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The Warwickshire Herald. — 1896-03-05 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

RISKY MUD-BATH.  - At Bow-street, on Monday, before Mr.Lusliinston, Witten Brown, • (tenth manly-looking man, brink at Edgii s on, near thriningliam, was charged viii be ng chunk an, a.temiting to commit suicide.— Police." n table 74, Thames Police, eta ed that co 8 turday eve. log he was on the Embankment plsin when be saw the prisoner diesj pe over the wall by Cleopatra's Needle. He r..ti down the steps, and saw yrieoner, apparentl Weep, lying up to his neck in mud. Prison,. open. d his eyes, and said, sleepily "Are you b policeman?" "Yes," said witness, blowing Ili whiele. • 'Mathes policeman came up. The twi got into • boat, and getting as near to the prisons. as hey seta d, they contrrenced to 11.11 for him witi• a hook. It took them 20 minutes, but they got him out ai Isar. Luckily the tide was out at the time, for almost immedia ely afier the incomin. tide coverer' the hole where he had been.— Prisoner said he was very sorry. He was not use.. to drinking, nod he knew he had taken too much, but he could rrn.e.. her nothing of what the policeman had des, rib. Mr. Luanne on fined the prisoner 10s. for being chunk, and discharged • him on the count of sties p ed suicide.  Dr. Bridge, the famous Westminster Abbey organist, lives in the Littlingtou Toner of thr Lb ey cloi,teia, and sleeps in the old prior's surom, bears the date 1364. Ile is au entliusiaatm angler.  It is sts ed that a syndicate has been formed and arr ngementa made for the development i f the resuutves ut thi Halkpu Mountains, near Holywell. It ia reported that an American-English avid', a., has arranged to tuild the Hankow-Pekin Railway. The Con•cniess Chinese will subscribe largely. During the work of excavation at Hooton Roberts Church, near Kilnliurst, the remains of the HAI of Strafford have been found, and, notwithatanuing the lapse of time since his tragic death, the skull was in a good state ix pi enervation, containing a cont lete set of Ahe tenth. There were the remnants ot crinit.o vrivet upon what was originally a very elegant coffin. This coffin and that 01 L d Stradord , weie cuar., unexpectedly found side by side, only six In bee under the ,hatroal door. "My darling, Providence is with you even when , I take the candle away." "Well, mother dear, woul3 .ciu mind taking Providence and leaving the I cardie?"  - - "So you feel you canint marry him?" "Yea, I am fully decided." "Why, don't you like him ?" "Oh, I like him well enough, but I can't get him lo In pole." He: "Did you know that Jimkina had been living double life for the pact six monthe?" 81ie: “No. 'flie horrid wretch!" He: "Yea; he gave up du& iife wheu he got married."
Blandford Weekly News. — 1889-01-05 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

MISUSE OF TUE REVOLVER. A record gathered from the columns of the daily newspapers stews that during the y..4tr just closed the revolver was reeponsible ter at le at 92 deaths in Great Britain. Of these, ten were those of people murdered, and three those of murderers who expiated on the scaffold crimes committed with the revolver. Two murderers hove been oentenctel to death for the Tunbridge Wells .hooting case, and two others—Dr. Burke and a man who shot his sweetheart at Barnet —were Bente:lewd to death and reprieved. During the year there were no fewer than GO cases of suicide, including three of ten melt who bad committed or attempted to commit murder, end four clergymen. The fatal "accidents" 1111IllillAted ten. Numerouscases of shooting with intent occurred. The prosecutions under the Gun Licence Act hove been very few, and as it is unreasonable to expect people to pay lbs. a year for a licence to carry a pistol, the act lo evaded wholesale. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, in introducing his Budget, threw out hints of legislation to meet the evil, but nothing has been done. Is the meantime an enterprising trader at B.M.lnßharn Is turning out cheap 'evolvers at the rate of 12,000 additional every year.  William Lane, an engineer's fit!er, of Chelsea, fell' ill. the wile went to the chemist's for come medicine. Before her husband could put it to his lips he fell back dead.  A convict named Harry Wyndham Carter, from Chatham prison, has appeared in the bankruptcy court at Chatham. He was brought to the court in a cab, handcuffed, sad in custody of two warders. He is described as late of Piccadilly and Kennington flail,A..a.t.rd, and the petitioning creditor claims £29,000. The debtor not only refused to answer questions, but even to be sworn. He seemed much affected, and sobbed out that the proceedings were an attempt on the part of a brother to rob him of his estate, and he would do nothing to promote the scheme. The proceedings were adjourned.  rue body of a young woman, named Dowan, recently employed at a galvanising works, has been .bscovered in the canal at Wolverhampton. She had ol.m her a piece of paper containing the Lord's aver, and at the foot of it were written the words, "Lend have mercy on my soul.'' Dean Bradley preached to a large number of chit. 'ben who assembled in Westnunster Abbey on •,,,ocents'-day, for the usual commemoration service. ;.• devoted his remarks to the life of Edward the I.le,sor, who built the original Abbey at West, ~::.bterp.d had it consecrated on day.  A
Weekly News. — 1890-08-21 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

DISTRESSING CASE OF  SUICIDE.  -1 distressing case of suicide came before the Buxton oroner on Tuesday relative to the death of Mary Jane Coatea, wife of the manager of the Manchester and County Bank, Buxton. Mr. Coates said he breakfasted with his wife at nine o'clock on Tuesday morning, and afterwards left her alone in the house, the servant being away. When he returned to dinner he found her hanging to the bed-post dead. She had suffered much from depression of spirits, and on one occasion had wandered aimlessly all day on Fairfield Common. He found the following letter on the dressing table : " My darling,—lt is no fault of yours, but became I cannot live like this. God bless you, and help you out of your difficulties. You have been one of the best of husbands, and true to all the work you have taken in hand, my ditrling."—A verdict of suicide whilst temporarily insane was returned.  Lord WimbOrne, abr has heen in Switzerland for nearly ~ 'nth, Joined Lady Winthorne last week at Canford Manor, Dorsetshire, and they have wince proceeded to Westerdale Han, in the North }tiding of Yorkshire, which they have taken for the autumn, along with an extensive range of shooting. When Lord Wirnborne leased Aehnashellach, his deer-forest in West Roas.shire, to Mr. Cooper, he arranged to take Beaufort Castle, Lord Lovat's place in Inverness-shire, for five .searw, along with the Beauty fishingn and the forests of Callan:: and Fuirlue; but he has new sublet all this to Mr. van Andre. _ . . .  The Duke of Clarence and Avondale had to give up his viait to Cortaehy, a hbh ,Aused great disappointment to the wend people of Forfarshire, Ile is, says the World, now at Mar Lothre. and those who have seen him any he is looking very ill and wretched, and much pulled down by the mysterious ailment from which he has been suffering, and which has evidentl3 weakened him a good deal. Th. Duke of Fife met him at the station with hie brake and drove him to Milt, where he ail] remain for the present. The Duke of Fife la receiving a few people, but not many, w it is early for the stalking. Miss Julia Htonor has been sta.) ing with the //ache', at Mar Lodge fur some time pant.
Weekly News. — 1890-07-17 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

DISASTER IN NOVA SCOTIA.  A telegram from Halifax, Nova Scotia, states that 700 rnemwomen, and children were precipitated into the water while they were waiting for the ferry steamer. When the steamer had come within two feet of the dock eeverel persons jumped aboard from the landing-stage, which was • floating bridge. The weight concentrated at the end of the bridge and the extra pressure caused by the people springing on to the boat, parted one of She supporting chains, and the bridge went down I gradually but swiftly, the horror-atrioken crowd sliding off into the harbour from the deacending incline. They were piled up one upon anuther,shtieking as they went down, and many were choked from pure inability to rise to the top in consequence of the bodies above pressing them down. About a score of men came to the rescue and pulled the •iotione out of the water as fast as possible, passing them along to strong hands on to the wharves above. lOther spectators threw • few life preservers down among the struggling of drowning people,while others in their excitement pitched heavy timbers into the Water, etriking the unfortunates on the Lead and adding to the horror of the scene. Ifost of She men in the water were able tours, themselves by swimming, but the women and children struggled helplessly in the human sea. Families were so completely separated that it WAX impossible for fathers to aid their drowning wives and children, and therefore the greatest number of fatalities occurred among the letters A great fire broke out on Baturday evening in a I:,rete timber ye"' in the Stuniboul quarter of Con. stmiiinople. The flumes, fanned by a strong wind, tut,i extended to other adjacent yards, and to the .eirruituding luildinge. By nine in the evening about 9CO houses and ehope were destroyed, and, despite t“e effort. of thin fire-brigade, the conflagration chewed no signs of abating.  Two suiciilrs took ',lima almost simultaneously in Paris on Mstiirdsv Mi. Anselm Halphen, the _  serte!nry of Count Camondo, blew his brains out, whilst John Pitt, who was the Count's favourite' j,eltev, coinuottcd suicide in the earns way. Mr. II ;Option's 1101)1 net was due to money losses at the Remo., whilst Putt's motive appears to have been a doisppoititnient In love.  • . The completion in reported of the largest Itunsian ship, which in to belong to the no-called "patriotic "in the Block Sea. It has been built at the dicta Docks in Elbing, and is a despatch boat' long 1-y 11t. bro.'. At the first trial of it, •I it run 20 knots an honr. The vennel is to be •••! the Adtvr, and at she moue docks three gun. .Yn are butaluig tor Rusin&
Weekly News. — 1890-05-29 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

ALLEGED CONSPIRACY IN MEXICO. From San Francisco comes a report to the effect that an elaborate expose of an alleged conspiracy to wrest the Peninsula of Lower California from the Mexican Government, and to found an independent Rsoublia with ultimate annexation to the United Wates, has just ham made. The revelation, if true, involves a number of prominent citizens of an Diego, which seems to have been the headquarters of the filibusters. Evidence to establish the truth of the revelation is sad to be in the possession id the Government officers. The power behind the move. went is alleges! t., be • Land Colonisation Company, composed tit wealthy Englishmen owning or controlling concessions on the Peninsula, made by the Mexican Government to another company. For several years She affairs of both the Coll:pAllic,* are said to have been in a complicated condition. due to the fact that the Mexican officiate, from the Governor down, have Viten bleeding the lite out of them, to circumvent which the company claims it has been forced to spend thousands of dollars, and their salvation. it is asserted, depends on annexation to the Cuited States. An outline of the allied eonspaacy was tor that company to place 100,0tiOdol. in this hands of San Diego capitalists as &Mews of war, and a large warehouse corn• pany at Ensenada was to be tilled with arms, and food for the use of the filibaster*. The capture of Ensenada was planned, and the officers having been made intoxicated, thy Mexican nian.of.war llentoerata was to have been seized. The coati ity.f was to have been made on August Ist. Api ores,' I Government had been rawn up, and martial law was to beenfor,od . It isaid the conned aas to consist of 15, and the admiuistrative'officers had already been selected and the flan adopted. It is alleged that Colonel Edward Hill is in .:lew York buying munitions of war.  A man was found lying among the graves at St Nlary's Cenistery,Doser,on Friday morning, with ho throat cut. Tire body has been identified as that a labouring man named Ilan, who had befit out of work for sonic time part, and has, in consequence, lwen in a very &spooling state of mind. It is supposed that he COlllllll t tbd suicide, as a blood-stained razor was found among some shrubs near by.  - - - A shocki g accident has ...curved st Faversham Powder Works, to James Whitehead, mill
Weekly News. — 1889-12-26 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

SELF-FlEPPE,T.—lfistresa (from the parlour): "Bridget, the front door bell has rung three times. Why don't you answer itr—Bridget (from the kitchen): "Sure, mum, if Oi opened it the furst ring, paple wud say Oi did nothing but find tho dun, an' Oi wudn't have any wan think me that lazy." Moo. BURKS : "Now, why on earth, Fred, don't you come home every evening to tea, instead of . vrasting your time and spending your money with thoec horrid City men ?"—Mr. Blirka "Why, my dear, I'm more eonsiderate of your friends. I'd sever know what my neighbours said about zoo if you didn't receive them alone." "TELL me, Mr. Budge," salmi the College tutor of the man of genius, "how would you deine the word ' buoyancy ? '"—The poet reflected far a moment. Then he replied, in tones of calm oonfidance "According to Douglas Jerrold. He said, 'Dogmatism is the maturity of puppyism.' I conclude, therefore, that buoyancy is the maturity of Infancy."  17, London correspondent of the Freeman's Jour. not understands tbat Mr. Parnell's indieposition is not of a severe character, but sufficient to render it unadvisable that he should run the risk attendant upon addressing a public meeting. On Sunday he book a chill, which confines him to the house. At the London County Sessions, on Monday, P. H. Penton pleaded guilty to attempting suicide by shooting himself with a revolver in a first-class oarrage of the London, Brighton, and South Coast Rai:wey. After an appeal from his counsel, who said that a tit of acute neuralgia had induced temporary madness,and that he now realised the serious nature U. the crime, he was discharged on his ow u moil:unease, his uncle haying promised to look alto kin  A prisoner, named '1 hompeon, awaiting trial on several charges of theft at Knutsford Prison has just mad* a sensational confession, accusing himself of causing the death of Lance-Corporal Marshall who was found drowned in the canal near  Chester in the summer of 1885. H. -.aye he querroll,. with Marshall and they went to the canal aide to fight. Marshall was getting. the best of it when the ~risoner said, "There is • shilling on the ground." Marshall stooped to pick it up, whereupon the • .soner pushed him into the canal and held him under the water till he was drowned. An open verdict had been returned at the inquest on the body. T'. are investigating the matter.
Blandford, Wimborne and Poole Telegram. — 1876-09-08 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

MAN.  A 's tin' sail case of attempted suicide occurred on Tuesday evening in a railway carriage between Maiden Newton and Evershot. Ni. J. Barge, a yotim: man of about *27, who was formerly an assistant in Mr. T. Bennett's shop, and afterwards for Mr. W. Bishop, High East-streiet, Dorchester, was a passenger .from Dorchester to Maiden Newton by the 7.55 pm. train. After leaving Mr. Bishop's he took a small temperance hotel with a shop attached at Bridport, but after a few months this proved to he an unsuccessful attermpt, and he was compelled to give up business. This seems to have somewhat preyed upon his mind, and his despondency was increased by the fact that it was deemed advisable by them that his wife, to whom he had been- married but a little while before leaving Dc.ixibester, and by whim there was one child.. should lii a time resiile with friends, whilst he would seek fresh employment. We hear that this suggestion was acted upon. aml a lady of the town very kindly assisted then; in this respect. But, although somewhat elespeineling, there was le thing in his manner to lead his friends to suspect that he would commit such a rash act as that which he did on Tuesday. •Leaving Cs friends on Tuesday evening he appeared in his usual spirits and he seems to have taken his ticket for Maiden Newton all right. Riding in the same carriage was a young huh, who alighted at the latter -place, and so should have Barge, but he seems to have been "MI suicide bent," and reek by his destination. • Reaching Eversheit an official notice-id a nem lying on • the seat of the carriage, and concluding he was asleep -aroused him, when to his horror he discovered that the unfiirtunate man had cut his throat in a frightful manner, and that the floor of the carriage was covered with blood. Assistance was at once procured. and the poor fellow was taken to the Railway Hotel which is close liv, and every effort used to staunch the -Newel. Medical assist:ewe was summiined, and Dr. Clapcott, of Evershot, attended, 21141,sewed up the wieund. Be had list a great quantity id hi iii, and ' was very weak. The windpipe hail been penetrated, but none of the main arteries hail been iin tired, ordeath must have resulted. A search was after. %%tiaras made for the instrument with which the wound had been made, but none could be :banal ; and the supposition is that Barge cut his throat soon after leaving Maiden Newton and threw the weapon out of the window. It was fortunate that he was discovered so early and thus his life spared. The carriage was detached and detained at Evershot, imiel the police were communicated with. Mr_ Stmt. Batty on Wednesday visited the unfortunate Juan, and he was on the same evening in a fair way of 'recovery. It was expected that he would be removed to the Dorset County Hospital on Thursday. Mr. Barge was well known and respected in Dorchester—was formerly ' superintendent of the Primitive Methodist Sunday School. and has for seven or ebdtt years taken an active iiart in the temperance movement, and much sympathy is felt with his friends.
Blandford, Wimborne and Poole Telegram. — 1876-02-25 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

SHOCKING SUICIDE OF A PRISONER.  On Monday last week William Halt, aged 41, who described himself as a gentleman, and who gave the address Dunstan Villa, Tenbury, Worcestershire, was brought up on is warrant charged with uttering a forgo,: cheque for £l5, and thereby defrauding- Mrs. Mm-y Ana Gregory, of the Norfolk Hotel and Witte Company, Norfolk-square, l'addington.—The accused, now decease. I, 11;,1 been stopping at the above hotel for some time, and had been pressed for payment by Mrs. Grogory. He stated as an excuse that he was disappointed through his lawyer, Mr. Pawle, not mending hint money. Mrs. Gr-gory lent him during his stay at the hotel various stuns of money, which amounted in all to £l9. His wife and children were also staying in the hotel. Ile gave Mrs. Gregory a cheque drawn on the London and County Dank, Covent-gardeu Branch, and it was returned, bearing '• No account." The Very day he had given the cheque for £l5 he gave an order on his lawyer for £6O, which WIIS not In moored. Another cheque for 10. was drawn on the London and County Bank, and given to the billiard marker of the hotel in payment of bon owed money for the use of the billiard table. The prisoner never had any account at the London and County Bank, and on Saturday last he was taken jut) custody, and the magistrate, on the application of Mr. Sampson, ref used to take bail tor the prisomw's appeal-sine. —On the case being called Monday, Mr. Lyall, the second clerk, read a certificate stating that the deceased died in the House of Detention at ten o'clock on the 19 dm instant. Mr. Liggins said he was instructed to prosecute the deceased, who was n captain in the army. He had been told that the prisoner had committed suicide by cutting his abdomen open with a knife which was given to him to eat his feud with on Wednesday last.—Mr. D'Eyncourt said it was a sad ending tif the case, and the matter then dropped.  A most brutal kicking case has hist come to light it Bulwell, a little village a few miles from NsAtinginum A navvy, named Enoch Kinder, went home drunk and quarrelled with his wife. His stepdaughter, who was tar advanced in pregr,ancy, interfered, and in cun,equence the man swore at her, and then kicked her so violently in the stomach that she died the same night.
Blandford, Wimborne and Poole Telegram. — 1874-07-03 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

SUICIDE OF THREE LADIES. done honour to their native uounty--(applause). But there A triple suicide has just taken place at Vienna, under were sights not less grateful to a young man in his position sad circumstances. Three lathes, the eldest appearing to then the finest works of art or the noblest edifices that be the mother of the other two, took a bedroom at the architects could raise, and that WAS when he saw gathered I Kurumer hotel. The next morning they went out for a around him, as he did that day, SO many of his attached friends short time, and on their return, after having takezuea and tenants—a sight of living, active, energetic, and he hoped slight repast, retired to their chamber. Shortly afterwards prosperous men, in whose welfare his existence WaS ereatly several detonations were heard in that apartment, and on liound up, and men whose happiness and prosperity- depended the door being broken open the three women were found in a great measure upon the discharge of those dutice and of lying dead on the floor, each with a pistol in herhand, and that respeusibility to which by his remarks he had shown 1 t eir skulls fractured by the bullets. Subseittiently they himself so fully alive and of which he was so fully sensible-- were recognised as Mchne. Gyorgy, the eife of a trades(applause). They hailed that day with great pleasure. as One . man of Tordy, in Hungary, completely ruined by the late to which they had looted forward long and anxionsly. They financial crisis, and her .two daughters. No rings or trusted it was the beginning of a happy life to hint They ! jewellery were found on them, and the only property they hoped —nav, they felt confident —that he would tread iii the : posaessed besides their clothes wits the sum of 4, kreutzers steps of those who had gone before him, who haul won the (31 centimes each) in the mother's purse. hearts and the affections of their numerous tenantry, and that . they would find in him the same kind, straightforward, and , AN