Blandford, Wimborne and Poole Telegram. — 1875-02-19 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

SHOCKING 'SETICIDE OF A YOUNG WOMAN. On Mondaf afternoon, at a few minutes to four o'clock, . a- boy hamedi Henry Mare', about ten years of age. reached the police station,-in a breathless state of excitement, andhommunitated the stirding Intelligence that he had found a young woman hanging by the neck, dead, in an tenthouser a WM on the Pymore road. Gale and hizar iiiwieuiately proceeded to the snot indicated, and we followed them. Just through the turnpike gate on the road stated, on the left hand side, is afield owned by M:Olint, btit 'fatted by Mr.; ftichiplis,txlMittaan,hnd in the field areliept severaleows, house for.(fir shelter mit e accortArtedation Standing at the coiner' the- ftehi nearest Pyruore and •adjoining the road. Adi ining this cow house, is a kind of out-building' in which is kept straw, me., Jt has a slanting roof, the highest Part of which is about ten feet high, and it was here that the body was found on our arrival at the spot. To cut it down • was only the work of an instant, P.O. Hazzard severing the rope by which the corpse *as suspended, It was quite evident that the act had been a very determined one, a running knot was made' at one end of a double piece of Cord, of about the size of a little finger; the fatal noose was placed rountl the neck; and then a'pparently • standing on a manger which was in the btrilding, the unfortunate' young woman had wound the other end around the rafter three or four times, segurely tied it, then thrown herself off, and launched herself into eternity. The boy Marsh had gone to the field as it was near ,millsins time, and had occasion to enter the outhonsa. and it was then he Made the discovery, and we can well linagine that his fright was very great,. He conintinucated his discovery to another lad—a son of .Mr. Itichards, the occupier of the field, and who was about to commence milking at another part of the ground—and then made his way to the police-station, as we have before stated. After being cat down, the body was laid atleagth on the straw, when it was found thnt although the hands were cold, the chest was quite warm, thus indicating that the body could not have been hanging low-. The deceased was a fine young woman, seemingly about 25 years of age, and as she lay, with her head a little on one side, one , could but fancy that she was asleep, so peaceful and calm was the expression of her features. She was about Sit. 5 inches in height, and was proportionately stout. She wore a staff dress, having a ground of myrtle grben, with a strifte of very light green running lengthways; a black double-breasted cloth jacket, and 0 green velvet bonnet, trimmed with dark green and light ribbon, with a green feather, and a wreath of artificial leaves around. Her boots tore evidence of much travel, and were slightly the worse for wear: ny this time a considerable number of persona had assembled from the mill near, but no one could identify the deceased, althottgh some fancied it was one and some another. It was resolved to remove the  body to the nearest public house, which was the Railway Terminus Hotel, and for this "purpose a hurdle was obtained, the body placed upon it, and covered with bags. Just then Mr. Manuel drove by in a spring waggon, and the eorpse was placed in it and taken to the hotel. aboveinamed, under the charge of P.S. Gale, were it Wff taken to the covered skittle alley at the rear of the building, to await identification. The news soon spread, and a large number of persons visited the place, and during the evening some hundreds must have viewed the body, but pd one could identify it. In the meantime it had been diecovered that a linen collar the deceased wore was marked J. Beers 'in two different places, but this did not tend to solve the mystery, On Tuesday morning great numbers continued to see the corpse, but no one knew the unfortunate girl. In the course of the morning Mrs. Bishop examined the under-clothing of the deceased, when it wag found that her linen was of a superior kind, and this was also marked "J. Beers" in various places. Many and various were the reports about the town in respect of the sad affair; two or three seared that they had seen the young woman about the town during the morning, and one man told as distinctly he was positive he had seen her very near where the body was found at eight o'clock in the morning. It was also said that a man of Bradpele on going to his closet in the garden at five o'clock in the morning, had found a young woman there, who left when ghe saw hue, but he supposed it was one of the neighbours, although he now says he believes it was the girl whose body was found; and it is also stated that later in the day a piece of ribbon was found attached to a nail at some height in the closet, thus making it appear that suicide had been attempted there. Nothing was found in the pockets of deceased but.a pair of gloves.