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Bridport, Beaminster, and Lyme Regis Telegram and Dorset, Somerset, and Devon Advertiser. — 1884-01-18 (Bridport, Dorset, England)

BAO DEATH BY DROWNING OF A YOUNG  LADY. The town of Wareham was deeply distressed on Friday night by hearing of the untimely end of a young lady very much respect .d in the parish—Miss Emilie Annie r/ensham, the daughter of the highly esteetned Congregational mi Aster, Rev. W. Denham, who has had the superintendence of that church for the last nine or ten years. The deceased, who was only 25 yea-s of age, has for some time past suffered from melancholia for which she has been treated by Dr. Daniel, and although her lowness of spirits had been very manifest, she had never said any thing that was calcolated to lead her friends to believe she waa tired of her life.  0 Friday evening, about half-past eight, she left her home, informing her parents thst she was g for a walk. Dr. Daniel had just previously seen her, and she then appeared as usual. About an hour after. a men n onPd (4. )yer, a labourer, was tAI t by another named Spicer that he had seen something Slating is the water near the club boat house. He rowed towards it, and atw it was a body fully dressed. He did not take it into 1114 boAt, as the boat being leaky he was afraid „,it might sink it. He however at once gave information to the police, and Superintendent Feltham with several constables proceeded ti searon hr it, and after some trouble " dragged" it from the bo't un of Redcliffe hole, where it had floated and sunk. It was then discovered ti be the body of Miss Dansham, and Information Whi at once given to her friends, who, of course, were terribly grieved. An inquest Vial hell on Sa'urclay at the Town Hall, before Dr. Webster, coroner, when in addition t) evi lane) given to the ab pre effect Miss Selby, a friend of the deceased, was called, and r-tated that she hid NOM nothing in her demeanour to lead her t ) the belief that site intended to o )mmit suicide. till i knew nothing of the deceased having suffered from a disappointment in love. The jury returned an open veicbut of " Found Drowned." _ _ _  —„.. The fnneral t ,ok plao) yester.lay ('Jon lay) afternoon. and was attended by the chief members of the onngregation, and a lirge number of others. The Rev. E. Evans of Poole performed the mournful rites. Among the mourners was De. Staint`korpr, an intimate friend of the family.
Bridport, Beaminster, and Lyme Regis Telegram and Dorset, Somerset, and Devon Advertiser. — 1884-01-18 (Bridport, Dorset, England)

SCENE IN A CEMETERY.  An extraordinary scene, took place at the Brighton pariah cemetery' on Stturday, on the occasion of the funeral of the buy William Albert Thorpe, who committed suicide on Tuesday last by laying himself on the rails on the Lewes line. The jury found that he committed the act while temporarily insane, arising from fear of punisharcient. It was rumoured that the lad had been cruelly Unrested by his stepfather, William Hall, but this was strongly denied at the inquest. Nevertheless, a large crowd assembled on Saturday at tne interment of the lad, and directly the coffin had been lowered a number of men set upon Hall, pelted him with turf, and made several attempts to throw him into the grave. By dint of great perseverance be made his escape, but he was followed to his house in Lyntomstreet by a large crowd who, having Billed their pockets with stones on the way, smashed almost every square of glass in the front windows of tbe house. There were over 800 parsons present at the time, and the police-constable on the beat was powerless to prevent the damage. He, however, sent off to the Level tion for help, which was quickly forthcoming, and the street was cleared. No arrests were made.  THROAT IRRITATION AND COUoll.—Soreness and dryness. tickling and irritation, inducing couch and affecting the voice. For these Hy mptaras use Enna'a GlyoerineJujubes' In contact with the gland at the moment they are excited by the act of sucking, the Glycerine in these agreeabls confections becomes actively healing. Sold only in boxes, 70., tins, Is, lid., labelled "James Epps & Go., Romcoopathic Chemist., London.' A letter received : "Gentlemen.—lt may, perhaps, interest you to know thst, after an extended trial, I have found your Glycerine Jujubes of considerable benefit (with or without medical tre .tment) in almost all forms of throat disease. They soften and clear the voice.—Yours faithfully,
Bridport, Beaminster, and Lyme Regis Telegram and Dorset, Somerset, and Devon Advertiser. — 1884-06-06 (Bridport, Dorset, England)

SUICIDE AND SLEEPLESSNESS.  The circumstances attending the death of the Dean of Bangor—albeit they are infinitely distressing—present no novel features. The reverend gentleman WB9 a man of considerable intellectual " power," which is the same thing as saying that he was conatitutionally liable t o intervals of mental dmresdon. All highly intellec ual men are exposed to this evil. A pendulum will always swing just as far in one direction as it does in the other. Great power of mind implies also great weakness under certain conditions. The marvel is not that great minds occasionally become deranged, but that they BO often esmape derangement. Steeples nese means not merely unrest, but starvation of the cerebrum. The brain cannot recupsrate, or. in other worla, it camot rest. Physiologically, recuperation and rest are t‘m same thing. Sleep Is simply physiological rest. The only Cause for regret in these oases is that the blunder should ever be committed of sunposing that a et opefying drug which throws the brain into • condition that mimics and burlesques sleep can do geed. It is dm iptive to give narcotics in a (vise of this type. The stupor simply masks the danger. Better far let the inaomnions patient exhaust himself than stupefy him. Chloral, bromide, and the rest of the poisons that produce a semblance of sleep are so mani snares in such c. 0.. Sleeplessness is a malady of the most formidahle character, but is not to be treated by Intoxicating the organ upon which the stress of the trouble fa le. Suicide, which occurs at the very outset of derangement and is are to appear a sane act, is the logical issue of failure of out ition that results tr m want of .leep. it is curious to not how a sleepless patient will set to work with all the calmness and forethought of intelligent sanity to compass his death. He is not inasne In any technical sense. He has no delusion. He does not act, or suppose himself to act, tinder an "influence." He simply wants to die, and, perhaps, not until after be has mode an attempt to kill himself will he exhibit any of the formulated symptoms of mental disease.—Lancet.
Bridport, Beaminster, and Lyme Regis Telegram and Dorset, Somerset, and Devon Advertiser. — 1884-12-24 (Bridport, Dorset, England)

THE MURDER NEAR UXBRIDGE. SENTBNCE OP DEATH.  The trial of Elizabeth Gibbons for the murder of her husband at Hayes, near Uxbridge, on November 15th, was resumed at the Central Criminal Court on Friday, before Mr. Justice Hawkins. Mr. Poland and Mr. Montagu Williams again prosecuted : Mr. Grain and Mr. lickell defended the prisoner. Mr. Poland proceeded to address the jury for the prosecution, commenting upon the fact that Mr. Grain had called no witness on the prisoner's behalf. The evidence he had put forward was practically uncontested, and it was upon that that the jury would have to decide. Referring to the fondness or Gibbons for the young girl who called him "Uncle," he pointed out that differences had arisen between the prisoner and her husband on that subject. Up to the day before his death Gibbons was in ilia ordinary health and spirits, and had written a kindly letter to the little girl stating his intention of going to Taunton. It was also shown that on his return he was in the same state of health. After supper he had gone into the bedroom and partially removed his clothing. The prisoner was there also, and then some little altercation arising between them about goi ig to see the little girl, this oheerful and happy man was stated by the prisoner to have behaved like a madman, and to have repeatedly shot himself with a revolver. If the man had done as the prisoner had stated, then it wile one of the most extraordinary and determined cases of suicide ever known. While the man was weltering in his blood on the floor, it WM necessary tke prisoner should at once give the alarm. To her friend. Mrs. Sowman, who came in, she had made no statement, but subsequently to the police.constable and others had made a variety of statements, which were of a widely different character, He asked the jury whether they could believe those different accounts; and beyond that he would contend it was extremely improbable that Gibbons wee the kind of man who would have committed suicide. Beyond that it was , shown that Gibbons was a right-handed man who, if he bad shot himself, would have taken the revolver in his right hand. If that were so, it was absolutely clear that two of the wounds could have not been inflicted by the deceased. He did not contend that the woman had wilfully planned the murder because Gibbons was spending money on the child and had devised plans for her benefit, but that after an altercation with her husband she had angrily taken up the revolver and shot him : and that then, seeing her safety depended upon his not living to tale the tell, had fired other shot.—Mr. Grain then addressed the jury for the defence—Mr. Justine Hawkins, in eumming up, pointed out the improbability of suicide. —The jury after about half-an-hour's deliberation returned with a verdict of guilty. The Judge in passing sentence held out no hope of mersy.—The prisoner was removed In a fainting condition  _
Bridport, Beaminster, and Lyme Regis Telegram and Dorset, Somerset, and Devon Advertiser. — 1884-10-24 (Bridport, Dorset, England)

HOW TO WAKE UP A HAN QUIETLY.  A guest at a Chicago hotel, who had been awakened hundreds of times when other doors were being pounded on, wanted to get up at five o'clock last Monday morning, and he decided that he would not cause all the other gueeta to be annoyed, so he told the clerk he was going to hitch a rope on to his ankle when he retired, and throw the end of it over the transom, and wanted the porter instructed to pull on the rope at five o'clock until he got an answer, and not pound on the door. The clerk said that would be al right, and the man retired. The olerk told a party of young men boarders of the singular request of the guest, and they thought it very original. They went out to the theatre and got full of wine, and when they pegged the sleeping guest's room at one o'clock In the morning, and saw the rope henging over the transom, they thought it would be no more than right to see how the new idea would work, so four of them took hold of the rope and began to pull. They heard a heavy body eeem to be waling over the foot board of the bed on its back, heard theets rip and night-shirt tear, and they kei.t pulling, and a heavy body struck the floor, and a voice bagan to swear and yell murder end fire, and they pulled away, until the heavy body seemed to be climbing up the door feet first on the inside, and the voice sail all right, I am up, but they kept pulling until one leg of a man came over the transom, and the other leg was kickieg the door, and the voice was using language that sal not admissable, in polite society. The young mix then tied the rope to the door-knob and retired to their roomP, leaving the man hanging head down with one leg out in the hall. The man yelled until the watchman csme, and he thought it was a c see of suicide, and he cut the rope, and the heavy body fell to the door, wh-n the clerks and manager of the heuse, and several of the porters, were called, and they burst in the door and found a ba ily used up guest, grabbling at blankets and sheets to cover himself, and swearing his back was broken (rota eliding over the foot-boarde. An explanation was had, and it was generally believed the tipsy young men had done the deed, but when they were called they were asleep, and the next morning they claimed they had retired as usual at nine o'clock in the evening, and they were innocent of anything on earth. The guest remained up until five o'clock, and used arnica and things, gave the rope t o the porter, and said after this they could pound on his door and wake the whole house if they wanted to. A young man and a female ODDS stopped at a country tavern. Their awkward appearance excited the attention of one of the family, who commenced a conversation with the female, by inquiring how far she had travelled. Trevelled I exclaimed the stranger, somewhat indignantly ; we didn't travel, we rid
Bridport, Beaminster, and Lyme Regis Telegram and Dorset, Somerset, and Devon Advertiser. — 1884-07-25 (Bridport, Dorset, England)

SUICIDE AT SEA. couple of carrier pigeons to t ske back the news speedily. Canary seed is neglected ;at .cics of same are light. Blue peas thing is looking well." In a general sense this may be The steamship City of Rome arrived on Sunday At Brussels he gave the pigeons in charge to a waiter, and have got into narrow compass. taken as representing the views of the majority of our cor. morning from New York, and reported that early on called for breakfast. Me wise kept waiting some time, OORN AvssAess,—Statement showing the average price •I respondents, but there is a unanimous complaint of the . Saturday morning one of the passengers, an English. but a very delicate f a icassee atoned for the delay. After British corn in the week sonde.' July 19th, 1884:—Wheat, 37e ld ; severe depression in trade and of the in jury caused to the man, named Beale, jumped overboard. The vessel, breakfast he paid his bill, and c .lled for his carrier barld", 28s 91 ; oats, 22811 d. agricultural interest by the ever increasing foreign commapigeons. Pigeons I exclaim_d the wait.r ; why, you have Derma:mounter CAME, Monday.—We have a larger supply Mien. Farming prospects from this point of view, Mr. which was going full speed at the time, was stopped, eaten them ! of English beasts than on last ei ,inlay, but only a few more .Friend considers, are 'as bad as they Con be, and 1 r lac- but the man had disappeared. His strange condnet A young lady who lately received • bouquet of roses foreien. The Canadians are in excedeut condition, and coin- tion is greatly wanted.' Mr. Sounders takes a similar for several days previously had been commented upon wee somewhat amused to find the' donorer visiting card mend great attend in. Prices, on the average, are lower, view of the present depression. He writes :—. Oa the by his fellow passengers. attached to it, and written on the wrong side them words, although some choice Herefords made rather over our top whole harvest prospects are good, and with the continu' Not to exceed 51.' figure. A good c earance is expected. Tnere Is a consider- mice of favourable weather, and the benefit derived from Young lady physicians are multiplying in Germany, able increase in the number of sheep, aud trade is dull, the greater amount of beat and sunshine we have had
Bridport, Beaminster, and Lyme Regis Telegram and Dorset, Somerset, and Devon Advertiser. — 1884-10-03 (Bridport, Dorset, England)

SUICIDE THROUGH DISAPPOINTMENT IN LOVE.  A sal instance of suicide through disappointment in love has occurred at Uppinghain, a young woman named Ala Babies having drowned herself in a pond. For about three weeks she had been very dull and low in spirits. She had been engaged to be married to a young man, who, attir a time, left Unpinguam. He wrote to her for a while, and then broke off the engagement. When she was found in the pond she had in her pocket a photograph of the young man, together with several letters written by him to her. At the inquest held by Mr. Shield, the coroner, evidence was given to the effect that she had wished her sisters good-bye the night before she was found drowned, though she bald nothing to them about having been disappointed in love. Charles E. Manton, apprenticed to Messrs. Swath, Bros., grocers, of Updingham, sail the dresase 1 WAR in the employ of Mr. Sneath. Abut a moLth ago she asked I him if he knew a nice qu'et vni,l where she could drown herself. Ho thought she Was joking, The next evening she spoka in a si.nilar :train, su.;gesting R )okingham or St imford as a nice quiet plac3 where she could end her existence. He told her not to talk such rubbish. A third night she spoke to him in the same way. Ho wked her about a week afterwards whether she had thought of it again, and she said "No, the feeling his gone off." She then tdd him test she had a similar feeling about three years ago, and she then started to go to a pond at Ayston to drown herself, but she met somebody and turned back. About a fortnight ago, when witness went out for a week's holiday, she said to him, " Well, goodbye ; I shan't see ,you again, for I shan't be here when you cease back.' It was stated that the pond in which the young woman drowned herself wag about four feet deep, and that the body lay in about three feet of water. The jury returned a mile% of !! aolgiclo wbilo 91 gnootuad attad."
Bridport, Beaminster, and Lyme Regis Telegram and Dorset, Somerset, and Devon Advertiser. — 1884-08-15 (Bridport, Dorset, England)

SHOCKING CASE OF ATTEMPTED SUICIDE BY A GIRL.  At the County Petty Sessions on Saturday, before Mr. H. B. Middleton, Colonel Stewart, Mr. Warry, Mr. G. W. Floyer, and Major-General Henning, C. 8., Sarah Vallard, the young girl who attempted to commit suicide by throwing herself into the sea at Wylie Regis, was I.rought up on remand.—The evidence previously adduced was now read over to the prisoner and witnesses. The prisoner appeared much affected, and apparently recognised her position most acutely.—The first witness called was Mons. P. E. Tapernoux, CE., of Weymouth, who spoke with a slight French accent. From his statement it appeared that he was sitting on the railway bridge engaged with a book, when two little boys passed with a bag to collect shingle. Prisoner then came by from the direction of Portland, and by her appearance he thought she was a street irl. She continued to look at him, so he got up and walked away. Her looks were very strange as well as her conduct. At first she took off her hat and placed it on the embankment, and she then took It up and put it on again. He was afraid she was about to do something wrong, but being well-known In Weymouth he did not like to be seen speaking to r, PO he told one of the lads (Hopkins) to go and tell her not to do anything wrong, as he was impressed with the ides that she was contemplating suicide.— James Watts, a lad of Wylie Regis, said he saw prisoner seated on one of the piles, and then saw her walking in the water nearly waist high. She said she should sit on the pile and let the waves come round her. She afterwards went out of the water and seated herself upon the bank, when Hopkins came, and he asked him to remain there whilst he went to call the coast-guard. Afterwards prieoner prostrated herself in the water, but she kept her head out of the water. (Laughter.)--Superintendent Gale said that on Tuesday evening, as he was returning from Portland, he was informed that a young woman had attempted to drown herself. He ran to the railway near the bridge, where he SAW the prisoner with a number of people around her. He asked her if she knew what she had been doing, and she said " Yes," and that she intended drowning herself. She was crying bitterly at the time, end said that she had been out all night with a sailor, and had slept at the  Cambrian at Portland, and was afraid to go home.— The mother of the prisoner, who was in court, said her daughter had been very strange of late, and she had asked the Weymouth police to watch her. Witnear Aldo had a son who was equally strange, and the sister had every appearanc3 of being afflicted like her brother.—The Bench committed prisoner to take her trial at the ensuing Quarter Sessions.—The mother, on hearing the sentence, ran screaming out of the Court, expressing her determination to commit suicide, and the attention of the police was directed to her,
Bridport, Beaminster, and Lyme Regis Telegram and Dorset, Somerset, and Devon Advertiser. — 1884-06-27 (Bridport, Dorset, England)

STRANGE SUICIDE.  On Friday the Deputy County Coroner, Mr. James ruff, held an inquiry at the Hanover lon, Hanoverroad. High Beach. Maser, on the body of Jane Margaret Gibbings, aged 19 years. who committed suicide under very romantic circumstances. Mrs. Mary Ann Gibbing. a widow, living at Nile-cottages, High Beach-rood, said her daughter hod been in service as a housemaid, but laterly had been staying with witness. She had beea keeping common with a young man, and had been very strange in her manner owing to a quarrel she had with him. On Wednesday morning her dead body was found in a water tank attached to the promises. In her dress pocket was found the following extraordinary letter :—Tuesday night.—My dear Mother,—When you hear of my distressing end Von will. I know, break your heart. When I got into bed, and had been there more than half an hour, the devil paid me a visit. He stood talking t me for some time, and told ma that he had seen Charley—my young man —with anther young woman. I said to myself, "Now, what can Ido ?" To think he who I have loved so much should leave me for another. All of a sudden I thought of the water-butt, end the more I tried to keep away from it the more the devil tried to get me into the water. He said to me at last, "If you jump in I will get Charley to bring you out." My head is ravimt, and I feel on fire. I cannot say anything more. I have left my photograph In my box. Give it to Charley, and tell him that if it had not been for him I should not have killed myself. I, however, did it for the best. Now, mother, dear, what was the good of my living? I was miserable ant mold not be happy without Charley. Good-byemother. Givekind love to all.—Your loving daughtet,
Bridport, Beaminster, and Lyme Regis Telegram and Dorset, Somerset, and Devon Advertiser. — 1884-05-30 (Bridport, Dorset, England)

EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE IN WILT. SHIRE. _ _  On Saturday an inquest was held at Mingo Farm, Midway between Trowbridge and Westbury, before Mr. F. T. Sylvester, coroner, on the body of James Cox, 16, who was found dead hanging from a beam in his smelter's stable. Charles Barnett, labourer, said he saw deceased after be came from ploughing on Thursday afternoon. Re was in the yard going towards the stable from she barn. sta hour afterwards, as the deceased did not come out of the stable, witness went to see where he was, as the horses were not turned out to grass, and found him hanging by the neck by a cart-rope, from a beam asiven feet from the ground; but the drop being too long he waa on his knees, showing the determined nature of the act In answer to a question from a juror, Barnett said when he saw deceased going 11.1r0A8 to the stable he had his pocket handkerchief tied across his mouth, and in reply to witness he said his master had told him he had too much mouth, and he had tied it up and was not going to speak again. Mr. T. Beaven, the master, was then called in, and said on Thursday, when the workmen were at dinner in the kitchen, deceased made use of language that he did not approve of, and he told him if he did not alter his behaviour he would have to find another master. This, it seemed, had so offended the deceased, who was of a sullen temper, that he committed the rash act which cost him his life. The jury were of opinion that the deceased was not in his right mind when he committed the act, and returned a verdict of " Temporary insanity." •