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The Telegram. — 1893-10-10 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

SHOCKING DISCOVERY AT BATH.  ALLEGED TERRIBLE MURDER. LATEST DETAILS.  As our readers are aware, the police are now investigating the circumstances connected with a murder, which proniises to he one of the most sensational mimosa of the day. It wonl4 seem snail the tragedy took place on or about Bank Holiday, August 3, 1891, us the verge of Claverton Down, which overlooks a lovely valley in the vicinity of Blob.  On the following Friday, a woman's het, which the maker's name showed 11.1 beell purchased at Messrs, Gardiner Bros., was picked up in the cavity by a eon of Mr. D. Clarke, head-master ot St. Mark's Parochial School, and was subsequently taken to the Central Police Station. A still more important discovery was neade in the following week by William Henry Dill, better known an "Colonel " Dill, who, Go walking across the Down at 8 o'clock mie morning, oinerved a blood stained calf about four feet froin the edge of the cavity. On stooping to pick it up he observed a lady's gold Geneva watch, with small chain attached, on the mound. At that time Dill was in the habit of assisting the markers at the Rifle Butts close at herind, and to Sc. of them named Field, son of Bandmaster Field, be showel the cuff. In company with Fold, Dill matte another search with the result that on the edge ,4 the cavity aniongat some nettles a second cuff and a deeplyemilimidered pocket-handkerchief were found. Oil the handkerchief was the name " A.H. Kerry." Mre.Chirk, so soon as she saw the hat, said she felt sure wane murder had been tommitted. sod would not have the articles in the liuuse, and Dill appears to have rand off the watch, which he said his siaker had given him. The handkerchief he kept, and had since banded it over to the police.. On Friday Sept, 22nd, 1893, just two years later, Cecil Brand, son of Conlinauder Brand ft N., of 8 Bathwick Hlll WIWI playing at Hampton Rocks, iii company with a friend named Alec Einersen. rimy entered A cave where they /WM WM. bones and luring up a large stone Emerson found a human skull. The " find " was reported to the police, and a search having teen made the skeleton of a young woman, which Imo been coucealed by a heap of stones, was unearthed. It is clear that the murderer savagely attacked his victim on the open plateau. Hurriedly dragging the body to the edge of • cavity fifteen feet deep, a natural formation in the ground, the murderer threw the woman over. He then descended the cavity himself and pulled his victim to the mouth of a mall flexure in the rocky formation of the cavity. This dips deep down, and getting inside and kneeling on the stones the murderer seized his victim by the feet sod dragged her M. The villain must then have erected a cairn over her, for when diacovered after the lapse of more than two years the remains were covered with louse stones, of which there is a plentiful supply in the eavitt.
The Telegram. — 1894-04-24 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

SENTENCE.  An enormous crowd gathered in the Court of duatice at Barcelona on Monday, to witness the trial of Samuel Willie, son of Mr. aud Mrs. Willie, of Newtowu, Yeovil, on a charge of Lourdieting Don JoN6 BAH, a merchant of Barcelona. This is the main charge, but there are three counts in the indictment, charging the prisoner with murder, with attempted murder, and with firing upon people in the street. On thefirst count the public proecutor (Don Juan Softy Ortega) asks for the penalty of death, on the second, for a sentence of 16 years' penal WI vitude, and on the third for is sentence Of four Years' 111)prkotitneut, beredea All indemnity of 120,000 pesetas to Sailor Boffins widow, and the costs of the trial. The indictment, rather lengthy document, entered into the his;ury of the alleged crime, which is brieNy as fel•ows :—ln 11180 Wilde uretertreig time Barcelona .geticy of Messrs. Watts. W ard & 0.111...ny, coal merchant, of Cardiff. An attempt ..reil he 111:Ufll towards the close of 1892 to ektair!.,li it retail trade aroused against him the local otail firms, who opposed the project so successidly that lie entered into n.-gotiations for the .ransfer of his business to Messrs. &fill Brothers. Outing these negotiations reports were circulated ta his prejudice, and some of I, debtors declared :hat if the transfer took place they would not pay what they owed him. These statements, and the tardy progress of the iteentiations ale supposed to have preyed on his mind. On Ifobruary 24th, 18E:3, Willie was thrown into a state of great excitement by the tiou•receipt on that lay of a telegram which he expected from Cardiff to ratify the proposed transfer. He assured himself by telephone hat .Messrs. Botill were in their office, and rushed out of the house on his sister refusing to :rive him his revolver, purchasing one at a gunmaker's. He went straight to the office of Messrs. BAIL In the course of conversation with )on Jose there, it is alleged, he anddenly drew his revidver and  CRUILLTY esse.—Thomas Dewey, defendant in the previous ease, was stinitnoned by Inspector Shepherd, R.S.P.C.A., for cruelly ill treating and tortnting a gelding at Donliead St. Andrew, on March 13.—P.S. Collins said that he saw une of defendant's suns driving the pony along. It was lame and had a wound on the near knee as rig as a five shilling piece, and on the off kn., about the size of a half-crown. Blood and mattr were oozing Lam the wounds and there was also 8(1111C on the knee caps which the pony had on.—Vol. Best deposed that he was passing on the day in question, and he examined the pony, finding that both knees were broken, that there were wounds on each of them, and that the animal was lame, unlit for work, and in . .  great pain. He should say the wounds were about ten days' old.—lnspector Shepherd corroborated as to the condition of the animal, and produced a statement, by defendant that he was driving the horse about a fortnight before this when it fell, but he never knew the horse was lame.—Defendant, who adhered to this assertion, was fined 10.; and 9s costs.
The Telegram. — 1901-06-11 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

THE VLAKFONTEIN FIGHT. non - delivery nt two boxes of butter The Admiralty is reducing the reap of the cotieignee to Mr. Sainsbury, of Bristol, on Amore On Tuesday afternoon the War Office issued Femme Accounts lemma:int at Porten oh 2nd, 1899. Mr. Sidney Watts appeared for the the following despatch front Lord Kitchener : Dockyard, having dieomsereti that the cornieleDairy Cuumpany, and Mr. Percy Cruitwell rem- tion of certain means is not neoessar Pretoria Residency, June 4th, 7.30 am: e• molted the Itsilerity Company.—The Railway Com- Private James Marge Reed nany paid 5e into Coors. Diana's report just receivesL On our side m • . seventeen, et the Royal nest Kent Regumment, harm been remanded Mr. Cruttwell contended that the butter was 1,450 men and seven pens were engaged. Force at Maidatone on the serMss, charge f • o shoetree coningned to the wrong addles. at Bristol. was returning to camp at Vlakfontein when a comrade named Rodney Baldwin. Mr. Watts mentionee that in March, 1900, the rummy, under cover of veld fire, rushed rear- A Cheshire lade, Mrs. Ilill, 'limped or fell is Railway Company notified his client teat the guard, consieting or two guns. 26th Battery, 230 front of time Seat,!, eximene at Cone on Tuesday butter hail been duly delivered in Amulet, and the 7th Battalion Imperial Yeomanry, 100 Derby. evening. She hail an esereentitiary escape, receipt of the coneigneeobtained. Subeequently they shire Regiment. They temporarily captured trio falling on the baliast between the metals. lletr wrote that the butter had been twice tendered to guns. When remainder of force came into action injuries, ben-ever, are serious. Mr. Saimentry, who had refeeed it on &comet of i enemy were driven off end gulls recaptured and An injunction has been rant cl • it, bad condition, owing to the hot weather. Boer position occupied. Our casualties : Stag against M William ' " ' In Dublin (Laughter.) Eventually, the railway company r. Demme, M.P. fortheOssore officers and 51 men killed: six officers and 115 Division of Queen's County,l • • disposal of the butter. and the amount paid into;,; 0 restrain hen men wounded; one officer and seven men missing. fisB. interfering ... Court, 5,m, wen the 511111 received on tittle. with certain lands and stock, Raines reported in several telegrams. Surgeon- the property of his mother. Mr. Levi Beer gams evidence lamming out Mr. Captain Frances Welford, Imperial Yeomanry, and Watts' statement. He mentioned teat all better The King has been pleased to muse the Mimes four men since Med of wooeds. norey-one Boers consigned by him was salted and Metetred in killed on ground. Further Boer coalmines not diate relense iron, Portland Prison of John M. enable it to keep for ax months ; even then it known. Reinforcements are being sent. Hodson, who in March, 18e6, was sentenced le could be sold at 2d lees per pound. It was always ' penal servitude for life for murder at Leon, near warranted to keep one month. Birmingham. His Hononr : But all things in this life are of a
The Telegram. — 1901-01-22 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

NEWSPAPER.  TRAGEDY IN A RAILWAY CARRIAGE.  A PASSENGER SHOT DEAD. oom of the itiost extraordiaary tragedies in the history of railway travelling was perpetrated on the London ft South-Western on Thursday afternoon, a geotleinan named Mr. Pearson. ot Christchurch Road, Winchester, being murdered, tveri a lady untried Mrs. Rhoda King, Exmoor Road, Soushatnpton, being shot in the face by, it is alleged, a muis, who wad the only other occupant of the carriage. From the statement of Mrs. King it appeals she left Southampton by the 11.20 fast train for Ltd:idol), riding in a third-claas cotepertinent, into which there entered at Evelleigh a man of American aepect, about 30 years old. At Wirichester there entered Mr. Pearson. Shortly after leaving Wimbledon the lady heard a abut, aud turning, saw hat Mr. Pearson had received ',bullet wound in the forehead. The man wss beseeched by Mrs King not to shoot her also. He promised not to do no if she remained quiet, but before the train reached Vauxhall she also had been shot in the cheek. At Vauxhall the lady flew out of the carriage lea most excited manner, and quite unable to opesk ; but, seeing her assailant making off, cried "Stop that iran. He has murdered someone in that carriage." A hue-and.ei v was raised, and the alleged assassin bolted gluten the steps followed by three or four porter". He proceeded in the direction of Vauxlmill Bridge' where • constable joined in the chary. Finding his escape cut if by the • removal of the bridge, the man turned and entered j some gat works, and here the capture took place. The lady was conveyed to Si. Tnomas' Hospital. j Mr. Pearson was found dead in the corner of the carriage, and a recently-discharged revolver was foand near at Land. j Toe affair has canned the greatest emulation on j the line. Later itiqu:rirs show that 6, man J alighted from the train as it war nearing Vauxhall. To nein who was captured was taken to Larkhall j Lane Police-station. He is described as • person of gentlemanly appearance, and it is said that the j position of tl.e parties precluded the assumption j that robbery could Lave been the motive, ae augj genie& . . .  A Wincheiter correspmdent states that Mr. William Yearaoa, a traveller in asri.:ultural goods, left on Thursday atternoos for London, on busi• nest. He carried, usually, • little black hag, which might have attracted the attention of au evil-minded person. He left in good health. The sews of the murder was a terrible shock to his widow, children, and other members of the family. A Southampton correspondent states that the news of the tragedy caused a great sensation in Southampton. It was at lest reported that Mrs. King had succumbed to her injories. This report actuslly reached her husband whilst he was following his occupation at the Ordhance Office. Ile fell eeuselesa at the feet of the informant. Afterwards, on hearing that his wife lived, he proceeded at olice 10 London. Mrs. King is on a visit to her son's wife at Battersea, who is seriously ill.
The Telegram. — 1895-08-20 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

SHOCKING TRAGEDY..  OPENING OF THE INQITEST.  POSSIBLE MOTIVE FOR TFIE CRIME. An inquest was opened by the deputy-coroner at Mansfield, near Nottingham, on Monday, OD the body of Mrs. Reynolds and her children !silo . •  were mUrdered under circumetta- ra-cee— reported Ise.; week.  George Reynolds, the eldest eon of the murdered woman, Mrs. Reynolds, said he last saw his mother , alive at ten o'clock on Saturday evening, when he ! went to bed, Marine her downstairs. Henry Wright, about 35 years, and who was • foundry labourer, bad lodged in the house during the last two years, since he had returned from eerving in the army. Witness lash saw Wright about half-past five on Saturday evening, having ton with the deceased woman. Wright was quite sober Men, but he was fond of drink. Witness was awakened from hie sleep by • feeling of suffocation, and found the , mom full of smoke. He tried to open the door, but failed to do an, and then shouted from the ' window. He was rescued by means of a ladder. Having got some clothes he entered the house, and saw his mother lying on her back in the corner of the kitchen, with her face towards a mangle. ! There WM a great deal of blood on the wall and floor. Hie mother and Wright were not on the ' best of terms, and he remembered the former complaining to him of Wright's attempt to ester her bedroom. She complained of the lodger's conduct in his (Wright's) presence many times. She had requested Wright to leave the house because of his drunken conduct, but he refused to do so. Dr. Philip G. Godfrey stated that he examined the body of Mary Reynolds. Her throat was cut, ancl both her breasts had been cut off. She was also out from the neck to the bottom of the abdomen, and her legs were gashed down to the knees. Them were eleven gashes on her face. The throats of the two sons were horribly gashed, and one of the lads bad seven cuts on the face acid head. All the throats had been cut in a similar manner, from the right ear to the left. Witness described the injuries of the youngest victim, whose throat was also cut. So badly erste this deceased burned that the legs dropped off. The knives produced were such as might have inflicted the infuries. The inquest ism adjourned till the 27th inst. for the attendance of the prisoner. As a poseible motive for the crime it is stated that Mrs. Reynolds vane few weeks back said that five months previously Wrightseked her to become hie wife, and that she contemptuously refused his offer of marriage.  Wright wee reported ois Tuesday to be progressing favourably, and it is expected he will be able to attend thaadjonmed inquest. The remains of the four victims were boned at the cemetery of that town on Tuesday afternoon in the presence of several thowrands of persons.
The Telegram. — 1899-04-18 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

FACING DEATH ELEVEN DAYS.  ADVENTUROUS COLLIER CAUGHT IN A TRAP.  A collier named Frank Tranter, ag.d 117, of Lawley, near Wellington, was on lenslay found alive in an abandoned pit, bit. deep, where he had remained since Fa.ter Monday. On that day 'rratiter went to liok ut the pit, which had recently been flooded. He descended into it by means of a wire rope, and then found be could not get out. Nobody suspected where he was, but a‘vorknian WM sent on Friday by the owners of the pit to sea if the water had disappeared. The workman throw *tones down and li,teged for a 9i'ash. ro his astonishment a voice raponded : " Don't kill me." When TrAntrer was got out he fainted. Hs tongue and limbs were swollen, and lie was in the 1114 stages of exhaustion. It is, however, expacted that he will recover.  The Oldham painters have had their wages advanced from 8d m 80 an hour.  The Hull withorities have removal fourteen cases of small-pox to hospital. Mixed bathing will he permitted at Yarmouth and Gorleston during the coming season. George Wardleworth, manager for Watson & Tayior, Wensley Fold Mill, Blackburn, hanged hiniselt on Monday in the will. Enlargement. 1 Guaring Cross Station, estimated to cost £500,000, are contemplated by toe South-Easteinlway Company. Two men charged with brawling in Liverpool Churches in connection with the Ritualistic agitation, were on Monday bound over.  Lord Tennyson, the uew Governor of South Australia, turived at Adelaide on Monday all well, and was sworn in in the afternoon. Mr. C110:4 te, the American Ambassador. on Tuesday occupied a seat on the Bench at the Old Bailey by the side of Mr. Justice Grantham, While Mr. Dwight L. Moody was recently exhorting a San Francisco audience to show charity to criminals, a thief stole his overcoat. The trial of Sir Alfred Kirby, ex-sheriff of London, for alleged company trance, has been postponed until tne May Session, of the Old Bailey. The Queen has seat a letter regretting to hear of the long and serious illness of Mia John Billingten, whom she well remembers on the stage in days gone by. The enthronement of Dr. Williams, Dean of St. Assph, as Bishop of Bangur,took place on Tuesday at Bangor Cathedral in the presence of a large con gregation. Large tracts of land in Montana have been submerged by the overflowing of the Yellowstone River. Twelve person* have been drowned, and three others are mis.ifie,. A lad named Toogood died at Huntsemor Park, Uxbridge, on Tuesday, flora injuries nceived last Thursday from a revolver. He was playing with the weapon, when it went off.  Death from blood poisoning, brought about by the chafing on ho 4 foot of a knot in his boot-lace, wag the verdict at an inquest just held on the body of a boy named Cox, at RPM:a/Lime, Her.  --The man Andrews, who was charged with the murder of Frances Short, pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey on Tuesday, but urged that he did it in self-defente. A plea of not guilty was enteted.
The Telegram. — 1899-08-15 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

BIDER AS A SALAD.  Beet, at the tresent time a very favourite salad material, and all admirable relish, is also excellent in the form of a pickle. When boiled till tender, sliced, and eaten, with a little vinegar, pepper, Sze., as an accompaniment to cold ham, bacon, or wear of any kind, it it most delicious and appetising, even by itself, while some thin slices or strips also improve both the appearance and flavour of the contents of the salad bowl considerably. Beet is easily grown in almost any fairly good and light soils thriving best in such a staple as would suit Carrots, and requiring very similar culture. Excellent crops of Beet have been grown in aa almost pure clay soil, by means of a little preparation, of course. The situation must be thoroughly open and isimny, and the soil ought neither to be excessively rich nor have been very recently manured, if possible. The principal chemical constituents are potash, chloride of sodium (salt), soda, and carbonic acid, arid this may be taken as a guide to the judicious use of artificial manures. The seed should not be sown before the middle of April at the earliest, the best time being about the end of that month, and when well up the little plants should be gradually thinned out to Sin, or 9in. apart. For an early supply the Turnip-rooted or Globe seed , may be sown at the end of March or early in This variety forms bulbs very quickly 1 and possesses a fine colour and good flavour; It may Lie left at about 6in. apart.  A record cave of childbirth ha o occurred at Bletchley, near Fenny Stratford, when. a wilow ;rave birth to children. Tory were five months' children, and were all etillborn.  A charter of incorporation has been granted tei Leigh, Lane...shire. The Town Council i to consi4 of 24 rouncillorr and eigiit allernien. Le.gli has now a population of over 37,000. The total number of periwigs attricke I with plague at Al-xandria since the beginning of the ononeal: is 90. Of these, 37 died and 39 were cured, four rtill being under treatment. Martin Tighe, inner, of Wigan, condemned to death for the murder of his wife, acid Catherine Levenr, condemned fur the murder at Liverpool of John and Mary Tracy, have been reprieved.  At Gosport, on Monday, the body of a man, who has not yet been identified, was found in a well at the rrar of a dwelling-house. He had apparently been in the water from 10 to 12 days. Metre. Leak & Son's oil mill at King's Lynn was totally destroyed by fire together with its machinery and stock, at an earl}, boor on I'u"-day. The damage is estimated at many thousands of pounds. A Belgian Cabinet has been formed, tinder the pr..si,lency of M. &nettle Naeyer. Toe Cetriaes will do nothing except to wind up current business and introince a Bill providing for the represent tom of minorities. - -  A private inquiry agent named Joel, of Newbury, WASS errested in Lcadun on a charge of dc-orting hi. wife. WAS 1,..cke1 up in a cell ail Bow Btrnet Police--,tat,on, Where be shoe himself is the head nab a revolter.
The Telegram. — 1896-09-08 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

CONSTANTINOPLE MASSACRE. GENERAL EXODUS OF ARMENIANS•  ANOTHER NOTE TO THE PORTE.  CONSTANTINOPLE, &AMISS. Many arrests are Liking place among the Armenians. All those having no family here or not having been born in Constantinople are being bent back, ostensibly to their native places, but more probably to death. All the foreign Powers ere helping in shipping the Armenians in the employ of their subjects, if they have money to pay the fare, to foreign parts. Marry Armenians employed in shops and wazehousee who, during the massacres, wrre persuaried by the pohce that unless they gave themselves up the shops would be broken into and themselves murdered, and who did no, have disappeared, and cannot be found, in spite of inquiries at the consulates where they gave tbeniselves up under protection. Three Armenians in a horribly state, but still alive, lie at the French hospital, saved by a Errpeen spectator out of six hundred corpses handed over by the authorities to the Armenian cemetery for burial. . . . .  The /tinnier' authorities have instructed their subjects to put in clairus to the hist farthing, and natty English have put in their claims, BOUM ueing heavy, as watehouses, workshops, and stocks have been wantonly destroyed. Matt.tre are apparently settling down, but the Turks and Cbiatians are very uneasy. On Thursday the romping of sortie men to a hie was sufficleat to clause a bad panic in Pera and Galata. Toe people 'vegan rushing about for places of safety, shops, houses, and windows being closed anitiat a tearful noise, which omit be heard to be appreciated. Great anxiety ix felt ha to the iseti on of toe Powers. The Embassies take the attitude of having no instruction . whatever . _ .  The representatives of the Powers, says Renter, have sent to the Porte the Collective Note, the drafting of winch by the embossed°. was menhoned in the telegram of Aug. 30. It lays stress ou the organized character of the mob on the occasion of the massacre of the Armenians, and cites several canes bearing out this contention. It quoted the declaration of two Mug'Litman, in the service of a European, that they were requisitioned by the who gave them weapons and sent them to kill Armenian.; and the note thou proceeds to adduce the noteworthy testimony of a Mussulman who, being arniei with a bludgeon, was being taken to Yildiz Kiosk by Embassy dragomans when he told the latter on their way to the palace that nothing would be done to hum And, in fact, on arrival at Yildiz Kiosk, the individual way recognised by the palace !oceanic The note also alludes to the distribution of bludgeons to the mob by the municipality, and declares that the Embassies are prepared to produce the evidence in their possesisimi. Finally, the asobaasadore of the Powers demand that an enquiry should be made and the guilty parties severely punished.  The Porte has replied and throws all the responsibility for what occurred on the Armenians, whose misdeeds are fully recited. The Embassies have confined thernselved to acknowledging the receipt of this communication, declining to discuss is.