The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1876-09-19 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE. The eldest son of Professor Roggradwao promising of 18, and captain of Westminster I, hangedneti on the 11th instant at Oxford. At the coroner's inn tion, which took place on Wednesday, it appeamd the evidence that the deceased played cncket mirtj; Monday, and cards at night, retiring to bed earl,. tn. brother, finding he did not come to breakfast Oil F. Tuesday morning, knocked at his bed-room doooreal receiving no reply, the door was with difficulty when the deceased was found suspended from a hoo• leather belt and • leather strap, the former being II: round his neck and fastened by a noose, his feet the grornd and his knees being bent The lad beltukt the same day to a schoolmaster named J. A. Turner, of the vicar of Deddiagton, who at tbe inquest said heki en not aware of anything which was likely to have inch,* his friend to destroy himself. Mr. Symonds, s4mo,. testified that the deceased looked delicate on Moody and Professor Rogers housekeeper said that the deaf"( mwalind.verLThehairproleanevdidhadetece ntoailedt anytotheihngowilhetreuetighblett cause for the commission of the sad act.  THE THRUSH 13HUTALFrIES. Sir Henry Elliot has telearaphed to the Foreign (4, that, on the mtrength of the report of the commissiorn sent by the Turkish Government to inquire into the excesses committed in Bulgaria, orders have bre issued for the arrest of the principal leaden of the Rain Bazooka, who will be brought to trial at once. The Governor of Adrianople, he further states, has been mimed Irmo his post Strong remonstrances made by se, Arnold Kimbell, the BriUsh officer attached Is she Turkish head-quarters, have been vimorously summed be Sir Henry Elliot, and orders of the most stringent tin} have at once been sent to the Coiumanderin.Chief of the Turkish forces in Sent.. Reports received from the interior state that since the beginning of the war the Beahi-Basoulcs hallaged eag destroyed about 00 villages in the distrire piA Piot. more than than 30 in the province of Sofia 44 v The deetructi',,,,---, villages in the neighbourhood at Primp announced by the Austrian Consul at that Colonel Horvatorich has addressed a reportlo d Tchernareff, of which the follosoir no esti-3,19"rd August Mo, the whole town of .....; Oa fire, and out of 50 houses there is rarer.7l:4l nan not been burnt or destroyed. The awe rarer • most desolate aspect; the church has been beret don. and even the bells have been broken up. The Turks ereg with their rifles at the root of the church and the= It contained, and all that the hand of ran could • was actively and ruthlessly destroyed . Corpses herr been thrown into wells wherever there was water. A &Titian officer was found tied to. tree powder magazine and at the side of. corpse. Aare., dy was found with the legs flayed, and the bed., of citizen bore marks of a long martyrdom. Death ',,t case had been inflicted by mow s/a red kat irea. v... other citlmens of Kniagevatz named in the re oort-,;,74 found killed after having suffered • martyr dom. The infection caused by the dead bodies was w, great that Colonel Horvatovich did not venture to deter n to 11)051 in the town a moment, He took measures to ind,WZ citizens who had returned to proceed thr ~ne. tin ton and its environs, and with the aid of • 1 nttelion to h„,y the deed . The bad odour arising from t'ee of the dead may be perceived at • due,ance two radii from the town; there are myriad s of flies in the environs of Entagevata, showing ttiat there meet re great number or corpse' in en advanced step g decompeeition. It is impossible Si. trace the lines of the houses burnt down, the tress whin a surrounded them rei withered, and the neighbouring country presents a most lamentable aspect"