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The Telegram. — 1900-07-17 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

NOS. 7 AND 8 COMPANUCS, IST D.V.A.„ S. D.U.A.—Orders for tortuight comuseucing July Ibl :—Orderhee on duty, Sergeants Rioley and Baglaud, Corporal Bowie, Bombardier Fowler, and Trumpeter Parker ; next for duty, Sergeants Snook aud Biueo, Corporal Symes, Boinbardicr Mayo, and Trumpeter Tett. C.S.M. on duty, Bagg. To-day (TtiesCay), 8.30 _p.m., baud practice. Wedneaday, 18t11, 5 p. 111., Companies will parade at sutra:lee to Nothe Fort for btavy gun drill at workm .4 defence ; clean fatigue drew". Monday, 23rd, 8.15 p.m., Company drill. Tuesday. 24;b, 6.3 u p. 111.. baud pr.ctice. Saturday,. 28‘11, Comp tun, will parade in clean fatigue dreae, at 5.30 p.m., to proceed to the Nothe Fort tor heavy gun drill at works of defence; baud to atteud.--Wyke Detacinneut— Orderly on duty, Bombardier Roam; nt'xtfurdiuy. Acting-Bombardier Gee. To-day (Tuesday), 8 Cuant,any orill. Saturday, 28th (lee &hove). —W. E. COM )IELL -BA KKETT, captain eummaudiug Nue. 7 arid 8 Companies, let D.V.A.  SOICIIM BY HANGING:. -Sir It. N. Howard held an inquest on Tuesday last on the body of Charles William Pearce, a ouay boatmen aged 62, who lived at 5, Steward's Court, Governor's Lane. Mary -Pearce, widow of deceased, stated hews. an army pensioner from the 7th Fusiliers. They had listen tuarried 30 yeara and had 9 children, the oldest being 29 and the youngest 7. Rae husband had been a teetotaler for eight years, but had been on the drunk since the let May Wt. At dinner time on Monday he said he did not want a.ny -dinner. He appeared to be all right :tad in good spirits, and when she lett to go Mick to her work he told her she need sot coma Maus to give the children t tete tea, as he would 1. so. He also eat,' she cm allot lock the dom. as he s'Aid. not wan tto go out. That was the last she him. Ott Wednesday, the itch inst., he iii his boat to Mr. Hourssell, of Love Lane, for = :2, and went arid got drunk. She took the rest, of orw money out of ht. bucket. She had net hr ieard hint threaten to commit suicide. Hi,. ;as was 1 insured tor £9. He had lately he'd's drinking 'Thins as he had never done before, and it must have affected his mind.—Dr. litoWtiitig, who had been sent for, stated that on reaching the house just at ter five o'clock ho found Pearce on the ground near the doorway. He was dead and had been dead 801116 time. Us saw a rope which had bees cut, and portions of it were hanging on a nail, Put severed, portions having been taken front Pearce's neck.- —Rose Pearce, aged 11, daughter of deceased, that when she came bonus from school, lama after dour o'clock, she tumid the•cloor locked. She wsinitto her mother for the key and on opening the door-found her father uea3.—Frank Morris Head. , a quay boatman, who had known Pear,w for years, stated that the latter had a son in :south Africa auo Lad been excited by reading the papers every dal., doing very little fishmonger, Governor'et Lane, ated that he ii,aed that Pearce had hanged bitnerlf and went into tbe 'nouse and cut hint if:Am—The jury found " That deceased cianuliteed„. suicide whilst temporarily , itipane."
The Telegram. — 1900-09-25 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

POOLE.  Purri SYSSIONS, MUlldaY.—Bef ore Alderman H. Farmer (in the chair), Alderman C. J. Woodford, Mr. George Curtis, and Nit.. S. Tatham.— Arthur Keynes, butcher, Longfl,et, was summoned La arrears under a separation order. The amount owing to his wife was £2 111.—Defendant promised to pay by Thursday, and the case was adjourned for a week to enable him to do so.—Alfred Porker, moulder, Longfleet, pleaded guilty to being drunk and disorderly on the Bth inst., and was fined Is 6i and 68 6d costa—James John Jackson, labourer, Fernclown, was summoned for being drunk whilst in charge of a horse and cart at St. James' on Sunday afternoun.—Defendant pleaded guilty, and was fined lOs and 64 61 costs. —George Gray, a railway porter at the Parkatone Railway-station. was charged with attempting to commit suicide by throwing himself under a train. —Detective-Sergt. McGovern, of Southampton, watched the proceedings on behalf of the Railway Co.—From the evidence of the station master (Mr. Alfred Edward Taylor), it seems that on Saturday night the prisoner made sev,ral attempts to throw himself underneath passing trains, and it was with the greatest difficulty that he was prevented from doing so.—Dr. Nlayston Band deposed that from a conversation he had with the prisoner it was clear that he was suffering at the time from an epileptic fit, the effects of which made him irresponsible for his actiuns.—Prisoner's wife, who lives at Salisbury, said that souut two years ago her husband had an accident in the Boacombe Arcade, fracturing ; his skull, and liaise then he had been subject to these fit& —Prisoner's father was also in Court, and promised to take his son back to Salisburx, where he has a wife and two children. —Under these circumstances the prisoner was iischarged, the Bench expressing their sympathy with the man and his friends.
The Telegram. — 1895-12-10 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

SENSATIONAL TRAGEDY. ATTEMPTED SUICIDE OF LOVERS.  FOUND SHOT IN A LONDON HOTEL.  A very tragic and sensational case of attempted suicide of lovers occurred early on Sunday morning, at the Grand Hotel, Charing Cross, Loudon, and the extremely painful nature of the affair is bisthrsined by the relationship existing between the unhappy couple, the lady being the wife of her companion's brother. They arrived at the Grand Hotel on Saturday evening, and engaged a room, 10 which they retired shortly before midnight. Nothing in their manner or onivenettion dur- , ing the evening gave any indication of I what was to follow, for they appeared to be on excellent terms, but just I.••fore one ; o'clock a gentleman occupying an adjoining room was startled from his sleep by the report of firearms. An alarm being given, efforts were made to open the room without succe,s, the door having been locked, but as moans were heard the police were sunimoned, and on forcing the door a ehocking spectacle presented itself. The two occupants, partially dressed, were lying side by side in a pool of blood on the floor, while not f.,r sway was picked up a large six-chambered revolver, the two chambers of which were seen to have been recently discharged. Each had been shot through the chest, and when they were removed to Charing Cross Hospital the staff at once realised the very serious nature of the injuries, the bullet in each case having passed . right through the body, and little if any hope was held out so to their reevery. The tiude i etiitt. is , a milibery looking man, shoot 39 yews of age, and papers found in ids possession coutained infoanaikon that his name was Charles Gallay, wi:h an address at Maida Vale, Lowion. It alio ti-inspired that his companion, who appeared some two or three years younger, was his sister-in-law, her married home lbeing near Bristol. In their statements to the police they declared that the injuries were self-inflicted, as they had trutnally agreed to terminate the alliance by an act of docile suicide,
The Telegram. — 1895-06-11 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

TRAGIC AFFAIR. —A terrible tragedy was enacted on Sunday at lefrsvd, a few miles from Wrexham. It appears that a young man named Thomas Griffiths, employed at the Ffrwd Iron Works, lodged with the parents of a girl named Eliza Campbell, and on Sunday afternoon they were sitting together in the kitchen. While the mother was in the cellar she heard two shots fired, followed by the screaming of her daughter. She rnshed upstairs, and found her daughter in a fainting condition with a wound in her face, Griffiths, as it appears, having shot her. Griffiths was also bleeding from a very severe wound in the throat, which he had inflicted with a large knife. He wan so determined to kill himself that it was only after a desperate atrugele that the knife was wrenched from him. Griffiths' wound having been bound up, he was removed to Wrexham Infirmary, and Miss Campbell was taken to the same institution. They. are both in a precarious condition. The cause of the double crime is said to be jealousy, Griffiths having become deeply enamoured of his victim. A SOICIDR'S liirTTER.—At an inquest held on Tuesday afternoon by the Biriningham coroner, on She body of George Bayliss, a japanner, who poisoned himself, an extraordinary letter written by the decea•mi was read. A portion of it ran : "I was not asked to come into this world, and I don't see why I should consult anyone when or how I should leave it. I tried to go nap on Friday in Christmas week and failed • in other words I did not get enough stuff, but I think this time as I have got the ace, king, queen, and ten of trumps, and the ace of spades, and if I don't get nap with them it will be a bad job. I won't think anything more about death than killing a fly. I think wben you snuff it is like a game of crib when you gcli in the 61 holes. They can bring it in how they like. whether I fell in the sea or the cut. The doctors can train me to play with, and what they don't want they can send to the spare farm." In a postscript he referred to the result of the PilmtnerCorfield fight.—A verdict of " Suicide while insane" was returned.  A
The Telegram. — 1895-03-19 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

SUICLDE OF A TRADESMAN'S SON.—Dr. Leach (coroner) held an inquest on Monday on the body of Edward Smith, eldest son of Alderman E. B. Smith, tailor and outfitter, who coninoitted suicide on the previous Saturday morning by shooting himself with a revolvee—Deceased's wife state,' that her husband, who was 29 years of age, went to bed about ten o'clock on Friday night, and when she went downstairs next morning he was awake, hut did not get up. She never again saw him alive. She knew he had a revolver, which he kept locked in his cash box, but she had no idea he contemplates suicide. She had heard him threaten to take his life' but not within the last 12 months. Deceased had been much annoyed on the Thursday previous to his death by something his niece told him, but the circumstance was satisfactorily explained. He had also been depressed because business was slack, but he was naturally of a " brooding " disposition. Augustus Smith, deceased's brother, said he saw deceased on Fri• day night, when he seemed in his usual health and About ten o'clock on Saturday morning, in consequence of what he was told, witness went to deceased's bedroom door, and, as he  received no answer to his knocks, he tried the door and found it WAR locked. He broke it open, and, going into the room, found deceased lying on the bed quite dead.—Edgar Bennett Smith, deceased's father, stated that deceased was in partnership with him in the business. Witness last saw him alive at eight o'clock on Friday evening, when he was playing billiards at the Institute. He had not been very well lately, but had only complained of indigestion. About six mouths ago, when deceased was annoyed with a customer, he said to witness, "Good-bye; God bless you; you will never see me again," hut he returned all right an hour -Iterwards. Witness knew of nothing having occurred lately to upset deceased.—Harold Smith, a brother of deceased, gave evidence as to finding the body, in company with Augustus, and also to finding the revolver produced on the left hand side of the bed.—lnspector Brown said he RAW the body on Saturday morning, deceased being in bed with only his night shirt on. On the left side of the breast there was a bullet wound, but there was no other mark on the body. The revolver was loaded in five chambers and the sixth contained aii empty cartridge cusp. The sheet was blackened by the simike.—Chas. Porter having given evidence as to playing a game of billiards with deceased on Friday evening, Dr. A. E. Cozens described the appearance of the body and said he attributed death to internal hemorrhage and shock caused by the shot. He was of opinion that the wound was self-inflicted. The shot was evidently fired beneath the bed clothes and beneath the shirt.—Mr. C. S. Roe, one of the jurymen, said he heard deceased complain of very bad pains in the head about a year ago.—The jury returned a verdict that deceased committed suicide whilst of unsound mind, anti the foreman (Alderman I'. A. Barnes) expressed the deep sympathy which the jury felt with the family and friends.—Deeenxi.ii leaven a widow and one child.
The Telegram. — 1895-10-29 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

SUICIDE OF THE MARQUIS OF IVATERFOID.  The Marquis of Waterford committed suicide on Wednesday morning at his reeidenee, Ourraghmore, county Waterford, by shooting himself. The act was committed with a revolver. The wound mmt, its believed, have been instantaneously fatal. Needless to say, the ()Logic occurrence has caused quite a panic in the castle. The Merchioueme, who for tnauy years has been an invalid, was prostrated with grief on learning the news, and now lire in a very critical state under clews medical [supervision. It was a well-kuown fact that for months past Lord Waterford was indisposed, and though his ailment was incurable, his fine physique and healthy appearance and buoyant spirits would by no means suggest to an outsider that be was tired of life and anxious to terminate his exietenee. Those more intimately associated with him, however, recognised the acuteness of his ailment and the depth of his despondency for a long period back, as well as a total change in his disposition. his characteriatic temperament was genial, kindly, and hospitable, and whilst he retained many of his most noteable traits of character up to the last, his spirits continued to droop. He ceased actively to engage in public matters, and was perpetually lost in the meditation of his own condition. For weeks past he never left the grounds of his residence, and spent the greater part of his day in a rocking chair on the lawn—remarkably silent and depressed. Lord William Beresford, brother of the deceased, left London by the Irish mail train on Wednesday night for Corraghunore. Lord Marcus Beresferd, another brother, will probably follow to-day (Fridoy), in company with his mother, the Dowager Marchioness of Waterterd. Lord Charles Beresford will also travel with them. Lord William Bereafurd returned to London from visiting the deceased Marquis so recently as Saturday last, and up to that time there W• 4 nothing to indicate an early fatal termination to the illness. Some 12 yoate ago the late Marquis, while mit hunting, had a fall which resulted in serious injury to the spiue, and deprived him of the use of his legs. In the early part of last year he underwent an operation mu London from which he derived much benefit. In June, when preparing to start from Curraglimure to attend the Hense of Lords, Lord Waterford met with an accident which brought on a serious illness and a recurrence of his former symptoms. He suffered great pain at times. The Marchioness of Waterford has been a confirmed invalid for years past. The deceased nobleman married in 1872 Florence Grosvenor, second daughter of the late Major RowIt-y, who died in 1873. In 1874 he married Lady Blanche Elizabeth Adelaide Somerset, only daughter of the Duke of Beaufort. Hes sat in the HOMO, of Lords as Baron Tyrone. He served as an ellicer in the let Life Guards, where lie attained the rank of captain. The Earl of Tyrone, the Marquis's eldest son, who succeeds to the title, was burn in 1875.
The Telegram. — 1895-08-13 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

MIDOLKSK.X. A. F.. Stoddard b Woods .. • • . 38 J. Douglas cHI b Nicholls.. . 47 G. Macgregor c Newton b Nichols . 5 It. S. Lucas c Dunlop b Hedley . 52 Rawlin. c Hill b Nichols .. •• Sir T. C. O'Brien c Newton b Tyler.. 21 P. F. Warner c Hill b Woods .. 11 A. J. Webbe c R. Psiairet b Woods .. 20 C. M. Wells e Hill 13 Nichols 0 Phalips b Nichols _ 6 J. T. Rearne notout 13 Extras .. 5  George Briton, of Leeds, was drowned in a boat accident at Llandudno on Monday.  Robert Montgomery, a visitor t:,-Glasgow, from London, fell into the Clyde and wan drowned. A yacht e.psized on Saturday right at tha mouth of the Mersey, and three of the occupants were drowned.  Arthur MeQuinne, a Liverpool e!erk, was drowned whilst bathing in the Conway at Llandudno, on Monday  The First Secretary of the Turkish Embassy at Berlin, Assaf Sadullah Bey, committed suicide oft Thursday la.t by shooting himself. The annual prize meeting of volunteer artillery from various parts of the kingdom commenced at Shoeburyness on Monday morning Mr. H. H. Andrew, head of the Toledo Steel Works at Sheffield, was on Tuesday elected Master Cutler of Sheffield for the ensuing year. The Second olunteer Battalion (Doke of Wellington's) has been disbanded for insubordinate conduct at Saddleworthy. The boiler on board the Brazilian seconi elan cruised Trafano exploded on Monday whilst the vessel was in harbour, and lb of her crew were either killed or wounclei.  The death is announced from Durban of John Dunn, well known for the assistance he rendered in the settlement of Zululand, alter the terrains. Lion of the Zulu War in 1879.  George Lodge, a Stamford publican, was run into by three Yorkshire cyclists, near Peter. borough, on Sunday night, and died from his injuries on Monday morning.
The Telegram. — 1895-08-13 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

SUICIDE OF A WOOLWICH CADET.  REMARKABLE LETTER TO THE CORONER.  The Westminster coroner, on Saturday, held an inquiry into the circumstances connected with the death of Henry Clarkson Maclean, a Woolwich cadet, who committed suicide at Charing Cross Hotel on Tuesday night. Major-General Henry John Maclean, of Halesend, near Malvern, said deceased was his son, and he last saw hint alive in March, when he was going back to Woolwich. So far as he was aware his son was perfectly well. He wrote regularly every week either to his mother or to witness. On Tuesday, a telegram was received from him, which had been sent from Vigo Street, and that was the first intimation that he was in London. He had no business in town that witness was aware of, nor bad he auy trouble on his mind. The hotel servants deposed as to the finding of the body, and the following letter addressed to the coroner :—" I wish it to he clearly understood that I am not what is commonly called 'temporarily insane,' and that lam putting an end to my life alter several weeks of careful deliberation. Ido not think that I need justify my actions to anyone but my Maker, but for the sake of my mother and the few other people who love me, I will state the main reasons that have determined me. The first is utter cowardice and despair. There is only one thing in this world that would make me thoroughly happy; that one thing I have no earthly hope of obtaining. The second, which I wish was the only one, is as follows :—I have absolutely ruined my own life, but I thank God that, as yet, no far as I know, I have not morally injured (or 'offended 'as it is called in the Bible) anyone else. Now, I am quite certain that I could not live another five years without doing so, and for this reason alone, even if the first did not exist, I should do what lam doing. Of the dreadful blow lam dealing to my mother, and the few other people who care for me, lam quite aware. It is the one thing that has almost diverted me front my purpose, but at all events it is final, and consequently better than a long series of sorrows and disgraces. I hope that they will live to forgive and perhaps to forget sae. May God in His infinite merry forgive we for what I am doing. —if
The Telegram. — 1895-04-30 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

NARROW MAJORITY.  A eehate took place on an amendment moved by Sir A. Ito Hit, on the order for going into Committee of Supply, against the exemption of Government property from rating, such exemption being described as " wrong in principle and unjust in its operation to the local authorities." Sir Albert delivered sulmimbly marshalled testimony against the existing state of things in the matter of rating. In London alone he estimated that the exemptions of Government property equalled 50 per cent. in value. Here, and elsewhere throughout the country, notably in dockyard towns, was an opportunity of lightening the burden of local taxation, which he earnestly implored the Government to make the most of. The motion which technically took the form of an amendment, on going into Committee of supply, was seconded by Mr. Pickersgill, and received support from such diverse quarters as are represented by Col. Hughes, Mr. Kearley, Mr. Burdett-(.outts, Mr. F. I). Smith, and Mr. Bartley. On the other hand, Mr. Caldwell, Mr. Bytes, and Mr. Macgregor protested against the taxpayers throughout the country being called to bear any portion of the charges of London in respect of the public buildings with which the metropolis is endowed. Sir John Hilibert, whilst aumitting that the present 'system was not absolutely defensible, pleaded that the Treasury hail of late been solicitous to minimise its effect. In the metropolis the revision of the valuation of Government property had proceeded apace, and he undertook that the movement should continue. He further promised that in the valuation of places like the Woolwich Arsenal an expert should be employed to assist the valuer for the Treasury. He admitted the desinability of Government valuations being liable to revision whenever the quinquennial valuation took place.—Mr. James Stuart and Mr. John Burns, in common with other London inembera, supported the motion. Sir Albert Rolla was willing to omit from his motion the words " calling for legislation," if that would render it more accentahle. But Sir J. Ilibbert prefeired the Treasury minute, and a division was called. There was much merriment among the Whips when they returned, the reason being disclosed when Mr. Ellis announced that the ayes were 65 and the noes 64—a majority of one against the motion, hailed with laughter.  It is said that the Monte Carlo suicides number 200 a year.