of blood. The stick which he usually carried was found lying in another field blood-stained, and traces of blood were visible for some distance. The spot near where the helmet was found bore signs of a severe struggle having taken place. The canal and the pools in the neighbourhood have been draggedl but so far all efforts to find the body have proved futile. The complete disapperance of the body is the most perplexing circumstances in connection with the affair. Various hypotheses have been formed as to the motive for the crime, and the wildest conjecture is rife as to the disposal of the body. A trap was heard to pass through the village shortly after the time at which cries were heard, and it is supposed by some that the murderers utilised it to carry away the ghastly evidence of their crime. The blood has been collected, and will be sent to Birmingham for analysis. The advisability of employing blood hounds in the search for the body has been discussed, and if the body is not shortly found the service of these animals will be enlisted. Hine, who was only 30 years of age, leaves a widow and four children.  A singular story COW% from Waterford. A soldier on furlough was entertained by a party of agricultural labourers, one of whom asked him to change clothes with him, so that he might visit his sweetheart and surprise her by appearing in military uniform. The moldier consented, aid the lover departed after donning the uniform, and had an interview with his sweetheart. He subsequently returned to resume civilian garb, but the soldier could not be found. The son of Mars had taken advanta.,e of the opportunity to desert, and has not since been seen.  Mr. Edward Schonberg, an Exhibitioner of Exeter College, was drowned at Oxford on Thursday, whilst boating on the Upper River. He was in a small boat with Mr. E. Glover, also a member of the college, and it is supposed that in changing seats it capsized. Mr. Glover was rescued in an exhausted state by a member of Corpus College, but his companion unfortuns.tely quickly sank. The body was recovered and taken to the college. In December, 1884, Mr. Schonberg gained a Classical Exhibition. Acumen
The Poole Telegram. — 1884-11-28 (Poole, Dorset, England)

TERRIBLE SCENE.  On Thursday, at the Lambeth Polioe-oone, Horses Robert Jay, alias Thorpe (23), was ctarged before M... Saunders with the wilful murder of Florence Ellen Kemp. by cutting her 'throat with a razor on the 29th of S-ptember, and further with attempting to commit ,uiOd-. The piisoner seemed very ill when brought into Court, and hat fr vently to sit down. Mrs. qary Weisner said : In September last I lived at 35. uarkhall-lan-. About the 24th of Augt,st the prisoner C41:116 to live there, and gave the name of Thorpe. The deceased visited him frequently, and he told me .he was the y..ung lady he was ke,ping company with, .od th. 4 they were to be married. 0 the 29th of Septemh. r, the prisorer having been away a week, returned home in company with the deceased. I went opstairs with the deceased, and then we returned to the kitchen and made some tea for the prieoner. The deceased brought down the tea things, and then went upstairs. In about lave or ten mMates I heard a ireadful shriek. In c .mpany with a Mrs. Rundell I went to the prisoner's ram. I opened the door, an then saw the deceased lying on the floor with her head towards the door. She was fully dressed. The prisoner was lying down by her side. The deceased .lailed out "Harry. forgive I" then, "Oh, he is cutting ny throat with arazor." Istooped over them. I remember tht.t, but I carpi. t remember what I did to the orisoner. I do not remember seeing the ,azo.• .t first, I afterwards found I bad • razor, wh ch I took from the prisoner. It was open, and Ish ,t it. We all three rose, and then the prisoLer aid, "I lave not, I have nut." We took hold of the deceased as she rose, and then I saw her throat was cut, and the olood spurted all over us. On the landing the deceased said," Lord have mercy on me; I am dying, lam dying." I got a shirt, and put it to her throat, I still keep the razor in my hand. Then I went downtairs, and on returning saw the deceased in the roans and the prisoner. I saw him drawing a ran, aer els his throat, and I said, "Don't, don't. She was g jog 6o be married to you.' He then oat his cwn throat in front of me. He dropped the razor on the fi .or. Atter he cut his throat he fell. The deceased dropped into • chair, and while I was attending to her the prisoner threw himself on the bed. Dr. Joseph Sutcliffe sail the deceased had lost a large quantity of blood, but was conecione, and in a little time I asked who did it, and she said, "He did it," p outing to the prisoner. I asked her who cut his throat, and she replied, "He did it himself." The deceased died the following morning from the injuries. The prisoner, who declined to say anything in defence, was then tully committed to take his trial at the next session of the Central Criminal Court.
The Poole Telegram. — 1884-03-21 (Poole, Dorset, England)

THE ATTEMPTED MURDER OF A WIFE.  Os Monday last the prisoner. Timothy King, who has been under remand for the laot six weeks, was again brought before the magistrates on the charge of attempting to murder his wife, Matilda King. We may briefly recall the circumstances of the ca ,e. Th prisoner, who is a little one-armed man, having lost the right one about six years ago in an accident, has since that time been of a morose and somewhat eccentric disposition. Fie lives at a little village on the borders of Wimberne, in in a sall c m ottage i 0000' pied by himself. wife (the injured woman), and his eon, a lad aged about 15. He himself is about 60 years of ago. On the occasion of the assault the son happened to enter the house in the evening, alter the prisoner bad returned from work, awl was horrified to find his father etanding over his mother, who was lying in a pool of blood, with his foot on her chest, biandishiug a forruid.ible claw hammer. Seeing his son the infuriated man at one made a rush at him. The lad, however, made his escape from the house, and proceeded to alarm the neighbours. Seeing help coming the prisoner ran to a well on the premises, which is about seven feet deep, and jumped into it feet downwards. On coming to the gurface one of the neighb iurs seiz id him by the hair, and held him above the water until others arriving when he was got out. He then bec me very violent, ant at lost the neigabour were obliged to tie him to a tree. The police and medical assistance were then sent for, and Dr. Parkinsion and Mr. Supt. Batty, with an officer, very quickly appeared on the scene, and the poor woman was attended to, and her assailant taken into custody. Her wounds were of a very Orrible nature, and chithy on th 3 head, and she seined at the tuna to be dying. She, however, rallied, and s'once then, uuder the unremitting care of Dr. Parkinson, has been progressing favourably—the chief fear being ery-ipelas setting in— until the last remand, eight days ago, when she was still unable to appear, two of the wounds having broken out afresh. Mr. Parkinson, however, expressed his belief she would be able to appear on Monlay. When taken into custody the prisoner made some remarks to the effect that he did it, and he honed she was better off. Since then he has been very taciturn. The only magistrate present was Mr. C. J. Parke. Mrs. Matilda King, the injired woman, who was obliged to be seated during the ex iminationi.Ana even now bore traces of her injuries, said on We Ineri, day, the lath of February, during the afternoon when her little boy had gone V) school, she went into thepi betweenoistable erhand,e nunta ome caaurnttdi and two. a a said—" i nds stood, o v h w. n r loel vShetheherea there should r with husband, tbhr iaani nhksaimm t wast hs e,r, She told him she had done nothing to him, and said nothing about him, and that there was a policeman coming. He looked out of the door and said there wasn't, but William Baker was ooming up the road.
The Poole Telegram. — 1884-03-28 (Poole, Dorset, England)

COUNTY POLICE.  SERIOUS CEIARGE A 1 MINT A NURiERYMAN. At the County Poll e (3',urt, on Monday, before S. \V. Whetham, ant Reginald 1). Tuorlit .n, Eeqrs James Cook, nurseryman. Bradpole, was charged in cuatody with an assault on his wife, Elizabtth, (in the previous evening.—Prisoner pleaded nt ,ui;ty —Mr• R. Tucker defended.—Mrs. Cook e.t.t Al she had been married to prisoner 34 years, and hal six children. Pi wi husband she dove on Sunday  the old chapel and premi-sea-, be -also stated that company eith her hustu._ __-- - -- --- very peaceable means wonli be rued t , get the t Broadwindsor ant on returning, when m a trustees to consent to the sale of the property. Fail, home, he wishe I , her to go indoors, but stie went with I nr their in that, he made the fuldoving announcement :—I him to the King's Head. She left him there, and On "Be it known unto all it may c mcern, that the old returning so, n af ef found him there with 1)04 *hp Lellewed it 4 901 WWI ill 141/911 °II premises would he realised, and the proceed.; devoted Barrett, who was " clualluit " about is 11..ty Ann Ley. tn tho orectieu el the wow toptiel CbOlingt which bc 140144  twice, and catching her by the hair pulled a quantity of it out. ( Witness here produced a paper package containing a quantity of human hair.) He truck her again in the face, brea.,t, and elbow. She thou went with a Mr. Parsons to her house, but prieoner had been there to put out the light., and gone itwiiyi She came back to the house again in company with Par. gons,when prisoner, who was in the dark, caught hold of her round the neck, and held her. Her son-in-law, Walter Forsey, came and took prisoner away. The marks on her body and face were caused by prisoner's violence. She was airaid of him, and did not wish to live with him any longer, —Prisoner here denied any intention to injure his wife. —Thomas Parsons, shoemaker, Bradpole, said Airs. Cook came to him on the previous evening with her face bleeding and her hair torn. He had heard prisoner threaten to " Do for his wife that night." Be pulled prisoner's hands away from his wife's throat.— Walter Forge y, net braider, Bradpole, said he heard " Murder " called, and went to the house, where he savr prisoner with his arms round his wife's neck struggliog with her. When he remonstrated with prisoner the latter threat?med to kick him out of house. Prisoner put both his hands to his wif e'e throat, self trying to stop her breath. Witness managed to get prisoner away, and on his back on the floor, where he held him for nearly half an hour until the police came.—P.O. Custard said he apprehended prisoner last evening, and on the way to the station he said "I suppose I shall get 12 months for it ; " and also said ha should all off all his things and go off with a woman. This he rope ited at the static.— After a short consultation the Benoh committed prisoner to hard labour for two months, and granted the wife a judicial separation— her husband to allow he 5. per week.—Mr. Alexander M. Broadley, the senior counsel for Arabi Paoha, was in Court during the hearing.