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Bridport, Beaminster, and Lyme Regis Telegram and Dorset, Somerset, and Devon Advertiser. — 1886-05-07 (Bridport, Dorset, England)

SHOCKING AVIPAIR.—At Plymouth, on Thursday, gasfitter, named Reynolds, was found lying in a ' lane with his threat cut. He was conveyed to the hospital, and when there it was found that he had out himself so deeply that his tongue bad been severed at the roots. It had fallen out, and was subsequently picked up in the mud. A melancholy accident has occurred to M. Liverani, a member of the French company now playing " Martyr " in Belgium. One of his eyes had been Completely destroyed by the Pistol-shot fired by M. Abel in the second act. This disaster was caused by * gunsmith at Ghent, who supplied a ball-cartridge instead of a blank one. An inquest was held at Sheffield, on Thursday, on the body of John Harrison, aged 53, who, a week before Christmas, received £247 from a legacy, and since thew had been drinking hard. He spent all the legacy by the end of March, and brought on delirium tremens. Last week he had some words with a son• in-law ; then went away and drowned himself. A verdict of "Suicide during temporary insanity was **Med. At a recent meeting of the Academy of Sciences, Paris, M. Pasteur announced, the British Medical Journal states, that he bad treated the following number of people from different countries for bites from mad dogs :—France, 505; Algeria, 40; Russia, t 5 ; England, Z 5; Italy, 24; Austro-Hungary, 13; Belgium, 10; North America, 9 ; Finland, 6 ; Germany, 5; Portugal, 5; Spain, 4; Greece, 3; Switzerland, 1; Brazil, 1. This makes a total of 7211. A man named Fisher, living at Brierlow Bar, was poisoned the other night under peculiar circumstances. It appears that the family were in the habit of drinking wormwood tea, and Fisher, seeing a cup on the txhle, supposed that it wee the same. He took it up and drank the greater portion of its contents, when, to the consternation of the family, it was found that one of the children had mixed in the cup a quantity of rat poison. Medical aid was summoned, and Fisher, whose life was in jeopardy, is now resiovering. The wife and children had partaken out of the same o ,r) but not sufficiently to cause any serious 'symptom*  AN
Bridport, Beaminster, and Lyme Regis Telegram and Dorset, Somerset, and Devon Advertiser. — 1886-01-08 (Bridport, Dorset, England)

FATAL TSRMINATION TO A CHRISTMAS  PARTY. Dr. Danford Thomas held an inquest on Saturday at the St. Pancras Coroner's Court on the body of Mrs. Emma Giblett, aged 62, a widow, residing at No. 144, Junction-road. John Morris Islip, a pawnbroker, of Redhill, Surrey, stated that deceased was his aunt, and on I:oxing Day she was entertaining a number of friends, appearing in costume as winter. She was dressed in a white robe of thin fabric, and stood under a canopy from which fell pieees of cotton wool to represent snowflakes, and in their descent one of them caught light at the candelabra, and fell at deceased's feet. In trying to put it out with her foot her dress caught light, and she was immediately enveloped in flames. So inflammable Was the material that, although prompt assistance was rendered, she was so. severely burnt as to become unconscwiss. medical man was sent for, and everything possible was done for her ; but she sank gradually, and died from exhaustion.—The Coroner read aletter from Dr. Marshall, who stated that he had attended the deceased from the time of the accident to her death, which was from shock and exhaustion following injuries by burning. The jury returned their verdict accordingly.  CH.ILD KIVEIeD TO DEATH  On Satti-ri.1a,37--niiiiii:-Sfai:ga-re-t Cossack, with her infant child, aged nine months, named Helen, went to visit some filen& in Hospital. street, Glasgow. She met a woman namediMargaret McGillory, with whom she quarrelled. From words they came to blows, and the child was knocked to the ground, and it is alleged that MeGillory gave it a kick. The child died shortly afterwards, and the police surgeon found a severe abrasion on its neck, evidently caused by the toe of a boot. Both women were apprehended on Sunday, chargod with jointly causing the death of the child. A young married woman, named Elizabeth Weednet, of Stourbridge, has committed suicide by taking nitric acid. Her husband tried to prevent her, and burnt his fingers with the liquid, but mile died before assistance arrived. Site attempted suicide last July. A. shocking tragedy was reported on Saturday from Marseilles. In the theatre at that town is gentleman seated in the stalls drew a revolver from his pocket and blew out his brains. It transpired that he was in love with an actress, who was performing while the deed was committed.  STA PlB
Bridport, Beaminster, and Lyme Regis Telegram and Dorset, Somerset, and Devon Advertiser. — 1886-01-29 (Bridport, Dorset, England)

LARGE WINDFALL.  Au advertisement has recently appeared in t Manchester newspapers asking for information the part of a firm of solicitors in that city, respecti certain members of a family who are heirs to estate worth £BOO,OOO at Chicago. The proper remained unclaimed up to a few days since, but no it seems that the rightful heirs have been discover, at Glossop. Some fifty:years ago there resided the last-mentioned town a man named Robe Garlick, who worked as a dresser in a cotton maw factory. Ile acquired a little property, and in 1S• or 1.851.; he, with his wife, emigrated to Amer: taking with them an only child, a daughter, w was a cripple. They settled at Chicago, where M Garlick made some speculations inland, which realise a handsome fortune. This fortune was left to th daughter, who remained single to the time of he death, which occurred about two years ao She bequeaths her possessions to two branch of the family, named Fielding and Lornal After her demise her legal representative addressed a letter to Mr. Thomas Fielding, I Glossop, uncle of the deceased, but as lie had die before the latter reached Glossop it was sent to th dead-letter office. Since that time efforts have cot tinually been made to find the heirs to the proper 9 and it was in consequence of one of the Lomas farad making ai,plication to the Manchester solicitors tlo they have been discovered. There are seven ineinhe, of the Fielding family, children of Thomas Fieldini and two of the Lomas branch, among whom the who, of the estate will be divided.  A farmer named Penwarden, belonging to. worthy, committed suicide on Friday in a -a South-Western Railway train as it was to Okehampton. He was found auk bat rail by means of a leathern is accustomed to wear round his waist.  I from had b  L many ; the Englt a high IVOPENI  It is read sngdont, woo co.th  Igtry it is "A' 2. Thi 3. 14 Th, re have evr " aling the 5. " Thi 13., Jun. 6. v. per publi  A:: a med the wai  Iplaces it wi Advertis the bowl .11, Ga:dte is  Post FrE 12 Months Trial, 6d.  erewalso be supp tome qu Ivaluable
Bridport, Beaminster, and Lyme Regis Telegram and Dorset, Somerset, and Devon Advertiser. — 1886-01-01 (Bridport, Dorset, England)

SUICIDE IN A WATER-TANK.  On:Tuesday Dr. Diplock held an inquest at 38, Radcliffe-gardens, South Kensington, on the body of Sarah Martin, aged 38, a cook, who committted suicide at the above-named address, :,he residence of Mr. Gowdry, a gentleman, on Sunday morning. It appeared from the evidence adduced that the deceased was addicted to habits of intemperance, On the morning in question she got up as usual, and made preparations for her master's breakfast. She dressed, and went out. Lucy Amos, the housemaid, subsequently found her attired only in an undergarment, in a water-tanki which was situated ou the top florr of the house. Amos iminediatly gave an alar.i.. Gowdry pulled the deceased out, and sent for Dr. Burke, who attended, and pronounced life extinct. No reason could be assigned for the act. The jury returned a verdict that the deceased committed suicide while in a state of temporary insanity.  A stableman in the employ of the Duke of Edin. burgh, at Eastwell Park, .has been trampled to death by a horse. The man, in attempting to mount the animal, fell, and the horse kicked and trampled upon him, inflicting injuries from which the poor fellow died within a few hours. An inquest was held on Wednesday. A young lady, aged 17 years, daughter of Mr. Fairley, ship-builder, Sunderland, has been burnt bo death. Miss Fairley was subject to fits for several years, and by some means not explained her nightdress caught fire in the bedroom in the absence of tier nurse, and she received such injuries that death resulted soon afterwards. Mr. Gladstone attained his seventy-sixth birthday on Tuesday. The right hon. gentleman, who is in good health, received the congratulations of all the members oh his family assembled at liawardeu. At Chester a banquet in celebration of the event ws.s held. During service at Castlegate Co tional Church, Nottingham, on Sunday morale/ 71r Rev. Josiah Bull, 111.. A., a retired minister, aged 78, wiws suddenly seised with atom Hs was removed to the vestry, where he died ma few minutes.  ente y 51r Well; Comm nesda,  tl" ment Bible tionei Booki Jove  tht Co  it, of  su an
Bridport, Beaminster, and Lyme Regis Telegram and Dorset, Somerset, and Devon Advertiser. — 1886-03-26 (Bridport, Dorset, England)

CURIOUS BIGAMY CASK—At the Woolwich Policecourt, on Friday, Edgar William Bateman, a corporal in the Royal Artillery, was charged with marrying Emily Lilian Goodwin while his first wife Ada was still alive. The prisoner, before joining the army, was said to have occupied a good position in Weymouth, and he was married to Ada Amelia Latty, at Wyke, in November, 1878. After a time he left his wife and enlisted in the Royal Artillery, in which regiment, being well educated, he was promoted to the rank of corporal, and employed in the office. At Woolwich he made the acquaintance of Miss Emily Lilian Goodwin, who believed him to be a single man, and was married to him at the parish church in September, 1884. There was a child born of this marriage, but circumstances arose which led to the prisoner being ordered into barracks and separated from his young wife, at the solicitations of her friends. Inquiries were then made into his antecedents, and the fact of the first marriage was discovered. It was also found that the first wife had married again. She stated that she read in a newspaper of a man having been found drowned in the Thames, and the description so precisely corresponded with that of her missing husband that she fully believed that he had committed suicide. She went into mourning for him, and after her period of widowhood she accepted another offer of marriage. She was now living at Forest-gate, and did not want to trouble the prisoner; but as she could not be a witness against him, the constable in charge of the case said he proposed to bring a witness to the first marriage frem Weymouth. When the prisoner was arrested he admitted that he had been twice married, but alleged that the first marriage was illegal, and that he had a sufficient answer to the charge. He now reserved his defence, and was remanded in custody.
Bridport, Beaminster, and Lyme Regis Telegram and Dorset, Somerset, and Devon Advertiser. — 1886-04-16 (Bridport, Dorset, England)

FRENCH BEANS AND SCARLET RITNNERS.-A few i when the planks tipped and threw her n. Her back rows of the former may be sown on a warm sheltered was broken, and she lingered in misery for a consider- border, and towards the end of the month a larger able time. Last week she was awarded nearly £2OO one, and also a row or two of scarlet runners ' • for the damages in an action she brought against the company main , sowings the first week in May will be early under the Employers' Liability Act. enough. Sow also asparagus and seakale for stock in A passenger train was running on Wednesday night rows 18 inches apart ; peas in trenches for sonlmer on the Fitchburg railroad, Massachusetts, on an sue, and a final one of broad beans. embankment 200 feet high constructed alongside the Deerfield river. The rains had caused the track to settle, and the entire train rolled down the rocky embankment into the river. The wreck caught fire, and some horrible scenes ensued. With three exceptions, every person on the train was killed or injured. Tnirteen in all were killed, being nearly all burnt to death, and thirty more were injured, several of them fatally. A suicide, accompanied by circumstances of a very unusual character, has created a sensation in Peath. On the 16th of last month the daughter of an official of the Austro-Hungarian Railway, named Irma Szercenyi, a handsome girl of 17, and well-known In the best middle-class society in Pesth, died there. Suspicions having been aroused, a post mortem examination of the body Was made, which made it clear that the unfortunate girl had been poisoned by phosphorus. The body remained in the town hospital during the police investigation, which lasted about a week, and eventually a servant confessed that on March 15th Irma had had a quarrel with her stepmother, and poisoned hemelf in consequence. It appeared that about 11 in the forenoon she took the poison in her room, where she was left unattended, screaming in the most heartrending manner all day and night until four the next morning, when she died. *Neither father nor stepmother entered her room during all these 17 hours of fearful torture, the latter further forbidding the servants to enter, until the screams had ceased, after which the doctor was sent for. The father was a former officer in the army, aged 50, and the stepmother '
Bridport, Beaminster, and Lyme Regis Telegram and Dorset, Somerset, and Devon Advertiser. — 1886-02-12 (Bridport, Dorset, England)

SUICIDE IN A CEMETERY.  On Friday night Mr. Wyatt, the Camberwell coroner, held an inquest at the George and Dragon, St. George's-road, Camberwell, on the body of Mr. Nathan David Cook, aged 61 years, an ind_ependent gentleman, residing, at Belmont, Upper Norwood, who is supposed to have committed suicide in Nunhead Cemetery.—Mr, George Brinsley, auctioneer and surveyor, of 30 and 31, New Bridge-street, E.C., identified the body as that of his cousin, who had resided with him at his address at Norwood for about twelve years. Deceased, as a rule, was of a cheerful disposition, but occasionally he suffered from fits of depression. On Wednesday morning the deceased was seen by one of witness's servants to leave the house, and he did nob return.—A man named John Wright stated that he was at work on some headstones in the cemetery on Thurmlay morning, when he saw the body of the dammed lying between two tomb stones. He seemed quite de.—Police-constable Hamlett, 593 P, deposed that he was called to the cemetery, and on searching the body of the deceased be found a gold watch and chain, £3 in gold, and some silver and bronze. There was also a corkscrew With a cork attached, labelled " carbolic acid, "ands case which had contained a bottle of that poison. Some distant* off the bottle Was found empty.—Sergeant Ledger said be founds broken bottle which had con , tained the acid some eighteen yards from the body.— Dr. Brookwell, of Park-side, Gipsey-hill, said that he had attended the deceased oonstantly, and knew his disposition. He at times suffered severely from mental depression, and then witness had known him to threaten his life. Witness had seen the bxly, and had no doubt that death was due to poisoning by carbolic aoid.—After 80028 consulation the jury returned a verdict of "Suicide whilst mentally deranged."
Bridport, Beaminster, and Lyme Regis Telegram and Dorset, Somerset, and Devon Advertiser. — 1886-04-02 (Bridport, Dorset, England)

WING HIMSELF TO PIECES.  An officer oh the School of Artillery at Fataine• blsau, named Bourrin, has committed suicide in all extraordinary manner. He went to the depot of material at the butts of Avran, and loaded a pieee of cannon with a box of canister shot, containing about 120 bullets, levelled the mouth of the gun to the height of his breast, placed himself before it, and discharged it. He was blown to pieces. For some time past he had been in a dssponding state of mind. IMP _ _ _  Tun INVENTIONS ExmuhiloN.—Fott,e Filitor of The Daily Telegraph.—Sir,--Idity we ask you to insert in your celumus the following statement taf facts contained in the London Gazette and the Society 4f 4rl' Journal—t acts which seem to us the more importaut• because the conclusions from them are applicable to both the main divisions of the recent exhibition at South Kensington. Upon reference to the official catalogue, we find that two gentlemen connected with the pianoforte trade were nominated en the Music Committee, one of them being also a member of the Committee of Advice. We also discover that the firm to which one of these two geutlenten belongs, is ' announced as winning not only the highest pnze—viz., the Gold Medal of the Society of Arta, but also the Ordinary Gold Medal. As for the second committeeman, he receives a gold medal with the names of the three firms for whi,h he is agent, so added that the single honour becomes equivalent to six, the agent and the manufacturers being equally entitled to the gold medal awarded in their joint names. • In other words, the medal may be used as three by the committeeman, and as one by each of the three firms. We ebeerve also that the firm which bears this gentleman's name obtains a silver modal. The violin experts of 6the Loan Collection were in like manner rewarded with one supreme gold medal and one of the ordinary character. But this is not aIL A firm to which the nephew of one of the committeemen belongs received a gold medal and a bronze medal, similar honours falling lo another firm for which he is agent, with the name of The maker added, so that both can use it. It thus appeArs that thh firms, in which the officials referred to are pecuniarily interested, have obtained the equivalent of two supreme gold medals, eleven ordinary • gold medals, one silver medal, and two bronze medals —sixteen in all. This simple statement of facts emboldens us to ask whether officials connected with the International kahibition. should be permitted to compete for prizes.—We are, sir, your obedient servants, JOHN BRINMEAD and Sous, London, Jan. 20th.—Daiin Telegraph, January Vet, 1886.
Bridport, Beaminster, and Lyme Regis Telegram and Dorset, Somerset, and Devon Advertiser. — 1886-04-02 (Bridport, Dorset, England)

ROMANTIC ATEMPT AT SUICIDE.  At West Ham, Ellen Elizabeth Crouch, 19, a single woman, living at 21, Mayfield-road, Hermitroad, Plaistow, was charged, on remand, with attempting to commit suicide by cutting her throat with a razor.—The evidence showed that the prisoner for some time past had been keeping company with a young man named Walter Porter; and on Sunday evening, the 21st inst., she called at the M house of Catherine aGovarin, a friend. MaGovarin, flueying she looked strange, invited her to have a cup of tea, but prisoner said she could not take anything as she had fallen out with Walter, adding, "It he does not speak to me to-night I will do away with myself. He had 'the best' of me three months ago, and ever since he has been playing the fool with me. Will you come with me and try and find him? If he speaks to me to-night I'll give him up the razor." McGovarin and prisoner left the house together, and, meeting Walter, McGovarin asked him te speak to the prisoner, but he said he would not, and when told that prisoner had a razor, and said she would "do away" with herself if he did nob speak to her, he replied, "I can't help it. If she will be headstrong she can do so." He then went into a publichouse, but afterwards he went to the prisoner and demanded the razor, saying if she did not give it up he would give her in charge. To this prisoner replied, "Very well, do so," and Porter went, away. Prisoner followed him, and asked, 'What is it to be? Are we going to be friends, or not ?" and his answer being "No," she asked, "You will not, then? You see this razor?' and at the same time producing the razor, and drawing it across her throat, she added, "You will repent the day."—Mr. Phillips said he bad had a letter from the chaplain, who said prisoner was willing to go into a home.—Prisoner: Yes, sir, I will go.—Mr. Phillips: Very well. You are now discharged, sad I hope you'll never be so foolish again.
Bridport, Beaminster, and Lyme Regis Telegram and Dorset, Somerset, and Devon Advertiser. — 1878-08-09 (Bridport, Dorset, England)

ECCENTRIC CHARACTER.  The suicide of a gentleman, by name Green, known as "the crazy Englishman," is recorded by the Leavenworth Times (United States). The event took place on the 10th of July, and although Mr. Green's end was a sad one he does not appear to have been a great loss to society. His freaks and eccentricities have, it is stated, formed a basis of many a newspaper, and his career is familiar to everyone in America. "Possessed of a memory co-extensive in its grasp with the scope of a hundred abstruse subjects, he fascinated all who came near him when he chose to exert himself in the art of pleasing; and then in the short space of a few hours he would transform himself from the polished gentleman, the travelled scholar, and the man of science and letters, into a wild and reckless devotee of sin and debauchery." He was a graduate of one of the English universities, but, becoming estranged from his family by his wild and reckless career, departed from home, friends, and kindred, and was a wanderer to the end of his days. He had an enormous fortune, and it is believed that he "came of gentle blood." Anyhow, he came to Leavenworth about four years ago where he made "a tremendous stir" by his unbounded liberality and reckless conduct. Among other eccentric proceedings in which Mr. Green indulged for the edification of the good people of Leavenworth was a rehearsal of his own funeral. Lying in a coffin with a bottle of whisky by his side, he was place in a hearse one evening, and followed by several mourning carriages' was driven through the principal streets of the city, being at the close of the drive "too much under the influence of liquor to realise the sacrilegious piece of mockery in which he had been engaged." Yet he was generous to a fault, and his popularity was much enhanced by his amiable custom of never looking at a bill when presented to him, but paying immediately without murmur or investigation. He ultimately poisoned himself, when drunk, in one of the streets; or, as the Leavenworth Times more grace.