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The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1859-10-25 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

CAM.—On Saturday morning, the coroner, Mr. Rutter, received information that a man had been found.drowned at Mode Wheel, on the river lrwell, in the township of Pendlebury, in the borough of Salford. On going to take the inquest in the afternoon the body appeared to be that of a man about 50 or 60 years of age. From the evidence it appeared that • man named Yates, employed at the Mode Wheel-works, discovered the body in a nearly erect position at half past 6 o'clock that morning, in the sluice leading from the river lewd). With the assistance of a 1111111 named .151111,5 Moylea he got the body out of the water, and conveyed it to the Swllll Inn, Pendlebury, where it lay until Saturday night. Mery Gorton, who keeps a beershop near the Swan Inn, stated that on Friday afternoon this man canoe to her house, and remained from three o'clock mail live. He appeared perfectly sober. During the time lie remained he asked for a glass of beer and a pipe of tobacco, and had four glasses in all, for which he paid sixpence. Before leaving lie inquired of her at what time the gates of the lodge leading to Mode Wheel were closed for the night. She inquired if lie were going to Manch. st -r, when be replied, "No, to Throstle Nest." The witness said, he appeared to be " upset in his mind," and she hal no further conversation with him. He was • stranger to her before this. One of the jury remarked that if it was the Immo': lie supposed, he knew her well. She was called Henry Stokes ; but though she was known by that name she was not a man, and her proper name was Harriet Stokes. She had assumed the name, and garb of a man for • great number of years, and had served an apprenticeship as • bricksetter, afterwards worktng as a journeyman, and was for several years in business, having constructed many of the warehouses, chapels, and dwelling-houses in the neighbourhood of Manchester, the last work being the erection of a factory chimney for Mr. Simpson. The coroner then directed two women to examine the body, who came back tittering, saying it was true; it was the body of a woman. Harriet Taylor, who lives in the neighbourhood, said she knew Stokes well. He was • bricksetter. Her proper name was Harriet Stokes, but she went by the name of Harry Stokes. Some years ago Stokes married • woman in Manchester. They lived together as man and wife, and kept a beershop in Quay-street, Manchester. Several of the jury recollected the case, and that ballads were composed and sung in the streets on its being known that the supposed man was • woman. The verdict was " Found drowned. Supposed suicide." Since the inquest it has been ascertained from iniiniries that about 25 years ago this woman was mar ried to • female, who made complaint that her husband was not a man, and left her in cense. pience. A Wowax 110 YEARS or
The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1859-09-20 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

HEALTH AND DISEASE.  THE PUBLIC HEALTH.  (From the  l's Report.)  Much has been done to improve the health of London, yet 1,111 persons died within its limits in the week ending on Saturday, September 10—that is, rather more than 158 daily. About 50 persons are destroyed every 24 hours in London by sanitary defects that we may hope will be to a large extent removed by the Board of Works. The mortality is now near the average rate, which, exclusive of the weeks of 1849 and 1854. when cholera was epidemic, would have demanded 1,102 lives.  SclMin& and diptheria became more fatal, but the deaths by fever and diarrhoea decreased • so that the deaths by ryinotic diseases amounted to :86, the same number ILI last week.  -151-ciiii-r.ihia; 146;4 cholera two persons died. A retired plant broker, aged 69, died of cholera, said to be Asiatic, at 24, Princes-street, Mile-end Old Town.  - -A C--.ercluuit's wife, of the age of 36, died of cholera on board of the Moselle, shortly after it had passed Gravesend. The attack was fatal in 12 hours. She had suffered from choleraic diarrhoia at Rostock, and left that place in rather a weak state; went on board the steamer at Hamburgh on Friday night at 12 o'clock, vu attacked by cholera on Sunday morning at about 11 o'clock and died soon after 11 o'clock at night. This death, on Aug. 28th, has not been registered. The uselessness of quarantine in such cases is evident; but it would be satidactory to know the real sanitary state of the steamers which ply between Hamburg and London.  The deaths of 24 persons by accidents or negligence were registered in the week; -11 by mechanical injuries, Iby bums, 7by drowning, sby suffocation. One [DUlder or manslaughter and one suicide were recorded. In the week, the births of 875 boys and 821Igirls, in all 1,701 children, were regibtered in London. In the 10 corresponding weeks of the years 1849-58 the average number was 1,531.  The mean temperature of the air, WO deg., differed only half a degree from that of the week preceding; but it fell on Saturday to 551 deg., the lowest having been 479 deg. on that night. The temperature of the air was 615 deg. on Thursday, and the thermometer in the sun rose to 91 deg. on Monday, when the thermometer on the grass fell to 38* deg. The Thames was 6 degrees wanner than the air. The wind was calm in the beginning of the week, bet rose, and passed, chiefly from the south-west, over Greenwich on three days at the rate of 7 miles an hour, making 43 miles an hour on an average during the week. The sky was often overcast and cloudy. 0.35 inch, or above the third part of an inch, of rain fell on three days. Electricity was feeble generally, but was strong on Tuesday, positive during the morning and negative daring the afternoon. Volleys of sports and galvanic currents were observed, and it lightened and thundered between 4 and 11p.m. on that day.
The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1880-05-18 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

ILMINSTER.  SIMON' 01P • 801111111117 MAGISTILATI.—nmhs•ter was thrown into great excitement on Friday night on hearing that Mr. R. T. Coombe, of Earnshill-house, Curry Rivel, had shot himself. Mr. Coombe was thoroughly beloved by all CIAMOs for his kindness of manner and impartiality as • justice. It appears that Mrs. Coombe underwent a painful operation last year, and lately the disease again showed itself in an aggravated form ; this preyed very much upon the mind of ler husband, who was devotedly attached to her. About 10 p.m. on Wednesday night the lady expired. On learning the news of her deal Mr. Coombe seemed frantic with grief, and as his health had been much weakened from anxiety and also from • painful malady which he had recently suffered from, he became partly demented. Dr. Mules was in the house arranging about the funeral of Mrs. Coombe, and the servant told him that his master had fallen down in • fit. The doctor and Mr. Coombe, jun., and his sister hastened to the study and found the unfortunate gentleman lying on hfs back with a five-chambered revolver by his side, one of the barrels having just been discharged. It was ascertained that he had shot himself through the right temple, the shot having (raptured the skull and scattered the brains of the deceased gentleman about the room. He lived for 46 hours after the shot was fired, but was unconscious till his death. Dr. Mules had only left him about ten minutes when the servant entered his master's room with a letter, and then made the shocking discovery. An inquest was held on Monday, before the district coroner. The jury returned a verdict that the deceased committed suicide whilst in a state of temporary insanity. The &rowed gentleman was a Deputy-Lieutenant of the county, Recorder of Long. port, and had served the office of High Sheriff. He was one of the most active magistrate's at 110•110011 and on local benches, and his heel knowledge rendered his opinions highly valuable. He Erected as • barrister previous to his succession to the Earpshill estates. He took a lively interest in everything connected with the neighbourhood in which he resided, and a few years since was president of the Somerset Archeological Society, on the occasion of its visit to Ilmiuster. He suaed the late Mr. littermare am chairman of the Ilminster bench of magistrates, in which place he was the owner of much property. It is said that his life was insured for the large sum of 1190,000. Deceased was about 65 years of age. He leaves a son and daughter, forhom much sympathy is felt.  2311DPORT. Rimers Tesvmrss.— At the Borough Police. court on Tuesday, before Or. Hag and T. H. Edmunds, Esq., F,ecierick Davis and Williams Roberts, travelling brush-dealers, were charged in custody with being drunk and riotous on the previous evening, in North Alington.—Fined se. and 75. 6d. costs each, or 14 days. FrNICRAL OF A
The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1880-11-23 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

LITTON MAW IN ALISTRALIA.-AD an hour afterwards wining heard the fire ewe eni for Is. good behaviour Of the club inquest was held at the Margue, Toorak. on August out. When he got to it the shed wan0we'1,,,,..-e sth, in the body of Henry Legge, Agee 52, who corn. down. Witness on his way home had pewee w' netted suicide by cutting his throat with • razor.- and it was all right then.-Henry Burge dr,r WATION ARMY William Bowen, chemist, deceased's master. stated lodge with prisoner's father at Waytown. that on the previous day a little boy told him that le quarter-past 10. Prisoner sleeps eiebe• seems---_ there Val • man's body in the paddock. He wont to was not then in the home. About El inmate it, and there ironed deceased, quite dead-Several and before I went to sleep, prisoner cane is 0, i 'the town on Wednesday other witnesses were exam hoined, /mending Jose into bed. He was puffing and blowing. owl 1,,, -a number of performers Legge, commercial traveller, deceased's brother, and him what was the matter. He said the e beef, nny's brass-band from Coastable 8. Carter, who deposed to finding deemed been drinking, and the running home fast bid' d tome the procession is the paddock, with • wound in his throat, and the him blow. About quarter of an hour ate 'ended by a banner- razor by his side. No signs of • struggle were visible was in bed there was an alarm of fire. ' Army,, 'on which Deceased bad • pocket book on his person. Two late went out to it, and I followed. fire." "The entries in this book left no doubt, when examined, that same night. after the fire' P.C. ghp Fjle c smeared highly deceased was much perturbed in his mind in mute- to prisoner about the fire in my 'My curiosity. queen of his acquaintance with • penes whom be calls t`'ld the policeman he would have t tide. • the day at his "pet," &OA •' a poor forlorn woman," for whew ae this. Prisoner told the constable he boe -although claimed the " greatest respect and hers."-The jury half-an-hour before the fire took place. I see el etrong found that deceased committed suicide whilst in •state can you tell such • lie; you were not is' 'sly well of mental aberration. minutes." Primmer made no answer to ar tuned - Ellis, of Netherbury, stated that when he e A shed it was burnt down. He said to the psi' .
The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1880-10-26 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE OF A LADY. On Tuesday afternoon Mr. W. Carter, coroner for East Surrey, held an inquiry at the Vivian Tavern, Philliproail, Peckham-rye, into the circumstances attending the death of Mrs. Sarah Greenfield, aged about 55 years, who was found dead in a bath at her residence, 25, Manerton-road, on Saturday night last. —From the evidence of the deceased's husband, a retired publican, it appeared that on the evening in question ho, at his wife's request, went shopping, she declining to accompany him. He was away about an hour and and a half, and n his return he found that the door was bolted inside. He went to the side entrance, and got over the gate into the yard. Finding both back doors fastened, he forced one of the doors, and obtained entrance into the house. He went to the parlour, where he had left deceased, but she was not there. A piece of paper was lying on the table on which was written in ink, in the handwriting of deceased, "This I. what I have done myself to save my husband f nen ruining (sic). —(Signed) Sarah Greenfield." Witness then rushed upstairs with a light, awl searched the bedrooms. He found his wife lying dressed in a bath, her face covered by ebout two feet of water. He raised her head and shoulders clear and ran for assistance. A doctor pronounced her to be dead. There had since been found a torn envelope, on the back of which was written, "This I did myself. —(signed) Sarah Greenfield, Saturday." A fo,tnight ago a little neice,to whom deceased WAS greatly attached, died, and since then she had been depressed and subject to hallucinations. She fancied there was a conspiracy existing to ruin witness, and although he tri oil to persuade her. otherwise she persisted in her belief. There WM not the slightest ground for the delusion. Deceased was a temperate woman. Witness was fully persuaded that she had committed suicide, her mind at the time being unhinged.—Police-constable Dawson, 353 P, stated that he was called to the house on Saturday evening, and found deceased in the bath dead. He found an open razor by the side of tho bath. —Mr. Greenfield, recalled, said the razor belonged to him. His opinion was that deceased intended to cut her throat if she had not succeeded in drowning hereelt—By the Jury : Ho was not in the slightest fear of ruin.—After a short deliberation In private the jury returned a verdict of "Suicide while mentally deranged."
The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1861-08-13 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

HANGING FROX A DOOR KIT.--A moat singular 'suicide was committed in the village of Woodier, Berke, on Saturday, by a married woman named New, who for many years was housekeeper in a gentleman's family near Reading, but bad very recently n,arried a widower keeping • beer-house at the above place. Her husband soot to Reeding market on Saturday, and during his absence his daughter missed Mr inotheriu-I,w, and requiring change for a customer, emit to her b.-drooni with the intention of obtaining some from her. Sic attempted to open the door, but found it was locked, and on peeping through the keyhole fancied she could tee some object close to the door. Accordingly she returned down stairs and oommunicated with a neighbour, who placed • ladder against the house, and on looking into the window found that Mrs: New was Us • kneeling position near the door, and on further examination it was discovered that a piece of doubled shit* was tied around her neck, and fastened to the door-key, and that life was extinct. The deceased was a stout figure, and must have been exceedingly deterniined in her purpose to have oommitted the dreadful act by the means she did. It seems* that during the past few weeks she bad been in • low desponding way, and to have made use of very strange expressions. Au inquest was held on the body on Tuesday, before Mr. Rupert Curb', the &malty coroner, when a verdict of temporary insanity was returned.  FRATRICIDE nu LANCAtfIIiRE.—On Monday afternoon, at the Itswtenstall petty sessions, • farmer named Richard Ashworth, of Height Top Farm, Water. near Newchurch. was brought up on • charge of wilful murder. It app oared that the prisoner and his brother (John Ashworth) were loiut occupiers of a farm, and some dibugreement having taken place, the prisoner went home under the influence of intoxicating liquor, and commenced an attack upon his brother, from the effects of which he never recovered. The sister of the two wen was in the cellar when the occurrence look place, and heard her brother John call out 'murder," but she Wig so much alarmed that she dared not come out of the cellar for some time. She afterwards found her brother John lying on the bed. Before ha died his depositions wore taken. in the presence of a magistrate. in which he 'dated that his brother struck him twenty times, both with his bands and with his feet. The assault was committed on Sunday, the 30th of June, but John continued to live till Saturday, the 27th of July. An inquest was subsequently held on the body, when a verdict of manslaughter was returned. It was believed that the i'epceitions would have justified • verdict of wilful murder, and he was consequently brought before the magistrates on kiondmy on the latter chine. On the conclusion of the evidence lie VMS committed for trial to the approaching Lancaster assizes on a charge of manslaughter. The prisoner is • remarkably large and powerful-looking man. - - •
The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1866-10-09 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

CORN MARKETS. •• match box and a A RINOULAZ suicide has been committed in the meal, end some words of • disagreeable meaning ensued. already pointed out how a few weeks NCO, it proposed meati.Latts, prsday._The moo, of &Alio ohms Or, She felt some. theories by the wife of the captain of • Chinese trader. The parties, however, retired to their home in company Ito mite ElOOO, to be spent, partly upon a medallion of on sate here to-day was very moderate. Owing to a ..,, and returning Her husband has been absent for eighteen months, and but it seems that Mr. Mangey carried with him sad fore. Mr. Beales, for whom a public subecription is likewise cionsidereMe importation of foreign wheat, the demand -erwards found on his return he upbraided her for her extravagance. boding* that the Olsen he bed so recently formed solicited, and pertly on a history of the Hyde-perk for all ompuse was somewhat Inactive; orrorkhadme, Nese', raised, She took refuge under a falsehood, pretending that she would not turn out satisfactory, for in the erening he demonstrations. Whetheremboldened by moues, or good and fine wheat, changed bands as fat mum The . ehdo and had deposited some of the money in • Scotch bank. was discovered at the rear of the premises, suspended by rendered desperate by failure, the leaden now require a market was moderatey supplied with for.* wheat, in ',...engine. The fear of detection preyed on her mind, and she a rope, not dead. He WU speedily cut down and be sum of £lO,OOO, "'.o be raised forthwith, tbe said sum which a fair amount of budoese was transacted, at full tto the poisoned herself. The jury found that she destroyed recovered, but strange to say he renewed the suicidal to be called the Lecture and Special Purposes Fund, and currencies, mat*, cargoes of gran owe irs far nom, herself while temporarily insane, act on the following evening, with a like result. to be subject to the control of the Executive Council of demand, at late rides. ruse malting barley was dill; moo A M
The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1881-12-13 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

TRIPLE MURDER AND SUICIDE.  A shocking triple murder and suicide is reporters from Fulstone, near Shipley, Hud !ersfield. Oe Tuesday morning Henry Bettye, landlord of thh Junction Inn, finding that his daughter, EMlllle Moorhouse, aged 27, who had already had thred lillegiumat.c hildren (aged ten, sir, and two), appeared to be again pregnant, told her that he could not do with any more of her children, adding "Thou must seek a fresh shop." He refused to allow her to keep a box which she said a decorated brother had given her. On Tuesday afternoon Bettye went to rtuddersfielcl, and Mrs. Bettye, Hannah MoorhousA her three children (Ada, Jo6n, and Emma), and Henry Bettye (her brother) had tea together. When Mr. Bettye returned in the evening only Mrs. Bettye was at home, but the absence of the others at I firit t%Citrd no surprise. Shortly afterwards, Henry Bettye, aged eight, came in, and said, "Mother, our tiannah has gone ono the dam with Ada and John." He added that Hannah went out of the house to the cowshed, anu asked him to hold • candle while a lad, named tech,: ly, milked the cows. She then asked Henry to go with her over the field to the pond. She had the infant with her. When they came to the pond she said, 'Ada and Emma have gone in there, and we are going. 'fhos csu go home and tell thy father and mother, that they may know where we all are." On searching the darn, whieh is 10 feet deep, about 100 yards from the inn and 50 from the road, the bodies of 'Le mother and eldest daughter, Ada, were found, and half-an.diour afterwards those of the two younger children. She had been seen in the road near the pond with her two eldest in her arms. She had laid out a quantity of linen, apparently to serve as shrouds for all. The bodies await an inquest.
The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1870-03-22 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

VERY SENSATIONAL STORY.  A Paris paper announces the death, of a Russian lady who appeared in the drewing•rooms of Paris in lftln and IMP, and was nicknamed the "Dame i Is Met." She died, aged 45, in the most complete solitude. It is said that her husband, who war mash older than she, tame to sea her for • week or two•very six months, aud went away again, no an knew whither. All was mysterious about this Lady of the Key. Last mouth the husband did not return as usual, bat a letter came announcing his death. The widow survived him • few days only, and it is supposed she allowed herself to die of hunger. Whether true or not, this was the story ihat was whispered about her when she appeared is Paris, young and beautiful, more than twenty yaws ago. It is mid that, her husband surprised her in a little wintry house which be premaged near Moscow at the moment she warn hastily abutting somebody up in a wardrobe, A servant bad betrayed her. The Muscovite Othello turned the key twice in the wardrobe, took it out, then told his wife to follow him. A travelling britiska stood a few more from the villa. More dead than alive, the unhappy woman obeyed. When the husband had placed her in the carriage. and given an order is • low voile to the coachman, "Keep this key," he said to his wife; " I have forgotten something and will return," ad then went heck to the house. He returned according to his promise, but as the carriage descended all hill the poor woman saw the flames issuing from the windoes of the country house and taking full poesesoion of it., She fainted away, and on regaining her senses perceived that • gold titian was riveted round her neck, to which the little key of the wardrobe was attached. She wished to kill herein, but her husband threatened her that if she committed suicide he would reveal her misconduct, and *over her and her family with dishonour. She was, therefore, condemned to live, and her strange necklace incited much curiosity in Paris. At last her tyrant allowed her to retire into la quiet retreat on the express stipulation that she would I not attempt to destroy herself during his lifetime. His death released her from this condition ; but she had languished for more than twenty years, having the wino,' of her guilt always before her eyes. It is s curious story; we wander whether it Is true  A Faicarrruc StoRY is related in the New York Tines, which shuost makes us wonder u bother we are. living in a Christian age, or whether any faint scintillation of Christian humanity has penetrated to the Far Went of America. A Captain Baker, of the United States Army, attacked &village occupied by the Piegiui Indians. it Montana, and massacred 173 persons, of whom 90 were woman. and Ti) young children—some infants at tbe mother's breast. Only fifteen could fairly be galled betting men. Irbil horrible dead was the work of trained soldiers, not of untaught, bloodthirsty ledisne: • mark of cisilisaticia —that civilisation which alsolga the Bed Man off the face of the carts.