Blandford Weekly News. — 1889-06-08 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

JEALOUSY AND THE KNIFE. A few days since the green-eyed monster was the cause of a horrible crime, which was perpetrated in a butcher's shop on the Boulevard &Italie, Paris. For some time, says the correspondent of the Daily Telegraph, M. Lemere, the owner of the shop, had been reproached by his wife for the attentions which he lavished on certain female customers who came to his establishment daily for joints, or bones for their pots a jeti. It was in vain that M. Lerner° pleaded that his little airy nothings whis pared into the ears of pretty young persons were all for the good of trade. He also pointed out that the girls liked to be squeezed a little, and that his efforts to meet their predilections in this respect made them permanent customers and prevented them from effeCting their purchases at opposition shops. Madame Lemere, however, was inexorable, and, as her husband was escorting one of his favourite female customers to the door, she seized a long butcher's knife, and, exclaiming "I cannot stand it any longer !" plunged it several times into his breast. Lemere fell to the ground, badly wcunded, and his piercing shrieks brought neighbours and policemen to the spot. Madame Lemere fled like a fury with the knife dripping blood in her hand. While some of the policemen carried the wounded husband to a pharmacy others pursued the woman, who ran up to the top of the house and took tensrefuge on the roof. After that she succeeded in getting into a garret, where she barricaded herself in, but was ultimately taken out and conveyed to the police-station, where she urged, with copious tears, that she had given way to an uncontrollable outburst of jealousy.  MYSTERIOUS DEATHS AT DEPTFORDThe coroner's jury which last week inquired into the circumstances attending the death of Sydney Bolton, a lad of 11,whose death was attributed by the medical evidedce to arsenical poisoning, reassembled on Monday at Brockley, to investigate the case of William Sutton,aged73, whosebody had also beenexfunned from Brockley Cemetery,by orderof the Home Secretary.—The coroner (Mr. Wood) said he did not propose to anticipate the medical and expert evidence which would be produced on a subsequent occasion, but he had reason to believe that thedeath of William Sutton, like that of the lad Bolton, did not result from natural causes, or from the causes stated in the medical certificate.—Mr. W. H. Jordan, master of Greenwich Workhouse, stated that Sutton had been an inmate of that institution for some three years or more. He was in fairly good health when he left the workhouse early in December for a day's holiday. A day or two later witness received a letter in a female handwriting, addressed from Church-street, Deptford, stating that the deceased had been taken ill, and that he would not return.—Mrs. Mary Ann Winters deposed that the deceased was her father, and Mule to the house of witness's mother-in-law, Mrs. Amelia Winters, being brought there by one of the workhouse inmates, as be was nearly blind. He was taken ill on the same day, and died a few days later. He vomited frequently. The doctor who was called in attributed the sickness to the sudden change of diet, and witness suspected no foul play, as Mrs. Winters seemed exceedingly kind to the deceased. Witness had insured her father's life in the Prudential Assurance Company for Di 188. or £7, to cover his burial expenses, and deceased was aware of it. The iputur&nee cost her 10d. per week. She did not kdow that any other insurances on her father's life had been effected. The deceased was taken ill when witness was out, and on her return Mrs. Winters and Mrs. Frost informed her of the fact. Witness wrote to the workhouse to say her father was too ill to come back.—Mrs. Mary Ann Hedson stated that when the deceased came to Deptford he appeared to be all right. On the day before he died, he said he thought his tea, and jam and bread, had made him sick. Before he died he had a fit, which lasted three-quarters of an hour. Dr. Macnaughton deposed to attending deceased, who complained of sickness, diarrhrea, shortness of breath, and pain in the heart. Witness gave a certificate to the effect that the deceased died from senile decay, and he thought the symptoms were consistent with that certificate. He heard of the fit before he gave the certificate, but he did not regard a fit as unexpected, looking at the condition of the deceased's heart. The symptoms were the same as in the case of Mary Ann Bolton, who had previously been ill in the same house. He could not find any satisfactory cause for the illness. After examining the vomit he made inquiries and satisfied his mind that the deceased had had nothing but his dinner. There was no arsenic ii, the medicine he prescribed.—Percy Crampton,. !: ele. 11 in the offices of the Liverpool Legal r 01,;• Society, produced receipts for £8 145., the amount of two insurances on the deceased's life. He paid the money to Mrs. Amelia Winters, who represented that she was the deceased's only sister. Thu inquiry was then adjourned.  No less than 172 volumes of new,papers containing evidence in respect to the I'm nell Commission have been sent from the British Museum to the Law Courts.  At a meeting of the Dorton Local Board, the clerk reported that Dr. Bruce Lewes, an inspector connected with the Loral Government Board, had been down from London and inspected the district to inquire into the care, • of the deaths of 20 children from croup and diphtheria, mentioned in medical officer's report. The desk said he accompanied the inspector, who found that in three cases the disease • ad been communicated by cats going from house to ouse, and in more than one case where ohildren had led cats had died also. The inspector will report a the Local Government Board in due course. William Edward Benson, who was under remand at the Lambeth Police-court on a charge of knocking at his father's door without lawful excuse, has committed suicide by shooting himself with a revolver. The occurrence was related to the magistrate. who marked the charge sheet, "Reported dead."  A dreadful accident recently occurred on the St. Petersburg-Warsaw line, when one of the international sleeping cars whilst passing between the stations of Velack and Bezdau caught fire, two of ita occunts, a nurse and the child of a Russian] colonel, being burnt to death before assistance could be rendered.