The Blandford and Wimbourne Telegram. — 1881-08-19 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

SAD CASE OF SUICIDE. At the King's Arms Hotel, Kew, on Saturday last, Mr. Russell, deputy-coroner for Mid-Surrey, held an inquest on the body of Henry Horsley, a compositor, aged 53, of 17, York-street, London-road, Southwark, who committed suicide by drowning himself in the river Thames, on the previous Wednesday. The body was identified by Mary Horsley, wife of the deceased, who stated that he had been out of work for some time past. He left home on Monday rronang for the purpose of obtaining a situation at Hammersmith, and on Tuesday she received two letters from him. The first, dated " Hammersmith, Monday, 2 p.m.," stated :—" I have one particular and ms'i earnest request to make, and only one, that is, that you will never again let any thought once troiible you. To relieve my heart I may scribble a few lines t) you betwixt this and to-night." The second letter was dite 1 "Mortlake, 7 p.m ," and was as follows: " In bidding you ' good-bye ' for ever I will only BY I fervently trust the sel-sacrifice I am about to make will prove to be conducive to our hal.piness and that of our dear children. I go, and I hope leave CO . . . I ask forgiveness of all whom I maY have injured in thought, word, or deed. Let the parish where the body turns up bury it. With bis last farewell poor Hairy blesses you 5111. gener dealer, named Jackson, havii.g depised to finding the body in the river at Kew, the jury returned a verdict of "Temporary Itisauity." al  SHOCKING ATTEMPT TO MURDER AT STRATFORD,-0a Mouday eight, killi tly before nine, a deliberate attempt at murder was made at a Louse situate at No. 2, Mary'6' buildings, Chapol-steeet, S:i afford, the victim being a Yam g n °min named Euma S iti:ii. For some time Pat Sabin Las lion living at tie Louse with a man Rattled Thomas Creak, who was Vol y j, Mous of her Wilting oth.r men, an 1 had been fr emntly heard to declare . he would "do for " her and himselt too. Shortly before, nine o'ciock Cri.sk came la.ane in a had temper. Se Me, S.,b;n in the pai.sage, and reproached her, and the% catch ng hi rby the hair with one hand, nith the other he die ,a a hilite from his ccleat and cut lax throat from ear to ear. She screamed and fell on the floor. Cask i!1 the meantime ran off an 1 gct clear away. D. Kennedy t! assiatant attt,ude 1 and ilimsed V e wourul, a serioua 1 it'inre. Crad: i.. :it p.tat sof fig.', sft. On ill height, with dark brown h it and whiakers, and was dressed in a black coat, dark blue v, st, and cord trousers., all of which are bUTIPCIPI'd to be more or less stained wit? blood. He had round his neck a small plaid scarf. Eels well known in the district, and the police have obtainea his photigraph. He is said to have been Been the weise for drink. and to have told a man he was going hem° to. do a small job. The unfortimate 3 ourg we man is reportea to be inn critical ccriclitivo. which W 55 oi  ~...."'  , you Lei itr Yu, q: "IA  I, llow lad yolllo, tempered el Give nte a 11  oiToLD her softly, t A PiPe'B„g° ' lit lip. WasN Lake Ca')', real 10 101 l  A 1 little 1 Mrs, Whits know  Sect to Fri d'y'dr Tou 1 "Vex  on.l to I  -.eft  t... 1,_.. ui  nut. ivate A ger, Lord  being ime Pea n limed raking to ilare that ly before on met Ind then, the other oat frePl Creek 11.1 :meetly e ii wee pf ft. 6.n• 10 and eree trousers ned rf ne II Obtlinea the woo ; hello to is rePeried