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The Blandford and Wimbourne Telegram. — 1881-09-02 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE. At the Police-court on Monday morning, before Captain Biddle. an elderly mat, named Richard Ellis, &labourer, of lalington, was cha9rged a ith attampting to drown himself on Sunday in a pond. John Ellis, son of the accused, said: I live with ml father in a cottage on Baileyridge, in the parish of Ltllingt m. My father has been in a low desponding state of late, and was unable to sleep at night. I slept with him on Thursday and Friday nights. On the molfl. lug of the last named day, about three o'clock, I was awakened by h( aring him talking, and found the accused 1 ;la nil odiwiatsahknaetdlefd-hritamos t gwfeothuyrridhleohfhoiadrddomn ye i himself. with the sheet tightly tied rouaci his neck. I took it off. left the house, and followed him to the pond, where I saw him throw himself in. The pond is abmt 300 Yarda from the house, and about seven feet deep. The accused ffabth aeilllBrl he replied that wat not in the deepest part of the pond, and I 0111 d him ow. He said "lie would do it sometime if he did not do I ugueattaingmulpr.ilinlfe. it then." The accused had cmaplained for the last JOTSnight " that he did not milk his master's cows clean. C tptain Biddle: Was that his occupation I Witness : Yes, air. The Magistrates Clerk : Has his master found fault with him! Witness : No, sir. The Magistrates' C:erk : Did he attempt to get in more than once? Witness: Yes, sir, twice, I don't think he is in his right mind. Mr: Turner has been attending him, be has not seen him for ttte last few days. Ile has not Wm drinking heavily of lstft, but is a sober man. Mr. W. H. Williams. [urge." Slat rhorne. said : I w"a called to see the prisoner last night, and saw him in the cells here. I examined him, and believe him to be insane at tho present hue, and not answerable for his actioni.. Hi is sufforing Irma incomnia, and a rpacies of man's resulting from it. Ho requires medical attentioa ana to Ow Workianse for ight days watohinii. it is unsafe for him to be alone. —4.4 d n for further _ •  a vio 'ch of ulao u ID 'Chard SLagi a vet eovii, 8' euhou• celh 00 bibltion
The Blandford and Wimbourne Telegram. — 1881-03-04 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

CHAIRMAN. in his opening rem-irks, said he was which appeared to come from 3 house right very pleased to see the flaw harmenium which they now approleh Me the ship in which the defendaut Pearce had. He well reniembered when they used to hold their lives. He lie-toned for a few minutes, and then a Mrs. services in the British Schoolroom, arid also before they Eller), ,relled hint to go across, and he vsent, on haft an instrument to aceumpaey the singing. He also going to tee door of Ate teem which prisoner occupied, renieuiter,d when first they talked about ehaaivinf? a haert; mullein, aud they hid one which c?st th .0 ,A, ch. . be Ur, Nt -. Pearce (erisoner's in 'there He looked 3X. leo rime' see nothing of prisoner. tie went whtiiiilastiteee .viins) tonwisoithptluesagefedwtoweseakyothainateet,ha:ydhhaadd .ae.aswel mt., the ..reetry 3Cld -there feared Prisoner. He heel a very gaei choir, and he hoped they would inernase and eioe tini•c7.• his Cain. endethe elide of it ware fastened presper. He sand it wag not a choir that sang for a yearly to a creek i e Vet ceiling. Ho was leaning forward on cellectien, or a yearly , supper, brit a choir whese hearts the Tet)e. iert his feet Were on the ground. He (witness) . were in tee callAN and he wished them God epee& askel elm what he hail done it for, and took him by (Aerilanse.) le the crease of les remarks, he meationiet the c leer of the cos% 'Mika him from tho rope. rol;i he wee had given -45 towards this fund. (Applause.) took him illtfi the h , lEr . . • Mr. A DANIELLS vms 930 very /north pleated te see this (MSc... is (witness ~) tnether came aaciros_s and essisted hinter wash prisoner's face, and Ate . new inotrumene and congratulate-Of lose who had uncle,. tsken p, raise the fut“..B for it upon teeir success. le , trouble krd h, in why he had clone it, rind he replied `.' It is mentioned especially Mrs. Davie In .peaking of the old that has brought it on. When be (witness) schoolroom, in which they usr,e to hold the!" services, he he forinril:olTl in the prantrY his flues was diecolelued and said he well remembered one Sundey evsning stanoing h Wm, exeanded, eel that he could seemly stand, outside listening to the service, which very. much Prises . .h.r wars screaming wh-ru he went into the pantry. . erten-mesa him. An elderly lady came ont and invized Pee. I:revu itt es, etiontel at Barl recane ne gave him inside, he went, and liked it very mech. After the vehviade hi enwe%cleas te. tite apprehension of prier'ener'.. .. He service he went hems and told his wife be had been somemwith ineeing where, fine heard somebody ; but knew not then where or .., a"," ..ie" me ate mpted to commit suicide, whom. He thought he-most go again., so he die, and .de no releee Witmege brought him to determined to thraw e, his let with them. they being. in "mfteetere—Primester ems :eel:ended until Monday. his uuno., an upright, cosiiment, and God-fearing people.
The Blandford and Wimbourne Telegram. — 1881-06-10 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

IRELAND.  Michael Ryan and Michael I-lough, members of the Menagh Land League, were arrested under the Ceeminn Ay-, (in Monday morning. body et 100 eoldiers and pollee In Thursday protected the servitors of 60 prosesness for rent on the property of Captain Maxwell, at Tallamore. A publican, named Hregic,s, whoFe hones at Limeriek was attacked on Manday aight, fired small thet among the peple, wounding three, but none fatally, Higgins has been arrested. There was grreat excitement at Galway on Wednesday owing to a rumour that Lord Duneandle'n son had been shot dead that morning near his father's residence, and within 100 yards of the polio-station. The rumour is not confirmed.  ...... An eviction was to have taken place on Thursday at Lenenadrum, 15 miles from Cork, on the property of Mrs. Longneld. Twenty police were told off the duty, but toe Sheriff declined to carry out the eviotion without a large force. At Lough Greany, 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 rent, has been tired at from behind a hedge, and most dangerously wounded. His assailant escaped. Ab ,at 100 pollee and two companies of the nth Regiment left Kilkenny on Thursday for Clomanlem to make seizures for rent. Oars were requisitioned, even from private gentlemen, for the conveyance of the military and police. Nothwithstanding the threatened fine of r2O, several oar-owners placed their horses out of reach, and some of the military had consequently to march 15 miles. Mr. Richard oore, J. P., Killashee-honse, Naas, oommitted suicide, on Thursday, by blowing ont his brains with a rifle. Death was instantaneous, The deceased had been in very deprevsed spirits for some timm past in consequence, it is said, of his inability to get in the interest on his rnortages through the land egitstion. fie was a popul country goof lornan. t Some emergency men, who were on Wednes Tay Constructing a hut on the farm of Mr. Sinolair, an evicted Proteetant tenant, at Bansha, were attacked s body of people and put to flight. When they hsd been driven off, the mob returned and burned the timber of the hut, after whioh they threw the Ironwork into the river. &me arrests have been Made.  Orders were received at MAUI on Friday for a Party of the 80th Regiment to proceed to Balfinamore In consequence of rioting. Mr. Gardner, resident magistrate, proeeeded round the tows to emire cars to eonvey the soldiers. A car bedorging to Mr. keynolds, president of the local Land League, was Starting for Ballinamore, when it was stopped and tamed back by the police. The driver lambed the liorse to s gallop, and the ear was overturned, throwieg policeman into a ditch. rrr -
The Blandford and Wimbourne Telegram. — 1881-01-28 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

SUPPOSED ROMANTIC SUICIDE.  On Se.nday night an ther discovery of clothe., via; ;nails et moo 'he Clifton Snanienahrthedge, and the terrrinding circunaitantee, t ;(3r with the feri et- of a lott.,r to ,nd with the hpp or-1, rive Ca te the suspicion that a ha.; h en n pawitt :. ie,e; nine o'clock in tho two servant girli, iti^lle ~ervic,e of Mr. Drake, ~t 17...r1;;1gh Howe, Li.gh.wnhis. wont to tb, toi;-ko Birman, and t 01.4 Man th'it thty had nick ol floome female wearing apparel on the bridge. The ari cAllt pri;ed a li.tht hat, trimmed with tulte, a Wank ki I gleve, a am oil scarlet scinf, and ,0,,) a cony of worita. P.C. Cirnent (~.7 10), whilst on diitc, in boyee aeOllk', wag told hy gentieniall rte.t Cie toihkf ep,r of t'rio t.o.Tige wanted a police •.,,,n)ta`,le, and 'lO prloi to thet. 1. He was then infotinst of what had oc-iuried, a-01, a onopany with a Slomerse,sh-re cana,alie. hrtlied mule a colreth of the han;;,, of thi ricor, I Mid not find iny trace ttt w. till 10.0 Otani t t.h hii a suicide had taken pl. . clothlng Wa'. ta: •-n Clifton Pellee-atitiec, now rental ah at the hook of none., o u that p 515 h down, and °nit wita oath t cp.) em ~.1" V; arm we two parted.' in ; vr rsa Mud tic fOllqVi3  : • 7 •rte,l. I,• 1, - • ~•••i, Irg.tf To ,•••••,%er f rears, Pah, ero,- thy ,11.,ek, n 1 C:l thy ki— Tr'-Ly that t,qr foretold S...wrov# to thi.. Another verse of t!,..) Rattle PC/001 le a follows :- They know not I knew thee. Who knew thee too well-I.,es ,hal I roe thee Too 6,eeply to tell. Enolnstal in the hook was a New Year's card, ani I`..a an envelope contomine an ivy al, awl the follewiqz evidently written io haoto, the wtrd "to" being w'lrten twice : "Ssittortsv. "You will know that I have loved even to +he e.,d cl thinv. This world lee no charms for the. Fate Thera mil no natne inocrihed in the book, nor are there any other means ,f id•lnt:fyrna. the owner of th.• apporeh or the writtine of the note, the latter teeng mioigned. The polio- ate Inc' sti,asting the r,immtio c iron mstan cos. hut have net as yet succ3eded in eine the mystery.  On t'le fires be7ng lighted for the purpose of liestin.il St. Mary's Church, Addiscomhe. Croydon, for Salvia,' s 2.oryi,,e,t, two ooilerA in connection with the appsrAbu xplnfiet with terrific force. Fortunately. the oectirrcnce being prior to the time of worship, there was lit,Uouonsode done. Ono of the Attenlants waz inJared.  Fur "Wtuter's Tedious IC,!;lits"-.--.  .f.tia-rnl 111. Act 5. Sc. J. pNC')UTRA( E nou ll by the cnonss,ice. tI4 Wa )iile; IS tterid.:,l -1-1 the public:WA, or  "R It THE FIR rsiox." The Witinit NrYBEI: " ••,0411e.ry " Two Vititioni having already exhausted, and the demand ain't tioqt nuing, the priWietors hat., Inni.%mi 0. "II" EDI It ,Ci 1.4 iow ready. lt contai..a 2 complete tale •, 14 iutr.ti,l, W poem, etrerd short steches, sod Musk, 1.1, 1,1•. '• tw R. Stoepid Part iculAre of Prise Cornnetti,tis, Fire Guineas are off !nit Unanimously press to be the Beat cud Chati,est of tt e Annuals 3 jot 6d. l'aedmilitig Office, 104, Fleet-street, Loidon, E.C.  _ (It
The Blandford and Wimbourne Telegram. — 1882-10-06 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

THE PROSECUTION OF THE " PATRIOTIC BROTHERHOOD."  The enquiry at A.magh iot esa. elf the pri.onerit arrest, d for tre von relouy tit sr °Manuall.rn we roniiinr.d on Monday. C .nsrable Gartland i 'our of the accosed, 1111.1 °aid ho searched for docurn nt. corn (tut with the Patriot.. c B-otherh of on Ju'y MO. rid 'oond in n on c ;upied Louse at Mune'''. a bo k (or died), and abo in a h ,use formerly rtecupied y on . ef the Prsoners another book, a revolver, and n. Other books and documents were diecnvorkd o pr. raises t from when t' e prisoner, lived. The ..a idw.hing on the In oks was similar t tbat on t Vire ttening notces, one of which was p0at...1 on the bridge C 'Wed& Witness identified M'era..l Waite. e we the w,it,r I some of the documents. Mr. H. G. Brook J.P., of Frockcorny, county Monaghan, id melted Nugent as tenants on the Ball estates, for which w to. vas agent. El. c.rnen procecdings were t ken a ..n t the tenants. He rec aved a thieateuing t,tire (.. u wed) when residing at Castle Blarney, and hot c.ft.rwArd6 to obtain police privecti..n. Robert Jon M 0 emir. laud proprietor, Sivr ridu, dep need t rec-av : A tbre .t .ne jog notice. Dr. Palmer gave simile. . vie• r , and the c IRO fir the po e.ution c trod. H O'S. ne• sr addreseed the h.-nch for the et fence, roe teryi g tin t the evideLce of Duffy required corrobor ton. Dr. it yd replied, end the bench committed all the p joners for  Freeman's Journal says "the public wi I raid with wrest satisfaction th • salijoin -el letter from is G c • the A,chl•ishop or Cashel :"—My dear Sir,-1 am atith•irDed t • state that Mr. Dillon will not prove hie reeisn it ••n just now, but will ho!cl his place as repre.en iris. ot T•pperary until his coneituency shall by had aniVe tme to select a suitable successor iti the event of hi • coo • inii• —I am, &0., T. W. CR.KIt. Archbishop —lf is ,tsted that in order to eh ire his iccid aith M Pe.r,”ll's policy. Mr. Dillon will attend the conference ••f Ir eh m m ere of the House of Commune who follow Mr. Pmn,ll's leadership, to be held in Dublin on the 18th inst., to r .ne,rer the policy to be pursued on the re-a-sembling of Parliament. Mr. Hugh Graham. a Bolic•t a. residing in Ctio.t committed suicide on Sonday mo-,for by cutting his thro it with a razor. His wife Was ;resent and wade every vs•Oble effort t i prevent him, bet in vain. H • was for some years r silent in Australia, and while there had an sit ick of sunstroke, which it i 9 bel'eved affected his wind. _ _  On Saturday morning a large gust • ity of hey and straw, toe proparty of a farmer natue,t A o•ra, rea,di og at Grel uth. n the Kat.tark dutriet, was mat cioaKly destroyed by fire. Ah ra's welltng-houae had it narrow escape. A min nailed D hbennY. who wrii recently evicted from Ms hooting at Tovrard. has h hen arrested on suspicion.  The police authorities hive received fr,•sh instructions Iron th Government with regsrd to watching the moverneotA of suspicious persons and strangers coming into tha city. Detrct!ves nri on constant duty at the railway and {le different approaches to Limerick.
The Blandford and Wimbourne Telegram. — 1882-01-06 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

PRINTER'S ERROR.  According to the CartisteJourna/ they don't think compositors worth much in that district, judged by the following :—" Compositors Wanted ; price ed. per IMO all round." We doubt if they were to try " all round" the trade that they would get a thousand at that price—at any rate nlt men of the " type '' we should care abont. supplies them can't get much uf a "a pall' out ot the:o.  Oli, STL  The present age has been termed a precocious one, 5..14 well it may be after this:---" Pupil teacher (male) wanted after Christmas, in his second or third year. Apply," Ste. A pupil teacher between two and three years of age must be a decidedly knowing youngster at any time; but afecr Christmas, of all times ! We suppose, though, this is because at Christuaas most children of this oze go in for "craiallany."  ARISTOCRATIC DISTINCTION!  Countess : That is the plrtrait of the tiN. times called "The somnambulist." Visitor: Er. -because, I presume, he er--WAILogI jt, his sleep? Couute.s : Walked? Certainly not. lev:ttiai,ly  !From &Ara.]  The wretched story of EMMA 0131111 iii.-TS and Lieutenant Ponsouby would furnish an interesting psyellohLkaj study were it not so repellent in it,l details. It is ;Laic:tit at first blush to reconcile the p methodical and business-like arrangements for her new p.,sition in his with the agony of mind and the gnawing ri.llloNe which made her commit suicide when those arrangem nits fell through. It is a wretched story- -one whkli 131.1 !.3 argued as strongly from the cynical as the sentim e;tal standpoint. It has been treated rather superfieially hy the leader writers, who have most of them quite f ta note the deepoieated springs of the last Lundell tr.; Pernaps it is best not ti probe too liee p!3' into the • •til wounds so I will imitate that weal example and k • to the surface. On the surface, that which strikes one ;•:tr. ticularly is the fact that bravery on the modern field and chivalry to women are im longer neegssary a. panions. Lieutenant Ponsonhy is proved to be cc valiant in battle. I trust his cue-cr will be borne in miu by those wh !, when England is we, 11l upon weale natims, are SO milignant at the ilea ttLit E7t4NA:: •.,r3 would ever permit the least inleunaulf; so freely tendered just now to barmaids t :owaro :•1 their customers is liar fly justified. Poor Emliii4 C13.11:1111..; an exception Many btrimaids marry exeeedingly cccli over the counter, especially from bars frequented by the silver youth of the City. There are two title; at the prysent moment held legally and lawfully by ladies wh w,re barmaids; and instances are frequeut of the learn -d professions finding wivea WhVg9 they welit ttlE thtlig Elb4o 4 Aug an 4 biocuit. ,
The Blandford and Wimbourne Telegram. — 1882-11-10 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

SAD STORY.  Amoog the thousan Is Nth All iSaints' Day visited the graves of the po victiins of the Iting Theatre catastrophe, a la ly in deep mourning was remarked, who fir hour kn, It Welt, a grave wh ch she had decked with wreath , of flowere. This poor lady was found *lrani in her rte•m in a In•tel on the day follow ing, and papers found Ii her deek proved that hj had coituni-ted suicide, an i explained the reason why she had &tic Ab• ut a year and a half ago th • evi lowed mother cent her only non, a lad of eighteen, to VlOOll4 to study tuedieine. Ho wrote hone so regolatly that wheu tho news of the fling Theatre fire reached Gotha, the city where the mother lived, :and no letter came to reassure her, she Mame. diately travelled to Vienna, tend ell her w vst fears were confirtned, fir she found herb y among the dead whoml was poenible to identify. Her companion during this inediticholy journey WAN A dau4hter of eeventeen, her only chi I doer the death of her soil. The girl's affectiim f r her brother was so strong hat she fell itito a deitline sifter his death, and two month ago the mother knelt at a fre,h aye which had cloaeo over her daughter. It is not probable that the beienve I miitiier c .me here wi h the intention of committing suicide, for she lion ht several articles itinuecitately after her sir ival wh cli nhe would not have felt the want of had she medit it el death. But OD returitiiig from the chitichy ird a night she gave the chambermaid five florins, arid, when the latter refused so accept thew, s ,iii nhe shoold not want the money any more, and presieed it lip in the reluctant gtrl. An open letter to the Alayor ut Vienna explad.ed that she diil not think life worth livin,t wd,hout her children, and that the money found in or bag ithould be devoted to the expenses of her lemiale he tiagge I that she might he lot, rred beside he n in. Tile Mayor yestetday gave orders that she sh till be buried in th same I grave as her son. The deco lied was not quite 50 years old, and was the widow of n inerc'iant named Patter. 1, By order of the Mayor of Vienna a gigaatic.wr•mth of Pahnet ranches and rare fl iweis w ite deposite I on All Souls' Dav upon the large common gr eyed the victims of the Ring l'heatre fire who could it be dlehtified by relatons or friend,. A catafalque was or. cted upon the grave, surrouuded by shrub+ and fl iwere, and bye hundred large wax-lights in chandeliers. The catafalque bore the inscription, "Bth 11, combo, , 1881," which was read by thous ands whit surrounoed the grave on the Ist. and 2ad of November. In the evening f both those days it is the custom for tie V mutest, to visit the theatres, which one aid all give the same piece, 'The Miller and his Child," a tale of love,'superstition, and death, daring which tears flow abundantly, and the auetience dec oyes itself bit, the belief that by crying on this particular day it honours its dead.
The Blandford and Wimbourne Telegram. — 1882-11-10 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

THE PONSONBY DIVORCE CASE.  In the Divorce Court on Wedueolay, before Sir Jams Heinen, Mrs. Elizabeth Jane Ponsonby asked for a divoroe from her hu..band on the ground of his adultery, cruelty, and desertion. The husband entered appearance in the suit, bit there Wai no dame!. to Vie wife's pett. tion.  The parties were married at the parish church of Stoke, in Devonshire, in 1873. The eaponlent was at the time a lieutenant in the It ;yal Navy, and after the marriage they res:deri in Dell( nsttire. Some time after the marriage the respandetit WAS ordered 'iroad on foreign service, 1111,1 return din the spring of 1874 He did not, however, j in his "i.e in Devonshite not 1 June of that year, a lvag he went to the place where she was living and remained with her or alayat ten days. II.; th.di lfrt her, tiling her on his doing so that he was going to see his mother's grave, who had died some time previous. He never returned, and they had never s!nce cohabited. In PSI he wr to to his wife rr questlng that she would allow him to came back and live with her, and appo n•iPe o Place whore he wish; d her to meet bin'. She u..nraueu both requests, and heard nothing more of him until December of last year. wit n she sow in the London daily papers +hr a(tcourit of the inquest held upon a young woman, El a Cummings, Wel had been barmaid at the Criterion Hotel, hornite Lad deserted, and in cono quence of which she committed suicide by poisoning herself. In consequence of what transpired at the inquest it was adjo rra.d ter the attendance of this Lieut tient Ponsonby. The prtitioncr was called, and stated when she saw the account of the inquest on the girl Cummings, thinking that the Lieutenant Ponsonhy implicated in it was her husband, she desircd I.er solicitor to at-end the adjourned inquest, which he (lid, and fond that her suspicions were correct.  Ilanneu : What waa his age when you married him?  Mrs. Ponsonhy : He said he was 22; hut I cannot tell yru his , gad age. I avos 25 at the time. Lowis ruddoe stated that he kept a coffee•house in Euston-road. In N rvernber of lest year a gcntlemsn and a la iy took ap atrosnts in his house and slept there three nights. They gave the (name of Mr. an I Ma. Percy. Afte- min rifling three nights the gentleman lit, and the girl ie consequence committed suicide. Witness attend-d the inquest, and identified the r-spon,tent in this suit as the gentkinan who slept in his house for three mghti with therid Cummings . . .  AFter -117.--arrn.g—the evidence Sir .Tames Hannon pronounced a decree Mei, with costs.