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The Telegram. — 1893-05-30 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

LONDON POTATOES.  MONDAY.-004.4 supplies at eilarket, and trade moderately active, at the annexed prices ;—Magnum, 40s to 60s; Hehrons, &Os to 60s ; lmperators, 5Cs to 608 per ton ; New English, 24 to 4.1 per lb. ; Jersey and Canary Kidney, 10s to 12a; Lisbon, 78 to Os per cwt.  Two men were kiPed on Thursday by a eolhery exploeion at Dunston, Newcastle. The Branhan man-of-war, Almirante Barmen, has been totally wrecked near Rats Ghariti.  At Pontypridd. on Tuesday, a shop was turned, and Edwi,rd Batt, aged 10, perished in the names,  Mr. David M'Oroy, a retired Maneheater corn factor, dropped dead at Heaton Chapel on Monday evening.  Arton, who is charged with complicity in the Panama framis, has been sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment.  Robert Mare, a lad, fell 80 feet while gathering flowers on the cliffs at Stonehaten, on Sunday, and broke his neck.  A severe cyclone has been raging at Calcutta for three days at the head of she Bay of Bengal. One barque has been lost. _ _  Mr. Foster of Ohio, ex-Secretary ot the Treasury has made an assignment of his affairs, estimating isis liabilities and assets at about equal sums. A number of men employed at Dundrum Criminal Lunatic Asylum have been suspended on a charge of having assisted the Naul murderer, Dorey, to eecape from she asylum recently.  . A gipsy woman was sentenced to two months' bard labour at Croydon on Wednesday for obtainfag 48s and articles of clothing from two servant girls, whose fortunes she professed to tell. _ .  Second Lieut. George Edward Playne, of the Connaught Rangers. now stationed at Pembroke Dock, accidentally shot himself through the head en Friday evening, whilst playing witn a revolver. The Ist Life Guards,who have been stationed at Shorncliffe since the cases of insubordination last year, are under orders to return to London early next month, and will be quartered at Regent's Park Barracks.  A daring but unsuccessful attempt has been made to steal the jewellery and watches exhibited in the Swiss senion of the manufacturers' hall at the World's Fair. The booty would have been worth £50,000.  The Rev. J. Stockwell Watts haR, after a pastorate of eighteen years, resigned the charg. of Bethnal Green Congregational Church, owing to the work entailed by the Liberator Relief Fund, o which he is secretary.  At parwen, on Tuesday night, a man was removed to the hospital suffering from small-pox. When tirst told by the medical officer that ins was about to be removed he ran awAy, and, after a considerable search, was found drinking in a public house,  At a meeting of the Newington vestry, on Tuesday, two vestrymen called each other fools, and one seized the other by the oose and tugged violently. rhe aggrieved one retaliated with his fist, and a general fight ensued, quiet only being restored on the chairman threatening to adjourn %Ai ateAting.  Extras .. .., 15
The Telegram. — 1894-08-21 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

SOUTHEND MURDER. FURTHER REMARKABLE EVIDENCE.  STRANGE STORY BY MRS. AYRISS.  The charge of wilful murder against James Canhain Head was again proceeded with before the Southend Borough magistrates on Saturday. I It will be remembered that the dead body of Florence Dennis was found in p. brook at Pattiewell on the morning of June 25th, the poor girl having been shot in the head the previous night. This was the fifth hearieg of the case, and the feeling in the neighbourhood runs as high, or even higher, than it did a: the conimencement. The precincts of the police-court weie thronged with people eager to gain admission, but Dearly all the available space was taken up by those immediately concerned Irathe Case. Mr. T. Lamb, as before, conducted the prosecution on behalf of the Treasury, and Mr. E. C. Warburton (instructed by Mr. J. C. Waters) defended. The prisoner was brought from Chelmsford Gaol earlier in the morning, and entered with two constables about ten minutes before the court , opened. He still preserved au indifferent exterior, I and Caine in swinging his hat in one hand and with his other in his trouser pocket. Mrs. Ayriss, who made such painful disclosures in croewexamination at the last hearing, was again called and cross-examined by Mr. Warburton, who asked  _ Have you been to Buckingham with prisoner ?—'l No—You have been to Buckingham ?—Yes, and tookthe baby " Pip " with ine.—Did Read full w. you next day ?—No, he :came a day or two after wards.—Did you atop at the house of a Mr. Bray (a grocer), and did you pass as Mrs. Read—Bead's wife ?—Yes.—" That's done it," cried out Mrs. Ayriss's husband, who was in court, and he set up a biasing noise, which was suppresaud by the officials. Mr. Warburtan precceited—You stayed at Oakfield Leigh one night with Read as his wife '—No; no-one at the house asked me what my name was.—Did yon occupy the same room We had two adjoining rooms opening into each other. When you went home on the Sunday night, the night of the murder, who was in the holse? My husband and two children in bed. Flurrie was in, and also some lodgers. My brcalier had gone to fetch the milk. He came in soon after and went to bed.—Now, I put it to you that after your brother went to bed andiou were left all alone, that you went out ?—No, 1 did not, . .  As Mrs. Ayrias was signing her depositions her husband left the court pale with excitement and anger. The police found it necessary tio remoustiate with Ayriss and caution hist'. Friends of his followed him out endeavouring to subdue hie, ~ fie returned to the court and stood inside Jae door evideinlv very much distressed. Sv pt. Ilawtree uud Detective Maiden accompanied him to the superintendent's Aim, whither he was persuaded to go with the hope of his regaining co utrul of himself.
The Telegram. — 1894-11-20 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

BUSINESS ANNOUNCEBIENIS.  ONE CHAMBER, OR TWO/  If the great issues to be submitted to the country at the next general election were to he fought out on the public platform by Lord Rosebery on the one side, and Lord Salisbury on the other, as the sole champions, we should be quite content with the Prime Minister as the Liberal champion. His speech at Glasgow last Wednesday was most brilliant and masterly. We do not mean to say that we see eye to eye with Lord Rosebery on every great question of the time. For instance, on the burning question of the House of Lords we are more inclined to a single chamber than to retaining a Second Chamber, although we would not set up our judgment against that of the majority of the Liberal and Radical party. It appears to us that if a Second Chamber is in agreement v. ith the Popular Chamber, it is unnecessary, and ought, therefore, to be abolished ; whilst, if it is antagonistic, it is dangerous, and, therefore, ought to be abolished. At present, if the Tories are in power in the House of Commons, the Lords are always in harmony with them and readily pass all their measures. But, if the Liberals have a majority in the Commons, the Lords, having an enormous standing Tory majority, either throw out or mutilate every great measure of reform sent up to them. No free and self-respecting nation can possibly allow such a state of things as this to be permaner.t, anl Lord Rosebery and his colleagues in the Government would justly suffer political extinction at the next general election if they had not decided to put this great question in the forefront of their programme. If we are to retain a Second Chamber, as we probably shall, it ought at least to be so constituted that when we have a Liberal Government that Chamber shall be in harmony with the Liberal party, so that its measures may be placed on the statute-book with the same ease as those of a Tory Government. If this end cannot be secured by some genuine system of election, it would he better not to attempt a reform of the House of Lords, but simply to deprive them absolutely of the power of veto, leaving them their titles and pageantry until a future generation shall either radically reform or abolish them.  We are not among those who believe that a Second Chamber is necessary in any country where the First Chamber is freely elected by the whole of the people of every class, and therefore fully reflects the mind of the nation. To allo?* a House composed  Lady Caroline Courteoay, formerly maid-of honour to the Queen, died ontVednesday night, at Bovey Tracy, Devon. The body of a man whose name is at present unknown, was found in a barn at the Dairy House Farm, Witobly„near Kingtou, on Friday. The medical exatauumtjaau indicates that a murder has been committed.
The Telegram. — 1894-07-17 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

IMPUDENT ROBBERY. On Tuesday, at the Blandfurd Police-court, before the Mayor and exMayor, Thomas Brown, a travelling fern hawker, was charged with stealing a purse containing be 7d, the property of Air. E. W. Blandford, of the Nurseries, on Tuesday, July 3rd. Theresa Annie Welsh, cook in the employ of Mr. Blaudford, deposed that her mistress had given her money for the purpose of housekeeping, and on Tuesday merning she went into the garden, leaving her purse on the dresser. She did not miss the purse until the afternoon, when she at once acquainted the head gardener of her loss, who told her that whilst she was out during the morning a man selling ferns had cal:ed.—James Davis, second gardener at the Nurseries, who had identified the prisoner, said he saw him go towards the house but did not see him leave.—Arnold Geo. Webb, a grocer's assistant, employed at Mr. George's, stated that on the 3rd prisoner came to the shop and purchased goods to the value of 4d, for which he tendered a as piece, which was particularly noticeable as it was much smaller than the usual Larcombe said he apprehended pri,oner on suspicion at Miles's lodging house and he admitted the offence, saying he was " hard up."—Prisoner was sentenced to two months' hard labour.  ALLIMD ATTEMPTILD MURIA& -At Bournemouth on Monday, Harry Bezant, well-known to the police, was charged with feloniously wounding Robert Bastable, with intent to murder him.— P.S. Hood stated that on Saturday night he was on duty near the Conservative Club, Springbourne. when he heard screams and cries of " Murder." He proceeded to prisoner's house in Princess Road, and found a crowd assembled around the man Bastable, who was lying on the ground and bleeding profusely from the head. Someone told witness he had been hit on the head with an MCP by prisoner, and after sending him to Boscombe Hospital, witness made a search and found the iron part of a spade (produced), which was covered with blood. Prisoner hal gone indoors, and when witness went to the house he refused to come out, saving it was his own house and he paid rent. Witness groped his way in, and, collaring Bezant, brought him out, whereon he was at once identified es the man who hit Bastable. When charged, he replied, " Bastable came to nay house and challenged me to fight. I picked up the first thing which came to hand and hit him on the head." Witness took him to the police-statioa and locked him up.— It was stated that Bastable was lying in a very helpless condition at the hospital and could not be moved for several days. He had received five scalp wounds on the head, and seven or eight on the arm, which was greatly swollen, so much in fact that the doctor could not tell yet if it were broken or the shoulder dislocated. On the application of Superintendent linapton the prisoner was remanded till to-day (Friday), bail being refused, as the magistrates ccnsidered the charge too serious.  A
The Telegram. — 1894-08-28 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

THE SOUTHEND MYSTERY. MRS. AYRISS RETRACTS. READ'S BROTHER MISSING.  Mystery crowds upon mystery, tangle upon tangle, in the Southend murder inquiry, and the end is not yet.. Every fresh hearing has yielded some surprise, and on Friday the dramatic element was double-barrelled. If anyone could identify Read at sight it ought to be Mrs. Ayrios, the sister of Hip murdered girl. Probably the most definite point of evidence against bine was her statement that she saw him standing at one of the Southend railway stations on the night of the tragedy, presumably waiting to keep a tryst with Florrie Dennis. She now retracted teat statement, and said she was not out of the house on Sunday night at all. It was hardly surprising that such a sweeping retractation on a vital matter sent a wave of sensation through the court. Secondly, Harry Read, the brother of the prisoner, when called upon to give evidence, did not appear, and a warrant was granted for his arrest. He had been present on other days, and had been noticed for his resemblance to Read, althongti he is probably somewhat taller. Perhaps there had been a whisper of likely developments in the case, for the scram on the part of the people to get into court vre.e greeter than ever. Every seat was tilled long before the proceedings opened, but all the same those massed iii the street waited on, no doubt in the hope of getting a glimpse of H a. He was brought over from Chenisford—tra‘elling in a first-Hass carriage—early in the morning, and it needed all the diplomacy of Superintendent Ha wtree to get him quietly frem Southend railway station to the curt-house. However, the vuetlet of a curious and dewonstr,itive public seas successfully rim, and there was time for Read to be shaved before taking his place in the dock. He wore the light suit, the cricket shirt, and the tie with a touch of heliotrope in it, which have been described. lie looked to be in his usual good spirits, but even in that moment of triumph for him, when Mrs. Ayriris made her retraction, he never allowed himself to make any soit of demonstration of them. He smiled when Mr. Warburton, his counsel, and Mr. Waters, his solicitor, took their places, and had A hard stare at Mr. C. F. Gill, the well-known barrister, who has now taken charge of the prosecution for the Treasury. Then lie settled down to arranging the sheets of manuscript, on which he afterwards made cum inueus notes. Mr. Gill got up and explained that since the last hearing Mrs. Ayriss had stated that some of the evidence she then gave was untrue. In order to rectify that, it was desirable she should be recalled at once. Mrs. Ayriss was in black, with the broad flat-shaped hat she wore before, and painfully nervous. Her face was pale and worn, and the eyes had a wearied look. Time mouth, with its rather thin lips, was pursed and drawn, and altogether she looked the picture of suffering.
The Telegram. — 1894-12-04 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

SHOCKING MURDER AT KENSINGTON.  Shortly before one o'clock on Ptionctay morning a shocking murder was perpetrated in Holland Park Road, Kensington, the victim being Augusta Dudley, aged 30. The police were called to the spot by a passer-by, who discovered the body lying in a pool of blood on the pavement in front of the house occupied by Sir Frederick Leighton. The woman's throat was cut in a most ghastly manner, the wound penetrating to a depth of four inches, extending from the centre of the throat to the right ear, and completely severing the main artery. The nady was taken to the mortuary, and was afterwards identified by Lillian Creber, a woman who heed with the deeeneed at 36, St. Clement's R.-,ad. The deceased was known to the police in the district, but had for some time been living ~•iietly with a man in the neighbourhood. 3 to was last seen alive in the Holland Arms publie-house on Sunday night, when the was accompanied by three men. The police are making active inquiries, and have been rewarded for their diligent search by the discovery of a knife, with which the deed is supposed to have been committed. It was found in a builder's yard at the back of Warwick Studios, Warwick Gardens, about 100 yards from the scene of the murder, It is a shoemaker's knife with a very keen edge, and when found was covered with coagulated bland. On Thursday, au inquest was opened on the body. Lilian Brewer, an "unfortunate," identified deceased as a woman who lived with hdr. Kate Forsythe, of Hammersmith, said deceased had two children. For one she received 251 weekly, and for another Se. Evidence at to the finding of the body having been given, Dr. Townsend said the wound in the throat was Glean cut. Great force was used as the vertibrae was cut. He did not think there had been a struggle. The inquiry was adjourned until December 10th. No arrests have been made. The knife will be examined by an analyst.  MATCH LESS °LEA NSER haS swept away a thousand worries of washing day. 142378. The hearing of the Worrall divorce case was resumed on Thursday. A cabman said he believed he heard Mr. Jones and Mrs. Worrall kissing in his cab.—Another witness Famed that the parties were brigether once in a golf hones for 20 iningtes.  A disastrous occurrence is reported from Boston. While the Philadelphia and Reading Company's stesit.er Reacting was proceeding up harbour to dock, a fishing schooner got aC11.11% her course. Before anything could be done to ea,e oft the steamer the vessels had collided. The tchuoner rank almost immediately, and, despite the prompt lowering of the Reading's boats, six of the schooner's crew were lost.  A musts SENSATIONAL STORY,  Herbert Whitehead, 24, commission agent, Presto"; reported to the vilice, on 'Tuesday night, that whilst cycling near the town ho was i-topiied and attacked by two roughs, knocked id his machine, gagged, and forcibly robbed of £4OO, the moneys of Meagre. Herellford, sugar merchants, Manchester. Mr. Whitehead is higuly connected, and the story bee caused quite a sensation in Preston.
The Telegram. — 1894-12-04 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

AYRISS WRITES TO THE CONVICT. When, in the course of the trial of James Read for the murder of Florence Dennis, Mrs. Ayriss went into the witness box and confessed to her immoral relations with the prisoner, her husband, Mr. John Ayriss, who had been sitting in the Court llitening to it all, sprang to his feet, and, boiling with indignation and pale with anger, booed his wife. The police went to him and calmed him, but lie walked out of the Court vowing that he would never again speak to her. Since ii.,•ad's condemnation Mr. Ayrise has sent to him the following extraordinary letter: "I went to see your figure in the Room of Horrors at Madame Tussaud's Exhibition on Saturday, November 17, 1894, and you you have reached your right place at last. I see you immtioned in one of your notes about your fighting weight. Well, I can assure you if I had caught you with rhy wife you would have bad the chance to have tried your baud; but you are all talk, and such a -- that no one can take any notice in any way whatsoever what you say. I see according to time Doily Chronicle, a letter that you wrote on Mrs. Maybrick's charge, and from what I gather from that you was condemning her to extent, but say what you will, she has never ruined so many homes as you have, and for your disgraceful character of moral life you deserve to be hanged ; but if I could have my way I would not bang you. I would lock you up in a dark dungeon as long as you lived and fetch you out once a month and give you the cat of about 30 strokes, and I would like to be the one to give it to you. lam inclined to think you would soon want to be banged. . . . There is your own lawful wife and four little children. There they are, poor little dears ; they are stained for life, but God bless them wherever they go. May they grow up to be bright and shining lights in the woild, not in the way you have, but to work as much for the Lord who made them as you have for the devil, and then they will be bright lights of this world and in the world to come, which I hope you will prepare for the short time you have on earth, as the judge told you after you was condemned. Now, there is Mr. I)—, he has been a great friend of your family in the midst of trouble and everyone is proud to see such a kind gentleman take an interest in your family, hut you will never get anyone to take an interest in you, for you have been such an awful creature that no one can take any interest in you. I myself can never forgive you, but I hope the Lord will forgive you, as time is short now on earth.—Jourr
The Telegram. — 1894-12-04 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

CANDLES MADE FROM CORPSES.  Not long ago four men in the Government of Kursk, in Rosins, murdered a girl in order to make candles 0 her body, the notion being that the light from such a horrible source not only renders the perpetrators of robberies invisible but prevents the people of the house from awakening. A dead man's hand is sometimes used for the same purpose. The thieves anoint it with an unguent, light it, and the angers flame. Yet the fetish often fails; the threatened householder is aroused in spite of the charm and proceeds to defend his property. Isn't it almost impossible to conceive that such abominable and absurd superetitions can exist in these days? Yet they du—eight here in England; and not by any means anuAig the criminal °lasses only. The learned physicians, we grieve to say, reluctantly abandon theories of disease whioh science proves untenable. "The medical profession," says one of its brightest members, "is but slowly emerging from the darkret.ss of barbarism."  Take an illustration. Under date of September 22ud, 1892, Mrs. Eliza Matthews, of 1, North Road, Burnt Oak, Edgware, near London, writes: "I first became ill just about one year ago. The attack wa, marked by has of appetite, a font taste in the mouth, vomiting up my food, pain in the chest and sides after eating, and a sinking, all-gone senaat:on at the pit of the stomach. My eyes were yellow, skin dark and sallow, and a constant pain between my shoulders. I was also badly constipated, and the least exertion set my heart thumping so I could hardly get ihy breath. I had frequent attacks of  sick headache, which confined me Co my room for days together. At such times I could not touch a morsel of food. I got little or no sleep at night, and would toss on the bed for hours. I became thin and weak and was no good for work.  "I thought at first it was the change of life that caused all this—as I was in my fortieth year when I was taken bad. I had a doctor and took medicines, but nothing did me tiny real good, and Icontinned to suffer year afteryear. " Now will the reader please note what Mrs. Matthews' elector told her was the cause of her We quote her own words " The doctor said th-tt my ailments were browjht about by the :smell of the farmyard." On this he ordered a change of air, a logical deduction from his diagnosis.  The lady obeyed. Her husband gave up hi situation on his wife's account, and they moved from Bentley Priory, Staomore, to Burnt Oak. With what result? She tells it : " I got no better for the change, "as she would have done if the farmyard smells had been at the. bottom of her troubleft.  Finally, Mrs. Matthewssays, her auntiat Chelmsford recommended Mother Seigers Curative Syrup. The first few doses gave relief, and in two months she VIM strong and well ae ever. She says, "Mother Seigel saved me after all others had tried and failed."