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The Weymouth, Portland and Dorchester Telegram. — 1878-12-06 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

ILL-ASSORTED MARRIAGE. In the Divorce Court last week Sir James Hannen had before him the case of Nunn v. Nunn. The wife, who is the daughter of a clergyman of the Church of Ireland, petitioned for a decree of judicial separation on the ground of the cruelty and adultery of her husband, the owner of property in Ireland.--The respondent answered denying the charges.—Mrs. Nunn, the petitioner, said that she was married to the respondent, Mr. E lward Wesley Nunn, in 1352, at Deblin .Her maiden name was Stewart At the time of the marriage she was 17 and her husband 33. He had considerable property in Ireland. There had been seven children born of the marriage. Their married life was net a happy one, owing to the ' intemperate habits of the respondent. While living at Leamington he turned her out of the house. At the time it was snowing, and she had only her night-dress on. She had to remain out all night. Upon this occasion he was intoxicated. He had kicked her when he had his shooting boots on, and had dragged her out of bed, and battered her face. S mle time after the last occurrence he threatened to shoot her, and being alarmed, she left the house in her night-dress, and sought refuge at the house of a clergyman. Towards the end of 1873 he became violent, and three times attempted to commit suicide, in consequence of which he was placed under restraint for some months. He was now paying her alimony at the  rate of £1 200 a year. His income was ahc.ut £6,000 per annum—By Mr. Searle: She and her husha nil had since had meetings with reference to bu,iness mat ters. At the last meeting he gave her jewellery to the ex tent of about £6OO. While he was under restraint he had the enjoyment of his income. Other evidence having been adduced, Sir James Hann pronounced for Oat separation, on the ground of cruelty.
The Weymouth, Portland and Dorchester Telegram. — 1878-11-22 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

SAD CASE OF SUICIDE THROUGH RELIGIOUS MANIA.— On Thursday an inquest was held at the Gas Tavern, before Mr. G. Aldridge, Borough Coroner, and a jury of whom Mr. R. Smith was chosen foreman, on the body of Miss Hannah Stickland, a respectable young woman, who committed suicide through religious mania at the houseof her mother in Baiter that morning.—Mr, Eliza Stickland, widow of the late Mr. Henry Stickland, a shipwright, said the deceased was her daughter. Deceased slept with her last night, and gut up about half-past six o'clock that morning to light the fire, as usual. She came downstairs about a quarter to seven and went into the sitting-room and saw deceased hanging by a window cord to the door. She cut her down and found that she was dead but warm. She called Mrs. McCarthy, and sent for the doctor directly. About IS months ago deceased had an attack of typhus fever, and since then she had been very excitable at times and for the last few weeks she had been very low. She had never heard her threaten t) take her life. Deceased was a Sunday school teacher and also a member of the Congregational Church.—Mrs. Jane McCarthy, wife of Mr. John McCarthy, a master mariner, gave evidence as,to her being called by the last witness that morning, and said she had known deceased all her life, and she was a quiet, steady, religious girl. She observed several times after she had the fever that she was queer in her head. She found that the kettle was put on the fire, and the grate partly cleaned.—Miss McCarthy said deceased was a great friend of hers and they were often together. She had not seen her since Sunday, when she appeared very dull and low, and not like herself. She had frequently remarked that she was in a very low state. She had never heard her say that she was tired of her life. She was always a quiet girl. Lately she had been for long walks with deceased, but she would scarcely speak and seemed very low. The jury were unanimous in retuning a verdict of " Suicide whilst in a Ftate of Temporary Insanity.' PETTY SESSIONS, Thursday.—Before Messrs. W. Pearce, W. D. Dugdale, and J. B. Durell.
The Telegram. — 1893-09-26 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

SUICIDC—Joseph Seal, a carpenter, aged 59, W iS charged with attempting to commit suicide by cutting his throat at his house, No 2, St. Leonard's Road. on the previous Saturday.—Mr. Malim prosecuted.—Joseph Herbert Seal, a lad, said he lived at home with hi a parents and two sisters. named Laurie. aged 14, and Minnie, aged 12. On Saturday, August sth, his father w 11,4 drunk and left his work. He was also drunk on Bank Holiday, Angier 7th, and smashed up the old clock with a hatchet. From thrt time until last Saturday he had been more leas on the drunk. Last Friday_ he was sleeping in a back bedroom by himself. ide Fur his Lather about,7 "U -past Dine that  night in the room downstairs sitting on the sofa quiet and reading. Witness slept in the top garret with his brother Benjamin. The next morning •he got up about five o'clock to go to work, when he noticed the door of the back bedroom open and the bed disarranged as though some one had been sleeping there. He noticed wet footmarks in the passage and the door was wide open. He went into the kitchen to get his boots when he saw his father kneeling on the floor with his head over the sink. He had on two shirts, hot nothing else. There was Ifilloa on the floor,and witness went upstairs and called his mother and his brother. He ran and informed the police anti WS brother Alfred. When he returned P.S. Barrett was there, and his father was lying on the floor. The serceant tied up his father's neck with a wet cloth, and he heard his father groan. There was blood on his father's shirt. He ran for a stretcher and his father was then taken to the hospital. He afterwards went into the closet and found the seat, floor, and Pan covered with blood. There were also a few spots on the doorstep.—Benjamin J. Sal, an elder sun of the accused, w ho lives at borne with his family, corrolsiratell. Alfred John Seal, eldest son of accused, said he was boots at the Golden Lion. He had never heard his father threaten to commit suicide. He did the same thing 12 years ago, and was then in hospital three weeks. That was also done through drink.--Dr. Drury said he found defendant lying on his luck in the kitchen with his throat cut. The wound was superficial, about five inches long, but there was not much hemorrhage. in his opinion when he first saw prisoner he Was 'audering from delirium tremens. Defendant was a drinking man, and when in drink WaA very violent.—Sergt. Barrett said he went to No. 2, St. Leonard's Road, on Saturday mottling, where he found defendant with his throat cut lying on the kitchen floor groaning. As defendant was still living, witness wrapped a towel round his neck. The razor (produced) he found on a shelf over a intik. With assistance he heloe.l to take defendant to the hospital. The same morning he noticed spots of blood on the pavement leading front defendant's house to steps in the harbour.—When charged prisoner said he knew nothing about haying committed the deed.—The Bench ordered prisoner to take his trial at the next ! tarter Sessions.
The Telegram. — 1893-09-26 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

SHOCKING TRAGEDY IN LONDON.  An inquest was held on Saturday on the bodies of Samuel Garcia, Daisy Montague, and a man named Percy who murdered the two first named persons on Thursday and who afterwards Colnwitted suicide. (A full account appears on page 3.) The most important witness was Mrs. Winterbottom, of 24, Regent Square, who was an eyewitness of the crime. She said : On the night in question I was sitting up for my husband and looking out of the window, I saw a gentleman and lady coming along the square arm-In-arm I noticed as they paned under my window that they were laughing and joking, and I thought what a pretty, well-dressed girl she was, and how happy they both seemed. I saw a man come out of the doorway of No. 23 and follow them. I thought what an impudent man he VMS to get so close to them, and to apparently listen to their conversation, when he raised his band and fired a pistol twice at the gentleman, who fell. Then he fired at the lady, who i•creaniell as she sank to the ground. I fell back with the fright, but I heard a fourth report. No words passed between the man and the lady and gentleman he followed. Ido not believe they knew he was behind them. The following letter, which was found in Percy's father's letter box, was put in and read by the coroner :  " 29, Swinton Street, London, Sept. 11, 1893." " Dzeu FaTattit,-1 have no doubt that by the time you receive this you will know all, should what I expect occur. I can bear it. no longer—the pain and humiliation is too great, so it is best ended. I determined long ago that none but I should have her, and would have been dead long ago but for your sake. It need make little difference to you. (Here followed some instructions relating to the deceased's property which was not read.) lam sorry ill give you any pain, but I cannot see what I have to bee ior.—l remain your affectionate sun, Lo." The jury returned a verdict that during temporary insanity Leo Percy had murdered Mr. Samuel Garcia and Miss Bessie Montague and then committed suicide.
The Telegram. — 1893-09-26 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

THE MURDEHEE.  What is believed to have been a double murder and suicide, carried out with the utmost determination, took place early last Thursday morning, in Regent Square, Gray's Inn Road, London. It seems that at about the hour named, Daisy Montague, a chorus girl at the Empire Theatre, who lived in a hones' at the western warner of the square, was walking to her residence with a male friend, named Samuel Garcia, eon of Philip Garcia, fin, lot, Covent GA/Atli, when azioher man, whose name it has transpired was Percy, quickly overtaking them, fired with a revolver, with the result that both fell, mortally wounded. The murderer then placed the weapon to his own head and blew his brains out. The position; in whigh the victims fell, as evidenced by the blood. stains on the pavement, form roughly the points of a triangle, showing that the first of the persons wounded 'mist have staggered away from his or her companion, that the latter must they have been instantaneously brought to the ground, and that the murderer, standing between the two, then fired at himself. The revolver, which is in the possession of the police, is a weapon of heavy cahbre, with six barrels, four of which were found to have been discharged, the other two being loaded with ball cartridge. Percy was a former lover of Montague. It was found that Miss Montague had received a wound in the lower part of the back, from which she bled to dead internally ; Garcia'a brains had been blown out by a couple of shoos in the head, either of which would have proved fatal, while Percy had scattered his brains by a snot in the right temple. The tragic affair has occasioned great excitement locally. A letter has been found written by Percy to his father, stating that he could not live without the girl, and if it had nut been for hie fsther's sake something terrible would have happened before this.  It is stated that since the engagement was broken of by Miss Montague, Percy has been very strange in his manners, and had threatened to take his life. He was supposed to have no knowledge wleterer of Mr. Garcia. The bodies have been lying in the hospital inortucry, hut Dr. G. Danford Thomas, coroner for Central London, to whom particulars of the tragedy were forwarded, has issued orders to his officer to have sheen removed to the parish iiv.rtn,try. The police have been enabled to trace out the relatives of the deceased persons, who have beers to the hospital mortuary and identified the bodies.
The Telegram. — 1893-03-14 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

LORD WINO-BIWA has left the town for a short period of rest in the South of France. He hat completed preparations for the issue of a juurna in connection with the National Agricultural Union. It is to be etlied The awe, with the ea, placatory inotto, "A three-fold cord is unit quickly broken." Lord Winchilsea is to be the editor.  1.100113LX TneGstft.—An Indian at Maritsburg had been refused the hand of a fellow-coutitryimas daughter, and during the absence of the father he chopped oil the heads of the latter' wife sod two daughters, and cut the throat of an Indian man servant. Toe murderer than attempted to commit suicide with an old pietol, but only inflicted a wound in hie throat, and wilt probably recover.  Acrrforf TO Reeorne £33,000.—0n Tnesday, the C'otef Just,ce and a special jury bad before thaw the case of Garvey v White, an action brought by a young lady to recover £3.3.000, the value ci a cheque received from the clefealaut. Mr. Leese, Q.C., who appeared far the p.aiiitiff, said he and Mr. Gill has arranged that judg.nene should be entered for the plaintiff for £75 and costs, and they asked for an order that all inowys paid into ;wart by both sides should be paid out.— His lordship consented. -  DANAGIS FOB THit boss Or Erestunr.--Mrs. Ellen Davie, a charwoman, sued i,;:c Loudon and Nur ii Western Railway Company at Manchester, Sri Almday, for damages for the loss of her eyesight' through sparks end enviers from a locomotive falling on her in the street near her house in Ardwick. She had earned 15s a week, but the accident woulf prevent her working again. The jury awarded £5OO, and leave was given to apyual against the SUM as excessive nut Mr. Justice Wills directed that the plaintiff should be paid £1 per week in the meantime.
The Telegram. — 1893-11-14 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

BRISTOL BAPTIST COLLEGE.  An adjourned meeting of the members of Queen's Road Chapel, Coventry, was held on Friday to receive the final decision of their pastor, the Res. W. J. Henderson, 8.A., who has been invited to become the associate and ultimate successor of Dr. Culross in the presidency of Bristol Baptist College. Mr. Henderson stated that after fully reconsidering the matter he felt it his duty to adhere to his resignation., The resignation was then accepted with the deepest regret, and beet wishes for the future. Mr. Henderson will commence his work at Bristol early in the New Year.  During the past iortnight no !es than four well-known residents of Derby babe committed suicide.  At Brest-LitovAc in the Russian province of Grodno, 20 persons have been killed by an explosion of other.  Four Port Isaac fishermen narrowly escaped drowning in Pail,•tow Hrbour On Sunday. Their boat, heavily laden with herrings, was sunk.  The fireman of a Great Western train fell from his engine whilst journeying between Dudley and itirmingbani on Saturday and was cut to pieces. Geo. Henry Penson, bank manager, Paigotou, was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment at Exeter Asbizes on Saturday, for forging receipts and acquittances for £5OO.  On Saturday night, • full-rigged sailing ship, the Jas, collided with, and practically cut in two, the new promenade pier at Dover. The vessel was tacking sad mistook the pier lights. Mr. Monsey, of Preston, who was to have been married shortley to Miss Walker, daughter of the contractor for the Manchester S, p Canal, has been murdered in Buenos Ayres, • sere he was manager for a railway company. A Central News telegram states that Mr. Henry Righton, superintendent of the Bristol General Post-office, who has for some days been missing, surrendered to the police on Saturday night, on a charge of forging motley orders,
The Telegram. — 1893-03-07 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

DETERMINED CASE OF SUICIDE.  An inquest on the body of Alfred Brown, late in the employ of Mr. .J. W. Trask, of Middle Street, was held at the Victoria Temperance Hall on Tue4day, before Mr. E. Q. Louch (deputy coroner) and a jury of which Mr. Thoins.s Neal was foreman.—Frank Wigtuore, who said that he had forgotten his age, and did not know whether hi was 15 or 16 years old, stated that about six o'clock un Sunday evening the deceased gave him an envelope folded up, and asked him to take it to Mr. Maggs' (Messrs. Gatward IN right) and bring back something. Deceased gave hini 24-11 for what he was to get and ld fr going for it. The powder was in a packet which bore a red label with the words,." Oxalic acid—poison." Deceased put the  . _ acid into a teacup, and, pouring some water into the cup, drank it. Witness told him that it was poison, and Brown replied that he knew it was. Deceased had been taking seidlitz powders, and witness thought he wise taking the acid to make hiinself aiek. He eat down in a chair for a few minutes, and, complaining of a pain in his stomach, went upstairs.—A. K. C. Johnson, junior assistant at Messrs. Gatward k Wright's emit that on Sunday evening the last witness came to the shop and gave him a piece of paper on which was written, " Please send by bearer one pennyworth of oxalic acid, and oblige, A. 8." Witness served him, and cautioned the boy that it was poison. The packet contained half-au-ounce. Oxalic acid was not a scheduled poison • a lot of it was sold for various purposes.— Isaac iligmore, the father of the first witness, who lodges at the King's Arms Inn, corroborated part of his son's evidence, and added that after fetching the doctor he went upstairs and saw the deceased lying on the bed. He had complained recently of pains in the head. —By a juror : Witness had never heard him threaten to do away with himself, nor did lie seem worse than usual on Sunday afternoon. Be had never knuwn him to be the worse furldrink.—The articles found on the body by P.C. nudist were produced, and amongst them was a scrap of paper on which were the words, " Please send by bearer one pennyworth of oxalic acid." Dr. P. A. Colmer stated that Le was called to the King's Arms Tun, and when he got there Brown had been dead for some minutes. He was told that the deceased had taken sonic oxalic acid, and was shown a cup whieh contained a little. Deceased's tongue and mouth presented the appearance of a corrosive poison having passed over them. A fatal dose of oxalic acid would be about three drachms ; one drachm had killed very often. Death, in deceased's case, was due to failure of the heart's action.—A verdict to the effect that deceased committed suicide whilst temporarily insane was returned.
The Telegram. — 1893-02-21 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

THE MOST REMARKABLE POLISH." aygl Mighuess has given up the pie. Unionist I ' hw nm says:-" It iii capital bill for us The can iidates were Mr. John Shaw (a) and Mr. made iu either department shall be to him dampness, arid chilliness everywhere. People quarter, atuounting to .£B5 Os 11d, which had to be paid p the Mediterransaii, but the Princese fightboth intelligible and interesting ; and he may, were feeling ones as hungry dogs. It was a time before Februsre 24th in order to get the usual discount. or D''"' I'"•'"•• l'•••.tl g.l'''h. A•k for ....‘ u••••• 17 to. besidee, have among hie familiar friends many a for suicide and rheumatism, and there was plenty Mr. Seymour considered that the hoard should have ae,Viotoria and Maud, will shortly Harold Reckitt (L.) From eight to nine o'clorde a special rates for the gas mitt other towns.-Thesurvm or --m- departed worthy whose memory is embalmed in of both. elm °shine. at Mar.eillse, eail- constant stream of voters put in an appearance. remarked that there were never any lower rates than vre they will be the guests of PROPNETti ! During the dinner-hour many workmen voted, and the Pages of memoir or biography. All tbia isolate Yet Heaven pitied us at length, and at noon of 1 had • . . . ... t leytnom-Mr. Biele agreed with Mr. Seymour in or the askine All this we shall ask for if only it Ms fifteenth de h I d NlXeisnema of the Helieuee for some time. The Duke of Devonshire and Sir Remy James by one o'clock over half the electorate had polled, YS the e' • - •h 1•a on a were 'went away like husking that they ought to hem a lower rate. will leave for the Riviera M.P., declared on Tuesday night that as 14 In the afternoon polling continued amid consider- our happy fortune to love for its own value the dust by a new hrooro, and the sun mane out warm Mr. Seymour proposed that a letter should be written His Royal Hi h d Home Rule Bill failed to '- " g nese an meet the ob eecuns of the able excitement. In the evening the result was beauty and knowledge to be gathered from books. and bright. How we all blessed him, and tried to to the Gas Compeny, 'eking them whether they could CEIGEBILATEIIe ItraPIMBD Awl, if this be our fortune, the world may be kind lift ourselves up to meet him halfway. You cen give the board a special rate.- Mr. hlake seconded the 'and about the middle of Dissentient Liberals . ', it will have to go to the couni made known as follows, when it was shown that motion, which was carried, it being also decided to or unkind, it may mein to us to be hastening us fancy it. Then It was that I asked the volute BLACK LEAD the Litterals had gained the seat :. - ----. draw a cheque fur lett quarter's bill.-The treasurer's 'sal events of the season thy. the wings of enlightenment and progress to an clerk what . he was doing out on the pavement in O Imperial Institute in PitkPARND TO
The Telegram. — 1893-03-21 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

SHOCKING SUICIDE OF A YOUNG MAN AT WINSHAM.  FOUR DELIBERATE ATTEMPTS.  A young man named Joe Hodder, aged 23, son of Mr. %V. Hodder, steward to Viscount Bridport, committed suicide in a shucking and most determined manner in this parish on Friday. It appears that the young fellow worked as carpenter for his father, his workshop being situated in the rear of his parent's house in Back Lane. About 3 o'clock on Friday afternoon a neighbour heard the report of a gun, and went out into the street to see if anything was happening there. As all was quiet in the street he directed his attention to Mr. Hodder's workshop, and onlooking through the window saw Joe Hodder lying on the floor with a gun by his side. The man went at once to Mr. Hodder's house and told the young fellow's mother and sister that "Joe " had shut himself. The mother and daughter went to the workshop, where a most ghastly and horrible sight presented itself, the room being bespattered everywhere with blood and pieces of flesh, ",Jos" lying stretched out upon the floor with the greater part of his head blown off. P.C. Morgan, who, curiously enough, was on his way to the workshops to see the deceased, soon arrived, and found that the dreadful act had been committed with an old "converted " rifle, the muzzle of which deceased had placed to the left side of his face whilst he pulled the trigger with one foot. In order to do this he had made a loop in a piece ot rope which he had passed over the hammer, but as the loop was rather too large deceased must have held the end of the cord with one hand whilst he pressed downwards upon in with his foot. The effects of the explosion which ultimately occurred—for, as it will be seen, four attempts at it were made—were truly awful. There was scarcely a space of a foot within the walls of the shop which did not bear a spot of blood or a portion of flesh. On the bench was a letter in deceased's handwriting which read as follows :  Friday. To ALL My BELOVED ONES,—I am just going to write a few lines before I do this dreadful crime, and may it please God to forgive me for doing the suite. ou will find a cartridge in my pocket, with which I have made two attempts to shoot myself, but the next is the fatal one. I wish all my sisters, brother, mother and father, peace, joy, happiness, and health, in this world 1111,1 the nest.  Please let Jane hear of this as calmly as you can, so you might not frighten her; also give my love and hest wishes to all my old mates and chums.— From your ever loving 9011,