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The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1871-10-10 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

SUICIDE OF A CLERGYMAN.  Mt, Cos, coroner. kr,ld an hrtuiry on Saturday at Sllll,l, now Asosmster, tutu:Mug Use death of the Rey. J. M. b, Mood, rsotor S!nste. Thy rev. goutlemtu had mPf.:red from .../W1.1:•• of spirit.. Ile attonded a ',arty on WodttoMay tvoniok tra Toor.Lty tusnt:mr he got it,. early and took a at. Dsring tile day ho I, ol a feinting fit and wont to bed. Mrs. S:la.oul eats:hod by hi. bml.l le. Mu was groatly agitated, and got up .1)111; "I am dyhm." liv was, however. ,poots4 ; hut ho agalo Joutl..sl from the bed, wont to t• e dr,,oMm-Mble, and seizin; a razor drow it worms his thr. at, iitilialgoic M.:ldiot ga.h. Mrs. rklwood screamed for alive. The The lkaVantr can't:, 11l olkal oil was sea for, but the Toy. "ontlouan txpirod with, • half an hour. A verdict was retur7sod io to f.rauity with the facts.  It is said that Oweipausos of the Hampshire Camp sign wilt tall wish.o kioo,ooo. . . . .  The king of dpaut hes terminated his triumphal tour and uturued to Midi it. The sentoice of death on five Communist leaders has ken oomakatel to imprisonment for twenty years. The gown wes again enabled to drive out In the morning and afteroo.m of Thursday. A If mil has beta, into she weriinge of the Broadfi dii editory, near NNW), and 100 111011 lire thus thrown out of euiployment. Thu officered the French army who capitulated in the ISO aCir ant the War Minister sr a to be tried by cout• martial. . .  The International Exhibition received nearly e million and s quArter visits in the twentrtwo weeks it was open. Signs of a strong Imperialist movement in Franc: are lie..9uom; to Iwo themselves. A plebiscit ii talked of. _ _  The Als..c.in:.d L,rraiu Treaty hat been agreed upon Lys concession on t.o psrt of Osroisay of toe last six mouths of r.locoi impart duties. nhu Young wad arreatad On Sunlit), on • ()Loge of luridly ci,Lnb.tiag with aiSteell woman. bin wives. in Not, and will be indicted its the Uneo I States Court.  ....----..Sysuptotue of the close of tbe Ministerial holidays ere hosanna' appariatt. dental welshers of the C.binet Lace returnet to London, and a Council is to be byld on ustaber 21. The Bpsail Ministry rnigned on being defeated by ten votes On WO sVicCtiOn of the President of the Corky boner Segasta is the elected PtoSidalli• A new Cabinet has been funnel by aignor Malesinpo. I.l4Wda
The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1881-08-09 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

YEOVIL.  - --DROW rsn.—Samnel Pavord, of Lufton. was drowned on Setorday evening in a pond In Preston field. Discerned wax gl.g home from Yeovil in compan7 with another man When near the pond Pavord • companion remained a little behind, and Pavord went on telling his companion to call for him at his (Pavord's) father's house in Preston. Deceased was not at his father'. house when the other man called, and he concluded that be had gone on home. On Sunday morn. lug the companion was surpri.ed to find on enquiry that Pavord had not been home. A search was at once made, requiting in a basket which deceased carried, and a hat being found fl sating on the pond in Mr. Brook's field. The police was at once communicated with. The pond was dragced, and deceased's body was found. A widow and five children mourn the sad occurrence.—An inquest was held on the leroiy on Tuesday, at the Bell lon, Preston, befnre Dr. Wybranta, coroner, and a jury, of whom Mr. Brooks was foreman.—Eli Harrison said he was walking with deceased on Saturday evening across the fields lending from Huish to Preston. Witness saw a man and woman lying under the hedge at some distance from the path, and went to see who they were. Deceased went on, and he never saw him alive after. Witness and deceased drank one pint of beer and two quarts of ale in Iluish, but neither of them was drunk. —George Russell said he was going across the fields from Preston to Yeovil on Saturday evening. Re met deceased near the wicket gat% and saw him tarn from the path, instead of leaving the field by the wicket. and go towards another rate. Pedestrians ohm did that to civic few steps. There is a large poni between the two gates at some &stance to the left. Deceased had a basket and a brtush across his shoulder. Witness wished him god night twin?, but he did not answer. He did not appear to be tipsy.—John Batten deposed to having seen a binsh and hat floating in the pond on Sunday morning.—George Pavari, father of deceased, saw him pulled out of the pond. Witness said deceased warn his eon, and was about 33 year, of axe. There was not the slightest suspicion of foul play or suicide. —The jury returned a verdict of " Accidentally Drowned," and attached a rider to the effect that they considered the pond should be better protected. The jurymen'a fees were handed to the widow.  Harvey and Another e The Cheriton Mahon School Board.—Ris Lordship delivered* wriitan lodgment of Mr. Justice Loch in this raw, which wa t-isd before hint at muter. The plaintiffs wet., contract and the action was brought in respect of certain work done for ths defendants. Hls Lwdship give judgment for thsulsiatic for £5O 17.. 6 f., an I ruled that he was also entitled to aa ardor to maw* £l4 whit* had bun paid Into court, the soots to follow itto tooth.  Cricket.  KINGSTJH PARE v.
The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1881-10-18 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

EXTIAOD.DIDART EIOICIDI —A. somewhat remarkable suicide we. committed on Monday night, at Gloucester. • short distmce stove Westgate-bridge is the viaduct earning the Booth Wales Railway over the eastern branch of the Severn, and near this is • steam pumping-been, by which the railway stations are supplied with water. About eleven o'clock that night the man in charge of the engine saw • young man run up the beak towards the engine-house and railway bridge. and thinking this stream he west out, and soon after heard • splash in the river. Ile could see no sign of any one in the water, and therefore cams into the city and gave information to the police. On his return be wee enabled, by the light of the moon, to make seereh, and near the bridge he found • hat .ITIDDI "It. L" on the inside and • walk. hag cane. Next moraine it was found that • young insit named Hobert Leif., an attorney's clerk, was misting, and that the het and stick belonged to him. The river was drugged, and in the afternoon Lalt's body wee brought to the land • few yards front where he /tanned into the water. His watch bed stopped at 1110. It seems that he had spent part of Monday evening with • girl to whom he was much attached, and that she had told him abe wished to pat an end to their ensesement, and it et believed that it was this which led him to take his life. An inquest will be held. He was • respectable young man. He had been four years with Messrs. Smith and Frenklin, solicitors, and when he left the aloe on Monday he appeared to be in his usual spirits. The Central News is informed that Lord Belborne, who is at his seat at Blackburn, Is roenewhat indisposed, but is progressing favourably. His lordship did not attend the Cabinet Council on Wednesday. Sir Hoary Havelock-Allso remains In mock the galas condition, little or no change having taken place  THIOAT itarrinom —Soreness and dryne's,. tickling and irritation. inducing cough and affeetint tho voles' For these ey mptoma ase reps • Glycerine Jojubsa Olycst in*, in these saresable coefections, tabu in pro:intik/ to the glands at the moment they are excited by the act of sucking. becomes actively beating. Sold only in bozos, nd. end Is. lid., labelled "
The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1881-03-01 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

FATAL ACCIDICRT. —On Saturday night • married awl" named Millett was killed at New-street station. eirsioO; ham. Just as the train was starting she juin* the carriage to find her huaband, whom she thous% Itd been left behind, and, stumbling, fell between ter form and the train, her body boing out through lied los' fully tuagled. The report of the Groat Western Kill way Company es issued on Friday. It States that the revenue of the Pet half-year amounted to £3,580,138. being £56,0130 more the in the corresponding period of 1280. The expenditures's /1,814,383, or £30,247 more. The balance. alter Dorsi Preferential charges, is £4213.732, and after providisgs dividend at the rats of 5 per cent, • balance of 05. T. will be carried forward. The diminution of rec-ipts swat to the great snowstorm is estimated at £50.000. A deputation of Scotchmen, headed by the Duke el Sutherland, waited on the Secretary for War es Wiliam day, and presented a petition for the retention of the tartan dress hitherto worn by tie Hmtiland regiment° Mr. Childers, in reply, said it had never been his bow tion to abolish distinctive tartans, but when it hersow necessary to consider whether larger regiments should not be substituted for the linked hattalloa system, they had to consider how, without making unnecessary changes. they oould form regiments with the same meliorate out a tho existing battalions A CA/M1 of cruelty to a horse came before the coast' magistrate' at Bradford on Thursday. A farmer sad ith innkeeper, occupiers of adjoining fields, had a diaper about • horse, which one had contracted to buy sad thal other to sell, and an appeal was sada is the Comte Court Jodie to decide in whom the ownership of 08 animal *am vested. The farmer wee declared to he tic owner, but ho turned the horse out of his field tato dth.,° of the innkeeper, the result being that it Wee kept with' out food foe fifteen days. The disputant' were both now charged with cruelty, but only the farmer was held to to guilty. It. was comltterl to prison for two months. The Rev. Benjamin Spoke, Vicar of Dowliall Walk Somerset, committed suicide on Wednesday awok _e ./ drowning. His wife died on the previous day. lir fluke was the clergyman whose mysterious dastatunthj; some years ago caused so much eingWY. Sthto s'77 after his disappearanas be wss discovered in employed as • cattle drover. Mr. Spoke was the brodost of the late Captain Spoke, the African explorer. II" Inquest on UM body was heid at Wakebill-house OS Thursday. The medirrel attendant expressed his bel,le',„ that distress and unrest, occasioned by the death.oi late wife, to whom he was fondly attached, so affected te' mind of Mr. Spoke that he because insene. and Irbil.° is in that state of gated he committed suicide. The thl returned • verdict to that offset.  All cheques aad Pula-utiles orders are psi**, rto Mrs. MAST MILLS', 8, High Wesiesiesai, poreh' ' Pi iited aad Published by EDWARD NEWIa l, 01110 M, High-street West, Durehesisr, iMa a pariah et The Holy Trinity, fee the Progrietet.  Friday, Kan& Ist, 11111.
The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1881-04-05 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

SUICIDE OF A CONGREGATIONAL MINISTER. On Friday an inquest was held at Witham. Eseex. on the body of the Rev. J. 1,. 38, Congregational Minister at Finchinefleld. near Braintree. who was found drowned in the River 'Backwater, at Witham. on Thursday. Thi, principil witness Was the Bev. It. W. Saunders. Congregational Minister at %Wetherst Ille deposed that on Friday, the lath March. the deems.' told I it.' feansl some people were trying to injure him in his ministerial work. ife thought somebody had net the eltildren in the day-schiml to watch Min and the governess. lie assure.' witness there Was no gnaws.' for the suspicions whieh le, thought were entertained with regard to him. ll.' appeared to 1/4. in great distress and cried. On the following Monday he said someone hail sent him one of the almanacs issued by the Inman t•ompany. awl he thought it waa a hiut that lie iiught to leave Finehingtield and go to America. He slept at house that night. and a doetor was called in to PO, him. 1)n the following moraing he left for Ipswich. Th.. deceased had received many ationymous letters. whiek more in* less upset him. Ti... letters wero pro.l awl n•ieL Th-y expressed hatred towards the deceased, and said lei lath no friend in the parish except the aeltimlndstn•ss, who was prowl and equally laded.They also advised him to leave the plae,.. Mr. &linden', eoniititiing his midence, said the schoolMiStross had confessed that ahe hail herself written these letters.—A delp.olt .if th.• ,kolasetl's rhapel. wlin was present, said tts• oridont obits.t tho woman was to drive the ilis-easisl into 'pi. artml.-11r. Saundori said the decoattod said iii, Witl4 tineasy in consequence ~f these anonymous letters. and in ronsequence id troubles at home. Be was under the iimosssion also that a politrnian was ii .tttingafter Wm.—Further evidenis• showed that the ileeeased left Ipswich for Witham in Saturday week. 11., hall probably been in the water since Sem, never having been even subsequently.—The Cormier and tla. jury characterised the lettere which hall been addressed 1,, the deccaiied as Iniquitous. A venlict of Suicide while of unsound mind- was rot tinled. It was staled Mr. t ollina's mother thud itiKaue.
The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1881-02-01 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

SUPPOSED ROMANTIC SUICIDE.  On Sunday night another discovery of clothes was made upon the Clifton Suspension-bridge, and the surrounding circumstances, togotber with the tenour of • letter found with the anima give rise to the suspicion that • suicide has been committed. About nine o'clock in the evening two servant girls, in the service of 111 r. Drake, of Ryer'sigh Reuse, Leigh-wads, went to the toll-keeper. named Birman, end told him that th:y bad nicked up some female wearing apparel on the bridge. The articles oom prised a light hat, trimmed with tub.', • black kid glove, a small omelet scarf, and Men • cooy of livron's poetical works. P.C. Carpenter (C 10), whilst on duty in Boyce.evens-, was told by • gentleman that the toll-keeper of the bridge wanted • police:constable, and be proceeded to the spot. He was then informed of what lead occurred, and, in company with a Somoreetehire constable, named Cridge, made • search of the banks of the river, but could not and any trace that would lead them Li think that a suicide had taken place. The clothing was taken to the Clifton Police-station. where it now remains. On looking at the book of poems it was seen that page 51.5 was turned down, and on it MIAs Yeti pathetic poem, entitled "When we two parted.' The Snit verso runs u follows :  When we two parted In silence and tears, Half broken-bearted, To meter for year., Pala grew thy cheek, and cold, Colder thy kiwi.Truly that hour foretold Sorrow to this. Another verse of toe sante poem is a follow. Thy know not I knew thee, Who knew the,. too wan— tons, long obi' I rue thee Too deeply to tell. Endow.' in the hook was a New Yeor's card, and also an envelope containing an ivy sod the fothotios note— evidently written in haste, the word "to" being written twice:— _ _  "
The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1881-03-29 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

BURNING! OF AN OPERA ROUSE AT NIOL  GREAT LOSS OF LIFE.  On Thursday evening, during the performance of "Lucia di Lammermoor " at the Opera-house. Nice, the gas at the back of he stage suddenly exploded, setting fire to the menery. The flames spread with alarming rapidity, and, attack', g the meter, the house w.,s soon plunged in dark• nes, thus adding to the confusion among the crowd, who were pressi,4 midi.' towards the limi e,l means of exit. The audience was • lar,,e one, and the crush proporti,nately great. In the panic which pravai;ed, hundreds were thrown down and trodden ,nder foot, and those who endeavoured to extricate th p ople he plessly jammed in the doorways and passe es, dieeribe the scene as something fearf ul—tba shrieks of the wounded mingling with the cries of those in the upper ira leries, where even means of escape was cut off. Madame Donelin, th, prima donne, was sate I, but ' the tenor. inses, and baritone, with a number f the chorus singers, are among the victims. A man, who escaped f out th. upper is lery by ju ',ping over into the space below, declares that, with perhap. a dozen exceptions, all thaw in his part of the house must have been burnt t death. Some sat ots from the Fleet and several Mulish residents r mdered signal service in saving We The sensation caused in the town is indescribable. One lady, whose husband wets burnt, committed suicide, and peop e were to be met wandering about the s.reets crying, wring. iug their hands and tearing their hair. The usual noln. via nts are being made reepecting alleipsi defective means of exit and inadequate water soup'', The persons who had taken the , r-heetra stalm and the boxes on the grand tier hat not generally arrived when he fire broke out. Many of the victims of the catastrophe belong to the working claw, and • subeeription has been opened for the ',lief of their families. One whole family of five persons &IA another of three persons nerialied. The totAi 14 dead brslies found is 73. Seven sailors are misang, and a Gorman doctor, Herr von Constadt. In very many CASES identification of the bodies is impoosible. Many foreigners are also missing. but among them Eng,ish names haven't leen so far returned. Immediate bunal was found necessary, owing to the decomposing Betio of the heat on the corpses that were not charred completely. Amongst the victims were a young married couple, who Wei left two infant chi dren at home asleep. Whoa the little things awoke thec were orphan.. An o d decorated gentleman was found in the lobby as if ehelteri g • little gir. from the flames. His back was scorched, but the face MSS recognisable. The child dro_pped to pieces when • sailor took boll of her. The Nice oera HOWIO was built by Vi, tor Eunnanuel's father. The last betties extricated from the rtf ne of the Orera House are so terribly burnt as to be completely unrecog• 'usable.
The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1881-08-23 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.  TIRED OF Lrrz.  At the Borough Police-court this (Nfondny) morning, John Legg, an old man, was brought up charged with attempting to drown himself in the river From.. Frederick Paull, harness-maker. said he resided at Holloway-row, and on Thursday last he was coming from Fordington to Dorchester, and saw the prisoner leanint on his same on Swan Bridge. He appeared t ) be asleep, and witness &lvlaed him to move on, or he would be locked up. Be said, "And a good job, to), for I hive nowhere to go except the Union, and I don't want to there :wain ; I would wooer drown myself." Witness told him it would . ld be better for him to _ . walked  go t , the Union than to do that. Prisoner up by the side of the river for some time, and I watched him He lost eight of him for a but afterwards found be was in the water. He George Dunn, and ran up to where the prisoner They got him out of the river and Laid him on stk. P.C. Dunn afterwards came up and took of Mot. The water was about lour or fire feet -them  , nut*,  beak.  Ml.  George Dunn, who resides at Orohard-street, said last Thursday about 20 minutes past twelve he was at the bottom of the town, near the White Hart, and there raw the last witness. He called his attention to the prisoner who wee walking on the bank b the side of the river. Ab iut • quarter of an hour after he saw him in the water, and triton' and Paull went up to him. They found him rolling in the water which was about lcur feet deep, with his head under water. Thee pulled him out, and laid him on the bank. He did not speak, ant award to be moon. miens. When he reoovered he said he wee tired of his life. P.C. Dunn came and took charge of him. I P.C. Dunn said be wris on duty in High Eastetreet, , about 20 minutiae past 12, when he received Information of a man having gone up the water towards Friary Mill with the Intention of drowning himself Witness went along the footway, toward the Swan Bridge, and biund the priaceur lying on the path by the side of the river. He was very much exhausted. Pauli and Dunn were also there. Witness toJk him in custody, and brought him to the policestation. He was very 111, and Mr. Supt. Coward went for &doctor. Wham rolled him in • blanket, and put him in the cell The doctor came and ordered him brandy. When he had recovered he was charged with attempting to drown himself, and in reply he sad: "They ought not to have come quite so (pia, and then there would have been an end to po if old Jack. When I have my Liberty I'll do it again, for I'm tired of my life." He said he had no home to go to, and witness advised him to go to the Union. He replied, "I would rather drown or Ilene myself than g 0 there, because they treat me la had."—Prisoner was committed for trial at the next Quarter Sessioas.
The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1881-09-06 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

ROMANTIC SUICIDE.  A long inquiry was held on Friday last at the Running Horse Inn, Gerrard's-cross, Oxford. respecting the death •,f Henry James Spradbury, 19, • clang, who committed s dclde on Monday night iset.—Sdr. Robert James Spraibury, a retired gentleman, of Blenheim-terrace, Gerrard's-cross, stat:d that the deceased was his eon, and had been residing with him. He wes a clerk, but lately had been unable te attend to his business owing to illness. On Sunday he loft home to visit • young lady to whom he was shortly to bs married. When he returned in the evening, about nine o'clock, he apAsred greatly depressed in spirits. In answer ti witness, be said he had had a _quarrel with the young lady. Witness tried to cheer him up, t he became very inelancho' y, and shortly afterwards retired to his be .r om Before leaving witness he shook hands with him, wishing him good night, and saying that if his yoong lady called to see him to say he was dead. Witness, however, never thought that he would commit suicido. on the he did not make his appearance ass usual, sod, in consequence, witness went upstairs to his room, hut finding the door locked, and being unable ti get any answer, he obtained assistance, and the door was forced open. Deceased was then foun I lying on the floor on his back, near the end of the bedstead, covered in blood, and his throat fearfully cut. Medical :insistence was sent for, and Dr. Murphy soon arrived, and pronounoed life to be quite extinct. On the dressing-table was • note, written by deceased, which was as follows :—" Dear Father—l !lave done this with the razor you will find near me. The cstve is the quarrel with Elizabeth, whom I lowest mlicu. Tell her if you see her that I forgive her, end hope to meet her above some day. Good-bye, darling father I Pray foe ms, and forgive me for what I have done.—Yours, HeNEY Jove.