The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1876-02-08 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

STOKES AND TIIE WHITECHAPEL MURDER. ; At the meeting of the Psychological Society on Tltursalar night—Mr. Serieant Cox presiding—the secretary, Mr. F. I K. Munton, reel the report of an interview which be had with the man Stokes, for the purpose of sifting tin. ' evidence as to the voices which Stokes said bad informed him of the murder of Harriet Lane, He found the witnea. tole intelligent, and by no nuttn. so illiterate as the public report., of his evidence would indicate. Ile stated that he himself was the author of his published letter, which was thou 'lit to be beyond his powers of diction—he intended It who private, awl did not know how or why the goal authorities perni;ttssl its publication. Prom Stokes' narrative it appeared !hut he fancied himself Posses*ed of a kind of ••segond sight," as the Scotch cull it : ho imagined Shat whenever he dreasusel of his deceased mother, trouble of some kind followed. On the night before the eventful tiatunlay when Wainwright vs. taken into custody, he had a vivid stream of conversing with his mother; he was consequently depressed, and in the course of the day told his wife that lie was out of sorts, bad no appetite, and was sure that something unpleasant was going to happen. Igster in the day, when he looked at the hornble parcel. h. he seemed to hear a diginct voice by his side say throe I times—" Open that parcel r He could have worn that I somebody behind bins uttered the words, and turned round to look, but could see no one, and tried to dismisc ' the thing as al.tlfd. The voice startled him again with the same words. He opened the parcel, and could never ' forget the horrible feeling that crept over him when he saw its contents. Ile dosed it up, and Wainwright noticed his confusion, saying "What's the matter I Yon ; haven't touched that parcel, have you r' To thia he .eplieq, [don't ftel veil nd Law: had na tea.- Wainwright said. "Why, is isn't Line yet,'' and he (Stokes) replied, "All, but I didn't get my dinner either." Stokes adds that he slid not attsnupt to explain to the Court ; several thing*, because if lie made the slightest mistake ; the lawyers badgered him so that lie was afraid to say I anything.  A worn-out parent iu Chicago has mimed his baby both. Iswause he has murdered sleep. While • Selinsgrove iniuLter wa.s in the midst 0( his di.coayse a young man opened the church door, and stood there casting furtive glances over the congregation. The clergyman paused, gave the youth a withering glance, and remarked " Go out, young man ; she's not here." He went out. Such thoughtfulness on the pare of the clergyman would save young men much trouble p,nd anziety in more claws than tiglinagroie A. distressing suicide ot a young 14,1 y. Miss Luke, the daughter of the late Hey. Samuel Luke. of Pembroke Chapel, Clifton, near Bristol. WM discovered on Friday nioruing. Deceased, who was &Isn't 23 years of age, had interested herself, it is stated, with the woman', suffrage question, had been much given to study, and latterly had been rather eccentric in her manner. Her body was found in a pond near Itedland-green, not far from her residence. _  PaILINGIC