The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1870-08-23 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

SUICIDE BY DROWNING. in the Government quarries. Ho was near • railway, .....A.. (moping Thomas Dish. op, an agricultural and when a train passed, he pushed out One of him legs of Mr. Gale, at Broad wry, towards the train, which classed over. his foot. itie farm bdwoteer, On by walking Into the sea at Greenhill. found that the unhappy fellow did it on peruse, in dueowidoetroled tat bes. affected in his mind for more than order to make certain that he should be admitted to smourcilLworse since the death the infirmary. Nine or ten days afterwards inortifi n year; b..ut.edb,:hluutporabwhi.nand mysterious event appears Hon set in, and ho died. Hui name was William • M Gekte Crossley, and he wu 44 years old. lie was admitted 10AhnarieucTudai— woo was held_ on Monday, at the Burden into the prieon on Feb. 21, 1868, under sentence of B. Lock, Esq., deputy-coroner, and a seven years penal servitude. His character was had Hotel T!?, beforeand on the sth of January, this year, forpretending resPeetwol°,r," e tad working for Mr. Skinner, that he was hurt, be was' ported. ' d carpeWillniteiarM, imkr.-tbiii ostbfrondsrznehvienit Ihn: astantaamq.uartein; was admitted bread and waterer.- On thenlsrnAteu:rdat he into the Infirinary for the injury to his past olives. wrist. :dawn. and pulled him out of the foot, and he dud on the 15th. the water. his fooe with his arms stretched out An inquest was held the next day before IL N. sea. He woo:IL, „Ramos bad pulled him on the Howard, Req., coroner, and a respectable jury, forest length. "''',,,e men to his assistance. Deceased men, Mr. F.. Stone. beach he °die,: 0,°,_,,, and he was pulled higher up on William Stare, warder, deposed that he had 24 men aupawrod to c1i.r....,,,0, began rubbing lean He wee under his charge in the west quarries. The deceased tfie beach and r° ...,Tw, far recovered as to be able to was working with another prisoner stone cutting. then on his bask, .n.., ma oini.ed. Some brandy was Near the place where he was working is a railway, and vii up before • me''he was removed to the Darden deceased was about three feet from the road, and two then given him, on iron waggons loaded with stone were lying there. About Hotel Tap• of csboneh7, said that whilst he was 10 minutea before the engine moved, witness Roberti Treeloth, on banday evening he saw the the brakesman g round thc waggons to gee all saw on the Gruenu''' the Greenhill to the edge of the clear. He then go " All right I" to the driver. The goccsaod war foretwom hi, a„,..e hid Ile-thou.glit. that de- engine afterwards moved on, when wanes,' heard a anc.f. hot di . _,, to au, hi again, and del not see shout of" Hold on !" stooped down and saw deoeasod'e eearte.l had retrour.it be was pulled out of the water. foot against the hind wheel of the last waggon. Witness , anything of biro onlywed between the timo witness should say there was no negligence, and believed About five zninetwitha water end the time of his being deceased del it on purpoee. son dewweed n_ear --0-u the beach three or four people Charles Lord was working will' the deceased, taking a mined out.. tv he.Wiut witness wont for Dr. Smith. stone out of winding, and saw the engiuoeuan hook the rubbed ilcoouod w,u_.i.er ought to have been waggons on to the engine. He then held up his hand, lb o could not say two."'" meaning " All right.' Witness had heard deceased laid on his back or t_rut that he believed persons who a on one or two occasions that parties who injured The Coroner obser`w- ionnarsion ought not to be ty•themselves to got into the ' bad been recovered from Rio Ica would b. ' . infirmary were fools—they able did not do it to rights. placed on their bulk°. busint Denr't the treatment pursues! Dr. Nicholson sew the deceased about half-an-hour to state whether the U6' aft. r the foot had b..en taken if by Dr. Illaker. Aiwa' right or wrong- .1,..ed that deceased primed ceased was in as comfortable • condition as could be s on the Or enhill about William Henry lAttY u'e— hiw, "1 au.. of his companion __,i a ~,‘„ . expected. Witness &cued it the first time after, whioh .irmoinutes was two days suns..luently, and 'he stomp looked well. seven o'clock ori hullaar nilibt' h.:l &en' ._.,,tvecel. Everything wt!it on well till the ninth or tenth day, afterwards lie hand that • In" help h Ha rudied down, and with otheurf.t..dez liwolt_tla when mortification set in. Clothes John Anderson, infirmary principal warder, spoke of d'uwwwl higher on the boa lug u i hi, and b,gan pou pin, him. by WV og di, is op and the attendance upon ileceared. was Patched for Th. jury returned a verdict that Crawley died from down. In the meanwhile senw !h....De for 1.011)e brandy, mortifiration of the leg and collapse. They expressed Dr. Rhodes sad Dr. Smith, sad •••arrrnd. Rhaod,es,,,wrzinitnbne. rh:,,,,aerriy7.,,,,, .....sivavdece...4 „ ',cr. They and he told witoesa a belief that the warders had ton many men to look t hnueht one Mon COUI , i.oareely see that bao mi)it;od .. they gave 21 convicts were all out of denger, and properly doing preie rly. Atter hotb dock," hint, after their work. deouleed some brandy, end °Pia rubbed