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The Telegram. — 1896-11-10 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

CICNE LANGUAGE.: -- Thona7 Best pleaded guilty to using obscene language in Kingston, on October 6th.—P.C. Chit having given evidence, defendant was fined 21 6.1 and costs.— Joseph A ruirews. of East Chirtnock, was summoned for a similar offence on Hendford Hill, on August 23rd.— He pleaded guilty and P.C. Butcher gave evidence, Supt. Self corroborating.—Deferdant called his employer, Mr. Pitcher, with whom he was riding at the tine, to prove that he was telling him word 3 which he hail heard another man use.—A fine of la was inflicted, the costs being remitted.  The boom in shipbuilding in Scotland continues. , Order, for another eight steamers were reported se booked on the Clyde on Tuesday. In the Adelaide Rouse of Misembly on Tuesday, the Premier introduced a bill for the restriAion 01 the immigration of coloured ranee into South Anetralia. Al Patrick, on Monday, an old lady named Mrs. McLeod seized hold of • rszor and out her throat almose from ear to ear. She died almost instantaneously.  ~O Lord Kelvin, who has been suffering from mama .8 neuralgia in the head, is much better and was able to attend at the Royal Society, Burlington house, Is on Saturday. The Hungarian Liberals have won more vie. Istories, and hlive already secured a majority in the Hungarian Parliament, the Catholic People's or :0 Anti-Semitic party suffering moot heavily. Considerable alarm was caused on Monday night 1° in the neighbourhood of Westminster, owing to a ,S tire that broke out on the premises of the Gas Light and Coke Company in the Horseferry Road. A gad explosion, musing much damage, occurred on Monday at Messrs. Croxford & Sons ',Welling. ton Street, Aldershot. It was caused by a see, rant using the naked light to discover a gas lest. S we. At Hyde, on Thnrsisy, • coroner's jury , returned a verdict of suicide whilst of unsound mind in the case of Alice Hayles„ who drowned ' herself. Deceased, a nurse, imagined that a lady 1 she was attending was not going on satisfactorily, and left note stating she would be branded as a , Q  THZ LOCATOTIVES ON HIGHWAYS Aer, 1896, comes into force on the list inst. It prohibits locomotives travelling at a greater speed than 14 miles an hour, but !asset it to the Local Government Board to fix a lower minimum if it thinks fit. Tim board has intimated that it does not at present purpose to make any regulation on the eobJeet Tba Highways Committee of the County Council, holding a strong opinion that in London the speed should be limited to shrift miles Mt honeo has made a representatrom so AY effeci to 0.Loeal Got,ernment Board.  abi
The Telegram. — 1896-11-10 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

YOUNG WOMAN'S ATTEMPIED SUICIDE.—On Saturday, at the County Police-court at Salisbury, Sarah Ann Powell, aged about 22 years, a single woman, of Ebbesborne, was brought before Colonel Everett, charged with attempting to commit suicide by poisoning herself on October 17th.—Anai Powell, a widow, stated that prisoner, who was her daughter, had been living with her at Ebbesborne. At breakfast time on the date mentioned witness told her that, if it was true, as she had heard, that she was ericiotte, she would have to go to the workhouse, as she had no father to keep her. She began to cry, but made no reply. Sire afterwards went upstairs, saying that if she had togo she should take her clothes with her. NVlien she came down again she vomited and witness thereupon sent one of the girl's brothers for a doctor, who arrived about one o'clock. The bottle produced, labelled '' Poison," was in one of the bedrooms of the house on the day in question.—George Powell, a shepherd. brother of prisoner, raid that on the 17th October he accuse I his sister of being eneienea, but she Cosi:A it. He afterwards went out and on returning found that prisoner was ill. Witness obtained the bottle produced from a doctor SOllll3 time ago, the contents being for the cure of rheuniatism.—Mr. Arthur Longman, medical practitioner, of Broadchalke, deposed that when be arrived at the house be found prisoner strange in her nianner, and with her Lys blistered. The bottle produced was handed t 3 witness, and on his asking her whether she had taken any of the contents she replied in the affirmative. lie believed that the emit-mit of the bottle were ammonia, turpentine, and olive oil. Ammonia was poisonous. Prisoner was very sick, but he did not think that she took much of the poison.—P.C. Jones, of Alvedistoo, stated that when he interviewed the girl she admitted to hint that she bad taken poison, stating that her heal was bad, and the drank some of the contents of the bottle, but she did not know what made her do it. Prisoner, :nit° had uothirg to say in tier defence, was committel for trial at the next Quarter Session, to be heat a: Devizes. She was admitted to Pail, her mother bee 'nor!' surety.
The Telegram. — 1896-06-23 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

TRAGEDY AT BRIGHTON. A WOMAN FOUND MURDERED IN A HAY LOFT.  SUICIDE OF A SUSPECT.  A widow named Hall, who lived alone, and tarried on • small bakery business at the corner of Spa Street and Edward Street, Brighton, was early on Friday morning found murdered in a room used as a bay-loft at the rear of her residence. The discovery was made by a man in deceased's employ on going to his daily Emir* between five and six o'clock. Failing to get any response to his repeated knocking, he got over the wall and fodnd the back door tmfastened. Searching about, he found his mietrees'e body in the loft with her head battered in. The body was lying on some straw, and was not fully clothed. It is said that Si strange man was Peen to go borne with Mrs. Hall on the previous night, but no trace of him has been found. A superficial examination of the wounds on the head shows that the injuries could not have been self-infli sled. The affair is surrounded with ruyetery. It is alleged that a man has been in the habit of visiting Mrs. Hall, who sometimes had a little girl to sleep with her in the house, but she did not remain on Thursday night. One account says that some money was found lying about, so that the motive of the crime was evidently not robbery. On Saturday afternoon, the inquest on the body was opened and adjourned. A man named George Ferris, employed by deceased as a baker, who was ordered to attend the inquest, failed to do so, and later was found on the beach with his shoat cut. H. died after his removal to the hospital. Up to the time of his death he did not speak. Since the discovery of the murder Perrin has been very depressed, but at times excitable. On Friday aftsrnoon ho was examined at the Town Hall by the chief constable as to what he knew of the deceased's woman's movements and Perrin's description of her alleged mysterious male visitor was at once circulated by the police. Inquiries failed to corroborate Ferrite story ; in fact, one neighbour contradicted it. As he was wearitig a new shirt at the time the chief constable asked him what he had done with his old one, and Perrin is stated to have admitted it had been burned. As late as ten o'clock on Saturday morning he was about his work in the bakehouse at his mistresc's borne, and promised to be at the inquest, which opened two hours later. hit daughter, aged eleven, told the coroner and jury how her father had tent her to the dead womati's house on the night of the murder, telling her that if she found it in darkness she was to go home at once. She found the house as he had suggested—she hal been in the habit of sleeping with Mrs. Hall occasionally—and went home.—Mr. Steven., police surgeon, and Dr. Pugh described the injuries to the woman's hely!, and then an adjounmient was taken until Wednesday. Perrin leaves a widow and children, the youngear, it is said, being only a few weeks old.  Six lives were inFt Ina collision at sea on Mon. day between the ss. Clovering, of London, and the 88. Bertha, of kliddleshorough, the latter being sunk. The chief engineer was drowned, but his wife was rescued, I.4sether with eight' of the crew.
The Telegram. — 1896-02-11 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

THE ISLINGTON CAB TRAGEDY. CHIPPERFIELD SENTENCED.  HIS DEFLANT ATTITUDE  On Friday, at the Central Criminal Court, beton. Mr. Justice Lawrsnoe, Alfred Chipperfield, de.cribed as a clerk, was indicted for the murder of his wife, a woman eighteen years of age, in a cab in the Esse.a. Road, Islington.  , 1,1 opening the case, Mr. Avory said the issue which the jury had to try was whether the deceased committed suicide or was murdered. The deceased woman had been brought up at Leighton Buzzard, but of recent years had fcllowed the occupation of a barmaid, first at the Ram and Teasel and later at the Star, as Isliugton, and she remained at the latter house until November 6th last, when she returned to Leistbkin Buzzard. About December 6th the prisoner, who was employed in the city, absconded with the proceeds of a cheque for £1.5, which he had been sent to get mailed, and on December 16th he was married to the deceased at Cork. They returned to England the following day, and made their way to Leighton Buzzard. On December 9th the prisoner aaid be had taken rooms in London, and the two came to town, reaching Euston Station about nine o'clock at night. They took a cab and the prisoner directed the cabman to drive tawud Anisette Terrace, Essex Road. On the road they pulled up at various public-houses, and at the White Horse the primouer left his wife sitting in the cab for about an hour. When he returned they resumed their journey, and the cab wan going along the Esser Road when a loud scream was heard, and the cab being stopped the deceased was found with her throat terribly and fa ally cut. The prisoner also was sitting in the cab with his throat cut. In the hospital he made statements to the constable referring to the deceased, saying, "I wish it was me instead of her. She was a good girl." Mr. Geoghegan, in defence, submitted that no motive had been shown for the murder, although a strong reason, as evidenced by the deceaseq's statement to Mr. Cannon, had been made out for the theory of suicide. He maintained that it would be absolutely unsafe to counts the prisoner upon the evidence which had been given. The jury found prisoner guilty. The prisoner, in reply to the Week of the court, said it was false; he knew nothing about it—he did not do it. Mr. Justice Lawrence sentenced the prisoner to death in the usual form concluding with the , words, "and may the Lord have mercy on your , soul." . . . _  The primmer, who had been leaning forward on the desk in front of the dock in a somewhat defiant attitude, impudently answered the jodge's remarks ny seying, "And yours too."
The Telegram. — 1896-11-24 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

WRECKED CAPTAIN SAVED BY CATTLE.  , ,  dicky  meat  house tu.o. mother beating run over ; • co' woman by the/ battle on a ' for hours ' with rich up; a hands ; a a public holm • juvtic tituig often gets drunl finger of a riding in • c. of 70 and a girl rind ; Poor men most violent ne, moth-eaten, wh Covering ; chi stockings oat at bed sod chain to sell for rent o'clock on a :4 (1851).  country, sxhouldere;  Sunda,  until  servant  Woman  ?arri!ge  -3-aintaay  The survivors of the crew of the Memphis, which went ashore off Crookhaven, arrived to the Juno at Bristol docks on Saturday, and told a pitiable story of their suffei inv. The captain was in the water eight hours, and managed to keep afloat on the backs of some cattle which were struggling ashore. Three men, who could not be taken off in tbe ship's boat, clung to the rigging the whole night through, and were rescued as they were on the point of succumbing. Ten men were drowned, and 300 cattle.  Mr. T. Ballan Stead, chief secretary of the Ancient Order of Foresters, is lying seriously ill at Nurwich, and no hopes are entsrtained of his recovery.  The Dudley police are engaged in making inquiries concerning the abandonnient of a three mouths' old baby, in a waiting room at the Great Western Railway Statmu.  At the Old Bailey on Thursday, three men were sentenced V) 20, 12, and three wontlis' head labour respectively, for conspiracy to obtain situations as barmen.  Mr. Martin White, who has represented I, ortar• shire in tile Libersl interest since the general election, formally announced on Friday that be had resigned his seat.  On Friday, Edward J. Ivory, otherwise Bell, was formally committed for trial from the Bow Street Police-court on the charges preferred against him under the Explosive Substances Act.  Late on Wednesday night the wife of a wellknown Yarmouth tradesman tamed Stowes committed suicide by cutting her throat with a razor. No motive is assigned for the rash act.
The Telegram. — 1896-11-17 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

LAST LOOK ROUND.  The Lewisham diphtheria epidemic continues. On Sunday, the Pope received the Bishop of Liverpool. A notorious brigand named Piscitello has been arrested in Siclly.  A great fire occurred on Saturday at the new Conservatorium at Mixcow. There have been no exports of wheat and flour from Australia during the past fortnight. Great devastation has been caused in Bosnia by floods. Thirteen persons have been drowned. Peace has been concluded between Italy and Abyssinia, and arr...gements made for the release of the Italian prisoners.  A telegrmn from Mexico states that bandits in Chihuahua Lave killed an Englishman, named John McE wets, and robbed him of 2,000 dollars. . . _  On Sunday night, Christopher Gallagher, night watchman, was accldentaily urowne3 in Kings. town Harbour while attempting to board a dred ger.  Miss Kempshall, who is charged with having shot Mr. Holland, Wll.B brollellt up at the Liverpool Police-court on Saturday, and formerly remanded for seven days.  Sarah Butler was accidentally shot dead at Charlwood on Thursday night by her brother. He was cleaning a gun, and not knowing it was loaded let the hammer fall.  The weather on Nriday night and Saturday morning was not particularly favourable for astronomers who bad made preparations to see the Leonids once again after their absence of thirty years.  The grand jury at Bedfordshire Assizes on Fri• day throw out a bill against James Alfred Beart, of Dunstable, who was accused of administering a noxious drug to a married woman to procure abortion.  The expense incurred by the city of Paris during the Emperor's vs-it came to £60,160. The largest items are £31,360 for decorations and luminations, and .f.:6,260 for the reception at the Hotel de Ville,  At Warwick, on Friday, the wife of a corporation employee named Walsh gave birth to triplets, two girls and a boy. They are all progressing favourabiy. Walsh, who is sixty years of age, only earns 18s a week.  At Lowestoft, on Friday afternoon, an elderly man, named John Sterry, it retired twine spinner, committed suicide by walking into the viii. He was seen to enter the water, but before he could be reached he was drowned in the surf. He had previously attempted tj take his life by poison. An actirn brought by the Rev. W. J. Jenkins to recover damages for false imprisonment from Mr. Andrew Melrose was brought to a close in the Queen's Bench Division. The jury found in favour of the plaintiff with a farthing damages; Mit as £lO had deen paid into court Mr. Justice Cave gave judgment for the defendant, with Cost'.  At the couperworks of Messrs. Williams Foster and Co, at Maria, Landor, 00 Friday afternoon, John Anderson, a steeplejack, Swansea, fell from a scaffold upon which lie was seated assisting another 'Tian in repairing one of the huge chimney stacks above 240 feet high. He fell a distance of nearly 107 ft. His mutilated remains were conveyed to its helm 4. await an inquest.
The Telegram. — 1896-08-25 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

SHOCKING DISCOVERY AT  LAMBETH.  SUPPOSED MURDER AND SUICIDE  The bodies of a man and woman, both of whom had been fatally shot, were found at 45, Clommercial Road, Lambeth, London, on Wednesday morning. The house is let out in lodgings, and it is mid that the woman, who goes by the name of Lilian Devenport, has lived there for 'leveret month& The man had been seen in her company on several occasions. It is alleged that the woman was married, her real name being Halliday, and that she had a husband and children, who are living some where in the North of England, but nothing definite can be mcertained. The police appear at present to be wholly unable to discover a motive for the tragedy, except that it is said that the man was intensely jealous of the women. She was found lying dead on the bed, with a bullet wound in the back of her head, while by her aide, lay the dead body of the mau, apparently an Italian, who bad a bullet wound in the abdomen. A revolver was also lying on the bed, and 10 appeared that the man had first shot the women while asleep and then killed himself.  The National Liberal Club has now 5,601 members, of whom 2,113 are town (London) members. Bristol contriOntes 41 to the list of country members, Bath 17, Cheltenham 8, Exeter 11, Gloucester 10, Salisbury 5, Taunton 5. Apart from the boroughs the Somerset members numbers 37, Gloucestershire 20, Dorset 12, Devon. 4.3; Wiltshire 35. Li Hung Chang was puhlicly welcomed by the Corporation of Newcastle on Thursday, and afterwards inspected the Elswick works. The programme of inspecting Elswick works had to be considerably curtailed in consequence of Li Hung Chang having become anxious to return to London, and His Excellency did not attend the public luncheon, but drove direct to the railway station and left for the Metropolis by special train at 1.40. Hill butte howevcr, attended the luncheon.
The Telegram. — 1896-07-21 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

DFATH.  There was no doubt that the deceased was kneeling down under the bush looking for a hawk that had played depredations amongst the pheasants, and that while the gun was on his left side he took hold of that part of the barrel near the snuggle for the purpose of moving it—probably to his right side—and the stock of the gun might have caught in a stick or the trigger might have been caught. While he was in the act of moving the gun it went off. There was no possibility of thejury arriving at the agnelusion that the ease was one of suicide, because the position of the deceased's hands showed that this could not have been the case. He had met Iris death instantaneously, and was found in the same position as ha had fallen after the gun had exploded. The jury returned a verdict of "Accidental Death." Mr. G. H. Stephens (a juror) suggested that the jury should express their sympathy with Mrs. Dodge and family in their bereavement, and this was unanimously agrged to. Mr. Stephens then suggested that the elm, which hal been shown to he such a dangerous weapon, should not be used again. . . .  superintendent said that there was no necessity to do away with the gun because the light pull could easily be retnedied, and Mr. G. Mitieldffureman of the jury) said Lie would see that the gun was at once sent to Mr. Jeffery. The deputy-coroner : Is it a gun belonging to the estate?  Mr. Okifiehi: I know Mr. Dodge had guns of his ONII, but whether or not, this gun could easily be made tighter. Mr. Mantel! (a juror) said it must have been a favourite gun, or deceased would not have been so fond of 000 g it.  Mr.ollilelil It has not come out in evidence, but his wife told me a little while ago that Mr. Dodge said that he was going through a hedge and that the gun went off in his hand. He told his wife about it, and he said that if anyone had been on the other side of the hedge he would have shot him. His wife advised Ismy not to use the gun again, but he said It is allright." This concluded the enquiry.
The Telegram. — 1896-10-13 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

DOMESTIC TRAGEDY.  CHILD MURDER AND SUICIDE AT HAMPSTEAD.  On Wednesday morning, a terrible crime was committed by a young mother at 1, The Green, West Hampotead, a private house let out in flats. , It aoueara stisis Mrs. Elisabeth Emily Hughes, the Wife of a journeyman butcher, murdered her right•niontlie-old betty boy by cutting his throat with a razor, and afterwards committed suicide by cutting her own throat from ear to ear, aluio.st severing the head fro,, the body. Mr. W. Goddard Hugheii, aged about twenty-eight, the husband of the unfortunate WOlll3ll, is an assistant in the employ of a butcher in Mill Lane, Hampetead, anl he left home on Wednesday morning for his work. His wife was then lighting the fire, and performing other domestic duties, , appareutly in her Usual health, and ma he left the • room, she said, " I auppose you will he home to lweakfast at the usual time." Mr. Hughes returned for his morning meal about an hour later, and finding no-one in the kitchen, went upstairs to the bedroom, where lie Lund his wife and child lying side by side on the bed, which was covered with blood. He at once gave ihe alsrai and ran for medical assistance, while a neighbour fetched the police. Dr. Mason was soon on the spot, and pronounced life to be extinct in both cases. The police then took poi,. station of the various articles and papers found in the room, and afterwards removed the bodies to the Hampstead mortuary. The deceased woman was only twenty-five years of age, and was, before her marriage, cashier in a large mantle shop in Bristol, where her father And mother still reside. Mr. and Mrs. Hughes have always been on the most affectionate terms, and this would appear to have coutinued to the last, as the unfortunate wife left a letter in which she expressed her love for her husband, and dirActed that all her belongings should be Riven to him. The affair has caused great excitement in the neighbourhood of Hampsti and much sympathy is expresaed with the bereaved husband.
The Telegram. — 1896-09-01 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

SUICIDE OF A SCROOLMASTER.  REMARKABLE LETTER,.  A schoolmaster pained Atkins, employed under the Birmingham School Board, committed suicide on Monday by hanging. He had been mentally depressed because the board, in consequence of an unfavourable report from the Government inspector, bad reduced him in position. At the inquest on Tuesday, an extraordinary letter was reed which deceased had written to the inepector, Mr. Airy, as follows "Very likely you will scarcely remember such (to you) a trivial matter as reporting me Last Deceinbes. As it has Mandy ruined me, mentally and physically, I thought you might at least read this. When I was told—in fact, it was dramatised, so that before 0000 every boy waesaying, ' Mx.Atkins has got the sack.' And when my little boy reached home, crying, saying that the boys had kept telling bins of it. I felt as if a dagger had mimed through me. I was covered over with perspiration in a minute, and had • very bad nervous fit in the night. From , that utomene to the present time I have had a ! dread of going out or seeing anyone. The ' doctor called it a shock of utter fear. My life has been one miserable existenne. I have never had ' one night's rest since. I have had 'Airy, Airy, Airy, in my mind; no matter how I try, it will stiff be there. If I doze for a few minutes, I start 'up in this most miserable dread. My poor wife be. almost given way. Would to Heaven ten thousand times better had you shot me at the time ! than I should suffer this mieerable, miserable , existence, making my poor children (who had be. fore been nappy) wretched and miserable. My constant wish and trust for ever is that it will please God to take we. My home before—one of the happiest in England—is now the most wretched lin the whole world. What I have written is not the slighteat exaggeration, and I only wish I could give you—l curse Airy to all eternity. Hope some day he may only feel one millionth what I have felt, and then he will suffer." It was stated that Mr. Atkins' position was no worse than before the change of schools, and that ha was super-seneitive.