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The Weymouth, Portland and Dorchester Telegram. — 1877-02-09 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

TRIPLE MURDER. AND SUICIDE.  A irigictfTiltraged;l:aTiiaketi-pFace in Saint lirieuc, a seaport town in Brittany. A journalist named M. Le Foil, connected with a newspaper called Le Prvgr4, sent an invitation to Captain Wurtz, of the 71st Regiment, to call at his office on urgent business. The captain did so, and found himself in the presence of M. Le Foil, who abruptly put to him this question, "Is it true that you visited my wife while I was absent from town?" The captain replied, "Yes." "You admit, then," continued the husband, "to have relations with her" "Not at all," protested Captain Wurtz "Will you promise me," then said M. Le Foll, "to fight with any one who says that you are the lover of my wife?" "Certainly not," responded the military man, "because in that case I should be obliged to deal with all the blackguards you might choose to send me." But if you desire it, I will fight with you." Then M. Le Foil followed with this strange question, "Will you sign a declaration stating on your honour that you have never had any improper intimacy with my wife?" "Certainly,' replied Captain Wurtz, "as it is perfectly true." He sat down at a table and began to write the required document, when Le Foil drew a poignard and stabbed him twice in the hack. Although Captain Wurtz was struck down by the second blow, he found enough strength to disarm his antagonist. Holding the dagger in his hand, he said to his assassin, "Miserable wretch, go and save yourself! I could kill you like a dog. (Jo pourrais you. bier comma on chien.) But I want to come out of this affair with my honour unstained." Le Foil escaped from the office of his journal, and went to his own house carrying the dagger. Going up to his wife he said, "I have killed your lover; now die in your torn." With these words he stabbed her to the heart. Proceeding to the Hotel of the Croix Blanche he there rejoined &woman named Guinettee, who had been his mistress for 18 months. They went out together, but what took place afterwards is not known. In the morning the lifeless bodies of the couple were found at the gate of the public park of the town known as the Glasis Bizion. There is no doubt that Le Foil had first killed the woman, and then had taken his own life with a revolver which was found upon his corpse.
The Weymouth, Portland and Dorchester Telegram. — 1862-10-16 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

LIINATIO.—On Wednesday, Hr. H. Baffles Waltham, deputy-coroner for East Middlesex, Laid an inquest at the Grove Hall Asylum Bow, respecting the death of Mr, Benjamin Ward, lilted 40, • lunatic gentleman, who having made his escape from that asylum and been recaptured, committed suicide. According to the evidence of John Hill, an attendant, deceased had been an inmate of the gentleman's ward for some time. He spoke quite rationally. On Thursday evening he made his escape from the drawing-room by squeezing himself through a narrow ventilating aperture in the window. He dropped down into the garden, and then went over the lofty wall which surrounded the building. He got clear off, though he was at ones missed and an alarm raised. Next morning he was observed by • barber who was employed in the asylum paining along the Mile End Road, and the barber, knowing him spoke to him, apparently disconcerting him • good deal, and then entered into conversation with him, and brought him back to the asylum. He was given into the charge of witnesa, who amnia him the hest way he could, and for that purpose took him into the garden. He there said that after he had escaped over the wall he determined to throw his pursuers out of reckoning by walking to Woodford, which was about seven miles in an opposite direction to Loudon, and thus avoid the road they would be almost sure to suppose he had taken. When be got to Woodford he took lodgings, where he spent the night. The next morning, however, be considered that if be could get into London he should be more likely to escape notice, and he accordingly set out early to enter it unobserved, and he should have nomeeded pettedly only for the accident of Gilbert, the barber, spying him from his shop as be seas push' one morning. He saki that he had met his heart on accomplishing his dope. Shortly after this conversation witness tamed his back for a moment, and directiy afterwards mimed the dammed. Supposing he bad again tried to escape witness had tbq grounds searched, but without avail. Upon the house being searched, however, he was found hanging to the cornice of his bedstead by a new rope, which he must have bought while in Woodford. The body was warm, but life was quite extinct, and all remedies proved without avail. Dr. Alonzo She key, medical superitendent of the asylum, said that deceased had been led to make his escape by • vision that told him that his I wife was dead. The comer remarked that it ought to  be rendered impeasible for any lunatic) to commit suicide in an asylum. Dr. Stocker said that if precautions of an extreme kind were carried out, the place would partake of such • prison-like aspect tbst the curative treatmon of the patients would become immersible. There were one or two hundred patients in the estailr• Dement who had been fldw it tod as imicithal, but the cheerful. unrestraduing system had ouch an influence on them that the premnt was only the second instance of suicide that had been accomplished. The jury returned • verdict of " Suicide while of unsound mind."
The Weymouth, Portland and Dorchester Telegram. — 1862-10-16 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

THE TELEGRAM.  THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1862.  PRESIDENT LINCOLN'S LAST GAME.  There are, in • private collection of paintings in Dresden, four paintings representing two amblers. The devil introduces a pack of cards in the first; in the second he is represented as encouraging them to play, always cheering the loser; in the third the List card was played, and the despair of the unfortunate gambler is depicted; in the fourth Mr. "Nicholas" is seen flying through the air, with a body under his arm, representing a suicide. Now these four pictures, although merely intended to pourtray the gambler's career, will represent the insanity of the Federal States of America; and President Lincoln, in playing his last card, has lost all he has staked upon a single mid, and it is of no value—he has lost the game, and can recover the loss. The abolition proclamation is intended simply to eke out by a servile war what cannot be effected by a civil war. Truly and eloquently says the Tawas :—" It does not pretend to attack slavery as slavery. It launches this threat of a servile rebellion as a means of war against certain States, and accompanies it with a declaration of general protection to all other slavery. Where he has no power Mr. Lincoln will set the negroes free; where he retains power he will consider them as slaves. I 'Come to me,' he cries to the insurgent planters, `and I will preserve your rights as slavaholders ; but set me still at defiance, and I will wrap myself in virtue and take the sword of freedom in my hand; and, instead of aiding you to oppresa, I will champion the rights of humanity. Here are whips for who are loyal ; go forth and flog, and sell your black chattels as you please. Here are torches and knives for employment against you who are disloyal; I will prem them Into *Very blank hand, and teach their use.' Little Delaware, with her 2,000 slaves, shall be protected in bar royal tryanny. Maryland, with her 90,000 slaves, shall 'freely accept or freely rejoin' any project for either gradual or immediate abolition; but if Missiasippi and South Carolina, where the slaves rather outnumber , the masters, do lot repent, and receive from Mr. Lincoln a license to trade in human ilea that human flesh shall be adopted by Mr. Lincoln as the agent of his vengeases" The President of the Northern States would thus throw a fireband into a powder magazine on the calculation that it will I Create a general explosion throughout the South
The Weymouth, Portland and Dorchester Telegram. — 1862-10-30 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

TIII LATH SVICIDR-011 Thursday an inquest was held at the Schoolroom, East Coker, before the deputy coroner, A. Oat'dock, Esq., on the body of Charles Gear (who committed suicide on the previous Tuesday), when the following evidence was adduced :—John Read, baker, said that on Tuesday he went to the next house to where the deceased was living, with bread, when he heard a woman say that the deceased had hung himself in the stairs. Witness went to the deceased's house, and found him banging by a piece of small cord to a nail in the stairs. He held the body up whilst it was cut down, but life was quits eittinct.—Mary Jane Randall said that the deceased worked with her on Monday in Mr. Taylor's factory, and was with her until eight o'clock at night. After he had •burned out all his candle he said he should shut .out. The next movsimg, when witness went to the deceased's hones fov the key of the room in which they worked, hie Wife said he was very ill, and about eleven o'clock in the morning witness was sent for by the Wife, as she said her husband hail hung himself it the stairs, and when she went she found it *Mira She had known the deceased for many years, but noticed that he seemed in very depressed epirits. She saw him put some string into his pocket, and it was the same as that which he Mitts himself with. He had attempted to drown himself in a millpond about eight years ago. The jury returned a verdict of" Temporary insanity." Tnesday.—Beforei T. Hoskins, Esq.—Six young men, named Edmund Bendall, George Tool, John Lye, Edward Prince, and Thomas and Eft Terry were summoned, charged with stealing apples, the property of Mr. flebditch, of Severals Farm. Mr. Jolliffe appeared for the defence. The de-fendants bad entered the prosecutor's orchard on Sunday, and filled their pockets with apples; but Mr. Jolliffe contended that the defendants had only been for a "Chill in the country," and probably some one had given them the fruit. The Bench, however, r.onlii not fall in with Mr. Jolliffe's view of the oase, as the defendants were clearly traced to hays been in the orchard, and they were each fined 74. ed. and costa —The fines were paid.
The Weymouth, Portland and Dorchester Telegram. — 1878-08-09 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

ECCENTRIC CHARACTER.  The suicide of a gentleman, by name Green, known as "the crazy Englishman," is recorded by the Leavenworth Times United :gates). The event took place on the 10th of July, and although Mr. Green's end was a sad one he does not appear to have been a great loss to society. His freaks and eccentricities have, it is stated, formed a basis of many a newspaper, and his career is familiar to everyone in America. "Possessed of a memory co-extensive in its grasp with the scope of a hundred abstruse subjects, he fascinated all who came near him when he chose to exert himself in the art of pleasing; and then in the short space of a few hours he would transform himself from the polished gentleman, the travelled scholar, and the man of science and letters, into a wild and reckless devotee of sin and debauchery." He was a graduate of one of the English universities, but, becoming estranged from his family by his wild and reckless career, departed from home, friends, and kindred, and was a wanderer to the end of his days. He had an enormous fortune, and it is believed that he "came of gentle blood." Anyhow, he came to Leavenworth about four years ago, where he made "a tremendous stir" by his unbounded liberality and reckless conduct. Among other eccentric proceedings in which Mr. Green indulged for the edification of the good people of Leavenworth was a rehearsal of his own funeral. Lying in a coffin with a bottle of whisky by his side, he was place in a hearse one evening, and followed by several mourning carriages' was driven through the principal streets of the city, being at the close of the drive "too much under the influence of liquor to realise the sacrilegious piece of mockery in which he had been engaged." Yet he was generous to a fault, and his popularity was Much enhanced by his amiable custom of never looking at a bill when presented to him, but paying immediately without murmur or investigation. He ultimately poisoned himself, when drunk, in one of the streets; or, as the Leavenworth Times more grace.  fully expresseß it, "in a weak and unguarded moment, with the fibres of his being all but unstrung by the influence of deep potation, he prepared the fatal dose which was the cause of unveiling to Henry Green the mysteries of the silent land."
The Weymouth, Portland and Dorchester Telegram. — 1878-07-26 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

BROADMAYNH.  SUICIDE OF A LABOURING MAN. —Early on Friday morning last this quiet village was somewhat excited by the report that J •nx is Crass, an old inhabitant, had hung himself. This turned out to be true. It seems that the poor follow who leaves a wife and seven or eight children, was about fil) years of age, and had nearly lost his sight. In consequence, he was not able to do a day's work like another man. He had been employed by Mr. White, of West Knighton, for some time past, of whom he had frequently spoke as a kind and generous m oder, who Bad paid him according to his work, but his earnings were small, and haviog several children, unable to work and house-rent to pay was but badly off. He had been assisted by the parish for some time roast to the extent of his use-rebt, and it seems he was under orders to appear at toe Board of Cu irdians at Dorche•ter, to make good his claim for this ,m al weekly allowance, and it is alleged teat !b-c iaged WAB under the apprehension that he would be bullied by some of the poor Itw officials, vs hether tide preyed on ids mind and produced temporary insanity is not exactly known, but one thing is certain, he had to appear bet ore tit 3 Board, and on .Friday la-t h 3 g•t up about five o'cl ek as usual, and went to the fuel-nouse, his vs ife getting up shortly afterwards, and not finding him in the house went to the shed and there found her husband :uspended to a beam by a small cord. Her screams soon brought assistance. Davit Valence and George H were the fir,t on the drea iful sci ne, Vakn•!e cut !im down, but life was extinct. ',the Coroner was comruunie iterl, and an inquest was held the same evening at th B a-lt Dog lun, before Mr. H. Lock, and a ;Tape' t tble ju. y, of which Mr. G. Bowrin vs as foreman, vih i, a tlrh • if jag he evidence of the finding of the body and the vs ife's statement of his strange manner f late, unlined a v,rilict of temporary insanity. The jury kindly gave their fees to the widow.
The Weymouth, Portland and Dorchester Telegram. — 1878-05-03 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

DESPERATE ATTEMPTS TO MURDER SWEETHEARTS.  Wednesday a shocking affair happened to disturb the usually quiet town of Alon;ton-in-Marsh. A young man named Mark Webb attempted to murder his sweetheart, Emma Gillett, who is now lying in a precarious condition in the Moreton Cottage Hospital. It seems that the two young neople had been keeping company for about a year, and that on Thursday last they fell out, and Webb struck the girl a severe blow. She obtained a summons against Webb for the assault, and on Saturday last Webb met her and asked her to withdraw it, but she refused, upon which Webb went away, but later in the day he watched her to a friend's house, and 'waited for her return. About eleven o'clock Gillett left the house in company with a girl named Purkiss, and Webb immediately rushed upon her, and with a sharp knife stabbed her in three places. the poor girl falling to the ground covered w ith blood Purkiss gave the alaim, and Webb ran away, but was stopped by a policemen who happened to be on duty • near, and he was lodged in the lock-up. In the meantime Gillett was conveyed to the Cottage Hospital, where it was found she had received three stabs, one of which had penetrated the lungs, and hen 'condition being precarious, her deposition was taken. A man named John Simpson, a tailor, residing at Fisher Row, Musselbargh, was brought up at the Musselburgh Police Court, and remitted to a higher court, on a charge of attempted murder. It appears that Simpson had paid his addresses to a girl named Allan, with whose ant he lodged, but, having been rejected by her, he became despondent. Late on Tuesday night the girl had occassion to enter Simpson'a room, when he immediately sprang at her, and attempted to cut her throat with a razor. The cries of the girl alarmed her aunt, who rushed into the room, and • disarmed Simpson, but not before her niece had been severely cut on the head, face, and arm ee The man, on being taken into custody, acknowledged that be intended to take the girl's life and then commit suicide.
The Weymouth, Portland and Dorchester Telegram. — 1878-09-06 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

SUICIDE. —Oa Tuesday. a very sad case of suicide ocairred at Knighton, in the parish of Durweston, which caused very painful excitement. The particulars will be found in the following evidence, given at the Coroner's inquisition, held on Wednesday, in the school-room, Durweston, b 4ore Mr. W. H. Atkinson. The jury first viewed the body of Diana Hyde, wife of Rpbert Hyde, which presented a most shocking appt.:arance. A deep gash from ear to ear nearly severed the head from the body, and completely divided the principal arteries. Rol-ert Hyde said he was stud groom to the Hon. Mr. Portinan, and the deceased was his wife. She was 36 years id age. H. last saw her alive about half-past nine o'clock on Tuesday morning. Shi was then sitting on the bed-side, rocking the b sty in-the cradle. The baby was between four and five months old. Abut an hour after, his two little boys and girl told him they had heard the baby crying, and had kuocked at the bedroom door, but could not make anyone hear. He went to the bedroom door and tried to get in. He called out, thinking his wife was asleep, but got no answer. He then broke open the door, and found his wife lying full length along the fi•aer He thought at first she was in a fainting fit. He s noped to lift her up, and found blood on the flour. She was quits dead. He then went to fetch assistance, but previously to his doing so his lit le hoy (hail years oi age) pointed to a razor on the floor, which he (Mr. Hyde) had stepped over. The boy said, "There is a raz tr there; she has cut herself." Frederick Lint came to his assistance, and he went into the room again, with him and Mr. Elwards' valet, named Northover ; but they did not remove the body. Mr. Ingram came about 12 o'clock, and -had her placed on the bed. He said that no doubt she died instantly.—ln reply t f the Groner, witness said deceased had fretted a good deal about her mother, who died about a week after the last child was bon. She had been very low-spirited.— This was the whole of the -evidence' and after a few remaiks from the C ironer, the jury at once gave as their • rdict that the deceased committed suicide by cutting her throat whilst labouring under temporary insanity.— The Hon. an I Rev. P. Willoughhy stated that he had known the deceased t o years. She was of a desponding disposition, and appeared more so since the death of her mother. He called the evening beforeher death, and was told he could no: see her. When she came to have her child christened, &bunt four or five months previously, she appeared in the same way, and he was not the least surprised to hear what had occurred. In her bedroom was found an envelope, and on it was written, in her qwn handwriting, "0 God, seud Thy Holy Spirit to show me my sinfulness, *ad the need of a Saviour." Deceased leaves eight children under ten years of age.
The Weymouth, Portland and Dorchester Telegram. — 1878-06-14 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

MURDER AND SUICIDE.  A shocking tragedy took place on Wednesday morning in Camberwell. Shortly after nine o'clock pistol shots were heard coming from 12, Westhall road, and a woman who was lodging in the house rushed into the street calling for assistance. Some of the neighbours immediately entered the passage, in which they found the dead body of the landlady, a Mrs Susan Hale, who had been shot through the head by her husband. On proceeding up stairs it was found that this man, Samuel Hale, had also shot himself in the mouth, the revolver by which both deeds had been committed lying under him. He was at once c onveyed on a stretcher to St. Thomas's Hospital, where an operation was performed, without success, however, as he expired within an hour. The lodger states that on coming down stairs he pointed the revolver at her, and fearing the consequences the at once ran out into the street. From statements made by the children of deceased (of whom there are five, the youngest being a young man of about 18 years of age), the murderer was a surgical instrument maker by trade. He had, however, for some years been much given to drink in addition to which he had been a great sufferer from rheumatic gout. On many occasions he had threatened the lives of his wife and children, and had had to appear at the police-court on several occasions. For a long period he had been separated from his wife, but at his earnest request, she had, contrary to the wishes of her friends, allowed him to come and live in the house tenanted by her, where he resided as a lodger. On Sunday one of sons took his dinner to him in his room, when he told him it would be the last time he should want one. In the room occupied by him were found a box of cartridges, and a letter accusing his daughter of perjury at his last conviction, and concluding with the words, "May the Lord have mercy on you all." The murdered woman, who was about 50 years of age, is described as having kept together a home after it Was broken up by her dissolute husband.
The Weymouth, Portland and Dorchester Telegram. — 1878-09-13 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

DRUNKEN JUMP OVERBOARD. —On Wednesday, before the Mayor, James Howard, commonly known as "Colonel Howard," a very poor old man, who trembled all over, was brought up tor attempting to commit suicide by jumping into the harbour.—Henry Winzar last night, between seven and eight, was on the bridge, when he saw Howard standing there about ten minutes, and then he asked Simmonds if he'd have a glass of beer, to which Simmonds replied he didn't mind if he did; but they didn't have one, Simmonds walked towards the Bridge Inn, and prisoner went towards. the middle of the bridge and said "I'm off." He put his leg over the iron rail then got his other leg over. Witness thought he was going to get down on the stone pier of the bridge, where they stand to fish, and did not do anything to stop him; defendant's left hand slipped and he fell from the centre arch of the bridge into the water, the tide running strong at tbe time. Defendant was drunk, and did it wilfully. Witness cried "There is a man overboard !" and got a boat.—Mr. bring, veterinary surgeon, was walking up the bridge about 20 minut2s past seven and saw a man jump over, and shortly atter hearing a cry looked at the water and saw a man floating with the tide without any effort to same himself. In a short time he would have gone under and been lost; but a boat was put out, and he was saved just as he was sinking. The tide running so strongly kept him up, and all circumstances favoured his escape.—Henry To will and James Wilkins saw prisoner floating through the bridge, and went after him with a boat; prisoner was making no effort to save himself, but they rescued him and brought him ashore; he made no effort to save him elf.—P.O. Bartlett brought prisoner to the station, when the Superintendent gave him orders to find out who saw him jump over. Prisoner, hearing this, said "There was not a soul that saw me; I was watching my opportunity, and I thought I'd go, out of the way." He was very excited.— Prisoner pleaded not guilty of attempting his own life.— He was committed to the Sessions for trial.—The men who saved him were commended by the Mayor, who ordered they should receive ss. each. ' A