Weekly News. — 1890-02-06 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

THE ALLEGED ATTEMPTED SUIC/DE.—Arthur Albert O'Leary, was again charged on remand with attempting to commit suicide.—Mr. Broster Hill said he watched the case onbehalf of the prisoner's wife and some relatives, but he did not appear as a prosecutor. They would try to do what they could on the prisoler's behalf. There had been statements made as to whether he was responsible for his actions. If he was not, he was dangerous to his relatives. But they did not prosecuti..—Augusta Redfearn, single woman, a visitor to Bournemouth, living at Patna, Drummond Road, Boscombef said that that the prisoner had been staying at the same house. Last Friday after an early dinner the prisoner left the room and went into his own room, and he had not been them half a minute, before they heard a noise like a pistol shot. his wife and witness followed and found the prisoner lying at full length on the floor, bleeding at the throat. He was conscious. She sent for the doctor. She thought it was a blood vessel. The prisoner and his wife had only come down the day before. He appeared very absent minded, and his conduct had struck her so peculiar. Later in the day she saw the prisoner in his room and asked him if he was not sorry fcr what he had done. He said " Yes, but lam sorry it did not take effelt. I did not wish you to be troubled any more with me." The night before the tirieoner told her he had been " signalled to Bournemouth from London and had.. been  watched from the station by three men." She did not nnderstand what he meant —The Prisoner : I would like to deny that. —Witness recalled her evidence that he had made that last remark about signalling to her.—Dr. Heygate said he was called by the last witness to see the prisoner, whom he found in a bed. room, propped up in bed, dressed in his ordinary clothes. He was spitting blood. He said, "Do you understand ? " and made a motion with his finger as though he were pulling the trigger of a pistol. He then said, "Pistol." On examining his throat, he found the palate bleeding. He found the pistol on the floor under a chair. It had recently been discharged. The prisoher's tongue was blackened by powder, and the palate bad been torn where a bullet had passed through. During the afternoon the prisoner said, "I wish I had succeeded. I should have done only I was disturbed. I thought someone was coming into the room. Dr. Douglas was sent for by him. and the prisoner was examined under cholorofortn. There was a hole in the palate that might be caused by a bullet, but the bullet was not found. The pistol had seven barrels two of which were quite empty, the next two had a discharged cartridge, and four were loaded —Prisoner said in course of conversation, that he had been followed by three men who wanted to take his life. They compelled him to commit the act. He had told witness he was in difficulties, and was indifferent to what happened to him. Since the affair he had seemed better. He understood the prisoner had had his underclothing cut off under the delusion that he must keep his heart cool —Mrs. O'Leary, the Wife, said that her husband had told her that if she should hear of him being shot to be sure he bad been murdered.— On being charged formally, the prisoner said he would like to understand if the magistrates had decided to commit him for trial. In many cases of the kind in London the friends had stepped forward and undertaken to take charge of the accused.—The prisoner's sister said her brother had been suffering from delusions for some time. His friends were in favour of his going to some asylum. She would take charge of him and assume the responsibility if the magistrates would let her do so.—The magistrates committed the prisoner for trial, and admitted him to bail on his own recognisances for £lOO and two sureties of £5O each.  Tim Trm. Roam:Ky.—The boy named Ounatir was broucht up, and the Bench ord, red him to be sent to an industrial school for five years. _ _ -  No