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Blandford, Wimborne and Poole Telegram. — 1879-04-04 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

MILTON A BBAS.  SAD END OF A LONG LIFE.  An inquest was held at the Hunbro Arms Inn on Friday afternoon by Mr. W. 11. Atkinson touching the death of Thomas Mitchum an elderly carter, who hanged himself on the precious day. Mr. S. Vine was foreman. Jonathan B Isbell, a maltster, in the employ of Messrs. Fookes and House, said he lust saw deceased alive on the previous morning. He came in and out of the malthouse several times between 11 and half-past 12. He saw deceased nearly every day, and had observed for the last fortnight that he was rather strange. Believed he was 61 yi-ars of age. Jesse Vncent, c mter boy, said he went into the loft over Mr. F iokes' cart-horse et dole. about 90 minutes past two on he previous day, and saw deceased hanging by a rope from a beam in the middle of the loft. He was frightened, went d)orn the ladder and gave an alarm to his yoting master. Mr. Hermy Fookes, and to Stephen Vatcher, his groom. The latter stated he went into the loft and there found deceased hanging by a rope from a beam across the roof. He immediately cut him down and found he was quite dead. Deceased hat been in a strange state fir some time. He had been a great sufferer from rheuinatism. sod some years ago was obliged to give up his place as caner for the late Mr. Fookes. The jury returned a verdict of "Suicide whilst in a state of t •ruporary insanity." A correspondent says deceased had he' n enipl tel at the brewery for more than forty years for Mr. Foolis and his pr,-decessors ; but having for some dine been disabled Mr. Fouks had very kindly supplemented his parish allowance with be. from his private purse.
Blandford, Wimborne and Poole Telegram. — 1879-02-07 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

SHOCKING MURDER AND SUICIDE.  A disrharged railway servant named Choate, living at 39, Widte—dreet, Bethnal-green-ruad, hie wife, and his dtught. r, aged six, were found on Tuesday nraraing an Vieir room, with tip ir throat cot in a horrible manner. The man and the child were dead, while the wiona.., alacough still alive, is in a very precarious condition. It is believed that the man Wet kided his child, then attempted to murder his wife, and afterwards committed eu ride. . . . . .  The murderer and suicide had barely reached 21 years of and his wife is in her 19-h year. and the baby was only six months old. For three weeks past Cheale had .n out of work, having, it was said, lust his situ itin on the Great E *stern Railway through inattruitiou arid bed timekeeping. Ile bad nit appeared to seek for work since, and had express. d his opinion that they would come to want. Nu sound f quarrel or disagreement was heard during the night. S no after eight o'clock on Tuesday morning a scutfiiiig noise in the bedroom occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Cheats attraued attention. The occupier's wire, Mrs. Porter, heard Mrs. Choate exclaim—" You've done en 'ugh, John." Thee Mr. Porter ran up-stairs an I called through the done asking what ea 4 the matter, but, no answer being returned, be waited, and then in a minute or two heard a sound "like the splash of a lot of water falling on the ground. That was followed by a fall, and Porter at once dashed in the door with his foot. On tun bed which stood facing the door lay Mrs. Cheale covet-rid with blood, and a aide gash in her throat At her feet, in corner on the bed, lay the baby, with its threat cut and its head nearly severed from ice body, and on the floor near the window the body of John Cheale lay in a mass ..f blood which flowed all round him. He was raised and woe alive, but bleeding irom a wound in the throat, which nearly parted the windpipe. A table knife, sharp point, d, and thin in the blade, lay on the bed, and on the floor wa, a raso, both having evidently been used. B,fore a (dicier arrived John Choate had expired, and the we iical gentleman also pronounced the hairy to be dead. Mrs Cheale, however, he thought might be ssved hut be found tier suffering from fifteen or twenty wounds on all parts of her body, the most s irious being one in the throat extending nearly from ear to ear, but not injuring, it was thought, the windpipe. That wound was sewn up, and the otheix having been dressed, Mrs. Cheale was left in lord until late in the afternoon, whi n she was sufficiently recovered to be removed t r the London Hospital. Mrs. Ciieale having some* h it recovered, managed to ask for her baby, as if she did not know its fate. It was then deemed wse to keep the fact of the child's death from her, but later in the afternoon, when the bodies of her husband arid child had been removed to the district mortuary pending the inquest, she was told.  MONEY! MONEnt MONEY!!! _
Blandford, Wimborne and Poole Telegram. — 1879-01-03 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

MIDNIGHT SWIM.—At the Borough Police Court on Saturday, before Messrs. Milledge, Lundie, and Robens, Santuel Tuck, a private of the 75th Royal Bengal Tigers, now stationed at Weymouth, was brought up in custody charged with attempting to commit suicide on the 27th inst. by jumping over the bridge into the river.—Samuel William Manley deposed that he was passing over the bridge from Melcombe Regis, onthe evening in question, shortly after twelve o'clock at night, when, in company of a friend they found the prisoner with his coat off, on the middle of the brilge. On passing him, prisoner said "shake hands, as he was going to make a swim." At that time prisoner was leaning over the rails of the bridge. He was not drunk, but had evidently been taking beer. He persuaded him not to do such a rash thing, and privately sent for a policeman— meanwhile two men who were passing were asked to come to their assistance, but they passed on. Prisoner attempted twice to get over the railings into the water, but he (witness) and his friend prevented him, and before the policeman came he managed to get on to the buttresses of the bridge on the Melcombe Regis side and so elided off into the water. He at once shouted that there was " a man overboard" and Police Constable Bullen coming up, went to his assistance, when he found that the prisoner was just struggling to get into a boat —P.C. Bullen said that he saw the prisoner struggling in the water and when he reached him he was attempting to get into the boat, but could not du so without some assistance.— Prisoner, who is but a very young man, on being called on to answer the charge, mid he was a good swimmer, that he did not struggle in the water, and that what he had done was only in a lark, and tilt he never intended to drown himself.—The Bench said it was a very fool-hardy thing to do, and he should feel thankful that he was not drowned. —The Commanding Officer then came forward and gave the prisoner, who had only been in the regiment a year, an excellent character, and the Bench taking this into consideration, called on the prisoner to enter into his own recognizances to keep the peace for the future, and with a severe caution, handed him over to the Military Authorities on his paying the costs, 65., which WAS afterwards paid by the sergeant of the gallant regiment. BOROUGH PoLice, Thursday.—Before Dr. Drew and Mr. J. R R .bens.
Blandford, Wimborne and Poole Telegram. — 1875-08-13 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

EXTRAORDINARY SLANDER CASE. An extraordinary slander ease was concluded at the Croydon assizes, before the Lord Chief Baron and a special jury, on Saturday. Mr. Temple, the plaintiff, was formerly a lieutenant in the Ir.Srd Regiment ef Highlander,. and in the latter end of the year 1804 he was married to a young lady named Powell, who had previously lived with Mr. H. R. Frisby, stockbroker, and his wife, for severaf years. They lived happily together till November, 1873. when Mrs. Temple made a confession to her husband. He went to Mr. Frisby with the written statement she made. It was in the following words :—" London, November L 9. 1873-1 have told my husband that I have committed adultery with Henry Frisby, and, further, that frequently before my marriage I have passed the rifL:ht with him. The defendant peaitively denied that there was any foundation for this confession. Plaintiff told him that if, upon making further inquiries, he had reason to believe that the statement was true, he would chastise him in the most public place he could find. He was so satisfied, and on meeting the defendant in Regent-street in the month of. March, 1874, he inflicted a severe chastisement upon him The plaintiff had previously sold his commission and retired from the Army, and he had done this that he might be able to carry out his intention of chastising the defendant. The result was that he was committed for trial at the Middlesex Sessions, where he pleaded guilty and was fined .4:50. The alleged slander was that the defendant had stated to two gentleman who had asked him for an explanation of the grounds for the dispute between bins and the defendant that the defendant was the biggest thief and liar he had ever known, that he had obtained money from him by false pretences, and that the reason he assaulted hins was that he wished to prevent hint from squandering his wife's fortune. It appeared that since the supposed confession had been made the lady had tried to commit suicide, and had gone out of her mind and was now an inmate of Bethlehem Hospital. A suit in the Divorce Court has been instituted by the plaintiff. The defendant denied having been guilty of adultery, declared that he had never used the words charged, anti that the witnesses called to prove the slander were strangers to him. The jury found for the defendant.
Blandford, Wimborne and Poole Telegram. — 1875-04-30 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

BLANDFORD.  DORSET COUNTY FRIENDLY SOCIETY. —The second anneal meeting of the Blandford branch of this society was held in the Infant Schoolroom on Tuesday evening. There are 64 members in this young branch, and the balance sheet shows well in their favour.  •--giii-aiwz-z-Aii-I14&;t-nfas held at Mr. Burfitt's, the Railway Hotel, on .Monday, before Mr. W. H. Atkinson, coroner, on the body of John Henry Marshall, stonemason, of Blandford, who committed suicide, by taking poison, on the Saturday previous. Mr. Charles Botting was chosen foreman of the jury. Mr. Charles Ingrain, • kI.R.C.S., of Blandford, deposed: I have known the deceased for many years and have attended him from time to time professionally. On Saturday last, about half-past four in the afternoon, I was sent for to see him. I went and found him lying on the floor violently sick, and in an agony of pain. I asked* him vldiat he bed done, he pointed to the bottle produced and said "I have taken that." I asked him what was in the bottle he replied "what is in the box in the brown bag." I gave him an emetic, he could scarcely speak, and was then in a dying state, I took the bottle and the powder home with me and analysed it, and found it to be an acetate commonly called sugar of lead ; it is a virulent poisbn. Deceased said, " I swallowed all that ;" which in my opinion would be about five ounces of fluid containing I should think half an ounce of sugar of lead at the least—half a dram would cause death. I gave him the usual antidote and visited him again two hours later. He had then just expired. I saw from the first the case was hopeless, as he was convulsed I have seen him many times previously. The last time was about six weeks ago ; lie then appeared to be in a very low, dejected state. I attended him some time ago, when he was thrown from his horse and fractured his skull. Under the excitement of drink, he . used to put himself into most uncontrollable paroxysms of rage, without any appareht cause. When I saw him on Saturday he was in such a dreadful state of pain he could hardly speak; he jerked the words between his vomiting but he was quite coherent. From the state of his mind for some time past I should never have been surprised to hear that he had committed suicide or murder, as he frequently threatened to do so. From what I have semi and heard of him I do not think at the time he took the poison mentioned he could have been in a right state of mind. Mr. Ingrain spoke most feelingly of the state of want and suffering which the wife and seven children of the deceased had endured in the most patient and uncomplaining manner, and expressed a wish that something might be recommended by the jury or coroner, to call the attention of the benevolent to their great and urgent necessities:—The coroner having summoned lip the evidence the jury returned a verdict of " Temporary Insanity." The jurymen and Mr. Ingrain kindly left their fees to the widow and children of deceased.  .
Blandford, Wimborne and Poole Telegram. — 1875-03-12 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

SPECTATOR.  It is stated that under the French code a doctor cannot inherit property left him by a deceased patient. The estimated number of women practising as midwives in England and Wales is between 10,000 and 12,000. The Very Rev. the Dean of Gloucester is seriously ill at Bournemouth. The Belfast Board of Guardians. by 14 votes against 5, have resolved to petition Parliment in favour of the Sunday Closing Bill. A ewe belonging to Mr. T. Palmer, Wheddon Cross, Cutcombe, has given birth to four fine lambs, but only two survive. An effort is being made to hold an agricultural show at Wells. Lord St. Leonards heads the subscription lizt with £3O. Notice has been issued from the education department for the provision of addition school accommodation for 174 children at Glastonbury. The Queen at Windsor Castle on Saturday gave private audience to the Patriarch of Antioch, who was presented by Dean Stanley. General Sir Hope Grant, G.C.8., whose great military distinction was won by brilliant services in China and India, died on Sunday night at the age of 67. Sir Arthur Helps, LUX, Clerk to the Privy Council, and author of "Friends in Council" and other well known works, died on Sunday night in the 50th year of his age. It appears from a parlimentary return, obtained by Mr. M`Laren that the total annualvalue from all sources of the livings of parish rninsters in Scotland is £291,187 ls. flid• Upavon Church, Wilts, is to be restored and re-pewed. The following are the tenders for the work :—Aldridge, £2,146' Beale, £1,978; Vallis, £1,875; Mailings, £1,740. Mr. John P. Seddon is architect. The Manchester Gttardian reports the suspension of Mr. W: H. Pridmore, corn merchant, of Birmingham, with liabilities estimated at .£30,000, chiefly due to Liverpool firms. Mr. Tillett, MP , for Norwich, issued an address of thanks. The result of the late election proves, he observes, that Norwich is a Liberal constituency, and that the brief period of Conservative reactioi . has cksed. Forty thousands persons attended the concluding meeting of Messrs. Moody and Sankey in Liverpool on Sunday. Their visit has cost 4,000, of which £4,000 has been sucscribed. At the Oxford assizes, Elizabeth Hughes was sentenced to five years' penal servitude, for uttering a will, purporting .to be that of her master, James Howard, of Hastings, in which a sum of £l5O was left to her, but which was proved to be forgery, An extraordinary double suicide is reported from Baume-les-Dames, in the Doubs. Two farmers, father and son, tied themselves firmly together by the legs, body, and neck, and then threw themselves into a canal, where they were, of course, drowned. This week a valuable cow of pure breed, and also a bull, belonging to Lord Penrhyn, have died at Penrhyn Home Farm, near Bangor. It is stated that the cow cost his lordship one thousand guineas and the bull three hundred, and both were superb animals. BIiINGING Goon
Blandford, Wimborne and Poole Telegram. — 1875-05-21 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

YETMINSTER.  ,DISTRESSING SUICIDE,- Mr. Henry Collins, .a respected yeoman of Winterhays Farm, aged 64 years, on Thursday morning shot himself in his own kitchen. The inquest was held by Mr. C. L. 0. Bartlett on Friday. Mary Guppy, a servant, said she last saw her master alive about eight o'clock the preceding morning, when he told her to clean his boots. He was sitting in a chair by the kitchen fire, and then sent witness to serve the peacocks. She did so, and just afterwards heard a scream. She returned to time kitchen aid found, her master dead—sitting in the chair where she had left him. He had been taking medicine from the doctor. Never heard deceased threaten to destroy himself. Saw him take his hat offend put it upon the table before she left. He was very palemuch paler than usual. The gun was usually kept hung over the kitchen tire place. There was no one else in the kitchen when she left. —Elizabeth Collins, widow of deceased, said her husband mine to the foot of the stairs about eight o'clock on Thursday morning and said the servant was cleaning his boots. He had previously brought some tea to witness' bedroom. He said he wanted half-acrown, wbiehThe took from witness' box, the key of which fitted a cupboard in the parlour where powder and shot were kept. For the past week she had watched deceased, who was at times depressed. The doctor had attended him for a fortnight, and told witness to watch him strictly. Soon afterwards witness heard the report of a gun from the direction of the kitchen She ran there and found deceased sitting in a chair. Witness said "Oh! my God, can't you speak to me ?" and put her hand on his head, and found it covered with blood. A gun was always kept in the kitchen. Deceased appeared in rather better spirits that morning. William Collins, son of deceased, and Mr. Turner, of Sherborne, surgeon, also gave evidenee, and the jury returned a verdict "That deceased shot himself whilst in a state of unsound mind."
Blandford, Wimborne and Poole Telegram. — 1875-09-17 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

ROILINTIC AND SENSATIONAL SUICIDE.—Dr. Wybrants. coroner, held an adjourned inquiry at tbe Choughs Hotel, Yeovil, on Thursday, touching the death of Mr. Henry Ttirberville, a gentleman of fortune, who committed suicide at the house named. The deceased, who was about 51 years of age, lived at Bradiford, near Barnstaple, but travelled a good deal. While staying at the Choughs Hotel, a few months ago, he was fascinated by a fair Yeovilian. He proposed, was accepted, and executed a will in her favour, leaving her about £19,000, and naming her father (who was the custodian of the document) sole executor. On the 17th ult. Mr. Turberville took about. a drachm and a half of cyanide of potassium, whilst ill m bed at the Choughs. A medical man who had been called in saw him almost immediately, and judging from I appearances that the deceased had taken poison, charged him so doing. He confessed it at once, and said he fully intended to commit suicide. When asked how he obtained the poison he declined to tell, but said he had carried it about with him for a considerable time. An inquest was mened on the 19th ult., when evidence was taken as to the defendant's eccentricities and illness. An adjournment was granted in order that a post-mortem examination might be made. When the jury met again, on Monday, the 30th ult., they were informed that the stomach of the deceased had been sent to London for analysis, and an adjournment until Thursday was agreed upon. The first witness called was Dr. Aldridge, of Yeovil, who described the deceased's symotoms and treatment. Professor Bernase, of St. Thomas's Hospital, London, produced a lengthy analysis of the stomach, anti gave it as his opinion that death did not result from the cyanide of potassium. Dr. Wills, of Crewkerne, gave an outline of the result of the post-mortem examination; and Mr. T. C. Maps, chemist, Yeovil, stated what medicines deceased had ordered at his shop. The verdict of the jury, which was delivered at about ten at night, was—" That death resulted from deceased having, Nthile in an unsound state of mind, taken cyanide of potassium, thereby increasing previous exhaustion, which resulted:in death." Deceased is a brother of Mr. R. D. Blackruore, author of "Lorna Doone ;" but changed his name in consequence of family  nnpleasantnesses.
Blandford, Wimborne and Poole Telegram. — 1875-09-03 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

FENDER.  Elizabeth Knorrlex, a tramp, was brought up for assaulting Eliza Holland, and also for attempting to commit suicide. P.C. Barrett last night found prisoner in the water about 30 feet from the Quay nearly opposite the Nelson ; she was lying down on her back, with her hands over her head, and would have been drowned had he not taken her up. He took her to the station. and afterwards received information that Mrs Holland had been assaulted with a fender; he went and found her with two wounds on her head, and covered wfth blood. The fender was produced; it was a common iromplate fender, about 4ft. long. Mr Cornelius Agrippa Colmer, medical practitioner, was sent for about a quarter past one this morning, to see Mrs Holland. When he arrived, his assistant, Robert Slade Colmer, bad stopped the hemmortiage, and the wounds were dressed. He had since dressed the wounds and found one about an inchand-a-half long, to the depth of the skull, and there was a rough surface and dent on the skull, where the Wound was. The skull WU laid bare with a clean cut, such as would have beers caused by the fender produced. There was also a wound on the right orbit, on the supereiliary ridge of the frontal bone. This hail three cuts, like a star, the cuts varying from a quarter of an inch to an inch long. The woman was now in a comatose state from the effects of the blow, and not fit to be moved. There was danger of erysipelas supervening, and he could not pronounce her out of danger. Prisoner said she had had a few words with her husband all day, and did not mean to hit Mrs Holland. Mr Colmer said the woman would not be fit to come for a week. Mr Vickery asked for a remand for seven days, and also for a summons for a witness, who saw the assault, and who had gone on the road to avoid giving evidence. Granted.