The Telegram. — 1896-07-28 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

DELICIOUS MAZAWATTEE HAS. DELICIOUS MAZAWATTEE ' In Quality PIO Flavour Unimpeachable.  _ SAO CASE OV Suiciox.—Ort rilur- lay, .11 'MUM, WWI h I Ikly Dr. J. Comp. Leach, coroner' ft the tilaakiouro Vale luo, ou luebvdjoi Jason 141410 k I,  which wee hand is the Mires. Meer on Triesday.— The following jury WAS sworn in :—Measra W. Andrewe foreman ; W. Hayter, J. B. Hayber, E. Kendall, H. J. Bowe, A. Brown, J. Clark, G. Beatable, W. Rentable J. Galpin, Haskett, W. Moore, and W. Knight.— Robert Elliott, miller, living at Marc. bull, said that the deceased, James Elliott, wiui his brother, 52 years of age, and a molester by trade. About a fortnight ago the deceased's wife died rather suddenly, and he felt it very much indeed. He had since become very lowepirited, and had done no work. Witness had kept him company, and had slept with him at night. He bad never heard him say anything about doing away -with himself, this being the last thing witness would have thought of. On Monday, deceased told witness that as he went to lie down on his bed he heard his wife calling and that he heard her say "James" plainly. He also told witness that he would not go there again to sleep until be came back from harvest. Deceased slept at witnens's house on Monday night, and at ten minutes to six next morning he called witness, this being the last time Lie heard his voioe. Witness also seated that deceased occasionally went to bathe, the last rinse being 12 months ago, when witness went with him, and they bathed at about the same spot in the Miver Stout where the body was found. Witnem identified the body se that of his brother.—Hubert White depored that he was a labourer, living at Marnbull. He last saw deceased alive on Monday night, about O o'clock. lie noticed nothing unusual in his manner. At about 4 o'clock on Tuesday afternoon he heard that a man had been drowned in the river, no he walked down and ! saw on the bank a suit of clothes. He saw a pine in the waistcoat pocket, which lie knew belonged to deceased, as lie himself had given it to him. Close by the clothes the nettles were bent, Wife nese loAed further out in the river and them eow the deceased lying on hie side with his back to the bank. The body was at the bottom of the river. Witness then returned to the village and gave informotion.—Sidney Haskett, a groom living at Belchalwell, said that on Tuesday afternoon he was at Marnhull and heard that James Eliott was drowned. lie ran across to the spot where the deceased wan in the river, divested himself of hia clothes, and want into the water after the deceased, Taking kingw"holidyiolng hiiam haboutistihavendfleandowf riwseallabe pulled him to the hank, and then with asinstanois got him out. He noticed that deceased had on hie stockings and undershirt and that he was quite told.—Abel Dotter, landlord of the Vale Inn, said that on Tuesday morning, at 10 o'clock, elie deceased, James Elliott, came to the Vale Inn and wee served with a pint of ale. He then told witness he was going into the fields to not thistles. After saying thin he at once left, and -witnese did not again see him alive. To witnem's knowledge he had been drinking lately.—The coroner, in summing up, said the deceased was • most unfortunate man, for he had lately Met his wife, who kept a good home for him. This loss, no doubt, preyed ou big mind, and made him commit this act, which was an act of suicide. No doubt he had iMen disturbed hy the hallucination of his wife calling him on the Monday, and this was doulitlese one factor that tended to throw hie mind off its balance. When going down to cut the tbistles he had seen the river, which had proved a great teinp;ation, and his mind being overbalanced, it had made him do this act. He expressed the opinion that there was no doubt of this being a cane of suicide, as the deceosod woe wearing his shirt and Mocking", which he would Lee taken off had he been going to bathe—The jury returned a unanimous verdict, "That the deceased, J. 11138 Eliiott, committed suicide by drowning whilst temporarily insane."  DORSET/5111RM POOR LAW OrVICERA'