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The Telegram. — 1893-10-24 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

SUICIDE OF A MINISTER.  On Thursday evening, an inquest was held by the district coroner (Mr. T. Foster Barham) on the body of the late Mr. Tyack, whom death was reported last week.—Bessie Tyack, daughter of deceased, stated that her father bad been very dePreated fur the last two or three weeks. Re had a severe attack of spasms about a fortnight or three weeks ago, but it passed away and left him rather low-spirited. That morning she went into the deceased's room about quarter to eight o'clock. She saw that he was not in bed, and it struck her that he had gone downstairs, as he often went down before witness. She was coming out of the room when she caught sight of her father on the floor. She called him twice, hut as he did not answer she thought something must be the matter with him, and she ran and called her sister, baying, "Father's by the aide of she bid; there must be aomething the matter with him." Her sister went into the room, came out and said, " Whatever has father done?' Her sister gut a kuife sod went back into the room. Witness also went in and her sister bad then cot the cord (produced) and was holding her fresher in her arms. The dec,..sed was sitting upright on the floor by the bed-post when witness first saw him. She was not in the room when her sister cut the cord. About two years ago the deceased lost his wife, and he seemed to have felt it very much, lied bad not regained his spirits. Deceased had suffered from a weak heart for the last six years, and he was in Butleigli Hospital six rare ego. The doctor then said that the deceased might go at any time, and gave no hopes of his recovering. Three years ago the deoefteed was ill acid had to be put away in Wells Asylum. Witness was not at home at the time, but she had heard , that he once tried to do violence to himself. She did not know it that was before Vier mother died.— Questioned by the foreman of the jury, witness said there had been nothing in demased'a manner , during the week to cause her anriety.—Bertha , Tyack, another daughter of deceased, corroborated 1 for the most part her sister's evidence. She said the cord was doubled, and tied in a slip-knot 1 around his neck, and fastened to the bed-post. 1 The cord was tight around his neck, and he was hanging by it. There was a dark mark around the neck. Her father was dead, but heves not I sold. Deceased had hems eery depressed a late.— Mary Somers, wife of Joseph Somers, of Canningtoe, stated that she laid out she body ef the diseased that morning. She found a mark, which was very plain, on the deceased's neck under the chin. She should think that the deceased was strangled by the cord produced.—ln answer to a juryman, witness said the room did not appear re if a struggle had taken place in it. The bed-poet was about 3ft. or 3ft. feu. in height. —The jury returned a verdict to the effect that deceased committed suicide whilst in a state of temporary insanity.
The Telegram. — 1893-10-24 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

SUICIDE OF A PAUPER.  Sir R. N. Howard, coroner, held an inquest on Wednesday evening, at the Union Workhonse, on the body of a pauper inmate named Geo. Cork, who earlier in the day jumped from one of the infirmary ward windows into the yard beneath, a distance of 35 feet, sustaining such injuries as to cause death shortly afterwards. No one actually saw the deceased, who was 67 years of age jump from the window, but on a pauper named Charles Wallbridge going into the closet he found his clothes, and on looking out of the window saw deceased on the ground. He 4are information to Henry Hoes, porter of the union, who, with assistance, picked up the deceased, who was then in an unconscious state, and removed him to one of the wards, but before this could be reached the man was dead.- Deceased bed always appeared contented, and had never shown any suicidal tem denciee.—Dr. Simpson, the medial officer of the union, stated deceased was admitted there on the 12th of April, 1892, remaining until June, when he left. At that time he was suffering from sciatica and rheumatism. He was re-admitted on the August following, when he complained of pains in his head and rheumatism. He had always expressed himself as content with his treatment at the house, and had never manifested any suicidal tendencies. The cause of death was fracture of the skull caused by jumping from the window whilst in a fit of temporary insanity.—A verdict in accordanes with these facts were then returned.— Mr. Polly Hooper, who was present 118 one of the guardians, expressed his pleasure at the appointment of Sir H. N. Howard as coroner for this division of the county, and hoped he would live many years to discharge its duties.—The foreman of the jury (Mr. G. Talbot) endorsed Mr. Hoopoe* remarks, and the eunmer thanked them for the kind way in which lie had been received, expressing a hope he should always be iu accord with the Juries with whom he came in contact.
The Telegram. — 1893-07-18 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

DURNOVARIAN SENT TO PENAL SERVITUDE.— Frederick George Butt (20), blacksmith, was indicted for art abominable offence at Wimborne, an the sth of April. 1893.—Prisoner at first •phaided not gutty, but afterwards withdrew this plea and pleaded guilty to an attempt. Mr. Foote defended, and called evidence to speak as to prisoner's ineutal condition.—His lordship deferred sentence. On Saturday, at the close of the other criminal cases, his lordship said he hail carefully read the depositions in the case and had considered the statements that had been made on behalf of the prisoner as to his mental condition, but the information he had got disposed of thenotion that the prisoner was suffering from anything at the time he committed the offence that would he likely to affect his Tonal. He would be sent to penal servitude for seven year, MAXIMUM Ptrii.silslsNT. William Legg, (29), MIMI% WAS indicted for a,saulting and illtreating Lily Ingram. aged 12 years, at Hinton Martell, on the 4th July, 1893. Prisoner was also charged with attempting to commit suicide at \Viiiri,orne Police-station an the 12th July. 1693. Prisoner denied the alleged assault, but pleaded guilty to the charge of attempted suicide.—Mr. C. Salter prosecuted. The jury found the prisoner guilty of the assault, and the prosecution did not proceed with the further charge of attempted suicide. His lordship (addressing the prisoner) said a cur like a Man Wile would assault a little girl would never have the courage to commit selfdestruction. suicide was not the act of a courageous man, but it was a different type of wickedness and had more manliness in it than such a contemptible crime as the prisoner had been found guilty of. The prisoner was not a man who would be likely to commit suicide, and there was no need for any anxiety about his hurrying himself into the next world. He had been charged at two previous Assizes with indecent assaults on women, and each time fur some reason or other Ile had been acquitted. But on the present occasion he had been found guilty, and he (the judge) would take care that he dish not come up at any assizes for this county or for any other assizes as long as he could prevent him. He would take care that he was lucked up and prevented from assaulting little children. In the Present case the prisoner took advantage of the absence of the parents of the little girl Ingram and entered the house and sought to ruin the child " body and soul." The children oi the poor who were subjected to these unmanly and cowardly assaults would be protected as long as he had the power to protect them, lie could not sentence the prisoner to Moe than two years imprisonment, otherwise he would. Sentence : Two years' with hard labour.
The Telegram. — 1893-03-28 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

GIUBBLE.TOIII4III I said if this bill is passed Ireland will not he governed by the same laws as England and Scotland, and I don't see what'shhe tue of establishing a separate legtslature for Ireland if they arc not to have separate laws. A Mr. C. E. ALLAN, maid to bail from London, pro. posed the following resolation :—'That this meeting of electors of South Somerset is of opinion that the bill for Home Rule for Ireland now beture Parliament would, if it became law, cause disorder and bankruptcy in Ireland. oppreision so the loyal minority in that country, and be a cause of weakness to England in her foreign and domestic relations ; and therefore enters a solemn protest against its enactment, believing it would be disastrous to England, to Ireland, and fatal to the honour of both."  Mr. WINMOUTIC who sailed the Home Rule Bill an infernal one, seconded the resolution, and the Rey. WRITE supported it. He did not believe for one moment, he said, that the Roman Catholics of Ireland were at all desirous of persecuting the Protestants of Ireland. It was not Roman Catholicism but Atheism which they had to fear in Ireland. The resolution was declared carried by a large majority, and Col. DurroN proposed the usual vote of thanks at the close.  No fewer than three suldiers have committed suicide within three days at Coblene. A iisastrous hurricane has passed over the New Hebrides and New Caledonia. Villages and plantations have Peen destroyed to the estimated value of 3,000,000 trance, and three-fool ths of the settlers are ruined.  M. Jules Ferry, who had recently been elected president of the French &mate, died in Paris from heart disease on Fridey evening. The news of M. Ferry's suelden death created a great sensation in the French capital.  A shrieking cane of suicide occurred on Monday morning on Clarence Parana, Southsea. Captain Edward Edwin bulled Olrltie,d, of the 3rd Foot, locked himself in his bedroom at Clarence House, and cut his throat from oar to ear.  CAltßilnlt e
The Telegram. — 1893-03-28 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

TIM LOCAL OPTION BILL.—We are informed that the friends of this measure are making arrangements to bold a meeting in the town shortly with a view to consider the provisions and to pass such a resolution as will tend to strengthen the hands of the Government in the difficult tack they have undertaken. The bill gives great satisfaction to the local temperance party, and inasmuch as Sunday Closing is also included in its clauses, it is hoped that the clergy and members of the Church of England Temperance Society will be well represented at the meeting. SUICIDE OF AN OLD Mair.--On Thursday after noon, a fisherman named William Marshallsay, aged 65, who lived at Love Lane, Weymouth, committed suicide by strangling himself with a , piece of yarn, which be had tied round his neck and fastened to the bannisters. It appears that the poor man had been suffering from depression I of spirits for some time, and had threatened to hang himself. He was discovered by his wife in the position described. Mr. A. G. Symonds held an inquest on the body at the Gordon Club on Friday afternoon, when a verdict was given in accordance with the above facts.  " FLOWIR or THE Wu LOInt, I.O.(.T.—The usual weekly season of tide lodge was held in toe Temperance Hall, Park Street, on Tuesday, Bro. W. Cook, 1) presiding, After the open. ing ceremonies three candidates (two male and one female) were duly, initiated into the order. A btietp recess was then granted, after which an official visit was paid by the officsts and members of the "flop, of Weymouth " Lodge, who were received with the usual honours, the programine for the evening being " Pound Night." A very pleasant and enjoyable evening was spent together. The lodge closed about 10.15 p.m. Bro. O. Lis• combe, C.T. of the "hope of Weymouth," was in the chair.
The Telegram. — 1893-02-28 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

LATEST NEWS. TERRIBLE TRAGEDY AT BARCELONA.  MURDER BY A MADMAN.  ATTEMPTED SUICIDE OF THE  ASSAILANT.  A tragic affair occurred at Barcelona on Friday. An Englishman, named Samuel Willie, a native of Yeovil, and agent in Barcelona fur Messrs. Watts, Ward, & Cu., of the tinited National Collieries, Cardiff, entered the office of Bofill Brothers, a prominent firm of coal match:Ante, and, drawing v. revolver, fired two shots at Senor Jose Buhl!. killing him instantly. The murderer then pointed his revolver at Senor Bofill's brother, and fired a third ehot, wounding him severely, alter which he rushed into the street, threatening everyone he met. Frhally be turned the revhlver upon bimeelf and pulled the trigger, but the weapon missed fire, and the assassin was then seized and handed over to the police. Aa regards the motive for the crime, it is stated that the prisoner bad had certain disputes with Signor Bohil in regard to accounts furnished by the firm. Since lie has been under arrest it is stated that he has again attempted to take his own life. The unfortunate man in a native of Yeovil, where he and his family are well-known and highly respected. Great sympathy has been manifested on all Bides towards them, and it is universally beiieved that Willie must have been mentally deraneed. He has been working long hours Litely, and many of his letters and telegraine to his firm have, of late, been of a most incoherent description. He in a widower with two children. His wife was a Spanish lady, whom he married in Spain, but she died some time ago at Yeovil, and was interred in the Yeovil Cenietery, Willie having a controversy with the Burial Board as to the inscription which he desired to place on the tombstone, and since then his sister had aeted as his housekeeper. He has furtive years been in the employ of Messrs. Watts, Ward & Co., of the United National Collieries, the Exchange, Cardiff, and for the last two years he has been acting as their representative at Barcelona He was regarded by his employers as a very efficient and active man of business. He had latterly been complaining of the difficulties of his position, and had appeared to be very much harassed thereby. He is highly respected in South Wales commercial circles, and also by the society of Plymouth Brethren, of which he was a member and under wham auspices he went to Barcelona in the first instance as a school teacher. His brother, Mr. George Willie, who is in the employ of Cory Bros. & Co., Limited. Cardiff, has proceeded to Barcelona. Mr. John Arthur Jones, manager for Messrs. Watts, Ward, & Co., has also left Cardiff for Barcelona.
The Telegram. — 1893-02-28 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE BY LUNGING. THE DRINK AGAIN.  Before the Mayor of Glastonbury, on Wednesday, Henry Bragg, a leather worker, of Grope Lane, near St. Benedict 'hutch, Glastonbury, a native of Yeovil, who lives with his wife and an agail mother of about 96 years, and who tins for some years past been a total abstainer from drink, was brought up in custody and charged with having attempted on Friday, the 17th inst., to commit suicide by hanging himself with a rope. Henry Withers, a shoe • maker, a neighbour of the accused, stated that on Friday, the 17th, he was leaving his house when he heard Mrs. Bragg crying loudly that her husband had hanged himself in the bath-house. He (witness) immediately ran to her, and in passing through the house he saw Bragg hanging by the neck in the back part of the premises. Having no knife he lifted the suspended body up while a woman canned Mrs. Toogood, who had also entered on hearing the cries, loosened the rope, which was not tied in a slip-knot but banging from a rafter like a awing and twisted twice over the neck. When they took hint down the accused was blue in the bee and totally unconscious. Dr. Blakiston deposed that on tieing summoned he went and found the man still unconscious, white in the face, but breathing heavily. He applied restoratives, and after some trouble succeeded in restoring consciousness. He had seen him several titnes since. On the first occasion he smelt very strongly of drink, but owing to his unconsciousness be could not tell whether he was drunk or not. He considered the accused was at present unfit to be left to hiniself. .•.• . . .  P.S. Fry said that. having ben informed of Bragg's suicidal act. he went to the house and found him in custody of P.C. Hinder. He had kept a constable to watch by hint ever since. He charged the accused with the offence about half-an-hour before he was brought to the court, and he replied "I don't know anything about it."  Accused told the Bench he knew nothing at all about it, and desired to he dealt with summarily, but was informed that the Bench had no juriadietion, and he was then remanded to the Petty Bunions on Tuesday. He was taken away in custody.
The Telegram. — 1893-09-05 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

DIN CHARGE AGAINST A SMALL POE " NORSE.-Thomas Taylor was charged on remand with being drunk and incapable, and assaulting P.C. Light in the execution of his duty on the 2nd inst.—The Mayor said the defendant ought to have taken what was given him for nursing small-pox patient and left the town.— Committed for seven days.  America in the only country which can boaat of a daily musical paper. Lord Roberta received the freedom of the city of Waterford on Friday. Tile annual National Dahlia Show opened on Friday at the Crystal Pala-:e. Mr. J. A. Nuuneley, a well.knewn Liberal, committed suicide by stnacting himself on Wednesday night, at Market Harborough. Lady Armstrong, wife of Lord Armstrong, died on Saturday night at their Newcastle residence after a abort illness, in her 86th year.  A large nuanber of roach, bream, jack, carp, and eels have been poisoned by some miscreants an the Farleigh district of the Kentish Medway, an i the tilh have been taken away in sackfuls.  A man fell overboard from the Ravenswood, which was on her return journey from Ilfracombe, on Saturday. I:fe was a splendid swimmer, however, and a boat being at once lowered,he was soon rescued.  The ainount of money in depositors' balance in savings banks in the United Kingdom on November 20th, 1E92, was over eleven and a-half millions. The amount in Government stocks was in round figures £112,000.  Paul Joly and Celestia Toly were at Brighton on Friday committed for trial on a charge of having obtained a large sum of money from William Thomas Childe Pardoe, described as a gentleman of _independent means, by threats.  The champion French cyclist, Charles Terront, who intends to ride from St. Petersburg to Paris, will start on September 15th. It will be no small feat, the distance being 1,770 miles, and the roads in Russia being the worst in Europe.
The Telegram. — 1893-09-05 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

SIMI. Reeves, now in his nat year, will, it is expected, emerge from his retirement and sing ia public again during the autumn.  On .Mondav, Mr. John Condor, a well-knows auctioneer. WA4 found dead in bed, having appal.. ently succumbed to heart disease.  Richard Beecham, who weighed 22 stone, died at Dover on Saturday. He was nimbi. and active notwithstanding his great weight.  - - The oldest Freemason in the world is said to be the Rev. Sir John Warren Hayes, of AborSeld, who recently entered his 95th year. Dr. Stokes, of Coundon, Durham, son of Sir G. Stokes, the Cambridge professor, committed suicide on Monday by taking morphia. Mr. Joseph Chamberlain has about 5,000 orchid, of all kinds in 13 glass-houses at Highbury, residence on the outskirts of Birmingham.  The Duchy of Saxe-Cobarg-Gotha,-to which the Duke of Edinburgh has succeeded, extends to 760 square miles, and has a population of 200,000.  _ Two postage stamps of Mauritius, 1847, of which only 14 to pecitneng are known to exist, have just been purchased by dealers in London for £6BO. J. W. Stocks, of the Hull Bicycle Club, rode 26 miles at Herne Hill on Monday in 28 1-sth sees. under the how, thus beating the world's record. The police of the canton of Valais have arrested in the valley of Salts, 11 Italian smugglers, wit* several dayr ago shot AY some Belgian tourists. General Forster, during the review at Chatham by the Duke of Cambridge on Mouday, was kicked on the leg and ankle by the hors* of his aide decamp.  Mrs. Parker, wife of the Leeds man who attempted to murder her on Monday, by entitling her throat, le in a very critical condition. Parker is still at large.  Isaac Ackroyd, & tailor, who was arrested for attempting to drown himself in the river Aire, was found dead in his cell on Monday, when a doctor went to visit him.  On Monday, a farmer's son in a flungs.ris• village muldered his mother and father and his five brothers and sisters, in order to get possession of ths property.  - At tile half-yearly meeting of the Manchester Ship Canal Company, held on Monday, Lord Egerton, who presided, said that the canal would be opened early next year.  Lord Justice Bowen has been appointed a.p, Lord of Appeal in the room of Lord Hannon, who bag resigned. Lord Justice Bowen is one of the youngest and *plea of the judges.  - A dynamo detonator which had been placed in a back court at 184, Wyndford Street, Glasgow, ex. Moded on Saturday night with terrible force. A dozen windows were shattered, but no one was in. jured.  Whilst a cyclist was on his way from Portsmouth to London on Thursday evening, he was stopped by four nom on a much frequented road a little way out of Farnham. lie was walking at the time, having no light upon his machine, and the men asked for assistance. They then attacked him, and robbed him of his purse containing nearly £lO. Tin
The Telegram. — 1894-03-13 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

SWAN AGE.  DETERNILNED— SUICIDE OF A FARMER. Resideuts of Studland, near Swanage, were horrified on Sunday morning when it was made known that Mr. Henry Dean, a well-known farmer, had committed suicide. It appears that Mr. Dean rose early and went out to the sheds about the time the food was put down to the horses. He apparently fed them, and then took a cord that was used for fastening a door, went in the cowebed, stood on a partition, fastened the cord round his neck, and swung off. When found at half-past seven he was dead, and quite cold. The inquest was held on Monday by Dr Parkinson, of Wimborne.—Elizabeth Dean, widow of deceased, said that her husband WAS 34 years of age. He had been in bad health for some time and had been attended by a doctor. He was very low spirited about business matters, having no foxl for his cattle and not knowing where to get any. She had no reason to think he would ever take his life. On Saturday night, when they went to bed, at 12 o'clock, he seemed quieter than usual. Next morning when witness woke, at seven o'clock, she found that he had dressed and gone downstairs. He had always complained about his head when he gut up early.— Henry Paynter, aged 12, said he was in deceased's , employ, and on Sunday morning when he earns downstairs he called out to see whether deceased I was about, but gut no answer. He went to the shed where the cows were kept, and saw his master hanging from the roof. Witness told Mrs. Dean and she sent him for help.—Ed win Saniways deposed that be was called by the last witness, and he and his father went to the shed and cut the rope by which deceased was hanging. Mr. Dean was dead and the body was "old and getting stiff. A piece of cord, by which the door was hastened, had been taken away, and this was what deceased was hung up with. His feet were about 18 inches from the ground.—A Swanage doctor stated that he had been attending deceased, who was suffering from influenza. He told witness that he had monetary troubles, that he had no food for his cattle, and did not know where to gel any. He was iii is low state of mind. Death was due to strangulation by hanging, and he considered that at the time deceased was of unsound mind, owing to depression and his suffering from influenza—The jury returned a verdict of "Suicide whilst of unsound mind."