The Weymouth, Portland and Dorchester Telegram. — 1883-09-07 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

NBOLECT.—BIAD CAS. —On Tueeday an adjourned impoet nu held et West Coker, near Yeovil, before Mr. Trevor Davies, deputy mon, toughing the death of Ellen Butcher, aged fore year, daughter of • lebeurer named George Butcher, front alleged neglect. The huh of the cue weregiven last week. The inquiry wee adjourn° Ifiir the attendance tot the father, who h a widower, and who now eteted that be wee obliged to leave the parish to seek work in lborratshire, and could not afford to pep a woman to lock after the children. Ile told the children when he Ititt home to fetch a doctor. He believed the youngest child would die, tie could not get her to take anything. The jury, after coneelfing fin • quarter of an hour, returned • verdict that the deceased died from natural causes, and that the father deeerved rename. Butcher we, calle I in and severely censared by the coroner for leaving hie family ia charge of such a young chill Botcher in • poor ignorant labourer, who seemed unable to decide what he ahoold to with the children dill loft. BV A YEIVIL Max—At the Matterion Bono Police Court on Friday Henry Get Cord wag brought before Alderman Si, Andrew Ludt, M.P., charged with attempting to commit suicide. The circumstance., of the cam were of a womewhat peculier cherecter.—A Sergeant of the City Police deposed that at one o'clock on Timidity morning he wae on duty on Blackhire Itridge. Ho ow tier along riml gosticulating wildly, and be wen apperently engaged in c mvereatt on with Immo ihmeZaralLrolbrolliim'slerllTaberWfleetobtrrlgrfarnt witneev seised hold of him anti dragged him back. He beheved very vielently, and seemed to be under the improaion that anemone wan calling to him from the river, end he attempted to jump over the bridge in order to join the individual. Oa the way to the polieeistetioe, he preyed and swore alternately, and whim. bed diecorere.l that he had orb, been Mw charged from the Houton Hoare Private Lunatic Asylum on Weineeday laet.—Sir Andrew Lusk okerl how he cone to be discharged while in mach e cond. Hon. The police officer replied that be wee discharged AA cured. The primmer had no home mil no friends in London, and he mined as if he hal been wandering Mout since hie discharge horn the asylum. Dr. Green, a medical man, who had been called to eaarnine the tirleoner, eanrewed an opinion that he wee undoubtedly of uneound mind. The man Named Cu be labouring under the &limbo that armee°ot was calling to him from the water, and acting under that hallucination he triad to throw himeelf rover the bridge in order to ic that perm, The prisoner bed botnicidel tandem's, and witnese thought lie should be pieced under proper control, otherwise he would probably do some injery either to himaelf or to some one elo.—lteplying tc goodieee put hy Sir Andrew Lusk, the prisoner teal lois mistime lived neer Yeovil, rand he was a atommoon by oncupation.—Mr. Webb, one of the relieving officers of the City of London Union, gave evidences, to the primmer being chargeable tie the Corporeti Si, Andrew Leek hunker! whetter, It wait il for e pauper lunatic tote Rent to a private serviette like the Roden House Lunatic Artylom.—Mr. Webb replied that it wee very often done.—Sir Andrew Buck coked he yahoo authority patient would be Becher:el o cured.—Mr. Webb replied that he nupposeti it would he done on the authority of the medical officer. of the estahliehment—Sir Andrew Luck thought it was very unusual for a pauper hustle to be gent to a riots %ilium, and he considered that the guarillane welt proper retinae to mercies authority in the matter. Ile ordered the prisoner to be sent to the City it Iced, balletic Asylum at Stone, cuter Dartford.