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Bridport, Beaminster, and Lyme Regis Telegram and Dorset, Somerset, and Devon Advertiser. — 1881-09-23 (Bridport, Dorset, England)

ING SHOES.—Last Friday, William Mouley, a second-elass boy on board the Bose liven, was brought up befo-e Dr. Draw and Mr. Robertson, for stealing two shoes beloneing to Mr. iltath Richards, of Maiden-street. About half-past six on Thursday night, prisoner took two sand shoes from a bundle at the shop door; but Mrs. Richards followed and arrested him with the shoes in his p Asession, Mr. Richards heard the noise, ran down, and received th boy and the shoes from his wife, h aiding them over to P.C. Bullen, who brought prisoner and the st den eropertv, which happmed te be two odd one, to th,. station.—Prisoner 'deeded guilts', and with some difficulty was in luced to select the Court before which his case eh mid be disposed of. Be meowed t ) be either dazed or stupid ; but at length chose to be tried by the magistrates.—A. petty officer se,id the boy hail been received into the ship from the t. Vincent, and had been only there eix weeks; but he had been of good cherac'er, and witness could only enppose he was " skvlarking."—However, on being asked why he took the boets, prisoaer said—" To sell."--Fined 101. including costs. HUSBAND CUTTING HIS Tim R htT —L :et Thursday. .10 eph Sell, of Love-lane, wound up a s-ries of quarrels betw en him and his wife L ouisa, by attempt.g suicide. They had led a very qu irrelsome life, and the wife hal obtained a summons for him on Friday, for assaulting her. On Thursday m mine he went and asked her to forgive him; but she refused, and expre.osed her detel mination of " having him to Court." Seal r ,solved n .t to go,telliog sores of his acquaintances that she might hive his corpse to court, but she shouldn't have him. About midday they had another quarrel, and eiergt. Harvey was fetched, and pacitied them for a time; but he had not returned home five minutes befor he was again called, Seal's son telling the sergeant his father had cut nis throat. On Mr. Harvey going to the house, there was the wretched man lying on his stomach a short distance from a bloodstained razor, and the blood was flowing fast from a gash in Seal's throat. The sergeant first tried to stop the blood with his handkerchief, having first sent for a doctor, but finding the blood could not be staunched with the kerchief, sofile rag was obtained, and the sergeant held the lips of the wound forcibly together, in spite of Seal's unreasonably resistance, and thus the flow of blood was checked till Dr. Nathan arrived. Having use 1 means to prevent the blood flowing again, Dr. Nathan had the man removed to the Hospital, where, at the time of our wilting, he lay in a dangerous state.—The summons on Friday was adjourned till the following Tuesday.  ik
Bridport, Beaminster, and Lyme Regis Telegram and Dorset, Somerset, and Devon Advertiser. — 1881-09-23 (Bridport, Dorset, England)

CLAIMING TO AFFIRM AT AN INQUEST.—At an inquest held at the Southwark Coroner's new court, a juryman named Henry Chinnery claimed to make an affirmation instead of taking the oath.—The Coroner: On what grounds ?—Mr. Chinnery : That I have no particular religious belief; in fact, I- have none at all. —The Coroner: Then I refuse; you may go, sir. A juryman: It is perfectly shocking that a person in his position should say he has no religious belief.—Another juryman: He gets off serving by that.—The first juryman : Having no religious belief is far more important than getting off serving on a iury.—The Coroner: Oh, it is fashionable now to claim to make affirmations.—Mr. Chinnery then left the court, saying, "Good day, gentlemen.” Mn. WILLIAM HARRISON AINSWORTH, the novelist, was entertained by the Mayor of Manchester at a complimentary banquet at the Town Hall on Thursday evening.  A MAN of 40, a general dealer of St. Luke's, who was under remand in the House of Detention for attempted suicide, suddenly sprang over the railings of the stairs, and falling a height of 12 feet, fractured his skull, nos,s, and neck, and killed himself at once. At the present time there are no fewer than 18 cases of attempted suicide and murder in that prison.  A MASTER PLASTERER, of Richmond, named Church, has been severely taught that he cannot try to evade payment of his railway fare and escape by pulling a constable%. whiskers. For these offences be was very properly FLII tenced by the Hammersmith magistrates to 6 wet ks' bard labour, a sentence which, after a piteous whine, wae, altered to a fine of £5. A PLEASURE TRIP ROUND THE WORLD,—A company which has lately been formed has bought from the rem• sular and Oriental Company their screw steamship Ceylon, of 2,110 tons register, in which it is proposed to make an expedition round the world, for the pleasure of any perso,us who have time enough on their hands to join in it. 'l.lic voyage will be commenced on October 15, and will terminate about July 7, 1882. The charge for the entire cruise g £5OO and £l5O, for passengers and their servants respectively. •liI,UHENDEN MANOR is likely to pass into the hands of Madi.rue Elise, the milliner. It sounds odd, no doubt, that Madame Elise should succeed Lord Beaconsfield ; but if she is willing to accept the conditions on which the lease is granted, and can afford to pay the rent regularly, we do not see how she could be Boycotted.
Bridport, Beaminster, and Lyme Regis Telegram and Dorset, Somerset, and Devon Advertiser. — 1881-05-13 (Bridport, Dorset, England)

DISTRESSING SUICIDE.  On Saturday afternoon an inquiry was held at Isle. worth, relative to.the death of Eliza Boyce, aged 20. whose dead body was picked out of the canal, near Brentford Bridge. on Thursday. Johanna Boyce, a widow, identified the deceased as her daughter, and stated that she was a domestic servant. The coroner read the following letter (in the deceased's handwriting), dated Clarendon-house, Brentford, where the deceased was in service : 'My dearest William—l write to you the very last words from me. Before two hours from this I shall be dead. You have ofteq vowed and declared to be true to me. You promised me marriage before six months. Now you have ruined me in my young life ; but you ball never m.,,rry another. Happy are those who n.-ver had anything to do with such a wicked man. I wish my mother knew what you were. Her curses will be down on your head, for you have caused me to leave this word. Are you sorry, or are you glad? I hope God will pardon your sins. What will my brother and mother say? If I could see my deer mother, I could die happy. You are in my last thoughts, William. How could you deceive me? I am going to join my father in Heaven. Farewell till death.—Yours, with love, ELIZA BOYCE " The coroner also read a letter s'gned "William Dooty," in which the writer had expressed his intention of not marrying the deceased. William Dooty, gardener, was called at the request of the jury. He said he wrote the letter signed by him, and posted it to the deceased on Wednesday night. The coroner also read from a slip of paper, in the deceased's writinz, "Tell my mother to give something to the priest to say mass for me." The jury returned a verdict of suicide while of unsound mind.
Bridport, Beaminster, and Lyme Regis Telegram and Dorset, Somerset, and Devon Advertiser. — 1881-04-08 (Bridport, Dorset, England)

LICIDE OF A CONGREGATIONAL MINISTER.  On Friday an inquest was held at Witham, Essex, on the body of the Rev. J. L. Collins, 88, Congregational Minister at Finchingfield, .near Braintree, who was found drowned in the River Blackwater, at Witham, on Thursday. The principal witness was the Rev. B. W. Saunders, Congregational Minister at Wethersfield. He deposed that on Friday, the 18th March, the deceased told him he feared some people were trying to injure him in his ministerial work. He thought somebody had set the children in the day-school to watch him and the governess. He assured witness there was no ground for the suspicions which he thought were entertained with regard to him. He appeared to be in great distress end cried. On the following Monday he said someone had sent him one of the almanacs issued by the Inman Vompany, and he thought it was a hint that he ought to leave Finchingfield and go to America. He slept at witness's house that night, and a doctor was called in to see him. On the following morning he left for Ipswich. The deceased had received many anonymous letters, which more or less upset him. The letters were produced and read. They expressed hatred towards the deceased, and said he had no friend in the parish except the schoolmistress, who "was proud and equally hated." They also advised him n to leave the place. Mr. Saunders, continuing his evidence, said the schoolmistress had confessed that she had herself written these letters.—A deacon of the deceased's chapel, who was present, said the evident object of the woman was to drive the deceased into her arms.--Mr. Saunders said the deceased said he WRS uneasy in consequence of these anonymous letters, and in consequence of troubles at home. He was under the impression also that a policeman was coming after him.—Further evidence showed that the deceased left Ipswich for Witham on Saturday week. lie had probably been, in the water since then, never having been seen subsequently.—The Coroner and the jury characterised the letters which had been addressed to the deceased as iniquitous. A verdict of "Suicide while of unsound mind" was returned. It was stated that Mr. Collins's mother died insane.
Bridport, Beaminster, and Lyme Regis Telegram and Dorset, Somerset, and Devon Advertiser. — 1881-04-29 (Bridport, Dorset, England)

AMERICAN -PRISON TRAGEDY.  The New York Herald gives particulars of a trage enacted within the gloomy precints of the Ea,tel Penitentiary in Philadelphia, an. estalaishment CM memorated by Dickens in his "American Note. :John M'Bride, a man of 49 years, under two imprisonment for aggravated assault, and Joi Pfeiffer, aged 23, an habitual thief, serving a periot. three years and six months for burglary, had occuen the same cell for about a month. The overseer, opt making his rounds at seven a.m., found both In dead. The body of M'Bride was lying stretched, the floor, with arms extended, and his protradi tongue and contorted feathres gave indtration that had met a violent death. Around his neck was tit a piece of the bed sheet and half a yard of thin twu which had sunk deep into the flesh. His body wl covered by bruises, evidently inflicted with the heel, a boot. Pft lifer hung limp, in a semi-kneeling i.ostur from the gas bracket. A noose had been made I tightly twisting the selvage of the sheet. Pfeiff( body also bore many marks of rough treatment there was a deep gash on his right wrist. At first Warden of the prison and the oincers declared tl could form no theory to accounefor the occurrent whether it was a double suicide, or, if one man ir murdered, who was the murderer; but the, mortem examination showed convincingly that .11 JAI was the murdered man. The coroner's jury fomid their verdict that M'Bride died by suffocation at 1 hands of Pfeiffer, and the latter died by his own le No motive can be assigned for the occurrence, for two men seemed always to be ,on good terms., 1 strangest circumstance is that such deeds coital perpetrated without, the cognizance of the overt 4 two of whom patrolled the corrido in which the. c was situated during the night ; and yet it was evi? that a terrible struggle must have taken plack be M'Bride was mastered by his murderer. On a.slBtA. the cell there was found scrawled in almost characters, "This is the third man I have killeJ But there was no evidence as to whose was the  writing, although alternative conjecture Wai possible.  I  fj Ii 14 .0 ite • .; in L:c ti ti p. 1 ,v th fo ,r 1 It At ,t ?s. i ! fe 3 Ti C, fica
Bridport, Beaminster, and Lyme Regis Telegram and Dorset, Somerset, and Devon Advertiser. — 1881-09-09 (Bridport, Dorset, England)

THE FOOD QUESTION.—We have been paying for our fine July by a stoimy August. Sinister predictions ire every where heard as to the wheat crops, which a muutu ago as ere full of such golden hope. 0 ,r annual demand for wheat is from 24,000.000 to 25,000,000 quarters. Our imports for the last three years have averaged 6,700,000 tons of common flour, whil) our exports have been only 34.000 tons. (tar own vile'ktt crop this year is estimated at 9.54)0,009 qnarters by Mr. James Caird, who adds that if we can rkkon on a foreign s ipply equal to that of last year, and at not• much over same price, we shall be safe. Our paymen i ,s for the 44r, three years for mported corn and flour were—X69,ooo,ooo sterling in 1878; £61,250,000 sterling in 1869; and nearly £63,ooo,oooanniing in 1880.—  A long inquiry was held ekn Friday last at the Running Horse Inn, Gerrard'e-crose 'Oxford, respecting the death a Ihnry James Sprailbury, 19, a clerk, who committed seicide on Monday n:ght lest.—Mr. Robert James Spiaibury, a retired gentleman, of Blenheim-teirace, Gerrard'eecroes, stated that the diceas d was his son, and had been residi eg with him. He was a clerk, but lately had beeu unable to attend to his business owing to illness. On Sunday he left home to visit a young lady to whom he was shortly to be married. When he returned in the evening, about tine o'clock, he appeared greatly depressed in spirits. In answer to witness, he said he had had a quarrel with the young lady. Witness tried to cheer him up, but he became very melancholy, and shortly a fterwards retired to his bedroom. Before leaving witness he shook hands with him, wishing him good night, and saying that if his young lady called to see him to say he was dead. Witness, however, never thought that he would commit suicide. On the following morning he did not make his appearance as usual, and, in consequence, witness went upstairs to his room, but finding the door locked, and being unable to get any answer, he obtained assistance, and the door was forced open. Deceased was then found lying on the floor on his back. near the end of the bedstead, covered in blood, and his throat fearfully cut. Medical assistance was sent for, and Dr. Murphy soon arrived, and pronounced life to be quite extinct. On the dressing-table was a note, written by deceased, which was as follows 1—" Dear Father—l have done this with the razor you will find near me. The cause is the quarrel with Elizabeth, whom I loved much. Tell her if you see her that I forgive her, and hope to meet her above some day. Good-bye, darling father ! Pray for me, and forgive me for what I have done.—Yours,
Bridport, Beaminster, and Lyme Regis Telegram and Dorset, Somerset, and Devon Advertiser. — 1881-09-09 (Bridport, Dorset, England)

CEBNB ABBAS.  ATTEMPTED SUICIDE AT FROME ST. QUINTON. On Saturday, at the police-court, Eliea Groves, wife of William Groves, master tailor, of Promo St. Quinton, was charged with attempting to commit suicide by poisoning herself with belladonna. From the husband's evidence, it appeared that on the night of August 29th, about half-past ten, he was with his wife in their bedroom. She had arranged to visit some relatives in Somerset, and was going on the following morninq. He remarked it was not worth while for him to go as somebody would meet her on her arrival. She accused hitn of wanting to get rid of her, and irnmedi itely went downstairs in her night-dress, Witness followed her and went into the sitting-room, and proceeded to light a lamp. In the meantime she had gone into the pantry, had poured some belladonna from a bottle into a glas., and drunk it. The belladonna had ben prescribed for him some time a;o for a bad leg. She went back into the bedroom, and said " I have taken a glass of that stuff; I shan't be here 1 )ng ;" and handing him some money she said, "You take these purses, they are yours, not mine." Dr. Greenwood was at once sent for.—The doctor pr wed visiting Mrs. Groves and findlug her suffering from narcotic poisoning. He used the usual restorative means, and after a day or two she recovered. She was always a dull and eccentric woman, but he was not lei to suppose she was insane. —For the defence the Rev. F. Douglas How. rect r of Frome St. Quinton, sal I he had known Mrs. Groves for more than two years, and during that p-nod he had frequently had conversation with her. He considered her to be of very weak mind, She was invariably depressed, and he was not surprised to hear she had attempted to commit suieide.—The Bench, after whit the rev. gentleman had said, did not feel disposed to commit her, and on her husband promising to take care of her she was discharged.
Bridport, Beaminster, and Lyme Regis Telegram and Dorset, Somerset, and Devon Advertiser. — 1881-03-11 (Bridport, Dorset, England)

COUNTY PETTY SESSIONS.  ALLEGED ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.  George Pearce was brought up on remand, on Saturday, charged with attempting to commit suicide at Broadmayne on the 26th of February. George Voss, blacksmith, living at Broadmayne, stated on Saturday morning, the 2641 of February, about eight o'clock, he heard a sound as of someone screaming, which appeared to come from a house right approaching the shop in which the defendant Pearce lives. He listened for a few minutes, and then a Mrs. Ellery called him to go across, and he went. On going to the door of the room which prisoner occupied, he saw Mrs. Pearce (prisoner's mother). He looked around, but could see nothing of prisoner. He went into the pantry and there found prisoner. He had a rooe under his chin, and the ends of it were fastened to a crook in the ceiling. He was leaning forward on the rope, but his feet were on the ground. He (witness) asked him what he had done it for, and took him by the collar of the coat, pulled him from the rope, and took him into the house. His (witness's) mother came across and assisted him to wash prisoner's face, and she asked him why he had done it, and he replied " It is trouble that has brought it on." When he (witne3s) found him in the pantry his face was discoloured and he was exhausted, so that he could scarcely stand. Prisoner was screaming when he went into the pantry. P.C. Haynes, stationed at Broadmayne, gave evidence as to the apprehension of prisoner. He charged him with having attempted to commit suicide, and he made no reply. Witness brought him to Dorchester. _ _  The prisoner, in answer to the charge, said he had been out of work for a long time, and had troubled about it.  The sister of the prisoner said he was unmarried, and lived with his mother. He had been out of work four or five months, and had brought himself down to a very low state. He had never attempted anything of the kind before. He formerly workel for Captain Foster, and had since worked for another gentleman, but he was discharged on account of ill-health. He had applied for out-door relief, but had been told he must go into the house. The Chairman gave the prisoner a strong caution not to do anything of the kind again. It was a very serious offence, and if he attempted it again he would be severely punished. The best thing he could do would be to go to the Union, where he would be well looked after. __  Prisoner, having promised to go to the Union, was discharged.  A
Bridport, Beaminster, and Lyme Regis Telegram and Dorset, Somerset, and Devon Advertiser. — 1881-03-11 (Bridport, Dorset, England)

WINDFALL FOR • LAD.-A lad, age 15, named George Fletcher, employed up to a few days ago as a cash-boy at a shop in Sheffield, has just succeeded to a legacy of £10.090. The money has been left him by his uncle, Mr. George Fletcher, who was in the leather trade at Wakefield. The testator, who seems to have never taken any notice of his nephew during his life, has also left the lad's mother £1 per week. The attempt of Nobel's Explosives Company to obtain a renewal of their nitro-glycerine patent has been unsuccessful. The company has been dividing 50 per cent. per annum for some time nowt, and have already realised £232,000 on a capital of £15.000, whilst their good-will is said to be worth £150,000 more. There will be great rejoicing is mining circles at the destruction of the monopoly. Last m ,ti the officers of the Fishmongers' Company seized at Billingsgate Market 1t tons of fish as unfit for. human loud. All of it had arrived by land. The fish numbered 2,995, and included 4 cod, 460 haddocks, 500 herrings, 52 lobsters, 320 plaice, 59 unclean salmon, and 1,600 whitiLg, and, in addition, 11 bags of cockles, 6 bags of muscles, and 1 of periwinkles, a barrel of salt cod, 68 barrels of oysters, and 40 of sprats. 2 boxes and 251 b of eels. and 44 baskets of smelts, and 2 of sprats. A Wesleyan minister, namel G )rnall, has committed suicide at Gr-at Eccleston. near Preaten. Deceased was stationed at Pontypridd, South Wales, and was on a visit to Great Eccleaton. For some time he had appeared greatly depressed, and said an engagement had been broken off between him and a young lady. On Sunday evening, Father Wells, Roman Cathqlic priest, saw a hat, coat, and stick lying on the bank of a pond, and subsequently the body, identified as that of Mr. Gornall, was found. Verdict. "Suicide whilst temporarily insane."
Bridport, Beaminster, and Lyme Regis Telegram and Dorset, Somerset, and Devon Advertiser. — 1865-08-31 (Bridport, Dorset, England)

FATAL ACCIDENT' AT THE THAMES EMBANKMENT.— On Wednesday morning a travelling engine used on the works fell into the river and killed one of the Workmen. He was crushed in a frightful inanet, THY, magistrates at Chelm4ord have nrd Mr. J. Seabrook°, is wealthy farmer in that neighbourhood, £lO, for selling to a knacker a cow that bad died of the new disease.  A NOTIIER fatal misadventttre has occurred on the Swiss Alpg, a Ge-inan tourist and a guide hating perished in attempting the ascent Df the Ditlis, at Eugelberg.. Ti-g Hor,Pon:: tsrrix Munnmas.—The adjourned int-pied on the three children murdered in lioihorn terminated Oh 'Thesday afternoon in a verdict of wilful murder against Sotitheyi  TETE Hon. F. Lygon, Mr: for West Worcestershire( will, it is understood, he one of the whippers-in of the Conservative party in the new nrilArnent. in the place of Mr. Henry Whitmore, who hire ).,osi his seat for Bridguorth.  TM; Attorney-General having refused to ma:J:4o4m the ;Ippiicatinn for a writ of error on the part of ta/rence King, convicted of the milder of Lieutenant Clatterbuck, it is underst ioci that the sentence of death will be carried out on the 6th of September.  MR. RICHARD RAY, the secretary of the Iland-in-Hand Insurance Company, committed suicide on Tuesday morning by throwing hirrn-elf from Ilia bed-room window on the third floor of the office in New Bridge-street, London. A later telegram informs us that it is stated that Air.l heatgilUe ad dutc a to prove  Mull& BLOOD !--On Tuesday at noon a matt named Shanglinessey, a plasterer, meeting in Regent-street, Pimlico, his wife, whom be had threatened ft the morning, put his arm round her neck and cut het throat with a razor, immediately afterwards trying to connnit suicide with the same weapon.  THERE j well grounded cause to fear that the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Company's steamer, the Corea, foundered with all hands on board in a violent typhoon which occurred on the 29th June, soon after the steamer had sailed from Hong Kong for Swato w.