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The Poole Telegram. — 1881-06-10 (Poole, Dorset, England)

IRELAND.  Michael Ryan and Michael /cough, members of the Menagh Land League, were arrested under the •04.1.0.'0 Ao n Monday morning. A body of 100 soldiers and police n Thursday protected the service of 60 processess for rent on the propel ty of Captain Maxwell, at Tullamore. A pubhosa, named Higgins, whom) house at Limerick was attacked on Sunday night, fired small shot among the people, wounding toree, but none fatally. Higgins has heen arrested. There was great excitemebt at Galway on Wednesday owing to a rumour that Lord Dunsandle's eon had been shot dead that morning near his father's residence, and within 100 yards of the polioe-station. The rumour is not confirmed.  An eviction was to have taken place on Thursday ..t Lensnadrutn, 15 nilles from Cork, on the property of Mrs. Longfield. Twenty police were told off the duty, but tee Sheriff declined to carry out the eviction Without a large force. At Lough Greatly, near Woodford, county Galway, a land agent, who refused to sustain tenants in their demand for a recognition of Griffith's valuation as the basis for their tent, has been fired at from behind • hedge, and most dangerously wounded. Ills assailant escaped. Ab it 100 police and tWo companies of the 37th Regiment left Kilkenny on Thursday for Clomanlem to make seizures for rent. Cars were requisitiosecL, even from private gentlemen, for the conveyance of the military and police. Nothwithstanding the threatened fine of £2O, several car-owners placed their horses out of reach, and some of the military had consequently to march 15 miles. Mr. Richard Moore, J. P., Killashee-honse, Naas, committed suicide, on Thursday, by blowing out his brains with it ride. Death was instantaneous. The deceased had been in very depreraet spirits for some time past in consequence, it Is said, of his Inability to get in the interest on his mortages through the land egittion. Ple Was a poptitr country gentiernan. Some emergency men, who were on Wednes lay constructing a hut on the farm of Mr. Sinclair, as evicted Protestant tenant, at Ttansha, were attacked by it body of people and put to flight. When they had been driven off, the mob returned and burned the timber of the hut, after which they threw the ironwork into the river. Some arrests have been made.  orders were received at ILI'II on rriday for a party of the 80th Regiment to proceed teßalllnamore In consequence of rioting. Mr. Gardner, resident magistrate, proceeded round the town to secure ears lt,) convey the soldiers. A oar belonging to Mr. Illeynolds, president of the local Land Leagne, was Starting for Ballinsmore, when it was stopped and turned back by the police. The driver lashed the horse t, a gallop, and the car wee overturned, throwing a policeman into a ditch.
The Poole Telegram. — 1881-02-18 (Poole, Dorset, England)

MONDAY.  Before the 111gyor (W. D mien, Eq.,), Dr. Al(ridge. Mr A.ldermaa Gregory, Mr. Alderman 1) 'via, and M. Deveaigh Esq. E (ward Bushrol w weak' brooght up before the ablve inagistrateg Vag (11 md ty) Vlicsut haviiig giveit hi eValeac as before, the Preoner said : He mutt have made a 0- at mistake about my going bito the Held a second time. 1 w.dit,d into the tight a little w,.y. and back scam. Sergeaot Mit,bell repeated his evidence, t 3 which the pr.soner holnottong so my. Mr. Cherie., Ea one ale . confirmed his evidence, and the prisoner again said he would Out laY he did t say it. but he did not remember it. He was very excite I. Mr. Ptrgoog sail the prisoner had b .en in the erupoy th. Past-Odic., for about. 13 I env. When he gad I the cords its (M,. Par,tn4 out not t•iing pr:sdner meant any• thing of tato kind. He himself should not have thought anything more atr,ll: Is. but he wee told that a wan awl jumped into the water, cud, feeling it his duty Leery what he knew of the matter, he immediately sent ti the polio, station, .  Prisoner, in defence, said he was naturally very much excited, aild im.tead of walking home at once he walked down the road to get over it before he went home. He walked on the L )ndon-roarl, and had occasion to get over into the field. H aring some:holy coining, he went to get out of the field, and his foot slipped and no fell into t e gutt r. He had no intention of corurnittieg suicide. The Mayor said the Bench were inc ined to look at the matter from it lenient point of view. It seemed/ very stran:e, after having this eouversation with Mr. Parsons, that he should go direct to the pace and throw hianselt into the water; but, on the other hand, if he had wished to drown himself them was ample ..pportuuity for him to have done so in deep water. At any rate it was a vry serious c .se, but as the Bench were inc ined to look at it leniently, ho would be bound over, himself in £2O, and another In 4:.2,1 or two in £lO each, for the spar.. of three months. It was is very s..rious case, avid the Bench hoped this would be is warning for him to tit'ie care not to do anything of the
The Poole Telegram. — 1881-02-18 (Poole, Dorset, England)

CURIOUS ATTEMPT TO COMMIT  SUICIDE.  A rather curious attempt to commit suicide was made on Thursday by a rural postman, named Edward Bushred. The particulara will be learned from the evidence given before Mr. Alderman Gregory, at the police-court, on Friday morning last. -  John Baxter Vincent said he was a watchmaker residing in Psase-lane. On Thursday evening. ht worn seven and et:ldt o'cicck. he was walking on the London road, when he saw a man in Mr. Marvin Lock's felt. He was walking ahout. Witness did n t stop, but after he had gone on a little distancsi he looked back, and then saw the man either jinn:, or fall into the water. There was a soldier coming al ,ng at the time, and witness asked him to COM" and help him. as ther- wise a man trying to drown him elf. The soldier said" Oh I is her and walked on. BY this time the nri.oner had got out of the water. He walked out of the field into the road, and aft-r getting Into the ro id he again got over into the field and walked in the direction of the water that be hail been in. Bdore, however, he itt very far he turned round and came back into the road again. He th-m walked up to the town and into Gr.enHit's Passage, where he lived. Witneas went with P.S. Mitchell to prisoner's house and pointed him out. • • •  P.S. Mitchell said, in consequence of information received, he went with the last witness to priiioner's house about nine o'clock. He went into his bedroom, and Vinceot pointed the prisoner out to him as the man he had seen in the water. Witness asked to see the clothes he had been wearinr that evening. Thiry were produced by his wife, and he found them to be dripping with wet. Ho then chwget the neismer with attempting to commit suicide. He replied " Its ell a tuistake—it's all wrong." At ter a litt'e persuasion witness induced him to get up and go down.t.a.re. He ems about to m rice a stiVement, but witness cautioned Lim, and told Mtn what he said would be used in evidence against him. He did not say anything then. On the way to the polioe•statiou he said
The Poole Telegram. — 1881-01-28 (Poole, Dorset, England)

SUPPOSED ROMANTIC SUICIDE.  On Sunday night another discovery of clothes was ma'e upon the Clifton Suispertaion•bridge, and the surrounding circumstances, tsgother with the tenon, of a letter found with the appsrel, give rigs to the suspicion that a suicide has boon committed. Ab est nine o'clock in the evening two servant girl., in the service of Mr. Drake, of Everleigh House. Leigh-we:ids, weat to the toll-keeper, named Birman, and told hirn that they had picked up some female wearing apparel on the bridge. The articles coin; prised • light hat, trimmed with tulle, a black kid glove, • small varlet scarf, and OPO • cony of Byron's poetical works. P.C. Carpenter (C 10), whilst on duty in Boyce'savenue, was told by a gentleman that Vs's toll-keel:me of the bridge wanted a yeller-constable, and he proceeded to the spot. He was then informed of what had occurred, and, in company with a Somereetehiro constable, named Cridge. made a search of the hanks of the river, but could not find any trace that would Mai thorn ts think that a suicide had taken place. The clothing was taken to the Clifton Police-station. where it now remains. Ou looking at the book of poem, it was soon that psg4 515 was terned down, and on it was a very path.tm poem. entitled "When we two parted.' The first vcrse runs as follows:  When we two parted In silence and rears, Half brokon-hearted, To sever for years, Pale grew thy cheek, and cold. Colder thy kiss— Truly that hour foretold Sorrow to this. Another verse of the came poem is • follows :  They know not I knew the, Who knew the+ too well— Long. long shall I rue thee Toe deeply to tell. Enclosed in the book was • New Year's card, and also an envelope containing an ivy leaf, and the following note evidently written in haste, the word "to' being written twice :  "
The Poole Telegram. — 1882-10-06 (Poole, Dorset, England)

THE PROSECUTION OF THE " PATRIOTIC BROTHERHOOD."  The enquiry at Armagh tot r the masa of tho prisoners arrested for treaeon felony near Crossmaglen was resumed on Monday. C instable Gartland identified four of the accused, and said he searched for docum-nts coon ,clisd with the Patriotic Brotherhood on July 211th, ..nd found in an un cdupied house at Mullabar a bo/.k (produced), and also in a house formerly occupied by our of the prisoners another book, a revolver, and ammunition. Other books and documents were discovered oa prdmlses remote from where t.e prisoners lived. The handwriting on the books was similar ti that on tee threatening notpces, one of which wag posted on the bridge it Gill. val.:). Witness identified Michael Walters as the writer of sonis of the documents. Mr. Et G. Brooke, J.P., of Precke corny, county Monaghan, Identified Nugent an I Rally as tenants on the Bull estates, for which w tee.s was agent. Ejectment proceedings were titian az rin t the tenants. He rtc,ivecl a threatening notiee (plo when residing at Castle Blayney, and bed eftorwarde to obtain police pro'ection. R rhert John M G ou:h. proprietor, Siiwroridge, devised to reo iv n r threat in. lag notice. Dr. Palmer gave similar evidene , end the case for the pro e mtion coed. M O'S mg:nosey addressed the lunch for the defence, conteerli g th-t the evidence of Duffy required corrobor ton. D-. B yd replied, and the bench committed all Ole p i,oners for trial. Freeman's Journal says "the public will re id with great satisfaction the sobjoin,d letter from his Q •-c i VA Archbishop of Cashel :"—My dear Sir,--1 am authorised t rutate that Mr. Dillon will not prose his re.ign stun just now, hut will hold his place sc represen•ative ot Tipperary until his constituency shall have had amp's t me to select a suitable successor in the event of his smatinued —lam, do., T. W. Caolle, Archbishop—lt im ktsted hat in order to show his accord with Mr Pareell's policy. Mr. Dillon will attend the conference f Irish mrmhers of the Houle of Commons who follow Mr. Parnell's leadership, to be held in Dublin on the 18th inst., to consider the policy to be pursued on the re-sesembling of Parliament. Mr. Hugh Graham, a solicitor, residing in Ciont srf, committed suicide on Sunday morning by eluting his throat with • razor. His wife war present and made every possible effort t prevent him, but in vain. Ho was for some years r silent in Australia. and while there had an attack of sunstroke, which it is believed Awed his mind. On Saturday morning a large gnaw ity O bay and straw, the property of a farmer named Aqern, reß,rl mg at Grelough, in the Kanturk district, was rual ciou4y destroyed by fire. Ahmae dwelhne-house hail a narrow escape. A man n oiled D shenny. who was recently evicted from his holding at Tovrard, has been arrested on suspicion. The police authorities have received fresh instructions tro n the Government with regard to watching the movements of suspicious persons and strangers coining into the city. Detectives are on constant duty at the railway and the different approaches to Limerick.
The Poole Telegram. — 1882-11-10 (Poole, Dorset, England)

SAD STORY.  Arnow( the thotrian Is who on All Saints' Day visited the greyer; of tee po rr victim' of the Ring Theatre c atastrophe, a loiy ía deep menruing was reuuarke 1, who fir hour., knit berried a grave wh ch she had decked with wreath , of &were. This poor lady was found dead in her vertu in a hetes! on the day following, and papers fouud in her desk proved that sho had committed suicide, an I explained the reason why she had done 1,0. About a year and a half ago the widowed mother sent her only sun, a lad of eighteen, to Vienna to study medicine. He wrote home so regalarly that whoa the news cif the Ring Theatre fire reached Gotha, the city where the mother iivea, and no letter Caine to reassure her, she immes dietely travelled to Vienna, and ell her worst tears were oeufirined, for she found her h 1, among the dead Whom in was possible to identify. lirr companion during this melancholy journey was a daughter of -evehteen, her only chid diner the death of her eon. l'be ekes affectiou ter her brother was eri strong hat see fell Imo a decline after his death, arid two months ago the mother knelt at a feesh guava which mei close. Gesr her deugeter. It is not probable that the bei wave 1 mo tut r o due here wi.h the intention of committum suicide, for she bou.ht several articles iturnedotely after her arrival ivherti she would not have felt the want of had she merliteted death. But on retureiug from the chuichjerrd at night Rho gave the chambamsid five fleries, mid, when the latter refused m accept them, said she shorild not want the money sny more, and preen id it up rim the reluctant g rl. An open letter to the Mayor ot Vienna explaieed that she did not think life worth living winhouc tier children, aud that the money found in nor bag should be de veted to the expenses of her buiial. nhe htggel that she might be interred beeide her son. The ot.yor yesterday gave orders that she eh uld be buried in the same grave as her son. The dace .sod was net quite 50 ye:rs old, and was the widow of 4 marabant named Pieter. By order of the Mayor of Vienne a gigantic wreath of palm. ranches and rare Horveis was depositel on All Souls' Day upon the large common greyer if the victims of the Ring theatre the wee could mart be identified by relat one or friends. A catafalque was err cted upon the grave, summered by serubi and fliwere, and by • I hundred large wax-lights in chandelle' s. The cMafalque bore the inscription, "Bth December., 1831," which I was read by thous suds who surrounded tue grave On I the Ist and 2nd of November. Ii the evening of both I those days it is the custom for the V.ennese to visit the theatres, which one and all give the same piece, "['be Miller and his Child," a tale of love, superstition, and death, during whtch tears flow abundantly, I and the au deuce dee eves itself iute the belief that by crying on this particular day it honours its dead.   r
The Poole Telegram. — 1882-11-10 (Poole, Dorset, England)

THE PONSONBY DIVORCE CASE.  In the Di voice C ,ut t o WtdeL, befre Sir James Hentmo, Mrs. Eliztheth Jane Ponsonby asked for divorce tram her hu,,bano ou Cue Krouud of his adultery, crue,ty, and dese-tion. The husband entered appearance in the lila% b.t t tel.B %D. 3 110 dtllt'lle to tlO W Putt-11011.  The parties were married at the parish church of Stoke, in Day.,nsui.e. in 1873. The iepu lent was at the time a lioutenanit iii tie R ,yal Navy, rod after the m adage they minded in Devonshire. Some time after the marriage the remennteut was ordn.reu elan° ou foreign service, end return. din the so.lng of 1874. He did not, however, ilia '.l e in D voostille ont.l June of that year, vhn he went to the place where 114.3 was living and remained wdda her tor al 0/4 ten dais. He thLn net t her, t 'ding her on his doing so that he w,i4 voihg to see his mother's gr.vv, whir Litt di d anion- tm n pr. vio.a. lie ne.ver iet..rne I. ad tiler had nen., s nee ooh.b,.ed. In. 1881 he w, ,t 3 to his e ifs r. quen-tog that she would aloe I,int to °Jinn hack and live wi:.ll her, ad appo n.ing a piece where he wished her to meet bon. She declined bob requ as, aunt heard nothing mote of Lau until December of test year. when She sew in the London) ; apers th a,count f the intiitet held upon a young women, El 21 Cummings, woo had been liartn.iil at the Criterion Hotel, wh.onhe Led deserted, sod moon,, quenc3 of which she canunitted antc.de by poison ttg herself. In conesqueue o what t wooded at the inquest it was adjo aided ...a- the .ateadaece of this Lieut um; Ponsuntiy. p tuioner wa3 called, acid stated video she saw the emotinn. of the iuquest on the hint Cumming-, thinking that th, L.euttoant Ponaonby inuplinnated in it was her husband, hi desired her salicitd.. to at end the adjourned inquest, which he .ad, bud fouhd that her susp.c one were correct. __  S r Jaw oe Hennen Wn-t wia hie age w hen you monied hi,n I  Mr.. PousAtby :He sad he as 22; but I canna tell y ti 144 ex tot ate. I woe 25 at the tune.  ,wis d'uddi-o itati.il that ha It. pt a coffee-houso iu East in-read. In N vamber of last yoar a ntleman and a lady to.ik ap.irimenta in Lis Louse and slept there three nighni. They gave the .narue cf Mr. en I M. Pocy. Alter rem brew nights the gentleman lint, and the .411 in cons quecea commit el suicide, Witn,s,i att iudad the inquart, dud identified tha rispoadent in t:da snit as th, genti tutu who lopt in Lis house ior three .i..bti wita thil girl CumtninAa  I::—arT;;l7t-liii evidence Sr JAM :8 HuMMI n..unee I h di erLe w.th costs.
The Poole Telegram. — 1882-09-29 (Poole, Dorset, England)

SUICIDE THROUGH DISAPPOINTED LOVE. An lequiry was held on &turd ‘y at the Providence 041, E IgeweareiNdad, London, into the ciicumstancee alt ti %II the d• ath of El;zabe Is Bailee, aged 43, a o aek, living at 3, Clarendlon-place, Hyde-park-square. Sarah Allen, living at Reading, identified the body as that of her slater, who 11,c1 been desponding for a leagth of time. As far back as twelve months she complained to witness of being miserable, and a week ag i received a letter from her written in a most desponding style. In answer to the coroner, witness said it WM a love altar. She heard no more until Wednesday, when she was informed of her death. arth Q sill, hous.,keeper in the same eerviee, said that the deceased lad been living in the fam.ly r about eight or nine months. She alws a se med very lemerved, ving about the house in a very quiet maoLer. On Tuesday afternoon after tea she left the kitchen with some water, told went upstairs. On witnees becom'ng alarmed at her abaence she went up about half-pa.t nine, and upou openiug the deceased's bedro, m door saw her with her dress off, and a string tied tightly round her neck. She at once rade lan alarm. -kt the time of her g. jug upstaira she had pecked her box ready to go with the family into the country. Policipc mat eble 99 D Raid on being called into the house he found deceased lying on the floor, with • string round her neck, quite dead. Dr. Hsles atated that when he saw the deceased at a quarter to eleven she had evidently been de sd some hours. Mr. George Reuben Baker said that deceased had betel employed by him as cook at different times, and reeet.tly had been jilted by a man, and had then taken ti drink. The jury ultimately returned • verdict of "Suicide when of unsound mind."
The Poole Telegram. — 1886-05-07 (Poole, Dorset, England)

ITEMS.  ,  Agawam Areara.—At Plymouth, on Thursday, gaselier, named Reynolds, was found lying obi a lam with his throat cut. He was conveyed to the hospital, and when there it was found that he had est himself so deeply that hit tongue had been slivered at the roots. It bad fallen out, and was subsequently pithed up in the mud. A melancholy accident has occurred to M. Liverani, 3= of the French company now playing 44 in Belgium. One of his eyes had beeti coLnpletsly alletroyed by the pistol-shot fired by M. Abel itt the second act. This disaster was caused by a gunaniith at Ghent, who supplied a ball-cartridge instead of a blank one. An inquetit was held at Sheffield, on Thursday, on' *he body of John Harrison, aged 53, who, a week before Christmas, reoeivel £247 from a legacy, and vim* then had been drinking hard. He spent all the legacy by the end of • and brought on delirium  _ March, "witue-aa. • Last week ha had somewadi; with a son in ; then went away and drowned himself. A verdict of "Suicide during temporary insanity" was Mused. At a recent meeting of the Academy of Sciences, Paris, M. Psuiteur announced, the BrXisk Medical Journal states, that he had treated the following number of people from different countries for bites from mad dogs:—Fritooe, 565; Algeria, 40; Russia, t 5; England, 25; Italy, 24; Austro-Hungary, IS; Belgium, 10; North America, 9; Finland, 6; Germany, 5; Portugal, ..); Spain, 4; Greece, 3' • Switzerland, 1; Arazil, 1. This makes a total of 721 i.  A tnan aassod Fisher, living at Brierlow Bar, was p visioned 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 *Ode, supposed that it was the same. He took it tip Sod 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 poirott, Medical aid was summoned, and Fisher, whose life was in jeopardy, is now reeoverihg. The wife and children had partaken out of the same o.n but not sufficiently to cause any serious oympoms.  AN