The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1869-06-15 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

THE DORSET COUNTY EXPRESS, TUESDAY, JUNE 15, 1869.  ANOTHER DRE iDFUL SUIOIDR AT wsTmouTri. The suicidal mania appears to be Wageless In this luality, and we have now to record the fourth deeth lately in the district produced by delirium tremens, and also the [earth Weld*, If that at the poor woman 'Mulcting. in Ouolineplace, be reekceed se one, although it does not belong to the group of gaieddee from drink. On Thursday last, • man was observed loiter. in the neighboarhood of the Portland Railway, near the Ferry Bridge. Towards the end of the afternoon be sew the 4.15 train from Portland atterneeklati sod ran with arms stretched out on to the line of rails, and stood erect in front of the mains. Had he not run very fast, the train would have teased the pleat Won be could have got there, and, as it was the engine wan almost immediately upon hint, though the driver adopted every means to lei him know the danger, and to check the train. The halter plank streak him, the en gin went over kim. and when the train was stopped, and the affrighted spestaters went to the spot, they found a men with his forehead battered in, and his brains seattared over sleeper and WI. After being satisfied that he was gaits dead, the plate-layers near carried him on • trolly-board to an outhouse of the Royal Victoria Inn. It was found that his forehead was beeten In, one arm and owe leg were broken, him boots torn off, and some of the toes severed from the fut. He vu next day idectified so a shoemaker named Joseph Hill, who had been for 13 years in the employ of Messrs. Rolls, of fit Mary-street, as • " weenies-man," or maker of ladies' boots and shoes. He lived at Quiet-place, Rest-strut, ' and wee very intelligent and even allover in his work; but has often given way to Intemperance, It %years that no little as half-a-Mat would affect his brain, and when be began he woad generally Satoh with a driak• lag bout. The last three weeks be had not been at work, bat indulging In drink. and Dashed brought on an attack of delirium tremens, of which he had a severe St the night before. The affair happened jut before the point . here the Portland Railway emerges from between beaks to the open ground before craning the Fleet. Here part of the brains of the poor fellow WWII 0001116111(1 beneath a small heap of shingle on the line, and two or three great stains of blood marked the path by which the body was carried towards the Ina. Ohne to the spot where it happened is a notice board warning persons not to titmouse on the line ; but this seemed quite to be disregarded, u • footpath led up to the rule on one aide, and from them or the other, plainly showing that many persons are used at least to cram the use at this pmitt, In feat the line is frequently used as • occemee foot road between Weymouth and Portland. The inquest WU held on Friday afternoon, at the Royal Victoria Inn, Ferrybridge, before B. Lock, Esq., deputy eoroaer, and • jury of whom Mr. William tiarbidge wee foreman. The body was littered on the head, arms, leis, and feet, and some of the toes were cut off.—Mr. Arnold, stationmaster for tbe South-W.)4cm at Weymouth, and Mr. Targett, station-muter at Fortlend, weryjiresent, satin.spector Mori ben represented the Great astern Railway ompany. Thomas Caudwell, driver of the enene which struck down deceased, said he drove the engine from Part • laid to Weymouth for the South-Western Railway Company. Yesterday afternoon he left Portland shout 4.15, and when be dad goes over the railway bridge aloes by (overthe mouth of the Fleet water), be saw a men tame down the beak, and place 'limos'( in the middle of the "foot-foot" of the line the engine woe panting over. Witness woe about 40 yetis from biro, and he opened the whistle, shut off the steam sed untied the break, as quickly as he possible could. Deceased took no nodes whatever, but merely turned his head rotted, and hang it down. Be was needing sideways towards the engine, and the middle of the front buffer plank struck him, and threw him *eau wondered,* distends, knocking him down oa the