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Blandford, Wimborne and Poole Telegram. — 1877-07-13 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

SAD DEAT 11 OF A LADY. About half-past ten o'cleck on Sunday morning a young man named Edward James Parsons, gave information at the police-station that he had discovered the body of a female in the Stour at Julian's Bridge, Whole rue. P.C. Stone proceeded to the spot, and, with assistance, got the body out of the river. The body had apparently been in the water about a hour or a hour and a-half, and life was, of course, quite extinct. The body of deceased, who was well dressed, was taken to the Three Lion's Inn, where it was identified the same afternoon as that of Miss Mary Ann Stocker, a lady 43 years of age, who had been staying with Mr. Henry John Whirling, of acrfe Lodge, Corfe Mullen, about two miles from Wimborne. Deceased was a daughter of the late Colonel Stocker. IL E., c cf. Titchfield, Hants, and sister to Major Stocker, R.A., who is now at Gibraltar. Mr. T. Rawlins, the coroner for the district, held an inquest on the body at the Three Lions Inn, on Monday evening. The jury, which was an unusu dly respectable one, chose Mr. 'l'. Laing ice their foreman. The principal witness was Mr. Whitling, who said deceasccl had lived at his house, except at intervals, for the last three years. She appeared to be perfectly right in her mind, and he could not in any way account fur her committing suicide. Deceased was generally very cheerful, and she had been in the habit of going about alone a great deal, visiting poor people, &c. She was of a strong religious mind, and very fend of the services at the Wimborne Minster, where she occasionally attended. He saw deceased pass his window about half-past seven o'clock on Sunday morning, as he was dressing, and on his nodding to her she nodded in return. Deceased was about earlier thorn either his wife or himself that morning. Ile did not feel alarmed when deceased did not return to breakfast, and he drove to Wimborne and attended the morning service at the Minster. He was alarmed to find when he got lolne that deceased had 110 t returned. There was not the slightest foundation for the rumour that deceased attempted to drown herself about three weeks ago at Cerfe. Mr. S ... . Parkinson, surgeon, of NVimberne, said there were no external marks of violence on the hotly, which had every appearance of death from drewning.--The Coroner having summed up the jury consulted together for some time, and returned an open verdict of " Found drownetL"  The suspension is announced of Mr. John Oldroyd, of Fixby Park, Huddersfield, and Britannia Milk Dewsbury, carpet manufacturer, with liabilities amounting to from 4.:270,0041 to X:>0,000. Mr. De Tuurville, the (naturalised) English barrister charged with the murder of his wife in the Tyrol under well-known cir.mmstances, positing her over a precipice, has been found guilty of the cri moe by the Austrian court at Botzen, and his been sentenced to kath. An appeal against the convietlon, however, has been lodged, and a fresh trial will take place. "
Blandford, Wimborne and Poole Telegram. — 1878-07-26 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

BROADXATNIC.  SUICIDE OF A LABOURING MAN —E irly on Friday morning last this quiet village was enonowh it excited by the report that Jomcs Cross, an old innabitant, had hung h mseL`. This turned out to be true. It se. ms that tho poor f Mow who leaves a wife and seven or eignt children, was aboct 60 years ci av, and had near y lust his s g it. In consequence, he was not able to do a day's wont like another man. He had been employed by Mr. White, of Wet Knighton, for some time past, of whom he hal frequently spoke as a kind and g morons in ster, who had paid him according to his work, tai., his earnings were small, and hivit.g severol lmu, unable to woilt aid house-rent to pay was lut feel y off. Ile had been assisted by the parish hr some time oast to the ext sut of his h .ute-reut, and it seems he was u vier orders to appear at the Board if Go LI-liens at Dec ue t -r, to ink i good his d.dm for this em .11 weekly oil twanee, aud it is alleged t tat .1. c ,ased was tidier the ameehen • fin that h s woul 1 be bullied by some of the poor liw offi ids, a liecher t is preyed on his mind and procuc .1 temp .rary insanity is not exactly known, but one t .11,g • certain. he had to appear bet ore ths Board, and ou F if .y la ths gt up about five o'cl .ck as u-uil. and we. t t, th tu his wife g stting up short y f.,!ward. , and nit finding him in the houie webt to ths eh sl and .here ftzod hr husband suspended to a beam by a ,ma owl. Her scream; soon broug'.t assistance. D i i Valsncte aid George H uoper were tie firit on ht Iris ful Sc no, Valence cut im down, but!! is ii as extinct. lh Coroner was coniumsde sted, ash] all insm Ist, was huld the snm evening at th sßak Dog Inn, neture Mr. U. Lock, ant a respect sble ju y, ot which Mr. G. B iwrunr aat fun mai, eh', a tsr h -suing :tia evil. nc_i I th s finding • f hs holy and the as ife's statement of It. strange manner if lite, retu-ned avt r iict if tem:tot...27 insanity. The jui y kindly gave their fees to the widos.
Blandford, Wimborne and Poole Telegram. — 1878-09-13 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

OVERBOARD.—On Wednesday, before Ve Mayor, James Howard, cinnmenly kulown as "Chattel Ho•vard." a very poor old man, ht. trent 'dud all over, tees brought up tur ;do, mpting to commit suicide by jumpiug into the harlamr.— Henry WIIZAT last between ,even suit eight, van ou the bridge, when he saw Howarul st u115n4 there abeut ten minutes, and then he waked Sin/moues if he'd h tie a glass of beer, to which Sinn:melds replied h.: di11.% mind if he did ; hut they ,lilut is-ins One, SLion•eids walked towards the Bridge Inn, and planer wi •.t towards the middle of the bridge and add. "I'm isff." Ha put his leg over the iron rail then got his other g over. Witness; thoueht he Was O get doe uuu the stotie pier f the bridee, where tht y stand to fish, and did uot do ain thing to stop him ; defendants left hand slipped and he fell trim the centre arch of the bridge into uhit water, the tile running strung at the Hine. Defendant was drunk, and did it wilfully. Witness cued "rums-re is a inn overheard !" and got a boat.—Mr. Dr nit, veterinau y surgeon, was wicking up the bridge id 20 uiiust,t -s past seven teal saw a Mita Jump over, and ehor 1, Icier hearing a cry looked at the water and saw min fl s sting wit i tat tide without any eff.urt t i St-tie himself. In a seort time he would have gone under and been lost; huts beet wa-s put out, and he wes saved just as he was sinking. Tee t de running so strongly kept him up, and all cif ell tuSta sicea bayou i rut hie escape.—H nry To eill and James W ulkins bete prisoner hi atiug through the bridge, and went after him Wit a boat; prisoner was making no ellen t so save himseit, hu tli y rescued him and hrcnit.: ht hint ashere ; he in ale no effort to save him )I.' —P.C. B trelett brought pi isuniur to the station, when the S iperintendeilt gave him iirders to find ont who saw him jump over. Peisoner, hearing Vile, said "There was nu tme s.iul that saw ; I was w itching, ny oppirtunity, anti I th 'ugh t I'd go, oat of the way." He ma, very excited.— Prisumer pleailed gu I. y ot ate-emoting Ina own life.— He was cuunntitted to ille SeSSIOTIS for t.ial.--the mu n who sate-I' Lint were commended by time Mat or, who Dniered they should receive 5. each. A
Blandford, Wimborne and Poole Telegram. — 1878-03-15 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

SUICIDE RT. A WOMAN—An inquest was held in the Council thiatillier on We i.e-slav ternoon, etore Mr. G. B. Aldri ige, tel i jv of which Mr. T. Winter was chosen fore-owl, on the body of Martha Ann Weeks, a widow, in ho kept a small shop in Market-street, an who committed suicide ti it morning'. its first witness was dec.asseirs daughter, Martha Ann Weeks, who :Laid her moth .r was 65 years ~f age. She Was in the habit ot sleeping with her mother, and they went to bed about quarter-p sst 10 o'clocis I tst night. Deceas•al tot up about seven o'clock that morning Sethi went iuto the garret in her night-dre-s. Sae got up st, ay. eight o'clock, and went down,tairs, litre she remained almit five minute-. On returnitig up-lairs she found her mother ha ..I nut come down front the garret. She dressed herself and went to the gams, where 'eat saw a night dress hanging in tic corner. Fea-drig a!armed she called Mrs. Grail% a neighbour her in it her sestuel very depressed yesterday. but she had nevei ilear.l her .-tse sk of committing auicih —Eliza Grant salt she s caded by the last wituesabout 20 'Moms, pit. sLut Mat morning, anti found the deceased hanging from a bar in her garret. S ,e saw h r taken down and salt for a doctor, woo pronounced hi (lead. Late 'y deceased had tEssa low and desponding She saw ii 1. yesterday afternoini, and on her enquiring after her he situ] tit, said site was very low aud very utild aocl remarked how wicked she was. Deemed had had  lotr . -E twit' Henry Atimion, a saddler, •pa,w t. • .14, .vouess, spoke to acconipanying his .•lIIt t LQ girr-t tot iiiaisting in cutting down the 11 he ird deceased complain a few litlY4 &WO VI V vory bi im.iosss w 101. iirvi that she could not get ,••• money i.i. Sle seemed very low at tilues.—P.o It •cks, who 140!..,11{1.11113./ the last two witnesses ti the c.h.r.dior ,tiVe evidence. —The jury returned v,rdict of "&huoil by hangiug whilst In a state of temporary insanity.'
The Blandford and Wimbourne Telegram. — 1883-01-19 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

SAS.: litbear; Of may tottrit tetfi year would luilleattatec.ijdoS'and tender jeftiho se co! hC barrio Mootliend •DertniOnt, whers,ei-hiten tract Of asto °And bast" ready bennaecietieed, stidistalt4viteil by prima labouiC ) Geoerel Oellioson, faimilehorie report We fleriata tbit atatabeat ohaervesehattherep.re etas/ANide,rable quantities of mom and inoorlawd uncultiveted_ on neeennt of the,eapperferci fretelaborie fin ryclaindnieitl and that. if the Government Were to reclaim It al/ fig labonr they would no a&y ho naving-tha.counto, A poktion of the expepee of maintaining this priemers but be (Tennis(' ne• More laud hr the profitable emPlaYEatut of free Jaisinke.— Daily News. 1. • f Ito taNstaNr Save Yed6l/t00,7010 tettdell Of thO lotuteo and North-Weetern Railway Oramperiat" for the,..nvey, ance of mails between beredon auti'Xiogstowii 00 1)oblin after the let of October next Byathis they have tecureck us re•luation in the Cost. to the 1,41'10 for thisseoviee taf.; nearly £30,000 yea', and an acceleration *of service. Acceleretions of the postal tommtkeicatione between-England and Scotland awl South aValee, as well A. Meta/see4. facilities fur the exchange' of c.in'roes,oilunc li day between LISIISkIU end the prOeinees-generally, kr Er 41*i% , oyil temptation. Sun listienx Matt, Irk() receetly.:lllo, lysed for yekrii—citOte*.etertal-filakitiff• think,,„ Was, in leeti, an exeeptumallY eevere mita% and: bM*rtsteece has vii tally book inkt it Hai loath. Beinga 'very rick DIA howeVer, he Wag naterally.nirraed with thellreateat ..are. a large sunk—as much as £10,000.1-hisva been told -baying been annually. allowed to his sinter tbavek ieftpr him with all preisible attentiona—Paaareo. Clio/we Was positively Aoki it Tattersall int 680 giiibeee, and it is now rentetnhered of him that-when he won hie match with Pen-atre, the winner of Lisa Cambridgeshire, 10,000 guineas were offered for big), and refused. A AADDLIR name,' Clark, of Nectent Norfolk, 60 Saturday committed suicide lay cuttiog hie taroat., The same morning he had attempted to hanglitaseg find had been prevented from effectually doing se hyatits wife. The woman had . gone for asalettmetiltiteit tici• U 11441) eat Lie throat. g than a, 600 perso n I cluaing I,lfirati..lsu .pi rag children, have beert affected by tbe recent beefy. Istibereel in the South Wales and Mosirnouthshirti. hia-plito:tradffi The &strew' now existing ie very gre,at... e Metier .ii Eve, us Lorkilon and North-Western Traraz psakeauer guerE, living at Lir errlool, was fejereeleit att. withi3tititm on Sat-inlay while eight* din thenulitte lose-bet ferns a Pfeil,. Ile we, aahveyilef tO the anaaiaal stOrokee-aelkefe he died the tate. 0404. Pet:eased bat been inturteitals two, Knonthki
The Blandford and Wimbourne Telegram. — 1880-06-11 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

CFIINA'S DISI'VEN WITH RUSSIA.—CiMII4 now still remains under arrest, but his friends now bop, that he will obtain his release before long. Public feeling in Pekin is much quieter on the subject of the Russo. Chinese difficulty. It is reported that during the recent war preparations a quantity of the ammunition purchased did not fit the guns for which it was intended. At a council ineetin,g of the Central Chamber of Agriculture, on Tuesday, Mr. C. S. Road moved a resolution approving of the hares and rabbits bill, inasmuch as it secures to occupiers the power to protect their crops from loss by grain! gi1111,!. This, after some disctission, was carried unanimously. The Trial Stakes at Ascot were on Tuesday won by Ragman, the Gold Vase by Chippendale, the Ascot Stakes by Teviotdale, and the Triennial Stakes by .Tessie Agnes. The Prince of NVales's Stakes were won by Zealot, the Maiden Plate by Capuchin, and the Biennial Stakes by Sir Charles. The Liberal member fir Evesham has been unseated on petition, with costs for the petitioners.— The Conservatives have been more fortunate, the petitions against two of them having failed. In the Evesham case, the bribery through an agent ma considered and Mr. Ratcliff was personally acquitted. In the Harwich case it was declared the election was singularly pure, and the Dumbarton petition was withdrawn.  The struggle at Chicago is at an end. Thirty-six ballots were taken, hut the result appeared no nearer than at starting. General Grant held his ground, but made little or no progress. Blaine and Sherman were losing ground rapidly, and the chances of Edmunds, Washbourne, and Windom were hopeless, Mr. l;arfield., who was nominated about mid-day, obtained 0 votes on a first ballot: at a subsequent ballot 39:1 votes wtree given to him, against 304 for Grant. This was an absolute majority of the Convention, which then adopted him tinanhoonsly as its candidate. Dr. Hardwicke, the coroner for Central Middlesex, on Mooday opened an inquiry upon the remains of a woman found in a cellar to a house in Harley-street. Mr. Henriques, who had occupied the house many years, could not give the ~lightest clue to the mystery. Professor Pepper, of St. Mary's Hospital, said be had come to the conclusion that the body was that lof a woman, and measured 4 feet 10 inches. The age was certainly over thirty, perhaps over forty. The probable cause of death was a stab ju.st above the heart. There was a fracture of the spine, which was probably caused by pushing the body into the tub. Death could not have been front suicide. The woman had, he thought, been dead about two years. CHILDREN MURDERED fly
The Blandford and Wimbourne Telegram. — 1880-05-07 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

ATCEMPT AT SUICIDE. -- At the County Petty Sessions, Tuesday.— Bef re J. W. T. Fy er and W. M. Calcraft, Esqrs., Henry [linden, of Morden, was charged with attempted starcide.—Eliza Barnes said : I am a widow living at Mordent. The visoarr ha, hen my lodger for 20 years. (hiSaturday in.emi. ng the prisoner called me. I aoko.l him wit it he wa, tel. ll.n said I was to go to Mr. Stickle:la's for 2s. he owed him, and he. should not get up any in oro. I took him some tea, when ha said he had been trying to cult his thr.,3%. turned bode the clo'h an saw a m irk on h:s thr.,at. I sow a knife en the t..ble. it was is pocket knife. The knife produce' is the .ins I ic,w. Ta... 1 knife helomeel to the prisoner, an 1 it ottinl ho had done it with that knife. I took the lenfre away anul Won !i for the pelice. The prisoner has been drinki g lately. I heard prisoner ear leter. that he would c 'mink suicide,— George Rugby, Polk:, mot Ode, stationed at Monier), said: On Sstarrl or May Ist, about nine o'clock in the morning, tine last witness c rine to my house, and asked me if I w nil come an, to h-or {reuse as quick as I could. %Vireo I got there she asked me to ga n .stairs to Munden. I a5k,0,,1 her what w. 1.4 the motter, she told me that he inn. I been trying to cut his throat with a knife, and sho ntaee me the I< nife. I went upstairs and asked hi a what he ha r b en doing, he made no answer. I tsrned the bedclothes back and found he had a scrrvch on his neck, there was it little blond on the collar of his shirt. I told him be should get such thoughts out of his head; but he said he would do it yet. I then charge.' hint with attempting to commit suicide, and to de Inn into ca,to-ly. I took him to the station in the afternoon and gave him to the superintendent.—The prie.ruer was committed for trial at Quarter Sessions.
The Blandford and Wimbourne Telegram. — 1880-07-16 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

DORSET SIRMER ASSIZES.  CAmmission f r the Sommer •it the t,gh,t.v of Dorset NV:I,I 'tidy opened On Miirtility afters 11001;. the Judges beim; Lind Chief Justicii Ctleridge and Sir Robert Grove, appointed for this circuit At the S.W. Railway Stution there was the usnal gathering of county off-lett+, police, al sight -e. although the entry -.1 the representatives of law has so much t'e••tt.-t1 iIS to outward show. Lori eridge ar tvt ly ; jut Mr Justice Grove came iiittint ten ii lint pa iti four, anti rteeived the 11,1„, into W. R. It-till/es. Esq., Itch Sheriff (Kingston Ltiey), Mr. Tht-mits Rawlins, Sheriff ; Mr. It. B. R. R.iwlins, 71!.. inq und sh.•tiff I to. and Rev. Arthur 4; tvco'gt, • i toughs, hDit shertff's chaplain ; Mr. G. J. A to ir lunty clerk, thee Sun being att :tided by the posse mat ,tos, representeti in is es--e by at): -ot two ditzeu the e mity police, w- 1. marshalled by Sergeant Purdie, and led by a C ,ut D of trumpeters, who occasionally blew a fanfare. Having entered the High Sheriff's carriage with Mr. Hooke, ant the CtlePittios the Judge was driven with tine decorum and dignity to the County House, and in a few minutes Lord Coleridge made his appearance iii the Crown Court, where was also toresent the Governor of 1-1. M. Prison, Captain Frith, and the commission was opened, when the Judge. appointed 11. o'clock next day foe the courts to cointm-utte business. Mete are five II:VW-8 it he calendar, the iletendants in the Shafteshury lib, i ea,e, and defendants charged respectively with offiettstir -.thing, stealing slippers, and attempting suicide. The civil business is said to be lengthy, and amon4 the etses is that tif the Weymouth Backwater Bridge. 'Ube Judges' sermon W:4S preached at S. Peter's Citurt.l the same afts.t.n.ii in by the Sh• riff's Chaplain. Mr. Jo,tice Gros., aiteialed Divine s•otvicet at St. Peter's. where Wet is. the Mayor (Mr. W. Durdeti), AlittruhinJ•itin Council!, ire h.. Lock and it. Durtien, anti Mr. G. Symonds, town clerk. Toe Rev. \V. Powys read the praN era, and the Bishop's chaplain pre,ched from Exodus xii., 26 " What mean ye by this .iervice The sermon was re on. •gablv short, and the tailor of it was that by ciinit. t God's hinise before Cornmewing business in t Courts,- --First, we confess that we are not sutiigtetit, of ourselves, but that our euffic:ency is of Go-1 Sec tntlly, by the service we express our faith in Get tind give our httina4e to Him. In conclusion the t r a-ttter exhorted his listeners to "Go on in the path if duty in the mi,titt of your union with Christ, and aeciii iing to your fsith fie it done unto you."
The Blandford and Wimbourne Telegram. — 1880-01-02 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

SUICIDE OF A FARMER. . . .  An ingoest %VA.; hold on Friday It,'''''''''' Wybrant., curoner, on the body of George Jarvis, a farmer. aged 65 yeai,, living at Charlton A.!ain. The following evidence was taken :  S muted Hockey call: The deceased was my uncle, and I saw hitu atiout four maiiths aga. lie fell on my neck and kissed in; and said ho would never come to Exeter again. Ha was not tit to he left. and I did not consider him right in his mind the last 1i month,. The times were against him. and he coillii not pay his rent out of the crops. He said he would have to go to church fee 14. 6d and a loaf. _  mild:Low Pitinan I live at Charlton Adam, and knew the deceased, for whom I have worked. I saw him alive on last Tuesday evening, going into his house about lour o'clock. lin Wednesday. shout 10 o'clock, I was fetched. and found him in the chair with his throat cut. I saw him two or tnree time a day, and all last summer he was very string". He did not drink, and could not hear the sight of tt, and would never allow any on his premises. He was low and melancholy. He was bad, bo,.not had enough ?).1-ie placed in an a!ylo.ro.  Philip Bright said hu was II by Huck .y that the decektat•cl had cut hia• throat. He breathuil several times. He saw him on Wednesday inorni• g, and he died about nine o'clock. He W-113 not able to speak. Tiltl last month be had been low and strange. The jury returned a verdict That the deceased committed suicide by cutting his throat whilst in an unsound state of mind." .  Deceased was a member of the We....terti Temperance League.
The Blandford and Wimbourne Telegram. — 1881-08-19 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

THE PRISONER AND THE CAMERA.—A prisoner named Quinley objected so strongly te being puetographed by me police at Preetun on Monday, teat alter struggling for nil hour, and then apparently yielding, he iuddenly tan at tee camera buttteg it over with his head. Toe instrument was much damaged. Au inquest wes held at S,oke Pogis, Bucks, on Tuesday, .in Horatio Adrian Churchill, furmerly an officer in the 4th flusters, who was foe nd dead in bed witu his throat out. A verdict of "Suicide through Temporary Insanity'. was returned. At the annual csll over of the cut-door poor for the Cone ley district, held at tee Rpeville Schoote, one of the applicants who applied pet sonolry tor the coetinu +thin oi relied was an anCieut aootlLn 'aimed Mary Meacham, who, In reply to the chairman, waited that she was in the 102nd yr ar of her age and end.% eel goad amebae. Mary Meacham aas torn in the year 1779. A man Lamed Suath, who lived in a model lodging' house in Parliameutatreei, Liverpool, has died in the Royal Southern He spital from an ex raordinary cause. A tew days ago ae had a tio in in his troth, which slippea &eau his thioat. He tried to recover tee coin by menus of a booked wire, WLiCh also atuoli in his thivat. He was akeu tu the hospital, where he died !rum his injuries. It is anneunced the Solicitor-Generat tor Scotland (Mr. Balfonr, Q.C.,) has been appointed Lord-Advocute, and Mr. A. Ailer. M.P., has been named Solicitor-General. The late Llrd-Advocate be cemes a Lwd of Session, iii the room of Lord G &rd. It is bleu announced. that M. Herbert G.adstuue is to be a Lunt of the Tieasury, entreat salary. On Tuesday, Thomas Patemon, a journeyman butcher, qnurrelled with Lid wile upen a stair leading to then dwelling, 30, Johnatreet, Gisegew, and drawing one or his butchers knives, suadonly stalked her in the side, death ensuing imtuediately. he then stabbed himself several t meg, but the wounus inflicted were not serious. Paterson was apprehend d, and removed to the hospital. • On Monday an inquest was held in London as to the death ot Maly Ann Scott, aged 45, which excise through sett-imposed deprivation of tood. The deceased was the wife of a shipwright. About two mouths ago her son was accidentarly eruwnera since which tote she has refused to take the common necessaries of life. It was said that a banking acciait her a considerable sum ot money was for.no mu the pubs' ssion of the deceased. A verdict of 'Temporary rneauity" was returned. FENIAN INTIMIDATioN AT