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The Poole Telegram. — 1881-12-23 (Poole, Dorset, England)

ATTEMPTED MURDER AND SUICIDE.  Just before midnight on Batnrday, a young man, named Charles Henry Wilson, aged nineteen, attempted to murder his sweetheart, Mary Jane Firth, in a houge in ll,ook-street, Jekniter. Wilson, it seems, returned that night from Nottingham. and called at the house of a man named Hubbard, in Brook-street. where he met his sweetheart Firth. The girl declined to go with Wilson or to have him any more fora sweetheart. alleging that he was /am and would not work, and waeno good. Mrs. Hubbard left the house for a short time, and on her return she found the young woman F+,s+h crying, in explanation of which she said that ;1 Non had threatened her with &knife. Wileon then mend. "Will you go home with ma?" to which Firth replied "No, not while you have got that knife." He denial having a knife, and Mrs. Hubbard informed him that she would not have' him in her house if he behaved like that. Just then Mrs. Hubbard'a husband came horn-, and he lad no sooner passed into the backyard than Wilson drew a very large butcher's knife and attacked the girl Pith. In a moment the big knife was plunged deep into her neck, and two terrible st4w, four inches in length and very deep, were given on her shoulders. The girl and Mrs Hubbard screamed, but the lifter had a babe in her arms and was powerless. Her husband rnshed in, and Mr. and Mrs. Hubbard seized Wilson by the hands and a terrible struggle ensued. Wilson plunged the knife into the poor girl's side and inflioted another severe wound on the back of her head, Mr. and Mrs. Hubbard being unable to hold him, as he was a very powerful man. Hubbard and his wife, however, behaved very bravely, and, nothwithdanding that they both had their finger+ badly cut by the big knife, which had been made very sharp, they at laid succeeded in holding Wilson's hands while the girl Frith, streaming with blood, ran into the street. Assistance was soon rendered her, and she was taken to the Infirmary. It was then found that five very dangerous wounds had been inflicted, all of them bleeding very prnfusely. As soon SR the young woman moped, Hubbard got the big butcher's knife out of Wilson's hand, and then ran for aa-istance. No sooner had this been done than Wilson seized a table knife which was lying on a loaf of bread, and commenced an attack on his own throat. He inflicted a terrible wound, and was hacking away at his throat when he fell on the floor. He was seized. and owing to the lose of blood wee easily overpowered and the knife taken out of his hand. A doctor was called, but the man was in such a critical condition that lie was at once removed to the infirmary. The affair has gauged great excitement in the town. The young woman bean a very good character, but the man is said to be an idle, worthless fellow. It is how+, ever, very doubtful if Wilson will recover.
The Poole Telegram. — 1881-09-23 (Poole, Dorset, England)

FAIR TRADE.  Exchange is no robbery,.biTas; it may be no compliment. In a recent Exchange and Mart we read t " Wanted, some mushrooms, cheap. Cash, or exchange for Luly.v Cool, certainly! At how many mushrooms'worth (ides the advertiser appraise the lady? The fungi are to be "cheat,;" but obviously the fair one can't be very "dear." What is her relationship? Is she a sister, is she a mother, is she a dearer one?—no, not if she is to be parted with as the equivalent of the cash for mushroo.ns. We are afraid it must be some poor married woman; but what would the ordinary husband say if a mushroom-man approached him with "Your money or y,lllr  [From Referee.]  A SHOUT spell of fine weather has -found the inhabitants of thi se islands at coviderable disadvantage. Just when everyo us bad been driven home by two months of rain and cold—j 'lst when the coal-cellars were being filled, fires lighted, and overcoats and sealskin mantles ordered for the winter—out burst the sun in a most trying and impertim ut manner, and thousands of heads were thrust from thouainds of windows, when thousands of voices exclaimed, "Good gracious ! it's a fine day." There could have been no more unusual expression of astonishment if Londoners had seen a decent carriage plying for hire in the streets, or a seat placed in any of the principal thoroughfares of the West-end for tired pedestrians to sit on. I ast anxiously waiting for "Lady Audley's Secret,' edited by the ghost of Sir Walter Scott, and reduced to a pennyworth. Perhaps Sir Walter would improve on Miss Itraddon, and give us a farthing edition of the famous novel. "The Penny Scott" is not a bad title, but " Tf, e Farthing Braddon " would be a better. Dickens is being pulped in the same way. Little boys who play larks with the bones they find in old cemeteries are mild misdemeanants compared with the authors and authoresses of repute who mangled the famous works of our mighty dead. If the age is too frivolous or too ignorant to accept Scott and Dickens in their original form, the sooner the big day in November comes the better. "The Penny Bible" by the Archbishop of Canterbury is anxiously expected, and "The Penny Shakespeare" may be awaited with confidence. Iraisriatrr and novelty are always keenly relished by the English people, and the late Mr. John Sutton, of Runcorn, will be thought none the worse of as a suicide because he made his final exit in a cleverly-conceived situation, and ivith highly original effects. The gentleman, who by calling was a blacksmith, being desirous of laying down his hammer and exchanging his leather apron for the robes of immortality, filled his mouth with gunpowder, applied a lighted match to the contents, and, in the words st tno mangy laureate. "at mut his bend." •  ',
The Poole Telegram. — 1881-05-13 (Poole, Dorset, England)

DISTRESSING SUICIDE.  On Saturday afternoon an inquiry was held at Isle. worth, relative to the death of Eliza Boyce, aged 20. whose dead body was picked out of the canal, near Brentford Bridge on Thursday. Johanna Boyce, a widow, identified the deceased as her daughter, and stated that she was a domestic servant. The coroner read the following letter (in the deceased's handwriting), dated Clarendon-house, Brentford, where the deceased VIIttI in service "My dearest William—l write to you the very last words from me. Before two hours from this I shall be dead. You have often vowed and declared to be true to me. You promised me marriage before six months Now you have mined me in my young life ; but you shall never m. r, y another. Happy are those who n. ver had anything to do with such a wicked man. I w,sh my mother knew what you were. Her curses will be down on your head, for you have caused mc to leave this word. Are yt u sorry, or are you glad? I hope God will pardon your sins. What wdl my brother and mother say t If I could see my clEssr mother, I could die happy. You are in nay 'ast thoughts, William. How could you deceive me! I am going to join my father in Heaven. Farewell till death.—Yours, with love, ELIZA Boyce." The coroner also read a letter s'gned "William Dooty," in which the writer had expressed his intention of not marrying the deceased. 'William Dooty, gardener, Was called at the request of the jury. He said he wrote the letter signed 17 hint, and posted it to the deceased on Wednesday night. The coroner also read from a slip of paper, in the deceased's writing, "Tell my mother to give something to the priest to say mass for me." The jury returned a verdict of suicide while of unsound mind.
The Poole Telegram. — 1881-04-08 (Poole, Dorset, England)

SUICIDE OF A CONGREGATIONAL MINISTE.R.  On Friday an inquest Was held at Witham, Essex, on the body of the Rev. J. L. Collins, 38, Congregational Minister at Pinching&ld, near Braintree, who was found drowned in the River Blackwater, at Witham, on Thursday. The principal witness was the Rev. B. W. Saunders, Congregational Minister at Wethersfield. He deposed that on Friday, the 18th March, the deceased told him he feared some people were trying to injure him in his ministerial work. He thought somebody had set the children in the day-school to watch him and the governess. Re assured witness there was no ground for the suspicions which ha thought were entertained with regard to him. He appeared to be in great distress and cried. On the following Monday he said someone had sent him one of the almanacs issued by the Inman Company, and he thought it was a hint that he ought to leave Pinchingfield and go to America. He slept at witness's house that night, and a doctor was called in to see him. On the following morning he left for Ipswich. The deceased had received many anonymous letters, which more or less upset him. The letters were pro-. duced and read. They expressed hatred towards the deceased, and said he had no friend in the parish except the schoolmistress, who "was proud and equally hated." They also advised him to leave the place. Mr. Saunders, continuing his evidence, said the schoolmistress had confessed that she had herself written these letters.—A deacon of the deceased's chapel, who was present, said the evident object of the woman WAS to drive the deceased into her arms.—Mr. Saunders said the deceased said he was uneasy in consequence of these anonymous letters, and in consequence of troubles at home. He was under the impression also that a policeman was coming after him.—Further evidence showed that the deceased left Ipswich for Witham on Saturday week. He had probably been in the water since then, never having been seen subsequently.—The Coroner and the jury characterised the letters which had been addressed to the deceased as iniquitous. A verdict of "Suicide while of unsound mind" was returned. It WAS stated that Mr. Collins's mother died insane.
The Poole Telegram. — 1881-04-01 (Poole, Dorset, England)

SURRENDER OF POTCHEFST.ROOM.  (Telegram from Sir E. Wood, 28th of March, Fort Amid!) Winsloe (commanding officer) surrendered Potchefstroom on the 21st, before my mule waggons, which left Mount Prospect the 7th, had traversed the distance-200 miles. Terms all honours of war, retaining private weapons and property; guns and riffles surrendered, but ammunition for both to be handed to Brand for custody during the war, after to be returned to us. Garrison not to serve during the hostilities at present existing. Garrison now marching, via Kronstadt, on Natal."  A sad affair hes just occurred at Dundee. A Mm. Menzies was a,,lsed by a neighbour to take charge of the key of her house during her absence in England, and on the latter's return a sum of money was missed from the dwelling. Mrs. Menzies was accused of knowing something of the theft, and being in a delicate state of health took the matter so much to heart that she died. The body of her husband has been found in the Tay, and he is Supposed to have committed suicide. Owing to the ravages of the phylloxera, Franco has now become rather a wine-importing ceuntry thah a wine-exporting country. She finds within her own territory a Sufficient market for cheap wines, and has lost all induce. bent to barter with this country on the basis of low Customs tariffs. The consumption of claret in England as pomr ?ri with the consumptson in France one two. -that' • •  hundredth ; that is to Pay, . at for every bottle of claret drunk in England, 200 are consumed in Fiance!. The _ the Exchequer short, • the  line,— in -eon fo-u-n-irthat t. • ut er reduction of tariff for cheap. wine no The Shop et 18, HIGH EAST • STET, will b be continued as heretofore. longer a bribe to France.
The Poole Telegram. — 1881-04-29 (Poole, Dorset, England)

AMERICA PRIS'ON TRAGEDY.  The New York Herald gives particulars of a tragedy enacted within the gloomy precints of the Eastern Penitentiary in Philadelphia, an establishment commemorated by Dickens in his "American Notes." John M'Bride, a man of 19 years, under two years' imprisonment for aggravated assault, and John Pfeiffer, aged 23, an habitual thief, serving is period of three years and six months for burglary, had occupied the same cell for about a month. The overseer, upon making his rounds at seven a.m., found both men dead. The body of M'l3ride was lying stretched on the floor, with arms extended, and his protruding tongue and contorted features gave indi, ation that he had met a violent death. Around his neck was tied a piece of the bed sheet and half a yard of thin twine which had sunk deep into the flesh. His body was covered by bruises, evidently inflicted with the heel of a boot. Pf, lifer hung limp, in a semi-kneeling posture. from the gas bracket. A noose had been made by tightly twisting the selvage of the sheet. Pfeiffer' body also bore many marks of rough treatment and there was a deep gash on his right wrist. At first the Warden of the prison and the officers declared they could form no theory to account for the occurrence, whether it was a double suicide, or, if one man was murdered, who was the murderer; but the post. mortem examination showed convincingly that M'Bride was the murdered man. The coroner's jury found as their verdict that M'Brble died by suffocation at the hands of Pfeiffer, and the latter died by his own hand, No motive can be assigned for the occurrence, for the two men seemed always to be on good terms. The strangest circumstance is that such deeds could be perpetrated WithouCthe cognizance of the overseers, two of whom patrolled the corrido in which the cell was situated during the night ; and yet it was; evident that a terrible struggle must have taken plaek before APBride was mastered by his murderer. On a slate in the cell there was found scrawled in almos.t. illegible characters, 'This is the third man I have killed." But there was no evidence as to whose was the handwriting, although alternative conjecture was scarcely poriffie,  tt IC' r 1? 11.1  ADI WA We to • we 3.1 s  Bwtf ah „al!
The Poole Telegram. — 1881-01-28 (Poole, Dorset, England)

SUPPOSED ROMANTIC SUICIDE. el by precedent, and -dere of the day be _..-0-____ endment. On Sunday night another discovery of clothes was ma's is of the Prime upon the Clifton Suepettsiorebridge. and the surrounding , circumstance., tegother with the tensor of a letter fount ent, with the appArel. give ries to the suspicion that a suicide has been committed. Abut nine o'clock in the evening 1 two servant girls, in the service of Mr. Drake, of Everleigh House, Leigh-weids, west to the toll-keeper, named ~,,,,,bei.,, Birman, and told him that they had picked up some g with female wearing apparel on the bridge. The article, DOM; primal a light hat, trimmed with tulle, a black kid glove, ~md • small Re.arlet aced, and also a cony of Byron's poetical me works. P.C. Carpenter (C 10), whilst on duty in Royce'savenue, was told by a gentleman that Viet toll-keeper of . the bridge wanted a pelice-conatable, and he proceeded to the spot, lie was then informed of what had occurred, and, in company with a Somersetahire constable, named ',ridge, made a search of the hanks of the river, but could A find any trace that would reed them tt think that a Pde had taken place The clothing was taken to the on Polioe-station, where it now remains. Oa looking book of Dooms it was seen that p4g,t 515 was turned ,m 1 on it was a very path.tm poem. entitled "When sated.' The first verse runs as follows:When we two parted In silence and tears, Half broken-hearted, To sever for years, le grew thy cheek, and cold, 'older thy kiss\\ . that hour foretold nw to this. , sum poem is • follows ;e not I knew thee, w thee too well'a'l I rue thee o tall. syr Year's cant, and also sn. ' and the following note vord "to" being written , "
The Poole Telegram. — 1881-09-09 (Poole, Dorset, England)

CERNE ABBAS.  ATTEMPTED SUICIDE AT FROME ST. QUINTON.  On Saturday, at the police-court, Eli ea Groves, wife of William Groves, master tailor, of Frome St. Quinton, was charged with attempting to commit suicide by poisoning herself with belladonna. From the huiband's evidence, it appeared that on the night of August 29th, about half-past ten, he was with his wife in their bedroom. She had arranged to visit some relatives in Somerset, and was going on the following morning. He remwke lit was not worth while for him to go as a fliebody would meet her on her arrival. She accused him of wanting to get rid of her, and immediately went downstairs in her night-dres.. Witness followed her and went into the sitting-room, and proceeded to light a lamp. In the meantime she had gone into the pantry, had poured Rome belladonna from a bottle into a elms., and drunk it. The belledonna had ben prescribed for him some time azo for a bad kg. She went back into the bedroom, and said " 1 have taken a class of that stuff; I shan't be here long ;" aorl han ling him some money she said, "You take these purses, they are yours, not mine." Dr Greenwood was at once soot for.—The doctor proved visiting Mrs. Groves and find• ing her suffering from narcotic poisoning. He used the usual restorative means, and after a day or two she recovered. She was always a dull and eccentric woman, but he was not led to sunp,se she was insane. —For the defence the Rev. F. Donglis How. rect ir of From° St. Quinton, sal I he had known Mrs. Groves for more than two years, and during that prriod he had frequently had conversation with her. He considered her to be of very weak mind. She was invariably depressed, and he was not surprised to hear she had attempted to commit sui ide.—The Bench, after whit the rev. gentlemin hol maid, did not feel disposed to commit her, and on her husband promising to take care of harsh° was discharged.
The Poole Telegram. — 1881-11-11 (Poole, Dorset, England)

BEOLD OAK. LAWLESSNESS AT THE SCENE OF THE  LATE SUICIDE.  Au attack was made on Saturday night last (sth inst.), on the premises of Mr. and Mrs. Henley, of Broadoak, in the parish ot Symondsbury, by a band of persons belonging to the immediate district. Our readers will remember our recent reports of the death of Henry John Spencer, who hanged himself at Broadoak, about a month since, under most painful circumstances. Since that time a general feeling of disrespect, not to say hatred, has been openly shown to Henley and his wife. Without warning, a mob of persons, numbering nearly a hundred, some of whom wore masks, or had their faces blackened, commenced an attack upon the premises. A couple of ignited effigies, iepresenting a man and woman, hoisted on long poles, were thrust beneath the thatch of the house, ostensibly with the design of burning the house down. Fortunately, however, for the premises, the thatch being literally soaked with the recent rains, resisted the fire. Finding they could not make a bonfire of the house, some of the band proceeded tu smash in every pane of glass on the premises, and to destroy the front door. In this they were successful, for the windows were smashed to atoms; the door unhinged and taken t a distance, where, what remained of it, was made into a bonfire. Henley, himself, seemingly half dead with terror, appearing upon the scene, was fired at nearly a score of times, but the weapon or weapons, being, no doubt, filled with blank cnarge, he fortunately sustained no hurt. Young Mrs. Spencer, wife of the late suicide, appearing at one of the windows, had a blank charge pass !Al near her (and the weapon must have been within short distance), that much of her hair was singed. The attack was kept up until the house was almost uninhabitable, for most of the rural constables being drafted for Bridport on Saturday night, and the intended " demonstration " being unknown to them, the mob had the matter wholly in their own hands for several hours. We are informed that early the same evening a number of persons, seated in a waggorr, with black faces, and carrying on poles faithful representations of a couple residing at Broadoak, wended their awtaey sfuroicinideS,iwSapYezasicher, 'whiievree,.theTfhaethwerinodf thwesuanrefortuonwprotected by boarding, and a watch is kept on the premises. Whatever the reasons for damage and assault, such a proceeding as this is certainly of the most lawless and disreputable character, and the offenders could hardly feel surprised were they called upon to answer for taking the law intot heir own PQW•r,
The Poole Telegram. — 1881-03-11 (Poole, Dorset, England)

WINDFALL FOR A LAD.—A lad, age 15, named George 'et., employed up to a few days ago as a cash-boy at in Sheffield, has just succeeded to a legacy of . The money has been left him by his uncle, Mr. , Fletcher, who was in the leather trade at WakeThe testotor, who seems to have never taken any of his nephew during his life, has also left the lad's ir £1 par week. attempt of Nobel's Explosives Company to obtain mai of their nitro-glycerine inatent has been unsucful. The company has been dividing 50 per cent. per tuna for some time price and have already realised 1,000 on a capital of £15.000, whilst their good-will is to be worth £150,000 more. There will be great cing its mining circles at the destruction of the ipoly. sot mitt the officers of the Fishmongers Company id at Billingsgate Market Hi tons of fish as unfit for lan food. All of it had arrived by land. The fish ibered 2,995, and included 4 cod, 460 haddocks, 500 ings, 51 lobsters, WO plaice, 59 unclean salmon, and I whiting, and, on addition, 11 ba,Ts of coekles, 6 bags suscles, aurl 1 of periwinkles, a barrel of salt cod, 66 els ot oysters, and 40 of sprats, 2 boxes and 2516 of and 44 beakete of smelt., and 2 of sprats. Wesleyan minister, noised Gornall, has committed Ade at Gr-at Eccleston. new. Preston. Deceased was stoned er Pontypridd. South Wales, and was on a visit Great Eecleeton. For some time he had appeared iatly depressed, and said an engagement had been ikon off between him and a young lady. On Sunday ming, Father Wells, Roman Cotholic priest, saw a hat, it, and stick lying on the bank of a pond, and subtleIdly the body, identified as that of Mr. Gorman. was 1. Verdict, "Suicide whilst temporarily insane."  p2oole'  fetcher,  10.000,  George  no—acer  mother  -The  renel  Iman  found.