The Weymouth, Portland and Dorchester Telegram. — 1862-08-21 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

XII. Inn Tyne.hridge. where Le arrived on -Friday week. He had given the name of "Mr. Burns" to the landlord, who was highly pleased with the engaging manners and gentlemanly conversation of his guest. Mr. Burns appeared to have a geed stook of oath, but it would seem that he was rather partial to the bottle, and was of somewhat irregular habits. On the Saturday night, while out in Newcastle, he fell among loose company, and while in some house in the neighbourhood, it was thought, of Pudding Chan, he was robbed of all Isis money, his watch, and even his coat and vest. On reaching his inn, he expressed himself satisfied .that his plunderers had not taken his over him into the street, bat he strongly declined to lodge any information with the police authorities respecting tbs robbery. The worthy landlord, to whom Mr. Burns had not yet paid his reckoning, lent him 15s. ; but on the Monday morning Mr. Burns again appeared at the inn penniless. He represented that he was respectably connected in Glasgow, and he read to the hostess • letter which he had indited to a person in that town, applying for • remittance. In the course of the Monday morning be left the Inn, saying he was going to see Mr. Potter, a minister of the Scotch Chureb, in Newcastle' with whom he was anquainted. He never came to the ion spin. It appeared that • man answering to the description of the deceased was making inquMas on Tuesday at the river police-station for a vessel hound for Dieppe, and a note was received from !dm on Wednesday stating that he had obtained the information wanted. Nothing further was heard of the writer of this note until about halfput six on the morning of Thursday, when persons on ts-d the steamer Newcastle, coming up the river, and when opposite the Mushroom, observed • man struggling in the water and calling for help. A small boat near put towards him, and as it approached the drowning man called out "Be sharp." At the Name time • Ilk-buoy was thrown from the steamboat, but, on its being seen that the sufferer was unable to reach it, a man on the Newcastle jumped overboard with another buoy, and swam towards the drowning man, whom he reached at the same time as the people in the small boat already alluded to. The man was Worn Into lh• boat and put on board the steamer, where MIMI IMO used to restore him, bat without effect, and by the time be was conveyed to Mr. Care's, Ship Inn, on the Quay, he VIWI quite Peed. It is conjectured that, after sleight of dissipation in the neighbourhood where be was found in the Tyne, the deceased had gone down an alley to the edgv of the river to baths Ibie face, and had fallen In. Wass his death it has how; anatalas4 Ihat POI IWO ol 1ii11144/41000 Wi.'UkpAßO"  can, and that he was connected with • mercantile firm in Glasgow. lie was educated as a minister of the Scotch Church, and became acquainted with Mr. Potter at college; but Lis irregular habits unfitted him for the sacred duties of the ministry, and have at last brought Lim to • melancholy death. The jury returned as their verdict that " Deceased died from the effects of an immersion in the river Tyne, but under what dreamstemma be came there there was no evidence to &bow." THE ATTEMPTICD MURDER AND SUICIDE Itt.AZ BoxfAhTelt.—The inquest on William Smith Savage, who connnittod suicide at Cockbill Farm, near Doncaster, was held on Tuesday—the jury returning a verdict of " Feb-do-se." The young woman, Charlotte Tyne, whom Savage attempted to murder, remains in • very dangerous condition. The mysteriove(inurder near Durham has been partially investigated, and circumstantial proof of • strong, although not conclusive, charsater has been found as to the guilt of the parties apprehended on suspicion. Blood was found on some of the clothes worn by Cos. The inquest was adjourned, and Cox and his wife, as • matter of coarse, remained in custody. SERIOUS POACIIsto