Bridport, Beaminster, and Lyme Regis Telegram and Dorset, Somerset, and Devon Advertiser. — 1880-02-06 (Bridport, Dorset, England)

SITPPOSED SUICIDE OF A SERVANT AT WEYMOUTH. On Suaday manias Joseph Hart was walking at Greenhill, and observed in the ma what appeared to bs • sailor's bed. However, as • wave lifted the °hint he found It to I -be the bedy of • woman. P.C. Haines was on the beach 1 at the time, and at coos identified it as the body of ayoung wanes named Catherine Monies for whom he was and win had been Washer from Jordan Farm. Presbers. the c Sas nista The body was at ones labia le the Park and Dr. Rhoda at once sent for, but Mi goor woman h evidently been dead some hours, hiill was held es Monday synths at the Park H MoT;B.. N. Howsrd, Esq. The jam were :—Kr.. Jo Gorman). and Minors B Tinder. Burch. .T. R. S. Martin, J. Pickard, J. Keeley J. Hotri, T. Drayton • Cook. C. .T. Hughes. and J. Smith. Polio, Sergeant Goatee, stationed at Radipals, said on Saturday last he went to Mr. Charles Soutt's at Jordan Farm. Preston. where the deceased was • servant, saw her in the kitchen. and told her and the other servant dud Mr. Scutt had been losing money, and he had called me in. Told them he wished to en over their bons, if they were quite agreeable. Neither of theta objected, and he then wait upstairs with the nurse. Her pockets were Int turned out, and then he went with her to her bedroom and searched the room thoroughly, but found nothing in her boxes belonging to Mr. Scutt. At this time the demand was in the kitchen with Kr. Scutt. whilst Krs. Britt had accompanied in the search is the nurses room. The pockets of the deceased were az= bat he found nothing, and in her bedroom he several things, but her box was locked. She had forgotten where she had put her keys. I told her the box wield haw to he opened • but in the first top drawer of the kitchen dresser he found the bunch of nye, as well ea °aft key lemma The box was then unlocked in the Presence of Kra. Scutt, and he took out various articles but Mrs Scutt could not identify any of them. In the box was also • small one, which was locked, and a "till" forming part of the big box was also locked. I found in the box ZS 3s. fkl.. and in a puree Lathe " tur 2a ad. Nose of It was marked. Went to Mr. South's bedroom, tried the keys, and found one of them unlocked the cash-bes and the loose key unlocked the outer drawer of • chest of drawees In Mr. ficutes room. The deosaen was present an the time. They then went to the kitchen, and he went to Mr. Scutt's room. Whilst there he heard that the deceased had gone out of the beck-door with her hat on, and with Mr. Senn he went out to find her, but did not suaned. Did not see her again until she wee taken out al the water at half-past eight the next morning. gator. 1 day night wee very dark and rather misty. There is no . protean* from the beech. In answer to Kr. Pickard, witness said the deceased ' was quite willing that her box should be searched. John Wears, the sweetheart of the deceased: I am in Kr. Scott's employ at Jordan Fans I sew the donned at eight o'clock on Saturday night, in the faros-yeed, sear the stables. I was talking to her about ten minutes. We to see each other the next evening at six o'clock. trirgaOlVil a walk. She seemed in her -usual health sad in good spirits. As far al I inald see there was nothing amiss with her. She was shoot Ed years of age, and belonged to Yintinkull, near Yeovil. Dr. Rhodes: I saw the deceased yesterday morning. about nine o'clock, immediately upon her being brought to the Park Hotel. She wee quite dead, and lied been deed for some hours no doubt. There were no marks of violence on her body, and there was every appearance that she had died from drowning. Jospeh Hart, labourer, spoke to the finding of the body. Kr, Charles Scutt said : I am • farmer Urns at Jordan Ferm, and the damned was a general servant in asi weiplag aims Illarth last. I had recently alined mew at Minn WWI, and the last was between fin tied erns en Seilenday. My anspicdons were moused in consequence of. drawer heeler been apend, information of whisk was gives him by his wife. I was accustomed • to  keep my money in • cesh-box in the drawer in my bedroom. It was locked at fiva o'clock and at half-pest it was unlocked. I had gone to Dorchester in the morning, and on my return at seven, upon being told the drawer was unlocked, I examined the cash-box, in which he had put pome marked money. Ile found a marked florin had been taken. I met Sergt Coates at eight and brought him to the house, as he has stated. I was afterwards present with Coates, the deceased and my wife in my bedroom, and saw the sergeant unlock my cash-box with one of the keys on the bunch which belonged to the deceased; and the drawer with the loose one. I did not see the deceased leave the house. I helped to search for her, and went half -a - mile on the road, to try and find her. The next morning I saw tracks and • gate opened will& led me to suppose the decamped had gone through the field in the direction of the cliffs. When Coates went upstairs with the nurse and Mrs. Scott I saw the deceased go to the drawer and put away several kitchen cloths. It was in this drawer that the keys were found. The marked florin was afterwards found in the drawer where the keys were. In answer to a juryman: I had taken my key of the caPh-box with me to Dorchester. Continuing, witness said the deceased was a good servant. She was never very cheerful, in fact he had never seen her smile in his life. Verdict—" Found Drowned."