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Bridport, Beaminster, and Lyme Regis Telegram and Dorset, Somerset, and Devon Advertiser. — 1865-08-17 (Bridport, Dorset, England)

SUICIDE OF A HORSE.— A correspondent writes :—A few days ago a poor creature, worn to skin and bone, put an end to his existence in a very extraordinary manner. His pedigree is unknown, as he was quite a stranger. A very worthy gentleman here met him in a public market, and thinking he could find employment for him put him to work, but it was soon discovered that work was not his forte; in fact, he would do anything save wOrk and go errands. His great delight was to roam about the fields and do mischief. People passing him used to ejaculate, "Ugh, you ugly brute," when they saw the scowl which was contindally upon his face. His master tried to win him by kindness. He remembered the old song, "If I had a donkey that wouldn't go, do you think. I'd wallop him? Oh no, no." The kindness was lost 'upon him. He next tried the whip, then the cudgel, but all in vain. Work he would not. And as a last resort the punishment of Nebuchadnezzar of old was tried. He was turned out, "but house or hauld," to eat grass with the oxen. "With hungry belly and broken. heart, he wended his lonely way down by. the Moor's Shore, passed Luckyscaup, turned the Moor'r! Point, and still neld on his lonely way, regardless of the wondering gaze of the Poor fishermen. Atiength he 'ii'rrpi'eaat a ',pcitit opposite the wreck Of tilt 'Dalhousie,' Where he 'Was still ; 'and while .the curiosity of the fishermen Was wound to the highest pitch as to what was to follow, he, neighing loudly and tossing his Old tail, rushed madly into the briny deep, got beyond his depth, held his head under the water, and soon ceased to be. The fishermen conveyed the true, although strange and startling tidings, to the respected owner, that his horse had committed suicide. —Dundee Ach'ertiser.
Bridport, Beaminster, and Lyme Regis Telegram and Dorset, Somerset, and Devon Advertiser. — 1865-10-12 (Bridport, Dorset, England)

NEWTON.  FELO-DE-SE IN PRISON.—An inquest was held at the Police Court here on the sth instant, by William H.annen, Esq., coroner, touching the death of James Robins, of 6hillingstone, who had committed suicide whilst a prisoner in one of the police cells, by hanging himself between eight and 10 o'clock on the previous night. It appeared from the evidence that the deceased was apprehended by P.C. Butt at five o'clock on the afternoon in question charged with stealing a sack bag and about five bushels of winnowed oats, the property of Ur. John Dominy, of Shillingstone, on the 2nd inst. the robbery having been committed under somewhat daring circumstances. The prisoner was duly searched and locked up in one of the cells a few minutes before eight o'clock, and at 10 o'clock or a few minutes before that time,he was visited by P.C. B les,the reserve officer at the station, when he found the deceased hanging by his neck to the bar of the window, and quite dead. —Mr. Hammond, the superintendent, stated that when the prisoner was put into the cell he asked for something to eat, and was told that he should have it, and he (the superintendent) had not the least reason to suppose the prisoner contemplated suicide. He had been in custody several times—and twice for a week or more —and had always conducted himself very well as a prisoner.—The jury, after a few minutes' consideration, returned a verdict of Febo de se; and the Coroner remarked that he quite concurred with their decision, and made an order for the deceased to be buried between the hours of nine and twe vs o'clock at night, or within twenty-four hours from that time.--The Coroner and jury said they wore quite satisfied that not the least blame whatever was attached to the police in the , matter.
Bridport, Beaminster, and Lyme Regis Telegram and Dorset, Somerset, and Devon Advertiser. — 1865-06-22 (Bridport, Dorset, England)

THE SUICIDE IN THE RAILWAY TUNNEL. -An inquest has been held on the body of Mr. S. W. White, 21, who shot himself in a first-class railway carriage in the Crystal Palace tunnel. Mr. and Mrs. Dean, of Stratford, were in the carriage. Before arriving at the tunnel the young man began to tear up letters very hastily, throwing the pieces out of the window. When the train entered the Crystal Palace tunnel there *as a noise as of a fog signal. Oh coming into the light, deceased was seen sinking into a corner, with his mouth deluged with blood, and holding a pistol in one hand. He died soon after. Mr. Dean made this strange statement: "I think it was a most providential circumstance that there was not a light in the carriage, for, if. I would not have stopped him, my wife would, and the consequence would have been most fearful." The Superintendent said there was a light. Deceased, a grocer, was engaged to be married to his neioe, but his partner refusing to go on *ith the business; his uncle had pointed out to him the folly of marrying without being settled in business, and he seemed satisfied. But on Sunday he showed signs of despondency. Inspector Bond found the following letters in the pocket of deceased : "To Miss Bagshaw, 475, New Cross-road: " OS, YiThitechapel. "My dear Nellie,—Our and my hopes havd been all blighted at last by aunt's talk to dear papa. I hope you will be prepared for the dreadful conflict which you will have shortly to enter upon. I feel I cannot go on. "My dear Nellie I My God! it grieves me to leave you in this troublesome world.—Yours ever fond, " STF,PHBN, "See me placed in a comfortable spot. —I am, my dear nellie, your fond "
Bridport, Beaminster, and Lyme Regis Telegram and Dorset, Somerset, and Devon Advertiser. — 1882-12-15 (Bridport, Dorset, England)

LIST SINCE IMO OP THE W/NNERS OF THE DEEM OAKS, ST. LEGER, WATERLOO CUP, BOAT RACE, END  QUEEN'S PRIZES.  ACTS OF LAST SESSION,  Suicides--Acts affecting Guardians of the Poor— Divided Parishes—Assessment and Collection—Suppression of Mendicity ; New Law on Ancient Monuments—the Electric Lighting Act—the Bills of Sale Act, with authorised form of Bill of Bale—Beer Dealers,  THE MARRIED WOMAN'S -PRCPERTY ACT (IN k ELL).  Settled Landed Estates—power to sell, Royal Family—the Cabinet—the Ministry.  ALPYABILTICILL LIST OP MIIIIBritB OP TIM HOUSI Or  Commows,  Revised for the year. Local Members for the five counties, with short biographies and last polls. County. officials' Dorset and Somerset. Diocesan Officials, Sarum and Bath and Wells.  The Magistratp of Dorset and Somerset, with post addresses. - - -  Record of the Weather and the Seasons from 1826 to 1881. Dorset Sheep—New Agricultural Machinery in the past 12 months—the Agricultural Returns of last year —Cheese Imported—Horse Food —Horses without Shoes—Hay Saving—Table Fowl—Average Gazette Prices of Wheat, Barley, and Oats in each month since 1875. Useful Tables :--Marketing—Calculating Weights and Measures (including Dorset lug, cable's length, span, hand, nail, &c.)—French keasuree—Foreign Monies—Table of Descent, tte., &e.  GLEANINGS FROM THE BLUE BOOKS OF TIOI YEAR : —Population, Area, Value, Electors of the Five Counties and their Boroughs, and the County Treasurers' Accounts of the Five Counties. 'I he Pay of all the Groat Officers and Chief Officials In the various Government Departments. The Population of the Countries of the World. The Civil List—Annuities and Pensions—aviaries for Courts of Justice. England, Scotland, and Ireland. Income Tax—National Debt, Revenue and Expenditure of the Nation. The Rates of all Taxes and Imposts—British Tariff —Probate Duties—Stamps Postages Imports and Exports—Population since 1866-I'roperty Assessed to Income Tax and to Legacy Duty—Extent, Capital, Ac., Railways—Numbers of the Army, Auxiliary Forces, Police, Emigrants, &c.
Bridport, Beaminster, and Lyme Regis Telegram and Dorset, Somerset, and Devon Advertiser. — 1882-12-15 (Bridport, Dorset, England)

ATTEMPTED MURDER AND SUICIDE.  A singular acid, in fact, somewhat romantic case of att!nopted murder and suicide took plans at York on Friday morning. The parties e oncerned were sweethearts, the attempted murderer and suicide being a farm lab iurer named William Archer, of the age of 21, a nativi of Romford, Essex, and his vict. m Ann di Humid, a domestic servant, of the age of 17. The two went together to York, where they put up at the Railway Commercial and F amity Boarding House in Tanner-row. Thike they had dinner, and, as the weather was stormy they stayed in the hotel the rester the day, and took a bed, which they occupied under the repr..eentation that they were man and wife, for the night. They breakfasted together on the I.llowing morning, ant went out without any undentin ling that they would return. They, however, Came back in the evening, an 1 having stated that they had been to see some friends at Hopgrovs, and were weary, had some refreshments, after which they sat in one of the rooms, apparently in most friendly conversation, from eight until ten, and then retired to rest. Nothing fur Mer was heard or known of them until on Friday morning, when, according to the girl's own at iternent, she was awoke by feeling something running down her side. This she discovered t, be blood, and simultaneously she found that her throat had been cut. She went out on to the landing and thence into an adjoining sitting room, where she alarmed the h ouse by the ringing of a bell. Archer in the meantime had locked the door upin himself, and on an entrance being Malta by the window It was found that he had cut his throat in a couple of and in a far more serious manner than he had places,r hat of his sweetheart. At present nothing is known ea to what may have provoked the murderous act upon Bmmitt.
Bridport, Beaminster, and Lyme Regis Telegram and Dorset, Somerset, and Devon Advertiser. — 1882-01-06 (Bridport, Dorset, England)

SYMONDSBURY.  THR CAS6 OV " BOTCOTTING,"—DZATH OP AN IMPORTANT WITNEhR.—At an early hour OD Friday mornin4, Mrs. Ellen tirenc,r, relic,: of the late Henry Spoccar, who committed suicide by hanging himself about two months ago, dial at the residence of her parehtg. Readera of this viper will remember the reports of the suicide, and sub.equently of the Brondosk disturbance, which led to an important in• viotigation by the magistrates at the County Police court here on the 21st November lot. Ihoso who followed the reports of the above incidents will, no  doubt, remember that the deceased was in a very indifferent atate of health at the time of her hunban I'd death. Again at the Coronetle Court, and in the Court of Justice, where deceased was called to give evidence, everyone could see that the poor woman was in a very weak condition, and on both public occasions had to be supported by a female attendaht. When the prisoners were sent for trial for' riotously assembling," Mrs. Spencer was "bound over" one of the witn.s es at the ensuing se)sions at D trcheater, and no doubt the excitement attendant upon her apwar:lnes in public, and the outlook for another painful ordeal at D ,rche,tor no doubt, and we are in'formeci it has, deprest-e I the decersed very much. At any rte. Mts. spencer showed signs of approaching death fpr several days before her decease, and those who weto aware of the recent state of her health were not unprepared for the news of her death. At the mapisterial investigation it was stated by the deceased that on the night of the sth. when the house of the Henley's was attacked, that she received a blow on the head from a stone cast from the mob, and that two other strnes struck her on other parts of her person. A pistol, she also stated, was fired so close to h. r head that her hair was singed, and a pottion of the scalp scorched. Of course it is int set known if the death of Mrs. Spencer will or will not have any weight for the prosecution of the five men who are on bail till the ensuing wake,. No doubt the medical testimony as t ) the cense of death will be siven, hut until such testimony is given nothivg can to known.
Bridport, Beaminster, and Lyme Regis Telegram and Dorset, Somerset, and Devon Advertiser. — 1882-03-03 (Bridport, Dorset, England)

SUICIDE IN PE/ITO/MLLE PRISON.—On Mond evening Dr. Liplock held an inquiry at the Pewee:wells on the body of John Looney, aged le, a prism Lain W. E. Buller, deputy-governor, said a con. victed and sentenced at the Central Criminal Court to five years' penal servitude for felony after other convictions. He was under the strict silent system, and employed in his own cell at shoemaking. He had been at school on Thursday, tut made no complaint, and no depression was noticed. He was tumid hanging by a strap attached to the bell handle.—Warder Davies deposed that he gave deceased his dinner on Thursday, which he ate, and on going into his cell some time after he found Mai dead, hanging by a strap used in shoemaking. Several convicts, had onififferent oceasions done the eels* Arne far shun, and it was at first tnousht this was a similar case—Toe jury returned • verdict of " Suicide whilst in an unsound state of mind." THE Judges of the Couet of Appeal on Thursday reversed the decision of the Divisional Court giving, On the application of the defendant, a new trial of the ewes of C,arke v. Bradlaugh. The late member fer Northampton addressed the Court at consideraide length, passing in review all the evidence effecting the time ol the issue of the writ in the action, and severely animadverting on the discrepancies he pointed out in the statements of some of the plaintiff's witnesses. hoed Justice Brett, without calling on the other bide, said that on the evidence he was satisfied with the verdict of the jury in the trial before Justice Grove, and that the affidavits subsequently filed had given an elucidation of the doubts which bad been ra:sed. The appeal was therefore allowed, and Mr. Bradlaugh was slimed a fortnight's time to consider whether he would appeal to the House of Lords. BERNARD SNIT'S, of Llanover House, Dore, Sheffield, a noted amateur bicyclist, met with a terrible accident la,t week. On Tuesday night, in company with another Sheffield gentleman, Samuel Mountain, he was riding on his machine from Cnateworth, and whilst running down a slope near Owler Bar the bicyclist capsized, and Mr. Smith was thrown upon a heap of stones. His forehead eas seriously cut, and he sustained a severe scalp woued, and was rendered insensible. His companion, turning aside to avoid running over his friend, was also throa n to the ground and rendered unconscious. Mr. Smith is still dangerously ill.
Bridport, Beaminster, and Lyme Regis Telegram and Dorset, Somerset, and Devon Advertiser. — 1882-02-03 (Bridport, Dorset, England)

JANIE.' 1) ENNIS FOULU ER, 8011 of Inspector Foulger, of the. City P,lice station, Moor-lane, Fore-street, committed suicide on Friday morning by blowing out his brains with a revolver. He had been in a weak state of health.  IN Home Rule circles it is stated that Messrs. Parnell, Dillon, and O'Kelly intend to resign their seats In Parliament immediately, so that their votes may not be lost, and that the new members may take their seats before the cloture division.  Tux sentence of two months' imprisonment passed upon the Deal boatman Porter expired on Sunday. The only other mail who escaped with a sentence of two months was Mackie, the Trinity pilot, who, it will be remembered, was released upon a certificate on the 26th of December. The other men, Olds, Wood, Macklus,and Rae, are still under medical treatment.  Anouv two o'clock on Thursday morning it was discovered that the Bursars Hotel, Aberdeen, had been. broken into. Au alarm was given before the thief had left the premises, and, finding the retreat cut off, he ascended to the roof of the building, where for two hours he kept the police at bay by throwing down elates and other missiles which he tore from the roof. Eventually he was captured and gave the name of John Dolan, from Liverpool. As the express train from Euston to Manchester was travelling on Thursday night at full speed a severe jerk wav felt, and upon the train reaching Macclesfield • message was telegiaphed to Congleton to examine the metals. It was then found that two railway chairs had been fixed to the rails outside the station. They were smashed by the engine, some of the plinters being carried a hundred yards.  No pains have been spared by the management of this journal to discover the author of a gross outrage committed by the interpolation of a line in the speech of Sir William Harcourt reported in our issue on Monday last. The malicious fabrication was surreptitiously introduced shortly before the paper went to press. The matter in now under legal investigation, and it is hoped that the perpetrator of the outrage will be brought to punishinent.-2'intes. AT the Aldershot polioe-conrt on Thursday., Joseph Thomas Commelleri, late a Captain in the 7th Dragoon Guards, was charged with begging from the Rev. Mr. Hadow, the Rev. Mr. Brookes, a NVealeyan Minister, and others. Prisoner said he had lost his purse, and thought clergymen were charitable people, who would assist him to get back to London. He had come to see some brother officers in the Dragoons, who had moved to Norwich. The magistrates said they could make no dieUnction in such cases, and he would be sentenced to fourteen days' imprisonment without hard labor.
Bridport, Beaminster, and Lyme Regis Telegram and Dorset, Somerset, and Devon Advertiser. — 1882-11-24 (Bridport, Dorset, England)

SINGULAR SHOOTING CASE.  A most extraordinary attempt to shoot a schoolmaster is reported from Westerham, Kent. Although the affair happened shortly after nine o'clock on Friday night, the facts are as yet very little known. It seems that a Miss Rose Ann Effingham, a pupil teacher, of Harpenden, in Hertfordshire, formed the acquaintance of a young man named Alfred Edward Sanders. who was employed as booking-clerk at liar. pen ien Station on the Great Northern Railway, which was kept up for four years. About nitre mouths ago Miss Ellingbara came to Westerham, having been at • pointed schoolmistress at the infant school. She, however, had not been long in the town before she transferred her affections to a Mr. Teopin, who was engaged as schoolmaster at the liosey C ,mmon Board School, and this ended in their marriage about six weeks ago. Sanders hearing of the engagement and of the subsequent marriage made numerous threats to them. He hal on mole than one occasion been seen in the neightourhood of Westerham, and only on the Saturday pi iur to the outrage Sanders was noticed knocking at Teppin's door, but both being out, he walked If. It appeared that on that occasion be made his way to Dentou Green Railway Station, where be saw Teppin and his wife!, and threatened to do for them. On the followicg Thursday he wrote them a letter regretting his past conduct, and expressing a hope that they would be blessed with health and strength. Teppin resides about half a mile from Westerham, and on Friday night, being accompanied by h;s wife, he proceeded to that town. It was a rather dark night, and very few people traversed the road. They returne i about nine o'clock, and when within a short distance of their home San• ders appeared, and, without a word of warning, deliberately discharged a revolver at Toupin, the contents lo +ging in his left arm. Teppin, who, in consequence of threats fr im Sanders, carried a revolver, instantly pulled it out of his pocket and fired, but without any effect. The men then simultaneously fired, and Teppin was struck in the left breast. Strange to say, the bullet struck the ring of his watch, which was broken, as also was the swivel of the steel chain attached to it, and the bullet then dropped into the lining of his waistc att. On Teppin exclaiming that he was a dead man Sanders again fired at him, and then decamped. Teppin and his wife were taken to a cottage close by, the occupants of which distinctly h,ard the five shots. He is progressinu favourably, but the bullet is still in his arm. Although every effort has been made by the constabulary to find Sanders, up to the present time it has been without success. It is generally believed that he has committed suicide. The greatest excitement prevails in Westerham over the occurrence,
Bridport, Beaminster, and Lyme Regis Telegram and Dorset, Somerset, and Devon Advertiser. — 1882-05-12 (Bridport, Dorset, England)

DRAM—At the Ipswich Assizes on Saturday, before Mr. Baron Pollock, George William Abigale was sentenced to death for the murder of Jane Pluoket at Norwich on April 25. The unfertunate woman was In bed when the prisoner entered the room and shot her dead.  Two men engaged in the construction of a culvert at Northampton were on Saturday morning buried alive. They were working some distance from the surfaoe when the sides buret in. One man was dragged out by means of a rope, not much the won's for his entombment; but his companion, upon whom two or three tons of earth had fallen' died before be could be rescued. Great excitement prevailed in the neighbourhood whilst searching for the body of the deceased, and the police had &E. unity in keeping the crowd back. ON Wednesday at the Convent of the Visitation of the Holy Mary, Westbury-on-Trym, Gloucestershire, Lady Frances Evelyn Berlie, daughter of the Earl of Abingdon, took the black veil. Father Coleridge, brother of the Lord Chief Justice, preached the sermon.  ALBERT YOUNG, the young man who is charged with threatening to shoot the Queen, was on Saturday coin. tnitled for trial hp Mr. Vaughan at Bow-street.  THE Right Ron. W. E. and Mrs. Foreter dined WEL the Queen on Friday night. and left Windsor Castle no Saturday morning for London.  AT Durham City Police-court, on Thursday, John La wi elms, Godson, of Leeds, formerly student in Durham University, was committed for trial on a charge of send lug letters to the Dean of Durham, stating that, on receipt of £2O, he would acquaint him with details of u plot to destroy Durham Cathedral, and urging the Dean to send the mmey at once if he wished to save tin cathedral from Fenian outrage. A ROYAL salute of a hundred and one guns announced to Berlin on Sunday morning the birth of s son to Prince William of Prussia. The joyful event, which took place on Saturday night at Potadam, gives the German Emperor a great grandson and a third SUCOOSSIVe heir to the German and Pru Kilian Crowns in the direct line. The infant Prince is also a great grandson of Queen Victoria, and grandson of the Crown Prince and Princess of Ger, many. The Princess William and her son are reported to be progressing very satisfactorily. Mat THOMAS IVORY, a well•knovrn Scotch advocate, committed suicide early on Saturday morning by leaping over Dean Bridge into the Water of Leith. a height of 120 feet. Mr. Ivory was a son of the late Lord Ivory, one of the Lords of Session. He was a social reformat and Dissenter of somewhat advanced type, and a great philanthropist.