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The Blandford and Wimbourne Telegram. — 1885-08-21 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

DISTRESSING SUICIDE OP A BUILDER.  On Monday Mr. Cartar, \Vest Kent coroner, held an inquest at the Beehive, Pope-stint, Elthion, on the body of Henry Fenn, aged builder, of Southwood Cottage, Pope-street. On Saturday morning he ruso between six and seven o'clock, and wife, who saw him leave the bedroom, imagined he was gi.ing to catch the train for New-cross, where he WA, cArryiii! on some building operations. About ten o'clock h. went into a workshop at the rear of the house t.i feed soup: chickens, and ran against her husband, who was sus . pended by a sash-line to an iron clamp fixed to two beams in the ceiling, She raked an alarm and two men cut the body down, but the ei.rd was not loosened front the throat until the arrival of Inspector Digby front Elthant Police Station. Dr. Jenkins arrived at the same time and pronounced life extinct.—John R. Willis, plumber, of erchland-road, Pope-street, EMI:Int, said he was a good deal with the deceased, and had business transactions with him, lie was with him on Friday, when he appeared very much flurried, and said he thought the job he had at New Cross would drive him mad, as they would nut advance hint ally more money. In reply to the coroner, the witness said by " they " the deceased meant the surveyor.— Catherine Maria Fenn, widow of deceased, sa4l her husband had been worried of late.—The jury returned a verdict "That the deceased committed suicide by hanging whilst labouring under temporary mental derangement."  flinutar notes. June tend, lanh.—" Goonsers k f:d. were the Gni to bring an old idea to a practical result, ar,i have achieved a high name in financial circles for the way 44 which they conduct their business for the mutual benefit of selves. While the Syndicate system }As many features to scoot's. mend it. the reliability of the chte m their client. and them. anagers la t he essential thing, and in this assoclaton Gobneos k Co. stand pre-eminent. It is easy to adopt an idea, hut not always feasible to carry it out successfully, as many tie:tine mortals liavefonTl4l out on yens turing to deal elsewhere. The old original shop inwhich business. like coolness is ever present, is at Devonshire Chambers, whereg ‘4looea Celli% with Mis it. almost inevitable corollar7:'  •.,
Bridgend Chronicle, Cowbridge, Llantrisant, and Maesteg Advertiser. — 1883-05-04 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

BURIAL SCANDAL AT MONMOUTH.  An inquest was held on Monday at the Queen's Head Hotel by Mr. Coroner If. D. 'Batt and a jury, of which Mr. Hen. Yeates setts the foreman, touching the death of a young man, tanned J.ones Humphries, aged Sl.y CAM, who wail found dead in the River We on Friday. April 20. From the statement of deceased's toothier it appeared that deceased had been liable to Ma of delirium tremene, and he had been despondent since his father's deatn.  The coroner thou4lit that an open verdict of "Found drowned " was ti o best that they could arrive at, as no one knew how, why, or ley what means he had got into the river, or in what state Inn mind was at the time. Referring to the fact that, deceased Wen not buried with tehristian rites, the Coroner said they had only to go by the evi• dance, and iu this mote enlightened age suicide was seldom looked upon as felo deer. But the clergy did not agree with Olin 01t the bolt that they could have buried the decenied with Chrisk inn burial.  —A juslmin asked why ti, decease° 1.1 not been buried with the fnm.ral rites of the (hut ch. The Coroner said he coald not tell why ; there Was no law to prevent, theta doing so. They may have been a little cantanketous on the subject. It seamed to him n (the coroner) that his ideas ware snore Christian than theirs. It did not come under !the supervision nf his court. If tiny of the ciergy !had such conscientious scruples es seemed to have .Im. shown in this tsitso wa, sooty for titeal. . . .  said he had seen 'Mr. Mills (the junior curate) on the inatrer, and that gentleman said he did not tool justified irt Leading the net-
Bridgend Chronicle, Cowbridge, Llantrisant, and Maesteg Advertiser. — 1883-03-09 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

SHOCKING TRAGEDY AT MAT. LOCK BRIDGE.  On Sunday morning a fearful tragedy was en icted at Aiallock Bridge, a son, having, it is suppozed, murdered his father, and then attempted ! suicide. On Tuesday last the Rev. Julius Rinse, who is said to be aclergyinan, of London, engaged apartments at Mr. Merchant's, The Cottage, Matlock Bridge, and took up his abode there with his ' son, a man of about thirty. Oa Sunday morning, ! at seven o'clock, a scuffle was heard in the be moth which they occupied, but no notice was taken of it at the time. Shortly before noon, however. Mrs. Merchant asked her mon to open the bedroom door, which he at once did, and then a sickening spectacle presented itself. The father was lying in the bed with Ida skull battered ts., The son riad a tearful wound in his throat, evidently self.inliirted. The local surgeons were I speedily summoned, and the injuries of the murderer attended to, the police remaining to guard I him. Nothing is known of either party in the ! The adjourned inquiry AR to the death of thel Rev. Julius Bean, of 119, Stepney Oreen, London, was held on Tuesday morning (before Deputycoroner Brooks) at Matlock Bridge. The medimil evidence went to show that after repeated blows with the blunt instrument, several stabs had been inflicted under the right ear with a pocket knife. 'the police officer who remained for several hours with the prisoner in Derby Infirmary stated that the man made a clean confession of the crime. Tins was the substance of the evidence called in addition to the statement of the landlord of the house where the tragedy occurred. Before the jury retired, John Win. Benn, eldest son of the deceased, made a statement to the effect that the prisoner was merely out for the benefit of his health on a probationary term from Bethnal Green Lunatic Asylum. Mr. Henn urged that this statement unght induce a rider to be added to the verdict, but the coroner ruled that this would be out of order. The jury shortly afterwards brought in a verdict of " Wilful Murder."
Bridgend Chronicle, Cowbridge, Llantrisant, and Maesteg Advertiser. — 1880-04-23 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

STRANGE SUICIDES OF CHILDXEN.  Our Hungarian imatemporaries report • peen. liar') painful eerie of double suicide committed by two shepherd boys, rimpeotively aged ten and twelve, near Kaarleburg. Thine lade were in charge or Is dock of cheep tuned out to graze on some grass land abutting upon the Kaarlaburg. Arad II +away, and had been severs' time. reproved by the watchman stationeil near their poet erne ground for allowing their sheep to little), on the line. On the elth imitent, jolt as the Arad expreas came in eight, several sheep had wandered down the embankment, and Wel3 in imminent danger of hear croaked by the Main, fr.rm wbieh, however, tlicy were rearmed by the timely intervention of the II atchman in queetion, whoom soon as the ruin had primed, called up the boye and told them that he would have thorn severely punished for neglecting their duty and his repented wataitga. The terrified lade held consultation tegerher ii to how they miyht wimps the threatened penalty, and speedily came to the conclusion that the beet way of getting out of their scrape would be to drown the-fii:l7ea. One of them had just bad • new hat, adorned with a my peacock'. feather, given to him, which he sold for 13 lmenzere toe little peasant girl, who had been at play with the boys when the dreadful menses of puniehmcnt was imparted to them. With the price of thin hat he ptrelteed some small Moves, end the three children sat down by the Maras to hold their" Prinicria," or deith feast, and thin beire, termiented the boys di-cited the pe-ripet of the Maros Bridge, their tiny playmate minuted aloud, " One, two, three," cud ut the word " thee:" they sprang, hied-in-hand, int the fiver, sinking me. n,edinttly under the broken ice with whiah the surface of the rapid et-CIM MAI pll,ieliy C Telegral,l, The intr. correspondent at Melbonrae ifiites : —A carious ease of suicide has me:aired here. A young lad of 15 poisoned himself for the love of a girl between 11 and 12. At the illqUESt, as reported in the newspapers, tt seemed that the girl, not requiting the boy's attaohment, had pettiehly told tine he might kill himself, perhaps after he bad threatened he wor'l do so. The lad, aa deposed by his father, was a goad end steady young fellow, engaged as an ii,sistAut to a photographic artist oi this city. He destroyed birteelf wath cyanide of potmainm, which is used in the photographic bus-.es., and, having taken sufficient for hie purpose, he laid himeelf dowd to die opposite the girl's father'• dwe!.ng, lrivny previoutly addressed to her a noto in the follow. itg terms ..2.1y dear R3111,...1 will have, by the timo you get this letter. faithfully obeyed your command by killing myself. You hated me, I loved you,1 still reclaim yours, W. H. BAsia."
Bridgend Chronicle, Cowbridge, Llantrisant, and Maesteg Advertiser. — 1880-02-20 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

ROW. 0 about to issue an eternal loan for 21 roinoni storting to be negotiated by Messrs Bathe Mild. On Friday week a singular acieident occurred at a musio-hall in Leeds. A man, attempting to oatehabailtrodfroaea °ODOM, in the hope of OltiOlDit a certain sum of money (Alfred, I•4llstrack on the forehead and knocked down. When picked up a was found he had sestained a oompound hectare of the skull.  Tho Bpsinish Government ham ordered the se stoeation to the parente, with • view to to terment on a Protestant, of the body of • ohild at Bilbao, whom the priest hod compulsorily buried as • Catholin on the groond of hie having bap. tired it prior to the father's conversion te) Pro. testantism.  A somewhat foolhardy sot has been performed at Calaie by an actress who entered the lions cage at the menagerie, and there recited Victor linv • "Caravane." tier ronaieal robe evidently bad the traditional effect of " soothing the mirage l‘east," es the hone never attempted to interrupt her performance.  A very esd affair hanvened st Narbonne during the manseuvres of the lowth Rewimeat of the line. a recruit accidentally shot the corporal who was imitructirg tam in musketry, and was so alarmed by what he had done that he took flight. and hoe rot since been heard of. It is feared that he has committed suicide.  The Board of Trade inquiry at Liverpool cot• mirtlng the oollision off Cork Harbour between the steamer Bavarian and the schooner Fanny, of Chepetow, by which the lattzr was sunk and two hoes, last, concluded on Tuesday. The court censured the maeter of the Bavarian for navigating hie vessel at too high a speed. The students of Belfast yueen's College had proceeition through the leading streets of the town to recognise the honour done to the college by two of its former students, Moen.. Allen and Lamer, having both this yesr end last year won the senior wranglership at Cambndge. end also to pay a compliment to those two gentlemen.  A young lady named Atkinson, daughter of a Westmoreland farmer, arrived in Liverpool on Thursday week, in company with her brother and took apartments in the Shaftesbury Temperance Hotel, the retired to rest at night, and on her non.rance on Friday morning the room wan entered, and she was found dead. The gee wee full on. and it is surmised the young lady was suffocated by the fumes.  A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday in Downing greet. The Ministers present were the Earl of Beaoonsfield, the Lord Chancellor, the Duke of Richmond and Gordon, the Duke of Northumberland, Mr. Secretary Cross, the Eight Hon. Sir H. E. H. Beath, the Bight Hon. Colonel Stanley, Vieeount Craubrook, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Bight Hon. W. H. Smith, and Lord John Manners.
Bridgend & Neath Chronicle, and County of Glamorgan Advertiser. — 1891-07-10 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE AT BRIDGEND. PRISONER BEFORE A MAGISTRATE.  On Sunday evening information was received at the Bridgend Police-station that Mary Jenkins, aged 31, wife of Richard Jenkins, mason, Newcastle Dill, had attempted to commit suicide by hanging herself with a rope to one of the rafters in the closet at the back of her house. Police-sergeant Row and Police-constable Isaaco at once proceeded to the spot, and found the woman, who was by this time bitting in a chair in the yard. not having yet recovered consciousness. She was brought to the station and charged, when she stated that, having had a quarrel with her husband, she did it t frighten him. She was slightly the worse for drink. It appears that the children saw her in the act and called to her, when a man named Rees heard them, and at once went to see what was the matter, and, on finding her, cut her down. Prison, r was badly marked about the neck. Prisoner was brought up at the Magistrates' Clerk's Office, on Monday, before Mr C. P. Davis, charged with attempting to commit suicide. Ann Rees, wife of Thomas Rees, mason, Nos, castle, a neighbour, said that on Sunday evening about half-past five. Louisa, prisoner's daughter, came to the road at the back of her house and screeched that her mother was dead. She went to their house and she saw Mrs Jenkins hanging by a rope, which was around her neck, in the alt at of their house. It was fastened to a beam. She appeared to be dead, with her tongue partly out of her mouth. Witness hallued oat and some neighbours came, and among them was her husband, who cut the cord with his pocket knife. She was carried outside of the closet, and put on a chair until a policemi.n came. Two came, Sergeant Row and Police-colistable Isaacs The Sergeant sent for a doctor. and Dr Williams came. She had come to herself ',fore the doctor came. Witness was close to her. She did not smell'any bornir. The sergeant asked her what she had had, and she mid only two glasses of the, which she had had in the house sits, the night before. Prisoner's husband was not their She was a woman of :good character, and had eight children, all of whoa. but one were :a home. Witness did not know whether she was fetal of drinking or no.  The ea.: rouauckal ou Lail until u..,t Saturday.
Bridgend & Neath Chronicle, and County of Glamorgan Advertiser. — 1891-02-13 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

EPITOME OF NEWS.  Tug result of ram sales in Scotland last year um Very encouraging to breeders, who in 1890 received' £71160 more than in 1080, although there was a decrease of 667 in the number of animals sold. The register for Is9o shows an average of I:5 12e. per head on 12,914 sold. The figures in the previons five years were: IsB9, 10,031) sold at £5 lls. Io*4, 13.501 sold at £4 16s. Id. ; 1687, 10,356 sold at £5 Is, Ild. ; 1066, 10,031 sold at £4 ss. 7d.; and 1885, 10,637 sold at £4 Is. 7d.  Tim Queen Regent of Spain sent a malacca cane to the Pope, who had no wooer touched the present than by some ingenious contrivance it burst open and • shower of gold coins fell mist 1m the floor.  A sew apparatus for hanging, worked by means of A water gunge, woe tested OA 3 murderer at Colorado The criminal unconsciously executed himself, t as it were, expiating his crime by committing suicide. IT is to be feared that the surcem of Miss Orionrod's admirable endeavours to extend among the farming community a knowledge of the true functioa of bird and insect life in the economy of Nature is hardly commensurate with the importance of the subject. It is disansnnting to read the following observations over the initials of a well-known agriculturist in an agricultural cmgemporary "If we wish to extend the view of the beneficent destrurtion wrought by Nature's forces lighting on the side of the farmer, the chronicle of mortality in bird and insert life is past all computation. . . . Very possibly during next summer ;mil autumn we shall see our orchards laden with fniit such as has bten sadly too rare of late. . . The birds have fallen by mvriads. . Let us then reasonably hope that we sh.all he spared, in the year to come, a recital of the bird and insect contmversy, and that we shall be happy in the absence of any history of the work of either." Well, we shall see !  AT a meeting of the Zoological Society of London, Mr. Beddard called :mention to ii flllionlS matter concerning that rare marsupial ann.!, the ThyIselin. There is a specimen Inf tills creators, which will probably soon be extinct, at the Zoological Gardens. 'The moot remarkable point about it is that the 1111111., like the female, has :6 distinct pouch, which is, however, 100 nidimentary t, be of any use. It is the only 11111141110111 known in whirl, the pouch is found in both sexes: the katiprim and the majority of other gwries have one, hut it is confined to the female
Bridgend & Neath Chronicle, and County of Glamorgan Advertiser. — 1888-06-29 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

IAL INTELLIGENCE.  BRIDGEND.  . 1060050 —il inquest VMS held at the Pencil. elation on Monday, touching tho death of William Jenkins. ganger on the Great Western Railway at Bridgend, who was bound .leed In • hut along side the lane on the mar/inns Saturday morning. It appears the unfortunate man had a narrow escape ;•of hie life on the railway • few darn previouely, and it is believed that that nceurrence affected hie j mind, On Saturday morning homes found in the t but with • Cord around his neck, by which he had l apparently hung himself. The jury return.' a verdh•t to the rgeet that the deceased committed suicide when in • etnte of tomporary Insanity. The heeees,,,t, who Was 67 years of age, was highly tespected. ROYAL AeIIAMT or Monte—Among the list of successful candidates at Lim local ercrunitiat ton its ' the senior division (Swamp t (en' re). We fi.l the • trance of Miss R. M. Knott,. of this town, wiri passed with honours for pianoforte playing. Miss Evans is , a ptlpir of Mrs. Reuben Lott. 'the examiner was Mr; John litmus* (Pencertil G.MliAl. gas irseenne.—The Sunnily School anniversary in connection with the Wesleynos of the town Will take place on Sunday, July 8. Mr. W. Notions has been ens:n.l for the occeeion. Watiaitrav B .—A growl banner is (emetic, ItiOn 'loth line Weeneyan Connexion of thje tows 1 will bit held on the 1801 n of July. Full pat ticulars I will appear in the next issue of the Chronith. , Nawcarrin Woutot's Strewn; Soctxrc—lirr. j Stiles, of Emsfield, Bridgend, why kindly gays the , metnbets of the Newcastle M'olnen's Sewing Clam 6 treat to Margain Abbey on 'fuesday. The remIn bees were accompanied by Mrs. Stiles, Mica Stiles. J and Mr. it. Stiles, the Vicar (the 1t... George Thomas, i1.A.1, Mrs. Thomas, Mies Riley, and • other, The company started at eleven a.m., reaching Margaret about an hour end a half inter. They were conducted around the grounds of ).largem Alot.ey. the pictureequo Limner, end the sylvan benuty Lain greintly •ppreciitted. A visit ' was abo made to l'ark Latin, Met-gain, now under : the control of Mr. If. Stile., where refreshments t were nartaken of with zest. Mr. end Mrs. F. J. j Witt, Ittidgentl, movided tine ediblee, vdtich bore the highest recommendation. Everything for the • enjoyment of tine compony wits Provided by Mee. • sty lee, and the touristn were greatly pleased with . the oui ing. 11. return journey was mad, at about ' nine o'clock.
Bridgend & Neath Chronicle, and County of Glamorgan Advertiser. — 1890-01-17 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

RESPONDENT.  The cue of Tr ITO'S Traver. and Gladstone , occupied the attentioo of Mr. Jutice Butt and a Jury .oth' Merges Court on Wedneedey. Mr. Walter Rene/ell Trays., provision merchant, I Liverpool, prayed for the die.elution of hie airlode on the ground of the miocooduct of hi. wife , Ellen with the co-reepondent, Mr. Robert Diedmoor. wine merchant, also of Liverpool. Mu rail... Went arid co-re=pudent out in answers denying the ellogetions, but practically there was no defence. Than mu. claim for damages. Mr. Cited, Dr. appeared for the petitiooer. and Mr. lader• Wk. D.C. for the dierespoodent. The petitioner was tenurial to the reepondent no 18n. at:R.llot k's Church. Liverpool. They there made the acquaintance of the co-reepondent, and became very f, madly. During 18811 Mra Travere lent to London, and at the hotel at which Om *wed 14. Gladstone visited her. She left her home altogether one 1888, and wu afterwards found living atCarliele ne Mr.. Semple, where the 00-responiered vielted her., hi* wite.—ln the course of hie evidenu the petitioner mid that during Ms acquaintanceAin with the co-reepondent he became in embarrassed oircumetances nod thot the co-respondent sedated Mtn. lie woe now indebted to him to the entent of £l3O. I file lordship having maimed up, the jury roe turned verdict for the petitioner with £4OO Images, and a decree ;tin, with cut., was gra etc&  An oengerarim named Rosekins, site collector ! for be Sundown Local Botta isle of Wight, committed suicide on Thundey at the Town-hall, by hanging hinasif Irons the balustrade. Ile bed beset discharged for incompetency, and offered I the pod t of maistant °enactor, and on Thursday woe to have landed over the books. (31.0111T.6 Cocoa a absolute], Pore. The Public koalysts hem oubmitted Comm.'s Coca to ohm tans, and the roma has always proved ha I Peat value ass sustaining sod nsurishing boy. . Dells,
Bridgend & Neath Chronicle, and County of Glamorgan Advertiser. — 1890-09-26 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

SHOCKING TRAGEDY AT NEATH.  AII'EMPTED WIFE WIEDER &ED SUICIDE.  WiWon Emos, 33, • wheelwright, attempted to !, murder hie wits andcommitted suicide in he Wow Itiehosondwtemta Helba ors XYdddy nu neighbours bawd sorelual .bout Jamie VINE, mil Immediately Ilse wards LW wife of Swam meowed M the dew o Ye bows putty dammed, wad with blood floosie( Sealy from ! • cut in Ws seek mad • mum' 10 (50 Wed. Some om writ into the bow, and limns rushed et Mem with • drawing knite—• wheel erigtoth I.oll—in his hand. They drew Wok a yard or an, aed oat again advwcieg they found 100 I.' the heck hitchers quite deed. H• had indicted • terrible wound woo himself with the &main knife, completely atomise the wl•dpipe. The paw were peoragely oe 10...0., sod ' S.. Thome ateseded to the wife, eho em very badly injured. She states that or lawband attacked bee with • hatchet, whieb, however, dm promoted hint from using. He Men struck her • tearful blow oa the head *Wm hammer, altar which be oat her ma the 1010 01 the seek with • armies hank. Dairmised had beta vemly wraiterel I.etroomstames, owing to four womb.' Wawa from rheumatic Sever, and lately them had how muted &wow doe of spirit... There is • Welly ensue chits/eh Ire. Jevons, befog sulimmientty Interviewed, stated that her husband had bwe W slow the WOWS bad Mai:ad llama, Mout icor ...ob. 0000 Latterly t had become wry tumor and ilieemponed, arm imitated by the tiltbddi Meg. lives 9 movemeet 10 litay eilaitOd hie siopichae, so that 21 loot aim Wows dation tom hitt t awl was the Wine afraid oh him lee r, week he med. `la void be • pity tot to. to ham to 10 001 00000ped IMAM is oily yourWV molititti tat Soup fie. WAN, bo !. bed Ira starling Ida as litAtsdby V. ▪ dollar due b ecta% mid* Is odd •Maid