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The Telegram. — 1895-11-05 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

STOCKBROEM—The inquest on the body of Koster Godirey Hirst, aged 32 years of age, was held at Bournemouth cemetery JO Thursday afternoon.—Dr. Bernard Scott said he was shown the body of deceased at the West Station, shortly before 10p.m. On Tuesday. The body was lifeless, and there WWI a wound in the right temple, on examining which he found a hole penttrating the skull. It was sufficient to cause death, and in his opinion it had been inflicted by a small revolver bullet. The cartridge (produced) was one that might have caused such a wound, which had no doubt been sslf-inflicted.—Mr. Alfred George Freeman, solicitor, 3, Sioux Place, City, identided the body as that of Koster G. Hirst, authorised clerk to Messrs. Runisey & Cu., stockbiokers, London. Deceased had had the management of their business for about two years past, and almost the sole control during the recent excitement in the money market, in which the firm did a large business. The pressure oti him bad been very great. On Wednesday morning Mr. Ramsey received a letter from Mr. Hirst, posted at Southampton. On looking into the books the same day certain irregularities were found. Of these witness could not give full details, as the time had been so short, but he fancied the lass would be is substantial one, cud would have been far more so on Tuesday night than on Wednesday, according to the price of the stocks then.—The letter was ta follows:—' Dear Sir,-1 regret to say I have made a mess of everything. It will be best for you to-morrow to see Mr. Radford, as if any stocks 00111 s in, there is very little money in the bank to meet it. As far as I can remember, lam a bull of -- shares and a bear of -- shares. Having made such a mull, it is best for me to see what I can do elsewhere." Witness added that the deceased had a good salary and commission, besides a connection of his own.— Evidence (already reported) as to the finding the body in a first class carriage on a L. k S.W.R. train at Pokesd own station and its being taken on to Bournemouth West was then given.—The coroner observed that more attention might have been paid to deceased at Pokesdown station or Bournemouth East Station, because at both stations the officials were perfectly aware of the fact that the poor fellow had some serious injury.—Police-Supt. Foster said that he was informed that there was great difficulty in getting a cab at Pektsdown, and it was thought better to send the deceased on to 12,urnemouth.—The jury returned a verdict of "Suicide whilst of unsound inirC."
The Telegram. — 1895-09-24 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

THE LAST OF THE TURNPIEES.—The Local Gorernment Jounkel says "it is an interesting fact that, of all the turnpike trusts with which this country abounded in the last generation, there remains only one in existence. Possibly it will be a surprise to some people to bear that there is even one survivor of such an unpopular system of road government, but it would not be posssible to make the assertion a few weeks hence. The Shrewsbury and Holyhead turnpike has for Om moat part been already thrown open, but the portion of the road which traverses the Lland of Anglesey we continued in existence by a special act of 1890 until N,Nember 1-tot the pivot yesr. Thiity years ag thece were mi fewer than 1,047 turnpike trusts in England and Wales, with 20,189 aides of road supported by eolde."  Friday was the 41st anniversary of the battle of the Alma.  The Speaker denies with authority the report that Lord Kosebery proposes to visit Canada. Several cases of cholera, one of which proved fatal, have occurred in Constantinople.  A new technical school in Peel Park, near Salford, will cost £70,000 for erection and equipment.  - Two Glasgow bookmakers, who lost heavily over the Ayr Races, have committed suicide in the Clyde. At Westminster Poiice-court, on Tuesday, two cyclists (one of them described as a record breaker) were fined for furious driving.  A machinist, named Burnley, WIL9 canght by spiked rollers at a factory near Leeds on Wednesday, and crushed to death.  A member of the Society of Friends, Mr. Isaac Sharp, who 18 in his 90th year, is about to set out on a missionary journey to Palestine.  Nathaniel Taggart, of Liverpool, an inmate of the Lancaster County Asylum, committed suicide on Monday, by leaping out of a window.  The aged tenor, Mr. Sims Rceves, has just married a lady, young, accomplished, and beautiful.  A rumocr current on Tuesday of the loss of North German Lloyd steamer and 150 lives happily turns out to be entirely without foundation.  The entire Salvation Army of Madison, Wisconsin, was put in gnol the other day for holding a meeting in the principal street in the town, contrary to law. For the quarter beginning May Ist and ending with August Ist., the seven great steamship lines poured Americans into Europe at the rate of about 3,800 a week.  At Rochester, on Tuesday, Sir Christopher Furness was fined £B, including coats, as the owner of the steamer Albert, which unlawfully discharged ashes into the Thames.  A ~enous explosion of gas occurred on Monday at a shop in High Street, Wellington, Salop, and Mrs. Welsh, the proprietress, was blown bodily through a window into the street. Au extensive fire occurred on Friday morning at A farm near Doncaster, occupied by a Mr. Shiffner, and about fifty fowls and ducks were roasted alive.  An inquest was hell at Rawnsley, near flednesford, on Thursday, on Sarah Bailey, the wife of a collier, who was kille by the explosion of a paraffin lamp she Wcifi trying to light.
The Telegram. — 1895-10-22 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

PLEADED GUILTY. —Henry Herbert Senile (22). collier, pleaded guilty to stealing a mare, value e-th. and other articles, the property of Charles Webley, at Wells, and was sentenced to Mc months' hard labour. There were several previous convictions.— TVilffass Donovan (15), labourer, pleaded guilty to breaking in to a dwelling of William Reeve, at Somerton, and shading a silver watch and other articles, after previous convictions. He was sentenced to five years at Ringswood Reformatory, Briatol. —Henry Allen, alias Fletcher alias Phillips, pleaded guilty to obtaining 14s by false pretences horn T. J. Christie Gardner, at Red stork, on the 27th April.—Mr. Neville, who prosecuted, explaiued that prisoner had already been punished for stealing the bicycle on which he borrowed the money, and he was consequently sentenced to one day's itnprisoument. Gawps Wilson pleaded guilty to stealing wearing apparel, the property of Geo. Lovell, at Kingsbury Episcoi, on July I.4.—Prisoner had been in prison since July 17th, and as there was nothing against him he was sentenced to one day's imprisonment.--John Beri4 (36), bricklayer, pleaded guilty to stealing wearing apparel, valued £5, at Chard, and was sentenced to four months' hard labour.--John Young (74), surgeon, 'pleaded guilty to obtaining by false pretences money, drugs, and tooth instruments severally at Radstock, Midsomer Norton, and Shepton Mallet, and was sentenced to three month, imprisonment with Both hard labour as he is capable of performing.—Mr. Hamilton prosecuted.-- Wm. H. Helliar (32), groom. pleaded guiity to attempting to commit suicide at Ehepton Mallet, on August 2nd.—Mr. Hamilton and Mr. ligrbuld, who were engaged in the ease, pleaded for a light sentence on the ground that he was seriously ill at the time, and the wound was of a slight nature.—Prisoner was discharged on his own recormisances of £lO, to come up for judgment if called upon. —Albert Bolster (47), labourer, and Edgar Bolster (14), pleaded guilty to obtaining goods by false pretences at Wincanton on the 6th July.—Albert was sentenced to three months' hard labour, and Edgar was sentenced to 10 days' imprisonment, and afterwards to a reformatory school for live years. Assam:n-0 cirge Frogbrook, 40, engine driver, surrendered to his bail to answer the charge of attempting to do grievous bodily harm to George Forward by striking him with a hammer. at Taunton, on the 19th August, Mr. Wilson Fox prosecuted, and prisoner defended himself.—The jury found prisoner guilty of a common assault, and he was sentenced to seven days' imarisonment . . • . . .
The Telegram. — 1895-09-10 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

DEPOSITS IN THR SAVINGS BANK.—An account of deposits in Naval Savings Banks for the financial year 1893-4 shows that the balance due to depositors at the beginning of the period was £235,737 28 id, and that deposits subsequently received and interest accruing were £174,554 11s, thus making a total of £410,291 13s H. Out of this sum the deposits withdrawn during the year were £167,879 Is 1.1 and interest paid £6,995 17s, or a total of £174,874 18s ld, which, being deducted front the total receipts, leaves a balance due to depositors amounting to £235,416 15s. The assets are stated at £248.206 12s Id, of which £6,998 10s ld are uninvested. The number of accounts opened during the year was 8,635, or 897 in excess of the previous year.  SureoLl LovEns Die ToGierHert.—Mr. H. E. Garrod, coroner, held an inquiry at the Greyhound Inn, Eye, Suffolk, on Friday night, with reference to the death of Frederick Rogers, aged 32, and Edith Elsegood, aged 21, who committed suicide by drowning earlier in the day. The deceased were lovers.—Questioned by the coroner, witness admitted that he had locked the door against his son at nights in consequence of his persistency in bringing his sweetheart home at late hours. His son did not have any regular wages. Witness have him a sovereign the previous Saturday. Jabez Elsewood stated that he had not had any disagreement with his daughter, whom he last saw alive on Thursday morning. The coroner: Did you strike her that morning? Witness (excitedly) : Certainly not. But your children say you did.—lt's false.—Did you this morning see some writing on her bedroom door ?—Yes, sir. it was in chalk, and I believe my daughter wrote it. It was, "You will find me and my Fred in the pond up the field. You are the cause of all this. From your broken-hearted aanghter."— Do you know why she should write this ?—No. It is not true that I was the cause. I have always be. hated well to her.—Did she ever threaten to commit suicide ?—I believe she did last Monday when she was queer, and I got someone to stay with her.—Who did you get?— Rogers. The jury found that both the lovers committed suicide while temporarily insane.
The Telegram. — 1895-08-27 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

FORDINGTON VEG RTABLE AND FLOWRR SHOW. In wldition to the particulars appearing in another column we ale request. ,a *I. fuUowiug :—Mrs. Manael (guardian) had  Cadbury's ek ,co i absolutely pure, therefore beet. The Medical Annual says : "The name ' Cadbury' on any packet of Cocoa is a guarantee of potty." (4C059a,  The Channel Squadron /eaves Portland on Sept. 2nd for a cruise along the coast of England. A Strabane man was killed on Saturday by a kick from a thoroughbred race-horse that he was getting into a horse•box.  A child named M'Crumlish was crushed to death in Paisley on Tuesday by some flooring, piled in the street, falling on him.  A woman at Su:all litath blew down the Wm. ney of a paraffin lamp, which exploded, set her on fire, and burned her seriously.  A plasterer, who was confined in the padded room of Bethnal Green Infirmary, tore Ms shirt into strips and hanged hiloself.  The Porte's latest communication to the Powers, defining the reforms which it is prepared to grant in Armenia, is alleged to be unsatisfactory. The advent of the vacation brings the usual instalment of complaints from Channel passengers, who complain that the boats are intolerable.  A severe earthquake shock was felt on Monday over the greater part of Peru, but principally in the south. At Chinch& several houses were destroyed. A farmer named John Straw shot himself at Lowdham, Notts, on Sunday, by placing the muzzle of a gun in his mouth and discharging it with his foot.  Mr. J. B. Chaßen, hearl•maater of Queen FA znbeth's Grammar School, Crediton, hag been appointed head-maater of the Devon Cmoty Schad, Went Buokland.  During a sto.rni on Thursday night, Benet G. Rowe, hia wife, and daughter, were driving near Wisbech, when the trap fell into the River Nei', and all were drowned.  Harry Hunter, a draper'e. assistant. on Monday, committed suicide by hanging himself in Hull gaol, where he war detained on remand, charged with attempting to murder a woman named Bostock by shooting her.  Mr. Walter Vine, superintendent of the Wesleyan Sunday-school at Eye (Suffolk), WAS arranging she seats for service in the chapel on Sunday, when he was seized with giddiness, and expired within a few minutes.  The proprietors of a large retail establishment in Liverpool, in order to get their customers to shop within reasonable hours' have adopted the novel plan of announcing that all purchases made after a certain time in the evening will not be executed at their "sale prices."
The Telegram. — 1895-03-12 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

GHASTLY TRAGEDY IN LONDON. WIFE AND SIX CHILDREN 3I,URDERED.  SUICIDE OF THE MURDERER.  A terrible tragedy is reported from Wandsworth, where a wife and six children have been murdered. The tragedy oecurred at Fountain Road, Tooting, on the borders of Wandsworth, and tile murderer, who is described as a p.asterer, has committed suicide. The attention of the neighbours was directed to the case through seeing a boy of fifteen running through the street screaming and bleeding profusely. The family consisted of Frank Taylor, and his wife and family of seven, the names of the children being Frank, aged 14 ; Maggie, 13 ; Annie, 11 ; Florence, 7; Frederick, 5; Wl'lie, 3 ; and George, 20 months. Taylor, who was sleeping with his wife in the front bedroom, first cut her throat with a razor, and then proceeded to the back bedroom, where he deliberately cut the throats of and killed all his seven children except Frank. He then retreated to his own room and cut his own throat, falling across the Lifeless body of his wife., . .  Frank, who is in a precarious condition, stated that he heard screams, and that afterwards his Lather came into the bedroom. His father seized hold of him, pushed his head back, and then lin felt something keen and then something No-one had heard Taylor threaten anyone with violence, and he was never suspected of being capable of such a crime. The boy Frank says he was the first to be attacked. The other children began to scream, and his father thereupon left him and devatched the others. Before he killed Plorrie there was an interval which he spent iu sharpening the razor. On the arrival of the plice the bodies of fire of the children were found huddled together on the bed. On forcing their way into Taylor's house, they duicoverel that he had murdered he wife and five children, and had attempted the life of the sixth, and to complete the tragedy had cut his own throat. He was awl alive, but died on the way to the intiemary. In addition to having been out of eiiipl)yinent, he had suffered lately from :rifluenz t. lie was 39 years of age, and liis wife was three or four years younger. They had been married 15 years, and the. wife belonged to an opulent manufacturing family in she Staffordshire Potteries. It was a runaway and unequal match, but the couple appeared to live happily together. Taylor, moreover, MI6 a teetotaler.
The Telegram. — 1895-03-12 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

FRANK. On the back of the letter was the following :—" Tonight we depart this life of trouble. Oh, Lord have mercy on us, and consider mine enemies. for they are inane. They hate me with a cruel lisle. OIL Lord remember not the sins of my youth, and receive us round Thy throne of grace ! My life has been destroyed by mine enemies, hut in Jesus lies my help. Our eyes shall see the King in His beauty, awl SIIHII behold the Lord that is very far off, for him that coineth I will in no wise cast out. Lord have mercy on um, and on my enemies. I have been hunted down, but Jems will receive me in his fold. Amen. It in finished." On the envelope was written :—" I love my wife and children too much Cr let people jeer at them. They are all very pure." George William Phillip., relieving officer of the parish of Tooting, said that the deceased than Tay- I lor applied to him for ielief on February 12th. He told witne+s then that he had six weeks' rent owing and that hie son Wilis only earning 2s fel per week. Witness told Taylor that he could etag job at the stoneyard at 154 or 16s a week, but Taylor never asked for it afterwards. Elizabeth Hocking, neighbour of the Taylore, said that they were quiet, inoffensive people. They were poor, but never wanted for food. The father went Co work on Monday week, and returned Mane, his wife telling witness that he had been ill. This, in witness's opinion, seemed to prey on the man's mind. He was a most loving man. In summing up the coroner said this was &crime which had struck great horror in the minds of the public. Practically the whole family were taken away. The lean said about the sad affair the better. No one could visit the mortuary or the deceased's house without being visibly affected. The jury returned a verdict that the am children and the mother were murdered by the man Taylor whilst he was of unsound mind, and that he coin- , omitted suicide when in the same mental state. . . . . .  After the inquiry had been closed a gentleman rose from the body of the court and announced, :mild cheers, that the rector of Tooting Graveney had promised to bury the whole of the Taylor family free of charge, no that they might not be interred as paupers. The coroner also stated that a gentle. Irvin residing in the Isle of Wight had written offering to adopt the remaining son Frank.
The Telegram. — 1895-05-28 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

TANGENT WHEEL.  The late Miss Heaven, of Manchester, has left the South American Missionary Society a legacy oi £2,000 free of duty. An extensive conflagration has occurred at St Alban's, Vermont, by which 500 inhabitants have been rendered homeless.  A Plymouth shipwright ou Monday obtained £25 damaged against a Compton Gifford caoowner, whose driver rode over him. The Great IA esteru service from the Channel Islands has beeu improved by a new train from Yeovil to Taunton on week clays. That line full of clothes, so perfectly clean, MATCHLESS CLEANSERS been used that is easily seen. 144637-7246 Kensington has appointed Miss Jessie Gray, at a salary of £l5O a year, as lady sanitary inspector of the district.  One result of the Japanese war with China has been to bring out some of the art treasures of the Daiinio, which have been sold to furnish war contributions.  The Devon and Cornwall District of Foresters on Monday negatived, oy a majority of seven to one, a report advising the adopti9n of the principle that female courts may become branches of the district.  AC the annual meeting of the Leicester Boot Manufacturers' Association on Monday night, it was decided, in view of the rapid advance in the price of leather, to incnasc the price of boots and shoes.  Her Majesty's cruiser Royal Arthur arrived at Victoria, 8.C., on Sunday, and repotted that her cominanoing officer, Capt. Fredk. P. Trench, had died of fewer during the voyage and had been buried at sea.  H. F. Egan, who waa one of the dynamiters, has been released, and on Sunday reported himself at Scotland Yard. Egan was sentenced to twenty years' imprisonmem for treason-felony on August Ist, 1384.  A respectable.looking young man has committed suicide by jumping from the upper parapet of Blackfriars Bridge intc the Thames. He made a desperate attempt ti save himself on rising to the surface of the water, but was unable to do no. Mrs. Murton, a Bolton lady, has bequeathed £3.200 each to the Bolton Infirmary, the British and Foreign Bible Society, Church Missionary Society, and the Church Pastoral Aid Scciety, this being the residue of her estate aftermeet:rg legacies and claims.
The Telegram. — 1895-05-28 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

PRESTON PLUCKN ETT.  CHANGE OF AITIMPTIM Annie Stock, married woman, of Preston. was charged on remand at the County PoliCe•COUrt on Thursday morning, before Dr. Aldridge, with having taken poison with the intention of committing suicide.—P.U. Marshall said that on Tuesday night he went to prisoner's house and walked upstairs. He saw prisoner's husband in the bedroom, and the wife was in bed. The man etdd " This is a line thing; m; wife haa taken some poison." Prisoner was groaning, and appeared to be in great agony. Witness asked where the poison was, and the husband pointed to a hottie and glass on the chair at the bed• side. Witness mixed some aalt and water which he gave to prisoner, and thin caused her to vomit. When witness read over the charge to her prisoner mid," I didn't take the poison, but what I did wan done to frighten my husband.° vary Ann Newman, wife of Henry Newman, deposed that on the night in question prisoner came to her back door at about hif - past eight o'clock, and asked her to go into her (prisoner's) house. Witness went and saw the table eluvial' on the top of her grate. Prisoner said she wad her husband had been having a few words. Witness said she wan sorry to hear of it, and returned to her house. Some time afterwards the husband mole to witness's house and maid, "Mrs. Newman, do  come in, my wife has taken some poison and is nearly dead." Witness went into prisoner's hoose and found her on the bed. She seemed in great pain and was groaning. Witness asked her if she had taken any of the stuff she saw in the bottle marked "poison," at the aide of the bed, and she didn't answer.—ln reply to prisoner witness said that she (prisoner) had taken the poison to frighten her husband, and not with the intention of poisoning herself.—Dr. P. S. H. Colrner said he was summoned by a nv-ssenger on horseback to see the prisoner and arrived at the house at about 10 o'clock. Witness found the accused in bed with her husband beside her. He gave her an emetic and she vomited freely. He asked her why she had taken this poison, and she replied she had done it for the purpose of killing herself. Witness told her that what was contained in the bottle was not going to kill her.—Mrs. Newman said she wished to state that the husband of the accused had been drinking heavily on the day in question, arid that was the reason of tile quarrel.— Prisoner repeated that she had merely taken the poison in order to frighten her husband.—After retiring with the magistrates' clerk, Dr. Aldridge said he was satisfied that the woman had not intended to destroy herself, but he hoped that she would not do such a stupid thing aga;n.—The case would be dismissed.